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Which Florastor probiotics are best?
Like any supplement, picking probiotics can be an intimidating task. The Florastor brand of probiotics is one of the best on the market. They use good ingredients and are available at fair prices.
The best Florastor probiotic is the Florastor Daily Probiotic Supplement for Men and Women — 100 Capsules. This all-around probiotic comes in smaller boxes if you’d like to try them out before committing to such a large quantity.
What to know before you buy a Florastor probiotic
CFUs and strains
The colony-forming units of a Florastor probiotic are the living bacteria contained in a single dose. These are the most important things to consider when choosing a probiotic. CFUs can number anywhere between 5 and 400 billion.
Any given Florastor probiotic will also use any combination of bacteria strains in the dose. There are dozens of different strains available, all of which are meant to target different health problems.
Who it’s for
Some Florastor probiotics can be taken by anyone, but others are specifically crafted for men, women or children.
- Men: Men’s Florastor probiotics typically include extra ingredients targeted toward improving heart and prostate health.
- Women: Women’s Florastor probiotics typically include extra ingredients for improving immune systems, reproductive systems and sometimes mood.
- Children: Children’s Florastor probiotics usually target immune systems, but the biggest difference is in their CFU count. Children’s probiotics include the lowest amount of CFUs possible to avoid accidentally flooding their system with too much bacteria.
Forms
Florastor probiotics usually take one of three forms. The most common is a simple capsule, like any pill, though these capsules can range in sizes depending on what it contains. Powdered forms are next most common, whether available in a bottle or individual sachets. You can also open capsules and treat them like powders. Finally, some Florastor probiotics come in chewable forms.
What to look for in a quality Florastor probiotic
Living bacteria
Florastor probiotics need to include living cultures to be effective, nonliving bacteria won’t do you any good. Before purchasing make sure to locate confirmation that it contains living bacteria and make sure to properly store it to avoid killing the living bacteria early. Also, make sure to avoid taking Florastor probiotics after the expiration date as this means the bacteria are no longer living.
Side effects
Like any supplement or medication, there’s a risk of side effects when taking Florastor probiotics. These side effects usually relate to digestive systems and can be anything from a little bloating to some constipation or diarrhea. These side effects are usually only present the first few days or occasionally a week. If they persist, stop taking your Florastor probiotic and contact your doctor.
How much you can expect to spend on a Florastor probiotic
Florastor probiotics are available in all manner of quantities and forms, making the price-per-dose the cost to concern yourself with. Typically, a Florastor probiotic can be found for roughly $.50 to $1.25 per dose with most costing around $.75.
Florastor probiotic FAQ
Does it matter when and how I take a Florastor probiotic?
A. Yes, it does. Probiotics should be taken at the same time every day to help your body best regulate its bacteria. There’s some inconsistency with whether or not you should take your probiotic with food or on an empty stomach. For the best results follow the directions included with the Florastor probiotic you select.
Do I need to refrigerate my Florastor probiotic or not?
A. That depends on a few factors like what kind of probiotic your Florastor probiotic uses. Your Florastor probiotic will directly state what kind of storage method it requires to remain effective. Make sure to follow those directions or you could end up with an ineffective or potentially dangerous Florastor probiotic.
What are the best Florastor probiotics to buy?
Top Florastor probiotic
Florastor Daily Probiotic Supplement for Men and Women — 100 Capsules
What you need to know: This Florastor probiotic covers all the bases and comes in a huge 100 count quantity to keep per-dose costs down.
What you’ll love: If the 100 count is too much you have the option to try out the smaller 54 or 30 count versions instead. The capsules are entirely vegetarian and can be opened up to mix the powder in with your drinks instead of being swallowed whole.
What you should consider: This Florastor probiotic is supposed to have a shelf life of around one year, but some consumers reported receiving bottles with expiration dates within a few months.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Florastor probiotic for the money
Florastor Select Gut Boost Daily Prebiotic and Probiotic Supplement — 30 Capsules
What you need to know: This Florastor probiotic includes prebiotics as well to cover multiple bases in one capsule.
What you’ll love: The prebiotic and probiotic combo can do wonders for your digestive health and intestinal flora. This probiotic and prebiotic supplement is also resistant to most common antibiotics and can be used simultaneously. It includes no animal products, gluten or lactose.
What you should consider: A few consumers reported receiving damaged boxes that contained bottles with broken caps and broken seals. Some consumers also disliked the larger capsule size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Florastor Kids Daily Probiotic Supplement — 20 Sachets
What you need to know: This box of Florastor probiotic for kids is an excellent way to improve your children’s digestive health.
What you’ll love: The box contains 20 sachets of probiotic powder that are fruit-flavored to help them go down easier with picky kids. Like Florastor probiotics for adults, the powder contains no animal products or gluten. They can be used in conjunction with many common antibiotics.
What you should consider: Even with the fruity flavoring, many children won’t enjoy drinking this Florastor probiotic. Some parents won’t appreciate that fructose is one of the ingredients.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Chinese prospectors have arrived in rural northwest Afghanistan in a kind of new gold rush as they try to corner the market on lithium for electric car batteries. The Taliban stands to profit in partnership with China while the U.S. — after its 20-year military operation in Afghanistan — is not part of the picture.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Washington Post correspondent Gerry Shih.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Saving the Memories for Future Generations – Open-E-based Data Storage for Post Bellum, the Czech NGO
ATLANTA, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-E, a leading developer of innovative data storage software, together with their esteemed Platinum Partner Abacus Electric from the Czech Republic, has finalized a project for Post Bellum, a non-governmental organization that aims at collecting memories witnessed throughout the harsh 20th century.
Post Bellum required an update of its data storage environment due to the ever-increasing demand for storage capacity. Another important goal was to rebuild the infrastructure as it consisted of various NAS servers from different manufacturers, equipped with varied features.
After considering multiple options and approaches, Post Bellum decided to implement the Abacus a-2610Q-KRPA 4U Server powered by the ZFS and Linux-based Open-E JovianDSS data storage system.
"We are constantly getting bigger and bigger files to work with and back up. It's important to keep data secure at a reasonable total cost of ownership. Abacus Electric, our integration partner, combined hardware from Western Digital and software from Open-E to provide us with a tailored solution at a very reasonable price." - Jan Polouček, COO at Post Bellum
Moreover, Krzysztof Franek, CEO of Open-E assures: "Since Post Bellum is a non-profit organization, and their mission and charity activities are close to the Open-E and Abacus values, both companies decided to give up part of the profit to support the project."
For more details about this project read the Case Study available on the download page: https://www.open-e.com/r/4hm8/
About Open-E
Open-E, founded in 1998, is a well-established IP-based storage management software developer. Its flagship product Open-E JovianDSS is a robust, award-winning storage application that is compatible with industry standards and is the easiest to use and manage. Additionally, it is of the most stable solutions on the market and an undisputed price performance leader.
Thanks to its reputation, experience, and business reliability, Open-E has become the technology partner of choice for industry-leading IT companies. Open-E accounts for over 30,000 installations worldwide and has received numerous industry awards and recognition, also with its product Open-E DSS V7.
For further information about Open-E, its products, and partners, visit http://www.open-e.com/
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New features available in Pluralsight Flow reduce developer friction and non-essential effort
SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company, today launched two new capabilities for its software development intelligence platform, Pluralsight Flow, which helps engineering teams accelerate software delivery. The new features include Investment Profile which is designed to help engineering leaders align engineering efforts to company priorities, justify investments, and accurately capitalize R&D expenses. The company is also incorporporating industry-standard DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics reporting into Pluralsight Flow to assist in measuring DevOps performance.
"DevOps teams strive to deliver stable, reliable software continuously to customers, but in order to optimize and allocate resources properly, they need visibility into what teams are spending time on, and where they need help," said Greg Ceccarelli, General Manager at Pluralsight Flow. "By incorporating Investment Profile and DORA Metrics into Pluralsight Flow, customers can better understand team constraints, align engineering efforts to priorities, and ultimately deliver more value to their business faster."
Engineering organizations have to balance high-level strategic initiatives with day-to-day maintenance and codebase health, but it is often an insurmountable task to understand exactly where engineering team effort is being spent.
With Investment Profile, software engineering organizations can visualize where their resources and time are going. By understanding engineers' capacity and focus, leaders and teams can better allocate and distribute work by visualizing the balance between new features and necessary maintenance. Investment Profile can be fully customized for the requirements of the organization, but also comes auto-configured out-of-the box so that leaders can immediately analyze historical data to understand prior investments and plan for future investments.
Engineering leaders find the Investment Layers function of Investment Profile particularly valuable because the report can be customized with existing investment categories.
"My team is in the middle of annual planning and Investment Layers is the key component – everyone from the Chief Product Officer to tech leads are all looking at it regularly to determine where our capacity went this year," said Nicholas Blair, Director of Engineering at Sonatype. "It's been critical for planning next year's projects and resources. Outside of annual planning, I check Investment Layers bi-weekly to report to my executive stakeholders on our progress and timing for our initiatives. It's a whole new level of visibility that makes allocating work, planning resources, and reporting progress so much easier."
Industry-standard DORA Metrics are designed to help engineering teams see how well they deliver value to customers while also ensuring they're not sacrificing quality and product stability for speed. With information and data sourced from CI/CD, incident management, and issue tracking systems, teams have newfound visibility into the health of their delivery pipelines as expressed by the core four metrics: lead time for change, deployment frequency, change failure rate and time to restore service.
With Pluralsight Flow, customers have these lagging metrics at their fingertips. When paired with Flow's leading measures, customers can understand what processes and operations are slowing their development teams while ensuring they're not sacrificing stability for throughput. Through Flow reports like Retrospective, Sprint Movement, and now Investment Profile, customers will have the business context needed to contextualize DORA Metrics and provide complete understanding of what decisions are influencing engineering teams' outcomes.
To learn more about how Pluralsight Flow gives engineering leaders visibility into the workflows and health of their team, visit www.pluralsight.com.
Pluralsight is the leading technology workforce development organization that helps companies and teams build better products by developing critical skills, improving processes and gaining insights through data, and providing strategic skills consulting. Trusted by forward-thinking companies of every size in every industry, Pluralsight helps individuals and businesses transform with technology. Pluralsight Skills helps enterprises build technology skills at scale with expert-authored courses on today's most important technologies, including cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data science, and security, among others. Skills also includes tools to align skill development with business objectives, virtual instructor-led training, hands-on labs, skill assessments and one-of-a-kind analytics. Flow complements Skills by providing engineering teams with actionable data and visibility into workflow patterns to accelerate the delivery of products and services. For more information about Pluralsight, visit pluralsight.com.
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There’s thousands of Texas A&M fans who want head coach Jimbo Fisher gone. And it’s not surprising either.
The Aggies signed him to a 10-year, $75-million contract in August 2018. The deal was fully guaranteed. If a school is paying a coach that type of money, it’s expecting to compete for national championships on a yearly basis. And this season – Year 5 of the Fisher era – Texas A&M never came close to that standard.
The Aggies finished 5-7 – mediocre by their standards. A massive fall from grace as they were seen as potential playoff contenders by national media members.
Although Texas A&M had a rough campaign, it did end it on a high note as it beat No. 5 LSU 38-23 this past Saturday. And if that win showed anything, it proved the Aggies have the stuff to be a national title contender next year.
Fisher’s fifth season was by far his worst at Texas A&M. The regression was staggering. Now, it’s true that five of the team’s losses were by one score this season – App State, Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss and Auburn. But the Aggies finally came together in the season finale.
Just one more score here and there would have made a big difference for Texas A&M. Instead of being a 5-7 team, it could have been a 10-2 team if it didn’t drop those five one-score losses. Just one play could have led to several major victories this year. On Saturday, maybe the light bulb had finally turned on for the Aggies.
The good thing about Texas A&M is that it returns a lot of talent next year. It returns running back Devon Achane, who was arguably the brightest performer this season. One of the top rushers in the SEC, he ran with authority on Saturday as he ended the year with a career-best 215 rushing yards against LSU. He should be seen as one of the best backs in the nation entering next season.
The Aggies return two solid pass catchers in Evan Stewart and Moose Muhammad III.
Stewart was arguably the best freshman receiver in the country. He made big plays all season. He has the “it” factor. He did not disappoint this year and should be considered a premiere receiver next season.
Muhammad III turned into a serious weapon down late into the year. His team-high 94 receiving yards on five catches and a touchdown were critical in the Aggies’ win Saturday. He was the team’s second-leading receiver behind Stewart this season. With him and Stewart back, Texas A&M should have one of the best receiving duos in the country next season.
Defensively, the Aggies are set to return three of their top-5 tacklers from this year in Antonio Johnson, Edgerrin Cooper and Jardin Gilbert. They are also set to bring back defensive lineman Fadil Diggs, who led the team with three sacks this season.
How does one ease the pain of a disappointing season and quiet the talk of a failed coaching experiment? You do what Texas A&M did on Saturday.
Yes, Year 5 was by far Fisher’s worst season with the Aggies. It’s understandable why so many fans wanted to fire him throughout the year. Texas A&M is paying him to contend for national titles, not finish 5-7.
However, Saturday’s win in front of a raucous Kyle Field crowd gave the Aggies a peek at just what might be in store for the team’s future. If Texas A&M can carry that momentum into the offseason, continue to build and grow and finish the job in close games next season, Year 6 should be Fisher’s best yet with the Aggies.
Saturday’s win showed Texas A&M has the stuff to be highly competitive next year. It just needs to put it together finally. | 2022-11-30T22:13:45+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Win-over-LSU-shows-A-M-has-a-bright-future-17615529.php |
Trailer for Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ is out
(Gray News) – A classic coming-of-age novel written for teens and older children is getting a big screen adaptation this year.
Judy Blume’s “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” hits theaters on April 28.
The story features 11-year-old Margaret as she is raised by a Christian mother and Jewish father. Because of her parents’ interfaith marriage, Margaret doesn’t have a personal affiliation with either religion.
First published in 1970, the book was notable for exploring the themes of religion with young readers, as well as common coming-of-age concepts like sex and relationships.
The film stars Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret and Rachel McAdams as Margaret’s mother, Barbara. Kathy Bates and Benny Safdie costar, and the movie’s score will be composed by Hans Zimmer.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 502
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
107 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2022
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
502 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
SULLIVAN
IN PENNSYLVANIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
PIKE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF MILFORD AND MONTICELLO.
IN CONNECTICUT THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
FAIRFIELD MIDDLESEX NEW HAVEN
NEW LONDON
IN NEW JERSEY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
BERGEN ESSEX HUDSON
PASSAIC UNION
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
BRONX KINGS (BROOKLYN) NASSAU
NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) ORANGE PUTNAM
QUEENS RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)
ROCKLAND SUFFOLK WESTCHESTER
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Queens, Bronx,
Kings, New York (Manhattan) and Nassau Counties through 200 PM EDT...
At 110 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Jackson Heights, or over RFK Bridge, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Jamaica, Flushing, Mott Haven, Levittown, East Tremont, Glen Cove,
Plainview, Garden City, Syosset, Mineola, Westbury, Great Neck,
Farmingdale, Oyster Bay and Throgs Neck Bridge.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
northeastern New Jersey...and southeastern New York.
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NFL legend Tony Siragusa, who helped Ravens win Super Bowl, dies at the age of 55
BETHESDA, Md. - NFL legend Tony Siragusa has died at the age of 55, TMZ first reported Wednesday.
Siragusa's former Baltimore Ravens teammate Jamal Lewis confirmed the news to TMZ. Lewis told the entertainment outlet that "it was a sad to be a Raven."
The Ravens released a statement Wednesday from team owner Steve Bisciotti.
Siragusa, who was nicknamed "The Goose," previously worked for FOX Sports as a football analyst. The 6-foot-3, 340-pound defensive tackle signed as an undrafted free agent with the Indianapolis Colts in 1990 and went on start with the team in 1992.
RELATED: Baltimore Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson dead at 26
Siragusa went on to join the Baltimore Ravens in 1997 and won a Super Bowl with the team in 2000 as a linchpin for one of the NFL's best defenses in league history. In the Ravens’ championship season, he was sixth among Baltimore defenders with 75 tackles.
Siragusa was popular with fans because of his fun-loving personality, which also helped him transition quickly to broadcasting after his playing career.
He finished his career with 22 sacks.
The news of Siragusa's death came on what was already a tragic day for the Ravens. The death of Jaylon Ferguson, a linebacker for Baltimore, at age 26 was announced earlier in the day.
The Associated Press contributed to this story. This story was reported from Washington, D.C. | 2022-06-22T22:40:34+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/sports/nfl-legend-tony-siragusa-dies-report |
High Heat Ahead Next Week
Published: Jul. 28, 2022 at 5:46 PM CDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Beautiful weather conditions are set to continue through the end of July. Lows dip into the 50s with highs staying in the 80s and we stay dry. August starts on Monday and so does our heat wave lasting through the week. Look for highs to start near 90 on Monday with upper 90s to possibly 100 degrees as the week progresses. An Excessive Heat Warning will likely be issued for most of the week as well, with heat index values well above 100. Have a good night!
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SHENZHEN, China, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the consumer landscape continues to rally and e-commerce gains even more traction, industry-leading brands are making strategic moves, bolstering their investment in digital advertising. This trend marks a potent resurgence for the marketing and advertising sectors.
At the prestigious 70th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity - often hailed as the "Oscars of the advertising world" - Tencent Marketing Solution (TMS) has once again seized the global spotlight. Amidst the vibrant energy of the festival, TMS unveiled "China's Digital Market: A Growth Roadmap," and amplified its strategic collaboration with GroupM on a global scale.
On June 22nd, Ethen Zhang, Deputy General Manager of Channel Sales Department at TMS, and Andrew Meaden, GroupM's Global Head of Investment, joined forces, interlocking puzzle pieces that symbolized the synergy and unity of their companies. With this symbolic gesture, they set in motion their cooperative blueprint, marking an exciting new chapter in the TMS and GroupM global strategic partnership program.
"As we stand on the threshold of a fresh market cycle, TMS has fortified its resources and capabilities across various sectors, enabling advertisers to nurture a virtuous cycle of omni-channel operations within Tencent's dynamic ecosystem," noted Ethen Zhang. "We are committed to forging ahead with GroupM, providing marketing services that pack more punch and flexibility, thereby empowering our business partners to navigate the twists and turns of ever-evolving market trends."
Andrew Meaden added, "China has always been a pioneer in digital marketing, revolutionizing traditional media investment tactics and introducing new ideas to global markets. Our partnership is designed to help GroupM's global client base leverage the power of Tencent's ecosystem to drive growth for their businesses. We are excited about the potential for our partnership together to usher in a new era of media where advertising resonates more effectively with people."
Building a Strong Partnership to Navigate Complexities
The roots of GroupM's Joint Business Partnership (JBP) with Tencent Marketing Solution (TMS) trace back to 2021, marking GroupM as the inaugural agency group to strategically align with TMS following its significant strategic overhaul in 2018. Since this milestone, the collaboration has evolved, broadening and deepening its scope. In 2021, the entities launched the Tengyi Plan, leveraging their unique strengths in product development, technology, and talent to deliver precision-targeted services such as federated learning and audience targeting. The plan has since made its mark in industries ranging from apparel and luxury goods to food and beverages, and automotive.
This alliance has been the driving force behind an array of impactful and visionary marketing campaigns. A partnership with Lincoln for the Backstreet Boys' virtual concert, hosted at a time when physical gatherings were curtailed, stirred up considerable buzz and garnered praise for the brand. A collaboration with Tencent Music TMELAND birthed the Metaverse Fan Festival for Coca-Cola, providing customers with a top-tier online experience, showcasing products, and nurturing a fanbase within the Weixin mini-program ecosystem. These campaigns have set a gold standard for the industry, offering invaluable insights for other businesses.
Over the past years, GroupM has held a commanding 40% share of its total investment in Tencent's advertising products, thereby securing outstanding ROI for advertisers. Concurrently, underpinned by their profound industry insights, the two have developed a host of groundbreaking marketing strategies for clients, including the creation of the China Luxury Industry Biddable Advertising Playbook.
Collaboration and Progress, Synergy and Co-existence
Drawing upon years of rigorous and innovative collaboration, TMS and GroupM consider 2023 as the ideal time to escalate their Joint Business Partnership (JBP) to the status of a Global Strategic Partnership. During a visit to China, Andrew Meaden, in conjunction with Ethen Zhang, delineated the strategic partnership's key areas of focus:
- Fusing Quality Content with Weixin/WeChat Ecosystem for Digital Branding: Tencent (0700.HK) boasts a premier content system, spanning Tencent Video, Tencent Music, Tencent Games, Tencent Sports, Tencent Animation, and Tencent News, in addition to the comprehensive Weixin/WeChat ecosystem, replete with mini-programs, Enterprise Accounts, Channels, Official Accounts, and Search. Brands can harness Weixin/WeChat's extensive infrastructure to develop their own storefronts and engage with users. Leveraging its robust experience in integrated marketing, GroupM will provide advertisers with wide-ranging marketing services across Tencent's ecosystem to its global clientele.
- Pioneering Marketing Science to Facilitate Data-Driven Decisions: By merging TMS's marketing science products with GroupM's unique strengths in data engineering and planning, the partnership will enhance ROI for advertisers within Tencent's ecosystem. It is reported that in recent cooperation with global food and beverage titan Mars, TMS, GroupM, and advertisers collaboratively redefined the industry's conventional cross-screen, cross-media optimization delivery model.
- Promoting Co-creation to Amplify Content Marketing Influence: GroupM will collaborate with Tencent's content platforms, such as Tencent Video, to forge novel collaborative models and introduce premium content. This partnership will include co-creating content and joint marketing, thereby presenting innovative content marketing solutions for advertisers.
"Carving out assured growth in fresh market cycles presents a global challenge to marketers," stated Patrick Xu, GroupM North Asia CEO and President, Greater China, WPP. "Radical breakthroughs in technologies like AIGC and large language models prompt us to reassess the core principles of marketing and branding. The collaboration between GroupM and TMS has consistently been stable and creative, resulting in mutually beneficial outcomes. In response to novel challenges, both companies will bolster their cooperation, unlocking new marketing value."
"GroupM and TMS have been continually expanding their collaboration because we share a unified vision," explained Rycan Di, Chief Investment Officer of GroupM China. "We are steadfast in generating new growth for our clients and enhancing consumer experiences. We eagerly anticipate Tengyi Plan 2.0 ushering in more landmark achievements."
"We are eager for GroupM and TMS to collaborate and deliver sustainable marketing advancements and notable returns for businesses," asserted Xiaoke Li, Senior Director of Channel Sales Department, TMS.
"Having witnessed the three-year evolution of the Teng Yi Project and its growth into an all-encompassing agency collaboration, covering strategic consensus, industrial cooperation, capability building, and operational support, I feel privileged to have been a part of this journey," remarked Maxxie Qi, WPP Cooperation Lead in Channel Sales Department, TMS.
2023 is ripe with opportunities. TMS will continue its collaborative endeavors with GroupM to aid clients in capturing more business opportunities and carving out new growth trajectories for brands on a global scale.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said.
Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb. 24 of hostage-taking, conspiracy, providing material support for acts of terrorism and other crimes that carry potential life sentences.
Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles (643.7 kilometers) northeast of the capital of Mogadishu. He was working as a freelancer for the German publication Spiegel Online and researching a book about piracy.
The kidnappers demanded $20 million in ransom and at one point released a video showing Moore surrounded by masked kidnappers who pointed a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade at him.
Moore was freed in September 2014. Moore has said his family raised $1.6 million for his release.
"Tahlil, a Somali Army officer, left his post to take command of the pirates holding Moore captive and obtained the machine guns and grenade launchers used to threaten and hold Moore," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "Hassan, the Minister of Interior and Security for the province in Somalia where Moore was held hostage, abused his government position and led the pirates' efforts to extort a massive ransom from Moore's mother."
Hassan, who was born in Mogadishu, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was arrested in Minneapolis in 2019 and charged with federal crimes.
Details of Tahlil's arrest haven't been disclosed but he was jailed in New York City in 2018.
In a 2018 book Moore wrote about his captivity, he said that Tahlil got in touch with him from Somalia by Facebook two months after the journalist's release and included a photograph. Moore recognized him as the “”boss" of his guards.
The men began a correspondence.
“I hope u are fine,” Tahlil said, according to the book. “The pirates who held u hostage killed each other over group vendetta and money issues.”
According to the criminal complaint reported by the New York Times, that was consistent with reports that some pirates were killed in a dispute over division of Moore's ransom.
Hassan and Tahlil were scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 6.
Attorneys for the two men were emailed for comment by The Associated Press after hours on Monday but the messages weren't immediately returned.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Grief blanketed the campus of the University of Virginia on Monday after a shooter took the lives of three student-athletes and injured two more students Sunday night.
“It's just been kind of eerie," said Syrell Grier, a student at UVA.
"Just feel like the energy is really off," added another UVA student, Ivy Armstrong.
UVA Police said fellow student, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., shot the five students in a parking garage on school grounds after a charter bus with the students on it had just returned from a trip to Washington D.C.
Jones was arrested in Henrico County after an extensive manhunt.
UVA President Jim Ryan identified the slain student-athletes as D'Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr., and Devin Chandler. The two other students shot have not been identified.
Ryan announced classes and other activities on campus would be canceled on Tuesday.
Just down the street from this crime scene, St. Paul's Memorial Church was “open for prayer."
Mark Wastler, an episcopal chaplain at the church, said, "Our first impulse as a clergy staff was to open the building so that young people and the entire community had a place that they could come that was safe, and that they were able to express their grief and to pray.”
It was a comforting sight for students like Grier.
"That helps me knowing that, you know, their support, like they're like that out there. I'm not personally that religious but still, just to know that there are people out there who are willing to help us through these trying times is really good to know," Grier said.
Armstrong said, "I feel like no one really knows how to go about this normally, like, I walked outside, and I feel like you just kind of stare at people and you know, everyone's gone through the same thing. She added, "I’ve been saying prayers in my head.”
"This kind of grief is not something that's going to go away overnight. It's going to take a community to heal. We will never be over it. The families that have lost those that they love will never get over this," said Wastler.
St. Paul's held a memorial service at 5:30 Monday night.
Students and other citizens of Charlottesville have started to lay flowers at Scott Stadium as a makeshift memorial for the students who were killed.
A candlelight vigil was held Monday night on UVA's South Lawn. Hundreds attended to pay their respects.
This article was written by Laura French for WTVR. | 2022-11-15T14:37:01+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/uva-students-process-campus-tragedy-we-will-never-be-over-it |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is proposing changes to how it runs federal prisoners’ deposit accounts in an effort to make sure victims are paid restitution, including from some high-profile inmates with large balances.
The new rule was published in the federal register Tuesday. It would automatically put 75% of money sent or donated to inmates toward victim restitution. The program would be voluntary, but prisoners would have to participate in order to get credit under the First Step Act for early release from prison or into a community facility.
The move comes as the Justice Department has faced increased scrutiny after revelations that several high-profile inmates had kept large sums of money in their prison accounts but had only made minimal payments to their victims.
The accounts are generally used for inmates to buy things like food, personal hygiene products and religious items, but they have at times been used for suspicious or illegal activity, or by inmates to shield themselves from paying debts.
