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WACO, TX (FOX 44) — The second-ranked Ellison Eagles kept their winning streak in tact on Friday night, as they beat University High 47-37.
Next up for Ellison is a trip to Waco High to take on the Lions on Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00 pm. Meanwhile, the Trojans will travel to Killeen to take on the Kangaroos on Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00 pm. | 2023-01-14T06:05:15+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/high-school-sports/no-2-ellison-wins-11th-straight-game/ |
SAO PAULO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXENYA, a leading Latin-American digital health start-up company, and HealthCo, a premier data-intensive consulting firm and insurance broker, announce that they have reached an agreement to merge the companies into the leading corporate health-tech ecosystem in the Latin-American region.
The combined companies will serve over 35,000 lives and have the capacity to deliver value across the entire healthcare journey. The companies expect to more than double that number in the coming year. All founding and operating teams at HealthCo and Axenya will remain in the company and as shareholders of the new company, which will operate under the Axenya brand.
"The New Axenya marries the most advanced population data science with cutting edge, clinically proven, digital therapeutics", said Mariano García-Valiño, Founder of Axenya. "The combination creates an unbeatable ecosystem, where we can gather data to analyze large populations, identify care gaps and create perfectly targeted individual digital plans for each person, improving clinical metrics and reducing cost across the entire spectrum".
Axenya, that started operations in 2020, offers software and hardware products that expand the doctor's toolbox, allows them to help their patients achieve higher standards of health and make the overall practice of medicine more personalized and precise. The company is the first member of the Digital Therapeutic Alliance in Latin America and the only company in the region with clinical research published in peer-reviewed journals. HealthCo is one of the most advanced data-intensive healthcare brokers in the region and approaching 90 corporate clients. Their proprietary data analytics result in consistent savings for their client base.
The combination becomes a one stop shop to enable corporate clients to maximize quality and expense in all aspects of their healthcare needs: from population analytics, 24/7 monitoring and course correction, delivering individually selected next generation digital therapeutic tools and ultimately renegotiating fees with payors driven by the savings generated by its healthcare program. As a result, Axenya will deliver unparalleled clinical results, user satisfaction and cost savings.
"We now have a company that can deliver results like nobody else in the market", said Roberto Vianna, co-Founder of HealthCo. "Using a combination of software, technology, machine learning and behavioral and data science, Axenya can optimize the healthcare journey end-to-end, empowering companies and its employees with unbiased information, trusted guidance and high-value care, and delivering, at the same time, effective cost savings."
In combination with this merger, Axenya received a capital injection, led by IGAH ventures, and with participation of NXTP, Big_Bets, Alexia, Axenya's founder Mariano Garcia-Valiño and several individual investors and employees.
ABOUT AXENYA
Axenya is a health technology company that seeks to connect Latin America with the future of medicine. With its digitally enhanced corporate health ecosystem, it offers and manages the most suitable healthcare plans in a digital, efficient and transparent fashion, protecting the employee's health, end to end, through all the journey. Integrating cutting edge software, hardware, artificial intelligence, intensive data-analysis and behavioral sciences, Axenya improves the efficiency in delivering health services, as well as expands the companies' toolbox and makes medicine more personal and precise, offering what is effectively a new care standard. The company delivers excellent patient satisfaction, superior clinic results and lower costs, improving the quality per dollar spent by companies while allowing access to modern medicine to all employees and dependents. www.axenya.com
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WASHINGTON , July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- During a ceremony at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires on Thursday, July 27, Argentina became the 28th country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Daniel Filmus, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, signed on behalf of Argentina.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Marc Stanley, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, were also in attendance.
The Artemis Accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA's Artemis program.
"As the United States and Argentina mark two centuries of diplomatic relations this year, we know our partnership over the next century will be deepened by discoveries made together in space," said Administrator Bill Nelson. "Along with our fellow Artemis Accords signatories, the United States and Argentina are setting a standard for 21st century exploration and use of space. As we explore together, we will explore peacefully, safely, and transparently."
NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, established the Artemis Accords in 2020 together with seven other founding member nations.
"We are convinced that the Artemis Accords constitute a contribution to the development of space activities with peaceful purposes at a global level and that they will increase international cooperation with Argentina," said Filmus.
The Artemis Accords reinforce and implement key obligations in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. They also reinforce the commitment by the United States and signatory nations to the Registration Convention, the Rescue and Return Agreement, as well as best practices and norms of responsible behavior that NASA and its partners have supported, including the public release of scientific data.
"It is very important we take this step as it is key that we move forward in the field of space development. We are convinced that it must be a state policy," said President Fernández. "We have done a lot to retain our scientists, we have always been interested in science and technology, we believe that this is the way to go."
Additional countries will sign the Artemis Accords in the months and years ahead, as NASA continues to work with its international partners to establish a safe, peaceful, and prosperous future in space. Working with both new and existing partners will add new energy and capabilities to ensure the entire world can benefit from our journey of exploration and discovery.
Learn more about the Artemis Accords at:
https://www.nasa.gov/artemisaccords
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Biden administration is close to tightening rules on some overseas investments by U.S. companies in an effort to limit China’s ability to acquire technologies that could improve its military prowess, according to a U.S. official familiar with the deliberations.
The soon-to-be-issued executive order from President Joe Biden will limit American investment in advanced technologies that have national security applications — such as next-generation military capabilities that could help China improve the speed and accuracy of military decision making, according to the official, who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The expected action is the latest effort by the White House to target China’s military and technology sectors at a time of increasingly fraught relations between the world’s two biggest economies.
In October, the Biden administration imposed export controls to limit China’s ability to access advanced chips, which it says can be used to make weapons, commit human rights abuses and improve the speed and accuracy of its military logistics.
The complicated relationship has become further strained in recent weeks after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon last month that traversed the country. The Biden administration has also publicized U.S. intelligence findings that raise concern Beijing is weighing providing Russia weaponry for its ongoing war on Ukraine.
The tensions were on display as top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations ended a contentious meeting in New Delhi on Thursday with no consensus on the Ukraine war and concerns about China’s widening global influence dominating much of the talks.
Meanwhile, China this past week blasted the new House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party after it held its first hearing on countering Beijing’s influence. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning demanded its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality.”
Administration officials have been consulting with allies as they’ve worked on formulating the new regulations on U.S. investment, according to the official.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Saturday that the Treasury and Commerce departments delivered reports to lawmakers on Friday detailing plans for the new regulatory system to address U.S. overseas investment in advanced technologies. The agencies said they expected to seek additional money for the investment screening program in the White House budget, which is scheduled to be released on March 9, according to the Journal.
A White House National Security Council spokesperson declined to comment on the Treasury and Commerce reports, but noted that administration officials have kept Congress apprised on its progress in crafting an approach to overseas investment.
The expected action is certain to face pushback from U.S. firms. Administration officials have sought to signal to the business community that even as they look to examine rules on U.S. investment in China, they are mindful of not overreaching.
“One of the most important things we can do, from my perspective, is make sure that we draw clear lines between what is competition and what is national security because, fundamentally, my view is that the United States does well when we’re competing on a level playing field with any country in the world,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said at recent Council on Foreign Relations event. “But we also want, in the narrow spaces where we see national security risk, be able to use the tools at our disposal to protect the national security of the United States of America.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers last year urged Biden to establish a tougher screening system for investments in foreign adversaries with China being top of mind. | 2023-03-05T00:47:26+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/biden-expected-to-tighten-rules-on-us-investment-in-china/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Kody Clemens, the 26-year-old son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, was brought up by the Detroit Tigers on Monday for a possible major league debut.
Detroit recalled the infielder/outfielder from Triple-A Toledo of the International League and put outfielder Robbie Grossman on the 10-day injured list because of a strained neck.
A third round pick in the 2018 amateur draft, Clemens was hitting .283 at Toledo with eight homers and 31 RBIs in 45 games. Drafted as a second baseman, he has played first, second, third and left this season.
Detroit needed depth because of Grossman's injury and Miguel Cabrera's bad back.
Roger Clemens was an 11-time All-Star who won 354 games in a major league career from 1984-2007 and struck out 4,672, third behind Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson.
Among the players implicated in the 2007 Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens denied using performance-enhancing drugs. In 2012, he was acquitted of charges he lied to Congress when he denied allegations of PED use.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-30T20:51:30+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Kody-Clemens-brought-up-by-Tigers-for-possible-17208158.php |
Reed City-- The Evart softball team swept their double header against Reed City on Tuesday night.
Evart got off to a hot start in game one, recording 10 runs by the end of the second inning. They went on to shut out Reed City 15-0 at the end of the 4th, taking the win via mercy rule, and with am impressive showing from pitcher Addy Gray.
They took the second game with ease as well, winning 11-1 in five innings.
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Evart will look to continue their winning streak on Thursday against Kingsley at home.
As for Reed City, they will host again on Thursday, this time against Gaylord. | 2023-04-05T03:00:39+00:00 | 9and10news.com | https://www.9and10news.com/sports/2023/04/04/evart-sweeps-reed-city-in-season-opening-double-header/ |
Minnesota prosecutors drop state sex abuse charges against R. Kelly, citing federal convictions
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors have dropped sex abuse charges against disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly that alleged he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room in 2001 and paid her $200 to dance naked with him.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said in a statement Tuesday that it believes her and that Kelly would likely be convicted if tried, but prosecuting him on charges that had been dormant since being filed in 2019 wouldn’t make a difference now that Kelly’s federal convictions could keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
“The overwhelming impact of proceeding to trial in this case on the survivor victim, the community, and the Hennepin County legal system would be enormous while a conviction would not add any additional time in prison,” the statement said.
The woman Kelly allegedly abused in Minnesota wanted to testify at a trial anyway, her lawyer said.
Attorney Gloria Allred issued a statement on behalf of the woman, identified only as Jane Doe. It said what Kelly did to her has been weighing heavily on her for more than 20 years and would continue to hurt her for the rest of her life.
“As a surviving victim of R. Kelly, I feel sad about the fact that Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota decided not to hold him accountable for what he did to me when I was a minor,” the statement said. “If there had been a criminal trial, I would have been willing to testify against R. Kelly. Even though it wouldn’t have brought any extra prison time for him, it would have given me closure.”
Federal juries in Chicago and New York convicted Kelly, now 56, of crimes including child pornography, enticement, racketeering and sex trafficking related to allegations that he victimized women and girls. Born Robert Sylvester Kelly, he was sentenced to 30 years in the New York case last year and a mostly concurrent 20 years in February in the Chicago case.
The woman in Minnesota sued Kelly in 2021, but that case remans dormant, too, because Kelly is in prison and is unable to defend himself, cord records show. He was transferred to a federal prison in North Carolina last month.
The Grammy-winning Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” he sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s.
When he announced the Minnesota charges in 2019, then-County Attorney Mike Freeman said Kelly met the young woman before a concert in Minneapolis when she tried to get his autograph. Freeman said the performer gave her his signature and a phone number, and when she called it, she was invited to Kelly’s hotel room. She was offered $200 to take off her clothes and dance, and Kelly took his clothes off as well and they danced together, Freeman said.
The criminal complaint said she told investigators that Kelly lay on his bed and she climbed on top of him “body to body.” He allegedly touched her all over her body and fondled himself.
Cook County prosecutors in Chicago dropped state sex abuse charges there in January, citing his lengthy federal prison sentences.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-17T17:46:20+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/05/17/minnesota-prosecutors-drop-state-sex-abuse-charges-against-r-kelly-citing-federal-convictions/ |
NAME: Eric Olivas
POLITICAL PARTY: Democratic
OCCUPATION: Landscaping and plumbing small business owner
CITY OF RESIDENCE: Albuquerque
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: Owner/operator of Olivas Enterprises LLC landscaping and plumbing with five employees; licensed mechanical contractor and journeyman plumber/pipefitter; served two years on the ABQ Civilian Police Oversight Board including service as board chair; served two years as chair of the Northeast Heights Community Policing Council; Quigley Park Neighborhood Association president; Animal Humane of N.M. volunteer.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Sandia High School. Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico in chemistry and biology, summa cum laude. Master’s degree from UNM in biology.
AGE: 31
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: olivasforbernco.com
1. What is the top priority in your District and how would you address it as a county commissioner?
Crime is the biggest issue in District 5 and the county. The behavioral health crisis and the crime we see are related. In addition to the need for more police and sheriff’s deputies, we need increased crisis triage beds, shelter capacity and substance abuse treatment.
2. Under what circumstances, if any, would you support a tax increase? And what types, if any, would you support?
Current revenues are strong and no tax increase is warranted. In the future, I would only support non-regressive taxes. I generally will not support property tax increases and GRT increases as they most affect low income households.
3. What do you think should be the county’s top three capital project priorities?
1. Affordable housing and behavioral health treatment (crisis triage care, supportive housing, substance abuse treatment centers, 24/7 care coordination). 2. Water/wastewater infrastructure for areas without ie. East Mountains and South Valley. 3. Electrification of the county vehicle fleet and buildings, saving taxpayers money and lowering emissions.
4. What, if anything, do you think the county should be doing differently with regard to how it manages and uses the behavioral health tax?
The Behavioral Health Initiative was implemented seven years ago with nominal results. There’s a gap analysis (ignored by the commission) which discusses improving coordination between the city, county and state. I’d create a Behavioral Health Authority, similar to the water authority, to coordinate planning, development and operation of the BHI.
5. What role, if any, should the county commission play in advising the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office on matters related to public safety?
The commission appropriates funds for this separate but equal office of county government. There must be a good working relationship and an understanding of the issues the deputies face. We can support law enforcement while ensuring accountability. The county can bring its behavioral and substance abuse resources to assist the sheriff.
6. What are your ideas for improving conditions for both employees and inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center?
Recently, we had 10 officers supervising 1,400 inmates at MDC. It’s a regular occurrence. This is unsafe for officers and inmates and puts our community at risk. My opponent hasn’t prioritized this key facility. We need more staff and must pay competitively. Santa Fe pays $2 more an hour!
7. How would you work to improve the economy in Bernalillo County?
Focus on crime! Crime is the main economic problem in the county. Businesses and residents are suffering and often leave because of crime. We need partnerships between the city and county to tackle this and we need to fix the BHI. We need to support infill projects and small businesses.
8. What specific strategies do you have for reducing homelessness?
1. Follow the Gap Study the county has already done! 2. Create a Behavioral Health Authority (see above). 3. Support a 24/7 Crisis and Provider Coordinating Center. 4. Increase incentives for development of affordable housing. 5. Partner with the city on Albuquerque Community Safety. 6. Listen to the needs of the community, hold people accountable.
Personal background
1. Have you or your business, if you are a business owner, ever been the subject of any state or federal tax liens?
No.
2. Have you ever been involved in a personal or business bankruptcy proceeding?
No.
3. Have you ever been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of drunken driving, any misdemeanor or any felony in New Mexico or any other state? If so, explain.
No. | 2022-05-17T03:35:15+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2499814/qa-bernalillo-county-commission-district-5-democratic-candidate-eric-olivas.html |
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan resulted in mass confusion Sunday.
With some institutions implementing the change while others refused, many Lebanese have found themselves in the position of juggling work and school schedules in different time zones — in a country that is just 88 kilometers (55 miles) at its widest point.
In some cases, the debate took on a sectarian nature, with many Christian politicians and institutions, including the small nation’s largest church, the Maronite Church, rejecting the move.
The small Mediterranean country normally sets its clocks forward an hour on the last Sunday in March, which aligns with most European countries.
However, on Thursday Lebanon’s government announced a decision by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to push the start of daylight savings to April 21.
No reason was given for the decision, but a video of a meeting between Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri leaked to local media showed Berri asking Mikati to postpone the implementation of daylight savings time to allow Muslims to break their Ramadan fast an hour earlier.
Mikati responds that he had made a similar proposal but goes on to say that implementing the change would be difficult as it would cause problems in airline flight schedules, to which Berri interjects, “What flights?”
After the postponement of daylight savings was announced, Lebanon’s state airline, Middle East Airlines, said the departure times of all flights scheduled to leave from the Beirut airport between Sunday and April 21 would be advanced by an hour.
The country’s two cellular telephone networks sent messages to people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic in order for the time not to change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced anyway.
While public institutions, in theory, are bound by the government’s decision, many private institutions, including TV stations, schools and businesses, announced that they would ignore the decision and move to daylight savings on Sunday as previously scheduled.
Soha Yazbek, a professor at the American University of Beirut, is among many parents who have found themselves and their children now bound to different schedules.
“So now I drop my kids to school at 8 am but arrive to my work 42 km away at 7:30 am and then I leave work at 5 pm but I arrive home an hour later at 7 pm!!” Yazbek wrote on Twitter, adding for the benefit of her non-Lebanese friends, “I have not gone mad, I just live in Wonderland.”
Haruka Naito, a Japanese non-governmental organization worker living in Beirut, discovered she has to be in two places at the same time on Monday morning.
“I had an 8 a.m. appointment and a 9 a.m. class, which will now happen at the same time,” she said. The 8 a.m. appointment for her residency paperwork is with a government agency following the official time, while her 9 a.m. Arabic class is with an institute that is expected to make the switch to daylight savings.
The schism has led to jokes about “Muslim time” and “Christian time,” while different internet search engines came up with different results early Sunday morning when queried about the current time in Lebanon.
While in many cases, the schism broke down along sectarian lines, some Muslims also objected to the change and pointed out that fasting is supposed to begin at dawn and end at sunset regardless of time zone.
Many saw the issue as a distraction from the country’s larger economic and political problems.
Lebanon is in the midst of the worst financial crisis in its modern history. Three quarters of the population lives in poverty and IMF officials recently warned the country could be headed for hyperinflation if no action is taken. Lebanon has been without a president since the term of President Michel Aoun ended in late October as the parliament has failed to elect a replacement since. | 2023-03-26T14:13:07+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/daylight-savings-dispute-leaves-lebanon-with-two-time-zones/ |
Indiana judge won’t block probe over 10-year-old’s abortion
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana judge on Friday rejected an attempt to block the state’s Republican attorney general from continuing his office’s investigation of an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect.
The ruling comes two days after the attorney general’s office asked the state medical licensing board to discipline Dr. Caitlin Bernard, alleging she violated state law by not reporting the girl’s child abuse to Indiana authorities and broke patient privacy laws by telling a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment.
That account sparked a national political uproar in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, with some news outlets and Republican politicians suggesting Bernard fabricated the story and President Joe Biden nearly shouting his outrage over the case during a White House event.
Bernard filed a lawsuit against state Attorney General Todd Rokita last month, arguing his office was wrongly justifying the investigation with “frivolous” consumer complaints submitted by people with no personal knowledge about the girl’s treatment. Bernard and her lawyers maintain the girl’s abuse had already been reported to Ohio police before the doctor ever saw the child.
Marion County Judge Heather Welch turned down Bernard’s request for an injunction blocking the investigation, saying the medical licensing board now had jurisdiction over the matter since the attorney general filed the complaint on Wednesday.
Welch, however, found that Rokita wrongly made public comments about investigating Bernard before the complaint was filed. Welch wrote that Rokita’s statements “are clearly unlawful breaches of the licensing investigations statute’s requirement that employees of the Attorney General’s Office maintain confidentiality over pending investigations until they are so referred to prosecution.”
Bernard’s lawyers did not immediately comment on Friday’s ruling.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-03T00:05:43+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/12/02/indiana-judge-wont-block-probe-over-10-year-olds-abortion/ |
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(KTXL) — The Super Bowl matchup isn’t even set yet, but ticket prices are already through the roof.
The cheapest price of a single ticket is around $5,000 on most purchasing platforms. Those prices could potentially get higher as we approach game day on Feb. 12.
Super Bowl LVII will occur at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. As of Monday, here’s how much the cheapest tickets were (before fees) on Ticketmaster and other websites:
Ticketmaster: $6,150
StubHub: $5,236
SeatGeek: $5,164
GameTime: $4,815
VividSeats: $4,652
TickPick: $5,368
Getting closer to the field will cost even more, as Super Bowl tickets in the lower levels go from $8,000 to $35,000 on Ticketmaster’s website. Ticketmaster is the official ticketing partner of the NFL, according to the company’s website, while others are secondary markets.
While plenty of die-hard football fans might be happy to pay nearly $5,000 (or more) on a ticket, there are plenty of perhaps more practical ways to spend that cash if you’re not dead-set on going to the Super Bowl.
Going on a nice vacation
Instead of using that money on one ticket, those funds can be used on a vacation, which averages about $1,919 per week for one person in the U.S., according to real estate company Pacaso. A vacation for two people will typically cost about $3,838 per week.
That average cost includes the price of a domestic plane ticket, airport parking, rental car, and gas, but does not include money that will be spent at your destination or hotel.
Paying several months’ rent
The cost of even the cheapest Super Bowl ticket would cover most people’s rent or mortgage payments for multiple months. Even in pricey California, where the median rent is $2,950 according to Zillow, that $5,000 would get you far.
California’s average rent is 41% higher than the national median, so the money would go significantly further elsewhere. The price of the cheapest Super Bowl ticket would get you about two months’ rent in Chicago, two-and-a-half months’ rent in Austin, Texas, and five months in Oklahoma City.
The national average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,169 and the average for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,339, according to a study from Credit Karma.
Buying a used car
If you’re in the market for a used car — and you’re not too picky — you could pick one up for around the price of a Super Bowl ticket.
According to Cars.com, a 2001 Cadillac Eldorado ESC in Northern California was listed at $5,995 as of Jan. 23. The car has 87,384 miles on it, but it’s priced below the average market price of $6,641.
A listing on CARFAX also has a 2015 Fiat 500 Pop with 145,191 miles at just $4,750. | 2023-01-24T21:04:07+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/the-cheapest-super-bowl-ticket-is-5000-heres-what-you-could-buy-instead/ |
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two men charged in connection with what police have said was a thwarted Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia, were ordered held without bond Monday during brief court hearings that produced no new details about the alleged plot.
Rolman Balcarcel Ac, 38, and Julio Alvarado-Dubon, 52, both from Guatemala, were each arrested on a single charge of possession of a firearm by a non-U.S. citizen after Richmond police said they received a call from a concerned citizen who said he overheard a conversation indicating there was an attack being planned on an Independence Day celebration in the capital city.
Authorities have said both men are in the U.S. illegally.
After receiving the tip, police seized two assault rifles, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the Richmond home the two men shared.
In a search warrant affidavit, a Richmond detective said the tipster told police that Balcarcel was planning the attack and showed him three guns on June 21. The tipster also said Balcarcel has connections to the Los Zetas drug cartel, which operates in Mexico and the U.S.
Balcarcel's attorney, Samuel Simpson V, said Monday that he would be “very surprised” if Balcarcel Ac and Alvarado-Dubon were planning a mass shooting.
“It's my understanding that these guys are from Guatemala and they're just here to work," Simpson said.
Simpson also expressed skepticism about the claim that Balcarcel is connected to Los Zetas. “That's a non sequitur to me. That's not a Guatemalan thing,” he said.
Simpson acknowledged that he has not been able to talk to Balcarcel yet and that he does not know yet what evidence police have.
The search warrant affidavit says that after police received the tip, they contacted Homeland Security, then went to a home in Richmond, where Alvarado-Dubon answered the door and allowed them to come inside.
Detective Michael Kiniri wrote that a second man appeared and provided a Colorado identification with the name “Rolman A. Balcarcel AC.” The affidavit said Balcarcel had two Colorado driver’s licenses, a Guatemala ID and a Mexico ID. An agent from Homeland Security Investigations determined that Balcarcel Ac has had two previous deportations, the affidavit states.
Both men have been held in local jails since their arrests, although a bond of $15,000 was set last week for Alvarado-Dubon.
Prosecutors had initially appealed the bond decision. But when Alvarado-Dubon appeared in Richmond Circuit Court Monday for a hearing, his attorney told the judge he agreed with prosecutors that the bond decision should be revoked because of a pending immigration detainer, a notice that the Department of Homeland Security issues to inform law enforcement agencies that ICE plans to take custody of someone.
Alvarado-Dubon's attorney declined to comment after the brief hearing, during which there was no mention of the weapons charge or alleged plot.
Balcarcel was arraigned Monday via a video feed; he will also continue to be held without bond. An immigration detainer also has been lodged against him.
During a news conference last week, Richmond police Chief Gerald Smith said the tipster said the attack was planned for the Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, where an annual fireworks show is held. Smith said police have not identified any motive for the alleged plot.
The announcement from Richmond police that they had thwarted an attack came on July 6, two days after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop during a Fourth of July parade in the affluent Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen. | 2022-07-12T01:52:48+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/No-bond-for-2-charged-in-connection-with-alleged-17297356.php |
The Masters expanded its reach to elite amateurs on Thursday when it offered a special invitation to NCAA champion Gordon Sargent, the first time in more than 20 years an amateur received such an invitation.
Augusta National also awarded a special invitation to Kazuki Higa, who won four times on the Japan Golf Tour and captured the money list last year.
“The Masters Tournament prioritizes opportunities to elevate both amateur and professional golf around the world,” Chairman Fred Ridley said. “Whether on the international stage or at the elite amateur level, each player has showcased their talent in the past year. We look forward to hosting them at Augusta National in April.”
Sargent is the No. 3 player in the world amateur ranking and among the growing list of young American college stars.
As a freshman at Vanderbilt, he won the NCAA individual title last year with a birdie on the first hole in a four-man playoff over Eugenio Chacarra, Parker Coody and Ryan Burnett. He also was chosen for the Palmer Cup, matches between college players from the U.S. and Europe.
The Masters has a history of looking after elite amateurs, once inviting the Walker Cup team until the late 1980s. It currently invites the U.S. Amateur champion and runner-up, the British Amateur champion, the U.S. Mid-Amateur champion and winners of the Asia-Pacific and Latin American amateur events it helped create.
The last amateur to earn a special invitation was Aaron Baddeley of Australia in 2000, who was 18 when he beat a field that included Greg Norman and Colin Montgomerie to win the Australian Open.
The invitations bring the current field to 80 players. The only way to qualify now before the April 6-9 tournament is to win a PGA Tour event that offers full FedEx Cup points or be in the top 50 in the world ranking a week before the Masters.
Higa's invitation was expected. The Masters has a history of inviting international players who have had sterling seasons without having regular access to the PGA Tour. The last special invitation went to Shigo Imahira of Japan in 2019.
Higa is No. 68 in the world and his four wins on the Japan Golf Tour include the Dunlop Phoenix in November, one of the strongest fields of the year in Japan.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The pregame hype video that plays inside PPG Paints Arena before every Pittsburgh Penguins home game starts with the lyrics: “Nobody said it would be easy.”
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A prophetic choice for a team for which things used to come so easily. Dazzling goals. Victories. Playoff berths. Stanley Cups.
Not anymore. Not for this team. Not during this trying season, anyway. Yet with their postseason hopes flickering, the Penguins responded with the kind of responsible, selfless borderline boring hockey they'll need to rely on if they want to reach the playoffs for a 17th straight year.
Tristan Jarry stopped 27 shots, Kris Letang scored at the expense of good friend Marc-Andre Fleury and the Penguins kept pace in the chase for the Eastern Conference's two wild-card spots with a 4-1 win over Minnesota on Thursday night.
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The Penguins bounced back from a miserable performance in a loss to New Jersey on Tuesday by putting together three complete periods, a rarity for most of the last three months.
“If you look at the last game, we didn’t have a start at all,” Letang said. "We never really gave ourselves a chance in Jersey and tonight we started really well. It sets (us) up for success.”
Pittsburgh's second victory in three games kept it one point behind the Florida Panthers and New York Islanders, who both won easily Thursday. All three teams have three contests remaining.
If Pittsburgh wants to extend the longest active playoff streak in major North American sports, it will need to find a way to replicate what it did against the Wild. Jarry was solid. The special teams were, too. And the bad habits that have crept into the Penguins' play far too often over the last three months largely vanished.
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“I thought we played a really good game,” Jarry said. “We knew what was on the line and we have to keep it going.”
Two nights after getting drilled in New Jersey, Pittsburgh took it to Minnesota early and never really let up.
Letang finished off an excellent first period with a wrist shot over Fleury's glove that gave the Penguins a lead they never threatened to give up.
Still, five-plus years after Fleury left in the Vegas expansion draft, shooting against a longtime teammate who won three Cups in Pittsburgh is still sort of strange to his former teammates.
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“It’s getting a little bit more natural to shoot on him now, but still kind of weird,” Letang said. "Yeah. Just weird.”
Fleury is already assured of a 17th consecutive trip to the postseason — a record for goaltenders — after the Wild wrapped up a spot earlier this week. While his return to a city where he’s still beloved isn’t the same emotional reunion it was five years ago, the fans — some of whom came wearing his familiar No. 29 Penguins jersey — did chant his name in the final seconds.
“It’s always a special place to come play,” Fleury said. “I wish I would’ve done better, put on a better show, keep it closer, give a chance to our team to stay in a bit more. As a team, maybe it wasn’t our best, but it is what it is.”
Minnesota's bid to chase down first-place Colorado in the Central Division took a hit when the Wild struggled to generate much traffic in front of Jarry until they fell too far behind. Fleury stopped 27 shots while falling to 4-4 all-time against the team for which he played from 2003-17.
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Marcus Johansson scored on the two-man advantage midway through the third period to spoil Jarry's bid for a shutout, but couldn't stop Minnesota from losing in regulation for just the third time in its last 24 games.
