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MORROW, Ga. (AP) — It might go without saying that Democrats generally vote against Republicans. But in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff, it can hardly be overstated how much Democratic voters — and others — are driven by not wanting Republican challenger Herschel Walker to be their U.S. senator.
Ask Raphael Warnock’s voters what they think about the election, and it’s often criticism of Walker that first comes tumbling out.
“You’ve got a very ignorant, ignorant, ignorant fellow that’s running in Herschel Walker,” said Dennis Paris, an entertainer who lives in the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro and voted for Warnock this week in Morrow. “I can’t see going through another thing like we had with an ignorant Trump making decisions for us, not caring about the people.”
Even many Georgia Republicans who are voting for Walker, the former University of Georgia and pro football star, say they’re not so much motivated by liking him as by disliking President Joe Biden’s administration and Warnock’s support for Biden’s policies
Tuesday’s runoff is far from settled. Warnock led Walker in the general election on Nov. 8 but came up short of a majority, necessitating another round of voting under state law.
Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff won Senate seats in January 2021 following a runoff, giving their party razor-thin control of the Senate. But runoffs in Georgia historically have favored Republicans, in part because turnout has tended to fall sharply.
A heavy election day turnout by GOP voters could still push Walker to victory. After all, Republicans won every other statewide Georgia race last month.
However, distaste for Walker appears to be buoying Democratic enthusiasm. Some party leaders had feared their voters wouldn’t be motivated to turn out again for Warnock after the Democrats secured two more years of Senate control with victories in other states.
A strong early voting turnout has eased those worries. Through Thursday, nearly 1.5 million people had cast ballots early in Georgia, including several record-setting single days.
According to state voting data compiled by Ryan Anderson, an independent analyst in Atlanta, three of the state’s five Democratic-held congressional districts had already seen advance turnout through Thursday of at least 61% of the total early vote for the November election, None of Georgia’s nine Republican-held congressional districts had eclipsed that mark.
Some Walker voters are uneasy about him, too. Tom Glass, a software engineer who voted for Walker on Thursday in Marietta, said he reluctantly chose the Republican.
He backs Walker, he said, because he wants change in Washington, but he acknowledged, “I know all of the stuff that is said about him, and a good bit of it is actually true.”
Glass said he thinks the election matters less because Democrats already control the Senate, but he chose Walker anyway. “Is he the answer? No, but I don’t think Warnock is the answer.”
John McCombs of Riverdale said he voted for Walker simply because “I feel the nation is heading in the wrong direction.”
“I hope he can stop some of the policies that have taken our nation down the wrong path,” the information technology worker said, citing particular concern over “spending money we don’t have.”
In speeches and ads, Warnock and other Democrats have been playing up their portrait of a badly unqualified Walker who could disgrace their state.
“How embarrassed would you be if Herschel Walker was your senator?” asks one flyer mailed to homes this week by the Democratic Party of Georgia.
One Warnock television ad shows voters reacting with puzzlement and disgust to Walker remarks, including a Nov. 16 speech that included a tangent where Walker sought to relate the plot of the vampire movie “Fright Night” to his campaign.
He suggested that if voters only had faith, they could defeat Warnock by relying on greater patriotism and unity that ignores racial division.
But that message got buried by Democratic mockery slamming Walker as unserious, including by former President Barack Obama Thursday in a rally with Warnock in Atlanta.
“Since the last time I was here, Mr. Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia — like whether it’s better to be a vampire or a werewolf,” Obama said. “This is a debate I must confess I once had myself — when I was seven. Then I grew up.”
Democratic voters frequently say they believe Walker is in over his head, lured into the race by former President Donald Trump or other Republicans who are relying on Walker’s football celebrity to snag a Senate seat for the GOP.
“I just feel like he’s a pawn, like they said ‘Let’s get Herschel in so we can get the seat,’” said Sherri Gates of Morrow. “I just don’t feel like he is qualified.”
Gates describes herself as a firm Democrat who supports Warnock, pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s former Atlanta church, because “for one thing, he’s a decent human being.”
“I do not want Herschel to represent me and my state,” she said. “He seems to have a hard time expressing himself. He just doesn’t appear to be a good representative of anybody, maybe even himself.”
Walker argues that it’s Warnock who doesn’t know what he’s doing by backing Biden so much.
Warnock says, “Come on. Georgia is better than Herschel Walker!”
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2022-12-03T15:32:34+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-distaste-for-walker-provides-tailwind-for-warnock-in-georgia/
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Two-time Academy Award-winning actor painter and composer showcases his first-ever NFT collection in collaboration with premium Web3 content studio
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange Comet, Inc., a premium NFT (Non-Fungible Token) creative media and Web3 experience company, today announces its distinguished partnership with Sir Anthony Hopkins and the launch of his first NFT series, The Eternal Collection. This collaboration marks an extraordinary endeavor for Sir Anthony Hopkins, expanding his artistic expression into the metaverse with one of the leading NFT and Web3 tech companies today.
The Eternal Collection conceptualizes an interpretation of the vast character archetypes Sir Anthony Hopkins has portrayed over his illustrious film career, drawing its potent energy from his prolific body of art. Through a series of thought-provoking images and animations, this NFT collection immortalizes Sir Anthony Hopkins' diverse archetypal interpretations of Eternal: The Jester, The Lover, The Rebel, The Hero, et al.
The Eternal Collection is a rich and intimate exploration into the many facets of Sir Anthony Hopkins' artistic virtuosity. The digital NFT series will also feature an exclusive once-in-a-lifetime IRL event for collectors, giving them access to engage with one of Hollywood's greatest icons.
"When Margam Fine Art approached us with the artistic vision to bring Sir Anthony Hopkins' artwork to the metaverse, we knew this was a unique opportunity for the world of NFTs," said Dave Broome, CEO, Orange Comet. "This relationship is a superb symbiosis of technology and art from one of the finest actors and artists of our day. With Orange Comet at the helm, Sir Anthony Hopkins' artwork will inspire for generations to come."
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Stephanie Roth, 41, realized just how much her financial situation had deteriorated when she was signing up to bring a dish to the Valentine's Day party at her kids' daycare.
"I used to always be a mom who would sign up for the main stuff like the sandwiches," she says. "You know, the big, expensive things."
A change of fortune
Before the pandemic, Roth was in a good financial situation. She could bring the sandwiches, the soda and the cupcakes. But last month, she realized that was no longer the case.
"I was literally looking at the list thinking, 'What has inflation not messed with?' And I signed up for bananas, because they're still 59 cents a pound."
Roth has three children, ages 2, 4 and 6 and lives in Lebanon, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.
She has a full time job as an administrative medical assistant, helping adults with disabilities get services. She had never really had debt and had always been good with money. But during the pandemic, Roth went through a divorce and her finances and lifestyle changed dramatically.
Roth took full custody of her children and became the main support for her children. That was a stretch on a salary of about $40,000 a year. Especially considering the cost of daycare. "It's like $1,500 a month," she says. "That's half my paycheck right there."
A little here, a little there
Between childcare and the rising price of gas, food and clothes, Roth feels like her paycheck is spent before she takes it home... or more than spent.
"The cell phone bill came up due and I didn't have the money in my checking account," she recalls. "So I had to pay with my credit card."
Roth started leaning on her credit card to pick up the extra expenses her paycheck couldn't cover. Her balances started to grow. At the same time, her credit card company was raising interest rates: from about 15% in 2019, to more than 22%.
The Great Money Reset
Millennials like Roth have seen their debt rise by nearly 30% since before the pandemic, to about $3.8 trillion. What's so strange about this is that back in 2021, that debt had fallen to near-record lows.
"We saw Americans across the income stream save a lot of money. I mean a lot of money," says Jill Schlesinger, CBS news business analyst and author of The Great Money Reset.
Schlesinger says stimulus checks, lockdown and pay raises had people in really strong financial shape. "But then 2022 starts and inflation doesn't go down," she says. "And then we saw many people plow through those pandemic era savings, left with nothing."
Schlesinger says the rising price of basics, like food, gas and clothing, have landed millions of Americans in real financial distress. "For a lot of people, this is not, 'I'm going out and buying something fancy,'" she says. "Things are more expensive and just to keep up with where you were last year, you have to pay a lot more."
I'll be 300 when it's paid off.
Stephanie Roth watched her debt balloon, along with her minimum payments. On top of that, unexpected expenses started to spiral, like when her daughter fell and needed two stitches on her chin at the emergency room. That cost her $800.
Roth's credit card debt seemed to explode, from a few thousand dollars to more than $10,000 and now it's about $25,000.
"Sometimes it feels very heavy, like crushing," says Roth. "I just think, 'I'm gonna have to pay this back and I don't know how that's gonna happen. If I do just the minimum payments, I'll be like 300 when it's paid off.'"
Credit card nation
Credit card debt in the US has been rising at one of the fastest rates in history. We collectively owe nearly $1 trillion dollars on our cards, an all time high. And with interest rates rising, getting ahead of the debt gets harder and harder.
Now millions of Americans, like Roth, are falling behind on their finances. And help can be hard to come by. Roth tried to take advantage of government assistance and services, like free Pre-K for her daughter and SNAP food benefits, which would help her financial situation.
But in every case, Roth found she made too much money to qualify. "I just make enough to not be poor enough to qualify for services," Roth says with a laugh. "I don't know how, because I'm like, 'Dude, I am so poor. You don't even know.'"
The sandwich and cupcake mom
Roth tries every month to pay a little bit more than the minimum payment, but most of the time it just doesn't happen. At the same time, she worries her kids are missing out on things.
"That's probably my biggest focus is making sure that they are having those fun, memorable moments," she says. "Moments that could give them joy... because this is a special time in their lives and it's been so hard. We've all been through a lot the last year or two."
Roth dreams of having enough extra money to take her kids out for ice cream on a whim or to the Build-A-Bear store.
And of once again being the mom who signs up to bring sandwiches and cupcakes to the Valentine's Day party at daycare, instead of the bananas.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-03-08T12:14:18+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2023-03-08/how-we-went-from-near-record-savings-to-record-debt-in-just-two-years
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Father’s Day is complicated in the bird world. Even if fledglings could buy a Hallmark card, they often wouldn’t know where to send it.
Parenting strategies have evolved, sometimes in unusual ways. For each species, nature favors whatever strategy passes on the most genes to the next generation. For about 85 percent of the species in the world, that means both parents help raise the chicks. Sort of.
While most species rely on two-parent care, actual parentage can be questionable. Many birds fool around.
Fathers end up raising another male’s offspring. Sometimes it’s because the female snuck off for a quickie.
At other times, especially in nesting colonies, the expectation of monogamy is loose. Whenever there are too many males near too many females, the tendency toward unfaithfulness is high. Whenever nesting conditions inhibit the ability of males to see and ward off rivals, such as when birds nest out of sight in wetlands and grasslands, infidelity is common.
It’s probably unfair to say that grassland birds are unfaithful. Rather, they adopt a breeding strategy where fidelity is not that important.
Bobolink males defend a territory. Females build their own nests in that territory. But her nest may be filled with the eggs of several fathers. Meanwhile the male bobolink may provide food for more than one set of nestlings. Often, they will have a primary nest, helping their mate feed the youngsters in it, but they will also provide supplemental feeding to chicks in a secondary nest.
Females can also get stuck raising the young of another bird. When one female leaves the nest long enough to feed, another might sneak in and dump an additional egg. Many waterfowl do it, thus “ducking” their responsibilities. Cavity-nesters, such as wood ducks and common goldeneyes, seem particularly vulnerable.
The Bicknell’s thrush is an uncommon alpine bird in Maine. Up there in the dense spruce of the mountaintops, fidelity is not a cherished virtue. Males don’t even bother to hold territories. So many genes get spread around that males ensure the survival of their own offspring by feeding everybody else’s. It’s a virtual hippie commune up there.
Even when both parents are tending their own nestlings, responsibilities may differ. For the majority of birds, the male provides most of the food, while the female protects the youngsters from threats and weather. But for the abundant red-eyed vireos in Maine, those roles are reversed.
In about 1 percent of the world’s species, the male has sole responsibility for tending the kids. That duty falls on the female about 8 percent of the time.
Roughly 9 percent of species shift roles completely. Polyandry occurs when the female lays the eggs, but then the male takes over brooding and chick-rearing, while the female abandons the nest. She’ll mate with multiple males, and once she’s laid the eggs, her duties are done. In Maine, spotted sandpipers fall into this category.
Alternatively, some polyandrous birds share partial responsibility. The female lays the eggs and incubates them for a short time. Then the male takes over incubation, and she goes off to start another brood with another male. However, she takes sole responsibility for rearing that second family, while the male departs for fall migration. Sanderlings follow this strategy. Although they nest in the high Arctic, sanderlings flood beaches from Maine to Florida in the offseason.
A variation on this strategy is practiced by two western species, the Harris’s hawk and the acorn woodpecker. Multiple males mate with a single female. All of the fathers help to raise their blended family together.
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“For about six weeks, Maine will be awash in bird song. It will delight some people and overwhelm others.”
Finally, there are species where the father plays no role whatsoever in raising his offspring. Typically, these are birds that use leks. That is, males defend a territory and display continually throughout the breeding season, attracting and mating with as many females as possible.
Grouse species largely follow this strategy, including Maine’s ruffed grouse and spruce grouse. American woodcocks do it. Many grouse and prairie-chicken species in western states establish leks.
Wild turkeys adopt a similar tactic, except that males tend to wander around to advertise, rather than attracting females to their breeding grounds. A tom entices a small harem to congregate for romantic purposes. When a hen succumbs to his charms, copulation ends the romance. She may merge her family with other hens, and wander around in bigger flocks through summer, but males play no further role in chick-rearing.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are absentee fathers. In fact, all hummingbird species practice love ’em and leave ’em. No Hallmark cards for you.
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2022-06-16T14:53:22+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://bangordailynews.com/2022/06/16/outdoors/being-a-father-is-complicated-in-the-bird-world-xoasq1i29i/
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Here’s why you still look terrible in virtual reality
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business
Mark Zuckerberg has bet his company’s future on an ambitious long-term vision of people carrying out greater portions of their lives in virtual spaces through digital alter egos. But an image Zuckerberg recently posted to his Facebook page served as a reality check of sorts for virtual reality, at least in its current form.
The image, which was also included in a company blog post, showed his blocky, cartoon-like avatar in Facebook-parent Meta’s flagship social app, Horizon Worlds, staring out into the distance with enormous, vacant-looking eyes and a tight-lipped smile. In the background, plopped onto a field of green grass, were simple-looking models of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, to mark the launch of Horizon Worlds in France and Spain in mid-August.
The criticism online came swiftly. “Imagine spending billions on the metaverse and your avatar looks like this!” one Twitter user wrote. “Mark Zuckerberg invents The Sims!” another tweeted. Days later, Zuckerberg himself admitted the image was “pretty basic” and posted a screenshot of a more detailed version of his avatar, saying that “major updates” to Horizon and avatar graphics are “coming soon.” He promised to share more details at Connect, Meta’s annual conference focused on VR and augmented reality, which is held in the fall.
The episode is the just latest example of how difficult (and increasingly important) it is to create highly detailed VR avatars, even for a tech giant that has invested heavily in buying and building hardware and software. Having positioned itself as a leader in the small but growing VR market, Meta faces dueling challenges: Users have high expectations for what they should be able to look like in virtual spaces, but meeting them is, in many ways, difficult with today’s headsets.
VR avatars must look good (or at least good enough) and function reliably in real time and in apps that are typically running on untethered headsets like Meta’s Quest devices rather than on bulky but more powerful laptop or desktop computers. There are many other non-technical issues at play as well, including that different people have different expectations for how avatars should look and act in different situations. Should the avatars look like the VR user themselves, or someone else, or, say, a giant stick of butter?
“Avatars have been very hard to get done, even in the visual effects industry,” said Abhijeet Ghosh, the chief technology officer and chief scientist at London-based Lumirithmic, which uses tablets and smartphones to capture 3-D facial scans for a range of applications, including VR.
Meta did not respond to a request for an interview about the challenges of avatar creation. In an April episode of his monthly podcast, “Boz to The Future,” Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth pointed out how vital avatars are across all kinds of digital experiences.
“They’re extremely critical to how people represent themselves in digital spaces, within the metaverse and beyond,” he said.
The technical challenges
Meta is not alone in the blocky simplicity of its VR avatars. Meta, Rec Room, and Microsoft’s AltSpaceVR, among others, have been working for years to improve the appearance of their avatars and make them increasingly customizable.
Those who mocked how Zuckerberg looked in Horizon Worlds were probably expecting much more realistic illustrations from a giant company such as Meta, given the realism of characters in popular video games like “Call of Duty” or “Gears of War,” Ghosh said. “But I guess people don’t understand the effort that goes into high-end visual effects,” he said, which in the video game realm can include a team of artists dedicated to modeling characters’ appearances.
At its most basic, untethered headsets like Meta’s Quest 2 still have a slew of technical limitations that make it hard for apps to offer extremely detailed VR avatars that can also respond in real time to the ways we move our faces and other body parts.
There can be limitations related to the power of the computer, graphics processor, and the amount of included RAM. Moreover, most people currently using VR don’t use extra sensors to track their entire bodies, so sensor-based tracking is limited to what’s built into the headset and any accompanying hand controllers. (This is also why avatars on some social apps, such as Horizon Worlds and Rec Room, exist only from the torso upwards.)
Essentially, today’s headsets can only render so many of the triangles that are used to make up 3-D images in VR, explained Timmu Tõke, CEO and cofounder of avatar creation platform Ready Player Me, which lets people create avatars that they can use across a range of games and apps such as VRChat. This means that if a social app wants to include high-definition avatars, it will only be able to support a handful of people in a scene.
Horizon Worlds currently suggests developers who build their own worlds limit them to eight to 12 users at a time. “More players will require more resources to render your world, and may add some limitations when building,” the company’s Horizon Worlds creation tutorial states.
“Creating an avatar that looks good and performs good — in a VR environment, especially — is extremely hard,” Tõke said.
Trying to bridge the uncanny valley
Meta is trying, however. Since 2019, the company has been working not just on building good-looking avatars, but full-body ones with photorealistic faces, which it thinks are key for feeling immersed when interacting with others in VR.
This effort matches what Guo Freeman, an assistant professor at Clemson University, found when researching what people want when it comes to VR avatars in social settings. She repeatedly heard that they want an avatar that is consistent with how they look in the non-digital world, she said.
“What is kind of different between social VR and other types of gaming and virtual worlds is people want to build an avatar that looks like them,” she said.
Creating a photorealistic VR avatar of the average headset wearer remains a monumental task, however. A person’s face and facial expressions must first be scanned to create a 3-D model of their head (or their entire body, to create an avatar that looks like them from head to toe), which can then be animated. This process currently tends to require a large rig of equipment, including cameras, lights, and computers.
Ghosh said Lumirithmic is working to make this simpler and more accessible by using off-the-shelf electronics like an arrangement of smartphones and tablets, but it’s still in the early stages. Eventually, he envisions people will be able to scan their own faces at home or at a mall, and use that for a VR avatar.
The more realistic-looking the avatar’s face, though, the more VR experts told CNN Business they worry about the issue of the Uncanny Valley, which is the disturbing feeling some people have in response to human-like representations that aren’t quite human.
“It’s just extremely hard to create a realistic avatar that crosses the Uncanny Valley,” Tõke said. “It just ends up looking creepy.”
And not everyone wants to want to look like themselves in VR, or even like a human. A quick visit to popular VR social app VRChat makes this clear: You might walk into a virtual bar and smack into a dinosaur, a chicken, or something else entirely. Cam Mullen, CEO and cofounder of Nevermet, a dating app that helps people get to know each other via their avatars, told CNN Business he likes to appear in VRChat as a jalapeno pepper.
“You can be an avatar that’s more masculine, more feminine; you can be a furry, you can be a flower. You get to express yourself freely,” he said. “And you can tell a lot about a person’s personality by the avatar they choose to embody.”
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2022-08-25T14:14:06+00:00
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kyma.com
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https://kyma.com/news/2022/08/25/heres-why-you-still-look-terrible-in-virtual-reality/
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Philadelphia students temporarily relocated to Strawberry Mansion High School due to asbestos
Students at a West Oak Lane high school are getting ready to transition to another building nearly six miles away after an inspector found asbestos in their school last week.
The School District of Philadelphia says it shut down Building 21 last Wednesday after an inspector found asbestos to be exposed in the auditorium and stairways during a routine check.
Starting Monday, students will temporarily transition to Strawberry Mansion High School.
“My God, pray for the kids,” said Clinton Jones, who graduated from the school in 2002. His mom still lives across the street.
She says she found out about the problem with her neighborhood school on the news.
“They could have at least got in contact with the surrounding areas because I literally face the school every day. They could have done anything else,” she said.
Building 21, which was built in 1915, now joins a list of more than 2,200 asbestos abatement projects in the Philadelphia School District.
Exposed asbestos is a health risk and the minerals can cause cancer.
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers says old buildings like Building 21 have been neglected and the district needs to invest more money in caring for them.
This story originally appeared on 6abc.
Caring for old facilities is part of Superintendent Tony Watlington’s transition plan.
Meanwhile, workers were outside of Building 21 loading trucks Sunday morning with gear to be taken to Strawberry Mansion High School.
“That’s a trip for them and I know the neighborhood’s a little different also,” said Natasha Quarterman, who lives in West Oak Lane.
The district says it picked Strawberry Mansion High because it has unused classroom space in a separate area of the building and they will be able to keep Building 21 students together there.
Students were invited to an open house at the school Sunday afternoon to tour the building and pick up SEPTA passes.
Exposed asbestos is a health risk and the minerals can cause cancer.
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers says old buildings like Building 21 have been neglected and the district needs to invest more money in caring for them.
Caring for old facilities is part of Superintendent Tony Watlington’s transition plan.
Meanwhile, workers were outside of Building 21 loading trucks Sunday morning with gear to be taken to Strawberry Mansion High School.
“That’s a trip for them and I know the neighborhood’s a little different also,” said Natasha Quarterman, who lives in West Oak Lane.
The district says it picked Strawberry Mansion High because it has unused classroom space in a separate area of the building and they will be able to keep Building 21 students together there.
Students were invited to an open house at the school Sunday afternoon to tour the building and pick up SEPTA passes.
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2023-03-06T03:33:50+00:00
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whyy.org
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https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-school-district-asbestos-building-21-west-oak-lane/
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2022-09-07T15:23:08+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Detroit-Lions-17424461.php
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A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in northern Baghdad, killing at least 14 people. In southern Baghdad, insurgents attack a police station, killing at least six police officers and freeing more than 50 prisoners. Both attacks came around dawn. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.
