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WHL
All Times Local
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Western Conference
B.C. Division
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U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
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Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
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Friday's results
Brandon 5 Prince Albert 4
Swift Current 4 Winnipeg 3
Saskatoon 4 Red Deer 3 (OT)
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Medicine Hat 4 Calgary 3
Regina 5 Prince George 1
Portland 3 Victoria 1
Kamloops 3 Vancouver 0
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Tri-City 4 Lethbridge 2
Spokane 2 Kelowna 1
Saturday's results
Brandon 4 Swift Current 2
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Winnipeg 6 Prince Albert 4
Moose Jaw 5 Red Deer 2
Saskatoon 2 Medicine Hat 1
Seattle 3 Victoria 0
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Everett 4 Portland 3 (OT)
Tri-City 5 Kelowna 1
Vancouver 6 Kamloops 5 (SO)
Lethbridge 3 Spokane 0
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Sunday's results
Calgary 5 Moose Jaw 3
Regina 8 Edmonton 2
Prince George 6 Vancouver 3
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Kelowna 5 Everett 2
Tuesday's results
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
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Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
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Wednesday's games
Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
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Prince George at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
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Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
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Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
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Saturday's games
Calgary at Regina, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 5 p.m.
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Spokane at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
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Prince George at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7 p.m. | 2022-12-06T06:35:53+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17633904.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Years of soaring home prices and sharply higher mortgage rates remain hurdles for many would-be homebuyers, but new data shows that they're regaining some leverage at the negotiating table as the housing market slows.
An analysis of home sales data by Redfin shows that, on average, U.S. homes purchased during a four-week period in August sold for less than what sellers were asking. That hasn't happened since at least March 2021, according to the real estate brokerage.
“The only times you get homes going above list price is when there’s a bidding war, and those used to not be a regular occurrence,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. “And we’re back to a place where bidding wars are unusual, not the norm.”
The average sale-to-list price ratio, a measure of how closely homes are selling to their asking prices, fell to 99.8% in the four weeks that ended August 28, Redfin said. The ratio was 101.4% in the same stretch last year. Ratios above 100% indicate homes on average are selling at or above their asking price.
For most of last year and this year, fierce competition for relatively few homes on the market and rock-bottom interest rates fueled bidding wars that often led homes to sell for well above their list price.
That remained the prevailing trend until recently, even though the housing market has cooled significantly since the spring as mortgage rates surged sharply above where they were last year. Higher mortgage rates make homes less affordable, thinning out the pool of home hunters, which leaves sellers with less leverage when negotiating with buyers.
On average, 7.5% of homes for sale in the four weeks in August that Redfin tracked had a price drop each week, a record high, the company said.
That the typical home is now selling for below the asking price is a sign that the housing market is becoming a bit more balanced, or less skewed, toward sellers.
“It’s significant that now buyers know that when they’re bidding on a home chances are they can get it for less than the asking price and without a competing offer, which was not the case earlier this year,” Fairweather said.
That doesn’t mean some homes aren’t still drawing multiple offers. Some 37% of homes purchased in the four-week stretch of August analyzed by Redfin sold for more than their list price. That was down from 50% a year earlier, Redfin said.
And buyers must still contend with rising home prices, albeit not as sharply as before. The national median home price jumped 10.8% in July from a year earlier to $403,800, according to the National Association of Realtors. | 2022-09-08T17:28:00+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/As-housing-market-cools-homebuyers-regain-17427700.php |
Carolyn Anne Germaine (Smasal/Peters), daughter of Leon Smasal and Virginia Raether (Smasal/Zich), passed into the Light on Sunday morning, August 14th, 2022, while her family and dear family friends, Janis Elaine and Garry Jones, surrounded her in a room glowing with candles and Irish music. Carolyn had lived a very intentional life and was still so very young at age 75. We miss her ready smile and vibrant energy.
In early May, Carolyn was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma (brain cancer). Her ability to persist and rise above the challenges of this diagnosis was amazing. Carolyn’s emotional connections to the people she loved, her life’s work, and all that she cared about were deeply rooted and, if anything, heightened during this time. Life slowed down, she was positive, present and grateful. Friends, some as far away as Ireland, and family came to take walks with her, enjoy music with her, enjoy conversation with her and simply be with her.
As a professional and spiritual educator, she directed children and adult education programs, led worship and rituals, as well as women’s groups. Carolyn was a respected instructor of the Enneagram (a system of personality typing for personal growth).
Carolyn was also an entrepreneur. She created a successful tour business, Irish Byways, taking people to visit the backroads, musicians, history, and sacred sites of Ireland. Carolyn was a wedding officiant who truly enjoyed the couples she worked with. She took pride in her ability to bridge various faith backgrounds, and wanted everyone to feel included and respected. Recently, Carolyn was also building a new business: Backyard Wedding Sites, where couples could find smaller, yet beautiful and more affordable wedding venues.
Carolyn’s interests were many, and everything she touched was a creation of beauty. She was an accomplished cook, baker, weaver, seamstress, pianist — and she expertly played the Irish tin whistle and fife.
Carolyn cared deeply about the health of Mother Earth and the simple things we can do to heal our planet. She created and took every opportunity to encourage others to create wildflower gardens to support pollinators.
More than anything, Carolyn loved her two children: Her son, Christopher Peters, and his wife, Jesse, and her daughter, Dana Peters Guarin, and her husband, Alejandro. She adored her six grandchildren and they adored her: Leonardo, Tristen, Paulo, Hayden, Francesco and Tiago. Her sisters were her life-long allies: Maxine Miller (Bob), Jean Julson (Chuck) and Ruth Adix (Chris Meyer). Her nieces, nephews, and cousins knew they had a special place in her heart.
Carolyn touched the lives of so many. As the days and years pass, Carolyn will continue to be greatly missed. As a family, we send our appreciation to everyone who knew and loved her. She cherished you all.
Those who would like, can plant wildflowers in Carolyn’s memory, give a gift of wildflowers to be planted or support prairie restoration in order to help the earth, pollinators and birds thrive. Shortly before her diagnosis, Carolyn learned about a business that touched her heart and her imagination called Plantables (in Hudson, WI). Plantables is a worker-focused manufacturing business that creates products which will beautify your garden and enhance the environment for bees and other pollinators.
Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death. | 2022-09-16T09:01:09+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/obituaries/carolyn-germaine/article_a72b0a22-0c91-58b4-a079-300ff0927d3f.html |
- 1606 Corp. Now Trading on OTC Under Symbol "CBDW"
- Company Formed as a 1-for-1 distribution to shareholders of SinglePoint Inc.
PHOENIX, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- www.singlepoint.com (OTCQB:SING) ("SinglePoint" or "the Company"), a renewable solar energy and sustainable solutions provider, announced today that the Company's first spinoff to shareholders, 1606 Corp. (OTC:CBDW) has started trading under the symbol "CBDW" after completing all the requisite filings.
SinglePoint. Inc. spun off its CBD operations and distributed stock to its common shareholders in April 2021 as part of a planned strategy to concentrate on solar energy, energy storage, and sustainable solutions. Post distribution, 1606 Corp. became an independent operating entity with its own management team and employees and is a growth-oriented provider of health and wellness products. 1606 Corp. began trading on the OTC Markets on Jan. 17, 2023. CBD.Inc and 1606 Corp. look to accumulate a diverse portfolio of CBD products and companies nationwide by consolidating the fragmented CBD industry via acquisitions.
Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, said, "We are happy to see that our first spinoff to shareholders has been listed on the OTC and is being actively traded. CBDW/1606 Corp. is the first of multiple planned spinoffs of previously acquired assets that do not fit within our go-forward plan. Future potential spin-offs will allow SinglePoint to focus on the core business units, reduce management distraction, increase revenue, and improve profit margins. We are committed to focusing our efforts and resources on our existing core business units (solar energy and indoor air purification) and identifying accretive and complementary acquisition opportunities that fall within our strategic criteria."
Ralston continued, "We are executing our plan to drive long-term growth and are fortunate to be positioned in market segments with unprecedented multi-year tailwinds due to the recently passed historical federal funding available for clean indoor air, solar, renewable energy, and energy storage. Our focus has been heavily concentrated on preparing for a successful uplisting to a national exchange which we believe provides greater access to the right type of institutional investors that will allow the Company to continue aggressive execution against our targeted acquisition strategy. We will continue to streamline operations and focus our resources on simplifying and clarifying our go-forward business offerings and taking necessary corporate actions that provide a clearer snapshot of our true market value. We believe the future is bullish and bright because we have established positions in long-term, transformational business opportunities."
About SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB:SING)
SinglePoint is a sustainable lifestyle Company focused on the solar energy and storage and indoor air purification markets. The Company plans to build the largest renewable energy solutions network and modernize the traditional solar energy and energy storage business model. SinglePoint continues to execute its acquisition strategy by exploring future growth opportunities in indoor air purification and ventilation, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's websites: www.singlepoint.com, www.bostonsolar.us, and www.bpasolutions.com.
About CBD, Inc. (OTC:CBDW)
1606 Corp acquires and develops CBD brands, including Truz and CBD Singlez (www.1606hemp.com). The Company utilizes an acquisition model aimed at consolidating the fragmented CBD industry. 1606 Corp primarily focuses on Hemp and CBD products, brand development, and establishing distribution channels. 1606 Corp. was awarded the ticker symbol CBDW on Jan. 12, 2022, and began trading on the OTC Market on Jan. 17, 2023. Corporate websites -- www.1606hemp.com and www.CBD.Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information within Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. All statements, besides statements of fact included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding revenue projections, financing opportunities, potential plans and objectives of the Company, anticipated growth, and future expansion, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Technical and other complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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SOURCE SinglePoint Inc. | 2023-02-06T14:10:47+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/02/06/singlepoint-inc-highlights-market-trading-first-spinoff-non-core-business-unit-shareholders/ |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The crew of a Greek coast guard patrol boat fired warning shots early Thursday to deter a Turkish coast guard vessel that was trying to ram them in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities in Athens said, as tensions between the two neighbors remain high.
Turkey’s coast guard said its crew fired into the air in response, and added that the Greek vessel was chased away.
A Greek coast guard statement said that “the crew fired warning shots in a secure sector and the Turkish coast guard vessel withdrew” toward the Turkish coast. The coast guard said the shots were fired into the air.
The statement did not make any mention of injuries, or damage to either vessel, during the incident southeast of the Greek islet of Farmakonissi and, according to the Greek coast guard, 1.5 nautical miles (1.7 miles) inside Greece’s territorial waters.
The Turkish Coast Guard offered a different version of events, saying a Greek coast guard boat harassed Turkish fishing boats off the Turkish Aegean coastal resort of Didim, prompting Turkish authorities to dispatch a coast guard boat.
The Turkish boat drove the Greek boat away from the region, enabling the Turkish fishing boats to continue with their activities, it said.
According to the Turkish account, the Greek coast guard boat opened fire into the air while leaving the region prompting the Turkish boat to respond in kind.
The incident comes as relations between Greece and Turkey, historic regional rivals and uneasy NATO allies, have been tenser than usual over the past three years.
The Greek coast guard said its vessel had been on a mission to identify three Turkish fishing boats in Greek waters off Farmakonissi. It said the Greek crew opened fire after “being harassed” by the Turkish coast guard boat, which the statement said “carried out dangerous maneuvers with the intention of ramming” the Greek vessel.
The two countries, which have come to the brink of war three times since 1974, have decades-old disputes over Aegean Sea boundaries and the war-divided eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
But relations have rapidly deteriorated in recent years, with migratory flows from Turkey and offshore gas prospecting in the eastern Mediterranean adding fuel to existing distrust and historic grievances between Greeks and Turks that stretch back for centuries.
Turkish officials are also accusing Greece of militarizing its eastern Aegean Sea islands, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly alluded to invading Greece in recent months. Greece counters that it needs to defend its islands against a possible Turkish attack. | 2023-01-05T18:39:35+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/ap-greek-coast-guard-fires-warning-shots-at-turkish-patrol-boat/ |
Which gaming laptop on Amazon is best?
Gaming hardware for your personal computer is more powerful and more efficient than ever before. This results in today’s wide variety of highly dependable and effective gaming laptops. While it’s not for everybody, laptop gaming can be a fun and exciting experience. For some people, such as students, artists and busy professionals, a decent gaming laptop can also serve as a computer for school or work.
The best high-end gaming laptop is the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, which comes in high-powered and extremely high-powered versions that should satisfy the pickiest portable PC gamers.
What to know before you buy a gaming laptop on Amazon
They aren’t cheap
Granted, neither is a desktop gaming PC, but you’ll pay significantly more for a laptop than you would for a comparable full-size gaming rig.
They’re big and heavy
While the rest of the laptop industry trends toward razor-thin, ultralight designs, gaming laptops are cumbersome by necessity. It takes a lot of space to accommodate the powerful hardware and advanced cooling systems that keep said hardware safe. Don’t be alarmed when most of the gaming laptops you look at are nearly an inch thick and weigh several pounds.
Be wary of battery life claims
Gaming laptops don’t run well on battery power. Like non-gaming laptops, manufacturers usually set different power usage and performance parameters for battery vs. plugged-in use. In other words, always keep your laptop plugged in for the best results.
Being such a power-hungry task, gaming also drains a battery remarkably fast. You’d be lucky to get more than two hours of full-tilt gaming in fast-paced titles such as first-person shooters.
Due to that increased battery drain, gaming laptops typically see their batteries lose capacity far quicker than normal laptops. To counter that problem, most gaming laptops are reasonably easy to take apart for battery replacement.
What to look for in a quality gaming laptop
15 inches vs. 17 inches
The two measurements may not sound too different, but 15- and 17-inch gaming laptops are worlds apart. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a 15-inch laptop, but playing games on one significantly reduces the field of view. This reduces the immersion in first-person titles and can make it hard to play top-down games with many tightly packed characters, enemies and statistical information.
The pros and cons of each are pretty straightforward. Seventeen-inch laptops offer better immersion and easier play, while 15-inch models cost less and are more portable.
Central and graphics processing units
The CPU and GPU have the clearest impact on gaming performance. It’s best to avoid the RTX 3050 in favor of the 3050 Ti, as Nvidia’s most entry-level laptop GPU offers seriously underwhelming performance. The RTX 3060 is highly cost-effective, the 3070 hits the sweet spot for many gamers and the 3080 is reserved for the most demanding players.
However, laptop manufacturers set the clock speeds and power profiles of their computers’ specific GeForce RTX chipsets. This means one RTX 3070 could perform far differently from another. To help make this a more consumer-friendly issue, Nvidia now requires manufacturers to disclose the specific wattage their GPUs are designed for. That gives prospective buyers some idea of how well those graphics cards perform.
How much you can expect to spend on a gaming laptop on Amazon
The most affordable gaming laptops cost slightly less than $1,000. The absolute most premium can cost more than $4,000, but some of the best performers actually cost just over half of that.
Gaming laptop FAQ
Can you play games on MacBooks?
A. You can play an increasing number of mostly casual games on Apple’s iconic laptops. If you need something mostly for everyday use and don’t plan on playing highly resource-intensive games, a MacBook might be right for you. Dedicated gamers, however, should steer clear of Apple’s locked-down ecosystem.
Is Windows 10 or Windows 11 better for gaming?
A. There’s very little difference at the moment. Some evidence suggests that Windows 11 offers a better HDR experience, an area where Windows 10 is sorely lacking, but in terms of performance, they’re nearly identical.
For what it’s worth, most brand new laptops have the hardware needed for Windows 11 compatibility. Plus, for the time being, it’s free to upgrade to the newest version of Microsoft’s operating system.
What’s the best gaming laptop on Amazon to buy?
Top gaming laptop on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s a collection of top-of-the-line components from one of the most respected gaming hardware manufacturers.
What you’ll love: It comes with an advanced, 12th-generation Intel processor and your choice of an RTX 3070 Ti or 3080 GPU. The more premium version is the most impressive of the two, due largely to the 1440p resolution. On the other hand, the Full HD model does have a higher refresh rate, capable of 360 frames per second compared to 240.
What you should consider: Either variant of this cutting-edge laptop will set you back a significant amount of money.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top gaming laptop for the money on Amazon
What you need to know: This 1080p laptop sports a powerful Intel Core i7 CPU and highly cost-effective RTX 3060 GPU.
What you’ll love: From reputable, budget-friendly manufacturer Acer, it’s a potent and reasonably priced blend of hardware. The display can reach up to 144 hertz, and advanced features such as Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and an RGB backlit keyboard are nice to have.
What you should consider: It struggles to run the latest and most resource-intensive games at high settings. You’ll have to turn down some of the graphics sliders for the best results.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This offers possibly the perfect balance of price, performance and size.
What you’ll love: The 165-hertz display is the most impressive part of this notebook PC. It sports G-Sync variable refresh rate certification up to 165 hertz plus a peak brightness of 500 nits. Both of those specifications are rare, even among powerful gaming laptops. It also boasts a 1440p resolution for an even crisper image than the rest. Driven by a powerful AMD Ryzen processor and RTX 3070 graphics card, this is a hard laptop to pass up.
What you should consider: At 16 inches, the screen isn’t quite as immersive as many others, as nice as it does look.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 15-inch gaming laptop on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s one of the extremely rare laptops with an RTX 3070 graphics controller at such a reasonable price.
What you’ll love: Few laptops can compete with the Pulse GL66 in terms of performance per dollar. Its processor and graphics card combine to deliver stellar performance at a resolution of 1080p. It’s even noticeably thinner and lighter than most gaming laptops.
What you should consider: The manufacturer has scaled down its GPU performance, so it won’t perform quite as well as other RTX 3070 systems.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 15-inch gaming laptop for the money on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s just about the most affordable gaming laptop worth buying today.
What you’ll love: At right around a grand, it’s as economical as they come while still delivering the performance needed for a fun and modern gaming experience. You can be confident that its well-engineered and relatively recent components will remain useful for years to come.
What you should consider: It has only 8 gigabytes of system memory, but there is an empty slot for adding more.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was discharged from the hospital Monday after suffering a concussion last week when he tripped and fell at a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in downtown Washington.
McConnell, who is 81, is not expected to return to the Senate this week when senators are scheduled to vote on legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force in Iraq.
Doctors discovered this weekend that the leader also suffered what his office described as “a minor rib fracture,” for which he is being treated.
“Leader McConnell’s concussion recovery is proceeding well, and the leader was discharged from the hospital today. At the advice of his physician, the next step will be a period of physical therapy at an inpatient rehabilitation facility before he returns home,” said McConnell’s Communications Director David Popp.
Popp said McConnell and his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, “are deeply thankful for the skilled medical care, prayers, and kindness they have received.”
McConnell missed a call the administration hosted for senators and House members Sunday to brief them on Biden’s decision to protect depositors in Silicon Valley Bank and other banks taken over by the federal government.
McConnell fell Wednesday after attending a reception for the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that pumped $290 million into the 2022 election, followed by a private dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.
Sources familiar with the evening described the dinner as a small private event. McConnell was taken to the hospital by ambulance after tripping and hitting his head.
McConnell fractured his shoulder after falling at his home in Kentucky in 2019.
He was easily reelected to a seventh Senate term in 2020 and in January surpassed the late-Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) as the longest serving party leader in Senate history. Mansfield had been the Senate GOP leader from 1961 to 1977.
McConnell succeeded former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) as Senate Republican leader in January of 2007. | 2023-03-13T22:34:35+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/mcconnell-discharged-from-hospital-wont-return-to-senate-immediately/ |
President Joe Biden will reportedly cancel $10,000 worth of federal student loan debt, according to multiple reports.
According to The Associated Press, people making less than $125,000 will be eligible for loan forgiveness.
It's still unclear how the plan will be implemented. Biden is expected to make a formal announcement on Wednesday.
Approximately 43 million Americans have federal student loan debt, which totals $1.6 trillion.
Biden campaigned on the promise to cancel up to $10,000 worth of student loan debt. Since being elected, he's faced pressure from the progressive wing of his party to wipe out even more debt.
The NAACP says Biden should cancel at least $50,000 worth of student loan debt.
"As time continues, the needs of the American people have not — and will not — change without substantial cancellation," the organization said.
Biden has been wary of promising to cancel more debt, claiming he doesn't have the authority. | 2022-08-24T14:34:49+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/biden-to-reportedly-cancel-10k-in-student-loan-debt |
OK, enough about Donald Trump. Let’s talk about Joe Biden.
I’d like to know who the “resident idiot” in the White House was attempting to emulate in his speech in front of Independence Hall, with the ominous flaming red background.
I’d also like to know what was going through the minds of the two Marines forced to stand guard while listening to the stumbling, mumbling, lying, crooked, delusional, would-be autocrat as he babbled on about threats to our democracy that he and the coterie of like-minded nincompoops that surround him epitomize.
Ed Bujalski
Elma | 2022-09-10T20:57:11+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-biden-draws-unwanted-attention-to-his-flaws/article_98676cdc-2fa2-11ed-a680-6f460e8dba9e.html |
Dash Hudson's TikTok Solution Empowers Brands to Win in the New Era of Digital Entertainment
NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Dash Hudson is pleased to announce that TikTok has named the globally-leading social marketing software solution a founding partner of its Content Marketing specialty, enabling the development of three groundbreaking proprietary tools that are vital for brands to master their TikTok strategy and win on the platform.
"At TikTok, we are always looking for ways to make it easier for brands to develop great content that resonates with their communities," said Melissa Yang, Head of Ecosystem Partnerships, TikTok. "We are excited to welcome our new content marketing partners into the TikTok Marketing Partner Program, and to be collaborating with some of the most trusted partners in the industry. These partners will provide marketers with simple, effective tools to help them to regularly publish content, gain valuable performance insight, and meaningfully engage with their communities."
There has been a significant shift in how audiences expect to connect with brands online, pivoting away from the traditional model of social media and into the world of digital entertainment.
Dash Hudson's Co-founder and CEO, Thomas Rankin, describes digital entertainment as "the product of the collision of technology and culture". In this new dimension, reach is no longer capped by the size of one's network and is propelled by the strength of the content that's shared. This paradigm grants marketers permission to get back to what they do best: being creative – and Dash Hudson is the only solution in market to bridge creativity and data.
"TikTok is entertainment. It has fundamentally transformed how digital marketers engage consumers and is top-of-mind for the CEOs and CMOs we work with. Dash Hudson's sophisticated insights give brands the confidence to continue to increase their investment in short-form video," says Thomas Rankin, Co-founder and CEO, Dash Hudson. "TikTok is an opportunity for brands to get back to their best, be playful and build new communities. We are thrilled to be working alongside the team at TikTok to help top brands and retailers create videos that entertain and bring joy to consumers around the world."
Designed specifically to unlock the magic of the entertainment platform, Dash Hudson has leveraged TikTok's API to launch Insights, Video Publishing and Community Management features that deliver the solutions marketers need to drive performance. Beyond the API, Dash Hudson is also announcing the launch of three revolutionary and proprietary tools for brands to further deepen engagement and discoverability: Entertainment Score, Trending Video Notifications and Trending Sounds.
Entertainment Score
Dash Hudson's exclusive Entertainment Score allows brands to measure how well their TikTok video is entertaining their audience, enabling them to double down on what's working so they can drive the most value for their business.
Trending Video Notifications
Exclusive to Dash Hudson, Trending Video Notifications will enable brands to develop a deep understanding of which TikToks are gaining momentum so they can quickly take action on high-performing content across owned and paid.
Trending Sounds
A game-changing feature that curates the most popular and up-and-coming sound trends on TikTok, Dash Hudson's Trending Sounds empowers brands to get ahead of their competition by sourcing the most relevant and opportunity-packed moments to flex their creativity. In this feature, brands are also provided instant context on how a particular sound is being used by other creators, equipping them with the intelligence required to act quickly.
With the industry's notable shift to video-first feeds and society's increasing preference for short-form, mobile-first video, brands have a rare opportunity to re-think their marketing efforts. Today's announcement of Dash Hudson's partnership with TikTok has enabled the social marketing software leader to build innovation to support the world's largest brands in their transition to entertainment-first content creation.
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Women’s rights in Afghanistan have been the subject of debate and conflict for more than a century, with efforts to improve their status followed by moves to roll them back. When the radical Islamists of the Taliban returned to power in 2021, two decades after they’d been ousted by US forces, they first said they’d moderated their views regarding women. Their relatively tolerant policies proved short-lived, however. In the latest restriction of women’s rights, the higher education minister announced Dec. 20 that university education for women had been suspended.
Under the monarchy
King Amanullah Khan, who ruled for a decade starting in 1919, pushed for Western-style reforms intended to modernize the country. Inspired by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, he introduced a new constitution that sought to guarantee rights for women as well as men. Child marriage was banned, polygamy discouraged, and the jurisdiction of religious leaders narrowed. Women were no longer required to wear the veil. Queen Soraya, who opened the first girl’s school in Kabul, became a champion of women’s rights. The fast pace of change was lauded abroad but rattled conservatives in the largely tribal society, provoking revolt. The king was eventually forced to abdicate in 1929. His successor, Mohammed Nadir Shah, repealed the most progressive policies, but the backlash was short-lived. Zahir Shah, who ruled from 1933 to 1973 and was the last king of Afghanistan, reintroduced many of Amanullah’s initiatives, albeit more cautiously. In 1964, women helped draft a new constitution, which gave them the right to vote and allowed them to seek elected office. They got jobs, ran businesses and entered politics. Tensions with traditionalists never went away, but women protested any attacks on their rights.
After the monarchy
In 1979, the pro-Soviet general who’d overthrown Zahir Shah was killed in a coup, and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and installed a Marxist puppet regime. The status of women began to erode when the state descended into civil war between the communist troops and their opponents, including Islamist fighters called mujahedeen. After the Soviets retreated in 1989, the Taliban, which formed in the early 1990s as a movement among pious youth, eventually gained the upper hand. They marched through the country promising peace and modern government, but the reality was different under their rule from 1996 to 2001, especially for women. They were banned from school, work, speaking in public and even from leaving their homes unless escorted by a male, and they were forced to cover themselves in the burqa, a one-piece garment that covers the entire head and body. Penalties for violations included public lashings and death by stoning. The suicide rate among women rose. Their access to health care dropped because of the restrictions on their movements and a requirement to use women-only hospitals and wards. Women were excluded from political life, including all kinds of governance.
The US presence
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after the Taliban refused to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his group’s Sept. 11 attacks on the US. When bin Laden and the Taliban leadership fled, the US mission morphed into a nation-building undertaking, with improving the lives of Afghan women and girls a central focus. The country’s 2004 constitution contained specific provisions guaranteeing women’s rights and quotas to ensure they were part of the political process. Girls and women joined the army and police forces, trained as surgeons, judges and prosecutors, and worked as journalists, translators and television presenters. Despite these advances, there were large gaps in progress. Reforms didn’t spread to rural areas, where they were often seen as un-Islamic and counter to traditions. The absence of an effective central government meant that in territory controlled by conservative military commanders and religious leaders, women’s rights continued to be severely curtailed.
The new Taliban regime
When the Taliban returned to power after the collapse of the US-supported government, their leaders initially promised to rule differently than they did in the late 1990s. But today, Afghan women are — once again — the primary victims of their rule. Not long after taking power, the group barred teenage girls from getting an education beyond the seventh grade, dismissed thousands of women from government jobs and prevented females from traveling alone unless accompanied by a male relative. Women are again forced to wear burqas in public. Initially, the Taliban limited women university students to gender-segregated classrooms. Now they’re barred altogether.
--With assistance from Eltaf Najafizada and Muneeza Naqvi.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill has won final legislative approval in West Virginia that would establish an annual day of recognition for the worst sports disaster in U.S. history, a plane crash that killed most of Marshall University’s football team.
On Nov. 14, 1970, the chartered jet crashed in fog and rain into a hillside upon approach to an airport near Huntington as the team was returning from a game at East Carolina, killing all 75 on board. The victims included 36 football players and 39 school administrators, coaches, fans, spouses and flight crew.
Marshall decided to continue the football program. But for the university and the entire community, it left a huge void. Some who were left off the flight and did not make the trip or lost loved ones spent the next five decades with crippling questions that had no answers.
The bill establishes that Nov. 14 will become a “special memorial day” in remembrance of the crash.
Prior to the state Senate’s unanimous vote Wednesday, the chamber held a moment of silence for the crash victims at the request of Upshur County Republican Sen. Bill Hamilton. The House of Delegates passed the bill last month.
Cabell County Democratic Sen. Mike Woelfel said he was 17 years old driving in his car in Huntington when news of the crash came on the radio.
“Just like winter leads to spring, these bad memories now lead us to, I think, a day of celebration,” Woelfel said. “I’m glad that we’re going to honor them for each year in this way from here on out.”
Wayne County Democratic Sen. Robert Plymale was 15 at the time and was with friends in Kenova, near the airport. It was raining hard, and he remembered seeing ambulances speeding past the group.
Plymale said his mother was a professor at Marshall. Four of the crash victims were students in her class, and Marshall faculty were sent to attend the funerals. Plymale’s mother attended a funeral in North Carolina, and her family became close friends with the victim’s family.
Plymale said 64 children lost one or both of their parents in the crash.
Among them were Dr. Ray Hagley, who was a Marshall team physician, and his wife. They left behind six children who were being babysat by Dan D’Antoni, a 23-year-old assistant with the Marshall basketball program in 1970. D’Antoni is now Marshall’s basketball coach.
“This goes deep,” Plymale said. “It really sort of shapes the fiber in you, of what you are.”
Six weeks before the Marshall tragedy, a plane carrying members of the Wichita State football team crashed in Colorado, killing 31 people.
Among those who were not on the Marshall plane were Red Dawson, an assistant coach who was driving on a recruiting trip and was heading home when he learned about the crash. The following offseason, Dawson went to a national coaching convention. He recalled talking at length with some of his counterparts at Wichita State, and how they leaned on each other for support.
While Wichita State ended its football program in 1986, Marshall carried on.
Jack Lengyel was hired as the new coach in 1971. Marshall won just two games, and the first winning season didn’t come for another 13 years. Then success occurred in streaks. Marshall captured Division I-AA national championships in 1992 and 1996 and amassed the most wins of any team in the nation in the 1990s, many of them during a step up to Division I-A, now known as the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The rebuilding was the subject of the 2006 movie “We are Marshall” starring Matthew McConaughey as Lengyel.
Woelfel, who had a speaking part in the movie, said it “brought a lot of people back together to deal with the loss and they did it collectively. So I think this is another step along in that healing process.” | 2023-02-16T02:25:08+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/ap-bill-to-set-annual-remembrance-for-marshall-plane-crash/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — College football poll voters didn’t see Ohio State play on Saturday and both rankings had the Buckeyes place in the top-two.
