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Biden said to pick Air Force general as Joint Chiefs chair
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to nominate a history-making Air Force fighter pilot with years of experience in shaping U.S. defenses to meet China’s rise to serve as the nation’s next top military officer, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the decision.
If confirmed by the Senate, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. would replace the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, whose term ends in October.
Brown has long been considered a front-runner for the position and Biden is likely to announce his nomination shortly, according to the officials, who spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters.
While Brown would not be the first Black chairman — the late Army. Gen. Colin Powell was the first — it would be the first time that both the Pentagon’s top military and civilian positions were held by African Americans. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black Pentagon chief, has been in the job since the beginning of the administration.
Brown, 61, is a career F-16 fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours and command experience at all levels. For the last year he’s been widely viewed as the front-runner to replace Milley, as the Pentagon shifts from preparing for the major land wars of the past to deterring a potential future conflict with Beijing.
That effort could depend heavily upon the military’s ability to rapidly meet China’s rise in cyberwar, space, nuclear weapons and hypersonics, all areas Brown has sharply focused on for the last several years as the Air Force’s top military leader, in order to modernize U.S. airpower for a 21st century fight.
Brown has broken barriers throughout his career. He served as the military’s first Black Pacific Air Forces commander, where he led the nation’s air strategy to counter China in the Indo-Pacific as Beijing rapidly militarized islands in the South China Sea and tested its bomber reach with flights near Guam.
Three years ago he became the first Black Air Force chief of staff, the service’s top military officer, which also made him the first African American to lead any of the military branches.
The Joint Chiefs chairman is the highest-ranking officer in the country and serves as the senior military adviser to the president, the defense secretary and the National Security Council. The chairman commands no troops and is not formally in the chain of command. But the chairman plays a critical role in all major military issues, from policy decisions to advice on major combat operations, and leads meetings with all the joints chiefs who head the various armed services.
Arnold Punaro, a retired major general and former staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee who has worked with many nominees through the confirmation process, said Brown has the credibility and experience to push the services onto a modern warfare footing.
“We have not yet made the needed adjustments to deal with the threat posed by China,” Punaro said in a statement, calling Brown the “perfect nominee” for this point in history.
As Air Force chief, Brown has pushed to modernize U.S. nuclear capabilities, including the soon-to-fly next-generation stealth bomber, and led the effort to shed aging warplanes so there’s funding to move forward with a new fleet of unmanned systems. He’s also supported the development of the U.S. Space Force, which received many of its first Guardians and capabilities from the Air Force.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., said she hasn’t been formally told of the announcement, but said Brown is a good choice.
“I do think it’s really important that the next person in charge have that (Indo-Pacific) experience,” Sherrill said. “I just think that’s so critical.”
Brown is private and deliberate and seen as a polar opposite to Milley, whose four-year tour has been tumultuous at times. Milley’s big personality and blunt talk may have helped propel him to the top job under former President Donald Trump, but that same outspokenness eventually infuriated Trump.
Milley’s past two years under Biden have been much calmer, and he has assumed a lower profile as well as he has been consumed with U.S. efforts to provide military aid to Ukraine.
Brown is expected to maintain that lower profile.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The confidence of American consumers rebounded this month to end the year on a high note despite high inflation, rising interest rates that have made credit cards and mortgages more expensive, and growing anxiety about a possible recession.
The Conference Board reported Wednesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 108.3 in December, up from 101.4 in November. It’s a sharp rebound, pushing the index to its highest level since April. Last month’s figure was the lowest since July.
The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — also rose, to 147.2 this month from 138.3 in November.
The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions — rose to 82.4 from 76.7. Readings near or below 80 are associated with recession.
Lynn Franco, senior director of economic indicators at the Conference Board, noted that inflation expectations retreated in December to their lowest level since September of last year, mostly due to recent declines in gas prices. The number of people saying they planned to go on vacations rose, but the number of those intending to purchase homes and big-ticket appliances declined.
“This shift in consumers’ preference from big-ticket items to services will continue in 2023, as will headwinds from inflation and interest rate hikes,” Franco said.
Getting a clear read on recent consumer behavior has been tricky.
The government reported last week that Americans cut back sharply on retail spending in November as the holiday shopping season began. High prices and rising interest rates are forcing families, particularly lower income households, to make harder decisions about what they buy.
Retail sales fell 0.6% from October to November after a sharp 1.3% rise the previous month. However, Americans opened their wallets on Black Friday and over the post-Thanksgiving weekend. Spending on Black Friday jumped 12% compared with a year ago, according to MasterCard Spending Pulse, though that figure is not adjusted for inflation.
And on so-called “Cyber Monday” earlier this week Americans boosted their online spending by 5.8% from a year earlier, Adobe Analytics said.
Americans have been resilient in their spending since inflation first began to spike almost 18 months ago, but the capacity to maintain that pace during a period of high inflation may have begun to ebb. Inflation has retreated from the four-decade high it reached this summer but remains elevated, enough to erode the spending power of Americans. Prices were 7.1% higher in November than they were a year ago.
A rising number of households are stepping up their use of credit cards — or “buy now, pay later” plans as prices rise, and that can’t continue indefinitely.
Americans are also dipping into savings, which rose sharply during the pandemic as government stimulus checks and the postponement of spending on travel and entertainment fattened bank accounts.
The savings rate in October slid to 2.3%, the lowest level since 2005.
The willingness to buy a home has faded with mortgage rates that have doubled in the past year. The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the tenth consecutive month in November. Sales plunged 35.4% from November last year. | 2022-12-21T18:23:29+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-rebounds-in-december/ |
Featuring Automated In-Vivo QA, SRS-Class Dosimetry, Motion QA, and More
MELBOURNE, Fla., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Nuclear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mirion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: MIR) ("Mirion"), will present its comprehensive Quality Management portfolio, with expanded offerings from CIRS, now part of Sun Nuclear, at the ASTRO Annual Meeting, October 23-25, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. Highlights in the Sun Nuclear booth (980) include the SunCHECK® Platform, new SunSCAN™ 3D System, and the first joint QA solution from Sun Nuclear and CIRS.
Sun Nuclear and CIRS are now one, as part of the Mirion Medical brand. From practical resources for motion and MRgRT QA to advanced tissue simulation capabilities and anthropomorphic phantom design, an expanded portfolio, with demos, will be on display in the Sun Nuclear ASTRO booth.
Debuting at ASTRO 2022, the Enhanced Dynamic Platform is the next-generation design of the CIRS Dynamic Platform and the first release to come from the integration of CIRS and Sun Nuclear research and development. Also on display in the Sun Nuclear ASTRO booth will be the work-in-progress MotionCHECK™ 3D System. Designed to support tumor tracking, MotionCHECK 3D is intended to integrate the Enhanced Dynamic Platform with the ArcCHECK® array, the benchmark for 3D pre-treatment patient QA in radiation therapy.
Globally, 1,600+ clinical users rely on the SunCHECK platform for centralized, standardized Patient and Machine QA for their Radiation Therapy programs. Recently released, the ISO/IEC 27001:2013-certified, Cloud-hosted SaaS implementation option for the SunCHECK platform reduces resources required for upfront deployment and ongoing support.
In booth 980, ASTRO attendees are invited to personal or small-group demonstrations of this powerful Quality Management Platform, including practical insights on getting started with in-vivo QA. Plus, from 4-5 p.m. on Monday, October 24, Sun Nuclear is co-hosting the Exhibit Hall Networking Reception, during which attendees can enjoy refreshments and hear a special set of talks on scaling, simplifying, and standardizing QA:
- 4:15 p.m. — SunCHECK at the Enterprise Level: Network-Wide Efficiency Gains & Time-Savings, including an update on coding and billing from Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies, Inc.
- 4:35 p.m. — SunCHECK® Machine: How to Get All Your Physicists on the Same Page
With the brand-new SunSCAN 3D Water Scanning System, hyper-accurate dosimetry meets the growing demands of stereotactic treatment deliveries. The SunSCAN 3D System also introduces faster, easier workflows for beam commissioning and Annual QA for busy Radiation Therapy departments. Daily demonstrations of the SunSCAN 3D System, beginning at 12:30 p.m. in the Sun Nuclear booth, will offer insights on quick tank setup, a faster AutoSetup™ routine, and new, intuitive software.
To learn more about the in-booth talk schedule and featured solutions from Sun Nuclear at ASTRO, visit sunnuclear.com/astro.
Sun Nuclear will also have a booth at the 2022 Annual Society for Radiation Oncology Administrators Meeting, where attendees can learn how Sun Nuclear can help them reduce risks, control costs, and improve treatment quality.
Sun Nuclear and CIRS are part of Mirion Medical, a group of healthcare-focused brands within Mirion Technologies (NYSE: MIR). We provide innovative solutions for Radiation Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging centers. More than 5,000 cancer centers worldwide rely on us for independent, integrated Quality Management. With a focus on ongoing support, Sun Nuclear aims to ease technology adoption, enhance workflows and improve outcomes – so that healthcare providers can achieve real results for Patient Safety. Visit us: sunnuclear.com and cirsinc.com. Follow us: @sunnuclear.
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*MotionCHECK™ 3D is a work in progress from Sun Nuclear and CIRS, in partnership with Accuray Incorporated.
Sun Nuclear, SunCHECK, SunSCAN, AutoSetup, ArcCHECK, and MotionCHECK are registered trademarks of Mirion Technologies, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.
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ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic population declines.
Experts say a sea star wasting disease epidemic that began in 2013 has decimated about 95% of the population from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, The Astorian reported.
The decline triggered the International Union for Conservation of Nature to classify the species as critically endangered in 2020. A petition to list the species under the federal Endangered Species Act was filed in 2021.
Steven Rumrill, shellfish program leader at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in his more than 40 years as a marine scientist, he hasn’t seen a widespread decline of a species on the same scale as the sunflower sea star.
The sea stars, which are among the largest in the world and can span more than 3 feet (91 centimeters), are predators to the kelp-eating sea urchin. Without them, sea urchin populations have exploded, causing a troubling decline in kelp forests that provide food and shelter to many aquatic species along the West Coast.
Rumrill contributed to a recently published roadmap to recovery for the sea star as a guide for scientists and conservationists.
“It just sort of breaks your heart to see a species decline so rapidly to the point of extinction,” Rumrill said. “At the global scale, we’re recognizing that the impacts of humans have had major impacts on populations and lots of extinctions worldwide. Here’s one that’s happening right in front of our eyes.”
The roadmap was completed in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, National Marine Fisheries Service, and state agencies in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
The sea star wasting disease is estimated to have killed over 5.75 billion sunflower sea stars, according to the document.
The source of the outbreak has not been conclusively identified, but the document points to evidence that warming ocean waters from human-caused climate change increases the severity of the disease and could have triggered the outbreak.
Rumrill said listing through the Endangered Species Act could result in federal funding to continue research.
Matthew Burks, a spokesman for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said whether the agency recommends the sea star be listed under the Endangered Species Act will be posted to the Federal Register by early next year.
While sunflower sea stars appear to be the most affected by the sea star wasting disease, they are among about 20 documented species of sea stars at risk along the West Coast. | 2022-12-04T11:53:56+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/science/ap-science/ap-scientists-call-for-action-to-help-sunflower-sea-stars/ |
Kiowa Casino honors first responders, nonprofits
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Multiple first responders were honored by Kiowa Casino on Wednesday.
The 14th annual Hometown Heroes event shined a spotlight on community nonprofits and other organizations in the area.
It all took place at the Kemp Center for the Arts. The annual four-month-long promotion gave back a portion of gameplay to local agencies making a difference in the community.
“Well, its great to have such wonderful partners in the community and the ones that continue to be engaged with us particularly, you know we have all, over the last few years, had some pretty tough times and for the tribe and the casino to continue to be at the forefront of supporting all these great first responders that are represented here tonight means a lot to all of us,” Ken Prillaman, Wichita Falls Fire Department Fire Chief, said.
Over the past 14 years of Hometown Heroes, Kiowa Casino and hotel has given over $300,000 to fire departments, police departments and community nonprofits.
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LONDON (AP) — The crown has been resized. The troops are prepared for the biggest military procession in 70 years. The Gold State Coach is ready to roll.
Now it’s time for the show.
King Charles III will be crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey in an event full of all the pageantry Britain can muster.
Enrobed clergymen will hand over the medieval symbols of power — the rod, the scepter and the orb. Brass bands and soldiers in bearskin hats will troop through the streets. And the new king and queen will presumably end the day on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to wave to the cheering crowds.
But don’t be too dazzled. There’s purpose behind the pomp: to buttress the crown’s foundations and show that the people of the United Kingdom still support their monarch.
Royal historian Robert Lacey compares the event to a U.S. presidential election and an inauguration rolled into one — a celebration as well as a test of how the public sees the new sovereign.
“The king obviously is not subject to the vote and so these big public rituals are the closest royal people get to that sort of test,’’ said Lacey, author of “Battle of Brothers: William & Harry — the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult.” “Its basic purpose is to attract the loyalty and interest of British people to demonstrate that crowd outside Buckingham Palace waving at the balcony.”
But, while TV screens around the world will be filled with flag-waving fans, Charles' coronation comes at a difficult time for the royals.
Opinion polls show that support for the monarchy has weakened over time. Britain is gripped by double-digit inflation that is eroding living standards and making some people question the expense of the coronation. And the royal family is riven with controversy as Charles’ younger son, Prince Harry, lobs criticism from his base in Southern California.
More fundamentally, some in Britain’s increasingly diverse society want a re-examination of the monarchy’s links to the trade in enslaved Africans and its role in the former British Empire, which ruled over large parts of Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
Kehinde Andrews, a professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, questions whether the people of Britain and the Empire’s successor, the Commonwealth, really want a 74-year-old white man as their representative.
“If that isn’t the biggest celebration of white supremacy, I can’t think of what is, especially when you think about the lengths, the pageantry, the jewels and all this stuff, right?’’ Andrews said of the coronation. “So if you really were serious about saying, look, we want an anti-racist future, there is absolutely no place for this terrible institution.”
The king has tried to address some of those concerns by promising to open the royal archives to researchers studying the family’s links with slavery.
But the coronation will be a broader, more symbolic effort to show the monarchy still has a role to play.
The crowning of Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, will feature many of the elements of coronations past — the hymns, the prayers, the anointing with oils — all of which are designed to remind the world of the history, tradition and mystery embodied by the monarchy.
But the festivities have been tailored to better reflect modern Britain, where about 18% of the population describe themselves as belonging to an ethnic minority. That compares with less than 1% when Charles’ mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was crowned in 1953.
For the first time, religious leaders representing Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh traditions will play an active role in the ceremony. The music will feature pieces written and performed by artists from each of the U.K.’s four nations and throughout the Commonwealth.
Symbolically, Charles will open the service by facing a young choirboy and pledging to serve — not to be served — and he has scrapped the centuries-old tradition of having the most senior members of the aristocracy pledge their loyalty to him. Instead, the congregation and those watching at home will be invited to pledge allegiance to the king.
The ceremony will also be shorter — about two hours, instead of three.
“The coronation is about different people celebrating together,” said interfaith leader Aliya Azam, who will represent Muslims when faith leaders greet the king after he is crowned. “I think what’s very important is that cohesiveness triumphs over divisiveness, like light triumphing over darkness.”
Sylius Toussaint and his wife, Bridgette, will be watching. The couple celebrated Elizabeth’s coronation as children on the island of Dominica and moved to England in 1960 to find work. A corner of their home in Preston, northwest England, is festooned with royal photos and souvenirs, including a tin of coronation shortbread.
Toussaint likes Charles’ efforts to protect the environment and he’s willing to look past the breakdown of his first marriage to the late Princess Diana. He blames the government, not the monarchy, for the immigration crackdown that unfairly targeted him and thousands of other Caribbean migrants in recent years.
“Maybe like the rest of us, he has his faults … but he’s forgiven,” Toussaint said. “I think he will do a good job and we rather like him.”
The question is whether that allegiance is passed on to younger generations.
While support for the monarchy has softened over the past 30 years, it is much weaker among young people, according to surveys conducted by the polling firm Ipsos.
One of the monarchy’s strengths is that many see the benefit in having a neutral head of state at times of instability, said Kelly Beaver, the firm’s U.K. chief executive. With Britain facing multiple pressures from inflation to climate change and the war in Ukraine, the king has “a real opportunity to step forward and to demonstrate leadership,” she said.
“And so I think, really, for Charles, it’s all to play for.”
Unfortunately for the king, the coronation will also spotlight the family dramas that have rattled the House of Windsor. Chief among those is Charles’ tense relationship with Harry and his wife, Meghan, a biracial American who pundits once thought would help the royal family connect with multicultural Britain.
But those hopes crumbled when the couple gave up front-line royal duties and decamped to California three years ago. Since then, they have aired a series of grievances, including allegations that palace officials were insensitive to Meghan’s mental health struggles when she was adjusting to life as a royal, that the Windsors are guilty of unconscious bias in their attitudes on race, and that Camilla leaked unflattering stories about the couple to garner more favorable coverage for herself.
After months of speculation about whether they would be invited to the coronation, the palace announced that Harry would attend but Meghan would remain in California with their two children.
If recent royal gatherings are any indication, attention will now shift to the seat assignments inside the Abbey and whether Harry speaks to his father and Prince William, the heir to the throne.
“Where Harry sits in relation to the rest of his family clearly will be of great importance to the international media," said Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine. “But, you know, Buckingham Palace and the organizers will be aware of that, and they will, I’m sure, come up with the best possible solution under the circumstances.”
All of this — the history of the monarchy, the changes in British society, and even the family drama — will be on people’s minds as they watch the coronation unfold.
For Lacey, that’s how it should be. At some level, people will process all of these things when they decide whether to cheer or stay away altogether, just like voters on election day.
“One of the interesting things about the coronation and its symbolism is it’s not just simple celebration,” he said. “It does give Britons a chance to look and think about what matters to us.”
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Credit: AP | 2023-05-03T07:20:47+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/showtime-uk-readies-pomp-for-king-charles-iiis-coronation/WY75XRXNWJE3PH2LO5AW3IQK3Y/ |
ATLANTA (AP) _ Manhattan Associates Inc. (MANH) on Tuesday reported third-quarter profit of $29.7 million.
On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had net income of 47 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, were 66 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 57 cents per share.
The business software company posted revenue of $198.1 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $185.9 million.
Manhattan Associates expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.43 to $2.45 per share, with revenue in the range of $750 million to $753 million.
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BAY CITY, MI — In 1991, a Bay County judge sentenced LuAnne Szénay to the state’s harshest sentence for her role in her husband’s murder — life without the possibility for parole.
In the years since, Szénay garnered a wellspring of support, on the grounds she was the victim of extreme domestic abuse at her husband’s hands. Supporters’ efforts to get Szénay a second chance at life has borne fruit, as after three decades behind bars, the now-65-year-old woman is set to walk out of prison in a matter of days.
Her victim’s brother, though, maintains Szénay deserves no sympathy, with both he and prosecutors saying she killed her husband purely out of greed.
The 10-member Michigan Parole Board on Jan. 5 voted to parole Szénay, confirmed Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz. Szénay is to be released the week of March 12-18, after which she will be on parole for four years.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in late December announced she was commuting Szénay’s sentence, along with 17 other commutations and four pardons. Szénay is incarcerated at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti.
The commutation does not nullify Szénay’s underlying convictions. Rather, it reduces her minimum sentence to a term of years already served, which in Szénay’s case was 32 years, six months, and 24 days.
LuAnne and Tim Szénay’s daughter, Jennifer Szénay, has been a key figure in advocating for her mother’s release. In December 2020, she filed an application for commutation her mother’s behalf.
A Bay County jury in 1990 convicted Szénay of first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit that crime in the killing of her husband, Timothy A. Szénay. Bay County Circuit Judge William J. Caprathe in February 1991 sentenced Szénay to two mandatory terms of life without the possibility of parole.
During her trial, prosecutors argued Szénay hired 20-year-old James E. Blau to help with deliveries at her and her husband’s Bay County health food store and to accompany her on errands. Blau testified for the prosecution that Szénay offered him $30,000 to kill her husband, a sum from Tim Szénay’s $300,000 life insurance policy.
Blau said he and friend Shawn M. England ambushed Tim Szénay in his home on Jan. 18, 1990, with England shooting him twice with a shotgun as Blau held him down.
Bay County Prosecutor Nancy E. Borushko opposed Szénay’s release, her office submitting a letter to the parole board in August hoping to sway them to keep Szénay incarcerated.
“The criminal activity of the Defendant was motivated by greed,” the prosecution wrote. “She wanted to be rid of her husband, but she did not want to give up the life insurance policy, the business, or to have to deal with any other issues of divorce.”
After the killing, LuAnne Szénay initially told investigators she had nothing to do with the crime. She then said Blau had pressured her into it.
“The Defendant was involved with the recruitment of her husband’s killers, funding of the killers, and participated in the hunting of her husband,” the prosecution wrote.
Blau testified LuAnne Szénay discussed killing her husband the summer before it took place, the initial idea to stage a suicide.
“However, Szénay determined that the insurance policy would not pay out if the cause of death was suicide,” the prosecution wrote.
Another witness testified in the trial that LuAnne Szénay checked to make sure her husband’s insurance policy was still valid two days before Tim Szénay was killed.
James Szénay, the older brother of Tim Szénay, considers the commutation and parole a miscarriage of justice.
“Tim did nothing wrong,” he said. “Tim was a hardworking young man whose life was taken purely out of greed.”
LuAnne Szénay had no documentation such as hospital visits or police reports to indicate she was the victim of domestic abuse, he said.
“There is no record of her being abused,” he said. “There is no record of her being injured. There is no record of her being in the hospital. It just goes on and on and on and it’s not there. It was … a fraudulent defense. I can’t wrap my head around that people believe it.”
Contrary to his wife’s allegations, Tim Szénay was not a drug addict; rather, he was a health aficionado.
“He was the picture of health,” his brother said.
Jennifer Szénay has disputed her uncle’s depiction, without going into details.
“As a 7-year-old child, I only knew what I grew up around and those experiences will never leave me,” she told MLive in January.
She also said she was eagerly anticipating her mother’s parole.
“We plan on doing all the little things our family has missed for over 32 years,” she said. “We’ve discussed a few possible restaurants we’d like to visit. I’m looking forward to taking her over to my grandmother’s. We’ve discussed putting in a garden; she’s an excellent gardener.”
She expressed gratitude for those who supported her mother over the years and kept her case in the public eye.
“Our supporters are voters that strongly believe in the decriminalization of domestic violence survivors and second chances for those that have served a substantial prison time,” she said. “Our unwavering community support will facilitate (my mother’s) successful reentry back into society and creates hope for others in similar scenarios.”
Jennifer Szénay did not reply to requests for comment after her mother’s parole was granted.
Jennifer Szénay runs a website, www.luanneszenay.com, on which she stated her mother suffers from several chronic health problems. The website features photos of necklaces, earrings, and apparel LuAnne Szénay has crafted while in prison.
For years, groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the University of Michigan’s Women’s Justice & Clemency Project, and the University of Michigan Law School’s Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic have sought clemency on Szénay’s behalf, arguing she was a victim of domestic abuse at her husband’s hands.
“LuAnne Szénay lived in constant fear of her drug-addicted, violent husband,” the University of Michigan’s Justice and Clemency Project has stated.
Michigan courts did not allow expert testimony on Battered Person Syndrome until 1992, the year after Szénay’s conviction.
“Research has shown that prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys, court investigators, and juries all routinely bring gender-biased myths and stereotypes to bear on the processing of battered women defendants with the result that women’s experiences are not given the weight of truth by the criminal-legal system,” Carol Jacobson, director of the Women’s Justice & Clemency Project, has said.
LuAnne Szénay married her husband in the late 1970s. They lived in Bangor Township and owned a health food store called The Health Nut.
Shortly before the homicide, LuAnne Szénay filed for divorce from her husband.
Blau pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, receiving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. A jury found England guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and he was sentenced to life without parole.
The MDOC paroled Blau, now 53, in November 2020 and he is to remain on it until November 2024. He currently operates Mid-Michigan K9 Academy in Saginaw Township.
England, 51, is incarcerated at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia.
“She would tell me all these horrible stories of drug abuse and then what he would do and how he would beat her up and how she was scared for Jennifer, who was then 7 years old,” Blau told The Detroit Free Press in December 2020. “You had a very scared woman not knowing what to do. She felt like law enforcement was not helping her. I think LuAnne has paid enough.”
In 2018, LuAnne Szénay told The Detroit Free Press she had called police dozens of times to report her husband abusing her, only to be rebuffed.
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Convicted killer, former Bay County woman amongst list of 10 who clemency group wants freed
Texas man killed and dumped in Saginaw River in 1973 finally identified via DNA evidence | 2023-03-01T20:12:49+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2023/03/bay-county-woman-sentenced-to-life-for-1990-murder-of-husband-granted-parole.html |
TOKYO (AP) — The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency will visit Japan next week to meet with Japanese leaders and see final preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, officials said Friday.
Japan’s government hopes the visit by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi will add credibility to the discharge plan. It has been strongly opposed by local fishing groups and by neighboring South Korea, China and some Pacific Island nations over safety concerns.
Grossi will visit Japan July 4-7, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said. He is expected to meet with Hayashi, Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and visit the Fukushima plant, which was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
“Japan attaches great importance to the efforts of the IAEA, which serves an important role in promoting nuclear nonproliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We hope to further strengthen ties between Japan and the IAEA through this visit,” Hayashi said.
The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, has completed construction of the equipment needed for the planned release, and Japanese regulators were finishing their final inspection on Friday. If everything goes well, TEPCO is expected to receive a permit in about a week to begin the discharge, though the starting date is still undecided, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Environmental activists in Seoul, South Korea, protested on Friday outside the Japanese Embassy against the plan.
To ease overseas concerns, Grossi is expected to visit South Korea, New Zealand and the Cook Islands after his visit to Japan, during which the IAEA is expected to release its final report on the wastewater release plan.
Japan has sought support from the IAEA to gain credibility for the plan and ensure that safety measures meet international standards. IAEA has dispatched several missions to Japan since early 2022.
All of its interim evaluation reports have been positive and similar results are expected in its final report. The organization has said it has no power to make any decision for the Japanese government, including stopping the wastewater release.
Kishida told Cabinet ministers at a meeting Friday about the water discharge that they should continue efforts to ensure safety and counteract any negative rumors by releasing full explanations, Hayashi said.
Government and utility officials say the wastewater, stored in about 1,000 tanks at the plant, must be removed to prevent accidental leaks and to make room for the plant’s decommissioning. They say the treated but still slightly radioactive water will be diluted to levels safer than international standards and will be released gradually into the ocean over decades, making it harmless to people and marine life.
Some scientists say the impact of long-term, low-dose exposure to radionuclides is unknown and the release should be delayed or contained in cement for use in construction materials. Others say the release plan is safe but call for more transparency in sampling and monitoring of the release.
The government says some false documents have been circulated, including one alleging that Japan pressured the IAEA to remove negative information from its final report.
“The IAEA is aware of the existence of the forged documents,” Hayashi said. “The IAEA’s comprehensive final report is a document prepared under the responsibility of the IAEA, and the Japanese government is not in a position to manipulate its contents,” he said. “I would like to stress that we are firmly opposed to any attempt to undermine the independence and neutrality of the IAEA with false information.” | 2023-07-01T03:56:29+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-un-nuclear-agency-chief-to-visit-fukushima-plant-to-see-final-preparations-for-release-of-wastewater/ |
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: AMPE) between December 29, 2020 and August 3, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important October 17, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Ampio securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants inflated Ampio's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application for Ampion, the Company's lead product purportedly to treat individuals with inflammatory conditions including, but not limited to, severe osteoarthritis of the knee; (2) defendants inflated the results of the AP-013 study of Ampion and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about Ampio's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, May 8, 2022
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DUST STORM WARNING
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National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
640 PM PDT Sun May 8 2022
...THE DUST STORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM PDT...
The dust storm which prompted the warning has exited the area.
Therefore, the dust storm warning will be allowed to expire. Areas of
blowing dust will continue to make travel difficult.
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Warnings of critical fire conditions blanketed much of the U.S. Southwest on Saturday as crews in northern New Mexico worked to stop the growth of the nation's largest active wildfire.
The 7-week-old fire, the largest in New Mexico history, has burned 491 square miles (1,272 square kilometers) of forest in rugged terrain east of Santa Fe since being started in April by two planned burns.
Crews were patrolling partially burned areas and clearing and cutting containment lines, including primary ones near the fire as bulldozers scraped backup lines farther away.
The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings of critical fire conditions for parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. Those conditions are combination of strong wind, low relative humidity and dry vegetation.
The return of return of drier and warmer weather with stronger winds posed a threat of increased fire activity over the Memorial Day weekend, prompting officials to urge the public to secure vehicle chains and to be careful with possible fire sources.
”The last thing we need right now is another ignition,” said Jayson Coil, an operations section chief.
Forecasts called for wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph), with critical fire conditions continuing into Monday, followed by more favorable weather later in the coming week, said Bruno Rodriguez, the fire management team's meteorologist.
The strong winds could fan flames and cause the fire to jump containment lines and race forward, said John Chest, a fire operations manager.
“Imagine traveling in your car and the fire can outpace you. That’s the kind of extreme fire behavior that we’re talking about,” Chester said.
Nearly 3,000 firefighters and other personnel were assigned to the fire, which was contained around 48% of its perimeter.
Initial estimates say the fire has destroyed at least 330 homes but state officials expect the number of homes and other structures that have burned to rise to more than 1,000 as more assessments are done.
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Davenport reported from Phoenix. | 2022-05-28T20:03:24+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Critical-fire-condition-warnings-issued-across-US-17205577.php |
Though many members of the royal family rushed to Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Thursday upon hearing the news of Queen Elizabeth II's declining health, only a few were able to see her before she died.
A source close to the royal family tells ET that the queen's eldest son, Prince Charles (now King Charles III), and his wife Camilla, who is now the Queen Consort, were able to see Her Highness before she died. Elizabeth's daughter, Princess Anne, was also able to see her.
But sadly other members of the royal family arrived in Scotland too late.
Her sons, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, and his wife, Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, as well as the queen's grandson, Prince William, all arrived after her death. As for Prince Harry, he arrived after Her Majesty’s death was announced. ET also learned that Harry's wife, Meghan Markle, was not invited to join the royal family in Scotland. William's wife, Kate Middleton, stayed behind as well, to be there for the couple's three children on their first day at Lambrook School.
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday after serving a historic 70 years on the throne. She was 96. Her son, Charles, has now been named King Charles III and will officially ascend the throne on Saturday.