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https://www.knkx.org/2004-12-02/two-attacks-rock-baghdad-at-dawn
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- Conference Call Scheduled for Monday, January 30, 2023 at 9:00am ET -
KFAR SAVA, Israel, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), an industry-leading provider of high-performance server/appliances networking solutions, announced today that it will be releasing its fourth quarter and full year 2022 results on Monday, January 30, 2023.
The Company will be hosting a conference call that same day at 9:00am Eastern Time. On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will also be available to answer investors' questions.
To participate, investors may either listen via a webcast link hosted on Silicom's website or via the dial-in. The link will be under the investor relations' webcast section of Silicom's website at https://www.silicom-usa.com/webcasts/
For those that wish to dial in via telephone, one of the following teleconferencing numbers may be used:
US: 1 866 860 9642
ISRAEL: 03 918 0609
INTERNATIONAL: +972 3 918 0609
At: 9:00am Eastern Time, 6:00am Pacific Time, 4:00pm Israel Time
It is advised to connect to the conference call a few minutes before the start.
For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay of the call will be available for three months from the day after the call under the above-mentioned webcast section of Silicom's website.
About Silicom
Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease latency and boost the performance of servers and networking appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking, high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out cloud infrastructures.
Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.
Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 200 customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to" connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders around the globe.
For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il
Statements in this press release which are not historical data are forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, or other factors not under the company's control, which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from the results, performance, or other expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, Silicom's increasing dependence for substantial revenue growth on a limited number of customers in the evolving cloud-based, SD-WAN, NFV and Edge markets, the speed and extent to which solutions are adopted by these markets, likelihood that Silicom will rely increasingly on customers which provide solutions in these evolving markets, resulting in an increasing dependence on a smaller number of larger customers, difficulty in commercializing and marketing of Silicom's products and services, maintaining and protecting brand recognition, protection of intellectual property, competition, disruptions to our manufacturing and development along with general disruptions to the entire world economy relating to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other factors detailed in the company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such because the context of the statement will include words, such as "expects," "should," "believes," "anticipates" or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements. In light of significant risks and uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation by the company that it will achieve such forward-looking statements. The company disclaims any duty to update such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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2023-01-03T14:05:30+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/silicoms-fourth-quarter-amp-full-year-2022-results-release-scheduled-january-30-2023/
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The ability to monitor remotely is one hallmark of the post 9/11 world. Another is the ability to kill remotely. It's what the drone has made possible. But now the practice known as targeted killing may become harder to veil in secrecy. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: One year ago in that speech at the National Defense University, President Obama defended his use of drones as legal and effective. But he also acknowledged the practice raises moral questions.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: For the same progress that gives us the technology to strike half a world away also demands the discipline to constrain that power or risk of using it.
JOHNSON: The president promised to impose more constraints. Steps like increasing scrutiny of U.S. strikes overseas and sharing more information about them with the public.
OBAMA: And going forward I've asked my administration to review proposals to extend oversight of lethal actions outside of war zones that go beyond our reporting to Congress.
JOHNSON: But little has happened in the past year on the oversight front. Lawmakers tried to force the administration to share how many enemy combatants and civilians are killed by American drones. All those efforts for voted down or went nowhere under pressure from the intelligence community. Yale Law professor, Harold Koh, a former legal advisor to the Obama State Department, says U.S. drone policy follows the law.
In Senate foreign relations testimony this week, though, Koh encouraged Congress to weigh in to build public confidence.
HAROLD KOH: Stronger public reporting requirements, particularly about civilian casualties and finally exploration of some kind of post, ex post, external review mechanism to examine the legality of past drone strikes.
JOHNSON: In a written statement, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden says the White House is exploring ways to share information with the American people. That could include releasing some legal justification for drones and data about civilians caught in the line of fire. For now, the U.S. mostly remains silent about claims it's mistakenly killing innocent people in places like Yemen, fostering mistrust there and around the world.
The White House says it only uses lethal force like drones against people who can't easily be captured by the U.S. or foreign partners and people who pose a continuing an imminent threat to the country. But the definition of imminent can be a little cloudy, as Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker pointed out.
SENATOR BOB CORKER: It seems to me that the description of imminent threat one that, over time, needs to be teased out.
JOHNSON: Law Professor Koh cited examples from recent history.
KOH: We know what an imminent threat is, Senator, you know. A guy gets on a plane, bomb in his underwear or in his sneakers and the next thing to do is to launch the attack. That's an imminent threat.
JOHNSON: Michael Mukasey who serve as attorney general under President George W. Bush says the U.S. can't predict exactly when terrorists are planning to act so the government needs to be flexible.
MICHAEL MUKASEY: Obviously, we're not privy to the plans of terrorists. They don't tell us precisely when they're going to act. They don't tell us necessarily even what precisely they're planning.
JOHNSON: But once the U.S. identifies them as terrorist organizations, Mukasey says it makes sense to consider them and their members imminent threats, unless there's good evidence to the contrary. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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2023-04-12T10:07:12+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/politics/politics/2014-05-23/a-year-on-whats-changed-and-what-hasnt-on-drone-oversight
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2023-01-25T03:09:18+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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You might want to book it over to the Traverse Area District Library for a blockbuster weekend filled with free events.
There’ll be sales and activities for all ages, all leading up to their free Summer Library Challenge. This year they’re emphasizing the belief that it’s important to both relax AND read over the summer. Summer is a great time to read whatever you find fun! For students this is especially important, because it helps maintain those important reading/comprehension skills built up over the school year.
“We really wouldn’t exist without our community and we love serving our community so we just try to meet their needs wherever we can and reading in the summer is a huge need for kids and so we are here to offer activities to prevent that summer slide,” said Michele Howard, TADL Director.
TADL is always hosting events for all ages. You can find their full schedule here.
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2023-05-31T23:34:36+00:00
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9and10news.com
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https://www.9and10news.com/2023/05/31/traverse-area-district-library-hosts-events-leading-up-to-summer-library-challenge/
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
AP Business Writer
Days after exiting its stake in troubled electronic cigarette maker Juul, Altria announced a $2.75 billion investment in rival electronic cigarette startup NJOY.
The Marlboro maker gets full ownership of NJOY’s e-vapor product portfolio, the Virginia company said Monday, including its pod-based e-vapor product ACE.
“We believe we can responsibly accelerate U.S. adult smoker and competitive adult vaper adoption of NJOY ACE in ways that NJOY could not as a standalone company,” Altria CEO Billy Gifford said.
The agreement also includes an additional $500 million in cash payments contingent upon regulatory approval of some products by NJOY Holdings Inc., based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Altria’s announcement comes just days after the company said that it was swapping its minority stake in Juul Labs for a license to some of Juul’s heated tobacco intellectual property.
Altria said that the carrying value and estimated fair value of its Juul investment was $250 million at the end of last year. The company will record the financial impact of the agreement in the first quarter of 2023 and plans to treat any amounts as a special item and exclude it from adjusted diluted earnings per share.
Gifford said Friday that the swap was the right decision for Altria.
“Juul faces significant regulatory and legal challenges and uncertainties, many of which could exist for many years,” Gifford said.
In December Juul reached settlements covering thousands of lawsuits over its e-cigarettes.
The company faced more than 8,000 lawsuits brought by individuals and families of Juul users, school districts, city governments and Native American tribes. The settlement resolved most of those cases, which had been consolidated in a California federal court pending several bellwether trials.
Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Juul rocketed to the top of the U.S. vaping market more than five years ago on the popularity of flavors like mango, mint and creme brulee. But its rise was fueled by use among teenagers, some of whom became hooked on Juul’s high-nicotine pods.
Parents, school administrators and politicians largely blamed the company for a surge in underage vaping, which now includes dozens of flavored e-cigarette brands that are the preferred choice among teens.
Amid the backlash of lawsuits and government sanctions, Juul dropped all U.S. advertising and discontinued most of its flavors in 2019.
Altria’s interest in Juul’s heated tobacco intellectual property comes a few months after it made a deal with Japan Tobacco to help its effort to bring a heat-not-burn cigarette to the U.S. market.
Altria announced in October that it was launching a new venture with Japan Tobacco to commercialize cigarette alternatives developed by both companies for U.S. smokers. The partnership’s first effort will be to win U.S. regulatory approval for Japan Tobacco’s Ploom, a small handheld device that heats tobacco without burning it.
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AP Health Writer Matthew Perrone contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
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2023-03-06T18:45:35+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2023/03/06/altria-makes-2-75b-investment-in-e-cigarette-startup-njoy/
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BOSTON (WWLP) – With the housing crisis in the state and effects still being felt by the pandemic, housing advocates rallied at the State House Thursday in support of foreclosure protection and rent control.
According for the Homes for All coalition, Massachusetts is the fifth most expensive state in the country to rent a home and the city of Boston is the second most expensive rental market in the nation.
The two bills the group were lobbying for are An Act Establishing Foreclosure Prevention Program and An Act Enabling Cities and Towns to Stabilize Rents and Protect Tenants.
The first bill on Thursday’s agenda deals with foreclosure protection. It would require service providers to provide accurate loan information and be a part of foreclosure prevention conferences. Every other state in New England has some sort of foreclosure conference or mediation.
“Western Mass and Central Mass have not recovered from the last foreclosure crisis, the foreclosures never stopped and we need to stop the bleeding of the generational wealth gap we have going on in the Commonwealth,” said Rose Webster-Smith, Executive Director of Springfield’s No One Leaves.
The second bill would allow cities and towns to enact locally-needed rent stabilization. Tenants on Thursday said they’re being squeezed out of their living situation by rising rents.
Governor Maura Healey has said that housing is a priority of hers and recently swore in a new Housing Secretary, the first one in more than thirty years. These bills are currently in the joint committee on Housing and the joint committee on financial services and have not yet been scheduled for a hearing.
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2023-06-01T21:33:44+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/state-politics/advocates-call-for-foreclosure-protection-and-rent-control-in-massachusetts/
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis joined Italy’s conservative premier on Friday in encouraging Italians to have more children, denouncing the financial precariousness facing young couples and “selfish, egotistical” choices that have led to a record low birth rate that is threatening the country’s economic future.
Francis urged concrete political action to invert the “demographic winter,” which in population terms resulted in the disappearance of a city the size of Bari last year. Blasting couples who have pets instead of children, Francis called for resources to be dedicated to helping couples grow their families, saying it was necessary to “plant the future” with hope.
“Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family organizations. “Let us not believe that history is already marked, that nothing can be done to reverse the trend.”
Italy recorded a record low number of live births last year, 392,598, which combined with an elevated number of deaths, 713,499, has accelerated the demographic trend that threatens to crash the country’s social security system. The government of Premier Giorgia Meloni is backing a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033, a rate that demographers say is necessary to prevent the economy from collapsing by growing the wage-earning population as retirees draw on their pensions.
Meloni came to power last year on a pro-family campaign of “God, family, fatherland” and her government has proposed a host of measures to try to encourage families to have more children, including tax cuts to increase spending power, given Italy’s fertility rate of 1.24 children per woman is among the lowest in the world. Numerous studies have pointed to a combination of factors that discourage women from having children, including a lack of affordable child care spots, low salaries and precarious work contracts, and a tradition of women often bearing the burden of caring for older parents.
Meloni, who has a daughter with her partner, told the family association congress that it was time to reverse the trend. But she said it must be done without resorting to surrogacy, hitting on broader conservative political talking points that have surrounded the demographic debate as the government’s crackdown on migrants and aversion to registering both parents of children of same-sex couples.
“We want a nation where it is no longer scandalous to say that — whatever the legitimate, free choices, inclinations of each person — we are all born of a man or a woman,” Meloni said to applause. “Where it is not taboo to say that motherhood is not for sale, that wombs are not for rent and children are not over-the-counter products that you can choose on the shelf as if you were in the supermarket and maybe return if then the product does not match what you expect.”
National statistics bureau ISTAT has been sounding the demographic alarm for years, given the number of live births in Italy has tanked steadily from 576,659 in 2008 to the 392,598 last year — the first year since Italy’s unification that the number has fallen below 400,000.
Given the trend, ISTAT president Gian Carlo Blangiardo said perfectly reasonable forecasts point to the Italian population shrinking from 59 million inhabitants today to 48 million by 2070.
While the increase in migrants can help mitigate the problem, it can’t offset the overall trend, Blangiardo said on the sidelines of the conference. “Even with an additional 260,000 immigrants each year, as foreseen by Eurostat, we’ll still easily lose 5 to 6 million inhabitants,” he said.
Meloni didn’t refer to the role of migrants in her remarks but other ministers have when discussing the demographic trends, casting the migrant issue as a threat to Italy’s very identity.
Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, who is also Meloni’s brother-in-law, sparked an outcry in recent weeks by warning of “ethnic replacement” if Italians don’t increase their birth rate. At the family congress on Thursday, Lollobrigida acknowledged his words “weren’t appreciated” by some, but doubled down on the general idea.
“I think it’s evident that there’s not an Italian race,” he said on the sidelines. “There is however an Italian culture and ethnicity that the dictionary defines as a linguistic cultural group that I imagine this conference wants to maintain, because otherwise it wouldn’t have sense.”
Elly Schlein, head of the opposition center-left Democratic Party, acknowledged the demographic problem but pointed to measures to fix it: reduce precarious, part-time contracts, help young couples get mortgages and increase access to subsidized day care centers.
Given the “deeply patriarchical structure” of Italian society, women will choose to stay home if they don’t have adequate day care, she said. “They will continue to be crushed, and this depresses their potential not only in terms of employment but also in terms of family.”
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2023-05-12T22:27:50+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/pope-joins-meloni-in-urging-italians-to-have-more-kids-not-pets/
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Drinks with added electrolytes are becoming increasingly popular in the grocery store and online, especially during the summer. But are they worth the extra money compared to buying regular old water?
We found a group of high school baseball players and parents who like the thirst-quenching they provide.
Heather Metters, a mother, said her son "drinks a lot of Gatorade, a lot of water, and he has a cooling towel since he is a catcher."
Jim Keene makes sure his son gets electrolytes, too. "We've got some Gatorade here. We go for the Zero," he said, reaching into his cooler.
Electrolytes are the minerals your body needs to keep you hydrated.
Hundreds of products, some with high prices
But Gatorade is just one of many electrolyte drinks these days. There are now hundreds of products on the market, from tablets to drinks, to powders, that promise to replace electrolytes quicker than regular water.
But they also cost more than a bottle of water, with some costing as much as $5 to $30.
So are they worth it? Dietitians say electrolyte replacements contain some essential nutrients and might be worthwhile if you spend a lot more time in the heat this summer.
But they say to be sure you're reading the labels.
Registered dietitian Kate Patton says electrolyte replacements are great after a long workout or a long day in the sun.
"Sodium and potassium are the two main electrolytes that you hear the most about," she said.
But she says to watch out for:
- High sugar content
- Extra caffeine
- Labels that say " proprietary blend," which Patton says can be a tactic for hiding certain ingredients
One caution: Patton says don't confuse electrolytes with Vitamin-C supplements or other energy drinks.
Bottom line: She says to use electrolyte drinks for exercise or when you are sweating out in the heat.
But for other activities, she said, "If you're exercising even less than an hour and it's not too high intensity, just plain water's fine."
And that's why many parents watching their children play on a hot summer day say plain water is OK with them. That way, you don't waste your money.
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2022-07-29T12:02:12+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/electrolyte-replacement-drinks-are-they-worth-the-cost
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he expects the oft-maligned “transition take foul” to come with stiffer penalties next season.
Silver expects the rules regarding the play — where a defender intentionally commits a foul to halt a transition opportunity for the opposition — are going to change this summer. It’s been something the NBA and its competition committee have been studying for several seasons.
Momentum has been building for several months toward a change, one that now seems likely to come at league meetings in July.
“I am confident that we’ll see a change,” Silver said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. “I would not say I’m overconfident that it will be the last change, even though this is a rule that we’ve been experimenting with in the G League for last four years.”
The way such fouls have been officiated in the G League since 2018 is this: When a defender commits a take foul, which is one where no play on the ball is made but doesn’t rise to the level of a clear path foul, the fouled team retains possession and gets one free throw before play resumes. The clear path foul results in two shots and the ball.
Under FIBA rules, which govern international basketball, the penalty for transition take fouls is two shots and the ball.
“I think the take foul needs to be abolished as soon as humanly possible,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said earlier in these playoffs. “I coached in FIBA the last few summers and FIBA has a rule that basically eliminated it entirely. It’s so penalizing when you get called for it that coaches all teach their teams, don’t do it. That’s what we need to do as a league. … You’ve just got to get rid of it, make the game better, open up the game and hopefully that’s what will happen this summer.”
The G League and Summer League are the traditional testing labs for the NBA before making rule changes or amending policies. Among those that started at those levels and eventually got to the NBA — the coaches’ challenge, plus resetting the 24-second shot clock to 14 seconds in offensive rebound situations.
The take foul, Silver believes, is about to get added to that list.
“I always say to people, including on this potential change in take fouls, if there was something that was obvious it would have happened long ago,” Silver said after the dedication of a new NBA Cares Live, Learn or Play Center to assist the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco. “There’s pros and cons to everything we do. This is a change I’m very much in favor of, and from all the research we’ve looked at, it’s something our fans really want too.”
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2022-06-04T18:11:15+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/sports/silver-confident-that-the-nbas-take-foul-policy-will-change/
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OceanScope program renewal – announced on World Oceans Day – builds on decades-long public-private collaboration with the University of Miami, NASA, and NOAA to address ocean health issues.
MIAMI, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) Strengthening a decades-long commitment to ocean conservation and environmental research efforts, Royal Caribbean Group today announced a four-year extension of its investment in OceanScope, an open-source data program that provides scientists with critical information to study climate and ocean conservation. Collaborating with key program partners including the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the program's renewal on World Oceans Day builds on over 20 years of groundbreaking ocean and marine life research from Royal Caribbean Group ships.
OceanScope leverages a unique, comprehensive suite of oceanographic and meteorological instruments, located onboard Royal Caribbean Group ships, that generates continuous, simultaneous collection of the ocean's vital signs such as the structure of currents, sea surface temperature, carbon dioxide concentrations, and salinity taken along the repetitive ship routes – which allows scientists to monitor changes on scales of seasons, years, and even decades.
"At Royal Caribbean Group, every day is World Oceans Day – and we are thrilled to renew a program as impactful to oceanic research as OceanScope," said Jason Liberty, president and CEO, Royal Caribbean Group. "We're dedicated to sustaining our planet and delivering the best vacations, responsibly – and our decades-long support of this unique initiative is testament to that. We can't wait to see how OceanScope, and our scientific collaborators progress our understanding of ocean health and conservation."
OceanScope's open-source database is available to the international scientific research community worldwide. The resulting data products and peer-reviewed research are key to informing ocean and conservation policy.
Launched in 2002, the program helped verify for the first time that ocean acidification – a reduction in pH over an extended period of time caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was occurring in the Caribbean Sea but at varying rates. Ocean acidification is detrimental to calcifying organisms such as oysters, clams, sea urchins, shallow water corals, deep sea corals, and calcareous plankton, and an ongoing concern for the entire food web.
Extending OceanScope on Royal Caribbean Group ships helps ensure ongoing monitoring and changes of key ocean and atmospheric processes in critical ecosystems.
"We are most grateful to renew our successful collaboration with Royal Caribbean Group," said Dr. Peter Ortner, research professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science. "This is an extraordinary example of how private industry, academic research institutions, and government agencies are collaborating to amass an incredibly valuable dataset highlighting the intricate connection between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate."
As of 2023, data has been collected from over 100,000 nautical miles sailed from four ships, traveling across the Caribbean Sea, Galapagos, North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Royal Caribbean International's Allure of the Seas and Adventure of the Seas and Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Flora and Celebrity Equinox are currently providing data to scientists at NOAA, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School, and the community at large. Royal Caribbean Group intends to share the program's learning to its more than eight million guests annually in an effort to increase ocean literacy.
"NASA is excited to revive its long-standing partnership with OceanScope, which is a valuable player in the Agency-led efforts to understand Earth climate today, and inform humanity for what waits tomorrow. Looking at Earth's ocean's from space and leveraging in situ observations enabled by projects like OceanScope is what allows us to build robust knowledge of ocean's role in climate, which controls our planet's heat, energy, and water," said Dr. Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, lead of NASA's Climate Variability and Change Focus Area and program director of the NASA Ocean Physics program at NASA HQ, Washington, D.C.
"Sustained and systematic operations with automated instruments on a variety of platforms, including this innovative collaboration, is a key to maintaining and strengthening the World Meteorological Organization's and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's Global Ocean Observing System to which NOAA is a major contributor," said Rik Wanninkhof, a NOAA senior scientist and ocean carbon expert at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. "In particular, the CO2, surface temperature and salinity data from Royal Caribbean Group's ships are major contributors to these ocean observing networks to determine the ocean's carbon sink strength and ocean acidification."
Royal Caribbean Group's conservation work extends beyond OceanScope, with the company championing a broader commitment to sustaining the planet as part of its SEA the Future platform. Royal Caribbean Group is actively working to decarbonize its business through innovation, collaborative partnerships and a transition to cleaner fuels, smarter technologies, and improved energy efficiencies. Ultimately, the company's efforts are driving toward – Destination Net Zero – a commitment to reach net-zero by 2050 and to deliver a net-zero emissions cruise ship by 2035.
To learn more about Royal Caribbean Group's efforts to sustain our planet, energize communities and accelerate innovation, please visit http://www.royalcaribbeangroup.com/SEAtheFuture.
About Royal Caribbean Group:
Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is one of the leading cruise companies in the world with a global fleet of 64 ships traveling to approximately 1,000 destinations around the world. Royal Caribbean Group is the owner and operator of three award winning cruise brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises and it is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, the brands have an additional 10 ships on order as of March, 31, 2023. Learn more at www.royalcaribbeangroup.com or www.rclinvestor.com.
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2023-06-08T13:12:21+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/08/royal-caribbean-group-extends-collaboration-capture-critical-ocean-conservation-data-onboard-ships/
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Genpact launches service delivery center in Sofia, Bulgaria, expanding its talent pool and leveraging deep domain, process, and digital capabilities to drive transformation for clients
SOFIA, Bulgaria and NEW YORK, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Coca-Cola HBC (CCH), one of the largest Coca-Cola strategic bottlers, and Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses, today announced a partnership to accelerate digital transformation for CCH's finance operations.
Leveraging Genpact's deep domain, process, and digital expertise, the partnership aims to accelerate CCH's transformation by driving process standardization and automation to provide impactful customer experiences and empower CCH to leverage data that turn insights into strategic actions.