Ohio State (6-0) has been ranked No. 2 in the latest AP and USA Today coaches polls after not playing during one of the craziest days of college football in recent memory. Sunday marked the first time this season the Buckeyes were in the top-two in both rankings, receiving 17 first-place nods by each set of voters.
For the first time since week one, a wrench was thrown into the top-five after Alabama’s 52-49 loss in Knoxville to Tennessee in a game of the year candidate. The win for the Vols moved them to No. 3 in the AP rankings, joining Georgia, OSU, Michigan, and Clemson in the coaches top-five. Alabama was placed at No. 6.
Outside the top-five, three top-ten teams lost with USC’s 43-42 defeat to Utah in a thriller, Oklahoma State’s double overtime loss to the TCU Horned Frogs 43-40, and Penn State’s crushing defeat at the hands of Michigan 41-17 in Ann Arbor.
TCU nudged its way into the top-ten with Pac-12 foes UCLA and Oregon joining. The Bruins and Ducks are set to play each other next Saturday in Eugene. Tulane was the only new addition in either set of rankings.
The Buckeyes begin the second-half of its season on Oct. 22 against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. Kick-off is set for noon.
AP Poll (OCT. 16, 2022)
Coaches Poll (OCT. 16, 2022) | 2022-10-17T12:10:07+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/ohio-state-university/ohio-state-ranked-no-2-in-week-eight-ap-coaches-polls/ |
(NEXSTAR) – United Airlines is investigating the circumstances surrounding a piece of lost luggage after a passenger claims it was sent to a random apartment complex — and then to a McDonald’s, and then to a shopping center — instead of her home.
Valerie Szybala had flown home to Washington D.C. on a United Airlines flight after the holidays, but her luggage was delayed. United gave her the option of having the suitcase delivered to her house the following day, and she accepted.
But her bag didn’t arrive the following day. It didn’t arrive the day after that, either.
Szybala, fortunately, had left an Apple AirTag inside her luggage, which allowed her to track the location of her missing bag — and she was startled to find it at a residential apartment complex elsewhere in the city.
Szybala documented her ordeal on Twitter, claiming at one point that her bag was moved “to a McDonald’s” before being brought back to the apartment complex. The next day, the AirTag in her suitcase was pinging at a suburban shopping center in the suburbs, she said, before being brought back to the “mystery apartment complex.”
She then visited the apartment complex herself, where she claims to have found two other “emptied” pieces of luggage belonging to United Airlines passengers behind the building, near the dumpsters, according to her Twitter posts.
Szybala reached out to United’s customer service team, asking why her bag’s AirTag was pinging at the apartment complex instead of at the courier’s distribution center.
“Calm down your bag is at the delivery service,” the representative responded, according to a screenshot of the conversation.
When Szybala pressed for an explanation as to why her bag was at the apartment complex, and why there were two other bags near the building’s trash, she was again told the bag was “safe” at the distribution center.
“I’d just like everyone to know that @united has lost track of my bag and is lying about it,” she wrote on Twitter.
Finally, on Jan. 2, Szybala again visited the building, this time with “a little posse” that included members of the news media. She then received a text from someone identifying himself as a driver for Couriers United LLC, a third-party delivery service used by United Airlines. The courier said her bag was mistaken for another passenger’s, which is what caused the delay, and he would now bring it to her home.
She called back and told him to bring it to the apartment complex instead.
“… He drove back to meet me near the building,” she tweeted. “He looked a little surprised to have two news crews filming. He asked if he was in trouble or something, but at that moment I was too happy to have my bag back to ask more questions.”
As of Tuesday, Szybala still hadn’t been given an explanation for her bag’s whereabouts from United or its courier service. But she revealed that all her belongings were accounted for, and theorized that her suitcase was simply left in a courier’s car for several days while he went about his errands.
“I don’t know that [the courier] was telling the truth, I suspect he was not,” she tweeted. “Nothing I’ve been told by this guy or @United explains why my bag spent 3 days in an apartment complex garage, with occasional shopping excursions. I’d still like some answers.”
United Airlines has confirmed an investigation into the incident, calling it a “service failure” in a statement obtained by Nexstar.
“We’ve been in touch with this customer to discuss this situation and confirm she has received her luggage,” a representative for the airline wrote. “The service our baggage delivery vendor provided does not meet our standards and we are investigating what happened to lead to this service failure.”
A representative for Couriers United LLC did not immediately return a request for additional information.
Szybala, meanwhile, said she learned several valuable lessons from the ordeal. For starters, she will “never” again allow the airline to deliver any lost bags, but will choose to pick them up in person. She’s also a proponent of luggage tracking devices, calling her Apple AirTag “a lifesaver” in this particular circumstance.
“It was $30, totally worth it,” she wrote in the comments of the thread, before asking Apple to reward her for potentially drumming up business among airline passengers.
“Can I at least get a referral code[?]” she asked the tech company. | 2023-01-03T23:01:47+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/travel/airline-passenger-claims-united-was-lying-about-lost-luggage-after-airtag-showed-it-at-mystery-building/ |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to grant death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution, saying there were enough problems with Glossip's conviction that he deserves a new trial.
In an unusual move for a prosecutor, Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed his motion agreeing with defense attorneys that Glossip deserves a stay.
Drummond said that while he doesn’t believe Glossip is innocent, he didn’t receive a fair trial. Specifically, Drummond said the key witness against Glossip lied on the stand about his psychiatric condition and his reason for taking the mood-stabilizing drug lithium.
When combined with other problems with the state's prosecution, including the destruction of evidence, the state believes “Glossip's trial was unfair and unreliable,” Drummond wrote.
Glossip is scheduled to be executed May 18 for the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of Glossip’s former boss, Barry Van Treese. Another man, Justin Sneed, admitted robbing and killing Van Treese after Glossip promised to pay him $10,000. Sneed received a life sentence in exchange for his testimony and was the key witness against Glossip.
Drummond has supported Glossip's efforts to get his conviction overturned and a new trial ordered.
Nevertheless, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Glossip's conviction, and last week the state's Pardon and Parole Board rejected his request for clemency. Those decisions paved the way for his execution to be carried out May 18. | 2023-05-01T22:33:50+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/oklahoma-ag-files-motion-seeking-to-stop-glossip-18001224.php |
SILVIS, Ill, (AP) — J.T. Poston completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the John Deere Classic for his second PGA Tour title and a spot in the British Open.
Three strokes ahead entering the day at TPC Deere Run, Poston closed with a 2-under 69 for a three-stroke margin over fellow British Open qualifiers Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Emiliano Grillo.
Poston is the third wire-to-wire winner in tournament history, following Scott Hoch in 1980 and David Frost in 1992. The 29-year-old player from Hickory, North Carolina, finished at 21-under 263. He opened 62-65-67.
“It’s just tough to play with the lead,” Poston said. “There is just a little bit of added pressure. Wire-to-wire, pretty much having the lead from Thursday on, I told all the media after every round that I was just trying to stick to my game plan and I wasn’t going to think about it.
“The truth is it’s hard not to think about the finish line and what comes with it, all that comes with getting win out here. As much as you try and put that aside and not think about it, it’s tough not to.”
Poston birdied the first three holes Sunday, bogeyed Nos. 5 and 6 and parred the next 10. He made a 4-footer for birdie on the par-5 17th and parred the 18th.
“I was just trying to breathe,” Poston said. “I was really. I think there were a lot of nerves, a lot more than the first few days. I was just battling through them. I think after today, after this week, I feel like knowing I can play with those nerves and I can still win, still shoot a solid score considering the pressure and trying to win out here.”
Poston won a week after tying for second in Connecticut in the Travelers Championship. He also won the 2019 Wyndham Championship.
“They don’t come easy out here and I really wanted to get that second win to sort of validate Wyndham,” Poston said. “So, it feels good to get it out of the way.”
The British Open is July 14-17 at the Old Course at St. Andrews.
“I can’t wait,” Poston said. “I’ve always wanted to play in one of those at any venue, but first one to be in St. Andrews and the 150th, I can’t wait to get there and see what it’s like.”
Bezuidenhout shot a 66, and Grillo had a 69.
“I just knew I needed a solid week,” Grillo said. “I just needed to play well and go up the rankings and have a job for next year. That was more important for me than going to the Open. Now I get both, so that’s pretty special.”
Christopher Gotterup, the former Rutgers player in the field on a sponsor exemption, had a 66 to tie for fourth at 17 under with Scott Stallings (70).
“Just more validation that I do belong out here,” Gotterup said. “And honestly, I didn’t have my greatest stuff this week. Hit it amazing, but just putted pretty poorly until coming down the stretch.” | 2022-07-04T01:56:36+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/jt-poston-goes-wire-to-wire-in-john-deere-classic/ |
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TOKYO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Japanese government publishes new articles every month in an official e-magazine, "KIZUNA." New articles published in late July are outlined below.
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- Enabling the Next Generation to Lead in a VUCA World
A professor at Harvard Business School explains the qualities of globally minded human resources and Japan's potential.
https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2022/07/enabling_the_next_generation.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=07_2022
- Combining STEAM Education with Playful Exploration
A gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad fascinated with jazz piano talks about the significance of STEAM education.
https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2022/07/combining_steam_education.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=07_2022
- Boosting Recurrent Education that Builds the Future
An actor who entered university in her mid-40s while continuing her career talks about the significance and joys of recurrent education.
https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2022/07/boosting_recurrent_education.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=07_2022
- Investing in People for a New Form of Capitalism
The grand design and action plan of Prime Minister KISHIDA Fumio's "new form of capitalism" emphasizes investments in people.
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Kizuna means the enduring bonds between people -- close relationships forged through mutual trust and support. The kizuna cultivated among countries of the world has the power to deepen cooperation for a better future. By reporting on a wide variety of topics concerning Japan, "KIZUNA" hopes that this publication will provide opportunities for Japan and the rest of the world to connect and build strong kizuna.
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SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Four people have been arrested in North Macedonia, police said Wednesday, following cooperation with Greek authorities over a cocaine shipment seized in neighboring Greece a day earlier.
A total of 14 people have now been detained in both countries as a result of Tuesday’s operation in Greece’s northern port city of Thessaloniki, where Greek officers confiscated 105 kilograms (230 pounds) of cocaine.
The drugs from South America had been brought to Thessaloniki on a cargo ship, and were hidden in hollow external sections of shipping containers that held a consignment of bananas from Ecuador.
North Macedonia’s police said in a statement that they arrested two men and a woman Tuesday, and a third man Wednesday as he was allegedly trying to cross the border from Greece. All four were nationals of North Macedonia, and are suspected of belonging to an international organized crime ring, the statement said.
It added that the drug shipment was ordered and paid for by a fruit importing company in Skopje, North Macedonia’s capital.
Greek police said the Thessaloniki operation followed coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The suspects arrested in Greece were identified as seven Greeks and three Albanians. | 2023-05-11T09:48:59+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/4-arrested-in-north-macedonia-after-cocaine-bust-in-greece/ |
Athos to perform molecular analysis of biopsies from de-identified Inflammatory Bowel Disease patient samples from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Athos Therapeutics, Inc. ("Athos"), a late-stage preclinical biotech company using artificial intelligence to develop small molecule therapeutics for immune-mediated diseases and cancer, announced today a comprehensive Master Research Agreement for a collaborative project on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) with Lahey Hospital & Medical Center ("Lahey"). This collaboration will advance systems biology and computational analyses in the field of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD).
Athos will perform multi-omic molecular and genetic analyses using biopsies from archived and de-identified Lahey IBD patient samples with the following clinical descriptions: Crohn's disease (CD) active, CD inactive (in remission), Ulcerative colitis (UC) active, UC inactive (in remission), and controls. The results of the biopsy analyses will be correlated with detailed clinical information including the patient's age, sex, disease location, prior treatments, and status.
"We are excited to collaborate with Dr. Randall Pellish and his team to identify novel molecular targets and subtypes of IBD patients," said Dimitrios Iliopoulos, PhD, MBA, President & CEO. "Lahey's IBD patient biomaterials will be fed into our Athos Learning Computational Ensemble
(ALCE) engine to further elucidate the complexity of IBD and the heterogeneity of drug responses."
"Athos Therapeutics is developing a precision medicine approach to the treatment of IBD and other autoimmune disorders," said Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS, Chairman, Founder & CMO. "The availability of high-quality tissue resources linked to verified clinical data, which forms the basis for our collaboration with Lahey Hospital, will make this possible and allow for the identification of new disease sub-types and for the identification of novel drug targets."
"We are very excited about our research initiatives with Athos Therapeutics," said Randall Pellish, MD, Director, Lahey Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. "This collaborative research project will allow us to work on vital questions addressing new ways of classifying and treating inflammatory bowel disease with the goal of developing meaningful, perhaps paradigm shifting, treatment strategies."
The Mission of Athos Therapeutics is to develop first-in-class medications that will significantly impact the lives of patients with autoimmune disorders, chronic inflammatory diseases, and cancer. Athos is a late-stage preclinical biotech company developing small molecule therapeutics for immune-mediated diseases and cancer using artificial intelligence-generated innovative chemistry and computational platforms. The co-founders of Athos include one of the founders of Kite Pharma (acquired for $12B), the medicinal chemist behind two multi-billion-dollar FDA-approved drugs (Xtandi & Erleada), and the discoverer of the miR-124 drug target, currently in a Phase III IBD trial. Athos identifies novel drug targets (hubs) by integrating clinical and molecular datasets into the biological network of a disease (the disease interactome) and matches them to its small molecule computational chemistry platform. ATH-63, the Company's lead drug compound, is moving into a Phase Ia human clinical trial in 2022. The Athos pipeline includes small molecule approaches for various autoimmune disease and cancer.
Additional information about Athos Therapeutics can be found at https://athostx.com/
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BOSTON (AP) — “Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa explained the significance of the Chicxulub impact crater to actor Domhnall Gleeson over a drink of negroni sbagliato in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia," is the kind of sentence that just might tie your tongue up in knots.
It contains five examples from this year's list of the most mispronounced words released Wednesday by The Captioning Group, which since 1991 has captioned and subtitled real-time events on television in the U.S. and Canada.
The Captioning Group has compiled the list since 2016 by surveying the words and names most often mangled on live television by newsreaders, politicians, public figures and others. It is commissioned by Babbel, the online language learning company based in New York and Berlin.
Yes, the list is a little humorous, but it's also educational and highlights how some of the biggest international news events of the year have entered the North American consciousness, said Esteban Touma, a senior content producer and language teacher at Babbel.
“It really shows the ways we interact with other languages and really gives a good grasp of what’s going on in the world and how we connect with people abroad,” he said.
Don't be intimidated by tough-to-pronounce words, he said. It is an opportunity to learn. After all, even professionals sometimes have problems.
“People want to get the right pronunciation but it’s hard to do so,” he said.
Just ask Joe Biden.
New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was infamously referred to as "Rasheed Sanook" by the U.S. president, but he wasn't the only one to stumble over the name, which should be pronounced REE-shee SOO-nahk.
Then there's Grammy-winning singer Adele, who informed the world in October that her fans have for years been mispronouncing her name. It’s not “ah-DELL” but “uh-DALE.”
The other words on the list, with phonetic pronunciations provided by Babbel, were:
— Chicxulub (CHICK-choo-loob) — The crater in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the asteroid that scientists say likely caused the extinction of the dinosaurs was in the news recently.
— Domhnall Gleeson (DOH-null GLEE-sun) — The Irish actor called out talk show host Stephen Colbert for mispronouncing his first name.
— Edinburgh (ed-in-BRUH) — American news anchors faced criticism for mispronouncing the Scottish capital during coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's memorial in September.
— Negroni sbagliato (ne-GRO-nee spah-lee-AH-toh) — The alcoholic beverage was introduced to the world by actor Emma D’Arcy, whose social media mention of the drink received more than 14 million views.
— Novak Djokovic (NO-vak JO-kuh-vich) — The Serbian tennis star was in the news in January when he was barred from competing in the Australian Open and deported for failing to comply with the nation's COVID-19 vaccination rules.
— Ohtani rule (oh-TAHN-ee) — Major League Baseball's rule named after 2021 AL MVP Shohei Ohtani allows a starting pitcher to remain in a game as the designated hitter even after leaving the mound.
— Tuanigamanuolepola (Tua) Tagovailoa (TOO-uh-ning-uh-mah-noo-oh-LEH-po-luh TUNG-o-vai-LOH-uh) — The Miami Dolphins quarterback became the center of discussion about NFL concussion protocols after suffering injuries in consecutive games.
— Zaporizhzhia (zah-POH-reezha) — The Ukrainian city is the location of Europe's largest nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September as the nation's war with Russia raged in the area.
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The first child flu death of the 2022-23 season was confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Tuesday.
“DHS is saddened to report the first death of a child from influenza in Wisconsin this season,” DHS Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist Dr. Ryan Westergaard said. “Flu cases are on the rise throughout the state, and it is important to take steps to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Flu vaccines are safe and effective, and we urge all eligible Wisconsinites to get their shot as soon as possible. It is the most powerful tool we have to prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death during flu season.”
Nationwide, there have been 30 influenza-associated deaths among children, DHS says.
To find a flu vaccine near you, you can visit vaccines.gov or call 211, or call 877-947-2211.
Here are some steps to help stop the spread of germs, shared verbatim from DHS:
* Wash your hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds.
* Avoid touching your nose, eyes, and mouth.
* Stay home and away from others if you feel sick.
* Avoid being around others who are sick or have flu symptoms.
* Cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze and encourage children to do the same.
* Wear a high-quality mask around others to prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses.
"Respiratory viruses spread easily so it is important to take these actions and get vaccinated to protect yourself and those around you," a news release from DHS concluded. | 2022-12-20T19:41:33+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/first-child-flu-death-of-the-season-reported-in-wisconsin-dhs-says |
NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIND; "Lindblad"; the "Company"), a global provider of expedition cruises and adventure travel experiences, will report 2022 second quarter financial results on Monday, August 1, 2022, before the market opens. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results at 8:30 am Eastern Time. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 844-200-6205 (United States), 833-950-0062 (Canada) or 929-526-1599 (International). The Access Code is 618427. The earnings release and a live audio webcast of the call will be available in the investor relations section of the Company's website at investors.expeditions.com.
A replay of the call, along with a transcript, will be available on the website within 48 hours of its completion. The replay will also be accessible by phone by dialing 866-813-9403 (United States), 226-828-7578 (Canada) or 44-204-525-0658 (International). The Replay Access Code is 566816.
About Lindblad Expeditions
Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. is an expedition travel company that focuses on ship-based voyages through its Lindblad Expeditions brand and on land-based travel through its subsidiaries, Natural Habitat Adventures, Off the Beaten Path, DuVine Cycling and Adventure and Classic Journeys.
Lindblad Expeditions works in partnership with National Geographic to inspire people to explore and care about the planet. The organizations work in tandem to produce innovative marine expedition programs and to promote conservation and sustainable tourism around the world. The partnership's educationally oriented voyages allow guests to interact with and learn from leading scientists, naturalists and researchers while discovering stunning natural environments, above and below the sea, through state-of-the-art exploration tools.
Natural Habitat, Inc. partners with the World Wildlife Fund to offer and promote conservation and sustainable travel that directly protects nature. Natural Habitat's adventures include polar bear tours in Churchill, Canada, Alaskan grizzly bear adventures and African safaris.
Classic Journeys, LLC is a luxury cultural walking tour company that operates a portfolio of curated tours centered around cinematic walks led by expert local guides. Classic Journeys offers active small-group and private custom journeys in over 50 countries around the world.
DuVine Cycling + Adventure Co. designs and leads luxury bike tours in the world's most amazing destinations, from Italy's sun-bleached villages and the medieval towns of Provence to Portugal's Douro Valley and the vineyards of Napa, California. Guests bike, eat, drink, and sleep their way through these regions and many more while sampling the finest cuisine, hotels, and wine.
Off the Beaten Path LLC is an outdoor, active travel company offering guided small group adventures and private custom journeys that connect travelers with the wild nature and authentic culture of their destinations. Off the Beaten Path's trips extend across the globe, with a focus on exceptional national park experiences in the Rocky Mountains, Desert Southwest, and Alaska.
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DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday rejected a final appeal from sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists.
Attorneys for Nassar said he was treated unfairly in 2018 and deserved a new hearing, based on vengeful remarks by a judge who called him a “monster” who would “wither” in prison like the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz.”
“I just signed your death warrant,” Ingham County Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said of Nassar’s 40-year sentence.
The state Supreme Court said Nassar’s appeal was a “close question” and that it had “concerns” over the judge’s conduct. But the court also noted that Aquilina, despite her provocative comments, stuck to the sentencing agreement worked out by lawyers in the case.
“We decline to expend additional judicial resources and further subject the victims in this case to additional trauma where the questions at hand present nothing more than an academic exercise,” the court said in a two-page order.
More than 150 victims spoke or submitted statements during an extraordinary seven-day hearing in Aquilina’s court more than four years ago.
“It’s over. … Almost six years after I filed the police report, it’s finally over,” Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar, said Friday on Twitter.
Nassar pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting gymnasts and other athletes with his hands under the guise of medical treatment for hip and leg injuries. He worked at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, traveling the world with the elites of the sport.
“Our Constitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment,” Aquilina told Nassar. “If it did, I have to say I might allow what he did to all of these beautiful souls, these young women in their childhood. I would allow someone or many people to do to him what he did to others.”
Nassar subsequently received another 40-year sentence in a separate case in a neighboring county.
He is currently in federal prison for child pornography crimes in a different case that grew out of the same investigation. The sentences effectively mean Nassar, 58, will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The Nassar case turned Aquilina into a celebrity. She appeared at the 2018 ESPY awards in Los Angeles, where his victims were honored. The judge said she trademarked her name after it started appearing on T-shirts, including one worn by actress Natalie Portman on “Saturday Night Live.”
The scandal hasn’t faded. More than 100 women, including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, are collectively seeking more than $1 billion from the federal government for the FBI’s failure to stop Nassar when agents became aware of allegations against him in 2015. He was arrested by Michigan State University police in 2016, more than a year later.
Michigan State, which was accused of missing chances over many years to stop Nassar, agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by him. USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee made a $380 million settlement.
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The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report announced on Friday that it is shifting its rating of a competitive Ohio House district in Democrats’ favor following reporting on the Republican candidate’s military credentials.
Cook Political Report House editor Dave Wasserman wrote that the election watcher is changing its rating of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, which features a match-up between Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) and Republican candidate J.R. Majewski, from “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”
Wasserman noted that the ratings change came in light of recent reporting from The Associated Press, which found that while Majewski touted on the campaign trail that he had served in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, records obtained from the wire service found he had actually been deployed for six months in Qatar at an air base where he loaded planes.
Majewski has contested those reports, saying that his deployments were classified and claiming that the story was aimed at trying to defame him.
“Prior to the story, Democrats had been casting Majewski as an unhinged QAnon enthusiast who took part in a mob that attacked police. But it was far from clear those attacks would disqualify him in a GOP-redrawn seat that voted for Donald Trump by three points in 2020,” Wasserman wrote.
“Allegations of stolen valor, however, are another story — they’re likelier to turn off independent voters who have moved on from January 6.”
The Cook Political Report editor noted that factors including the House Republicans’ campaign arm canceling ad expenditures for the race and Kaptur’s strength as a Democrat who’s been able to notch government spending in her state for decades added to their reasoning to shift their rating toward Democrats.
“In 2020, she ran 11 points ahead of Joe Biden’s margin in the three counties that carried over to the new 9th CD. The same type of overperformance would allow her to win comfortably in the new, Trump +3 seat,” Wasserman wrote.
Democrats are broadly expected to lose the House but have a competitive shot at retaining the Senate in November. Some Republicans have lowered their expectations of the kind of red wave that was initially hoped for before the midterm season, though Democrats are still facing several headwinds, including the president’s lagging approval ratings and decades-high inflation. | 2022-09-30T16:15:45+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/cook-report-shifts-ohio-house-race-toward-democrats-amid-scrutiny-over-gop-candidate/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — An activist investor that has been pressing Kohl's for a new strategy to turn around struggling operations is again attempting to shake up the department store's board.
Macellum Advisors GP, LLC, which controls nearly 5% of the outstanding common shares of Kohl’s Corp., wants some long-term directors ousted, including Chairman Peter Boneparth. Macellum said Boneparth is part of a “shadow board.”
“The Shadow Board is failing to adequately support Kohl’s senior management, which has resulted in the destruction of billions of dollars of shareholder value recently and perpetual stagnation over the long-term," Jonathan Duskin, a managing partner at Macellum, wrote in a letter to shareholders made public Thursday.
Yet five months ago shareholders rejected all the board nominees backed by Macellum, including Duskin, voting instead for the current board during the company's May annual meeting.
Duskin wrote Thursday that the vote may have gone differently if shareholders had been aware of what he called the true degree of business deterioration at Kohl's, senior executive departures and details of a failed attempt to sell the department store. But, he said, Macellum has attempted to avoid becoming a distraction, instead working privately with the board over the past couple of months.
After the resounding defeat in May, Kohl's said Thursday that it is disappointed that Macellum, has launched a “disruptive public campaign for the third time." The company said that it has regularly engaged with Macellum over the past two years to listen.
“These engagements have been unproductive and a distraction from running the business during a challenging retail environment,"Kohl's said. "The board and management remain committed to maximizing value and acting in the interests of all our shareholders by staying focused on running the business."
Last year, Macellum nominated nine directors. In a settlement in April 2021, Kohl’s agreed to add two directors from the activists’ slate, along with an independent director.
In August, the Menomonee, Wisconsin, chain slashed its sales and profit expectations for the year after being forced to cut prices to shed unwanted merchandise. The department store also cut back on orders ahead of the critical holiday period.
Kohl's was not alone, with even chains that have thrived in recent years, Walmart and Target, forced to slash inventories after consumer behavior shifted radically over the past year.
Yet Kohl’s has struggled for years.
Last month, activist investor Ancora Holdings Group pushed for the removal of both Chairman Boneparth and CEO Michelle Gass for what it calls a botched strategy and dramatic sales declines.
Ancora, which owns 2.5% of outstanding shares in Kohl's, has been able to get three of its directors installed on the board.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report on Macellum's latest board push.
Shares of Kohl's were essentially flat, Thursday, but are down about 50% this year.
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HAIKOU, China, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China Pharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: CPHI) ("China Pharma," the "Company" or "We"), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that on July 15, 2022, the Company submitted a plan of compliance to NYSE American LLC ("NYSE American" or the "Exchange") to address the deficiency in the Company's stockholders' equity as pointed out in the letter from the Exchange dated June 15, 2022 (the "Letter").
As previously released in a press release dated June 22, 2022, according to the Letter, in order to maintain its listing, the Company must submit a plan of compliance by July 15, 2022 addressing how it intends to regain compliance with Section 1003(a)(iii) of the Company Guide by December 15, 2023.
Ms. Zhilin Li, China Pharma's Chairman and CEO, commented, "The staff of the NYSE American indicated that they could accept the plan of compliance. During the next 18 months grace period or by December 15, 2023, we will actively supply additional information as required by the Exchange, implement the plan and strive to regain compliance on stockholders' equity as required by the Exchange listing requirement under as soon as possible."
About China Pharma Holdings, Inc.
China Pharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: CPHI) is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a diversified portfolio of products, focusing on conditions with high incidence and high mortality rates in China, including cardiovascular, CNS, infectious, and digestive diseases. The Company's cost-effective business model is driven by market demand and supported by new GMP-certified product lines covering the major dosage forms. In addition, the Company has a broad and expanding nationwide distribution network across all major cities and provinces in China. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Hainan Helpson Medical & Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is located in Haikou City, Hainan Province. For more information about China Pharma Holdings, Inc., please visit www.chinapharmaholdings.com. The Company routinely posts important information on its website.
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Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements set forth above that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to: the achievability of financial guidance; success of new product development; unanticipated changes in product demand; increased competition; downturns in the Chinese economy; uncompetitive levels of research and development; and other information detailed from time to time in the Company's filings and future filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations, except as required by applicable law or regulation.
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TANZANIA – The Security Council headed toward approval of a U.N. resolution Tuesday to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria's rebel-held northwest, after Russia won its demand for only a six-month mandate.
Ireland and Norway, which had sponsored a resolution calling for a yearlong extension that was vetoed Friday by Russia, circulated a new draft Monday that provides for a six-month extension of deliveries through the Bab al-Hawa crossing until Jan. 10, 2023.
As Russia demanded, a further six-month extension after that would require a new Security Council resolution.
Brazil's U.N. Mission, which holds the council presidency this month, scheduled a vote for Tuesday morning.
The draft resolution is almost identical to the Russian draft resolution that failed to get council support last Friday.
At the heart of the apparent backdown by supporters of a year-long extension is Russia’s adamant refusal to consider any timetable beyond six months, and the fact that the Security Council’s last mandate, for a year, ended Sunday stranding U.N. cross-border deliveries.
In Friday’s votes, the Ireland-Norway draft resolution for a one-year extension was supported by 13 countries, with China abstaining and Russia using its veto to defeat the measure.
Council members then voted on the rival Russian resolution for a six-month extension which got only 2 “yes” votes, with China the only country to join its ally Russia in supporting the resolution. The three other veto-wielding permanent council members — the United States, Britain and France — voted against it and 10 countries abstained. The vetoes were not needed, however, because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for approval.
U.S. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned after Friday’s votes that “I have long said this is a life-and-death issue” and “people will die because of this vote.”
Thomas-Greenfield, who visited Bab al-Hawa in June, said aid workers told her that a six-month renewal would be “a disaster” for their supply lines. They told her it “would mean lifesaving assistance would shut off in the dead of winter when needs are at their highest, which would be a nightmare scenario for a region where millions of people are still displaced.”
But Russia’s deputy ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told reporters there was “99% agreement” on a resolution and said Russia wouldn’t support a nine-month extension, suggested as a compromise by Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.
Unless council members decide to go with the Russian six-month proposal, Polyansky said, he saw no possibility for an agreement. Asked whether that meant that Russia would veto any proposed resolution that didn’t follow its draft with a six-month timeline, he replied: “Obviously.”
That left the rest of the council with no alternative but a six-month extension if they want to see the continuation of cross-border deliveries that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and more than 30 non-governmental organizations also consider crucial.
One addition to the new draft calls for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide a report on humanitarian needs in Syria by Dec. 10 to assess the impact of a possible border closing in January if the resolution isn't renewed.
The draft also calls for Guterres to brief the council monthly and issue reports at least every 60 days on the progress of cross-line deliveries, humanitarian assistance delivered from Turkey, and “early recovery projects" in Syria that Russia has pushed for.
Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and a region where an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is the strongest. The U.N. said recently that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians, the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.
Russia, a close ally of Syria’s government, has repeatedly called for stepped up humanitarian aid deliveries to the northwest from within Syria, across conflict lines. This would give Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government more control.
In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey for humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa.
In a compromise with Russia, that one-year mandate was extended on July 9, 2021, for six months, with an additional six months subject to a “substantive report” from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. This was effectively a year-long mandate because a second resolution wasn’t needed.
Before last week’s vote, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric called cross-border aid critical for men, women and children in the northwest and stressed the importance of long-term planning, including costs, in supporting a year-long extension. | 2022-07-12T04:08:31+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/07/12/russia-wins-fight-to-limit-aid-to-syrian-rebels-to-6-months/ |
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LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz continues its investigation of Discover Financial Services ("Discover" or the "Company") (NYSE: DFS) on behalf of investors concerning the Company's possible violations of federal securities laws.
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On July 20, 2022, Discover announced that, due to an internal investigation into compliance practices at its student loan servicing business, the Company was suspending its share buyback program.
On this news, Discover's stock fell $9.80, or 8.9%, to close at $100 per share on July 21, 2022, thereby injuring investors.
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A U.S. man is believed to be in custody in North Korea after crossing the border without authorization, according to the United Nations body that oversees the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
A Pentagon official who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the man was a U.S. soldier in civilian clothes.
He was touring the Joint Security Area, a border village between the two Koreas, when he crossed the area's Military Demarcation Line, the U.N. Command wrote in a tweet early Tuesday.
"We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident," the body said, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and its army.
The Pentagon official said authorities are not ready to release the man's identity given they have yet notified his next of kin.
The U.S. State Department did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
A woman who said she was part of the tour group said they were at the last stop when they heard a loud "HA-HA-HA" and saw the man, who'd been with the group all day, run "between two of the buildings and over to the other side."
"It took everybody a second to react and grasp what had actually happened," the woman wrote in a Facebook post that's since been deleted. "Then we were ordered into and through Freedom House and running back to our military bus."
The woman did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
The DMZ divides the two Koreas, approximately around the 38th parallel, and is the de facto international border. It is heavily fortified and mined on both sides.
The two countries stopped fighting in 1953 with an armistice agreement, but are still technically at war.
The U.S. State Department warns U.S. citizens against traveling to North Korea due to "the continuing serious risk of arrest and long-term detention of U.S. nationals," including the "critical threat of wrongful detention."
That travel warning was implemented in 2015, after U.S. college student Otto Warmbier was detained by North Korean authorities while touring the area. He was released to the U.S. in a coma in 2017 and died two days later.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more details. Please refresh the page for the latest version.
NPR's Tom Bowman contributed reporting from Washington D.C. and Se Eun Gong contributed reporting from Seoul.
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What would it take for the Miami Dolphins to trade Teddy Bridgewater to the Dallas Cowboys as is being kicked around?
A lot.
A second-round pick, for instance. That’d be the high bar. That might make a deal prohibitive — and that’s fine.
That’s because the Dolphins signed Bridgewater for one year at $6.5 million for the good reason that he’s a solid insurance policy to Tua Tagovaila’s durability questions.
Dallas is in the market for a quarterback with Dak Prescott out for at least four weeks with a thumb injury. Cooper Rush is their backup. Their season was in trouble before this — once again.
Bridgewater wasn’t seen as a starter by any team this offseason. That’s why he’s on the Dolphins. He’s been in this role before, too, as he went 5-0 with New Orleans in replacing Drew Brees in 2019. Some will say the preseason play of Skyler Thompson could mean Bridgewater could be traded more easily to Dallas.
Let’s say Tagovailoa misses two or three games. This AFC is stacked with playoff contenders. Do you really want the season resting on a seventh-round rookie who shows promise rather than a veteran who has taken teams to the playoffs?
A second-round pick. That’s the bar. That would help recoup some of the draft bounty spent on Tyreek Hill (and for the tampering charges). But I’d understand if they didn’t even want to trade Bridgewater at all.
2. It was some good, some bad for the offensive line. The team ran for a measly 65 yards. But the pass-blocking? Tua Tagovailoa had an average 2.92 seconds to throw, as NextGenStats.com measured. It’s just one game, but it ranked 10th in the league and is a big improvement if it holds. Last season, Tua had a third-worst 2.52 seconds to throw. So Sunday was a notable difference and translated into other numbers like the yards of his passes rising from a bottom-feeding 5.1 yards last year to 6.2 yards on Sunday (ranked 12th in league). Re-watching the game: Tackle Terron Armstead was as good as expected and center Connor Williams had a good game, too. After that? There’s work to do.
3. You saw Monday why the Dolphins’ Mike McDaniel deserved praise for going for it on fourth down just before half and was rewarded with a 42-yard touchdown. Denver’s Nathaniel Hackett showed playing Madden isn’t preparation for some decision-making. Facing fourth-and-five with about 48 seconds left, Hackett decided to attempt a 64-yard field goal rather than put the ball in the quarterback’s hands they just paid $250 million. Russell Wilson stood out there, letting the clock tick down to 20 seconds Monday night in Seattle before using the first of the team’s three time outs. The field goal missed. The game was lost. That was a first-time coach looking like it.
4. Speed? Jaylen Waddle was the fifth-fasted player in Week 1, running 20.8 mph on his 42-yard touchdown catch. Tyreek Hill had the 10th-fastest speed at 20.3 on an 18-yard reception. Hill, especially, can go faster, but this is what defenses will have to be aware of all season. Here’s the thing: There’s speed across this roster. Cornerback Keion Crossen (22.05 mph) recorded the second-fastest speed in a game this weekend as recorded by NextGenStats.com.
5. Seattle fans are the pits of the world for booing Wilson, who spent a decade as the face of that franchise and won a Super Bowl there.
6. The Dolphins offense is a work in progress, and New England has a good, disciplined defense. But you understand how much the Dolphins defense won Sunday when you roll around the offensive stats: 13 points, 307 yards, two plays for more than 25 yards (Waddle’s 42-yard touchdown and Hill’s 26-yard catch that he took from a Patriots defender). They can have that kind of game in a loss and we’ll be wondering what’s wrong with the offense.
7. Yeah, the statute of limitations might be running out on this, but time only underlines that the Minkah Fitzpatrick trade might go down as the worst in Dolphins history. It’s could be a toss-up with Anthony Carter being traded to Minnesota for linebacker Robin Sendlein. Fitzpatrick had a pick-6 and blocked a would-be winning extra point to lead Pittsburgh to an overtime win against Cincinnati. He’s a two-time All-Pro. Repeat: All-Pro, not the watered-down Pro Bowl stuff. He’s 25. Yes, Jevon Holland is on pace to be a great safety. But the idea is to accumulate as many great players as possible — not discard them. Fitzpatrick didn’t like the linebacker-heavy role Brian Flores put him in 2019. Flores pushed to trade him and the organization went along with it. Now Flores is a linebackers coach on the Steelers where Fitzpatrick is a star. The Dolphins got the draft pick that became tackle Austin Jackson to show for it.
8. The Patriots look like a six-win team with that offense. And that’s only because they get to play the New York Jets twice.
9. The Dolphins had Xavien Howard on Devante Parker all game Sunday. That told you they think Parker is their top threat. He had one catch for nine yards and Howard deflected a ball for an interception (he was called for holding on Parker). That’s what you’d expect — a win for Howard.
10. On To Baltimore: The Ravens are four-point favorites. They had an easy win against the Jets, but lost former Dolphins tackle Ja’wuan James (Achilles) and cornerback Kyle Fuller (ACL) on Sunday.
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Russian launches to space from US, 1st time in 20 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.. (AP) — For the first time in 20 years, a Russian cosmonaut rocketed from the U.S. on Wednesday, launching to the International Space Station alongside NASA and Japanese astronauts despite tensions over the war in Ukraine.
Their SpaceX flight was delayed by Hurricane Ian, which ripped across the state last week.
“I hope with this launch we will brighten up the skies over Florida a little bit for everyone,” said the Japan Space Agency’s Koichi Wakata, who is making his fifth spaceflight.
Joining him on a five-month mission are three new to space: Marine Col. Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman to orbit Earth; Navy Capt. Josh Cassada and Russia’s lone female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina.
“Awesome! said Mann as they reached orbit. “That was a smooth ride uphill. You’ve got three rookies who are pretty happy to be floating in space right now.”
They’re due to arrive at the space station Thursday, 29 hours after a noon departure from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and won’t be back on Earth until March. They’re replacing a U.S.-Italian crew that arrived in April.
Kikina is the Russian Space Agency’s exchange for NASA’s Frank Rubio, who launched to the space station two weeks ago from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket. He flew up with two cosmonauts.
The space agencies agreed over the summer to swap seats on their flights in order to ensure a continuous U.S. and Russian presence aboard the 260-mile-high (420-kilometer-high) outpost. The barter was authorized even as global hostilities mounted over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. The next crew exchange is in the spring.
Shortly before liftoff, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that the key reason for the seat exchange is safety — in case an emergency forces one capsule’s crew home, there would still be an American and Russian on board.
In the meantime, Russia remains committed to the space station through at least 2024, Russia space official Sergei Krikalev assured reporters this week. Russia wants to build its own station in orbit later this decade, “but we know that it’s not going to happen very quick and so probably we will keep flying” with NASA until then, he said.
Beginning with Krikalev in 1994, NASA started flying cosmonauts on its space shuttles, first to Russia’s Mir space station and then to the fledgling space station. The 2003 Columbia reentry disaster put an end to it. But U.S. astronauts continued to hitch rides on Russian rockets for tens of millions of dollars per seat.
Kakina is only the fifth Russian woman to rocket off the planet. She said she was surprised to be selected for the seat swap after encountering “many tests and obstacles” during her decade of training. “But I did it. I’m lucky maybe. I’m strong,” she said.
Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in California, and taking up her mother’s dream catcher, a small traditional webbed hoop believed to offer protection. Retired NASA astronaut John Herrington of the Chickasaw Nation became the first Native American in space in 2002.
“I am very proud to represent Native Americans and my heritage,” Mann said before the flight, adding that everyone on her crew has a unique background. “It’s important to celebrate our diversity and also realize how important it is when we collaborate and unite, the incredible accomplishments that we can have.”
As for the war in Ukraine, Mann said all four have put politics and personal beliefs aside, “and it’s really cool how the common mission of the space station just instantly unites us.”
Added Cassada: “We have an opportunity to be an example for society on how to work together and live together and explore together.”
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has now launched eight crews since 2020: six for NASA and two private groups. Boeing, NASA’s other contracted taxi service, plans to make its first astronaut flight early next yea r, after delays to fix software and other issues that cropped up on test flights.
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Michael Block — golf’s common man who is still holding his own against the world’s top players at the PGA Championship this week — plugged his ears and shook his head, making a point of not wanting to hear how big his payday might be if he finishes among the top 10.
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“I don’t want to listen,” Block, the club professional out of Southern California, said Saturday. He revealed the largest paycheck he’s ever won from playing golf was $75,000, at the 2014 Club Professional National Championship at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
“I don’t listen about what I might make or could make or anything like that. I pretty much am putting my head down,” he added after staying in contention with his third consecutive even-par 70 that has him tied for eighth at Oak Hill.
The mere fact the 46-year-old was paired with Justin Rose for the tournament’s third round was so intimidating, Block refused to look at his playing partner’s face through the first few holes. On Sunday, he’ll be paired with Rory McIlroy, a four-time major champion.
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“You serious?” Block said, when informed of the pairing. “Wow. That should be fun. We’ll have a good time,” he continued before adding, “Really?”
Try as he can, Block is unable to block out all the hype he’s generating around the golf course, on social media and television, where he appeared to be a natural conducting a live interview with broadcasters Jim Nantz and Scott Van Pelt in between shots.
“It’s just been awesome. Scott came up to me right before I was teeing off today and expressed how much he enjoyed the interview I had with him on 14 the other day,” Block said. “And I looked at my caddie and my friend, and I’m like, ‘This is ridiculous. I don’t even know what I’m doing.’”
Block is making everything look relatively easy on and off the course. On Saturday, he overcame a double bogey on the par-4 sixth and finished with three birdies and a bogey on the back nine.
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Though he might seem out of his element, Block doesn’t lack for confidence while competing in his seventh major. This is the first in which he's made the cut.
“I love Rosey, but I can compete against these guys to be honest,” he added, referring to Rose. “I can hang. I can post a 3- or 4-under tomorrow, especially if I get the fairways rolling again.”
No matter the outcome on Sunday, Block has made it a point to enjoy every moment.
“Before you know it, you’re 60 years old and retired and look back at the videos and remember that was the best week of my life,” Block said. “So I’m going to sit back as much as I can with my friends and my family at the house we rented and watch the videos tonight and see all my new followers on Instagram. It’s been crazy.”
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100 CUTS
Phil Mickelson credited the benefits of age for achieving his latest milestone.
With a two-round score of 5-over 145 at the PGA Championship, the 52-year-old made the cut at a major for the 100th time. Lefty became just the fourth player to make 100 36-hole cuts at a major, joining Jack Nicklaus (131), Gary Player (108) and Tom Watson (101).
“It shows that I’ve had a lot of great experiences in the game of golf and that I’ve had a lot of great years and opportunities,” said Mickelson, who has won the PGA twice, the Masters three times and the British Open once.
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“Playing in these tournaments is something I’m very appreciative of. I mean, it just shows how old I am, I guess, and how many years I’ve been playing,” Mickelson added. “But it’s been really fun to participate in so many great events and play well in them.”
PENALTY FOR WAITING
Lee Hodges was issued a one-stroke penalty for waiting too long to hit his next putt on No. 17 after leaving a 16-foot par attempt hanging on the lip of the cup. The ball hung on the precipice for about 30 seconds before, perhaps, a raindrop or two finally knocked it in.
In issuing the penalty, the PGA Championship rules committee cited Rule 13.3a, in which a player has 10 seconds to wait for their putt to drop, though after taking “a reasonable” amount of time to reach the hole. The committee ruled Hodges stood at his ball for more than 10 seconds before it fell.
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As a result, Hodges closed with three straight bogeys in his round of 75.
CLUB TOSS
Taylor Moore took out his frustration on his driver after sailing his tee shot into the rough on the par-14 16th.
Moore tossed his club in frustration walking off the tee box. Upon picking it up, he threw it down again but more violently, with the driver taking several bounces sideways.
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On the bright side, Moore finished the hole by making a 2-footer for par. On the downside, he shot 78, with two double bogeys, and is 11 over for the tournament.
PRIZE PURSE
The winner of the PGA Championship will receive $3.15 million.
The PGA of America said Saturday its prize fund is $17.5 million. That’s up from $15 million last year. The winner gets $500,000 less than Masters champion Jon Rahm earned last month.
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The purses in the majors have been steadily increasing, though not at the rate of the PGA Tour, which this year has 11 tournaments with $20 million or more in prize money. The individual winner at each LIV Golf event gets $4 million from a $20 million purse.
The other two majors have not announced their prize money.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan is revving up its electrification shift and slashing costs by using the same components across models and reducing use of expensive rare materials.
Nissan Motor Co. presented its “X-in-1” development strategy Thursday, in which the X stands for various powertrain parts such as an electric motor and inverter that can be used across models. The company said development and manufacturing costs will be reduced by 30% in 2026 compared to 2019 levels.
The Yokohama-based automaker was a pioneer in electric vehicles but rivals like Tesla and BYD of China have overtaken it.
As the move toward ecological models gains momentum around the world, driven by worries over climate change, Nissan has been eager to showcase its prowess.
Its senior vice president, Toshihiro Hirai, acknowledged that prices of rare earths and other materials needed to make electric vehicle batteries and other parts are expected to rise in coming years. That means automakers must have a solid strategy for obtaining raw materials if they hope to succeed in electrification.
“We make the most of our expertise and know-how from our more than a decadelong development and production of electrified technologies,” said Hirai.
Compared to the first-generation vehicle the Leaf, rare materials account for 25% of the weight of the 2019 Nissan Note EV. Nissan aims to make that 1% or less.
Nissan, which also makes the March subcompact and Infiniti luxury models, is working on solid-state battery technology for EVs, a move that if successful is expected to radically reduce costs.
By 2030, Nissan’s EV offerings will cost about the same at dealers as the equivalent regular gasoline-engine models, Hirai said.
The cheapest EVs like the Leaf now sell for under $30,000, although small internal-combustion engine cars are cheaper, at about $21,000 for the Nissan Sentra in the U.S.
A Tesla Model 3, a relatively affordable model for a Tesla, sells for about $43,000.
But EVs are usually eligible for tax credits and other incentives. High gasoline prices might make EVs a smart buy in the long run, although much depends on the owner’s driving habits.
A Consumer Reports analysis last year said that based on the gas price at that time of $4.31 a gallon, EV owners could save between $1,800 and $2,600 in operating and maintenance costs for every 15,000 miles they drive, compared to drivers of gas-powered vehicles.
That's the average distance newer vehicles are driven in a year in the U.S. Gas prices have since fallen, so the savings would be lower but still significant.
Hirai said people find driving an electric vehicle less stressful because it’s quiet and delivers a smooth ride, even over rough terrain, while maintaining the fun feel of driving. One advantage of an EV is its more precise control over each wheel, which can effectively counter bumps and jolts.
Nissan has promised 27 new electrified models, including eight e-Power “series hybrid” models, which have both a gas engine and electric motor, by fiscal 2030.
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Find more AP coverage of technology at https://apnews.com/hub/technology | 2023-03-09T01:52:49+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/japan-s-nissan-slashing-ev-costs-cuts-rare-17828207.php |
Home Depot workers in Philadelphia are deciding whether to form the company's first unionized store.
Voting begins at a Home Depot location in Northeast Philadelphia, where more than 260 employees are eligible to vote on whether to join the Home Depot Workers United, a new independent group formed at the store. The results are expected Saturday night.
If the union prevails, it would mark a historic moment for the country's largest home improvement retailer. And it would add another name to this year's list of chains facing first-ever unions: Amazon, Starbucks, Chipotle, Trader Joe's, REI, Medieval Times and Apple stores.
Labor organizers typically face high hurdles, with companies able to stage mandatory meetings and other efforts to discourage unionization.
At Amazon, only one of five union elections has succeeded so far, and the company is still fighting the union's sole victory. At Trader Joe's, the union lost an election in New York after winning two, in Massachusetts and Minnesota.
At Starbucks, the pace of organizing has slowed, and almost a year since the union's first win, Starbucks has barely begun negotiating a contract with unionized workers. Employees at 251 stores have voted to unionize, while workers at 56 stores have rejected the union.
At Home Depot in Philadelphia, organizer Vincent Quiles has told reporters that his original union petition included more than 100 signatures in support. But he also has described a generational divide at the store with younger workers, who tend to be more enthusiastic about unionizing, and older workers, who tend to be less so.
A Home Depot representative said the company respected the right to unionize but did not see it as "the best solution of its staff."
"Our open-door policy is designed to assure all associates that they can bring concerns directly to leadership, and we have a track record of working successfully with our associates to resolve them," the retailer's statement said.
Previously, some 60 Home Depot delivery drivers unionized in 2019 in San Diego, which the Teamsters said marked the first time the company's workers joined a union.
Historically, labor groups have struggled to gain a foothold in retail, where 4.4% of workers are members of a union.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-02T09:16:26+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2022-11-02/home-depot-workers-in-philadelphia-vote-on-whether-to-form-1st-unionized-store |
Union members approve new contract with UPS
ATLANTA (AP) — A union says aircraft maintenance workers at Georgia-based UPS have approved a three-year contract that provides raises and pension improvements for more than 1,600 union members nationwide. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says wage hikes of 3.3% and increases in pension benefits will begin in November 2023. The union says more than 87% of voting members of Teamsters Local 2727 approved the deal. The local represents aircraft maintenance workers and other UPS aviation employees in 93 cities nationwide. | 2022-10-19T18:32:30+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/10/19/union-members-approve-new-contract-with-ups/ |
Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man on Arizona’s death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
The 5-4 decision, in an opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said John Montenegro Cruz should get a new penalty phase of his trial where it is made clear to jurors that he is ineligible for parole if he is sentenced to life in prison, instead of death.
The case is important not only for Cruz, but also for other Arizona death row inmates whose juries received similar misinformation. Arizona currently has approximately 100 people on its death row. It was not clear how many of those might be eligible for a new sentencing hearing.
Cruz had argued that the jury should have been informed he would be ineligible for parole if spared from death and given a life sentence. A judge rejected that request and the state said Cruz failed to make the precise requests he needed to under Supreme Court precedent.
At least one juror has said that had she known that a “life sentence without parole” was an alternative to death, she “would have voted for that option.”
Cruz was convicted of the 2003 murder of a Tucson police officer, Patrick Hardesty. Hardesty and another officer were investigating a hit-and-run accident that led them to Cruz, who attempted to flee and shot Hardesty five times.
A 1994 Supreme Court case, Simmons v. South Carolina, says that in certain death penalty cases, jurors must be told that choosing a life sentence means life without the possibility of parole. That’s required when prosecutors argue that the defendant will pose a threat to society in the future.
Arizona courts refused to apply the decision. In a 2016 case, Lynch v. Arizona, the Supreme Court told Arizona directly that it needed to comply with Simmons. Cruz says Arizona has continued to defy the high court.
The case is Cruz v. Arizona, 21-846.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-22T16:18:20+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2023/02/22/supreme-court-rules-arizona-inmate-death-penalty-case/ |
(WREG)— A recent rash of car thefts in Memphis, Tennessee, has many local drivers looking for ways to keep their rides safe.
Eric Dooley, with 901 Sounds automotive services, says more and more people are turning to kill switches for their vehicles. He says they install about five or six a week.
“You got burglars stealing things out of your car, people trying to steal the car itself, people want to have some kind of protection,” he said.
Dooley said a basic kill switch ranges from $250 to $350 installed, and an alarm system can cost as little as $450 installed.
“What a kill switch does is, once you put your key in the ignition, it’s not going to start the vehicle,” he said. “There is a button hidden somewhere. Sometimes people hook it up to turning your blinkers on, you know, and then you can start the vehicle but the thieves won’t know that.”
The kill switch can be placed on the steering column, windshield wiper, or anyplace inside the car, unbeknownst to the thief. The other end connects to the engine. Another type of kill switch has a magnetic component.
Dooley showed WREG how it works on any vehicle — including a vintage 1936 Ford.
“When you can park your vehicle at, you know, restaurants or the movies and can go in and enjoy yourself and you don’t have to worry about your vehicle being stolen. You’ve got protections, peace of mind,” Dooley said.
While many vehicles come with alarms installed already, some people choose these after-market alarms as an “extra” security feature. | 2022-09-24T19:43:08+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/can-a-kill-switch-protect-your-car-from-theft/ |
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government presented to Parliament on Wednesday an annual budget of $550 billion that calls for ramping up capital spending by 33% to spur economic growth and create jobs ahead of a general election next year.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said private investment was rising after the pandemic and the government should focus on driving growth.
India’s economy is projected to grow 7% in the fiscal year ending in March. The government forecasts growth of 6%-6.5% next year.
The country’s population is expected to overtake China’s in size this year, and its economy last year surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth largest.
But despite steady economic growth, the Modi government has struggled to quash unemployment concerns and is under pressure to generate enough jobs, especially as it faces key state polls this year and a general election in 2024, which it is favored to win.
“The budget makes the need once again to ramp up the virtuous cycle of investment and job creation,” Sitharaman said.
According to the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, the unemployment rate stood at 8.3% in December, up from 6.5% in January 2022.
The government is aiming for a budget deficit of 5.9% of India’s gross domestic product for the 2023-24 financial year, lower than the 6.4% for this fiscal year.
Despite worries that the world economy is headed for a slump, the finance minister she was confident the country’s future was bright. “India is on the right track,” she said.
Apart from raising capital spending on construction of schools, airports, heliports and other infrastructure to $122 billion, the budget extended a $24 billion scheme to provide free grains to vulnerable households for one year.
The government will also increase by 66% its spending on providing affordable housing to the urban poor, Sitharaman said, and prioritize “green growth” with a $4.3 billion investment towards helping India meet its goal of going carbon neutral by 2070.
The budget also announced new tax relief measures aimed at bringing some respite for India’s large middle class. But it slashed spending by 30% on India’s rural jobs program, a boon for the country’s most vulnerable, triggering criticism from activists and the opposition.
On Wednesday, Modi praised the budget as laying a strong “foundation for the aspirations and resolutions of a developed India,” and said the government’s investment into infrastructure has increased by more than 400% since 2014 when he first became prime minister.
Sitharaman’s budget speech was briefly interrupted by opposition lawmakers chanting “Adani, Adani,” after a tussle between Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and a U.S.-based short-seller dominated headlines this week.
Political opponents have urged India’s market regulator to investigate Adani after the short-selling firm accused his conglomerate of stock market manipulation and accounting fraud. The allegations led investors to dump Adani-related shares, wiping out tens of billions of dollars worth of market value for his business empire.
Critics of the 60-year-old billionaire say his rise has been boosted by his apparent close ties to Modi. The Adani Group has denied the allegations.
The budget requires approval from both houses of Parliament, but it is bound to be enacted as Modi’s party holds a strong majority. | 2023-02-01T13:59:46+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-india-to-raise-spending-on-job-creation-ahead-of-election/ |
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems will collaborate with Red 6 to explore the integration of the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems (ATARS) onto the Hawk fast jet trainer aircraft. This will enable pilots to identify, engage and defeat virtual threats and co-operate with virtual wingmen whilst airborne.
BAE Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Red 6, an augmented reality technology firm at the forefront of synthetic air combat training. The collaboration will explore ways to combine BAE Systems' experience in delivering training to military forces alongside its expertise in helmet-mounted displays with Red 6's breakthrough ATARS technology.
Lucy Walton, Head of Training, BAE Systems' air sector, said: "The modern battlespace is becoming increasingly complex and integrating technology such as Red 6's augmented reality with the Hawk aircraft is key as we prepare pilots for life in a fast jet cockpit for decades to come. We're trusted by armed forces around the world to train over 450 pilots per year and it's essential we have the right technologies and partnerships to ensure they stay ahead of the curve. We're really excited to combine our unique insight from working alongside air forces across the globe with the truly game-changing capabilities of Red 6."
Daniel Robinson, Founder and CEO of Red 6, said: "Readiness and lethality are critical if our war fighters are to prevail against near peer adversaries. I'm thrilled that BAE Systems recognises the radical innovation that ATARS brings to drive the change in military flight training that is so desperately needed and that together can help drive this transformational shift."
The companies announced they will be working together at I/ITSEC 2022, one of the world's leading training and simulation shows, in Orlando, Florida.
BAE Systems has been a leader in the fast jet augmented reality market for over 60 years. The Company developed the world's first heads up display (HUD) for the Buccaneer in 1958 and the family of Striker Helmet Mounted Display Systems (HMDS) used on Typhoon and Gripen aircraft.
Working with Red 6 takes this capability a step further for the pilots of tomorrow, by bringing constructed adversaries, wingmen and surface threats into the training space at a fraction of the cost and emissions of the live equivalent.
For imagery of Hawk and Red 6 technology, click here:
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BAE Systems has decades of experience working with armed forces across the globe to deliver and evolve training to meet their current and operational requirements.
Today we work throughout the training pipeline from recruiting future air force personnel, synthetic and live environments to deliver next generation effects-led training, producing the right skills – from the classroom to the frontline and everything in between. Hawk, the most successful and proven military aircraft trainer, is at the heart of what we deliver with a global fleet of 650 aircraft preparing pilots for life in the fast jet cockpit of aircraft including Typhoon and F-35. Its advanced airborne simulation has put tens of thousands of students at the controls of the latest frontline capability and will continue to integrate next generation mission systems, wearable technology and cockpit displays, ensuring it continues as the world's leading flying classroom.
Find out more about Hawk: https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/product/hawk-advanced-jet-trainer
Red 6, founded in 2018, is the creator of Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), Combined Augmented Reality Battlespace Operational Network (CARBON), and Augmented Reality Command and Analytic Data Environment (ARCADE). Red 6 systems are the first wide field-of-view, full color, demonstrably proven outdoor augmented reality solution that operates in dynamic outdoor environments. Together, they bring virtual and constructive assets into the real-world by allowing pilots and ground operators to see synthetic threats in real-time, outdoors, and critically, in high-speed environments.
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SOURCE Red 6 | 2022-11-29T20:35:06+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/11/29/industry-collaborates-bring-augmented-reality-hawk-aircraft/ |
WATCH: Sea otter menaces surfer, steals his board
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) - An aggressive sea otter attacked a California surfer, taking over his board, in an incident caught on video. Wildlife officials are now trying to capture the otter.
Video posted to Twitter shows a sea otter fearlessly biting then climbing on a surfer’s board Sunday. The surfer gets off the board, treading water in the Santa Cruz surfing area known as Steamer Lane.
“This is a dangerous sea otter, avoid it if at all possible!” wrote photographer Mark Woodward as he shared the video.
Over the weekend, the otter exhibited multiple instances of aggressive behavior toward surfers off Cowell Beach. Henry Michelle, a surfer who has been living in Santa Cruz for more than 20 years, says he saw the otter Monday night.
“This woman was yelling at a kid for hitting the otter, and the kid’s like, ‘I don’t know what to do. The thing’s trying to bite me.’ So, the kid was – I don’t think he was trying to hit it but trying to shoo it away,” Michelle said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the sea otter is a 5-year-old female, who is tagged and can be easily identified. They say there have been no confirmed reports that she has injured anyone, but officials are now trying to capture her.
“Due to the increasing public safety risk, a team from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Monterey Bay Aquarium trained in the capture and handling of sea otters has been deployed to attempt to capture and rehome her,” said wildlife officials in a statement.
Wildlife officials say the sea otter, who was born in captivity, has been on their radar for years. She was seen in the Santa Cruz area with the same unusual behavior last September. According to state wildlife officials, her mother was removed from the wild after exhibiting aggressive behavior toward people because the public had been feeding her.
While the reason for this sea otter’s behavior is not clear, wildlife officials say aggressive behavior in female sea otters may be associated with hormonal surges or being fed by humans.
David Ebert with the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories says it’s important for people to keep their distance from sea otters, especially those that are acting aggressively.
“Always be alert and aware of your surroundings there, and again, if you see a sea otter like this one and it approaches you, just move away from it. Definitely don’t try to engage it because it can definitely bite you. It can cause some injury to you,” he said.