“I thought it was a much more calculated game and that’s the game we have to emulate night in and night out,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said.
NOTES: Minnesota's Joel Eriksson Ek left in the second period after getting hit in the left leg by a Letang slap shot. Oskar Sundqvsit also left with a lower-body injury. ... Pittsburgh D Jan Rutta skated 16:31 in his return from a 10-game absence.
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Wild: Host St. Louis on Saturday.
Penguins: Visit Detroit on Saturday. The Red Wings blew out Pittsburgh 7-4 last week.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was heading to Kyiv early Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that coincide with the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow.
Kishida will “show respect to the courage and patience of the Ukrainian people who are standing up to defend their homeland under President Zelenskyy’s leadership, and show solidarity and unwavering support for Ukraine as head of Japan and chairman of G-7,” during his visit to Ukraine, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in announcing his trip to Kyiv.
At the talks, Kishida will show his “absolute rejection to Russia’s one-sided change to the status quo by invasion and force, and to affirm his commitment to defend the rules-based international order,” the ministry’s statement said.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, meanwhile, is in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Xi to the Kremlin on a visit both nations describe as an opportunity to deepen their “no-limits friendship.”
Japan’s public television NHK showed Kishida riding a train from Poland heading to Kyiv. His surprise trip to Ukraine comes just hours after he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
Kishida, who is to chair the Group of Seven summit in May, is the only G-7 leader who hasn’t visited Ukraine and was under pressure to do so at home. U.S. President Joe Biden took a similar route to visit Kyiv last month, just before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Due to limitations of Japan’s pacifist constitution, his trip was arranged secretly. Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone. Kishida, invited by Zelenskyy in January to visit Kyiv, was also asked before his trip to India about a rumor of his possible trip at the end of March, denied it and said nothing concrete has been decided.
Japan has joined the United States and European nations in sanctioning Russia over its invasion and providing humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine.
Japan was quick to react because it fears the possible impact of a war in East Asia, where China’s military has grown increasingly assertive and has escalated tensions around self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory.
Kishida is expected to offer continuing support for Ukraine when he meets with Zelenskyy.
Television footage on NHK showed Kishida getting on a train from the Polish station of Przemysl near the border with Ukraine, with a number of officials.
Due to its pacifist principles, Japan’s support for Ukraine has also been limited to non-combative military equipment such as helmets, bulletproof vests and drones, and humanitarian supplies including generators.
Japan has contributed to Ukraine more than $7 billion, and accepted more than 2,000 displaced Ukrainians and helped them with housing assistance and support for jobs and education — a rare move for a country that is known for its strict immigration policy. | 2023-03-21T12:45:12+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/japans-kishida-heading-to-ukraine-for-talks-with-zelenskyy/ |
CLEVELAND — It’s a new chapter for the Cleveland Foundation. With its new headquarters primed to open between University Circle and Downtown Cleveland, it’s elected a brand-new president and CEO.
Lillian Kuri will be the first woman to hold that position full-time in the foundation’s 109-year history. Kuri sat down with News 5 anchor Rob Powers Tuesday to talk about her vision for Cleveland’s future.
“People love Cleveland,” she said. “Once you come here and discover it, there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.”
Kuri has shown her love for Cleveland; she’s been at the foundation for 15 years, playing a key role in the revitalization of Greater University Circle as her first project and more recently in the design of the new foundation headquarters at Euclid Avenue and East 66th Street.
The foundation has already started talking about how to ensure they’re investing in the surrounding Hough and Central neighborhoods without gentrifying them.
“I think the measure of success for this project is going to be in 10 or 15 years. Have we made the lives of residents better?” she said.
Across the street from the new HQ, a Midtown Collaboration Center is under construction. It’ll be a hub for businesses and bring everything from health research to software training to the community. Constance Hill Johnson is the Chairperson for the foundation’s Board of Directors. She told Powers every business in the center was carefully selected.
“These are businesses that are focused on serving the community, and we were very intentional about who would join us there,” she said. While the decision to give Kuri the top position was unanimous among board members based on her unparalleled qualifications and vision, Johnson said the significance of this path forward wasn’t lost on her.
“There will be two women; one the daughter of immigrants, one an African-American from the city of Cleveland, from Glenville, leading the Cleveland Foundation,” she said. “Who would have thought that was a possibility?”
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Strengthens European Team As Firm Continues to Accelerate Continental Expansion
ZURICH and NEW YORK and RIO DE JANEIRO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hashdex, a leading global crypto-focused asset manager, today announced it has hired Benjamin Ittah as European Senior Sales and Distribution Manager, continuing the firm's expansion in the region.
In this newly created role, Mr. Ittah will be responsible for Hashdex' sales development in Europe, focusing on both growing the firm's expanding client base and overseeing the distribution of the firm's innovative investment products, such as the recently launched Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index Europe exchange trade product (SIX: HASH SW). He will report to Laurent Kssis, Managing Director and Head of Europe at Hashdex.
"We are delighted to welcome Benjamin as the newest member of our growing European team," said Marcelo Sampaio, CEO and co-founder of Hashdex. "Europe is a key strategic area for Hashdex and we are confident that Benjamin's extensive experience in the region will allow us to successfully continue our global expansion."
Prior to joining Hashdex, Mr. Ittah led the development of Tabula Investment Management's presence across France, Benelux and Geneva. As a founding member of Tabula, Mr. Ittah played an integral role in the firm's sales and marketing as it grew to nearly $1 billion in assets under management. Mr. Ittah began his career at Société Générale, where he covered clients in the EMEA region for ETP, solutions and ETF sales/trading in London and Paris. He holds an MSc in Statistical and Financial Engineering from the University of Paris Dauphine, France.
The recruitment of Mr. Ittah further strengthens Hashdex's industry-leading team. The firm recently welcomed Mr. Kssis to spearhead Hashdex's European expansion. A financial industry veteran and crypto assets pioneer, Mr. Kssis formerly served as CEO of XBT Provider AB, a CoinShares company, and global head of ETPs at 21Shares. He is joined by Dramane Meite, Head of New Products at Hashdex, who brings extensive experience in digital finance and financial engineering and previously held the role of Vice President, Product Strategies, Client Solutions and Analytics at PIMCO. The firm continues to evaluate talent across its European locations in London, Zurich, Paris and Lisbon. Since its listing in May 2022, HASH SW has seen new subscriptions amounting to $13.5 million, demonstrating Hashdex's ability to deliver an institutional-grade ETP for investors, offering a product with diversified exposure to the crypto ecosystem, in a challenging market environment.
Mr. Kssis added: "We are delighted that Benjamin has chosen to join Hashdex, which is a natural step in his career. With his ETFs knowledge and institutional reach, he will be a key part of our European footprint and will be able to address the growing demand for crypto assets from European institutional investors."
Today's announcement builds on Hashdex's ongoing international expansion and position as a global pioneer in crypto asset management. In addition to HASH SW, the firm continues to deliver on its mission of providing global investors with access to the evolving crypto ecosystem, having recently launched DEFI11, the world's first decentralized finance ETF and META11 ETF, which provides investors with diverse exposure to leading crypto assets in the blockchain culture and entertainment industry. Hashdex has partnered with Nasdaq and co-developed the Nasdaq Crypto Index™ (NCI™), which benchmarks the institutionally investable crypto market. Hashdex is in process of launching additional products in continental Europe very soon.
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Hashdex is a global pioneer in crypto asset management. Hashdex's simple and secure funds invite innovative investors to join the emerging crypto economy. Hashdex's mission is to provide educational resources and best-in-class products that advance its efforts to build pathways to prosperity by opening the crypto ecosystem to the world. The firm co-created and launched the Nasdaq Crypto Index™ (NCI™) to provide global investors with a reliable benchmark for the crypto asset class. In 2021, Hashdex introduced the world's first crypto ETFs and other innovative products, enabling over 260,000 investors to simply and securely add crypto to their portfolios. For more information visit www.hashdex.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Purcell & Lefkowitz LLP, a class action law firm dedicated to representing shareholders nationwide, is investigating a potential breach of fiduciary duty claim involving the board of directors of Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL).
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PLEASANT PRAIRIE — Simon Property Group, Inc., which invests in shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations, announced the opening Friday of a joint store with footwear brands Merrell and Sperry at Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets.
Located in the Northeast section of the center, the Merrell and Sperry stores are adjacent to each other, with connecting walkways between the two.
David Meyer, director of stores at footwear company Wolverine Worldwide, which owns both brands, said they were excited to open their newest location in Pleasant Prairie.
“The Merrell and Sperry store teams are thrilled and eager to serve the Pleasant Prairie community and surrounding areas,” Meyer said. “Join us for our opening and check out our extensive assortment of casual and outdoor footwear, apparel, and accessories.”
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Outlet Area General Manager Laurie Van Dalen said that Merrell and Sperry’s focus on outdoor activities, “whether that’s on the water or a mountainside hiking trail,” resonates with active Wisconsinites.
“We are eager to offer these exceptional brands to our loyal, savvy shoppers,” Van Dalen said.
Sperry was founded in 1935 by avid sailor, inventor and explorer Paul Sperry. Merrell was founded by Clark Matis, Randy Merrell, and John Schweizer in 1981 as a maker of high-performance hiking boots. Since 1997, the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolverine World Wide.
Founded in 1883, Wolverine World Wide, Inc. is one of the world’s leading marketers and licensors of branded footwear and apparel. The company’s portfolio includes Sweaty Betty, Merrell, Sperry, Hush Puppies, Saucony, Wolverine, Keds, Stride Rite, Chaco, Bates, and HYTEST. Based in Rockford, Mich. for more than 130 years, the company’s products are carried by retailers in the U.S. and globally in approximately 170 countries and territories.
For more information on Merrell, visit www.merrell.com, and for more information on Sperry visit www.sperry.com. | 2022-10-15T01:15:03+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/merrell-and-sperry-open-twin-footwear-stores-at-pleasant-prairie-premium-outlets/article_9a82e982-4be6-11ed-91f4-b3c44f8c5e43.html |
2 dead, 3 hurt in shooting in front of DC senior residence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police said two people were killed and three others injured Wednesday in a shooting in front of a senior citizen’s center and near several schools in the nation’s capital.
The Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday’s shooting happened in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington in front of a residence for senior citizens and near several high schools.
The shooting happened just before 1 p.m. when a black SUV pulled up in front of the senior residence and two men hopped out and opened fire, Executive Assistant Police Chief Ashan Benedict said.
A total of five men were shot. Two died at the scene and three others were taken to area hospitals and were being treated Wednesday afternoon for their injuries.
Benedict said police were still trying to collect evidence at the scene and working to identify a definitive motive but said the area is known to officers as “an open-air drug market.”
Officers routinely make arrests there for the sale of narcotics and investigators believe the shooting was related to those drug sales, he said.
“This is an ongoing problem,” Benedict said.
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The city of Grand Rapids- also known as Beer City U.S.A.- is never short of beer-themed events and activities to enjoy thanks to the many breweries that reside there. Now, the Kent District Library is getting in on the fun with months worth of events as part of their KDaLe (KD-ale) program.
From January 3 through August 31, Kent District Library will be hosting brewery events, a homebrew competition, classes, brewery tours, and much more.
The library will be hosting KDaLe brewing classes at various branches, as well as highlighting books about beer or homebrewing.
Plus, when patrons visit KDaLe's brewery partners, customers can use the Beanstack app to complete tasks and automatically enter to win monthly prizes.
All programs are for ages 21 and up.
Get a complete list of events happening throughout the year by visiting kdl.org/KDaLe. | 2023-01-11T16:19:21+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/kdale-series-returns-for-7th-year-highlighting-local-breweries-and-beyond |
HarmonyCares has unveiled a new brand and logo as part of an extensive rebranding initiative.
TROY, Mich., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Medical Management "USMM", a recognized leader in providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare within proven care models that support complex and fragile individuals in the home setting, has completed an extensive rebranding effort to better reflect its corporate vision, as well as convey its full continuum of home-based services to patients and care partners. At the heart of this rebranding is a change of the company name to HarmonyCares and an update to the corporate and division logos. HarmonyCares Medical Group (Visiting Physicians Association), HarmonyCares Hospice (Grace/Comfort Hospice), and HarmonyCares Home Health (Pinnacle Senior Care) division branding was also launched as part of the effort.
For nearly 3 decades, HarmonyCares has been committed to providing community-based care to patients who most often have poor health equity and limited access to care. The refreshed branding reflects HarmonyCares' dedication to accessible, affordable, high-quality care, regardless of income, provided through coordinated care entities.
"With the changing health care landscape, the timing is right to change our name to represent our organization's mission, care model, and care teams to better reflect our coordinated service offerings and commitment to community-based care. We are proud to continue to operate in the same markets and physical locations, and look to expand our service area in 2023 and beyond" said Matt Chance, CEO, HarmonyCares.
HarmonyCares is a leading provider of home-based primary care services for complex/fragile patients. Based in Troy, Michigan, HarmonyCares operates in-home primary care practices in 11 states, constituting a 200 + primary care provider group, providing continuity-based primary care under an integrated, physician-driven model which includes ancillary services such as home health, hospice, palliative care, radiology, diagnostics, durable medical equipment, and laboratory. HarmonyCares also operates a multi-state Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO serving approximately 20,000 complex/fragile Medicare patients. In December 2021, Rubicon Founders acquired a majority stake in HarmonyCares.
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CANAZEI, Italy (AP) — Rescuers found body parts and equipment as they searched Tuesday for hikers missing following a powerful avalanche that killed at least seven people and was blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers.
Officials initially feared 13 hikers were still missing after a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier cleaved off Sunday in northern Italy. But the province of Trento on Tuesday reduced the number of people unaccounted-for to five, all of them Italian, after eight others checked in with authorities.
One of them is Erica Campagnaro, and on Tuesday her sister Debora Campagnaro, lashed out at the lack of warning about the accumulation of water at the base of the glacier that experts say was evidence of an unusual melt from a heat wave that has been scorching Italy for weeks.
Campagnaro said her sister and brother-in-law, an experienced Alpine guide who is also among the missing, never would have left their two sons at home to go hiking if there had been an alert system as there is in ski season warning about the possibility of snow avalanches.
“Is there an authority that had to prevent people (from going up the mountain) given the weather of that day and the weather of the previous days? Where is this authority?” she asked at the site of the rescue camp.
Rain had hampered the search Monday, but sunny weather on Tuesday allowed helicopters to bring more rescue teams and their drones up to the site on the glacier, east of Bolzano in the Dolomite mountains, even as hopes dimmed of finding anyone alive.
“We have to be clear, finding someone alive with this type of event is a very remote possibility, very remote, because the mechanical action of this type of avalanche has a very big impact on people,” said Alex Barattin of the Alpine Rescue Service.
After the 200-meter (yard) wide chunk of glacier detached, a torrent of ice, rock and debris plowed down the mountainside onto unsuspecting hikers below. At least seven people were killed, two of them Czech, officials said.
Nicola Casagli, a geologist and avalanche expert at Florence University, said the impact of the glacier collapse on the hikers was greater than a mere snow avalanche and would have taken them completely by surprise.
“These types of events, which are ice and debris avalanches, are impulsive, rapid, unpredictable phenomena, reaching very high speeds and involving large masses,” he said. “And there is no chance of getting to safety or perceiving the problem in advance, because by the time you perceive it, you’ve already been hit.”
Associated Press photos, taken during a helicopter survey of the site, showed a gaping hole in the glacier as if the blue-gray ice had been carved out by a giant ice cream scooper.
The terrain was still so unstable that rescue crews stayed off to the side and were using drones to try to find any remains or signs of life while helicopters searched overhead, some using equipment to detect cellular pings.
Maurizio Dellantonio, national president of the Alpine Rescue Service, said teams had found body parts, hiking equipment and clothing on the surface of the debris, evidence of the avalanche’s powerful impact on the hikers.
“We have recovered so many fragments over the last two days. They are very painful for those who pick them up. and then for those who have to analyze them,” he said. “Personally I can only think that what we found on the surface will be the same that we will find underneath, when the ice will melt or by digging, if there is a chance.”
By late Tuesday, he said technical teams had determined it was safe enough for ground rescue workers to start searching the lowest part of the debris, about 700 meters below the detachment site, where drones weren’t working well anyway.
Officials closed all access routes and chair lifts to the glacier for hikers, fearing continued instability and the potential that more chunks of ice might detach.
Premier Mario Draghi, who visited the rescue base in Canazei on Monday, acknowledged avalanches are unpredictable but that the tragedy “certainly depends on the deterioration of the climate situation.”
Italy is in the midst of an early summer heatwave, coupled with the worst drought in northern Italy in 70 years that prompted the government to declare a state of emergency in five northern regions. Experts say there was unusually little snowfall during the winter, exposing the glaciers of the Italian Alps more to the summer heat and melt.
“We are thus in the worst conditions for a detachment of this kind, when there’s so much heat and so much water running at the base,” said Renato Colucci from the Institute of Polar Sciences of the state-run Council for National Research, or CNR.
The CNR has estimated that the Marmolada glacier could disappear entirely in the next 25-30 years if current climatic trends continue, given that it lost 30% of its volume and 22% of its area from 2004-2015.
Maurizio Fugatti, president of the autonomous province of Trento, insisted though that Sunday’s detachment was an “exceptional event, one of a kind,” when asked about why hikers such as Campagnaro and her husband had been allowed on the glacier.
“There were many alpine guides on that side (of the glacier), people who know very well what the situation is,” he said. “On the other hand we can understand the feeling of the relatives and friends of those people affected.”
Casagli said what happened on the Marmolada was unusual, but said such destructive avalanches will become more frequent as global temperatures continue to rise.
“The fact that it happened in a scorching summer with abnormal temperatures must be a wake-up call to understand that these phenomena, while rare, are possible,” he told reporters. “If we don’t take decisive measures to counter the effects of climate change, they will become more and more frequent.”
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Winfield reported from Rome. | 2022-07-06T00:38:08+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/drone-search-resumes-on-italian-glacier-after-avalanche/ |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Many people have wondered ever since the last election if former President Donald Trump will run for the presidency again. We now have the answer.
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said in front of a crowd at the Mar-A-Lago resort
“America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump said.
This announcement comes a week after many of the candidates he backed lost during the midterms, but that’s not stopping some Republicans from offering their support.
“I support President Trump, 1000%,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
“President Trump, he excites people, he energizes our base and he increases voter turnout,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
But for many Democrats, this is anything but welcome news.
“He’s unfit to be president,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
Brown and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) say the midterm results show most Americans want to move past Trump.
“The reason Republicans didn’t do nearly as well as they thought they would be is because of Donald Trump,” Brown said.
“The so-called GOP red wave turned into a red wedding,” Jeffries said. “Here’s the Republican response, the cult leader should run again.”
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fl.) is the man some are calling on to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination. Earlier Tuesday he shrugged off recent attacks from the former president.
“When you’re doing, you’re leading, when you’re getting things done, yeah you take incoming fire, that’s just the nature of it,” DeSantis said.
While Trump announced his own candidacy, he made no mention of a possible running mate. | 2022-11-16T06:07:01+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/former-president-donald-trump-announces-2024-run/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Climate change is one of the greatest challenges confronting the world today. Both the Africa Climate Summit and COP28 will be critical milestones in the year of the Global Stocktake for the international community to come together and provide a solutions-oriented path forward.
We [President Ruto and COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber] are determined to work hand in hand to ensure COP28 and the Africa Climate Summit will deliver real and tangible results for the climate and for the people of Africa and the world.
President Ruto commends the UAE, its leadership and the COP Presidency on its long-standing support for sustainable development and climate action. He also affirms his support for the COP28 leadership team and welcomes Dr. Sultan Al Jaber in his role as COP28 President, noting the expertise he will bring to this role given his credentials as a leader in the energy transition and renewables scale up across the world. We will work together to facilitate the highest possible ambition across every climate pillar at COP28.
COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber underscores the importance of the Africa Climate Summit as a pivotal moment for Africa and on the Road to COP28 to accelerate the energy transition and bring African solutions to COP28 this November and welcomes Kenya and President Ruto's climate leadership.
We are pleased to announce that COP28 and Kenya will join forces to champion action towards the necessary tripling of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. This collective target requires a global effort to accelerate a just energy transition, which leaves no one behind. We call on all parties, in every region, to join this effort and work together in order to mobilize a global movement of action.
Africa has the potential to lead this transition and deliver enormous benefits for the region and globally. In addition to being home to one of the planet's most important carbon sinks, it is endowed with significant untapped hydro potential along the Congo and Nile rivers, geothermal potential along the Rift Valley, and solar potential across the Continent. It is also home to the current and next generation of climate leaders, entrepreneurs, business and civil society that will help unlock the solutions to transformative action. On a continent where almost half of the population still lacks electricity, clean energy provides an opportunity to supercharge economic growth and improve lives and livelihoods.
Realizing this potential will require a step change. Clean energy investment in Africa represents only 2% of the global total and less than 10% of the $120 billion a year that is required. We must transform the way we deploy public, concessional, and philanthropic capital to drive the private investment that is needed for climate action in Africa. We need to fundamentally rethink the way financiers, governments, global institutions, and technology providers engage with each other. We must all play our collective part, especially to ensure that climate action leverages and benefits all of society, including women, youth and children, and indigenous peoples.
To underscore our commitment to results we [President Ruto and COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber] have today launched a joint working group between the Africa Climate Summit and COP28 with a focus on the just energy transition and unlocking climate finance to accelerating green growth in Africa in the lead up to the respective summits.
In addition to working together on a COP28 energy transition plan, Kenya and the COP28 Presidency look forward to working closely on organizing the first-ever health day and climate-health ministerial, which aligns with Kenya's leadership on this issue.
President Ruto commends the incoming Presidency on its comprehensive approach for COP28 which will seek to integrate the response to biodiversity loss and climate change, transform our food systems, address the growing climate burdens on human health, and prevent and address severe and destabilizing climate impacts, especially in the most vulnerable communities.
President Ruto and COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber will maintain close coordination at the political level in the coming months, towards the delivery of a highly ambitious outcome in Nairobi and at COP28 in Dubai.
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SOURCE COP28 UAE | 2023-06-20T12:14:00+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/joint-statement-between-president-kenya-william-ruto-cop28-president-designate-dr-sultan-al-jaber/ |
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Zeyda Cipra has been so anxious all week about Argentina’s match against France in the World Cup final that she couldn’t avoid talking about how she was feeling with her psychologist.
“She told me she was feeling the same way about the World Cup,” laughed Cipra, a 35-year-old economics student who also runs a pet shop in Buenos Aires. “I’m really excited, and have terrible anxiety.”
Argentines woke up Sunday ready to watch the national team play in Qatar for a third World Cup title, the first since 1986, amid a feeling of unity and joy that is rare for a country that has been engulfed in an economic crisis for years and has one of the worst inflation rates in the world, at almost 100% annually, and where almost four in 10 live in poverty.
“People are feeling a very intense happiness constantly. Cars are driving around with the flag. The whole city is dressed with the flag,” said Guillermo Ortiz, a 52-year-old podiatrist. “The crazy thing is that we’re all united and say we want what’s best, which generally doesn’t happen in this country. It’s as if soccer draws a circle and puts us all inside.”
Argentina last reached the World Cup final in 2014, when it lost to Germany, but seemingly everyone in the country agrees the sense of anticipation and excitement for this game is far higher than it ever was for that match eight years ago in Brazil.
“This has something special due to the situation of the country. The truth is that we’re going through a really, really rough time and we’re waiting for this happiness,” said Martín Ferreyra, a 46-year-old plumber. “We’re enjoying a break as a society.”
As Argentines prepared for the country’s sixth World Cup final, many were ready to follow some superstitious rituals.
Cipra, for example, will watch the game by herself just as she has done with all the other World Cup matches, surrounded by her two dogs and two others she’s taking care of — all wearing the Argentina jersey.
Ortiz will be watching the game with his family and friends in his apartment, where, just like every other game, they will hang up a 25-meter (82-foot) Argentina flag.
Ortiz’s goal is to later unfurl that flag at the capital’s iconic Obelisk, the traditional site of celebrations that will undoubtedly fill up after the match regardless of whether the team led by Lionel Messi wins or loses.
“If we lose, we’re still going to celebrate,” Ferreyra said. “We know there were values and that this is a real team.”
Few, however, were talking about losing as a real possibility.
“I think this will be ours because the guys have shown they can adapt to any system of play and they can change depending on their rival,” said Guillermo Darchez, a 43-year-old photographer whose daughter plays in the youth team at Newell’s Old Boys.
Newell’s is Messi’s old club in Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city.
“We’re all very hungry for victory,” agreed Pablo Jiménez, a 29-year-old waiter at a restaurant in Rosario that is owned by Messi’s family. “I think we’re going to eat them alive.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-18T22:33:14+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ap-argentines-wakes-up-dreaming-of-world-cup-glory-in-qatar/ |
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – As kids go back to school, it can feel like summer is coming to an end. The Champaign Public Library celebrated with their Read-A-Palooza finale Sunday afternoon.
It’s s seasonal program that keeps library-goers of all ages reading during the summer.
“We’re just so grateful to our community that they continue to come out time and time again and just keep reading,” Program and Events Librarian Maura Stutzman said.
Throughout the summer, library-goers count the minutes they spend reading, and celebrate by picking out prizes.
“We encourage kids, teens and adults to go a read just a few minutes every day,” she said.
Stutzman said they saw an increase in readers this year. About 3,700 people participated, and hundreds of them showed up to the Read-A-Palooza finale.
There was a stilt-walker, bubble station, live music, and plenty more for families to enjoy. The program is a long-standing Champaign tradition, and one that parents say they enjoy passing down to their kids.
“Me and their mom both were kids in Champaign and we did this when we were kids so it’s cool to have them do it too,” Errol Packard said.
It’s passion that keeps the Read-A-Palooza tradition alive.
“I’ve been coming to the Champaign library my entire life, so being able to be on the other side of the desk and help the community members has just been amazing,” Stutzman said.
She said over 2 million minutes were read in Champaign this summer. | 2022-08-15T19:21:55+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/hundreds-celebrate-librarys-read-a-palooza-finale/ |
Audi has revealed teaser photos for the fourth and final member of a family of “premium mobility” concept vehicles.
The teasers show the Audi Activesphere concept, which is due to be revealed on Jan. 26. It’s a coupe-like crossover designed for active lifestyles, Audi says, and it’s set to join the Grandsphere, Skysphere, and Urbansphere in the concept family. The other concepts include a fastback sedan, a sports car, and a minivan.
All the concepts, including the upcoming Activesphere, are electric vehicles based on Volkswagen Group’s PPE platform, which Audi will first use in a new Q6 E-Tron compact crossover due in 2023 or early the following year. The concepts also feature fully self-driving systems, giving an occupant the option to drive or to sit back and relax during a journey.
Features specific to the Activesphere will include off-road capability, possibly a rugged design, and according to Audi, some communication technology that will create a unique experience beyond the vehicle itself.
The concepts were developed by Audi’s Artemis skunkworks team that was established in 2020 to help accelerate vehicle development in an attempt to compete with more agile startups in the EV race. The responsibilities for Artemis were scaled back considerably in 2021, but at least one of the vehicles it was developing is expected to reach production around the middle of the decade. The vehicle is expected to be a production version of the Grandsphere, which is rumored to serve as a replacement for the A8, though given the current craze for crossovers, the Activesphere may end up being the concept given the green light.
While the concepts aren’t intended for production, mostly, elements of the vehicles are likely to influence the design of future EVs. Audi will introduce multiple EVs in the coming years as the automaker has committed to introducing its final vehicle with an internal-combustion engine as soon as 2026.
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- 2024 Mini Countryman spy shots and video | 2022-12-20T11:32:17+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/automotive/internet-brands/activesphere-is-audis-vision-of-an-active-lifestyle-ev/ |
BOSTON (AP) — Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged with killing notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison.
The Justice Department announced the charges against Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon on Thursday.
The charges against come nearly four years after Bulger’s killing, which raised questions about why the known “snitch” was placed in the general population instead of more protective housing.
The men were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Bulger was beaten to death at USP Hazelton in October 2018, hours after he was transferred from a prison in Florida, where he had been serving a life sentence for 11 murders and other crimes.
Prosecutors allege that Bulger was struck in the head by Geas and DeCologero multiple times, which caused his death.
Geas and DeCologero were also charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
Prosecutors also charged Geas with murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence.
The Justice Department charged McKinnon with making false statements to a federal agent.
Shortly after Bulger's death, Geas and DeCologero were identified as the suspects but were never charged until now due to the investigation dragging on for years.
According to family members, the Boston Globe reported that the two were placed in solitary confinement throughout the investigation.
Gaes is currently in a Hazelton prison and DeCologero is currently at another federal prison facility.
McKinnon was arrested in Florida Thursday. | 2022-08-18T23:42:29+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/justice-dept-3-men-charged-in-whitey-bulgers-killing |
NEW YORK (PIX11) – High pressure will move into the region and dominate the weather for the tri-state area over the next few days. We can expect mostly sunny skies Wednesday afternoon with a high temperature of 88 in the city and mid to upper 80s in the suburbs.
Thursday will be hazy, hot, and humid with dangerous temperatures as winds will bring air in from the southwest. The high temperature will be 95 in the city and mid to upper 90s in the suburbs. The heat will combine with the humidity to make it feel like 100 to 105 degrees in spots.