For example, Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics national team doctor convicted of sexually assaulting athletes, had thousands of dollars in his prison account even as he owned tens of thousands to his victims, prosecutors said in court documents filed in August 2021.
Nassar had by then paid only about $100 per year, the minimum requirement, since he first entered the federal prison system in 2017, the Washington Post first reported. A judge later ordered him to pay more toward his restitution. Funds were also seized from singer R. Kelly’s prison account to go to a restitution fund for his victims in a decades-long scheme to use his fame to sexually abuse young fans.
Inmates are allowed to keep large sums of money in their accounts, as long as they’re not dodging ordered debts like child support, alimony or restitution.
The new percentage system would “more equitably account for each inmate’s specific obligations and resources while leaving the inmate with some funds to spend within the institution and/or save for re-entry purposes,” Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters wrote in the proposed change.
Few inmates have such high-dollar accounts, though, and criminal-justice reform advocates worry that the changes could disproportionately affect those who rely on small commissary accounts behind bars and for rebuilding their lives after release.
“There’s a handful of bad actors, but this isn’t going to target them, it’s going to punish all the other guys,” said Kevin Ring, the president of the criminal justice advocacy group FAMM.
The Bureau of Prisons has said about .01% of inmates carry more than $100,000 in their accounts.
The Justice Department considered a system that would divert larger percentages from higher-value accounts, but eventually decided the Bureau of Prisons wasn’t equipped to implement it in a completely fair way, though they may consider other ways to divert more from larger balances.
The program would divert lower percentages from the small wages prisoners are paid for labor behind bars. The government will accept public comments on the new rule for the next 30 days.
The proposed change comes after Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco directed the federal prison system in 2021 to strengthen its monitoring of government-run prison deposit accounts. | 2023-01-11T12:16:21+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-feds-outline-new-plan-for-inmates-to-pay-victim-restitution/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children.
The Food and Drug Administration said the fruit-flavored gummies from Florida manufacturer VPR Brands could cause nicotine poisoning or even death if eaten by small children. Regulators also cited recent research suggesting nicotine candies and similar products are becoming more popular among high school students.
“Nicotine gummies are a public health crisis just waiting to happen among our nation’s youth, particularly as we head into a new school year,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
In March, Congress passed a law granting the FDA authority over all forms of nicotine, regardless of whether from tobacco plants or manufactured in a laboratory. That closed a loophole in FDA’s oversight, which until then only included nicotine from plants.
Manufacturer VPR Brands markets its square-shaped gummies as containing “tobacco-free nicotine.” In recent years, many vaping companies have similarly claimed that they’ve switched to synthetic nicotine.
An employee at VPR Brands reached by phone Thursday declined to comment. The FDA’s warning letter gives the company 15 days to remove or address the violations. The agency said VPR Brands has not applied for permission to market the gummies. FDA warnings are not legally binding, but the agency can take companies to court if they are ignored.
The FDA has been working for years to reverse a rise in electronic cigarette use among U.S. teenagers, with mixed results. Last month the agency announced plans to ban e-cigarettes from Juul, only to put the order on hold after facing legal pushback from the popular vaping company.
A recent FDA-funded study found nicotine candies were the second-most popular tobacco product used by high school students in Southern California, behind only e-cigarettes. The FDA said Thursday’s action is the first warning to a maker of nicotine gummies.
The FDA has come under intense congressional pressure after announcing last month it would miss a deadline to remove thousands of unauthorized synthetic nicotine products from the market. The agency said it is working as quickly as possible to review nearly 1 million marketing applications it received from 200 companies.
The lack of action has sparked frustration from lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who called the delay “deeply disappointing and unacceptable,” in a letter last month.
FDA’s Califf subsequently announced plans for an outside review of FDA’s tobacco division, a rare step that followed recent criticism of the program. | 2022-08-18T21:09:08+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/fda-targets-illegal-nicotine-gummies-in-new-warning-letter/ |
Mercedes-Benz recently revealed its new generation of eSprinter electric vans. It’s made efficiency and flexibility among the core focus points so that it can position the lineup for far more than last-mile deliveries, and a future in which vans—and vanlife—with gas and diesel engines will be on the retirement path.
The company boasts that it’s the market leader in Europe, with a share of about 30% of the electric van market already out of its shorter-range, front-wheel-drive eSprinter, but now it’s moving on from that and taking aim at North America—by ramping up the longest-in-length and longest-range versions of its new electric vans first.
The new eSprinter was developed around the concept of three modules, and built for ease of manufacturing while offering a wide range of potential variants and use cases. There is a front module under the hood, where the onboard charger, high voltage components, battery cooling and air conditioning reside. In back, there’s a new electrified rear axle allowing 134-hp or 201-hp outputs, with torque up to 295 lb-ft. In the middle, the flat battery is between the axles and helps with the center of gravity. Across the lineup, the front and rear modules are exactly the same for ease of manufacturing, with only the battery size varying.
ESprinter: New battery type, more driving range
The eSprinter will be offered in multiple lengths, with three different batteries in Europe—56 kwh, 81 kwh, and 113 kwh—although the U.S. will only get the mid-size and larger packs. They all use a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry that’s free of cobalt and nickel, in the form of prismatic cells from CATL. They’re ideal for commercial use, Mercedes says, as there’s less degradation per driving cycle.
Mercedes-Benz has already teased that its vans might be leaders in real-world efficiency and range. It says that with that largest 113-kwh pack, on the European combined WLTP cycle—more optimistic than the EPA cycle—its range will be up to 249 miles (400 km). And looking only at the city portion of the cycle, its range extends to early 311 miles (500 km). Mercedes bases these numbers assuming 30-35% of the maximum load.
ESprinter charging times
U.S. versions will charge at up to 9.6 kw with a 240-volt wallbox, and the eSprinter can charge at up to 115 kw with a CCS fast-charging connector, allowing a 10-80% charge in about 42 minutes.
That’s probably not good enough for multi-state deliveries, touring bands, or cross-country vanlife and camper-van upfits quite yet, but it’s there for longer hauls.
Mercedes-Benz boasts that its Automatic recuperation mode, based on technology shared with Mercedes passenger vehicles, can significantly boost range by using driver assistance sensor inputs as well as topography and mapping information from the navigation system to tweak the level of regenerative braking at any given moment. For example, going up a hill it will essentially allow coasting if the driver lifts off the accelerator, yet when approaching a roundabout, it will ramp up regen so as to reduce the need to use the friction brake pads. Mercedes also says that it’s including a route planner that will help optimize charging stops.
To gain that efficiency, the company has also worked to smooth underbody aerodynamics, chosen low-rolling-resistance tires, and added a heat pump as part of a system that also uses waste heat from the powertrain.
The eSprinter will have pre-heating and pre-conditioning as standard, allowing a start time for the vehicle, at which time both the cabin and battery pack will be warmed, even if the vehicle isn’t plugged in—an especially important detail for the vans’ LFP cells.
Because the drive motor sits in the middle of the rear axle, the company says that chassis models are possible and upfits are easier—including models like shuttle buses, ambulances, or even flatbed trucks, in addition to the expected focus on the delivery market.
ESprinter vs. other battery electric vans
Ford is also positioning its E-Transit electric vans for the upfit, but it’s doing so with a focus on a different part of the market. With a 68-kwh battery pack good for 126 miles on the EPA cycle, and 115-kw CCS charging, it’s aiming for fleets that don’t need to go so far each day.
Another rival, potentially, is the Rivian EDV700, which has only been delivered to Amazon so far. It has a 135-kwh battery pack and drives the front wheels; the company said that results in a 201-mile range by the EPA cycle, although Amazon versions are limited to 150 miles of range.
The U.S. launch form of the eSprinter electric van will be a very long van, even by American standards: 280 inches long, on a 170-inch wheelbase, with a high-roof version that boasts 488 cubic feet of cargo volume.
In what will be a first-ever moment for this oldest of automakers, it will start building a new product overseas before doing so in its home market. With production due to start in summer 2023 in Charleston, South Carolina, deliveries for the U.S. and Canada are due in the second half of 2023. Then a market launch for Europe will follow late in the year, with plants at Ludwigsfelde and Düsseldorf, Germany, adding production for about 60 potential global markets.
Despite all this, the company is already working on three dedicated EV platforms, including one called “Van.EA” that will underpin mid-size and large vans and will mark the start of a shift entirely to electric vans. Although this eSprinter incorporates a lot of collective smarts from Mercedes passenger vehicles, those future models could take a modular packaging approach to the next level—and enable electric vanlife to truly take off.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port Wednesday night, Newark's fire chief said.
Firefighters responded to a report of a fire in a cargo ship at Port Newark around 9:30 p.m. and found the fire involving five to seven vehicles on the 10th floor. The blaze quickly extended to the 11th and 12th floors, Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said at a news conference. Firefighters tried to extinguish the fire, but as they were pushed back by the intense heat and two firefighters were lost, he said.
Firefighters weren’t initially able to find their colleagues and outside rescue companies from around the state were called in. They were found and removed from the structure, but unfortunately they lost their lives, Jackson said.
“We lost two firefighters today,” said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the scene. “A tragedy for us in the city of Newark and tragic for all firefighters who know what it means to go in a burning structure in a danger that you are going to have to experience when you do so.” | 2023-07-06T11:36:51+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/fire-chief-says-2-new-jersey-firefighters-died-battling-a-blaze-deep-in-a-ship-carrying-5000-cars/NVSTABZERNCQ5EHAJ6GS5CTJC4/ |
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BORDEAUX, France (AP) — The landscape in the prestigious vineyards of Bordeaux looks the same as ever, with healthy, ripe grapes hanging heavy off rows of green vines.
But this year something is starkly different in one of France’s most celebrated wine regions and other parts of Europe. The harvest that once started in mid-September is now happening earlier than ever — in mid-August — as a result of severe drought and the wine industry's adaptation to the unpredictable effects of climate change.
Paradoxically, the season of heat waves and wildfires produced excellent grapes, despite lower yields. But achieving such a harvest required creative changes in growing techniques, including pruning vines in a different way and sometimes watering them in places where irrigation is usually banned. And producers across Europe who have seen first-hand the effects of global warming are worried about what more is to come.
So far, "global warming is very positive. We have better ripeness, better balance. ... But if you turn to the future, and if you increase the temperature by one degree more, plus, you will lose the freshness part in the balance of the wine,” said Fabien Teitgen, technical director of Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte, an estate that grows organic wine grapes in Martillac, south of Bordeaux.
Grape growers adjusted their practices amid a series of heat waves, combined with lack of rain, that hit most of Europe. In the Bordeaux region, in southwestern France, giant wildfires destroyed large areas of pine forests. It did not rain from the end of June until mid-August.
As the harvest unfolds, dozens of workers kneel in the vineyards to hand-pick grapes and put them into baskets. The fruit is immediately crushed to make juice, which is put into tanks, then barrels to start the wine production process.
The harvest aims to produce the white wine from the famous Pessac-Léognan appellation. Red wine will soon follow.
Eric Perrin, one of the owners of the Château Carbonnieux estate, recalled that during his childhood, in the 1970s, harvests started around mid-September. This year, they began on Aug. 16.
But the 2022 vintage may be better than ever, Perrin said, because the grapes are healthy and well balanced. The hot, dry weather also prevented vines from getting diseases such as mildew.
Producing wine is a centuries-old tradition at Château Carbonnieux, where Thomas Jefferson visited the vineyards in 1787, before becoming president of the United States, and planted a pecan tree that still stands in a park.
Nowadays, Château Carbonnieux wine is sometimes offered by President Emmanuel Macron to esteemed hosts.
The drought changed the way wine producers work.
Before, vintners used to give vines a shape that allowed grapes to get the maximum amount of sun so they produced more sugar, which converts into alcohol. This year, growers tended to let leaves protect the grapes so the shadows would preserve the fruit's acidity and freshness, Teitgen explained.
Yields may be 15% to 20% lower in the broader region, mostly due to smaller grapes and the fact that some were burned by the sun in specific areas, Teitgen said, but it won’t affect the wine’s quality.
In front of the 14th-century tower of the Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte vineyard, Manon Lecouffe this week carefully watered newly planted vines, an indispensable job.
Vines that are several years old have deep roots that allow them to draw water from far underground and endure drought without suffering too much.
But this year, estates had authorization to water adult vines, a practice usually banned in Bordeaux.
“Some plots were heavily suffering with leaves falling,” Lecouffe said.
Another step vintners may take is to reduce the density of their plots to require less water or to work the soil to better conserve moisture deep down.
Experts are also considering whether planting new grape varieties could be helpful.
At Château Olivier, which also produces Pessac-Leognan wines, Director Laurent Lebrun showed how he and his team go through the vineyards to taste grapes plot by plot to decide where and when to harvest.
The consequences of global warming are now part of daily life for vintners, Lebrun said, noting the speed of the changes.
“We need to reprogram our own way of thinking,” he said. “There are many tools that are still within our reach, which are already used in warmer regions.”
Further south in Europe, harvests also started weeks earlier than normal to save shriveling and scorched grapes. Production is expected to be 10% to 20% lower in some regions of Italy, Spain and Portugal, though producers are hopeful of increased quality.
Italy's Coldiretti agricultural lobby stressed that the higher cost of energy and raw materials is expected to increase costs by 35%.
Scientists have long believed that human-caused climate change makes extreme weather more frequent. They say hotter air, warmer oceans and melting sea ice alter the jet stream, which makes storms, floods, heat waves, droughts and wildfires more destructive.
As warmer winters cause grape vines to produce early buds, French vintners worry that frost will disrupt the growing season more often. Violent hailstorms can destroy a year of work in a few minutes.
At Château Carbonnieux, Perrin fears some smaller producers may not withstand the changes.
“Climatic events since 2017 have led to smaller harvests. Not everyone will be able to survive it, for sure,” he said.
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Associated Press journalists Alexander Turnbull and Francois Mori in Bordeaux, Ciaran Giles in Madrid, Spain, Colleen Barry in Milan, Italy, and Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report.
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Follow all AP stories on climate change at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment. | 2022-08-26T11:09:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Drought-forces-earliest-harvest-ever-in-French-17399452.php |
Trevor Bauer pulls on No. 96 for Yokohama’s BayStars
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The Trevor Bauer era in Japan began Friday at an introductory news conference, where he pulled a blue and white Yokohama DeNA BayStars jersey over a white shirt and red tie. He followed up and squared the blue cap on his head.
He’ll wear No. 96, chosen he said to match the goal for his average fastball speed.
The one-year deal could let him prove himself and return to the MLB, where major league teams have apparently shunned signing him.
Bauer got off to a good start, where the focus was only baseball.
Not a single Japanese reporter asked him about his suspension in the United States over domestic violence allegations or the circumstances surrounding it.
The only question about it came from The Associated Press. Bauer disputed the fact the question suggested he was suspended from the major leagues.
“I don’t believe that’s accurate,” he said of the suspension. “But I’m excited to be here. I’m excited to pitch again. I’ve always wanted to play in Japan.”
He said afterward the suspension dealt technically with issues of pay, and he said he had contacted major league teams about playing this year. He said he would have been eligible, but did not say if he had offers.
The 2020 NL Cy Young Award winner was released by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Jan. 12, three weeks after an arbitrator reduced his suspension imposed by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred from 324 to 194 games.
The penalty followed an investigation into domestic violence allegations, which the pitcher has denied.
Manfred suspended Bauer last April for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy, after a San Diego woman said he beat and sexually abused her in 2021.
Bauer has maintained he did nothing wrong, saying everything that happened between him and the woman was consensual. He was never charged with a crime.
Bauer joined his hometown Dodgers before the 2021 season and was 8-5 with a 2.59 ERA in 17 starts before being placed on paid leave.
Bauer said his goal with the BayStars was to strike out 200 and keep his average fastball velocity at 96 mph. He said he is also working on a better change-up pitch he called a “split change-up.”
He said he hoped to play by mid-April — about two weeks after the Japanese season begins — and said he has been training for the last 1 1/2 years.
“I’ve been doing a lot of strength training and throwing,” he said. “I didn’t really take any time off. So I’ve had a year and a half of development time. I’m stronger than ever. More powerful than ever.”
Yokohama has not won a title in 25 years, and Bauer said that was his goal in the one-year deal.
“First and foremost, I want to help the Stars win a championship,” he said. “That involves pitching well. That involves helping teammates and learning from them. If they have questions — you know — share my knowledge with them.”
He also repeated several times about his desire to play in Japan, dating from a collegiate tournament in 2009 at the Tokyo Dome. He said playing in Japan was on his mind even before winning the Cy Young — and also immediately after.
“The Tokyo Dome was sold out,” he said. “I’d never played in front of that many people — probably combined in my life. In the United States, college games aren’t very big, so seeing that amount of passion. How many people came to a college game in Japan. It really struck me.”
He’s been practicing with the Japanese ball, which he said was slightly softer with higher seams.
“But overall it just feels like a baseball and the pitches move the same. The velocity is similar. I don’t notice much of a difference.”
He was asked about his level of Japanese, which is about zero.
“I don’t know very much at all. I’m looking forward to learning,” he said. “The first things I need to learn are the baseball terms.”
Other teams in Japan have made similar contentious signings before.
Former major league reliever Roberto Osuna — who received a 75-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy — signed last season with the Chiba Lotte Marines.
He has signed for this season with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
In 1987, Dodgers relief pitcher Steve Howe, who had a career plagued with drug problems, tried to sign with the Seibu Lions. But he did not play in the country after the Japanese baseball commissioner disqualified Howe because of his history of drug abuse.
Bauer was an All-Star in 2018 and went 83-69 with a 3.79 ERA in 10 seasons for Arizona (2012), Cleveland, (2013-19), Cincinnati (2019-20) and the Dodgers. He won the NL Cy Young Award with Cincinnati during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-03-24T10:27:39+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/sports/national-sports/trevor-bauer-pulls-on-no-96-for-yokohamas-baystars/ |
Formula 1 organizers at a meeting on Tuesday agreed to a new format for the popular 62-mile Sprint race, which was first introduced in 2021 as an alternative to the traditional qualifying session during Grands Prix weekends.
Under the original format, a traditional knockout-style qualifying session was held on Friday to determine the starting position of the Sprint race on Saturday. The results of the Sprint race would then determine the starting grid for the main race on Sunday.
The Sprint race also awarded eight points for the winner toward the championship title, and this would drop by a point for the next seven positions. Points were also awarded to teams.
Under the new format, there will be a traditional qualifying session on Friday to determine the starting grid for the main race on Sunday. A second, shorter qualifying session, dubbed the Sprint Shootout, will be held on Saturday to determine the starting grid for the Sprint race. The Sprint race will be held later on Saturday.
It means the Sprint race will now be a standalone event with no impact on the main race, though it will still have the same championship points attached as in the previous format. A problem or incident in the Sprint race will no longer compromise the main race, which organizers said will encourage drivers to push harder during the Sprint race. The organizers also said there will be more “jeopardy,” as teams will have fewer practice sessions.
F1 will conduct six rounds with the new Sprint format in 2023, starting with this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The weekend schedule for the Sprint format will be as follows:
- Friday – A single practice session followed by traditional qualifying for the main race.
- Saturday – A shorter qualifying session for the Sprint race (Sprint Shootout) followed by the Sprint race.
- Sunday – Main race only.
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LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to highlight the benefits of remaining in the U.K. when he meets with the Scottish leader on Thursday during his first visit to Scotland since taking office.
Sunak will meet for private, informal talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to take Scotland out of the United Kingdom.
Downing Street said Sunak and Sturgeon will focus on “the shared challenges that people in Scotland and across the rest of the U.K. face,” and how both governments can cooperate meaningfully.
Sturgeon’s relationship with Sunak’s two predecessors, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, had been frosty and the governments in London and Edinburgh have been at loggerheads over Sturgeon’s push for Scottish independence.
The U.K.-wide government has repeatedly said that the matter was settled in a 2014 referendum, when Scottish voters rejected independence by a margin of 55% to 45%.
Sturgeon disagreed, and her semiautonomous government has pushed for a new plebiscite. But in November, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that Sturgeon’s government didn’t have the power to hold a new independence referendum without the consent of the British government.
Sunak and Sturgeon are also expected to jointly announce on Friday millions in U.K. government funding to boost investments in the Scottish economy.
Sunak’s office said the funding aims to create thousands of high-skilled green jobs and drive growth across Scotland. | 2023-01-13T06:54:56+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-uk-leader-sunak-makes-first-visit-to-scotland-as-pm/ |
No one can doubt the eminence of the Mercedes Sprinter. With its adventuring capabilities, the Sprinter is a fantastic car with plenty of room for the best sprinter van accessories. “What exactly is an accessory for a van?” you might wonder. Well, there are lots of examples of accessories. Most go on the outside of the vehicle, though some may be on the inside. Many of these accessories expand the storage capabilities of your van, whether that means making room for a bike, kayak, or something else entirely.
As excellent as Sprinter vans can be by themselves, there are especially effective accessories for Sprinter vans, and you should consider these accessories when you’re outfitting your new Sprinter for a camping trip. Camping trips aren’t fun unless you have what you need. A lot of the time, camping trips are about kayaking, hiking, and cooking out in the woods. These experiences and activities are what makes camping fun, so it’s important to outfit your Sprinter accordingly. Think roof racks of varying sizes or ladders with which to climb onto the roof of your van. Maybe all you need is an extra cabinet to place inside your van. Whatever your needs are, it’s important to have enough storage. Here are a few important tools you should add to your Sprinter van.
Roof Racks
Primarily, roof racks can effectively carry kayaks and different types of surfboards. If you can find another use for your roof rack, then that’s wonderful, but primarily, roof racks are used for surfboards and kayaks. Keep in mind that whatever you put on the outside of your car may be exposed to inclement elements. When you’re looking for the right roof rack, you ought to consider a few major specifications that will determine the durability and ultimate longevity of your roof rack.
Find a roof rack that’s designed to last for the lifetime of your van. In general, you shouldn’t have to settle for something you’ll have to replace more often. The Mercedes Sprinter is top-heavy, so what’s also important is to have a lightweight roof rack. Shoot for roof racks that are around 80 pounds. These will be light enough to keep the van maneuverable and to ensure that the installation process will be easy. Finally, you don’t only need to worry about your kayaks or surfboards withstanding the elements: You have to worry about the roof rack itself. Effective materials include stainless steel and UV-resistant plastic. A car can last for more than a decade, so make sure your roof rack does, too.
Ladders
To make the unpacking process easier, consider purchasing a ladder with which to retrieve the contents upon your roof rack. As tall as Sprinter vans are, ladders are a worthy investment, and ladders barely require as much maintenance as a roof rack. As mundane as a ladder might initially seem, one dimension you could consider is safety. If you want to stand on a ladder to clean the roof of your car, then safety is going to be one of the most important considerations you can make. Namely, the ladder’s rungs ought to have some sort of gripping substance or bumpy pattern on them. Placing your shoes directly on metal could be extremely slippery, especially in the rain. As with roof racks, consider weight. Most ladders are fairly light, but you’ll want to make the installation process as easy as possible. Speaking of which, make sure the ladder comes with a top-notch installation kit that does most of the work for you. Lastly, make sure your ladder is compatible with your Sprinter van. Buy a ladder for a different van, and your new ladder may end up blocking a window or obstructing a tire. Many vendors offer ladders at different orientations (that is, some ladders are designed to go on the back, while others are designed to go on the sides), but make sure the ladders among those selections are compatible with your van.
Awnings
If you don’t plan on bringing a tent to your family outing, then consider outfitting your Sprinter van with an appropriate awning. Either way, you’ll probably enjoy some time in the shade. Because awnings are primarily made from fabric, durability is a more critical issue when you’re looking for the right one. In addition to UV resistance, an awning for a Sprinter van ought to demonstrate that it’s waterproof and resistant to weight. Also, installation and uninstallation should be easy for purposes of cleaning your awning. You can ensure that these processes will be easy by purchasing a lightweight awning that’s little more than 50 pounds. From bird droppings to pollen, many unpleasant things might assail an inherently wide awning. Make sure that your van’s awning has strong arms so that the material doesn’t tear where the fabric meets an arm. | 2022-07-28T19:01:03+00:00 | dailyuw.com | https://www.dailyuw.com/ask_the_experts/the-best-sprinter-van-accessories/article_1eb32d48-0e9d-11ed-a8e0-03764e643c4c.html |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sixth Memphis Police Department officer has been disciplined for his involvement in the brutal beating and arrest of Tyre Nichols, a department spokeswoman said Monday.
Officer Preston Hemphill was relieved of duty shortly after the Jan. 7 arrest of Nichols, who died three days later at a hospital, Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said. She did not disclose Hemphill's role in the arrest.
Rudolph said information on disciplinary action taken against Hemphill was not immediately released because Hemphill was not fired and the department typically releases information about officers who are relieved of duty after an investigation ends.
Nichols' family and others closely watching developments surrounding his brutal arrest and killing in Memphis were awaiting word of additional disciplinary action against officers who were at the scene but have not been fired or charged.
Highly anticipated video footage released Friday showed five Memphis Police Department officers using a stun gun, a baton and their fists as they pummeled Nichols during a nighttime arrest Jan. 7 after he was pulled over on suspicion of reckless driving. Nichols, a 29-year-old father, was heard calling for his mother and seen struggling with his injuries as he sat helpless on the pavement. He died at a hospital three days later.
The five officers have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other alleged offenses stemming from the arrest, which has shocked many for its brutality and revived calls for police reform around the country.
Memphis police and the Shelby County district attorney have said an investigation into the actions of law enforcement officers who reported to the scene of the arrest was ongoing. A Memphis police spokeswoman said Monday that information will be released when it becomes available.
In addition to the five officers, who chatted and milled about for several minutes as Nichols sat on on the ground in obvious pain, two Shelby County sheriff's deputies have been relieved of duty without pay while their conduct is investigated. And, two Mermphis Fire Department department workers were also removed from duty over Nichols’ arrest.
But the video showed other officers who also responded to the scene. Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis has not said if an officer who was involved in the initial traffic and could be heard saying, “I hope they stomp his ass" as Nichols ran away has been disciplined.
Calls for more officers to be fired or charged have been loud and persistent from the Nichols family, their lawyers and community activists who have peacefully protested in Memphis since the video was released. The video was evocative of the arrest of George Floyd in 2020 and officers' failure to intervene.
On Saturday, Nichols' stepfather, Rodney Wells, told The Associated Press that the family was going to “continue to seek justice and get some more officers arrested.”
“Questions were raised before the video was released, I raised those questions,” Wells said. “I just felt there was more than five officers out there. Now, five were charged with murder because they were the main participants, but there were five or six other officers out there that didn’t do anything to render any aid. So they are just as culpable as the officers who threw the blows.”
Memphis City Council member Martavius Jones said he watched the video with colleagues on Friday. He acknowledged Monday that Memphis police policies of failure to render aid and de-escalation appeared to have been violated.
“When everybody saw the video, we see that you have multiple officers just standing around, when Mr. Nichols is in distress, that just paints a totally different picture,” Jones said
Jones said he believes more officers should be disciplined.
“At this point, what's going to be helpful for this community is to see ow swiftly the police chief deals with those other officers now that everybody has seen the tape and knows that is wasn't only five officers who were at the scene the entire time,” Jones said.