"We are constantly focused on improving customer service and operational competitiveness across our markets," said Spyros Mello, Strategy and Transformation Director, CCH. "The partnership with Genpact makes us more agile and allows us to innovate and move faster on our transformation journey. It brings excellent opportunities for our business, customers, and, importantly, for our people."
Genpact's new delivery center in Sofia, Bulgaria will drive operational excellence for CCH through its analytics capabilities to deliver valuable data-led insights in accounting, accounts payable, and cash collections. The multi-year engagement is set to drive future growth and competitive advantage for CCH.
"Most companies today are looking at ways to leverage artificial intelligence to build agile operations and drive efficiencies. The importance of clean, well-defined, and well-understood data cannot be overstated as it serves as the foundation for implementing technologies to fuel innovative operating models," said Tiger Tyagarajan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Genpact. "With the combination of our data, process, and digital expertise, we look forward to unlocking new levels of efficiency, agility, and customer-centricity, enabling CCH to navigate the dynamic market landscape and drive outsized value for their customers."
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2023-06-22T12:38:52+00:00
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.
All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland’s bid, days after Hungary’s parliament also endorsed Helsinki’s accession.
“This will make the whole NATO family stronger & safer,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter in welcoming Turkey’s action.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland and Sweden abandoned their decades-long policy of nonalignment and applied to join the alliance.
Full unanimity is required to admit new members into the 30-member alliance, and Turkey and Hungary were the last two NATO members to ratify Finland’s accession.
Sweden’s bid to join the alliance, meanwhile, has been left hanging, with both Turkey and Hungary holding out on giving it the green light despite expressing support for NATO’s expansion.
Turkey’s government accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups it deems to be terrorist organizations and security threats, including militant Kurdish groups and people associated with a 2016 coup attempt.
More recently, Turkey was angered by a series of demonstrations in Sweden, including a protest by an anti-Islam activist who burned the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy.
Hungary’s government contends some Swedish politicians have made derisive statements about the condition of Hungary’s democracy and played an active role in ensuring that billions in European Union funds were frozen over alleged rule-of-law and democracy violations.
Turkish officials have said that unlike Sweden, Finland fulfilled its obligations under a memorandum signed last year under which the two countries pledged to address Turkey’s security concerns.
“As a NATO member, we naturally had some expectations and requests regarding the security concerns of our country,” Akif Cagatay Kilic, a legislator from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party, told parliament before the vote. “I would like to underline the concrete steps and their implementation by Finland, which supported and shaped the decision we are taking here.”
Kilic added: “I’m aware that there is a large number of people watching us from Finland. … We can say to them: ‘Welcome to NATO.’”
Some opposition parties were critical of the Turkish government’s position toward the two Nordic countries.
“Unfortunately, (Erdogan’s ruling party) turned the right to veto Finland and Sweden’s membership bids into a tool for blackmail and threat. We do not approve of it,” said Hisyar Ozsoy, a legislator from the pro-Kurdish party. “We find the bargaining process (to press for) the extradition of Kurdish dissident writers, politicians and journalists … to be ugly, wrong and unlawful.”
Asked earlier this week about Sweden’s NATO membership, Erdogan told reporters: “There are certain things we expect of them. They must be fulfilled first.”
Sweden, which made constitutional changes to pass tougher anti-terrorism laws, has expressed hope that it will be able to join before NATO’s July summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
“Sweden faces more significant obstacles in its bid,” Hamish Kinnear, Middle East and North Africa analyst at the risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, wrote in emailed comments.
“Turkey is unlikely to approve its acceptance into the alliance before the election in May. The Quran burning incident sparked popular rage in Turkey and President Tayyip Recep Erdogan won’t want to risk angering his conservative base ahead of the polls,” Kinnear said.
The accession of Finland, which has a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia, has geographic and political importance for NATO, said Mai’a Cross, professor of political science at Northeastern University.
“Finland is at a very important strategic location and having that kind of shift from neutrality to respond to Russia’s aggression is bolstering the demonstration of the political will of NATO,” she said.
Cross added that the delay gave Finland more of a chance to prepare.
“Finland is already sitting in the meetings with NATO. It’s already revamping its armed forces,” she said. “So when it steps into NATO formally, it can actually hit the ground running.”
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2023-03-31T12:06:31+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/turkeys-parliament-ratifies-finlands-membership-in-nato/
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YWCA Jamestown’s Broadscast features members of the local YWCA Jamestown team – Hillary Belin, Indo Quinones, Alize Scott, and Cienna Simon – discussing a variety of issues and topics with various guests from the Jamestown and Chautauqua Region.
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2022-12-24T01:22:19+00:00
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wrfalp.com
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*** jury was seated today in Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit against Los Angeles County. The suit is over those disturbing photos that were taken of the deadly helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven other people. Newsies national correspondent James Packard is live for us in Los Angeles and James. What do we know about how this court fight is going to play out? Yeah, well they seated those 10 jurors today, six women, four men in this federal trial now. And Vanessa Bryant says that the county of course was negligent in allowing those photographs to be taken and then shared among deputies in one case at least *** deputy sharing *** photo of Kobe Bryant at *** bar with *** bartender who was there. They only found out about this because someone overheard that conversation and alerted the Sheriff's department. Now the sheriff said that he offered no discipline to those deputies if they would come clean, come forward and delete all of those photographs. Nonetheless, Vanessa Bryant still thinks there's *** chance those photos could end up in the public sphere. They have not been in any media, they have not been online so far, but she worries that they could be and so she is suing for those damages. Now at the same time, the Sheriff's department says the photographs themselves aren't the ones that caused mental anguish inst that it was the fatal crash that caused that mental anguish. But Vanessa Bryant had said in *** deposition tied to this lawsuit that she had *** direct conversation with the Los Angeles County sheriff the day of the accident and said to him, if you can't bring my husband and my baby back, at least make sure you secure that scene and don't allow anyone to take any photographs. And she says he told her I will. So Del obviously that didn't entirely happen. These photographs somehow were able to end up on people's phones. They have since been deleted from those phones and those phones replaced that inability to preserve some of the digital evidence. Dell will end up being *** key piece of this trial. James. Thank you. One of those days where everybody remembers where they were. James Packard for us live in Los Angeles tonight.
Vanessa Bryant reaches nearly $29M settlement in lawsuit over Kobe Bryant crash photos
Updated: 9:47 PM CST Feb 28, 2023
Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others.The settlement caps several years of litigation related to the January 2020 helicopter crash on a Calabasas, California, hillside and photos that circulated in its aftermath."Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant's courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct," Luis Li, an attorney representing Bryant, said in a statement to CNN. "She fought for her husband, her daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect. We hope her victory at trial and this settlement will put an end to this practice."The settlement comes after a federal jury in August 2022 found the Los Angeles County Sheriff's and Fire departments liable for infringing on the constitutional rights of Bryant and her co-plaintiff Christopher Chester for taking and sharing gruesome photos of the January 2020 helicopter crash that left nine people dead.The photos included not just wreckage of the helicopter but close-up images of the mangled bodies of those killed.Bryant and Chester argued that the photos of their loved ones caused emotional distress and violated their privacy. Each testified to living in fear the photos may surface, despite the county's assertion the pictures had been destroyed.Mira Hashmall, lead trial counsel for Los Angeles County, called the settlement "fair and reasonable.""The $28,850,000 settlement includes the verdict awarded by the federal jury in August 2022, and further resolves all outstanding issues related to pending legal claims in state court, future claims by the Bryant children, and other costs, with each party responsible for its respective attorneys' fees," Hashmall said in a statement.Bianka Bella Bryant, and Capri Kobe Bryant, the youngest daughters of the Bryant family, were named in the lawsuit, along with their mother.
Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others.
The settlement caps several years of litigation related to the January 2020 helicopter crash on a Calabasas, California, hillside and photos that circulated in its aftermath.
"Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant's courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct," Luis Li, an attorney representing Bryant, said in a statement to CNN. "She fought for her husband, her daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect. We hope her victory at trial and this settlement will put an end to this practice."
The settlement comes after a federal jury in August 2022 found the Los Angeles County Sheriff's and Fire departments liable for infringing on the constitutional rights of Bryant and her co-plaintiff Christopher Chester for taking and sharing gruesome photos of the January 2020 helicopter crash that left nine people dead.
The photos included not just wreckage of the helicopter but close-up images of the mangled bodies of those killed.
Bryant and Chester argued that the photos of their loved ones caused emotional distress and violated their privacy. Each testified to living in fear the photos may surface, despite the county's assertion the pictures had been destroyed.
Mira Hashmall, lead trial counsel for Los Angeles County, called the settlement "fair and reasonable."
"The $28,850,000 settlement includes the verdict awarded by the federal jury in August 2022, and further resolves all outstanding issues related to pending legal claims in state court, future claims by the Bryant children, and other costs, with each party responsible for its respective attorneys' fees," Hashmall said in a statement.
Bianka Bella Bryant, and Capri Kobe Bryant, the youngest daughters of the Bryant family, were named in the lawsuit, along with their mother.
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2023-03-01T05:17:12+00:00
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4029tv.com
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https://www.4029tv.com/article/vanessa-bryant-settlement-lawsuit-kobe-bryant-crash-photos/43133898
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Sam Bankman-Fried arrived at a courthouse in the Bahamas early Monday and is expected to tell a judge he will not fight extradition to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal and civil charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
The decision comes just a week after Bankman-Fried’s lawyers had initially said that they planned to fight extradition. An extradition hearing had been scheduled for Feb. 8. His turnabout could speed up the timetable for him to be sent to the U.S.
Bahamian authorities arrested Bankman-Fried last Monday at the request of the U.S. government. The former FTX CEO faces criminal charges in the U.S., including wire fraud and money laundering, as well as civil charges. The 30-year-old could potentially spend the rest of his life in jail.
Bankman-Fried arrived at the courthouse in a black van marked Corrections, which was escorted by a SWAT vehicle and a police vehicle. Police quickly whisked him into an entrance at the back of the courthouse.
Earlier, a handful of people who said they were either crypto enthusiasts or FTX customers that lost money came to court to witness the proceedings. One man called out “Sam’s a fraud,” as he entered the courthouse.
Bankman-Fried’s downfall, from crypto evangelist to pariah, occurred with stunning speed. FTX filed for bankruptcy protection on Nov. 11 when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run.
Before the bankruptcy, Bankman-Fried was considered by many in Washington and on Wall Street as a wunderkind of digital currencies, someone who could help take them mainstream, in part by working with policymakers to bring more oversight and trust to the industry.
Bankman-Fried had been worth tens of billions of dollars — at least on paper — and was able to attract celebrities like Tom Brady or former politicians like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton to his conferences at luxury resorts in the Bahamas. One prominent Silicon Valley firm, Sequoia Capital, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in FTX.
U.S. prosecutors and financial regulators painted a very different picture of Bankman-Fried and FTX last week. An indictment unsealed Tuesday alleging he played a central role in the rapid collapse of FTX and hid its problems from the public and investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Bankman-Fried illegally used investors’ money to buy real estate on behalf of himself and his family.
The new CEO of FTX, John Ray III, told a congressional committee on Tuesday that there was nothing sophisticated about what Bankman-Fried was up to.
“This is just old fashion embezzlement, taking money from others and using it for your own purposes,” he said.
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2022-12-19T16:46:43+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/business/2022/12/19/ftx-founder-expected-to-drop-fight-against-extradition-to-us/
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Timothy “Tim” Jenner, 55, of Waterloo, died October 3, 2022 at home. Arrangements: Parrott & Wood Chapel of Memories.
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2022-10-06T05:54:57+00:00
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DETROIT , Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Little Caesars Love Kitchen, a big rig pizza kitchen on wheels, is partnering with the Special Olympics Unified Cup Detroit 2022 to provide fresh pizza meals to approximately 800 of its athletes, volunteers, and staff. The serving will take place during the Men's & Women's Division One Championship Match at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, Michigan.
"Little Caesars is proud to help support the Special Olympics," said Greg Hamilton, senior vice president of marketing at Little Caesars. "The Unified Cup is such an exciting event, and we're excited to serve Little Caesars pizza to athletes from all over the world competing in the championship finals."
The Little Caesars Love Kitchen has served nearly 4 million people in the 48 contiguous states and four Canadian provinces. It has responded to natural disasters including the northern Michigan tornado in May 2022, as well as during national times of need, such as providing meals to first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Established by Little Caesars in 1985, the Love Kitchen exemplifies Little Caesars strong tradition of giving back to the community.
"Little Caesars is always looking for a way to make a difference," said David Scrivano, president and CEO of Little Caesars. "Whether the Love Kitchen is serving the less fortunate, responding to a disaster, or celebrating the global community of athletes competing in the Unified Cup, we are committed to continuously building on our legacy of serving others and supporting our communities.
Local Little Caesars franchise owners and company regional offices donate all food and labor costs for the Love Kitchen servings. An estimated 50,000 Little Caesars franchise owners and employees have volunteered their time over the years to support the program in their local communities.
Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.
Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, like fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes. Little Caesars is known for unique product offerings and promotions such as the Pretzel Crust pizza, Detroit-Style Deep Dish pizza, and the Crazy Calzony®. Additionally, the chain now offers 33 percent more pepperoni on its Classic pizza.
An exceptionally high growth company with more than 60 years of experience in the $145 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars is continually looking for franchisee candidates to join our team in markets around the world. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized and appealing characters in the country, Little Caesar.
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2022-08-05T15:36:09+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/08/05/little-caesars-love-kitchen-serves-free-pizza-special-olympics-unified-cup-detroit-2022-athletes/
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FARGO, N.D. — When Microsoft was on the verge of acquiring the software company that tech entrepreneur and soon-to-be GOP White House contender Doug Burgum had helped build from a small firm to one with more than 2,000 employees, he had specific ideas about where he wanted to iron out the details of the $1.1 billion deal.
He convened a meeting at a ranch deep in the rolling hills of central North Dakota. Between working sessions, he said in a recent interview, he dispatched soon-to-be co-workers to mend fence posts, then had them saddle up and move cattle. Burgum, who grew up shoveling grain and hauling fertilizer at his family’s grain elevator business, wanted the big-city Microsoft team to understand the work ethic of the employees they were acquiring, who were “mostly kids from small towns who grew up on farms or ranches,” he said last week during a driving tour that wound its way from the shabby converted warehouse where he helped build his company to the gleaming Microsoft campus at the outskirts of town.
As he enters a GOP field that has largely focused on polarizing debates involving gender, race, abortion and the politics of outrage, the governor not widely known outside North Dakota is attempting to bridge another kind of divide as he evangelizes about his small-town values. He said he wants to shift the GOP debate away from culture war issues and grievances to economic matters that “touch every American’s life” — even as he has signed legislation restricting abortion and transgender rights.
He is among the longest of long shots in a growing GOP field where former president Donald Trump has dominated and two other candidates joined the race this week. In his campaign launch on Wednesday in Fargo, Burgum intends to outline an agenda focused on his plans to help the nation adapt to a rapidly changing economy, expand domestic energy production and address the most pressing national security threats. “Woke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day” growing up in a tiny town in North Dakota, he said in a video teasing his kickoff.
While some other contenders are jockeying over who can be the toughest fighter in the GOP field against President Biden and the political left, Burgum emphasized the importance of humility in the interview — arguing that “government is at its best when you’ve got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.” And as Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delight in stoking culture war bonfires at their events, Burgum speaks with a measured cadence and a vocabulary that is heavy on jargon from the business world.
Burgum, who supported Trump and campaigned for him in Iowa in 2020, declined to critique the former president’s record in the White House, his policies or his conduct. He said he believed Biden was duly elected in 2020 — a rejection of Trump’s false claims about the contest. But he would not weigh in on whether the former president played a role in inciting the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building.
When asked how the combination of his three decades in the tech sector and his two terms as governor differentiate him from his rivals, he said he thinks “very clearly about inputs versus outputs.”
“I think of taxpayers like customers; I feel like I’ve got a duty to deliver value to them,” said Burgum, who worked at Microsoft after the acquisition of Great Plains Software and later founded a real estate development firm and a venture capital firm before he was elected governor in 2016.
But as Trump dominates national polling, with DeSantis in second and the rest of the pack well behind, there is scant evidence that GOP voters are pining for a shift in the debate within a polarized political climate where many are animated by anger and frustration at the opposing side’s views on abortion, LGBTQ rights and school curriculums.
Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who conducts regular focus groups with GOP voters, said there may be a sector of the party electorate that is interested in hearing a deeper policy discourse from a candidate like Burgum. But she voiced skepticism that he could reorient the conversation and said the reason that the other candidates have leaned so heavily into the cultural issues “is because voters do think those things matter.”
“The information cycle has created an appetite for candidates who are talking about trans women in sports, despite the fact that the impact on people’s lives is incredibly small,” Longwell said. “But for them, it’s emblematic of the thing that they think about from the bigger picture — which is that America is changing in these massive ways, that the culture is getting away from them.”
Burgum said in the interview that the slate of North Dakota bills restricting the rights of transgender minors and adults was driven not by him, but by lawmakers in the GOP-controlled legislature. Yet he signed much of that legislation.
In April, he approved a ban on nearly all abortions that is one of the most restrictive in the country. He also signed bills that prohibit transgender girls and women from joining K-12 and college female sports teams and that criminalize health-care providers who offer gender-affirming care to minors.
He said in the interview that those issues will not be central to his presidential campaign: “They’re really, really important to some people, and for some people in state legislatures around the country, they’re the most important thing,” he said. “I listen to those people, and we navigate through all of that, but that’s not the thing that touches every American, and it’s not the thing that’s going to shape the direction of this country going forward,” he said. (He immediately pivoted to the need to curb “red tape, inflation, taxes and federal overreach.”)
The North Dakota governor is most eager to tout his state’s economic growth, how he has revitalized its main streets, as well as policies that have made the state second in energy production per capita. He has also focused on his efforts to draw more talent to his state, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. That includes a $66 million package he championed that provides financial assistance for child care to try to expand workforce participation in his state, particularly among women.
He demurred when asked about the message of DeSantis, the Florida governor who attempted to punish Disney after the company publicly opposed Florida’s restrictions on discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. When asked about that standoff, Burgum made a passing mention of two moderate former Republican governors whom he said he admires — Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Larry Hogan of Maryland — before stating that he hasn’t found it useful or fruitful “to try and be a pundit on other governors.”
Burgum, a multimillionaire, said he intends to invest his own money in the campaign, but he would not say how much and stressed that he will also build a “broad-based, widespread” fundraising effort. He said he is confident that his resources will make it possible for him to meet the criteria set by the Republican National Committee to qualify for the debate stage: drawing 40,000 individual campaign donors and the support of at least 1 percent of voters in multiple polls.
To that end, after his announcement in Fargo, Burgum is heading to Iowa and New Hampshire, where he hopes his personal story of industry will resonate — from hoeing sugar beets as a sixth-grader to starting a chimney sweep business in college to his decision to take out a loan against the 160 acres of North Dakota farmland that he inherited, which he used as seed capital to begin building the software company that was acquired by Microsoft.
“We’ve always been value-driven with things like gratitude, curiosity, courage, humility and a sense of community,” Burgum said, describing the ethos of the software company he helped build as well as his fellow North Dakotans in the interview last week. “We thought it was important that they understand the culture.”
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2023-06-07T10:17:24+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/07/doug-burgum-republicans-president-2024/
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Data Processing and Infrastructure Processing Units – DPU and IPU – are changing the way enterprises deploy and manage compute resources across their networks; OPI will nurture an ecosystem to enable easy adoption of these innovative technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the new Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project. OPI will foster a community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on DPU and IPU technologies. OPI is designed to facilitate the simplification of network, storage and security APIs within applications to enable more portable and performant applications in the cloud and datacenter across DevOps, SecOps and NetOps.
Founding members of OPI include Dell Technologies, F5, Intel, Keysight Technologies, Marvell, NVIDIA and Red Hat with a growing number of contributors representing a broad range of leading companies in their fields ranging from silicon and device manufactures, ISVs, test and measurement partners, OEMs to end users.
"When new technologies emerge, there is so much opportunity for both technical and business innovation but barriers often include a lack of open standards and a thriving community to support them," said Mike Dolan, senior vice president of Projects at the Linux Foundation. "DPUs and IPUs are great examples of some of the most promising technologies emerging today for cloud and datacenter, and OPI is poised to accelerate adoption and opportunity by supporting an ecosystem for DPU and IPU technologies."
DPUs and IPUs are increasingly being used to support high-speed network capabilities and packet processing for applications like 5G, AI/ML, Web3, crypto and more because of their flexibility in managing resources across networking, compute, security and storage domains. Instead of the servers being the infrastructure unit for cloud, edge or the data center, operators can now create pools of disaggregated networking, compute and storage resources supported by DPUs, IPUs, GPUs, and CPUs to meet their customers' application workloads and scaling requirements.
OPI will help establish and nurture an open and creative software ecosystem for DPU and IPU-based infrastructures. As more DPUs and IPUs are offered by various vendors, the OPI Project seeks to help define the architecture and frameworks for the DPU and IPU software stacks that can be applied to any vendor's hardware offerings. The OPI Project also aims to foster a rich open source application ecosystem, leveraging existing open source projects, such as DPDK, SPDK, OvS, P4, etc., as appropriate. The project intends to:
- Define DPU and IPU,
- Delineate vendor-agnostic frameworks and architectures for DPU- and IPU-based software stacks applicable to any hardware solutions,
- Enable the creation of a rich open source application ecosystem,
- Integrate with existing open source projects aligned to the same vision such as the Linux kernel, and,
- Create new APIs for interaction with, and between, the elements of the DPU and IPU ecosystem, including hardware, hosted applications, host node, and the remote provisioning and orchestration of software
With several working groups already active, the initial technology contributions will come in the form of the Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) that is now an official sub-project of OPI governed by the Linux Foundation. IPDK is an open source framework of drivers and APIs for infrastructure offload and management that runs on a CPU, IPU, DPU or switch. In addition, NVIDIA DOCA, an open source software development framework for NVIDIA's BlueField DPU, will be contributed to OPI to help developers create applications that can be offloaded, accelerated, and isolated across DPUs, IPUs, and other hardware platforms.
For more information visit: https://opiproject.org; start contributing here: https://github.com/opiproject/opi.
Geng Lin, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, F5
"The emerging DPU market is a golden opportunity to reimagine how infrastructure services can be deployed and managed. With collective collaboration across many vendors representing both the silicon devices and the entire DPU software stack, an ecosystem is emerging that will provide a low friction customer experience and achieve portability of services across a DPU enabled infrastructure layer of next generation data centers, private clouds, and edge deployments."