King Charles also announced on Friday that there will be a period of royal mourning. Though a date for the queen's funeral has yet to be announced, the period of royal mourning will last for seven days after the funeral takes place.
For updates on Queen Elizabeth's death, check out ET's ongoing coverage here.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way for busy parents to clean baby bottles and nipples," said an inventor, from Mesa, Ariz., "so I invented the EZ BOTTLE SCRUB. My design would eliminate the time-consuming and tiring motion of hand-washing bottles and nipples with a standard brush."
The invention provides an easier way to wash baby bottles/nipples and other containers. In doing so, it offers an alternative to manually scrubbing bottles with a brush. As a result, it ensures that bottles and nipples are thoroughly cleaned and it saves time and effort. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for parents with babies.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-PBT-232, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MIAMI (AP) — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government as he faces criminal charges at the hands of one of the nation’s top adversaries.
Eyvin Hernandez, who has been detained for five months, describes in the recording how he has dedicated the past 15 years to public service as an employee of the Los Angeles County public defender’s office, seeking fair treatment for often penniless clients.
“No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they’re most vulnerable,” he said in the almost two-minute recording, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hernandez’s family. “However, I don’t feel like my government feels that way about me.”
In a calm voice, Hernandez said he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela — there are at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans — feel “like our government has abandoned us.”
Hernandez’s appeal comes as the Biden administration is under pressure to do more to bring home roughly 50 Americans it believes have been wrongfully detained by hostile governments around the world. Much of the focus is on Russia, where the U.S. has taken the unusual step of proposing a swap of a convicted arms dealer for WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner. U.S. officials have for months been quietly pursuing a separate deal with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela, which holds the largest contingent of Americans suspected of being used as bargaining chips.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez’s case over to the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
In the recording, Hernandez said it’s been months since he or any of his fellow Americans have seen a courtroom, nor do they have any hopes of getting a fair trial.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” he said of confinement at a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro’s opponents. “We’re all innocent, yet we’re being charged and treated as terrorists.”
He said the uncertainty, isolation and human rights violations are taking a toll, with two Americans having already attempted suicide and a third on the brink with daily mental breakdowns.
“If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save,” he said.
The AP was unable to verify Hernandez’s claims. But United Nations officials have long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges and prosecutors and about conditions at the facility where Hernandez and several other Americans are being held.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an advisory warning Americans to avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the risk of wrongful detentions and threats from illegal armed groups, especially along the country’s porous borders.
Hernandez, who turned 44 in jail, was arrested March 31 along the Colombia-Venezuela border. His family says he traveled there from the city of Medellin with a Venezuelan friend who needed to get her passport stamped to resolve an issue with her migratory status in Colombia. His family said he never intended to enter Venezuela, and he was due to fly home three days later.
But the two apparently fell into the hands of criminal gangs.
Upon arrival by bus to the city of Cucuta, they hailed a taxi for the short drive to the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, according to an account Hernandez shared with his family. A fourth individual hopped in the front seat, purportedly offering his services as a guide who could help them navigate the confusion at the border, an area overrun by squatters, criminal gangs and a mass of people making their way back and forth in illegal crossings.
Before they knew it, the cab was stopped along a dirt path, and the two were ordered to get out and walk across the invisible border separating the two countries.
Once Hernandez realized his mistake, it was too late to turn back. A man carrying a rifle demanded he cough up $100, according to his family. When he protested that he didn’t have any cash, they put a hood over his head.
When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
Adding to the Hernandez family’s anguish is the fact that he isn’t classified as wrongfully detained, a definition that covers Americans believed innocent or jailed for the purpose of exacting concessions from the U.S. Without such designation, a process that can take months, the U.S. government’s ability to push for his release is limited.
At least three of the 11 other Americans known to be detained in Venezuela are in a similar state of limbo. They include Jerrel Kenemore, a computer programmer arrested within a week of Hernandez, and two former Green Berets who took part in a blunder-filled beach attack in 2020 aimed at overthrowing Maduro.
Biden last month signed an executive order aimed at providing more information to families of Americans detained abroad and imposing stiff sentences on the criminals, terrorists and government officials holding them.
Maduro’s socialist government is a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy. But more recently, as the Biden administration has shown a willingness to review the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro with sanctions and calling for regime change, the outlook for a possible release has improved.
In March, the Maduro government freed two Americans following a surprise trip to Caracas by senior White House and State Department officials, including Carstens, who met with Hernandez in a subsequent wellness check on detained Americans in June. Maduro also vowed to resume negotiations with his opponents, although has so far failed to follow through.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. set out to make an objective portrait, a tribute to his father, the underground filmmaking maverick Robert Downey Sr. His dad had other plans.
“The key point in this is when he goes, ‘OK, I think we should split into two camps: The (expletive) movie and the one I’m gonna make,’” recalls Downey Jr., laughing. “I just go, ‘Man, hats off to you, Pops.”
“Sr.,” directed by Chris Smith, is a work of father-son harmony more than might be suggested by Downey Sr.’s typically brusque assertion of filmmaking independence. It’s a kind of home movie, mostly made by Downey Jr. but with his father’s own insertions peppered throughout. It’s a son’s loving reckoning with his iconoclast father, a freewheeling cult filmmaker whose experimental films gave Downey Jr. his entry into moviemaking and whose outsized personality did much to inform his son, for better and worse. As Downey Jr. puts it, “My dad and I are pretty flawed dudes.”
“It was a way to put something between us in our own relationship and closure. I didn’t know that it would be the quickest way to the heart of things,” Downey Jr. said in a recent interview by phone from Los Angeles alongside his wife and producing partner Susan Downey. “It’s like a little string you pull at, you know. And it winds up pulling you into a rabbit hole that I kind of needed to go down in order to process and ingest the totality of our relationship.”
Downey Sr. died last year at the age of 85 after having Parkinson’s. That’s part of the film; Downey Sr. wanted it to be. “Sr,” which debuted Friday on Netflix, was made with the intention of capturing his last days: a last stab at gaining some understanding of him, wrestling with their shared demons and, once again, making a movie together. Some 50 years ago, Downey Jr. made his debut in his father’s antic 1970 dog pound comedy, “Pound,” at the age of 5.
“I have pretty good recall for the entirely of this incarnation, for better or worse,” says Downey Jr., 57. “Those films and projects, I have very clear memories of that. I can still see the Mounds bar that was being handed to me. It was my first prop I ever had to deal with.”
Years before he was the Oscar-nominated actor of “Chaplin” or the star of “Iron Man,” Downey Jr. was, as he says in the film, “just Bob Downey’s kid for a long time.” Absurdist, spontaneous films like 1971’s “Putney Swope” and 1972’s “Greaser’s Palace” made the elder Downey a pivotal countercultural provocateur who defined himself outside of the mainstream.
In “Sr.,” Downey Jr.’s reverence for his father is easy to see, as is their mutual affection for one another. But that doesn’t mean the old man was always easy on his famous son. Every film Downey Jr. ever made, he wondered: “What will Sr. think?” Every 15 years or so would he get a thumb’s up.
“I hate to say it, but he was a bit of a snob. Susan and I did a couple Sherlock movies. He was like, ‘Cute.’ I did a bunch of the Marvel stuff and he goes, ‘Uh uh. Yeah, bomb, bomb. Jokes. Funny robots. I get it.’ I went, ‘Hm. Wow. OK,’” Downey Jr. says. “I remember that he thought ‘Less Than Zero’ was good. He thought ‘Chaplin’ was too episodic. And he really liked that German song I sang when I was 15.”
Again taking his father’s direction, Downey Jr. sings that song, with panache, in the film. Though it’s easy, as a viewer, to see how much alike they are, Downey Jr. is more hesitant to define what he inherited from his dad.
“I did not get his wildly optimistic ongoing super-curiosity,” he says. “I would never necessarily marvel at the fact that a duck had baby ducks and those ducks got big.”
Susan Downey disagrees. “You absolutely have your observation of the world. You’re hyper-aware of what’s going on around you and comment on it, much as Sr. did,” she says. “And I think you deal with anything uncomfortable through humor. This is a secret power that you guys have. There’s wonderful things that come with that, and then there’s probably avoidance patterns that are kept up because of that.”
On those ’70s films, Downey Sr.’s cocaine use was rampant, an environment that surely had an influence on Downey Jr.’s own struggles later with drug addiction. It’s a point that Downey Jr. raises in the film: “We would be remiss not to discuss its effect on me,” Downey Jr. tells his father. He replies: “I would sure love to miss that discussion.”
But “Sr.” is in many ways a portrait of how both Downeys recovered, stabilized and found peace through family. Downey Jr. ascribes a metamorphosis in his father to his second wife, Laura Ernst, who died in 1994, and his third wife, Rosemary Rogers.
“I can relate to that, too, up until this current administration, the never-ending Susan Downey empire,” says Downey Jr. “I just have a lot more gratitude.”
When Downey Sr.’s health waned, they moved the film’s editing suite into his bedroom. Susan Downey, too, lost her father, in 2020, to Parkinson’s. “He was a saint compared to us Downey boys,” Downey Jr. says. Movies were how they connected. The last film Downey Jr. and his father watched together was the music biopic satire “Walk Hard.” They laughed their heads off.
Since premiering “Sr.” at the Telluride Film Festival, Downey Jr. has noticed how the film becomes a projection of others’ experiences losing a parent. Toward the end of the film, Downey Jr. goes into his father’s room, with the camera trailing, to find some final answers. “I was going to get to the bottom of it for once and all,” he says. Like most sons seeking such definitude, Downey Jr. came out, he felt, emptyhanded.
But in “Sr.,” the two films each are making ultimately seamlessly meld into one, suggesting a deeper understanding between Jr. and Sr. than either might have readily admitted. There are also ongoing discoveries.
After such an unconventional indoctrination to cinema as a kid, Downey Jr.’s genuine, live-wire performances surely owe something to the frenetic energy he had known on his father’s sets. “I think I had the advantage of it already feeling natural before I came into that quote-unquote industrialized version of entertainment,” Downey Jr. says.
He often found with other directors something just as comfortable and rewarding. He calls Richard Attenborough (“Chaplin”) “a super wise loving grandfather.” Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”) was “like a brother.” Movies were and still are, Susan Downey says, “the family business.”
“It’s very odd, too, because we’re doing this film with Director Park (Chan-wook) now called ‘The Sympathizer’ where I’m doing a lot of different characters. It’s not experimental at all. It’s very well-fleshed out. But it’s kind of reminding me of the Sr. experience,” says Downey Jr. “You get dressed up, you try a character and we’re going to film it.”
Stuck by that fresh realization, Downey Jr. exclaims: “We’re finally figuring everything out in real time! Live from the Gestalt Therapy Epicenter of Southern California!”
Then he sighs. “So I’m still working for Dad.”
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | 2022-12-03T17:39:58+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/ap-robert-downey-jr-talks-of-one-last-film-with-his-dad-sr/ |
They are the five letters no No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed ever wants to see: upset.
Thursday marks the five-year anniversary of University of Maryland-Baltimore County — the tiny school few fans had ever heard of, let alone picked in their bracket — pulling off the biggest upset in college basketball history by beating the tournament’s top seed in Virginia.
That’s the same Virginia team that got upset in the first round on Thursday, falling to No. 13 seed Furman on a last-second 3-pointer — which drew a quick, knowing reaction from UMBC Athletics’ Twitter account.
UMBC’s lasting legacy became this: If you don’t watch out, No. 1 can mean one-and-done.
While there were some close calls before 2018, No. 1 seeds had gone 135-0 before UMBC routed Virginia 75-54 at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center. Now they are 1-147. Like the men, the women’s side of March Madness has seen only one 16 knock off a 1: Harvard over Stanford in 1998.
On Thursday, three more No. 1 seeds — Alabama, Kansas and Houston — take the court looking to avoid what the Cavaliers endured five years ago, while their respective opponents, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Howard and Northern Kentucky, look to capture that “One Shining Moment” and etch their name in history alongside the Retrievers.
Ryan Odom, the Retrievers coach that season, said after the game “these are the moments that you dream of” while his players celebrated in a cramped locker room after shocking the sports world. Diminutive 5-foot-8, 140-pound guard KJ, Maura and his teammates joked about there being “no more perfect brackets” and possibly becoming the focal point of a future ESPN “30 for 30” episode.
Some players struggled to process the enormity of the moment, hugging each other long and hard.
“It felt like my soul left my body, man,” UMBC guard Jourdan Grant said that day.
Odom, now the head coach at Utah State, a No. 10 seed in this year’s tourney, said Wednesday it was “a memory that will last a lifetime.”
“Will a 16 ever beat a 1 again? I have no idea,” Odom said. “It takes a special group. It takes a lot of luck in order to have a chance to win any game in the NCAA Tournament.”
Former UMBC guard Joe Sherburne said it remains the single greatest day of his life.
“You can measure my life by this: before that day, and after that day,” Sherburne said Wednesday. When friends introduce him to people, the first thing they say is “Joe played for UMBC.”
Sherburne, who works as a financial adviser, remembers the day well.
As UMBC’s lead over Virginia grew to double digits in the second half, he sensed something special, something miraculous was happening. He struggled to concentrate on the next play call while sitting on the bench during TV timeouts: “I felt like I was in shock.”
Could this really be happening? Could a 20 1/2-point underdog really beat the No. 1 team in the nation in the NCAA Tournament?
But it happened — and everyone suddenly wanted to know their story.
Sherburne stayed at the arena until 1 a.m. doing interviews before returning to the team hotel where he was greeted by overwhelmed fans, friends and family members. He and his teammates watched “Sports Center” on repeat and ate pizza, basking in the moment.
“We were all still running on adrenaline,” Sherburne said. “I couldn’t eat or drink. I can usually eat a whole Domino’s pizza by myself, but I couldn’t that night. I might have had two or three slices.”
Sherburne still wishes the celebration had gone on for days longer, but UMBC had a close second-round loss to Kansas State two days later.
Still, there will always be the satisfaction of accomplishing something that had never been done before. Sherburne is hoping it stays that way for awhile.
After the final 16 seed lost in last year’s NCAA Tournament, he toasted UMBC’s legacy with a shot of whiskey.
Two years ago, he attended Game 6 the 2021 NBA Finals, where he watched former Virginia big man Mamadi Diakite win a championship ring. Diakite was one of six Virginia players from that team to play in the NBA; UMBC had none.
“I’m sitting in the arena that night, in the second row from the top, thinking to myself, ‘You know, just a couple of years ago I was making this guy and his teammates cry,’” Sherburne said.
UMBC players haven’t had an in-person reunion, but Sherburne said players remain in touch on group texts.
Last week, Odom opened one of those texts to find players and assistant coaches reminiscing about star guard Jairus Lyles’ buzzer-beater to beat Vermont in the 2018 America East Conference Tournament championship game — a dramatic win that earned the Retrievers an automatic bid to the Big Dance.
Odom’s eyes swelled up with tears as he scrolled through the comments and pictures.
“Each team that we’re fortunate enough to coach has one life to live,” Odom said. “That particular team lived a great life. The joy that that team experienced was unlike any other. Certainly the memories that we’ll all take from that particular season will last a lifetime. This is what all coaches and players want: They want to be a part of March Madness and the upset.”
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(KTLA) – During a live-streamed event Sunday, the Foo Fighters named veteran musician Josh Freese as their new drummer, Variety reported.
Freese is no stranger to music fans and was even a part of the London and Los Angeles Hawkins tribute concerts the band played in Sept. 2022.
“He’s also a longtime friend of both (Dave) Grohl and Hawkins and is a seasoned session act who has performed and toured with rock bands Guns N’ Roses, A Perfect Circle, Puddle of Mudd, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, Paramore, the Replacements, Sting and the Vandals, to name a few,” the entertainment outlet reported.
The announcement comes as the band heads out on its first tour since drummer Taylor Hawkins suddenly passed away in Colombia in March of last year.
The livestream event, dubbed Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for Concerts, featured the band playing several of their past hits, along with songs from their upcoming 10-track album “But Here We Are,” which is due to be released on June 2.
The new album will be “a brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year,” the band said in a statement last month.
The lead, driving single is “Rescued,” with the lyrics “I’m just waiting to be rescued/Bring me back to life/Kings and queens and in-betweens/We all deserve the right.”
The Foo Fighters’ first tour stop this Wednesday at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, New Hampshire, is completely sold out, according to the band’s website.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-05-22T21:44:16+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/foo-fighters-announce-new-drummer-during-livestream-event/ |
The dating app experience is often void of one crucial thing: a date.
While 62% of daters are ready to go on a date after three days, according to a recent Hinge survey, only 34% of daters actually plan a date within that period of time.
If you've ever used Tinder, Bumble, Grindr or any other dating app, this probably doesn't surprise you. A common sequence of events is: you match, you message, they message, you message, they message, and on and on until one person just stops.
For some reason, taking the date offline and in person just doesn't happen and every message dilutes any initial excitement you had about the match.
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So, why are some people okay with messaging forever?
"Many people are not dating with a lot of thought or intention," says Lisa Marie Bobby, psychologist and clinical director of Growing Self Counseling & Coaching in Denver.
"They don't have a strategy. They sign up for an app and their default is to not think about it that much and text people."
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Keeping things digital is 'less effort and anxiety'
One reason a match isn't asking you to meet in person might be anxiety, Bobby says.
"It's easier and safer with much less effort and anxiety to mess around with text and tell yourself you're dating when you're not really," she says.
This way, a person can feel like they are putting themselves out there without taking any of the risks — like being rejected or disappointed — that usually accompany going on dates.
Many people also have unrealistic expectations of how finding a partner is supposed to feel, she says.
"There is a lot of magical thinking when it comes to dating, in general," she says. "People have these beliefs that if they were to connect with the right person everything would feel easy and effortless and everything would just happen."
This is "incongruent," Bobby says, with how making a new connection of any kind actually works. Whether it's making a new friend or trying to find a long-term partner, you have to put in a decent amount of effort.
If you're in a never-ending back-and-forth, Bobby encourages you to take the reins.
"Be empowered to initiate," she says. "And if they are being weird about it you know everything you need to know and that situation can be done."
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Joni Mitchell, 78, graces stage after 2 decades away
NEWPORT, RI (AP) — Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage.
The folk legend performed her first full-length concert in two decades on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, The Boston Globe reported. Mitchell has contended with health complications since suffering an aneurysm in 2015, and her last full show was in late 2002, according to reports.
Seated in a wingback chair and wearing a blue beret and sunglasses, Mitchell joined festival headliner Brandi Carlile and a bevy of other artists, including Wynonna Judd, Allison Russell and Marcus Mumford. It was Mitchell’s first Newport festival performance since 1969.
This was, Carlile explained, a recreation of the “Joni Jam” musical gatherings that have brought famous friends like Elton John to Mitchell’s Los Angeles home in recent years.
And Mitchell wasn’t there to just to sing. Halfway through the 13-song set, she played an electric guitar solo, which was her first time playing guitar in public since her aneurysm, Carlile said.
The ensemble played Mitchell’s most familiar songs (“Circle Game,” “Big Yellow Taxi”) and a few of her favorites (“Love Potion No. 9,” “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”).
After their rendition of “Both Sides Now,” Carlile was fighting back tears. Addressing the audience, she asked: “Did the world just stop?”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-26T14:47:26+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/07/26/joni-mitchell-78-graces-stage-after-2-decades-away/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Pitcher Max Fried won his salary arbitration case against the World Series champion Atlanta Braves and was given his $6.85 million request instead of the team’s $6.6 million offer.
Walt De Treux, Robert Herman and John Woods made the decision Wednesday, a day after listening to arguments.
Teams have a 9-4 advantage in decisions. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is the only player still scheduled for a hearing later this week. He is asking for $21 million and the team is offering $17 million.
Fried became the second Braves player to win, joining shortstop Dansby Swanson ($10 million).
Outfielder Adam Duvall ($9,275,000), third baseman Austin Riley ($3.95 million) and injured reliever Luke Jackson ($3.6 million) lost their hearings.
Fried, a 28-year-old left-hander, was 14-7 with a 3.04 ERA last year and was 2-2 in the postseason. After losing Game 2 of the World Series against Houston, Fried pitched six shutout innings in Game 6 as the Braves won their first title since 1995. Fried made $3.5 million last year and is eligible for free agency after the 2024 season.
Fried is 7-2 with a 2.77 ERA this season. No statistics or evidence from after March 1 are admissible other than contract and salary comparisons, timing set when Major League Baseball and the players’ association agreed to the deal that ended the lockout.
Also winning were Seattle second baseman/outfielder Adam Frazier ($8 million) and Kansas City outfielder Andrew Benintendi ($8.5 million).
Also losing were St. Louis outfielder Tyler O’Neill ($3.4 million), Kansas City infielder Nicky Lopez ($2.55 million), Miami right-hander Pablo López and catcher Jacob Stallings (both $2.45 million), Milwaukee right-hander Adrian Houser ($2,425,000) and Cincinnati pitcher Lucas Sims ($1.2 million).
Arbitration hearings usually are held during the first three weeks of February but were delayed by the lockout.
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More AP MLB coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-23T09:40:03+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/max-fried-beats-braves-in-arbitration-gets-6-85-million/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerspace (NYSE: CSR) announces that it will release its operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, after the market closes on October 31, 2022.
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Management will host a conference call to discuss those results on the following day, Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Interested parties may access the live conference call via the following:
Live webcast: http://ir.centerspacehomes.com
Centerspace is an owner and operator of apartment communities committed to providing great homes by focusing on integrity and serving others. Founded in 1970, the company currently owns 83 apartment communities consisting of 14,838 homes located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota as of June 30, 2022. Centerspace was named a Top Workplace for 2022 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. For more information, please visit www.centerspacehomes.com.
If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Joe McComish, Investor Relations, at (701) 837-7104 or IR@centerspacehomes.com.
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SEALY, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hennessey Special Vehicles delivers a 1,817 bhp Roadster promising an unrivaled open-air experience.
- New Venom F5 Roadster is Hennessey's continuation following the premiere of last year's sold-out Venom F5 Coupe – both hypercars are engineered to exceed 300 mph
- 1,817 bhp 'Fury' V8 delivers unparalleled performance and the world's most exhilarating open-air driving experience
- Removable sculpted carbon fiber roof, and museum-quality pedestal stand, extend the Roadster's appeal as a moving work-of-art
- Priced at $3 million, with each of the 30 personalized examples individually commissioned to its owner
- Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster – DOWNLOAD
- Current World Record: Fastest convertible – 2016 Venom GT Spyder, 265.6 mph – WATCH
Hennessey Special Vehicles, the Texas-based hypercar manufacturer, has released details of its Venom F5 Roadster ahead of the new car's global debut at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering in Monterey, California.
The Venom F5 Roadster is based on the Hennessey Venom F5 Coupe – the two are nearly identical mechanically – yet distinguishing the Venom F5 Roadster from its fixed-roof sibling are several attributes that set the open-air model apart – physically, cosmetically, and emotionally.
Mid-mounted in the carbon-fiber monocoque chassis is Hennessey's celebrated twin-turbocharged, 6.6-liter, 'Fury' V8 engine rated at an astonishing 1,817 bhp. Power is sent to the rear wheels through a robust automated single-clutch gearbox. With a dry weight of under 3,100 pounds, the Venom F5 Roadster promises phenomenal performance… and an engineered top speed exceeding 300 mph.
Hennessey expects the Venom F5 Roadster to surpass the company's own 'world's fastest convertible' record – 265.6 mph – currently held by the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder.
John Hennessey, company founder, and CEO: "We created the Venom F5 to be the ultimate expression of a hypercar. The Roadster version takes the Coupe's speed, exhilaration, and awe, plus a sprinkling of respect-inducing fear, to a new, truly visceral level that brings owners closer to the Venom F5's extreme performance. Our 1,817 bhp 'Fury' engine screams behind the exposed cockpit, with its roar unobstructed by a roof – it is an unmatched automotive experience."
Most conspicuous is the hypercar's new roofline. In contrast to the F5 Coupe, the F5 Roadster's roof has been re-engineered with a removable panel crafted from rigid carbon fiber composites. The single-piece roof is fully insulated against the elements and lined with soft Alcantara upholstery. The weatherproof panel is secured with four quick-release bolts and a pair of high-strength latches to withstand the hypercar's staggering acceleration capabilities and aerodynamic forces at extreme speed. The lightweight roof panel weighs a mere 18 lbs (8 kg), making removal and installation easy for one person.
Owners may choose to store the panel in a bespoke Merino wool travel bag or as a standalone work-of-art on a custom-made, sculptural pedestal – devised by Hennessey's in-house design team to enhance the ownership experience. The roof pedestal, crafted in carbon fiber like the roof panel, mirrors design themes from the Venom F5 Roadster. Viewed from above, its 'blade legs' trace the shape of the car's rear decklid, while the side profile uses the hypercar's bodyside air intake form for inspiration. In addition, the sharply angled, streamlined stand displays the 'Venom F5 Roadster' script on the front face of the base in the same eight-microns thin aluminum as the car's 'H' nose badge.
The Venom F5 Roadster features a new tempered glass engine viewing window. This panel, in the middle of the rear engine cover, spotlights the massive 'Fury' V8 engine in all its glory. Its engineering was no simple task – developed and certified for use in jet aircraft. The sizeable glass panel can withstand aerodynamic forces exceeding 300 mph and temperatures beyond 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (540 degrees Celsius). The detail is extraordinary – the engine viewing window is encapsulated within a removable carbon fiber engine cover that features intricately-milled heat extraction holes that match those in the rear bumper. Additional heat extraction is achieved by dual aluminum air vents, four on each side of the glass panel, which match the vents behind each front wheel.
The Roadster is further distinguished from its coupe sibling by its unique wheels. Forged from aluminum alloy and then milled to perfection, the lightweight wheels feature seven pairs of spokes, each resembling an elongated Hennessey 'H'. Milled into the outer face of each wheel rim is the 'Hennessey' script, mirrored by the 'Roadster' script on the opposite side. Owners may opt to upgrade the Hyper Silver wheels to highly polished aluminum – this exclusive finish requires a painstaking process of hand polishing that takes weeks to complete. The wheels are secured with five titanium nuts, an alloy revered for its strength, heat tolerance, corrosion resistance, and extremely low mass.
Hennessey's Venom F5 Coupe was engineered from the outset with an open-top version in mind, so only minor adjustments were required to deliver coupe-rivaling chassis rigidity, strength, and stiffness – this ensures that drivers may access the same crisp handling characteristics as the Venom F5 Coupe with or without the roof in place.
As with the Venom F5 Coupe, discerning Roadster buyers may specify any exterior and interior color combination or leave areas of the Venom F5's carbon fiber chassis and body panels exposed. Opting for either a gloss or satin finish allows the stunning woven composite to be appreciated fully (pre-exposed areas of carbon fiber on the Venom F5 Roadster are standard, as they were on the Coupe). The same minimalist yet high specification of the coupe model is retained within the passenger cabin.
"It's exciting to see the continued innovation from Hennessey from the test track to the road," said Steve Reindl, President of Shell Lubricants Americas. "We share a passion for performance, and our co-engineering alliance provides us with an extreme testbed for Pennzoil in some of the fastest road cars."
The Venom F5 Roadster will be manufactured in Texas in an exclusively low volume of just 30 units (this approach of guaranteeing a unique ownership experience saw the 24-unit Venom F5 Coupe production run sell out shortly after its appearance at Monterey Car Week in 2021). Roadster production begins in late 2022, with validation of the model's high-speed capabilities set to occur as the production rate levels out.
Hennessey Special Vehicles has priced the new Venom F5 Roadster at $3 million, with each of the 30 personalized examples individually commissioned to its owner. Potential buyers may find out more or express their interest at hennesseyspecialvehicles.com or by calling +1 979.885.1300.
Download high-resolution images of the Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2dbezprb3899to5/AAAs8RSGguqhX3j9-ngvJD9Ua?dl=0
Current World Record: Fastest convertible – 2016 Venom GT Spyder, 265.6 mph – https://youtu.be/ZWy6GiWJxHs
Based in Sealy, Texas, the Hennessey business comprises Hennessey Special Vehicles, Hennessey Performance (HPE), Tuner School, and the Lonestar Motorsports Park. The company has re-engineered more than 12,000 vehicles for performance enthusiasts worldwide to deliver unparalleled driving thrills. Alongside modifying a diverse range of sports, and muscle cars since 1991, the company also applies its high-performance expertise to trucks and SUVs – and boasts its own hypercars – the Venom GT and the Venom F5.
Every Hennessey product is dyno-proven, fully track-tested, street-legal, and warrantied. Customers can choose from road-ready performance-enhanced cars by Hennessey from a wide variety of brands, including Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, and Jeep, in addition to benefitting from a host of high-performance upgrades.
With its own test track, engineering curriculum for aspiring tuners, more than 85 team members, and capacity to work on 40-50 vehicles at a time, Hennessey Performance is one of the world's leading specialist vehicle engineering companies. The twin-turbocharged, 6.6-liter V8 Venom F5 hypercar sold out in 2021, with customer deliveries taking place from 2021-2023. Boasting 1,817 bhp and capable of speeds in excess of 300 mph, the company is delivering like never before on its mission of 'making fast cars faster'. HennesseySpecialVehicles.com | HennesseyPerformance.com
As the company founder and CEO, John Hennessey lives and breathes fast, fun cars. John developed a passion for performance while competing at world-renowned motorsport events, including Pikes Peak, the Silver State Classic, and the Bonneville Salt Flats (where he set a class world record).
What started in 1991, modifying imports out of his garage, soon morphed into building 1,000-horsepower twin-turbo Dodge Vipers that gained international recognition in car magazines such as Motor Trend, Car and Driver, Top Gear, and Road and Track.
Known as an American icon of speed, John has achieved his vision to be the top automotive tuner and builder in the U.S. With a global sales footprint covering the U.S., Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East, he continues to find ways to engineer greater performance from some of the world's most iconic vehicles alongside the creation of the company's world-class hypercar – the Hennessey Venom F5.
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SOURCE Hennessey Performance | 2022-08-18T15:21:46+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/08/18/hennessey-presents-worlds-fastest-most-powerful-roadster/ |
by: Jay Kidwell Posted: Jun 4, 2022 / 10:48 PM CDT Updated: Jun 4, 2022 / 10:48 PM CDT SHARE The PV Boys Soccer team did it again as they won the State Championship 1-0 in PKs on June 4. | 2022-06-05T04:31:25+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/high-school-sports/pleasant-valley-boys-soccer-wins-state-championship-1-0/ |
A 13-year-old was injured Tuesday night in what appears to have been an accidental shooting, a Baton Rouge police spokesperson said.
The shooting happened in the 4500 block of Sherwood Street, said Sgt. L'Jean McKneely Jr., police spokesman.