The five fired officers were part of the so-called Scorpion unit, which taregeted violent criminals in certain areas. Davis, the police chief, said Saturday that the unit has been disbanded.
Nichols' funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday at a Memphis church. | 2023-01-30T18:14:23+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/6th-memphis-officer-relieved-of-duty-in-nichols-17751448.php |
BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The severe flooding in Appalachian Eastern Kentucky has taken a devastating toll on the people, businesses, and properties of the area. To help support the individuals who have been displaced or lost loved ones, The Columbus Organization has donated $5,000 to the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund, a fund established by Governor Beshear following the severe weather that began July 26th.
The Columbus Organization is the nation's largest provider of care coordination services and a leading case management agency in Kentucky for individuals living with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), acquired brain injury, and complex health concerns. The company has a long history providing care coordination services, and in Kentucky continues to be an integral part of the fabric of the communities where they work and live.
Johnny Callebs, Executive State Director for Kentucky commented, "As someone born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, it is heartbreaking to see what so many are going through. Columbus and other generous donors provide hope for recovery, but the current trauma is just overwhelming. I am proud to work for an organization that immediately, and without hesitation, saw the role they could play in supporting the people of our state. Eastern Kentuckians have a strong fighting spirit and will bounce back. I'm grateful that Columbus will be a part of that."
Grief counseling is being made available for any Columbus staff who are struggling with issues related to the disaster.
For 38+ years, The Columbus Organization has been a national leader and pioneer in care coordination specifically for individuals living with intellectual/developmental disabilities, behavioral concerns, or complex care needs. Having served over 100,000 families, the company continues to be at the forefront of innovation, developing and implementing revolutionary outcomes-based models for early identification and holistic management of health risks among individuals with intellectual, developmental, behavioral, medical, and/or complex care needs. In addition to its team of almost 500 highly-experienced care coordinators, dedicated Quality Assurance division, and unparalleled national infrastructure,Columbus is also a recognized leader in clinical staffing and quality improvement services for organizations that serve the behavioral health community. The company delivers an unmatched depth of expertise, breadth of resources, diversity of thinking, and dedication to ensuring everyone can achieve their meaningful-life goals through transformative approaches to healthcare. For more, visit www.ColumbusOrg.com, follow @TheColumbusOrg on Twitter, like The Columbus Organization on Facebook, or follow The Columbus Organization on LinkedIn.
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The Giants Tuesday looked at a group of quarterbacks that they could potentially sign as they continued to monitor the status of starter Daniel Jones (sprained left ankle) and backup Tyrod Taylor (concussion).
A team source confirmed reports that Jake Fromm and A.J. McCarron worked out for the team and said Brian Lewerke was also scheduled for a workout in East Rutherford.
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There were no updates on Jones, who sprained his ankle in the third quarter of the Giants’ win over the Chicago Bears Sunday, or Taylor, who left in the fourth quarter with a concussion.
“I’m just going to take it each day and see how he is,” coach Brian Daboll said Monday when asked what Jones needed to show the Giants in order to play Sunday’s game in London against the Green Bay Packers. “If he can practice and go out there and perform the things we need him to do, great. If he needs a day, he needs a day. I think it’s case-by-case with all those guys. Obviously, he’s played a lot of football. I trust him and where he’s at. I just think that we as a coaching staff have got to do a good job of watching him, evaluating him, getting all the information we need to get to make the best decision for him and the team as we can.”
If neither Jones nor Taylor can play, Davis Webb, who is currently on the practice squad, will make his first career start. The former University of California quarterback has played four career snaps, all last year with Buffalo in a blowout game against the Jets. He has never thrown a pass.
Fromm, a fifth-round pick by Buffalo in 2020, saw his only NFL game action last year when he played in three games, including two starts, for the Giants. He completed 27 of 60 passes for 210 yards and threw one touchdown and three interceptions.
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McCarron, a fifth-round pick by Cincinnati in 2014, made four starts over six seasons with the Bengals, the Raiders and the Texans. He completed 109 of 174 passes for 1,173 yards with six touchdowns and three interceptions.
Lewerke, an undrafted free agent out of Michigan State, was on the Giants’ practice squad last season and their training camp roster this summer. He has never played in an NFL game.
Should Webb have to start Sunday, the Giants will need a backup for the game against the Packers.
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Bob Brookover can be reached at rbrookover@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-10-04T19:19:34+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/giants/2022/10/giants-auditioning-potential-quarterbacks-with-status-of-daniel-jones-tyrod-taylor-still-unknown.html |
The Established Report Analyzes Data from Blackbaud's YourCause® Portfolio for Centralized Social Impact to Show How Companies and Their Employees Engage with Purpose
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, today released its 10th annual Industry Review: Employee Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility Report, which analyzes corporate social responsibility (CSR) program data and employees' philanthropic behavior. The report provides insights and trends from more than 380 participating companies and their 7.6 million+ employees using data collected between January and December 2021 within Blackbaud's YourCause® CSRconnect®, GrantsConnect® and NPOconnect® solutions. Companies evaluated in this report represent a subset of the total client base.
"With an increased focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, and employees' continued desire to engage in purpose-driven work, it's more important than ever for companies to build and grow their CSR programs," said Brandon Sharrett, president and general manager, Corporate Solutions, Blackbaud. "We've been in the social good business for 40 years and are dedicated to helping companies drive giving and volunteering. This report provides data and insights to help CSR leaders make decisions, benchmark their companies and explore strategies for boosting employee engagement."
Key findings from this year's Industry Review:
- Employees volunteered more in-person than virtually in 2021 and continued to favor individual volunteer events over group events. Of the more than 6 million volunteer hours tracked, 72% took place at in-person events. CSR programs can benefit from a hybrid approach to volunteering by offering in-person and virtual opportunities that allow employees to engage with social impact in any way they feel comfortable.
- Nearly half of the total donation amount in 2021 from companies evaluated were dollars funded through matching gifts, volunteer grant programs and other incentive and recognition programs. The sum of these company dollars was 43.7% of the total donation amount.
- 91% of companies supported offline giving within their programs, allowing employees to make donations in a way they are comfortable with. Offline giving accounted for 27% of the total donation amount from companies evaluated in the report.
- Companies within the study enabled an additional $1.59 million in donations in 2021 by covering third-party credit card fees as a program benefit.
- Over $607 million in grants were awarded from companies using YourCause GrantsConnect in 2021. These companies ran grant programs of all sizes, starting as low as $1,000 in grants awarded.
In addition to 2021 data, the report also provides a look at a few trends overtime from 2016–2021 for full-time employees. It can be helpful to look back on how the industry has shifted alongside changes in the economy and work trends as companies and people continue to focus on purpose. The number of companies and employees evaluated has significantly grown over the years, with 35% more companies represented in this report than last year. The robust report looks at programs and employee engagement by geographic region—both in the U.S and globally. Companies of all sizes are included to provide a holistic view of the current industry.
"We are working in a world that is changing dramatically and with people who are seeking increased support from their employers to help manage these shifts," said Rachel Hutchisson, vice president, global social responsibility, Blackbaud. "I am heartened to see companies of all sizes, especially the small businesses, cultivate a focus on giving and service within their employee community."
The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer reported that 60% of global employees will choose a place to work based on their beliefs and values, and companies investing in purpose will be well positioned to attract that talent. Download the full Industry Review here, and learn more about Blackbaud's CSR solutions for companies here.
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the world's leading cloud software company powering social good. Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, higher education institutions, K–12 schools, healthcare organizations, faith communities, arts and cultural organizations, foundations, companies and individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers organizations to increase their impact through cloud software, services, expertise and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer-to-peer fundraising, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG), school management, ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing and analytics. Serving the industry for more than four decades, Blackbaud is a remote-first company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, with operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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Belichick can break tie with Halas on wins’ list vs. Bears
By The Associated Press
With 324 wins, including the playoffs, New England’s Bill Belichick can break a tie with Chicago Bears founder George Halas for the second-most wins by a head coach in NFL history this week against Halas’ former team. Belichick and Halas trail only Hall of Famer Don Shula’s 347 victories. The Patriots have won the past five matchups with the Bears and are 4-0 against them in Gillette Stadium. New England could also get back quarterback Mac Jones, who has missed the past three games with an ankle injury. The Bears have three straight losses by a combined 20 points. | 2022-10-20T19:26:44+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/20/belichick-can-break-tie-with-halas-on-wins-list-vs-bears/ |
Vipers looking to grow the sport in their second season
Oxford’s professional fastpitch softball team aims to gain more popularity
OXFORD, Ala. (WBRC) - The professional softball team in Oxford is currently playing in its second season and is looking to help change the game.
Some of college softball’s biggest stars are continuing to shine in the pros. There are four teams, all part of the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WBF) league. The list includes: USSSA Pride in Viera, Fla., the Oklahoma City Sparks, the Texas Smoke in Austin and the Vipers.
The roster consists of some players who also have Olympic experience and one of college softball’s best pitchers out of Knoxville, Tenn., in Ashley Rogers. She also happened to be the team’s number one draft pick.
Vipers infielder Alissa Dalton said, “So, just trying to be able to take care of things at home but also take care of softball and just keep going professionally, and just get to a point where it grows and grows and grows bigger, and I don’t have to worry about the other side of it.”
This is their job, but for most it is not their only job. Some players are in medical school, law school, or even teachers. But they want to teach other girls growing up that this dream can become a reality.
“You can see that their dream doesn’t have to stop at being a college softball player,” Oxford spokeswoman Lorie Denton said. “These teenage athletes have something to strive for.”
The goal now is to keep growing so that one day the players can make livable wages where they can be playing like any other league in pro sports.
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HEATH, TX (NEXSTAR) — A Rockwall-Heath High School football coach was placed on administrative leave after parents said he made their student-athletes do nearly 400 push-ups last Friday, which sent many players to the hospital.
In a letter to parents Tuesday, Rockwall-Heath Principal Todd Bradford confirmed Coach John Harrell was placed on administrative leave following the incident that occurred during an eighth-period athletic class. Bradford said several students “needed medical attention, and in some cases, hospitalization.”
He also confirmed a third party is investigating the incident.
“To thoroughly investigate any connection between the activities in class and student illnesses, the district is retaining an independent third party to investigate the event,” the letter read. “The district is also taking interim action, including but not limited to, placing Coach Harrell on administrative leave while the investigation is pending and notifying appropriate outside agencies.”
The district also promised to provide support for the students involved.
One parent who wished to remain anonymous told the Dallas Morning News her son was hospitalized and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis due to the intense workout. The mother said her son was forced to perform 300 to 400 push-ups without a water break, resulting in his hospitalization.
Rhabdomyolysis is a complex medical condition that can damage the heart and kidneys and, in some cases, lead to permanent disability and even death.
Two more Heath parents told the newspaper the students did more than 350 push-ups, with one parent saying the students had to perform the workout within a 60-minute timeframe.
Other Rockwall parents told the Morning News at least eight students were hospitalized, based on conversations they had with other parents. | 2023-01-13T03:38:20+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/texas-high-school-football-coach-on-leave-after-players-forced-to-do-nearly-400-push-ups/ |
FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested and charged a Clemmons man with multiple felonies, including statutory rape, on Monday, according to a news release.
The victim and the suspect, identified as Nicholas Alexander Parrish, 20, of Clemmons, knew each other. Since the victim is a minor, no further details will be released.
Parrish was arrested and charged with:
- one felony count of statutory rape
- one felony count of statutory sex offense
- two felony counts of indecent liberties with a minor
- one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Parrish received a $500,000 secured bond.
Anyone with information related to criminal activity should contact the FCSO directly on the non-emergency number at (336) 727-2112; anonymously text information, photos, and video via Text-A-Tip at (336) 920-8477; or anonymously call Crimestoppers at (336) 727-2800 for English or (336) 728-3904 for Spanish. | 2022-06-20T23:31:49+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/clemmons-man-charged-with-statutory-rape/ |
CHICAGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barchart is proud to announce their Marketplace Apps, a cutting-edge solution within its AgTech platform that digitizes the workflows of agribusinesses like grain elevators and co-ops across North America, have been named the Overall AgTech Solution of the Year at the 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Awards.
Barchart recently announced a significant 2.0 update to their Marketplace Apps, which connects producers directly into grain merchandiser workflows by linking producer-facing apps to cmdtyView, which sits on merchandiser desktops. This latest release gives Barchart's Ag platform a major upgrade, allowing agribusinesses to easily originate, contract, sign, and hedge grain in a completely digital environment.
"Marketplace Apps are a cutting-edge solution for producers and merchandisers to move grain faster, establish stronger producer affinity, and grow their businesses with a digitized workflow," said Barchart CEO Mark Haraburda. "As the leading provider of data and workflow solutions to the agribusiness community, we have built the best Ag platform in the business and we are thrilled to be recognized by our clients and the AgTech Breakthrough Awards through this prestigious award."
Using Barchart's best-in-class connectivity network, these digital workflows seamlessly sync to and from each agribusiness ERP system - allowing producers to see their contracts and scale tickets in Marketplace, and new grain contracts and hedges to flow directly into the ERP system. And through Barchart's cmdtyView platform, merchandisers and other grain traders are connected to futures exchanges for price discovery and hedging. These solutions pave the way for producers and merchandisers to digitize their workflow as efficiently as possible.
"Barchart is committed to building innovative digital workflows for ag professionals and providing tools that make grain buying and selling more informed and accessible than ever before. When we implement these solutions for our clients, like our mobile apps, it is exciting to see the benefits they gain. Such as being more informed with information right in their pocket, having a digital record and being able to instantly connect whether you are a producer or grain merchandiser," added Haraburda.
"Grain elevators and producers have consistently needed easier ways to communicate and negotiate with each other over their mobile devices. New technologies that simplify the workflows of grain merchandisers, brokers, traders and producers can move the Agricultural industry forward during the digital transformation," said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, AgTech Breakthrough Awards. "Barchart's best-in-class connectivity for farm-level data such as contracts and scale tickets, allows for digital transformation at any agribusiness. We are so pleased to recognize them with 'Overall AgTech Solution of the Year."
With grain bid management solutions, connected Marketplace Apps, extensive market data, and a best-in-class commodity trading and analytics platform - cmdtyView Pro - Barchart's Ag platform provides grain elevators with the most comprehensive suite of agribusiness solutions to grow their business.
Learn more about Barchart's Ag Platform this September at Barchart's Summer Ag Series in Chicago. To schedule a demo, please click here.
Barchart is a leading provider of market data and services to the global financial, media, and commodity industries. Our diversified client base trusts Barchart's innovative Solutions across data, software, and technology to power their operation from front to back office, while our Media brands enable financial and commodity professionals to make decisions through web content, news, and publications. For more information, please visit www.barchart.com/solutions.
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We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with SpeciTec, a Swiss software company specializing in the digitalization of wealth activities, to further streamline client interaction workflows for banks and financial institutions.
CUPERTINO, Calif., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moxo, the industry's leading external project workflow solution, announced a partnership with SpeciTec, a Swiss software company specializing in the digitalization of wealth activities. The combined expertise of Moxo and SpeciTec will result in improved credit request workflows, enhanced operational efficiency, and a secure mobile banking experience available to private banks. The partnership will also streamline prospect and client onboarding by efficiently managing workflows, collecting data and documents, and centralizing interactions for a modern and seamless experience.
Moxo's powerful client interaction capabilities combined with SpeciTec's experience implementing its client lifecycle management solution for various banks aims to eliminate fragmentation between clients and their relationship managers, as well as the compliance team.
Moxo's platform has been built over several years in partnership with some of the world's leading financial institutions, and has powered digital client interaction processes for global financial organizations such as Standard Chartered, Citibank, MUFG, Van Lanschot, and Raiffeisen Bank International. The solution drives operational efficiency for traditionally manual & expensive processes across the client lifecycle. By leveraging Moxo's digital interaction workspaces, banks can provide customers with a secure, convenient experience across all digital touch-points — while managing their distributed organization.
To learn more about Moxo, visit https://www.moxo.com/.
To learn more about SpeciTec, visit https://www.specitec.com/
About Moxo
Control the chaos of managing client business with Moxo. Streamline external projects with digital interaction workflows — from account acquisition, to onboarding, and servicing. Coordinate with customers, vendors, and partners to achieve joint deliverables, track milestones, exchange documents, gather approvals, and more. Moxo employs a multi-layered security framework that combines a robust back-end infrastructure, end-to-end data security, network protections, access controls, and a full suite of security policies.
Our team has a rich history of pioneering in the engagement space: Moxo's co-founder and CEO, Subrah Iyar, was the co-founder and CEO of Webex, and Moxo's co-founder and CTO, Stanley Huang, held senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems and WebEx. To learn more, visit moxo.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
About SpeciTec
SpeciTec is a software designer company based in Geneva, founded 20 years ago. SpeciTec specializes in providing software and application development for Private Banking around core packages as Avaloq, Temenos, AZqore, Finnova, Apsys, Olympic to enhance performance and flexibility to the banks.
- SpeciCRED provides private banks with full portfolio overview at portfolio, client, and group levels. It onboards 5 modules (LV calculator, client monitoring, stress tests & simulations, credit request application, and a data warehouse).
- SpeciVIM is a complete client lifecycle management solution, that aims to provide a 360° view of clients' activity by centralizing all client data and interactions in one software, monitoring clients from onboarding to transaction, and automatic exchange of information.
- SpeciTec has also developed standard applications outside the core banking package such as MIS for profitability, FX blotter for trading profit.
Together with their partners Canon, Microsoft, Temenos and Moxo, SpeciTec successfully delivers its solutions worldwide. SpeciTec software solutions are currently used in Europe, North America, Middle East and Asia. To learn more, visit specitec.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.
Contact:
Zoe Wesley
zoe.wesley@moxo.com
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) _ UFP Industries, Inc. (UFPI) on Thursday reported profit of $203.1 million in its second quarter.
The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based company said it had net income of $3.23 per share.
The wood and materials provider for the construction industry posted revenue of $2.9 billion in the period.
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Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony's producers are promising a feel-good event — a phrase not applicable to several of the top nominated shows.
The best drama contenders include the violently dystopian “Squid Game,” bleak workplace satire “Severance” and “Succession,” about a powerful and cutthroat family. Even comedy nominee “Ted Lasso," the defending champ, took a storytelling dark turn.
But after several pandemic-constrained awards seasons, Monday's 74th Primetime Emmy Awards — airing 8 p.m. EDT on NBC and streaming on Peacock — will be big and festive, executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart said.
They're actually taking a page from last year's scaled-down ceremony and its club-style table seating for nominees.
“They had a ball. They had a party. They celebrated themselves,” Stewart said, recalling a comment made by actor Sophia Bush at the evening's end: “Oh, my God, I actually had fun at the Emmys.”
The tables will be back and again reserved for nominees — and their “significants,” Stewart said — but there will be some 3,000 other guests seated traditionally in the temporarily reconfigured 7,000-seat Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
“When the nominees are having a great time that translates on screen," Hudlin said, citing the “passionate, touching” speeches delivered by winners.
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Thompson, the veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member taking his first turn as Emmys host, said he wants to enjoy the ceremony and make sure others do.
“This should be a night of appreciating artistry and creativity and removing the stress of it all out. I get it — it sucks to lose, and everybody’s picking outfits and trying to do the red carpet thing,” Thompson said. “But at the same time, it’s an awesome thing to be in the room on Emmys night, and I don’t want that to get lost in the stress.”
He doesn't expect anything mirroring the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation that cast a shadow over the Oscars earlier this year, Thompson said.
Although HBO's “Succession," which won the best drama series award in 2020, and “Ted Lasso” from Apple TV+ are considered the frontrunners for top series honors, there's potential for surprises. Netflix's “Squid Game," a global sensation, would be the first non-English language drama series to win an Emmy.
On the comedy side, ABC's acclaimed newcomer “Abbott Elementary” could become the first broadcast show to win the best comedy award since the network's “Modern Family” in 2014. It's also among the few contenders this year, along with “Squid Game,” to field a substantial number of nominees of color.
At the Emmy creative arts ceremonies held earlier this month, the mockumentary-style show about educators in an underfunded Philadelphia school, won the trophy for outstanding comedy series casting. “Succession” won the drama series casting award.
“The Crown,” last year's big winner, wasn't in the running this time because it sat out the Emmys eligibility period. The dramatized account of Queen Elizabeth's reign and family life will return for its fifth season in November, as Britain mourns the loss of its longest-serving monarch who died Thursday at age 96. | 2022-09-12T16:04:05+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/squid-game-succession-ted-lasso-vie-for-emmy-awards/2937497/ |
Former Scottish leader who championed independence questioned by police for political party’s finances
Posted/updated on: June 12, 2023 at 10:01 am(LONDON) -- Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was "innocent of any wrongdoing" after facing hours of questioning in police custody on Sunday.
Sturgeon, a staunch independence supporter who resigned earlier this year, was questioning for several hours on Sunday in connection with an ongoing probe into her party's finances, Police Scotland said.
"The woman is in custody and being questions by Police Scotland detectives," the force said in a statement, which did not identify the former first minister by name. Sturgeon later identified herself as the person in custody, saying in a statement she was "in this situation."
Sturgeon was released about 7 hours later "without charge pending further investigation," police officials said in a follow-up statement.
The former first minister was the latest official to be questioned in the ongoing probe into the Scottish National Party's funding and finances.
Two other former or current SNP officials have been arrested, including Sturgeon's husband, Peter Murrell, who served as the party's chief executive from 2000 to 2023. Murrell was arrested in April, police said at the time. Colin Beattie, the party's ex-treasurer, was also arrested, PA Media reported.
Sturgeon, who is currently minister for Glasgow Southside, said on Sunday that finding herself "in this situation" was a "shock" when she was "certain I have committed no offence."
"I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing," she wrote in a statement.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The City of Wichita said the Arkansas River is closed for recreational use.
In a tweet, the city said the flow rate on the river is currently 4070 CFS and is too fast for safe use.
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On a recent evening, a crowd was getting riled up during a debate between two candidates vying to represent Washington's 3rd Congressional District.
The debate, hosted by nearby Oregon Public Radio on the campus of Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash. saw audience outbursts towards the candidates, the moderator and each other.
"No they didn't!" "Fact check! Pinocchio!" "Shush up!"
That's a small sample of what was heard from members of the audience during a gathering that lasted more than an hour.
They were there to see political newcomer, Republican Joe Kent, face off against local business owner, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Their district covers the southwest corner of the state along the Oregon border.
The candidates sparred over reports of Kent's ties to white nationalist groups, among other controversial issues.
This year, Kent ousted Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler, one of ten House Republicans who voted for former President Trump's impeachment. Like others on that list, she drew Trump's ire.
Kent had earned Trump's endorsement, and running on a MAGA-style "America First" platform. He's also aligned himself with some of the more extreme House GOP members, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona.
The race has highlighted the GOP's tenuous and complicated relationship to popular candidates with controversial ties whose contentious races could help drive turnout.
"He wants to reestablish a white majority," Gluesenkamp Perez charged during one of the debate's most heated discussions over abortion.
"That's not true whatsoever. ...No, that's not true," Kent responded. "She's calling me a racist and misrepresenting what I've said."
A couple days after the debate, during a visit to a Día de los Muertos event at a Vancouver, Wa. church, Gluesenkamp Perez said she was worried about violence spilling out during the heated exchanges.
"The last debate, really at a couple of points, looked like audience members might come to blows," said Gluesenkamp Perez. "It is boiling under the surface and I'm very concerned that we are entirely too sanguine about, frankly, Democratic collapse."
Kent draws controversy, passionate support
In an interview with NPR, Kent downplayed the worries, saying he saw many families in the audience.
"The crowd looked pretty tame," Kent said from a Mediterranean restaurant in Battle Ground, Wa. the next day. "They were raucous, both sides were, but... they're not going to get in a fist fight."
He also rejected reports on his ties to extremists by multiple media outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN and the New York Times. He's also faced questions about his more recent employment, including questions raised by one of his former campaign staffers.
"Absolute garbage journalism," Kent says, referring to one of the first articles reporting on the connections. Other stories that followed, "that's the anatomy of a hit."
Kent moved to Washington's 3rd Congressional District from Oregon in 2020.
An ex-Green Beret who worked for the CIA, Kent entered politics after his wife Shannon Kent, a Navy linguist, was killed in a 2019 attack in Syria.
That's when he met President Trump as he joined other families at Dover Air Force Base to receive the remains of the fallen.
"I mean he was very gracious. I mean, I think he was I think was really gracious of him to come and meet with all the families of the fallen personally," Kent said.
He said the two talked foreign policy one-on-one for 10 to 15 minutes.
"I took the opportunity to just tell him that, 'hey, you're getting the foreign policy piece right like as far as getting us out of the Middle East... But you're being thwarted on all your goals," he said, arguing, "because people deeply entrenched Washington, D.C., they want to stay in the Middle East."
Soon after the father of two returned home to Oregon, he heard from the administration about potential jobs in a second Trump term. Kent said he met with White House Senior Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and other officials to discuss possibilities.
However, once those second term plans fell through, Kent weighed a political future for himself in the Pacific Northwest.
Kent, who is running on a Trump-style "America First" platform, has faced his own limits on running to Herrera Beutler's right. A far-right live streamer, Nick Fuentes, took aim at Kent.
"Some of the fiercest attacks I've had came from Nick Fuentes and those guys," he said. "They spent money against me. They launched this whole website that I was some sort of a deep state operative. They sent people to heckle multiple town halls."
Fuentes has rejected some of Kent's claims, and said the two tried to work together earlier in his campaign.
Heated rhetoric impacting the race's tenor
Gluesenkamp Perez, a mom who has worked in public service, says it has been challenging to break through the controversies that have taken up much of Washington's Third congressional race.
She's facing a red district, trying to break through to voters with her rural background and ties to a fifth-generation Washington state family. One of her key goals is to draw out voters left abandoned after Herrera Beutler was ousted.
"I'm running this race on my own terms. I'm not here to be a cheerleader for any political party," she told NPR. "I'm here to pay attention to what actually matters to small business owners, to people working in the trades, to people trying to find daycare. You know, working moms like me, that that just need real representation."
Back at the candidate debate, voter Jeff Woll gets emotional when he explains why he's voting for Kent, saying America is falling behind other countries and his district needs someone with military experience to lead it.
"Joe Kent has, I mean, he's as honest as the day is long, and that's why we're supporting him," Woll says, with tears welling up in his eyes. "It's a serious time."
At the Día de Los Muertos event in Vancouver, voter Karen Morrison also gets emotional when she explains why she's voting for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
As a Black woman, she said she's worried about Kent's extremist ties.
"I want a peaceful life like everyone else. I want to be able to have my family come here and feel safe and significant in this community," Morrison said. "But with that rhetoric going on, I no longer feel safe."
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Skip Bayless argues Bears should consider QB with No. 1 pick originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
On Sunday, the Chicago Bears earned the rights to the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NFL draft by losing to the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans by defeating the Indianapolis Colts.
Last week, on Fox's Undisputed, Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe debated how the Bears should manage the No. 1 overall pick, if they received it. Bayless argued the Bears should hypothetically think about addressing the quarterback position with the first overall pick.
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"I'm not completely sold on him being that guy to take you to that place," Bayless said of Justin Fields on the show.