Friday will be sunny and dangerously hot again as high pressure will keep the region in a scorching air mass. The high will be 97 in the city and mid to upper 90s in the suburbs. The heat indices will once again reach the triple digits in many areas.
Saturday will be partly cloudy and hot with afternoon showers and thunderstorms developing as a cold front will move through the region. Some of these storms may contain gusty winds and heavy downpours. The high will be 94 in the city and low to mid 90s in the suburbs.
Sunday will be partly sunny and noticeably cooler as high pressure will bring air from Canada into the region. The high temperature will be 86 in the city and low to mid-80s in the suburbs.
Monday will be partly sunny and pleasant with highs in the mid-80s for much of the region. | 2023-07-26T12:20:52+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/weather/ny-nj-forecast-heat-humidity-to-make-it-feel-like-over-100-degrees/ |
Three-Year Term Starts in January 2023 Focused on Advancing the CMLS Mission and Strategic Priorities
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- REsides, the first and only MLS to launch a revolutionary new equity-ownership model for its members, announced today that Colette Stevenson, CEO, was elected as a Director for The Council of Multiple Listing Services. She and four MLS executives will assume their new roles on January 1, 2023 and will serve for a three-year term. The Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) is the professional trade organization that serves the Multiple Listing Services industry and represents 1.7 million subscribers.
Stevenson was successfully elected as a Director by the general membership of CMLS. The CMLS Board of Directors work to advance the multiple listing services by supporting the CMLS mission and strategic priorities. The 4 other new directors elected are:
- Brad Bjelke, CEO of UtahRealEstate.com (Utah)
- Jeff Bosch, CEO of IRES, LLC (Colorado)
- Shelley Specchio, CEO of MIBOR Broker Listing Cooperative (Indiana)
- Rob Wagoner, Senior VP & MLS Director, Heartland Multiple Listing Service (Kansas & Missouri)
Stevenson and the newly elected directors will join current directors; Brian Donnellan, CEO of Bright MLS (Maryland); Faith Geronimo, CEO and President of Hawaii Information Services (Hawaii); and Nicole Jensen, CEO of realMLS (Florida).
"I am honored to be elected to the CMLS Board of Directors," Stevenson said. 'I will continue to be a champion of change in MLS and bring new ideas and fresh perspectives to the table. I want to lead and drive the needed transformation of the MLS industry for the betterment of the entire real estate eco-system because in doing so, we all win,' she added.
Stevenson has been on the forefront of leading change in MLS for years. She attends conferences, speaks about dramatic change affecting MLSs and is committed to building the MLS of the future – an MLS without boundaries - that empowers and compensates brokers for their valuable listing data.
"I also want to leave MLS better than it was when I started. I want to influence the future of MLS and be part of the team that makes it happen," Stevenson said. "I have always believed that it is rewarding to be a part of something BIGGER and will leave a lasting positive impact on the industry for generations to come."
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Service, quality, and value-focused Drury Hotels Company turns 50, ushers in the next phase of the family-owned and operated hotels' legacy with continued growth and summer-long celebrations and promotions
ST. LOUIS, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Drury Hotels Company, LLC, the family-owned and operated hospitality group, celebrates fifty years of warm welcomes this month. In 1973, the Drury family opened the first Drury Inn in Sikeston, Missouri and the company has grown to 150 hotels in 26 states. Drury Hotels include Drury Inn & Suites, Drury Inns, Drury Plaza Hotels, and Pear Tree Inns.
"Since our founding, we've been guided by the simple promise to provide our customers with clean rooms, friendly service, and a good night's sleep at an honest price," said Chuck Drury, President & CEO. "Fifty years later, that promise still stands with almost 6,000 team members dedicated to ensuring our guests Travel Happy®."
Drury Hotels continually focuses on providing the best value for guests. In 2003, they were among the first in the hotel industry to offer free hot breakfast to their guests and followed up in 2010 by introducing free 5:30 Kickback®, with dinnertime snacks and cold beverages. As its latest enhancement, Drury Hotels recently introduced The Kitchen + Bar for late-night dining options at 16 Drury Hotels, with plans to add eight more by the end of 2024.
In 2022, Drury Hotels earned a record-breaking 17th consecutive J.D. Power award for Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Upper Mid-Scale Hotel Chains. Drury Hotels' J.D. Power distinction sets a record for the most consecutive wins in the travel and hospitality category.
Continued Growth
Last December, Drury Hotels opened the 604-room Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando located within the Disney Springs® Area, an Official Walt Disney World® Hotel. In the past five years, Drury Hotels has opened 16 new hotels including downtown Nashville Tenn., Milwaukee Wis., Richmond Va., St. Paul Minn., and Dallas Texas. In addition, three new hotels are currently under construction in Tallahassee Fla., Savannah Ga., and Arlington Texas.
50th Anniversary Celebrations
Drury Hotel guests can Travel Happy® with promotional opportunities including a group booking promotion and double points for enrolled Drury Rewards® members. For details about these promotions and Drury Hotel's 50th Anniversary, please visit druryhotels.com/fifty.
Drury Hotel guests are invited to join the celebration by enjoying anniversary themed cocktails at 5:30 Kickback® during their stay from mid-April to August. Golden Margaritas will be featured at Drury Plaza Hotels and Kelso Collins, the namesake taken from the Southeast Missouri town where the Drury family is from, will be featured at Drury Inn & Suites and Drury Inns.
For a complete listing of all Drury Hotels or for reservations, visit druryhotels.com or call 1-800-DRURYINN. For information about career opportunities at Drury Hotels, please apply online at jobs.druryhotels.com.
Drury Cares
As part of their ongoing commitment to the communities they serve, Drury Hotels team members joined together earlier this year as part of Drury Cares, a company-wide initiative that shares Drury team members' time and talents with local nonprofit organizations. Volunteer activities included a variety of causes and initiatives including serving at food banks and animal shelters, sending care packages, hosting a dance for a local children's home, serving breakfast to first responders, and more. Culminating these efforts, Drury Hotels presented a tractor trailer truckload of food and non-perishables to help impact more than 70,000 Missourians through the Southeast Missouri Foodbank.
About Drury Hotels Company
Drury Hotels Company is a Missouri-based, family-owned and operated hotel system with 150 hotels in 26 states. Founded in 1973, Drury Hotels has been recognized by the J.D. Power 2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study,SM earning the award for "Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Upper Midscale Hotel Chains." In 2022, Drury received this award for a record 17th consecutive year.* Brands include Drury Inn & Suites®, Drury Inn®, Drury Plaza Hotel®, Pear Tree Inn by Drury®, as well as other hotels in the mid-priced hotel segment. Drury Hotels continues to provide exceptional value for business and leisure travelers with its many free amenities – Travel Happy®. For more information, visit druryhotels.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
*Drury Hotels received the highest numerical score among upper midscale hotels in the proprietary J.D. Power 2006-2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Studies.SM The J.D. Power 2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index StudySM is based on responses gathered between June 2021 and May 2022 from 34,407 guests in Canada and the United States who stayed at a hotel in North America.
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SOURCE Drury Hotels | 2023-04-11T15:05:48+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/04/11/drury-hotels-celebrates-50-years-warm-welcomes/ |
Manchester United are becoming increasingly confident they will sign a striker before the start of the Premier League season, sources have told ESPN, as talks with Atalanta over a deal for Rasmus Höjlund begin to pick up pace.
United have indicated to the Italian side that they are willing to offer €50 million ($56m) for Höjlund. There remains a gap in valuation between the clubs but Atalanta, according to sources, are open to agreeing a compromise.
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United are also talking to Eintracht Frankfurt about Randal Kolo Muani and to Ajax about Mohammed Kudus to ensure a forward arrives before the season kicks off with a game against Wolves at Old Trafford on Aug. 14.
Speaking after the defeat to Real Madrid, Ten Hag said: "We are working 24/7 [to sign a striker]. We do a lot in the club, all the power to get this done."
Höjlund remains the most likely signing.
Sources have told ESPN that there is an acceptance within the recruitment department that signing the 20-year-old would represent a gamble given his age and lack of experience at the highest level.
The Denmark international has not yet played 100 senior games and last season scored nine goals in 32 games in Serie A.
To compensate, manager Erik ten Hag is willing to use Marcus Rashford as a centre forward next season. Rashford has looked most dangerous playing on the left wing but Ten Hag, according to sources, understands the England forward may have to play through the middle more often to allow Höjlund to come in and out of the team while he gets up to speed in the Premier League.
Rashford started as the No. 9 in the 2-0 defeat to Madrid in Houston on Wednesday while Jadon Sancho started in the role against Arsenal in New Jersey.
United, according to sources, are also willing to keep hold of Anthony Martial as another experienced option at centre forward.
The Frenchman is still recovering from the hamstring injury which ruled him out of the end of last season and has not yet featured in preseason. | 2023-07-27T12:47:24+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38080077/man-united-confident-rasmus-hojlund-deal-striker-chase-sources |
Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly unveiled a monument to those killed a year ago in the worst unrest in the Central Asian nation’s three decades of independence.
Words on the stark concrete “Reverence” memorial speak of the need for unity and harmony in the energy-rich country of 19 million.
But a year after calm was restored and a state of emergency lifted on Jan. 20, 2022, both appear elusive. And an official fog still shrouds many of the events surrounding the days known as “Bloody January.”
Despite government promises of accountability as well as promises of economic and political reforms in the former Soviet nation, many Kazakhs say they have not seen meaningful changes or even clarity about what happened to those who were killed and detained in the rioting.
“So many questions remain about what happened,” said Dimash Alzhanov, a Kazakh political analyst and co-founder of the civic movement known as Oyan, Qazaqstan, or “Wake up, Kazakhstan.”
Government video of the memorial’s Dec. 23 unveiling in Republic Square, attended by about two dozen officials, showed a subdued ceremony. The scene was starkly different 11 months earlier, when protesters stormed two palatial state buildings on Jan. 5 and set them ablaze.
The Prosecutor General’s office said 238 people were killed; human rights groups say over 10,000 were detained.
The demonstrations began Jan. 2 in western Kazakhstan’s oil-producing region over an increase in state-controlled gas prices as 2022 dawned. Those protests spread and morphed into broad criticisms of corruption, economic inequality and a continuing grip on power and the country’s energy wealth by its long-serving first leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and his family. Marchers referred to him by shouting “Old man out!”
Over the course of a week, the initially peaceful gatherings grew violent. Participants in the marches told The Associated Press at the time that armed men, their faces covered and riding with cars without license plates, appeared in Almaty, the former capital, and urged them to storm government buildings, promising guns.
The government, led by Nazarbayev’s hand-picked successor Tokayev, responded with “shoot-to-kill” orders, blaming foreign-trained and funded “terrorists.”
At Tokayev’s request, 2,000 mostly Russian peacekeeping troops were sent in by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance of six former Soviet states. This raised fears of an intervention by Moscow — weeks before its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Those fears never materialized, with the CSTO pulling out in late January.
Human rights activists allege that Kazakh security troops used excessive force, arbitrary detentions and widespread torture on thousands of detained protesters. They criticized government-published lists of victims for not clarifying the circumstances of their deaths.
Tokayev’s administration rejected calls for an international investigation.
It did, however , push through reforms that included strengthening parliament, reducing presidential powers and limiting the presidency to a single seven-year term. Tokayev, who succeeded Nazarbayev in 2019, won a snap presidential election in November with a reported 81% of the vote, ensuring he will stay in office until 2029.
The reforms also stripped Nazarbayev, 82, of his remaining powers over domestic and foreign policy. In September, the capital of the country reverted to the name of Astana, after being renamed Nur-Sultan in his honor in 2019.
Despite those reforms, human rights campaigners and analysts say they see troubling familiar patterns.
“We continue to live in a Soviet-style authoritarian regime, and it hasn’t changed very much since the January events,” Yevgeniy Zhovtis, head of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, told AP. “In fact, the January events have led to new issues, linked to torture and civilian deaths and related investigations being closed.”
Kazakh human rights lawyer Tatiana Chernobil, working with the Coalition Against Torture nongovernmental organization, said that while her group received 190 complaints of torture and ill-treatment in 2022, the real number could be much higher.
She said 104 of those cases brought by her organization were dismissed for lack of evidence. The Kazakh ombudswoman, Elvira Azimova, gave a similar figure in November, with state media quoting her as saying about 80% were dismissed before going to court.
In February, the press service of the president said criminal investigations were launched into 170 instances of torture and abuse of power from the unrest. In October, Deputy Prosecutor General Aset Chindaliyev said 17 police officers and 12 security operatives were implicated in criminal cases into the alleged torture of detained protesters.
Chernobil said authorities don’t do enough to verify the allegations, noting many people claim they can identify their torturers and have medical records of injuries. Investigators “often stop at questioning the suspects, who claim that they didn’t commit any wrongdoing — and that’s it,” and then conclude the account can’t be verified, she said.
According to the United Nations, the burden of proof in torture cases lies with the state. As long as complainants can provide evidence of bodily harm or being held in custody, it is up to authorities to prove torture did not occur.
“In Kazakhstan, we see a lack of compliance with international standards. We see a kind of victim-blaming, laying the burden of proof on those bringing the allegations,” Chernobil said.
Rachel Gasowski, a Central Asia researcher at the International Partnership for Human Rights, said torture allegations in Kazakhstan predate 2022. Cases cited after protests in the oil-producing city of Zhanaozen in 2011 led to neither investigation nor redress for victims, despite recommendations from U.N.-linked rights bodies. A joint report by Kazakh and international groups on torture is to be published this month.
Gasowski said her group was “dismayed” that most cases from the 2022 protests have been closed.
Chernobil expressed cautious optimism about a government decision to transfer jurisdiction in torture cases from the police and state anti-corruption agency to the Prosecutor General’s Office but is unsure if it will bring real change. Her group has stopped demanding an independent investigative body, she said, “because it’s a major question to what extent you can really be independent in Kazakhstan.”
Zhovtis, the activist, said an international probe is needed because most criminal investigations of civilian deaths have been dismissed due to authorities frequently withholding key evidence such as CCTV video, citing national security.
The government list of those killed often omits whether they were accidental deaths, such as from excessive force, or if they were “genuinely terrorists,” Zhovtis said, referencing the government line of foreigners being behind the unrest. The administration has yet to provide any such evidence.
An official in the Prosecutor General’s Office told Kazakhstanskaya Pravda in February that authorities were investigating the deaths of at least six people in custody as the result of “prohibited interrogation methods.”
Some high-ranking officials were accused of involvement in the unrest. Former anti-terrorism chief Karim Masimov, described as a Nazarbayev ally, was detained in January 2022, along with other key security figures and charged with high treason in an ongoing closed trial.
Tokayev speaks often of a “new Kazakhstan” that breaks with the Nazarbayev era, one with accountability and democratization. But Zhovtis sees limits to these promises.
Human rights defenders and independent journalists still face pressure, from online harassment to detentions and physical attacks.
On Saturday, journalist Dinara Yegeubayeva, who plans to run in March 19 parliamentary elections, posted photos of her burned-out car in Almaty.
“Tokayev! Explain! Is this your new Kazakhstan?” she said. Media reports say Yegeubayeva received bomb threats last year, although emergency responders found no evidence of one in her car. A criminal investigation has been opened.
Zhovtis linked the attack to what he called an official unwillingness to allow true political opposition.
Alzhanov, the analyst, said candidates have difficulty registering and gathering signatures from supporters.
He accuses Tokayev’s administration of “imitation reforms” for the benefit of the West. He cited the case of opposition figure Zhanbolat Mamai, who has been charged with organizing mass riots and spreading false information in the 2022 protests. He faces up to 10 years in prison on allegations he calls politically motivated.
Despite the challenges, Zhovtis remained optimistic.
“Society is different now. The January events and their coverage in social media networks have played their part, and society has become more open — there is more information and more criticism of the authorities,” he told AP.
He also hopes some opposition and independent candidates could be elected. Authorities allow 30% of parliament seats to be allocated from outside party lists.
“Something is happening. Very slowly, and the regime stays very much the same, but change is happening,” he said. | 2023-01-21T05:01:09+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-a-year-after-kazakhstans-deadly-riots-questions-persist/ |
NEW YORK — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl,” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80.
His death was announced Tuesday by several people including John Ford Coley, who had formed the ‘70s duo England Dan and John Ford Coley with Mr. Seals’ older brother Dan. Further details were not immediately available.
“This is a hard one on so many levels as this is a musical era passing for me," Coley wrote. “And it will never pass this way again as his song said. He belonged to a group that was one of a kind."
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Mr. Seals and Darrell George “Dash” Crofts were Texas natives who had known each other since they were teenagers and had previously been in the Champs, which before they joined had a hit single with “Tequila,” and a group including Glen Campbell. They started Seals and Crofts in the late 1960s and over the next several years were among a wave of soft-rock groups that included America, Bread, and England Dan and John Ford Coley.
Seals and Crofts had three top 10 hits: “”Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl,” and “Get Closer.” Their other popular songs included “Hummingbird,” “You’re the Love,” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again.” Seals and Crofts also released the controversial “Unborn Child,” an antiabortion song that came out the year after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and was banned by some radio stations.
They broke up in 1980, but reunited briefly in the early 1990s and again in 2004, when they released the album “Traces.” Mr. Seals also performed on occasion with his brother Dan, who died in 2009.
Mr. Seals leaves his wife, Ruby, and their three children.
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Ukraine’s victories are exciting Wall Street. The boost could soon fade
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business
In the past week, Ukrainian troops have dealt a huge blow to Russia’s grip on parts of the east of their country with a fast-moving offensive. The stunning campaign has kicked off a new phase of the war and could force Vladimir Putin to reconsider his strategy and objectives.
What’s happening: Ukrainian forces have recaptured more than 1,160 square miles of territory in recent days.
The developments are helping lift stock markets. The war has been a major drag on Wall Street since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February sent the price of energy and other commodities soaring. That made it harder to estimate when inflation would start to ease, and consequently to determine what central banks like the Federal Reserve would do next.
But investors remain cautious as they look ahead, warning that there are still too many unknowns to launch into a full-scale celebration.
“It’s very difficult to know exactly what is going to go on in the war and what the next steps will be from the Russia side, so I think we can’t really invest on the basis of that,” Willem Sels, global chief investment officer at HSBC Private Banking and Wealth Management, told me.
On the radar: The situation is very fluid. Russia launched fresh air strikes on the Kharkiv region on Monday, targeting the city center and residential districts.
And regardless of what comes next, it may be too late to save Europe’s economy from recession as the sharp run-up in energy prices compels households to spend less on non-essentials and forces heavy industry to shut factories.
Economic output in the United Kingdom stagnated in the three months to July, according to data released Monday. Meanwhile, Germany’s Ifo Institute has slashed its estimate for growth in Europe’s biggest economy.
“We are heading into a winter recession,” the institute’s head of forecasts said Monday.
Government packages aimed at supporting consumers could help prop up spending. The United Kingdom and Germany, along with other EU countries, have announced €500 billion ($507 billion) in subsidies for bills and other interventions aimed at softening the impact.
But central banks will likely need to keep aggressively hiking interest rates to get inflation under control. That will keep economic growth in check.
“It’s likely that monetary policy will need to tighten much further to tackle the UK and Europe’s generalized inflation problem effectively,” Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients on Monday.
The United States is more insulated from the Ukraine war, but it’s still under recession watch as the Federal Reserve signals it will stay tough. China, meanwhile, is battling a real estate crisis and the impact of harsh coronavirus restrictions that continue to weigh on growth.
“Sky-high gas prices and aggressive monetary policy tightening have pushed the global economy to the brink” of a contraction later this year and early next year, Ben May, director of global macro research at Oxford Economics, said in a recent research note. “We expect a global recession to be avoided, but a sustained and substantial improvement in growth also seems unlikely.”
That makes it hard for investors to get too energized, though they’re hopeful there will be opportunities to use the ongoing turbulence to their advantage.
“We’re also playing the volatility,” Sels said. “You’re going to have lots of ups and downs.”
Looming rail strike could cost $2 billion per day
Around the world, transportation workers getting hammered by the surging cost of living and long hours are going on strike, adding to uncertainty about when global supply chains will start operating more normally.
See here: Unions representing tens of thousands of essential workers at US freight railroads could strike this week. This could bring nearly 30% of the nation’s freight to a halt, according to data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
That would have big ramifications for businesses across the country and the broader economy. A complex network of logistics firms help move goods from Point A to Point B, but trains remain a crucial cog in the system.
A prolonged standoff could mean empty shelves in stores, temporary closures at factories that don’t have the parts they need to operate and higher prices due to the limited availability of various consumer goods, my CNN Business colleague Chris Isidore reports.
The Association of American Railroads estimates that a nationwide rail service interruption could cost the economy more than $2 billion per day. Shipments typically increase in the fall as companies stock up ahead of the holiday season.
“We’re hearing more and more that shippers and the railroads are getting anxious,” said John Drake, vice president for transportation, infrastructure and supply chain policy for the US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby.
A central dispute is over the rules that govern workers’ schedules. Many of the engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews on each train have to be “on call” to report to work seven days a week, preventing them from making their own plans and feeding staff turnover.
Watch this space: Since railroad workers are under a different labor law than the one that controls labor relations at most businesses, it’s possible that Congress could act to prevent or quickly stop a strike. But that would require a level of bipartisanship that is rare in Washington just weeks ahead of midterm elections.
Preparations to “manage and secure the shipments of hazardous and security-sensitive materials” will begin Monday, the Association of American Railroads said, and warned some customers “may also start to experience delayed or suspended service.” Unions claim this is a “completely unnecessary” maneuver by railroads aimed at boosting pressure on Congress.
Better days on Wall Street help crypto, too
Want evidence that crypto prices remain closely connected to what’s happening in the stock market? Take a look at bitcoin, which has rallied in recent days as the S&P 500 has gained ground.
The latest: Bitcoin is back above $22,000 for the first time in about a month. Crypto companies are seeing their stocks rally, too. Coinbase shares are up 2% in premarket trading on Monday after leaping nearly 11% on Friday.
But losses this year remain eye-watering. The price of bitcoin has plunged by 54% in 2022. Stock in Coinbase, which pulled off one of the hottest initial public offerings in 2021, is 68% lower. The declines have been closely correlated with the sell-off in stocks and moves away from riskier assets, despite hopes among crypto enthusiasts that digital currencies would serve as an effective hedge or store of value like gold.
As ever, future prospects are murky and could hinge on where the broader market goes from here. Investors are looking ahead to Tuesday’s US inflation release, which could set the tone for the rest of the month.
“The recovery in bitcoin since the end of last week has been very strong,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda. “Things may be looking up in the short term, although once more, that may well depend on the inflation data.”
Up next
Oracle reports results after US markets close.
Coming tomorrow: Has inflation in the United States peaked? Economists polled by Refinitiv expect to learn that consumer prices increased by 8.1% in the year to August, down from 8.5% the previous month.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — TJ Friedl hit a tiebreaking triple in the seventh inning and Tommy Pham added a solo homer as the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 Sunday to snap a four-game losing streak.
Nolan Arenado and Juan Yepez homered for the Cardinals, who have lost four of six.
Friedl broke a 4-4 tie with a long drive to right field and Albert Almora Jr. followed with a sacrifice fly. Pham homered against his former team in the eighth.
“I was just looking for something to pull, to get a good pitch to hit,” Friedl said. “Got ahead 3-1 and I got that fastball middle-in and put a pretty good swing on it.”
The Reds have fashioned an 18-16 record after a dismal 3-23 start to the season. They failed to win any of their first eight series.
“To me it says what I already know about our players,” Cincinnati manager David Bell said. “They don’t really get fazed by too much. They just keep playing and continue to compete. It sure is nice when we’re rewarded with success. Today, a big win.”
Friedl has played in four games since being recalled from Triple-A Louisville on June 6 when Mike Moustakas went on the injured list. This is Friedl’s fourth stint with the big league team already this season.
“He went down to Triple-A and had a real nice weekend,” Bell said. “That seemed to really get him going. Fortunately we’ve been able to get him some playing time. We know what we can do.”
The Reds trailed 3-0 after Arenado hit his 11th homer of the season, a two-run drive in the third.
Jeff Hoffman (1-0) picked up the win with 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Alexis Diaz posted his second save.
Dakota Hudson (4-3) allowed six runs on nine hits over seven innings. He entered the game with a 6-0 lifetime record against Cincinnati.
Pham pushed the lead to 7-4 with a homer off Johan Oviedo.
“He made a good pitch on me,” Pham said, “That’s not an easy pitch to have that kind of result on.”
Albert Pujols hit an RBI double in the St. Louis that made it 4-all.
Yepez hit a two-run, two-out homer in the ninth. Diaz then struck out Pujols to end the game.
Yepez matched a career high with three hits. He credits help from his father Omar in Venezuela with the turnaround.
“I made a couple calls to my dad, he saw a few things in what I was doing,” Yepez said.
MESSAGE RECEIVED
St. Louis outfielder Harrison Bader was back in the starting lineup after being benched by manager Oliver Marmol in the middle of Saturday’s game for failing to run out a flyball.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to get slapped on the wrist and understand that there’s a certain standard for this clubhouse,” Bader said. “The way I handled that flyball was not to the full effort of my capabilities.”
Marmol spoke with Bader after Saturday’s game and said that Bader understood his mistake.
THE MACHINE KEEPS ROLLING
Pujols appeared in his 1,738th game for the Cardinals tying him with Curt Flood for seventh all-time in franchise history.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: INF Jonathan India continues a rehab stint in Triple-A Louisville that began on Tuesday, He has been on the injury list twice since May 1 with a right hamstring strain.
Cardinals: INF Paul Goldschmidt was given the day off. Goldschmidt had a 46-game on-base streak snapped on Saturday.
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Reds: LHP Mike Minor (0-2, 8.64) will start in Phoenix on Monday in the first of a three-game series against the Diamondbacks .Minor is making his third start after beginning the season on the injured list with a left shoulder strain.
Cardinals: LHP Zack Thompson (0-0, 2.25) will make the first start of her career on Monday. He will face Pittsburgh RHP Mitch Keller (2-5, 5.26) in the first of a four-game series against the Pirates in St. Louis. | 2022-06-13T01:38:29+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/friedl-reds-snap-4-game-skid-with-win-over-cardinals/ |
'A choice was taken from them': Bethlehem non-profit helps survivors of human trafficking and exploitation
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Alyssa Santana is a 30-year-old survivor who says she was "really lost" when she first came to Bloom, a program she credits for her new life.
"My main reason I was here is for trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitation," Santana said.
Bloom, a non-profit organization that helps women 18 and older in Bethlehem, helped her move from her past to create a safe and fulfilling present.
"I would be in and out the streets, in the alleyways. I would be in and out of cars," she said.
Today, she sees a completely different person after completing the program, and now works for Bloom.
"Proud. Someone brave. A survivor. Leader," she said.
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Carol Andersen, the CEO of Bloom, says their missions is "to provide a sanctuary to heal, empower, employee women survivors of trafficking and exploitation."
"A choice was taken from them, whether it be at a younger age when they were first victimized and that may be a pattern that continued, and certainly they've been oppressed and held captive," Andersen said.
Women can live free up to two years in homes provided by Bloom with access to resources. The organization has also created My Sister’s Closet, a women’s resale clothing store where some of the survivors’ work.
"Our hope is that they can chase those dreams and live a life that's meaningful and filled with love," Andersen said.
Ashley Caravello, a 33-year-old survivor of exploitation, is now the administrative coordinator for Bloom and exemplifies their mission statement.
"I felt like I had a purpose. I had unbiased people that could propel me to a better future," Caravello said. "Where we were doesn't dictate where we're going."
Bloom relies 100 percent on donations to operate. If you would like to donate, or volunteer, visit the Bloom website. | 2023-01-18T05:40:36+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/bethlehem-non-profit-helps-survivors-of-human-trafficking-and-exploitation |
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Des Moines police and the Des Moines Fire Department are responding to a crash with injuries on the 5300 block of Grand Avenue.A utility pole was knocked down in the crash.Grand Avenue is temporarily closed in both directions. Stay tuned to KCCI on-air and online for updates.
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In 1933, Joe Anderson – also known as “King Burraga” – was filmed on the banks of the Georges River at Salt Pan Creek declaring a petition to the King of England calling for equal rights and justice for Indigenous Australians. Almost a century later, First Nations artists are honouring Joe’s political legacy and echoing his calls to action at Bankstown Arts Centre.
SubTerrains is this year’s theme at Bankstown Biennale. It is a First Nations and artists’ led response to local narratives of land and water and the hidden truths nestled within Bankstown’s landscape, especially Salt Pan Creek. More than 50 artists have created work – from installations to video art – responding to this year’s theme while addressing interlocking themes of land and colonisation, post-colonisation, war and migration. Expect to see work by artists such as Abdul Abdullah, Aroha Groves, Carmen Glynn-Braun, Juxta, Lucy Simpson, Paula do Prado, Nardi Simpson and more.
Running until November 26, SubTerrains is co-curated by Nicole Monks and Vandana Ram, who are hosting a suite of programs, workshops and events throughout October and November where visitors can learn more about the hidden stories and the hidden heroes.