The juvenile was taken to the hospital in serious condition, an EMS official said.
McKneely said family members at home heard a gunshot and the juvenile came out from another room, wounded.
The injury is considered non-life-threatening, McKneely said.
The case is under investigation, he said. | 2023-05-24T16:23:36+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/juvenile-accidentally-shot-injured-on-sherwood-street/article_00533876-fa37-11ed-a2b8-3f1379f7cfb5.html |
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced to death two Islamic militants for killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year in the country’s northwest, police said Monday.
Senior police officer Zeeshan Asghar told reporters in the garrison city of Abbottabad that Judge Sajjad Ahmed Jan announced the verdict in the high security prison on Friday, after months of trial.
He said the court awarded 13 death sentences to Mohammad Hussain and Mohammad Ayaz for killing nine Chinese engineers, two paramilitary troops and two other locala, plus a 10- year prison term for each of the 32 people wounded in the attack. The judge also imposed heavy fines.
Hussain and Ayaz were found guilty of orchestrating the July 14, 2021 suicide attack on a bus on a mountainous road in the Kohistan region. The bus was carrying Chinese engineers working on the Dasu dam project in the region. Nine Chinese were killed and 27 wounded in the attack as the blast toppled the bus a deep ravine. Two Pakistani troops escorting the Chinese and two others were also killed.
Pakistani officials initially said a gas leak caused the explosion.
But the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad said the bus had been attacked, and Pakistan later found traces of explosives at the site.
The court acquitted four other suspects for a lack of sufficient evidence against them. Six suspects were still at large.
Asghar, the police officer, said a search was ongoing for the missing suspects and an appeal would be filed against the acquitted four suspects.
An attorney for the convicted men was not immediately available for comment.
Pakistan’s northwestern region borders Afghanistan and has long been a scene of tension by Islamic militants known as Pakistani Taliban, a separate group from the Afghan Taliban. | 2022-11-14T18:39:51+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Pakistani-judge-sentences-two-Islamic-militants-17583582.php |
‘I was crying’: Woman’s quick stop at store turns into $777,777 lottery jackpot
Published: Sep. 9, 2022 at 10:01 PM EDT|Updated: 54 minutes ago
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KAIT/Gray News) - A woman in Missouri will certainly not forget her recent stop at a convenience store.
KAIT says the woman, who was not immediately identified, was on her way to a friend’s house when she stopped at a Munch-N-Pump store on Highway 53.
According to the Missouri Lottery, she bought several lottery tickets. One of those tickets was a Hot 7s scratchers ticket that returned a top prize of $777,777.
“I called my husband, and I was crying,” she said. “I was like, ‘This is not real! It can’t be real.’”
According to Friday’s news release, the woman said she plans to invest the winnings.
Copyright 2022 KAIT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-10T02:56:16+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/09/10/i-was-crying-womans-quick-stop-store-turns-into-777777-lottery-jackpot/ |
MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ablacon, Inc., an Ajax Health and Zeus Health-backed developer of an innovative mapping system to guide the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), announced today the 12-month results from the FLOW-AF trial (NCT04473963). The data were presented by Dr. Vivek Reddy at the 2023 AF Symposium in Boston, MA at the Late Breaking Clinical Trials session. The trial enrolled 85 patients with persistent or long-standing persistent AF from 4 centers in the EU. The Ablamap® Software was used to detect sources of AF among these persistent/long-standing persistent AF patients who had symptomatic, recurrent AF despite at least 1 prior AF ablation procedure. These patients were then randomized to pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) + EGF-guided source ablation v. PVI-only.
The FLOW-AF trial showed that ablating EGF® sources improved freedom from AF at 1-year post-ablation by 51% on an absolute basis. Patients with an EGF-identified source left un-ablated had only a 17% rate of freedom from AF versus 68% rate of freedom from AF for patients who had their sources ablated which highlights the importance of phenotyping patients with EGF-identified sources as ablation targets. The trial also showed that EGF mapping allowed physicians to not only detect these important sources of AF and safely ablate them, but to also confirm their elimination with quick re-maps immediately after ablation.
"For the difficult-to-treat patients with persistent and long-standing persistent AF—and even more so for those undergoing repeat ablation procedures, Ablacon's Ablamap® technology gives physicians insight into the specific mechanisms of an individual patient's AF disease rather than using traditional one-size-fits-all approaches," said Dr. David Haines, who is a member of Ablacon's Scientific Advisory Board and has used the technology in his own lab.
Ablacon is now preparing to run a large multinational pivotal trial. Duke Rohlen, CEO of Ablacon said, "We couldn't be more excited about the results of FLOW-AF. Ablacon's technology changes the treatment paradigm for AF by empowering us to 'see' AF — electrographic flow mapping focuses on understanding each patient's underlying disease process to provide dynamic diagnostic and prognostic insights with actionable therapeutic targets."
Ablacon, Inc. has developed an advanced mapping system to guide the treatment of atrial fibrillation, the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia. The company's technology uses advanced algorithms developed with machine learning to precisely localize and characterize the functional mechanisms of AF, enabling physicians to customize the most focused and effective ablation strategy for each individual patient. The company's technology obtained CE Mark in 2018 and 510(k) clearance in 2021.
www.ablacon.com
Ajax Health seeks to identify, support and scale disruptive technologies in the healthcare space. Taking an active operating role, the Ajax team has a proven track record of helping companies of all sizes, stages and structures achieve their value-creation goals. Ajax Health is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA and backed by an investor group led by HealthQuest Capital along with Polaris Partners and Aisling Capital.
www.ajaxhealth.com
Zeus Health is a platform formed by leading global investment firm KKR focused on investing in and operating a portfolio of emerging medical device companies. Zeus Health is a continuation of the long-standing partnership between KKR and Duke Rohlen.
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Which webcam is best?
Most laptops have a built-in webcam, so it’s easier to jump onto a Skype or Microsoft Teams meeting. But often, these webcams aren’t the best quality, making you fuzzy or out of focus. For that reason, it’s important to have a dedicated webcam. Of course, you’ll also need a webcam if you have a desktop computer since the monitor doesn’t have one built in.
Logitech webcam
The Swiss-American technology giant Logitech has been producing consumer electronics since the early ’80s and is well-known among gamers and gadget enthusiasts. One of Logitech’s first webcams was the QuickCam, which the company acquired from Connectix in 1998. The QuickCam VC was the first device of its kind to use a USB connection, and while it only had a 320-pixel resolution, it cost $129.
Logitech webcam pros
Being a pioneer in webcam development, Logitech has had four decades to perfect the technology. While some aspects still need a bit of work, the webcams are generally of excellent quality, in build and visuals. Most can capture videos at 60 frames per second, and more than a few have a resolution higher than the standard 1080p.
The company split its webcam focus into two categories: streaming and video conferencing. This gives you a better idea of what to look for, ensuring you buy the correct one for your purposes.
Logitech webcam cons
There aren’t many things you can fault Logitech webcams for, but there are a few recurring issues. Users complain that the privacy covers are often flimsy or that the webcams struggle with auto-focus — which isn’t an issue unique to Logitech.
Another concern isn’t specifically leveled at Logitech but at major electronic makers in general — the cost. Often, products from tech giants come at a premium cost but have about the same technology as more affordable models from lesser-known companies.
Best Logitech webcams
This webcam has one of the highest resolutions available, capturing content in 4K at up to 90 frames per second. It has three depth-of-field settings to ensure you’re always in the center of the frame, and RightLight 3 technology automatically adjusts the brightness. It comes with two omnidirectional microphones and an attachable privacy screen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Perfect for everyday office use, the C920S has a maximum capture resolution of 1080p at 30 frames per second and has a privacy shield that folds down over the lens. It has two microphones and built-in technology to adjust light brightness and autofocus.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Logitech for Creators StreamCam Premium Webcam
This webcam is perfect for online content creators who don’t want to use an expensive camera system. It records at 1080p at 60 frames per second and has a premium glass lens and a smart autofocus system. The auto-framing technology ensures that you are always in the shot, and the camera is optimized for popular streaming software such as OBS and Xsplit. It connects through a USB-C cable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NexiGo webcam
NexiGo is a much newer company, founded in 2019 in Beaverton, Oregon. Out of its wide product selection, the N60 webcam is one of its bestselling gadgets. In fact, webcams are one of NexiGo’s product focuses, aiming to deliver better quality at more affordable prices than its competitors. Since the launch of the N60 in 2020, it has close to 20 webcams in the lineup.
NexiGo webcam pros
It’s always great when a company makes a selection of products, but far too often, it only involves minor changes. However, NexiGo has webcams in five distinct groups: budget, ring lights, 60 frames per second, zoomable and 4K.
The budget webcams range from $39-$99 and have all the features you’d expect from more expensive ones. A few cameras are priced over $100, but the included technology makes it worthwhile.
NexiGo webcam cons
No product or service is perfect, and there are a few aspects that NexiGo users don’t enjoy. Especially for the more affordable webcams, some said the cameras often struggle to focus or don’t focus correctly.
Another recurring issue some reviewers had was that the color reproduction of the more affordable webcams wasn’t accurate. NexiGo has subtly addressed the problem by giving tips on adjusting color settings for Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Skype meetings.
Best NexiGo webcams
One of the company’s best-selling webcams, it has a streaming resolution of 1080p (full HD) at 30 frames per second. It has a fixed focus distance of 19 inches to 3 feet and a built-in privacy cover to close the lens, with a 110-degree field of view. The noise-canceling microphone reduces ambient sounds, and the mounting clip is compatible with most monitors and laptop displays.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
This webcam has a 2-megapixel CMOS sensor to give you crisp 1080p streaming footage at 30 frames per second, and a built-in autofocus feature can detect objects as close as 2.7 inches. There is also a setting to turn the autofocus off and change it manually. It has a built-in noise-canceling microphone and a privacy shield that easily slides over the camera lens.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
NexiGo N960E Webcam with Ring Light
This has a built-in ring light around the camera lens, perfect in low lighting or when you want to look your best — it ensures you are always well-lit and in focus. It has three modes and three brightness settings. The lens has a privacy shield and captures at 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second. There’s a built-in noise-canceling microphone.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Logitech webcam or a NexiGo webcam?
It’s challenging to determine which company makes the better webcams, as the scales of the features don’t overtly tip in one or the other’s favor. But if you factor in external aspects such as software support and aftermarket accessories, Logitech inches ahead. Sure, some Logitech gadgets might cost you extra, but they come with more than just a plastic shell and a glass lens.
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Founder and Wealth Management Advisor Lee Weinstein CLU®, ChFC®, AEP® has departed Insight Financial to create LWS Financial, a holistic planning and advisory firm launched to support the continued growth of his practice. Weinstein adds: "Evolution was knocking on my door and the solution became clear: I needed to partner with organizations that share my client-focused values, can deliver next-level service, and free me up to focus on asset management and planning."
As a recognized industry leader specializing in wealth management for closely held businesses and high-net-worth individuals and families, Weinstein has grown his practice to serve a diverse client base. He selected MassMutual and MMLIS to access a best-in-class platform, have greater flexibility, more efficient cost structures, a deep bench of experts, superb technology, and an expanding suite of curated alternative investments.
This also provided him with the opportunity to affiliate with Piller Financial Group, a leader on the MMLIS investment platform to help meet the needs of his clients. Owner, Grant Piller, adds: "We are excited to team up with LWS Financial and build upon the incredible reputation they have created in a high-net-worth marketplace. We look forward to expanding into the Southeast and broadening our financial knowledge while providing strong resources to the LWS team."
Weinstein and his team will operate out of their NYC and West Palm Beach offices. Weinstein's team includes Managing Director Andrew Klein. Klein comes to us from Northwestern Mutual after a successful 20-plus-year career in investment banking. His career experience as a former banker provides a unique insight into the needs of a wide variety of clients, including financial professionals, doctors, and founder/family-owned businesses.
"FAF is proud to have Lee and his team join our organization. His three decades of helping families and businesses secure their financial future is impressive. His leadership will be instrumental in the growth of our firm," said Managing Partner, Michael Book.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A Cold War-era law in Hawaii that allows authorities to impose sweeping restrictions on press freedoms and electronic communications during a state of emergency could soon be repealed by lawmakers over concerns about its constitutionality and potential misuse.
Those who are worried about the law, which allows a governor or mayor to suspend “electronic media transmissions” during a crisis, say that language could now also be interpreted to include social media posts, text messages and emails, as well as reporting by media outlets.
The Hawaii Association of Broadcasters says the existing law appears to be unique among all 50 states and violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
“We get into a situation where … somebody could suspend electronic media because they don’t like what’s being said about them,” said Chris Leonard, the association’s president, who also operates a radio station on the Big Island.
Current state leaders haven’t invoked the law, but “Who knows who’s in office tomorrow?” he added.
Lawmakers in the state House and Senate have each passed versions of legislation to eliminate the decades-old rule and have a deadline this week to agree on language so the bill can move forward.
Christian Grose, a professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California, said the law “gives shockingly large amounts of power to the governor and mayors in ways that might be afoul of constitutional freedoms.”
“That’s sort of an unusual, almost authoritarian law that would allow such powers to be given to the governor or mayor,” Grose said.
Some do support leaving the law on the books.
James Barros, the head of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, said the law might still be needed to restrict electronic transmissions “that could trigger an explosive device or ignite volatile chemicals.”
The bill would eliminate the executive branch’s authority to take action that could save lives “based on a hypothetical restriction of free speech rights,” Barros said in written testimony.
The law appears to date to 1951, when the Cold War pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Union. There were concerns about radio frequency transmitters being used to identify bombing targets, said Leonard.
The law was revised about a decade ago to its current form, which allows a governor or mayor to: “Shut off water mains, gas mains, electric power connections, or suspend other services, and, to the extent permitted by or under federal law, suspend electronic media transmission.”
The Hawaii County Council on the Big Island discovered the law last year when it was reviewing its own county code to align it with state law.
Information has helped calm people and make decisions during the 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano and the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashley Lehualani Kierkiewicz, a county council member, explained in testimony to state legislators.
“In times of emergency and natural disasters, the public needs more information — not less — and communication should flow through all possible channels as frequently as possible,” she said in written testimony.
It’s notable that Hawaii’s lawmakers are considering taking away executive power because the trend in the U.S. government and in some other states has been for the executive to amass power without legislators stopping them, Grose said.
“So the fact that Hawaii’s is doing this is big,” he said. | 2023-04-25T17:33:28+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/almost-authoritarian-hawaiis-cold-war-speech-law-may-go/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed gun-control measures into law on Tuesday, after lawmakers passed measures this year in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen last year ended a requirement similar to a Maryland law for people to demonstrate a particular need to get a license to carry a concealed gun in public.
One of the measures Moore signed Tuesday removes the “good and substantial reason” language from Maryland law that the court found unconstitutional in the Bruen case. But the Maryland General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, also tightened gun laws to prevent someone from carrying a concealed handgun in certain areas.
“Gun violence is tearing apart the fabric of our communities, not just through mass shootings but through shootings that are happening in each of our communities far too often,” Moore, a Democrat, said at a bill-signing ceremony.
Moore said the measures he signed into law demonstrate that the state won't back down from the challenges of addressing gun violence plaguing the nation.
“In Maryland, we refuse to say these problems are too big or too tough,” Moore said. "We will act, and that’s exactly what today represents.”
One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an “area for children or vulnerable adults,” like a school or health care facility. The new law, which takes effect Oct. 1, also prohibits a person from carrying a firearm in a “government or public infrastructure area,” or a “special purpose area,” which is defined as a place licensed to sell alcohol, cannabis, a stadium, museum, racetrack or casino.
The law also prohibits a person carrying a firearm from entering someone's home or property, unless the owner has given permission. There are exemptions for law enforcement, security guards and members of the military.
Gun-rights activists already are planning to challenge the legislation in court.
Mark Pennak, president of Maryland Shall Issue, said Tuesday a lawsuit is drafted and “ready to go.”
“It goes way too far," Pennak said of the legislation.
A separate measure signed by the governor changes and expand requirements and procedures that relate to the issuance and renewal of a permit to wear, carry or transport a handgun.
While it repeals the “good and substantial reason” requirement struck down by the Supreme Court, it raises the age for qualifying for a handgun permit from 18 to 21, which has come under court challenge in other parts of the country.
It also prohibits a permit for someone who is on supervised probation for a crime punishable by up to one year or more in prison, a person convicted of driving while impaired or under the influence, and people who violate a protective order. People with a mental illness who have a history of violent behavior also would be prohibited from carrying a gun, as well as people who have been involuntarily admitted for more than 30 days to a mental health facility.
The new law also makes changes to requirements for a firearms training course. For example, it specifies that 16 hours of in-person instruction for initial applications include laws relating to self-defense, safe storage and circumstances under which a person becomes prohibited from possessing a firearm.
The law increases the fee for an initial application for a handgun permit from $75 to $125. The fee for renewal or subsequent application for a handgun permit increases from $50 to $75, and a fee for a duplicate or modified handgun permit would go from $10 to $20.
The governor also signed into law another bill that strengthens storage requirements for firearms. Under the law, a person can't store a loaded firearm in a place where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to a gun. It's known as Jaelynn's Law. The law is named after 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey, who was killed in 2018 at Great Mills High School by a 17-year-old student who used his father's gun. | 2023-05-16T20:31:30+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/politics/article/maryland-governor-signs-gun-control-bills-18102924.php |
TIJUANA (Border Report) — An alert shopkeeper recognized the wig and locked his doors until police arrived to arrest “Lady Pelucas,” who reached legendary status for wearing a different wig every time she allegedly robbed a business.
Prosecutors say Lady Pelucas, or “Lady Wigs,” was the leader of a gang and is accused of committing dozens of robberies over the last few months in Tijuana.
“She was American, white and tall,” said Gabriela Soto, who alleges that Lady Pelucas and her gang hit her shop, Venus Chocolates, back in September.
“They came in a group and distracted the girls working and then stole several items,” Soto said.
Police say the woman under the wig is 30-year-old Catherine M. of New York.
“We hope many others come forward and file complaints so she gets more time in jail, they need to make an example of her, that you can’t get away with this,” Soto said.
Soto uploaded to Facebook images of Lady Pelucas robbing her shop and says within days, other victims were doing the same thing.
Police credit social media for spreading the word.
“The news helped by publishing images, they had a lot of other victims posting their stories about how Lady Pelucas and her gang had robbed them,” Soto said.
Prosecutors said they are piecing together complaints to construct a case against Lady Pelucas and her associates.
Catherine M. is expected to face a judge next week. | 2022-12-02T23:01:16+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/border-report/infamous-lady-pelucas-in-custody-after-months-on-the-run/ |
WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — Under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Internal Revenue Service will spend an extra $79.6 billion over the next 10 years to help the agency dig out of a backlog of unprocessed paper returns, and staff up to take aim at the country’s highest earners.
The act, which is expected to pass the House before going to President Biden’s desk for signature, will add 87,000 new IRS agents to the agency’s roster. It’s expected to help speed up processing refunds that some taxpayers have been waiting as long as 10 months to receive.
Democratic sponsors of the legislation said it’s also aimed at wealthy individuals cheating their taxes, with $46 billion of the $80 billion earmarked for audits.
Ben Wilkerson, a managing attorney at North Mississippi Legal Services, said these audits are sometimes tilted against lower-income earners.
“There’s no rhyme or reason that I can figure out to who gets audited,” he said.
Wilkerson has helped hundreds of low-income families impacted by IRS audits. He said going after these individuals is less work and gets done quicker — while wealthier filers have the resources to fight the agency.
A recent study from Syracuse University found the poorest families were audited at a rate five times higher than everyone else.
That figure is compared to just the 2% of millionaires who were audited in 2021.
Syracuse professor Susan Long said the Inflation Reduction Act may give the agency the manpower it needs to change that practice.
“It is really revolutionary,” she said. “Because year after year, IRS has been starved for resources but has been given more and more duties as we have seen and carry out things. You know, it takes steps; that’s the way the world goes round.”
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in a letter to the Senate last week that resources from the Inflation Reduction Act “are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans.” Instead, it will bring the IRS “back to historical norms in areas of challenge for the agency,”
Funds received will also go toward “employees and IT systems that will allow us to better serve all taxpayers,” Rettig wrote. | 2022-08-09T02:39:22+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/what-an-80b-funding-boost-to-the-irs-could-mean-for-taxpayers/ |
By JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
President Joe Biden is signing a bill Friday to avert a freight rail strike that he said could have plunged the U.S. into recession.
The White House said that Biden would sign a measure passed Thursday by the Senate and Wednesday by the House that binds rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached between the rail companies and union leaders in September.
Members in four of the 12 unions involved rejected the proposed contract, creating the risk of a strike beginning Dec. 9 that the government has likely staved off with the bill signing. A freight rail strike also would have a big potential impact on passenger rail, with Amtrak and many commuter railroads relying on tracks owned by the freight railroads.
The president has said that a strike would have sunk the U.S. economy, causing roughly 750,000 job losses as the work stoppage ruptured supply chains for basic goods, food and the chemicals needed to ensure clean drinking water.
Rising prices already have many Americans afraid of a coming downturn, but the U.S. job market has been steady. The government reported Friday that employers added 263,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate held at 3.7%.
Though Biden is a staunch union ally, he said the rail order was necessary to prevent a strike.
The Biden administration helped broker deals between the railroads and union leaders in September, but four of the unions rejected the deals. Eight others approved five-year deals and all 12 are getting back pay for their workers for the 24% raises that are retroactive to 2020.
But the absence of a meaningful increase in paid sick leave and other quality-of-life issues was a key concern for many union members whose votes were required for the settlement. The railroads say the unions have agreed in negotiations over the decades to forgo paid sick time in favor of higher wages and strong short-term disability benefits. Union members say railroads could afford the paid leave given their profit margins.
House Democrats narrowly adopted a measure to add seven days of paid sick leave to the tentative agreement, but that change fell eight votes shy of the 60-vote threshold needed for Senate passage.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-12-03T06:09:31+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2022/12/02/rail-strike-to-be-averted-biden-to-sign-bill/ |
(Motor Authority) — More gas-powered vehicles are coming from Acura, despite an Automotive News (subscription required) report stating that the Acura Integra hatchback launched for the 2023 model year will be the brand’s final launch for a vehicle still equipped with an internal-combustion engine. The story was reported based on an interview with Emile Korkor, assistant vice president of Acura national sales, but the brand refutes AN‘s conclusion.
Acura spokesman Andrew Quillin shared a statement correcting the record. “The AutoNews article referenced is speculative, and not based on confirmed plans or statements. While we can’t comment on future product plans, the recently introduced 2023 Integra will not be the last new ICE vehicle from Acura. Acura will play a critical role in Honda’s transition to electrified vehicles. In fact, as we announced last fall, Acura will lead American Honda’s transition to electrification and digitalization. This begins with an all-new full electric Acura SUV coming in 2024.”
Given the product cycle of Acuras such as the RDX compact crossover and TLX mid-size sedan, the switch to battery-electric powertrains would be extremely difficult. Both are due for an update in the next few years, and we expect them to continue with gas engines.
Nonethless, Acura is moving toward electric vehicles. Korkor in a separate interview with Automotive News published last December said Acura was committed to electric vehicles and would skip launching additional hybrid vehicles as it makes the transition from gas to battery power.
The transition will start as early as the 2024 model year when Acura launches an electric SUV that will be built by General Motors on its Ultium platform found in the 2022 GMC Hummer EV and 2023 Cadillac Lyriq. Parent company Honda will also launch an SUV based on the Ultium platform for 2024. Honda (and likely Acura) also plans EVs based on its own e:Architecture platform starting from 2026.
In addition, we might see an electric NSX in the not too distant future. Acura boss Jon Ikeda confirmed plans for a third-generation NSX last summer when Acura rolled out the 2022 NSX Type S to mark the end of the current second-generation model’s run. His comments at the time implied that the next NSX would be powered by something other than a standalone internal-combustion engine like the first-gen car and a hybrid setup like the second-gen car.
Honda has since teased a pair of electric sports cars, one of which was described as a “flagship” model (shown above) and looks to have proportions like a mid-engine supercar. The other car looks to feature the proportions of a front-engine rear-wheel-drive sports car and as a result may serve as a spiritual successor to the S2000.
Update: This story has been updated to include the statement from Acura and to correct the record that the Integra will not be the last vehicle launched with a gas engine.
— Motor Authority Senior Editor Kirk Bell contributed to this report. | 2022-08-16T03:29:54+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/automotive/acura-integra-wont-be-brands-last-gas-powered-model-launch/ |
EAST LANSING, Mich., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michigan Fire Inspectors Society and the Michigan Propane Gas Association (MPGA) are helping Food Truck operators get their rigs ready for the 2022 season.
"There are thousands of food trucks and trailers in Michigan," said Derek Dalling the executive director of the MPGA. "Food truck owners use propane for its portability, because it is a safe fuel to use, and because propane helps chefs cook foods fast and easily. Plus propane is eco-friendly with minimal emissions."
"Michigan has very safety-specific codes for traditional restaurants but when you add wheels to the equation the rules can change from county to county. In most cases an operator can learn more about regional safety standards from their local health department. Regarding their cooking fuel they should contact their local fire department," said Larry Otto, MPGA Safety Chairmen.
The food truck industry is outpacing the broader food service sector. The industry was growing at an annualized rate of 7.5 percent between 2016-2021.
"We are experiencing many new operators choose to repurpose trucks and trailers, and convert them into mobile food vehicles. Unfortunately, they often choose to do the work themselves, without the benefit having licensed contractors perform the installations. This can prove to be an expensive practice, and a dangerous one, if electric service or gas lines are done by unlicensed individuals. Please use professional installers when work is needed on your mobile food vehicle," said Lt. Bill Smith of the Grand Rapids Fire Department.
Food Truck Facts:
- To prepare for a fire safety inspection: MISafeFoodTruck.com.
- Install an automatic fire-suppression system in the truck. Because 57% of food service business fires involve cooking equipment, most municipalities require this equipment to be installed.
- Schedule regular maintenance of your propane equipment. Every time you enter a food truck or trailer check the lowest level inside of the rig and check for a rotten egg smell. A rotten egg smell is the safety odor in propane letting you know there is a leak.
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Two genetic experts told an inquiry in Sydney on Tuesday that a rare genetic mutation probably caused the deaths of two daughters of an Australian woman who was convicted of killing them.
The inquiry is examining new scientific evidence that Kathleen Folbigg’s four young children may have died of natural causes between 1989 and 1999.
Folbigg, now 55, was found guilty in 2003 of three charges of murder and one of manslaughter. But growing numbers of scientists are convinced that recent genetic breakthroughs have created reasonable doubt of her guilt.
Mette Nyegaard and Michael Toft Overgaard, both researchers at Denmark’s Aalborg University, are among the authors of a scientific article published last year about a genetic variant carried by Folbigg and both her daughters, Sarah and Laura.
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The variant, CALM2-G114R, which was discovered nine years after Folbigg’s convictions, can cause heart arrhythmias and sudden death in young children.
“We think it is likely this mutation could have caused the deaths,” Overgaard told the inquiry.
Nyegaard agreed, saying, “It Iooks like a bad variant.”
But Folbigg’s two sons, Patrick and Caleb, did not carry the mutation and also died.
Caleb was born in 1989 and died 19 days later in what a jury determined to be the lesser crime of manslaughter. Her second child, Patrick, was 8 months old when he died in 1991. Two years later, Sarah died at 10 months. In 1999, Folbigg’s fourth child, Laura, died at 19 months.
The inquiry, led by retired New South Wales state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, began on Monday and is the second judicial investigation into Folbigg’s convictions.
The first inquiry by retired District Court Chief Justice Reginald Blanch concluded in 2019 that there was no reasonable doubt that Folbigg was guilty of killing her children. But that finding came before the new research into the daughters’ genetic mutations.
The next hearing in the investigation is to be held next year.
Folbigg is serving a 30-year prison sentence which will expire in 2033. She will become eligible for parole in 2028. | 2022-11-16T01:17:06+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/rare-genetic-mutation-could-have-caused-two-australian-girls-deaths-experts/2997616/ |
(KTLA) – At least five people were injured when an American Airlines jet collided with a passenger shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport Friday night, airport officials confirmed.
The collision happened on the south side of the airport as the plane was being towed from a gate to a parking lot on a taxiway, an LAX spokesperson told Nexstar’s KTLA.
The plane, an Airbus A321, was not carrying passengers. However, the shuttle bus was.
Five people were treated by paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Four were transported to nearby hospitals, the department said.
The tug driver was listed in moderate condition. The bus driver and two passengers were listed in fair condition, the LAFD said.
The only person on the plane, a worker, was treated for injuries but declined transport.
“A jet being towed tonight from a gate to a parking area made contact with a shuttle bus, resulting in injuries to about 5 people,” LAX tweeted. “We thank our partners @LAFD for quickly responding and treating passengers from the bus. Other LAX operations remain normal.”
The cause of the collision remains under investigation. | 2023-02-11T16:55:04+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/5-injured-after-american-airlines-plane-collides-with-shuttle-bus-at-los-angeles-international-airport/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia needs to make more progress implementing a peace agreement with its northern Tigray region before relations with the U.S. are normalized, visiting Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
Speaking in Addis Ababa, Blinken said Ethiopia must ensure “there are no ongoing gross violations of human rights” and establish an “inclusive and credible” transitional justice process after the two-year Tigray conflict.
“Then our own ability to move forward on our engagement with Ethiopia, to include economic engagement, will also move forward,” Blinken said after meeting with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and others.
Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the Tigray conflict before the peace agreement was signed in November. Communications, banking and other basic services in the region of more than 5 million people were cut off and recently began to resume.
Out of concern for massacres, gang rapes and other abuses committed by all sides in the fighting, the U.S. imposed sanctions, restricted economic support to Ethiopia and suspended the country’s membership in the African Growth and Opportunities Act, a preferential trade pact.
Ethiopia, facing a post-conflict reconstruction bill of $20 billion, is eager to see economic and other assistance from the U.S. and others return, but there are concerns about how the government will address the widespread human rights abuses. The government has objected to a United Nations commission of inquiry and seeks to block its funding.
“There’s a lot to be done,” Blinken told Ethiopian Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen. “But the most important thing is to keep the peace that has now taken hold in the north and to strengthen our ties as we move along.”
Blinken also met with representatives from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and announced $331 million in new humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia.
Humanitarian organizations now returning to Tigray report hunger and lack of medical supplies, with many health centers damaged or destroyed.
But the implementation of the peace deal has seen “significant movement in the right direction,” Blinken said.
A major challenge is the presence of troops from neighboring Eritrea, which was allied with Ethiopia’s government in the conflict and was not a party to the agreement. Observers have said the Eritreans have pulled back to border areas.