Once the sea otter is captured, she will undergo evaluation by veterinary staff at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreements for Philco and Philips Brands
MIAMI, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newtech Holdings ("Newtech") announced today that it has acquired leading consumer electronics company Craig Electronics, headquartered in Miami, Florida. In furtherance of that investment, Newtech has also acquired exclusive distribution agreements for Philco consumer electronics products and Philips DVD players in North America.
Craig Electronics is a leading consumer electronics innovator which offers a complete one-stop consumer technology and electronics solution for national big box, food and drug, club, and mass retail distribution. Craig conducts business under a portfolio of brands which includes Craig (owned) and Magnavox (licensed), as well as multiple private label relationships. Newtech's senior management previously owned and operated Craig Electronics before successfully selling the company in 2019.
"We are beyond excited to be reacquiring a business that is part of our DNA," said Michael Newman, CEO, Newtech. "We look forward to working closely with our supplier partners to provide the exceptional level of service that our core group of retail customers expect and deserve from us while focusing on the expansion of our e-commerce business platform for additional consumer products."
"Newtech's additional acquisition of exclusive distribution rights for Philco consumer electronics products and Philips DVD players in North America will provide us with tremendous brands and a product portfolio to drive growth while we look for more consumer products companies to acquire," said Todd Richardson, president, Newtech.
Originally founded in 1963, Craig has been the most trusted value conscious consumer electronics brand for over 50 years. Our mission is simple – to always come to the market with the latest and greatest technologies and most on-trend products at affordable prices while always exceeding your quality expectations. Our mission is never-ending and our long history as the leader in on-trend value conscious consumer electronics is testament that our mission has been, and continues to be successful. For more information, visit: https://craigelectronics.com.
Owned and operated by a senior management team with over fifty years of experience in the consumer products business across multiple categories, Newtech seeks to combine consumer products businesses with the capital and expertise they need to drive their business into the future.
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MOORESTOWN, N.J., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRHC), will hold a conference call and webcast to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. EDT. The Company's financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022, will be released after the close of the market Monday, March 6, 2023.
Those interested in participating via webcast in listen-only mode can access the event here. For participants who would like to participate via telephone, please register here to receive the dial-in number along with a unique PIN number that is required to access the call. A replay of the earnings call will be available via webcast at the Investor Relations section of TRHC's website (ir.tabularasahealthcare.com).
About Tabula Rasa HealthCare
Tabula Rasa HealthCare (TRHC) provides medication safety solutions that empower healthcare professionals and consumers to optimize medication regimens, combatting medication overload and reducing adverse drug events. TRHC's proprietary technology solutions, including MedWise®, improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. TRHC's extensive clinical tele-pharmacy network improves care for patients nationwide. Its solutions are trusted by health plans and at-risk provider groups to help drive value-based care. For more information, visit TRHC.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called for a “fair deal” for Hollywood’s striking writers on Monday as he hosted a White House screening of the the upcoming streaming series “American Born Chinese” to mark Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Biden made his first public comments on the strike, which hits the one-week mark Tuesday, in remarks ahead of the pilot’s screening. He was joined by an overflow crowd of hundreds of community leaders, elected officials and cast members and producers from the show in the East Room and the State Dining Room.
“Nights like these are a reminder of stories and the importance of treating storytellers with the dignity, respect and the value they deserve,” Biden said. “I sincerely hope the writers strike in Hollywood gets resolved and the writers are given a fair deal they deserve as soon as possible.”
He added: “This is an iconic, meaningful American industry. And we need the writers and all the workers and everyone involved to tell the stories of our nation and the stories of all of us.”
“American Born Chinese” is an adaptation of a graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang, and stars Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. It will premiere on Disney+ May 24.
Biden used his brief remarks onstage to outline his administration’s efforts to highlight the accomplishments of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities and to speak out against prejudice and violence targeting them.
“Hate can have no safe harbor in America,” Biden said. “Silence is complicity and we will not remain silent”
Quan, who introduced Biden, reflected on his journey from arriving in the U.S. as an 8-year-old refugee from Vietnam to making his first visit to the White House months after winning an Oscar.
“I do not take this moment lightly, because I know this building is a monument to a country that opened its arms to me,” he said. | 2023-05-09T20:12:45+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/biden-at-aanhpi-screening-hollywood-writers-need-fair-deal/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
3-7-2-5
(three, seven, two, five)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | 2022-09-17T02:48:28+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17447839.php |
PLANT CITY, Fla. — A Pasco County firefighter paramedic was honored for his quick thinking that saved lives in two separate health scares at his local gym within a week of each other.
Pasco County Firefighter Paramedic Patrick Dudkiewicz was able to receive recognition and thanks for saving two gym-goers for the first time who suffered cardiac arrest while working out.
"Just fortunate I was here that day," the firefighter said Wednesday.
Both medical episodes happened at CrossFit Plant City, where Dudkiewicz was off-duty and working out. He originally didn't want to go to the gym on the day of the first incident, but his wife ultimately told him to.
"She was like, 'Oh, you should go,'" he explained. "So I showed up and both incidents happened after the workout – my heart rate is at 170 already as it is and...I come in and do what I was trained to do."
On May 25, the firefighter was at the gym when he suddenly jumped to help a fellow gym-goer who suffered cardiac arrest. He was able to perform CPR and apply an automated external defibrillator before Plant City Fire Rescue got on the scene.
Just a week later, Dudkiewicz found himself once again in a similar situation. While at the gym on June 1, the firefighter paramedic performed CPR on a person suffering cardiac arrest.
He was able to successfully help the gym-goer until EMS arrived.
During the surprise event Wednesday, the two gym-goers were able to thank Dudkiewicz for saving their lives.
"Thank you for saving my life," one of the gym-goers, Richard, said while hugging the firefighter. "God sent me a guardian angel and that guardian angel saved my life."
Dudkiewicz said he was grateful to see the two again again not on a stretcher.
"I am thankful for these people that chose the profession that they chose and for being there when I needed them," said the other gym-goer, Patty.
Plant City Fire Rescue Interim Fire Chief Tim Mossgrove was also able to present Dudkiewicz with a challenge coin which is given to people who do "remarkable things out there in the field." | 2023-07-26T21:25:15+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/plant-city-firefighter-honored-cardiac-arrest-gym/67-7b0eb6fb-1001-4c3a-ae8a-fcb92b6b017d |
71, CNA, died January 14 at Claridge House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Service 1 p.m., Saturday in the chapel.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters got their first shot at using ranked voting in a statewide race Tuesday in a special U.S. House election in which Sarah Palin seeks a return to elected office.
Also, Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski faces 18 challengers in a primary in which the top four vote-getters will advance to November’s general election.
The special election and regular primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor and state legislative seats are on opposite sides of a two-sided ballot. It could take until Aug. 31 to know the winner of the special election.
The three candidates competing in the House special election are Republicans Palin and Nick Begich and Democrat Mary Peltola. The winner will serve the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young ‘s term. Young, a Republican, held the state’s only House seat for 49 years. He died in March.
Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee and a former Alaska governor, renewed her “drill, baby, drill” calls for increased oil production and said she would use her connections to the benefit of Alaska. She said the new, voter-approved system under which elections are being conducted this year creates confusion and should be changed.
Begich, a businessman from a family of prominent Democrats, has come out hard against Palin, seeking to cast her as someone chasing fame and a quitter; Palin resigned during her term as governor in 2009. In one Begich ad, a woman says: “I’m voting for smart — not Sarah.”
Palin “does not have a strong track record of effective advocacy for the state, and that’s not going to work for us,” Begich said in an interview.
A narrator in one of Palin’s ads refers to Begich as “negative Nick” and says Palin wants to serve in Congress “to carry Don Young’s torch.”
Peltola, a former lawmaker, most recently worked at a commission whose goal is to rebuild salmon resources on the Kuskokwim River. She has cast herself as a “regular Alaskan” and consensus builder. If successful, she would be the first Alaska Native woman elected to the House.
“Vote, vote, vote and vote for me twice, literally,” Peltola told supporters in Juneau days before the election.
All three said they planned to pursue a full, two-year House term, regardless of how the special election turns out. They, along with Republican Tara Sweeney, who was an assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration, were the most prominent candidates in a 22-person field in the U.S. House primary.
Sweeney also filed days before the special election as a write-in candidate for that race. Palin’s campaign on Friday sent an email wrongly stating there were no official write-in candidates in the race.
Alaska’s elections process, approved by voters in 2020 and used for the first time this year, ends party primaries and institutes ranked voting for general elections. In the primary, all candidates in a race are listed together; each voter picks one candidate per race. The four candidates who win the most votes in each race advance to the November general election, in which ranked voting will be used.
Bob Cruise left a Peltola fundraiser in Juneau Friday with a yard sign. He said his three granddaughters are of indigenous heritage. “It’s important to me for them to see an indigenous woman go to Washington, D.C., as Alaska’s representative. That would mean the world to me, especially one with the leadership abilities and all the wonderful qualities that Mary has,” he said.
Murkowski, a moderate who has been in the Senate for nearly 20 years and has at times been at odds with her party, faces 18 challengers, including fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka, who is backed by former President Donald Trump.
Trump has lashed out against Murkowski, who voted to convict him in his second impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump was acquitted.
Murkowski told reporters Tuesday there will be four winners in the primary, and she would “absolutely” be among them. But “what matters is winning in November,” she said.
She said that if Tshibaka derives her sole strength from Trump’s endorsement, “what does that really say about her as a candidate with what she has to offer Alaska? Is it just that she will be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? I don’t think that all Alaskans are really seeking that. Not the ones that I’m talking to.”
Trump participated in a rally last month with Tshibaka and Palin, whom he’s endorsed for the House. He has also done tele-rallies for Tshibaka and Palin.
Tshibaka has sought to cast Murkowski as a Washington insider who is cozy with President Joe Biden. She has said Alaskans want a change.
Kevin Durling, a co-chair of Tshibaka’s campaign, said Tshibaka’s commitment to business and family and her values are important to him. He said Trump’s endorsement of her is an added bonus.
The most visible Democrat in the race is retired educator Pat Chesbro, who jumped in late and has struggled to gain fundraising traction.
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as teams in the primary. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking reelection. He is running with Nancy Dahlstrom, who resigned as head of the state corrections department to join the ticket. Former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, is running with Heidi Drygas, who was his labor department commissioner. Democrat Les Gara, a former lawmaker, is running with Jessica Cook, a teacher.
Other tickets include Republican state Rep. Christopher Kurka, running with Paul Hueper, and Charlie Pierce, a Republican borough mayor, running with Edie Grunwald.
Fifty-nine of the Legislature’s 60 seats are up for election, but just one primary race has more than four candidates.
Beth Kerttula, a Democratic former state legislator, said she is supporting Peltola, Walker and Murkowski. Kerttula, who was in the Legislature with Peltola and Murkowski, said for many Alaskans “what really matters is the person” versus the party.
“I mean, we all supported Ted Stevens, too,” she said, referring to the late, longtime Republican U.S. senator. Alaska elections history includes periods when there were open primaries. | 2022-08-17T04:23:05+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/palin-murkowski-highlight-alaskas-2-elections-on-tuesday/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In this new documentary feature film, Fairways to Happiness https://fairwaystohappiness.com/ an American expat in The United Arab Emirates—the first country in the world to have established a Ministry of Happiness—investigates individual ideas of happiness while a British amateur golfer attempts to conquer the course.
Experts and expats from across the globe—including a priest, a monk, educators and everyday folk narrate the complex journey to contentment. At the same time, the film follows Eugene, struggling to lower his score on the golf course—a quest that often mirrors the emotional rollercoaster of life.
"I read the World Happiness Report and was taken by the idea that happiness could be quantified, as well as how the science of the relatively new fields of positive psychology and wellbeing science were being leveraged in The United Arab Emirates to improve society at large." —Doug Morrione (Director)
The story extends from the iconic skylines and golf courses of Dubai to Nepal, England, Ukraine, Australia, the United States, Bangladesh and other destinations to see how life in people's home countries juxtaposes with their lives in Dubai.
The film also explores the growing emphasis on well-being science and positive education in schools as students, parents and educators attempt to navigate the perils of a social media landscape where children are now living two lives—online and in the real world.
"I've asked thousands of parents, 'what do you most want in life for your child?' and the answer is things like happiness, health, civility, life satisfaction, contentment and meaning. And then I ask parents 'what do schools teach?' and they say literacy, numeracy, science, discipline, and conformity. Notice how little overlap there is between what schools teach and what we most want in life for our children." — Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Fairways to Happiness is a Route 201 Media production. The film was shot, directed and edited by Douglas Morrione. This is his second feature documentary and follows his award-winning film about cowboy artists from the American West, Everything in the Song is True.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A lawsuit has been filed against a woman who was allegedly intoxicated when she crashed into a golf cart carrying a wedding party, killing the bride and severely injuring the groom last month on Folly Beach in South Carolina.
Jamie Komoroski is named along with various restaurants and bars which attorneys say she visited in the hours before the deadly crash.
The lawsuit alleges Komoroski began at El Gallo Bar and Grill near Daniel Island before traveling to Folly Beach, where they said she began bar hopping along Center Street. Stops included The Drop In, The Crab Shack, and Snapper Jacks.
“Despite being noticeable and visibly intoxicated at each of these establishments, Jamie Komoroski continued to be served, provided, and/or allowed to consume additional and excessive amounts of alcohol at each of them,” the lawsuit reads.
Attorneys further allege that Komoroski was then allowed to leave the bars and get into her vehicle where she drove east on East Ashley Avenue “in the opposite direction of her home” on James Island.
Aric Hutchinson and Samantha Miller had just left their wedding reception when Komoroski slammed into the back of their golf cart. Miller died at the scene from blunt force trauma while Hutchinson and others on the golf cart suffered serious injuries.
Records later revealed that Komoroski’s blood alcohol content was at least 0.261, which is more than three times the legal limit.
Authorities said Komoroski reached speeds of 65 mph in a 25 mph zone.
“The state grants restaurants and bars a license for the privilege to serve alcohol, and with that privilege comes a responsibility to the community to serve patrons responsibly and to deny service to individuals who are visibly intoxicated,” said Attorney Danny Dalton, who is representing Aric Hutchinson in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the establishments listed were negligent in the supervision and training of their employees, essentially allowing Komoroski to be overserved and not observed for her level of intoxication.
The lawsuit claims that Komoroski was a new employee of Taco Boy and accuses her supervisor of “ … organizing, arranging, and supervising an employee function knowing that excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages would be purchased for, served to, and consumed by the employees attending the function.”
The lawsuit also includes at least 20 John or Jane Does as defendants. Those individuals are unknown and unidentified at this time but could include “owners, managers, operators, agents, independent contractors, security companies” and others who had responsibility over the named bars and restaurants, according to the lawsuit.
“There are still many details we don’t know about the sequence of events leading up to the tragic crash, but by filing a lawsuit, we can begin the legal discovery process that allows us to get the answers that Samantha’s family deserves,” said Dalton.
The establishments named above declined to comment on the lawsuit when asked by Nexstar’s WCBD.
Aric Hutchinson, who is now recovering at home, is named as a plaintiff, as is Benjamin Garrett, and Aric’s minor nephew, B.G. | 2023-05-17T22:44:08+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/suspect-was-bar-hopping-before-crash-that-killed-new-bride-shortly-after-wedding-lawsuit/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beta Shale, LLC ("Beta"), an Oklahoma City based oil and natural gas company who owns 1,000,000 shares of PHX Minerals Inc. ("PHX" or the "Company"), has reached out to the PHX Board of Directors to express Beta's concern with the performance of the Company and its proposed future path under the direction of current management.
Beta sent an initial letter on February 3, 2023, which was followed by a meeting between Beta's CEO and the Independent Director of PHX. After the meeting, Beta sent a follow up letter of concern on March 2, 2023.
As a significant shareholder of PHX, Beta is voting against the majority of current proxy materials presented by PHX management.
Both letters can be found at www.betashalenews.com. Beta encourages all PHX shareholders to review these materials and to assess PHX's performance and future potential under existing management.
About Beta Shale, LLC
Beta Shale, LLC, established in 2004, is a privately-owned opportunistic investor in oil and gas, primarily focused on non-operated working interests with assets in the Arkoma and Delaware Basins under management of Derby Energy, LLC.
About Derby Energy, LLC
Derby Energy, LLC, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, is the administrative management company for the following six entities: Derby Exploration, LLC (Operated - Anadarko Basin E&P); Thoroughbred Gathering, LLC (Operated - Anadarko Basin Midstream); Bakken HBT, LP (Non-Operated – Williston Basin); Bakken HBT II, LP (Non-Operated – Williston Basin); SCOOP I, LP (Non-Operated – Anadarko Basin); and Beta Shale, LLC (Non-Operated – Arkoma and Delaware Basin).
For further information, please visit www.derbyenergy.com
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BENSALEM, Pa., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA).
Class Period: May 6, 2020 – June 24, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 3, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Carvana investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Composer Jordan Holloway used to hate playing the piano. He started tickling the ivories in middle school, but he persistently avoided practicing for his lessons. Then he discovered sheet music for video game soundtracks — up-tempo, funky themes from Super Mario Bros. and whimsical Zelda soundscapes — and he was hooked.
Video game music gave Holloway the inspiration he needed, and his determination to be a musician grew. He picked up the viola and joined a weekly composition club in high school organized by his orchestra director. "That was the first time I had really thought much about [composing]," he says. "At first I wanted to write music for games, and I didn't really know anything about classical music. But then about a year later, I started falling in love with the classical people and getting more into that."
Holloway graduated in 2021 with a double degree in composition and viola performance from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked with composer and Eastman School of Music graduate Carter Pann. Now the 23-year-old is pursuing a master's degree in composition at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studies with Nancy Galbraith.
There are around thirty pieces in Holloway's portfolio. Much of his music is heavily influenced by French impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, but he also draws inspiration from composers known for massive orchestral works, such as Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. His compositional process is very melody-driven — he'll hum, play the piano or fiddle with his viola to find the initial tune. "Once I have that written down — usually that's a pencil-and-paper-type process for me — after that it can start to go onto the computer and become expanded," he explains.
In August 2022, the Colorado Music Festival reached out to Holloway with an exciting request: to compose a piece in honor of the 125th anniversary of the historic Colorado Chautauqua and Chautauqua Park, an expansive, otherworldly park nestled at the foot of Boulder's Flatirons. In the late 1800s, the term "chautauqua" (a word of Iroquois origin) was used for family and church retreats that focused on connection, music, nature, religion and culture; it also became a social movement focused on adult education. In 1898, Boulder residents marked the land stretching below the Flatirons as an area for the Colorado Chautauqua, and it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Holloway is familiar with Chautauqua Park and the vast beauty of the Flatirons — he lived just a ten-minute walk from the Chautauqua trailhead during three years of his undergrad at CU. "I was constantly going up trails whenever I felt the need to do so, and I didn't even know what trail I was on. I was just like, 'Okay, I know I need to walk in that direction, then eventually I'll be in the woods,'" he recalls, reflecting on his many trips meandering through the park.
His composition for the anniversary, Flatiron Escapades, is a love letter to the towering mountains and the immersive nature of the park. "It's basically a synthesis of my various experiences there, which are not all positive," Holloway says. "For example, in 2020, when it was just tumult and chaos, I would always go up there when I was mad to cool off...so there's a bit of that [anger] in the piece, as well."
The nine-minute work is a collection of musical ideas that Holloway describes as 'volcanic,' 'woodsy' and, at some points, 'misty.' "The word 'volcanic' comes from the opening," he explains. "I wanted to write specifically about the shape of the Flatirons as you see them from a distance and...the severity that they have."
After the piece's booming, brassy opening, it transitions into a nature-infused section that evokes images of hiking or jogging through the forest. "It's a little more carefree and fond and nice," Holloway notes. The orchestration thins and the piece slows and quiets, transforming into a thoughtful, nocturnal segment. "It's like a drive to Flagstaff Road that I took and then sat on the rocks and looked at the city," he reflects. "Images like that, where it's not a coherent narrative, it's just these memories I have of [Chautauqua]."
Despite its modernity, Flatiron Escapades pays tribute to Holloway's compositional idols: He directly quotes a Mahler symphony in one section and sprinkles impressionist themes throughout the work. The Mahler quote "is very hidden, but it's my way of paying tribute," Holloway says. "And some people might notice it, but probably not."
Holloway will debut Flatiron Escapades at Chautauqua Auditorium on Sunday, July 16. He'll share the stage with his former professor, Carter Pann, whose composition Dreams I Must Not Speak will be the second commissioned piece in the program. "[Pann] and I studied together at CU, so that's going to be pretty special for me, for people to be able to see that and to be able to share that premiere with him," Holloway says.
The program's finale, Adolphus Hailstork's JFK: The Last Speech, is yet another world premiere. It comes from a project by members of the 1964 Amherst class, who witnessed President Kennedy deliver his last major speech on October 26, 1963. "I'm a huge fan of [Dr. Hailstork's] music," Holloway says. "I'm just really blown away that I'm part of this at all."
Celebrate Chautauqua 125th Anniversary Concert, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, July 16, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Tickets are $18-$75. | 2023-07-11T18:40:02+00:00 | westword.com | https://www.westword.com/music/new-boulder-composer-premieres-flatiron-escapades-for-chautauquas-125th-anniversary-17220749 |
1 dies from stabbing at New Jersey high school basketball game
Published: Feb. 17, 2023 at 3:12 AM EST|Updated: 5 minutes ago
TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) - One person is dead after a stabbing at a New Jersey high school basketball game on Thursday night.
The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. during the Mercer County high school basketball championship at Cure Arena in Trenton, officials said.
The victim was identified as 22-year-old Khalil Glanton.
Investigators say Glanton was stabbed multiple times. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
It is unknown at this time as to what sparked the stabbing.
Trenton police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-17T08:20:18+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/02/17/1-dies-stabbing-new-jersey-high-school-basketball-game/ |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Matt Friend, the man of many voices, stopped by New York Living on Monday to share some of his favorite impressions and the doors opened by his knack for mimicry.
But, the comedian said, the talent isn’t without its drawbacks.
“I have a joke in my set. … I was on a date and a girl was like, ‘Why are you doing that voice?’” said Friend. “I can’t help the fact that I always sound like I’m delivering a major breaking news announcement. I have ‘Resting Broadcaster Voice,’ you should know that.”
Watch the full interview in the video player. | 2023-03-27T18:28:20+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/new-york-living/impressionist-comedian-matt-friend-on-life-as-man-of-many-voices/ |
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writers
Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street Thursday following the latest signal from the Federal Reserve that interest rates will need to go higher than previously expected in order to tame inflation.
The S&P 500 fell 2.8% as of 2:16 p.m. Eastern, with roughly 95% of stocks in the benchmark index in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 901 points, or 2.7%, to 33,064 and the Nasdaq fell 3.4%. The slide erased all the weekly gains for the major indexes.
Technology and communication services stocks led the market’s sell-off. Microsoft fell 3.5% and Google parent Alphabet was down 5.1%.
Treasury yields mostly fell, reflecting increased worries on Wall Street that the economy is unlikely to avoid a recession as the Fed continues raising interest rates.
“The (stock) market’s reaction is now factoring in a recession, and rejecting the possibility of the ‘soft/softish’ landing” that Fed Chair Jerome Powell raised in a speech last month, said Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial.
The Fed raised its short-term interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday, its seventh increase this year. Central banks in Europe followed along Thursday, with the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank each raising their main lending rate by a half-point Thursday. European stocks fell sharply, with Germany’s DAX dropping 3.3%.
Although the Fed is slowing the pace of its rate increases, the central bank signaled it expects rates to be higher over the coming few years than it had previously anticipated. That disappointed investors who hoped recent signs that inflation is easing somewhat would persuade the Fed to take some pressure off the brakes it’s applying to the U.S. economy.
The federal funds rate stands at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. Fed policymakers forecast that the central bank’s rate will reach a range of 5% to 5.25% by the end of 2023. Their forecast doesn’t call for a rate cut before 2024.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations for Fed moves, rose to 4.24% from 4.21% late Wednesday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, slipped to 3.43% from 3.48%.
The three-month Treasury yield slipped to 4.33%, but remains above that of the 10-year Treasury. That’s known as an inversion and considered a strong warning that the economy could be headed for a recession.
“The yield curve inversions continue to shout recession,” Krosby said.
The central bank has been fighting to lower inflation at the same time that pockets of the economy, including employment and consumer spending, remain strong. That has made it more difficult to rein in high prices on everything from food to clothing.
On Thursday, the government reported that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign that the labor market remains strong. The U.S. did report that retail sales fell in November as inflation squeezes wallets. That pullback followed a sharp rise in spending in October.
Like the Fed, central bank officials in Europe said inflation is not yet corralled and that more rate hikes are coming.
“We are in for a long game,” European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said at a news conference.
Markets in Asia slipped. The Asian Development Bank downgraded its forecasts for developing economies in Asia, putting growth for the region at 4.2% this year and 4.6% in 2023. The earlier forecasts had put 2022 growth at 4.3% and 2023′s expansion at 4.9%.
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Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
IN RE PIVOTAL SOFTWARE, INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION
Lead Case No. CGC-19-576750
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a hearing will be held on DECEMBER 1, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. before the Honorable Andrew Y.S. Cheng in Department 613, Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, to determine whether: (1) the proposed Settlement as set forth in the Amended Stipulation of Settlement dated April 15, 2022 ("Stipulation") of the above-captioned action ("Action") for $2,750,000 in cash should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (2) the Plan of Allocation should be approved by the Court, as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (3) to award Plaintiffs' Counsel attorneys' fees and expenses out of the Settlement Fund (as defined in the Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action ("Notice"), which is discussed below), and if so in what amount; (4) to reimburse Plaintiffs for their time and expense in representing the Class, and if so in what amount; and (5) to enter the Judgment as provided under the Stipulation.
This Action1 is a securities class action brought on behalf of those Persons or Entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Pivotal Software, Inc. ("Pivotal") common stock pursuant or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (the "Offering Documents") issued in connection with Pivotal's April 20, 2018 Initial Public Offering ("IPO"), and against Pivotal, Dell Technologies, Inc. ("Dell"), certain Pivotal officers and directors, and the underwriters of Pivotal's IPO, for allegedly making materially untrue or misleading statements in the Offering Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the IPO, which allegedly damaged Class Members. Defendants deny all of Plaintiffs' allegations. Persons or Entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Pivotal common stock before October 17, 2018 (the date upon which the lockup period expired) shall be presumed as being able to trace their purchases to the Offering.
IF YOU PURCHASED OR ACQUIRED PIVOTAL COMMON STOCK PURSUANT OR TRACEABLE TO THE OFFERING DOCUMENTS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH PIVOTAL'S IPO, YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF THIS ACTION.
To share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, you must establish your rights by submitting a Proof of Claim and Release ("Proof of Claim") by mail (postmarked no later than NOVEMBER 7, 2022) or submitted electronically at www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com no later than NOVEMBER 7, 2022. Your failure to submit your Proof of Claim by NOVEMBER 7, 2022, will subject your claim to rejection and preclude you from receiving any of the recovery in connection with the Settlement of this Action. If you are a Member of the Class and do not request exclusion, you will be bound by the Settlement and any judgment and release entered in the Action, including, but not limited to, the Judgment, whether or not you submit a Proof of Claim. Plaintiffs' Counsel represents you and other Members of the Class. If you want to be represented by your own lawyer, you may hire one at your own expense. To the extent you file a Proof of Claim and a Request for Exclusion, the Claims Administrator shall communicate with you in writing to give you an opportunity to cure the conflicting requests submitted and to advise the Claims Administrator whether you are seeking to be part of the Class and, thus, be eligible for their pro rata share of the recovery, or, alternatively, whether you wish to be excluded as a member of the settlement class.
Distributions will be made to Authorized Claimants by the Claims Administrator after all claims have been processed and after the Court has finally approved the Settlement. Authorized Claimants will have ninety (90) days to cash their checks. For Authorized Claimants whose checks are returned as undeliverable, the Claims Administrator will endeavor to locate new addresses for the recipient. Where a new address is located, the Claims Administrator will update the database accordingly and re-issue a distribution check to the Authorized Claimant at the new address. In the event the Authorized Claimant loses or damages his, her, or its check, or otherwise requires a new check, the Claims Administrator will issue replacements only upon written instructions from the Authorized Claimant, provided that the Authorized Claimant returns the previous check where appropriate. For all checks, the Claims Administrator will void the initial payment prior to reissuing a payment. Authorized Claimants requesting re-issuance of checks will be informed that, if they do not cash their Initial Distribution checks within 30 days of the mailing of such reissued check, their check will lapse, their entitlement to recovery will be irrevocably forfeited, and the funds will be re-allocated to other Authorized Claimants. Reissue requests for lost or damaged checks will be granted after the void date on the checks, however, void dates on such reissues will be adjusted so as not to delay future re-distributions.
If you have not received a copy of the Notice, which more completely describes the Settlement and your rights thereunder (including your right to object to the Settlement or exclude yourself from the Class), and a Proof of Claim form, you may obtain these documents, as well as a copy of the Stipulation (which, among other things, contains definitions for the defined terms used in this Summary Notice) and other Settlement documents, online at www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com, or by writing to:
Pivotal Shareholder Litigation Settlement
Claims Administrator
c/o A.B. Data Ltd.
P.O. Box 173081
Milwaukee, WI 53217
Phone: 877-829-4296
www.pivotalshareholdersettlement.com
Inquiries may also be made to a representative of Plaintiffs' Counsel:
HEDIN HALL LLP
David W. Hall
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 1400
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415-766-3534
SCOTT+SCOTT ATTORNEYS AT LAW LLP
Thomas L. Laughlin, IV
230 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10169
Phone: 212-419-3171
HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP
Reed R. Kathrein
715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: 510-725-3000
Inquiries should NOT be directed to Defendants, the Court, or the Clerk of the Court.
TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE CLASS, YOU MUST SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION BY SENDING A SIGNED LETTER IN THE MAIL TO THE CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR THAT IT IS POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 1, 2022. SUCH A REQUEST FOR EXCLUSION MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, E-MAIL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, AND THE DATE, PRICE AND NUMBER OF SHARES OF PIVOTAL COMMON STOCK PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED PURSUANT OR TRACEABLE TO THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND PROSPECTUS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH PIVOTAL'S APRIL 2018 IPO. ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS WHO HAVE NOT REQUESTED EXCLUSION FROM THE CLASS WILL BE BOUND BY THE SETTLEMENT ENTERED IN THE LITIGATION EVEN IF THEY DO NOT FILE A TIMELY PROOF OF CLAIM.