On Thursday, November 24, there will be a talk with activist-historian Heather Goodall about the Georges River estuary communities, which will tell of the important stories of strength, resilience and commitment among those looking after the river. From Irish working-class settlers, Chinese communities to Indigenous people, the tale of those who have tried to save the river’s wetlands over the centuries runs deep. You can buy tickets to the talk here. | 2022-11-21T08:41:29+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/sydney/art/subterrains-bankstown-biennale |
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CORZ) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: January 3, 2022 to October 26, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 13, 2023
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Core Scientific, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) due in part to the expiration of a favorable pricing agreement, the Company was experiencing increasing power costs; (2) the Company's largest customer, Gryphon Digital Mining, lacked the financial resources to purchase the necessary miner rigs for Core Scientific to host; (3) the Company was not providing hosting services to Celsius Network LLC ("Celsius") as required by their contract; (4) the Company had implemented an improper surcharge to pass through power costs to Celsius; (5) as a result of the foregoing alleged breaches of contract, the Company was reasonably likely to incur liability to defend itself against Celsius; (6) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's profitability would be adversely impacted; (7) as a result, there was likely substantial doubt as to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern; and (8) as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Core Scientific you have until January 13, 2023 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Building on its contracts with the U.S. Air Force and other U.S. Government agencies, SandboxAQ delivers secure systems to bolster national defense
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SandboxAQ, an enterprise SaaS company delivering AI and Quantum (AQ) technology to governments and the Global 1000, today announced it has been awarded the Prototype Quantum Resistant Cryptography Public Key Infrastructure Other Transaction Authority Agreement by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). DISA, which provides a globally accessible enterprise IT infrastructure in direct support to joint warfighters, national-level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners, selected SandboxAQ from a pool of vendors after a three-phase process.
The SandboxAQ Security Suite enables agile cryptography to protect sensitive data from cyber-attacks both today and in the future, including the application of cryptographic protocols that are resistant to decryption by quantum computers. The suite, which is developed by a world-class team of cryptography and software experts, enables cryptographic inventory, policy enforcement, and remediation.
To deliver on this program, SandboxAQ selected Microsoft, which will provide the DevSecOps platform, and global systems integrator Deloitte & Touche LLP for their respective software and services capabilities.
Deloitte US has worked with DISA for multiple years and provides industry-leading services, including broad cryptographic integration and implementation, across the federal government.
Microsoft, a Gartner leader in hybrid technology deployments, has extensive implementation experience in DISA on-premise and cloud environments.
"SandboxAQ is proud to deliver our enterprise security software to DISA," said SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary. "We are excited to provide capabilities that can assist in a more secure national defense. SandboxAQ and our subcontractors will implement an approach that can be applied across the U.S. Government."
SandboxAQ and its subcontractors have been extensively involved in the national effort to prepare U.S. Government IT systems for a quantum future. SandboxAQ and Microsoft were both selected in 2022 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence as technology collaborators to provide approaches for migration to post-quantum cryptography.
"As part of the prototype OTA agreement, SandboxAQ's unique focus on cryptographic agility could enable U.S. government customers to automatically and seamlessly protect their IT infrastructures from both current cyber threats as well as future threats such as those posed by quantum computers," said Jen Sovada, Global Public Sector President at SandboxAQ in regards to the prototype OTA agreement. "This first-of-its-kind program offers a pathway to protect DISA networks and data through follow-on deployments to wider architectures."
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SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company providing solutions at the nexus of AI and Quantum technology (AQ) to address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company's core team and inspiration formed at Alphabet Inc., emerging as an independent, growth-capital-backed company in 2022. For more information, visit https://www.sandboxaq.com.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Ever since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state a century ago, its governments have been led by unionist politicians who defined themselves as British.
But if opinion polls are right, an election Thursday will see Sinn Fein, an Irish nationalist party that seeks union with Ireland, become the largest group in the 90-seat Northern Ireland Assembly. That would give Sinn Fein the post of first minister in the Belfast government for the first time.
It would be a milestone for a party long linked to the Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group that used bombs and bullets to try to take Northern Ireland out of U.K. rule during decades of violence — in which the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary, as well as Protestant Loyalist paramilitaries, were also strongly involved.
It would also bring Sinn Fein’s ultimate goal of a united Ireland a step closer.
But it’s not what the party — or voters — want to talk about in a campaign that has been dominated by more immediate worries: long waiting lists for medical care and the soaring cost of food and fuel.
“I now ration my heat to one hour a day,” said Sinead Quinn, who set up the group Derry Against Food Poverty to press politicians to act on the cost-of-living crisis.
“My entire circle of friends is affected by this. I don’t think you can throw a stone in Northern Ireland and miss a community that being affected by it.”
The economic crunch — driven by the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 pandemic disruption and Britain’s exit from the European Union — is also dominating election debate elsewhere in the U.K. Votes Thursday to elect local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales are a test for beleaguered British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose popularity has been battered by scandals over lockdown rule-breaking.
In Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein has downplayed talk of a united Ireland in its campaign to focus on bread-and-butter issues.
“The things that the public want us to respond to is trying to put money in their pockets to help them deal with the cost-of-living crisis,” Michelle O’Neill, the party’s leader in Northern Ireland, said Tuesday during a televised election debate. She said she was not “fixated on a date” for a unification referendum.
Even so, Katy Hayward, professor of political sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, said Sinn Fein taking the top spot would be a “very significant” moment.
“And we know that nationalists will recognize it as being so, even if they don’t necessarily want an imminent border poll,” she said. “And of course unionists will also see it as being a significant, critical moment.”
“In terms of what the election outcome will mean, it’s very much about how the other parties respond to this scenario.”
Many voters simply hope the election will produce a functioning government, but that appears unlikely in the short term.
Under Northern Ireland’s power-sharing system, created by the 1998 peace agreement that ended decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, the jobs of first minister and deputy first minister are split between the biggest unionist party and the largest nationalist one.
Both posts must be filled for a government to function. The Democratic Unionist Party, which has been the largest in the Northern Ireland Assembly for two decades, has suggested it might not serve under a Sinn Fein first minister.
The DUP also says it will refuse to join a new government unless there are major changes to post-Brexit border arrangements, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, that are opposed by many unionists.
“The political institutions must be sustainable.” DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said during Tuesday’s debate. “And that means we have got to deal with the big issues that are in front of us, not least the harm that the Northern Ireland Protocol is doing to undermine political stability in Northern Ireland.”
The post-Brexit rules have imposed customs and border checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. The arrangement was designed to maintain an open border between Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland, a key pillar of the peace process.
But unionists say the new checks have created a barrier between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. that undermines their British identity.
The instability has led to rising tensions and sporadic violence, including a week of rioting in Protestant Loyalist areas a year ago. Last month, police were pelted with petrol bombs after a dissident Irish Republican parade in Derry, also known as Londonderry.
The British government is pressing the EU to agree to major changes — scrapping most checks — and is threatening to unilaterally suspend the rules if the bloc refuses.
Negotiations have reached an impasse, with the bloc accusing Johnson of refusing to implement rules he agreed to in a legally binding treaty.
Meanwhile, politics in Northern Ireland is changing. More support is going to parties that identify as neither nationalist nor unionist, with young people increasingly rejecting the traditional labels. Polls suggest the centrist Alliance Party is vying for second place with the DUP, another potentially seismic development.
Full results of the election, which uses a system of proportional representation, are not expected until the weekend at the earliest.
The new legislators will meet next week to try to form an executive. If none can be formed within six months, the administration will collapse, triggering a new election and more uncertainty.
Quinn, the anti-poverty activist, said that would be a “dereliction of duty.”
“Both communities — all communities and none — are struggling here,” she said.
“I’m really hoping that the politicians are listening.”
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Jill Lawless reported from London | 2022-05-05T02:57:40+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/sinn-fein-eyes-historic-win-in-northern-ireland-election/ |
PHOENIX (AP) — A massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system awaits Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s expected signatures as he faces a Thursday deadline and a promised effort by public school advocates to block the bill he backs and ask voters to erase it during November’s election.
The expansion Ducey is certain to sign will allow every parent in Arizona take public money now sent to the K-12 public school system and use it to pay for their children’s private school tuition or other education costs.
An estimated 60,000 current private students and about 38,000 being homeschooled would immediately be eligible to take up to $7,000 per year, although a small number currently get vouchers. All 1.1 million students who attend traditional district and charter schools would also qualify to leave their public schools and get money to go to private schools. About a third already qualify, but only about 12,000 students statewide now use the system.
Arizona has the most expansive education options in the nation, and Ducey has championed “school choice” during his eight years in office. He signed a universal voucher expansion in 2017 with enrollment caps that was referred to the ballot by a grassroots group called Save Our Schools Arizona.
Voters soundly rejected the expansion by a 2-to-1 vote in the 2018 election, but advocates of what are formally called “Empowerment Scholarship Accounts” pushed ahead with new expansions anyway. The universal voucher bill passed with only support from majority Republican lawmakers in the legislative session that ended early on June 25.
Save Our Schools Arizona Executive Director Beth Lewis said her group will immediately file to refer the law to the ballot under a provision of the Arizona Constitution that allows for opponents of new laws to collect signatures of 5% of eligible voters and block it until the next general election.
In this case, they will need to collect nearly 119,000 valid signatures, and proponents usually add a 25% cushion. They need to have those collected and turned in to the Secretary of State by late September to prevent the law from taking effect and put it on the November ballot.
“I have every confidence that we’re going to be able to refer HB2853,” Lewis said in an interview. “Our network of volunteers across the state are pumped and ready.”
Lewis and other public school advocates say vouchers take money from an already underfunded public school system, while proponents herald the program as letting parents choose the best education for their children.
Lewis said the price tag of the new voucher law could take away more than the new school funding lawmakers added this year, which neared $1 billion in ongoing and one-time cash.
“In a nutshell, this bill will siphon upwards of $1 billion from public schools every single year to unaccountable private academies, micro schools and homeschools,” Lewis said. “And we simply can’t let that happen.”
Many of the students in the voucher program are disabled. By adding current private and home-schooled students, she said anywhere from $400 million to $600 million would be “going out the window like overnight, with automatic eligibility on September 26.”
The Legislature’s budget analysts put the expansion costs much lower, at $125 million in two years, but acknowledge the figures are highly speculative and based on new costs, not the losses from public schools. Many private school students get money from a tax credit program, but those payments average much less than vouchers, so many are likely to switch.
Ducey has been touting the expansion on social media in the past two weeks. He said in an interview Wednesday on KTAR radio that the measure will put parents in charge of their children’s education.
“Now parents will have availability (of) up to $7,000 to educate their child whether that’s a tutor, textbook, tuition, whatever’s in the interest of the child,” he told KTAR’s Mike Broomhead. ‘We’re the No. 1 state in the nation for this educational freedom, other states are going to be following us.
“And this is a way to truly reform K-12 education to focus on math, reading, science. American civics, character formation,” Ducey said. “It’s all there and Arizona’s going to lead the nation.”
The voucher law contains no accountability provisions like testing that a few Republicans had sought. There’s also limited oversight of the funds distributed.
The program only applied to students with disabilities when it began in 2011 but has been greatly expanded over the years to cover many others, including students living on American Indian reservations, attending low-performing public schools and other groups.
Parents get 90% of the state funds that normally go to their local public school to use for private school tuition and other education costs. Disabled students can receive up to $40,000 for specialized therapy. | 2022-07-08T01:46:49+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/arizona-governor-faces-universal-school-vouchers-challenge/ |
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- Bridgestone plans to invest an additional $42 million to establish commercial operations for planting and harvesting guayule at scale, with additional investment and expansion planned toward 2030.
- Bridgestone has invested more than $100 million in guayule research as part of its effort to achieve carbon neutrality and 100% renewable tires by 2050.
- The company will also collaborate and partner with local U.S. farmers and Native American tribes to increase capacity of up to 25,000 additional acres of farmland for planting and harvesting activities.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) is taking a pivotal next step in its drive to commercialize the woody desert shrub, guayule, as a domestic source of natural rubber, and as a more environmentally sustainable crop in America's drought-stricken desert southwest.
Bridgestone plans to invest an additional $42 million to establish commercial operations, with additional investment and expansion planned toward 2030. The company with collaborate and partner with local U.S. farmers and Native American tribes to increase capacity of up to 25,000 additional acres of farmland for planting and harvesting guayule at scale. Bridgestone is targeting sustainable commercial production of guayule-derived natural rubber by the end of the decade.
"We're extremely bullish on the potential for guayule as a domestic source of strategically critical materials, such as rubber, hypoallergenic latex, building material adhesives and renewable fuel, just to name a few. We're thrilled to be taking this major step toward commercialization before the end of the decade," said Nizar Trigui, Chief Technology Officer and Group President, Solutions Businesses, Bridgestone Americas, Inc. "With guayule, we can reduce the environmental impacts that come with overseas sourcing while also realizing a more sustainable agricultural system for parts of this country that are facing persistent and worsening climate conditions, so it's really something with many benefits for our environment and our economy."
Guayule is a heat tolerant, woody shrub that thrives in desert settings, particularly in America's desert southwest. The shrub can be farmed with existing row-crop equipment, saving costs for farmers, and requires as little as half the water to grow as existing crops, such as cotton and alfalfa.
Bridgestone launched its guayule research initiative in 2012, when it broke ground on a processing and research center in Mesa, Arizona. Today, the company operates the research center in Mesa and a 281-acre guayule farm in Eloy, Arizona. Bridgestone has invested more than $100 million in its efforts to commercialize guayule, achieving major milestones such as producing the first tire made from guayule-derived natural rubber in 2015, and continued expansion of its guayule molecular breeding program. Bridgestone is also the recipient of multiple U.S. government research grants for guayule research and development, including from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (July 2017) and from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (September 2021).
Bridgestone continues to use racing as a proving ground to demonstrate the performance of guayule.
Firestone Firehawk race tires made with guayule-derived natural rubber in the sidewall were introduced at the Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge in May, prior to making a full competition debut as the alternate race tire at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville on August 7.
This first-ever use of guayule-derived natural rubber in America's premier open-wheel racing series served to demonstrate both the safety and performance of the material in the crucible of a high-speed, high-stress performance environment, with racing action up to speeds of 200 mph.
Currently, Bridgestone is expanding the number of local farmers it works with in Central Arizona and is targeting 350 new acres of guayule to be planted this coming year. The conversion to less water-intensive crops is a direct result of Bridgestone's agreement with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an NGO actively involved in water shortage solutions for the Colorado River, which is used for irrigation in Central Arizona.
Guayule is part of the Bridgestone plan to achieve carbon neutrality and make tires from 100% renewable materials by 2050. The company is actively researching a range of solutions to support the recycling of materials from end-of-life tires and promote the replacement of non-renewable materials such as oil, silica and virgin carbon black in new tires.
The guayule initiative aligns with the Bridgestone E8 Commitment that consists of 8 Bridgestone-like values starting with the letter "E" (Energy, Ecology, Efficiency, Extension, Economy, Emotion, Ease, and Empowerment) to realize a sustainable society. The guayule initiative aligns with the company's "Ecology" and "Energy" commitments.
Bridgestone is a global leader in tires and rubber, building on its expertise to provide solutions for safe and sustainable mobility. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company employs approximately 130,000 people globally and conducts business in more than 150 countries and territories worldwide. Bridgestone offers a diverse product portfolio of premium tires and advanced solutions backed by innovative technologies, improving the way people around the world move, live, work and play.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Memphis agitator Dillon Brooks believes his image as an NBA villain contributed to the decision to eject him from Game 3 of the Grizzlies’ playoff series with the Los Angeles Lakers after he struck LeBron James in the groin.
Brooks said Sunday his flagrant foul 2 was an accident, and he believes his reputation in the media and among the basketball public were factors in his ejection from the third quarter of Memphis’ 111-101 loss Saturday night.
“The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain and then that just creates a whole different persona on me,” Brooks told reporters after the Grizzlies’ off-day shootaround at USC’s Galen Center.
Brooks struck James just 17 seconds into the second half, and he was ejected after a brief video review. Brooks’ teammates tried to argue after the game that Brooks’ flagrant foul had been unintentional.
Brooks was ejected from a game for the third time this season, delighting a Lakers home crowd that had been booing his every move since pregame warmups. He did not receive a suspension for the act.
Game 4 is Monday in Los Angeles.
Brooks led the NBA with 18 technical fouls this season, earning a pair of one-game suspensions in the process. He described his own playing philosophy last week as: “I poke bears,” and he made headlines across the league by dismissively calling James “old” even though the 27-year-old Brooks is the oldest active player on his own roster.
Brooks and James have jostled verbally in the past two games of the series, but James hasn’t said anything publicly about Brooks.
Brooks also got tossed for striking Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell in the groin in February. He was even thrown out of a playoff game last season for a flagrant foul on Golden State’s Gary Payton II, earning another suspension.
Yet Brooks apparently believes he has been miscast as a villain for the past two years, and he intends to prove his haters wrong by improving as a player. He has struggled against the Lakers, and he was 3-for-13 with little defensive impact at the time of his ejection from Game 3.
“It doesn’t matter to me,” Brooks said. “I’m going to keep playing my game and get better and better each and every day and as long as my career goes.”
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco is on track to receive the largest amount from this year’s $50 million pre-arbitration bonus pool based on his regular-season statistics.
Franco is projected to get $896,755, according to WAR calculations through June 26 that Major League Baseball sent to teams, players and agents in memo Friday that was obtained by The Associated Press.
Arizona rookie centerfielder Corbin Carroll would get $834,131, followed by Minnesota right-hander Joe Ryan ($739,015), Texas catcher Jonah Heim ($690,039), Tampa Bay left-hander Shane McClanahan ($680,600), Arizona shortstop Geraldo Perdomo ($638,768), Atlanta right-hander Elder Bryce ($634,912), Chicago Cubs left-hander Justin Stelle ($614,798) and Seattle rightfielder Julio Rodríguez ($594,527).
A total of 100 players will receive the payments, established as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement and aimed to get more money to players without sufficient service time for salary arbitration eligibility. The cutoff for 2023 was 2 years, 228 days of major league service.
Several of the eligible players have long-term contract. Franco has a $2 million salary this season as part of a $182 million, 11-year contract, Rodríguez has a $4 million salary in a $209.3 million, 12-year deal and Carroll a $1 million salary in a $111 million, eight-year agreement.
Most young players have salaries just above the minimum: Ryan earns $730,250, Heim $745,660 and McClanahan $737,000.
As part of the strike settlement, a management-union committee was established that determined the WAR formula. The agreement calls for an interim report to be distributed the week before the All-Star Game.
Based on last year, MLB anticipates $11.25 million of the pool will go to award winners and $38.75 million will be distributed based on WAR. A player earns $2.5 million for winning an MVP or Cy Young Award, $1.75 million for second, $1.5 million for third, $1 million for fourth or fifth, or for making the all-MLB first team. A player also gets $750,000 for winning Rookie of the Year and $500,000 for second, or for making the all-MLB second team.
Others on track to receive more than $500,000 are Baltimore right-hander Yennier Cano at $568,737, Tampa Bay rightfielder Luke Raley $553,188, Atlanta right-hander Spencer Strider $530,817, Baltimore catcher Adley Rutschman $530,265, Texas centerfielder Leody Taveras $518,973, Tampa Bay second baseman Isaac Paredas $515,382 and Seattle right-hander George Kirby $509,445.
Cincinnati infielder Elly De La Cruz, who made his major league debut on June 6, already is projected at $262,382, just above Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase at $258,719, and De La Cruz figures to climb higher if he keeps on at the level of his hot start.
Chicago White Sox right-hander Dylan Cease received the largest amount last year at $2,457,426, followed by Houston designated hitter Yordan Alvarez at $2,381,143 and Toronto right-hander Alek Manoah at $2,191,023.
During bargaining, Major League Baseball had proposed a statistical formula to replace salary arbitration, which covers players with three-to-six years of major league service plus several of the players between two and three years. The players’ association steadfastly opposes scrapping arbitration, though St. Louis reliever Ryan Helsley said after losing his hearing that he might be open to a change.
“Maybe come up with some kind of algorithm for second- and third-year guys so you can avoid that kind of confrontation so to speak,” he said. “They’ve obviously had this system for many years now, but maybe we’ll see that in the future.” | 2023-06-30T22:12:19+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/sports/mlb/rays/wander-franco-mlb-players-receive-most-50-million-bonus-pool/67-d8f7919c-d69c-4060-95cc-1d4951f2e52e |
NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcome to MWverse, McCann Worldgroup's Web3 experience unveiled to coincide with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The experience was created with Journee, Meta and the agency's production agency, Craft Worldwide, and is open to the general public, accessible via desktop, phone or tablet.
There are countless important events and experiences that people across the world would like to participate in, but only a lucky few are afforded that IRL experience. The MWverse experience is designed to change that lack of accessibility and experience, with the first application being this year's Cannes Lions festival, where a selection of the agency's top campaigns are explored in virtual, branded rooms and experienced through the eyes of the agency teams that created them and the clients that supported them. While only a select few people will enjoy the privilege of being on the ground in Cannes, the general public is invited to access a multi-dimensional virtual world that immerses them in the full experience of the work screened at Cannes.
Elav Horwitz, SVP, Global Innovation and Creative Partnerships, McCann Worldgroup, said, "Creativity from around the world is abundant and deserves to be shared, to inspire and to be celebrated at scale. Democratizing the experience, bringing the work to the masses and creating a space where everyone can join the judging panels is a valuable realization of Web3's potential. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn from the best of the best and each other."
Users will be taken through the entire campaign journey from inception to execution and will also be provided with an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how the very best work at the agency comes together. Visitors can also join fireside chats with clients and Web3 creators to hear what the future of the metaverse and Web3 might look like for their brands. As part of the shared experience, visitors would be able to meet for happy hour and interact with creative people from around the world. Among the many compelling content features of the MWVerse, acclaimed actress, director, producer, philanthropist and activist Eva Longoria will participate as an avatar, sharing her point of view on the L'Oreal Paris "Lessons of Worth" campaign in which she was featured.
"Creativity is about overcoming hurdles, testing new things, applying the mindset of 'what if' and 'let's try' to every business, culture and human problem out there. It's time for our industry tentpole moments to reflect this spirit," said Alex Lopez, President & Global Chief Creative Officer, McCann Worldgroup. "We're all in the business of creativity – designers, writers, finance experts, business leaders, operations people, producers, editors, talent management, HR, strategists. And this year for the first time, from the most junior to the most senior, everyone is invited to the Cannes experience."
While the metaverse and Web3 are still evolving and the technologies being created to leverage the virtual world are constantly improving, the core elements of Web3 are collaboration and interoperability. To ensure McCann Worldgroup created a robust, advanced and meaningful experience, the network partnered with Journee and Meta, who brought a symbiotic mix of best-in-class technologies to bear on MWverse.
Thomas Johann Lorenz, Founder & CEO, Journee - The Metaverse CompanyÔ, said, "We were excited to partner with McCann Worldgroup and Meta and bring ideas to life in this immersive metaverse. It can be accessed in the highest possible quality to everyone through the Journee metaverse technology. Cannes Lions is a celebration of creativity and, thanks to the metaverse, more people can be part of this celebration, explore and connect."
"We're incredibly excited by the opportunities that the metaverse will ultimately unlock for people, businesses, and communities," said Amy Peloquin, Meta's Director of Global Agency Team. "Cannes has long been recognized as the most prestigious industry awards event in the world, and this new experience by McCann provides an innovative glimpse into what the metaverse will bring to creativity."
The MWverse can be accessed here.
About McCann Worldgroup
McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), is the irrefutable leader in the business of a creativity. The company is united across 100+ countries by a single mission: To help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives. McCann Worldgroup was named the world's most creatively-effective marketing services company by The Effie Awards for three consecutive years. The network comprises McCann (advertising), MRM (science/technology/relationship marketing), Momentum Worldwide (total brand experience), McCann Health (professional/dtc communications), CRAFT (production), Weber Shandwick (public relations) and FutureBrand (consulting/design).
About Journee
JOURNEE - The Metaverse Company™ is a premium platform that enables brands and creators to build hyper-realistic metaverses directly accessible to the world. Using the JOURNEE leading technology that allows for a seamless experience on any browser and device, a team of 50 experts design and build stunning, customised virtual experiences tailored to fulfil client goals. JOURNEE has delivered resoundingly successful campaigns, events, and platforms for numerous enterprise-level companies and leading brands across industries around the world. https://journee.live
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ROCKWELL, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Two law enforcement officers and a firefighter were injured and a suspect is dead after shots were fired during a response to a mobile home fire in Rowan County early Friday morning, according to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident began at 12:38 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 2, at a home on Mahaffey Drive in Rockwell.
When firefighters arrived, they found a fire at a mobile home. A man, later identified as Ronald Wayne Green, 45, was reported to be at the back of the mobile home, deputies said.
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As firefighters went to the back of the mobile home to attempt a rescue and combat the fire, the only known resident at the home, Green, began shooting, they said.
“That was not him,” Tiffany Rusaw, Green’s ex-wife, said to Queen City News on Friday. “None of this was him. The whole time I’ve known this man.”
As additional officers from Rowan County Sheriff’s Office and Granite Quarry Police arrived, more shots were reportedly fired by Green.
“We came out and the whole trailer was engulfed and he was holding the back door, barricading it. He said they were inside, trying to kill him, and they trapped him,” Rusaw said.
Two law enforcement officers and a firefighter sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the incident. One officer received a gunshot to the face and leg, while another suffered a shot to the hand. Despite their injuries, the officers helped get the injured firefighter to Rowan County EMS and other first responders for treatment.
Gunfire was exchanged between officers and Green, which resulted in Green’s death.
“He didn’t recognize anybody, he didn’t know who anybody was. He just thought people were trying to hurt him,” Rusaw said, who explained to QCN that her ex-husband had been suffering from a mental health crisis.
After police secured the scene, firefighters continued to fight the fire on Friday.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office with the investigation.
“The names of the injured officers and firefighter are not being released at this time out of respect for their privacy,” the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said.
Queen City News is working to learn more details about the shooting. | 2022-12-03T01:05:39+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/rowan-county/2-officers-1-firefighter-hurt-in-rowan-county-shooting-suspect-killed-deputies-say/ |
LARGO, Fla. — A person on a motorcycle died after crashing into an SUV in Largo on Monday, police say.
The crash happened in the 7300 block of Ulmerton Road at around 1 p.m., the Largo Police Department said in a news release. Officers said the driver of the SUV was trying to make a U-turn when the motorcyclist crashed into the passenger side of the SUV.
The person on the motorcycle was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The SUV driver had no reported injuries and police say alcohol was not a factor in the crash.
Authorities say the motorcycle's speed before the crash may have been a factor in the person's death.
The crash remains under investigation by the Largo Police Department Traffic Homicide Unit. | 2022-06-13T23:34:02+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/motorcyclist-killed-largo-car-crash-police/67-0c12e1e3-d637-498b-8fe5-111d14385f65 |
Bloomington folks should be prepared for high temperatures. It should reach a balmy 86 degrees. 61 degrees is today's low. Expect periods of sun and clouds. Today's UV index is high. Be careful outside, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon. If your shadow is shorter than you, seek shade and wear protective clothing and generously apply sunscreen on exposed skin. The Bloomington area should see a light breeze, with forecast models showing only 7 mph wind conditions coming up from the East. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit pantagraph.com.
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DALLAS (AP)Kim Mulkey is returning to Texas for another Final Four, keenly aware that her LSU Tigers will play a short road trip from the school she made synonymous with women’s basketball.
Mulkey is the third coach to take multiple schools to the Final Four, doing so in her second season back in her home state of Louisiana after leading Baylor to the national semifinals four times in 21 seasons.
The Bears won three national championships under Mulkey, combined for 23 regular-season and tournament titles in the Big 12 Conference and made the NCAA Tournament in all but one of her seasons.
“You never spend 21 years of your life building a dynasty, and that’s what we did at Baylor. I think we can all agree with that,” Mulkey said Tuesday. “I still have a home there. My grandchildren are there. So my heart will always be there.”
Mulkey and the Tigers (33-2) will face first-time Final Four qualifier Virginia Tech (31-4) in the opener Friday night in Dallas, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Mulkey’s former college home in Waco. Defending champion South Carolina (36-0) plays Iowa (30-6) in the late game.
Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer took three teams to the Final Four, and Gary Blair made it that far with two.
Blair’s second was Texas A&M in 2011, when he won an Elite Eight showdown with Mulkey at American Airlines Center. Five years later in Dallas, the Bears again fell one win short of the Final Four.
Mulkey is back in Dallas with a new team after a 54-42 Elite Eight victory over Miami.
“There will be Baylor people sitting in my section that are heartbroken that I left,” Mulkey said. “I get it. Someday when I’m retired, maybe I’ll write another book and have more details, but I love Baylor University, the fans there, the Lady Bear fans there. But it was time. Timing is everything in life.”
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has fonder memories of the home of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. The Gamecocks won their first national title there five years ago, beating Mississippi State after the Bulldogs ended Connecticut’s 111-game winning streak in the semifinals.
“Dallas, it will be etched in my memory forever,” said Staley, whose team – the No. 1 overall seed – earned a return trip with an 86-75 victory over Maryland. “I remember vividly the police escorts. I remember our fans. I remember UConn losing. That was a huge moment in college women’s basketball.”
Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks is a Dallas Cowboys fan, so he remembers seeing star quarterback Dak Prescott in the stands five years ago rooting for his alma mater, Mississippi State.