Ethiopian officials and Blinken also discussed a dispute with downstream Egypt over Ethiopia’s completion of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, according to the government.
Blinken is on a four-day trip to Africa that also includes Niger. He is due to visit the African Union, based in Ethiopia, on Thursday. | 2023-03-15T21:56:36+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/blinken-in-ethiopia-as-country-recovers-from-tigray-conflict/ |
WASHINGTON — A new Interior Department report on the legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans underscores how closely the U.S. government collaborated with churches to Christianize them as part of a project to sever them from their culture, their identities and ultimately their land.
The role of churches forms a secondary part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report, released Wednesday after a yearlong review sparked by the 2021 discoveries of hundreds of potential graves at former residential schools in Canada. Most of it focuses on the government’s responsibility for its own officials’ actions and policies.
But it details how the government provided funding and other support to religious boarding schools for Native children in the 19th and early 20th centuries to an extent that normally would have been prohibited under rules on separation between church and state. Churches had clout with the government as well, it adds, and were able to recommend people for appointments to federal positions on Native affairs.
While this church-state collaboration is well known to specialists in the field and was the subject of federal reports in past generations, the latest one brings it to a wide audience at a time when many Americans are only beginning to learn about the boarding schools.
The Interior Department report, quoting a 1969 Senate investigation, acknowledges that “federal policy toward the Indian was based on the desire to dispossess him of his land. Education policy was a function of our land policy.”
A core part of that was training Native Americans in vocations that were less land-intensive — though often ill-suited to available jobs — in addition to breaking down tribal ties.
Christian conversion was also key, the report says, citing an 1886 Commissioner for Indian Affairs document that disparaged Native spiritual traditions and said the government should provide “encouragement and cooperation” to missionaries.
“The government aid furnished enables them to sustain their missions, and renders it possible ... to lead these people, whose paganism has been the chief obstacle to their civilization into the light of Christianity,” the commissioner wrote at the time.
This week's report also says the government funded the schools with money held in trust for tribes as compensation for land they ceded. A 1908 Supreme Court ruling held that “the prohibition on the Federal Government to spend funds on religious schools did not apply to Indian treaty funds,” it notes.
And it says, citing the 1969 Senate investigation, that the U.S. military “was frequently called in to reinforce the missionaries’ orders” in the 19th century.
The report identifies 408 boarding schools for Indigenous children in 37 states and former territories that were either run or supported by the government between 1819 and 1969. While it doesn’t say how many were church-run, an earlier report by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition found that more than 150 were, about half each by Catholic and Protestant groups.
At a congressional hearing Thursday on a bill that would authorize a truth-and-healing commission to investigate the boarding schools, modeled on a similar one in Canada, witness Matthew War Bonnet testified about his childhood experience at the St. Francis Boarding School in South Dakota. Priests who ran the facility sought to alienate him from his parents and culture, and at times subjected him to sadistic abuse.
“The boarding schools were sanctioned by the United States Government,” said War Bonnet, 76, a Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. “The government gave the churches our lands to Christianize us, modernize us and civilize us. But the churches treated us wrong. ... The government and the churches need to be held accountable.”
The Rev. Bradley Hauff, the Episcopal Church's missioner for Indigenous ministries, who is Lakota and a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said faith groups must confront their history of collaboration on the schools.
“As much as we in the church might not want to acknowledge that, it is the truth, and we have to acknowledge and reckon with it. We did work hand in hand with the government in the assimilation process,” he said. “Most if not all the Christian denominations that had a presence in America in the late 19th century operated at least one Indigenous boarding school.”
At its General Convention in July, the Episcopal Church plans to vote on probing its role with the schools and acknowledging its responsibility for causing trauma in generations of Native Americans.
Maka Black Elk, executive director of truth and healing at the Red Cloud Indian School, founded in 1888 by Jesuits in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, agreed that faith groups must reckon with their past. Lakota staffing, language and ritual are central to the modern Red Cloud school, which serves Christians as well as followers of Native spiritual traditions.
“While today we recognize there are many Native people who identify as Christian ... and value that part of their identity, we have to engage deeply with that history,” he said.
Any evangelism must be “rooted in people’s agency and (be) nonviolent,” added Black Elk, who is Oglala Lakota. “That is a big part of our discussion today. That’s a broader question for the greater Catholic church, not just us.”
In April, Pope Francis apologized at the Vatican to Indigenous delegations from Canada “for the deplorable conduct of those members of the Catholic Church” in operating the schools, where many children were abused and died from disease and other causes. Francis plans to apologize again on Canadian soil in July.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, a lobby affiliated with the Quaker movement, which operated multiple boarding schools, said in a statement that this week's Interior report should spur congressional approval of the truth and healing commission.
“Further, we call on the faith community at large to share records and accounts of their administration of these schools,” the committee said. “Only through complete honesty and transparency can we begin moving towards a more just future.” | 2022-05-15T14:50:03+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/us-report-details-native-school-church-state-collusion/507-f9699049-7ba2-45ed-a60a-6ead3f7e3370 |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
01-09-10-36-37
(one, nine, ten, thirty-six, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $284,000
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Show Me Cash" game were:
01-09-10-36-37
(one, nine, ten, thirty-six, thirty-seven)
Estimated jackpot: $284,000 | 2022-09-12T03:53:20+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Show-Me-Cash-game-17434816.php |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Kremlin-controlled lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that toughens punishment for soldiers breaching their duties, in an apparent effort to boost discipline in the ranks amid the fighting in Ukraine.
The set of amendments to Russia’s Criminal Code that was quickly endorsed by the State Duma introduces severe punishments for failure to follow orders, desertion or surrendering to the enemy. The bill now needs to receive the upper house’s approval and then be signed by President Vladimir Putin to become law — steps that are considered to be formalities.
Under the new legislation, deserting a military unit during a period of mobilization or martial law would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, compared with five years under the current law.
Those who voluntarily surrender to the enemy will also face a prison term of up to 10 years, and those convicted of looting could be handed a 15-year term.
Another amendment introduces a prison sentence of up to 10 years for those who refuse to go to combat or follow an officer’s order.
The passage of the new legislation follows media reports alleging that some Russian soldiers in Ukraine have refused to go into combat and tried to resign from service.
Unlike Ukraine, which conducted a broad mobilization with the goal of reaching an active military of 1 million fighters, Russia has continued to rely on a limited contingent of volunteers.
Some nationalist politicians have called for a mobilization to beef up the ranks, but the Kremlin so far has ruled it out. | 2022-09-20T15:42:28+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-russian-lawmakers-toughen-punishment-for-soldiers/ |
As the Super Bowl approaches and fans buy last-minute tickets, one man who lost thousands said to beware of scams.
Ryan Van Laeys lost a massive amount of money in a World Series ticket scheme and he believes the suspects may strike again, according to 6ABC.
“I just don’t understand how people like this can rest their head on their pillow at night,” Van Laeys told the news outlet.
He found tickets on Facebook from an alleged couple from Thomson, Georgia: Norman and Janet Stevenson.
“He was very quick to give his phone number, which was a good sign that there wasn’t anything shady going on,” Van Laeys said about Norman.
The couple told him they were in Atlantic City and said they had tickets from Autism for Life, a charitable organization. They said they created it for their adult Autistic son.
Van Laeys met the couple at Caesars Casino.
“They said that they basically acquired these tickets through organizations who then allow them to sell them to benefit the charity,” he added.
He sent the couple $8,300 via the MLB app. Norman called him hours later saying he had more tickets and Van Laeys sent the couple another $2,800 via Venmo.
Van Laeys said his tickets disappeared from the MLB app just hours before the game at Citizen Bank Park.
Customer service told him the credit card the couple used to buy the tickets was stolen.
“So recent that the credit card companies hadn’t even caught on yet,” he continued. “And when they did, they notified Major League Baseball who retracted the tickets.”
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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Leona Maguire of Ireland has been on a tear since the start of the month and not even an elite field in the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship, intermittent rain and a tough Baltusrol course slowed her down.
The winner Sunday in Michigan for her second LPGA Tour title, Maguire birdied four of her final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-shot lead over three players Friday at the halfway point of the second of five majors in women’s golf this year.
“This is uncharted territory for me,” Maguire said. “Whatever happens this week, I’m sure I’ll learn a lot, and just sort of taking it one day at a time. I think this golf course demands that. I think you can’t think more than one shot ahead, let alone a hole or a round ahead.”
Maguire had five birdies and two bogeys in shooting her seventh straight round in the 60s, dating to the final round at the Mizuho Americas Open. The 28-year-old former Duke star, ranked 12th in the world, had a 5-under 137 total at Baltusrol.
Maguire didn’t know about her 60s streak and she struggled at Mizuho most of the week after developing blisters following a tournament in Las Vegas.
“But, yeah, feel like my game has been in really good shape for a couple weeks now. Obviously, it was last week, and nice to continue that to this week,” said Maguire, who joked that playing in the rain was like being back home.
There are plenty of players close to the lead.
Mel Reid (67) of England, Xiyu Lin (71) of China and rookie Celine Borge (69) of Norway were tied for second, a shot ahead of first-round leader Lee-Anne Pace (73) of South Africa and fifth-ranked Minjee Lee of Australia, who pushed herself into the hunt for the second major with a 67 on a dreary day.
“Obviously, had a really nice day today, and I’m hoping that the momentum carries on into the weekend,” Lee said.
The Lower Course at Baltusrol has been the big winner this week. Through two rounds there were only 15 players under par and some of the biggest names in women’s golf won’t be around for the weekend, missing the cut at 5 over.
Still in contention are first-time winner Ruoning Yin of China at 2 under, two-time major winner Brooke Henderson of Canada, top-ranked Jin Young Ko of South Korea and Celine Boutier of France, along with Americans Gina Kim, Allisen Corpuz Mina Harigae, all at 1 under.
“If my shot is getting better and putter is still like the first couple days, yeah, I think I can chance to get win this week,” said Ko, who won the Founders Cup in New Jersey last month, beating Lee in a one-hole playoff.
Rose Zhang, who burst onto the women’s golf scene with a win at Mizuho in her first event as a professional, struggled and needed a birdie on her last hole to finish with a 74 and a 2-over score.
“Coming in it was definitely a little rough,” Zhang said. “I was putting myself in positions that were not ideal, and when you’re out here, especially at a major championship venue, it is difficult to get up-and-down.”
While there is a tremendous amount of attention being paid to Zhang the past month, most forget that Maguire had the longest stay as the world’s No. 1 ranked amateur until turning pro in 2018. Zhang broke her record.
Among those who missed the cut were No. 2 Nelly Korda, No. 4 Lilia Vu, No. 6 Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand and No. 9 Georgia Hall of England. Lexi Thompson, ranked No. 9, needed four straight birdies late in her round to get to 4 over.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Paul Pelosi, husband of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, was beaten by a man with a hammer inside the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday after being specifically targeted, according to the Speaker’s office and reporting from the Associated Press.
The intruder shouted “where is Nancy?” before attacking Paul Pelosi, the AP reports.
“Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi,” Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the Speaker’s office, stated in a press release. “The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation. Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery. The Speaker was not in San Francisco at the time.”
The Associated Press reported that according to two people with knowledge of the attack, Mr. Pelosi was severely beaten and is being treated by doctors for bruising, severe swelling and other injuries. The sources stated he suffered blunt force injuries.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that President Joe Biden is “praying for Paul Pelosi and for Speaker Pelosi’s whole family.”
“This morning he called Speaker Pelosi to express his support after this horrible attack,” she stated. “He is also very glad that a full recovery is expected. The President continues to condemn all violence, and asks that the family’s desire for privacy be respected.”
The United States Capitol Police provided a statement shortly after 7 a.m. Friday that the agency is “assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation.”
“The Speaker was in Washington, D.C. with her protective detail at the time of the overnight, break-in,” the statement read. “During the California break-in, the Speaker’s husband was assaulted, but he is now recovering. The San Francisco Police Department has the suspect in custody. The motivation for the attack is still under investigation.
“Special Agents with the USCP’s California Field Office quickly arrived on scene, while a team of investigators from the Department’s Threat Assessment Section was simultaneously dispatched from the East Coast to assist the FBI and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation,” the statement continued. “The law enforcement agencies will provide more information when it can be released.”
The San Francisco Police Department stated officers responded around 2:27 a.m. Friday and that Police Chief William Scott will be addressing the media at SFPD headquarters later this morning.
For its part the FBI’s San Francisco office stated it is currently at the residence.
“The FBI San Francisco is currently at the residence of Nancy Pelosi following an early morning break-in,” the office stated. “A male subject is in custody. The incident is being jointly investigated by the San Francisco Police Department, the United States Capitol Police, and the FBI. We have no additional information to release at this time.”
Paul Pelosi, 82, is a businessman who owns Financial Leasing Services Inc. A San Francisco native who attended St. Ignatius High, Pelosi married Nancy D’Alesandro on Sept. 7, 1963. They have five children. Their home is in San Francisco’s ritzy Pacific Heights neighborhood, near Alta Plaza Park. Nancy Pelosi has represented most of San Francisco in the House since 1987.
On Jan. 1, 2021, in the lead-up to the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol, the house was vandalized, according to San Francisco police, who stated to KRON4 News at the time that “unidentified suspect(s) had painted graffiti on the garage door and left a pig’s head on the sidewalk.”
Mr. Pelosi’s brother, Ron, a former uncle-by marriage to Gov. Gavin Newsom, was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for 12 years. He was president of the board from 1978 to 1980, and represented the Sunset neighborhood.
Mr. Pelosi was arrested in May for driving under the influence of alcohol in Napa County. He pled guilty and was sentenced to three years probation as well as given fines and restitution.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | 2022-10-28T16:40:25+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/speaker-pelosis-husband-attacked-in-san-francisco-home/ |
Courtney and Kyle are residents of Miami's Omni neighborhood, situated right in the action between Wynwood and Downtown. To combat the chaos, they'll typically start their days at Margaret Pace Park. "It's very urban, but super relaxing just walking and sitting there by the water," says Kyle. "It's really nice in the mornings."
When they set out to create their now-thriving Magic City Flea, Courtney Bower and Kyle Hazlewood realized pretty quickly: There’s no wikiHow page for starting a flea market.
After meeting at Boston College and graduating amid the pandemic, the couple spent a six-month stint in Bower’s hometown of Rochester, New York, where Hazlewood picked up his girlfriend’s knack for vintage reselling, and the two embedded themselves in the area’s bustling flea market scene.
Fast forward to November 2021 in Miami, where Hazelwood grew up. The pair were in between jobs and eager to find that community that had welcomed them in and given them a common purpose in Upstate New York. It didn’t exist, so they pooled their resources and built it themselves.
“We were prepping for months and months, driving around Miami, taking pictures of lots that we thought could potentially work,” Bower remembers.
“There was no repository of information to tell us what to do,” Hazlewood chimes in. “If you Google ‘How to start a flea market,’ it's a bunch of articles on how to start selling out of flea markets. No, no, no—we want to start the whole market.”
Instead, they visited the same administrative office seven times until they’d finally filled out all the correct forms and pulled all the required permits. (They learned a lot, like if you want a portable toilet at your event, you’ll need to pull a building permit.)
The first Magic City Flea opened in Wynwood in April 2022, the name and branding an homage to the couple’s love of history and Miami’s latest renaissance of independent restaurants and small shops, and the sense of possibility they inspire. In the nearly two years since they embarked on this journey, Bower and Hazlewood have grown their humble flea market to an eclectic weekly pop-up with 12,000 followers, dozens of vendors and a team of five.
And though Bower and Hazlewood have taken on full-time “day jobs” since launching their project, neither has any plans to slow down. “It’d be really cool to be like a Brooklyn Flea of Miami,” Bower says when considering what Magic City Flea might look like in five years. Hazlewood envisions building on their experience to create even more activations around the city, from food concepts to festivals and beyond.
“It’s the community aspect of it,” Bower says of their driving force, especially coming out of the pandemic. “You're seeing neighbors become really good friends…and you all have this common interest, which is just fashion and sustainability.”
“It goes so deep and there are so many niches and so many interesting characters you meet,” Hazlewood adds. “[At Magic City Flea,] they can feel comfortable and be creative...it's like another home for them.” | 2023-06-06T12:48:37+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/miami/things-to-do/courtney-bower-and-kyle-hazlewood-are-building-up-miamis-thrift-scene |
As No. 7 Wahconah football took the field on Friday night, coming off a devastating loss the previous week, it looked to take every struggle as a learning opportunity. Through 48 minutes, the Warriors fought hard, knowing that No. 5 Agawam was a tough and undefeated opponent.
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Security guard killed, suspect shot by police after Oregon hospital shooting
GRESHAM, Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - Police in Oregon say a security guard was killed on Saturday after someone fired shots inside a hospital.
The Portland Police Bureau said just before 11 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a shooting inside Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital on Northwest 22nd Avenue.
In a news conference Saturday afternoon, a spokesperson confirmed police found “one or more” victims, and the suspect had fled from the hospital.
Police also set up a perimeter around the neighborhood.
At the time, police learned that the suspect possibly fled to the Fred Meyer store at 100 Northwest 20th Place. Employees and customers were evacuated as police began to search the store. The suspect was not found inside the store.
Police later found the suspect traveling inside a vehicle, which they were able to stop near Northeast 181st Avenue and Northeast Everett Street in Gresham.
During the stop, police fired shots, ending with the suspect being found dead.
On their website, Legacy Good Samaritan identified one of the shooting victims as Bobby Smallwood, a hospital security guard. Police say Smallwood was transferred to a Level 1 Trauma Center after the shooting, where he died despite lifesaving treatment efforts.
The hospital also said a second staff member had been injured but is expected to recover.
No patients were hurt in the shooting.
“Words cannot express the profound grief we are experiencing,” said Kathryn Correia, Legacy Health president and CEO. “We offer our unwavering support to Bobby’s loved ones, to our patients in our care, to the staff at Legacy Good Samaritan and to all of our employees and providers suffering today.”
Copyright 2023 KPTV-KPDX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-23T04:10:06+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/07/23/security-guard-killed-suspect-shot-by-police-after-oregon-hospital-shooting/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Abortion providers and patients were struggling Friday to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
In Florida, a law banning abortions after 15 weeks went into effect Friday, the day after a judge called it a violation of the state constitution and said he would sign an order temporarily blocking the law next week. The ban could have broader implications in the South, where the state has wider access to the procedure than its neighbors.
Abortion rights have been lost and regained in the span of a few days in Kentucky. A so-called trigger law imposing a near-total ban on the procedure took effect last Friday, but a judge blocked the law Thursday, meaning the state’s only two abortion providers can resume seeing patients — for now.
In Texas, abortions up to six weeks resumed at some clinics after a Houston judge said patients still had that right, at least until a new ban on virtually all abortions takes effect in the coming weeks. But the state has asked the Texas Supreme Court to block that order and allow prosecutors to enforce a ban on abortion now, adding to the uncertainty.
The legal wrangling is almost certain to continue to cause chaos for Americans seeking abortions in the near future, with court rulings able to upend access at a moment’s notice and an influx of new patients from out of state overwhelming providers.
Even when women travel outside states with abortion bans in place, they may have fewer options to end their pregnancies as the prospect of prosecution follows them.
Planned Parenthood of Montana this week stopped providing medication abortions to patients who live in states with bans in place, including South Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The move reflects how seriously it is taking the prospect of prosecution, even for abortion providers in states that have preserved abortion rights.
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which offers the procedure in Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, is telling its patients that they must take both pills in the regimen in a state that allows abortions.
“There’s a lot of confusion and concern that the providers may be at risk, and they are trying to limit their liability so they can provide care to people who need it,” said Dr. Daniel Grossman, who directs the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Bisek, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said that in an “unknown and murky” legal environment, they decided to tell patients they must be in a state where it is legal to complete the medication abortion — which requires taking two pills 24 to 48 hours apart. She said most patients from states with bans are expected to opt for surgical abortions.
The use of abortion pills has been the most common method to end a pregnancy since 2000, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone — the main drug used in medication abortions. Taken with misoprostol, a drug that causes cramping that empties the womb, it constitutes the abortion pill.
Access to the pills has become a key battle in abortion rights, with the Biden administration preparing to argue states can’t ban a medication that has received FDA approval.
Kim Floren, who operates an abortion fund in South Dakota called Justice Empowerment Network, said the development would further limit the choices women have and likely mean more will travel to Colorado for an abortion.
“The purpose of these laws anyways is to scare people,” Floren said of states’ bans on abortions and telemedicine consultations for medication abortions. “The logistics to actually enforcing these is a nightmare, but they rely on the fact that people are going to be scared.”
A South Dakota law took effect Friday that threatens a felony punishment for anyone who prescribes medication for an abortion without a license from the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners.
Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, an ardent opponent of abortion, said in a statement that “doctors who knowingly break the law and prescribe these medications to end a human life will be prosecuted.”
Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, said staff members at its clinics have seen women driving from as far as Texas without stopping or making an appointment. Women who are past 15 weeks are being asked to leave their information and promised a call back when a judge signs the order temporarily blocking the restriction, she said.
Still, there is concern that the order may be only temporary and the law may again go into effect later, creating additional confusion.
“It’s terrible for patients,” she said. “We are really nervous about what is going to happen.”
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, S.D. AP writers Dylan Lovan contributed from Louisville, Kentucky, and Adriana Gomez Licon from Miami. | 2022-07-01T20:08:53+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/shifting-abortion-laws-cause-confusion-for-patients-clinics/ |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, January 21, 2023
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COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service New York NY
451 AM EST Sat Jan 21 2023
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT IN EFFECT SUNDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...Up to one half foot of inundation above ground level
expected in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline
with the high tide cycles this morning and Sunday morning.
* WHERE...In New Jersey, Hudson, Eastern Essex and Eastern Union
Counties. In New York, Richmond (Staten Island) and Kings
(Brooklyn) Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Coastal Flood Statement, until 9 AM EST
this morning. For the second Coastal Flood Statement, Sunday
morning.
* IMPACTS...Brief minor flooding of the most vulnerable
locations near the waterfront and shoreline.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Additional minor coastal flooding is possible
with the Monday morning high tide cycle.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive through flooded roadways.
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST THIS
expected in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline.
* WHERE...Southwest Suffolk and Southeast Suffolk Counties.
* WHEN...Until 11 AM EST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Some water on low lying roads and property.
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS
MORNING TO NOON EST TODAY...
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Southern Fairfield and Southern New
Haven Counties. In New York, Southern Westchester, Northwest
Suffolk and Northern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...From 8 AM this morning to noon EST today.
* IMPACTS...Brief minor flooding of the most vulnerable locations
near the waterfront and shoreline.
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST THIS
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 10 AM EST
SUNDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Coastal Flood Advisory, up to one foot of
inundation above ground level expected in vulnerable areas
near the waterfront and shoreline. For the second Coastal
Flood Advisory, up to one half foot of inundation above ground
level expected in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and
shoreline.
* WHERE...Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Coastal Flood Advisory, until 11 AM EST
this morning. For the second Coastal Flood Advisory, from 6 AM
to 10 AM EST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding is expected in the more vulnerable
locations near the waterfront and shoreline. Expect up to 1 1/2
feet of inundation above ground level in low lying, vulnerable
areas this morning, and up to 1/2 foot Sunday morning. Some roads
and low lying property including parking lots,
parks, lawns and homes/businesses with basements near the
waterfront will experience shallow flooding.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Additional minor flooding will be possible with
the Monday morning high tide cycle.
If travel is required, allow extra time as some roads may be
closed. Do not drive around barricades or through water of
unknown depth. Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone
property.
Time of high total tides are approximate to the nearest hour.
ROCKAWAY INLET NY NEAR FLOYD BENNETT FIELD NY
MLLW CATEGORIES - MINOR 7.3 FT, MODERATE 8.3 FT, MAJOR 9.3 FT
MHHW CATEGORIES - MINOR 1.7 FT, MODERATE 2.7 FT, MAJOR 3.7 FT
TOTAL TOTAL DEPARTURE
DAY/TIME TIDE TIDE FROM NORM WAVES FLOOD
FT MLLW FT MHHW FT FT IMPACT
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21/07 AM 7.0/ 7.5 1.4/ 1.9 0.7/ 1.1 1-2 NONE
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As soon as Congress passed legislation raising the debt ceiling, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ leader in the Senate, declared, “We saved the country from the scourge of default.”
Is he kidding? It was Schumer and his buddies in Congress who took our country to the brink of a government default by their out-of-control spending.
Our government, that’s you and me, is $32 trillion in debt, and we’re supposed to thank the politicians for pulling up short of the cliff. Give me a break!
Bob Lamborn
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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) ("Rock Tech" or the "Company") and Transamine Holdings and Investments Limited ("Transamine") are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement to form a joint venture entity called "RTT Lithium SA" ("RTT"). RTT shall identify, pursue, and secure the supply of and to establish a new route for lithium-bearing spodumene for the Company's planned European lithium converters. RTT is expected to offer spodumene producers a single resilient and transparent off-take option by providing feedstock to Rock Tech, which intends to supply lithium to customers in the European automotive sector.
"RTT is expected to provide Rock Tech with the capacity to secure a deep pipeline of potential raw material sources and is an important step in advancing the Company's diversified sourcing strategy," said Markus Bruegmann, the Company's Chief Executive Officer. "Transamine is a partner with 70 years of expertise in the global non-ferrous raw materials trading space and has the liquidity and access to financing necessary for potential purchase financing."
Jean-Pierre Adamian, Director of Transamine explained, "We intend to create a new and reliable solution for spodumene concentrate producers to, via Rock Tech, supply the European lithium market as part of a supply chain that is transparent, traceable and ESG compliant, from mines to the off-take market. This will also help us to grow in a strategic market of critical raw materials."
RTT will be a 50/50 joint venture company to be based in Geneva, Switzerland, which is expected to be formed end 2022. In connection with the joint venture, Rock Tech and Transamine have entered into a definitive agreement to establish the terms governing the formation and operations of RTT.
Pursuant to the definitive agreement, RTT will manage the procurement of spodumene concentrate from global mining companies and spodumene producers and arrange related logistical and storage services, Transamine will provide related financing and Rock Tech will support the identification of spodumene producers, marketing activities, and will be primarily responsible for ESG auditing and compliance. Future deliveries of spodumene concentrate by RTT to Rock Tech will be governed by long-term feedstock supply agreements to be entered into between RTT and Rock Tech.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman
Rock Tech is a cleantech company on a mission to produce lithium hydroxide for EV batteries. The Company plans to build lithium converters at the door-step of its customers, to guarantee supply-chain transparency and just-in-time delivery. To close the most pressing gap in the clean mobility story, Rock Tech has gathered one of the strongest teams in the industry. The Company has adopted strict ESG standards and is developing a proprietary refining process aimed at further increasing efficiency and sustainability. Rock Tech plans to source raw material from its own mineral project in Canada as well as procuring it from other responsibly producing mines. In the years to come, the Company expects to also source raw material from discarded batteries. Rock Tech's goal: to create a closed-loop lithium production system. www.rocktechlithium.com.
Founded in 1953, Transamine SA is an independent and privately held commodities trading company specializing in non-ferrous raw materials. Transamine is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has offices throughout key markets including Australia, South Africa, India, the United States and China. Transamine is a full-service company providing worldwide raw material sourcing, marketing, finance, and investment and specializes in all aspects of non-ferrous raw materials production and trade. Transamine recently added lithium, mostly in form of spodumene, to its traditional activity and will maintain the highest standard of conduct to promote fundamental principles such as sustainability, environment, and social responsibilities.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
The following cautionary statements are in addition to all other cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or referenced by, this press release. Certain information set forth in this press release constitutes "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which information is based on Rock Tech's current expectations, estimates, and assumptions in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends. All statements other than statements of historical facts may constitute forward-looking information. Often, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and all other indications of future tense. All forward-looking information set forth in this press release is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements referred to in this section.
For example, forward-looking information contained in this press release includes: expectations regarding the relationship between Rock Tech and Transamine, including future actions to be taken by the parties and the anticipated benefits thereof; statements regarding RTT, its operations and functions, including the formation of such joint-venture entity, that it will enter into long-term supply agreements with Rock Tech and expectations regarding its future activities, its role in and impact on Rock Tech's strategy and its benefits to the Company, Transamine and spodumene concentrate producers; the Company's expectations regarding its planned and prospective activities and projects, including RTT and the Company's proposed lithium converters, the Company's intentions with respect to the development and timing thereof and statements regarding future plans, actions, and schedules relating to such activities, projects and related development; statements and expectations regarding the electric vehicle industry; Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations regarding the Company's business strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects; and plans and objectives of management for the Company's operations and properties.
Forward-looking information is based on certain assumptions, estimates, expectations and opinions of the Company and in certain cases, third party experts, that are believed by management of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made. This forward-looking information was derived utilizing numerous assumptions regarding, among other things: the formation and operation of RTT in a manner consistent with management's expectations; the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, feedstock and intermediate and final lithium products; that all required regulatory approvals and permits can be obtained on the necessary terms in a timely manner; expected growth, performance and business operations; future commodity prices and exchange rates; prospects, growth opportunities and financing available to RTT and the Company; general business and economic conditions; the costs and results of exploration, development and operating activities; RTT's ability to procure supplies of spodumene concentrate and other equipment necessary for its business; and the accuracy and reliability of technical data, forecasts, estimates and studies. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all assumptions which may have been used in developing the forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these assumptions, estimates and factors to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially different from that which is expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially include: the failure to form RTT on the anticipated timing or at all or, if formed, to realize the anticipated benefits of the joint venture; RTT and the Company's ability to access funding required to invest in available opportunities and projects (including, in the case of the Company, the Company's proposed lithium hydroxide converters) and on satisfactory terms; the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing geopolitical hostilities; the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due; changes in commodity and other prices; Rock Tech's ability to attract and retain skilled staff and to secure feedstock from RTT and third party suppliers; unanticipated events and other difficulties related to the construction, development and operation of the Company's proposed lithium hydroxide converters and/or the operations and activities of RTT; the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations; title defects; competition from existing and new competitors; changes in currency and/or exchange rates and the market prices of Rock Tech's securities; Rock Tech's history of losses; adverse impacts of climate change; and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Rock Tech's public disclosure documents available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, including those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis and Annual Information Form, respectively. Such risks and uncertainties do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially from the forward-looking information.
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TOCA Cincinnati, formerly Cincy Sports Nation, prepares to introduce TOCA State-of-the-Art Soccer Training and Technologies in 2023
COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TOCA Football, Inc. (TOCA), a leading soccer training and entertainment company and the largest operator of indoor soccer centers in North America, today announced that Cincy Sports Nation, the most advanced athletic training center in Cincinnati, will be joining TOCA's growing portfolio of training locations as the company's newest center. Representing its 28th center in the North American market, the deal contributes to TOCA Football's overarching mission to significantly expand its footprint within the United States and the North American market.