Patricia Kummrow, CVP and GM, Ethernet Products Group, Intel
Intel is committed to open software to advance collaborative and competitive ecosystems and is pleased to be a founding member of the Open Programmable Infrastructure project, as well as fully supportive of the Infrastructure Processor Development Kit (IPDK) as part of OPI. We look forward to advancing these tools, with the Linux Foundation, fulfilling the need for a programmable infrastructure across cloud, data center, communication and enterprise industries making it easier for developers to accelerate innovation and advance technological developments.
Ram Periakaruppan, VP and General Manager, Network Test and Security Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies
"Programmable infrastructure built with DPUs/IPUs enables significant innovation for networking, security, storage and other areas in disaggregated cloud environments. As a founding member of the Open Programmable Infrastructure Project, we are committed to providing our test and validation expertise as we collaboratively develop and foster a standards-based open ecosystem that furthers infrastructure development, enabling cloud providers to maximize their investment."
Cary Ussery, Vice President, Software and Support, Processors, Marvell
Data center operators across multiple industry segments are increasingly incorporating DPUs as an integral part of their infrastructure processing to offload complex workloads from general purpose to more robust compute platforms. Marvell strongly believes that software standardization in the ecosystem will significantly contribute to the success of workload acceleration solutions. As a founding member of the OPI Project, Marvell aims to address the need for standardization of software frameworks used in provisioning, lifecycle management, orchestration, virtualization and deployment of workloads.
Kevin Deierling, vice president of Networking at NVIDIA
"The fundamental architecture of data centers is evolving to meet the demands of private and hyperscale clouds and AI, which require extreme performance enabled by DPUs such as the NVIDIA BlueField and open frameworks such as NVIDIA DOCA. These will support OPI to provide BlueField users with extreme acceleration, enabled by common, multi-vendor management and applications. NVIDIA is a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure Project to continue pushing the boundaries of networking performance and accelerated data center infrastructure while championing open standards and ecosystems."
Erin Boyd, director of emerging technologies, Red Hat
"As a founding member of the Open Programmable Infrastructure project, Red Hat is committed to helping promote, grow and collaborate on the emergent advantage that new hardware stacks can bring to the cloud-native community, and we believe that the formalization of OPI into the Linux Foundation is an important step toward achieving this in an open and transparent fashion. Establishing an open standards-based ecosystem will enable us to create fully programmable infrastructure, opening up new possibilities for better performance, consumption, and the ability to more easily manage unique hardware at scale."
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
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2022-06-21T11:54:54+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/06/21/linux-foundation-announces-open-programmable-infrastructure-project-drive-open-standards-new-class-cloud-native-infrastructure/
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Kendrick Lamar, Brandi Carlile, and other prominent supporters gathered at the Javits Center to commemorate Robin Hood's contributions to New York City and look to the future.
NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night, 4,000 New Yorkers attended Robin Hood's annual benefit gala at the Javits Center to mark the foundation's 35th year and recognize its legacy and contributions in the fight against poverty in New York City. The annual benefit raised $61.4 million, adding to the nearly $3 billion Robin Hood has invested to help New Yorkers permanently escape poverty over the last three decades. 100% of the proceeds will fuel Robin Hood's continued fight against poverty in 2024 through local grantmaking to feed, house, educate, provide job training and placement, and much more for the 1.5 million New Yorkers living in poverty.
This year's benefit was co-chaired by Greg & Alexandra Mondre, David Solomon, and Kenneth Tropin. The event boasted musical performances by 17-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning recording artist, Kendrick Lamar, and nine-time Grammy Award winner, Brandi Carlile.
"We are proud of our 35-year history partnering with community organizations, donors, government leaders, and the people of New York City to create pathways out of poverty for millions of New Yorkers. We couldn't be more grateful to those who have supported us through the years," said Robin Hood CEO Richard R. Buery, Jr. "But we know that despite all we have accomplished together, poverty robs far too many New Yorkers of the opportunity to live the lives they deserve. One of those New Yorkers was Jordan Neely, who died in part because he was unhoused, unfed, and unwell. We can and must do better. That is what Robin Hood is about: making sure that your starting point in life does not define where you end up in life."
"We founded Robin Hood because we love this city and knew the New York City of the 1980s could be better for everyone. Our goal was to make a difference in the lives of New Yorkers, and we wanted to promote proven solutions that solved the challenges facing the city," said Robin Hood founder Paul Tudor Jones. "We applied the same tools and principles we used in our everyday business lives to grantmaking at Robin Hood. This has proved to be consequential for Robin Hood, and today, it means Robin Hood possesses an agility to perform, respond, and adapt to the ever-changing landscape that impacts poverty in New York City. It keeps our work on the cutting edge and produces an outsized impact."
Robin Hood is the city's largest local poverty fighting philanthropy, distributing nearly $143 million in grants on average each year to more than 300 of the most impactful, direct-service, community-based, poverty fighting organizations across all five boroughs. Additionally, Robin Hood has been at the nexus of every major relief recovery in New York City since 9/11, including Superstorm Sandy and the COVID-19 pandemic, distributing more than $250 million in aid with nearly half of all proceeds issued in the form of direct cash assistance to New Yorkers in need.
Robin Hood's grantmaking is evidence-based, informed by its proximity to community voices closest to the issues driving poverty. It leverages its grantmaking investments through partnerships across sectors and scales its reach and impact through influencing policy at the city, state, and federal levels of government. Donors frequently identify its tradition of risk-taking and making smart bets as hallmarks of Robin Hood's approach to seeding, funding, and scaling solutions that help New Yorkers permanently escape poverty.
"We've supported Robin Hood from its earliest days because of the exceptional job it has always done bringing together leaders from across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to fight poverty in New York City," said Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th Mayor of New York City. "Throughout our years in City Hall, Robin Hood helped us open more high-quality charter schools, create opportunities to divert youth from the juvenile justice system, provide more support to CUNY students, build more affordable housing, offer job training programs to more people, and many other steps that opened doors and offered helping hands. As Robin Hood continues to strengthen the city's safety net and promote economic opportunity mobility, Bloomberg Philanthropies is glad to be among its champions."
Since 1988, Robin Hood has received more than 300,000 gifts from 172,000 individuals, families, and organizations.
"Over the last 35 years, bringing to bear the resources and expertise of the private sector to help scale Robin Hood's mission and impact has been crucial to success," said Dina Powell McCormick, chair of the Robin Hood Board of Directors. "There are no more powerful tools than our collective commitment, capital, and market-based solutions in the fight to alleviate poverty and lift up all New Yorkers."
Highlights of What Robin Hood's Funding Has Helped to Make Possible Over 35 Years
- Moved 32,000 New Yorkers off the streets and into transitional and permanent housing.
- Built 12,500 affordable housing units.
- Provided 82 million meals to feed hungry New Yorkers.
- Trained 200,000 individuals in workforce development programs.
- Helped launch 177 charter schools.
- Built 60 libraries.
- Assisted more than 480,000 households in accessing public benefits like food stamps, Medicaid, cash assistance, housing vouchers, and transportation assistance.
- Provided $18 million in pro bono services for executive coaching and strategic planning services to its grantee community partners.
- Secured $7 billion in New York State funding to help families across the state access high-quality, affordable child care services in their own communities.
As critical gaps in the city's safety net materialized or unmet needs were identified, Robin Hood created and launched a series of special initiative partnerships, bringing focus and attention to innovative solutions to overlooked challenges. Current special initiatives include Childcare Quality & Innovation Initiative, The Robin Hood Learning +Technology Fund, Mobility L.A.B.s, Blue Ridge Labs, Fund for Early Learning, The Power Fund, and Grants Readiness and Insights Training (GRIT). Past initiatives have included focuses on veterans; immigrants; street cart vendors; eligible New Yorkers who qualify for, but don't receive, public benefits; and the U.S. Census during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partnering vendors who made this year's annual benefit a success included:
Catering: Union Square Events (for guests); DEGA Catering (for crew)
Choreography: Sarah O'Gleby
Creative, Decor, & Design: David Stark Design & Productions
Draping: Drape Kings
Event Management: Event Associates Inc.
Graphics: Riverside Graphics
Lighting: 4Wall Entertainment Lighting
Mobile Check-in & Pledging: Checkin Tech LLC; Smartsource; Yurgosky
Photography: Ronald Antonelli, Travis W Keyes
Production (Event, Show, & Technical): Nimblist
Production Staffing: Theatrical Resources; Pentwater Productions; Tait Production
Rentals: AFR; Dimitri Carpet; Party Rental Ltd.; Pete's Big TVs; Precise Prompting; Productions on Point; Quixote; SGPS; United Rentals; United Sites
Rigging: 2XD Productions; C2W
Scenic: Atomic Design
Security, Health & Safety: GXC Inc.; The Baghera Group; T&M USA, LLC
Sound: Clair Brothers Audio Systems
Staging: All Access
Talent Management: Marty Hom, Inc Venue: Javits Center
Video: All Mobile Video; FUSE; Verona
Video Content: Long Story Short
About Robin Hood:
This year Robin Hood celebrates its 35th year of funding, supporting, and connecting New York's most impactful community organizations at the forefront in the battle against poverty. We're NYC's largest local poverty-fighting philanthropy and since 1988, we've invested nearly $3 billion to elevate and fuel the permanent escape of New Yorkers from poverty. Last year, through grantmaking with 300+ community partners, we created pathways to opportunities out of poverty for more than 325,000 New Yorkers, and through our strategic partnerships on child care, child poverty, jobs, and living wages, we are scaling impact at a population level for the more than 1.5 million New Yorkers living in poverty. At Robin Hood, we believe your starting point in life should not define where you end up. To learn more about our work and impact, follow us on Twitter @RobinHoodNYC or go to robinhood.org.
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2023-05-16T16:13:20+00:00
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wcjb.com
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EASTON, Pa. — CJ Fulton scored 20 points and Kyle Jenkins added six in overtime as Lafayette took down Boston University 69-65 on Saturday.
Walter Whyte led the Terriers (12-15, 5-9) in scoring, finishing with 20 points and six rebounds. His 12-foot runner in the key at the end of regulation tied the game and sent it to overtime. Jonas Harper added 12 points for Boston University. In addition, Anthony Morales had seven points, six rebounds and two blocks.
Fulton put up 13 points in the first half for Lafayette, who led 33-27 at halftime. Lafayette was outscored by six points in the second half as the teams ended regulation tied 57-57. Jenkins scored his six the overtime points while shooting 3 of 3 from the field.
NEXT UP
Both teams next play Wednesday. Lafayette visits Loyola (MD) while Boston University visits Holy Cross.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-02-11T23:24:43+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/fulton-jenkins-lead-lafayette-past-bu-in-overtime/2023/02/11/deb807f4-aa55-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html
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(WTAJ) – Nearly 900 people are killed on average in vehicle crashes during snowfall or sleet every year, according to the Department of Transportation, so what do you do if you start to lose control of the vehicle?
While it’s important to prepare ahead of time, even the most well-equipped drivers can lose control on sloppy, snowy and icy roads. That’s why it’s important to know before you go on what to do in the event your car loses traction and starts sliding.
Tires are created to maintain constant contact with the ground, so when wintery weather conditions occur, the likelihood of your tires gripping the road’s surface is decreased. This makes it easy to lose traction and fishtail/slide as your tires lose their grip. Slides can also happen due to driver errors, such as driving too fast, overconfidence, over-braking, over-steering and over-accelerating.
What to do if you lose control
It can be a scary feeling once your vehicle starts spinning. However, Dan Robinson with Ice Road Safety, whose mission is to reduce the number of accidents caused by road icing, demonstrated exactly what you need to do.
- Don’t panic: Although it may be hard, panicking is the most detrimental thing you can do. Try to remain calm so you don’t under or overcompensate trying to correct the vehicle
- Take your foot off the gas: If you feel yourself losing control of your vehicle, take your foot off the gas until you’ve regained traction. Using your accelerator will spin your vehicle’s wheels, making skidding worse
- Don’t apply your brakes: This will likely be your first impulse, but hitting your brakes can lock your vehicle up and make sliding worse, especially if you have an anti-lock brake system. To correct a slide, your wheels need to move freely. You should only gently tap the brake once your tires have gained traction
- Steer into the skid: Gently turn the wheel in the direction that the back of your vehicle is going. How much you turn the wheel depends on how fast and how far your car is sliding. Continue to do this until everything is aligned, and you can straighten your wheel
- Once you start correcting the slide, be prepared for the back of the car to swing in the other direction
- If you try to struggle against the slide by steering in the opposite direction the back of your vehicle is going or by oversteering, you risk spinning out
Here is a video by Robinson that demonstrates how to properly correct a slide.
How to prevent sliding
Winter storms are inevitable, and drivers are bound to experience some sort of sliding eventually. However, AAA suggested some of the following to try to reduce your chances of losing control.
- Drive slow: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration advises you to reduce your speed by 1/3 on wet roads and 1/2 or more on snow-packed roads. Slick, icy roads require even slower speeds
- Accelerate slowly: Accelerating too quickly can cause your tires to overspin and lose contact with the road
- Don’t slam on brakes: Hitting your brakes can cause the vehicle to start spinning. Leave additional stopping room so you can brake sooner and softer
- Don’t stop if you can avoid it: If you can slow down enough to keep rolling until a traffic light changes, do it. There is a big difference in the amount of inertia it takes to start moving from a full stop versus how much it takes to get moving while still rolling
- Don’t power up hills: Applying extra gas on snowy roads will just make your wheels spin. Try to get a little inertia going before reaching the hill, and try to let that inertia carry you to the top
- Don’t use cruise control: Never use cruise control during snow, ice or even rain. If your car hydroplanes or skids, it will accelerate and rapidly spin the wheels since it will be trying to maintain a constant speed
- Fill your tank: Keep your vehicle’s gas at least half full. This will add more weight to your car, which can help with traction
- Get winter tires: Winter tires are built differently than all-season tires. They are made with hydrophilic rubber, and they have larger grooves between the blocks of tread, and some are even equipped with studs. All of these factors are designed to help the tire stay in closer contact with the road.
- More information on winter tires can be found via Tires Les Schwab’s website
What to do if you get stuck
Tires Les Schwab and Nationwide each gave a handful of tips on what to do if you find yourself in a pile of snow, as well.
- Clear a path around the tires: Try to dig snow and ice away from the drive tires a few feet in front and behind so you can move the car back and forth. Also, be sure to clear snow from your tailpipe to prevent carbon monoxide from building up in the vehicle
- Rock your car free of snow: Carefully driving forward and backward will help dislodge some of the snow around your wheels. However, be careful not to wreck the transmission. Try to brake at the peak of each “rock” so the car is motionless when it changes gears. It also helps to shift to neutral for a second before making the transition from drive to reverse
- Don’t floor the gas: Go easy on the pedal when going back and forth or else you risk digging deeper into the snow
- Add traction under the tires: If you still can’t get your car free, try using things such as sand, salt, dirt or kitty litter to improve traction and try giving it gas again
- Give it a push: If you can employ help, try having someone give you a push while gently pressing the gas
Supplies to keep in your car
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recommends you pack the following in your car:
- Flashlight and batteries
- Battery-operated radio
- Jumper cables
- Cellphone and charger
- Snow shovel
- Matches and candles
- First aid supplies
- Extra warm clothes and gloves
- Blanket
- Ice scraper
- Sand
- Bottled water
- Non-perishable food
- Special accommodations (medications, baby supplies, pet food, etc.)
Know before you go
Finally, make sure you check the forecast before you head out. Knowing how icy the roads are and if there is an incoming storm later in the day can be the difference between making it home and getting stranded, or worse.
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2022-11-26T19:03:02+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/what-to-do-if-your-vehicle-loses-traction-on-wintry-roads/
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Happening this September 6-7 in Bellevue, WA, WasmCon will foster collaboration and education among WebAssembly users and developers
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of a new event, WasmCon for WebAssembly developers and users. The event will be held on September 6-7, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, WA, in the greater Seattle metropolitan area.
WasmCon is a two-day conference aimed at providing attendees with the latest information and trends in WebAssembly (Wasm), including use cases, best practices, deep dives, and emerging technologies. The event will feature keynotes, technical sessions, and hands-on workshops led by industry experts and thought leaders, spanning topics relevant to technologists at every level.
"WebAssembly is transforming the way developers build and deploy secure applications on the web and beyond as use cases expand outside the browser, from edge to server workloads," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO at Cloud Native Computing Foundation and VP of Developer Relations at The Linux Foundation. "We're excited to bring together the best minds in the WebAssembly community to share knowledge and expertise, focusing on new users and to explore the potential of this powerful technology."
WasmCon is designed for developers, engineers, architects, and business leaders interested in the latest developments and use cases for WebAssembly. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with industry experts and learn about the latest tools and technologies that are transforming the way we build and deploy applications.
"We believe that WebAssembly has a bright and evolving future for many types of workloads, and we're thrilled to host this event to bring together the community and advance the technology," said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation.
Supporting Quotes
"The Bytecode Alliance is delighted to be a Community Sponsor for Linux Foundation WasmCon," said Bobby Holley, Chair of the Bytecode Alliance. "Our objective is to build a better ecosystem. This requires not just better technology, but also bringing people together around that technology to unlock its potential. We're eager to work with every corner of the WebAssembly community to build a secure, efficient, and empowering foundation for the future."
"Originally built for the browser, WebAssembly is showing itself to be a versatile technology, with applications from IoT to the cloud," said Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies. "WasmCon is a fantastic opportunity for a broad range of technologists to explore this fast-growing ecosystem together."
"Since KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022, we have seen a lot of adoption for WebAssembly as a lightweight and secure cloud native runtime," said Michael Yuan, maintainer of the WasmEdge Runtime. "It now runs microservices, serverless functions, data streaming functions, and AI inference in the cloud. I am super excited to see a Linux Foundation conference dedicated to this technology stack!"
"WebAssembly provides a secure and lightweight abstraction that is already being adopted by developers to provide amazing experiences around streaming video, online shopping, and video gaming," said Liam Randall, CEO at Cosmonic. "We expect the Cambrian explosion of Wasm to continue to accelerate as it is rapidly adopted across the entire technology landscape."
Submit to Speak
All interested parties are welcome to submit proposals to speak. To learn more and/or submit, please click here. Proposals to speak at WasmCon are being accepted now through June 25 at 11:59pm PDT.
Submission types requested include:
- Session Presentation (~40-50 minutes in length)
- Panel Discussion (~40-50 minutes in length)
Suggested Topics include:
- Introduction to Wasm
- Wasm Performance Optimization
- Security Considerations for Wasm
- Integration with Existing Codebases
- Wasm and the Cloud
- Real-world Wasm Use Cases
- Debugging Wasm Applications
- Wasm and the Future of Web Development
- Wasm tooling and Ecosystem
- Wasm and Emerging Technologies
- Wasm on Embedded
Those submitting will be notified of a decision by Tuesday, July 18.
Registration
Early Bird registration is offered for US$399 now through July 26, which represents a savings of US$200. Special registration rates of US$199 are also available for hobbyists, academics and students.
Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.
Diversity & Need-Based Registration Scholarships and Linux Foundation Travel Fund
The Linux Foundation's Registration Scholarship Program offers diversity and need-based registration scholarships for those who may otherwise be unable to attend a Linux Foundation event. A travel funding assistance program is also available to help make events accessible to all. Please find more information here.
Remote Participation
All WasmCon sessions will be live streamed and recorded, with sessions freely available for anyone to view on the Linux Foundation YouTube channel. Viewing details will be available on the WasmCon website closer to the event.
Event Sponsors
We're excited to welcome Bytecode Alliance as a WasmCon Community Partner.
For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email.
Press
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Kristin O'Connell.
Social Media
Join the conversation on social media by following #wasmcon.
ABOUT THE LINUX FOUNDATION
The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at https://www.linuxfoundation.org/.
The Linux Foundation Events are where the world's leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world's largest shared technologies.
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2023-05-25T13:04:00+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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Watch this story on Milwaukee Tonight on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
MILWAUKEE — This man is truly one of Milwaukee’s hidden gems! Mr. Woodson is the hardest-working man I know. He started in the music business, but after a distribution deal that didn’t work out, he decided to use his music as the soundtrack for a movie. That deal did go through, and Woodson never looked back.
I caught up with him building the set for his latest stage production.
“My very first play was in a small place that only held 300 people, but we sold out in a couple of weeks and that’s what got it going," said Woodson.
I’ve had the honor of appearing in two of his productions and saw just how committed he is. Woodson writes the script, builds the set, directs, and often appears in his plays.
“I can count on me," he muses.
But he is also not afraid to ask. In his production of “Only God Can Judge Me," he brought in Hollywood actors Dorien Wilson from the TV show “The Parkers” and Todd Bridges from “Different Strokes."
"I asked and they said yes," said Woodson.
His tenth production “Pillow Talk” is opening at the historic Pabst Theater on Saturday, Feb. 25. Don’t let the name fool you! All of his productions are spiritually based.
“Everything I do glorifies Christ, anything that uplifts, motivates, and inspires, that’s what I write," says Woodson.
He’s a one-man show with a lot of loyal support. He loves doing what he does, it’s not for the money.
“I do a ministry through theater. My prices are so low that the average Joe can go. If I can pay my rent and my car note, I’m fine with that,” said Woodson.
For more information and tickets, visit the Pabst Theater's website.
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2023-02-24T19:14:04+00:00
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tmj4.com
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https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/ministry-through-theater-meet-milwaukee-playwright-c-l-woodson-iii
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NEW YORK (AP) — On a quiet weekend in movie theaters before the upcoming release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Warner Bros.’ “Black Adam” topped the box office for the third straight weekend with $18.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“Black Adam,” Dwayne Johnson’s bid to launch a new DC Films superpower, has surpassed $300 million globally in three weeks of release, including a domestic tally of $137.4 million. That puts the $195 million-budgeted film — the third film this year to lead the box office three consecutive weeks — on a trajectory to likely surpass the $366 million that “Shazam!” grossed in 2019, but less certain to notch a profit in its theatrical run.
When Walt Disney Co.’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” lands in theaters Thursday, it’s expected to score one of the biggest opening weekends of the year. Ryan Coogler’s original debuted with more than $200 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters in 2018, and forecasts suggest it could open with around $175 million.
With “Wakanda Forever” looming, only one new film opened in wide release: “One Piece Film: Red,” distributed by Sony Picture’s anime division, Crunchyroll. The Japanese anime sequel, part of the “One Piece” franchise, debuted in second place with $9.5 million. While not as robust as the openings of Crunchyroll’s “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, which garnered, $21.1 million in August, or Funimation’s “Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie,” which earned $18 million in March, “Red” again showed that anime is proving an uncommonly dependable draw in North American theaters. The 15th film in the franchise but the first to be released widely in the U.S., “Red” attracted an especially young audience, with about 75% of ticket buyers between ages 18-34.