IF YOU ARE A CLASS MEMBER, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT, THE PLAN OF ALLOCATION, AND/OR THE REQUEST BY PLAINTIFFS' COUNSEL FOR AN AWARD OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES. IN ORDER FOR ANY OBJECTION TO BE CONSIDERED, YOU MUST SEND A WRITTEN STATEMENT, ACCOMPANIED BY PROOF OF CLASS MEMBERSHIP, TO THE CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR SUCH THAT IS IT POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 1, 2022.
ATTENDANCE AT THE SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING IS NOT NECESSARY. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION IN ORDER TO APPEAR AT THE SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING TO PRESENT YOUR OBJECTION TO THE COURT.
DATED: AUGUST 19, 2022
1 You can view this Action's full docket on the Court's website (https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/online-services) free of charge by inputting the case number (CGC-19-576750).
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Many of us find ourselves living far away from our parents or children, whether they are a few states or an ocean away. For me, my long-distance relationship with my parents started when I was a teenager, and we stayed in touch via landline, letters, and, later, video chat. Recently, I signed off a call with my usual jaunty “I’ll talk to you again soon!” and out of the lingering silence rose an uneasy feeling. As the wrinkles on our faces sink deeper and the hair on our heads dim into silver, how much longer can this connection last? Through this comic, I wanted to express our longing for togetherness when we are apart from our loved ones — a subtle wave, which can be as crushing as it is quiet.
From an ocean away, I’m cherishing every moment I have left with my parents
My long-distance relationship with my parents started when I was a teenager, and we stayed in touch via landline, letters, and later, video chat
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TAG Oil Ltd. (TSXV: TAO) (OTCQX: TAOIF) ("TAG Oil" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of its independent resources evaluation of the Abu Roash "F" unconventional formation ("ARF") in the Badr Oil Field ("BED-1"), Western Desert, Egypt, dated November 21, 2022 (the "BED-1 Report"), prepared by RPS Energy Canada Ltd. ("RPS") and its previously announced independent reserves report associated with its royalty interests within Petroleum Mining Permit ("PMP") 38156 (Cheal A/B), PMP 60291 (Cheal E) and PMP 53803 (Sidewinder) (collectively the "Permits"), onshore New Zealand, dated November 7, 2022 (the "Royalty Report"), prepared by ERC Equipoise Ltd. ("ERCE").
- RPS estimates the ARF oil-initially-in-place ("OIIP") P50 Volumes to be 531.5 million barrels over the BED-1 concession area and Mean Volumes to be 536.6 million barrels. The discovered OIIP in the ARF is imaged by 3D seismic coverage, significant well control with over 30 penetrations, petrophysical analysis of available log and core data and production tests from the ARF.
- TAG Oil's current Field Development Plan ("FDP"), consisting of drilling 20 horizontal wells to be completed with multi-stage fracture stimulation, is focused on the east central part of the BED-1 concession area, and contains OIIP P50 Volumes of 178.3 million barrels and Mean Volumes of 179.0 million barrels.
- FDP Capital investment discounted at 10% is US$104 million for the 2C Development Pending Contingent Resources in the ARF.
- FDP Operating investment discounted at 10% is US$160 million for the 2C Development Pending Contingent Resources in the ARF.
- RPS best estimate for Contingent Resources volumes (2C Development Pending) is 27.0 million barrels gross with 16.5 million barrels net to the Company.
- RPS estimate for Contingent Resources (2C Development Pending) net present value discounted at 10% and assumed RPS Price Forecast of April 1, 2022, per barrel is US$339 million (risked at 80% chance of development) and US$423 million (un-risked).
- Contingent Resources are those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from known accumulations using established technology or technology under development, but which are not currently considered to be commercially recoverable due to one or more contingencies. Contingent Resources, by definition, are not classified as reserves due to several conditions including but not limited to the uncertainties of future oil prices and performance of the initial pilot wells in the first phase of the field development of the project which must be resolved to ensure commerciality. There is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources. The Development Pending sub-set for contingent resources have reasonable potential for eventual commercial development.
- ERCE estimates the 1P Proven Reserves Volumes to be 14 thousand barrels and 2P Proven plus Probable Reserves Volumes over the Permits to be 53 thousand barrels net to the Company.
- Net present value discounted at 10% is CDN$1.47 million for Proved Reserves and CDN$4.96 million for Proven plus Probable Reserves.
Abby Badwi, Executive Chairman of TAG Oil commented "We are pleased that the RPS report supports TAG's technical assessment of the unconventional development of the ARF and our team's plans for such large-scale development by utilizing North American proven drilling and completion technologies for the first time in Egypt. To validate these assessments, the first pilot well, a re-entry of an existing well, is scheduled for next month and will be followed by the first horizontal well with multi-stage fracture stimulation completion to be drilled in the first quarter of 2023. In New Zealand, the value of the royalty interest is attributable to the Company continuing to receive a gross overriding royalty equal to 2.5% of the gross sales revenue. In the 2022 calendar year, the Company received CDN$947,477 in royalty payments."
Further details are also available on the Company's website at www.tagoil.com.
TAG Oil (http://www.tagoil.com/) is a Canadian based international oil and gas exploration company with a focus on opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: http://www.tagoil.com/
Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainty affecting the business of TAG. All estimates and statements that describe the Company's operations are forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws and necessarily involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from the information provided in this release, and there is no representation by TAG that the actual results realized in the future will be the same in whole or in part as those presented herein. TAG undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.
Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and natural gas and related substances anticipated to be recoverable from known accumulations, as of a given date, based on analysis of drilling, geological, geophysical and engineering data, the use of established technology, and specified economic conditions, which are generally accepted as being reasonable, and shall be disclosed.
Reserves are classified according to the degree of certainty associated with the estimates. Proved reserves are those reserves that can be estimated with a high degree of certainty to be recoverable. It is likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the estimated proved reserves. Probable reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves. It is equally likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater or less than the sum of the estimated proved plus probable reserves. Possible reserves are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the sum of the estimated proved plus probable plus possible reserves.
The qualitative certainty levels referred to in the definitions above are applicable to "individual reserves entities", which refers to the lowest level at which reserves calculations are performed, and to "reported reserves", which refers to the highest level sum of individual entity estimates for which reserves estimates are presented. Reported reserves should target the following levels of certainty under a specific set of economic conditions:
- at least a 90 percent probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimated proved reserves;
- at least a 50 percent probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the sum of the estimated proved plus probable reserves; and
- at least a 10 percent probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the sum of the estimated proved plus probable plus possible reserves.
The reserve estimates contained herein are estimates only and there is no guarantee that the estimated reserves or resources will be recovered. The estimates of reserves for individual properties may not reflect the same confidence level as estimates of reserves for all properties, due to the effects of aggregation.
Where discussed herein "NPV 10%" represents the net present value (net of capital expenditures) of net income discounted at 10%, with net income reflecting the indicated oil prices and initial production rate, less internal estimates of operating costs and royalties. It should not be assumed that the future net revenues estimated by TAG Oil's independent resource evaluators represent the fair market value of the resources.
Contingent resources are those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from known accumulations using established technology or technology under development, but which are not currently considered to be commercially recoverable due to one or more contingencies. Contingent resources, by definition, are not classified as reserves due to several conditions including but not limited to the uncertainties of future oil prices and performance of the initial pilot wells in the first phase of the field development of the project which must be resolved to ensure commerciality. There is no certainty that it will be commercially viable to produce any portion of the resources. The Development Pending sub-set for contingent resources have reasonable potential for eventual commercial development, to the extent that further data acquisition and/or evaluations are currently ongoing with a view to confirming that the project is commercially viable and providing the basis for selection of an appropriate development plan. The critical contingencies have been identified and are reasonably expected to be resolved within a reasonable time frame.
Exploration for hydrocarbons is a speculative venture necessarily involving substantial risk. The Company's future success in exploiting and increasing its current resource base will depend on its ability to develop its current properties and on its ability to discover and acquire properties or prospects that are capable of commercial production. However, there is no assurance that the Company's future exploration and development efforts will result in the discovery or development of additional commercial accumulations of oil and natural gas. In addition, even if further hydrocarbons are discovered, the costs of extracting and delivering the hydrocarbons to market and variations in the market price may render uneconomic any discovered deposit. Geological conditions are variable and unpredictable. Even if production is commenced from a well, the quantity of hydrocarbons produced inevitably will decline over time, and production may be adversely affected or may have to be terminated altogether if the Company encounters unforeseen geological conditions. The Company is subject to uncertainties related to the proximity of any resources that it may discover to pipelines and processing facilities. It expects that its operational costs will increase proportionally to the remoteness of, and any restrictions on access to, the properties on which any such resources may be found. Adverse climatic conditions at such properties may also hinder the Company's ability to carry on exploration or production activities continuously throughout any given year.
The significant positive factors that are relevant to the resource estimates are: proven production in close proximity; proven commercial quality reservoirs in close proximity; oil and gas shows while drilling wells; and calculated hydrocarbon pay intervals from open hole logs. The significant negative factors that are relevant to the resource estimates are: tectonically complex geology could compromise seal potential; and seismic attribute mapping can be indicative but not certain in identifying proven resource.
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SOURCE TAG Oil Ltd. | 2022-11-22T14:42:54+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/11/22/tag-oil-announces-resources-evaluation-report-abu-roash-f-badr-oil-field-western-desert-egypt-reserves-evaluation-report-royalty-interest-new-zealand/ |
NEW ORLEANS, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF continues its investigation into Athira Pharma, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ATHA).
On June 17, 2021, the Company disclosed that the Board of Directors had placed President and Chief Executive Officer Leen Kawas "on temporary leave pending a review of actions stemming from doctoral research [Kawas] conducted while at Washington State University," and that the Company's COO had "assumed day-to-day leadership responsibilities for the Company, effective immediately." That same day, STAT News reported that the investigation of Kawas related to allegations that she altered images in four separate research papers as the lead author while she was a graduate student.
The Company was subsequently sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information, violating federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Athira's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Athira shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-atha/ to learn more.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking to recover investment losses due to corporate fraud and malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the nation's largest independent kidney patient organization, today announced the names of patients and advocates who have been specially recognized by President Joseph R. Biden with U.S. Presidential Volunteer Service Awards (PVSAs). The highly competitive and non-partisan national award recognizes the exceptional contributions of AAKP volunteers to both the organization and the wider kidney community. AAKP is a driver behind greater national and global patient care choice and access to new therapies to delay disease progression, stop kidney failure, and increase kidney transplantation, including pre-emptive transplants, wider utilization of home dialysis, and the rapid development of safe, artificial implantable and wearable organs.
Six AAKP leaders received the President's Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest level of recognition that is unique and recognizes an exemplary level of volunteerism to build a stronger nation through volunteer service, including the investment of thousands of hours of personal time and professional expertise. The AAKP members who received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as PVSA awards at the gold, silver, and bronze levels, are nationally known advocates deeply involved in efforts to impact kidney science, innovation, and policy through collaborations with top kidney scientists, elected and appointed leaders, federal agencies, investors, major companies and startups, and nearly every major academic research center and university involved in kidney research (read more). AAKP provides expert advice to over 200 national and international companies, non-governmental organizations, and U.S. federal government agencies on issues ranging from patient-centered policies, quality metrics, regulatory and payment issues, and how to collaborate more effectively with patients and incorporate their unique insights and lived experiences.
Diana Clynes, AAKP Executive Director, stated, "AAKP has expanded tremendously over the past decade and has accelerated our impact on kidney policy, research, and innovation due to the expertise and selfless service of our patient consumer volunteers. We operate on a national strategy, crafted by patients and not consultants, anchored on the core principle of patient consumer care choice. There is no greater driving force for kidney health and care innovation or greater ally to those working to transcend high-mortality status quo care than the organized and independent voices of patients who have managed kidney disease. The AAKP professional team is honored and privileged to work with these patient leaders, and we are intensely proud of the recognition of their impact by President Biden."
AAKP is a PVSA-authorized and certifying organization and the largest organization in the kidney space that participates in this important American initiative. In 2020, AAKP launched its inaugural PVSA program, and twenty-nine kidney advocates received recognition from President Donald J. Trump for their work to educate high-risk immunosuppressed and immunocompromised kidney patients on threats posed by COVID-19. The PVSA was founded by President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, as one of several initiatives, including the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, designed to encourage and exemplify the strength of outstanding American volunteerism and community engagement. The award program has continued under successive presidential administrations. The PVSA program is led by AmeriCorps (formerly the Corporation for National and Community Service), an organization whose vision originated in the administration of President William J. Clinton, and is managed in partnership with Points of Light, an organization whose vision is rooted in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
In 2019, in coordination with the launch of the White House Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health, AAKP launched The Decade of the Kidney™ to build national and international networks that prioritize kidney health as both a healthcare and workforce issue and to facilitate greater investments in research and broader private sector involvement in care innovations. Through AAKP's Center for Patient Engagement and Advocacy and Center for Patient Research and Education, the Association has dramatically expanded its patient databases, social media recruitment, and analytics tools. AAKP volunteers engage in dozens of requests every year for clinical trial awareness and recruitment campaigns, patient advisory boards, technical evaluation panels, focus groups, patient surveys, clinical research, and public policy research. AAKP also offers online training for patients on how to be equally effective collaborators.
In 2022, AAKP volunteers and advocates continued to expand the organization's national and global impact through a growing Patient Ambassador Initiative, the expansion of AAKP's non-partisan KidneyVoter™ voter registration campaign, and the launch of AAKP's Patient Voice Patient Choice™ initiative to increase patient access to new drugs and devices. AAKP patients and advocates use sophisticated virtual platforms, international patient group partnerships, clinical journal editorials, television, radio, and social media to advance the Association's mission to educate the public on the devastating impacts of kidney diseases. For 2022, the organization conducted multiple national and international events that engaged over 180 national and international medical and patient experts and expanded the international audience of its Global Summit on Kidney Disease Innovations to over 90 countries.
At the federal level, AAKP volunteers receiving PVSAs have impacted research and development initiatives across the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of Defense (DOD) via the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) and other DOD activities. Further, AAKP has been actively involved in patient engagement initiatives and the development of patient insight data alongside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and multiple other federal agencies.
Status quo kidney care, especially care administered in dialysis centers, is based on outdated medical technologies and professional practices, results in disability and unemployment, and is associated with extremely high mortality. AAKP, along with other kidney organizations dedicated to disrupting and transforming status quo care, supports patient consumer access to new therapies and efforts to diagnose the disease further upstream. Earlier detection and treatment of kidney diseases improves health outcomes, decreases patient burdens and impacts on the health care system, and limits costs to taxpayers.
Presidential Volunteer Service Award Honorees
President's Lifetime Achievement Award:
- Richard Knight (MD), former dialysis patient,16-year transplant recipient; AAKP President; Member, National Institutes of Health/NIDDK Strategic Planning Committee; Co-Chair, Community Engagement Committee, NIH/NIDDK Kidney Precision Medicine Project; Member, Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Visiting Committee; 2017 recipient, American Society of Nephrology's President's Medal; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Edward V. Hickey III (CA), USMC veteran, kidney patient; AAKP Vice President; Chair of AAKP Veterans Health Initiative (VHI); Reviewer, Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program; AAKP liaison, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Member, Judging Panel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/American Society of Nephrology KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Paul T. Conway (VA), former dialysis patient, 25-year transplant recipient; AAKP Chair of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Co-Chair, AAKP/George Washington University Global Summit on Kidney Disease Innovations; Member, American Board of Internal Medicine's Nephrology Specialty Board; Chair, FDA Patient Engagement Advisory Committee; Member, Observational Study Monitoring Board, National Institutes of Health/NIDDK Kidney Precision Medicine Project; 2017 recipient, American Society of Nephrology's President's Medal; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Suzanne Ruff (NC), living organ donor; author, The Reluctant Donor; freelance writer, Charlotte Observer; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Stephen Fadem (TX), patient, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Nephrology; Chair, AAKP Medical Advisory Board; AAKP Life Member; Recipient, AAKP's Samuel J. Orenstein and Peter Lundin, MD Awards; AAKP Historian; recipient of AAKP Lifetime Achievement Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Bob Abbott (AK), caregiver; Charter Member, Arkansas Kidney Disease Commission; AAKP Life Member; recipient, AAKP Samuel J. Orenstein Award (2011); recipient, 2019 AAKP National Patient Engagement and Advocacy Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
PVSA Gold Medal:
- Kent Bressler, MA, RN (TX), U.S. Army veteran, pre-emptive transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; Reviewer, Department of Defense CDMRP; Co-founder of Kidney Solutions; and host of Kent's Kidney Stories Podcast series; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Jennifer Jones (VA), USMC veteran, former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; 2019 recipient of AAKP National Social Media Education and Advocacy Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Janice Lea (GA), Professor of Medicine, Emory University; CMO, Emory Dialysis; AAKP National Board of Director; 2019 recipient, AAKP Samuel J. Orenstein Award; Principal Investigator, AAKP PCORI Engagement Awards; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Dominic Raj (VA), Professor and Director, the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Co-chair, AAKP/GWU Global Summit on Kidney Innovations; 2019 recipient, AAKP Peter Lundin, MD Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Glenda Roberts (WA), former dialysis patient; current transplant recipient; Director, External Relations and Patient Engagement, the Kidney Research Institute (KRI); AAKP National Ambassador; Member, Patient Advisory Board for Center for Dialysis Innovation; former Executive Director, Transplant House; 2020 PVSA recipient
- David Rodriguez (TX), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; Patient Specialist, University Transplant Center San Antonio; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; member, AAKP Public Policy Committee; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dale Rogers (ID), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; member of AAKP Programs/Development Committee; AAKP Peer Mentor; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Barry Smith (NY), Founder, Dreyfus Health Policy and Research Center; former President/CEO, The Rogosin Institute; AAKP National Board of Director; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb (WA), Co-Director, the University of Washington Center for Dialysis Innovation; Director, the Kidney Research Institute; Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering; expert presenter, AAKP Global Summit on Kidney Disease Innovation and AAKP National Patient Meeting
- Dr. William Fissell (TN), Medical Director, The Kidney Project; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; AAKP Medal of Excellence Award recipient; expert presenter, AAKP Global Summit on Kidney Disease Innovation, AAKP National Patient Meeting, and AAKP Policy Summit; profile feature, AAKP Innovator series
- Dr. Shuvo Roy (CA), Technical Director, The Kidney Project; Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Therapeutics Sciences and Surgery; 2021 KidneyX Artificial Kidney Prize Winner; AAKP Medal of Excellence Award recipient; expert presenter, AAKP Global Summit on Kidney Disease Innovation, AAKP National Patient Meeting, and AAKP Policy Summit
PVSA Silver Medal:
- Melissa Bensouda (TX), former transplant recipient, current home hemodialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dr. Muralidharan Jagadeesan (DC), Associate Professor of Medicine, the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and Chairman of Transplant Medicine; Medical Director, Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Program at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Faculty and Planning Committee Member, AAKP/GWU Global Summit on Kidney Innovations; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Katina Lang-Lindsey, PhD, LMSW (AL), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; Assistant Professor, A&M University; AAKP National Ambassador; 2020 recipient, AAKP Patient Safety Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Dammeon Marshall, MSW (GA), MSW; kidney disease patient; self-employed/entrepreneur; AAKP National Ambassador; 2020 PVSA recipient
- James Myers (IN), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; Chair, AAKP Strategic Communications Committee; Chair, AAKP Pediatric Kidney Pals Initiative; 2015 recipient, Inaugural AAKP National Social Media Education and Advocacy Award; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Sharron Rouse (MD), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Ambassador; Founder, Kindness for Kidneys International; 2020 recipient, AAKP Support Group of the Year Award; Co-Chair, 2020 AAKP National Patient Meeting; AAKP Peer Mentor; 2020 PVSA recipient
- Lana Schmidt, MBA (IL), former home hemodialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; Member, AAKP Strategic Communications Committee; 2020 PVSA recipient
PVSA Bronze Medal:
- Catherine Campbell, DNP, RN, MBA, CHC, CCM, FACHE (TX), pre-emptive transplant recipient; AAKP National Board of Director and National Ambassador; Member, the Patient Engagement and Return of Results Committee and Community Advisory Board Committee for the National Institutes of Health Kidney Precision Medicine Project; Working Group Member, International T Cell-Mediated Rejection Project
- Sara Eve Schaeffer, MBA, MA, RD (FL), AAKP National Board of Director; VP, Strategic Operations, Healthmap Solutions; former Executive Director, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' kidney contracts for Health Services Advisory Group
- Shameka Ausborn (FL), former transplant recipient, current home hemodialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador; AAKP Peer Mentor
- Gitthaline "Candie" Gagne (PA), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Ambassador; Retired Navy Hospital Corpsman; Certified Surgical Technologist
- Christine Hernandez, RN, BSN (IL), registered nurse, current in-center hemodialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador
- Terry Litchfield (WI), former caregiver to husband who was a long-term dialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador
- Roberta "Bobbie" Reed (PA), caregiver to son who is a transplant recipient; AAKP National Ambassador
- Cecilia Santana (NY), former dialysis patient, current transplant recipient; AAKP National Ambassador; AAKP Peer Mentor; Health Ambassador, The Rogosin Institute's Center for Health Action and Policy (CHAP) team
- Mihi Wickramasinghe (CA), former transplant recipient, current peritoneal dialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador
- Leigh-Ann Williams (LA), current home hemodialysis patient; AAKP National Ambassador
About the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP): Since 1969, AAKP has been the premier patient-led organization driving policy discussions on kidney patient consumer care choice and treatment innovation. Over the past decade, AAKP patients have helped gain lifetime transplant drug coverage for kidney transplant recipients (2020); new patient-centered policies via the White House Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health (2019); new job protections for living organ donors from the U.S. Department of Labor (2018); and Congressional legislation allowing HIV-positive organ transplants for HIV-positive patients (2013). Follow AAKP on social media at @kidneypatient on Facebook, @kidneypatients on Twitter, and @kidneypatients on Instagram, and visit www.aakp.org for more information.
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AKRON, Ohio – Congress reauthorized the Ohio & Erie Canalway as a National Heritage Area until 2037.
The Dec. 22 reauthorization includes a funding increase -- from $20 million to $22 million over the next 14 years -- according to the National Heritage Area Act (S.1942).
Those actions will maintain the stability of the 101-mile Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. Some 2.5 million people each year use the trail, which traverses through the Ohio & Erie Canalway. The funding will also enable the canalway to build new connector trails, preserve historic buildings, offer educational and interpretive programming and conserve natural areas, according to the Ohio & Erie Canalway.
The legislation was advanced by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and supported by Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Rob Portman, Rep. Tim Ryan, Rep. Dave Joyce, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Rep. Shontel Brown, Rep. Anthony Gonzalez and Rep. Bob Gibbs.
“Ohioans take great pride in our state’s historic role in building the Ohio & Erie Canal and connecting our state to the rest of the country,” Sherrod Brown said in a news release. “From Tuscarawas County to Cuyahoga County, the Ohio & Erie Canalway National Heritage Area draws millions of dollars to our state each year, supporting thousands of jobs. We owe it to all Ohioans and visitors to continue to support this treasure and I was proud to join my colleagues in ensuring this National Heritage Area is reauthorized to 2037.”
Congress first designated the Ohio & Erie Canalway a National Heritage Area in 1996 as a way to celebrate the historical significance of the Ohio & Erie Canal to the region and nation.
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Military moves to reduce suicides, but defers action on guns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care on Thursday to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases by young troops, sending them to another panel for study.
An independent committee in late February recommended that the Defense Department implement a series of gun safety measures, including waiting periods for the purchase of firearms and ammunition by service members on military property and raising the minimum age for service members to buy guns and ammunition to 25.
In a memo released Thursday, Austin called for the establishment of a suicide prevention working group to “assess the advisability and feasibility” of recommendations made by the initial study committee — which would include the gun measures. He also asked for cost estimates and a description of any “barriers” to implementing other changes, and set a deadline of June 2 for that report. At no point did he specifically refer to the gun proposals or mention gun safety.
His orders reflect increasing concerns about suicides in the military, despite more than a decade of programs and other efforts to prevent them and spur greater intervention by commanders, friends and family members. But his omission of any gun safety and control measures underscores the likelihood that they would face staunch resistance, particularly in Congress, where such legislation has struggled in recent years.
The more immediate changes address broader access to care.
To more quickly provide help for troops who may be struggling, Austin directed the Pentagon to hire more behavioral health specialists and implement a scheduling system for appointments where patients receive multiple health care visits weekly when they first seek care.
He also ordered military primary care health clinics to screen for unhealthy levels of alcohol use, make unhealthy alcohol use treatment easier to receive and make sure that mental health care is available through service members’ primary care as well.
“The mental health support available for our teammates must be comprehensive and easy to access,” Austin said in the memo.
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters in a briefing Thursday that Austin’s orders involved areas where the department already has the authority to take immediate steps.
“While we recognize that suicide has no single cause, and that no single preventative action, treatment or cure will eliminate suicide altogether, we will exhaust every effort to promote the wellness, health and morale of our total force,” Ryder said.
The initial study committee recommended that the department require anyone living in military housing to register all privately owned firearms. In addition, the panel said the department should restrict the possession and storage of privately owned firearms in military barracks and dorms.
Confirming findings in annual suicide reports, the panel noted that about 66% of all active-duty military suicides —- and more than 70% of those by National Guard and Reserve members — are done with firearms. It said reducing access to guns could prevent some deaths.
Craig Bryan, a clinical psychologist and member of the Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee, said the department should slow down troops’ access to guns — specifically those bought in stores on bases — so people under stress can survive periods of high risk.
He likened the expanded gun safety measures to requirements that the department puts on motorcycle usage — such as mandated helmets — that are often more strict than some state laws. Asked how likely such changes would be, Bryan said he believes troops are more receptive to such limits than civilians may be.
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The national suicide and crisis lifeline is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-16T20:10:16+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2023/03/16/military-moves-reduce-suicides-defers-action-guns/ |
Movies and TV have always been notorious for taking literary works and then making adaptations that flatten them out. But lately, ambitious writers and directors have been trying to do just the opposite. They take larger-than-life genre heroes like Batman, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond then seek to invest their stories with a new richness and emotional depth.
One who's gotten the smartening-up treatment is Perry Mason, best known to most Americans as the unbeatable defense attorney played on TV with glowering self-assurance by Raymond Burr. When HBO's first installment of its Perry Mason reboot came out in 2020, it replaced this triumphalist hero with a scuffed-up Perry whose origin story bore all the hallmarks of today's prestige TV, from its embrace of long-form storytelling to a pricey, production-designed evocation of 1930s Los Angeles.
The characters had been modernized, too. Della Street (played by Juliet Rylance) went from being Perry's easy-on-the-eyes secretary to his closeted lesbian assistant who knows the law better than her boss. Swaggering private eye Paul Drake was a cop, played by Chris Chalk, who paid the price of being honest and Black. As for Perry — that's a terrific Matthew Rhys — he was bitter, depressive, hot-headed, two-fisted, hard drinking and, only rarely, brilliant in the courtroom.
Although Season 1 was glum and saddled with a clunky plot, all the retooling made it reasonably engrossing for old Mason fans like me. But it left me wondering about the whole enterprise. Would the second season deepen things enough to justify completely making over a popular character?
This time out, Perry and his team represent two young Mexican Americans charged with murdering the unlikable son of an oil tycoon. Their search for evidence takes them to all parts of the city, from the Latino shantytown where the accused live to the fancy seaside gambling den that was run by the murder victim; from Black neighborhoods struggling with the Great Depression to the sunlit mansion of an oil baron (played by the always excellent Hope Davis) who speaks in epigrams. Along the way, Perry, Della and Paul (who's now an ex-cop) all face situations that could leave them ruined, if not dead. And in different ways, they all bump up against the noirish realities of a Chinatown-era LA, where law enforcement serves the rich.
Now, the happy news is that this second season is clearly better than the first. The crime plot has more snap, and our heroes confront trickier moral issues. Perry's angry righteousness keeps bumping up against facts he doesn't like but can't ignore. Paul gets sucked into deeds that may harm his own community, and the slightly saccharine Della learns that, when you're in the closet, you'd best be careful whom you get close to. The series offers a much darker and more complex vision of justice than you found in the old Perry Mason show or the original books by Erle Stanley Gardner.
And yet ... while the series complicates and diversifies the Perry Mason universe, the show is far less fun than the old Burr series. Even as it lures us in with the Perry Mason brand, it all but ignores the shark-like courtroom demeanor that made him less a lawyer than a legend. It lacks the inventiveness of Sherlock, a reboot that manages to update and deepen Conan Doyle's original — yet still preserve all the things we love about Sherlock Holmes.
Perhaps the whole idea of the series is to deconstruct the original, transforming Perry from a white male savior into a decent, but tormented attorney who's just trying to get by. But it does raise the question of why the show's creators didn't simply come up with a whole new show rather than throw away the one thing that gives the Perry Mason stories their alluring pop brio. A Perry who doesn't unmask the murderer in a courtroom showdown is like a Sherlock Holmes who doesn't find any clues or a James Bond who doesn't use his license to kill.
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Roller coaster with big crack has a second structural issue, inspectors say
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A state agency has confirmed another issue involving a large roller coaster along the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The ride has been closed for weeks since a large crack in a support column was discovered. The North Carolina Department of Labor said Friday it’s been notified of a separate “weld indication,” which it said “could be either a break or a crack.” The amusement park said that slight weld indications aren’t uncommon during maintenance reviews and that they “do not compromise the structural integrity or safety of the ride.” There’s no word on when the coaster will reopen. | 2023-07-28T23:24:32+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/07/28/roller-coaster-with-big-crack-has-a-second-structural-issue-inspectors-say/ |
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Unless Brooks Koepka goes on to win the U.S. Open and British Open — it’s hard to bet against him at this rate — the Masters should be remembered as the most meaningful major this year.
Jon Rahm in a green jacket was special on its own. He is a massive talent.
But what the Masters delivered as the first major of the year was a reminder that golf hasn’t lost its civility outside of headlines, social media and court documents. It was the first time a full roster of defectors to LIV Golf mixed with loyalists to the PGA Tour. Everyone got along just fine, united by the common goal of winning a green jacket.
The PGA Championship was the same.
Why should the Ryder Cup be any different?
The improbable — a LIV player making the Ryder Cup team — became the very possible at Oak Hill when Koepka stamped his legacy as golf’s most dominant player in the majors since Tiger Woods by winning the PGA Championship, his fifth major in his last 22 attempts.
That moved him to No. 2 in the Ryder Cup standings.
Whether he can hang on to earn one of the six qualifying spots — he is nearly the equivalent of $2.5 million ahead of Jordan Spieth in the No. 7 slot — almost seems irrelevant.