Bayless argued the Bears should think about selecting a quarterback with the No. 1 overall pick, based on his fears of Fields. He mentioned Ohio State's C.J. Stroud is a "better passer of the football" than Fields and commented about his fondness for Alabama's Bryce Young.
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Bayless' partner, Sharpe, came to the rescue with the counterargument.
"You better get Justin Fields some help," Sharpe said. "Somebody he can throw the damn ball to. These guys right here ain't it.
"You're asking questions about Bryce Young's size and you want to put him behind that Bears o-line?"
As Sharpe alluded to, the Bears have bigger fish to fry than addressing the quarterback position.
The Bears, as Sharpe mentioned, have one of the worst wide receiver and offensive line groups in the NFL.
Only one player on the Bears roster recorded more than 500 receiving yards this season (Cole Kmet). And, as Sharpe mentioned in the show, Fields is one of the most-sacked and pressured quarterbacks in the league.
To add to Sharpe's assertion, the Bears also have needs on the defensive side. They have the worst pass-rushing unit in the league, recording a league-worst 20 sacks coming into Sunday's season finale.
And, after the jettison of linebacker Roquan Smith, the Bears are without a formidable WILL linebacker to satisfy Matt Eberflus' defense. Jack Sanborn has been a respectable option this season, but the team is without true playmakers in that group.
"Let's just say for the sake of argument I get the first [overall] pick," Sharpe started. "What would I get the most value for? Justin Fields or Bryce Young? Because, Skip, you're not just one player away. You have so much more. You need offensive line help. You need receiver help.
"Plus, you got a second-round pick for Roquan Smith. You traded the defensive lineman (Robert Quinn) to the Eagles. What do you think I can command the biggest ransom for? Justin Fields, the proven commodity. Or, Bryce Young, a guy that's gonna have a very high grade."
To answer Sharpe's question, in short – the Bears would probably retain the most value via trade for Fields. But, it wouldn't be worth it.
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Fields ran for over 1,000 yards this season and mutated into one of the most explosive rushing quarterbacks in the league. He helped a lackluster offense become a competitive unit. And, at one point, helped them average over 30 points per game for four straight weeks.
Plus, to use Skip's point against him, this season's Fields is one fans never saw at Ohio State.
"I did not see him at the Ohio State run the ball like this. It's breathtaking. He looked like Eric Dickerson to me with the easy acceleration," Bayless said.
Case in point, outsiders and pundits haven't seen much of Fields throwing the ball. He threw the ball just over 300 times for around 2,200 yards this season, ranking him 26th and 25th in those categories, respectively.
The wide receiver core and offensive line acted as roadblocks to Fields' arm this season. In turn, the discovery of his legs was the only answer to offensive success.
Sure, Fields isn't yet the molded, finished product of a passer. But, he proved himself as a dual-threat quarterback and made himself a dynamic, unpredictable quarterback.
Fields ran the ball 160 times this season. He ran for 1,143 yards, which resulted more than Dalvin Cook, who ran the ball nearly 100 times more.
Hence, Fields' legs were extremely valuable to the Bears' offense.
Nevertheless, as some pundits and outsiders make their case to draft a quarterback with the No. 1 overall pick – or any pick, for that matter – Sharpe correctly sums up the argument.
"If you don't think Justin Fields is the answer, you're asking the wrong questions," Sharpe said. | 2023-01-09T00:51:10+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/skip-bayless-argues-bears-should-consider-a-qb-with-no-1-pick/3039833/ |
Which goth eye makeup is best?
Whether you have a true passion for gothic industrial music or you just like to look a little mysterious sometimes, goth eye makeup can be a great way to express yourself. It looks awesome no matter the color or shape of your eyes or the color of your skin. Anyone can enjoy being as goth as they feel. It’s one of those subcultures that accepts you just as you are, and the best goth eye makeup is the Melt Cosmetics She’s In Parties Eye-Shadow Palette.
What to know before you buy goth eye makeup
How to be goth
Being goth is mainly about liking goth music. There are definitely certain styles associated with the subculture, but the truth is, there really are no rules. Black eyeliner and dark eye shadow are easy ways to do recognizable, goth-inspired eye makeup. You can also use lots of colors, if that’s what you like, and still call yourself goth. If you want especially gothy colors, purple and acid green will brighten up your eye looks but pair beautifully with black clothes and hair.
Staying power
If you like going to goth events, you’ll want to ensure your products stay on your face for the whole night, especially if you’re going to be dancing. Many goth-inspired looks involve several layers of makeup, so using both primers and good quality products will ensure you look fresh even by the time you go home. This is also applicable if you like to wear your goth makeup to work, too.
Brands
There are specific makeup brands that have a distinctly goth aesthetic, but you don’t have to be limited just to those. If you find products from a cute pink brand that fit the look you’re going for, go ahead and get them. All that matters is that you like how you look.
What to look for in quality goth eye makeup
Eyeliner
For especially elaborate eye makeup that gives off the perfect dark, witchy aesthetic of a classic goth look, eyeliner is a must. Look for products that are easy to apply and last as long as you need them to. Generally, eyeliners with a very thin tip and good product flow are going to be easier to apply.
Eye shadow
If you just want a simple goth look, you can easily buy a single shade of black eye shadow and call it a day. However, if you want to experiment and add dimension and uniqueness to your style, consider getting an eye-shadow palette with a range of shades. Ideally, there should be one black shade, but the rest can be a mix. If you’re a goth who primarily wears black, consider choosing a palette with some color as a fun contrast. A palette of deep purple shades, especially with some shimmery ones, will look fantastic. Consider also how these shades will go with your dark lipsticks.
Primer
To ensure your eyeliner and shadow stay put, eyelid primer is your best friend. Even the best eye makeup is likely to smudge or smear without it. You should consider investing in a good quality primer even if you’re on a budget because it can make more affordable makeup last longer.
How much you can expect to spend on goth eye makeup
The price of eye makeup depends on the brands and products you get, not that it’s “goth.” You can expect to spend anywhere from $1 for the cheapest drugstore eyeliner to $50 or more for a full-range color palette from a top brand.
Goth eye makeup FAQ
Can you be goth if you don’t wear black eye makeup?
A. Yes. If you like goth music and identify with its themes and ideas, you can be goth even if you wear neon colors. People dress goth both because they enjoy the aesthetic and because they want to signal to other goths that they share a common interest. Don’t feel pressured to look a certain way if you enjoy the music and the scene.
What makes eye makeup goth?
A. Truthfully, it comes down to whether the wearer identifies as goth. The classic goth aesthetic is generally black, spooky and witchy. If that interests you, try thick black eyeliner and dark eye shadow. Paired with black or dark purple lipstick, it’s an easy way to signal that you belong to the subculture.
What’s the best goth eye makeup to buy?
Top goth eye makeup
Melt Cosmetics She’s In Parties Eye-Shadow Palette
What you need to know: This smokey purple palette is perfect for adding a little shimmer and color to a dark goth look.
What you’ll love: Featuring pigmented, moody shades of purple, any goth will have a great time building a complex or minimalist eye look with these options. You can create looks that are as subtle or as bold as you feel. These colors will go perfectly with your deep, dark lipsticks.
What you should consider: There are no black shades, and some users have reported receiving broken shades from poor packaging.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top goth eye makeup for the money
Stila Stay All-Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner
What you need to know: While not a goth-oriented brand, Stila’s liquid eyeliner is of great quality for the price.
What you’ll love: Featuring an incredibly fine tip, this waterproof eyeliner is designed to go on smoothly and easily and create incredibly sharp winged looks. It dries quickly to minimize transfer to your upper lids.
What you should consider: The fine tip will make applying a thicker line more arduous for those who like a more impactful winged liner for their goth looks.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Ulta and Amazon
Worth checking out
Urban Decay Eye-Shadow Primer Potion
What you need to know: A long-time fan favorite in the beauty community, this primer does the job.
What you’ll love: Urban Decay’s Primer Potion is easy to apply and provides a great base for eyeliner and shadow alike. It dries quickly and works well for oily eyelids. Primer protects your eye makeup from creasing or smudging.
What you should consider: Customers with mature skin report having more issues with application because it intensifies wrinkles.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Ulta, Macy’s and Kohl’s
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CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The search for a gunman in Texas who killed five neighbors from Honduras dragged into a third day Monday with false alarms and few apparent leads, while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott faced backlash over drawing attention to the victims’ immigration status.
An FBI agent on the scene near Houston acknowledged they have little to go on in the widening manhunt for 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, who has been deported four times since 2009, but who neighbors say lived on their street for years prior to Friday night’s shooting in the rural town of Cleveland.
Twice on Monday, a sheriff’s office in a neighboring county alerted the public about possible sightings, but neither turned up Oropeza.
Abbott offered a $50,000 reward over the weekend for any tips that might lead to the gunman, and while doing so, the three-term governor described all the victims as “illegal immigrants” — a potentially false statement that his office walked back and apologized for Monday. Critics accused Abbott, who has made hard-line immigration measures a signature issue in Texas, of putting politics into the shooting.
“We’ve since learned that at least one of the victims may have been in the United States legally,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze said in a statement. “We regret if the information was incorrect and detracted from the important goal of finding and arresting the criminal.”
Eze said information provided by federal officials after the shooting had indicated that the suspect and victims were in the country illegally. Her statement did not address why Abbott mentioned their status and she did not immediately respond to questions about the criticism.
More than 250 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies, including the U.S. Marshals, are now part of a growing search that has come up empty despite additional manpower, scent-tracking dogs, drones and a total of $80,000 in reward money on the table. On Monday, a heavy presence of police converged in Montgomery County after a possible sighting, but the sheriff’s office later said none of the persons were found to be Oropeza.
A few hours later, the department reported another possible sighting, tweeting that several schools had “secured their campuses” and again asked residents to avoid the area. But that search, too, turned up nothing.
Both were among the first times since the shooting that authorities had announced a possible sighting.
“I can tell you right now, we have zero leads,” James Smith, the FBI special agent in charge, said Sunday.
The FBI in Houston said in a tweet on Sunday that it was referring to the suspect as Oropesa, not Oropeza, to “better reflect his identity in law enforcement systems.” His family lists their name as Oropeza on a sign outside their yard, as well as in public records.
Oropeza is considered armed and dangerous after fleeing the area Friday night, likely on foot. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said authorities had widened the search area beyond the scene of the shooting, which occurred after the suspect’s neighbors asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard late at night because a baby was trying to sleep.
At a Sunday vigil in Cleveland, Wilson Garcia, the father of the 1-month-old, described the terrifying efforts inside his home by friends and family that night to escape, hide and shield themselves and children after Oropeza walked up to the home and began firing, killing his wife first at the front door.
Police recovered the AR-15-style rifle that they said Oropeza used in the shootings. Authorities were not sure if Oropeza was carrying another weapon after others were found in his home.
The alleged shooter is a Mexican national who has been deported four times, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because public disclosure was not authorized.
The official said the gunman was first deported in March 2009 and last in July 2016. He was also deported in September 2009 and January 2012.
Law enforcement on the scene have not confirmed the citizenship status of the victims. By describing them as “illegal immigrants” on Sunday in his first public statement about the shooting — and perhaps incorrectly — Abbott came under criticism from immigrant rights groups and Democrats.
“It is indefensible to any right-hearted Texan to use divisive language to smear innocent victims,” said Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
The victims were identified as Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9.
Capers said he hoped the reward money would motivate people to provide information and that there were plans to put up billboards in Spanish to spread the word.
Veronica Pineda, who lives across the street from the suspect’s home, said authorities had stopped by her house over the weekend to ask if they could search her property to see if the gunman might be hiding there. She said she was fearful that the gunman had not yet been captured.
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Associated Press reporter Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Jake Bleiberg in Dallas contributed to this report. | 2023-05-02T14:26:15+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/growing-search-for-texas-gunman-who-killed-5-enters-3rd-day/ |
Updated May 12, 2022 at 8:38 PM ET
In an unprecedented move, the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas for five House Republicans, including GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.
All five had previously been asked to appear voluntarily and quickly refused. Now, their testimony is being compelled by month's end, a move most of them quickly slammed on Thursday.
In addition to McCarthy, the panel also subpoenaed GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama.
None have said yet if they'll comply with the subpoenas.
The committee did not issue a subpoena for Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who also refused to testify voluntarily but said he was not part of documented text messages from extremist groups to provide him protection on Jan. 6.
"Regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we're forced to take this step to help ensure the committee uncovers facts concerning January 6th," Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, said in a statement. "We urge our colleagues to comply with the law, do their patriotic duty, and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done."
There is little history of a congressional committee issuing subpoenas for members of Congress. The move now escalates the war between Republicans opposed to the investigation and the committee, which is comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
One of those committee Republicans, Vice Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming, told NPR the panel faced a heavy decision to move forward with the subpoenas. Cheney was ousted as the No. 3 House Republican by McCarthy and other GOP members after she blamed Trump for the Jan. 6 attack.
"We asked these five individuals to come in and speak with us and they refused, and they have an obligation. They have critically important information about the attack that we need for the investigation," Cheney said. "It's a reflection of how important and serious the investigation is and how grave the attack on the Capitol was."
The panel's members have wrestled for months with the decision on whether to issue subpoenas for members and had signaled they may not want to set such a precedent. But Thompson said that thinking finally shifted for the panel.
"It's a process, and the process is clearly one that required debate, discussion," Thompson told NPR. "And ultimately, when they told us they were not coming, we issued the subpoena."
House Republicans have already threatened to launch their own probes into Democrats and return the favor of subpoenas for Democrats if they gain control of the chamber next year.
But panel Democrats such as Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin brushed off those concerns and how the subpoenas could shift awkward dynamics with Republicans.
"Nothing's more awkward than a violent insurrection where people died, so we're trying to extricate ourselves from the politics of violence, insurrections and coups, and the way to get out of it is through the truth," Raskin said.
The first wave of House Republicans — Perry and Jordan — were asked to testify in December, followed by a request for McCarthy in January. Biggs, Brooks and Jackson were all asked earlier this month.
On Thursday, the panel said the list of subpoenaed members includes those who participated in White House meetings and those in direct conversations with Trump or part of planning efforts leading up to and during the Jan. 6 riot.
Specifically, the panel has said it wants to talk to McCarthy about his private conversations with Trump and his staff around the time of the siege. Some of those exchanges have already been revealed through a series of leaked tapes.
McCarthy and other Republicans complained on Thursday that news of the subpoenas reached the media first.
"Look, my view on the committee has not changed. They're not conducting legitimate investigation," McCarthy told reporters. "It seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents."
Jordan, who the panel wants to talk to regarding his past conversations with Trump, said none of his concerns about the panel have been addressed since January.
"Actually, we got more concerns now," Jordan told Capitol Hill reporters.
The panel also wants to talk to Brooks on his more recent conversations with Trump to re-install him back in office. As for Perry, the panel wants to learn more about his efforts to help install ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark as attorney general.
Like the other subpoenaed Republicans who talked to the media on Thursday, Perry also declined to say whether he'll cooperate.
"The fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members just proves it's all about the headlines, this whole thing's a charade" Perry said.
Finally, the panel said it wants to talk to Biggs regarding his links to Jan. 6 protestors, past conversation with state lawmakers on ways to overturn the 2020 election results and reports of his pursuit of a presidential pardon.
"The Jan. 6 Committee's subpoena is pure political theater," Biggs tweeted.
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FALKNER • Four games into the 2023 Tippah County Softball Tournament, inclement weather crowned itself the winner before any of the five teams could on Saturday.
Defending champion, Pine Grove, began the day 2-0 and was progressing toward a third win, leading Falkner 7-0 with two outs in the bottom of the first when action was delayed and later postponed due to lightning and rain.
Falkner head coach Jeff Anglin, who’s Lady Eagles played host to this year’s tournament said that a makeup date has yet to be scheduled, and if it were, it would come after the spring break period for all schools.
Here’s how the first four games played out:
Falkner 5, Blue Mountain 2
The Lady Eagles kickstarted the tournament with their lone win of the day.
Blue Mountain grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first as A’rare Foote swiped home on a wild pitch. Falkner scored all five of its runs in the bottom of the third behind a 2-RBI single from Kailyn Harris, a RBI single from Landyn Bates, a bases-loaded walk from Kady Duncan and a Blue Mountain error.
Blue Mountain’s Abbie White tripled in the fourth and later scored on a wild pitch but Bates’ fifth strikeout from the circle ended the game.
Pine Grove 2, Ripley 1
A pitcher’s duel between Pine Grove’s Lizzie Meeks and Ripley’s Kassie McKenzie forced this one into the international tiebreaker rules after both teams were scoreless through four innings.
Pine Grove seventh grader Anaston Christian gave the game’s first lead to her team in the top of the fifth with a RBI sacrifice fly to score Carley Greer. Ellie Fryar followed her with an inside-the-park home run to add a much-needed insurance run.
Ripley’s Lola Ward cut the lead in half with a RBI single in the bottom half of the inning, and stole second to place two runners in scoring position before a controversial play at first base resulted in a third out as the Lady Panthers escaped with the win.
Meeks allowed just two hits and struck out three with one walk. McKenzie gave up one earned run on seven hits and one strikeout.
Walnut 11, Falkner 0
The Lady Wildcats first game of the day took some time before they were able to shake off the rust.
Both teams were scoreless heading into the fourth, where Walnut broke through with 11 runs on nine hits, two errors and one walk.
Cadence Rolison, Addi Hicks, Brailee Quinn and Brynley Dawkins each had two hits. Rolison and Hicks both led with 3 RBIs, highlighted by a 3-run home run for Hicks in the fourth. Dawkins added 2 RBIs to her total.
Madison Weeks picked up the shutout win, allowing just one hit, while striking out five Lady Eagles.
Pine Grove 4, Walnut 2
The Lady Panthers took control of the tournament with another close win against a Division 1-2A rival. Pine Grove built a 4-0 lead behind a bases-loaded walk from Anaston Christian in the second, a RBI fielder’s choice from Lexi Beard in the third, followed by a sac fly from Memory Mauney and a Walnut error for some cushion.
Walnut pieced together three straight one-out singles in the top of the fourth, setting up a 2-RBI single from Cadence Rolison to cut the deficit in half. The Lady Wildcats left the tying run on second with a popout in foul territory to end the game.
The Lady Wildcats outhit Pine Grove 6-3, but left six runners on base as opposed to four for the Lady Panthers.
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westwood Professional Services, Inc. (Westwood) is pleased to announce the promotions of six senior leaders to vice president positions.
Chris Carda, PE, Vice President, Civil Engineering Operations, oversees site design, water resources, field services, and geotechnical and structural engineering for Westwood's Power Division. Carda joined Westwood in 2006 and has been providing development solutions to a broad range of clients for more than 20 years. His experience, which spans the entire development process, provides intrinsic value to the business, up-and-coming professionals, and his clients.
Chris Hoglund, PS, CFedS, Vice President, Geospatial Operations, leads national land surveying and remote sensing services for Westwood's Power Division. Hoglund joined Westwood in 1999 and has worked in the residential and commercial, wind and solar, and power delivery markets. His broad knowledge allows him to work effectively with clients as well as engineers and government officials.
Dan Baggiani, PE, Vice President, Power Delivery, is responsible for driving the vision for market expansion, ensuring client satisfaction, and developing high-potential leaders for Westwood's Power Delivery team. Since joining the firm in 2019 through the acquisition of Main Line Energy Consultants, LLC, Baggiani has been instrumental in advancing market growth and geographic expansion.
Jeff Saucier, Vice President, Information Technology, joined Westwood in 2013. Saucier has significantly and consistently advanced the organization's technologies through stakeholder engagement and efficient, responsive, and service-orientated processes.
Pat Zacharie, Vice President, General Counsel, joined Westwood in 2021. Zacharie's legal career spans over 25 years. Her experience and leadership has advanced a wide range of Westwood's legal and business processes for mergers and acquisitions, project contracts, and overall corporate functions.
Tim Heun, Vice President, Procurement, has an extensive 25-year career supporting business growth and developing operational efficiencies to increase the bottom line. He has been instrumental in creating standards for all purchase decisions to mitigate risk, leading equipment procurement, and overseeing the insurance and client review processes.
On all promotions, Westwood's CEO, Paul Greenhagen, PS, says, "Each of our new vice presidents demonstrate the leadership qualities Westwood needs to achieve our long-term vision. I congratulate them and am extremely grateful for their dedication to our organization."
Westwood is a national, full-service engineering services provider for private development, public infrastructure, wind energy, solar energy, and power delivery projects. Westwood was established in 1972 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and serves clients across the country from multiple U.S. offices. View more Westwood facts.
In 2022, Westwood placed #13 and #26 respectively on Zweig Group's national Hot Firms' and Best Firms to Work For Lists. Westwood also ranked consistently higher three years in a row on the Engineering News Record (ENR) list as a leading design firm in the country. The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on award-winning projects nationwide.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale scored 35 points, Satou Sabally added a double-double and Dallas pulled away in the second half to beat Phoenix 90-77 on Friday night.
Ogunbowale sank 12 of 21 shots with five 3-pointers and five assists for the Wings (5-3), who improved to 4-0 at home this season. Sabally, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 draft, finished with 17 points and 16 rebounds for her fourth straight double-double and fifth of the season. Natasha Howard pitched in with 22 points and seven boards.
Brittney Griner had 18 points to pace the Mercury (1-5), who fell to 0-3 on the road. Sug Sutton scored 16 with nine assists. Diana Taurasi added 12 points and five assists.
Michaela Onyenwere and Griner combined to score 13 points and the Mercury led 21-17 after the first quarter. Ogunbowale scored seven in the opening period to keep Dallas close.
Dallas grabbed its first lead, 40-38, since early in the first quarter on a basket by Howard with 1:39 remaining before halftime. Griner had a layup that tied the game at 42, but she was whistled for a technical foul. Sabally hit the free throw and Kalani Brown followed with a jumper to put the Wings up 45-42 at intermission.
Sabally scored eight straight on a three-point play, a basket and a 3-pointer to push the Dallas lead to nine early in the third quarter. Howard followed with back-to-back buckets, capping a 14-0 run that gave the Wings a 66-53 lead with 1:38 left in the third. Phoenix trailed by at least eight points the rest of the way.
Dallas also beat the visiting Mercury 84-79 on Wednesday.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jilly Anais has been with Deshaun Watson through every step of lawsuit and controversy that has surrounded the Browns’ signal caller over the last couple of years.
The couple celebrated their four-year anniversary over Independence Day weekend, and Anais gave fans a brief look into their relationship through an Instagram photo dump.
But who is she?
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The daughter of former Texas A&M basketball player Jules K. Moor and Comcast executive Theresa Moor, Anais is a rising pop singer, a social media influencer -- with more than 2.5 million followers on Instagram -- and an occasional actress.
Her full name is Jillyan and she grew up in Houston with her younger brother before moving to Los Angeles in 2014. She won the 2011 Miss Teen Houston award before she was famous.
She started her singing career nearly ten years ago, and her latest single, “Like that,” was released in March of this year. The 27-year old was recently on tour with Nick Cannon.
She dated Atlanta Hawks point guard Dejounte Murray up until 2018. In 2019 she and Watson met, and they started dating after he slid into her DMs. According to TMZ one of their first dates was a 7 a.m. workout at a hot yoga studio and a more than five hour long dinner.
They’ve been locked in ever since. She’s even been in Cleveland, rocking Watson’s No. 4 jersey at a handful of Browns games.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bills were filed, hearings were planned and blame was cast as Congress reacted this past week to the abrupt failure of two banks. A look at what lawmakers are saying and planning as the fallout continues from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
QUICK LEGISLATIVE FIXES UNLIKELY
While President Joe Biden called Monday on Congress to strengthen the rules for banks to prevent future failures, lawmakers are divided on whether any legislation is needed.
Some congressional leaders are skeptical that a closely divided Congress will act at all.
“There’s people who are going to choose bills, but I cannot imagine that, with the hold banks have on Republican members of Congress, that we can pass anything significant,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Republicans say the laws already in place were sufficient to prevent the bank failures, if only regulators had done their job by spotting obvious problems and directing the banks to take steps that would reduce their risk.
“If there are ideas out there that people have, you know, at some point, we would be willing to entertain those, but I think it would be premature to start talking about solutions before we fully define the problem and ultimately get answers from the regulators about why they were asleep at the job,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking Republican.
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SO WHAT’S NEXT? The House Financial Services Committee has announced its first hearing for March 29, featuring at least two witnesses: Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s board of directors, and Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision with the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. “We will conduct this hearing without fear or favor to get the answers the American people deserve,” lawmakers said.
On the Senate side, Brown said his committee will also hold a hearing soon to help lawmakers assess what went wrong. He said the first hearing is likely to focus on bringing in witnesses responsible for regulating the failed banks. The Fed board was the primary regulator for Silicon Valley Bank in California, while the FDIC was the primary federal regulator for Signature Bank in New York.
Brown spelled out some of the questions lawmakers probably will have for the regulators in a letter Thursday asking them to undertake a comprehensive review of what went wrong. What role did social media-led coordination among customers play? What role did the large percentage of uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank play? Were there regulatory gaps with respect to capital, liquidity and stress testing that played a role in the failures?
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said he wants to know why regulators did not act on detailed reports of a liquidity risk at Silicon Valley Bank and why the FDIC failed to auction off the bank’s remaining parts last weekend.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said she wants to know if regulators intend to use the failure of Signature Bank to further crack down on cryptocurrency. She has been a vocal advocate for cryptocurrency development and is an investor in bitcoin. Signature was the first FDIC-insured bank to offer a blockchain-based digital payment platform in 2019 and had been a go-to bank for the crypto industry.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he wanted to know how private stock analysts had warned about Silicon Valley’s investments but regulators did not seem to know about potential problems.
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CONGRESSIONAL ACTION Democrats in both chambers have rallied around two legislative proposals. The first, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., would repeal the 2018 rollback of certain aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act enacted after the financial crisis a decade earlier.
The Dodd-Frank Act subjected all banks with $50 billion or more in assets to enhanced regulation, such as annual stress testing and the submission of resolution plans or “living wills” in the event of bankruptcy.
But after years of complaints from community and regional banks about the cost of compliance, Congress lifted the threshold for meeting all the Dodd-Frank Act requirements to $250 billion.
Banks with assets valued at less than $100 billion were automatically exempted from the enhanced regulation. The Fed was given the discretion to apply on a case-by-case basis the enhanced oversight for banks between the $100 billion and $250 billion level. Both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank fell in that category.
“President Trump’s rollback paved the way for the SVB collapse,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said on the Senate floor Thursday.
But Republicans have countered that the tiered oversight they established in 2018 with the support of several Democrats in both chambers gave federal regulators all the tools they needed to catch the problems at Silicon Valley and Signature before they became fatal.
“I think the issue here is liquidity and there are liquidity stress tests that regulators have established for the banks,” said Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and the author of the 2018 changes to Dodd-Frank. “If they need to tighten those up, they have the authority to do it.”
With that philosophical divide, it’s unlikely the Warren and Porter bill will advance in Congress.
A second bill might have a better shot. The bill from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Mike Levin of California would recoup any bonuses and profits that bank executives receive from stock sales make in the 60 days before a bank failure.
Republicans also directed considerable ire at the executives of the failed banks this week.
“I think all of that ought to be clawed back,” Kennedy said of bonuses. “And this time, I hope somebody goes to jail.”