Prescott remembers the “huge moment” to which Staley referred. His reaction to Morgan William’s buzzer-beating game-winner in overtime made the rounds on social media five years ago.
“That was a surreal moment,” Brooks said. “But my surreal moment was last night.”
That’s when the No. 1 seed Hokies beat Ohio State 84-74 to reach their first Final Four in Brooks’ seventh season. Iowa, which beat Louisville 97-83 in the Elite Eight, has advanced this far for the first time since 1993, when Stringer became the first coach to lead multiple teams to the Final Four.
Stringer had done it with Cheyney in the inaugural tournament season of 1982, and after the Iowa trip, she went twice more with Rutgers in 2000 and 2007.
“She called me immediately after we beat Louisville,” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said. “In fact, she was my first voice message I got that night. I know coach Stringer is behind us. I haven’t been able to get back to her yet, but I will soon.”
Mulkey’s Bears were one of the top seeds in 2017, hoping to chase a title just up the road from their Waco campus. Mississippi State beat Baylor in overtime in the Elite Eight before the OT thriller against UConn.
The Tigers are this deep in the tournament for the first time since the last of five consecutive Final Four appearances in 2008, all of which ended in the semifinals.
Mulkey was asked if she felt the burden of living up to those glory years.
“We’ve already done that,” said Mulkey, who has now reached the NCAA Tournament in 19 consecutive seasons as a coach. “Winning a national championship will only put an exclamation mark on it. We have exceeded probably what anybody could just realistically say was possible this quickly.”
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California bill would make gun owners buy liability insurance
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would be the first state to require gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover the negligent or accidental use of their firearms, if lawmakers approve a measure announced Thursday.
“Guns kill more people than cars. Yet gun owners are not required to carry liability insurance like car owners must,” Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner said in a statement.
She said the costs of gun violence shouldn’t be borne by taxpayers, survivors, families, employers and communities: “It’s time for gun owners to shoulder their fair share.”
The state of New York is considering a similar requirement in the wake of numerous recent mass shootings and a rise in gun violence.
In January, the Silicon Valley city of San Jose approved what’s believed to be the first such insurance requirement in the United States.
No insurance company will cover the misuse of a firearm, predicted Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California.
He said such requirements are an illegal infringement on gun owners’ constitutional rights.
“We don’t believe you can put precursors on the exercising of a constitutional right,” Paredes said. “By requiring somebody to get insurance in order to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, that ceases to make it a right.”
Skinner is amending an existing bill on another topic to allow gun owners to be held civilly liable if their firearms are used to cause property damage, injury or death.
The bill would also require gun owners to have insurance that covers loses or damages from the negligent or accidental use of their firearm. And they would have to keep proof of insurance with their firearm and show it to police if they are stopped for some reason.
Paredes had similar objections to a second bill that also would affect gun owners’ costs, this one by imposing an excise tax on firearms and ammunition.
The bill would impose an excise tax equal to 10% of the sales price of a handgun and 11% of the sales price of a long gun, ammunition or parts to build firearms.
Democratic Assemblyman Marc Levine estimated his bill would bring in more than $118 million annually that would go toward gun violence prevention programs.
Because it would impose a tax, Levine’s bill would require approval by two-thirds majorities in the Legislature. His similar measure last year fell four votes short of the 54 it needed in the 80-member Assembly.
The bills are among numerous firearm measures being considered by California lawmakers this year, including one that would make it easier to sue gun-makers and another that would allow private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-17T00:48:23+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/17/california-bill-would-make-gun-owners-buy-liability-insurance/ |
A 15-year-old girl left her Dauphin County home on May 8 and has not been seen or heard from since, police said.
Nya Chestnut is missing out of Lower Paxton Township, according to police.
Police said anyone with information on Chestnut’s whereabouts should call 717-657-5656 or submit a tip through CrimeWatch.
READ MORE: 88-year-old man fatally hit in central Pa. crosswalk while walking his dog: coroner | 2023-05-17T14:23:21+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/05/dauphin-county-teen-girl-reported-missing.html |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department’s rank-and-file union is proposing that someone other than police respond to more than two dozen types of 911 calls in a bid to transfer officers’ workload to more serious crimes. The move is part of a national trend aimed at limiting situations where armed police officers are the first to respond.
The proposal announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles Police Protective League lists 28 kinds of 911 calls where other city agencies or nonprofit organizations would be sent first. The calls range from mental health situations, quality-of-life and homeless issues, problems at schools and welfare checks, to certain non-fatal traffic collisions, parking violations, trash dumping, loud parties, public intoxication and panhandling.
The league said officers would respond if the situation becomes violent or criminal in nature, but only after the initial call goes to another agency or an affiliated nonprofit.
“Police officers are not psychologists. We are not psychiatrists. We are not mental health experts. We are not social workers, doctors, nurses or waste management experts,” Debbie Thomas, one of the union’s directors, said Wednesday during a news conference. “I do believe that many people think we should be all those things but we are not. We should be focused on responding to emergencies, saving lives (and) property, and of course, engaging in community policing.”
Police Chief Michel Moore said he welcomed the union’s push for “an alternative non-law enforcement service response to non-emergency calls.”
Moore said the department has worked with elected officials to establish a support network of resources including mobile therapy vans and a mental health crisis phone line.
“These emerging alternatives have already diverted thousands of calls away from a police response, allowing officers to time to focus on our most essential activities,” Moore said in a statement.
Cities including San Francisco, San Diego and New York — as well as Los Angeles — have already implemented programs where clinicians are either paired with officers or work in civilian teams to respond to 911 calls involving someone who is having a mental health crisis.
The changes came amid a closer look at law enforcement in the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police in 2020. That included looking at how police handle mental health and other calls that don’t include violence or criminality.
The Los Angeles proposal comes during the union’s contract negotiations with the city and amid activists’ pleas for reducing or eliminating armed responses to certain situations. The City Council and the mayor’s office will be involved in the final decision, the union said.
Activists have long called for Los Angeles police to stop responding to certain mental health calls, minor traffic collisions and encounters in homeless encampments, pointing to times when officers have fatally shot people during the response.
Mayor Karen Bass’ office didn’t immediately comment Wednesday. Bass promised during her campaign to create a public safety office that did not include the LAPD.
Hugh Esten, a spokesperson for City Council President Paul Krekorian, said the union’s proposal will be given serious consideration as city officials work to “ensure that sworn personnel are deployed where they are truly needed and that unarmed responders address those situations where an armed response is unnecessary.”
With decreased staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the union said its proposal would free up officers to respond to more important calls — such as violent crime — and allow cops to engage in more community policing to build better relationships with the city’s residents.
Other cities have also experimented with similar models, such as Portland, Oregon, where unarmed “public support specialists” take reports on things like vehicle break-ins and bike thefts.
In 2021, the LAPD launched a pilot program to divert some mental health calls to service providers. The department also started dual-response teams that pair officers with clinicians in situations involving mental health crises and people experiencing homelessness, as well as domestic violence and abuse.
Also in 2021, the LAPD stopped responding to minor traffic crashes; a deputy chief at the time said the change would eliminate officers responding to roughly 40,000 calls a year. | 2023-03-02T16:40:18+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-los-angeles-police-union-proposes-limits-to-911-responses/ |
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s annual book fair kicked off Wednesday, with several publishers of political books prevented from taking part in the fair and others saying they had to be cautious about what they exhibited.
The fair’s main organizer, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said it did not screen the books for sale at the fair. But Hong Kong authorities have tightened controls on freedom of expression and arrested dozens of pro-democracy activists after a tough national security law took effect in 2020, and the council stressed that exhibitors must abide by the law.
Independent publisher Hillway Culture, which publishes books on Hong Kong and political events, was among those not allowed to participate. Another publisher, One of a Kind, which has published several books about 2019 protests in the city, was another.
Publishers are having a tough time given the impact of the pandemic on the city’s economy and concerns over censorship and rejection of independent publishers, said Kaying Wong, a guest curator at The House of Hong Kong Literature, the city’s largest literary organization.
“It’s surely not an easy job for us to set up a booth in the book fair and be selected (to exhibit),” Wong said.
The book fair is one of the largest in Asia. In past years, it was known for exhibiting a variety of books, including politically sensitive ones and those banned on the communist-ruled Chinese mainland.
In 2020, the city postponed the fair several times due to the pandemic. The event finally was held in person last June after a one-year hiatus. This year’s book fair runs from Wednesday until Tuesday, July 26.
Novelist Gabriel Tsang, who works with publisher Spicy Fish Cultural Production Limited, said writers have to consider whether they can get published in the current environment.
“I guess many writers have their own intentions … and they have to think a lot about whether they can have work published. They may use some allegory or use many rhetoric skills, rather than directly expressing what they wanted to express originally,” he said.
Last year, complaints were lodged against Hillway Culture, one of the publishers rejected this year, for exhibiting politically sensitive books that could be seen as violating the national security law.
“Last year, we had (exhibited) political books in the book fair and this was also the case for another publisher that was banned,” said Raymond Yeung, Hillway Culture’s founder. He was one of the few publishers allowed to exhibit political books about Hong Kong at last year’s book fair.
Yeung attempted to set up an independent book fair as an alternative to the main fair earlier this month but had to cancel that after the landlord of the venue accused Hillway of violating its tenancy contract by subletting its space to other publishers.
The authorities ought to be clearer and more transparent about what kinds of activities are allowed, said Hui Ching, research director of the policy think tank Hong Kong Zhi Ming Institute.
“If there’s no transparency, it’s reasonable for citizen to suspect their rights being deprived,” Hui said.
Visitors still value the fair as an opportunity to browse and purchase a wide range of books.
“I read as a habit and today I’ve come to look for some Chinese novels and short stories that I’m interested in,” said Grace Ng, a 22-year-old university student who visited the fair with her boyfriend.
Ng usually attends the annual fair and said this year’s appeared somewhat subdued. “It’s not as crowded now as before the pandemic,” she said. | 2022-07-20T11:38:45+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/hong-kong-book-fair-kicks-off-with-fewer-political-books/ |
(NerdWallet) – When making your travel budget, don’t assume that lodging and airfare will be your biggest expense. Now, more than ever, rental cars are shaping up to be one of the biggest — and stubbornly high — aspects of people’s vacation budgets.
While airfare and lodging prices are certainly near all-time highs, rental cars are among the biggest price increases of all travel expenses. When comparing prices for July 2022 versus July 2019 (the last normal summer pre-pandemic), hotel prices are up 7%, according to the latest set of Consumer Price Index data released in August 2022. Airfares are up 16%. But rental cars are up a whopping 48%.
When did rental car prices get so high
Like most travel costs, rental car prices sharply dropped in April and May 2020 as people began calling off vacations to stay at home. But things began to turn around at the beginning of 2021 when prices began increasing every month, building up to a record high set in July 2021.
Road trips were especially hot that summer (thus high demand), but other factors — including a global semiconductor shortage and tourism industry labor shortages — contributed to low supply. In fact, leisure and hospitality sector employment remains 7.8% below pre-pandemic levels, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data from the U.S. Travel Association.
Prices have slightly dipped from the July 2021 record, but they are still far above pre-pandemic pricing.
How to find affordable rental cars
NerdWallet conducted an analysis of 360 rental car reservations to better understand the cheapest ways to rent. Some of the findings may help you save on your next rental car. Among the rental car companies in the analysis, Enterprise is usually the cheapest, while National is most expensive. The analysis also found that last-minute rentals are typically cheaper than those booked months in advance. And you’ll almost always save by booking at an off-site rental car location versus at the airport.
That knowledge can help you better understand the cheapest places to book, but sometimes booking from a specific location or company might be non-negotiable with the nature of your trip. These other tricks can still help you save:
Use travel credit cards: Some travel credit cards offer rental car insurance as part of their benefits, though it may exclude certain types of expensive cars or rentals in some countries. When it is applicable though, it can save you money on the extra insurance you might have otherwise signed up for at the counter.
Join rental car loyalty programs: Benefits vary based on your level of elite status, though some levels can include free upgrades and waived fees. You might even get automatic status through a credit card. Yet even the entry-level, free-to-join tiers can include perks like priority lines.
Reserve now and pay at the counter: Many rental car companies give you the option to pay at the counter. Paying upon pickup has two major benefits versus paying upfront: First, should you need to cancel your trip, you remove the headache of trying to get a refund since you won’t have put down any money anyway. Second, if rates drop, you can always cancel and rebook at a lower rate.
How to save money on road trips
Throw in high gas prices, and road trips might be one of the most expensive ways to travel these days. Here are some ways to cut back on costs.
Use apps to find cheap gas: Apps like GasBuddy track local gas prices and can help you find the cheapest gas stations along your route.
Consider an electric vehicle: With an electric car, you’ll avoid paying for gas entirely. While you may still have to pay to charge it, some hotels offer free electric vehicle charging as a guest benefit.
Plan a budget-friendly route: If you’re open-minded to location, consider driving through states with lower gas prices. During the last week of July, the three states with the lowest gas prices were Georgia, South Carolina and Texas, according to AAA data.
Why trip planning should start with rental car prices
Before you get too caught up in the excitement of a road trip, make sure you can afford it. With prices so much higher than they were two years ago, you don’t want to get caught off guard. Hold off on booking your flights or hotels until you’ve compared rental car prices and included it in your trip budget. | 2022-08-28T15:41:56+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/this-major-travel-cost-is-up-50-since-before-the-pandemic/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants went to the jury on Tuesday after dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The jury will begin deliberating Wednesday to decide whether the onetime Proud Boys national chairman and four co-defendants are guilty of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors allege was a desperate plot to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after the Republican lost the 2020 election.
Prosecutors in Washington have shown jurors hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when President Joe Biden took office.
Defense attorneys say there was no conspiracy and no plan to attack the Capitol. They’ve sought to portray the Proud Boys as an unorganized drinking club whose members’ participation in the riot was a spontaneous act fueled by Trump’s election rage.
A lawyer for Tarrio sought to push the blame onto Trump in his closing argument, telling jurors on Tuesday that the Justice Department is making Tarrio a scapegoat for the former president.
Defense lawyer Nayib Hassan noted Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, having been banned from the capital after being arrested on allegations that he defaced a Black Lives Matter banner. Trump, Hassan argued, was the one to blame for extorting a crowd outside the White House to “ fight like hell.”
“It was Donald Trump’s words. It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th in your beautiful and amazing city,” Hassan told jurors. “It was not Enrique Tarrio. They want to use Enrique Tarrio as a scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and those in power.”
Tarrio, a Miami resident, was tried alongside four other Proud Boys: Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. They could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy, a Civil War-era charge that can be difficult to prove.
Tarrio is one of the top targets of the Justice Department’s investigation of the riot, which temporarily halted the certification of Biden’s election win.
Trump has denied inciting any violence on Jan. 6 and has argued that he was permitted by the First Amendment to challenge his loss to Biden. The former president is facing several civil lawsuits over the riot and a special counsel named by Attorney General Merrick Garland is also overseeing investigations into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the election.
A prosecutor told jurors on Monday during the first day of closing arguments that the Proud Boys were ready for “all-out war” and viewed themselves as foot soldiers fighting for Trump as the Republican spread lies that Democrats stole the election from him.
“These defendants saw themselves as Donald Trump’s army, fighting to keep their preferred leader in power no matter what the law or the courts had to say about it,” said the prosecutor, Conor Mulroe.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of a Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
Tarrio is accused of orchestrating an attack from afar even though he wasn’t in Washington that day. Police arrested him two days before the riot on charges that he burned a church’s Black Lives Matter banner during an earlier march in the city. A judge ordered Tarrio to leave Washington after his arrest.
Defense attorneys have argued that there is no evidence of a conspiracy or a plan for the Proud Boys to attack the Capitol. Tarrio “had no plan, no objective and no understanding of an objective,” his attorney said.
Pezzola testified that he never spoke to any of his co-defendants before they sat in the same courtroom after their arrests. Defense attorney Steven Metcalf said Pezzola never knew of any plan for Jan. 6 or joined in any conspiracy with the Proud Boys leaders.
“It’s not possible. It’s fairy dust. It doesn’t exist,” Metcalf said.
Mulroe, the prosecutor, told jurors that a conspiracy can be an unspoken and implicit “mutual understanding, reached with a wink and a nod.”
The foundation of the government’s case, which started with jury selection in December, is a trove of messages that Proud Boys leaders and members privately exchanged in encrypted chats — and publicly posted on social media — before, during and after the deadly Jan. 6 attack.
Another prosecutor, Nadia Moore, said the Proud Boys did more than just talk about their goal of keeping Trump in office. They marched to the Capitol and helped stop the certification of the Electoral College vote, she told jurors.
“These men aren’t here because of what they said. They’re here because of what they did,” Moore said Tuesday.
Norm Pattis, one of Biggs’ attorneys, described the Capitol riot as an “aberration” and told jurors that their verdict “means so much more than January 6th itself” because it will ”speak to the future.”
“Show the world with this verdict that the rule of law is alive and well in the United States,” Pattis said.
The Justice Department has already secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the founder and members of another far-right extremist group, the Oath Keepers. But this is the first major trial involving leaders of the far-right Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group of self-described “Western chauvinists” that remains a force in mainstream Republican circles.
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This version corrects that jury selection in the trial began in December, not January.
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Advanced cervical cancer on the rise, study says
Published: Aug. 22, 2022 at 8:14 AM CDT|Updated: 53 minutes ago
(CNN) - Women in the United States are facing an increased threat of advanced-stage cervical cancer.
According to a study in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, stage 4 cases rose at a yearly rate of 1.3% from 2001 to 2018.
During that same time frame, the rate of early-stage cervical cancer dropped.
The research says the biggest spike was for white women at nearly 2%.
There are limited options to treat this condition, and those who contract it have less than a 20% chance of surviving longer than five years.
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VOTE: Week 2 Slovacek’s Xtra Hot Play
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 11:44 PM CDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
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Chase Young to resume practice 11 months since tearing ACL
By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Sports Writer
Chase Young is expected to practice with the Washington Commanders this week for the first time since tearing the ACL in his right knee 11 months ago. Coach Ron Rivera says Young will take part in positional workouts before getting ramped up to participation in team drills. It’s not clear when the 2020 Defensive Rookie of the Year will make his season debut. The Commanders have three weeks to activate Young off the physically unable to perform list once he resumes practicing. They are taking a slow approach to the young pass rusher’s recovery after surgery involved grafting a part of his left patellar tendon on the other side to fix the tear. | 2022-10-31T21:13:38+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/10/31/chase-young-to-resume-practice-11-months-since-tearing-acl/ |
Updated November 21, 2022 at 6:55 PM ET
Local prosecutors may charge the perpetrator of Saturday's deadly shooting in Colorado Springs with murder and hate crimes. Formal charges have not yet been filed.
On Saturday evening, a gunman stormed into Club Q and opened fire. Five people were killed and at least 17 others were wounded by gunshots. The suspect, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, was taken into custody after being subdued by two patrons at the nightclub.
In Colorado, a bias-motivated crime, also known as a hate crime, is defined as an assault or vandalism that is at least partially motivated by bias against a person's actual or perceived race, religion, nationality, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
"To prove what the person's motivation was, it's not always as easy as it may sound," Michael Dougherty, the district attorney for Boulder County, told NPR on Sunday.
Dougherty said prosecuting hate crimes — if appropriate — matters.
"When you have hate crimes on the books, that sets a certain standard of what we demand of one another and what we as a society place as protections on the diversity in our country," he added.
The severity of the crime and use of gunfire could also subject the gunman to federal prosecution under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Why location of the attack matters in a hate crime case
Dougherty, who has worked on several hate crime cases, said the suspect's words can play a major role in determining intent. Police generally look through what the suspect said online, through text messages, in conversations with friends and family as well as what the suspect said before, during and after the attack.
Location of the attack matters, too, he said. Information around why a suspect chose a specific location, what kinds of people usually populate the area and whether the suspect has visited the location before can all help build a bias-motivated crime case.
While the investigation is in its early stages, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez told NPR's Rachel Martin on Morning Edition that the location and timing of the attack raise suspicion that it was motivated by hate.
"It's an LGBTQ club, and it is on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. So those things piecing together, you know, you would certainly take those into consideration as part of the investigation," he said Monday morning.
Colorado's hate crime laws were recently changed
Previously under Colorado law, prosecutors had to prove that a suspect's intent was solely motivated by hate. That changed last year when the state legislature passed a bill so that bias motivation only needs to be part of the offender's motivation in committing the crime.
Dougherty called it a "more reasonable approach" in proving intent and allows prosecutors to pursue cases even if there were multiple reasons behind an offender's attack.
"The step that the legislature took and that Governor Polis signed into law was a very positive step for victims of crime and for prosecutors to be able to do justice when a hate crime is committed," he said.
A recent Colorado survey found that one in five people experienced a hate crime or bias incident based on their sexual orientation
Nearly a third of adults in Colorado said they experienced some form of bias incident or hate crime in recent years, according to a recent survey compiled by Hate Free Colorado.
The state coalition of nonprofits surveyed over 5,000 residents and found that 28% of respondents had experiences with verbal harassment, property damage or physical injury based on their identity.
A majority of participants said that they experienced hate crimes or bias due to their race, ethnicity or ancestry. A quarter of participants attributed incidents to their gender identity while a fifth attributed it to their sexual orientation.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a better way for individuals with limited hand dexterity to grip and use a toothbrush," said an inventor, from Garfield Heights, Ohio, "so I invented the DENTA FRESH TOOTHBRUSH. My design could help to improve oral care without the worry of dropping your toothbrush."
The invention provides an improved way for individuals with limited manual dexterity to brush their teeth. In doing so, it ensures that the toothbrush remains firmly within the user's grasp. As a result, it helps to reduce pain and the need for assistance. It also helps to prevent the user from dropping the toothbrush. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for individuals with limited manual dexterity or compromised hand strength. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Cleveland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DKC-145, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NASA names moon mountain after pioneering mathematician
(CNN) - A mountain on the moon now has a name that celebrates Black History Month in a special way.
Scientists named a lunar mountain near the satellite’s South Pole Mons Mouton.
Mons was selected because that’s what mountains on the moon are called, and Mouton honors Melba Roy Mouton.
She was a mathematician and computer programmer at NASA starting back in 1959.
Mouton then became head mathematician and led a group of people employed as “human computers.” They tracked Echo 1 and two satellites, which were launched in 1960 and 1964.
Mouton is considered a pioneer both for her abilities and for blazing a trail for women of color at the space agency.
NASA is planning to land a rover on the flat-topped Mons Mouton as part of the Artemis program.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him.
They weren’t able to crack the case of the German composer’s deafness or severe stomach ailments. But they did find a genetic risk for liver disease, plus a liver-damaging hepatitis B infection in the last months of his life.
These factors, along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.
This Sunday marks the 196th anniversary of Beethoven’s death in Vienna on March 26, 1827, at the age of 56. The composer himself wrote that he wanted doctors to study his health problems after he died.
“With Beethoven in particular, it is the case that illnesses sometimes very much limited his creative work,” said study author Axel Schmidt, a geneticist at University Hospital Bonn in Germany. “And for physicians, it has always been a mystery what was really behind it.”
Since his death, scientists have long tried to piece together Beethoven’s medical history and have offered a variety of possible explanations for his many maladies.
Now, with advances in ancient DNA technology, researchers have been able to pull genetic clues from locks of Beethoven’s hair that had been snipped off and preserved as keepsakes. They focused on five locks that are “almost certainly authentic,” coming from the same European male, according to the study.
They also looked at three other historical locks, but weren’t able to confirm those were actually Beethoven’s. Previous tests on one of those locks suggested Beethoven had lead poisoning, but researchers concluded that sample was actually from a woman.
After cleaning Beethoven’s hair one strand at a time, scientists dissolved the pieces into a solution and fished out chunks of DNA, said study author Tristan James Alexander Begg, a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge.
Getting genes out was a challenge, since DNA in hair gets chopped up into tiny fragments, explained author Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
But eventually, after using up almost 10 feet (3 meters) of Beethoven’s hair, they were able to piece together a genome that they could “quiz” for signs of genetic disease, Krause said.
While researchers didn’t find any clear genetic signs of what caused Beethoven’s gastrointestinal issues, they found that celiac disease and lactose intolerance were unlikely causes. In the future, the genome may offer more clues as we learn more about how genes influence health, Begg said.
The research also led to a surprising discovery: When they tested DNA from living members of the extended Beethoven family, scientists found a discrepancy in the Y chromosomes that get passed down on the father’s side. The Y chromosomes from the five men matched each other — but they didn’t match the composer’s.
This suggests there was an “extra-pair paternity event” somewhere in the generations before Beethoven was born, Begg said. In other words, a child born from an extramarital relationship in the composer’s family tree.
The key question of what caused Beethoven’s hearing loss is still unanswered, said Ohio State University’s Dr. Avraham Z. Cooper, who was not involved in the study. And it may be a difficult one to figure out, because genetics can only show us half of the “nature and nurture” equation that makes up our health.
But he added that the mystery is part of what makes Beethoven so captivating: “I think the fact that we can’t know is OK,” Cooper said.
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AP journalist Daniel Niemann contributed to this report from Bonn, Germany.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-03-23T10:13:35+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/health/ap-health/what-made-beethoven-sick-dna-from-his-hair-offers-clues/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – North Carolina child suicide rates have reached a two-decade high according to the 2023 report from the Child Fatality Task Force.
“This year’s report shares disturbing data about a significant increase in firearm deaths and injuries to children and a crisis in youth mental health with increased rates of suicide and self-harm,” its authors said.
Executive Director of the task force, Kella Hatcher, said schools across the state count on their school nurses, counselors, psychologists and social workers.
“They’re a team of people that are really important in our school system,” she said. When Hatcher spoke to CBS 17 about addressing the need that is being seen, she said “we would need four times as many school social workers as we have right now.”
Overall, the 2021 child death rate in North Carolina was the highest seen since 2016 according to the report. It found North Carolina saw a 128 percent increase in child death rates from 2019 through 2021.
Suicide was the sixth leading cause of death for all children but it ranked higher among older teens. Suicide was the second leading cause of death for children ages 10 to 14, accounting for 17 percent of deaths. Motor vehicle injuries were the leading cause of death for this group.
It ranked as the third leading cause of death for children 15 to 17, accounting for 18 percent. Homicide was the leading cause of death for this age group.
The state is not alone in its increase child suicide rated. The Task Force’s report found rates increased from ages 10 to 17 increased in North Carolina and nationwide.
Data compiled by the Task Force showed a 46 percent increased in self inflicted injury emergency department for the 10 to 14 age group from 2020 to 2021.
“National and state leaders have acknowledged there is a significant youth mental health crisis underway that requires urgent attention and resources,” the report said.
Because of this, the Task Force is pushing for more school nurses, social workers, counselors and psychologists. The report says while national recommendations call for one social workers for every 250 students, North Carolina has one for every 1,025 students.
“Not only do these professionals connect with students one-on-one to build important relationships and provide counseling, they also connect students and their families to community resources to address or avert a crisis,” the Task Force said.
The group is also pushing lawmakers to support a statewide safe guns storage initiative. The campaign for focus on safe gun storage education and distribute free gun locks.
Firearms were the lethal means used in more than 70 percent of 2021 suicides and homicides, the report found. For teens aged 15 to 17, it was the lethal means used in 83 percent of these incidents.
Getting a hold of these firearms may be too easy. The Task Force said 30 percent of North Carolina high school students reported it would take them less than an house to get their hands on and prepare to fire a gun without an adult’s permission.
“A significant surge in gun sales in recent years elevated the risks of more guns in homes that may not be safely stored, making them accessible to curious young children or youth who may be at risk of harming themselves or others,” the Task Force said.
The Department of Public Safety’s Juvenile Justice Department plans to launch a statewide safe storage education campaign this year. The education campaign will stress the importance of locking up guns at home and not to leaving them behind in vehicles.
Hatcher further told CBS17 it’s going take more than money to solve these problems.
She believes it’s going to take policy changes—and the help of state lawmakers—to really make a difference.
“It’s really important we have enough education and awareness,” said Hatcher. “In recent years, we’ve had to repeat some of our recommendations because they haven’t been reacted to, or they haven’t gotten to the finish line.” | 2023-02-28T01:39:20+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/nc-child-suicide-rate-reached-its-highest-in-2-decades/ |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If any Albuquerque artists are ready to come out of the woodwork, now might be the time to shine. The City of Albuquerque is searching for people to submit ideas for an upcoming coloring and activity book.
In a release, the city said they are looking to tell Albuquerque’s unknown stories of places, people, and events from all types of views. To do so, the city’s Department of Arts & Culture is asking creative people to submit line drawings, art, educational activities, graphic stories, or short written work for a book.
The city explained the book’s audience is going to be children four years old and up. The goal of approved submissions will be to display the diversities spread across the city. Since children are the main audience, officials are asking to keep the content suitable for younger minds.
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If someone wants to submit a written piece, city officials are asking for it to be shorter than 500 words. Fiction, poetry, memoir, graphic stories, or nonfiction stories will be accepted under this category. Black-and-white line drawings for coloring pages are being accepted as well. Activity suggestions are also eligible for the book. This can include things like riddles, games, puzzles, drawing activities, or other instruction-based games.
Topics of the games, written pieces, and drawings can be inspired by historical events, people, cultural traditions, arts, food, weather, or government.