Third place went to “Ticket to Paradise,” the George Clooney and Julia Roberts romantic comedy. The Universal Pictures release collected $8.5 million in its third weekend, bringing the $60 million-budgeted rom-com’s cumulative total to $46.7 million domestically and $137.2 million worldwide. For a genre that’s struggled in theaters in recent years, “Ticket to Paradise” is showing staying power, especially as the favored choice for older audiences.
Even with Halloween coming and going, Paramount Pictures’ “Smile” also continued to hold well in theaters. In its sixth week of release, the horror flick added another $4 million to bring it to $99.1 million overall.
Some of the year’s top Oscar contenders have struggled to make much of an impact in wide release. James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” a coming-of-age tale set in 1980s New York, expanded to 1,006 theaters in its second week, grossing $810,000 for Focus Features. Focus’ “Tár,” starring Cate Blanchett as a renowned conductor, took in $670,000 in 1,090 theaters for a five-week total of $3.7 million. MGM’s “Till,” about Mamie Till-Mobley’s pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, added $1.9 million in 2,316 theaters for a four-week gross of $6.6 million.
Best of the bunch so far has been Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin,” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as rowing Irish friends. It took in $3 million in 895 locations in its third weekend of release, brining its global total to $10.2 million.
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Black Adam,” $18.5 million.
2. “One Piece Film: Red,” $9.5 million.
3. “Ticket to Paradise,” $8.5 million.
4. “Smile,” $4 million.
5. “Prey for the Devil,” $3.9 million.
6. “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” $3.4 million.
7. “The Banshees of Inisherin,” $2 million.
8. “Till,” $1.9 million.
9. “Halloween End,” $1.4 million.
10. “Terrifier 2,” $1.2 million.
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
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2022-11-06T22:18:37+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-black-adam-tops-box-office-again-on-quiet-weekend/
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American Girl has announced two new dolls, Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, who are twins in 1999 Seattle. We hear from Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy, who together, wrote the stories of the new dolls.
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American Girl has announced two new dolls, Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, who are twins in 1999 Seattle. We hear from Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy, who together, wrote the stories of the new dolls.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-03-05T14:04:46+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/2023-03-05/meet-the-sisters-who-drew-inspiration-from-the-90s-for-two-new-american-girl-dolls
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
416 PM CST Tue Jan 24 2023
...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Surface observations within the inland portions of Cameron,
Willacy, and Kenedy counties indicate that winds have fallen below
established Wind Advisory criteria. As a result, the Advisory has
been cancelled a couple of hours early.
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
* WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island
Counties.
* WHEN...Until midnight CST tonight.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
East central Jefferson County in southeastern Texas...
South central Orange County in southeastern Texas...
* Until 445 PM CST.
* At 416 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Port Acres, or near Nederland, moving northeast at
35 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Southeast Texas Regional Airport around 420 PM CST.
Port Arthur, Nederland and Central Gardens around 425 PM CST.
Groves and Port Neches around 430 PM CST.
Bridge City and Orangefield around 445 PM CST.
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile
home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and
protect yourself from flying debris.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARDIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CST for southwestern
Louisiana...and southeastern Texas.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CST
FOR NORTHWESTERN CAMERON AND SOUTHWESTERN CALCASIEU PARISHES...
NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON...SOUTHWESTERN NEWTON...ORANGE AND
SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTIES...
At 419 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Buna to near Mauriceville to Central Gardens,
moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, Nederland, Groves, Port Neches, Vidor,
Bridge City, West Orange, Deweyville, Central Gardens, Mauriceville,
Rose City, Pine Forest, Gist, Pinehurst, Port Acres, Hartburg, Forest
Heights and Toomey.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
430 PM CST...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 600 PM CST for southeastern
Texas.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
Lake Charles.
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2023-01-24T22:40:21+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-brownsville-warnings-watches-and-17739479.php
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said on Monday it is considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies and blamed Optus, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, for an unprecedented breach of personal data from 9.8 million customers.
Optus said last Thursday it had become aware the day before of the cyberattack which obtained the details of 9.8 million people — of Australia’s population of 26 million.
Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil told Australian Broadcasting Corp. the hack was an “unprecedented theft of consumer information in Australian history.”
For 2.8 million current and former Optus customers, the breach involved “significant amounts of personal data,” including driver’s licenses and passport numbers, O’Neil said.
Those 2.8 million people are at significant risk of identity left and fraud, she said.
“The breach is of a nature that we should not expect to see in a large telecommunications provider in this country,” O’Neil told Parliament.
In some countries, such a breach would result in fines “amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars,” O’Neil said.
Australian law doesn’t currently allow for Optus to be fined for the breach.
“A very substantial reform task is going to emerge from a breach of this scale and size,” O’Neil said.
“One significant question is whether the cybersecurity requirements that we place on large telecommunications providers in this country are fit for purpose,” she added.
Australian Federal Police said in a statement that reports the stolen data had already been sold were under investigation.
Australian investigators are working with overseas law enforcement agencies to determine who was behind the attack and to help shield the public from identity fraud, the statement said.
“To protect the integrity of the criminal investigation, the AFP will not divulge what information it has obtained in the first few days” of the investigation, police said.
Jeremy Kirk, a Sydney-based cybersecurity writer, said he used an online forum for criminals who trade in stolen data to ask someone who claimed to have downloaded the Optus information how it was accessed.
Optus appeared to have left an application programming interface, a piece of software known as an API that allows other systems to communicate and exchange data, open to the public, she said.
“It looks like it was a failure to secure the software system, so anybody on the internet could find it,” Kirk told Ten Network television.
O’Neil didn’t detail how the breach occurred, but described it as a “quite a basic hack.”
Optus had “effectively left the window open for data of this nature to be stolen,” she said.
O’Neil called on Optus to offer compromised customers free credit monitoring to protect them from identity theft, a request that the Sydney-based company complied with later on Monday.
Optus announced it was offering its “most affected” customers free 12-month subscriptions to Equifax Protect, a credit monitoring and identify protection service.
Optus said the information that had been accessed by an unidentified third party included customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses.
Police and other government security agencies worked through the weekend to protect affected customers, O’Neil said.
Government agencies were also working with the banking sector to protect customers.
“This is complex. It’s legally and technically complex, but we are working on a solution,” O’Neil said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the breach as a “huge wake-up call for the corporate sector.”
Albany foreshadowed potential changes to privacy provisions so that banks can move more quickly to protect their own customers after such a breach.
“We know that in today’s world there are actors — some state actors, but also some criminal organizations — who want to get access to people’s data,” Albanese said.
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said in a statement last week that, “We are devastated to discover that we have been subject to a cyberattack that has resulted in the disclosure of our customers’ personal information to someone who shouldn’t see it.”
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2022-09-27T03:48:11+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-australia-mulls-tougher-cybersecurity-laws-after-data-breach/
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday rejected calls for him to publicly demand the United States drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.
The Australian government has been under mounting pressure to intervene since the British government last week ordered Assange’s extradition to the United States on spying charges. Assange’s supporters and lawyers say his actions were protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Albanese, who came to power at elections a month ago, declined to say whether he had spoken to President Joe Biden about the case.
“There are some people who think that if you put things in capital letters on Twitter and put an exclamation mark, that somehow makes it more important. It doesn’t,” Albanese told reporters.
“I intend to lead a government that engages diplomatically and appropriately with our partners,” Albanese added.
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and Foreign Minister Penny Wong responded to the British government’s decision by saying Assange’s “case has dragged on for too long and … should be brought to a close.”
They said they would continue to express that view to the U.K. and U.S. governments, but their joint statement fell short of calling for the United States to drop the case.
Assange supporters calling for Australian government intervention include his wife Stella Assange.
“The Australian government can and should be speaking to its closest ally to bring this matter to a close,” she told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Bob Carr, who was foreign minister when Albanese’s center-left Labor Party was last in power in 2012 and 2013, wrote in an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday that an Australian request to drop Assange’s prosecution was “small change” in Australia’s defense alliance with the United States.
American prosecutors say Assange helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
Carr noted that Manning’s sentence was commuted in 2017.
“It looks like one rule for Americans, another for citizens of its ally,” Carr wrote.
Carr told AuBC that Assange going on trial in the United States would “ignite anti-Americanism in Australia in a way we haven’t seen.”
He said hostility to the Australian-American alliance wasn’t “in the interests of either country.”
Assange’s lawyers plan to appeal, extending the process by months or even years.
His wife Stella Assange said her husband was being prosecuted for exposing war crimes and abuses of power.
“The only goal here is to free Julian because this has been going on since 2010. He’s been in prison for over three years and the case against him is a travesty,” Stella Assange said.
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2022-06-20T15:45:24+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/australian-leader-refuses-to-publicly-intervene-on-assange/
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WFHS baseball prepares for regional semifinals
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - The last time the WFHS baseball team has made it this far into the playoffs was in 1957.
“Being able to come this far, even from where we started,” said first baseman Nolan Rice. “We started off pretty rough.”
The 2023 Coyotes are adding their names to history books.
“I’m happy for the school and happy from the community that this something that we can be proud of,” said head coach Kyle Sims.
With this success has come with some notable recognition.
“I feel like a celebrity now,” said pitcher Jacob Schultz. “People come walk up to me that I don’t even know and are like ‘Hey, I saw you pitch.’”
For this year’s team, experience has been the key for success.
“We’re all connected,” said outfielder Ty Cotton. “After all of these years we’re playing as a team. We’re putting everything together that we’ve worked so hard for and it’s finally paying off.”
That hard work is on display in a number of areas especially in pitching. The two starters, Blake Vanderburgh and TJ McCraw, have helped the Coyotes stay in games and both have a 2.50 ERA this season.
“I think both can be deceptive with their pitches,” said Sims. “They both do a really good job of mixing up their pitches.”
With setting some history on their minds, the Coyotes are giving each game everything they have.
“Leave it out on the field,” said Cotton. “It’s our last year and to have the chance to go this far is really special. We’re really enjoying it.”
WFHS takes on Canyon Randall in the regional semifinals Friday at 2 p.m.
Copyright 2023 KAUZ. All rights reserved.
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2023-05-25T04:48:31+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/05/25/wfhs-baseball-prepares-regional-semifinals/
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Panthers vs. Hurricanes: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 4
Published: May. 24, 2023 at 9:46 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes square off in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Semifinals at BB&T Center on Wednesday, May 24, starting at 8:00 PM ET on TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Panthers lead the series 3-0. The Panthers have -115 moneyline odds against the Hurricanes (-105).
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Panthers vs. Hurricanes Game Info
- When: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida
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Panthers Betting Insights
- The Panthers have gone 34-29 when listed as a moneyline favorite this season.
- When playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -115 or shorter, Florida has gone 34-29 (winning 54.0%).
- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Panthers have an implied win probability of 53.5%.
Hurricanes Betting Insights
- The Hurricanes have been an underdog in 16 games this season, and won eight (50.0%).
- Carolina has a record of 8-8 in games when bookmakers have them as underdogs of at least -105 on the moneyline.
- Bookmakers have implied, given the moneyline set for this matchup, that the Hurricanes have a 51.2% chance to win.
Panthers vs Hurricanes Additional Info
Panthers vs. Hurricanes Rankings
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Panthers Advanced Stats
- Florida has not hit the over in its past 10 contests.
- The Panthers have had an average of total goals scored in their past 10 games, equal to the over/under of .
- During their last 10 games, the Panthers have scored 1.0 fewer goal per game than their average on the season.
- The Panthers create the sixth-most goals in the league, averaging 3.5 per game for a total of 288 this season.
- On defense, the Panthers have allowed 272 goals (3.3 per game) to rank 21st in NHL action.
- The team is ranked 16th in goal differential at +16.
Hurricanes Advanced Stats
- The Hurricanes failed to go over the total in a single one of their last 10 games.
- The Hurricanes have averaged a total of combined goals over their last 10 games, identical to this game's over/under.
- In the past 10 games, the Hurricanes and their opponents are averaging 0.7 fewer goals per game than their season game average of 8.4 goals.
- The Hurricanes have scored 262 goals this season (3.2 per game) to rank 15th in the league.
- The Hurricanes have been one of the toughest defensive units in the NHL this season, giving up 210 goals (2.6 per game) to rank second.
- Their +52 goal differential is seventh-best in the league.
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2023-05-24T15:13:50+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/sports/betting/2023/05/24/panthers-vs-hurricanes-stanley-cup-semifinals-game-4-nhl-betting-trends-stats/
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TULSA, Okla. — Starting July 22 through August Walmart locations across Oklahoma are becoming sensory-friendly Saturdays 8 a.m. through 10 a.m.
This back-to-school initiative helps people with sensory sensitivities such as autism be able to shop without excess stressors.
Participating Walmart stores are creating a calmer and quiet environment by dimming lights, turning off the radio and placing static pictures on TV's and monitors.
Autism Oklahoma is a local nonprofit that advocates for sensory-sensitive people. Founder and Executive Director of AO Melinda Lauffenburger is happy with Walmart's initiative for back-to-school shopping.
A trip to the store can be overwhelming for families affected by autism. Between the sounds, crowds, and smells, a simple outing for school supplies or groceries can trigger sensory overload and a difficult meltdown.
AutismOklahoma is grateful to Walmart for taking the 1 in 36 Oklahomans with autism into consideration with this thoughtful accommodation.
For many Oklahoma families, this program allows for a less stressful shopping experience and provides an accepting space for all.
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2023-07-20T20:39:57+00:00
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kjrh.com
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https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/walmart-introduces-back-to-school-sensory-friendly-shopping
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DETROIT - Though they are no longer in a position to make the playoffs, the Detroit Red Wings can try and keep others from getting in, which is what they will look to do on Saturday when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
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While it was not the outcome some had expected, given how the Red Wings were playing earlier this season, there have certainly been some bright spots for the team, especially the growth of many of its young stars. Also, the grit and resilience of Detroit also has been noticeable in recent weeks, especially how they came back from a two-goal deficit on Thursday against the Buffalo Sabres, despite ultimately losing in a shootout.
The team they will try to cause havoc with is an old playoff rival, also striving to get into the playoffs. With just three games left in their season, the Penguins are trying to keep their postseason streak alive, as Sidney Crosby and company have advanced to the playoffs every year since 2007. Currently, they are one point back of the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers, who hold the two Wild Card spots in the Eastern Conference.
Despite Pittsburgh being higher up in the standings, the Red Wings have taken each of the first two meetings this season.
Check out more stories about the Detroit Red Wings here on MLive
NHL Hockey
Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (39-30-10) vs. Detroit Red Wings (35-33-10)
When: Saturday, April 8
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Where: Little Caesars Arena (Detroit, Mich.)
Channel: ABC
Stream: FuboTV (Free Trial), DirecTV Stream, ESPN+
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2023-04-08T10:42:34+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2023/04/how-to-watch-the-pittsburgh-penguins-vs-detroit-red-wings-nhl-4823-channel-stream-preview.html
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An 8-year-old in Wisconsin is adding a little business to the front and party in the back.
Emmitt Bailey, who goes by the nickname "mullet boy," hopes his hairdo can help him win the kids division of the USA mullet championship, NBC affiliate WEAU reported.
Voters on Facebook helped Bailey advance to the top 25.
"It's extremely fun to watch the votes," Emmitt's dad Eric Bailey told the news outlet. "So it started out at, I think there was 600 kids that made the facebook cut. Then they went to 100, and then all of a sudden we were watching the votes, and he kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and then it went to the 25."
The winner of the contest will get $2,500.
Emmitt Bailey says he plans to buy a go-kart if he wins.
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2022-08-16T14:25:13+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/8-year-old-wisconsin-mullet-boy-advances-to-usa-mullet-finals
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BERLIN — (AP) — Climate activists blocked a runway at Hamburg airport early Thursday, causing numerous flights to be canceled on the first day of the school vacation in the north German city.
The group Last Generation said several of its members entered the grounds of Hamburg airport around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) and glued themselves to the runway.
“It can't yet be predicted when operations can resume,” the airport operators said. “According to current information about a dozen flights have had to be canceled. Further cancelations and diversions aren't ruled out."
Members of the group also cut through a security fence at Duesseldorf airport, in the west of the country, and blocked an access route to the runway.
In a statement, the group accused the German government of lacking a strategy to tackle the climate crisis and called for immediate measures to cut emissions in the transport sector, including ending tax exemptions for airline kerosene.
Aviation is responsible for a significant share of global emissions. If the sector were a country, it would rank in the top 10 global emitters, according to the European Commission.
Last Generation is known for its disruptive protests, blocking roads and airports to demand tougher government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
German prosecutors raided the homes of several of the group's members in May on suspicion of forming or supporting a criminal organization.
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2023-07-13T09:23:56+00:00
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wsbtv.com
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https://www.wsbtv.com/news/climate-activists/ZKVAQ6OQTRJX7LSDRIV7KJH3IA/
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Couple who lived quietly in Hawaii for years were actually Russian spies, US alleges
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - A couple living quietly in Hawaii for years were actually Russian spies, federal agents with the state Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service allege.
Walter Glenn Primose, also known as Bobby Edward Fort, and Gwynn Darle Morrison, aka Julie Lyn Montague, were arrested in a raid Friday morning, HawaiiNewsNow reported.
Government records said the couple assumed the identities of dead babies from Texas in the 1980s, then used those identities to obtain Social Security cards, passports and driver’s licenses. Both are charged with identity theft, lying on their passport applications and conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States.
Retired FBI agent Tom Simon, who owns an investigative firm called Simon Worldwide Investigations, believes these are preliminary charges designed to “get these people off the streets and begin negotiating with them and seeing what they know and their willingness to cooperate with the U.S.”
Pictures included in the court records show Primrose and Morrison in uniforms that the government said belonged to the KGB, the former Soviet Union spy agency.
The criminal complaint said Primrose fraudulently enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1994.
“The Coast Guard has one foot firmly planted in the world of law enforcement and the second foot in the U.S. military and the intel community,” Simon said.
Attorney Kevin O’Grady, a former military prosecutor, said Primrose’s security clearance could have provided the Russians with valuable information.
“They engage in counter terrorism and counter drug operations and things like that,” he said.
Primrose worked as an avionic electrical technician, serving 22 years before retiring.
“Enough information disclosed publicly can enable the enemy to put pieces together and that can tell the enemy a lot about us,” O’Grady said.
After retiring from the Coast Guard in 2016, Primrose was working as a U.S. Department of Defense contractor until his arrest Friday.
“It’s absolutely staggering to me the amount of time and effort the Russians put into this particular project,” Simon said, referring to the criminal allegations. “This was not a quick hit to steal some records to get back. This was decades in the making.”
Neighbors said the couple lived in the Kapolei community in Honolulu for many years, keeping a low profile.
Neighbor Joshua Guieb-Pangan said they were friendly.
“When we would drive by, they’d always give us a wave,” Pangan said.
He was shocked when agents raided the home last week.
“There was a lot of FBI members around the house and in the house,” Pangan said.
The government is asking that the couple be held without bond, calling them a flight risk.
A judge will decide on that request on Thursday.
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2022-07-27T22:18:23+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/2022/07/27/couple-who-lived-quietly-hawaii-years-were-actually-russian-spies-us-alleges/
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Police: 2 men shot inside North Carolina mall
Published: Nov. 25, 2022 at 6:31 PM CST|Updated: moments ago
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) - Two men are recovering in the hospital after being shot Friday evening in the Greenville Mall, according to Greenville Police.
Officer Scott Venable said that two men were shot near the American Eagle inside the mall around 6:30 p.m.
Their injuries appear to be non-life-threatening.
The suspect is still at large.
Officials say the mall was evacuated for the investigation.
Copyright 2022 WITN via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-11-26T00:36:34+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/2022/11/26/police-2-men-shot-inside-north-carolina-mall/
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 24, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
615 PM EDT Sun Jul 24 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Schenectady,
northeastern Schoharie and southeastern Montgomery Counties through
645 PM EDT...
At 615 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Cobleskill, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Schenectady, Rotterdam, Scotia, Cobleskill, Glenville, Duanesburg,
Schoharie, Richmondville, Delanson, Rotterdam Junction, Central
Bridge, Pattersonville-Rotterdam Junction, Princetown, Carlisle,
Sharon, Charleston, Esperance, Duane, Zeh Corners and Hoffmans.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 88 between exits 20 and 25.
Interstate 90 between exits 25a and 26.
Interstate 890 between exits 1a and 8.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for
eastern and east central New York.
LAT...LON 4296 7409 4278 7387 4275 7398 4275 7403
4274 7404 4261 7456 4279 7458
TIME...MOT...LOC 2215Z 263DEG 33KT 4271 7446
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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2022-07-24T22:53:32+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-ALBANY-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17325999.php
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Inquiry continues in Alabama shooting that killed 4, hurt 28
By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY
Associated Press
DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials are identifying the four people who were killed in a weekend shooting at a teenager’s birthday party that also injured 28. Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox identified the victims Monday as 19-year-old Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 23-year-old Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 18-year-old Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell and 17-year-old Shaunkivia Nicole “Keke” Smith. The Saturday night shooting took place at a birthday party for Dowdell’s sister at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville. It’s not clear how many of the 28 injured were shot.
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2023-04-17T16:42:39+00:00
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kyma.com
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https://kyma.com/news/2023/04/17/inquiry-continues-in-alabama-shooting-that-killed-4-hurt-28/
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All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
SEVIER CO, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) – A DeQueen police officer was hospitalized when a suspect reportedly shot him during a pursuit early Saturday morning.
The Sevier County Sheriff’s Department responded to a shooting on the 100 block of Sweet Home Ln. around 3:55 a.m. When the first officer arrived, Kenneth Lee Smith allegedly shot multiple rounds at him, hitting his patrol unit multiple times.
Authorities say that when additional officers arrived, he fled on a motorcycle. Smith reportedly led Sevier County Sheriff’s Office deputies and DeQueen City police on a high-speed chase south on Highway 41 in the northbound lane. He allegedly reached speeds of more than 90 mph and fired multiple rounds at the pursuing officers.
The gunfire struck the patrol units of an SCSO deputy and a DeQueen police officer. Officials say he shot officer Lt. Chad Bradshaw in the right shoulder. Bradshaw was taken to the Sevier County Medical Center for treatment and has since been released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
The pursuit ended in Little River County when officers managed to disable Smith’s motorcycle. Officers from multiple agencies, the Arkansas State Police helicopter with a thermographic camera and the Arkansas Department of Correction Canine Tracking Team joined in a manhunt that lasted for several hours before they arrested Smith.