On Friday, Biden called on Congress to grant the FDIC the power to force the return of compensation paid to executives at a broader range of banks should they fail, and to lower the threshold for the regulator to impose fines and bar executives from working at another bank.
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POINTING FINGERS AT THE OTHER PARTY
The recent bank failures create an opportunity to shape the political narrative for next year’s election.
While Republicans are saying that regulators were “asleep at the switch,” they are also trying to tie Biden and Democrats to the turmoil by blaming them for higher inflation, which is leading to the higher interest rates and reduced the value of Silicon Valley Banks investments.
“A failure of the bank, a failure with regulators, and without any question, a failure at the top,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., in reference to Biden.
Democrats are pinning the failures on the changes Republicans led in scaling back Dodd-Frank requirements for certain banks, saying it’s an example of how Washington caters to powerful interest groups rather than average voters.
“The 2018 rollbacks permitted the banks to take on more risk in order to boost their profits,” Warren said. “So what did they do? They took on more risks, boosted their profits, gave their executives big bonuses and salaries, and then blew the banks up.” | 2023-03-18T21:04:58+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/bank-failures-anger-in-congress-but-division-on-what-to-do/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Texas troubadour Willie Nelson will celebrate his 90th birthday with his friends and family at an all-star two-day concert at the Hollywood Bowl this April.
The Grammy-winning country icon’s milestone birthday party will take place on April 29-30 and feature Nelson and dozens of performers, including Neil Young, Chris Stapleton, Lyle Lovett, Miranda Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Snoop Dogg, The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves and many more.
Six decades into his career, the singer-songwriter, author and activist is still going strong, with a new album — “I Don’t Know a Thing About Love” — coming in March and a five-part documentary premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s also nominated for four Grammys this year. Some of his biggest hits include “On The Road Again,” “Crazy” and “Funny How Time Slips Away.”
Additional performers include Norah Jones, Tom Jones, Tyler Childers, Warren Haynes, Ziggy Marley, Sturgill Simpson, Allison Russell, Beck, Billy Strings, Bobby Weir, Charley Crockett, Edie Brickell, Leon Bridges, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Orville Peck, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Nelson’s sons, Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson, the latter of whom performs as Particle Kid.
Tickets for the concerts go on sale to the general public on Jan. 28, with a presale starting on Wednesday. | 2023-01-25T14:45:47+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/willie-nelson-to-celebrate-90th-birthday-with-all-star-concert/ |
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment service Thursday. FedNow allows banks and credit unions to sign up to send real-time payments so they can offer customers a quicker way to send money between banks.
FedNow, which was first announced in 2019, published a list of banks and credit unions that are already signed up to the service. However, it might take longer for customers to be able to use the service with their bank.
Here's what you need to know about FedNow.
HOW DOES FEDNOW WORK?
FedNow offers instant payment services for banks and credit unions to transfer money for their customers. Unlike other private money-transferring services like PayPal or Venmo, FedNow services are not offered to customers directly through a third-party app or website. The services will only be available through banks or credit unions. However, once banks have adopted FedNow, they're expected to make it available on their websites and apps.
Once a bank offers the FedNow services, customers will be able to send money instantly. The service is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Among the banks that will offer the FedNow services soon are Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
WHY DID THE FED CREATE FEDNOW?
By creating FedNow, the Fed is making it quicker and more accessible for people to send and receive online payments. The Fed is also catching up with other countries that already have real-time payment systems like FedNow, including England, China, Sweden and India.
FedNow will also equip banks with tools to identify and combat fraud attempts. These tools include the ability for banks to flag suspicious accounts and limit the amount and frequency of payments by those accounts.
WHO CAN USE FEDNOW?
Customers, including individuals and businesses, whose banks or credit unions offer FedNow services will be able to send and receive money in real-time. If, for example, a customer wants to send money to a friend, both people have to bank with institutions that offer FedNow services.
WHAT ARE SOME SCENARIOS WHERE I CAN USE FEDNOW?
Given the speed of transactions, this service can be beneficial for customers in many ways.
Here are some examples:
— If your employer sends your paycheck through FedNow, the paycheck will be able to clear in seconds rather than days.
— If you forgot to pay your rent until the last minute, you will be able to send the money late at night without waiting to have it cleared the next business day.
WHEN WILL FEDNOW BE AVAILABLE TO ME?
FedNow is now live but it might take months or years for customers to be able to use this service, it all depends on when your bank makes it available.
WILL MY PRIVACY BE PROTECTED WITH FEDNOW?
The Federal Reserve and the FedNow service cannot access people's bank accounts and it doesn't have the authority for additional surveillance, according to Fed officials.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE VENMO, PAYPAY OR OTHER SERVICES?
There are key differences between the FedNow service and apps such as Venmo and PayPal. FedNow is a service offered directly to banks and not to customers, which means FedNow does not have an app or website where customers will be able to send money to each other.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEDNOW AND ZELLE?
While both FedNow and Zelle allow customers to make online transactions, there are some key differences. Zelle is a private app that works with some financial institutions while FedNow is backed by the Federal Reserve and is envisioned to be adopted by the majority of banks in the country.
Zelle lets you send and receive money instantly but the money might not be available for customers until days after the transaction. With FedNow, the Fed says the money will be available within seconds. Zelle has a customer-facing platform that allows customers to send money through their app while FedNow will not directly interact with customers but rather offer the services to banks.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE CASH?
Fed officials have stressed FedNow is unrelated to the notion of a government-run digital currency, which social media users also falsely claim would lead to the elimination of cash.
“The Federal Reserve has made no decision on issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) & would not do so without clear support from Congress and executive branch, ideally in the form of a specific authorizing law,” the agency wrote in a series of tweets in April “A CBDC would not replace cash or other payment options.” | 2023-07-21T12:41:02+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/what-is-fednow/507-cd2614e1-5929-4ff0-9dcb-5b70f1de1c25 |
Mazda on Friday revealed its rotary range-extended version of the MX-30 electric vehicle, called the Mazda MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV.
The MX-30 R-EV would offer a range far greater than the 100 EPA miles of the MX-30 EV, which is currently only offered in California. But as Mazda USA suggested earlier in the week, the R-EV that was previously confirmed for the U.S. may now be delayed or canceled entirely.
The R-EV is almost indistinguishable from the MX-30 EV except for some trim differences. That means you get the same rather eccentric package—a compact crossover with a somewhat more rakish roofline and two smaller rear-hinged rear doors. Bottom line: the MX-30 has essentially the same overall dimensions as the CX-30 crossover, but it doesn’t result in nearly as much usable passenger space.
Instead of the 35.5-kwh battery pack, the R-EV has a 17.8-kwh battery, enabling a 53-mile range by more generous European WLTP combined standards. Based on how other plug-in hybrids pencil in versus that European standard, that might mean a plug-in range of roughly 40 miles by U.S. EPA standards, although much of it depends on the test cycles themselves.
The Wankel rotary engine range-extender is a 0.83-liter unit—with a single rotor, as opposed to dual-rotor units in previous RX-8 and RX-7 sports cars—making just 73 hp and 86 lb-ft of torque. Its part-time job (and only job) is only to drive a generator. That pair fits under the hood with the electric motor, which makes 168 hp and 192 lb-ft of torque here—about 25 more hp but 18 fewer lb-ft than the MX-30 EV. Its official 0-62 mph time is 9.1 seconds
Mazda boasts that using a rotary rather than a reciprocating (piston) engine allows more compact packaging, and it saves weight. The engine’s side housing is made of aluminum rather than iron, Mazda says, which it claims cut more than 33 pounds. Overall, the R-EV weighs 3,912 pounds—257 pounds more than the EV’s curb weight.
Fuel efficiency has been atrocious in previous rotary designs, and tailpipe emissions have been challenging, which makes this engine design a puzzling choice from the outset; but Mazda says that direct fuel injection makes it more efficient. It’s also added exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) to help boost efficiency at low loads, and further evolved the design of the seals, which are a rotary-engine weak point.
Mazda says that the MX-30 delivers the same driving experience whether it’s running entirely off the battery pack or with the engine revving away. That’s different than the only other U.S.-market range-extended EV in recent years, the BMW i3 REx, which could sometimes be caught flat-footed and short on power for long highway grades, when its little 2-cylinder range-extender under the cargo floor couldn’t keep up.
The Chevrolet Volt is sometimes called a range-extended electric vehicle, but Green Car Reports doesn’t consider it to be that, as the full-size gasoline engine drives the wheels at light cruising speeds.
Mazda says that one of the reasons behind this configuration is to extend driving range for long trips, and despite that and a decent roundup of the car’s specs it said nothing about the MX-30 R-EV’s efficiency in range-extender mode—or its highway range.
The 13.2-gallon gas tank is nothing like the little sub-two-gallon tank used in the BMW i3 REx, so considering a full charge and a full tank, the RE-V will likely offer all the range of a gasoline vehicle. And really, what’s to stop drivers from doing just that?
The answer might potentially be that, like the i3 REx, it’s just a more pleasant car to drive with the engine off. The little rotary needs to be revving at 4,700 rpm to be making peak power. The strident sound of a rotary engine when it’s revved is enchanting, but any owner of RX-8 or RX-7 sports cars can attest that rotaries tend not to be so endearing on long road trips.
There also appears to be a gray area in which the engine will start up even with a charge—a serious issue for anyone expecting a true EV driving experience in cities.
Mazda says that in EV mode, the R-EV will exclusively use electric drive “until the gauges show the battery is completely drained.” It also notes, even in EV mode: “Additionally, in situations such as if the driver needs to accelerate suddenly and purposefully depresses the accelerator pedal significantly beyond a certain point (equivalent to the kickdown switch function on a standard automatic transmission vehicle), the rotary engine generator will activate and generate the energy for the required output.”
In Normal mode, Mazda says that the rotary engine will fire up more often, based on how far you press the accelerator. Separately, there’s also a Charge mode that can save away charge so owners can drive quietly in EV mode or later use the car to power devices. Owners can set how much they’d like to charge up to, in 10% increments.
Using the MX-30 R-EV’s 7.2-kw onboard charger—more than the 6.6-kw unit that comes with U.S. MX-30 EVs—can go from a 20% to 80% charge in about 90 minutes, according to Mazda. It’s unclear if that 20% charge is the bottom end for electric-only operation. It’s also one of the only such vehicles to have DC fast-charging—which, in the R-EV’s case, runs up to 36 kw and allows a 20% to 80% charge in about 25 minutes.
The R-EV supports V2L and has a cargo-area outlet offering 1500 watts.
It will be rolled out first in an Edition R version that offers a design inspired by the rotary engine, Mazda says—with Rouge Metallic roof accents and black for the body and trim.
That includes unique wheels, plus several nods to the unique trochoid shape of the engine rotor’s movement, including on a logo that adds an orange accent “to convey the power required to generate energy,” Mazda says.
Mazda hasn’t yet confirmed the price for Europe, but it suggests that it doesn’t cost much, if any, more than the MX-30 EV. “Larger batteries are more expensive, so using one would result in a more expensive vehicle,” it states in provided product information. “Additionally, a life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective demands optimizing the battery capacity for the vehicle.”
Now that it’s outlined what it is and how the specs pencil out, it’s not only a head-scratcher Americans might not understand as they shop for vehicles, but a vehicle that Americans, literally, might not get.
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BOSTON – NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back.
The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life.
The material, a NASA lawyer said in a letter to the auctioneer, still belongs to the federal government.
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The material from the experiment, including a vial with about 40 milligrams of moon dust and three cockroach carcasses, was expected to sell for at least $400,000, but has been pulled from the auction block, RR said Thursday.
“All Apollo samples, as stipulated in this collection of items, belong to NASA and no person, university, or other entity has ever been given permission to keep them after analysis, destruction, or other use for any purpose, especially for sale or individual display,” said NASA's letter dated June 15.
It went on: “We are requesting that you no longer facilitate the sale of any and all items containing the Apollo 11 Lunar Soil Experiment (the cockroaches, slides, and post-destructive testing specimen) by immediately stopping the bidding process," NASA wrote.
In another letter dated June 22, NASA's lawyer asked RR Auction to work with the current owner of the material to return it to the federal government.
The Apollo 11 mission brought more than 47 pounds (21.3 kilograms) of lunar rock back to Earth. Some was fed to insects, fish and other small creatures to see if it would kill them.
The cockroaches that were fed moon dust were brought to the University of Minnesota where entomologist Marion Brooks dissected and studied them.
“I found no evidence of infectious agents," Brooks, who died in 2007, told the Minneapolis Tribune for an October 1969 story. She found no evidence that the moon material was toxic or caused any other ill effects in the insects, according to the article.
But the moon rock and the cockroaches were never returned to NASA, instead displayed at Brooks' home. Her daughter sold them in 2010, and now they are up for sale again by a consignor who RR did not disclose.
It's not unusual for a third party to lay claim to something that is being auctioned, said Mark Zaid, an attorney for RR Auction.
“NASA has a track record of pursuing items related to the early space programs," although they have been inconsistent in doing so, Zaid said. By its own admission, NASA acknowledged in one of its letters that it did not know about the previous auction of the cockroach experiment items.
“We have worked with NASA before and have always cooperated with the U.S. government when they lay claims to items," Zaid said. “At the end of the day, we want to act appropriately and lawfully."
RR Auction is holding on to the lot for now, but ultimately, it’s up to the consignor to work something out with NASA, he said. | 2022-06-23T22:07:48+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/06/23/nasa-give-us-back-our-moon-dust-and-cockroaches/ |
HENDRICKS COUNTY, Ind. — After a veterinarian notified police about a severely emaciated dog that was in such poor shape it was feared she would not survive the appointment, charges have been filed against a man who posed as an IMPD officer when animal control officers went to his door.
Hendricks County Animal Control officers were sent to an apartment on Creekhollow Road on March 31 after a black Labrador retriever was brought in to a local vet.
Court documents alleged the dog’s owner, Markee Deloney, told the vet the dog had collapsed. The veterinary staff became concerned about the dog’s condition immediately, due to the “level of apparent starvation that she was in.” The dog was said to be so weak she could not hold her head up and weighed only 21 pounds. The vet technician said the average weight for a lab with a similar bone structure is 50 pounds.
The attending veterinarian believed the dog had been severely neglected and recommended several treatment options, to which Deloney refused.
Deloney was advised to take the animal to another animal clinic. Staff at that clinic said the dog had a very low temperature and glucose level, signs that the dogs had not eaten in some time.
A veterinarian recommended the dog be put down, fearing she was “at the point of no return.” Court documents show Deloney declined and opted to take the dog home. The veterinarian gave him several painkillers free of charge to help ease the dog’s symptoms, charging documents show.
When animal control attempted to make contact with Deloney, he refused to let them into the apartment and identified himself as an IMPD police officer, according to court documents. Deloney also carried the dog out of his apartment, since the dog could not walk on her own.
A Plainfield police officer who saw the dog described her to be “near death due to starvation.” He noted a lack of fat or muscle and protruding ribs, hips and skull.
The dog was eventually turned over to an emergency clinic where her glucose levels stabilized. She was put in intensive care with around the clock monitoring.
Police in Hendricks County then contacted IMPD and Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Both agencies said Deloney was never an officer, although he was employed by IMPD in some role until his termination in September of 2021.
When Plainfield police went to arrest Deloney at his apartment, court documents indicated the following was in plain sight: “police issued duty belt, along with a police issued radio, police issued taser, a police issued body armor carrier and a badge from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.” There was also a police issued rifle case and police issued pistol case.
A neighbor told officers Deloney had often claimed to be an active IMPD officer, although the neighbor had doubts due to Deloney rarely leaving the apartment.
Another dog that was found in a cage in the apartment was taken into custody. That dog was also severely emaciated and was taken in by animal control.
Deloney was charged with impersonation of a public servant and animal cruelty. | 2023-04-05T16:22:54+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/docs-man-posed-as-impd-officer-when-questioned-about-emaciated-dog-on-brink-of-death/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Independence Point Advisors, a woman-owned investment bank and advisory firm, today announced two new senior hires to bring additional expertise to its energy transition practice.
Independence Point Advisors has hired Amir Chireh Mehr and Kristofer Holz to accelerate its energy transition practice.
"These strategic hires will help us continue to deliver valuable insights and solutions to our clients, meeting the needs of CEOs and decision makers navigating today's complex, historic changes," said Anne Clarke Wolff, Founder and CEO, Independence Point Advisors.
The new hires include:
- Amir Chireh Mehr joins Independence Point Advisors as a principal, supporting the firm's climate and energy transition efforts across mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and strategic advisory. Mehr has over a decade of experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and project finance across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, having raised more than $1.0 billion in direct equity capital commitments for solar, wind, and electric vehicle charging companies. Mehr joins Independence Point Advisors from Radial Power, a developer, owner, and operator of commercial and industrial solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging assets. He previously served as vice president of Climate Real Impact Solutions, a serial issuer of climate-focused special-purpose acquisition companies, and assistant vice president for the GE Europe, Middle East and Africa Equity Underwriting and Portfolio. Mehr holds master's degrees in business and environmental management from Yale and a bachelor's degree from Duke in Physics, Italian and European Studies.
"Addressing climate change is simultaneously the single greatest moral imperative, and economic opportunity of our times. If we are to keep global average temperatures well below 2˚C (3.6˚F), stem biodiversity losses, preserve ecosystems, and create a circular economy that mitigates waste and pollution, then the private sector must play a critical role in efficiently allocating trillions of dollars of capital. I look forward to partnering with the IPA team to mobilize capital markets and raise capital for the best and brightest companies addressing these crucial issues," Mehr said.
- Kristofer Holz joins Independence Point Advisors as a principal supporting the firm's climate and energy transition efforts. Holz has over a decade of experience developing and financing energy transition assets and platforms in private equity, project finance, and reverse merger transactions. He joins Independence Point Advisors from Climate Real Impact Solutions, a serial issuer of climate-focused special-purpose acquisition companies. He previously served as vice president of finance at Inclusive Prosperity Capital and associate at Onyx Renewable Partners. Holz earned master's degrees in business and environmental management at Yale and a bachelor's degree in environmental science at UCLA.
"I could not be prouder to join the team at Independence Point Advisors. A true energy transition demands that invested capital not only address climate change but also alleviate environmental inequality. The depth of ESG expertise IPA offers alongside the team's excellent transactional track record positions us well to meet this challenge, and I look forward to partnering with companies who share our passion and potential for catalyzing industrial transformation," Holz said.
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Thanks, I hate it.
Like a lot of people lately, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence model developed by a firm called OpenAI. The program scours the web and uses algorithms to generate pretty good writing on any topic you can think of, and in any style you can imagine, all in just a few seconds. And it does it way better than any bot ever has.
Fancy a tribute to the Blue Line in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet? The chatbot offers up this stylish, if less than factual, verse:
The Blue Line, thy steel steed doth speed/ Through the city, a serpentine trail/ From the depths of the earth, to the sky so high/ Thou art a lifeline, without fail.
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Clever! It was all fun and games until I wondered if the chatbot would be any good at my own job.
“Write a humorous column on teenagers in the style of Yvonne Abraham,” I requested. I had just attempted this myself, so I had a point of comparison. In response, the bot produced cold writing, stacked with cliches and generic content, all of which I generally try to avoid. But bits of it also kind of sounded like me. For example:
But the real kicker is the attitude. Oh, the attitude. It’s like teenagers have been possessed by some kind of sass-monster that just can’t be tamed.
Elsewhere in the bot’s column, I found writing quirks that showed the machine had really learned something in the few seconds it took to analyze my work – coined words, liberal use of parentheses, phrases like “don’t get me wrong” and “here’s the thing.”
God, I’m predictable.
“This is C- you, at best,” my blessed editor said, when I ran the synthetic column by him. “If you filed this I would think something was seriously amiss.”
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I wouldn’t file it (I swear!), but something is still seriously amiss. This stuff is creepy as heck.
As my colleague Spencer Buell has demonstrated, the chatbot does a pretty good job of imitating Boston Globe news stories, though the articles still have a middle-school quality to them that prevents them from passing as the real thing. (For middle-schoolers, and even high-schoolers, that won’t be a problem. When I entered the prompt from my freshman’s recent history assignment, the bot spat out a pretty good essay on the spread of Islam. Educators take note!)
The AI stories might not be able to fool Globe readers – yet – but the bot already does a good job at writing that requires less creativity: Straightforward letters and basic corporate communications, for example. It’s easy to see how this technology could displace workers in white collar workplaces, just as robotic assembly lines have emptied out car factories in the Midwest, especially since OpenAI has smarter versions of the bot on the way. This technology is already threatening to upend the art and graphic design worlds, as apps like Lensa generate illustrations that are every bit as good as those most humans could manage. And a bot that can detect and fix programming errors will surely mean companies need fewer programmers.
Will journalism, already facing plenty of existential peril, face a similar threat?
Daron Acemoglu says it shouldn’t. The MIT economist, who has written about AI as a potentially disruptive force, says this technology can’t replicate “human creativity and value” merely by scouring the web for examples to imitate.
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“I don’t think it will replace our best op-ed writers,” he said, possibly reacting to the panic in my voice. “It can wipe out jobs that require less creativity, as automation always does.”
The “real scary scenario,” Acemoglu said, is that the bot won’t ever get good enough to replace workers, but it will still be widely deployed to cut costs and jobs anyway. In other words, corporations may decide artificial cleverness is good enough, and that human intelligence has gotten too expensive. But as Acemoglu cautions, it’s too early to panic just yet.
Or, as my algorithmic alter-ego puts it:
In the end, it’s important to remember that AI is just a tool. It can be a useful one, to be sure, but it’s nowhere near as intelligent or capable as the human mind. So let’s not get too carried away with the hype.
Super, super creepy.
Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham can be reached at yvonne.abraham@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @GlobeAbraham. | 2022-12-14T23:18:41+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/14/metro/are-chatbots-coming-my-job/ |
The Super Bowl halftime show will be Rihanna’s first performance in years.
“When I first got the call to do it this year I was like, 'You sure? I’m three months postpartum, should I be making decisions like this right now?' When you become a mom, you feel like you can take on the world, you can do anything," said Rihanna.
Just three months after giving birth to a baby boy, Rihanna got the call to do the Super Bowl Halftime show.
The nine-time Grammy award winner has spent the past several years building her clothing and makeup empire, Savage x Fenty.
Now she’s tasked with condensing her music catalog down to just 13 minutes for the performance.
“There’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. It’s important for me to do this this year, important for representation, important for my son to see that,” she said.
In a room with hundreds of media from around the world, Rihanna took just two questions, one of which was from 12-year-old Julia Crossley of Gilbert, the NFL kid correspondent. She asked, "When you first started pursuing music, what is the most important thing you learned in order to succeed in the industry."
“To stay humble,” said Rihanna.
“She definitely speaks with her words so nicely. She doesn’t treat you like a little kid,” said Crossley.
Also performing at the game are Babyface, country music star Chris Stapleton, and actress and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Before her Eagles take the field, Ralph will make history to be the first person to sing, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl.
“That shows a major effort by the NFL to be truly inclusive,” said Ralph.
Among those signing American Sign Language alongside the performers are Navajo Nation’s Colin Denny, Justina Miles, and Oscar winner and Valley native Troy Kotsur who says he’s inspired by the National Anthem writer Francis Scott Key.
“I’m becoming Francis, putting myself in his shoes, to tell it from his perspective. That’s how I’m going to sign it. It’s a new take,” he said.
This article was written by Jordan Bontke for KNXV. | 2023-02-10T16:32:10+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/rihanna-for-her-first-live-performance-in-years-the-super-bowl-halftime-show |
Rochester Towers repairs to cost millions for building’s structural issues
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Residents of the Rochester Towers Condominium received an email Wednesday saying that repairs to the building would cost as little as $2.8 million and as much as $3.7 million. In the email, FirstService Residential says the median estimate of the costs is valued at $3.2 million.
The repairs are for multiple columns within the building that showed structural deficiencies in June 2023.
Residents say they will bear much of the financial burden of these costs. The email says the cost does not include contingency costs or potential additional repairs.
Approximately 200 residents were given hours to evacuate the apartment building near downtown Rochester on June 2, 2023. Residents were allowed back into the building on July 5th.
Copyright 2023 KTTC. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-27T00:15:40+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2023/07/26/rochester-towers-repairs-cost-millions-buildings-structural-issues/ |
ARVADA — A memorial ride to honor fallen Arvada Police officer Dillon Vakoff took place Saturday morning.
Officer Vakoff was killed in the line of duty while responding to a large family disturbance on Sept. 11
Vakoff, 27, was an Arvada resident who graduated from Ralston Valley High School in 2012. He was a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force where he served with the 96th Bomb Squadron for six years before joining the Arvada Police Department in 2019.
The community continues honoring his memory.
"He could take a bad situation and make things a little easier by a positive outlook," said Douglas Bradshaw, who attended the memorial ride and said he is Officer Vakoff's cousin.
Willa Bradshaw, who is also a family member of Officer Vakoff, shared what she'll remember most about him. "His smile and his humor, always happy, always wanting to serve his community," she said. "We’re doing well, holding up, it's hard especially for his mother but we’re all there for her."
Community member, Todd Ingrim, helped organize the event. "To have a young kid killed at such young age, I had to do something," said Ingrim. "We have carloads of donation stuff, raffle stuff, silent auction stuff. All the money goes to the family."
Hundreds rode their motorcycles for about an hour and a half from Arvada to Golden on Saturday morning, ending at 'In the Zone Sports Bar & Grill.'
All of the community support is helping bring some comfort to his family during these difficult times.
"Shows comfort, shows people are supportive and supporting law enforcement is a comforting thing," added Douglas Bradshaw. "It means a lot. Dillon was an awfully good guy, he did a lot of good stuff."
Donations for Officer Dillon Vakoff's family are being accepted here. | 2022-10-16T13:17:55+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/memorial-ride-honors-memory-of-fallen-arvada-police-officer-dillon-vakoff |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A prosecutor with Norway’s domestic security agency on Friday gave a Russian name for the man who entered the country as a Brazilian but is suspected of spying state secrets for Russia.
Thomas Blom of Norway’s Security Service said the man’s name was Mikhail Mikushin, adding authorities were “not positively sure of his identity, but we are quite certain that he is not Brazilian.”
The man was detained Monday in the Arctic city of Tromsoe, where he worked at the Arctic University of Norway. Norwegian media have said he called himself Jose Assis Giammaria. Norwegian authorities said he was 44, born in Russia in 1978.
Blom told a press conference that the suspect faces a “temporary” charge of spying and that preliminary charge could change as the investigation into the case had just begun. If found guilty of violating Norway’s espionage laws, the man faces up to three years in jail. At first he was arrested in view of expelling him.
“There is an imminent danger of tampering with evidence,” Blom said, explaining why the suspect was detained for four weeks.
On Friday, his lawyer in Oslo, Marijana Lozic, told Norwegian news agency NTB that the man denies any wrongdoing.
“Our view is that, just gaining access to some of these research environments, which are premise providers for the authorities, for policy formulation, is of significant national importance,” Blom said of the suspect.
The university rector told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that to his knowledge no data has been stolen or information had been taken “that could damage our research.” However, “it could undermine the legitimacy of our professional environment,” said Dag Rune Olsen.