The deadline for book submissions is October 14. Questions can be directed to CultureABQ@cabq.gov, and a submission link is available on the city’s website. | 2022-09-09T22:07:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/always-on/city-of-albuquerque-in-search-of-artists-for-upcoming-activity-book/ |
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Pedal power is returning to the America’s Cup.
Two-time defending champion Emirates Team New Zealand has added a new group of elite athletes, including two cyclists, to help provide the immense amount of power required for the hydraulics that control various systems on the foiling AC75 sloops that will be sailed in the 2024 regatta in Barcelona.
The Kiwis first debuted the “cyclors” during the 2017 America’s Cup, using cyclists pedaling stationary bikes to replace traditional grinders to power the hydraulic systems for trimming sails and controlling the foils on their 50-foot catamaran. That was just one of several technological breakthroughs that helped propel the Kiwis to a stunning upset of two-time champion Oracle Team USA.
Cyclors were banned from the last America’s Cup, when the AC75 monohulls replaced the catamarans, but are back because the crew size has been reduced from 11 to eight. It’s up to each team to decide whether to use grinders or cyclors, but the prevailing thinking is that four crewmen using their legs will provide more power than four crewmen using their arms.
The Kiwis have hired rower/cyclist Hamish Bond, a three-time Olympic rowing gold medalist; cyclist Louis Crosby; multi-sport athlete Dougal Allan; and rower Cameron Webster to go along with grinders from the last Cup and original cyclor Simon van Velthooven.
Each of the new recruits went through a tough selection process overseen by ETNZ trainer Kim Simperingham late last year.
“We had a really interesting week of cyclor testing for our existing sailing team as well as a list of potential new candidates, all of whom took their bodies to their absolute limits for the tests,” Simperingham said. “The two main physical qualities we were looking for are athletes that can sustain a really high-power output for the length of a race, up to about half an hour, and athletes that can also achieve really high peaks in power, that will be used for the maneuvers during races.”
The tests were a combination of short maximum power output tests as well as longer endurance tests as the Kiwis looked for athletes to get them through the next few years.
“What we found was the big guys have the power and endurance as opposed to the smaller guys with huge power-to-weight ratio who, although highly impressive, struggle to match the overall numbers that bigger guys can output which shows in many of the guys who have been selected,” Simperingham said.
Van Velthooven, will return to his familiar role alongside grinders Louis Sinclair, Marcus Hansen and Marius van der Pol from the last regatta. The grinders went through the testing as well, along with sailor Sam Meech who joined the team in 2022.
“It’s brutal. America’s Cups are hard so they put us through a hard test. It’s crucial to deliver the whole way through.” van Velthooven said.
“You sort of easily forget how much pain these little tests can put you through. So that’s a good check-in and reminder,” van der Pol said.
Flight controller Blair Tuke was involved in the selection process and is encouraged by the skill of the athletes.
“We have a really potent mix of America’s Cup and AC75 experience, fresh hungry talent and raw power which I am sure will set us up strongly by the time we are on the start line for the America’s Cup match,” Tuke said.
“To see what these guys are prepared to put themselves through in testing to qualify for the team has been really impressive and I have no doubt they will apply that same commitment to the whole team in the gym, in the shed and on the water throughout the campaign,” Tuke said.
The New York Yacht Club’s American Magic has been training with four cyclors aboard Patriot on Pensacola Bay for four months, said Terry Hutchinson, the president of sailing operations/skipper.
“The change in the rule drove the decision,” Hutchinson said. “The crews were reduced from 11 down to eight but they didn’t change the amount of power being used in the boat. Four guys using their arms are not the same as using their legs, so the rule change made it very easy. From there we’ve had to work on fine-tuning the athletes and finding them.”
Hutchinson said 10 athletes are competing for cyclor spots. The team will have eight or nine cyclors in order rotate fresh athletes through on days when there are multiple races.
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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier, St. Louis-area prosecutors announced Monday.
Gary Muehlberg, a 73-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center in southeastern Missouri, confessed to the 1990 killings after O’Fallon police Detective Jodi Weber reopened the cold case and linked one of the killings to Muehlberg through DNA testing, authorities said at a news conference.
Prosecutors from Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Louis counties, which was where the victims’ bodies were found, announced four new counts of first-degree murder against Muehlberg for the killings of Robyn Mihan, Brenda Pruitt, Donna Reitmeyer and Sandy Little.
“It may have taken a while, but your family member was not forgotten,” St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar told relatives of the victims who attended the news conference.
Lohmar said all of the killings had connections to an area of south St. Louis that was known at the time for prostitution, but he declined to elaborate. He said authorities have not determined a motive for the killings.
Muehlberg was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the killing of Kenneth Atchison. Lohmar said Muehlberg killed Atchison in a dispute over money.
The body of one of the victims was found in O’Fallon, prompting Weber to reopen the case in 2008. She began trying to find a match of DNA samples. Finally, this spring, DNA evidence connected Muehlberg to Mihan.
“Incredible!” Weber said when asked about her reaction to the DNA match.
Prosecutors then began talking to Muehlberg and agreed not to pursue the death penalty in exchange for his cooperation, which led to his eventual confession, Lohmar said.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Muehlberg wrote a letter to Weber in August expressing remorse for the killings.
“I must live with my past — the good and bad parts. No more running,” he wrote.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said authorities continue to investigate to see if Muehlberg might have committed other crimes.
“There’s at least some indication out there to suggest that,” Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood said.
Dawn McIntosh, the daughter of Donna Reitmeyer, said she was thrilled to learn of the charges.
“Because I don’t think she rested in peace knowing that he was still out there,” McIntosh said of her mother. “So I’m glad he was caught.”
Saundra Kuehnle, now 75, recalled that her daughter Robyn had three dimples and a smile that lit up the room. Mihan was just 18 when she died.
“I had hounded the police and detectives forever, off and on, over the years,” Kuehnle said. “A long time to wait, but everything in God’s time.” | 2022-09-19T23:29:30+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-prosecutors-inmate-confessed-to-killing-4-women-in-1990/ |
This ain't your grandma's Biblical play. Unless your grandma is very into icons of 19th century Irish literature.
"Salome," the opera adapted from a play by Oscar Wilde, is being performed in Billings this weekend and next. It's presented by Rimrock Opera Company at the NOVA Center for the Performing Arts.
It’s been out well over 100 years, but “Salome” is still one of the odder works to ever become enshrined in the western canon. Its pure Wilde, filled with rampant sexuality and violence portrayed very bizarrely. Wilde, an Irishman who primarily wrote in English, wrote “Salome” in French and released it in 1891.
The operatic version of “Salome” being performed at NOVA was translated into German by Hedwig Lachmann, and put to music by Richard Strauss, who premiered his version in 1905, five years after Wilde died nearly penniless after being sentenced to hard labor for the crime of loving another man in Victorian England.
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A lot of people came together to make “Salome.” And a lot of people are coming together to produce it in Billings. The Rimrock Opera production of “Salome” is directed by Doug Nagel. He’s been a star on the Billings opera circuit for years, and worked for the Rimrock Opera Company for years, and taught at MSUB until his retirement in 2020. Nagel now lives in Palm Springs, California, but was coaxed out of retirement for one last show.
“This is my swan song to the stage,” Nagel said. He’ll still do concerts, and he’ll never stop singing, but this is it for operas.
“It’s exhausting,” he explained. “It’s for the young kids.”
For this last role, he’s not just directing, he’s also starring. “Salome” is about the final days of John the Baptist, called Jokanaan in Wilde’s telling. John is being held captive by Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. The titular Salome is Herod’s step-daughter, the most beautiful and most lonely woman in all of Judea.
Salome is played by Sarah Waggoner, a soprano who is making her title role debut. Herod is portrayed by Scott Wichael, and his wife Herodias, who hates Jokanaan, is played by Kimberly Gratland James. Christian Quevedo, Ana Rangel Ortiz and Jordan Shawver round out the main cast.
The opera is presented in its original German, with English translations presented as supertitles, projected above the stage. Nagel is the only person in the opera who actually speaks fluent German. To memorize lines in a language you don’t speak, performers have to rely on what’s called the International Phonetic Alphabet, which turns words into consonants and vowels that can be memorized.
Nagel leapt at this opportunity not just because he speaks German. He’s played Jokaanan all over the world. The first time was, fittingly, in East Germany. For anyone not up on their Biblical history, things don’t end well for poor John the Baptist. He’s beheaded mid-way through the opera.
“I used to travel with my own head,” Nagel laughed. Once, for the Virginia Opera, he had one molded in a day-long process that involved casting his head with modeling clay, leaving him to breathe out of straws in his nose. For this production, he went the easy route and found a head that looks like his on Amazon.
The Bible’s depiction of John’s death is quite short. Salome only shows up twice in the New Testament, once in a few sentences in the Gospel of Mark, and again in an even shorter passage in the Book of Matthew.
Wilde didn’t have a lot of source material to work with. In his telling, Salome is a sort of caricature of Eastern sensuality, with a raging sexuality that bleeds into horror.
“Salome” opens with Jokanaan off stage, yelling about the Messiah from his cell in Herod’s palace. The titular princess soon becomes entranced with him and demands that he be brought out.
She preens over the horrified prophet. Jokanaan, in turn, acts like the original pick-up artist, viciously insulting Salome until she’s madly in love with him.
“I am in love with your body,” she sings to him, ogling his “terrible eyes” and “ivory flesh.”
Some of these lines, which could only have come from Oscar Wilde, might be easier to sing in a language you don’t understand.
“Terrible things may happen,” sings Page, played by Ortiz, a Palm Springs based soprano Nagel recruited. Spoiler alert for both “Salome” and the Bible, but she’s right.
After Jokanaan rejects her, Salome performs the “Dance of the Seven Veils,” which is a sort of balletic strip tease. Herod is so lecherously pleased, he offers her anything she wants. She demands the head of John the Baptist, a murder the king is now duty bound to follow. "Salome" was, unsurprisingly, widely controversial when Wilde first introduced it.
Waggoner is first and foremost a vocalist, so this production of “Salome” utilizes four professional dancers from Billings’ School of Classical Ballet to fully convey the effect of a dance so mesmerizing they’ll let you kill a guy if you can pull it off.
She’s an excellent vocalist, her soprano range easily flits between highs and lows. Her powerhouse performance is all the more impressive when you learn that she wasn’t even supposed to be in this. Rimrock Opera had planned “Salome” to star another soprano. But those plans fell through, and Waggoner, who works at Billings Clinic when she’s not performing, stepped up in November, a very short turn around for such a big role.
“For two and a half months, all she did was eat, sleep and study ‘Salome,’” Nagel said. He worked with her via Zoom.
Waggoner is the daughter of Laurel major Dave Waggoner, and Nagel calls her the “First Daughter of Laurel.” He sees a humorous similarity between her role as a princess in the play and her proximity to local power in real life.
But Herod is nothing like anyone you’d find around here, except for the fact that he’s traded in his Biblical era sandals for a sensible pair of Birkenstocks.
When the king learns that the commander of his guard has killed himself, he’s horrified, but only because he didn’t give the order for the man to die. When he hears that Jesus has been bringing people back to life, he forbids it from afar.
Another standout is Jordan Shawver, who plays a soldier in Herod’s guard. He’s a Skyview grad studying voice at MSUB. Voice is fitting, because he’s got a huge one, a big booming baritone.
“He opens his mouth and you just go ‘holy crap, this is a major talent,’” Nagel said. “Whether you know opera or not, when he sings, you know.”
Nagel, for his part, is a masterful performer. He’s big and tall, clad in a long curly wig he likens to Ozzy Osborne’s hair, with a black goatee dyed into his white stubble. His expressive voice fills NOVA, even if you step out for a restroom break.
But you won’t need many breaks. “Salome” is lean and mean. Take it from director and star Nagel.
“It’s one act,” he explained. “It’s got no intermission. It’s 90 minutes. People die. It’s great.” | 2023-04-08T00:03:29+00:00 | billingsgazette.com | https://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/people-die-it-s-great-nova-presenting-challenging-salome-opera/article_a2fa7a7c-d4b6-11ed-915b-1b3e5b34e351.html |
HITRUST Inheritance Program Offers LightEdge Customers a Fast Track to Compliance
DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With several recent project engagements, LightEdge — a leading provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions — and NFINIT, a LightEdge company, are expanding their footprint in the healthcare and biotech sectors, particularly in the Southwest. LightEdge is now working with Allegiance Group and Borrego Health, in addition to many other healthcare and biotech companies. More than 20% of LightEdge clients (over 150 customers) are in the healthcare or healthcare services industries.
As the leader in compliant cloud and colocation for healthcare organizations, LightEdge is one of approximately 30 organizations globally, and one of very few MSPs that are part of the HITRUST Inheritance Program. The program allows customers to inherit relevant controls for their own HITRUST compliance standards. With LightEdge's recent acquisition of NFINIT, an infrastructure solutions provider based in San Diego, LightEdge is offering its healthcare expertise and HITRUST Inheritance Program to NFINIT clients and other enterprises in the Southwest.
"HITRUST CSF is the gold standard for healthcare applications," said Robert McCabe, CIO for Allegiance Group. "In the face of mounting data breaches, companies handling sensitive data must remove all doubt by working with trusted providers like LightEdge that offer strong experience in security protocols and regulatory compliance. Allegiance Group saved time and resources by taking advantage of the HITRUST Inheritance Program, which allowed us to leverage LightEdge's assessment scores, inheriting the LightEdge controls and applying them to our own assessments quickly and easily."
Allegiance Group is one of many healthcare clients leveraging LightEdge's proven expertise in compliance-driven cloud solutions. Borrego Health, a longtime colocation customer of NFINIT, has been steadily moving applications to the cloud. LightEdge is managing the migration, while also providing Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).
"Our consultative, white glove approach is ideal for healthcare and biotech enterprises navigating especially difficult IT requirements and concerns right now," said Michael Hannan, Chief Security Officer for LightEdge. "Healthcare and biotech companies aren't interested in cookie-cutter, low-touch technology solutions. Our expertise and proven ability to build and manage environments that enable our clients to meet HIPAA, HITRUST, and other compliance standards set us apart as a leader in delivering highly compliant and secure healthcare and biotech IT solutions."
LightEdge Solutions is the leader in colocation and private cloud services for highly regulated organizations who value always on uptime for their mission critical workloads. LightEdge owns and operates eleven purpose-built data centers primarily across the Midwest, Texas, and the Southwest. With 25 years in business, LightEdge offers full stack technology services that deliver unbeatable uptime, security, and flexibility for their clients. Their premier colocation, cloud, disaster recovery, and security solutions are designed to support complex hybrid IT deployments and audited against the industry's top security and compliance standards. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com.
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‘Didn’t hesitate’: Police identify 2 officers who took down Nashville school shooter
WARNING: The video in this story is graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News/WSMV) – The officers who took down the shooter at The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday have been identified.
Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo shot and killed 28-year-old school shooting suspect Audrey Hale, police said.
Engelbert and Collazo have been with the Metro Nashville Police Department for four and nine years, respectively.
Police said Hale was fatally shot on the second floor in a common area of The Covenant School, where she had been opening fire through a window at arriving police cars.
Nashville police released body camera footage from both officers who shot Hale.
While police response at other school shootings has been widely criticized, such as at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, experts say police in Nashville did everything right.
From the time Hale arrived on campus to the time she was shot and killed, just 14 minutes had elapsed. In Uvalde, it was 77 minutes.
At a press conference Tuesday, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the first 911 call came in at 10:13 a.m., and Hale was shot and killed at 10:24 a.m. – that’s just 11 minutes.
Ken Alexandrow, a former Metro Nashville police officer who spent 26 years on the force, said the police response Monday was “as good as it could have possibly been.”
Engelbert’s body camera video shows him arrive on campus and enter the school quickly while directing other officers to follow behind him – although he was prepared to go in alone.
“He [Engelbert] didn’t hesitate in the fact that, ‘I don’t want to go in by myself,’” Alexandrow said, watching the body cam video.
The video then shows the officers in “search mode,” because they were trying to find out where the shooter was. You can see officers quickly bust through every door, trying to find the shooter.
“Search mode is they don’t know where the shooter is. And in that case, you cannot pass an unlocked or opened door,” Alexandrow said. “The five absolutes of room clearing are get through the door, clear the danger corner, run the walls, clear the center, and we got to communicate, and they’re doing all of that together.”
Meanwhile, at least one officer is supposed to stay behind in the hallway, to make sure they are not ambushed from behind.
In the video, as the officers continue to search every room, they suddenly hear gunshots ring out from the second floor and immediately run toward the gunfire.
“You go immediately to the threat,” Alexandrow said.
Body camera video then shows Engelbert and Collazo fatally shoot Hale. As she lies on the ground, the officers run toward her body and remove her weapons.
That’s where the released body camera footage ends. Alexandrow said next, officers likely did a second sweep of the school to make sure there was not a second shooter, while paramedics came in to tend to the victims.
Police said writings recovered from Hale, who was a former student of the school, revealed that the attack was calculated and planned. A search warrant executed at Hale’s home resulted in the seizure of a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun, maps and other evidence.
Three 9-year-old students and three adults were killed in the attack.
Senator Roland Gutierrez of Texas criticized the Uvalde police response in wake of the Nashville shooting. In a tweet, he wrote, “Nashville PD neutralized the killer in 14 minutes. Then in less than 24 hrs later they release body cam footage.”
Meanwhile, he said, the Texas Department of Public Safety “let the #Uvalde killer wreak havoc for 77 minutes and made legislators sign NDAs to view footage. 10 months later they have YET to be transparent about what happened on May 24. We have to hold DPS accountable for its failures!”
In another tweet, Gutierrez said Nashville police “has nothing to hide because they did their job. They weren’t afraid.”
Copyright 2023 WSMV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-29T21:42:23+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/03/29/didnt-hesitate-police-identify-2-officers-who-took-down-nashville-school-shooter/ |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Venus Williams has withdrawn from the Australian Open for an undisclosed injury she sustained while playing in a tournament in Auckland, New Zealand this week.
A seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, Williams received a wild-card entry into the Australian Open last month to compete in what would have been her 22nd major at Melbourne Park.
But the Australian Open said on Saturday the 42-year-old Williams had withdrawn from the tournament beginning Jan. 16. It did not provide specifics regarding the injury.
It continues a run of misfortunes for Williams, who last played at Melbourne Park in 2021.
A two-time Australian Open finalist, Williams injured an ankle and knee in that appearance when stumbling awkwardly at the net in a second-round match against Sara Errani.
Her best efforts at Melbourne Park came when she was beaten by her sister Serena Williams in finals in 2003 and 2017.
Now ranked 1,003, Williams said when granted the wild card in December that she was excited to be returning to Melbourne.
“I’ve been competing in the country for over 20 years now and the Australian community has always supported me wholeheartedly,” she said.
The five-time Wimbledon singles champion has struggled with injuries over the past two years and was restricted to playing just four tournaments in the U.S. last August. She did not progress beyond the first round in those events and ended her season when beaten by Alison van Uytvanck at the U.S. Open.
But she started 2023 on a positive note by defeating fellow American Katie Volynets in Auckland. She was then beaten by China’s Zhu Lin in three sets in the second round.
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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-07T20:43:49+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/ap-venus-williams-out-of-australian-open-due-to-injury/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for Celtics vs. 76ers Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 6 on May 11, 2023
You can find player prop bet odds for Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid and other players on the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers before their matchup at 7:30 PM ET on Thursday at Wells Fargo Center.
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Celtics vs. 76ers Game Info
- Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Venue: Wells Fargo Center
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NBA Props Today: Boston Celtics
Jayson Tatum Props
- Thursday's over/under for Tatum is 29.5 points. That is 0.6 fewer than his season average of 30.1.
- Tatum has averaged 1.7 less rebounds per game (8.8) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (10.5).
- Tatum has averaged 4.6 assists per game this year, 0.1 more than his prop bet for Thursday (4.5).
- Tatum has averaged 3.2 made three-pointers per game, 0.7 more than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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Jaylen Brown Props
- The 24.5-point prop total set for Jaylen Brown on Thursday is 2.1 less than his scoring average on the season (26.6).
- He averages 1.4 more rebounds than his prop bet Thursday of 5.5.
- Brown's assist average -- 3.5 per game -- is equal to Thursday's prop bet.
- He 2.4 made three-pointers average is 0.1 lower than his over/under on Thursday.
Derrick White Props
- The 11.5-point over/under for Derrick White on Thursday is 0.9 lower than his season scoring average.
- White's rebounding average of 3.6 is lower than his over/under on Thursday (3.5).
- White's assist average -- 3.9 -- is higher than Thursday's assist prop bet (2.5).
- White's 1.8 three-pointers made per game is 0.3 more than his over/under on Thursday.
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Joel Embiid Props
- Thursday's prop bet for Embiid is 29.5 points, 3.6 fewer than his season average.
- Embiid's rebounding average -- 10.2 -- is 0.3 lower than his over/under on Thursday.
- Embiid averages 4.2 assists, 0.7 more than his over/under for Thursday.
- Embiid has made one three-pointer per game, which is more than his over/under on Thursday (0.5).
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- Harden's per-game rebound average -- 6.1 -- is 0.4 less than his prop bet over/under in Thursday's game (6.5).
- Harden has averaged 10.7 assists per game, 2.2 more than Thursday's assist over/under (8.5).
- Harden has averaged 2.8 made three-pointers per game, 0.3 more than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Hospitals in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz region struggled Wednesday to keep up with an outbreak of dengue that has killed at least 26 people.
It marks the largest outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease since the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the almost 7,000 cases detected since January have been in Santa Cruz, the country’s most populous region, where two of the most lethal variants of the illness have been detected.
“The hospital is full, there’s no more space, patients sleep in the hall in order to be admitted,” Fredy Rojas, a pediatrician at the Santa Cruz Children’s Hospital, told a local radio station. “Many children get here in serious condition and there isn’t enough time to reverse the situation.”
At least 26 people have died, Bolivia’s health ministry said.
Dengue causes flu-like symptoms that most people recover from, but also can rapidly lead to internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. There generally is no specific treatment for the disease, but vaccines are available.
Dengue is endemic in Bolivia and proliferates in the country’s east during its December-to-March rainy season. It is a leading cause of serious illness and death in roughly 120 Latin American and Asian countries. | 2023-02-16T01:48:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-bolivian-hospitals-under-strain-as-dengue-kills-dozens/ |
The LSU Tigers meet the Georgia Bulldogs in the SEC Championship game on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022 (12/3/2022) at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Here’s a recent college football column, via the AP:
The Alabama Crimson Tide will play a football game Saturday that means ... well, absolutely nothing.
Not being cruel.
It’s just the way things work in Tuscaloosa.
The Southeastern Conference championship is out of reach. All hope of claiming a spot in the College Football Playoff is gone. Which means there’s no chance of Bama winning its seventh national title since Nick Saban arrived 15 years ago.
Which means, of course, that the season is effectively over for the Tide.
Just how momentous of an occasion is this for the greatest dynasty in college football history?
One must go all the way back to Nov. 13, 2010, for the last time Alabama played a regular-season game sans impact on the national championship race.
Since that day more than a dozen years ago, the Tide has hoarded five national titles, finished as the runner-up three other times, and lost in the semifinals the first year of the playoff. The other two seasons, Bama was eliminated from the title race by gut-wrenching defeats at the hands of rival Auburn in the regular-season finale.
With two losses — gasp! — already this season, Alabama will trot on the field at Bryant-Denny Stadium for an expected beatdown of Austin Peay, relying on motivational goals that are generally reserved for the common folks.
Things like pride and a better bowl bid.
“We’ve still got goals we’d like to reach,” linebacker Jalen Moody insisted, without naming them. “We’ve got to go out there and prepare every day so we can go out the way we came in. We can’t win a championship now, but we’ve still got to finish the right way.”
Alabama’s elimination is good news for the rest of the nation, which had grown weary of spending most every January watching Saban’s behemoth win, or at least contend, for championships.
Then again, it seems a good time to add some perspective to just what an amazing run this has been for the Tide:
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, Saban’s coaching colleagues in the SEC were Steve Spurrier, Urban Meyer, Mark Richt, Gene Chizik, Les Miles, Bobby Petrino, Houston Nutt, Dan Mullen, Joker Phillips, Derek Dooley and Robbie Caldwell. No need to mention the Texas A&M and Missouri coaches; those schools were still two seasons away from joining the SEC.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, Barack Obama was approaching the midway point of his first term and less than two weeks removed from a huge Democratic defeat in the midterm elections.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, the Miami Heat’s “Big Three” — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh — were off to a sluggish 5-4 start in their first season together.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, people still used BlackBerry phones, hailed a cab when they needed a ride, read a newspaper to figure out what was going on in the world, and shopped at places known as malls.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, Tom Brady was a mere child of 33 and the Buffalo Bills were 0-8 at the midway point of the NFL season.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, Ke$ha had the No. 1 song in the land with “We R Who We R” and “Megamind” was the top-grossing movie.
—The last time Alabama played a meaningless regular-season game, Donald Trump was hosting “The Apprentice” and most of us had never heard of Elon Musk.
Some are wondering — hoping might be a better word — that this slight dip of a season is a sign that Saban’s grip on the game is loosening.
He just turned 71. Nothing lasts forever.
Sorry, that’s just wishful thinking. While undoubtedly a disappointing season by Alabama’s standards, the two defeats came on a last-second field goal at Tennessee and a 2-point conversion at LSU in overtime.
The Tide is just four points away from being undefeated and right back in the thick of things. Come 2023, there’s no reason to think the school won’t be one of the leading title contenders again.
For now, Alabama still has next week’s regular-season finale — the Iron Bowl against Auburn — to stir its competitive fire.
Depending on how things shake out, the Tide could end up in a major bowl, though it’s hard to envision future NFLers like quarterback Bryce Young and linebacker Will Anderson risking injury to play in a postseason game that doesn’t really matter.
These days, Saban sounds more like a motivational speaker than a football coach. He figures the last few games, as hollow as they truly are, will go a long way toward establishing if this is just a blip in his dynasty or the first indication of a more significant decline.
“You know, we talk a lot about culture, we talk a lot about identity, but really what makes you sort of motivated — what creates an identity for all of us? We all strive for self-respect, but how do we go about doing it?” Saban mused this week.
“Playing this game for what we want to accomplish, what we want to do, re-establish the identity that we want in Alabama football,” he went on. “That’s what we’re gonna try to finish and do, and it’ll be interesting to see how players choose to do that.”
Never bet against Nick Saban.
Just enjoy this rare chance to spend the next couple of months without him.
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-11-28T16:09:04+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/11/sec-championship-tickets-the-cheapest-tickets-available-for-lsu-vs-georgia-football-game-on-saturday-ticket-prices-best-deals-more.html |
VMFH Launches Madrona Health, a new specialty pharmacy, with Confluence Health
SEATTLE and TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH) and Confluence Health announced the creation of Madrona Health, LLC, a new joint venture to expand specialty pharmacy services across the Pacific Northwest. This unique partnership will increase access to vital specialty medicines for patients with rare or complex conditions in areas that are typically underserved.
"Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is excited to partner with Confluence Health on this important initiative and I am grateful to the dedicated team who helped make it a reality, especially Dr. Peter Rutherford," said Ketul J. Patel, CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
Madrona Health, previously known as VMFH Georgetown Specialty Pharmacy, currently serves 11 hospitals, several cancer centers, and hundreds of clinic sites across the country. Partnering with Confluence Health, Madrona Health will expand its services to North Central Washington, including Confluence Health's two hospitals and other care sites. VMFH and Confluence Health will own and operate the entity as a 50-50 joint venture serving their combined communities. Madrona Health will be licensed in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Arizona, and will supply vital medicine to patients throughout the West, whether at home or during seasonal travel through a mail-order service. Madrona Health's service strives to reduce the burden on both patients and providers in obtaining specialty medications.
"Through innovative and strategic partnerships, VMFH continues to expand access to care throughout the Pacific Northwest. Working together with Confluence Health, Madrona Health will increase access to essential specialty medication for the patients who need it most, while bringing two dynamic organizations together in collaboration around the needs of our patients," added Patel.
"Madrona Health is built on the mutual respect and shared values of our two organizations. It is crucial that our patients in North Central Washington have access to life-saving medications, and we look forward to working with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to ensure our patients receive the most advanced level of care and support," commented Dr. Andrew Jones, CEO of Confluence Health.
Specialty pharmacies offer an advanced level of support needed to provide patients with a broader range of services than traditional pharmacies, dispensing medications that treat complex or rare conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other chronic conditions. These drugs require intensive clinical monitoring and are often high cost.
To facilitate the complex monitoring requirements, Madrona Health will work in tandem with health care providers, such as Confluence Health, to access patients' existing medical records to ensure a seamless experience. The Madrona Health model is designed to work closely with patients to manage their medication supply with refill reminders, help navigating insurance coverage, clinical support, and other tools for success.
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH) works to expand access to care and improve the health of communities by building on the strength of more than 300 sites of care, eleven top-tier hospitals, 18,000 team members, and over 5,600 physicians and advance practice providers. VMFH delivers world-class clinical excellence from basic health needs to the most complex, highly specialized care. By bringing together the best and brightest healthcare minds in the region along with a commitment to investing in innovation, VMFH delivers the most advanced therapies and technologies for patients alongside some of the country's most prestigious experts and hospitals. VMFH is home to the Bailey-Boushay House, the first skilled-nursing and outpatient chronic care management program in the United States designed specifically to meet the needs of people with HIV/AIDS, and the Benaroya Research Institute, an internationally recognized center for autoimmune disease research. Additionally, VMFH is committed to addressing health care disparities by caring for the most vulnerable in the community, including the poor and underserved, by providing more than $300 million in community benefits, subsidies, or reduced-cost healthcare and programs. Learn more at www.vmfh.org.