The center, which will be known as TOCA Cincinnati, is located at 5999 Meijer Drive Milford, OH 45150 and will offer a broad range of soccer training, club, league play, and other athletic training programming for individuals, small groups, teams, clubs, and schools. The center will continue operating as usual until TOCA's state-of-the-art training studios are integrated in 2023. These studios will be powered by TOCA's proprietary technology and soccer training curriculum, which is used by some of the best professional teams and players around the world. TOCA also has plans to offer the proprietary TOCA Strikers program, which is designed to introduce children aged 18 months to 7 years to soccer through fun, age-appropriate activities.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce Cincinnati to TOCA's technology come 2023," said Hammond Moore, President of TOCA Soccer. "The Cincy Sports Nation Center is acclaimed as a first-class training location, and we're glad that we can play a role in developing Cincinnati's athletes at all levels. Integrating TOCA's approach to training offers an innovative curriculum to enhance player performance at all skill levels."
"TOCA is focused on athletic growth and community development, which is perfectly in sync with our culture," said Ted Benedetto, Founder and Principal Owner, Cincy Sports Nation. "We are looking forward to continuing our mission to provide our guests with a premier destination where players can join together and compete in the sport that they love."
TOCA recently announced a historic partnership with Major League Soccer (MLS) to inspire and develop the next generation of soccer players in North America. The 10-year partnership will serve as a foundation for the long-term growth and development of soccer and is a reflection of the region's commitment to investing in the sport's expansion.
TOCA was founded in 2016 by two-time U.S. World Cup and former MLS and English Premier League midfielder, Eddie Lewis. TOCA is led by CEO Yoshi Maruyama, a leisure and entertainment industry veteran, and its Board of Directors is comprised of transformative leaders from the sports industry including Erik Anderson, former Executive Chairman and CEO of Topgolf, Abby Wambach, US Women's National Champion, Celeste Burgoyne, lululemon President Americas, and Julie Haddon, NWSL Chief Marketing Officer.
ABOUT TOCA FOOTBALL, INC
TOCA Football, Inc. is a leading technology-enabled soccer training and entertainment company. TOCA has two divisions that comprise its global portfolio: TOCA Soccer, the largest operator of indoor soccer centers across North America, and TOCA Social, the world's first entertainment and dining experience built around immersive soccer-based game play, with a first venue at the iconic The O2 in London, and multiple venues opening globally in 2023. TOCA provides authentic soccer experiences that inspire everybody to play the world's most popular sport.
For more information please visit www.TOCAfootball.com
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Jack Buttacavoli
jack@relativity.ventures
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SOURCE TOCA Football, Inc. | 2022-12-08T14:46:41+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/12/08/toca-football-adds-most-advanced-multi-sport-athletic-training-center-cincinnati-its-portfolio-soccer-centers/ |
Humu Coach for Managers transforms every manager into a great one by making the day-to-day job of managing a team easier.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Humu, the HR technology company that pioneered science-backed nudges that make it easy for employees to develop new habits, today launched Humu Coach for Managers. This new suite of features gives managers the insights and guidance they need to unlock their teams' greatest potential. It's the latest example of Humu's industry leadership in shaping the future of work.
Managers have always played a critical role in driving team success, but the seismic shifts of the past two years have made them even more important. Managers serve as change agents and the connection point between strategy and employee action, often single handedly impacting an employee's experience. The challenge is that managers are under more pressure than ever—from both senior leadership and their employees—and are too overwhelmed to lead their teams effectively. And the stakes are high: according to Humu's data, a single bad manager costs an organization an average of $70,000 annually. Humu found, however, that when managers are effective, they are up to 2x more likely to retain employees over the course of a year and their teams have 22% higher engagement.
With Coach for Managers, Humu is helping organizations improve retention, performance, and the employee experience by transforming every manager into a great manager. The suite helps managers and their teams build behaviors that support organization-wide goals, gives them insight into where their teams can improve, helps them effectively coach each person based on their unique needs, and guides managers through a variety of new or challenging situations.
"We've all heard that people quit managers, not jobs. This is more true than ever against the backdrop of hybrid work experimentation and an ongoing talent shortage," said Laszlo Bock, co-founder and Executive Chairperson at Humu. "A great manager is the best retention strategy an organization has, but many companies struggle to provide managers with the tools, support, and training they need to reach their full potential as leaders. Humu will empower managers who are under pressure from leadership and their teams alike, to deliver on their biggest goals and drive organization-wide success."
Available today, with additional new features to be rolled out in the months ahead, Humu Coach for Managers will consist of a unique set of capabilities to create better experiences for managers and their teams, including:
- Smart Agendas: Make 1:1s—the most valuable interactions between managers and their reports—more effective by collaborating on a shared Smart Agenda, complete with intelligent topic recommendations based on team and employee insights. Managers will:
- Team Insights: Understand where improvement is needed with team and employee Focus Areas, and expertly coach each team member by leveraging Coaching Guides, Work Style Assessments, and detailed Employee Profiles.
- (Coming soon) Workflows: Guide managers through crucial moments in the employee lifecycle—like new hire onboarding, work anniversaries, employee offboarding, and more—with automated Workflows.
"We have seen how effective Humu's science-backed approach is in uniting and engaging employees and teams in large organizations," said Scott Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer at Humu, who assumed his role in August 2022 to lead a new chapter of product innovation and growth. "Now, with Humu Coach for Managers, we are thrilled to introduce a suite of features specifically designed to help anticipate what managers need and automatically deliver personalized, proven guidance right within their flow of daily work. And there's a lot more to come."
As managers continue to bear the responsibility of making or breaking an employee's experience, they'll need more personalized, targeted support than ever. Humu has already helped Fortune 500 companies unlock important goals to improve retention, performance and overall employee experience. To learn more about Humu visit humu.com.
Humu is an HR technology platform that makes it easy for every manager to be effective. Humu helps managers effortlessly build new habits and unlock the potential of their teams at some of the world's largest companies by delivering timely, personalized guidance. For more information or to view open positions, visit humu.com.
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Mission North for Humu
humu@missionnorth.com
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SOURCE Humu | 2022-09-14T16:05:22+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/09/14/humu-launches-coach-managers-help-leaders-build-engaged-effective-teams/ |
What are the best period protection shorts?
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Nike One Leak Protection: Period
- RIP IT Women’s Period Protection Softball Sliding Shorts
- Adidas Women’s Techfit Period Proof Shorts
Nike has been a famous, well-respected brand for decades but has become a front-runner in sportswear innovation with its new menstrual protection line, which the company debuted in April. The brand has not only designed an incredible set of shorts, but it has also encouraged clothing brands to follow suit with their own versions. These products are designed to suit those with all lifestyles, active or relaxed. They provide a comfortable, convenient way to experience your period on and off the field. From light sleeping shorts to long, sturdy softball shorts, you’ll find a washable, eco-friendly alternative to disposable period products. Here’s some more information about period shorts and some of the best ones on the market, including the new ones from Nike.
Period shorts FAQ
The demand for proper period protection has given rise to a range of options. Period products such as underwear and other environmentally friendly options are consistently improving, but there are lots of questions.
- Are period shorts suitable for heavy flow days?
Absolutely. Period shorts are intended to provide leakproof protection during sleep, activity and heavy flows.
- How do period shorts compare with tampons or pads?
These shorts offer an environmentally friendly option compared to disposable products like tampons or pads. They eliminate the need for these products and provide you with a reusable, comfortable alternative.
- How long do period shorts last before needing replacements?
The lifespan of each pair of shorts can vary and will depend on several factors, including frequency of use and washing. They can last for years and offer a sustainable option in the long run.
- How long can period shorts be worn?
Period shorts are designed to be worn all day and can be used for leisure or physical activity.
- Are period shorts suitable for all body sizes and types?
Yes, period shorts are made in different sizes and made with comfortable materials. They are meant to stretch and form to the curves of the body.
Best period protection shorts
Nike One Leak Protection: Period
No matter what you are in the mood for, these shorts are fitted, comfortable and ready for any activity. Relax on the couch or do a full workout without worry in this pair of quality period shorts.
Sold by Nike
Modibodi Teen Hipster Boyshorts
These shorts are lightweight and comfortable, so they’re suitable for still sleepers and nights of tossing and turning. They prevent leaks and are machine washable while being slim and discreet.
Sold by Amazon
RIP IT Women’s Period Protection Volleyball Shorts
These period shorts provide a comfortable way to experience your period while playing sports. They are machine washable, effectively control odors and provide protection from leaks.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
RIP IT Women’s Period Protection Softball Sliding Shorts
You’ll stay comfortable and protected in these leak-proof shorts. They offer fast absorption and odor control while providing maximum flexibility and movement.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
These period shorts have an absorbancy equivalent to two tampons and are hand-wash only. They are eco-friendly, comfortable, soft and feel like regular underwear.
Sold by Amazon
Goat Union Overnight Period Shorts
You will experience worry-free sleep with these period shorts that provide leakproof nights. They are an incredible eco-friendly alternative to disposable menstrual products.
Sold by Amazon
Adidas Women’s Techfit Period Proof Shorts
These shorts have a high-rise elastic waist and a power-mesh pocket so you can hold your phone on you. They reduce environmental impact by being made with recycled polyester and saving on disposable menstrual products.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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BILLINGS — Going from Montana to the Big Apple is quite the change for a puppy and one adventurous little guy recently made national news after an adventure that was fit for a movie.
Bear, the Leoberner, gave his new owners quite the scare that included several days missing and a frigid swim across the Hudson River from NYC to New Jersey.
Bear was born in Harlowton, Montana in June and is a mix between a Burnese Mountain dog and a Leonberger. The day after Thanksgiving, he set out on his first big adventure to meet his new family. After a few days in New York, he went on another, unexpected adventure after slipping out of his collar.
"I was walking with him to get a harness and we were walking across the street. He had a collar on, and he stopped in the middle of the street. I pulled one way, and he pulled the other and then his collar came off and then he just ran and ran and ran. So, he ran about a mile and a half, along the Hudson River on the Westside highway and then jumped in the water on 110th and swam a mile to New Jersey. And it was really nasty out, so we were really terrified," said Ellen Wolpin, Bear's owner.
Wolpin immediately called 911 but after days of searching, she nearly gave up hope.
"Patrol boats were out looking for him they couldn’t see him; they couldn’t find him. Then two days later, I got a phone call from the police department in New Jersey that they had found him," added Wolpin.
That call was made possible because of a microchip installed by Bear's breeders in Montana.
"That microchip got them home. We got a call at three o’clock in the morning from Edgewater police department in New Jersey and the microchip was linked back to us. Because we were the breeders and ones that installed the chip," said Todd King, owner of Big Sky Bernels.
A process that King calls invaluable.
"None of the pups leave our house without being microchipped and I’m really happy that we have that rule. This is the only time we’ve ever had a call, but Bear was found because of it," added King.
King says, "Leoberners are tough" but even he was surprised with the resiliency of the 6-month-old puppy.
"With the water being so darn cold there, I’m not sure exactly how cold it is, but I’m sure it’s in the 40’s this time of year. And that’s a long time for that pup to be in that water but, he made it," King added.
Now that Bear is back from his big adventure, he’ll be starting training to become an emotional support dog.
"My son has a seizure disorder so we’re going to work with bear to start being an alert dog when Zach seizes. Right now, bear follows Zach around, sleeps in bed with him and Zach just sits there and loves this dog," said Wolpin.
A bond with Bear and her son that she briefly doubted would have the chance to flourish when Bear got away.
"I never really got my head around what happened honestly. By the time I started thinking about what happened, I got the call that he was found, which set off another thing of how could this be true? How did I get so lucky?" Wolpin added.
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'Scrubs' producer Eric Weinberg pleads not guilty to assault
Eric Weinberg, executive producer for the hit TV show “Scrubs," was denied bail on Tuesday after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting five women whom prosecutors said he lured to photo shoots.
Weinberg was arrested earlier this month after being charged with 18 felony counts including rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury, and attempted forcible penetration with a foreign object, according to the district attorney’s office.
Weinberg entered not guilty pleas during the arraignment Tuesday and his lawyers argued for his release pending the next court appearance.
Prosecutors called Weinberg a potential danger to society. Superior Court Judge Victoria B. Wilson agreed and denied bail while ordering Weinberg held in custody until he returns to court Nov. 15.
Weinberg, 62, has been charged for alleged attacks between 2014 and 2019, but investigators said they believe there may be other victims of assaults dating back to the 1990s, District Attorney George Gascón said at an Oct. 6 news conference. He has urged those victims to come forward.
LAPD Detective Ryan Lamar said this month that investigators were looking into information received from a tip line regarding other possible assaults by Weinberg.
Weinberg was co-executive producer on nearly 100 episodes of the NBC hospital dramedy “Scrubs” between 2000 and 2006 and also wrote nearly a dozen episodes, according to the IMDB website.
He also was co-executive producer for “Californication” in 2007 and had producing and writing credits on other shows, including “Anger Management,” “Men at Work,” “Veronica’s Closet” and “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.”
In 2020, documents filed in Weinberg’s divorce and child custody proceedings included allegations by three women that he sexually assaulted them during photo shoots, the Los Angeles Times reported.
One woman alleged that she met Weinberg at a North Hollywood coffee shop in 2014 when she was 22 and he convinced her to come to a photo shoot at his home where she stripped to her underwear. The woman alleged that while taking photos, Weinberg grabbed her, forced to perform oral sex, choked her and then raped her, according to documents cited by the Times. | 2022-10-26T18:42:55+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/scrubs-producer-eric-weinberg-assault-trial/41770099 |
Which dewormer for puppies is best?
Having a puppy is a lot of fun, but it requires a lot of initial maintenance. Because of this, it’s important to start on the right track by handling all of their health care needs as soon as possible.
Puppies are particularly susceptible to worm infestations, so you should routinely administer a good dewormer to prevent or take care of the issue. The best prescription-based dewormer for puppies and older dogs is the Sentinel Spectrum Chew for Dogs. It combats most worms and is easy to administer.
What to know before you buy dewormer for puppies
Targeted worms
Each dewormer targets specific parasites, so it’s important to know what type of worms your puppy has before getting the medicine. The most common worms include:
- Tapeworms: These worms are long and have segmented bodies. They can grow up to 8 inches. Dewormers kill them by breaking them up inside the intestines.
- Hookworms: The smallest type of worms, these primarily stay in the small intestine and grow up to an inch long. Most over-the-counter medications only target either adults or larvae.
- Roundworms: The most common type of worms in canines, roundworms look similar to spaghetti noodles and can be up to 5 inches long. Most dewormers work by dislodging them from the intestinal tract so the puppy can pass them.
- Heartworms: These worms can reach up to 12 inches in length and live around the heart. They’re treatable but typically require a prescription.
- Whipworms: These tiny worms reside in the colon region and are harmful to dogs. They require an antiparasitic medication specifically made to treat them at all stages.
- Ringworm: While not technically a worm, ringworm is caused by a fungus that can damage the outer layer of skin. Ringworm is treatable with topical prescription medication.
Over-the-counter vs. prescription dewormer medication
For severe infestations or chronic worms, you might need a prescription medication. For preventive care or minor infestations, an over-the-counter option is typically enough.
When in doubt, speak with a veterinarian to see what they suggest. A vet can run a fecal test to let you know what type of worms or parasites your puppy has. They can also recommend a specific brand of dewormer or write you a prescription.
Side effects
As with most flea and tick medications, dewormers usually have minimal to no side effects when used correctly. However, some puppies might experience the following:
- Reduced appetite.
- Vomiting.
- Increased salivation.
- Diarrhea.
These side effects do not last long and are rarely cause for concern. However, if your puppy starts having seizures or appears lethargic, bring it to a veterinarian for medical attention.
Symptoms of worms
According to PetMD, there are a few to tell if your puppy has worms. Symptoms commonly include:
- Dry or dull coat.
- Hair loss.
- Sudden weight loss.
- Significant changes in appetite.
- Diarrhea or vomiting.
- Worms in the stools or vomit.
- Large belly.
- Frequent cough.
- Lethargy.
- Scooting hindquarters on the ground.
Some of these symptoms can also indicate other potential health issues, so consult a veterinarian if your puppy starts having notable changes in its behavior or health.
What to look for in a quality dewormer for puppies
Ingredients
The active ingredients used in dewormers for puppies vary. Common ones are:
- Pyrantel pamoate.
- Fenbendazole.
- Praziquantel.
- Piperazine.
- Ivermectin.
Certain ingredients only target specific worms or parasites. For example, fenbendazole treats whipworms, hookworms, roundworms and some tapeworms. Meanwhile, praziquantel helps with flatworms.
Some dewormers only use natural ingredients. While these are generally effective as a preventive measure, they don’t work as well at treating existing infestations.
Form
Dewormers for puppies come in three main forms:
- Chewables: These are similar to soft treats in that they come in different flavors and are meant to be chewed and swallowed directly. You can also add them to food.
- Granules: Similar to chewables, granules look similar to tablets. They should be mixed with dry food.
- Liquid: These dewormers often come with a dropper you can use to measure out and administer a precise amount of the medication. For younger puppies, you can also add the liquid dewormer to a feeding bottle and administer it that way.
Some veterinarians will use an injection to treat infestations.
Frequency of use
How often you should use a dewormer depends on the type of medication and the age and weight of the puppy. For more serious infestations, a veterinarian can create a custom treatment schedule for you.
Most puppies should be treated for worms when they are 2 weeks old and then every two weeks after that until they are 12 weeks old. At that point, you should use a dewormer every month for three months until adulthood.
In most cases, you should continue to administer dewormer once every three months for the duration of your dog’s life. It’s also a good idea to get your veterinarian to perform a fecal test two to four times a year to make sure there are no worms present.
How much you can expect to spend on a dewormer for puppies
Most over-the-counter dewormers cost $10-$50. Prescription-level medications can cost upward of $120.
Dewormer for puppies FAQ
Can you use a cat dewormer on puppies?
A. Yes, if the packaging indicates the medication is safe for both.
How do puppies get worms?
A. Most canines get parasites from consuming feces or other substances that carry worm eggs. Some puppies are also born with worms due to their mother being infected. Certain types of worms, such as heartworms, are transferred through infected mosquitoes. Others, such as tapeworms, are commonly found in fleas.
What’s the best dewormer for puppies to buy?
Top dewormer for puppies
Sentinel Spectrum Chew for Dogs
What you need to know: This prescription dewormer can treat and prevent nearly any type of worm infestation, including heartworms, roundworms, whipworms and hookworms.
What you’ll love: It comes in a chewable form that’s easy to administer. It’s safe and effective for canines that are at least 6 weeks old and weigh between 2 and 8 pounds.
What you should consider: It does not treat fleas.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy and PetSmart
Top dewormer for puppies for the money
What you need to know: Safe for dogs 6 weeks and older, this dewormer can prevent and treat common infestations.
What you’ll love: Formulated to be effective against roundworms, whipworms, Taenia tapeworms and hookworms, this medication comes in a powdered form you can mix into your dog’s food. For best results, use it three days in a row.
What you should consider: Some dogs dislike the flavor.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This liquid dewormer is made for puppies that are at least 2 weeks old as well as older dogs.
What you’ll love: Capable of treating large hookworms and roundworms, this medication is safe for most canines. It’s also easy to administer directly into your puppy’s food, water or mouth.
What you should consider: The container does not have a safety seal.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Letter: What about reverse racism?
Published 8:30 pm Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The new political buzz word is equity. We are told that country must be structured so that everything in society is equitable. Anyone with a little common sense realizes equity is impossible to achieve.
Let’s consider professional sports as an example. What if we were to use equity instead of talent to determine the personnel on a sports team? Black males are about 7% of the population, male Hispanics 9%, Asian males 3%. There are 53 members on an NFL team. If equity became the rule, a team could only have four blacks, but would be required to carry five Hispanics and one Asian. Equity would trump talent. Everyone will agree that such requirements are ludicrous, but that’s what is being proposed for education and employment.
There are Black colleges, Black churches, even a Black TV channel — no one dares suggest these entities are racist, but they really are. Where is the equity?
About 5% of the population identifies as LGBT, but watching the news and current TV programming you would swear this faction is dominate. Nearly everything produced in Hollywood today promotes the LGBT lifestyle. Equity does not exist. I do not care what consenting adults do behind closed doors, but when they try and indoctrinate children into their lifestyle I will fight back.
Equity, wokism, white supremacy, critical race theory and transexual are the words of the day. Males identifying as transexual claim it is their right to participate in girls sports, use women’s rest rooms and shower with girls. I find it ironic that soccer moms who fought tooth and nail to get Title IX adopted providing some equity in women’s sports now promote transsexualism in women’s sports.
If you are a white, heterosexual, Christian male, the odds are stacked against you. Corporations identifying as woke prioritize hiring black females identifying as lesbian and black males identifying as a female. You ask why? It’s quite simple — if a corporation fails to accept the woke doctrine they will face the wrath of the liberal media and be boycotted.
Black males between the ages of 15 and 40 account for 50% of all murders. However, if you try and protect your property and life from an intruder, you need to think twice before acting. In some states you could be charged with a crime simply for displaying a firearm during a home invasion. Protecting your family and property have become irrelevant. You are no longer the victim, in the name of equity you have become the antagonist. Criminals are now considered victims.
America was making great progress toward eliminating racial barriers until Obama began playing the race card. In the name of equity, liberal Blacks have become the promoters of reverse racism.
I have never judged a person by their color, but by their work ethic. The amount of rage I’m seeing daily is terrifying. White and Black supremacists are cut from the same cloth. They thrive on and promote hate.
America has become a strange, sick, dangerous country.
Don Sorensen
Albert Lea | 2023-04-05T02:52:24+00:00 | albertleatribune.com | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/04/letter-what-about-reverse-racism/ |
The Brock Purdy impact was in full effect in this year’s NFL draft.
A year after the San Francisco 49ers found their starting quarterback with the final pick of the draft, teams were far more aggressive when it came to drafting quarterbacks in the later rounds.
Three quarterbacks went in the fourth round for the second time in the past 10 drafts and four quarterbacks went in round five for the first time since 2002. That led to a record 12 QBs going in the first five rounds for the first time ever in the common draft era that started in 1967. The previous high was 11 in 1995.
The run on QBs started early with Bryce Young going first to Carolina and C.J. Stroud going second to Houston — marking the ninth time quarterbacks went 1-2 in the common draft era, with five of those coming in the last 12 drafts.
Indianapolis then took Anthony Richardson fourth, marking the fourth time that three quarterbacks were taken with the first four picks.
Things slowed down from there with Will Levis waiting until round two to go to Tennessee and Hendon Hooker being drafted in the third round by Detroit.
Then the run on QBs started late in the fourth round when Fresno State’s Jake Haener went 124th overall to New Orleans. Six more quarterbacks followed in the next 37 picks as the philosophy of passing on late-round QBs who historically have little chance of developing into top-flight starters changed.
Some of that could be because of Purdy, who went from being “Mr. Irrelevant” as the final pick of the 2022 draft to winning his first seven starts as a rookie to help the 49ers reach the NFC title game last season.
While the chances that the QBs that went on day three of the draft will develop into starters are low, the payoff if it happens was high enough to justify the risk.
Two-time national champion Stetson Bennett went to the Rams the pick after Haener, with the Raiders taking Aidan O’Connell with the final pick of the fourth round. The Rams and Raiders had been the only teams not to select a QB in any round the previous six drafts.
The fifth-round run started with Clayton Tune going to Arizona at No. 139, followed by Dorian Thompson-Robinson (140 to the Browns), Sean Clifford (149 to the Packers) and Jaren Hall (164 to the Vikings).
The final two QBs off the board were Tanner McKee to the Eagles in the sixth round and Max Duggan to the Chargers in the seventh.
In all, 14 quarterbacks were drafted last weekend, tied for the second most in the last 2 drafts behind the 15 from 2016.
TOP TIGHT ENDS
This draft was viewed as a strong one for tight ends and that played out on day two when a record five went off the board in the second round and three more in the third.
It took a while for the first tight end to go with Buffalo trading up to take Dalton Kincaid with the 25th pick.
But that all changed Friday with Detroit taking Sam LaPorta with the third pick of the second round and Las Vegas grabbing Michael Mayer one spot later. Green Bay then took Luke Musgrave 44th, Dallas drafted Luke Schoonmaker 58th and Jacksonville took Brenton Strange 61st.
This marked the first time in the common draft era that five tight ends were taken in round two and the six that went in the first rounds tied 1974 for the most ever.
Tucker Kraft, Darnell Washington and Cameron Latu went in round three with the nine tight ends going in the first three rounds breaking the record of eight reached in 2006 and 2019.
BY POSITIONS
While the drafts were notable to tight ends and quarterbacks, the volume of picks was focused as usual in the trenches and on the perimeter.
There were 56 defensive backs drafted — the most of any position — as the increased of extra DBs in nickel and dime packages have put a premium on depth at that spot.
Teams also combined 43 offensive linemen, as well as 43 defensive linemen. Receivers came in next at 32.
Only six specialists were taken but the 49ers did surprise many by drafting kicker Jake Moody 99th overall — the highest pick for a kicker since Tampa Bay took Roberto Aguayo with the 59th pick in 2016.
ALMA MATERS
After years of dominating on the field and in recruiting rankings, it was no surprise that Alabama and Georgia led the way with 10 draft picks each.
The Bulldogs have now had 25 players taken in the past two drafts from teams that have won national championships each year. New England sixth-round Ameer Speed played on the 2021 title team before transferring to Michigan State, giving Georgia 26 draft picks from that team that ended a four-decade championship drought.
Fourteen members of that 2021 defense have been drafted with five going to the Eagles: Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean in 2022, and Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith and Kelee Ringo this year.
Alabama dominated the top of the draft with quarterback Bryce Young becoming the first Crimson Tide player since Harry Gilmer in 1948 to go first and edge rusher Will Anderson going third.
It marked the fourth time since 2000 that college teammates went in the first three picks of the same draft with Ohio State’s Chase Young and Jeff Okudah going at No. 2 and 3 in 2020, Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford and Gerald McCoy going at No. 1 and 3 in 2010, and Penn State’s Courtney Brown and LaVar Arrington going with the top two picks in 2000.
The next schools on the list of most draft picks were two of the other teams to make the College Football Playoff with Michigan having nine players picked and TCU eight.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-05-03T16:20:29+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/quarterbacks-come-off-board-at-record-rate-in-nfl-draft/ |
Which makeup is best for spring break?
It’s almost time for spring break, and when you’re out and about at the beach, you want to look your sun-kissed best. That starts with wearing a foundation that’s suitable for the warmer weather. You want something lightweight that won’t clog your pores. You also want a foundation that lets you show off a radiant beachgoer glow while nourishing your skin so it stays healthy all spring and summer long.
In this article: Oxygenetix Oxygenating Foundation, Dermablend Cover Creme Full Coverage Foundation and Sephora Collection Perfection Mist Airbrush Foundation.
Foundation is seasonal
You don’t wear the same wardrobe all year round. As the temperature rises, your outfits get lighter and more breathable. Similarly, you don’t wear the same colors in spring and summer as you do in the fall and winter. You should make the same choices with your makeup — particularly your foundation.
Things to consider when choosing your spring foundation
- Does it match your skin? Depending on its exposure to sunlight, your skin may darken. The right foundation should match your current skin tone as closely as possible.
- Is it lightweight? Wearing a heavy jacket in the summer would make you miserable. Likewise, you’ll be happier when wearing a lighter-weight foundation in warmer weather.
- Is it breathable? A breathable foundation doesn’t clog your pores. It allows air to permeate your skin cells to keep them healthy and thriving.
- Does it moisturize? Moisturizing is one of the best things you can do to help your skin repair itself and stay healthy.
- Does it nourish your skin? Just like you feed your body, you need to feed your skin to keep it strong and vibrant. A nourishing foundation helps provide your skin with a balanced diet.
- Is it appropriate for your skin type? Do you have dry or oily skin? Choose the foundation that best matches your skin type.
- Does it have soothing qualities? A foundation with aloe may be desirable in the spring and summer when your skin is exposed to more sunlight.
Best lightweight foundations
Oxygenetix Oxygenating Foundation
This lightweight foundation feels like you’re not even wearing makeup. It goes on sheer but can be built up after it sets to cover blemishes. Oxygenetic’s foundation features a soothing aloe-based gel and helps build collagen and elastin, and it is suitable for all types of skin.
Sold by Amazon
L’Oreal Paris Infallible Pro-Glow Foundation
This air-light formula is oil-free and resists sweat, heat and transfer for up to 24 hours. The radiant finish goes on smooth, hides imperfections and minimizes the appearance of pores. You can easily apply this foundation with your fingers, or you can use a brush.
Sold by Amazon
NYX Professional Makeup Total Control Pro Drop Foundation
NYX’s convenient foundation drops go on easy and have a lightweight vegan formula. This long-lasting foundation stays color-true for up to 12 hours and offers buildable coverage with no greasiness or cracking.
Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Dermablend Cover Creme Full-Coverage Foundation
If you prefer a cream foundation, this full-coverage option from Dermablend has a high concentration of high-performance pigments, so you get maximum coverage. It is suitable for hiding scars, birthmarks, hyperpigmentation and more. While the texture may be a little heavier, the SPF 30 makes it a good choice for wearing outside.
Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Sephora Collection Perfection Mist Airbrush Foundation
Sephora Collection’s foundation spray has micro-fine pigments and an airbrush application for the ultimate in lightness. The oil-free formula is noncomedogenic and can be gradually built up to your desired level of coverage.
BareMinerals Complexion Rescue Tinted Hydrating Gel Cream
This tinted, hydrating gel cream can even your skin tone and blur imperfections while adding a healthy glow. It’s one of the lightest weight options that BareMinerals offers. While it’s oil-free, it still moisturizes and has an SPF of 30.
Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Tarte Amazonian Clay BB Tinted Moisturizer
Fortified with antioxidant vitamins A, C and E, this tinted moisturizer nourishes your skin while it blurs imperfections. The lightweight, oil-free formula delivers a natural finish, and the added chamomile helps treat and heal dry or damaged skin.
Sold by Amazon, Sephora and Ulta Beauty
Other foundations worth checking out
- This longwear powder foundation by Fenty Beauty offers a light-as-air feel that’s sweat-, humidity- and crease-resistant.
- If you use a foundation primer, Urban Decay All Nighter is a silky-soft option that prevents your foundation from fading for up to 8 hours.
- Clinique Superbalanced Silk Makeup Broad Spectrum SPF 15 foundation is an oil-free option that provides buildable coverage.