Zach Johnson gets six captain’s picks. The objective is win on European soil for the first time in 30 years. If the choice came down to Koepka or a first-timer like Sam Burns, Wyndham Clark or Kurt Kitayama, is it even much of a choice?
“It’s tough to be in Zach’s mind or where he is at,” Koepka said earlier in the week. “But I would love to make it hard on him.”
It shouldn’t be that difficult, not when the player in question is someone like Koepka.
Johnson finished his final round at Oak Hill before Koepka teed off with a one-shot lead Sunday. Taking on Ryder Cup speculation at times seemed more difficult for Johnson than anything he faced on the golf course.
The first question was about Koepka’s performance.
“Well, they’re only 54 holes in,” he replied, before changing directions to rave about Oak Hill.
Pressed later on the chemistry of having Koepka or another LIV player on the U.S. team, Johnson said it was “too premature — frankly, irresponsible — to even have any sort of opinion about that.
“Given where we are at right now there’s a lot of points out. You have a bunch of elevated events. If you go back on history, there’s names right now probably on both tours that we’re not even mentioning that could have a chance,” he said.
That much is true. Points are determined by money earned on the PGA Tour, where Koepka can’t play. The tour still has four $20 million tournaments ($3.6 million, or 3,600 points) to the winner. Koepka gets to play only the U.S. Open and British Open, which have slightly smaller purses but count as double.
Kerry Haigh, the chief championships officer for the PGA of America, outlined the probabilities in late February when he clarified that any American is eligible for the Ryder Cup team provided he was a PGA of America member (all LIV players meet that criteria).
He also pointed out with the elevated events and the tour having suspended LIV players, they would have to win a major — maybe two — and have a high finish in a couple others.
Koepka was runner-up in the Masters. He won the PGA Championship. And he still has two majors left.
Phil Mickelson also was a runner-up at the Masters. He made the cut on the number at the PGA Championship and tied for 58th. Mickelson was the chief recruiter for the Saudi-funded league and brash as ever when it comes to criticizing golf leadership.
Asked why he was chirping so much, Mickelson replied, “I guess it’s because I know some things that others don’t.” The reference presumably was to antitrust complaints, not stock tips.
Brad Faxon referenced that Sunday evening on Golf Channel when discussing Koepka and his Ryder Cup merits. Koepka, whose move to LIV was the most surprising, is still the same person he always was. He talks when engaged, is blunt, and cares only about winning majors.
“You don’t hear many good words spoken about Phil and Bryson (DeChambeau) and Patrick Reed that they left,” Faxon said. “It was almost like, ‘Let them go.’”
Koepka is different.
No one mentioned Ryder Cup possibilities to Koepka after he won. Odds are his answer would not have been any different than it was five days earlier. Winning takes care of everything, at least when it comes to making the Ryder Cup team. Koepka wants to be in Rome.
His next stop is Trump National outside Washington for another LIV event. The PGA Tour is at Colonial. The top players won’t meet again until next month at Los Angeles Country Club for the U.S. Open, a major fond of saying its aim is to identify the best player in the world.
Majors are not about supremacy of any tour. It’s about bringing together the best to chase after golf’s biggest prizes. The Masters proved that.
The Ryder Cup is no different.
It’s the 12 best from Europe against the 12 best from the United States. It’s hard to imagine now — and probably in three months — Koepka not being part of that.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-24T09:41:32+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/sports/ap-column-masters-showed-golf-can-get-along-even-in-ryder-cup/ |
What is the best Halloween candy on Amazon?
Dressing up and celebrating Halloween by walking miles, ringing doorbells and chiming the familiar refrain of ”Trick or treat!” is something that many kids look forward to all year long. After the night ends, the best part is sorting through your loot, trading with friends and ranking candy favorites from most to least favorite.
If you’re at home manning the candy bowl, you’ll need to figure out which candy is the best.
Halloween candy considerations
Number of trick-or-treaters
Your Halloween decor is just one factor that influences how many trick-or-treaters ring your doorbell. It’s crucial to know how many ghouls and goblins to expect so you don’t run out of candy early in the evening. If you are new to a neighborhood, ask your neighbors what the Halloween traffic is like so you’re prepared.
Age of trick-or-treaters
Sure, that fat pumpkin nestled in their parent’s arms looks cute, but is handing them a piece of hard candy a great idea? This choking hazard can quickly turn a fun time into a nightmare. It may be helpful to plan on handing out different types of Halloween candy at different times of the night.
Type of candy
You might choose the type of candy you hand out based on your own preferences. If you aren’t a big fan of sweets, here are some types to consider:
- Fruity candy or chocolate
- Hard candy or chewy candy
- Candy from a traditional maker or novelty candy
- Snack-size or full-size
Halloween candy features
Allergy-friendly
To ensure everyone enjoys their night, you will have to do more than just put awesome Halloween animatronics on your lawn. Choosing allergy-friendly candy means that every kid who knocks on your door gets a treat — no tricks. They are free from the most common allergens, including:
- Wheat
- Dairy
- Soy
- Corn
- Egg
- Nuts
Natural and organic options
Consider also looking for organic Halloween candy free from artificial colors, preservatives or flavors. It costs more than traditional types of candy, but health-conscious households may feel better about the holiday if the candy they hand out is somewhat healthy.
11 best Halloween candies on Amazon
Dracula Delight Halloween Candy Mix
These treats are individually wrapped. Each bag has 125 pieces, including fruity favorites such as SweeTarts Mini Chewy, Big Chewy Nerds, Black Forest Gummy Bears and Laffy Taffy. It’s three full pounds of candy for a busy Halloween.
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Halloween Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Lollipop Rings
Celebrate the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos with these colorful, fruity ring pops. They come in three bright colors (pink, blue and orange) matched to three tangy fruit flavors (strawberry, blue raspberry and orange). These are not recommended for trick-or-treaters under 3 years old.
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Kit Kat Halloween Lovers Assorted Milk Chocolate and Creme Snack Size Wafer Candy Bars
This 75-piece assortment of Halloween-themed Kit Kat bars brings a little crunchy, chocolatey treat to any gathering. Each bar is either white chocolate, milk chocolate or creepy green-tinted white chocolate for a ghoulish surprise. They are kosher certified.
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Sour Patch Kids Big Individually-Wrapped Soft and Chewy Candy
Pucker up with this 240-count package of sweet and tart Sour Patch Kids. Each candy is individually wrapped and two times larger than the original. With a variety of fruit-flavored sour centers coated with crunchy sugar, these keep taste buds tingling on a chilly night.
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Fusion Select Alien Halloween Lollipops
Complete with googly eyes and neon-colored skin, these strawberry, orange, pineapple and apple-flavored treats are sure to be a hit. These 30 pops come in a Halloween-themed package. Not a fan of extraterrestrials? Choose from other fun designs, such as pumpkins, witches and ghosts.
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This mixed pumpkin basket of candy includes 2 pounds of various candies, equal to 55 treats to suit a variety of tastes. Snacks include Twizzlers, Sour Patch Kids, Welch’s Fruit Snacks, Warheads, chocolate cream eggs and more. This is a great idea to send as a gift as well.
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YumEarth Organic Pops Variety Pack
Here’s another healthier option for trick-or-treaters: a 300-count bag of pops colored and flavored by fruit, berry and vegetable juices with no high fructose corn syrup or artificial dyes. Flavors include strawberry, pomegranate, peach, cherry, grape, mango, watermelon and berry. These are also free from the eight most common allergens and are organic.
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Black Forest Organic Gummy Bears Candy
Another candy you can feel good about sharing are these gummy bears or certified organic and gluten-free. They are made with real fruit juice and no artificial dyes, colors or flavors. These soft, fruity candies are perfect for Halloween or whenever you need a little treat.
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Looking for a blast from the past? Wax nostalgic with this 20-piece pack of individually wrapped Ring Pops. Flavors include strawberry, watermelon, cherry, blue raspberry and more.
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Zollipops Caramel Green Apple Lollipops
If you have avoided candy because of cavities, this is the lollipop for you. These lollipops can actually help strengthen and whiten teeth as they are made with xylitol, erythritol, stevia and other natural ingredients. They are anti-cavity and have a delicious caramel apple flavor. Zollipops also donates 10% of its profits to support dental health education.
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Payday Peanut and Caramel Candy
Hand out full-size candy bars and watch the kids come running. Crunchy, salty peanuts rolled in caramel and enrobed in chocolate are the perfect combination of salty and sweet. The boost of protein is great for long sessions of trick-or-treating. Each package contains 24 full-size candy bars. They are certified kosher and gluten-free.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – Last month, four Michigan girls and boys high school basketball teams strutted out of the Breslin Center as champions.
It was the final bow to a spectacular 2022-23 season, but still, there’s worthy recognitions to be had. That includes a standing ovation to the state’s very best performers as the Associated Press released its all-state teams in Division 1, 2, 3 and 4 earlier this month.
Selections were made by a voting panel of sports writers from across the state, which contained a first and second team in each of the respective divisions.
And with that, four Kalamazoo-area athletes were donned with all-state honors from the AP. Check out below which players fit the bill, along with a synopsis of their stellar seasons.
BOYS
Division 1: Hutch Ward, Kalamazoo Central
Ward’s stellar senior campaign ends with earning second team all-state honors, which pairs nicely with also winning MLive’s 2023 boys basketball Dream Team Player of the Year from Kalamazoo. The 6-foot-8 Wayne State University signee averaged a double-double (20 points, 11 rebounds) in leading the Maroon Giants to a 20-4 record, while also claiming a district title and an outright SMAC-East conference championship.
Division 3: Shane Rykse, Schoolcraft
The 6-foot-2 junior guard became one of West Michigan’s most polished, prolific scorers in 2023 that caught enough attention from the AP panel for a second team all-state nod. Already a deadly 3-point shooter and 2022 state champion, Rykse nearly doubled his point averages from a season ago, posting 23.5 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game while shooting an astonishing 44 percent from distance and 88 percent from the free throw line.
Rykse led the Golden Eagles to a 16-8 record and a share of their fifth consecutive SAC-Valley conference title. And he also eclipsed Schoolcraft’s 1,000-point scoring milestone this season, too.
GIRLS
Division 1: Tayla Dillard, Kalamazoo Central
With an increased role and majorly improved offseason workout ethic and regime, the 5-foot-9 combo guard watched her scoring averages soar to 17 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, which was more than enough to hand her second team all-state honors. The junior was imperative in K-Central’s 20-game winning streak and their seventh district championship in the past decade.
Division 3: Jordyn Bonnema, Kalamazoo Christian
As just a sophomore, Bonnema earned first team all-state honors after averaging 16.6 points, 6.9 rebounds, 4.7 steals and 3 assists this season in leading the Comets to a 22-4 record, claiming a SAC-Valley conference championship, a district title and a regional finals berth. The 5-foot-7 guard and three sport all-state athlete sits at 703 career points, making her a surefire bet to eclipse the 1,000-point club as just a junior.
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AP boys basketball Division 4 all-state | 2023-04-10T17:53:29+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/sports/kalamazoo/2023/04/four-kalamazoo-area-basketball-players-earn-2023-associated-press-all-state-honors.html |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, January 5, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
1143 PM PST Wed Jan 4 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM PST THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by moderate to heavy
rainfall.
* WHERE...western Santa Barbara County.
* WHEN...Until 130 AM PST.
* IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall could trigger shallow debris flows in and
near the Alisal burn scar. Minor flooding of low-lying and poor
drainage areas, such as small creeks and streams. Water is
expected over area roadways, including Highways 1, 101, and 246.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1142 PM PST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges
indicated moderate to heavy rainfall moving into the western
Santa Barbara County from the west. This will cause urban and
small stream flooding and flooding of low-lying areas across
the advisory area. Rainfall rates between 0.33 and 0.50 inch
per hour are possible with this band of rainfall. Local
rainfall rates up to 1 inch per hour could occur, especially
along the south facing slopes of the Santa Ynez Range.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Santa Maria, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Los Alamos, Gaviota State Park, Refugio State
Beach, El Capitan State Beach, and Buellton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move away from recently burned areas only if it is safe to do so.
The rain will likely trigger shallow mud and debris flows, minor
rock falls, and flooding capable of localized damage, especially in
steep terrain in and near burn scars.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding. Do not drive on flooded roads. Please report
observed flooding to local emergency services or law enforcement and
request they pass this information to the National Weather Service
when you can do so safely.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central San Mateo
County through 1215 AM PST...
At 1143 PM PST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Half Moon Bay, or 10 miles south of Pacifica, moving north at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Daly City, San Mateo, Redwood City, South San Francisco, San Bruno,
Pacifica, Menlo Park, Foster City, Burlingame, San Carlos, Belmont,
Millbrae, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Atherton, Woodside,
Highlands-Baywood Park, El Granada, North Fair Oaks and Portola
Valley.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3768 12250 3768 12238 3767 12239 3766 12237
3765 12238 3765 12239 3763 12239 3761 12235
3761 12238 3759 12236 3757 12226 3755 12224
3754 12220 3731 12223 3734 12240 3748 12245
3750 12247 3749 12249 3752 12252
TIME...MOT...LOC 0743Z 188DEG 43KT 3746 12250
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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The U.S. attorney investigating the death of Tyre Nichols, a Tennessee man who was beaten by police while being arrested earlier this month, promised to conduct a “thorough” and “methodical” investigation.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz said at a brief press conference on Wednesday that the investigation “may take some time” as these types of federal investigations often do, but decisions will be made based on the facts and the law.
He said he has told Nichols’s family that the investigation “will be thorough. It will be methodical, and it will continue until we gather all the relevant facts. As with any other federal investigation, we will go where those facts take us.”
Memphis police officers stopped Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, on Jan. 7 for alleged reckless driving. The department said the day after that they confronted Nichols before he ran and another “confrontation” occurred ahead of his arrest.
Nichols said he was experiencing shortness of breath and was hospitalized before dying on Jan. 10.
His family and their attorneys on Monday viewed the body camera footage from the officers who arrested him. Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family, said the video showed that Nichols was shocked, pepper sprayed and restrained after he was pulled over.
Attorneys said he was treated like a “human piñata” and compared the incident to the 1991 police beating of Rodney King.
Nichols’s family has accused police of causing him to suffer a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of the beatings.
Five members of the Memphis Police Department who were involved in the traffic stop were fired on Friday for excessive use of force and failing in their duties to intervene and render aid following a department investigation.
Ritz said his office is working closely with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to conduct the investigation.
He announced a federal civil rights investigation into the incident last week. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has also launched a probe.
Crump and the family’s other attorney, Antonio Romanucci, said in a release on Monday that the legal team had their own independent autopsy conducted on Nichols by a forensic pathologist. They said the autopsy’s preliminary findings show Nichols had “excessive bleeding” caused by a “severe beating” and that the injuries are consistent with what they viewed from the officers’ body camera footage.
Ritz said he wants the public to express its “right to be heard” in response to Nichols’s death, but that it should be done peacefully.
“I want this city to be a place where justice is done,” he said. “The United States is committed to following the facts and the law, guided by principles of justice every step of the way.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-01-25T19:41:32+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/hill-politics/us-attorney-pledges-thorough-investigation-into-tyre-nicholss-death/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
09-11-13-21-31
(nine, eleven, thirteen, twenty-one, thirty-one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
09-11-13-21-31
(nine, eleven, thirteen, twenty-one, thirty-one) | 2022-09-12T00:26:11+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17434636.php |
These quick-action grants aim to help communities become more livable for people of all ages
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP announced it is investing $3.4 million through 260 Community Challenge grants for quick-action projects that will help communities become more livable in the long-term. These grants will improve public places; transportation; housing; diversity, equity and inclusion; digital access; and civic engagement, with an emphasis on the needs of adults age 50 and over. Many of this year's projects will help communities leverage funding under the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
"Helping adults thrive as they age has never been more important, and AARP is dedicated to working with communities to improve residents' quality of life through tangible changes," said Nancy LeaMond, AARP Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer. "This year, we are proud to support the largest number of projects in the Community Challenge's six-year history to help communities leverage opportunities with historic federal investments."
AARP Community Challenge grant projects will be funded in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. True to the program's quick-action nature, projects must be completed by November 30, 2022.
This year, AARP is bolstering its investment of affordable and adaptable housing solutions in response to the national housing crisis. With additional funding support from Toyota Motor North America, the program is also increasing its investment in projects that improve mobility innovation and transportation options. Examples of this year's granted projects include:
- Moro, Oregon: Creating free, pre-approved plans that encourage the development of accessory dwelling units for older adults and their families;
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Helping to reconnect a neighborhood divided and displaced by expressway construction in the 1960s through engaging older residents and creating a temporary multigenerational public space for older adults and people of all ages;
- Chelmsford, Massachusetts: Establishing informational kiosks and mini libraries to educate older residents about Chelmsford's Indigenous Peoples throughout the town near historical markers, public parks and trailheads on Indigenous lands;
- Silver City, New Mexico: Converting a dead-end road into an engaging, interactive, pedestrian space for residents – especially adults age 50 and over – to gather that will connect the park to downtown and prevent frequent flooding; and
- St. Louis, Missouri: Transforming a desolate transit stop into an interactive and engaging center with accessible seating, shade and art for older adults and their families.
The Community Challenge grant program is part of AARP's nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for people of all ages, especially those 50 and over. Including this year's projects, AARP has awarded $12.7 million through more than 1,060 grants since 2017 to nonprofit organizations and government entities across the country, many of which have led to long-term change.
View the full list of grantees and their project descriptions at aarp.org/communitychallenge and learn more about AARP's livable communities work at aarp.org/livable.
About AARP
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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Feds decline review of Chinese battery plant plans in Big Rapids, company says
Federal regulators have concluded they don't have the proper jurisdiction to conduct a review of a planned $2.4 billion Chinese battery part manufacturing plant in the Big Rapids area, the company said in a Tuesday statement in which they committed to moving forward with the project.
The U.S. Treasury Department, according to the statement, told Gotion Inc. that the company's purchase of land in the Big Rapids area is "not a covered real estate transaction and is not a covered transaction under the Defense Production Act of 1950."
“We voluntarily submitted all the needed documents to the U.S. Department of Treasury Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to be transparent and accountable and received the response that it is not a covered transaction,” said Chuck Thelen, vice president of North American Manufacturing for Gotion Inc.
Gotion announced in early April, amid concerns about the company's ties to China, that it had voluntarily submitted information to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal review panel tasked with investigating potential national security risks. At least two other government bodies at the time said they had requested the same review.
CFIUS, which reviews foreign investments for national security risks, has repeatedly declined comment when asked to confirm whether a request was made for a review of the Big Rapids project. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Gotion did not immediately provide The Detroit News with a copy of the Department of Treasury's letter.
Jim Chapman, the supervisor of Green Township, where the project would be located, said he also has not received a copy of the Treasury Department's communication on the project. Chapman, who remains a staunch supporter of the project, said he was told the federal agency would not allow for the release of the communication.
U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, a Caledonia Republican who in February requested a CFIUS review of large financial investments in Michigan "particularly those by Chinese companies and their subsidiaries," had not received a substantive reply from the Department of Treasury on the request as of Tuesday, his office said.
"Today’s announcement from Gotion is not an approval from CFIUS, but another example of the broken CFIUS process where the government claims deals are outside its jurisdiction," Moolenaar said in a statement in which he criticized the company for not voluntarily disclosing the materials it submitted to CFIUS.
Foreign investments that are covered by CFIUS include mergers, acquisitions or takeovers "that could result in foreign control of any United States business" or control of critical infrastructure that could affect national security. After a CFIUS review, the president of the United States can suspend or block a business transaction if there's evidence it threatened national security.
Thelen told lawmakers in April that the CFIUS panel had already conducted and signed off on a battery parts project Gotion had planned in an undisclosed southern state.
"We expect a similar review period and outcome" for the Big Rapids project, Thelen said at the time.
In April, the Democratic-controlled Legislature approved about $175 million in taxpayer incentives for Gotion through the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve fund.
The company announced plans in October for a $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery parts facility in Green Township, on the outskirts of Big Rapids, to a largely enthusiastic response from the community. But local residents and Republicans began voicing concerns in the weeks after about the company's ties to China.
The project is expected to create about 2,300 jobs and receive more than $800 million in incentives and tax breaks, including about $636 million in tax abatements over 30 years and the $175 million in SOAR funding approved in April.
Gotion is not the first foreign investment that's attracted national scrutiny only to have federal regulators take a pass on a security review.
CFIUS in December concluded it didn't have jurisdiction to review a Chinese-owned corn mill project in Grand Forks, N.D., the Wall Street Journal reported.
Separately, an Air Force official said the project planned by Fufeng USA presented a national security risk because it was close to an Air Force base, prompting the city's mayor to vow Grand Forks would block building permits and other permissions for the project.
eleblanc@detroitnews.com | 2023-06-13T21:38:15+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/06/13/feds-decline-review-of-chinese-battery-plant-plans-in-big-rapids-company-says/70317340007/ |
Kody Brown isn't above playing dirty when it comes to his split from his third wife, Christine Brown. On Sunday's Sister Wives, the at-odds exes begin discussing logistics, including the sale of Christine's house and custody of their 12-year-old daughter, Truely.
"You and I have to actually have a child custody agreement in place or the state takes her, essentially becomes the owner of her," Kody insists to Christine.
Christine seems surprised, replying, "Oh seriously?"
"Yeah, it's stupid," Kody says.
But in an aside interview, Kody admits to fabricating the custody laws in order to get Christine to agree to a formal custody agreement for Truely.
"So I got to this child custody thing, I just started getting creative about it," he says. "I just don't know what to do. Christine's like, 'Why do we need to do this?' And I'm like, 'Because the rulebook says?' I don't know why we need to do this. There is this thing in the man-o-sphere where it says, 'If you're getting divorced, you're going to get screwed, bro.'"
When Christine brings up the fact that they were never legally married, Kody continues to make excuses, saying, "Doesn't matter, in this case we've got an issue where we've got to have a child custody agreement in place, basically just say 50/50 agreement that we just work out the details all the time. Otherwise you're going to get a lawyer and the government involved, state government. The lawyer's going to take all the money you have."
Rather than be upset by Kody's lies, Christine finds it comical. In an aside interview, she says, "Does he not understand I want him to be around his kids? I'm not going to fight him on that. I've always wanted him to be around his kids, so why would I say, 'I don't want you to be around Truely'? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. He just doesn't trust me. That's what this comes down to."
Kody agrees with his ex about his lack of trust in her. He insists on having the custody agreement in Arizona because he doesn't trust the state of Utah. In the end, Christine resigns herself to the fact that she might have to have a legal battle with Kody.
"I would love it not getting a lawyer involved. But if he's already going there and lawyering up, then I'm going to as well," she says in her aside interview with a sigh. "I don't want to though. I'd rather just figure it out amiably. We've got kids. We're not legally married so we don't have to go down that road."
Earlier in the episode, Christine and Kody discuss the aftermath of Truely accidentally discovering that they were divorced and that Christine was planning to move her to Utah.
"I do believe she's being very unfair with me and to me, especially in this conversation with Truely, where she's marginalized me so much and our marriage so much that she's kind of leading Truely into blowing it off," Kody says. "They're blowing me off."
He says he had a conversation with Truely after the bombshell, and she seemed "very OK" with the news.
"Kind of glad that she's not brokenhearted about the divorce," he says. "I wish I could get her to stay. I don't understand, really, and Christine may have told me 10 times, I don't understand why she has to move."
Another sticking point between the exes is the potential sale of Christine's house. She poses the idea of keeping the house for a place for her and Truely to stay in when she returns and renting out a part of it to bring in money. Kody insists that if they sell the house the proceeds should be split between Christine and the rest of the family to put money into Coyote Pass.
"If I'm going to sell my house, I'm going to keep the proceeds from selling my house and put it towards the next house that I purchase," Christine says in her aside interview. "So if I sell, I'm not going to put that money into Coyote Pass. I'm not going to put any more money into Coyote Pass."
Kody insists that "the family" bought the house and it does not solely belong to Christine.
Christine notes that she's been making all of the mortgage payments and that everything is in her name.
"Robyn and I gave her her down payment for her house. Christine couldn't qualify for financing, so I bought that house with her and it was my money that went into the house to buy the house," Kody says. "Yeah, she's been making a mortgage payment and we've all been having to do that, but we all had to come up with the money for the down payment. That money should come back and go into Coyote Pass."
It seems the conversation will be continued in next week's episode as a teaser shows Christine packing up her home and declaring that, "Legally, I get to make all the decisions."
ET spoke with Christine earlier this week about her life in Utah since her split from Kody.
"An enormous weight has been lifted," she told ET of the split. "Watching the episodes is hard, it puts me back to where [it was] more somber, definitely. But living my life every day, day-to-day, I would say it's so much better. I think because I'm so much more grounded. I just like me, and I like my life so much better now."
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
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Ukraine works to stabilize Kherson after Russian pullout
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military carried out “stabilization measures” near the southern city of Kherson on Saturday following the end of an eight-month occupation by Russian forces, a retreat that cast a further pall on President Vladimir Putin’s designs to take over large parts of Ukraine.
People across Ukraine awoke from a night of jubilant celebrating after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of the Dnieper River from Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Russia’s military during the ongoing invasion.
In a regular social media update Saturday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian forces were fortifying their battle lines on the river’s eastern bank after abandoning the capital. About 70% of the Kherson region remains under Russian control.
Ukrainian officials from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on down cautioned that while special military units had reached Kherson city, a full deployment to reinforce the advance troops still was underway. On Friday, Ukraine’s intelligence agency said it thought some Russian soldiers stayed behind, ditching their uniforms for civilian clothes to avoid detection.
“Even when the city is not yet completely cleansed of the enemy’s presence, the people of Kherson themselves are already removing Russian symbols and any traces of the occupiers’ stay in Kherson from the streets and buildings,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Friday.
Photos circulating Saturday on social media showed Ukrainian activists removing memorial plaques put up by the occupation authorities the Kremlin installed to run the Kherson region. A Telegram post on the channel of Yellow Ribbon, a self-described Ukrainian “public resistance” movement, showed two people in a park taking down plaques picturing what appeared to be Soviet-era military figures.
Moscow’s announcement that Russian forces planned to withdraw across the Dnieper River, which divides both the Kherson region and Ukraine, followed a stepped-up Ukrainian counteroffensive in the country’s south.
In the last two months, Ukraine’s military claimed to have reclaimed dozens of towns and villages north of Kherson city, and the Ukrainian General Staff said that’s where the stabilization activities were taking place.
The Russian retreat represented a significant setback for the Kremlin some six weeks after Putin annexed the Kherson region and three other provinces in southern and eastern Ukraine in breach of international law and in the face of widespread condemnation. The Russian leader unequivocally asserted the illegally claimed areas as Russian territory.
Russian state news agency TASS quoted an official in Kherson’s Kremlin-appointed administration on Saturday as saying that Henichesk, a city on the Azov Sea some 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Kherson city, would serve as the region’s “temporary capital” after the withdrawal across the Dnieper.
Ukrainian media derided the announcement, with the daily newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda saying Russia “had made up a new capital” for the region.
Like Zelenskyy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sought to temper the excitement over the invaded nation’s latest morale boost. “We are winning battles on the ground, but the war continues,” he said from Cambodia, where he was attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Kuleba also brought up the prospect of the Ukrainian army finding evidence of possible Russian war crimes in Kherson, just as it did after the Russian Defense Ministry pulled back its forces in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions earlier in the way.
“Every time we liberate a piece of our territory, when we enter a city liberated from Russian army, we find torture rooms and mass graves with civilians tortured and murdered by Russian army in the course of the occupation of these territories,” Ukraine’s top diplomat said. “It’s not easy to speak with people like this. But I said that every war ends with diplomacy and Russia has to approach talks in good faith.”
U.S. assessments this week showed Russia’s war in Ukraine may already have killed or wounded tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Despite the advances in Kherson, other parts of Ukraine continued to face civilian casualties, energy shortages and other fallout from Russian military attacks and Putin’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The state-owned electricity grid operator, Ukrenergo, announced emergency blackouts — which could go on indefinitely — in eight regions that included Kyiv, where a Russian military strike hit an energy facility critical to supplies to the capital.
Ukrenergo said scheduled one-hour blackouts, which are temporary and limited in time, also would continue daily in central and northern Ukraine.
Moscow has admitted to targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with drone and rocket strikes since early October. Ukrainian officials reported said last month that 40% of the country’s electric power system had been severely damaged.
While much of the focus was on southern Ukraine, Russia continued its grinding offensive in Ukraine’s industrial east, targeting, in particular, the Donetsk region city of Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian General Staff said.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko reported Saturday that two civilians were killed and four wounded over the last day as battles heated up around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, a small city that has remained in Ukrainian hands throughout the war.
Russia’s continued push for Bakhmut demonstrates the Kremlin’s desire for visible gains following weeks of clear setbacks. Taking the city would open the way for a possible push onto other Ukrainian strongholds in the heavily contested Donetsk region. A reinvigorated eastern offensive could also potentially stall or derail Kyiv’s ongoing advances in the south.
Kyrylenko, in a Facebook post Saturday, also pointed to “intense shelling” by Russia overnight of two other Ukrainian-held cities: Lyman, near the border with the neighboring Luhansk region, and Vuhledar, southwest of Donetsk’s separatist-controlled capital of the same name.
Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai said Ukrainian forces had recaptured 11 unnamed settlements in his province but their advance was “not as rapid as in other regions.”
“We congratulate Kherson on its homecoming!” Haidai posted on Telegram. In Luhansk, the “occupiers continue to dig in and gather reinforcements, mine everything around them.”
In the Dnipropetrovsk region west of Donetsk, Russia kept up its shelling of communities near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the Ukrainian regional governor said. Russia and Ukraine have long traded blame for shelling in and around the plant, Europe’s largest.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, reemphasized that the United States would defer to Ukrainian authorities on whether or when to negotiate with Russia about a possible end to the conflict.
“Russia invaded Ukraine,” Sullivan told reporters on Air Force One en route to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of a trip by President Joe Biden to international summits in southeast Asia.
“If Russia chose to stop fighting in Ukraine and left, it would be the end of the war,” Sullivan said. “If Ukraine chose to stop fighting and give up, it would be the end of Ukraine.”
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This expansion of the platform's digital coach, MegAI, enables autogenerated, scalable learning content creation for frontline employees, accelerating time to proficiency by 30%.
NEW YORK and LONDON and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrical, the performance experience platform for frontline employees announced the release of AI Microlearning, their integration of OpenAI's generative AI, ChatGPT. AI Microlearning enables content creators to auto-generate high impact microlearning content, including content summaries, related questions and answers, and knowledge check quizzes at rapid speed.