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2023-07-10T04:32:55+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/officer-shot-during-high-speed-chase-in-sevier-county/
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress and anxiety.
Michael Jennings filed the lawsuit Friday night against three officers and the central Alabama town of Childersburg requesting a jury trial and seeking an unspecified amount of money.
Jennings’ lawyers held a news conference outside the Birmingham federal courthouse on Saturday to discuss the lawsuit, and the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and other groups planned a rally afterward at a downtown park.
“I’m here for accountability, and I’m here for justice,” Jennings told the news conference.
The suit alleged the actions of Officers Christopher Smith and Justin Gable, Sgt. Jeremy Brooks and the city violated rights protecting against unlawful arrest and guaranteeing free speech. He cited multiple continuing problems including post traumatic stress disorder and humiliation.
Childersburg city attorney Reagan Rumsey didn’t return an email seeking comment.
Jennings, 56, was arrested in May after a white neighbor called 911 and said a “younger Black male” and gold SUV were at a house while the owners — who are friends of Jennings and had asked him to watch their home — were away.
Jennings identified himself as “Pastor Jennings” but refused to provide identification to the officers, who arrested him on a charge of obstructing government operations after a 20-minute confrontation that included raised voices on both sides.
Filed in municipal court, the charge was dismissed within days at the request of the then-police chief. Jennings’ attorneys last month released police body camera video that was obtained following a records request to the city, located 55 miles (88 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham.
Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama branch of the NAACP, said the officers who arrested Jennings did “so many things” that weren’t in line with good community policing tactics.
“These poor judgment decisions reflect poorly on the type of training the Childersburg police officers receive … if they were acting in accordance within police guidelines,” Simelton said in a statement.
While Jennings could have filed a claim against the city seeking damages, attorney Harry Daniels said that wasn’t done because the arrest was well within the time frame allowed by law for a lawsuit.
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2022-09-11T05:00:24+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-black-preacher-arrested-while-watering-flowers-sues-police/
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Tuesday's NBA playoffs: Knicks beat Heat 111-105 to even series
New York – Jalen Brunson scored 30 points and keyed the run the New York Knicks needed just in time to get by a Miami Heat team playing without Jimmy Butler, evening the Eastern Conference semifinals at a game apiece with a 111-105 victory Tuesday night.
Julius Randle returned from a sprained left ankle that sidelined him in Game 1 with 25 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, and RJ Barrett scored 24 points for the No. 5-seeded Knicks. Josh Hart finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists.
But it was Brunson, who pointed the blame at himself and said he had to be better after going 0 for 7 from 3-point range in the opener, who made the biggest plays in a game the Knicks trailed much of the way.
Caleb Martin scored 22 points in place of Butler for the Heat, who host Game 3 on Saturday afternoon. They will hope to have Butler, the leading scorer in the playoffs who sat out after spraining his right ankle late in their 108-101 victory in the opener.
They almost didn't need him.
Miami had a six-point lead midway through the fourth quarter thanks to undrafted players Martin and Gabe Vincent before Brunson, who had been listed as questionable with a sore right ankle, took over.
He made a 3-pointer that became a four-point play when Isaiah Hartenstein was fouled on the play, and the point guard then scored to knot it at 93.
The Heat went back up 96-93 on Vincent's three free throws, but Josh Hart tied it with a 3 before Brunson hit a 3 and scored again to make it 101-96 with 2:48 remaining.
Brunson went 6 of 10 behind the arc.
Randle was originally hurt against Heat in a victory March 29 after starting the first 77 games. He returned for the start of the playoffs but wasn't sharp for much of the series against Cleveland before reinjuring the ankle in the Game 5 clincher.
He was much better Tuesday for a Knicks team trying to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2000, when they got there after beating Miami in seven games.
Randle had assists on two of the Knicks' first three baskets, with the Heat paying extra attention to him and leaving shooters open on the perimeter. But the No. 8-seeded Heat stayed right with them by making six 3-pointers and the Knicks led just 31-29 after one.
Like in the opener, the Heat dug in defensively from there. They limited the Knicks to just two baskets in the first 8 1/2 minutes of the second, building their lead to 46-38, and were ahead 54-51 at the break after Kevin Love's 3-pointer with 6.1 seconds remaining.
The Knicks finally went back into the lead when Brunson hit a couple 3s and then another basket, but Vincent's basket sent Miami to the fourth with a 77-76 edge.
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2023-05-03T04:10:34+00:00
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detroitnews.com
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2023/05/02/tuesdays-nba-playoffs-knicks-beat-heat-111-105-to-even-series/70177587007/
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Scrub Hub: How can teenagers help protect the environment?
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and groups such as SustainUS have proven that environmental advocacy can reach across generational lines.
Younger age groups are becoming more active and vocal on environmental concerns and climate change advocacy. Audrey Richardson, from Greencastle, presides over an environmental organization at her high school and wrote in to the Scrub Hub to ask:
“What are some of the best ways for teenagers here in Indiana to help prevent huge environmental impacts?”
So for this edition, we set out to speak with academics, young advocates and NGOs to determine some of the best ways Hoosier high schoolers can get involved to help protect and save the environment.
The Short Answer
The consensus among those currently involved in environmental protection issues is that collective action is far more effective than individual actions, especially collective actions focused around issues currently within your high school or community.
Sidd Das, president of Indiana University’s Students for a New Green World , said his organization focused on specific goals for which they could easily hold the university accountable.
“By focusing on a specific goal, we’ve been able to make change, like the Climate Action Planning Committee,” Das said. “We decided to choose a goal easily tied to university operations that they can directly act on.”
Emily Plunkett, manager of outreach for the Hoosier Environment Council, reiterated the importance of working as a group.
“I really want to emphasize the power of working together with other students and organizations,” Plunkett said. “Collective action can do a lot more together than we can do alone.”
Plunkett referred to the youth-led Confront the Climate Crisis out of Lafayette as a great example of collective action at work.
The group worked with state legislators to draft bills to address climate change.
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The Long Answer
Once a group is organized, Gabe Filippelli, executive director at the Environmental Resilience Institute of IU, said one good option is working within a school to change the culture around some environmental issues. He gave recycling as one example:
“This could involve setting up recycling programs,” Filippelli said. “This could look like not only a bin for aluminum cans only, but also involve the recycling of gently used clothing and items, and both could then wrap around a larger environmental message about reducing the use of things we have and refusing fast fashion, which has a tremendous negative impact on the environment.”
Plunkett and Das both suggested asking the school or institution to focus on climate friendly policies, which could include solar panels on schools and reducing energy emissions.
Generation 180, a clean energy-focused nonprofit, found Indiana ranked fifth in the nation for installed solar capacity for K-12 schools in a 2020 report.
This shows there is precedent for schools adopting solar energy, Plunkett said.
Das said working within the framework of our school is important. He recommended finding a topic or issue where conversation is already happening and pushing for something that already has some momentum.
Putting up flyers up and having conversations with other students, staff and teachers can be a good way to start building such momentum, he said.
“Personally a great stating point is just talking to as many people as you can that may have the same interests of goals,” Das said. “If there is conversation around, for example, composting or waste management, start there to push for something if there’s already a lot energy around those area.”
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Filippelli and Plunkett both said voting is another effective way to take action.
“The main thing, and the most important climate actions are to talk about it and vote like it matters,” Filippelli said.
Holding voter registrations and encouraging the vote are also important actions for those not yet old enough to cast ballots, he said.
“We as individuals don’t have a whole lot of impact," he said, "but collectively we do.”
Preparing a future path for environmental advocacy is yet another way to help in the long term.
There are many ways to focus a passion to help: pursuing environmental studies in college, volunteering with local organizations, staying involved in climate action into graduate work, and taking jobs in areas that offer opportunities to make an impact. Taking advantage of science courses offered in high school and undertaking special projects within he school also can also be successful ways to help.
Outside of a school’s campus, there are local, residential actions that teens can organize.
Planting butterfly friendly and pollinator gardens and raising money for plantings that neighbors can add to their landscaping is one route. Hosting a climate scientist at a local library to speak with the community could be another.
“The more we talk about climate, the more it becomes normalized, and students are part of that process,” Filippelli said. “Highlighting it and getting in peoples’ faces — that’s all going to be for the good.”
Karl Schneider is an IndyStar environment reporter. You can reach him at karl.schneider@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @karlstartswithk
IndyStar's environmental reporting project is made possible through the generous support of the nonprofit Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
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2022-10-03T11:26:25+00:00
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indystar.com
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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2022/10/03/how-to-help-the-environment-hoosiers-climate-change-action-planning-committe-iupui/69519002007/
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ABERDEEN, S.D. (KELO) — An Aberdeen man is back behind bars for alleged sexual abuse of a child.
Court documents show that Kenneth Vance has been indicted on four counts stemming from November 11, 2022. Vance has been charged with one felony count of rape in the first-degree with a person who is less than 13-years-old, one felony count of aggravated incest with a person less than 18-years-old, and two misdemeanor counts of purchasing or possessing a child-like sex doll.
This isn’t the first time Vance has faced criminal charges.
In 2012 Vance was convicted of two counts of possessing, manufacturing, or distributing child pornography. In 2013 Vance pled guilty to both charges and was sentenced to six years in the State Penitentiary with two years suspended on both counts. The sentences ran concurrently.
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2023-04-06T17:04:11+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/south-dakota-sex-offender-back-behind-bars-for-rape-of-a-minor/
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LONDON (AP) — A London High Court judge on Thursday allowed Prince Harry’s lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun tabloid to go to trial on claims the newspaper used unlawful methods to gather information about him, rejecting the newspaper’s attempt to throw out the case.
The Duke of Sussex alleged the publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World had hacked his phone and used investigators and deception to unlawfully gather information on him dating back two decades.
News Group Newspapers, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, argued that the suit should be thrown because the claims were brought after the six-year limitation to do so expired.
Justice Timothy Fancourt ruled in favor of the argument by the newspapers that Harry was well enough aware of the phone hacking scandal to bring his case sooner. However, he said he would allow him to proceed on claims about other unlawful intrusions, such as the use of private investigators hired to snoop on him.
The ruling was similar to one Fancourt made in May in a companion case brought by actor Hugh Grant, that also tossed out phone hacking charges.
Harry’s lawyer had argued he was prevented from bringing his case because of a “secret agreement” between the royal family and the newspapers that called for a settlement and apology. The deal, which the prince said was authorized by the late Queen Elizabeth II, would have prevented future litigation from the royals.
The publisher denied there was any secret agreement and Fancourt said Harry failed to produce evidence of such a deal.
Harry had said the rationale for the secret agreement was to avoid putting members of the royal family on the witness stand to recount embarrassing voicemails intercepted by reporters.
The case is one of three phone hacking lawsuits Harry has brought against British tabloid publishers in his battles with the press.
The decision comes less than two months after Harry testified in his lawsuit against the publishers of the Daily Mirror. He became the first senior member of the royal family to testify in a court in more than a century.
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2023-07-27T09:56:56+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-judge-allows-prince-harrys-snooping-lawsuit-against-publisher-of-the-sun-tabloid-to-go-to-trial/
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HONOLULU (KHON) — World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma traveled on a famous voyaging canoe and brought music to Native Hawaiian practitioners and researchers and students at the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
The trip off of the Big Island aboard the Hokulea featured a musical performance and conversation about the uniqueness of whales in Hawaii and their connection to nature and music.
UH Marine Mammal Research Program Director Lars Bejder and Faculty/Researcher Aude Pacini sailed onboard the Hokulea with their crew.
“We discussed how humans impact the world’s oceans and how we can raise awareness about the plight of the health of the oceans through music and whales—both of which allow us to draw in many people to convey important messages about how we need to protect the oceans,” said Bejder.
Once they reached their destination, Yo-Yo Ma performed the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Pacini had a hydrophone underwater and recorded the sounds from the hull of the Hokulea.
When the song was playing, a humpback whale breached in the distance.
“Yo-Yo Ma’s team chose to work with HIMB because of our mutual interest and experience in making connections across art and science,” said HIMB Director Eleanor Sterling. “We hope that these kinds of immersive cultural experiences can help foster our sense of stewardship of the Earth’s amazing resources, in Hawaii and around the world.”
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2023-01-23T16:12:23+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/yo-yo-ma-plays-music-for-whales-off-of-hawaii/
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Senator Sherrod Brown is urging Norcold not to close its refrigeration products plants in Shelby and Darke counties.
Norcold LLC plans to lay off a total of 358 workers from sites in Shelby and Darke counties, the company notified the state late last month.
The refrigerator producer will permanently close its plants at 600 S. Kuther Road, in Sidney, and 1 Century Drive, in Darke County’s Gettysburg, effective Dec. 31, a Norcold human relations manager, Heather Bates, told the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in separate letters dated Oct. 27.
The senator’s office is sharing a letter he wrote to the company’s chief executive after he said company leaders declined to meet with him to discuss the closing plans.
Brown sent a letter to Stephane Cordeille, chief executive of Norcold parent Thetford Corp., a company based in Ann Arbor, Mich., urging the company to reconsider closing the operations.
“The decision to close Norcold in Gettysburg and Sidney is short-sighted and fails to recognize the productivity of their workforce,” Brown wrote in a letter he shared publicly this week. “It has also caught these communities by surprise after many years of service. Ohio’s workers can compete with anyone in the world, and I urge Norcold to reconsider their decision and find a way to continue investing in the communities that have been Norcold’s home for more than half a century.”
Credit: Uncredited
Credit: Uncredited
Brown’s office said the senator attempted to meet with Norcold representatives to discuss the decision, but the company declined.
Brown said in a release that he requested Norcold to respond in writing to his letter by December 7.
A full copy of the letter is available here:
The letter says in part:
“Too often, we have seen companies close facilities in Ohio, but it is extremely rare for a company to refuse to engage with my office to discuss ways to try to reduce the harm a plant closure inevitably has on workers and their communities. I look forward to a prompt response that details how you plan to serve both your dedicated employees and the communities they call home.”
Monomoy Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm, agreed to acquire Thetford from The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corp. about a year ago.
A message seeking comment was sent to Joanne Verkuilen, managing partner of Monomoy.
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2022-11-23T12:27:34+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/senator-urges-local-manufacturer-not-to-close-plants/QILKPNKZ7NBEZDWLFHDFMFBLVM/
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Pardon the cliché, but it was a tale of two halves.
Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions in the first half...and nearly all completions and touchdowns in the second half.
The Jacksonville Jaguars trailed by 27 points in the first half...and completed one of the biggest postseason comebacks in NFL history in the second half.
Lawrence and the No. 4 Jaguars went on to defeat the No. 5 Los Angeles Chargers 31-30 in the AFC wild card game on Saturday, winning on a 36-yard field goal as time expired.
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It was the third-largest comeback in NFL postseason history.
"You couldn't write a crazier script," Lawrence told NBC after the game. "We said in the locker room, this is kind of how our season has gone. We're never out of the fight."
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Lawrence continued to fight following a dreadful start to his playoff debut. After throwing three interceptions in the first quarter and another in the second as the Chargers used the short fields to go up 27-0, Lawrence found Evan Engram for a nine-yard touchdown with 24 seconds left in the half.
What seemed a mostly irrelevant touchdown instead was the start of a momentum shift.
Lawrence found Marvin Jones Jr. for a six-yard touchdown that made it a two-possession game at 27-14 with 5:11 left in the third quarter. After Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker hit a 50-yard field goal to push the lead to 30-14, Zay Jones caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from Lawrence to make it 30-20. The Jaguars went for the two-point conversion but Lawrence's pass was incomplete.
Lawrence, after Dicker's 40-yard field goal attempt hooked left, capped a nine-play, 70-yard drive with a nine-yard touchdown pass to Christian Kirk to cut the deficit to 30-26 with 5:25 remaining.
Following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Joey Bosa, the Jaguars elected to attempt a two-point conversion, which Lawrence converted by reaching over the goal line to pull the Jaguars within two.
The Chargers went three-and-out, giving the ball to Jacksonville at their own 21-yard line with 3:09 to go. Facing fourth-and-1 from the Chargers' 41-yard line with 1:27 left, Travis Etienne rushed for 16 yards to put the Jaguars comfortably in field goal range. Riley Patterson then converted a 36-yarder as the final seconds ticked off the clock, completing one of the most improbable comebacks in NFL playoff history.
"I'm kind of speechless, honestly, just to see what belief can do and to see when a team believes in each other, what you can accomplish," Lawrence said. "I mean, playoff game down 27-0, we come back and win. We know we're always counted out of these games and we don't care. We love it. So, unbelievable."
Lawrence completed 28 of 47 passes for 288 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions. This after going 10-for-24 with 77 yards in the first half as the Jaguars mustered just 107 yards of total offense.
Etienne finished with 109 yards on 20 carries.
Justin Herbert, also making his playoff debut, completed 25 of 43 passes for 273 yards and a touchdown.
The postseason opener for Lawrence, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft, and Herbert, the sixth overall pick in the 2020 draft, got off to very different starts and had a very unexpected ending.
On the game's opening drive, Lawrence's first postseason pass was deflected by Sebastian Joseph-Day and Joey Bosa before being intercepted by Drue Tranquill to give the Chargers possession at the Jacksonville 18-yard line just 47 seconds into the game.
Austin Ekeler followed with a 13-yard touchdown run to give Los Angeles an early 7-0 lead.
Lawrence was then intercepted three times in the half by Asante Samuel Jr. as the Chargers scored 27 unanswered points to silence the fans at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville.
They wouldn't be silenced much longer.
The Jaguars, after going 3-14 last season, now advance to the divisional round next week.
Jacksonville, which last made the playoffs during the 2017 season when they advanced to the AFC Championship Game, closed the regular season on a five-game winning streak to win the AFC South title at 9-8 and secure the No. 4 seed in the playoffs.
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2023-01-15T06:10:19+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/jaguars-erase-27-point-deficit-to-defeat-chargers-in-wild-card-game/3045796/
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Data shows almost 1,000 instances of Florida nursing home residents exiting without supervision
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Howard Butler of the Butler Law Group in Jacksonville, Fla achieved a record setting eight figure settlement in the wrongful death case of an 85-year-old resident who eloped from a Florida Assisted Living Facility specializing in memory care. The case settled shortly prior to the start of trial.
The settlement is the largest settlement or verdict for a single death with a single survivor in the jurisdictions history exceeding a recent $10.05M verdict involving the death of a 20 something year old with multiple survivors (source: Case Metrix). Certain aspects of the case are confidential.
Recent Data shows that between 2017 and 2021 almost 1,000 instances of Florida nursing home residents – some with dementia – exiting without supervision (source: NPR, PBS). Florida recently enacted legislation that would reduce the amount of time that CNAs are required to spend with each resident, from 2.5 hours per day to 2 hours.
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2022-08-23T12:38:01+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/butler-law-group-achieves-record-setting-wrongful-death-recovery-an-elderly-florida-alzheimers-resident/
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Ashley Garner had given up on ever seeing her wedding ring again.
She lost it outside her Fort Myers home just days before Hurricane Ian crashed into the coast of southwest Florida last Wednesday. Despite enlisting her husband and three young children to help search around their yard and garage for two days, there was no sign of the ring.
“I just accepted that it was gone,” Garner said. “It was only a thing. It’s replaceable, and I just let it go. We knew the hurricane was coming, so we just kind of said goodbye.”
The family stayed at their home during the storm and went outside to clean up as soon as it had passed.
“We’re about 10 minutes into cleaning, and my husband is cleaning up the brush and the trees right next to the garage door," Garner said. "There's a pile of brush and trees, and he moves over one pile, and the ring was right there.”
Garner said she couldn't believe they found the ring. Her neighborhood didn't experience the destructive flooding that many parts of the state did. But 150 mph winds left massive piles of trees and brush throughout the area.
“I just sat on the curb, and I prayed to God and thanked him for providing and giving us a sign that there’s hope for the community,” Garner said.
Garner posted about finding the ring on Facebook earlier this week.
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
Credit: Ashley Garner
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2022-10-08T00:23:03+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/lost-wedding-ring-found-in-brush-pile-after-hurricane-ian/ULEHPFDHVNFOXFK2B3LWZ5RWHM/
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CUSTER — Four of this weekend’s 6-Man all-stars are moving on to play football at the next level. It’s a jump from 6-Man to 11-Man, but the adjustment has already begun.
“I’ve gotten workouts about a month ago and (Tuesday) I got a deal about all the formations and verbiage of everything and stuff, and I’ve got to get used to it, I guess.”
Versatility is a must at the 6-Man level.
Shields Valley’s Dylan Flatt is emblematic of that, having played a lot of tailback and linebacker for the Rebels. But a position switch at Rocky Mountain College will showcase his best attributes.
“Since it’s wide receiver, most likely it’s not terribly different. Hopefully get that open field where I’m good at.”
Not only is Lawson playing his final 6-Man game, but it’s the last time he’ll be on the sidelines with his father Jim, who was his head coach at Hot Springs.
“It’s a little bit different. He’s there, but he’s not controlling me as much, so that’s nice that way.”
Kickoff for the 2022 6-Man All-Star game is slated for 7 p.m. in Custer at Hoffman Field.
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2022-06-04T02:02:36+00:00
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ktvq.com
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https://www.ktvq.com/adjustments-ahead-for-6-man-all-stars-playing-collegiately
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Polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the November midterm elections and results came in after midnight.
In District 27, voters chose between four candidates for two seats in the House and two candidates for the one Senate seat. House candidates included incumbents Rep. Peri Pourier and Rep. Liz May and challengers Norma Rendon and Bud May. Senate candidates include incumbent Sen. Red Dawn Foster and challenger David Jones.
There were 10,596 votes in the House and 6,178 votes in the Senate race.
House
Peri Pourier — 3,069 votes — 29% of votes
Norma Rendon — 2,350 votes — 22% of votes
Liz May — 2,830 votes — 27% of votes
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May said she is concerned about bringing relief to the middle part of the state and its taxpayers, high grocery bills and inflation. Pourier did not return calls for comment.
Bud May — 2,347 votes — 22% of votes
Senate
Red Dawn Foster — 3,179 votes — 51.46% of votes
Foster won the election Tuesday night with just 180 more votes than her opponent. She said she knew it would be a tough race and didn't take it for granted.
"It was an important win, not just for our district, but for Indian country," Foster said. "There seems to be a shift in Indian policy that is giving states more power over tribes, and I think that it's more important than ever to have Native legislators who understand and uphold tribal sovereignty and can bring that perspective to the state when we're looking at a lot of changes and potential changes of federal Indian law."
David Jones — 2,999 votes — 48.54% of votes
Journal reporters Shalom Baer Gee and Siandhara Bonnet contributed to this report.