Confluence Health serves the largest geographic region of any healthcare system in Washington State, covering over 12,000 square miles of Okanogan, Grant, Douglas, and Chelan counties. Confluence Health is one of only two locally-lead healthcare systems in the state with the purpose of maintaining availability and access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services for North Central Washington. The Confluence Health Board of Directors provides governance for Confluence Health, the Clinic, Central Washington Hospital, and Wenatchee Valley Hospital, and includes nine community board members and six physician board members.
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SOURCE Virginia Mason Franciscan Health | 2022-08-03T20:00:02+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/08/03/virginia-mason-franciscan-health-confluence-health-partner-expand-access-specialty-medications/ |
Planned power outages as part of 17th and Woodruff project
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - As part of the continued improvements at the 17th Street and Woodruff Intersection, Idaho Falls Power will need to implement brief planned power outages as utilities are moved underground on Monday, April 10.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, power will be out at the following locations near the intersection at the following times:
- 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Dairy Queen
- 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Papa Murphy’s and Don Aslett’s Cleaning Center
- 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Black Bear Diner
- 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Chevron Gas and Convenience Store
Beginning on April 11, there will be significant traffic impacts at the intersection of Woodruff Avenue and 17th Street. Motorists are advised to plan alternate routes until the project is completed this fall. | 2023-04-07T16:14:00+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/idaho-falls/2023/04/07/planned-power-outages-as-part-of-17th-and-woodruff-project/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her accusation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him, they announced Thursday, with the singer saying that “only God knows what happened that night.”
Dr. Luke, meanwhile, said he was “absolutely certain that nothing happened. I never drugged or assaulted her.”
Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, as both she and he revealed on Instagram that they had agreed to “a resolution” of the case and to a statement from each of them. Messages seeking comment were sent to their attorneys.
“I cannot recount everything that happened,” Kesha wrote, adding that she wishes “nothing but peace to all parties involved.”
Dr. Luke, in turn, said he wished her well and wanted “to put this difficult matter behind me” after years of fighting to clear his name.
The deal averts a trial that had been scheduled for this summer over allegations that became a #MeToo cause for Kesha's supporters and came to involve a lineup of music industry luminaries. Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Adam Levine and Taio Cruz are among those who gave testimony or sworn statements related to the case.
At the same time, the case raised important legal questions about fame and defamation. The stakes were seen as high enough that media outlets weighed in about pretrial rulings that they worried could help powerful people suppress unflattering reporting.
The court clash between the multiplatinum-selling singer and the Grammy-nominated producer has been playing out since 2014 and looming over both of their careers.
The Associated Press does not generally name people who report being sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Kesha has done.
The singer made her name — originally styled Ke$ha — with a series of swaggering, just-try-to-stop-me party anthems, beginning with 2009’s “TiK ToK.” Those early hits were produced by Dr. Luke, who founded the record label that signed a Nashville unknown named Kesha Rose Sebert at age 18.
Born Lukasz Gottwald, he has produced chart-toppers for Perry, Lavigne, Flo Rida and more. Besides notching multiple Grammy nominations, Dr. Luke has repeatedly won pop songwriter of the year awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Kesha sued him in 2014, alleging he drugged and raped her nine years earlier and psychologically tormented her throughout their working relationship. She said he harangued her about her weight, denigrated her voice and lorded his power over her career.
“The abuse I suffered from Luke was a decade long, every day, every moment of every day,” she said during sworn questioning in 2017. According to Kesha, the ordeal sparked a flare-up of an eating disorder that led to her spending two months in a rehabilitation clinic in 2014.
Dr. Luke, who has not been charged with any crimes, responded by suing Kesha. He has asserted that she made “completely untrue and deeply hurtful” claims to tarnish him and get out of her record contract.
“Any reasonable person will not believe her,” he said when questioned under oath in 2017.
His attorneys have noted that Kesha herself said he “never made sexual advances at me” during sworn questioning in a separate lawsuit in 2011. She has since said she was “not entirely transparent” in those 2011 statements because she was terrified of Dr. Luke and felt compelled to protect him.
Kesha went five years without releasing an album during the standoff, saying she could not work with a "monster" but couldn't get away from him because she was under contract with his label. His lawyers and the label's attorneys maintained that she did not have to work with him personally.
She eventually returned with 2017’s “Rainbow” and two subsequent albums, all with other producers. Her most recent album, “Gag Order,” came out in May.
Dr. Luke’s career also took a hit after she went public with her allegations. He has said various artists, particularly female ones, eschewed “working with someone who’s called a rapist.”
But under the name Tyson Trax, he made it back to the top of the charts in 2020 with Doja Cat's "Say So," garnering his first Grammy nomination since 2014. By this year, he was ASCAP's pop songwriter of the year once again.
Along the way, Kesha's sexual abuse-related claims were dismissed because of time limits and other legal issues, without any findings about the merits of the allegations themselves. But she countersued Dr. Luke under a New York law against bringing frivolous suits to try to intimidate critics into silence; New York's highest court recently ruled that she could pursue those claims.
The top court, which New York calls the Court of Appeals, also declared that Dr. Luke is a “public figure” in the eyes of the law. That’s significant because the legal requirements for proving defamation are tougher for public figures than for everyday people.
Lower courts had said the producer wasn’t a public figure. Over a dozen media outlets and organizations got involved in the case to argue that those earlier rulings could end up helping famous people squash free speech and reporting on sexual abuse allegations.
Earlier in the case, Kesha was ordered to pay Dr. Luke more than $373,000 in interest on royalties she paid him years late. | 2023-06-22T19:11:05+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/pop-star-kesha-and-producer-dr-luke-settle-longstanding-legal-battle-over-rape-defamation-claims/7YYP6HFDWVCSJHJKCYMKWFZZSA/ |
User-friendly design to increase participant engagement
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curebase, a company committed to democratizing access to clinical studies, today announced an upgraded universal mobile app for trial participants that makes participating in clinical studies more convenient by enabling push notifications, among other features. The app, available on Apple's App Store and Google Play, is intended to be a flexible option to enable patient choice for participation across studies.
Curebase will use this feature to give patients flexibility in how to engage in any trial. Such a feature allows patients the option to participate through web and/or app-based experiences in a seamless manner depending on the situation and patient's decision.
"We've learned that patients want choice. Patients can enjoy the convenience of an app-based experience with push-notifications, while also having the ability to receive SMS/email reminders and enter data on any other device through the web-app as well." said Curebase founder and CEO Tom Lemberg. "If patients choose to opt for an app on their device(s), they can feel comforted knowing that they can pick up where they left off via the web-app if they lose their phone, are away from their device, or using public internet access."
Push notifications are designed to remind patients to fill out reports, join telemedicine visits, and complete other activities necessary to keep them adherent to trial requirements. They add a new option for patient notifications beyond the current SMS and email reminders. Finally, the ability to simultaneously use both the universal app and web-app, allows patients choice in not being tethered to any particular device through the course of their study experience.
By providing a downloadable mobile app that pushes notifications to trial participants and allows them to easily log in to a study site and enter data, thus avoiding the extra steps involved in accessing the trial website through a mobile browser, Curebase makes it easier for patients in long-term trials to remain engaged.
"The biggest challenge facing long-term trials is participant engagement," said Curebase VP of Innovation Jane Myles. "The clinical trial industry is learning that adherence is directly tied to the participant experience. Curebase's user-friendly mobile app will help keep trial participants engaged for the duration of the study."
Curebase's decentralized clinical trial (DCT) model ensures more diverse studies because unique populations – which typically are underrepresented in clinical trials – can be included. The company's virtual research sites also provide physicians with new and unique options to offer their patients, regardless of location.
About Curebase
At Curebase, our mission is to bring quality medical innovations to patients faster and improve human wellbeing through more efficient clinical studies. We are proving that clinical research can be radically accelerated if we empower physicians everywhere to enroll patients in the communities where they live. By applying cutting edge clinical software and remote study management techniques to the problem, we are reinventing clinical trials and research from the ground up. For more information, please visit www.curebase.com.
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Monday, Memorial Day, provides a designated time for millions to declare honor to America’s fallen heroes. Those who have given the ultimate commitment in service should, and will be, recognized in remembrance. From Arlington Cemetery in Washington D.C. to the Military Honor Site in Yuma, ceremonial events will convene.
Thousands of crosses in military cemeteries around the world speak loudly of so many that gave their lives. Driving to the Cabrillo Lighthouse through the military cemetery in San Diego at Point Loma is sobering to me. Every person who dies in service to this country is an investment in our liberty.
The price of liberty is beyond monetary capability. Wisdom spoken by Jesus in the Bible, John 15:13, clarifies giving your life for your friend is a gift of love.
Two thousand years ago, a statement of unexplainable love was erected on a hill near Jerusalem. It said God and Jesus loved us. Jesus, Mary’s child and God’s son, gave himself to be nailed to a cross and raised in the air to be disgraced. He suffered public humiliation in addition to immense physical pain, then died.
Memorial Day events will include ceremonies, picnics, and activities. As you celebrate, respectfully remember those who made our freedom to celebrate possible. The Cross that was erected two thousand years ago is a reminder of loving freedom purchased for the whole world. That is…HOPE THAT HELPS! | 2023-05-27T15:13:07+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/features/hope-that-helps-beyond-honorable-mention/article_58ea8142-fbea-11ed-881b-2769eed1cfb5.html |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — J.J. McCarthy was a freshman bit player in Michigan’s 42-27 victory over Ohio State last season at the Big House.
A year later, the 19-year-old from the Chicago suburbs is the starting quarterback for unbeaten Michigan, preparing to play in front of the largest and most hostile road crowd he’s ever seen with the season on the line.
“It feels just like the stars are aligning,” McCarthy said. “And now it’s finally here. It’s meant to be.”
Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud is as weathered as a two-year starter can be. A Heisman Trophy favorite and one of the most prolific passers in the country, Stroud remembers the agony of losing to the Wolverines a year ago despite throwing for nearly 400 yards and two touchdowns.
“We’ve been licking our wounds for 365 days,” the 21-year-old Californian said.
Before last year, Ohio State had won eight straight in the series. Stroud, who is eligible for the NFL draft in the spring, wants to make sure back-to-back losses to Michigan aren’t part of his legacy in Columbus.
Stroud has 35 TD passes this season, tying him with Houston’s Clayton Tune for most in the nation. Moreover, he has emerged as a more mature and demonstrative leader. Stroud hasn’t been as sharp in some games — notably when high winds all but grounded the Buckeyes’ passing attack at Northwestern — but has done everything necessary to lead the Buckeyes to 11-0 and on the verge of the College Football Playoff.
“I think his leadership and his consistency has to be on display for 60 minutes for Ohio State to beat Michigan,” said Kirk Herbstreit, the ESPN college football analyst and former Buckeyes quarterback. “There’s going to be an ebb and flow to his game. How he maintains his poise, how he maintains his leadership and pushing his team to try to find a way to win, that’s going to be the culmination of all that growth.”
Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Stroud’s maturation has influenced the entire program.
“I think you can see his attitude on the sideline,” Day said. “He is not concerned about statistics. I think he understands that they’re going to happen and they’re going to come, but he’s focused on one thing and that’s winning and being a leader for his teammates. And when you truly play like that and just have an open heart, I think it carries over to your team.”
In Ann Arbor, McCarthy beat out incumbent Cade McNamara early in the season. McCarthy is nowhere near the talented passer Stroud is, but his mobility allows him to — as coach Jim Harbaugh describes it — “turn water into wine.”
“He’s got that ability,” Harbaugh said. “I’m so glad that he’s on our team. He’s got that grit and determination, too, all in one package.”
McCarthy this season also had the luxury of playing alongside running back Blake Corum, who has rushed for 1,457 yards and 18 touchdowns while emerging as a Heisman Trophy candidate. Corum suffered a knee injury in last week’s win over Illinois but said early this week that he expects to play Saturday.
If he can’t, more of the load could settle on the shoulders of McCarthy, one of what Harbaugh likes to call his “happy warriors.”
“J.J. is very loose,” said center Olu Oluwatimi, a transfer who started for three years at Virginia. “I love that from a quarterback. Just being able to like, no matter what the outcome of the previous play is, focus on the next play. And do it while smiling, having fun. I love being in the huddle with J.J.”
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Two officers were shot during the search of a residence in Clifton Park, New York, on Tuesday.
The Saratoga County Sheriff's officers were executing a federal search warrant for weapons and drugs at a residence on Foxwood Drive, according to the Times-Union.
The search was conducted at approximately 5:30 a.m.
One officer was seriously wounded after being shot in the leg, according to local news.
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Another officer reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to the chest but was wearing protective equipment.
The suspect was reportedly shot in the head during the confrontation.
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New Position in Global Risk Solutions Focused on Building and Scaling Capabilities to Holistically Deliver Solutions for Customers' Emerging and Complex Risks Globally
BOSTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Mutual Insurance Global Risk Solutions (GRS), today announced the appointment of Elizabeth Geary as President, Insurance Solutions. Geary will report to GRS President of Underwriting Matthew Moore, effective late August.
Geary is an established strategic and operational leader with vast experience in portfolio optimization, cycle and volatility management, data and analytics, and managing underwriting teams in complex lines. She will be responsible for building teams specializing in addressing customers' emerging risks, including cyber and energy transition, in a rapidly changing environment. Geary will work closely with global brokers and GRS underwriting leaders to understand and stay ahead of global risk trends, while looking for opportunities to build and scale new capabilities to deliver solutions to customers in a timely, consistent manner.
Geary's new role, which follows the recent appointment of Moore by GRS President Neeti Bhalla Johnson, is essential within GRS' new Office of Underwriting.
"Our vision is to provide holistic solutions to our customers through a purposeful portfolio of product and risk expertise while delivering consistent underwriting profitability through the cycle," said Moore. "We are thrilled to have Elizabeth join our team, as she brings the rare mix of skills and experience necessary to deliver enhanced global capabilities to our customers and underwriters as they adapt to dynamic and emerging risk environments."
Bhalla Johnson added, "A high-performing team and culture is critical to ensure successful execution of our operating model that seeks to bring global expertise, coordination and differentiated value to every client interaction. Elizabeth's proven leadership, market reputation and technical expertise will undoubtedly accelerate our transformation. We are excited to have her onboard."
Geary joins Liberty Mutual from TransRe, where she served in a dual role as President, Global Portfolio Management, and Chief Underwriting Officer, North America, balancing both transactional and portfolio experience. Prior to this, she was the company's Global Head of Cyber.
She is a graduate of Fordham University, earning a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Finance from the Gabelli School of Business.
At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people and businesses embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.
In business since 1912, and headquartered in Boston, today we are the sixth largest global property and casualty insurer based on 2021 gross written premium. We also rank 78th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2021 revenue. As of December 31, 2021, we had $48.2 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
We employ over 47,000 people in 29 countries and economies around the world. We offer a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, specialty lines, reinsurance, commercial multiple-peril, workers compensation, commercial automobile, general liability, surety, and commercial property.
For more information, visit www.libertymutualinsurance.com.
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SAN DIEGO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the 625th consecutive common stock monthly dividend. The dividend amount of $0.2475 per share, representing an annualized amount of $2.97 per share, is payable on August 15, 2022 to stockholders of record as of August 1, 2022. The ex-dividend date for August's dividend is July 29, 2022.
About Realty Income
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,200 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 625 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 53-year operating history and increased the dividend 116 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). Additional information about the company can be obtained from the corporate website at www.realtyincome.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Which fish oil for dogs is best?
Our dogs don’t always get everything they need from their diet, no matter how good the food is that we buy for them. One key ingredient for a healthy dog is omega-3 fatty acids. Even if your dog’s kibble contains fish, there may not be enough to maintain a healthy level of these acids. That’s why fish oil supplements for dogs are so numerous.
The best is Nordic Naturals Omega-3 Pet Soft Gels. It’s high-quality, but the best part is it’s made with ethical and sustainable ingredients.
What to know before you buy fish oil for dogs
Fish oil for dogs benefits
Fish oil is proven to have a huge range of benefits, according to the American Kennel Club. Some of these are:
- Skin: The primary use of fish oil for dogs is to improve skin health. It can help to reduce itchiness from dry skin, reduce or eliminate dandruff and increase the health and softness of your dog’s coat.
- Inflammation: It’s an anti-inflammatory that helps inflamed skin but also soothes inflamed joints.
- Heart and muscles: It can improve heart health and help reduce muscle fatigue.
- Kidneys: Finally, it can help treat kidney disease in combination with medication.
Form
Fish oil for dogs comes in four forms.
- Liquid is the most common as it doesn’t need to be converted into a solid or packaged inside a gel. it’s also easy to measure out and mix with your dog’s regular food.
- Soft gels are essentially pre-measured liquid doses. They’re usually large, so it can be difficult to get your dog to take them. If hiding them in tastier food doesn’t work you can puncture them to add the oil directly to their food. Once you run out, switch to liquids to save money.
- Chews are perfect if you want the fish oil itself to be a treat rather than using a treat to hide it. Just make sure it isn’t packed with yummy but unhealthy ingredients. Keep in mind that larger dogs need to eat several so costs can quickly add up.
- Tablets are like chews in that they’re, well, chewed. However, tablets are drier and harder. This means you may need to hide it in a treat rather than it being the treat. However, these are uniquely suited for the pickiest dogs. If you crush them into powder you can mix them into broth. Because it doesn’t float like oil, it should be so hidden your dog will unknowingly drink it up.
What to look for in quality fish oil for dogs
Quantity and dosage
Take care when shopping to triple-check how many servings are included in a bottle and compare that to the dosage instructions to find the best value.
- Quantity: Liquids are measured in ounces with common sizes being 8, 16, 32 and 64. Gels, chews and tablets are individually counted with common sizes being 30, 60, 90, 120 and 180.
- Dosage: Dosage varies, but is typically based on weight. As liquids commonly come with pump dispensers, a common dosage is a half or a full pump per weight class. Gels, chews and tablets are usually one per weight class.
Omega-3 fatty acids
The main ingredients to look for in fish oil for dogs are omega-3 fatty acids. The two best omega-3 fatty acids are eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid. Many of the best oils list the mix of EPA and DHA acids alongside the total omega-3 fatty acid count.
How much you can expect to spend on fish oil for dogs
Cost varies mainly based on quantity and quality. Prices for a one-month supply can be as low as $5-$10, though finding a quality oil in this range can be difficult. Better one-month supplies cost $15-$20 with the best typically costing at least $20.
Fish oil for dogs FAQ
Will fish oil make my dog’s breath smell like fish?
A. It can, depending on the supplement. Products aren’t known to list potential downsides so check for this in the user reviews.
Do I need a prescription to buy fish oil for my dog?
A. No, but it’s wise to double-check with your veterinarian before you add fish oil — or any other supplement — to your dog’s diet.
What’s the best fish oil for dogs to buy?
Top fish oil for dogs
Nordic Naturals Omega-3 Pet Soft Gels
What you need to know: This oil uses nothing but the best ingredients.
What you’ll love: It’s packed with EPA and DHA with a total of 330 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids per gel. It comes in 90-, 120- and 180-count bottles with a dosage recommendation of one gel per 20 pounds your dog weighs. It’s made in a zero-waste facility.
What you should consider: Some dogs won’t swallow it no matter how well you hide it, though it can be punctured to get the oil out.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top fish oil for dogs for the money
Pawstruck Natural Omega-3 Fish Oil for Dogs Soft Chew Supplement
What you need to know: This chew knows dogs are picky and offers a trial size of 10 for $1.
What you’ll love: Each chew has 270 milligrams of EPA and 180 milligrams of DHA and there are detailed dosage instructions for several weight classes. If your dog likes it you can order it in 60- and 90-count quantities. Pawstruck is owned and operated in the U.S. and doesn’t source ingredients from China.
What you should consider: Some customers reported the chews being soft and crumbly enough to fall apart in the bottle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Grizzly Pollock Oil Dog Food Supplement
What you need to know: This fish oil is perfect if your dog’s need for it is long-term.
What you’ll love: It’s packed with both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids sustainably sourced from wild Alaskan pollock. A pump dispenser makes adding oil to your dog’s bowl easy and mess-free. It comes in 16-, 32- and 64-ounce sizes, and it’s made in the U.S.
What you should consider: A few purchasers reported it giving their dogs bad fish breath. Others reported their dogs becoming gassy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Throughout the last decade, the U.S. has seen immense growth in frequent internet usage, as one-third of Americans say they're online constantly, while 9 out of 10 say they surf the web several times a week, according to a March 2021 Pew Research poll.
That immense surge in activity has helped people stay more connected to one another, but it's also allowed for the widespread proliferation and exposure of hate speech. One fix that social media companies and other online networks have relied on is artificial intelligence—to varying degrees of success.
For companies with giant user bases, like Meta, artificial intelligence is a key, if not necessary tool for detecting hate speech — as there are too many users and pieces of violative content to be reviewed by the thousands of human content moderators already employed by the company. AI can help alleviate that burden by scaling up or down to fill in those gaps based on new influxes of users.
Facebook, for instance, has seen massive growth, from 400 million users in the early 2010s to more than two billion by the end of the decade. Between January and March 2022, Meta took action on more than 15 million pieces of hate speech content on Facebook. Roughly 95% of that was detected proactively by Facebook with the help of AI.
That combination of AI and human moderators can still let huge misinformation themes fall through the cracks. Paul Barrett, deputy director of NYU's Stern Center for Human Rights, found that every day, 3 million Facebook posts are flagged for review by 15,000 Facebook content moderators. The ratio of moderators to users is one to 160,000.
"If you have a volume of that nature, those humans, those people are going to have an enormous burden of making decisions on hundreds of discrete items each work day," Barrett said.
Another issue: AI detected to root out hate speech is primarily trained by text and still images. This means that video content, especially if it's live, is much more difficult to automatically detect as possible hate speech.
Zeve Sanderson is the founding executive director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics.
"Live video is incredibly difficult to moderate because it's live, you know, we've seen this unfortunately recently with some tragic shootings where, you know, people have used live video in order to spread, you know, sort of content related to that. And even though actually platforms have been relatively quick to respond to that. We've seen copies of those videos spread, so it's not just the original video, but also the ability to just sort of to record it and then share it in other forms. So, so live is extraordinarily challenging," Sanderson said.
And, many AI systems are not robust enough to be able to detect that hate speech in real-time. Extremism researcher Linda Schiegl told Newsy that this has become a problem in online multiplayer games where players can use voice chat to spread hateful ideologies or thoughts.
"It's really difficult for automatic detection to pick stuff up because if you're you're talking about weapons or you're talking about sort of how are we going to, I don't know, a take on this school or whatever it could be in the game. And so artificial intelligence or automatic detection is really difficult in gaming spaces. And so, it would have to be something that is more sophisticated than that or done by hand, which is really difficult, I think, even for these companies," Schiegl said.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Connecticut Sun made no secret about wanting revenge against Chicago in the teams’ WNBA Playoff semifinal series, especially after the Sky sent them packing from the semifinals in 2021 while on the way to the title.
“We come up here every year and Chicago kicks our (butt),” Sun forward DeWanna Bonner said of the Sky, who swept all four regular-season meetings.
Connecticut got the revenge it sought as Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Sky 72-63 Thursday night in the decisive fifth game of the semifinal series and advancing to the WNBA Finals.
The Sun scored the final 18 points of the game to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining.
All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019.
Connecticut will face the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas.
“There will be a new champion in this league,” Sun coach Curt Miller said. “There will be a first-time franchise champion. There will be a new coach, once again, that will be a first-time champion.”
Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001-02.
Jones scored inside to put the Sun ahead with two minutes left, hitting an ensuing free throw for a three-point lead. Natisha Hiedeman tied the game with a transition layup with 2:24 left as Connecticut cut into its deficit in the fourth.
A pull-up jumper by Courtney Williams with 47.5 seconds remaining gave the Sun a five-point cushion, and DeWanna Bonner knocked down four free throws to put the game out of reach.
Connecticut outscored Chicago 25-5 in the fourth quarter, recovering from a disastrous third period in which it scored eight points and turned the ball over seven times.
“When adversity hits, sometimes we fold,” Hiedeman said. “Not no more, we’re not folding no more. As you all saw (after) the third quarter, we picked up right back up once again. Now we’re going to the championship. Job not done yet.”
Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points on 8-for-19 shooting, including 3 of 5 from long distance, and added four steals.
DeWanna Bonner chipped in with 15 points, Hiedeman added 14 and Williams and Alyssa Thomas each added 12 for Connecticut.
Emma Meesseman, who finished with 14 points on 6-for-14 shooting and six rebounds, gave the Sky an 11-point lead with 7:20 to play.
Chicago coach James Wade called the late collapse “one of the biggest disappointments” of his professional career.
“We haven’t had a quarter like that, and to end the season off it, (that) didn’t display what we’ve actually done,” Wade said. “I just wish I could’ve got them a bucket and I just couldn’t. It’s just a tough feeling.”
In the opening half, the Sun continued the torrid shooting they had in Game 4, when they made 56.9% of their shots. But that slowed in the third quarter, as the Sky defense tightened.
Candace Parker buried a 3-pointer and Copper followed with three-point play to give Chicago a 10-point lead entering the fourth.
But Chicago’s shooting went cold and the Sky missed their last eight shots.
“Of course it was not intentional, but maybe we stopped attacking,” Courtney Vandersloot said. “(Maybe) we were scared to lose, rather than trying to win. But I feel like we got good looks, we just didn’t knock them down.”
Parker finished with seven points and nine rebounds.
DOUBTERS BEWARE
Miller called the Sun’s fourth quarter performance “historic,” but he is well aware his team will once again be considered underdogs in the final against Vegas.
“Not many people will pick us against Vegas either, and that’s OK,” Miller said. “We’re going to prepare and try to make it a Connecticut Sun style of game.”
To do so, he’ll rely on more stellar post play from Jonquel Jones, Alyssa Thomas and Brionna Jones.
“(Parker) is an incredible, all-time great in this league,” Miller said. “But I hope that someone writes (about how) the combination of JJ, AT and Bri Jones have knocked her out three of the last four years. I hope that post group gets credit for what they do, night in and night for us.”
PARKER’S DECISION
Parker once again finds herself with a difficult decision over retirement after the 36-year-old decided to hunt back-to-back titles this year with Chicago.
“I’m going to go back and reevaluate whether I’m able to continue to play at the level that I hold myself to,” Parker said. “And I think that’s the biggest thing, I don’t ever want to cheat the game. I won’t cheat the game.”
Just as in 2021, Parker will take her time weighing her options during the offseason.
“So when I’m not able to go out and play and be the Candace that I want to be, I won’t play,” Parker said. “And I think that comes in the offseason.”
WINDOW CLOSED?
Parker, Vandersloot and Quigley all indicated they would make decisions about their basketball futures during the offseason.
All three of their contracts are set to expire. The same goes for Belgian forward Emma Meesseman, who joined the Sky on a one-year deal in February.
“Every single day, we are all committed, 100% invested into winning a championship and making history,” Vandersloot said. “We fell short, but it wasn’t for lack of effort. It wasn’t for lack of commitment.”
Quigley reflected on her tenure with the Sky and expressed gratitude for how she and Vandersloot, now married, came to meet in Chicago.
“I never imagined it ending up like this or having the career I had,” Quigley said. “Especially being able to do it in Chicago with my family, meet my wife, it’s unbelievable. I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
TIP-INS
Connecticut’s 18-0 scoring run to end the game is the longest scoring run any WNBA team has mounted to finish a playoff game. … Chicago averaged over 40 points in the paint throughout the season, but scored just 24 on Thursday. … Parker added nine more boards to extend her all-time WNBA playoff record to 609 rebounds. She surpassed Tamika Catchings (598) on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Chicago will face the top-seeded Aces in Las Vegas in the opener of the WNBA Finals on Sunday afternoon.
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Over the last few months, starting with the voluntary shut down of crypto bank Silvergate on March 8, there have been a series of bank failures. Just days later, two more much larger banks failed — Silicon Valley Bank, followed by Signature Bank. On May 1, we saw the failure of another bank, First Republic. These were not small banks — they were in the top 35 largest banks in America out of over 4,000.
First Republic had approximately $229 billion in total assets and $103 billion in deposits as of April 13. Silicon Valley Bank, the second-largest bank failure at the time it folded, had $209 billion in assets and $175 billion in deposits. Signature Bank had $110 billion in assets and $89 billion in deposits.
Throughout this time, we’ve had everyone from FED chair Jerome Powell to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to Jamie Dimon, the CEO of America’s biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase, telling us the banking system is safe and sound.
Why does all this remind me of telling my wife to calm down when she is upset with me?
Repeating that the banking system is safe and sound and telling people not to panic while they are seeing banks fail and stock prices plummet is not the answer. People realize that they are not going to make good decisions using emotion. But greed and panic are both strong emotions. They make us want to act. Panic or fear of loss is more powerful even than greed or fear of missing out. When there is a lack of good information to make a decision, and there is fear of loss, panic ensues. What we need is a well-reasoned solution.