The suspect arrived in Norway in 2021, and has researched the northern regions and hybrid threats, Norwegian media said. Norway’s Arctic border with Russia is 198 kilometers (123 miles) long.
In Canada, where the man also studied, he identified himself as Jose Assis Giammaria, according to Canadian Press.
The news agency said the University of Calgary had reported that the man also attended the Alberta school and graduated in the fall of 2018 with a master of strategic studies.
Canadian Press also said a 2015 convocation program from Ottawa’s Carleton University shows Giammaria had graduated with a honors bachelor of arts in political science with a concentration in international relations. | 2022-10-29T05:59:52+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-norway-gives-russian-name-to-academic-detained-for-spying/ |
A Rhode Island state senator was arrested last week after allegedly vandalizing a car that had a "Biden sucks" bumper sticker, claiming he was "dared" to do it by the victim.
Sen. Joshua Miller, 69, was shown in surveillance footage keying a car at the Garden City Center in Cranston, Rhode Island, last Thursday, according to police.
The unidentified son of the man who owns the car told police he heard a scratching noise when walking back to his SUV and saw Miller with keys in hand. After asking Miller if he keyed the vehicle, he said Miller denied it and walked away.
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When police encountered Miller about two hours later, he denied vandalizing the vehicle and let the police look at his keys to check for paint transfer, according to body camera video obtained by Fox News.
Miller told police that he thought the victim recognized him and was one of the "gun nuts" who he claims are stalking him for sponsoring anti-gun legislation. He also accused the victim of making threats toward him.
"He was blocking my way, saying that I scratched his car, I didn’t scratch his car," Miller said. "I’m a state senator, I think he recognized me. I think he’s one of the gun nuts."
Miller is also seen name-dropping police Col. Michael Winquist in the video, telling police to call him as he was aware of the threats against Miller from "gun nuts."
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The Cranston Police Department disputed his claim in a press release posted to social media.
"Mr. Miller never reported any threats to Colonel Winquist or any member of the Cranston Police Department," the statement reads.
"Nobody is above the law, including those who make and enforce the laws," Winquist added in the release. "The officers who handled this investigation did so with fairness, integrity, and without preferential treatment."
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Miller, who is the Senate Democrat policy chairman and leads the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, represents District 28 (which includes where the incident took place) and was first elected to his position in 2006. He sponsored Senate Bill 379, introduced on Feb. 16, 2023, that bans the possession, sale and transfer of assault weapons.
In a body camera video released by the Cranston Police Department, the victim arrives back to the scene and identifies Miller as the vandal. He also told police that he did not recognize Miller as a state legislator. His mother pointed out that she thinks the vandal didn't like her "Biden sucks" bumper sticker when initially reporting the incident to police.
The press release says the victim noticed Miller’s "Re-elect Senator John Miller" bumper sticker on his car, leading to him search the state senator's name on the internet and realizing that Miller was the man he had just encountered.
RI MAN WHO HAD OVER 200 GUNS PLEADS GUILTY TO LYING TO AUTHORITIES ABOUT DRUG USE WHEN PURCHASED THE WEAPONS
The officers initially released Miller until they could get access to security footage, but once they viewed it, they said it corroborated the witness’s account.
Police later arrived at Miller’s house and questioned him about the footage. In another body cam footage video, Miller is seen admitting to being the vandal, claiming again that he was threatened and the victim "dared him" to key his car.
"What’s the reason to key the car, though, that’s the question?" a police officer asks in the footage.
"Because he was daring me to, basically," Miller responded.
Miller voluntarily went to the police station where he was charged with a vandalism/malicious injury to property misdemeanor. He was arraigned and released on $1,000 personal recognizance. He is due in court on July 18, 2023, for re-arraignment.
Miller did not return a request for comment in time for publication.
Click here to see more of the footage of the incident with Miller. | 2023-06-29T02:39:55+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/democrat-state-senator-arrested-after-admitting-to-keying-car-with-biden-sucks-sticker-police/article_a0bbdced-5044-5a6a-9309-a8226bd23b3d.html |
The White House and House Republicans have a deal on the debt ceiling. What remains to be done — and what are the roadblocks — ahead of a vote this week in the House?
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The White House and House Republicans have a deal on the debt ceiling. What remains to be done — and what are the roadblocks — ahead of a vote this week in the House?
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-29T21:05:07+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-05-29/a-look-at-the-new-budget-deal-that-would-raise-the-debt-ceiling |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Philip M. Carter, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, about a new Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-18T14:18:46+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-06-18/a-new-south-florida-dialect-is-forming-in-real-time |
SAN FRANCISCO and MALVERN, Pa., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Frontline Education ("Frontline"), a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, to Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) in an all-cash transaction that values Frontline at approximately $3.725 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
For decades, Frontline Education has earned the trust of K-12 leaders across the U.S. by providing innovative technology and best practices to empower over 10,000 education organizations, across all 50 states, to operate efficiently and effectively. The company offers solutions for human capital management, student and special programs, and business operations with powerful analytics to increase productivity and improve overall performance for K-12 administrators.
The exit follows a five-year partnership between Thoma Bravo and Frontline during which Thoma Bravo leveraged its specialized operating model and deep sector expertise to enable Frontline to drive profitable growth and expand its market leadership in the K-12 education sector. Since Thoma Bravo's acquisition of Frontline in 2017, the company has completed six highly strategic acquisitions, significantly grew its revenue, expanded its market leading product portfolio from 16 to 30 products and increased headcount by over 70% – all while bringing increased value to school districts across the U.S.
"We are deeply appreciative of Thoma Bravo's partnership over the last five years and the countless contributions from our dedicated team members, which have allowed us to deliver an expanded portfolio of mission-critical solutions for our clients," said Mark Gruzin, Chief Executive Officer of Frontline Education. "Roper's acquisition of Frontline Education represents the next phase of our journey, as we stay true to our culture and mission of partnering with K-12 schools in their pursuit of excellence."
"There is a great sense of pride and accomplishment as we reflect on our partnership with Frontline," said Holden Spaht, a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. "Over the past five years, we have worked closely with the management team to significantly grow the ARR of the company and build an integrated, market leading software and analytics platform developed specifically for the unique challenges faced by K-12 administrators and educators. We are not only very proud of Frontline's financial success, but also its positive impact on the K-12 education system and we look forward to watching the company continue to grow and further its important mission under Roper's ownership."
"Thoma Bravo's investment in Frontline is another clear example of our deep expertise across education, software and strategic M&A to accelerate growth and drive positive impacts – in this case promoting highly efficient and effective K-12 district operations," said Brian Jaffee, a Partner at Thoma Bravo. "We've enjoyed our close partnership with Mark and the Frontline management team and are excited to watch the business continue to thrive with a great new partner in Roper."
"Frontline is a terrific business with clear niche market leadership, a proven track record of strong organic and inorganic growth, excellent cash conversion, and an outstanding management team that will thrive as part of Roper," said Neil Hunn, Roper's President and CEO. "The acquisition of Frontline demonstrates Roper's disciplined capital deployment strategy that focuses on identifying high-quality, market-leading technology businesses that will enhance Roper's cash flow compounding. We are excited to welcome Frontline to the Roper family."
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Jefferies LLC and Macquarie Capital are serving as financial advisors and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is serving as legal advisor to Thoma Bravo and Frontline Education. Cooley LLP is also serving as legal advisor to Frontline Education.
Frontline Education is a leading provider of school administration software, connecting solutions for human capital management, student and special programs, and business operations with powerful analytics to empower educators. Frontline partners with school systems to deliver tools, data and insights that support greater efficiency and productivity, enabling school leaders to spend more time and resources executing strategies that drive educator effectiveness, student success and district excellence.
Frontline's broad portfolio includes solutions for proactive recruiting and hiring, absence and time management, professional growth, student information systems, special education, special programs, Medicaid reimbursement, school health management, inventory control and asset management, payroll, benefits and financial management, and analytics solutions that help district leaders tap into their data to make more informed decisions for the benefit of their students and communities. Over 10,000 clients representing millions of educators, administrators and support personnel have partnered with Frontline Education in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners.
Thoma Bravo is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, with more than $114 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2022. The firm invests in growth-oriented, innovative companies operating in the software and technology sectors. Leveraging the firm's deep sector expertise and proven strategic and operational capabilities, Thoma Bravo collaborates with its portfolio companies to implement operating best practices, drive growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings. Over the past 20 years, the firm has acquired or invested in more than 380 companies representing over $190 billion in enterprise value. The firm has offices in Chicago, Miami and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.thomabravo.com.
Roper Technologies is a constituent of the S&P 500 and Fortune 500. Roper has a proven, long-term track record of compounding cash flow and shareholder value. The Company operates market leading businesses that design and develop vertical software and technology enabled products for a variety of defensible niche markets. Roper utilizes a disciplined, analytical, and process-driven approach to redeploy its excess free cash flow toward high-quality acquisitions. Additional information about Roper is available on the Company's website at www.ropertech.com.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will stay in office for another year, the 31-nation military alliance decided on Tuesday.
Stoltenberg said in a tweet that he is “honoured by NATO Allies’ decision to extend my term as Secretary General until 1 October 2024.”
“The transatlantic bond between Europe and North America has ensured our freedom and security for nearly 75 years, and in a more dangerous world, our Alliance is more important than ever,” he said.
Stoltenberg, a former Norwegian prime minister, has been NATO’s top civilian official since 2014. His term had been due to expire last year but was extended then to keep a steady hand at the helm after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts had been due to name a successor when they meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11-12. But the world’s biggest security organization makes decisions by consensus, and no agreement could be found on a new candidate.
Stoltenberg’s fellow countryman, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, welcomed the news, saying that it was “good, important and reassuring.”
“It is also important that this was now clarified before the summit in Vilnius next week,” Gahr Støre was quoted as saying by the Norwegian news agency NTB. He said that NATO’s unity “is particularly crucial in a troubled time of war in Europe.”
Most NATO countries had been keen to name a woman to the top post, and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was thought to be a favorite after a meeting with Biden last month.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, ruled out her candidacy. Other possible names floated, but never publicly named as in the running, were Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
It’s the fourth time Stoltenberg has had his mandate extended. He’s the second-longest serving NATO secretary-general after former Dutch foreign minister Joseph Luns, who spent almost 13 years at the helm from 1971.
Quizzed repeatedly in recent weeks over whether he would agree to have his term renewed, Stoltenberg said that he was not seeking to stay and had no plans other than to continue to carry out his duties and wrap his time at the helm in September.
NATO secretaries-general are responsible for chairing meetings and guiding sometimes delicate consultations between the member countries to ensure that compromises are found so that an organization that operates on consensus can continue to function.
They also ensure that decisions are put into action and speak on behalf of all nations with one voice.
Stoltenberg has managed to tread a very fine line, refraining from criticizing members led by more go-it-alone presidents and prime ministers, like former U.S. President Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
With NATO’s historical adversary, Russia, locked in a war with Ukraine, the process of naming a new secretary-general has become highly politicized.
Poland opposes the next secretary-general coming from a Nordic state after Stoltenberg’s long tenure, and that of his predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen from Denmark. Polish officials wanted someone from a Baltic state. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was a preferred candidate.
But other countries are wary of accepting a nominee from the Baltics or Poland, given what appears to be their unconditional support for Ukraine, including on NATO membership, which the U.S. and Germany, among others, insist should not happen before the war ends.
In naming Fogh Rasmussen, a former Danish premier, their 12th secretary general in 2009, NATO’s leaders signaled that they wanted a government leader or president at the head of their organization. This has made the path almost impossible for Wallace.
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Associated Press writer Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this report. | 2023-07-04T11:23:17+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-happy-with-a-safe-pair-of-hands-as-the-war-drags-on-nato-again-extends-stoltenbergs-mandate/ |
Chip component plant to get $300M expansion in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The electronics subsidiary of German company Merck KGaA says it will spend $300 million to expand its specialty gas production facility in eastern Pennsylvania. The announcement Wednesday was attended by Gov. Josh Shapiro. EMD Electronics says it will create the world’s largest integrated specialty gases facility to serve the fast-growing semiconductor industry. State officials hope it will boost Pennsylvania’s appeal to computer chip makers. Shapiro is pledging more than $1 million in state grants for the expansion in Schuylkill County. Company officials say the site houses a research center and synthesizes materials that form core building blocks of transistors, a component of microchips. | 2023-04-12T17:35:28+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/04/12/chip-component-plant-to-get-300m-expansion-in-pennsylvania/ |
- Lexus guests attending the 2023 New York International Auto Show have the ability to create art featuring the all-new Lexus RX 350 and RZ 450e luxury utility vehicles
- Engagement point leverages popular technology to further tell the story of Lexus' blend of technology and design, appealing to a broad spectrum of luxury guests and customers
- Guests can create their art from April 7-16 at NYIAS, courtesy of AI model trained by software, data and cloud services company Toyota Connected North America
NEW YORK, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It's not hard to imagine your picture-perfect 2023 Lexus RX or 2023 Lexus RZ 450e luxury utility vehicle. But, it's even better to envision it on your own terms – especially amid the hustle and bustle of the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS).
Through the power of artificial intelligence, guests attending NYIAS at the Jacob Javits Center from April 7-16 are able to type in a prompt for the Lexus RX or RZ, placing either vehicle in a setting limited only by their imagination, and manifest that vision into existence.
"Lexus is focused on creating innovative ways to connect with our guests, and this time, we're using Generative AI technology at the New York International Auto Show to engage with them in a unique and very personalized way," said Vinay Shahani, vice president of Lexus Marketing. "As we've shown with the recent launches of the all-new Lexus RX and RZ, intuitive technology is a key pillar of the brand, and this experience featuring these two vehicles provides guests the opportunity to explore what it would look like to have the RX and RZ as a part of their everyday lives and their dreams."
At the Lexus display, guests are guided through prompts that generate images that appear on a 98-inch screen, featuring either the Lexus RX or RZ. Afterward, guests can send themselves their images via email, allowing them to bring their art home with them with nearly any backdrop they could fathom – even in a galaxy far, far away.
To develop the AI art tool, Lexus collaborated with data scientists and machine learning engineers at Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), a data, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software center of excellence headquartered in Plano, Texas. TCNA leveraged state-of-the-art Generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion and ControlNet architectures to train a proprietary Generative AI model to generate photorealistic or artistic style images – all by way of text input. The model was trained on more than 500 photos of each vehicle, capturing every detail imaginable.
Additionally, the stable diffusion model was trained on LAION-5B dataset from non-profit organization LAION to use for backgrounds, artistic styles and detailing.
"At TCNA, we are always looking at new ways to leverage data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other cutting-edge technologies to deliver value to our customers and engage with them," said Shravanthi Denthumdas, vice president of Engineering, Mobility & Emerging Technologies, TCNA. "Generative AI is such a new field for most of the companies, and we're enthusiastic for our partnership with the Lexus marketing team and utilize this technology to develop strong bonds with guests."
This next-level engagement follows up on last year's successful launch of Lexus Performance Driving School's first non-fungible token (NFT), which provided guests who completed the program a digital keepsake. Embedded with performance data and hero images, more than 60 guests minted their NFTs to their cryptocurrency wallets, where they can keep them in perpetuity or use them to potentially unlock future experiences with the Lexus brand.
About Lexus
Lexus' passion for brave design, imaginative technology, and exhilarating performance enables the luxury lifestyle brand to create amazing experiences for its customers. Lexus began its journey in 1989 with two luxury sedans and a commitment to pursue perfection. Since then, Lexus has developed its lineup to meet the needs of global luxury customers in more than 90 countries. In the United States, Lexus vehicles are sold through 244 dealers offering a full lineup of luxury vehicles. With seven models incorporating Lexus Hybrid Drive, Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader. Lexus also offers eight F SPORT models, one F performance model and one F model. Lexus is committed to being a visionary brand that anticipates the future for luxury customers.
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Based in Plano, Texas, Toyota Connected North America (TCNA) was established in 2016 to contribute toward realizing Toyota's global vision for an intelligent mobile society. As an independent Toyota company, TCNA serves as a software and innovation hub that leverages big data from vehicles to humanize the driving experience, providing customers secure, seamless and contextual services. Comprised primarily of software engineers and data scientists, TCNA is a center of excellence for connected services that elevate the customer experience as well as benefitting dealers, distributors and partners. At the heart of TCNA is Toyota's belief in human-centered mobility and a fundamental commitment to personal privacy. Learn more at toyotaconnected.com.
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'Big 3' first Bulls trio to achieve this scoring stat originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
The Chicago Bulls have had some notable trios in the franchise's decorated history.
From the dynasty years, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant spring to mind. As do Jordan, Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
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Then, from the early 2010's came Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Luol Deng, or later, Rose, Pau Gasol and Jimmy Butler.
But no Bulls trio has ever achieved what DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vučević have done in the last four games.
According to Bulls PR, DeRozan, LaVine and Vučević are the first Bulls trio to each score 20-plus points in four straight games together — and the first to even rattle three such games off since 1984, when Jordan, Quintin Dailey and Orlando Woolridge did so.
The Bulls are 3-1 in those four contests and have won the last three, marking their first three-game win streak of the 2022-23 season. In that span, DeRozan is averaging 26.5 points on 51.9 percent shooting, LaVine is averaging 24.5 points on 52.2 percent shooting and Vučević is averaging 23.3 points on 60 percent shooting.
The three have also combined for some clutch moments in victories, from Vučević two 3-pointers in the fourth quarter of Tuesday's win over the Miami Heat, to LaVine's handful of buckets down the stretch of Wednesday's win over the Atlanta Hawks, to DeRozan's game-winner to sink the New York Knicks on Friday.
While all of the above has merely pulled the Bulls to 14-18 and a half-game out of the Eastern Conference's final play-in spot, the tenor of their season is drastically different than even five days ago.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ryan Mountcastle and Jorge Mateo homered, Kyle Gibson pitched seven solid innings after his scheduled start got moved up a day and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers 7-2 on Tuesday night.
Mountcastle hit a towering, three-run homer to cap a five-run second inning, and Mateo's two-run shot in the third chased Andrew Heaney from his Rangers debut. It was the second homer of the season for both hitters.
The Orioles have multiple homers in the first five games of a season for only the second time in team history. They matched the franchise record set by the 1994 team.
Adolis García and Nathaniel Lowe homered off Gibson for the Rangers, who have lost eight in a row to Baltimore.
Gibson (2-0) was supposed to start the series finale Wednesday, but pitched a day earlier after Tuesday's scheduled starter, Tyler Wells, threw five no-hit innings of relief in the series opener. Baltimore's pitching plans got altered when starter Kyle Bradish took a liner off his right foot and exited with a bruise in the second inning Monday night.
Gibson started on opening day last Thursday and the Orioles had a day off after that, so the right-hander was working on normal rest. He threw 58 of 88 pitches for strikes and finished by striking out the side in the seventh. He fanned five overall without a walk.
Heaney (0-1) was the third starter to make his Rangers debut in the season's first week, following Jacob deGrom and Nathan Eovaldi. The lefty, who signed a $25 million, two-year contract in the offseason, allowed seven runs and seven hits over 2 2/3 innings.
Mountcastle's homer that ricocheted off the right-field foul pole traveled a projected 348 feet — the shortest of any of his 62 career home runs. Mateo went deep for the second night in a row after a two-homer game last season at Globe Life Field, where he's hit four of his 19 career home runs.
RANGERS RELIEF
Dane Dunning and Taylor Hearn combined for 6 1/3 scoreless innings and allowed only one hit after Heaney was pulled. That lowered the ERA for Rangers relievers to an MLB-low 0.83, including a scoreless streak of 18 1/3 innings since opening day.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: Manger Brandon Hyde said before the game that Bradish was sore and “pretty tender" and there was a possibility the right-hander could end up on the injured list. ... INF/DH Gunnar Henderson got a game off after a ball ricocheted off his hand when playing the field Tuesday night.
Rangers: LF Josh Smith had six stitches, a cut inside his mouth and some minor swelling a day after getting hit in the face by a pitch. The Rangers have no immediate plans to put him on the IL.
UP NEXT
The series finale Wednesday, when two-time NL Cy Young Award winner deGrom makes his second start for Rangers since signing a $185 million, five-year contract. The right-hander allowed five runs over 3 2/3 innings in a no-decision against Philadelphia in the season opener.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Nearly four dozen people were arrested Wednesday in what federal authorities say was the culmination of three investigations into a drug and firearms operation that stretched from central Arkansas to California and Texas.
A total of 80 people have been indicted and 45 were arrested on weapons and drug trafficking charges, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock.
The statement said two FBI investigations into gang violence and drug trafficking and a separate Drug Enforcement Administration investigation uncovered methamphetamine and fentanyl being mailed from California into Arkansas and distributed in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Houston.
The statement said weapons, including machine guns, cash and drugs, have been seized as part of the investigation. | 2022-11-09T23:28:59+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/45-arrested-in-drug-weapons-investigation-in-17572605.php |
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ ICL Group Ltd (ICL) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $632 million.
On a per-share basis, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had net income of 49 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 48 cents per share.
The potash and fertilizer producer posted revenue of $2.53 billion in the period.
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LUBBOCK, Texas—NextHome Core Realty is celebrating their mascot, Luke’s, birthday. They will be offering dog chipping, plus pet adoptions and photos with your dogs. This event is free and open to the public in their parking lot at 8713 Milwaukee Ave. Find them on Facebook at NextHome Core Realty.
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Grilling is a fun, social, rewarding and delicious hobby. There are so many kinds and models of grills, though, so getting into it can be a little intimidating.
However, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Even the process of planning and purchasing your first grill should be enjoyable and exciting. Once you break down your needs and wants, and find the right piece of equipment at a respectable price, you’ll be on your way to tender, meaty goodness in no time.
Gas vs. charcoal grills
Gas vs. charcoal is an endless debate that doesn’t have a definitive answer. Technically, charcoal grills are simpler, but using one requires a certain amount of finesse.
- Charcoal grills: While it’s possible to be proficient with a charcoal grill right from the get-go, there’s usually a bit of a learning curve, especially for newbies. Lighting the charcoal is easy, but it takes a little experience to use the right amount, position it perfectly and maintain a consistent, precise temperature.
The big upside to charcoal grills is the flavor they provide. Juices will inevitably drip from delicious, well-seasoned meat onto the red-hot coals below. When those juices and the chemicals they contain hit the coals, they instantly vaporize, imparting complex, aromatic flavors to everything on the grill. It’s a process that you can’t quite replicate with a gas grill.
- Gas grills: Gas grills are as easy as it gets. Open the valve on the propane tank, turn on a burner and hit the igniter. Sure, you have to wait for the grill to heat up and make sure you don’t leave it turned up too high, but a stand-alone thermometer and a glance at the control knob will make that easy.
Gas grills don’t quite vaporize flavorful chemicals the same way charcoal can. There’s also a minor drawback to gas grills in regards to maintenance. Both types of grills get covered in soot, ash and grime, but gas grills are a little more finicky, requiring regular cleaning to prevent clogs and keep the igniter working consistently. It’s not a huge problem, but it is something to be aware of.
Picking a grill that is the right size
Getting too small of a grill will keep you from cooking enough food for everyone. Getting too large of a grill means you’ll have to spend extra time and energy warming it up. Plus, if you only ever use a fraction of your grill’s available room, those tasty aromatic vapors won’t be as concentrated. The main exception to the “bigger is better” school of thought is if you plan on cooking with wood smoke. Wood smoke is far more effective if you can keep it centralized. It escapes the grill slowly and has time to soak into the food.
With that said, though, it’s always better to overshoot rather than underestimate your size needs. After all, if your grill’s too small, there’s no going back. By contrast, you can always invite more people to the cookout if half of your grill grates frequently go unoccupied.
A good rule of thumb is to allocate at least 70 to 80 square inches of real estate for each person you plan to cook for. After that quick bit of math, feel free to round up by 100 square inches or so.
Best grills for beginners
Probably the most recognizable grill on the planet, this Weber grill is a great choice for newcomers to charcoal who don’t want to spend much.
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While it’s a little more expensive than the original kettle grill, it offers a more robust build quality in addition to superior ventilation control and ash cleanup.
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If you need to feed an army right out of the gate, this affordable, rock-solid option provides plenty of space to do so.
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It’s a well-built gas Char-Broil grill with dependable, clog-resistant burners and an igniter that works every time.
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With 440 square inches of real estate, two side tables and a pair of rugged wheels, this model is a convenient gas option for the grilling novice.
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In case you don’t want to commit to gas or charcoal grilling alone, this highly versatile Dyna-Glo grill lets you do both, and it also makes a great smoker.
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A durable construction, an easy-access ash receptacle and 600 square inches of real estate make this one of the most economical choices for the up-and-coming charcoal grill master.
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While there’s not much to it, it’s as reliable as a gas grill gets, and its simplicity makes it a great deal.
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Beginner grilling FAQ
Q. What about pellet grills?
A. While they are grills, pellet grills have a very different purpose from other types. They’re meant to remove the guesswork and micromanaging from the smoking process. Pellet grills use an electric heating element to turn specialized wood pellets into delicious smoke that permeates whatever you’re grilling. Pellet grills are rarely suitable for searing meat. In other words, choose a pellet grill if you want to smoke large cuts of meat, but you’ll be hard-pressed to use one for flavor-enhancing grill marks on chicken breast.
Q. Are electric grills any good?
A. Not to be confused with pellet grills, common electric grills have long heating elements and usually nonstick cooking surfaces. They’re convenient for use indoors or anywhere you’re not allowed or able to have an actual flame. They can be remarkably cost-effective, but they don’t deliver a classic grilling experience in nearly any way. If you want to have a fun, tasty cookout that makes the entire neighborhood jealous, avoid electric grills.
Q. Is grilling safe and healthy?
A. The biggest health risk from grilling is burning yourself. This can happen if you’re not careful when lighting a gas grill, adjusting the coals in a charcoal grill or not paying attention when managing hot food. To avoid burning yourself, use grilling gloves to protect your hands. Hazards like piles of hot ashes and running rivers of grease also pose a danger. To minimize dangers, such as entirely avoidable grease fires, allow your grill to cool, and clean it thoroughly after every use.
As far as dietary health is concerned, it’s always advisable to maintain a varied diet that’s low in salt and calories and high in fiber and nutritious vegetables. That guidance remains the same if part of your meal is delicious, smoky meat.
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(ISEECARS.COM) — Production shutdowns and supply chain issues from the ongoing microchip shortage have drastically lowered new car inventory. As the demand continues to exceed the supply of new cars, dealers across the country are pricing new cars above MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) and removing new car incentives.
The newest iSeeCars study of 1.9 million new car listings found the average new vehicle is priced 10.0 percent above MSRP, but some vehicles are priced well above this average. Here are the new cars that are priced the highest above MSRP in each state.
- The Jeep Wrangler compact off-road SUV and the Lexus RX 350h luxury midsize hybrid SUV tie as the vehicles with the highest markup over MSRP in most states with 12.
- The vehicle with the highest markup across all states is the Lexus RX 350h, which is priced 35.0 percent above MSRP in Iowa.
- Luxury SUVs are the most represented vehicle type, accounting for the highest marked-up vehicles in 26 states.
What Does This Mean for Consumers?