- You can protect yourself from damaging UV rays while balancing the appearance of your skin with Nars Pure Radiant tinted moisturizer.
- L’Oreal’s lightweight and creamy longwear foundation hides imperfections for up to 24 hours.
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LONDON (AP) — After seven decades, the United Kingdom has a new woman to call queen.
Charles’ wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will be known as Queen Consort — a title that came with Queen Elizabeth II’s blessing after years of contention, dating back to the days before she even married Prince Charles.
It wasn’t always a given that the 75-year-old Camilla would take the title, even though it gives her none of the sovereign’s powers.
While the wife of a king is traditionally crowned queen, the question of what title Camilla would hold when Charles became king had been a tricky one for many years. That was due to sensitivity about her status as his second wife — and the wave of grief that washed over Britain following the death of his former wife, Princess Diana, in a car crash in 1997.
Charles and the royal household have moved carefully on the matter, mindful of lingering public perceptions of Camilla as the “third person” that ruined the marriage between Charles and the beloved princess.
But over the decades, Camilla has won over large parts of the British public with her discretion, down-to-earth personality and loyalty to her husband.
When Camilla and Charles married in a low-key civil ceremony in 2005, she was in fact the new Princess of Wales — Diana’s title — but she styled herself the Duchess of Cornwall instead.
Palace officials said for years that Camilla “intended” to be known as “Princess Consort” — instead of the traditional “Queen Consort” — when Charles acceded to the throne.
There is no precedent for the title Princess Consort, which was reportedly suggested by royal officials. The similar title of Prince Consort has only been used once — for Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901.
In a 2010 interview with NBC, Charles was asked if Camilla would become “Queen of England, if and when you become the monarch.” He hesitated as he replied, “That’s, well … We’ll see, won’t we? That could be.”
The question was resolved when Elizabeth declared she wanted Camilla to be known as Queen Consort after her son became king. It was an endorsement that formally signified the royal family’s acceptance of Camilla as a respected senior member and was widely seen as a move by Elizabeth to pave a smooth transition to Charles’ reign.
“When, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes king, I know you will give him and his wife, Camilla, the same support that you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service,” Elizabeth said in February 2022, when she marked the 70th anniversary of her rule.
Charles said he and Camilla were “deeply conscious of the honor.”
“As we have sought together to serve and support Her Majesty and the people of our communities, my darling wife has been my own steadfast support throughout,” he said.
The most recent Queen Consort in British history was George VI’s wife Queen Elizabeth, known in later years as the Queen Mother after her daughter became monarch in 1952.
By custom, Camilla will be anointed at Charles’ coronation, although that could be omitted.
Born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947, she came from aristocrats with long and close links with Britain’s royal family. Her great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was a romantic partner of King Edward VII.
She met Charles at a polo match in 1970 when she was 23 and he was considered to be the most eligible bachelor in Britain. The two immediately became close, and by the end of 1972, Charles was smitten. But the romance was interrupted by his eight months of naval duty.
In his absence, Camilla married her longtime boyfriend, army officer Andrew Parker Bowles, in 1973. The couple divorced in 1995, shortly after Charles gave an explosive television interview admitting an affair with Camilla. Charles and Diana divorced the next year.
Charles and Camilla waited another nine years, marrying in 2005 in a private ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor.
Since then, Camilla has taken up dozens of royal duties. She is patron or president of more than 90 charities, and has shown particular interest in work on animals, promoting literacy and empowering women. She also has found her voice as a public speaker, earning respect by campaigning about difficult issues such as sexual violence against women and domestic abuse.
In 2021, she delivered what many called her landmark speech, urging “the men in our lives” to get involved in women’s rights and expressing sympathy for the families of women who are murdered.
The same year, Buckingham Palace underlined Camilla’s role as a senior royal by making her a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the most senior order of chivalry in Britain. | 2022-09-09T05:00:48+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/ap-camilla-becomes-queen-but-without-the-sovereigns-powers/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate topped 7% for the first time in more than two decades this week, a result of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes intended to tame the nation’s stubbornly high inflation.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate jumped to 7.08% from 6.94% last week. Last year at this time, rates on a 30-year mortgage averaged 3.14%.
Higher mortgage rates reduce homebuyers’ purchasing power, resulting in fewer people being able to afford to buy a home at a time when home prices continue to climb, albeit more slowly than earlier this year. The combination of higher rates and home prices means a typical mortgage payment for a homebuyer is up hundreds of dollars compared to what it was earlier this year.
“We’re really viewing this as a spike in mortgage rates that is pretty dramatically impacting affordability in the market, really sharply curtailing demand,” said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association.
The last time the average rate was above 7% was April 2002, a time when the U.S. was still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but six years away from the 2008 housing market collapse that triggered the Great Recession.
Many potential homebuyers have moved to the sidelines as mortgage rates have more than doubled this year, a trend that’s knocked the once red-hot housing market into a slump.
Sales of existing homes have declined for eight straight months as borrowing costs have become too high a hurdle for many Americans already paying more for food, gas and other necessities. Meanwhile, some homeowners have held off putting their homes on the market because they don’t want to jump into a higher rate on their next mortgage.
In effort to tamp down inflation, which is the highest in four decades, the Fed has raised its key benchmark lending rate five times this year, including three consecutive 0.75 percentage point increases that have brought its key short-term borrowing rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level since 2008. At their last meeting in late September, Fed officials projected that by early next year they would raise their key rate to roughly 4.5%.
Despite the rate increases inflation has hardly budged, remaining above 8% at both the consumer and wholesale level. Even as the housing market slows considerably, the job market remains strong and consumer spending is resilient. The Fed is expected to raise its benchmark rate another three-quarters of a point when it meets next week.
While mortgage rates don’t necessarily mirror the Fed’s rate increases, they tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield is influenced by a variety of factors, including investors’ expectations for future inflation and global demand for U.S. Treasurys.
The monthly payment on a median priced home is 78% higher now than it was a year ago for buyers who are able to make a 20% down payment. This translates to a $1,000 increase in the typical home payment in just the last year, according to Realtor.com.
To cope, some homebuyers are opting for adjustable-rate mortgages, which don’t make it any easier to qualify for financing, but offer lower monthly payments in the first few years of the loan term.
Such loans became less attractive the last couple of years as average long-term mortgage rates fell to an all-time low. But as of August they made up about 20% of home loan originations, said Selma Hepp, chief economist at CoreLogic.
“It speaks to that reduction in purchasing power consumers are having to contend with because of higher mortgage rates,” she said.
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Veiga reported from Los Angeles. | 2022-10-27T21:50:01+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-average-long-term-mortgage-rates-jump-above-7-this-week/ |
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including actor Denzel Washington, gymnast Simone Biles and the late John McCain, the Arizona Republican with whom Biden served in the U.S. Senate.
Biden will also recognize Sandra Lindsay, the New York City nurse who rolled up her sleeve on live television in December 2020 to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine dose that was pumped into an arm in the United States, the White House announced Friday.
Biden’s honors list, which the White House shared first with The Associated Press, includes both living and deceased honorees from the worlds of Hollywood, sports, politics, the military, academia, and civil rights and social justice advocacy.
The Democratic president will present the medals at the White House next week.
Biden himself is a medal recipient. President Barack Obama honored Biden’s public service as a longtime U.S. senator and vice president by awarding him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 2017, a week before they left office.
The honorees who'll receive medals from Biden “have overcome significant obstacles to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences, dedicated their lives to advocating for the most vulnerable among us, and acted with bravery to drive change in their communities, and across the world, while blazing trails for generations to come," the White House said.
The honor is reserved for people who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values or security of the United States, world peace or other significant societal public or private endeavors, the White House said.
Biles is the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history, winning 32 Olympic and World Championship medals. She is an outspoken advocate on issues that are very personal to her, including athletes’ mental health, children in foster care and sexual assault victims.
Lindsay became an advocate for COVID-19 vaccinations after receiving the first dose in the U.S.
McCain, who died of brain cancer in 2018, spent more than five years in captivity in Vietnam while serving in the U.S. Navy. He later represented Arizona in both houses of Congress and was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008. Biden said McCain was a “dear friend” and "a hero.”
Washington is a double Oscar-winning actor, director and producer. He also has a Tony award, two Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a longtime spokesperson for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The other 13 medal recipients are:
— Sister Simone Campbell. Campbell is a member of the Sister of Social Service and a former executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice organization. She is an advocate for economic justice, overhauling the U.S. immigration system and health care policy.
— Julieta Garcia. A former president of the University of Texas at Brownsville, Garcia was the first Latina to become a college president, the White House said. She was named one of the nation’s best college presidents by Time magazine.
— Gabrielle Giffords. A former U.S. House member from Arizona, the Democrat founded Giffords, an organization dedicated to ending gun violence. She was shot in the head in January 2011 during a constituent event in Tucson and was gravely wounded.
— Fred Gray. Gray was one of the first Black members of the Alabama Legislature after Reconstruction. He was a prominent civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr.
— Steve Jobs. Jobs was the co-founder, chief executive and chair of Apple Inc. He died in 2011.
— Father Alexander Karloutsos. Karloutsos is the assistant to Archbishop Demetrios of America. The White House said Karloutsos has counseled several U.S. presidents.
— Khizr Khan. An immigrant from Pakistan, Khan's Army officer son was killed in Iraq. Khan gained national prominence, and became a target of Donald Trump's wrath, after speaking at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
— Diane Nash. A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Nash organized some of the most important 20th century civil rights campaigns and worked with King.
— Megan Rapinoe. The Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup soccer champion captains the OL Reign in the National Women's Soccer League. She is a prominent advocate for gender pay equality, racial justice and LGBTQI+ rights who has appeared at Biden's White House.
— Alan Simpson. The retired U.S. senator from Wyoming served with Biden and has been a prominent advocate for campaign finance reform, responsible governance and marriage equality.
— Richard Trumka. Trumka had been president of the 12.5 million-member AFL-CIO for more than a decade at the time of his August 2021 death. He was a past president of the United Mine Workers.
— Wilma Vaught. A brigadier general, Vaught is one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history, breaking gender barriers as she has risen through the ranks. When Vaught retired in 1985, she was one of only seven female generals in the Armed Forces.
— Raúl Yzaguirre. A civil rights advocate, Yzaguirre was president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza for 30 years. He served as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic under Obama. | 2022-07-01T16:36:27+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/07/01/biden-to-award-medal-of-freedom-to-biles-mccain-giffords/ |
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: TSA handler caught yanking bomb-sniffing dog
(CNN) - The Transportation Security Administration says a bomb-sniffing dog handler has been removed from handling duties after being seen on camera aggressively pulling a dog.
Video shot Sunday and shared on social media shows the handler aggressively pulling the dog on its leash around a terminal at Detroit Metro Airport.
TSA says the handler’s behavior is unacceptable and not within the high standards to which they hold their officers.
The video was shared with local TSA leadership on Sunday, and the employee has been removed from handling duties pending the conclusion of an investigation.
The agency says the dog was taken immediately to a veterinarian for a wellness exam and was found to be in good health.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — El presidente del Parlamento de Sri Lanka dice que el presidente Gotabaya Rajapaksa ha aceptado dimitir el miércoles.
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IRVING, Texas, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.177 per share of Vistra's common stock, reflecting an estimated aggregate payment of $75 million this quarter, and together with last quarter's dividend, ~$150 million cumulatively in 2022. This represents a ~18% increase in the company's quarterly common stock dividend per share from its second quarter 2021 dividend. The common dividend is payable on June 30, 2022, to common stockholders of record as of June 22, 2022. The ex-dividend date for the common dividend will be June 21, 2022.
The board of directors also declared a semi-annual dividend on the company's 7.0% Series B Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Green Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock. The Series B dividend is $35.972223 per preferred share (including amounts accrued from Dec. 10, 2021 to Dec. 15, 2021), or $70.00 per share of Series B preferred stock on an annualized basis. The Series B dividend is payable on June 15, 2022, to Series B preferred stockholders of record as of June 1, 2022.
About Vistra
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 275 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada, as well. Serving nearly 4.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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Flu case numbers drop in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi is seeing a decrease in the number of flu cases for the first time in months.
There’s some good news and some bad news. The good news is case numbers for the flu are dropping. The bad news is that those caught in this new wave could experience harsher symptoms.
”It’s the worst flu that we’ve had in well over a decade, both in its severity and the number of cases we’ve had,” said Dr. Stephen Threlkeld, director of infectious disease at Baptist Medical Health Care.
Weeks of packed doctors’ offices for cases of the flu are finally coming to an end.
“Our busy time is usually right after Thanksgiving, and we probably see anywhere from 20 to 30 positives that actually picked up,” said Jeremy Hudson, a family nurse practitioner with Trustcare. “That’s not counting the flu-like symptoms that were probably just too early to test positive. Now we’re probably seeing eight to 10.”
According to the Mississippi Department of Health, back on Nov. 26th, there were over 13,000 flu cases. By Christmas, that number dropped to over 9,000.
But even with cases going down, that doesn’t mean this next wave won’t pose a threat.
“The symptoms we’re seeing now with the recent wave of flu are more severe. We’re seeing a lot higher fevers, the fevers lasting for several more days. A lot of people have been having coughs more with this and more respiratory symptoms, and the coughs have been lingering for, you know, two to three weeks at times,” said Dr. Threlkeld.
Along with more severe symptoms, infectious disease specialist Dr. Stephen Threlkeld says secondary infections are where folks need to be cautious.
“It’s always been frequent with flu that you get follow-up infections,” Dr. Threlkeld said. “Staph infections, pneumococcal pneumonia is on top of the flu and that, a lot of times, is what takes a lot of lives during a flu epidemic.”
So before children head back to the classroom and parents go back to the office, medical professionals say vaccinations are the answer.
“If you got the flu in November or even December, it’s still very important to get the flu vaccine because the flu vaccine has four components of virus in it. And if you got the flu with one of those four, there’s no reason that another one of them can’t sweep through your community in January, February,“ said Dr. Threlkeld.
Flu season typically ends between March and April, so it’s important to get vaccinated and be cautious until that time.
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The Nation's Weather for Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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NATIONAL SUMMARY
After today, the tranquil weather across the nation will
end. A system is forecast to evolve into a major winter
storm and blizzard for the Midwest later this week. The same
storm that brought drenching rain to parts of Texas and
Louisiana on Monday will push through the Southeast states
today. Farther north, a separate storm is forecast to spread
a swath of snow across the northern Great Lakes region. Cold
air beginning to invade the North Central states will pale
in comparison to what is ahead later this week. A storm
currently pushing into the Northwest with areas of rain and
at the coast and snow inland will greatly strengthen over
the middle of the nation at midweek. The storm could shut
down travel over a number of Midwest cities and states from
Thursday to Friday.
SPECIAL WEATHER
No new information for this time period.
WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS
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DAILY EXTREMES
National High Monday 80 at Marathon, FL
National Low Monday -29 at Minot, ND
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Annual award highlights women business leaders who are making a significant impact on the state's economy
ANDOVER, Mass. and BERWYN, Pa. and CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rita M. Gardner, President and CEO of Melmark, Inc. has been named among The Women's Edge's list of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts for 2022. This is the fifth consecutive year Gardner and Melmark have made the list generated by The Women's Edge (formerly The Commonwealth Institute) together with its partner The Boston Globe. The list includes elite business leaders from across the state of Massachusetts who generated nearly $72 billion in total revenue in 2021, demonstrating that women are key drivers of the state's economy.
Rita M. Gardner, M.P.H., LABA, BCBA, CDE® leads Melmark's almost $110-million multi-state operations across all of its divisions. Melmark's programs include premier private special education schools, professional development, training and research centers. The organization's clinically sophisticated, evidence-based programs serve individuals with the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, acquired brain injuries, medical fragility and severe challenging behaviors.
Gardner, who is the co-founder of Melmark New England and Melmark Carolinas, is an accomplished legislative advocate, and her work has positively influenced services for individuals diagnosed with autism throughout the United States. One of her most notable accomplishments as an advocate is her involvement in the establishment of multiple public policy pieces that improve services to students and adults with autism and their families.
Gardner also serves on advisory committees with the Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC) and Advocates for Autism of Massachusetts (AFAM). She is an Advisory Board member to Autism Speaks and a founding Board member of the National Council of Autism Providers (CASP) and is currently serving as vice chair. Ms. Gardner also serves on the Advisory Board of the Virginia Institute of Autism and is a Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability (PAR) Board member. She has served as an appointed member of the Governor's Autism Commission in Massachusetts, is the past President of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Association of Approved Private School (MAAPS) and currently sits on its Executive Committee.
"It is an honor to be in company with so many esteemed and inspirational female executives," said Gardner. "Engaging in the work of advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the diverse employees that serve them, and delivering the highest level of professionalism and care for every individual, every day, is central to Melmark's mission. I am proud to lead this work alongside my highly skilled colleagues as Melmark New England looks forward to celebrating its 25th anniversary year serving individuals from this region and beyond."
Gardner received her Master of Public Health degree from Boston University's School of Public Health in the School of Medicine. Most important she holds the heart of Melmark's mission at the core of her professional standards. She is dedicated to every child, adult and family served at Melmark, as well as every member of Melmark's professional staff.
Melmark is a multi-state human service provider with premier special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. Programs and services include children's day schools, after-school and residential programs, adult day and adult residential programs. Other services include public school consultation and family outreach, early intervention services, a formal professional development program including onsite graduate education, an Expert Speakers Series and the creation and design of EnvisionSMART™, which includes a series of professional practitioner manuals and proprietary software programs designed to replicate the Melmark Model of Program Development for public schools and other service providers. Melmark is Mission First. Every Individual, Every Day.
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Lawyers representing Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice John L. Weimer III on Friday urged a federal judge to reverse an unusual order that is blocking him from running for re-election this fall.
Weimer and three sheriffs in his Supreme Court district are seeking to overturn a May 4 order by U.S. District Judge John deGravelles in Baton Rouge that stopped the election of all Supreme Court judges, for the time being, at the request of the NAACP’s state chapter and Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The order affects only Weimer now because he is the only justice on the ballot this year. The elections for the Louisiana Supreme Court are staggered with two-year intervals, so the next justice won’t be up for election until 2024.
DeGravelles’ order told each side they had to give an update to him every 45 days. The judge sealed his order.
Weimer and Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne and St. John Parish Mike Tregre all made their motion as private citizens. Weimer, according to a Supreme Court spokesperson, had no advance knowledge of the May 4 order. He declined to comment.
In Friday's hearing, according to a "minute entry," deGravelles said that a federal magistrate judge has to decide whether Weimer and the three sheriffs can intervene in the case to have their petition heard. If the magistrate decides in their favor, then deGravelles will have to determine whether Weimer can go on the ballot this year, while the election stay continues for the other six justices in future years.
Harold Block, a Thibodaux-based attorney who is one of the attorneys representing Weimer and the three sheriffs, said the judges need to decide soon "with qualifying coming up."
Landry's office and Jennifer Nwachukwu and Arthur Thomas, the outside attorneys for the NAACP, did not return phone calls.
Weimer is seeking a third 10-year term on the Supreme Court. The election is on Nov. 8, with qualifying scheduled for July 20-22. His term ends on Dec. 31. What’s unclear is whether he would remain in office if his term ends, and the election is not held.
Known for his unassuming manner, Weimer, 67, was first elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2001 from Thibodaux. He represents the 6th Supreme Court District, which consists of 12 coastal parishes: Assumption, Iberia Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, and a portion of the west bank of Jefferson.
When he spoke to the state Legislature in March in his role as chief justice, Weimer noted proudly that he was the son of a gas station owner, and many people never thought he would amount to anything. Instead, he taught law and ethics at Nicholls State University, became a judge in 1993 and a supreme court justice in 2001.
DeGravelles’ May 4 order involves a 2019 lawsuit filed by the NAACP saying that the Supreme Court should add a second Black-majority district in a state where about one-third of the voters are African-Americans. Currently, the Supreme Court has only one Black-majority district, which is represented by Justice Piper Griffin.
So while the NAACP and Landry joined together to support the stay, Landry has opposed the NAACP's effort to create a second Black-majority Supreme Court district.
Landry has consistently fought to keep the same state Supreme Court boundaries, similar to how Republicans in the state Legislature kept only one Black-majority district among Louisiana’s six congressional districts. Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, of Baton Rouge, rejected that map earlier this month, saying the U.S. Constitution requires Louisiana to have two Black-majority congressional districts. But state lawmakers appealed her ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated her order to give the court time to review the Louisiana case and one in Alabama as well.
On May 2, attorneys for Landry and the NAACP stipulated in a court document that they thought they could resolve their legal dispute through settlement. They noted the dispute has been complicated by population shifts since the Supreme Court boundaries were last drawn 25 years ago. The Legislature failed again to update the district lines during redistricting session in February.
Staff writer Charles Lussier contributed to this report. | 2022-07-01T23:30:43+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_48be1fd2-f956-11ec-92ae-73c1e257a2c7.html |
PM showers possible Friday, more shower chances this weekend
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - We’re tracking the chance for more pop-up showers going throughout your Friday and even into the weekend. With that said, an all day rain for weekend isn’t expected.
Temperatures will stay closer to average this weekend before a decent warm up greets up going into next week.
Here’s the latest forecast!
Today & Tonight (Friday
We start the day dry with some sunshine for the morning hours. Temperatures starting in the 40s and 50s. May need a light jacket still stepping out the door.
Expecting some more cloud development going into the afternoon and evening hours. Due to the peak heating of the day, this will also likely produce a few pop-up showers. This activity will stay scattered at best, and shouldn’t be an all day rain.
If you happen to get caught a passing shower, most will last around a half hour before ending. While a rumble of thunder will be possible, less instability expected today will keep those chances slim.
Track any showers today always using our Interactive Radar! Those that manage to stay dry today can just expect a few more clouds in the mix this afternoon and evening.
Highs later this afternoon with stay warm back in the 70s. Some 60s closer to the lakeshore will be more likely.
Any shower chances begin to diminish past sunset going later into the evening and tonight.
Lows tonight will drop back into the 50s with partly cloudy skies.
Weekend Outlook
Saturday will be a similar set up to Friday. Most should manage some more dry time especially for the morning hours with a good mix of sun and clouds. An isolated shower can’t completely be ruled out.
During peak heating into the afternoon and evening will lead to better pop-up shower chances. A little bit more instability Saturday will lead to the chance for a few thunderstorms to develop as well.
Highs Saturday reach back into the 70s.
Saturday night into Sunday morning will still carry a chance for showers as better forcing and most moisture will be available. This timeframe will also carry the chance for a few more rumbles of thunder.
Lows Saturday night drop back into the 50s.
Sunday will have chances for periods of showers; one for the morning hours and again into the afternoon and early evening. Like Friday and Saturday, we’re expecting some dry hours in-between any shower development.
Highs on Sunday will still land in the 70s.
Next Week
Low end shower chances continue into the new week. At this point, most of Monday is trending dry. We will still keep an evening chance for a few showers and then again into Tuesday. Nothing too organized at the moment.
Looks like we get another mainly dry Wednesday with more heating of the day pop-up shower and t-storm chances holding.
The bigger story into next week will be a return of the heat. Highs are projected to reach back into the 80s near 90!
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LONDON, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Fineqia International Inc.'s (the "Company" or "Fineqia") (CSE: FNQ) (OTC: FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) analysis of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) worldwide that have cryptocurrencies as underlying assets, revealed a 17% decrease in the Assets Under Management (AUM) value during the month of Nov., closely mirroring the 15% drop in the cryptocurrency market value during the same period.
The total AUM decreased to $21 billion from $25.3 billion between Nov. 1 and Dec. 1 across 163 listed ETPs, according to Fineqia Research. Two ETPs that had FTX's token (FTT) as their underlying assets have ceased trading, while six new ETPs were added, increasing the total number of ETPs listed from 159 to 163 so far in 2022. The new ETPs listed did not affect the total metrics, that have a combined AUM of approx. $5 million.
The ETPs include Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs). The overall value of cryptocurrencies decreased 15% to about $850 million in Nov., more than 60% lower than $2.2 trillion in Jan.
On a year-to-date (YTD) basis, the AUM of crypto ETPs decreased 64%, similar to a 61% drop in the broader crypto market. Despite a 50% increase in the number of ETPs to 163 in Nov. compared with 109 in Jan., their overall AUM was $21 billion compared to $58.5 billion in Jan. The price of Bitcoin dropped by 65%, while Ethereum decreased by 67% during the Jan.-Nov. 2022 period.
"The price of cryptocurrencies dropped as a result of the FTX bankruptcy in early Nov.," said Fineqia CEO Bundeep Singh Rangar. "We're still facing contagious effects of the FTX failure that has consequentially weakened the financial position of other companies and made some of them insolvent."
A number of crypto-related entities revealed some amount of exposure to collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. These firms include Binance, BlockFi, Coinbase, Coinshares, Galaxy Digital, Genesis Global Trading, and Voyager Digital, among others.
ETH prices have plummeted due to selling by people who are believed to have hacked FTX. They are estimated to have sold more than 50,000 ETH and still retain more than 200,000 ETH. More selling by them could further negate the price of ETH.
The AUM of Ethereum (ETH) denominated ETPs decreased by 18%, while the cryptocurrency's price dropped by 23% to about $1,200 from almost $1,600. Their AUM fell to $5.3 billion from $6.5 billion. ETH has been one of the most volatile crypto assets, part of both an uptrend and downtrend over the past few months.
ETPs holding Bitcoin (BTC) dropped almost 17% to $14 billion from $16.8 billion in the month of Nov. That has outperformed BTC, which suffered a 20% decrease to about $16,500 on Nov. 1 compared to $20,600 a month earlier. ETPs representing alternative coins decreased by 15% and those with a basket of cryptocurrencies dropped by 17%.
All references are in US dollars and all cryptocurrency prices are sourced from CoinMarketCap.
All ETFs and ETPs AUM were compiled from publicly available sources, such as 21Shares AG, Grayscale Investment LLC, VanEck Associates Corp., MorningStars, Inc., and TrackInSight SAS by Fineqia's in-house research department.
Fineqia (www.fineqia.com) is a listed entity in Canada (CSE: FNQ), US (OTC: FNQQF) and Europe (Frankfurt: FNQA). Fineqia's strategic focus has been to provide a platform and associated services to support securities issuances and manage administration of debt securities. Fineqia is building out its alternative finance business and holds a growing portfolio of blockchain, fintech and cryptocurrency technology companies worldwide.
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Today in History
Today is Monday, Feb. 21, the 51st day of 2023. There are 314 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.
On this date:
In 1792, President George Washington signed an act creating the United States Post Office Department.
In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever.
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded “idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons” from being admitted to the United States.
In 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.
In 1938, Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
In 1965, America’s Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the moon, as planned, after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface.
In 1987, a bomb left by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski exploded behind a computer store in Salt Lake City, seriously injuring store owner Gary Wright.
In 1998, Tara Lipinski of the U.S. won the ladies’ figure skating gold medal at the Nagano (NAH’-guh-noh) Olympics; Michelle Kwan won the silver.
In 2003, a fire sparked by pyrotechnics broke out during a concert by the group Great White at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.
In 2005, death claimed actor Sandra Dee at age 62; musical actor John Raitt at age 88; and counterculture writer Hunter S. Thompson at age 67.
In 2020, a poll by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found more Americans expressing some concern about catching the flu than about catching the coronavirus.
Ten years ago: The Obama administration announced a broad new effort to fight the growing theft of American trade secrets following fresh evidence linking cyber-stealing to China’s military. Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., entered a guilty plea in federal court to criminal charges that he’d engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items; his wife, Sandra Jackson, pleaded guilty to filing false joint federal income tax returns.
Five years ago: Students who survived a Parkland, Florida school shooting traveled to Tallahassee to urge state lawmakers to prevent another massacre, but procedural moves in the legislature effectively halted any effort to ban assault-style rifles like the one used in the attack. President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in the Las Vegas massacre. Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir became the most decorated figure skaters in history, capturing the gold medal in ice dancing on Day 11 of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
One year ago: Russia extended military drills near Ukraine’s northern borders after two days of sustained shelling along the contact line between Ukrainian soldiers and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s president appealed for a cease-fire. (Russia would invade four days later.) The White House said President Joe Biden would nominate a Black woman with “impeccable experience” for a vacancy on the Supreme Court. (Biden would nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for the seat on Feb. 25.) In his former home arena in Cleveland, LeBron James led his team to a 163-160 victory over a team led by Kevin Durant in the NBA All-Star Game.
Today’s birthdays: Racing Hall of Famer Roger Penske is 86. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 82. Hockey Hall of Famer Phil Esposito is 81. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is 81. Movie director Mike Leigh is 80. Actor Brenda Blethyn is 77. Actor Sandy Duncan is 77. Actor Peter Strauss is 76. Rock musician Billy Zoom (X) is 75. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is 72. Actor John Voldstad is 72. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 69. Actor Anthony Head is 69. Country singer Leland Martin is 66. Actor James Wilby is 65. Rock musician Sebastian Steinberg is 64. Comedian Joel Hodgson is 63. Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is 60. Rock musician Ian Brown (Stone Roses) is 60. Actor French Stewart is 59. Actor Ron Eldard is 58. Model Cindy Crawford is 57. Actor Andrew Shue is 56. Actor Lili Taylor is 56. Actor Andrea Savage is 50. Singer Brian Littrell is 48. Actor Lauren Ambrose is 45. Actor Jay Hernandez is 45. Actor Chelsea Peretti is 45. Country musician Coy Bowles is 44. Actor Michael Zegen is 44. Actor Majandra Delfino is 42. Actor Jocko Sims is 42. Singer-musician Chris Thile is 42. Actor-singer Jessie Mueller is 40. MLB All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander is 40. Comedian Trevor Noah is 39. Actor Jake Richardson is 38. Actor Daniella Pineda is 36. Actor Miles Teller is 36. Singer Rihanna is 35. Actor Jack Falahee is 34. | 2023-02-13T21:45:20+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/today-in-history-feb-20-john-glenn-orbits-earth-17780837.php |
The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a multimillion-dollar verdict against the manufacturer of the popular weed killer, Roundup, for failing to warn of cancer risks.
In a statement Tuesday, the company said, it disagrees with the court’s decision not to take its appeal and “is confident that the extensive body of science and consistently favorable views of leading regulatory bodies worldwide provide a strong foundation on which it can successfully defend Roundup in court when necessary.”
The case was brought by Edwin Hardeman, who was diagnosed in 2015 with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He sued the company, alleging that his use of Roundup for more than two decades had caused his cancer. He said the company had failed to warn of the cancer risks associated with the active ingredient glyphosate.