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2022-11-10T01:00:20+00:00
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rapidcityjournal.com
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https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/incumbents-maintain-seats-in-district-27/article_d4b97b3f-ee95-501b-bc96-68030ff88413.html
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Tyler, TX Man RAVES Over Excellent Customer Service at Local Hot Spot
Recently, a man who lives in Tyler, Texas shared a glowing review about a local restaurant that offered a perfect example of GREAT customer service.
And it was encouraging to read his insights here because so often what we read online is negative. Whether it has to do with the political climate, sad happenings around the world, and even negative feedback about...well, ANYTHING...right here in East Texas.
Obviously, it's important for us to keep up with what's going on in the world so we know how best to respond and take care of ourselves and our loved ones. At the same time, it's refreshing to hear stories like this one--even in regard to something as simple as an evening out at one of our East Texas restaurants.
Tyler man, David Traylor, shared his overwhelmingly positive experience at Aspen Creek Grill.
And what makes it almost even better, is that the positive experience was borne out of something that went askew.
Here's what happened:
Traylor and his wife decided to take a break from cooking and grab dinner at Aspen Creek Grill in Tyler, TX. Traylor shared that they are "regulars" at this particular establishment, and from what he wrote they're big fans of the place. (As are many of us.)
However, on this particular evening, Traylor shared that despite the fact that there weren't many people waiting in the lobby, it seemed as if they were short-staffed. (Like so many of our businesses and restaurants right now.)
They were seated and placed their order, which Traylor said came out in around 15-20 minutes. However, once the food came and seemed to be cooked okay, the food was not hot. They decided not to worry about it, cuz frankly, they were hungry. However, when the server came to check on them, he did relay this to them but made it clear it was okay and he just wanted to let them know.
The server then offered to heat it up and offered them freshly prepared sides so it would all be nice and hot. Traylor thanked her but declined.
That's when the manager at Aspen Creek Grill in Tyler, TX came out to talk with them.
That's the thing, isn't it? This is Earth and we are only humans. That means sometimes things just go wrong. That's part of the gig.
At the same time, it's often the way people RESPOND and move forward in situations like this one that reveals the intention and character of those with whom we are interacting.
Well done, Aspen Creek Grill.
What about you? Have you ever experienced an over-the-top GREAT customer service experience at one of our East Texas restaurants? I'd love to hear about it. Shoot me an email at tara.holley@townsquaremedia.com.
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2022-07-06T01:27:25+00:00
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knue.com
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https://knue.com/tyler-tx-man-raves-over-excellent-customer-service-at-local-hot-spot/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community.
The State Department said Tuesday that Waters has “a long track record of using antisemitic tropes” and a concert he gave late last month in Germany “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust.”
The comments came in a written response to a question posed at Monday’s State Department press briefing about whether the administration agreed with criticism of Rogers from the U.S. special envoy to combat antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt.
“Special Envoy Lipstadt’s quote-tweet speaks for itself,” the department said.
“The concert in question, which took place in Berlin, contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust,” the department said. “The artist in question has a long track record of using antisemitic tropes to denigrate Jewish people.”
In a May 24 tweet after the concert in Berlin, during which Waters appeared on stage in a costume reminiscent of Nazi-era Germany, Lipstadt denounced the musician by echoing comments from EU antisemitism envoy Katharina von Schnurbein, who is German.
“I wholeheartedly concur with @EUAntisemitism ’s condemnation of Roger Waters and his despicable Holocaust distortion,” Lipstadt wrote in reply to a tweet from von Schnurbein.
Von Schnurbein had taken issue with Waters’ performance in Berlin as well as his previous comments related to Israel and the Holocaust.
“I am sick & disgusted by Roger Waters’ obsession to belittle and trivialize the Shoah & the sarcastic way in which he delights in trampling on the victims, systematically murdered by the Nazis,” von Schnurbein wrote. “In Germany. Enough is enough.”
Shortly after the concert, police in Berlin said they had opened an investigation of Waters on suspicion of incitement over the costume he wore.
Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband. Police confirmed that the costume could constitute a glorification, justification or approval of Nazi rule and therefore a disturbance of the public peace.
Waters rejected those accusations in a statement on Facebook and Instagram, saying “the elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms.”
He claimed that ”attempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated.” Waters has also drawn the ire of the pro-Israel community for his outspoken support of the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel.
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2023-06-06T22:35:59+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/us-weighs-in-on-roger-waters-antisemitism-debate-says-artist-has-long-history-of-denigrating-jews/
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets.
The tough statement came as the administration of President Nayib Bukele asked for yet another extension of an anti-gang emergency measures that would take the crackdown into its 13th month.
Over the last 354 days, about 65,000 people have been arrested in the antigang campaign. Human rights groups say that there have been many instances of prisoner abuses and that innocent people have been swept up in police raids.
The government announced the mass inmate transfer with a slickly produced video posted on social media. It showed prisoners forced to run barefoot and handcuffed down stairways and over bare ground, clad only in regulation white shorts. They were then forced to sit with their legs locked in closely clumped groups in cells.
Gustavo Villatoro, the government’s minister for justice and peace, said the suspected gang members would never return to the streets, even though about 57,000 of those arrested are still awaiting formal charges or a trial.
“They are never going to return to the communities, the neighborhoods, the barrios, the cities of our beloved El Salvador,” Villatoro said.
Only about 3,500 people swept up in the crackdownhave been released so far.
Bukele, who revels in taking a contrarian stance and once described himself as “world’s coolest dicator,” wrote in his Twitter account that “there are now 4,000 gang members in the world’s most criticized prison.”
Dubbed the Terrorism Confinement Center, the prison was inaugurated in February and already holds about 2,000 suspected gang members. It is a sprawling campus 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of San Salvador, the capital, that could eventually house up to 40,000 inmates.
Congress must still approve the extension of the antigang measures, but legislators are expected to do, as they have done a dozen times before.
Bukele requested the special powers to pursue the gangs last March 27, following a surge in gang violence in which 62 people were killed in a single day across the country. Streets gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18 have long killed and extorted money from residents in El Salvador.
The measures have reduced killings and have proved widely popular among most Salvadorans. Officials say that since the crackdown began, there have been 200 days with no homicides at all.
Under the special powers, the right to association is suspended, police don’t have to tell someone being arrested the reason or inform them of their rights. Someone arrested does not have a right to a lawyer and can be held for 15 days without seeing a judge rather than the previous 72 hours.
The local rights group Cristosal documented 3,344 cases of human rights abuses in the first 11 months of the state of emergency.
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2023-03-16T15:52:11+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/el-salvador-2000-more-to-prison-vows-will-never-return/
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MADISON COUNTY, Ind. – A Hartford City woman died after a train struck her SUV in Madison County.
According to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, 81-year-old Beverly J. Norwood was driving on County Road 1800 North and initially stopped at the railroad crossing before driving onto the tracks.
A train heading southbound then slammed into Norwood’s Jeep Commander. Police were dispatched before 11:40 a.m. Wednesday at the crossing located at CR 1800 North and CR 150 East.
Norwood suffered internal bleeding and numerous cuts and abrasions after the crash.
She was taken to an Anderson hospital before being airlifted to an Indianapolis facility. Madison County Sheriff Scott Mellinger said she later died from her injuries.
The crash remains under investigation. The Summitville Police Department and Van Buren Township Fire Department also responded to the scene.
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2022-06-24T14:33:58+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/indiana-news/woman-dies-after-train-hits-suv-in-madison-county/
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As Americans wonder what’s next for reproductive rights after the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, an evolutionary biologist writes: “There is one thing I am certain of from my studies of the animal world as an evolutionary biologist. Women won’t stop fighting for control over their bodies and will continue making reproductive choices no matter the obstacle.”
What makes her so sure? She says that’s what female mammals have always done — what they evolved to do. Deena Emera is a senior scientist at the Center for Reproductive Longevity at the Buck Institute of Aging. She wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe titled “Reproductive choice is at the core of being a female mammal.” She joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about how females of many species have evolved to maximize their own and their offspring’s health.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-08-09T19:07:44+00:00
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wyomingpublicmedia.org
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-08-09/females-of-every-species-exercise-reproductive-choice-says-evolutionary-biologist
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Funds will accelerate global growth and competitiveness
ROME, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monozukuri S.p.A. today announced a capital increase with MARCAP S.p.A making an investment in the company. Monozukuri is the developer of EDA silicon/packaging co-design software founded in 2015 by CEO Anna Fontanelli.
MARCAP S.p.A., is industrial holding company that lists among their shareholders some of the major industrial families of the Marche Italian area. The investment represents a 16% equity stake in Monozukuri.
The agreement between MARCAP and Monozukuri will help accelerate the global competitiveness of its most successful product, GENIO™, and open new markets for the software platform that reduces design time and optimizes configuration for state-of-the-art microprocessors.
As an EDA tool, GENIO co-plans the final device (package) and integrated electronic circuits (ICs) in complex 2.5-3D hybrid configurations. In 2020, GENIO became the first commercially available tool of its kind and in 2021 it was recognized by an international jury of industry experts as a revolutionary tool for EDA co-design.
"MARCAP is the ideal partner to lead us towards future growth," said Ms. Fontanelli. "We've invested a lot in developing a technology platform with unique features and now we are ready to serve global markets, thanks to important contacts with major Silicon Valley companies. We will continue to enrich GENIO with new exclusive features, because chiplet technology represents the future of the microchip industry," she explained.
"We are very pleased to support the Monozukuri team in its growth. We're convinced that we have found unique expertise in the Italian technology market, and we're confident in the potential that the GENIO software platform has to revolutionize the design process of a strategic sector such as semiconductors," said Alessandro Guzzini, President of MARCAP S.p.A.
Monozukuri's mission is to conquer 2.5D & 3D design challenges for next generation electronic products by delivering innovative, ground-breaking EDA software solutions and methodologies. The technology redefines the co-design of heterogeneous microelectronic systems by providing an improved level of automation in three-dimensional interconnect optimization.
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2022-06-22T11:36:30+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/06/22/monozukuri-signs-strategic-investment-agreement-with-marcap/
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean computer chipmaker SK Hynix said Wednesday it might be forced to sell its manufacturing operations in China if a U.S. crackdown on exports of semiconductor technology and manufacturing equipment to China intensifies.
SK Hynix’s chief marketing officer, Kevin Noh, raised those concerns during a conference call on Wednesday after the company reported its operating profit dropped 60% in the last quarter from 2021, a decline it blamed on a deteriorating business environment.
Global inflation amplified by Russia’s war on Ukraine and rising interest rates imposed by central banks to counter surging prices have slowed consumer spending on the kinds of high-tech products requiring computer chips. SK Hynix and other semiconductor makers are also navigating new U.S. restrictions on exports of advanced semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to China. Such limits were in part imposed to prevent use of American advanced technology in China’s military development.
SK Hynix said this month that the U.S. Department of Commerce granted the company a one-year exemption from such requirements, allowing it to provide equipment and other supplies to its Chinese factories making memory chips.
Other major chip and chip-manufacturing equipment makers like Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC are thought to have also gotten exemptions.
SK Hynix may find it difficult to equip its manufacturing line in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi with the most advanced chipmaking machines, including extreme ultraviolent lithography (EUV) systems, Noh said. He said SK Hynix doesn’t expect major disruptions at the plant at least until the late 2020s, but things could quickly turn for the worse if Washington refuses to extend temporary exemptions at some point and begins to fully enforce its export controls.
“If it becomes a situation where we would have to obtain (U.S.) license on a tool-by-tool basis, that will disrupt the supply of equipment … and we could face difficulties in operating (Chinese) fabrication facilities at a much earlier point than the late 2020s,” Noh said.
“If we face problems that make it difficult for us to operate our Chinese fabrication facilities including the Wuxi plant, we are considering various scenarios, including selling those fabrication facilities or their equipment or bringing them to South Korea,” Noh said.
He said those contingency plans would apply to a “very extreme situation,” and the company hopes to avoid such problems and operate as normal.
Citing an “unprecedented deterioration” in market conditions, SK Hynix said it would cut its investment next year by more than 50% as it anticipates supply will continue to exceed demand for the time being. The country’s operating profit for the three months through September was at 1.65 trillion won ($1.16 billion), compared to 4.17 trillion won ($2.92 billion) during the same period last year. Revenue fell 7% to 10.98 trillion won ($7.7 billion).
Some experts say that the U.S.-China technology standoff could force SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, another major South Korean chipmaker, to significantly modify their Chinese operations over the next few years.
According to market analysis firm TrendForce, SK Hynix’s Wuxi plant accounts for about 13% of the world’s total DRAM production capacity. About 40% of Samsung’s NAND flash chips are reportedly produced from its factory in the Chinese city of Xi’an, accounting for around 10% of global production.
“The existing (principles) we accepted as common sense, such as finding a certain region where we could produce most efficiently at the cheapest cost and shipping those products globally, are becoming increasingly uncertain as (our) decision making is being influenced by various layers of factors beyond just business,” Noh said.
Samsung, the world’s largest provider of memory chips, is widely believed to have received a similar exemption from the U.S. restrictions, although the company has not publicly confirmed it. Noh during the call said SK Hynix’s “competitors” have also been granted the U.S. waivers, in a possible reference to Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC.
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2022-10-26T14:53:48+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-south-korean-chipmaker-sk-hynix-worries-about-china-future/
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The specialty home retailer brings a wide array of national brand products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options to local customers
HOUSTON, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) continues to expand its presence in Georgia with the opening of three new locations in Newnan, Stone Mountain, and Douglasville.
Conn's HomePlus, based in The Woodlands, Texas, offers a wide selection of home goods including appliances, furniture, mattresses, consumer electronics, and home office products from national brands such as LG, Samsung, GE and more. Conn's customers enjoy next-day delivery on qualifying purchases and on in-stock items throughout the store. Through a personalized selection of payment options, including flexible in-house financing, Conn's aims to help all customers create a home they love.
To celebrate the opening of its brand-new Newnan, Stone Mountain, and Douglasville stores, the Company is giving one lucky person the chance to win $10,000 in Conn's HomePlus Gift Cards. Individuals can visit www.connspromotions.com to enter and learn more before the sweepstakes ends on 5/27/2023.
These new Georgia locations bring the retailer's total number of stores to 172 locations across 15 states, including six locations across the state of Georgia.
"Our continued growth in Georgia and the greater Metro Atlanta is an exciting time for us. We look forward to providing a wide selection of high-quality home products and accessible financing solutions to all customers in the community," said Norm Miller, Interim President, and CEO of Conn's HomePlus.
Customers shopping at any store in Georgia and at the new Newnan, Stone Mountain and Douglasville locations can find personalized payment options on name-brand home goods like LG, Samsung, GE, SONY, Tempur-Pedic, Purple, and exclusive furniture brands like Villa Hill and mattress brands, such as Dreamspot. Further details on new store locations can be found at www.conns.com/stores. For more information on Conn's HomePlus, please visit http://www.conns.com.
About Conn's, Inc.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, mattresses, appliances, and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 170 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 4,000 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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2023-05-24T13:42:42+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/05/24/conns-homeplus-grows-presence-metro-atlanta/
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Did you lose money on investments in IonQ? If so, please visit IonQ, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of IonQ, Inc. ("IonQ" or the "Company") (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
IonQ claims to "develop quantum computers designed to solve the world's most complex problems." On or about September 30, 2021, IonQ became a public entity via a business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. III ("DTG"), a special purpose acquisition company.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) that IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) that the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) that IonQ's quantum computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; and (4) that a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties.
On May 3, 2022, Scorpion Capital released a research report alleging, among other things, that IonQ is a "scam built on phony statements about nearly all key aspects of the technology and business." It further claimed that the Company' reported "[f]ictitious 'revenue' via sham transactions and related-party round-tripping."
On this news, the Company's stock fell 9% to close at $7.15 per share on May 3, 2022.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased or acquired IONQ securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit IonQ, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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2022-07-09T10:54:02+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/07/09/ionq-inc-nyse-ionq-shareholder-class-action-alert-bernstein-liebhard-llp-reminds-investors-with-losses-excess-100000-deadline-file-lead-plaintiff-motion-securities-class-action-lawsuit-against-ionq-inc-nyse-ionq/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends.
The legislation clarifies that the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire, can set limits for fees on audio and video calls inside corrections facilities.
Phone calls from prisons and jails are a lifeline for those incarcerated, but the cost varies widely and can be a financial drain on families already struggling to make ends meet with an adult behind bars. Right now, Kentucky has the highest cost for a 15-minute call, at $5.70, and $9.99 for a cellphone call, while New Hampshire charges only 20 cents for the same amount of time.
There are more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and tens of thousands more are incarcerated in jails nationwide awaiting trials or sentencings.
The COVID-19 pandemic froze prison visits, forcing inmates to rely heavily on phone calls, and the health crisis spotlighted the disparities in state and federal phone charges. Studies by prison reform advocates and academics have shown that visitation and phone calls with loved ones decrease the likelihood that a person will commit crime again.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and just retired-Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. It was named in honor of Martha Wright-Reed, a retired nurse who tried for more than two decades to get more affordable rates because she could not afford to call her incarcerated grandson at the cost of more than $100 per month.
“No family member should ever have to choose between staying in touch with an incarcerated loved one and paying the bills,” Duckworth said in a statement, adding that the new law will help ensure that phone rates are “reasonable.”
The FCC must still go through the rule-making process before the changes can be officially made. In 2013, FCC caped rates at 25 cents per minute, which meant a 15-minute call cost $3.75; before that it was roughly $17 on average, about 10 times more than the average per-minute rate. Prison telecommunication companies challenged the decision in court, claiming the FCC didn’t have the right to regulate the calls.
In 2015, then-FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn told lawmakers she supported measures to cap the costs. “Incarceration is a family matter, an economic matter, a societal matter. The greatest impact of an inmate’s sentence is often on the loved ones who are left behind,” she said.
In 2017, under President Donald Trump, the FCC abandoned the fight to lower the cost for prison phone calls. A federal appeals court eventually ruled the FCC didn’t have the authority to cap the rates.
The legislation signed by Biden gives the federal agency the authority that the appellate court ruled it lacked, the White House said.
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2023-01-05T22:40:03+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/biden-signs-bill-to-ease-costs-for-prisoner-calls-to-family/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business
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Joined by special guests, podcast host Ronda Lee Chapman will engage listeners through thought provoking conversations, highlighting the intersections between the outdoors and the human experience
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the outdoors by creating parks and protecting land, announced the launch of their new podcast, People. Nature. Big Ideas. The first three episodes are available now.
Hosted by Ronda Lee Chapman, a nationally recognized champion for the outdoors and director of equity and belonging for TPL, People. Nature. Big Ideas. will feature conversations with guests from around the country who are living alongside some of the pressing issues that advance a more diverse, equitable and inclusive outdoor experience in their communities. Every interview will explore our human connection with the natural environment—and how those connections influence culture, the arts, joy and healing, and help build resilient and vibrant communities.
"When people can spend time outdoors, their health improves, their minds clear, their soul can find peace. It's our mission at Trust for Public Land to make it that a given. This podcast is designed to be a rich forum for discussion on how we move forward—together—in a positive and co-beneficial way," says host Ronda Lee Chapman. "My hope is that People. Nature. Big Ideas. can be a vehicle to raise up community voices—to offer a platform to talk about how these individuals are demonstrating the ways in which they redefine what inclusiveness in the outdoors means."
Each episode will dive into different connections, challenges and joys that communities around the country experience with their local outdoor spaces. Ronda and her guests will explore topics ranging from the nation's emerging Black birding community, understanding the intersection of racism, poverty and creating meaningful access to the outdoors, and how the rising generation of BIPOC champions are already moving the needle on national conservation efforts.
"People. Nature. Big Ideas. is an opportunity for Trust for Public Land to further elevate stories around the people, communities and organizations who inspire our work," said TPL CEO, Diane Regas. "Ronda and her guests are poised to share their experience and expertise with listeners, bringing them to the intersections of nature, art, culture, and community."
Produced by Pretty Good Productions, listeners can find People. Nature. Big Ideas. on Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Spotify and Google Podcasts, and anywhere else they get their podcasts.
To learn more about People. Nature. Big Ideas., visit the podcast's website.
About Trust for Public Land
Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. As a leader in equitable access to the outdoors, TPL works with communities to create parks and protect public land where they are needed most. Since 1972, TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land, created more than 5,364 parks, trails, schoolyards, and iconic outdoor places, raised $93 billion in public funding for parks and public lands, and connected nearly 9.4 million people to the outdoors. To learn more, visit tpl.org.
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2023-06-08T13:39:32+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/06/08/trust-public-lands-people-nature-big-ideas-podcast-explores-human-connection-nature-impacts-that-come-with-it/
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Germany’s Nürburgring is one of the most popular racetracks in the world, thanks in part to the track’s management regularly hosting “tourist rides” where members of the public can bring their own vehicle and take on the Green Hell.
The current cost of a lap is 35 euros (approximately $39), and the entry also comes with some restrictions. One of these is a minimum speed of 130 kph (approximately 80.7 mph).
According to Road & Track, the minimum speed was only recently increased from a previous speed of about 37 mph, and may mean that some classic cars will no longer be allowed.
There are plenty of other restrictions that apply to vehicles taking part in the tourist rides. Some of them include vehicles needing to be under a specific weight target, and having aerodynamic elements that don’t protrude beyond the vehicle’s stock dimensions. Vehicles also need to have the driving dynamics of a regular passenger vehicle, thus ruling out pickup trucks and vans.
Naturally, there are also plenty of restrictions when it comes to the actual driving on the ‘Ring. Cars need to keep to the right unless overtaking, and no timing of laps is permitted. Any damage caused to the track also needs to be paid for by the driver, as does the need for any towing service should a vehicle break down or suffer a crash.
Whether a vehicle is still covered by regular car insurance is also a tricky issue, as it can vary depending on the country in which the car was insured. To get around this, there are companies set up that provide insurance specifically for the tourist rides.
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2023-05-04T17:16:35+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/automotive/internet-brands/nurburgring-now-requires-cars-capable-of-at-least-80-mph/
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In the lead-up to what is supposed to be the most joyous time of the year, everything seems a bit off-kilter.
Look at the numbers of jobs that remain unfilled. Is it that people don’t want to work anymore? Some of them sure don’t seem to want to go back to work. They don’t even want to be around each other anymore. Fewer people are volunteering, too.
Fundamentally, we, as a nation, aren’t getting along with each other very well. Call it the Scrooge factor. Somehow, we’ve managed to stumble our rancorous way through the year, and it sure wasn’t pretty.
So we turn to one thing that made sense this year: College football.
Specifically, we bring your attention to the Heisman Trophy and its newest recipient: USC Quarterback Caleb Williams.