New car buyers will likely have trouble finding available inventory and can expect to pay higher-than-average prices for vehicles that are in high demand. New car shortages are expected to persist due to the backlog of demand, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict has led to factory shutdowns and pricing increases on raw materials. Moreover, the lack of inventory for new cars has led to used car price increases as well. The best way to avoid paying over sticker price or to find used cars that aren’t drastically overpriced is to broaden your search radius and consider similar vehicles that may not be as overpriced. Additionally, consumers in some cases can avoid markups by ordering directly from the manufacturer.
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Methodology:
iSeeCars analyzed over 1.9 million new cars sold between July 1 and September 7, 2022, and compared their list price to their MSRP. The average difference was expressed as a percentage from MSRP and used to rank the vehicle models. Low-volume models and heavy-duty vehicles were excluded from further analysis.
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iSeeCars.com is a car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check reports and Best Cars rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $350 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
This article, The Cars With the Highest Dealer Markups by State, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com.
(Information from iSeeCars.com via the Nexstar Media Wire) | 2022-10-02T15:38:25+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/the-cars-with-the-highest-dealer-markups-in-each-state-2/ |
Water is essential to life. Hydration is a cornerstone of good physical health. But finding clean, contaminant-free water is challenging for some people who rely on municipal water systems or groundwater at home or work.
That’s why there are filtration systems that attach directly to the faucet or come in a self-contained pitcher. Either style provides healthy, drinkable water whenever you want it.
In this article: Aqua Crest NSF Certified Water Filter, Brita Tap Water System and Aquagear Water Filter Pitcher.
Do I need to filter my drinking water?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the drinking water system in the United States is among the safest in the world. But since all drinking water contains minerals and trace levels of contaminants, additional filtering may be needed.
While municipal systems are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, homeowners with private well systems are responsible for their own water quality. Even though water in the United States is generally safe to consume, additional filtering is about peace of mind for some people.
Faucet water filter system pros and cons
With a faucet water filter, you have an unlimited supply of water filtered instantly. You don’t have to worry about running out of water for cooking or drinking.
Faucet systems are also easy to install and don’t require a lot of tools or expertise, as long as you have a standard faucet. If you have a designer or custom-made faucet, the filter may not work out of the box.
Many faucet water filters have a button or switch that transitions between filtered and unfiltered water for convenience and conservation. This extends the life of each filter cartridge.
Water filter pitcher pros and cons
Water filter pitchers provide great-tasting, odorless drinking water. They remove a wide range of contaminants, including lead, chlorine, microplastics, pesticides and microorganisms. They can be stored in a refrigerator for cold water, and they are portable if you need to take water with you.
They are limited by size, though. When the pitcher is empty, you must start the process over. This could be challenging for large families or when entertaining guests.
Pitchers are easy to clean, but the design of the pitcher is important since some corners can be difficult to reach.
Replacement water filters are inevitable
No matter which style you choose, you’ll need regular replacement filters. Normal use requires a replacement filter every two to three months. Looking at replacement filter prices and calculating your annual cost will help determine which model is best for your budget.
Consider having your water tested
Most filters today use active carbon, but some filters include ion-exchange technology that removes even more impurities. The best filters are ceramic filters, but they are less common.
If you’re concerned about what contaminant levels are in your water, you can contact your local water utility for a free report or purchase a do-it-yourself testing kit.
Certification is peace of mind
You may want to shop for filters that have been certified by the National Sanitation Foundation or the American National Standards Institute. These certifications ensure that the filters have been third-party tested and actually remove the impurities they claim to.
Best faucet water filters
Aqua Crest NSF Certified Water Filter
This filter incorporates coconut-activated carbon that reduces chlorine, rust and sediment to improve taste and purity. The filter lasts for three months and has been certified by the National Sanitation Foundation.
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This system attaches easily to your faucet and filters the equivalent of 1,800 plastic water bottles annually. It features three spray options and a 99% reduction of chlorine, lead, benzene and other particulates.
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New Wave Enviro 10 Stage Plus Water Filter
This 10-stage filtration system eliminates bacteria, chlorine, lead, mercury and pesticides. The filter attaches easily to your faucet and switches between tap and filtered water.
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This stylish system is made from food-grade stainless steel and features a fast flow rate for cooking. No drill is required for the plug-in attachment. It has a 360-degree rotating design.
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Culligan Faucet-Mount Advanced Water Filtration System
This compact chrome unit uses carbon-block filtration and filters up to 200 gallons per filter cartridge. It installs without tools and includes adapters for all standard nozzles.
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Best water filter pitchers
Brita Grand Water Pitcher with Filter
This large pitcher has a soft-grip handle and lasts two months on average per filter. It has an electronic replacement indicator for the filter and weighs less than 3 pounds.
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Known for its exceptional filtration and taste, this pitcher removes microplastics in addition to harmful contaminants, but it keeps minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, in the water. The filters are recyclable.
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ZeroWater 10-Cup Water Filter Pitcher
The five-stage filter removes dissolved solids, mercury and salts. It is certified by the National Sanitation Foundation and has an easy-dispensing spigot. It saves the equivalent of 2,100 plastic water bottles a year.
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Seychelle pH2O Alkaline Water Filter Pitcher
This American-made pitcher eliminates lead, mercury and other contaminants, and it can also increase pH to 9.5. The company says this alkaline water has health benefits and improves overall taste.
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LifeStraw Home Water Filter Pitcher
This filter removes bacteria, microplastics and parasites in addition to common chemicals and pesticides. It comes in a stylish dispenser made of hand-blown glass from a manufacturer committed to environmental sustainability.
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Hendrick says Elliott to miss about 6 weeks with broken leg
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports says Chase Elliott will miss about six weeks with a broken left leg. The team will turn to Josh Berry and sports car racer Jordan Taylor to fill in for NASCAR’s most popular driver. Hendrick provided a timetable for Elliott’s recovery, said Berry will continue to drive the No. 9 Chevrolet on ovals and added Taylor will make his Cup Series debut on the road course at Circuit of the America’s in Texas later this month. Berry will be behind the wheel Sunday when NASCAR runs at Phoenix Raceway. Elliott fractured his tibia snowboarding in Colorado last week. | 2023-03-08T06:26:59+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-colorado/2023/03/07/hendrick-says-elliott-to-miss-about-6-weeks-with-broken-leg/ |
Footage shows F1 driver Charles Leclerc chasing after watch thieves in Italy
Authorities in Italy this week arrested four people in connection to a 2022 robbery of a luxury watch belonging to Formula One star Charles Leclerc – and shared footage of the driver chasing after the suspects that night in his custom-made Ferrari.
The robbery was reported on April 18, 2022, in Viareggio, a seaside city in Tuscany. In a statement posted on Tuesday, local police said three men and one woman had been arrested after a months-long investigation.
According to local reports, Leclerc was approached by one or more fans that night asking to take pictures. During this interaction, police believe someone slipped off his special edition Richard Mille watch – worth approximately $320,000 – and took off, according to reports.
Police said two suspects escaped on a scooter, in addition to two other suspects in an SUV who helped facilitate their escape.
The local police shared surveillance footage of Leclerc chasing after the suspects that night in his custom Ferrari 488 Pista Spider.
(L) The Arma dei Carabinieri released this footage showing a car chase on the night of the robbery. (R) Charles Leclerc of Monaco and Ferrari looks on from the drivers parade prior to the F1 Grand Prix of Australia at Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit o
Authorities said the suspects left after the robbery and drove to Naples.
Two watches were later found during a search at one of the suspect’s homes, according to the police statement, but did not specify if either belonged to Leclerc. Investigators also found roughly £23,000 ($25,128).
This story was reported from Cincinnati. | 2023-04-05T17:25:39+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/f1-driver-charles-leclerc-chasing-watch-thieves-italy-ferrari |
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania leveraged $2.4 billion in federal highway and bridge formula funds in FY 2022 to help jumpstart 1,078 new improvement projects in communities across the state during the first year of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a review of U.S. Treasury Department data through September 30 shows.
"A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
"The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president. "The beneficiaries of these long-term investments will be the American traveling public in their communities."
President Joe Biden signed the IIJA into law Nov. 15, 2021. Nearly 90 percent of IIJA's highway funds are dispersed by existing formula to states, with the remainder distributed through discretionary grant awards and other allocated programs.
Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September. The five largest projects supported by formula funds in Pennsylvania are:
- I-95: Margaret-Kennedy Philadelphia County Widening/Reconstruction Project - $90.8 million
- Penn's Landing Project Development for Bridge Work in Philadelphia - $51.6 million
- State Route 15, Section 88D, Bridge Work in Union and Snyder Counties - $50.5 million
- I-95: Utility Relocation & Surface Sts City of Philadelphia Roadway Reconstruction: This Project Is For the Reconstruction of SR 95 and SR 0073 (New State Road) For An Approximate Total Length of 1.4 Miles. Included Is the Construction of One (1) Retain - $47.9 million
- Interstate Roadway Reconstruction on Interstate 84 (Fallen Trooper Memorial Highway) to Sawkill Creek, Bridge Replacement over Township Road 430 (Tunnel Road), State Route 2011(Sawhill Road), in Dingman Township, Pike County. For the Rehabilitation and I - $45.0 million
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Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.
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Britain's media and communications regulator Ofcom says it has "significant concerns" that Amazon and Microsoft could be harming competition in the market for cloud services.
In a statement Wednesday, Ofcom said it was "proposing to refer" the cloud services market to the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK antitrust regulator, for further investigation.
Ofcom's own probe, which it launched in October, had so far uncovered some "concerning practices, including by some of the biggest tech firms in the world," said Fergal Farragher, the Ofcom director leading the investigation.
"High barriers to switching are already harming competition in what is a fast-growing market. We think more in-depth scrutiny is needed, to make sure it's working well for people and businesses who rely on these services," Farragher added.
The Competition and Markets Authority said it received Ofcom's provisional findings Wednesday and was reviewing them. "We stand ready to carry out a market investigation into this area, should Ofcom determine it is required," a spokesperson said.
The Ofcom announcement comes days after Google Cloud accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices. In an interview with Reuters, Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery said the company had raised the issue with antitrust agencies and urged EU antitrust regulators to take a closer look.
Cloud services are delivered to businesses and consumers over the internet and include applications such as Gmail and Dropbox.
Europe's Digital Markets Act, which will apply from May, aims to enhance competition in online services. Britain's own Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill is expected to come before lawmakers this year.
According to Ofcom, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure have a combined UK market share of 60%-70% in cloud services. Google is their closest competitor with 5%-10%.
Ofcom said the three companies charged high "egress fees" for transferring data out of a cloud, which discourages customers from switching providers or using multiple providers to best serve their needs.
It also flagged technical restrictions imposed by the leading providers that prevent some of the services of one provider working effectively with cloud services from other firms, and said that fee discounts were structured to incentivize customers to use a single provider for all or most of their cloud needs.
There were indications that these market features were already causing harm, "with evidence of cloud customers facing significant price increases when they come to renew their contracts," Ofcom said.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company would continue to engage with Ofcom on its investigation. "We remain committed to ensuring the UK cloud industry stays highly competitive," the spokesperson added. CNN has also contacted Amazon and Google.
Ofcom has invited feedback on its interim findings and will publish a final decision by October 5 on whether to refer the cloud services market to the Competition and Markets Authority.
"Making a market investigation reference would be a significant step for Ofcom to take. Our proposal reflects the importance of cloud computing to UK consumers and businesses," it said.
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(The Hill) — Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) shared a compilation of around a dozen vulgar and threatening calls to his congressional office to highlight an increase in threats of violence in politics.
“Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows,” Kinzinger said in a tweet accompanying the video on Tuesday. “My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office.”
“I hope you naturally die as quickly as f—— possible,” one caller said.
“Going to come protest in front of your house this weekend. We know who your family is and we’re going to get you,” another caller said. “Gonna get your wife, gonna get your kids.”
Some of the calls in the compilation did not include a direct threat, but demonstrated the kind of vulgar and angry calls that his office gets.
“You’re the biggest piece of sh– politician in the world. Why don’t you just leave and go away and shut your f—— mouth, you piece of sh–,” one caller said.
The video noted that calls and voicemails to Kinzinger’s congressional office are received by high school and college-level interns “attempting to learn about the legislative process.”
“The threats are unhinged and all too common,” Kinzinger said in another tweet from his personal account.
The Capitol Police said that its Threat Assessment Team has opened roughly 1,820 cases, including direct threats and directions of interest, since March 23, 2022.
The number of threat assessment cases that the Capitol Police have opened has increased in recent years: In 2021, there were 9,625 cases, compared to 8,613 in 2020, 6,955 in 2019, 5,206 in 2018 and 3,939 in 2017.
Kinzinger, along with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), is one of two House Republicans who sit on the Jan. 6 Select Committee. His participation in the panel, which House Republican leadership has boycotted, is the subject of intense criticism from other Republicans. Earlier this year, the Republican National Committee formally censured Kinzinger and Cheney for sitting on the Jan. 6 panel.
Tuesday is not the first time that Kinzinger, who is not seeking reelection, has publicly shared threats against his family.
Last month, Kinzinger posted a photo of a letter sent to his home addressed to his wife that warned Kinzinger would be “executed.”
“Until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently,” Kinzinger said on ABC’s “This Week” at the time. | 2022-07-05T18:43:23+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/kinzinger-shares-compilation-of-vulgar-and-threatening-calls/ |
New York Artists Can Enter for a Chance to Win a Year-Long Contract with World's Largest Art Dealer
NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Park West Fine Art Museum & Gallery has announced their first annual "Painted in New York" artist competition, searching for the best artists in New York. The lucky winner will be offered a year-long contract and, upon mutual agreement, the opportunity to showcase their original art at the Park West SoHo location for a special three-month exhibition.
"Park West is enthusiastic about art awareness and supporting local artists where our galleries are located," said John Block, Executive Vice President of Park West Gallery. "This competition provides the opportunity for New York-based artists to potentially showcase their work in our gallery alongside masterpieces by Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn and other staples of art history. I can't wait to see the incredible submissions we receive!"
Submissions will open on Monday, March 6 at 9 a.m. ET and close on Friday March 31 at 11:59pm ET. Legal residents of New York who are at least 18 years old are invited to participate. Eligible participants can enter the competition by submitting images of three original works of art—whether a painting, sculpture, collage or non-digital drawing or illustration—via email.
The email address for submissions will be revealed the morning of Monday, March 6 on social media and on parkwestgallery.com/newyork/ The full contest rules and regulations are available to review on the Park West New York website now.
Once the submission period is over, representatives from Park West Gallery will select the contest's Top 10 semi-finalists. The New York public will then have the chance to decide the next round of the competition—all 10 artists will be displayed at Park West SoHo, and the public will be able to visit the artwork in-person and vote for their favorites. The three artists with the most public votes will become the contest's Final 3 artists. The ultimate winner will then be selected by a panel of judges, including Park West executives, current Park West artists, and New York dignitaries. A reception at the SoHo gallery to celebrate the winner and all the finalists will follow.
Park West Gallery SoHo, located at 411 W. Broadway St. between Spring St. and Prince St., is open daily from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. For more information, visit www.parkwestgallery.com/newyork/ or call 917-287-4351.
About Park West Gallery
Park West Gallery is the world's largest art dealer, bringing the experience of collecting fine art to more than 3 million customers since 1969. Whether it's masterpieces from history's greatest artists or the latest artwork from leading contemporary icons, Park West offers something for everyone through its accessible art exhibitions and auctions all over the world. Learn more about Park West Gallery and its over 50-year history at http://www.parkwestgallery.com.
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PITTSFIELD -- Pittsfield will be hosting the Maine Cheese Guilds annual Cheese Festival this year at Manson Park.
The festival will be home to a variety of cheeses that come from all across Maine.
On Sunday, September 10th, cheese makers, and vendors will bring their food trucks, cheese plates, and more.
The event has made a name for itself by being a great place to bring people together, all in the name of cheese.
According to the Secretary of the Cheese Guild Heather Donahue, "You'll be talking to cheese makers all day. You'll be able to ask them about their craft and what they love about it, and what their favorite cheeses are. We also have animals that will be here, we'll have calves, and goats, and sheep. It will also be a great spot to entertain kids. There's something at the festival for everyone."
For more information on the Cheese Festival and to purchase your tickets, visit: mainecheesefestival.org | 2023-07-15T00:03:05+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/pittsfield-will-host-the-maine-cheese-guilds-annual-cheese-festival/article_ade3b06e-2297-11ee-8d4b-4b417720e88e.html |
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CTMX, NIO, GRAB, U, and SE.
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William Jay Ihrig, 63, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died March 14, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
David Botefur, 72, died March 12, 2023, at home in Glenwood, Wash. David was born Nov. 30, 1951. Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
Ruth Bruns, 81, of Goldendale, Wash., died March 16, 2023, in Hood River, Ore. Ruth was born Dec. 9, 1941. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
Alicia Michelle Williams, 38, died unexpectedly March 17, 2023, at home in The Dalles, Ore. Alicia was born Aug. 5, 1984. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
Rojelio Castellanos, 37, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died March 18, 2023. A viewing took place on March 24, rosary March 25 and funeral mass March 26, with internment at St. Peter’s Cemetery. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Amanda Jean Harman, 35, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died March 18, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Richard Johnson, 82, died March 19, 2023, at home in White Salmon, Wash. Richard was born Aug. 20, 1941. Arrangements under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
William “Frank” Wesley, 91, died March 19, 2023, at home in Goldendale, Wash. Frank was born April 5, 1931. At Frank’s request, there will be no formal service. Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
Beverly Ann Carrillo, 84, died March 20, 2023, at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital in Hood River, Ore. Beverly was born July 1, 1938. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
Henry “Hank” Norman Kempton, 73, died March 21, 2023, in White Salmon, Wash. Hank was born July 25, 1949. A service will be held on Friday, April 7 at 10 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church, 1280 SW Jewett Blvd., White Salmon, Wash., with a potluck to follow. Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
Wanita “Nita” Griffith, 90, died March 22, 2023, at home in The Dalles, Ore. Nita was born March 29, 1932. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
James Dean Hill, 67, died March 22, 2023, in Lyle, Wash. James was born Aug. 12, 1955. Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
Thomas Greg Burns, 69, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died March 23, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
82, died March 24, 2023, at home in Hood River, Ore. Dorothy was born Sept. 3, 1940. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, Hood River. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence. | 2023-03-28T11:16:06+00:00 | columbiagorgenews.com | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/obituaries/death-notices-and-service-announcements-march-29-2023/article_6ef75696-ccf5-11ed-93c5-93223f39dd7e.html |
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Some high school football scores provided by Scorestream.com, https://scorestream.com/ | 2022-10-30T03:12:38+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Saturday-s-Scores-17544295.php |
Amid a wave of incidents involving fans at concerts throwing objects at artists, it happened again this weekend.
This time to rapper Cardi B, who returned the favor.
A video from her performance in Las Vegas on Saturday shows someone in the crowd, close to the stage, throwing a drink at Cardi. The rapper then throws her microphone back at the person.
Security got involved, and the rapper reportedly continued with her set.
So far, no charges have been filed against the person who threw the drink at Cardi or against Cardi for throwing her microphone.
Cardi later posted on socialmedia a video where she says, “not the girl who threw the water yelling she’s sorry after.”
This comes after an alarming string of incidents where people keep throwing things on stage, sometimes even hurting performers.
In June, Pop star Bebe Rexha was hit by a cellphone in the face during a show in New York, forcing her to stop the music. The strike left the singer with a black eyeand in need of stitches.
Also in June, country artist Kelsea Ballerini was hit in the face by an object. She too stopped her set before returning with a message to fans.
This month, Harry Styles was also hit in the eye with an object while performing in Vienna, and rapper Drake was hit in the arm by a phone thrown during his concert in Chicago.
SEE MORE: Why do fans keep throwing things at artists during concerts?
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-31T01:58:39+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/cardi-b-throws-microphone-at-concertgoer-after-they-throw-drink-at-her |
GLENWOOD, Minn. (AP) — Loving father and husband. Heroic military veteran. Selfless law enforcement officer. And a distinctive laugh.
That's how Josh Owen, a Minnesota sheriff’s deputy killed on his 44th birthday, was remembered by the thousands of mourners at his funeral Saturday on a cold, clear spring day.
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Drawn by four horses, his flag-draped casket arrived atop a black caisson in the small city of Glenwood, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. A line of tan-uniformed Pope County deputies raised a final salute alongside first responders, military members, Owen’s wife, 10-year-old son and even his police dog.
Owen was fatally shot and two other law enforcement officers were wounded on April 15 while responding to a domestic assault call at a home in the town of Cyrus. The suspect was killed.
Owen served in the Army National Guard and deployed overseas twice to Bosnia and Iraq.
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His platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Col. John Anderson, said Owen “lived up to the definition of a hero,” recalling how he once rescued a trapped truck driver after an ambush.
Pope County Chief Deputy Nathan Brecht tearfully remembered how Owen disliked paperwork but loved working the night shift — and believed law enforcement is a noble profession.
“This man was your protector in Pope County,” Brecht said. “As your family slept soundly, he kept watch.” | 2023-04-22T21:21:51+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/slain-minnesota-deputy-remembered-as-definition-17912787.php |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Blues mainstays Buddy Guy, Albert Castiglia and John Nemeth each won two awards and Tommy Castro took home the prize of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.
Guy, a guitarist and singer, won in the album of the year and contemporary blues album categories for “The Blues Don’t Lie,” the Memphis-based Blues Foundation said in a news release. Castiglia, also a singer and guitarist, won the blues rock artist award and the top prize in the blues rock album category for “I Got Love.”
Nemeth, a singer and harmonica player, won in the traditional blues album category for “May Be The Last Time.” He also won in the harmonica instrumentalist category.
Castro, a guitarist and singer, won the award named after late blues legend B.B. King for the second year in a row.
Other winners included Danielle Nicole for bass instrumentalist, Sue Foley for traditional blues female artist, Ruthie Foster in the contemporary blues female category, and Charlie Musselwhite in the acoustic album category for “Mississippi Son.”
Guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram won the award for best contemporary blues male artist for the fourth year in a row.
Tedeschi Trucks won in the band of the year category and Tom Hambridge won song of the year for writing “The Blues Don’t Lie.”
The 44th installment of the annual Blues Music Awards took place Thursday at the Renasant Convention Center in downtown Memphis. | 2023-05-14T23:12:09+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/blues-music-awards-in-memphis-bestows-2-awards-each-to-guy-castiglia-nemeth/ |
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Talor Gooch upstaged the more-fancied names on the LIV Golf tour by shooting a 10-under 62 Friday to take a four-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural Australian tournament at The Grange.
The 31-year-old American started with a par on his opening hole in the shotgun-start format — the par-3 12th — but then had 10 birdies, including five in a row.
Two more players in the unfancied category — Richard Bland and Dean Burmester — shot 66s and were tied for second. Five players were tied for fourth, including Danny Lee, who won the second LIV event in Arizona in mid-March.
“If anyone says they’re not surprised at 10-under, they’re lying,” Gooch said. “It’s the day that you work hard for … it was one of those rounds where I was hitting it close and making a lot of putts, so it was fun.”
The higher-profile names in the 48-player field were further behind on the leaderboard.
Sergio Garcia shot 68 and British Open champion Cameron Smith and Brooks Koepka had 69s. Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson had 70s and Patrick Reed and Dustin Johnson shot 71. Bryson DeChambeau had a 73.
LIV Golf and local organizers said there was a sellout crowd of 35,000 for the first day. Local media reported that there were long lines of fans waiting to enter the course when the golfers teed off shortly after midday in Adelaide.
“The energy was really high out there,” said Smith, who is Australian. “It’s nice to have a lot of people that are riding with you but it’s also pretty stressful — you want to hit a good shot all the time, it’s not as free-flowing as what it typically is.”
Johnson’s team, Aces GC, led the team leaderboard entering the fourth tournament of the year. Charles Howell III, who won the season-opening event in Mexico and shot 69 on Friday, leads the overall individual standings ahead of Koepka, who won the last LIV tournament in Orlando.
The individual winner at The Grange will collect $4 million of the total $20 million purse.
The 14-event season continues next weekend at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-21T20:09:21+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/talor-gooch-leads-after-1st-round-of-liv-golf-in-australia/ |
Braves vs. Twins Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 27
Tuesday's game at Truist Park has the Atlanta Braves (51-27) going head-to-head against the Minnesota Twins (40-40) at 7:20 PM (on June 27). Our computer prediction projects a 4-3 victory for the Braves, who is a small favorite based on our model.
The probable pitchers are Bryce Elder (5-1) for the Braves and Joe Ryan (8-4) for the Twins.
Braves vs. Twins Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7:20 PM ET
- Where: Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Braves vs. Twins Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Braves 4, Twins 3.
Total Prediction for Braves vs. Twins
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Braves Performance Insights
- The Braves have played as the favorite in nine of their past 10 games and have gone 8-1 in those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Atlanta and its opponents are 6-4-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Braves are undefeated against the spread in their last two chances.
- This season, the Braves have won 44 out of the 67 games, or 65.7%, in which they've been favored.
- Atlanta is 29-12 this season when entering a game favored by -155 or more on the moneyline.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Braves have a 60.8% chance to win.
- Atlanta has scored the third-most runs in the majors this season with 432.
- The Braves have a 3.83 team ERA that ranks eighth across all MLB pitching staffs.
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The Series B round will fund Buildkite's operations expansion, solidifying the company's position as an integral partner for the biggest tech companies in the world
PERTH, Australia, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Buildkite, an industry-leading software development company, today announces the completion of a $21 million USD Series B funding round to help the company on its mission to unblock every software developer on the planet.
Co-led by Australian investors OneVentures and AirTree, with participation from US-based General Catalyst, and Dom Pym, founder of digital bank Up; Buildkite will dedicate 100% of the funds to launch new developer-focused products and expand the company's existing operations, marketing and sales teams.
Over the last nine years, Buildkite's platform has quickly become the most performant way to build, test, and deploy software at scale. The platform was the first to introduce the hybrid CI/CD model in which customers host their testing and deployment pipelines on their own infrastructure while offloading the user experience for managing these pipelines to a cloud-powered interface. This provides DevOps teams the ability to achieve closer performance parity to production systems through utilization of their own resources while keeping their source code within their walls. Meanwhile development teams benefit from increased usability as compared to a fully self-hosted CI/CD alternative.
To date, the company has raised a total of $39 million USD and partnered with several Fortune 1000 companies, including Wayfair, Shopify, Slack, Twilio, Canva, and Lyft. The secret ingredient for scalable growth, Buildkite's longevity and strong customer base is a testament to their successful approach to building software and accommodating advanced engineering needs. In the past year alone, Buildkite released one of the most inventive products DevOps has seen in the last decade, Test Analytics, which finally solves one of the biggest, most time-consuming, and most expensive problems in DevOps: flaky tests.
The demand for remote and hybrid work has accelerated the need for software development teams to adopt autonomous tooling to unblock and avoid lapses in productivity. Buildkite democratizes the craft of software development by giving back control to developers. A major player in cultural shifts within billion-dollar organizations, Buildkite transforms legacy static build pipelines into a series of dynamic workflows to create a more efficient build and deploy process. As a result, companies have seen up to an 80% reduction in build times and tens of thousands of developer hours saved.