Since 1985, the ingredient has been classified as a “possible human carcinogen,” but the Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly concluded that it is unlikely to cause cancer in humans. California’s labeling laws are more stringent, and after a 2015 finding from an international research group, required a warning label for glyphosate-based pesticides.
An appeals court upheld a jury’s $25 million verdict and finding that Hardeman’s exposure to Roundup was a “substantial factor” in causing his cancer and that the company had failed to warn of the risks.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said federal law does not preempt the company’s duty to include a cancer warning on its label. The court said that a pesticide can be “misbranded” even if the EPA has approved its label and that a company can comply with both federal and state labeling requirements.
The company’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court to reverse and pointed to previous rulings intended to ensure “nationwide uniformity of pesticide labeling.” California and potentially 49 other states should not be able to “marginalize” EPA’s statements that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, they said.
The company noted that Hardeman stopped using Roundup in 2012, before the California label requirement. | 2022-06-21T14:23:36+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/21/supreme-court-roundup-bayer-cancer/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Bioventus Inc. ("Bioventus" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BVS) and certain officers and directors. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and docketed under 23-cv-00032, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Bioventus Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents (defined below) issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about February 11, 2021 (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (b) Bioventus securities between February 11, 2021 and November 21, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Plaintiff pursues claims against the Defendants under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Bioventus Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the Offering Documents in connection to the Company's IPO or Bioventus securities during the Class Period, you have until March 13, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Bioventus is a medical device company that focuses on developing and commercializing clinical treatments to engage and enhance the body's natural healing process.
On January 20, 2021, Bioventus filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the IPO, which, after several amendments, was declared effective by the SEC on February 10, 2021 (the "Registration Statement").
On or about February 11, 2021, pursuant to the Registration Statement, Bioventus conducted the IPO, issuing 8 million shares of its Class A common stock to the public at the Offering price of $13.00 per share.
On February 12, 2021, Bioventus filed a prospectus on Form 424B4 with the SEC in connection with the IPO, which incorporated and formed part of the Registration Statement (the "Prospectus" and, together with the Registration Statement, the "Offering Documents").
The Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, the Offering Documents and Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Bioventus suffered from significant liquidity issues; (ii) the Company's rebate practices were unsustainable; (iii) accordingly, Defendants overstated the Company's business and financial prospects; (iv) Bioventus maintained deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting with respect to the timely recognition of quarterly rebates; (v) all the foregoing increased the risk that the Company would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash impairment charge, could not timely file one or more of its financial reports, would have to amend one or more of its financial statements, and could not meet its financial obligations as they came due; and (vi) as a result, the Offering Documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
On November 16, 2022, Bioventus issued a press release announcing that it could not timely file its quarterly report for third quarter of 2022 because "of the recent decline in the Company's market capitalization subsequent to its previously announced financial results for the third quarter of 2022," which resulted in the Company needing "additional time . . . to assess whether a non-cash impairment charge is required for the third quarter of 2022." Bioventus also revealed that it "is seeking resolution related to the validity of a revised invoice" for certain "rebate claims" and that "[t]he recognition of additional rebates may impact Bioventus' recently announced revenue guidance." In addition, Bioventus disclosed that "its internal controls related to the timely recognition of quarterly rebates were inadequate specifically for the period ended October 1, 2022" and that the Company "is also evaluating whether [it] will be able to meet all of its financial obligations as they come due within one year after the date its financial statements for the period ended October 1, 2022, are issued."
On this news, Bioventus's stock price fell $1.00 per share, or 33.67%, to close at $1.97 per share on November 17, 2022.
Then, on November 21, 2022, Bioventus issued a press release announcing revised third quarter 2022 results to account for "additional rebate claims related to certain of the Company's products and a non-cash impairment charge" that amounted to $189.2 million "due to the recent decline in our market capitalization subsequent to our previously announced financial results for the three and nine months ended October 1, 2022." That same day, Bioventus belatedly filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the SEC for the third quarter of 2022, advising of various changes to Bioventus's historical practices that were necessary to account for rebates, stating that these changes materially impacted the Company's evaluation of its ability to meet debt covenants, resulting in liquidity and going concern disclosures.
On this news, Bioventus's stock price fell $0.07 per share, or 3.72%, to close at $1.81 per share on November 22, 2022, representing a total decline of 86.08% from the IPO price.
As of the time this Complaint was filed, Bioventus's Class A common stock continues to trade below the $13.00 per share Offering price, damaging investors.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Fifth module in the Cannabis Insurance Coverage Specialist (CICS) designation
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ALM Global released the fifth course in the six-course Cannabis Insurance Coverage Specialist (CICS) designation, Workers Compensation for Cannabis Businesses.
"Workers compensation is a complex issue for any business. There are specific workers compensation exposures around cannabis, even when legal. With this course, we wanted to provide current, critical information for professionals insuring, representing, serving or involved with the cannabis industry, as well as anyone handling workers compensation in states where cannabis is legal," shares Molly Miller, ALM's chief content officer.
Workers Compensation for Cannabis Businesses covers many aspects of workers compensation in regard to legalized cannabis and cannabis-related businesses. The course begins with an overview of the workers compensation system in general, including a deep dive into workers compensation coverage parts. We then go into an overview of workers compensation and cannabis, including existing and proposed legislation, as well as classifications for workers compensation as related to legal cannabis. The course finishes with an examination of the impact legal cannabis has had on workers compensation exposures, including topics like drug testing, reimbursement for medical use, and a look at exposures related to legal cannabis.
Marijuana legalization is increasing across the United States, and more and more organizations have connections to cannabis-related businesses, which have unique insurance, banking, and risk management needs. The forward-thinking Cannabis Insurance Coverage Specialist (CICS) designation is being developed by ALM's subject matter experts and thought leaders in conjunction with multiple insurance, legal and cannabis industry authorities. The coursework is hot off the presses, and it's regularly updated to reflect the ever-evolving cannabis industry.
Along with Cannabis Insurance 101, Managing the Risks of Cannabis-Related Businesses, Handling Cannabis Insurance Claims, Real Estate and Cannabis Insurance, Workers Compensation for Cannabis Businesses is the next step toward the Cannabis Insurance Coverage Specialist (CICS) designation, designed to help anyone understand the key issues, risks and business needs to be successful in operating and advising a cannabis-related business.
To register for the course at the introductory price of $199 or to learn more, visit www.nutraining.com or contact Johanna Abshear, Client Success Coordinator, by phone at 859-692-2131 or by email at jabshear@alm.com.
ALM Global, an information and intelligence media company, provides customers with critical news, data, analysis, marketing solutions and events to successfully manage the business of business. ALM serves a community of more than 7 million business professionals in the legal, finance, insurance and commercial real estate industries. Please visit www.alm.com for more information.
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I’m not going to apologize for liking an Impossible or Beyond burger every now and then. Sometimes I feel like I should, given the criticism they face for being highly processed, not focused on recognizable vegetables, etc. (Cue the self-righteous, “gotcha!” commenters with their tired “Why would vegetarians and vegans want something that reminds them of meat?” questions.)
Instead, I want to focus on how easy they can be to cook and what a boon they can be to plant-based eaters like me who, yes, enjoy the taste and texture of a well-made hamburger but don’t want it to be made of animals.
America’s Test Kitchen has jumped, ideology-free, into the fray with a book on the best practices for cooking plant-based meats such as these patties; my colleague Becky Krystal featured some of their strategies for grilling in a recent piece.
As much as I love grilling, I’m more likely on any given weeknight to be firing these up in a skillet on my stovetop, in a kitchen where the air conditioning is strong. So I was drawn to a recipe in “Cooking With Plant-Based Meat” that turns 12 ounces of the ground variety into eight sliders — just the thing for a get-together with friends (or for multiple meals with my husband).
The recipe includes a few smart tricks: using a glass pie plate or dish and parchment paper to press the patties into neat 3-inch rounds; chilling them first so they are easy to maneuver and hold up better; pressing chopped onions onto one side to char as the burger cooks; and adding steam to soften the buns and to help melt the vegan cheese.
With their sweet-and-sour sauce, the diminutive burgers reminded me of those little darlings from White Castle, but without the same impacts — to the environment and to animals — of meat. Win-win-win.
Vegan Pub Sliders
For best results, use a block of ground plant-based meat by Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat rather than patties. Note that in testing, we preferred these with brioche-style slider buns; sweet Hawaiian-style rolls competed with the slightly sweet/sour sauce. Serve one slider per guest as an appetizer or two as a main.
Make Ahead: The sauce can be refrigerated for up to 4 days before you cook and assemble the sliders.
Storage Notes: Refrigerate for up to 3 days and microwave to reheat.
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Ingredients
For the sauce
- 2 tablespoons plant-based mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 1 teaspoon sweet pickle relish
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the sliders
- 12 ounces plant-based ground meat, such as Impossible Foods or Beyond Meat
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 8 slider hamburger buns
- 4 slices plant-based cheese, such as Violife cheddar slices
- 4 teaspoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1/4 cup finely chopped yellow or white onion, divided
- 1/4 cup water, divided
Step 1
Make the sauce: In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, sugar, vinegar and pepper.
Step 2
Make the sliders: Fold a sheet of parchment paper in half, then unfold it. Using your moistened hands, pinch off and roll the ground meat into 8 balls (1 1/2 ounces each). Put one ball on one side of the parchment paper, fold the other side over, and use a clear pie plate or baking dish to press the ball into an even 3-inch-wide patty. (Using something made of glass helps you see the size of the patty as you’re pressing.) Transfer to a platter or a baking sheet and repeat with the remaining balls. Sprinkle the patties with salt and pepper and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes and up to 24 hours.
Step 3
Divide the sauce evenly among the bun bottoms and arrange them on a serving platter. Stack the cheese and cut it into quarters (for 16 pieces).
Step 4
In a large, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, heat 2 teaspoons of the oil until just smoking. Using a spatula, transfer four patties to the skillet. Sprinkle a total of 2 tablespoons of the onion over the tops of the patties and press firmly into the patties with the back of the spatula. Cook the patties until well browned on the first side, about 1 minute. Flip the patties and top each with 2 pieces of cheese and add the bun tops. Add 2 tablespoons of water to the skillet beside the patties (being careful to not wet the buns), cover, and cook until the cheese is melted, 90 seconds.
Step 5
Transfer the sliders to the prepared bun bottoms, tent with aluminum foil, and set aside while cooking the remaining patties. Repeat with the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil, 4 patties, 2 tablespoons of onion, bun tops and 2 tablespoons of water. Serve warm.
Nutrition Information
Per serving (1 slider), based on 8
Calories: 168; Total Fat: 9 g; Saturated Fat: 2 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 486 mg; Carbohydrates: 17 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 3 g; Protein: 9 g
This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.
Adapted from “Cooking With Plant-Based Meat” by America’s Test Kitchen (2022).
Tested by Joe Yonan; email questions to voraciously@washpost.com.
Did you make this recipe? Take a photo and tag us on Instagram with #eatvoraciously. | 2022-06-05T14:30:23+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/06/05/vegan-burger-sliders-recipe/ |
Which outdoor camera is better, Blink or Wyse?
A home security system offers you peace of mind, knowing that your family is safe and your home is protected whether you’re sleeping soundly or away from the house. Modern security systems connect to the internet, too, giving you the capability of monitoring your home from anywhere in the world.
Both Blink and Wyze offer intelligent outdoor cameras that can withstand the elements while recording activities day or night. These rugged smart-home devices let you view live video footage and can send alerts to your smartphone when people or animals approach your home. They also provide a means of speaking to whoever is on your property, without requiring you to open your door.
The Blink Outdoor Camera and the Wyze Cam V3 are both high-quality outdoor security cameras. But which one is better?
Blink Outdoor Camera
Blink offers three types of security cameras that share similar features and are among the best security cameras on the market today: Indoor, Outdoor and Mini. The outdoor camera is housed in a small black case, 2.7 by 2.7 by 1.2 inches thick, and carries an Ingress Protection rating of 65, showing it’s ideal for all weather conditions. It’s powered by a set of AA lithium-ion batteries that last up to two years.
Motion detection and customizable recording capture full HD video at 30 frames per second over a 110-degree field of view. The narrow-angled lenses work best for monitoring targets such as entrances and doorways. The camera records up to 60 seconds, and night vision is provided with an infrared LED for black-and-white video.
The Sync Module 2 (included with the camera) communicates with a Wi-Fi network and works with Alexa voice commands (Amazon owns Blink) and applets for the free web service IFTTT. Live View provides live video and sound via the Blink app on your smartphone and some Alexa-enabled devices. A speaker and microphone offer two-way audio for talking to visitors. Status LEDs on the front light up when the camera is active and when night vision is enabled.
The Sync Module, powered by a mini-USB AC adapter, has a USB port for connection to an external device, such as a thumb drive, to store event-triggered video clips. Cloud storage is available with a subscription.
The Blink Outdoor Camera is available at Amazon and Home Depot for about $100.
Blink Outdoor Camera pros
- Easy to hide: The small, lightweight camera is easy to keep out of sight.
- High-quality video: Full HD resolution provides sharp video.
- Alexa devices: It works with Alexa and IFTTT.
- Flexible storage: Video can be stored in the cloud and local devices.
- Range: The camera works within 100 feet of the Blink Sync Module 2.
- Motion detection: The camera detects movement up to 20 feet away.
- Battery life: The batteries last up to two years.
- Installation: Lack of power cords makes installation easy.
Blink Outdoor Camera cons
- Hub: The camera only works with a network hub to connect it.
- Amazon Alexa only: No support is provided for Google Assistant or HomeKit.
- Field of view: The 110-degree field of view is limited compared to the 160 degrees offered by some competitors.
Wyze Cam V3
The Cam V3 is the third generation of Wyze’s line of budget-minded home security cameras that include the wireless Wyze Cam Outdoor V2 and the Wyze Cam Spotlight Bundle.
The wired V3 camera measures 2.2 by 2 by 2 inches and rests on a square-hinged base that adds 1.2 inches to the height when fully extended. The hinge and swivel mechanisms provide 180 degrees of vertical and 360 degrees of horizontal movement.
Like the Blink Outdoor Camera, it has an IP65 rating, making it suitable for outdoors when used with the Wyze Outdoor Power Adapter (sold separately). The camera offers Full HD video in daylight, and Wyze’s Starlight Sensor records nighttime video in vivid color even when it’s 25 times darker than when traditional video cameras can see.
The Wyze camera’s intelligent motion detection notifies you via the Wyze app and sends a video clip when it detects either motion or sound. Motion tagging provides a clear image of what triggered a motion-detected event by placing a green square on the screen around the source of motion. The V3 also sends an alert the moment it hears a smoke or CO alarm sound nearby and records a video during the event.
The Wyze Cam V3 offers free cloud storage and can capture up to 28 days of video with a 128 gigabyte microSD card (not included). The camera is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands and supports IFTTT.
The Wyze Cam V3 is available at Amazon and Home Depot for about $36.
Wyze Cam V3 pros
- Versatile: It works indoors and outside.
- Color night vision: The V3 records color videos in low light conditions.
- Storage: The camera has local storage and free cloud storage.
- Smart home devices: The V3 offers Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and IFTTT support.
- Motion detection: It detects motion, sound and people.
- Built-in siren: The siren can be controlled from the Wyze app, and the speaker is loud enough to ward off intruders.
- Price: The V3 is less expensive than most of its competitors.
Wyze Cam V3 cons
- No battery use: The V3 is a wired security camera.
- Apple issue: The V3 works with iOS but does not support Apple’s HomeKit hub.
- Subscriptions: Some V3 features require a subscription.
Should you get a Blink or a Wyze outdoor camera?
Both the Blink and Wyze outdoor cameras offer security with Full HD video, intelligent motion detection, remote control from a smartphone app and support for Alexa-enabled and other smart devices. Both include microSD slots for local video storage and a connection to the cloud, although the Blink service requires a subscription.
The Wyze camera offers its Starlight Sensor that records low-light nighttime video in vivid color while the Blink registers in black and white. For the homeowner looking for a battery-powered camera, the Blink is a good choice. The Wyze runs off household electricity, but it offers more features than the Blink at about half the price.
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There has been one confirmed case of backyard poultry salmonella infection in Santa Barbara County.
That’s according to the county Public Health Department, which noted the CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating
multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections linked to contact with backyard poultry. In total, 219 illnesses have been reported from 38 states, and 27 people have been hospitalized.
The cases are not related to recent cases of H5N1 bird flu virus.
Salmonella is a bacterium that can be found in poultry manure, which can make people sick. Backyard poultry, like chickens and ducks, can carry salmonella even if they look healthy and clean, the health department said in a news release.
The department said bacteria can easily spread to cages, coops, hay, plants and soil in the area where they live. You can get sick from salmonella by touching your mouth or food with unwashed hands.
People infected with salmonella usually become sick one to three days after exposure, the health department said. It added that most people recover within four to seven days without treatment.
For more information, visit the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website: www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian.
email: lhibbert@newspress.com | 2023-06-22T19:04:59+00:00 | newspress.com | https://newspress.com/salmonella-case-reported-in-santa-barbara-county/ |
There was a time when Enrique Tarrio, the currently imprisoned head of the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys, wanted to be an elected official. In 2019, he briefly entertained a bid for Congress from South Florida. He completed a questionnaire offered by Ballotpedia in which he explained his candidacy and his political role models — Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) among them.
For those familiar with Tarrio solely through his recent political activity — leading a fringe movement that embraces violence and was central to the Capitol riot — this may seem incongruous. But Tarrio has for some time been intertwined with prominent political actors in Florida. He’s known Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone for years and ran a group called Latinos for Trump. His flirtation with running for office was a flirtation with gaining power via one route. He ended up choosing another.
Others in his organization, though, aren’t forcing that same choice. The New York Times on Thursday explored the extent to which the Republican Party in Miami-Dade County had been infiltrated by active members of the Proud Boys.
“[A]t least a half-dozen current and former Proud Boys … have secured seats on the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee, seeking to influence local politics from the inside,” Patricia Mazzei and Alan Feuer report. “Their ranks include adherents who face criminal charges for participating in the Capitol attack.”
The report describes a pattern that should by now be familiar: traditional Republican figures (here meaning people like former governor Jeb Bush) build institutional power and outsider elements then appropriate that power. It’s the story of the GOP nationally in the era of Donald Trump. Trump is an important example, though, because it’s also a reminder of what one can expect to happen next: the fringe becomes the establishment.
What’s happening in Miami is a specific example of the phenomenon, but it’s happening elsewhere, too. In northern California, right-wing politicians now hold a majority on a county board of supervisors following a successful recall effort. There has been a push since the 2020 election for far-right candidates to seek election to lower-ballot races, as well, particularly school boards.
Then, of course, there’s the push to influence elections themselves. The right’s push to have a more active supervisory and management role in voting and vote-counting has been well-documented, but recent reports, including from Politico, make clear that there remains real energy aimed at influencing election outcomes. Much of this is motivated by sincere (if misguided) concern about the security of American elections. Some of it is simply about securing or preserving power for the right, by any means necessary.
It’s not clear what to make of this moment. Is this simply a side effect of the Trump era and, particularly, its ignominious fate in 2020? Or is it a real shift in right-wing engagement? We may not be able to answer that question for another year or two as the sheer drudgery of holding governmental positions takes its toll. You can ask Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) about the difference between running for and winning office and then holding office. The latter is generally less interesting.
This raises a bigger question: why do far-right elements want this power? Why do Proud Boys want to have a say in the direction of the Miami-Dade Republican Party? What do they plan to do?
This is what brought me to Tarrio’s endorsement questionnaire. What did the head of the Proud Boys pledge to deliver for his constituents?
Asked what areas of public policy drove him, Tarrio offered a handful, including criminal justice reform, “rooting out violations of our 2nd amendment,” “free speech across ALL digital platforms” and an “America first foreign policy.” He also included “[c]ountering the very real threat of domestic terrorism” — clearly a reference not to groups like the Proud Boys but, instead, to left-wing activists like those associated with antifa.
These are fairly vague, of course, but refreshingly specific compared to what the Republican Party itself offered in 2020 after Trump had become the party’s official leader. You’ll recall that the GOP offered literally no platform save that it “has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.” In other words, whatever Trump’s agenda was at the moment, that was the party’s agenda as well.
Trump’s agenda (and Tarrio’s, reading only barely between the lines) was mostly culture war stuff. Trump rose to power as a representative of the conservative media caucus and earned support from Republican voters thanks largely to his willingness to echo whatever was airing in the prime time hours of Fox News. He saw political power as a tool to punish his opponents and understood that meeting the needs of his constituents meant winning the sorts of fights that Breitbart and Rush Limbaugh were engaged in.
A new generation of elected officials has followed that path. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) expends an enormous amount of energy weighing in on culture-war fights, obviously in part because he has an eye on the national Republican constituency for 2024. The Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania celebrated his victory in the party’s primary last month by pledging to the audience that he would similarly prioritize the sorts of things that get heavy coverage from people like Sean Hannity. He didn’t say this explicitly, of course, but he didn’t need to.
That candidate is Doug Mastriano, a right-wing Trump supporter who was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 when violence first erupted. (No evidence has emerged that he participated in the violence.)
This is a useful caveat to the idea that people will get bored with holding government positions, of course. The job is what you make it. Cawthorn, for example, clearly liked continuing to stir the pot from his elevated position of elected leadership. If you want to hold office less because you want to effect change within the system than that you want to use it as a platform, maybe it will be worth sticking around.
It seems very safe to assume that the Proud Boys and other extremists want power for a primary reason that Trump did: to hold power in lieu of the left doing so. There’s an inescapable racial aspect to this that emerges explicitly in the Proud Boys’ embrace of “Western chauvinism,” a sense among many on the right that they — often meaning Christian Whites — are embattled. Retaining power offers a form of protection.
A lot of the right-wing energy around political engagement was sparked not by Trump’s false claims of election fraud but by coronavirus restrictions that were seen as oppressive. It was a rejection less of Democratic politics than of the idea that the government should encourage collective action — an idea that was once anodyne but has increasingly been placed at the left end of the partisan spectrum. That’s in part because it is framed as oppositional to individual freedom, a term that often simply means that people should not face any restrictions (including on social-media, as candidate Enrique Tarrio clearly felt).
Shortly after Trump took office, the World Values Survey was conducted. Among its questions was one asking how Americans felt about replacing our existing form of government with one where a strong leader could simply act without being held in check by any legislative body. A large majority of Americans said that was a bad idea, but 44 percent of people who vote Republican said it was at least fairly good. A majority of Republican voters under the age of 50 said it was at least a fairly good idea. The most recent iteration of the right’s flagship political gathering, Conservative Political Action Conference, was held in Hungary where attendees heard effusive praise for that country’s autocratic leader.
Autocracy is power for the sake of power, power aimed at doing what one wants in the face of opposition. No compromise would be needed with a group that most Republicans said in the same time frame that they saw not as political opponents but as enemies. The Proud Boys don’t want power so they can introduce legislation and debate it in committee hearings. Many on the right don’t want to monitor elections simply to verify that they lost fairly.
In his Ballotpedia questionnaire, Tarrio was asked what legacy he sought to leave from holding elected office.
“I want to make America less divded,” his answer began, typo included. This can be seen as ironic — or as prescient. His followers do want to unite America, in the same way that Trump did: Against pluralism. Behind the right. | 2022-06-02T17:53:10+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/02/whats-far-right-trying-build-power/ |
Leading middle-market advisory firm facilitated the transaction for family-owned steel manufacturing company
BURLINGTON, N.J. , June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- United Hospital Supply Corporation ("UHSC", or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of steel products, announced that it has partnered with Skylight Ridge Holdings ("Skylight"), a private investment firm that specializes in partnering with established operating businesses and taking those businesses to the next level of growth and profitability. Bruderman Advisory Group, a leading middle-market advisory firm headquartered in New York, was the exclusive financial advisor to UHSC in the transaction.
UHSC has been family-owned and operated since its founding in 1957 and provides a leading line of steel teller pedestals, steel casework, and various other steel products. The Company sells its products to a diverse, national customer base in both the retail bank and laboratory markets in the United States. The retail bank products are sold under the Fenco Bank Equipment brand, while laboratory products are sold under the Lab Design brand.
"It was an absolute pleasure working with Matt Lyons and the entire Lyons family throughout the sale process. UHSC continues to gain share in each of its respective markets, and I look forward to watching them continue to grow in this new partnership," added Ron Lehman, Managing Director at Bruderman Advisory Group.
"On behalf of the Lyons family members and UHSC as a whole, we look forward to our new partnership with Skylight Ridge Holdings. We see them as the perfect partner to bring additional resources into our growing company and to continue the family's 50-year legacy into the future," commented Matthew Lyons, CEO of UHSC.
He added, "Bruderman Advisory Group's personal and professional leadership was paramount from day one to closing. Their direct interaction with UHSC's legal and accounting advisors made the transaction seamless with the Skylight Ridge team. We were fortunate in choosing Bruderman Advisory Group to work on this partnership transaction. Our family thanks them."
About Bruderman Advisory Group
Bruderman Advisory Group is a leading middle-market investment bank based in Locust Valley, NY. The company focuses on providing sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, and capital raising services to support middle-market business owners across multiple industries.
Bruderman Advisory Group leverages five generations of financial know-how to guide clients through a range of transactions, from best-in-class sell-side and buy-side advisory services, to capital raising and strategic consulting services. For more information, please visit www.BrudermanAdvisory.com
About United Hospital Supply Corporation
UHSC is a leading manufacturer of steel products based in Burlington, NJ. The Company manufactures products for the retail bank and laboratory channels, offering a variety of items including steel teller pedestals, steel casework, millwork, fume hoods, adjustable height tables, overhead service carriers, and various other products. UHSC operates out of its manufacturing facility in New Jersey with the capability to serve customers nationally. For more information, please visit www.FencoBankEquipment.com and www.Lab-Design.com.
About Skylight Ridge Holdings
Skylight Ridge Holdings is a private company that specializes in partnering with established operating businesses and taking those businesses to the next level of growth and profitability. Skylight works closely with its partners to provide capital, strategic guidance, and professional infrastructure to help them grow and increase value over time. For more information, please visit www.SkylightRidge.com.
Media Contact: Pete Cokleski, pcokleski@burderman.com, 516-609-0291
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs (the "Company" or "Regulus"), today announced that the Company will participate in two upcoming investor conferences.
Details are as follows:
- Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference taking place September 7-9, 2022, in Boston, MA
- H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference taking place September 12-14, 2022, in New York, NY
A replay of the live presentation will be available under "Events and Presentations" through the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.regulusrx.com and archived for 30 days following the presentation date.
About Regulus
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGLS) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines targeting microRNAs. Regulus has leveraged its oligonucleotide drug discovery and development expertise to develop a pipeline complemented by a rich intellectual property estate in the microRNA field. Regulus maintains its corporate headquarters in San Diego, CA.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this presentation regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements associated with the Company's RGLS8429 program, including the expected timing for initiating clinical studies, the expected timing for reporting topline data, and the timing and future occurrence of other preclinical and clinical activities. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends," "will," "goal," "potential" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Regulus' current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks associated with the process of discovering, developing and commercializing drugs that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics and in the endeavor of building a business around such drugs, and the risk additional toxicology data may be negative. In addition, while Regulus expects the COVID-19 pandemic to adversely affect its business operations and financial results, the extent of the impact on Regulus' ability to achieve its preclinical and clinical development objectives and the value of and market for its common stock, will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence at this time, such as the ultimate duration of the pandemic, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing and business closure requirements in the U.S. and in other countries, and the effectiveness of actions taken globally to contain and treat the disease. These and other risks are described in additional detail in Regulus' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the "Risk Factors" heading of Regulus most recently quarterly report on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Regulus undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
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Smith Center announces 2023-24 Broadway series lineup
In a season filled with theatrical heavyweights and flashy newcomers, an underdog may end up stealing the 2023-24 Broadway Las Vegas Series.
“ ‘Girl From the North Country,’ ” Myron Martin says, “is going to be the one, I think, at the end of the day that people talk about and go, ‘I’m glad I saw that.’ ”
And that’s out of an eight-show season at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts that includes the likes of “Les Misérables,” “Chicago” and that ghost with the most, “Beetlejuice.”
Martin, Smith Center president and CEO, always stresses that the shows he brings in are like children and he “can’t love one more than another.” But during a chat about the upcoming season, he keeps returning to the production in which the cast performs 20 reimagined Bob Dylan songs while delivering something closer to a play with music than a traditional musical.
Set in a Duluth, Minnesota, guesthouse in 1934 and populated by characters who are just barely getting by, “Girl From the North Country” (June 4-9, 2024) was slapped around by COVID before it could really leave its mark on Broadway.
The show opened seven days before the world came to a screeching halt in March 2020, came back in October 2021 and got in a good three-month run before taking an omicron-induced hiatus, then came back long enough to bow out gracefully with an eight-week run that ended last June.
“I think that says extraordinary things about the producers of ‘Girl From the North Country,’ ” Martin says, “and it also says extraordinary things about the quality of the show, that they weren’t going to let it go away.”
The upcoming season will be the third since life resumed following the pandemic break, and Martin confirms that, for the most part, things are back to normal at the performing arts venue.
“We’re as busy as we’ve ever been,” he says. “These houses are all selling out. Not only for the Broadway series but concerts and dance and other things we do in Reynolds Hall.
“Our audiences are just having a great time,” Martin continues. “And they’re so thankful that we’re able to bring these big shows back for them to get out of the house, come together, convene as a community and have these shared experiences.”
The 2023-24 season opens with “Beetlejuice” (Aug. 29-Sept. 3), another production that kept coming back from the dead — so to speak. Based on the 1988 supernatural comedy, the musical limped out of the gate, was granted a new life via TikTok and briefly became a sensation, was knocked down by COVID, kicked out of its home to make room for “The Music Man” and uprooted to a new theater before it closed last month.
Theater’s favorite bread thief is back as “Les Misérables” (Sept. 12-17) returns to The Smith Center for the first time since 2013.
— “Ain’t Too Proud” (Oct. 10-15) follows The Temptations’ growth from the streets of Detroit. “People are going to have so much fun during that,” Martin says.
— While “Chicago” (Jan. 16-21, 2024) has played Las Vegas before — most notably during a yearlong run at Mandalay Bay that kicked off in 1999 with Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen and most recently for five nights at The Venetian in 2019 starring Christie Brinkley — the longest-running American musical in Broadway history will be making its Smith Center debut.
— “Funny Girl” (March 26-31, 2024) was in the process of being booked for the upcoming season long before Lea Michele took over the role of Fanny Brice and made the show one of Broadway’s hottest tickets. The “Glee” alum obviously won’t be part of the touring cast, but Martin still calls the show “a giant title this year.”