AI Microlearning accelerates time to value by enabling contact centers, BPOs and other CX organizations to scale content creation and keep it fresh with significantly less effort and resources. Leveraging the new capabilities, customers can generate content instantly to drive organizational agility, keeping frontline employees proficient on new products, offers, processes, and compliance regulations.
When asked about the launch, Gal Rimon, CEO and Founder of Centrical said, "This is a major milestone for Centrical. Within weeks of ChatGPT launching globally, we are proud to bring to our customers and partners a fully integrated generative AI function with AI Microlearning. It enables traditional content creators to produce content more efficiently and consistently, but the beauty of this is that it will empower anyone within the organization to easily create learning content. We're excited that Centrical has the agility to innovate this quickly and bring valuable AI-powered capabilities to the platform in the era of ChatGPT."
Previously, microlearning content and quizzes were created manually. Now, creators can simply paste or link any type of longform learning content into Centrical and the platform summarizes and generates related quiz questions in real-time.
MegAI – An AI-Powered Digital Coach Creating Best-in-Class Employee Experiences
AI Microlearning is the newest capability added to MegAI. MegAI creates personalized and guided experiences for frontline employees and supervisors that improves knowledge, engagement, and performance to empower better customer experiences. MegAI enables continuous improvement for contact centers, BPOs and other CX organizations through:
- Next Best Action - daily personalized recommended actions to keep employees focused on the right next step for success.
- Knowledge Boosts – targeted daily microlearning activities triggered based on individual knowledge and performance gaps.
- Real-Time Performance, Coaching, and Recognition Insights – guided and actionable coaching and recognition insights that empower frontline supervisors to support their employees in the moment of need.
- Contributions (Social Knowledge Sharing) – personalized tips and best practices from colleagues delivered daily to employees based on preferences.
To learn more about AI Microlearning, visit our website.
About Centrical
Centrical is the Performance Experience Platform, taking Workforce Engagement Management to new heights by powering best-in-class customer experiences for the world's leading brands through frontline agent and team alignment, engagement, and performance optimization. The platform provides a unified employee experience powered by gamification and AI that personally guides and inspires the success and growth of every individual through AI-driven performance, coaching and quality management, personalized microlearning, and voice of the employee.
Centrical was founded in 2013 and serves customers in 150 countries in 40 different languages. Centrical has offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, and London and customers include leading multinational enterprises such as Microsoft, Teleperformance, Webhelp, Synchrony Financial, and more.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, will interview the likes of Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion and Gloria Steinem for a streaming series that debuts in two months.
Apple TV+ said Thursday that “Gutsy” will debut on its service on Sept. 9.
In the eight-part series, the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and her daughter also talk to Dr. Jane Goodall, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and others, Apple TV+ said.
The series is based on the Clintons’ book, “The Book of Gutsy Women.” The Clintons’ new production company and Apple’s deal to produce the docuseries was announced last year, but now it is revealing the premiere date and list of interview subjects. | 2022-07-15T13:29:44+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/clintons-interview-kim-kardashian-steinem-on-apple-tv-show/ |
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming — at least for now — after a judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban that took effect a few days earlier.
Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens’ decision halts the ban amid a challenge in her court to a law that took effect Sunday. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the law despite earlier rulings by Owens that had blocked a previous ban since shortly after it took effect last summer.
Owens put the new ban on hold after a hearing Wednesday in which abortion-rights supporters said the law harms pregnant women and their doctors and violates the state constitution. Owens suspended the ban for at least two weeks.
The ban prohibits abortion at all stages of pregnancy except in cases of rape or incest that’s reported to police, or to save a woman’s life.
An amendment in the Wyoming Constitution says adults have a right to make their own health care decisions, so Republicans enacted a ban that states abortion is not health care.
However, Owens said it’s up to the courts, not lawmakers, to decide whether that’s the case.
“The state can not legislate away a constitutional right. It’s not clear whether abortion is health care. The court has to then decide that,” Owens said in an oral decision given at the end of an hourslong hearing.
The judge did not weigh in on another new abortion law that’s also being challenged in her court: Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on abortion pills. That law, signed by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday, is not set to take effect until July 1.
Two nonprofits, two doctors and two other women have sued to block Wyoming’s broader abortion ban.
While the new overall abortion ban says abortion is not health care, the new abortion pill ban suggests otherwise, John Robinson, an attorney for the abortion-rights supporters, argued. That pill ban allows “treatment” for miscarriages and to save a woman’s life, he pointed out.
“How can abortion be health care in one statute prohibiting abortion and not the other?” Robinson said. “That’s medical treatment.”
Even Gordon, in allowing the overall abortion ban to become law without his signature, expressed concern it didn’t resolve the constitutional question, Robinson noted.
Special Assistant Attorney General Jay Jerde, however, told the judge that the Legislature is permitted to “interpret the constitution and that interpretation is entitled to significant deference from the court.” He said it would be “almost absurd” to claim, for example, that the amendment would allow illegal treatments in Wyoming such as medical marijuana.
Owens suspended a similar abortion ban in Wyoming in July, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a nationwide right to abortion and leaving it to states to decide. After Owens’ previous order, lawmakers wrote a new law to try to address her concerns.
Wyoming has only one abortion provider, a women’s health clinic in Jackson that only provides medication abortions but had been forced to stop after the state’s broad ban took effect this week.
In Casper, the nonprofit Wellspring Health Access had been planning to open the state’s only full-service clinic to provide surgical and medication abortions. Its opening was delayed by an arson fire in May 2022, and authorities on Wednesday announced a woman was arrested in the case. Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, of Casper, was scheduled to appear in federal court in Cheyenne on Thursday.
The nonprofit’s president, Julie Burkhart, welcomed Wednesday’s court ruling.
“Regardless of how anti-choice legislators try to spin it, abortion is health care, and Wyomingites have a constitutional right to that care,” Burkhart said in a statement.
After an arson attack prevented that clinic from opening as planned last summer, organizers hoped to open it next month.
Gordon said in a statement he was disappointed by the ruling but looked forward for the next chance for the state to defend the abortion ban in court. | 2023-03-23T07:32:39+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/health-news/judge-to-consider-allowing-abortions-to-resume-in-wyoming/ |
Blades 2, Tigers 1
First Period
No Scoring.
Penalties — Krebs Mh (hooking) 11:50; Watterodt Sas (boarding) 17:41.
Second Period
No Scoring.
Penalties — Boehm Mh (double minor, high sticking) 4:01; Smith Mh (high sticking) 7:13.
Third Period
1. Saskatoon, Parr 2 (Wright, Molendyk) 9:52 (pp).
2. Saskatoon, Parr 3 (Lisowsky, Roulette) 14:00 (pp).
3. Medicine Hat, MacKenzie 5 (Andresen, Lee) 19:54 (pp).
Penalties — Basha Mh (tripping) 7:58; Hodass Mh (roughing) 11:55; Lee Mh (hooking) 13:27; Gustafson Sas (boarding) 16:47.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Saskatoon: Elliott (W, ). Medicine Hat: May (L, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Saskatoon: 2-7; Medicine Hat: 1-2.
Referees — Derek Bandstra, Kevin Webinger. Linesmen — Darren Holeha, Tyson Phillips.
Attendance — 1,870 at Medicine Hat. | 2022-10-29T05:06:43+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Sums-Saskatoon-Medicine-Hat-17542976.php |
(The Conversation) – Everyone has one, but you might not know much about it. Here biologist Sarah Leupen, who teaches human and comparative animal physiology, explains the ins and outs of belly buttons.
1. Why do I even have a belly button?
Your belly button, or navel – clinically, your umbilicus – is the permanent scar left from where your umbilical cord connected your circulatory system, when you were a fetus, to the placenta. Fetuses don’t breathe, eat or eliminate waste, so the placenta provides an exchange site for the mother to deliver oxygen and nutrients from her bloodstream to the fetus, as well as collecting its wastes to eliminate from her body.
After the baby is born, the physician or other attendant cuts the cord and clamps off the stub, which then dries and falls off after about a week, leaving the point of connection – your belly button – remaining.
If the cord is not cut, as has been the practice in some times and places and as is becoming trendy again in others, it will close off after an hour or so, then naturally detach a few days after birth. Some health care practitioners are concerned that this “lotus birth” could be an infection risk, since the umbilical cord remains attached to the placenta, which is dead tissue once out of the mother’s body.
2. If it’s a scar, why doesn’t it disappear over time?
If you injure just the outer layers of your skin, as in a cut or burn, the scar will soon completely disappear, especially in young people. And newborns are very young people. But unlike in those situations, the umbilicus involves more tissue layers — not just the skin but the connective tissue underneath – so it makes sense it doesn’t just blend in with the rest of your abdominal wall once it’s healed.
What about some pretty complicated surgeries that don’t leave scars? Doctors perform many operations in ways that deliberately avoid scarring, which is not nature’s way. In fact, one way to minimize scarring for surgeries uses this existing scar – surgeons can take advantage of the navel as an incision site for removing your appendix or gall bladder or for weight-loss surgery.
But if you don’t like the way your umbilical scar looks, plastic surgery to change its appearance, called umbilicoplasty, is possible. People sometimes take this cosmetic option after pregnancy or the removal of a piercing, or just to make an “outie” into an “innie.”
3. But why do some people have outies, anyway?
The look of your belly button is not related to the location of the clamp or where your doctor cut the cord.
Outies are simply an example of normal human variation, like the way some people have curly hair or dimples. When the tip of the umbilical cord’s remnant pokes out past the skin around it, you have an outie; about 10% of people have these. Any concave navel is called an “innie” and a convex one an “outie.”
Sometimes outies can be caused by an umbilical hernia in the baby or another medical problem, but most of it is just due to what your genes encoded. You might also temporarily have an outie during late pregnancy, when the abdominal pressure from the growing fetus stretches your navel and may push it out.
4. How deep does it go?
You can probably easily probe the depth of your own navel – there are no hidden recesses there. What’s under it is the same as what’s under the skin of the rest of your abdomen: your abdominal muscles, to which the navel is attached by a short umbilical stalk, and the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity. Under that lie your guts – that is, your intestines and other abdominal organs. If you keep following this imaginary journey back, you’ll get to your spine – the belly button is usually lined up between the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae (L3 and L4).Learn how to find your pet’s belly button.
5. Do other animals have belly buttons?
Because the navel is a scar from where the umbilical cord connected the fetus to the placenta, all placental mammals have them. That includes all mammals except marsupials (like kangaroos and possums) and monotremes (like platypuses and echidnas).
Your cat or dog or guinea pig does have a belly button, but because it’s a flatter scar than a person’s rather than a concave one, and is covered in fur, you might have missed it.
6. Is there anything besides lint in there?
Like any concave surface, if you have an innie, it probably gathers bits of debris occasionally. Your navel also has a microbiota, just like the rest of your skin. Because it’s pretty protected from soap and abrasion, a more stable and diverse bacterial community lives in your navel than elsewhere on your skin’s surface.
The innovative Belly Button Biodiversity project at North Carolina State University has revealed a lot about these little friends. The researchers found over 2,000 species of bacteria in the first 60 belly buttons they investigated.
It looks like most people have a set of eight common belly button bacteria, but the project is discovering new ones all the time.
7. Why do belly buttons gross out some people?
There hasn’t really been much research into why some people find belly buttons to be repulsive.
It may overlap with omphalophobia, the fear of belly buttons and touching them. There’s no specific treatment beyond the therapy or anti-anxiety medications a doctor might prescribe for any other phobia.
Whatever your feelings about belly buttons, they’re harmless. What’s more, they’re part of your evolutionary legacy as a mammal, the group of animals so invested in their offspring that they invented a way to deliver nutrients and oxygen, the mother’s bread and breath, straight into their developing young. Your navel can be a reminder of that first life-sustaining care you received from another person before you were even born. | 2023-04-08T15:02:16+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/innies-outies-and-omphalophobia-7-navel-gazing-questions-about-belly-buttons-answered/ |
DULUTH — When Tammy Clore, owner of Reimagined by T. Underwood, attended the downtown storefront design and activation training hosted by Downtown Duluth last fall, she was optimistic it could improve her business.
However, when foot traffic from the Historic Arts and Theater District failed to reach her storefront at 138 W. First St. over the holiday season, she said the rose-colored glasses came off.
"I do think there is a vision to see downtown thrive again. For me, I don't think it's going to reach this corner fast enough for me to continue to limp around," Clore said. "I'm excited about downtown activation. I want to be a part of it, but I think it's going to start along Superior Street and will take a while to reach First Street. I decided it was time to pull the plug."
Reimagined by T. Underwood began as a home-staging business in 2018 and opened as a brick-and-mortar store the following year. It sells antiques, gifts, vintage decor and a large selection of Annie Sloan paint products, in addition to offering creative workshops, home staging, interior design and e-design services.
"I broke cardinal rule of retail: location, location, location. It's a great corner spot with windows, but I was unprepared for how dead it would be during the holidays," Clore said. "If this concept was in a different location, it would have been really wonderful. They say you should have two other retailers around you to draw foot traffic. I really don't have that here."
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Instead, Clore's neighbors include a condemned parking ramp to the rear and Money XChange next door.
"Those are things you have to think about when you have a business. Who surrounds you? It's not exactly the ambiance you want for a bespoke boutique," said Clore. "Customers ask if I feel safe here. I've always felt safe. I have my dog here, and Duluth Police Department does a great job patrolling. I feel as if there is an overblown sense of not feeling safe. There is a perception of safety downtown in general, but particularly on this street."
After four years, the fledgling business didn't get the chance to take off, Clore explained.
That first winter, a snowstorm shut down the store during Small Business Saturday, which promotes small local businesses during the holiday shopping season. A lack of snow removal following the storm further prevented winter foot traffic near her shop, Clore said.
Six months after opening, Clore was proud to became the only independent stockist for the Annie Sloan line in Northeastern Minnesota. Annie Sloan is a household name in interior design best known for Chalk Paint-brand furniture paint. Clore began offering workshops for adults and children on Annie Sloan painting techniques.
Reimagined by T. Underwood hadn't been open a year prior to the pandemic, which then shut down in-person workshops. Like many business owners, Clore pivoted by offering online workshops instead. At that time, furniture restoration was also added to the list of services.
"With so many fluctuations during pandemic, it was hard to read where the business would ebb and flow. Paint and DIY supplies did well during the pandemic, but afterwards, sales went down," Clore said. "I thought workshops would pick up after things opened back up, but they never really took off due to parking. If I had a dollar for every time that a customer stopped by only because there was open parking."
Then, an SUV hit the store in September 2020. "It happened early in the morning before we were here, so thank goodness," Clore said.
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It took six months for the property manager to repair the building damages before Reimagined by T. Underwood was able to reopen in March 2021.
Two other tenants departed, freeing up the additional space next to her shop, for which she planned to expand in partnership with a friend who made children toys. In fall 2021, Clore assisted the property manager to restore the space to make it rentable.
When plans for the new business partnership fell through, Clore reached out to offer the space to Hucklebeary store owner Emily Eckstrom, who, along with several other business owners, had been given notice of eviction earlier that December from the former site of Hotel Astoria, set to be demolished at 108 E. Superior St.
In January 2022, Hucklebeary, Lauralloons and three other women with booths from the former Old Town Antiques & Books joined Reimagined by T. Underwood in the co-op expansion space, which was named In Cahoots.
"It was great to have another artist in the space," Clore said.
Hucklebeary eventually moved out into its permanent location at 218 E. Superior St. Clore also began looking out west and east for a new location, but nothing seemed like the perfect fit.
"Quite honestly, this store never looked better during the holidays, but we got no traffic on this corner. I scheduled workshops during free parking times. I offered BOGO workshops during the holidays and was doing a lot through social media," Clore said. "I just felt like during the holidays, it was a sign from the universe that it was time to close."
In hindsight, Clore said she should have moved out during the pandemic instead of trying to expand.
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"The area continued to deteriorate. I thought things would open after pandemic. Instead, it got worse. You can't survive downtown when foot traffic is only there during tourism season," she said. "It takes a whole community and engagement to make it happen. It will get there. It just won't get there while I'm here."
As Clore prepares the business for closure, merchandise is available at a 50% discount with the exception of DIY items. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Reimagined by T. Underwood must be out of the building by the end of March.
Her abundant creative energy won't go to waste, assured Clore, who is training for a sales and design associate position at locally owned Bradley Interiors.
"It's been very bittersweet, but I'm relieved to make this decision and start fresh," Clore said. | 2023-02-21T15:22:23+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/downtown-duluth-interior-design-gift-store-to-close |
Raffel also concerned about safety issues as a result of defects reported from use of Man Wah "knock-offs"
GERMANTOWN, Wis., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following its historic $100 million-plus verdict in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Raffel Systems, LLC, a global producer of controls and comfort systems for motion furniture and a variety of other end markets, today called on Man Wah to cease the theft of the company's patented motion furniture cup-holders and any further infringements.
On June 17, 2022, a federal jury in Milwaukee found Man Wah liable for willful trade dress infringement, misappropriation of trade dress, false patent marking and willful patent infringement related to Raffel's integrated illuminated cup holder for motion furniture. Specifically, the jury awarded Raffel $97.5 million in punitive damages and $8.7 million in actual damages, totaling $106.2 million. The verdict is one of the largest ever in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Two outside attorneys for Raffel pointed out additional issues.
"We are concerned that defects reported by consumers of the cup holders that were found by the jury to infringe on Raffel's patents could represent safety risks," said Raffel's lead trial counsel John Scheller of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP.
Meanwhile, Washington, D.C.-based attorney Lanny Davis of the law firm Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC said, "Man Wah's conduct leading to the jury verdict could constitute unfair competition."
Recent coverage of the jury verdict can be found here and here.
"This case is about right and wrong," Raffel Executive Chairman Paul Stangl said. "As a small company guided by innovation, our intellectual property could not be more important. We will continue our fight to show Man Wah and all the world's biggest companies that intellectual property must be respected."
"There is evidence Man Wah is continuing its practice of turning a blind-eye to intellectual property, such as continuing to sell integrated cup holders that infringe Raffel patents while passing off the product as its own invention," Stangl continued.
About Raffel Systems
Since 1982, Raffel Systems has been the industry innovator in developing electronic controls and comfort solutions for multiple end markets. Headquartered in Germantown, Wisconsin, Raffel is a global manufacturer providing design, engineering, technical sales, and customer service throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Through its Chinese subsidiary, Raffel also has manufacturing, engineering and sales in mainland China.
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Suspicious call to Bradley Airport leads to Windsor man’s arrest
WINDSOR, CT (WFSB) - What was only described by state police as a “suspicious call” to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks led to the arrest of a man.
Martel Davis, 31, of Windsor, was charged with interfering with police, assault on a public safety officer, and failure to comply with fingerprinting.
State police said they were dispatched to an address on Pine Lane in Windsor on Monday to investigate the suspicious call that involved Bradley Airport.
Troopers said they were able to determine that Davis made the call, and that he had two active warrants for his arrest.
When they arrived at his address, they said he became combative. Troopers said they had to subdue him before he was taken into custody. They said some of them suffered minor injuries as a result.
Davis was held on a $150,000 cash/surety bond and brought to Hartford Correction Center, where he was held for his arraignment on Tuesday.
No other details were released.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) ("Barings BDC" or the "Company") today announced it has scheduled a conference call to discuss second quarter 2022 financial and operating results for Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET.
To listen to the call, please dial 877-407-8831 or 201-493-6736 approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A taped replay will be made available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call and will remain available until August 24, 2022. To access the replay, please dial 877-660-6853 or 201-612-7415 and enter conference ID 13731195.
Barings BDC's quarterly results conference call will also be available via a live webcast on the investor relations section of its website at https://ir.barings.com/ir-calendar. Access the website 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived webcast replay will be available on the Company's website until August 24, 2022.
About Barings BDC, Inc.
Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) is a publicly traded, externally managed investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Barings BDC seeks to invest primarily in senior secured loans in middle-market companies that operate across a wide range of industries. Barings BDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Barings LLC, a leading global asset manager based in Charlotte, NC with $371+ billion* of AUM firm-wide. For more information, visit www.baringsbdc.com.
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Barings is a $371+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment. Learn more at www.barings.com.
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Climate-change activists should take some lessons from the mismanagement and miscommunication surrounding the pandemic. In both cases, people across the political spectrum feel helpless in the face of the problem. In both cases, experts need to figure out how to get people to overcome these feelings and act.
True, they aren’t perfect parallels; climate-change action faces a hurdle that hasn’t come up in the pandemic: a powerful fossil fuel lobby that’s been clever and influential, seeding public doubts about the science behind climate change. Still, climate-change denial is becoming rarer all the time, according to a survey released in April. It shows more than half of Americans believe human activity is causing climate change, and 64% say they are worried about it.
That study comes from George Mason University and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, founded by Anthony Leiserowitz. He says both COVID and climate change suffer from what he calls a lack of efficacy. Leiserowitz has looked at how public perception of the climate problem has evolved over the years. To keep up motivation to pitch in, he said, people need a sense that they can do something that’s effective — something that makes a true difference.
With the pandemic, people are feeling “done with COVID” in part because they expended so much energy on things that, in retrospect, didn’t have much efficacy — from disinfecting mail to keeping kids out of playgrounds to attempting to jog in masks.
With climate change, the problem of emissions is so big people don’t know where to start. Everything we do and eat and buy leads to carbon emissions. “We have much more work to be done on that side,” Leiserowitz said. “Even the people most alarmed about climate change don’t know what they can do as individuals or collectively.”
Writing in The New Atlantis, social scientist Taylor Dotson uses the phrase “unsustainable alarmism” to describe the deflating bubbles of enthusiasm for COVID or climate mitigations. “(W)hile catastrophes often demand large personal sacrifices to overcome, the public’s capacity to sustain these sacrifices has hard limits, and we should not simply treat this as a moral failure,” he wrote.
Yet experts in both areas have been too condescending and too focused on how to manipulate people to behave, said Baruch Fischhoff, a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. “There’s very little emphasis in either domain on just getting the facts out or helping people,” he said. People need more steps they can take that have a positive impact and less guilt and blame for not being perfect.
For example, think about masks. Getting scientific information on the loose-fitting masks people find comfortable still isn’t easy; the limited studies on universal masking to protect society have shown small effects with lots of uncertainty. I tried recently to ask an expert about the efficacy of surgical masks — since that’s what most people are wearing — and all I got was a vague answer that high-quality masks work. But should surgical masks count as “high quality”?
Fischhoff said that to make matters worse, experts often harp on things people already know and forget what they don’t know. With climate change, he said, experts wrongly assumed people knew that excess carbon dioxide can persist in the atmosphere for centuries, when in reality people mostly thought it would dissipate quickly like many other forms of air pollution. They didn’t see it as cumulative. And with COVID, people are still unclear on which settings and activities pose the highest and lowest risks.
In both domains, experts have been slow to admit that all mitigation measures come with costs. Many people find it hard to communicate and be understood when masks are worn all day at work or school. Likewise, measures to reduce emissions will cause more pain for some than others.
Of course, poor communication is far from the only problem. Political polarization has made it next to impossible for Americans to work together on climate. Every Republican in Congress voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, which appropriates an unprecedented amount of money to developing cleaner energy. And it didn’t take long for political fault lines to open up about COVID, either. It doesn’t have to be this way. Americans weren’t always so polarized on climate change, said Leiserowitz, and there’s little polarization in Europe.
But COVID has reminded us how quickly the precious resources of public concern and goodwill can be squandered. Let’s not make the same mistake with climate change.
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MACOMB, Mich., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker Industries, a Lincoln Electric company (the "Company"), is excited to announce that it will be expanding its manufacturing versatility and capacity and offering new in-house capabilities with two new EMCO MECOF UMILL 1800 Universal Machining Centers with Heidenhain TNC 640 controls. The machines enable a new in-house offering, CNC turning services, and will support the growing demand for precision machining of high-performance superalloys and other specialty materials commonly used in aerospace, defense, energy, and shipbuilding applications.
The new machines boast impressive technical specifications, automatic tool changers, and diverse high-speed 5-axis machining capabilities, including milling, drilling, turning, and undercutting, with a large work envelope of 71 x 85 x 50 inches (X/Y/Z) and the ability to turn parts up to about 98 inches in diameter. These advanced features bolster the Company's vertical integration, providing customers with a single-source supplier for all of their high-precision and large-scale CNC machining needs.
"This investment expands upon our industry-leading platform and supports our customers' ever-changing needs as requirements evolve and become increasingly complex in long-term growth areas such as aerospace, commercial space, and renewable energy," said Brian Baker, general manager at Baker Industries.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who says he will not vote for the debt limit deal struck over the weekend by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is proposing that Congress instead increase the debt ceiling by only $500 billion and return to the negotiating table in a few months to work out additional spending reforms.
Paul’s proposal of a “conservative alternative” to the Biden-McCarthy deal comes amid a broader backlash against the agreement from conservatives in the Senate and House.
Paul’s alternative debt limit bill would replace caps on discretionary spending with caps on total spending — including mandatory spending programs such as Social Security and Medicare — that would cut 5 percent from the entire federal budget each year.
Under his plan, if government spending continues at its current rate, an automatic $302 billion cut would take effect in 2024 and another $241 billion cut would take effect in 2025 — amounting to a total of $545 billion in cuts over the next two years.
Paul says his proposal would balance the budget by fiscal 2028 if the government adhered to its caps.
It would also mandate that growth in federal outlays may at no point exceed the growth in revenue from the previous fiscal year.
“Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should only raise the nation’s debt ceiling if it cuts spending at the same time. I would guess the Americans answering that poll meant real cuts in spending, not an annual increase of one percent above already bloated levels of COVID-19 spending,” Paul said in a statement Tuesday.
“Bold actions must be taken to defeat our mounting national debt, and my conservative alternative to the Biden-McCarthy deal gives us a real opportunity to get our fiscal house in order,” he said.
The Kentucky senator told The Hill earlier this month that he would not support any legislation to raise the debt limit unless it included reforms to balance the federal budget within five years.
“I voted in 2011 for Cut, Cap and Balance and that would actually add a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. That was hardcore. That’s still what I’m for,” he said.
“I would vote to raise the debt ceiling for a balanced budget amendment that balances in five years. So that’s where I am,” he added.
Paul announced on Twitter over the weekend that he will vote against the debt limit bill Biden and McCarthy negotiated.
“Kevin McCarthy has endorsed a debt ceiling ‘deal’ that will ensure our country hits $35 trillion in debt in less than two years. Joe Biden and Democrats would now get a free pass on defending their reckless spending before the next election. This deal must be rejected,” Paul tweeted. | 2023-05-30T18:28:52+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/paul-proposes-conservative-alternative-to-biden-mccarthy-debt-deal/ |
The Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2023 list highlights the nation's top ambulatory surgery centers based on the quality of care, performance data, and peer recommendations.
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Surgery Center at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Brandon Healthplex at 10740 Palm River Road in Tampa and the TGH Surgery Center at Morsani at 13330 USF Laurel Drive have been named to Newsweek's list of Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers for 2023. This marks the third consecutive year that both centers are on the list (the Center at Morsani was included in 2021 under its former name, the USF Ambulatory Surgery Center).
The list highlights the nation's top ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) based on the quality of care, performance data and peer recommendations compared with other ambulatory surgery centers in the state.
The Surgery Center at TGH Brandon Healthplex opened in April 2017 as a multispecialty surgical center specializing in outpatient surgical procedures. The ASC offers:
- Six operating rooms
- Two procedural suites
- 24 pre-operative and post-procedure areas
- 13 beds in a post-anesthesia care unit
The TGH Surgery Center at Morsani was acquired in 2021 as a multispecialty ASC as well. The ASC offers:
- Four operating rooms
- Five procedural suites
- 33 beds for pre-operative and post-operative care
"We are pleased to be recognized by Newsweek again as one of the best Ambulatory Surgery Centers for 2023," said Adam Smith, executive vice president and chief ambulatory officer with Tampa General Hospital. "I am hopeful that we will continue to achieve our goals of providing world-class quality and outcomes, ensuring the safety of our patients and focusing on personalized care. We are proud to be recognized nationwide for serving our community and humbled to rank as the #1 Surgery Center in Tampa Bay on this prestigious list. I am grateful for our world-class team who made this possible."
Specialty surgeries offered at the Surgery Center at TGH Brandon Healthplex include, but are not limited to, urology, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, general surgery, ophthalmology, pain management, podiatry, plastic surgery and oncology. Specialty surgeries offered at the TGH Surgery Center at Morsani include, but are not limited to, colorectal surgery, ear/nose/throat, endoscopy, general surgery, gynecologic surgery, hernia procedures, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, podiatry and urology.
Both the Surgery Center at TGH Brandon Healthplex and the TGH Surgery Center at Morsani are fully accredited through the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc. (AAAHC) through August 2023 and June 2024, respectively. Only ASCs that have met nationally recognized standards for the provision of quality health care set by the AAAHC can achieve this status, and they are distinguished from other health care facilities through their adherence to rigorous standards of care and safety.
"Ambulatory surgical centers are facilities where patients can have common surgical procedures that don't require them to be hospitalized. Unlike patients who need more involved surgeries performed in hospitals, ambulatory surgical patients have the operation and then are usually back home the same day," said Newsweek Global Editor in Chief Nancy Cooper. "We hope carefully vetted rankings of America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers help our readers make knowledgeable choices for themselves or their loved ones," she added.
To compile the Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2023 list, Newsweek worked with data research firm Statista to analyze more than 5,000 ambulatory surgery centers in 25 states. The 510 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers were identified.
The ranking is based on the Overall Score of each facility, which is based on the Reputation Score, including three sub-scores for recommendations, quality and the handling of the situation regarding COVID-19 (as of September 2021). The ranking is also based on the KPI Data Score, which considers the following seven measures:
- Percentage of patients aged 50 to 75 receiving a screening colonoscopy without biopsy or polypectomy who had a recommended follow-up interval of at least 10 years for a repeat colonoscopy documented in their colonoscopy report.
- Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who had cataract surgery and had improvement in visual function achieved within 90 days following the cataract surgery, based on completing a pre-operative and post-operative visual function survey.
- The Facility 7-Day Risk-Standardized Hospital Visit Rate after Outpatient Colonoscopy Measure, hereafter referred to as the colonoscopy measure, estimates a facility-level rate of risk-standardized, all-cause, unplanned hospital visits within seven days of an outpatient colonoscopy among Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) patients aged 65 years and older.
- Normothermia Outcome: This measure is used to assess the percentage of patients having surgical procedures under general or neuraxial anesthesia of 60 minutes or more in duration who are normothermic within 15 minutes of arrival in PACU.