The problem is that the average American does not really understand banks and how they work. With the proliferation of new “experts” on social media, there is so much conflicting advice. Much of the social media hype is being instigated by the very people selling bank stocks short and profiting hugely from the panic of the masses. The smart money never panics.
So what can a business owner or regular citizen do to protect deposits over $250,000, the posted limit for FDIC insurance?
First, talk to your bankers and ask questions about the health of the bank. If you’re not knowledgeable about bank financial statements, you may need advice from a trusted source. Most bankers should be able to simply explain their balance sheet and why your money is safe. Don’t ask someone who is shorting bank stocks for advice on the health of your bank.
Second, you can move your money into separate accounts titled with different family members or entities to have as much as possible covered under FDIC insurance. Use the FDIC’s Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) tool to calculate insurance coverage. Find it at edie.fdic.gov.
Finally, you can use a product from Intrafi, which most banks offer, that will give you FDIC insurance through something called Insured Cash Sweep or ICS. This allows FDIC insurance on all your money up to $150 million.
So please don’t panic. And try to support the bank you are currently banking with instead of moving to a “presumably” too big to fail bank. We have over 4,000 banks in the U.S. There are banks of all sizes, and the smaller banks are the ones that make loans to smaller companies. Do you think your $500,000 or even $10 million loan makes a difference to a trillion-dollar bank? Do you want that much power consolidated in a few big banks?
We started Locality Bank bank after the COVID era Paycheck Protection Program because our local companies couldn’t get access to credit. The business owners here wanted a local bank whose founders and directors they knew. Keep in mind that your bank needs your support right now, and most of the local banks are built on relationships — relationships that will benefit the local communities that support them.
Keith Costello is president and CEO of Locality Bank. | 2023-05-19T06:11:33+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/05/16/what-you-can-do-to-protect-your-money-in-the-bank-opinion/ |
WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, February 9, 2023
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
1011 AM PST Wed Feb 8 2023
...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM PST TONIGHT UNTIL 9
AM PST THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibilities in dense fog ranging from 800 feet to as low
as 200 feet.
* WHERE...A portion of the San Joaquin Valley.
* WHEN...From 2 AM PST tonight until 9 AM PST Thursday morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways affected include, but are not
limited to Highway 41, Highway 43, Highway 99 from Tipton to
Selma, and Highway 198 from Visalia to Lemoore.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use low beam headlights, and keep plenty of
distance between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you.
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Two Florida white men were sentenced in federal court on Wednesday for hate crime charges after their racially-motivated ax attack against a Black man in Citrus Springs.
According to the Justice Department, Roy Lashley, 56, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, and his brother, Robert Lashley, 52, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for their racial attack on a Black man in a dollar store.
“The brutal attack against the victim, in this case, was motivated by hate and bigotry,” said U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida. “Because of the great determination and cooperation between our federal and local law enforcement partners, we were able to bring these callous criminals to justice.”
In their plea deals, the two men admitted to their hate crimes. On Nov. 17, 2021, they traveled to the Family Dollar in Citrus Springs, where the victim was shopping inside. Roy Lashley repeatedly used racial slurs inside the store about the victim. Both Roy and Robert Lashley then followed the victim into the parking lot. Once outside the store, Robert Lashley ran to the victim and hit him numerous times. Roy Lashley then attacked the victim multiple times with an ax he had retrieved from his vehicle.
According to the DOJ, the victim sustained painful injuries to his face and legs, including a laceration to the inside of his mouth.
The Lashley brothers also admitted that they willfully caused bodily injury to the victim and acted because he was Black. They both also hurled racist slurs at the man during the entire attack.
“Driven by bigotry and hate, the defendants brutally assaulted a Black man for no other reason than his race,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Racially-motivated violence is abhorrent, unlawful, and has no place in America today. Aggressive prosecution of hate crimes is a top priority for the Civil Rights Division, and these sentences should send a message to others who would carry out similar acts of violence that they will be brought to justice.”
The Justice Department also reassured the public that they take hate crimes very seriously and are continuing to pursue justice in that matter.
“Civil rights investigations are at the heart of what we do at the FBI,” Special Agent in Charge Sherri E. Onks of the FBI Jacksonville Field Office. “Hate crimes are not only an attack on the victim; they are meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community. Because of their wide-ranging impact, investigating hate crimes is among the FBI’s highest priorities, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to seek justice for victims and their communities.”
SEE ALSO:
What Is DOJ Doing To Stop The Rise Of Hate Crimes In America?
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Superintendent gets bus license, helps during driver shortage
SOLON, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - School superintendents can wear a lot of hats in order to help out. One superintendent in Iowa has gone the extra mile to help his district.
While many school districts across eastern Iowa are seeing some bus driver shortages, Davis Eidahl, the superintendent of Solon Community School District, decided to open some doors to help fill the gap.
After experiencing that driver shortage firsthand, Eidahl got a grant that lets the district train new bus drivers and decided he wanted to sit in the driver’s seat too.
“Between just the shortage of drivers and maybe needing a spare in an emergency every now and then, and being able to learn more of what the training consists of, I actually participated in that training,” Eidahl said.
He then got his bus license, allowing him to help out with driving students to and from school.
Eidahl said with all of the extracurricular activities students participate in, there are days they send out seven buses and multiple vans on the same night.
“And trying to put together the number of route drivers - we need to drop people off after school and then activity drivers to go to all these events - we run short sometimes,” he said.
Drivers with the district said while they were surprised to see him behind the wheel, they appreciate their superintendent helping wherever possible.
“I think it’s a great way for him to lead by example. Obviously, we’re short on drivers, so every driver is crucial at this point,” said Dave Johnson, the district’s director of transportation.
Eidahl said there was a bit of a learning curve.
“I was nervous. I won’t lie about that. There’s a lot of controls. And a lot of things you’re required to think about and do all at the same time,” Eidahl said.
But, it has become a fun challenge for Eidahl.
“You actually start to crave it a little bit,” he said.
He especially appreciated being able to step out of the classroom and see the kids in a whole new light.
“I do like the different roles. I had worked in a large district, and I came to Solon to be in a smaller district, where I could just be more of an educator and more involved,” Eidhal said. “And I never dreamed that it would expand to bus driving, but I really enjoy the various roles within the school district.”
The time Eidhal took to learn a new skill has not only helped fill a need but also has better connected with the district he serves.
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HOUSTON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos" or the "Company") (NYSE: TALO) today announced its operational and financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
Key Highlights:
- Production of 53.0 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day ("MBoe/d") (67% oil, 75% liquids), inclusive of the impact of approximately 9.1 MBoe/d of primarily planned maintenance downtime associated with regulatory dry-dock of the HP-1 facility.
- Revenue of $377.1 million, driven by realized prices (excluding hedges) of $90.73 per barrel for oil, $32.71 per barrel for natural gas liquids ("NGLs") and $9.37 per thousand cubic feet ("Mcf") for natural gas.
- Net Income of $250.5 million, or $2.99 Net Income per diluted share, and Adjusted Net Income(1) of $62.8 million, or $0.75 Adjusted Net Income per diluted share.
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $197.6 million, or $40.52 Adjusted EBITDA per Boe; Adjusted EBITDA excluding hedges of $278.7 million, or $57.16 per Boe.
- Capital Expenditures of $128.9 million, inclusive of plugging and abandonment.
- Free Cash Flow(1) (after realized hedges and before changes in working capital) of $39.4 million.
- Repaid $140.0 million in credit facility borrowings and achieved record liquidity of $806.8 million and leverage of 0.8x. Debt has been reduced by approximately $450.0 million since March 31, 2021.
- Announced the strategic acquisition of EnVen Energy Corporation ("EnVen") for $1.1 billion(2) on September 22, 2022, which is expected to add approximately 24 MBoe/d (2022E) and 78 million barrels of oil equivalent of Proved + Probable reserves (Year-End 2021 SEC).
President and Chief Executive Officer Timothy S. Duncan commented: "I'm proud of our team's efforts this quarter as we completed the planned HP-1 dry dock process. Despite the scheduled production downtime, we continued our recent trends of strong margins, solid free cash flow generation and aggressive debt repayment, which now totals almost $450 million since our refinancing transactions in early 2021. Most importantly, this was a quarter focused on positioning the Company for the future and investing in key catalysts. We took delivery of our deepwater rig and have commenced our drilling program, which includes several key organic growth prospects that will set the foundation for the next several years. In our Talos Low Carbon Solutions business we are busy developing our carbon storage portfolio, enhancing partnerships in our core project areas and continuing fruitful discussions with industrial emitters, and we hope to announce new milestones by year end. Lastly, we announced a major in-basin acquisition that provides an excellent strategic fit with our existing business and enhances our strong financial profile. By focusing on catalysts that are unique to our operating and business strengths, we believe we can accelerate our ability to provide steady growth and long-term value creation for our shareholders."
Duncan continued: "We expect to close our acquisition of EnVen around year end. The transaction adds material scale to our business, both in terms of production and operated infrastructure, while also diversifying our production across a broader asset base. The Company will have an even stronger financial profile post-closing with high liquidity and low leverage, plus significant expected cost synergies to further improve margins going forward. Importantly, the transaction also improves our Scope 1 GHG Intensity profile while also acting as a catalyst to make important governance enhancements to our Board of Directors as well. In summary, we believe this is an excellent transaction for Talos shareholders and look forward to completing the acquisition in the coming few months."
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND OPERATIONS UPDATE
Debt Repayment & Reserves-Based Loan: Talos repaid $140.0 million in credit facility borrowings during the quarter, achieving record liquidity of more than $800.0 million and a record low leverage metric of 0.8x Net Debt / LTM Adjusted EBITDA. Talos is currently undergoing its semi-annual borrowing base redetermination process for the Company's reserves-based credit facility and expects results by late November 2022. Net Debt now stands at approximately $666.0 million.
EnVen Acquisition: On September 22, 2022, Talos announced the strategic acquisition of EnVen, a private deepwater operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The strategic transaction expands Talos's Gulf of Mexico operations with high margin, oil-weighted assets, is expected to be accretive to Talos shareholders on 2023E Free Cash Flow per Share(3) and is immediately de-leveraging. The transaction is expected to increase Talos's production by approximately 40%, gross acreage by 35% and double the Company's operated deepwater infrastructure footprint. The acquisition lowers Talos's Scope 1 GHG Emissions Intensity and will be a catalyst to de-classify Talos's Board of Directors and enhance its independence to better align with shareholder interests.
The mandatory 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 has elapsed and Talos has completed this regulatory step. Talos has also successfully obtained consent from its bondholders to combine the capital structures of the two companies upon closing of the transaction. Lastly, the Company filed its S-4 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (which includes documents serving as a prospectus/proxy statement for Talos and a consent solicitation statement for EnVen) ahead of the shareholder vote, which is an important step before closing the acquisition in late 2022 or early 2023.
Inflation Reduction Act: On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which stipulates two important items that benefit Talos. First, the reinstatement of Lease Sale 257 and a path forward for future Gulf of Mexico lease sales. Second, the expansion of 45Q carbon tax credits that incentivize carbon capture and sequestration ("CCS") activities, enhancing opportunities across the Company's CCS portfolio. With respect to Lease Sale 257, Talos recently entered into nine federal leases covering approximately 52,000 acres and which include several prospects that could be drilled as early as 2024.
Open Water Rig Program: The Seadrill Sevan Louisiana rig most recently commenced operations on the Company's Lime Rock prospect near its operated Ram Powell facility in Mississippi Canyon. Prior to Lime Rock, the rig was executing a recompletion on the Bulleit project that was delayed due to sustained, strong loop currents in the Green Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Following the Lime Rock prospect, Talos intends to drill the Venice prospect, also located in proximity to the Ram Powell facility, before returning to finalize the Bulleit completion in the first quarter of 2023, and thereafter intends to drill the Rigolets prospect near the Pompano facility. Talos owns a 60% working interest in the exploitation prospects and expects first oil in approximately 12-18 months, if successful, at rates of approximately 5.0-15.0 MBoe/d gross.
Platform Rig Program: Talos is currently drilling the Mount Hunter prospect from the Pompano platform and expects results in early 2023 and first production in the first quarter of 2023.
Puma West: The Puma West appraisal well in Green Canyon was spud in October 2022 and is being drilled with the Diamond Ocean BlackHornet rig. The well was previously permitted to a depth of approximately 26,700 feet. Preliminary drilling results are expected by early 2023.
Dry-Dock & Other Downtime: As previously announced as part of the Company's second quarter 2022 earnings, Talos incurred planned downtime in the quarter resulting from the HP-1 floating production unit regulatory dry-dock process as well as third-party midstream maintenance projects. The planned maintenance resulted in deferred production of approximately 8.0 MBoe/d for the quarter. All planned maintenance has subsequently been completed and been brought online. Additionally, Talos experienced unplanned downtime impacts of approximately 1.0 MBoe/d for the quarter primarily as a result of significant loop currents in the region of the HP-1 facility.
Phoenix Field Update: Production from one of the Company's Tornado wells generated increased water volumes during the third quarter primarily as a result of the ongoing sub-surface water flood project in the Phoenix Field. This water breakthrough occurred earlier than originally expected, though within the range of projected outcomes in previous reservoir simulations used for 2021 year-end reserves. We currently expect minor negative revisions to proved reserves as a result of timing impacts of early water breakthrough.
THIRD QUARTER 2022 RESULTS
Key Financial Highlights:
Production
Production for the quarter was 53.0 MBoe/d net and was 67% oil and 75% liquids. Production was impacted by approximately 9.1 MBoe/d of downtime, primarily as a result of the scheduled HP-1 dry-dock maintenance project, which satisfies regulatory upkeep requirements for the floating production unit and contributes to otherwise high uptime rates.
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures for the quarter, including plugging and abandonment activities, totaled $128.9 million.
Liquidity and Leverage
At quarter-end the Company had approximately $806.8 million of liquidity, with $746.3 million undrawn on its RBL facility and approximately $64.5 million in cash, less approximately $3.9 million in outstanding letters of credit. On September 30, 2022, Talos had $730.5 million in total debt, inclusive of $20.5 million related to the HP-1 finance lease. Net Debt was $666.0 million(1). Net Debt to Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA(1), as determined in accordance with the Company's credit agreement, was 0.8x(1).
OPERATIONAL & FINANCIAL GUIDANCE
Talos has provided production guidance for the fourth quarter of 2022 as well as an update on guidance related to full year 2022 production, cash operating expenses, general and administrative expenses and capital expenditures (inclusive of plugging and abandonment).
- Production for the fourth quarter of 2022 is expected to be 56.0 - 57.0 MBoe/d, inclusive of the impact of 3.5 - 4.0 MBoe/d of downtime associated with ongoing loop currents, Odyssey pipeline maintenance, unplanned maintenance at the third-party operated Delta House facility, timing of the Bulleit recompletion and lower royalty relief on natural gas production as a result of higher realized prices throughout 2022. Utilizing fourth quarter 2022 production guidance, full year 2022 production is expected to be modestly below the low end of Talos's original guidance range.
- Cash operating expenses and General & Administrative expenses for the full year 2022 are expected towards the upper half of the originally guided ranges of $300 - $320 million and $68 - $73 million, respectively.
- Capital Expenditures for the fourth quarter of 2022 is expected to be $170-$180 million, inclusive of plugging and abandonment. Capital Expenditures for the full year 2022 is expected towards the high end of the originally guided range of $450 - $480 million.
HEDGES
The following table reflects contracted volumes and weighted average prices the Company will receive under the terms of its derivative contracts as of November 3, 2022 and includes contracts entered into after September 30, 2022:
CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST INFORMATION
Talos will host a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the internet, on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (9:00 AM Central Time). Listeners can access the conference call through a webcast link on the Company's website at: https://www.talosenergy.com/investor-relations/events-calendar/. Alternatively, the conference call can be accessed by dialing (888) 348-8927 (U.S. toll free), (855) 669-9657 (Canada toll-free) or (412) 902-4263 (international). Please dial in approximately 15 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin and ask to be joined into the Talos Energy call. A replay of the call will be available one hour after the conclusion of the conference until November 10, 2022 and can be accessed by dialing (877) 344-7529 and using access code 1341833.
ABOUT TALOS ENERGY
Talos Energy (NYSE: TALO) is a technically driven independent exploration and production company focused on safely and efficiently maximizing long-term value through its operations, currently in the United States and offshore Mexico, both through upstream oil and gas exploration and production and the development of carbon capture and sequestration opportunities. As one of the Gulf of Mexico's largest public independent producers, we leverage decades of technical and offshore operational expertise towards the acquisition, exploration and development of assets in key geological trends that are present in many offshore basins around the world. With a focus on environmental stewardship, we are also utilizing our expertise to explore opportunities to reduce industrial emissions through our carbon capture and sequestration initiatives both in and along the coast of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. For more information, visit www.talosenergy.com.
INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT
Sergio Maiworm
investor@talosenergy.com
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This communication may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this communication, regarding our strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. When used in this communication, the words "will," "could," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "expect," "project," "forecast," "may," "objective," "plan" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and assumptions about future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events.
We caution you that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. These risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to realize the results contemplated by our 2022 guidance, the success of the proposed transaction with EnVen and anticipated future performance of the combined company, the success of our carbon capture and sequestration projects, commodity price volatility, the lack of a resolution to the war in Ukraine and its impact on certain commodity markets; the ability or willingness of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ("OPEC") and non-OPEC countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, to set and maintain oil production levels and the impact of any such actions; the impact of the ongoing sub-surface water flood project in the Phoenix Field and any updates to our estimated ultimate recovery from such project; lack of transportation and storage capacity as a result of oversupply, government regulations and actions or other factors; sustained inflation and the impact of central bank policy in response thereto; lack of availability of drilling and production equipment and services; environmental risks; drilling and other operating risks; regulatory changes; adverse weather events, including tropical storms, hurricanes and winter storms; cybersecurity threats; the continued impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19"), including any new strains or variants, and governmental measures related thereto; the uncertainty inherent in estimating reserves and in projecting future rates of production, cash flow and access to capital; the timing of development expenditures; the possibility that the anticipated benefits of recent acquisitions are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of such acquisitions; changes to federal income tax laws and regulations, including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; environmental risks; failure to find, acquire or gain access to other discoveries and prospects or to successfully develop and produce from our current discoveries and prospects; geologic risk; drilling and other operating risks; well control risk; regulatory changes; the uncertainty inherent in estimating reserves and in projecting future rates of production; cash flow and access to capital; the timing of development expenditures; potential adverse reactions or competitive responses to our acquisitions and other transactions; the possibility that the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions are not realized when expected or at all, including as a result of the impact of, or problems arising from, the integration of acquired assets and operations, and the other risks discussed in Part I, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Talos Energy Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 25, 2022, Part II, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Talos Energy Inc.'s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on May 5, 2022 and Part II, Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of Talos Energy Inc's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022, filed with the SEC on August 5, 2022. Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties described herein occur, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements, expressed or implied, included in this communication are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. This cautionary statement should also be considered in connection with any subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements that we or persons acting on our behalf may issue. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, we disclaim any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication.
Estimates for our future production volumes are based on assumptions of capital expenditure levels and the assumption that market demand and prices for oil and gas will continue at levels that allow for economic production of these products. The production, transportation, marketing and storage of oil and gas are subject to disruption due to transportation, processing and storage availability, mechanical failure, human error, hurricanes and numerous other factors. Our estimates are based on certain other assumptions, such as well performance, which may vary significantly from those assumed. Therefore, we can give no assurance that our future production volumes will be as estimated.
RESERVE INFORMATION
Reserve engineering is a process of estimating underground accumulations of oil, natural gas and NGLs that cannot be measured in an exact way. The accuracy of any reserve estimate depends on the quality of available data, the interpretation of such data and price and cost assumptions made by reserve engineers. In addition, the results of drilling, testing and production activities may justify revisions upward or downward of estimates that were made previously. If significant, such revisions would change the schedule of any further production and development drilling.
Accordingly, reserve estimates may differ significantly from the quantities of oil, natural gas and NGLs that are ultimately recovered. In addition, we use the term "estimated ultimate recovery" in this release, which is not a measure of "reserves" prepared in accordance with SEC guidelines or permitted to be included in SEC filings. These resource estimates are inherently more uncertain than estimates of reserves prepared in accordance with SEC guidelines.
Additional Information and Where To Find It
In connection with the proposed merger (the "Proposed Transaction") between Talos and EnVen, Talos has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") to register the shares of Talos's common stock to be issued in connection with the Proposed Transaction. The Registration Statement includes a document that serves as a prospectus and proxy statement of Talos and a consent solicitation statement of EnVen (the "proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus"), and each party has filed other documents regarding the Proposed Transaction with the SEC. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF TALOS AND ENVEN ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY READ, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, THE PROXY STATEMENT/CONSENT SOLICITATION STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AS EACH MAY BE AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED BY TALOS AND ENVEN WITH THE SEC BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TALOS AND ENVEN, THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION, THE RISKS RELATED THERETO AND RELATED MATTERS.
After the Registration Statement has been declared effective, a definitive proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus will be mailed to shareholders of each of Talos and EnVen. Investors will be able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement and the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus, as each may be amended from time to time, and other relevant documents filed by Talos and EnVen with the SEC (when they become available) through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by Talos, including the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus (when available), will be available free of charge from Talos's website at www.talosenergy.com under the "Investor Relations" tab.
Participants in the Solicitation
Talos, EnVen and certain of their respective directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Talos's stockholders and the solicitation of written consents from EnVen's stockholders, in each case with respect to the Proposed Transaction. Information about Talos's directors and executive officers is available in Talos's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 2021 fiscal year filed with the SEC on February 25, 2022, and its definitive proxy statement for the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022. Information about EnVen's directors and executive officers is available via EnVen's website at www.enven.com. Other information regarding the participants in the solicitations and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, is contained in the Registration Statement, the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed with the SEC regarding the Proposed Transaction. Security holders, potential investors and other readers should read the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus carefully before making any voting or investment decisions.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is not intended to and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act.
SUPPLEMENTAL NON-GAAP INFORMATION
Certain financial information included in our financial results are not measures of financial performance recognized by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are "Adjusted Net Income (Loss)," "Adjusted Earnings per Share," "EBITDA," "Adjusted EBITDA," "Adjusted EBITDA excluding hedges," "Adjusted EBITDA Margin," "Adjusted EBITDA Margin excluding hedges," "Free Cash Flow," "Net Debt," "LTM Adjusted EBITDA," "Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA", "Net Debt to Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA" and "Leverage". These disclosures may not be viewed as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP measures which may be reported by other companies.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
"EBITDA" and "Adjusted EBITDA" are used to provide management and investors with (i) additional information to evaluate, with certain adjustments, items required or permitted in calculating covenant compliance under our debt agreements, (ii) important supplemental indicators of the operational performance of our business, (iii) additional criteria for evaluating our performance relative to our peers and (iv) supplemental information to investors about certain material non-cash and/or other items that may not continue at the same level in the future. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP or as alternatives to net income (loss), operating income (loss) or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP. We define these as the following:
EBITDA. Net income (loss) plus interest expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation, depletion and amortization and accretion expense.
Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA plus non-cash write-down of oil and natural gas properties, transaction and other (income) expenses, the net change in the fair value of derivatives (mark to market effect, net of cash settlements and premiums related to these derivatives), (gain) loss on debt extinguishment, non-cash write-down of other well equipment inventory and non-cash equity-based compensation expense.
We also present Adjusted EBITDA excluding hedges and as a percentage of revenue to further analyze our business, which are outlined below:
Adjusted EBITDA Margin. EBITDA divided by Revenue, as a percentage. It is also defined as Adjusted EBITDA divided by the total production volume, expressed in Boe, in the period, and described as dollar per Boe. We believe the presentation of Adjusted EBITDA margin is important to provide management and investors with information about how much we retain in Adjusted EBITDA terms as compared to the revenue we generate and how much per barrel we generate after accounting for certain operational and corporate costs.
The following table presents a reconciliation of the GAAP financial measure of net income (loss) to EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA excluding hedges, Adjusted EBITDA Margin and Adjusted EBITDA Margin excluding hedges for each of the periods indicated (in thousands, except for Boe, $/Boe and percentage data):
Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Free Cash Flow
"Free Cash Flow" before changes in working capital provides management and investors with (i) important supplemental indicators of the operational performance of our business, (ii) additional criteria for evaluating our performance relative to our peers and (iii) supplemental information to investors about certain material non-cash and/or other items that may not continue at the same level in the future. Free Cash Flow has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP or as alternatives to net income (loss), operating income (loss) or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP. We define these as the following:
Capital Expenditures and Plugging & Abandonment. Actual capital expenditures and plugging & abandonment recognized in the quarter, inclusive of accruals.
Interest Expense. Actual interest expense per the income statement.
Talos did not pay any cash taxes in the period, therefore cash taxes have no impact to the reported Free Cash Flow before changes in working capital number.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings per Share
"Adjusted Net Income (Loss)" and "Adjusted Earnings per Share" are to provide management and investors with (i) important supplemental indicators of the operational performance of our business, (ii) additional criteria for evaluating our performance relative to our peers and (iii) supplemental information to investors about certain material non-cash and/or other items that may not continue at the same level in the future. Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings per Share have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP or as an alternative to net income (loss), operating income (loss), earnings per share or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP.
Adjusted Net Income (Loss). Net income (loss) plus accretion expense, transaction related costs, derivative fair value (gain) loss, net cash receipts (payments) on settled derivative instruments and non-cash equity-based compensation expense.
Adjusted Earnings per Share. Adjusted Net Income (Loss) divided by the number of common shares.
Reconciliation of Total Debt to Net Debt and Net Debt to LTM Adjusted EBITDA and Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA
We believe the presentation of Net Debt, LTM Adjusted EBITDA, Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA, Net Debt to LTM Adjusted EBITDA and Net Debt to Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA is important to provide management and investors with additional important information to evaluate our business. These measures are widely used by investors and ratings agencies in the valuation, comparison, rating and investment recommendations of companies
Net Debt. Total Debt principal of the Company plus the finance lease balance minus cash and cash equivalents.
Net Debt to LTM Adjusted EBITDA. Net Debt divided by the LTM Adjusted EBITDA.
Net Debt to Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA. Net Debt divided by the Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA.
The Adjusted EBITDA information included in this communication provides additional relevant information to our investors and creditors. Talos needs to comply with a financial covenant included in its Bank Credit Facility that requires it to maintain a Net Debt to Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA ratio, as determined in accordance with the Company's credit agreement, equal to or lower than 3.0x. For purposes of covenant compliance, Credit Facility LTM Adjusted EBITDA, with certain adjustments, is calculated as the sum of quarterly Adjusted EBITDA for the 12-month period ended on that quarter, inclusive of revenue less direct operating expenditures of the Acquired Assets for periods prior to closing of the Transaction.
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SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — North Carolina chaplains are meeting this week in Rowan County for one of two conferences this year to discuss ways the profession needs to evolve to better serve law enforcement and their community.
The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Chaplains Association spring seminar included a variety of topics on the first day of a two-day conference. The event includes discussions of how to help deputies deal with PTSD and assess Critical Incident Street Management.
Chaplain David Hillard, with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office, stressed, “not only has [deputies’] jobs gotten more difficult, it makes our job more difficult. We have to help them navigate through some of the challenges; they didn’t exist a few years ago.”
First responder suicide numbers sit at the sixth-highest among professions in the nation.
Blue H.E.L.P, an organization offering comfort and honor to the families who have lost an officer to suicide, reports that there have been 981 verified law enforcement suicides in the past six years:
2017 – 172
2018 – 174
2019 – 228
2020 – 123
2021 – 179
2022 – 105 (up to August 2022)
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Chaplains have increased their knowledge and how they train to address mental health challenges LEOs experience and show while on a scene.
Leaders have revised a developed model of S.A.F.E.R. for these situations. It stands for stabilization, acknowledgment of an incident, facilitation of understanding, encouragement of healthy coping, and referral.
“It’s going to effect them later on down the road, what they’ve seen – what they deal with, and it’s just something that you don’t ever really get over,” said Michael Taylor, Rowan County Chaplain and president of the NC Chaplain’s Association.
Because of this, chaplains have had discussions, and continue to have them, on the ability to become a part of the primary responses to intense situations, such as shootings or fatalities.
“If it’s that type of situation, then we need to be called, so we can do what we do best while they’re still there,” Hillard said. “They’ve not recovered. They are not functioning at an optimal place because they don’t have the ability to process what they’ve already done.”
Along with the ability to better serve officers, chaplains statewide have begun to put more emphasis on serving the family members of the victims.
This will take the form of an explanation of police procedure when a death or a serious injury has occurred, or resources to help them navigate the aftermath of what happened.
The conference will wrap up on Tuesday in Salisbury. | 2023-04-04T15:10:42+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/nc-chaplains-discuss-ways-to-address-mental-health-and-retention-among-law-enforcement/ |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 8, 2022
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FREEZE WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
253 AM PST Thu Dec 8 2022
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected.
* WHERE...Ojai Valley.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation. Extended exposure to cold can cause
hypothermia for animals and people. Vehicle windshields will be
frosted.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Plan for
extra time to defrost vehicle windshields.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-12-08T11:57:29+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LOS-ANGELES-Warnings-Watches-and-17639747.php |
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