— “Come From Away” (May 14-19, 2024), the story of what happened when thousands of airline passengers were stranded in a small Newfoundland town on Sept. 11, 2001, last played The Smith Center in February 2019. That production was “one of the favorites here,” Martin says.
— Finally, “Peter Pan” (June 18-23, 2024) is making its Smith Center debut with a new version featuring a book rewritten by Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse.
Current season ticket holders may renew now, and others can register their interest in purchasing a new 2023-24 season subscription, at TheSmithCenter.com/Broadway.
Contact Christopher Lawrence at clawrence@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4567. Follow @life_onthecouch on Twitter.
Broadway series lineup
The Smith Center’s 2023-24 Broadway Las Vegas Series at a glance:
— “Beetlejuice” (Aug. 29-Sept. 3)
— “Les Misérables” (Sept. 12-17)
— “Ain’t Too Proud” (Oct. 10-15)
— “Chicago” (Jan. 16-21, 2024)
— “Funny Girl” (March 26-31, 2024)
— “Come From Away” (May 14-19, 2024)
— “Girl From the North Country” (June 4-9, 2024)
— “Peter Pan” (June 18-23, 2024) | 2023-02-14T04:51:34+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/arts-culture/smith-center-announces-2023-24-broadway-series-lineup-2728691/ |
(The Hill) – Newly revealed emails show that former White House counsel Pat Cipollone agreed that materials the National Archives requested be returned by President Trump should be given to the agency.
Cipollone, who also severed under the Trump administration as a designated representative to the Archives, reportedly told National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) chief counsel Gary Stern that the documents needed to be returned, The Washington Post reported.
“It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trump’s last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be,” Stern wrote in an email to Trump’s lawyers in May 2021, according to the Post.
According to the report, NARA officials grew concerned about Trump and his team keeping dozens of boxes of official documents and repeatedly declining requests to return those documents.
Stern also noted in his emails to Trump’s legal counsel that two classified documents, which were letters from North Korea President Kim Jong Un and former President Obama, were missing from their archival list.
“We know things are very chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term transition,” Stern wrote in the email. “ … But it is absolutely necessary that we obtain and account for all presidential records.”
Stern also wrote in the emails that he consulted with other attorneys in Trump’s legal counsel to return the requested documents.
The report comes after the FBI conducted a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month, as authorities searched for classified documents Trump brought to his Florida residence after the end of his term at the White House.
Trump returned up to 15 boxes of classified documents to the NARA earlier this year, as NARA officials continued to urge Trump’s team to look for more documents at his Florida residence; referring the matter to the Department of Justice as well, the Post noted. | 2022-08-25T18:32:02+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/emails-show-trump-lawyer-agreed-archives-should-get-requested-records-report/ |
House Democrats are moving to protect access to abortion pills after a federal judge in Texas blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a drug that can be used for abortions and to manage early miscarriages.
Reps. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) and Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas) reintroduced the Protecting Reproductive Freedom Act on Monday, which would reaffirm the FDA’s approval authority for abortion medication over state laws. It would also protect doctors’ ability to provide abortion medication through telehealth.
The legislation, which uses non-binding “Sense of Congress” language, is unlikely, however, to move in the Republican-controlled House.
“A woman’s right to choose is one of our country’s foundational freedoms,” Ryan said in a statement. “These deeply personal and private medical decisions should be made by women and their families, not by extremist judges, courts, or politicians.”
“My priority is protecting abortion access for women in New York and across the country. This legislation will reaffirm the FDA’s approval authority and protect doctors who use telemedicine to prescribe medication abortion,” he added.
The legislative push comes three days after a federal judge in Texas issued a stay that halts the prescription and distribution of mifepristone, which has been available to consumers for more than two decades. The FDA has appealed the decision.
District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by former President Trump, sided with an anti-abortion group that had argued that the FDA improperly rushed its approval process, leading to an unsafe drug regimen landing on the market. Mifepristone was first approved in 2000.
In a separate case, a U.S. district judge in the Eastern District of Washington state blocked the FDA from “altering the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone” in 17 states and Washington, D.C., contrasting with the Texas ruling.
The issue could reach the Supreme Court.
Fletcher — who represents Texas’s 7th congressional district — railed against the ruling from her home state.
“Once again, Texas is at the epicenter of attacks on the health and freedom of Americans with the unprecedented district court decision which, if enforced, would be devastating to women and families across our country and to our established drug-approval system,” she said in a statement.
“It is critical that we do everything we can to preserve and protect the FDA’s authority to approve safe and effective medication, including abortion medication,” she added. | 2023-04-10T18:43:40+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/house-democrats-move-to-protect-abortion-pill-access-after-texas-ruling/ |
TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Friday, March 24, 2023
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National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
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Western El Paso County-
Including the cities of Downtown El Paso, West El Paso,
and Upper Valley
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
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Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Including the cities of East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
and Fort Bliss
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Highs in
the mid 70s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-
Including the cities of Hueco Tanks and Loma Linda
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 60s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy.
Lows in the upper 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the lower 70s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
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Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Including the cities of Fabens, Fort Hancock, and Tornillo
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower
80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
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Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the upper 60s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. West winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in
the mid 40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear and windy. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the upper 60s.
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Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 60s. West winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. West winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy and breezy. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and windy. Highs in
the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
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Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
407 AM MDT Sat Mar 25 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs around 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear and breezy. Highs in
the lower 80s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
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HOUSTON, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: GPI) ("Group 1" or the "Company"), an international Fortune 300 automotive retailer with 204 dealerships located in the U.S. and U.K., announced today that Jamie Albertine has joined the Company as its Vice President of Corporate Development. In his role, Jamie will be responsible for mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and construction activities.
Albertine joins Group 1 with over 20 years' experience in the automotive and financial services industries. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Corporate Development at MileOne Auto Group. At MileOne, he was responsible for driving growth and working to implement key strategic priorities across a portfolio of over 70 dealerships. Earlier in his career, Albertine served as Managing Partner/Senior Analyst at Consumer Edge Research and Director/Lead Analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co, Inc. Albertine received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
"Jamie is a great addition to the Group 1 leadership team. He is a proven corporate development leader, and his experience and background will be instrumental in driving our strategic growth," said Daryl Kenningham, Group 1's President and CEO.
ABOUT GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
Group 1 owns and operates 204 automotive dealerships, 275 franchises, and 46 collision centers in the United States and the United Kingdom that offer 35 brands of automobiles. Through its dealerships and omni-channel platform, the Company sells new and used cars and light trucks; arranges related vehicle financing; sells service and insurance contracts; provides automotive maintenance and repair services; and sells vehicle parts.
Group 1 discloses additional information about the Company, its business, and its results of operations at www.group1corp.com, www.group1auto.com, www.group1collision.com, www.acceleride.com, www.facebook.com/group1auto, and www.twitter.com/group1auto.
Investor contacts:
Terry Bratton
Manager, Investor Relations
Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
tbratton@group1auto.com
Media contacts:
Pete DeLongchamps
Senior Vice President, Manufacturer Relations, Financial Services and Public Affairs
Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
pdelongchamps@group1auto.com
or
Clint Woods
Pierpont Communications, Inc.
713-627-2223
cwoods@piercom.com
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New PRG340 Models Offer Advanced Sustainable Features for Climbers and Beyond
DOVER, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio America, Inc., is pleased to expand its PRO TREK collection of outdoor timepieces with the PRG340 series. Built for the great outdoors with sustainability in mind, the PRG340 series consists of three models – the PRG340-1 (Black), PGR340-3 (Green) and PRG340T-7 (Titanium band) – and features Casio's Triple Sensor technology, Tough Solar, and more for adventures near and far.
The new watches are designed for ease of use in mountain climbing, trekking and other outdoor activities, providing high readability with a dual-layer LCD. Casio demonstrates its commitment to environmentally friendly product development by making the case, case back, band, and rotating bezel with biomass plastics* using raw materials from castor seeds and corn. Produced from renewable resources, biomass plastics are expected to help promote the shift to circular economies and curb CO2 emissions. The bezel, which is more prone to impact than other parts, is made of a newly developed, even stronger biomass plastic.
The PRG340 models feature a large, rotating bio-based plastic bezel, lug case back and a soft, comfortable band that allows the watch to lay flat for maximum compass readability when using a map. The dual-layer LCD separates the graphic indicators of the compass on the upper layer from time & measurements on the lower layer for easier readings. The PRG340 models are also powered by a Tough Solar system that even keeps functions operating for up to 7 months with exposure to only small amounts of light.
"At Casio we pride ourselves on developing gear built for explorers, outdoor enthusiasts, and environmentalists alike," said Tadashi Shibuya, Vice President of Casio's Timepiece Division. "We couldn't be more excited to introduce the latest PRG340 series which contributes to our sustainability efforts and passion for connecting adventurers to their environment."
Equipped with Casio's V3 Triple Sensor technology, the new watches provide easy measurements of compass bearing, barometric pressure, temperature, and altitude with the push of a button, all necessary for outdoor exploration. Each measurement is accessible directly from its own non-slip button, making for effortless readouts even when wearing gloves. The band boasts a fine knurled texture, giving the look and feel of a piece of serious outdoor gear. These rugged watches will feel perfectly at home in rough usage scenarios. Additional features include a duplex LCD with full auto LED Super-Illuminator and bolder font for improved readability, water resistance up to 100 meters, five independent daily alarms, a 1/100-second stopwatch, countdown timer and more.
As part of the release, Casio Pro Trek has unveiled an exclusive collection page taking consumers through the features, which can be viewed HERE.
The PRO TREK PRG340-1 (Black, $280), PRG340-3 (Green, $280) and PRG340T-7 (Titanium band, $340) will be available this August at select retailers nationwide and casio.com/us/. For additional information on Casio's PRO TREK collection of timepieces, please visit www.casio.com/us/watches/protrek/.
*Biomass plastics are not used in the metal band of the PGR-340T.
About PRO TREK
PRO TREK is a line of men's watches designed and engineered to make them essential pieces of outdoor gear including Tough Solar Power, Triple Sensor Technology (i.e., altimeter/barometer, digital compass, and thermometer), low temperature and water resistance, daily alarms, a stopwatch, and more. Whether individuals enjoy hiking, camping, mountain biking or hunting, Casio's PRO TREK collection offers rugged, stylish, and versatile timepieces for men with features that enhance any outdoor experience. For additional information on Casio's PRO TREK line of timepieces, please visit www.casio.com/us/protrek/.
About Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Revolve Group, Inc. (NYSE: RVLV, "REVOLVE") announced today the signing of a strategic partnership with Griffin Gaming Partners-backed entertainment studio, Muus Collective, Inc. ("Muus"), to create a fashion-centered Web3 mobile gaming experience that aims to revolutionize how consumers engage with fashion. Expected to launch in 2023, the experience will feature digital playable renderings of select fashion and beauty items from REVOLVE and FWRD.
REVOLVE was founded in 2003 with a vision of leveraging digital channels and technology to transform the shopping experience. The company's data-driven merchandising strategy and pioneering influencer marketing playbook have been key contributors to a track record of profitable growth that led REVOLVE to recently cross the billion dollars in annualized revenue milestone. REVOLVE is once again demonstrating its disruptive approach to brand building with a foray into the gaming and Web3 space as it partners with Muus.
"REVOLVE has always been at the forefront of transformative eCommerce," noted Michael Mente, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of REVOLVE. "Today, digital fashion is on the rise, and mobile gaming is the fastest-growing form of media on the planet. In 2021, 49% of mobile gamers worldwide were women and there were a staggering 83 billion mobile game downloads worldwide, according to data.ai. Especially considering the emerging excitement for virtual fashion, we are thrilled to partner with Muus to create an elevated, gamified eCommerce experience that spotlights our latest collections and puts the consumer front and center."
"REVOLVE is a trailblazer in the fashion industry with an incredibly loyal community," said Amber Bezahler, Co-Founder and CEO of Muus. "Through our partnership, players will connect with their favorite brands from REVOLVE and FWRD, and engage with trends through a gamified shopping and styling experience, collectible assets, and deep social interaction. The platform will serve as a fashion playground, empowering players to become their own tastemakers by providing tools for creative expression, peer-to-peer engagement and social sharing."
Raissa Gerona, REVOLVE's Chief Brand Officer shared that, "We are always working to deliver the next-level of aspirational storytelling and formats of engagement for our extensive global community of influencers and brands. Our partnership with Muus is our first step into Web3 gaming and we are excited to expand to new audiences by integrating REVOLVE's network with Muus' team of experts on fashion-centric entertainment experiences. Our immersive and experiential marketing practices have always been designed with the customer in mind, to celebrate the best of life in all ways, and to be where she is - which is increasingly Web3."
Griffin Gaming Partners ("GGP"), one of the largest venture capital firms singularly focused on investing in the global gaming and Web3 markets, recently announced $5 million in seed round funding for Muus. Together, GGP and Muus aim to advance diversity in gaming, Web3 and fashion. Emily Wang, Managing Director at LionTree, and Boyoung Kim, Senior Associate at GGP, sit on Muus' Board of Directors. "Griffin has been a long-time admirer of the premium brand and platform that REVOLVE has built," Wang said. "It's a dream partnership to bring together Muus' gaming and Web3 expertise and REVOLVE's unmatched fashion merchandising and community-building innovation to create a truly groundbreaking experience at the intersection of fashion, gaming and Web3."
Muus' women-led founding team members are gaming and fashion/beauty industry veterans who worked at and with gaming brands, including Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Activision, PlayStation, Xbox, Zynga, and more, and fashion brands, including Bottega Veneta, Agent Provocateur, Calvin Klein, Monique Lhuillier, and others.
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Muus Collective™ is an entertainment studio creating community-driven, fashion-centric experiences that span mobile games and digital collectibles. Anticipating a launch in 2023, Muus Collective is developing its inaugural Web3-enabled mobile game that empowers players to find inspiration, create and earn. Muus Collective is currently hiring for development engineers, designers, and community leads. For more information, visit https://www.muuscollective.com.
Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm, focused on the global gaming and Web3 markets, with over $1 billion in assets under management. The firm was founded by Peter Levin, Phil Sanderson, and Nick Tuosto, with LionTree as a strategic partner to certain of the investment funds managed by GGP. GGP invests in seed through growth stages at the intersection of content, infrastructure, social platforms, and game-related Web3 companies.
Revolve Group, Inc. (RVLV) is the next-generation fashion retailer for Millennial and Gen-Z consumers. As a trusted premium lifestyle brand and a go-to online source for discovery and inspiration, REVOLVE delivers an engaging customer experience from a vast, yet curated, offering of apparel, footwear, accessories, and beauty styles. Founded in 2003 by co-CEOs, Michael Mente and Mike Karanikolas, REVOLVE connects a deeply engaged community of millions of consumers, thousands of global fashion influencers, and more than 1,000 emerging, established and owned brands through two complementary eCommerce experiences — REVOLVE and FWRD. For more information, visit www.revolve.com.
This press release contains ''forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical or current fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements about the expected launch timing of Muus' mobile gaming experience, the rise of digital fashion and the future of Web3. Forward-looking statements include statements containing words such as "will," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon our current expectations. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results or outcomes and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks related to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; demand for our products; general economic conditions; our ability to react to customers in a cost effective manner; the strength of our brand; competition; system interruptions; our ability to fulfill orders; and other risks and uncertainties included under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, which we expect to file with the SEC on November 2, 2022. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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New name reflects growing practice as leading Maryland medical malpractice, personal injury and civil litigation firm
BALTIMORE, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Schochor and Staton, P.A. today announced that the leading Maryland medical malpractice, personal injury and civil litigation law firm will now be known as Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. The new name reflects the growth of the law firm's practice across Maryland and the nation in representing victims of medical malpractice, negligence, sexual abuse and wrongful acts of others.
As part of the name change, Jonathan E. Goldberg and James D. Cardea, who have both been equity partners at the firm, will be recognized in the new name.
"We are delighted that Jonathan E. Goldberg and James D. Cardea have both been added to our firm's name," said Jonathan Schochor, Founding Partner and Chairman of Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. "We pride ourselves on running the firm as a family with a culture of shared spirit, combined skills and powerful resources resulting in one of the most successful law firms in the entire country. We look forward to this new chapter in our firm's proud history as we continue to grow under our four strong pillars of leadership to guide and serve our clients for many years to come."
Jonathan E. Goldberg is a partner with over 30 years of experience in litigating medical malpractice and serious personal injury claims in Maryland, the District of Columbia and in Federal Court. He has represented multiple clients in cases that resolved in excess of one million dollars by either settlement or trial. Goldberg serves on the Board of Governors of the Maryland Association for Justice and is a member of the American Association for Justice. He has been selected to Maryland Super Lawyers and is recognized by other organizations for his skill and ability. A Baltimore native, Goldberg graduated from the University of Maryland College Park in 1988. He attended law school at the University of Baltimore, where he was a member of the law review. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1991, graduating magna cum laude.
James D. Cardea is a partner with over 27 years of litigation and jury trial experience. He has been consistently recognized as one of Maryland's top medical malpractice attorneys. Cardea is a tenacious, aggressive, and extremely effective advocate for victims of medical negligence and has successfully served as lead counsel in hundreds of medical malpractice cases throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Over the course of his career, Cardea has obtained numerous seven-figure jury verdicts and settlements.
Cardea has been repeatedly honored as one of Maryland's top 100 attorneys by Maryland Super Lawyers and as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association. He has also been included in Best Lawyers in America, Best Attorneys in America, The National Association of Distinguished Counsel (Top Attorneys) and the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, as well as several other organizations. In 2022, he was one of only 25 attorneys in Maryland named to The Daily Record's Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Law Power List. Cardea received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College and graduated cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
About Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A.
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. has been fighting for patients' rights as a leading medical malpractice law firm since 1984. Additionally, the firm is a recognized leader in sexual abuse cases as well as class action and mass tort litigation. Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. has offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Its lawyers are licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and they have been specially admitted on a case-by-case basis by courts in Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, West Virginia and other states. On special motion and with approval of courts elsewhere, the firm's lawyers are available to participate in cases throughout the United States. To learn more, visit: sfspa.com.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — The family of the man who fatally shot three people at a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall said Friday that they had no inkling that he was capable of the violence.
In a statement released through their attorney, Jeffrey and Justin Sapirman, the father and brother, respectively, of gunman Jonathan Sapirman, extended their “deepest condolences who have suffered as a result of the tragedy at the Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday.”
“We had no reason to believe that Jonathan would ever engage in these extreme actions. We are unable to offer any explanation for his decisions and are as shocked as the rest of the community.
They said their last communications with Jonathan in the days before the attack were “cheerful” and that he was looking forward to future plans.
“We are cooperating completely with law enforcement in efforts to provide insight into not only Jonathan’s actions, but also in the chance anything we may add could aid in preventing similar events,” they said.
The Sapirmans also said they have “no feelings of hostility” toward Elisjsha Dicken, a 22-year-old man from Seymour who was shopping at the mall that evening and who ended the attack by fatally shooting Jonathan Sapirman.
“We choose to remember Jonathan as the thoughtful and intelligent young man we knew and loved. We, too, are grieving and kindly request that our privacy is respected in this difficult time,” the statement concluded.
Jonathan Sapirman shot and killed a married Indianapolis couple — Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37 — and Victor Gomez, 30, also of Indianapolis.
Two people were also wounded in the attack: a woman who was shot in the leg and a 12-year-old girl who was hit in the back by shrapnel. | 2022-07-23T14:30:28+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/family-of-indiana-mall-gunman-shocked-by-his-deeds/ |
SINGAPORE, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, the renowned institution of higher education is collaborating with global crypto exchange Phemex. Professor Herve Alexandre will be the one to lead the research on DeFi and crypto in an educational space. Launched in 2019, Phemex is a Singapore-based crypto platform that's quickly risen the ranks amongst the top crypto derivatives exchanges. It now sees over $6 billion in daily average trading volume and serves over 5 million users around the world. Research is being led by Prof. Alexandre, a well-known and respected professor of Finance at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
Université Paris Dauphine-PSL is the premier institution of higher education in the field of organizational and decision-making sciences. The only French university with the EQUIS accreditation (European Quality Improvement System), Dauphine-PSL is ranked among the 15 best universities in the world in mathematics and is growing a strong international reputation.
Phemex management speaks highly of Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, an extremely respectable institute that aligns with all of their views on constantly adapting towards change for a better tomorrow. They look forward to working together with Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and Professor Herve Alexandre to showcase how the comprehensive and easy-to-use platform empowers users to break through and break free in their financial journey. The platform is humbled to be a partner of Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, and sees its ethos to embrace change, educate future minds, and be an example to look up to. The two parties join forces to signal the change of how DeFi and cryptocurrency is solidifying itself in education.
Phemex has been on a rise as of late, with the launch of several new exciting products such as Phemex Earn, which allows users to earn interests on their crypto assets. Phemex Earn will continue to launch more high APY products during the bear market to provide users with more high yield investment options. Another new product release would include Phemex Launchpad, where users can buy prospective project tokens at a discounted price before it launches on the market. All of these new products have been received very well and seem to only be the starting point for many more products to come.
Professor Herve Alexandre commented, "My interest in cryptocurrency is something that I have always wanted to share with the world and I am thrilled Phemex asked me to join forces with them. I have been really impressed with what the platform offers and I am really looking forward to working together with them to further develop and explore the future of DeFi cryptocurrency."
Phemex's mission is to provide excellent investment opportunities for all to leverage their full capacity. By building a cutting-edge crypto trading exchange, Phemex empowers users in a world with boundless opportunity, greater equality, and freedom. By handing people the ability to craft their own destiny, Phemex eliminates privilege and exclusivity.
Within just over two years, Phemex has burst onto the crypto landscape and at times reached into the top 5 crypto derivatives exchanges worldwide, according to CoinMarketCap. This explosive growth could only have been achieved by the project's unwavering commitment to providing value for users.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has rejected an appeal by the divisive social media personality Andrew Tate against asset seizures by prosecutors who are investigating him on charges of being part of an organized crime group and human trafficking, an official said Wednesday.
Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has 4.5 million followers on Twitter, was detained on Dec. 29. in Bucharest along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women. On Tuesday, a court upheld a judge’s Dec. 30 move to extend their arrest from 24 hours to 30 days.
In a separate hearing Wednesday at the Bucharest Tribunal, Tate lost an appeal that challenged assets seized by prosecutors, including properties and a fleet of luxury cars, said Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romanian anti-organized crime agency DIICOT.
The court “decided that the seizures are legal and (that) the goods remain at our disposal,” she told The Associated Press.
Prosecutors investigating the case have so far seized 15 luxury cars — 11 in December raids and four last week — at least seven of which are owned by the Tate brothers, and more than 10 properties and land owned by companies registered to them. Bolla said is not clear whether any assets seized since December were included in Wednesday’s appeal.
If prosecutors can prove the Tates gained money through human trafficking, Bolla said that the assets could be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and compensation for victims.
Before the court ruling Wednesday Constantin Gliga, one of the lawyers representing Tate, told the media that the asset seizures are disproportional to the charges.
DIICOT said it has identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by the members of the alleged crime group.
The agency said victims were lured by pretenses of love, and later intimidated, kept under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into performing in pornography that was intended to make money for their alleged persecutors.
Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
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McGrath contributed from Sighisoara, Romania. | 2023-01-11T14:43:35+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/divisive-influencer-tate-loses-appeal-against-asset-seizures/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
JACKSONVILLE — Florida’s second-half rally against No. 1 Georgia ran out of steam during a 42-20 loss Saturday.
The Bulldogs (8-0, 5-0 SEC) staked a 28-3 lead and pulled away again after the Gators (4-4, 1-4) trimmed the deficit to 8.
Coach Billy Napier’s squad enters November looking to close the regular season on a high note after the program’s worst SEC start since 1979.
Here are three things learned:
1. Gators showed mental toughness, but could use more
Trailing 28-3 at halftime, Florida was on its way to an embarrassing defeat. Instead, a rally made it a game.
Napier was pleased with the effort. Once again, it was not enough.
Florida trailed by 17 at Tennessee, 21 at home to LSU and 25 points to Georgia. Each time, the Gators rallied but could not complete the comeback.
Trailing 28-20 and with all the momentum, Florida was positioned to get a critical stop but instead could not close the deal. Facing 2nd-and-12, Stetson Bennett completed a 19-yard pass at midfield to a diving Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint blanketed by cornerback — and Georgia transfer — Jalen Kimber.
Rather than dig in again, the Gators were demoralized.
Runs of 20, 8 and 22 yards, the last for a touchdown by Daijun Edwards, ended the Gators’ good vibes.
“They got the momentum back,” Napier said.
Tennessee and LSU similarly responded when the Gators pulled within a possession.
Each time, Florida’s fight was impressive.
“We’ve been doing that this year,” quarterback Anthony Richardson said. “That’s just how we play ball.”
In the process, moral victories are piling up.
2. Trevor Etienne is a playmaker key to Napier’s rebuild
Etienne’s 3-yard scoring run early in the third quarter was a special moment. Six days earlier, his brother Travis scored in the south end zone of TIAA Bank Field for the Jaguars.
More big moments await the younger Etienne. The 18-year-old has the talent, maturity and leadership qualities to build around.
“There’s a little bit of wisdom there relative to observing his brother and his process, recruitment and development and certainly success to go play at the next level,” Napier said.
Etienne has big brother’s versatility.
Against Georgia, he had a 33-yard kickoff return, rushed for 53 yards on 11 carries and caught 3 passes for 20 yards.
Leading up to his touchdown to open the second half, Etienne had runs of 13 and 10 yards after the Gators managed just three plays of 10 yards or longer during the first 30 minutes.
“He’s got a unique skillset,” Napier said. “The vision and the instincts are there, and good contact balance. He’s low to the ground, catches the ball the well and has good acceleration.”
Etienne is on the fast track with an offense in need of playmakers.
3. Bowl eligibility is no sure thing
The Gators enter the regular-season’s final month needing two wins for a bowl bid. While Florida is destined for a lower-tier bowl at a less-than-ideal date it beats the alternative.
The 15 extra practices will allow younger players to develop. A trip to the Birmingham Bowl might not excite prospects, but missing out on the postseason in Year 1 would give other schools ammunition against Florida on the recruiting trail.
Of the four remaining games, a Nov. 19 date at Vanderbilt is the only one close to a gimme.
Saturday’s visit to Texas A&M and Kyle Field is not the challenge it once appeared. But the Gators’ defense could be a panacea for coach Jimbo Fisher’s struggling attack.
Florida has allowed more than 500 yards to three of its past four SEC foes, including 555 yards to Georgia.
South Carolina’s 23-10 loss Saturday at home to Missouri was a surprise and setback for a program back in the Top 25 for the first time since 2018. Even so, the Gamecocks will put up a fight Nov. 12 in the Swamp.
The Gators will need to win one of the next two games or likely head to Florida State on Nov. 26 needing a win to earn a bowl bid.
The stakes in November are not what Napier, his staff or players had hoped, but the Gators are playing for something important.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Edgar Thompson at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osgators. | 2022-10-30T14:16:31+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/florida-gators/os-sp-uf-florida-gators-football-three-things-georgia-1031-20221030-ld3dmj34ynhmhla5s655znsiem-story.html |
OLYMPIA — A new analysis of the financial health of Washington state’s paid family leave program estimates the fund will hit an $8.7 million deficit by the end of the year, leading to recommendations of another increase in the premiums on workers’ wages.
The actuarial analysis by the consulting firm Milliman was presented to a legislative task force Friday, and it shows that the current premium rate is not keeping up with demand for the state benefit that launched in 2020.
The report recommends raising the rate to 0.79% of workers’ wages, up from the 0.6% rate that went into effect earlier this year. When premiums first were enacted, 0.4% of workers’ wages funded the program, with 63% paid by employees and 37% paid by employers. But in addition to the rate increase that took effect this past January, employees’ share increased to 73%, with the remainder paid by employers.
The report recommends the higher rate for the next two years, followed by a slight reduction to 0.735% from 2025 through 2027, which “is expected to return the program to a surplus position and maintain fund balances close to target levels in future years.”
The Employment Security Department, which said its projections are slightly different from the actuary report, has estimated that a 0.9% premium rate is necessary. Officials there say they are in the process of calculating the latest data and will announce the new rate in the coming weeks.
Under the law, eligible workers receive 12 weeks paid time off for the birth or adoption of a child or for a serious medical condition of the worker or the worker’s family member, or 16 weeks for a combination of both. An additional two weeks may be used if there is a serious health condition with a pregnancy. Family members in the military also qualify for leave to spend time with service members about to be deployed overseas or who return home from deployment.
Weekly benefits are calculated based on a percentage of the employee’s wages and the state’s weekly average wage — which is now $1,586. Though the weekly amount paid out is capped at $1,327, that is set to increase in January to $1,427.
Concerns about long-term solvency for the program emerged earlier this year, with a warning in January that the program would hit a deficit by March. Lawmakers set aside $350 million in the state supplemental budget that passed earlier this year to address any deficit that exists on June 30, 2023, the end of the fiscal biennium.
The fund’s balance — which had started at more than $467 million in early 2020 — dipped to just $19 million by the end of March. At the end of June, it increased slightly to just over $31 million by the end of June, according to the actuary report. | 2022-10-07T22:03:49+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washingtons-paid-family-leave-program-running-short-on-cash/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — The Oakland Police Department (OPD) is warning residents about home burglary suspects. The department has seen an uptick in residential burglaries in which the suspects are disguised as Amazon workers, OPD said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
In a number of cases, OPD said those individuals wear Amazon delivery driver vests and ring the doorbell to see if someone is home or not. Then, they break into the home, take several items and drive away from the area.
OPD is actively investigating these burglaries. The department did not specify how many burglaries there were and where exactly they happened.
In the past couple of years, KRON4 has reported instances of homes being broken into by individuals posing as either delivery or government workers.
Last April, the Concord Police Department reported that an imposter UPS driver burglarized a home. Later that year in October, one home invader disguised as a PG&E worker and robbed an elderly Daly City woman. In August 2021, a Sonoma County man says a man dressed as a delivery driver robbed their home.
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OPD provided a list of safety tips and recommendations for burglary prevention:
- Make your home look occupied, and make it difficult to break in.
- Lock all outside doors and windows before you leave.
- Leave lights on when you go out or connect some lamps to automatic timers during the evening.
- Do not allow deliveries, mail, newspapers, or flyers to build up while you are away. Arrange with the Post Office to hold your mail or arrange for a friend or neighbor to take them regularly.
- If you can, invest in a doorbell camera with a two-way talk feature.
- Call the OPD non-emergency number at (510)777-3333, to report suspicious persons. | 2023-03-17T02:48:54+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-pd-warns-residents-as-burglaries-involve-suspects-disguised-as-amazon-workers/ |
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