Keith Pitt, CEO and co-founder of Buildkite, said: "Nine years ago, we developed a product with strong opinions on how CI/CD pipelines should be built. Fast forward to today, it's used by some of the best software development teams on the planet. The engineer in me is always curious about how our customers build and develop software, and after many chats with them, it's become clear that many of the other tools they use block them from doing their best work. With this next round of funding, I'm excited to invent new dev tools for the software being developed today, and for the software that hasn't even been written yet."
Buildkite's remote team of 80 has kept pace with widely celebrated companies that boast teams of thousands. The team continues to make waves in the industry, strengthening its affiliation with key partners such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)–having recently announced Buildkite's launch on the AWS Marketplace.
Trevor Oelschig, managing director, General Catalyst said: "It is no surprise to see Buildkite's phenomenal growth and its distinguished list of customers. Keith is a classic product- and customer-centric builder. The team shares his passion for learning and empowering developers who are building enduring companies across multiple industries."
James Cameron, partner, Airtree said: "Not only has Buildkite been quietly building one of the most impressive set of developer tools in the world, they have also been building one of the most enviable customer bases we've ever seen - including many of the world's most innovative tech companies like Uber, Canva, LinkTree, Shopify, Venmo, Slack, Stripe, Twilio, Segment, Discord, Rabobank, and Twilio."
"But what stood out even more was how much these customers LOVE their products - I don't think we've ever had as many positive customer testimonials as we had from their devoted fan base. And on top of this, they have been one of the most capital efficient growth stories we've ever seen emerge from this part of the world. When we had the opportunity to partner with Keith and the team we jumped at the chance."
Dr Michelle Deaker, managing director and founding partner, OneVentures has strong ambitions for its latest investment. "OneVentures is delighted to back Buildkite after following its business for a number of years. We were impressed by the strength of the CEO and the company's ability to generate its quality customer base through a product-led growth approach. The size of the market is substantial and expected to reach $3.9 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18.5%, with the opportunity to displace legacy solutions and enter some new verticals outside of the tech giants."
The investment of $15M in Buildkite is the latest investment from OneVentures' technology Growth Fund V, following other noteworthy investments in companies such as Employment Hero, Lumary, Flippa and Kepler Analytics.
Buildkite is the fastest and most secure way to build, test, and deploy software at any scale. The company's continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) platform allow teams of all sizes to run fast, secure and scalable pipelines on their own infrastructure. Founded in 2013 by software engineers Keith Pitt and Tim Lucas, the company was the first to introduce a self-hosted agent model and now supports over 1,000 customers across the world, including Canva, Intercom, Shopify, Venmo, Webflow, and more.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The City of Wichita had snowplow crews out and about Monday, plus heating and cooling businesses are experiencing an influx in calls as the colder weather hits.
Wichita crews started at midnight, preparing the trucks and having the salt and sand ready.
By the time the snow hit on Monday, crews had already treated many main roads and emergency routes.
“We have over 60 trucks. We are fully staffed. We have all the salt sand mix, so we are ready for whatever any storm this season throws at us,” said Megan Lovely, City of Wichita communications manager.
But it’s not just the roads being treated. People are making sure their heaters are ready too.
“As soon as it got cold, the phones lit up,” said Mike McDowell, Dan’s Heating and Cooling general manager.
Dan’s Heating and Cooling saw at least 20 customers without heat on Monday.
McDowell said when turning on your thermostat for the first time, turn it up a few degrees higher than you usually would.
“So that you can listen to your system hear that it turns on if it doesn’t turn on, you’ve got an issue,” said McDowell.
McDowell said it’s also good to check your furnace filter and recommends getting on a preventive maintenance program to avoid any issues this winter.
“If you’ve got yourself in over your head with your system, call a licensed professional out to have them look at it for you,” said McDowell.
Experts also recommend you check your carbon monoxide detector is working.
As heating bills start to come in, Kansas offers a low-income energy assistance program. You can learn more here.
The City of Wichita asks if you are driving in these conditions, slow down and allow for plenty of room for the snowplows. | 2022-11-15T13:17:25+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/first-snowfall-hits-a-good-time-to-check-your-heating-system/ |
Woman in $400K GoFundMe scam gets 1 year in federal case
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A woman who admitted her role in a scam that raised $400,000 using a fake story about a homeless man has been sentenced in federal court.
A New Jersey judge sentenced Katelyn McClure Thursday to a prison term of one year and one day.
McClure and her then-boyfriend Mark D’Amico fabricated the story that homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt, Jr., rescued her from the side of a Philadelphia highway in 2017.
They publicized their story and more than 14,000 people donated, thinking the money was for Bobbitt.
Prosecutors say the pair instead spent the money on luxury items and travel.
McClure also pleaded guilty to state charges in 2019 and faces sentencing next month. | 2022-07-21T22:32:53+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/07/21/woman-in-400k-gofundme-scam-gets-1-year-in-federal-case/ |
- APONVIE, the first and only intravenous (IV) formulation of a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist indicated for Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV) -
- APONVIE is delivered via a single IV push and offers 48 hours of PONV prevention -
- Leveraging existing acute care commercial teams across the U.S. -
SAN DIEGO, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs, today announced APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion, is now commercially available for intravenous (IV) use in adults for the prevention of PONV.
Delivered via a single IV injection, APONVIE reaches drug levels associated with ≥97% receptor occupancy in the brain within five minutes and maintains therapeutic plasma concentrations for at least 48 hours. This ready-to-use, easy to administer, innovative IV formulation ensures rapid and consistent exposure in patients undergoing surgery. Treatment with aprepitant resulted in approximately 50% fewer patients vomiting in the first 24 and 48 hours compared to the current standard-of-care, IV ondansetron.
"There are approximately 36 million procedures in the U.S. each year involving patients with high to moderate risk for PONV, the patients who would benefit most from APONVIE. With superior efficacy and convenient dosing, APONVIE has the potential to reach several hundred million dollars in sales," said Barry Quart, Pharm.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Heron. "This launch supports our ongoing commitment to delivering innovative solutions that improve the postoperative experience by addressing the two most common concerns after surgery, postoperative pain with ZYNRELEF® and postoperative nausea and vomiting with APONVIE."
"PONV is one of the most common and concerning side effects patients experience after surgery. Inadequately managed PONV can result in poor patient outcomes, decreased patient satisfaction as well as increased healthcare costs," said Randy Robbins, MD, Managing Partner at Valiant Anesthesia Associates, PLLC. "Aprepitant is proven to be the most effective single agent to prevent PONV based on a comprehensive Cochrane meta-analysis. The launch of APONVIE will now allow providers to prevent PONV without the limitations of the current oral route of administration. We are very excited to see that physicians can now offer patients a more convenient IV push that delivers aprepitant in a rapid, consistent, and reliable way with the same 48-hour duration of effect, providing a better experience for patients postoperatively."
APONVIE represents a significant opportunity that leverages Heron's existing commercial organization in the acute care setting, with no additional field force and limited external spend needed for the launch. APONVIE also leverages our recent improvements in manufacturing efficiencies with CINVANTI.
Important Safety Information for Patients
APONVIE should not be used:
- if you are allergic to aprepitant or any of the ingredients in APONVIE
- if you are taking pimozide
APONVIE may cause serious side effects. Tell your doctor or nurse right away if you have any of these signs or symptoms of an allergic reaction:
- trouble breathing or swallowing, shortness of breath or wheezing
- swelling of your eyes, face, tongue, or throat
- flushing or redness of your face or skin
- hives, rash, or itching
- dizziness, a rapid or weak heartbeat, or you feel faint
APONVIE may affect how other medicines work. Other medicines may affect how APONVIE works. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements. If you take the blood-thinner medicine warfarin, your doctor may do blood tests after you receive APONVIE to check your blood clotting.
Women who use birth control medicines containing hormones to prevent pregnancy (birth control pills, skin patches, implants, and certain IUDs) should also use back-up methods of birth control (such as condoms and spermicides) for 1 month after receiving APONVIE.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. APONVIE contains alcohol and may harm your unborn baby.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding or plan to breastfeed because it is likely APONVIE passes into your milk, and it is not known if it can harm your baby. You and your doctor should decide if you will receive APONVIE, if breast-feeding.
The most common side effects of APONVIE are constipation, low blood pressure, tiredness, and headache.
Talk to your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. Report side effects to Heron at 1-844-437-6611 or to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
The information provided here is not comprehensive. Please see full Prescribing Information.
About APONVIE for PONV
APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion is a substance P/NK1 receptor antagonist, indicated for the prevention of PONV in adults. Delivered via a 30-second IV push, APONVIE 32 mg was demonstrated to be bioequivalent to oral aprepitant 40 mg with rapid achievement of therapeutic drug levels. APONVIE is the same formulation as Heron's approved drug product CINVANTI®. APONVIE is supplied in a single-dose vial that delivers the full 32 mg dose for PONV. APONVIE was approved by the FDA in September 2022.
Please see full prescribing information at www.APONVIE.com.
About ZYNRELEF for Postoperative Pain
ZYNRELEF is the first and only dual-acting local anesthetic that delivers a fixed-dose combination of the local anesthetic bupivacaine and a low dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug meloxicam. ZYNRELEF is the first and only extended-release local anesthetic to demonstrate in Phase 3 studies significantly reduced pain and significantly increased proportion of patients requiring no opioids through the first 72 hours following surgery compared to bupivacaine solution, the current standard-of-care local anesthetic for postoperative pain control. ZYNRELEF was initially approved by the FDA in May 2021 for use in adults for soft tissue or periarticular instillation to produce postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours after bunionectomy, open inguinal herniorrhaphy and total knee arthroplasty. In December 2021, the FDA approved an expansion of ZYNRELEF's indication. In December 2022, we submitted a supplemental new drug application to support the proposed indication for greatly expanded use of ZYNRELEF in soft tissue and orthopedic surgical procedures. ZYNRELEF is now indicated in the U.S. in adults for soft tissue or periarticular instillation to produce postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours after foot and ankle, small-to-medium open abdominal, and lower extremity total joint arthroplasty surgical procedures. Safety and efficacy have not been established in highly vascular surgeries, such as intrathoracic, large multilevel spinal, and head and neck procedures.
Please see full prescribing information, including Boxed Warning, at www.ZYNRELEF.com.
About Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs. Our advanced science, patented technologies, and innovative approach to drug discovery and development have allowed us to create and commercialize a portfolio of products that aim to advance the standard-of-care for acute care and oncology patients. For more information, visit www.herontx.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Heron cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this news release and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, the results of the commercial launch of APONVIE; the potential market opportunity for APONVIE; and other risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their stated date, and Heron takes no obligation to update or revise these statements except as may be required by law.
Investor Relations and Media Contact:
David Szekeres
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
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SOURCE Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2023-03-06T15:00:06+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/03/06/heron-therapeutics-announces-us-commercial-launch-aponvie-management-postoperative-nausea-vomiting-adults/ |
MLB opening day offers new rules: Clocks, shift bans and more
A major shift in how Major League Baseball is played. About time, too.
Aaron Judge aiming at his own home run record, Shohei Ohtani trending with every pitch and swing, Dusty Baker trying to win another World Series ring.
All-Stars in different spots, a new scheduling concept featuring each team facing all 29 opponents.
If it sounds like these plot lines are from a movie — "Everything Everywhere All at Once” comes to mind — it's true.
Opening day is Thursday and the full slate includes games at Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium. And good news for fans — there's no snow in the forecast at any of them.
Pitch timer
Manny Machado drew the first pitch clock violation in spring training and it was nuisance. A game between the Braves and Red Sox ended on a clock call and it was a novelty.
Chances are, if Max Scherzer or Nolan Arenado or some other intense star gets timed out in a key spot, it could go nuclear.
But MLB realized it had to do something to cut all the dead periods when absolutely nothing was happening. Well, except for hitters adjusting their batting gloves or pitchers pawing at the rubber. So with games routinely dragging on for more than three hours, the slowdown is getting sped up.
The sport that never had a clock suddenly has them all over the park. Gerrit Cole, Max Fried and the rest of the pitchers get 15 seconds to throw with nobody on base, 20 seconds with runners on. Vladimir Guerero Jr., Mookie Betts and the hitters need to be ready.
Video below: How new MLB rules will change baseball
The early returns were good, spring training games lasted nearly a half-hour less this year. But remember, that was in Clearwater, Tempe and Lakeland — it might be a lot different, especially early in the season, when umpires begin pointing to their wrists at Busch Stadium, Camden Yards and Petco Park.
Very shifty
NL home run champ Kyle Schwarber, 2020 World Series MVP Corey Seager and a bevy of left-handed boppers should benefit hugely by this rule change. Because from now on, those pull hitters won't face a wall of three infielders on the right side.
Defensive shifts dominated the game in recent years, a big reason why batting averages plummeted so sharply. José Ramírez, Cody Bellinger and other lefties increasingly found themselves being thrown out from shallow-to-medium right field.
No longer. Realizing that shifts were a winning strategy on the field but a losing proposition with fans, MLB banned them. These days, two infielders must be standing on each side of second base. And no playing deep on the grass to rob hits, either — Dansby Swason, Jeremy Peña and other infielders need to be on the dirt.
Video below: A look at new menu items available at Fenway Park for 2023
One likely effect: With more grounders sneaking through for singles, look for the number of no-hitters and near-gems to drop.
Shohei Ohtani
All eyes will be on Shohei Ohtani when he starts for the Los Angeles Angels on opening day at Oakland. Here's what fans will really watch: Where will the two-way sensation wind up?
Quite possibly the most popular and talented player on the planet, Ohtani clinched the World Baseball Classic for Japan and earned the MVP trophy by striking out Angels teammate Mike Trout.
Ohtani can become a free agent after this year. He's never reached the postseason since joining the Halos in 2018 — Trout, a three-time MVP, has never won a single playoff game, but that's another matter.
At 28, it's hard to imagine Ohtani sticking around Anaheim after yet another lost season. If they don't start winning soon, the Angels can either trade him to a very ambitious team or risk letting him walk away for nothing.
Star scramble
Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom bolted New York for a greener field in Texas. Three-time Cy Young winner Justin Verlander, a model of power pitching, now on the mound for the Mets.
Trea Turner smoothly slid over to join pal Bryce Harper on the Phillies. Xander Bogaerts livened up a San Diego lineup that already included sluggers Manny Machado, Juan Soto and the suspended Fernando Tatis Jr.
AL batting champion Luis Arraez was traded from Minnesota to Miami and former MVP José Abreu signed with the World Series champion Houston Astros.
Maybe the most intriguing newcomer: Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida. He powered Japan in the WBC and was penciled into the Boston cleanup spot even before his major league debut.
Bigger bags
We get it: Stolen bases are for suckers, modern metrics show they're not worth the gamble. Miami's Jon Berti stole 41 last season and topped the majors; it was the lowest total for the MLB leader since 1963, when Maury Wills and Luis Aparicio each swiped 40.
Execs hope bigger bases that are 18-inch squares, up from 15-inch squares, will help entice more speedsters to try. It cuts down the distance between the bags by a few inches. They “look like a pizza box,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. Pitchers also will be limited in how many pickoff throws they can make.
Note to MLB: If you really want to get Randy Arozarena, Bobby Witt Jr. and Ronald Acuña Jr. on the run, see Andrés Giménez and others drop down more surprise bunts, open up hitting lanes and just increase overall offense, here's a better idea — shorten the bases to 88 feet.
The NFL spruced up its game by moving back the extra-point line, making the PAT a more competitive play and prompting coaches to go for two. The NBA overhauled its sport way back by adding the 3-point arc. We know baseball has its hallowed distances — 90 feet and 60 feet, 6 inches — but they don't have to stay that way forever, especially not with younger audiences eager for more action. | 2023-03-30T16:02:48+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/mlb-opening-day-offers-new-rules-clocks-shift-bans/43466625 |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States on Wednesday urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back around $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and other attacks linked to Tehran.
The leader of the U.S. legal team, Richard Visek, told the U.N. court that it should invoke, for the first time, a legal principle known as “unclean hands,” under which a nation can't bring a case because of its own criminal actions linked to the case.
“Iran’s case should be dismissed in its entirety based on the principle of unclean hands,” Visek told the judges sitting in the court's Great Hall of Justice.
“The essence of this threshold defense is that Iran’s own egregious conduct, its sponsorship of terrorist acts directed against the United States and U.S. nationals, lies at the very core of its claims,” Visek said.
The Hague-based court has never used the “unclean hands” defense as a reason to toss out a case, but it has been successfully cited in international arbitration cases, Visek said.
“The United States submits that if there was ever a case for application of the principle of unclean hands — one that we recognize should be considered only in narrow circumstances — it is this case,” Visek said.
On Monday, Iran said the U.S. asset confiscation was an attempt to destabilize the Tehran government and a violation of international law.
Iran took its claim to the world court in 2016 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that money held in Iran’s central bank could be used to compensate the 241 victims of a 1983 bombing — believed to be linked to Tehran — of a U.S. military base in Lebanon.
The world court ruled it had jurisdiction to hear the case in 2019, rejecting an argument from the U.S. that its national security interests superseded the 1955 Treaty of Amity, which promised friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
“The freedom of navigation and commerce guaranteed by the treaty have been gravely breached,” Tavakol Habibzadeh, head of international legal affairs for Iran, told the 14-judge panel on Monday.
At stake in the case being heard this week are $1.75 billion in bonds, plus accumulated interest, belonging to the Iranian state but held in a Citibank account in New York.
Visek also told judges that Iran's claims should be rejected because the frozen assets are state holdings not covered by the treaty.
In 1983, a truck bomb detonated at a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American troops. Minutes later, a second blast nearby killed 58 French soldiers. Iran has denied involvement, but a U.S. District Court judge found Tehran responsible in 2003. That ruling said Iran’s ambassador to Syria at the time called “a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and instructed him to instigate the Marine barracks bombing.”
The United States terminated the 1955 Treaty of Amity in 2018 in response to an order by the International Court of Justice in a separate case to lift sanctions against Iran. Then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said withdrawing from the treaty was long overdue and followed Iran “groundlessly” bringing a complaint to the court alleging that U.S. sanctions were a violation of the pact.
Both the sanctions case and the asset confiscation case are continuing because they were filed before Washington scrapped the treaty.
The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover by militant students in Tehran.
Judges are likely to take months to issue a ruling in the case. The court's judgments are final and legally binding.
Wednesday's hearing in The Hague came on the day that U.S. President Joe Biden and Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi will be giving speeches on the second day of the U.N. General Assembly ’s first fully in-person meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began. | 2022-09-21T10:34:34+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/US-urges-UN-court-to-toss-our-Iranian-frozen-17456298.php |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden says writing about the “crushing” grief she felt after her son Beau died of cancer helped give her the emotional strength to carry on as she encouraged young people who have lost loved ones during military service to spill their feelings out onto paper.
“It takes courage to write,” she said Tuesday, “but it’s worth it, because it helps us glue ourselves back together. It connects to those who carry their own grief, reminds us that we aren’t alone. And you are not alone.”
The first lady opened up about her experience with the children and siblings of service members who lost their lives during military service after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The group is participating in a weeklong writing seminar at a ranch in Justin, Texas, sponsored by The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom that publishes stories about the human fallout of military service.
Biden, a community college writing professor, said that, after President Joe Biden finished up his earlier service as vice president, a publishing company suggested she write a book about her life. She knew everything she wanted to write about, she said.
“But there was one thing I did not want to talk about: My son Beau,” she said. Beau Biden, who was the son of President Biden and his first wife, died of brain cancer in 2015 at age 46.
Although she started writing the book two years after he died, she said “even the best memories were laced with pain. I felt like his loss was crushing me, and I worried that shining a light on it would only make it grow. So I told my team that he was off limits.
“But then one day I found myself writing words without thinking. ‘I’m shattered,’ I scribbled on a yellow notebook,” the first lady said. She felt like a piece of broken china that that had been glued back together. “’The cracks may be imperceptible, but they’re there. Look closely and you can see the glue holding me together.’”
She added that “there were days when I felt like it took all of my strength to keep my grief inside of me, but when I wrote, I didn’t have to. I could let it spill out, messy and melancholy and mad.
“It didn’t make my sorrow smaller,” she said, “but it helped give me the strength to carry it.”’
The first lady joined the seminar by video as part of Joining Forces, her White House initiative to help support active-duty service members and veterans, their families and their caregivers. She asked the participants what led them to the seminar and about the importance of sharing their stories.
On Wednesday, also as part of Joining Forces and in conjunction with the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, Biden was hosting a screening of the documentary, “Unconditional: When Minds Hurt, Love Heals,” to highlight the caregivers of wounded, ill or injured service members or veterans.
Her memoir, “Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself,” was published in 2019. | 2023-05-10T10:38:41+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/jill-biden-writing-about-her-grief-after-sons-death-helped/ |
On Monday, Twitter owner Elon Musk rebranded the company, changing its name to “X” and ditching the Twitter bird.
What effect it has on the business is yet to be seen, but other famous companies have switched names, survived and thrived.
Here are a few examples:
Apple (Apple Computers): Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne incorporated Apple Computers in 1977. Ten years later, the company became more than just a computer store when it branched out into iPhones, iPods, iPads and more. In 2007, Apple Computers became Apple.
Google/Alphabet (BackRub): Google began as BackRub in 1996, but was changed to Google a year later. Google was rebranded a second time and became Alphabet in 2015. According to the company, Alphabet was meant to be the name of a holding company for the company’s other businesses.
Meta (Facebook): In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, announced that the company would be known going forward as Meta. “Meta, brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses,” the company said in a press release when the name change was announced.
Nike (Blue Ribbon Sports): Blue Ribbon Sports was born in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1964. Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman opened the business to distribute running shoes. They later decided to make their own shoes and called the shoe “Nike.” Soon, the business’s name was changed to honor the shoe. Nike is the name of the Greek winged goddess of victory.
Pepsi-Cola (Brad’s Drink): Founded by a pharmacist in 1893, Pepsi-Cola began life as Brad’s Drink, named after the man who developed it, Caleb Bradham. The company kept the name for only five years before it was renamed Pepsi-Cola.
Subway (Pete’s Super Submarines): The sub shop was originally named after Dr. Peter Buck, the man who gave the business’s founder, Fred DeLuca, $1,000 to help get his restaurant off the ground.
WW (Weight Watchers): The weight loss company decided to move away from just promoting weight loss and more toward promoting wellness and changed its name from Weight Watchers to WW in 2018. According to the company, the initials do not stand for anything in particular. | 2023-07-25T13:37:22+00:00 | whio.com | https://www.whio.com/news/trending/twitter-rebranding-which-successful-brands-started-out-with-different-name/JCR2NZ7LDZHZZJVISMBTPAD7CY/ |
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and PATRICK ORSAGOS
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in the long-running strip as the “kite-eating tree.”
In one episode that week, a frustrated Charlie Brown declines an offer from nemesis Lucy for her to yell at the tree.
“If I had a kite caught up in a tree, I’d yell at it,” Lucy responds in the last panel.
The simplicity of that interaction illustrates how different “Peanuts” was from comics drawn before its 1950 debut, said Lucy Shelton Caswell, founding curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University in Columbus, the world’s largest such museum.
“The idea that you could take a week to talk about this, and it didn’t have to be a gag in the sense of somebody hitting somebody else over the head with a bottle or whatever,” Caswell said. “This was really revolutionary.”
New exhibits on display at the Billy Ireland museum and at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of “Peanuts” cartoonist Schulz, born in Minnesota on Nov. 26, 1922.
Schulz carried the lifelong nickname of Sparky, conferred by a relative after a horse called Sparky in an early comic strip, Barney Google.
Schulz was never a fan of the name “Peanuts,” chosen by the syndicate because his original title, “Li’l Folks,” was too similar to another strip’s name. But the Columbus exhibit makes clear through strips, memorabilia and commentary that Schulz’s creation was a juggernaut in its day.
At the time of Schulz’s retirement in 1999 following a cancer diagnosis, his creation ran in more than 2,600 newspapers, was translated into 21 languages in 75 countries and had an estimated daily readership of 355 million. Schulz personally created and drew 17,897 “Peanuts” strips, even after a tremor affected his hand.
The strip was also the subject of the frequently performed play, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” as well as “Snoopy: The Musical,” dozens of TV specials and shows, and many book collections.
Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” described in a 2007 Wall Street Journal review of a Schultz biography the difficulty of looking at “Peanuts” with fresh eyes because of how revolutionary it was at the time.
Benjamin Clark, curator of the Schulz museum, describes that innovation as Schulz’s use of a spare line that maintains its expressiveness.
Schulz “understood technically in drawing that he could strip away what was unnecessary and still pack an emotional punch with the simplest-appearing lines,” Clark said. “But that simplicity is deceptive. There’s so much in these.”
The exhibit in Columbus displays strips featuring 12 “devices” that Schulz thought set Peanuts apart, including episodes involving the kite-eating tree, Snoopy’s doghouse, Lucy in her psychiatry booth, Linus’ obsession with the Great Pumpkin, the Beethoven-playing Schroeder, and more.
“Celebrating Sparky” also focuses on Schulz’s promotion of women’s rights through strips about Title IX, the groundbreaking law requiring parity in women’s sports; and his introduction of a character of color, Franklin, spurred by a reader’s urging following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In addition, the display includes memorabilia, from branded paper towels to Pez dispensers, part of the massive “Peanuts” licensing world. Some fellow cartoonists disliked the way Schulz commercialized the strip.
He dismissed the criticism, arguing that comic strips had always been commercial, starting with their invention as a way to sell newspapers, Caswell said.
While 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is one of the most famous cartoon TV specials of all time, the characters have also returned in dozens of animated shows and films, most recently in original shows and specials on Apple TV.
Those Apple programs introduced new viewers to the truth of what Schulz drew, his wife, Jean Schulz, told The Associated Press last year. She described that truth this way:
“A family of characters who live in a neighborhood, get along with each other, have fun with each other, have arguments sometimes with each other, but end up always in a good frame hugging each other or resolving their arguments,” she said.
Caswell, who first met Schulz in the 1980s, said one of the exhibit’s goals was to surprise people with things they didn’t know about the man. In that, “Celebrating Sparky” succeeds admirably.
Who knew, for example, that Schulz, a hockey and ice-skating lover, is in both the U.S. Figure Skating and U.S. Hockey halls of fame? (Perhaps that isn’t surprising, given multiple strips that featured a hockey-playing Snoopy or Zambonis driven by the little yellow bird, Woodstock.)
By focusing on Schulz, the exhibit also aims to show he worked hard to perfect his drawing style before “Peanuts” was launched and was intentional about what he wanted the strip to be, Caswell said.
“This was a person of genius who had a very clear, creative focus to his life, and enjoyed making people laugh,” she said.
“Celebrating Sparky: Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts” at the Billy Ireland museum runs through November and was mounted in partnership with the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum has two exhibits commemorating Schulz’s birth: “Spark Plug to Snoopy: 100 Years of Schulz,” which explores comic strips and artists who influenced Schultz (running through Sept. 18); and “The Spark of Schulz: A Centennial Celebration,” exploring cartoonists and artists influenced by Schulz (from Sept. 25, 2022, through March 12, 2023). | 2022-05-28T20:17:16+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/27/a-good-man-exhibits-honor-peanuts-creator-schulz-on-100th/ |
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