- Unplanned Anterior Vitrectomy: This measure is used to assess the percentage of cataract surgery patients who have an unplanned anterior vitrectomy.
- Hospital Visits after Orthopedic ASC Procedures: This measure is used to assess hospital visits within seven days of the orthopaedic procedure.
- Hospital Visits after Urology ASC Procedures: This measure is used to assess hospital visits within seven days of the urology procedure.
Additionally, experts from all over the U.S. were able to participate in the survey of the Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers in the U.S. on Newsweek.com. All data was collected by Newsweek and Statista during the survey period from July to September 2021. Self-recommendation was not possible (e.g., a recommendation of the ambulatory surgery centers someone worked for was not counted in the evaluation).
Participants were asked to recommend up to 10 notable ambulatory surgery centers in their respective states. Additionally, participants were asked to rank quality, differentiating among these variables:
- Management in times of the COVID-19 crisis (e.g., safety of residents, hygiene measures)
- Management of waiting time (e.g., appointments)
- Quality of surgical care (e.g., procedures)
- Quality of follow-up care (e.g., physical therapies)
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,040-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 Best Hospitals, and is tied as the third highest-ranked hospital in Florida, with seven specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – first nationally in the 2022 America's Best Employers for Women and sixth out of 100 Florida companies in the 2022 America's Best Employers by State. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit worth more than $224.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging powered by Tower outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
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After academy review, Riseborough will keep Oscar nomination
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — After a review of the awards campaign for the indie drama “To Leslie,” the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that Andrea Riseborough will not be stripped of her Oscar nomination for best actress.
The star-studded grassroots campaign for Riseborough had prompted skepticism from some academy voters and caused a stir in Hollywood. On Friday, the academy announced that it would examine whether any rules were broken. Shortly ahead of nominations, Riseborough was propelled into the race after a host of celebrities hosted screenings of “To Leslie” and numerous A-listers promoted her on social media.
After appeals from “To Leslie” director Michael Morris and his wife, actor Mary McCormack, Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Adams and Courteney Cox all hosted screenings of the film. Riseborough, a well-regarded British actor, was unexpectedly catapulted into the best-actress race despite the very small audience for “To Leslie” (about $27,000 in box office).
“The Academy has determined the activity in question does not rise to the level that the film’s nomination should be rescinded,” Bill Kramer, academy chief executive, said in a statement. “However, we did discover social media and outreach campaigning tactics that caused concern. These tactics are being addressed with the responsible parties directly.”
The academy has rescinded nominations for campaigning that broke regulations before. Celebrity-hosted screenings are a regular feature of Oscar season, but how voters are contacted during the Oscar voting period is regulated. On Tuesday, the academy suggested Riseborough’s unorthodox campaign may necessitate tweaks to the bylaws.
“Given this review, it is apparent that components of the regulations must be clarified to help create a better framework for respectful, inclusive, and unbiased campaigning,” said Kramer. “These changes will be made after this awards cycle and will be shared with our membership. The academy strives to create an environment where votes are based solely on the artistic and technical merits of the eligible films and achievements.”
Critics of Riseborough’s campaign said it showed how a deep Rolodex could give a potential nominee a leg up. Notably left out of best actress contention were Viola Davis (“Woman King”) and Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”).
Along with Riseborough, the nominees are: Cate Blachett (“Tár”), Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). | 2023-02-01T01:53:54+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/01/31/after-academy-review-riseborough-will-keep-oscar-nomination/ |
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Four layers of clothes, beanies and hand warmers were everywhere on the eve of the PGA Championship, a reminder how this major will be different from the previous six at Oak Hill.
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The temperature was 37 degrees — it felt colder with a morning breeze — and it made the 7,394 yards on the scorecard of a par 70 feel even longer.
“I still can’t believe it’s nearly middle of May and that we’re still going through 40-, 50-degree weather,” Jason Day said. “But that’s this part of the country at this time of the year.”
Ockie Strydom of South Africa was on the 10th tee, taking practice swings and waiting for the clock to hit 7 a.m. for the course to officially open.
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“Have you no friends?" someone called out to him.
Strydom laughed and replied, “You'd have to be crazy to play in this.”
Such was the risk of the PGA Championship moving from August to May. The good news for Day, world No. 1 Jon Rahm, defending champion Justin Thomas and the rest of the 156-man field was Wednesday was a blip on an otherwise pleasant forecast.
As for the difficulty, that's not likely to change. Oak Hill, restored to the intent of famed architect Donald Ross, is likely to test everything.
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Jordan Spieth was asked to describe the rough and he took it a step further.
“It's about as nasty ... there's nothing that separates this from a U.S. Open,” Spieth said. “This is a U.S. Open. The fairways are firm and narrow, and the rough is thick. As far as difficulty, it feels like a U.S. Open course. Par is a nice score.”
Jason Dufner is the only player to reach double digits under par (10-under 270) in the six majors at Oak Hill — three U.S. Opens, three PGAs. That was 10 years ago in August, when rain soaked the course and left the greens soft and vulnerable.
This effectively is a new course — it certainly looks that way. The bunkers are deeper, with steep, nearly vertical lips. Some greens have deep rough on one side and closely mown areas on the other that send balls rolling some 20 yards away.
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Thomas went long of the 230-yard third green. He tried a flop shot back up the slope the putting surface and it kept rolling until it was back in the fairway.
There is trouble everywhere, capable of punishing mistakes.
“You miss greens out here, you’re going to make a lot of bogeys,” two-time PGA champion Brooks Koepka said. “You miss fairways, you’re going to be making quite a few bogeys if you’re out of position.”
Koepka is coming off a runner-up finish at the Masters, where he had the 54-hole lead until Rahm tracked him down on the final day. He arrived at Augusta National having won a LIV Golf event in Florida.
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He is healthy again, and Koepka seemed to take his game up a notch for the majors because of the discipline it requires. That's the word Rory McIlroy used to describe what it takes at Oak Hill, and Koepka concurred.
“It's a grind,” Koepka said. “A major week is always tough. It’s always going to be a tough golf course. You’ve got to plot your way around, understand where to miss it, where not to miss it. It just comes down to discipline. I feel like every time I’ve won, I’ve been super disciplined. ... I think that's a massive thing to win a major.”
Dustin Johnson won on the Saudi-funded series last week in Oklahoma, delivering clutch birdies on the 18th in regulation and in a three-man playoff.
He appears to be back in form, and to Johnson, it didn't matter where he was playing or how many guys he had to beat in the 48-man fields.
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“Still playing against unbelievably good golfers,” Johnson said. "To be honest, the scores the last few tournaments we played were a lot lower than I thought they would be. You’ve got to play well every single day if you want a chance to win. The game last week, a lot of really good things. I'm driving it well, controlling the distance with the irons, starting to wedge it a lot better, and then rolled in a few putts.
“It's nice coming off a win, coming into this championship, and especially this golf course.”
It all gets started Thursday, with temperatures again expected to be bone-chilling in the morning before yielding to warmer weather — certainly not August weather — later in the day and through the rest of the week.
The PGA Championship again features the strongest field of the majors, with only the injured Will Zalatoris missing from the top 100 players in the world.
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A strong field, a strong course.
“This is going to be a big golf course to handle,” Tony Finau said. “None of the holes I played I looked at and said, ‘I’m going to birdie this hole this week for sure.' It's going to be that type of test. The guys that can mentally overcome the hurdle of just trying to stay patient ... you just have to play well for all four days if you’re going to win this week.”
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ARLINGTON, Ga. (AP) — Nine years after the hospital closed in the southwest Georgia town of Arlington, the worry about health care lurks. Health insurance premiums are high, many residents report poor health and there’s no guarantee Calhoun County’s sole ambulance will arrive promptly if it’s taking a patient to a distant hospital.
“If it’s out on a call, you might as well throw them in the truck then and try to get somewhere,” said resident Sam Robinson.
Arlington, population 1,209, reflects the health care struggles of rural Georgia.
Democrats, including their nominee for governor, Stacey Abrams, are showcasing those problems as they run for office this year, pushing for Georgia to join 38 other states in expanding the Medicaid health insurance program to cover all able-bodied adults.
Abrams opened her campaign to unseat Republican Brian Kemp at a hospital that closed in nearby Cuthbert, underlining an issue that was a centerpiece of her narrow loss to Kemp in 2018.
“We’re talking about someone who goes in for a checkup and is told that they have stage one pancreatic cancer,” Abrams told reporters in a video news conference this month. “In Georgia, they are not entitled to a follow-up visit unless they can pay out of pocket.”
Experts project more than 450,000 uninsured Georgians would gain coverage if Medicaid were broadened. Many do not usually qualify for subsidies to buy individual policies, leaving them in what experts call the “coverage gap.”
Medicaid expansion is also an issue elsewhere this year.
In South Dakota, voters will decide a referendum on expansion that is opposed by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem. In Kansas and Wisconsin, Democratic governors are seeking reelection after failing to persuade Republican legislatures to broaden coverage.
In Georgia, Kemp has refused calls for expansion, instead proposing coverage for a smaller group of people who meet work, education or volunteering requirements. In an Oct. 11 letter to Georgia’s Democratic members of Congress, Kemp called full Medicaid expansion as “failed one-size-fit-none” policy.
But that refusal stings in Arlington, once home to the 25-bed Calhoun Memorial Hospital. It had been decades since babies were delivered at Calhoun Memorial and the facility struggled to afford the newest technologies. Although services were limited, local residents relied on it for emergencies.
“I used the emergency room with my son,” said Pam Conner. “He was like 4 years old when he got his first very first wasp sting. It put him into anaphylaxis. I don’t know what we would have done without a hospital.”
Conner chairs the county hospital board, nine years after the facility closed and laid off 99 employees. With many uninsured patients, Conner said the hospital was providing more than $2 million yearly in uncompensated care when it shut down.
The county government borrowed for a new roof in 2008, and it’s a sore point locally that taxpayers still owe nearly $500,000 on the building, now leased to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility. Local officials declined to raise property taxes to cover hospital deficits, unlike some Georgia counties. The hospital sold its nursing home, raising money but darkening long-term financial prospects. Finally, officials decided to close, joining eight other rural hospitals in Georgia since 2008.
Now, Arlington residents rely on the county’s one ambulance, based 12 miles away in Morgan. Calhoun County projects it will spend $537,000 to provide emergency medical services this year, more than one-eighth of its $4.2 million budget.
Health care problems run deeper in southwest Georgia, though. Private health insurance is so expensive that Conner, whose family owns an insurance agency, instead buys coverage through the federal health insurance marketplace. Robinson said he and his wife once paid a combined $1,000 a month for insurance.
Kemp has succeeded in reducing insurance rates and encouraging more insurers to offer coverage outside metro Atlanta with subsidies. But premiums remain high in southwest Georgia, with one large hospital in Albany dominating the market and residents often in poor health. Calhoun County has high rates of diabetes, obesity and births by teenagers, according to data from County Health Rankings. Black residents are much more likely to have preventable hospitals stays.
Sherrell Byrd of SOWEGA Rising, which tries to improve well-being in southwest Georgia, said COVID-19 highlighted the region’s poor health and rickety health care system. In early 2020, southwest Georgia drew national attention with one of the highest death rates from the respiratory virus.
“It really exposed how bad our health is,” Byrd said. “We had so many comorbidities here.”
Medicaid has also flared as an issue in Atlanta, where the WellStar system closed a hospital in suburban East Point and will by Nov. 1 close the 532-bed Atlanta Medical Center. That’s one of only five top-level trauma centers in Georgia. WellStar says Atlanta Medical Center was losing so much money that Medicaid expansion wouldn’t have helped, but Democrats persist in saying it could have made a difference over the long term.
Having states provide Medicaid coverage to residents with incomes of up to 138% of the federal poverty line was envisioned in President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care overhaul. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the federal government could not force states to act, and many Republican-led states balked.
President Joe Biden’s administration has been trying to block Kemp’s plan for a partial Medicaid expansion, but a judge in August ruled Georgia could proceed with the work requirement. Kemp calls his approach a “far better approach to increasing health care coverage than ‘full’ Medicaid expansion.”
Kemp notes Medicaid expansion would force some people now eligible for private health insurance subsidies onto Medicaid. Because Georgia has set low Medicaid payments and some doctors don’t take Medicaid, Kemp argues that would leave those people worse off while increasing competition for current Medicaid patients to find a doctor.
The governor also notes 600,000 more Georgians are on Medicaid now than when he took office, basically arguing Medicaid expansion has already happened. Many people, however, are covered because the federal government has blocked states from dropping people from Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic. They could be removed once the federal public health emergency ends.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has tried to sweeten the deal, enticing lawmakers last year to boost the federal share of funding from 90% to 95% for the first two years of any new state Medicaid expansion. Warnock, seeking reelection on Nov. 8, has long called for broader coverage. He was arrested during protests over the issue at the Georgia Capitol in 2014 and the U.S. Capitol in 2017 before becoming a senator.
“Unfortunately, the state left that money on the table and left hundreds of thousands of working Georgians in the coverage gap,” Warnock said Oct. 12 in Atlanta. “And I intend to keep fighting for them.”
Warnock’s opponent, Republican Herschel Walker, said last month that he opposes expansion.
“Right now, Medicaid has not been good,” he told reporters. “Right now, the expansion is going to continue to bankrupt us. Everyone knows that.”
A key question underlying the debate is to what degree the government is obligated to provide health care and seek improved health outcomes. Democrats now largely believe health care is a human right and collective responsibility. Many Republicans still believe it’s an individual responsibility.
In Arlington, Conner says what actually existed was a mismatch — with hospitals legally required to provide emergency care, but not guaranteed payment.
“It makes me say that universal health care might actually be a right of our citizens,” Conner. “It’s a right for them to go to the emergency room whether they can pay for it or not. But it’s not a right for the hospital to get the money to pay for it.”
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The team that posted the best regular-season record in NHL history, facing a team that needed to fight and claw all the way to the end just to get into the playoffs.
On paper, it was a mismatch.
On the ice, it’s going to Game 7.
The wild-card Florida Panthers — by prevailing in an absolutely bonkers third period — fended off elimination for the second time and sent the mighty Boston Bruins into a winner-take-all game. Matthew Tkachuk scored twice, Eetu Luostarinen put Florida ahead to stay with 5:38 left and the Panthers won 7-5 on Friday night.
“Everyone’s rolling. Everyone’s playing. Everyone’s doing the right things,” Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov said. “It’s fun to be a part of this, for sure.”
The real fun comes Sunday: Game 7 in Boston.
“I’m going to enjoy the hell out of it,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said.
Barkov, Brandon Montour, Zac Dalpe and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Panthers, who got 30 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Reinhart closed it out with an empty-netter with 28 seconds left — the seventh and final goal of the third period, four of those scores by Florida.
Tyler Bertuzzi and David Pastrnak each scored twice for Boston, which got four assists from Brad Marchand and 26 saves from Linus Ullmark. Jake DeBrusk also scored for the Bruins.
Boston finished 42 points ahead of Florida in the standings this season, the biggest gap between playoff opponents in nearly 30 years. The Bruins had the best regular-season record in NHL history, and they had one-goal leads on two separate occasions in the third period — and couldn’t hold either one of them.
Not even three power-play goals and one short-handed tally was enough to give Boston a win, either.
“We worked all year to get home-ice advantage,” DeBrusk said. “And it comes down to a Game 7 where we’re up for elimination now.”
The game started along the exact sequence that Game 5 in Boston did on Wednesday night: Florida took a 1-0 lead, Boston tied it, Florida took a 2-1 lead, Boston tied it, Florida took a 3-2 lead, Boston tied it.
Evidently, that’s when the teams decided a repeat performance was boring.
They combined for four goals in a span of 6:56 — this time, with the Panthers answering the Bruins.
“They’re a determined group,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said of Florida.
Boston went up 4-3 on a power-play score from Pastrnak, Dalpe tied it for Florida, DeBrusk scored short-handed for a 5-4 lead, and Tkachuk got his second of the night 27 seconds later to tie it again.
And less than 4 minutes later, Luostarinen made it 6-5 — the Panthers back on top with 5:38 left, a sellout crowd in Sunrise waiving white towels in unison. Boston pulled Ullmark twice with hopes of netting the equalizer, getting good looks at it in the final minute.
But Bobrovsky and Florida’s defense held firm, and Reinhart finished it off. To Sunday they go, Florida on the brink of a surprise and Boston trying to avoid a collapse.
“We know that there’s going to be a war out there,” Ullmark said. “That’s how it is in the first round. It’s the toughest one to get by.”
AROUND THE RINK
It was captain Patrice Bergeron’s 1,463rd game with the Bruins, including the playoffs. That’s one behind New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur for 13th-most with one franchise. … Florida forward Ryan Lomberg (upper body) missed his second consecutive game. … Bruins C David Krejci (37) and D Connor Clifton (28) had birthdays on Friday. Boston was 1-1 in Krejci’s previous birthday games, beating Tampa Bay in 2018 and losing to Ottawa in 2013. The Bruins shut out Buffalo on Clifton’s birthday last year.
BIG CALL
The biggest play of the night might have been made by someone on the Panthers’ staff armed with an iPad.
The Bruins appeared to take a 3-2 lead with 11:32 left in the second period on a goal by Brandon Carlo — except the play should have been whistled dead 10 seconds earlier. But Florida took a quick look and challenged the goal by claiming DeBrusk had been guilty of a hand pass to Bergeron in the corner to Bobrovsky’s left earlier in the play.
Officials eventually agreed, taking the goal off the board. Barkov scored for a 3-2 Florida lead about two minutes later. Maurice said John Congemi — one of the team’s video coaches — was the one that noticed the infraction in time.
RARE NUMBERS
It was the fifth time in Bruins’ history that they had at least three power-play goals and one short-handed score in a playoff game. Of the earlier four, two came in 1976, one in 1970 and the other in 1958.
UP NEXT
Game 7 is Sunday in Boston.
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AP NHL Playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-29T22:54:11+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/panthers-score-7-force-a-game-7-against-the-bruins/ |
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — Standing on the deck of an American destroyer at a naval base here on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris directly challenged China by accusing it of “disturbing behavior” and “provocations” around Taiwan.
Harris said the United States would in response “deepen our unofficial ties” to the disputed island that China views as part of its territory.
The escalating tensions over Taiwan have raised the potential for conflict in an already volatile corner of the globe. But the core of U.S. plans for deterring — or, if necessary, confronting — China depends on alliances that are under strain. South Korea and Japan, which Harris described as the “linchpin” and “cornerstone” of American strategy in Asia, remain at odds with each other, divided by the legacy of World War II despite renewed efforts at reconciliation.
Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula years before the conflict began, sending many people into forced labor and women into sexual slavery. Decades later, tensions continue to spill out of the history books and into debates over trade, technology and intelligence sharing.
Although Japan and South Korea are taking steps to repair their relationship, progress remains uncertain. Leaders in both countries face political challenges at home that could make it harder for them to reach compromises abroad, and the disputes are deeply rooted in questions about national honor and responsibility for some of Asia’s worst atrocities.
South Korea believes it is entitled to additional compensation from Japan and a more fulsome acceptance of guilt. Japanese leaders have resisted, saying such issues have already been settled.
The United States is prodding both sides to compromise as it tries to refocus its alliances to counter China’s growing strength.
Harris, whose four-day trip to the region was anchored by the state funeral for former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, told reporters she views American foreign policy in the region “in the context of a trilateral relationship,” with the U.S., Japan and South Korea all working together.
A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, said Harris encouraged the South Korean and Japanese leaders to advance their negotiations during her meetings with them.
The U.S. wants “to see two of our closest allies in the world working even better with each other,” and “we’re gratified to see that both countries seem determined to address those issues with a real vigor,” the official said.
However, the official said the U.S. had a limited role to play.
“It’s not for us to mediate or negotiate or broker what that relationship should look like,” the official said.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sat down with each other last week at the United Nations, the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in three years.
Then on Wednesday, South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo met with Kishida after Abe’s funeral and described their countries as “close neighbors and cooperative partners who share the values of democracy and the principles of the market economy.”
Kristi Govella, deputy director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said the U.S. will struggle to achieve its goals if South Korea and Japan don’t work together.
“Broadly, the three countries share the same concerns, but the willingness and capacity to act aren’t always aligned between the three,” she said.
There’s an increasing focus on the tensions because of concerns about Taiwan, where Chinese and American saber rattling has raised fears of conflict. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit in August outraged Beijing, which responded with military exercises.
President Joe Biden recently said the U.S. would send troops if China attacked. Although Taiwan is a self-governing democracy, Beijing views the island as part of its territory and has vowed to unite it with the mainland.
Harris accused China of “a pressure campaign against Taiwan” with “a series of destabilizing actions.”
“We anticipate continued aggressive behavior from Beijing as it attempts to unilaterally undermine the status quo,” she said Wednesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded to Harris by saying the U.S. had violated its pledge to respect China’s territorial integrity.
“When the U.S. cannot honor its own commitment, in what position can it talk about rules and order? It will only become a saboteur of international rules,” Wang said in a daily briefing.
Zack Cooper, a senior fellow focused on Asian defense strategy at the American Enterprise Institute, said “there’s a feeling that the likelihood of a serious crisis over Taiwan is growing pretty rapidly.”
Fractures among American allies could undermine any response to an invasion, said Fang-Yu Chen, a political science professor at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan.
“If they don’t have good relationships with each other, then there will be trouble,” he said.
Ties between South Korea and Japan worsened during the leadership of Abe and former South Korean Prime Minister Moon Jae-in.
Abe’s government reacted furiously after South Korea’s Supreme Court in 2018 upheld lower court verdicts and ordered Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate Korean forced laborers.
Those rulings led to further tensions in 2019 when Japan placed export controls on chemicals vital to South Korea’s semiconductor industry. Citing the deterioration of trust, Japan also removed South Korea from a list of countries with preferential trade status.
Moon’s government accused Abe of weaponizing trade and downgraded Japan’s trade status in a tit-for-tat move. Seoul even threatened to terminate a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Tokyo that was a major symbol of their three-way security cooperation with Washington.
South Korea eventually backed off and continued the deal under pressure from former President Donald Trump’s administration, which until then had seemed content to let the U.S. allies escalate their feud.
Experts say the Japanese export controls had limited impact on South Korea’s semiconductor industry, partially because of successful South Korean efforts to diversify their sources of chemicals and materials.
But there are concerns that Japan could respond with further economic retaliation if South Korean courts approve a process to liquidate local assets of Japanese companies that have been refusing court orders to offer reparations to South Korean forced labor victims.
That would undermine U.S. hopes for expanding computer chip manufacturing in allied countries, strengthening delicate supply chains and countering China’s own technology investments. Harris met with Japanese business executives on Wednesday and said “no one country can satisfy the globe’s demand” and “it is important that we and our allies partner and coordinate.”
Japan insists all wartime compensation issues were settled under a 1965 treaty normalizing relations between the two nations that included hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid and loans from Tokyo to Seoul.
Yoon, the South Korean president who took office in May, has expressed hope for finding a way to resolve the compensation issue without “causing a clash between the sovereignties.”
But it’s unclear what kind of compromise the countries could reach as South Korean plaintiffs have been rejecting the idea of receiving compensation from the South Korean government instead of Japanese companies.
Kishida also says both countries need to improve ties because of the worsening security environment in the region, although Japanese officials insist that Seoul should be the one to make the first step and propose plans acceptable to Japan.
Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in East Asian Studies at Stanford University, wrote recently that Japan and South Korea are being nudged closer together by threats including North Korea.
However, he said both countries will need to make compromises for their cooperation — and their alliances with the U.S. — to reach their full potential.
“True trilateral cooperation, even with the strategic imperatives, depends on resolving the profound disputes over wartime history and justice,” he wrote.
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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo and Kim reported from Seoul. | 2022-09-28T14:32:50+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/ap-us-seeks-united-front-in-asia-despite-korea-japan-tensions/ |
Alibaba.com's Manifest Grants Program to commit a total of US $750,000 to support American small and medium-sized businesses; additional partners include Hello Alice and AMZScout
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alibaba.com, one of the world's largest B2B e-commerce marketplaces and a business unit of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), announced today an additional four program partners to its Manifest Grants Program designed to support U.S.-based small and mid-sized businesses. This news comes on the heels of its launch of the Manifest Grants Program, a commitment of US $750,000 that helps new entrepreneurs succeed in today's digital age through ecommerce channels, established in cooperation with Hello Alice.
Hand-selected partners engaged with the Manifest Grants Program include: Black Entrepreneurs Day, Indiegogo, Payoneer (NASDAQ:PAYO), and AMZScout. Together, these organizations will offer Alibaba.com Manifest Grants Program applicants and 50 grant recipients a wide range of resources, educational opportunities, and marketing tools to support the growth of their businesses.
"The addition of these highly respected organizations to our Manifest Grants Program will allow participants a vast array of supportive resources and networks to build their small businesses in this challenging market environment," said Stephen Kuo, President of Alibaba.com North America. "The goal of the program is to help small and medium-sized businesses boost their competitive edge, and that's exactly why we chose to work with this group of incredible partners. We're excited to find ways to expand our program with some of the world's best known small business resources and offer a robust support system to motivated entrepreneurs."
The Alibaba.com Manifest Grants Program reinforces the company's commitment to supporting American SMBs as they continue to face increased challenges in an uncertain economic environment. Last year, Alibaba.com selected 50 small businesses from a pool of more than 12,000 applicants to receive grants enabling them to succeed in today's digital age through e-commerce channels. Almost 80% of these recipients were persons of color, and 78% of the winning businesses were founded by women, underscoring the importance of increasing representation and access to entrepreneurial resources within the SMB community.
Alibaba.com will sponsor and participate in Black Entrepreneurs Day, created by FUBU Founder Daymond John, which will be streamed online from the world-famous Apollo Theater in Harlem on October 27th. At Black Entrepreneurs Day, Alibaba.com will lead a conversation on innovations and initiatives that can support small businesses and entrepreneurs through technology, grants, and education. Additionally, one top Manifest grant recipient will receive a one-on-one mentorship session with Daymond John.
"We are excited to have Alibaba.com on board as a partner for Black Entrepreneurs Day 2022," says John." The show will air live from Harlem's world-famous Apollo Theater, and together, we will work to empower and educate even more founders from underrepresented groups."
All applicants for the 2022 Alibaba.com Manifest Grants Program will be eligible for free access to the Indiegogo Education Center Plus for one month, and a free seven-day trial of AMZScout's products and services. The 50 grant recipients will be eligible to be featured as part of the Indiegogo Alibaba.com grant recipient collection, and Indiegogo will offer each of them a complimentary crowdfunding campaign consultation. They will also receive 10 free product ideas and analysis with the purchase of the annual bundle from AMZScout, and grant recipients that sign up and receive a Payoneer account have the opportunity to collect an award of as much as $5,000 into their Payoneer accounts.
"The Manifest Grants Program serves as an avenue to support innovative small businesses in crucial phases of their development," said Becky Center, CEO of Indiegogo. "Our goal is to both open doors to new funding sources and offer entrepreneurs a platform where they launch new and groundbreaking ideas."
"Finding inspiration, innovating and iterating on product lines helps small businesses stand out in today's crowded market," said Paul Ryskov, CEO of AMZScout. "As part of Alibaba's Manifest Grants Program, we're excited to help inspire business owners bringing new products to the table and cultivate successful ventures for years to come."
"We are excited to partner with Alibaba.com and offer the diverse pool of Manifest Grants Program participants not just prize money, but also the opportunity to join the global Payoneer ecosystem so they can grow their businesses across borders," said Ya Wen, SVP Americas, Payoneer. "Whether making international payments, receiving funds, paying taxes or accessing capital, Payoneer opens SMBs up to economic opportunity on a global scale, and we look forward to working with the US winners to achieve this."
For the 2022 Manifest Grants Program, Alibaba.com and its partners have committed to distribute a total of $750,000 to fifty American small businesses, each of which will receive US $10,000 in cash and US $5,000 towards logistics support when sourcing on Alibaba.com. Program partners provide guidance for all aspects of the business, from innovation, product development and financial assistance.
Applications for the 2022 Manifest Grants Program are now open; if you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please visit https://helloalice.com/grants/alibaba/. To set up a press interview, please contact alibaba@finnpartners.com.
About Alibaba.com
The first business unit of Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com is the leading platform for global B2B ecommerce that makes it easy to do business anywhere. Launched in 1999, Alibaba.com provides services which cover all aspects of commerce, serving millions of small-and-medium-sized businesses from over 200 countries and regions around the world.
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Thai suspect in Michigan hit-and-run agrees to return to US
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai-American woman living in Michigan who fled to Thailand after allegedly being involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a college student has agreed to return to the United States to face charges, police said Wednesday.
Tubtim “Sue” Howson, 57, allegedly struck Michigan State University student Benjamin Kable, 22, shortly before dawn on Jan. 1, and according to U.S. authorities, flew to Thailand on a one-way ticket on Jan. 3. The accident took place in Oakland County, Michigan.
A state charge of failing to stop at a serious accident was filed on Feb. 2. and a federal charge related to her flying out of the country was filed on Feb. 6.
Thai deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn, speaking at a news conference also attended by Howson, announced she intends to return to the United States to face charges, and preparations were being made for her to fly back before Sunday.
“I left home for work around 5.30 a.m. to 6 a.m. It is the wintertime and it was very dark. There was usually nobody walking on the road there, except deer,” Howson said, recounting the accident. She said she initially thought she had hit a deer, but when asked later why she fled to Thailand, responded that when she saw Kable’s body, she thought he must be dead.
“I did not think I would run away, but I was very shocked. I tried to call the police but my hands were shaking. I could not do anything,” she said.
The FBI, when it filed a federal charge against her, noted in a court filing that she was originally from Thailand and allegedly told a close associate after the crash that she thought she killed somebody and she was going back to Thailand.
“When encouraged to turn herself in to police, Howson allegedly stated, ‘no cops, no cops,’” FBI agent Matthew Schuff said in the filing.
Howson arrived in Thailand on Jan. 5, and police said they started to trace her on Jan. 12 at the FBI’s request, finding her on Jan. 14 in the western province of Ratchaburi, where they suggested she turn herself in.
Thailand and the U.S. have an extradition treaty, and if a suspect challenges an extradition order, it must go through a Thai court, which can be a lengthy process.
Surachate said Howson has been working and living in Michigan with her family and two children for more than 20 years.
“We did not arrest her. After she knew the facts, she showed the intention to accept the punishment in the U.S.,” he said. “This will be a good example for Thai society.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-15T18:43:08+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/02/15/thai-suspect-michigan-hit-and-run-agrees-return-us/ |
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