Yes, there were great college athletes who would have been very deserving of that honor this year if they hadn’t been injured. But there will be other opportunities for them in the future.
Williams was the one who, by rights, earned The Heisman this year. Even if you weren’t rooting for USC, you’d find yourself rooting for him, he was that good.
This particular quarterback was fun to watch. Sometimes, it was like a game of “Where’s Waldo” in action. The defense sure had a tough time keeping track of him. He was all over the field. If there had been a dotted line following him as a play unfolded, it would’ve gone up and down and around. He would dart out of the pocket, escaping tackles, courageously withstanding an oncoming horde of defensive linemen to successfully complete a pass. Or he’d do something unexpected, act as a receiver instead of quarterback, or swiftly execute a pooch punt – which is a short punt he’d use to throw off the opposing defense on third downs. The legendary Bear Bryant would have his quarterback initiate actions like that.
So add Williams to the list of outstanding college football players.
Then imagine finding out that Williams, at the age of 20, is not only a fine athlete, he’s a humble young man whose comments about the game transcend into some meaningful advice on life.
His acceptance speech at Lincoln Center in New York last Saturday was something many of us would benefit from hearing.
In it, Williams hailed the other finalists and credited his parents, teammates and coaches for the award.
The Heisman is an award for an individual “but nothing, absolutely nothing, in life is done alone,” he told the audience.
Williams said his parents instilled a work ethic in him and are always there for him. “You mean the world to me,” he told them. “We’re in this together and I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
His self-described journey started at the age of 10, after the football season ended and he had to turn his equipment in. On the car ride home, he told his dad his dream of being a football player. “Fast-forward a couple of years later; my team and I had just lost a national championship and I didn’t get a chance to play. My coach told me I was too small. That night, I decided to be a quarterback – not only that, but the best quarterback.”
Time passed and, “the more I learned, the more I wanted,” Williams recalled, then addressed his comments to the 11-year-olds who are told they’re too small and the 7th-graders who were passed over and didn’t get to play or the 9th-graders who no one thought would make the varsity team.
A team may be down 20 points in the first half, he said, “but always believe there’s one more ‘Hail Mary’ up your sleeve. Your time is coming. Keep going. Back to work. The job isn’t done.”
Those words were his mantra.
“The early setbacks lit a fire in me,” Williams told his listeners Saturday. “If you’re willing to put in the work, and surround yourself with positive people, you can achieve anything.
“Dreams really do come true.”
After months of ugly rants and bombast in other theaters of endeavor, these words from an outstanding college football player offer some welcome clarity.
Thank you, Caleb Williams, for shining a light — not just on how to play football — but on how to live.
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2022-12-15T18:27:22+00:00
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record-eagle.com
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https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/editorial-some-words-are-wise-inspirational-even-but-are-we-listening/article_3fc9b0ca-7b61-11ed-9b66-6b98656d74bc.html
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Student workers across California State University campuses filed Monday with the state to form a union, saying it would help them advocate for better pay and working conditions.
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“With a union, we’ll be able to hold the university accountable for how it treats students,” said Grayce Honsa, a student and resident adviser at San Diego State University.
The students looking to unionize serve as residential advisers, run mentorship programs, manage student radio stations and perform other jobs across the system's 23 campuses. Many students are paid the minimum wage of $15.50 an hour, and in some cases, they are paid less depending on their level of experience, said Mike Roth, a spokesperson for the Service Employees International Union California.
The organizers say they are behind the largest student worker unionization effort in the country. A vote has not yet been scheduled. If it is successful, the union would need to be recognized by the California Public Employment Relations Board.
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It follows a successful effort by unionized graduate student workers to reach a deal with the University of California system.
In December, UC graduate students ended a 40-day strike after reaching a bargaining agreement with the university system to raise wages for workers who were paid as little as $24,000 a year.
Charles Toombs, president of the California Faculty Association, which is backing the California State University students' unionization efforts, said it is unacceptable that some student workers struggle to make ends meet.
“Their working conditions are impediments to their success,” he said.
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The university system serves more than 477,000 students across the state.
Amy Bentley-Smith, a spokesperson for the California State University chancellor's office, said in an email the system “is not involved” in the organizing effort but “acknowledges all workers’ rights to organize.”
“In the event student employees are formally recognized by the California Public Employment Relations Board, we look forward to engaging with them as we do with all of our other union partners,” she wrote.
Assemblymember Liz Ortega, a Democrat representing Alameda County, expressed her support for the students' efforts to unionize.
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“In a nation of vast wealth where too many workers are denied the respect and pay they deserve, there’s only one path to changing the balance of power," she said. "And that is uniting with your colleagues and joining a union.”
___ Sophie Austin is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Austin on Twitter: @sophieadanna
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2023-04-17T22:27:37+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/california-state-university-student-workers-file-17902634.php
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US beats Switzerland 5-1 in world junior hockey group play
MONCTON, New Brunswick (AP) — Minnesota freshman Jimmy Snuggerud scored twice and the United States rebounded from a loss to beat Switzerland 5-1 on Thursday in the world junior hockey championship. Logan Cooley had a goal and an assist, captain Luke Hughes and Tyler Boucher also scored and Trey Augustine made 18 saves. Coming off a 6-3 loss to Slovakia on Wednesday, the Americans improved to 2-1 in Group B. In the first game of the day at Avenir Centre, Finland beat Latvia 3-0 to keep the Group B lead with two victories and an overtime loss. In Group A in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sweden beat the Czech Republic 3-2 in overtime to remain first, and Canada faced Austria in the night game.
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2022-12-30T02:42:05+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/29/us-beats-switzerland-5-1-in-world-junior-hockey-group-play/
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Multiple agencies conducting rescue efforts at Palo Duro Canyon
ARMSTRONG COUNTY, Texas (KFDA) - First responders are conducting a rescue out at the Palo Duro Canyon this morning.
Crews with the Canyon Fire Department, Claude Fire and EMS, The Texas A&M Forest Service, the Randall County Fire Department and Game Wardens are on the scene.
The rescue operation is at the Lookout Point Picnic Site.
Armstrong County Sheriff Melissa Anderson said officials believe a car went off the edge of the cliff.
Sheriff Anderson said around 50 people are working to get to the car. At this time, officials do not know how many people are in the car or the extent of their injuries.
Sheriff Anderson said the cliff is about a 500-foot drop.
The rescue operation is expected to last several hours.
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2023-04-24T16:02:13+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/2023/04/24/multiple-agencies-conducting-rescue-efforts-palo-duro-canyon/
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OXFORD, England, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unipart Chief Finance Officer Darren Leigh has been appointed Unipart Group Chief Executive reporting to John M Neill who continues as full time Unipart Group Executive Chairman.
John Neill had formerly held the post of Unipart Chairman and Group Chief Executive. The appointment provides additional focus for the Group's plans for growth and its increased portfolio of diverse blue-chip customers.
Leigh has more than twenty years of financial leadership experience, partnering leadership teams to create value in sectors including manufacturing, logistics and supply chain and software and technology. He has a strong track record of leading change, including business reorganisations, restructuring and refinancing and Finance transformation programs.
Announcing the appointment, Unipart Chairman John Neill said: "During the past year, Unipart has continued to grow with new customers and in new geographies and market sectors. Most notable amongst recent announcements has been the achievement of three blue chip logistics contracts as well as new distribution centres in the UK and in the Gulf.
"As the business grows and diversifies, it makes sense to separate the role of Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive which I've held.
"As Chief Finance Officer, Darren has done an outstanding job of helping us to navigate through an intensely difficult period impacted not least of which by the global pandemic and massive volatility in the markets caused by the war in the Ukraine, the subsequent rise in inflation and the fallout from the Brexit decision.
"I'm confident that with Darren's continued commitment to The Unipart Way and his unwavering focus on delivering real value for our customers, he will be able to lead the business to continue to grow."
Darren Leigh said: "I'm deeply honoured by the opportunity to accept this role; we have a great company, great people and a great future ahead of us. The Unipart Way coupled with our commitment to becoming a digital leader in our sector is already delivering significant benefits to our existing customers and winning new opportunities and new customers for our Group.
"In particular, I'd like to thank our Chairman John Neill for his continued guidance, coaching and support to me personally, and for his unwavering leadership of our Group during one of the most difficult times that UK businesses have ever faced. He has been inspirational in his commitment and insight."
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2022-10-27T11:46:56+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/10/27/darren-leigh-appointed-unipart-group-chief-executive/
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States and assembled into a single skeleton sold Tuesday at an auction in Switzerland for 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million), below the expected price.
Crafted into an open-mouth pose, the T. rex skeleton measuring 11.6 meters long (38 feet long) and 3.9 meters high (12.8 feet) high came in under the anticipated range of 5 million to 8 million francs when it went under the hammer at the Koller auction house in Zurich.
Koller had said Tuesday’s sale would be the first time such a T. rex skeleton would go up for auction in Europe. The composite skeleton, featuring 293 bones, was a showpiece of an auction that featured some 70 lots, and the skull was set up next to the auctioneer’s podium throughout.
“It could be that it was a composite — that could be why the purists didn’t go for it,” Karl Green, the auction house’s marketing director, said by phone. “It’s a fair price for the dino. I hope it’s going to be shown somewhere in public.”
Green did not identify the buyer, but said it was a “European private collector.” Including the “buyer’s premium” and fees, the sale came to 5.5 million Swiss francs (about $6.1 million), Koller said.
Promoters said the composite T. rex, dubbed “Trinity,” was built from specimens retrieved from three sites in the Hell Creek and Lance Creek formations of Montana and Wyoming between 2008 and 2013.
Koller said “original bone material” comprised more than half of the restored skeleton. The auction house said the skull was particularly rare and also remarkably well-preserved.
“When dinosaurs died in the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods, they often lost their heads during deposition (of the remains into rocks). In fact, most dinosaurs are found without their skulls,” said Nils Knoetschke, a scientific adviser who was quoted in the auction catalog. “But here we have truly original Tyrannosaurus skull bones that all originate from the same specimen.”
T. rex roamed the Earth between 65 and 67 million years ago. A study published two years ago in the journal Science estimated that about 2.5 billion of the dinosaurs ever lived. Hollywood movies such as the blockbuster “Jurassic Park” franchise have added to the public fascination with the carnivorous creature.
The two areas the bones for Trinity came from were also the source of other T. rex skeletons that were auctioned off, according to Koller: Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History bought “Sue” for $8.4 million over a quarter-century ago, and “Stan” sold for nearly $32 million three years ago.
Two years ago, a triceratops skeleton that the Guinness World Records declared as the world’s biggest, known as “Big John,” was sold for 6.6 million euros ($7.2 million) to a private collector at a Paris auction.
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2023-04-18T20:49:24+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/t-rex-skeleton-expected-to-fetch-millions-at-zurich-auction/
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Trend Micro report shows how criminal organizations come to resemble legitimate businesses
DALLAS, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today published new research detailing how criminal groups start behaving like corporations as they grow bigger, but that this comes with its own attendant costs and challenges.
To read a full copy of the report, Inside the Halls of a Cybercrime Business, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/inside-the-halls-of-a-cybercrime-business
Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence at Trend Micro: "The criminal underground is rapidly professionalizing – with groups beginning to mimic legitimate businesses that grow in complexity as their membership and revenue increases. However, larger cybercrime organizations can be harder to manage and have more 'office politics,' poor performers, and trust issues. This report highlights to investigators the importance of understanding the size of the criminal entities they're dealing with."
A typical large organization allocates 80% of its operating expenses to wages, with the figure similarly high (78%) for small criminal organizations, according to the report. Other common expenses include infrastructure (servers/routers/VPNs), virtual machines, and software.
The study outlined three types of organizations based on size, using examples where Trend Micro collected the most data from law enforcement and insider information.
- Typically, one management layer, 1-5 staff members, and under $500K in annual turnover.
- Their members often handle multiple tasks within the group and also have a day job on top of this work.
- Comprise the majority of criminal businesses, often partnering with other criminal entities.
- Typically have two management layers, 6-49 employees, and up to $50m in annual turnover.
- They usually have a pyramid-style hierarchical structure with a single person in charge.
- Typically have three management layers, 50+ staff, and $50m+ in annual turnover.
- Feature relatively large numbers of lower management and supervisors.
- Implement effective OPSEC and partner with other criminal organizations.
- Those in charge are seasoned cyber-criminals and hire multiple developers, administrators, and penetration testers – including short-term contractors.
- They may have corporate-like departments (e.g., IT, HR) and even run employee programs, such as performance reviews.
According to the report, knowing the size and complexity of a criminal organization can provide critical clues to investigators, such as what types of data to hunt for.
For example, larger criminal entities may store employee lists, financial statements, company guides/tutorials, M&A documents, employee crypto wallet details, and even shared calendars to probe.
Understanding the size of targeted criminal organizations can also allow law enforcers to prioritize better which groups should be pursued for maximum impact.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com.
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2023-04-03T13:53:49+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/04/03/wages-dominate-cybercrime-groups-operating-expenses/
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MONTEREY, Calif. — The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
Paul Flores is “a cancer to society,” Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe said. Flores also must register as a sex offender.
Before sentencing, the judge rejected defense motions to toss out Flores’ conviction, acquit him and order a new trial.
Smart, 19, disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo on the state’s scenic central coast over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.
Her remains have never been found, but she was declared legally dead in 2002.
Prosecutors maintained that Flores, now 46, killed Smart during an attempted rape on May 25, 1996, in his dorm room at the university, where both were first-year students. He was the last person seen with Smart as he walked her home from an off-campus party.
Flores was arrested in 2021 along with his father, who was accused of helping to hide Smart’s body.
The trial was held in Salinas, in Monterey County, about 110 miles north of San Luis Obispo, after the defense argued that the case’s notoriety prevented Flores and his father from receiving a fair trial in their own county.
At the sentencing, prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle asked the judge for the maximum sentence, called Flores a “true psychopath” and said he should never be released from prison.
Smart’s father, siblings and other friends and relatives spoke at the hearing about the impact of her death on the family.
A jury found Flores guilty of first-degree murder in October. A separate jury acquitted Ruben Flores, 81, of being an accessory.
At Paul Flores’ trial, defense attorney Robert Sanger tried to pin the killing on someone else. Sanger noted that Scott Peterson, who was later convicted at a sensational trial of murdering his pregnant wife and the fetus she was carrying, was also a student at the campus about 200 miles up the coast from Los Angeles.
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Sanger filed motions on Feb. 24 in Monterey County Superior Court requesting that charges be dismissed and his client acquitted. One motion also seeks a new trial.
Sanger disputed forensic evidence offered by the prosecution. He contended that Flores’ right to a fair trial was violated because of prosecution errors and “the admission of junk science as evidence.”
“There is a reason that a case against Paul Flores was not brought for 25 years,” the motion said. “There was no evidence of a murder or that Paul Flores committed it.”
The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office asked the court to deny those requests, arguing “claims of misconduct are baseless and the claims of judicial error are incorrect.”
Flores had long been considered a suspect in the killing. He had a black eye when investigators interviewed him. He told them he got it playing basketball with friends, who denied his account. He later changed his story to say he bumped his head while working on his car, according to court records.
Investigators conducted dozens of fruitless searches for Smart’s body over two decades. In the past two years they turned their attention to Ruben Flores’ home in the community of Arroyo Grande, about 12 miles south of California Polytechnic State.
Behind latticework beneath the deck of his large house on a dead end street, archaeologists working for police in March 2021 found a soil disturbance about the size of a casket and the presence of human blood, prosecutors said. The blood was too degraded to extract a DNA sample.
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2023-03-11T00:34:26+00:00
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sun-sentinel.com
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-kristin-smart-murder-trial-20230311-pikxxo7je5fjzdo6h44xwhmufy-story.html
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This spring, Cold Stone Creamery is taking the chocolate and peanut butter combination to a new level with their REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, and to make things even s'more awesome, Marshmallow Ice Cream is making a comeback! These two flavors, along with their respective Creations™, will be available at Cold Stone Creamery, in-store and online (www.ColdStoneCreamery.com), beginning February 22.
Treat your taste buds with the No Limit to the REESE'S Creation™ featuring REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, Brownie, REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup and REESE'S Peanut Butter Sauce.
For those who like to indulge in something sweet and salty, the REESE'S Take 5 Peanut Butter Pretzel Blast is the perfect combination. Made with REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup, Pretzels, Peanuts and Caramel, it's a must-try! Additionally – and most delicious – we've turned our REESE'S Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cups into your wildest Take 5 dream! Our new REESE'S Take 5 Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cups are rich Chocolate Cups filled with layers of REESE'S Peanut Butter Sauce, Caramel, Pretzels & Chocolate Ice Cream topped with Pretzel, Peanuts & REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup. Pick up a 6-pack for your freezer today!
And finally, for our s'more's fanatics, Cold Stone Creamery is bringing back the Campfire Classic™ Creation, featuring Marshmallow Ice Cream, Graham Cracker Pie Crust, Chocolate Shavings and Fudge.
"REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups and marshmallows continue to be part of almost everyone's favorite childhood memories," said Sara Schmillen, vice president of marketing at Kahala Brands™, parent company of Cold Stone Creamery®. "With these nostalgic ice cream flavors and Creations, we hope our guests will relive some of their happiest memories while creating new, unforgettable experiences alongside their loved ones."
The REESE'S and Marshmallow Ice Cream flavors, Creations™, and novelty will be available in Cold Stone Creamery® stores nationwide until May 16.
With the spring season also comes all types of family celebrations: Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduation ceremonies and more. Celebrate your loved ones with one (or more) Cold Stone Creamery Signature Cakes. The Strawberry Passion™ Cake, for example, is the perfect cake to show mom some extra love on her special day. The Cookies and Creamery™ Cake is ideal for cool dads, and the Tall, Dark & Delicious™ Cake (with a chocolate graduation hat topper included) will give family and friends a lot to talk about during your favorite grad celebration gathering.
Promotional Flavors:
- REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
- Marshmallow Ice Cream
Promotional Creations™:
- No Limit to the REESE'S Creation™ – REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, Brownie, REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup & Reese's Peanut Butter Sauce
- REESE'S Take 5 Peanut Butter Pretzel Blast – REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup, Pretzels, Peanuts & Caramel
- Campfire Classic™ Creation – Marshmallow Ice Cream, Graham Cracker Pie Crust, Chocolate Shavings & Fudge
Novelty:
- REESE'S Take 5 Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cups – Chocolate Cups filled with layers of REESE'S Peanut Butter Sauce, Caramel, Pretzels & Chocolate Ice Cream topped with Pretzel, Peanuts & REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup
Featured Cakes:
- Strawberry Passion – Layers of moist Red Velvet Cake, Strawberry Puree and Strawberry Ice Cream with Graham Cracker Pie Crust wrapped in fluffy Strawberry Frosting
- Cookies & Creamery – Layers of moist Devil's Food Cake and Sweet Cream Ice Cream with OREO® Cookies wrapped in fluffy White Frosting
- Tall, Dark & Delicious – Layers of moist Devil's Food Cake, Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Brownies and Chocolate Ice Cream with OREO® Cookies wrapped in fluffy White Frosting and cascading Fudge Ganache
REESE'S and REESE'S Take5 trademark and trade dress are used under license.
Cold Stone Creamery® delivers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience® through a community of franchisees who are passionate about ice cream. The secret recipe for smooth and creamy ice cream is handcrafted fresh daily in each store, and then customized by combining a variety of mix-ins on a frozen granite stone. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Cold Stone Creamery is owned by parent company Kahala Brands™, one of the fastest growing franchising companies in the world with a portfolio of nearly 30 fast-casual and quick-service restaurant brands with approximately 3,000 locations in 35 countries. The Cold Stone Creamery brand operates nearly 1,500 locations globally in approximately 30 countries worldwide.
For more information about Cold Stone Creamery, visit www.ColdStoneCreamery.com.
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2023-02-22T22:32:50+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/02/22/cold-stone-creamery-announces-new-creations-made-with-reeses-peanut-butter-cup-ice-cream/
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Trust Lab enters strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trust Lab, the company dedicated to creating a safer internet using ML-powered Trust & Safety, today announced its strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel (IQT) for a long-term project that will help identify harmful content and actors in order to safeguard the internet.
Trust Lab's category-defining technology uses ML-based classifiers and rules engines to identify high-risk and harmful content, accounts, and transactions at scale. In addition to pinpointing many types of online harmful content, including toxicity and misinformation, Trust Lab's technology can be used to understand critical trends and narratives relevant to national security.
"Our technology platform will allow IQT's partners to see, on a single dashboard, malicious content that might go viral and gain prominence around the world," said Tom Siegel, Co-Founder and CEO of Trust Lab. "It's a positive step forward in helping safeguard the internet and prevent harmful misinformation from spreading that could influence elections or cause other negative outcomes."
Trust Lab, the company dedicated to creating a safer internet, uses ML-based classifiers and rules engines built by Trust & Safety experts from Google, YouTube, Reddit and TikTok to identify and measure high-risk and harmful content, accounts, and transactions at scale. The majority of the leading social media companies use Trust Lab's innovative tools and services, as do leading marketplaces, messaging companies, as well as content hosting services of different sites. Trust Lab also works with both the U.S. Government and the European Union to protect free speech online while identifying harmful content.
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2022-10-26T14:22:53+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/trust-lab-help-federal-market-safeguard-web-misinformation-harmful-actors/
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DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials have closed some oystering grounds in Mobile Bay, prompting complaints from harvesters.
The move by the Alabama Marine Resource Division is part of a continuing effort to keep wild oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico from being killed by overharvesting.
The state closed the western half of its oystering area in Mobile Bay on Nov. 23, WKRG-TV reports, and closed two small but productive areas in the eastern half of the bay on Tuesday.
Meeting with oyster harvesters on Dauphin Island, AMRD director Scott Bannon said the closure was part of an effort to rebuild the state’s population of the bivalve.
“Unfortunately, there’s just not enough oyster harvest available to do a longer season and to maintain that,” Bannon told the television station. “We would love to do that. We’d love to keep Alabama product in the market longer; we would love for them to be working longer and making good money.”
Some harvesters say the state is cutting off their main source of income during the peak winter season for Gulf oysters.
“They shut us down all the time and there’s oysters out there and they won’t let us work them,” said Harry Harris.
Much harvesting is done from small boats, and oyster catchers say the water is too choppy for those vessels in the parts of Mobile Bay that are still open.
“A lot of small vessels can’t get that limit; they can’t even get out there,” said Michael Williams. “It’s too rough.”
Bannon said a new grid system implemented by the state is meant to keep small areas like the ones closed from being overworked.
The department opened Alabama’s reefs Oct. 3. It reported late that month that the number of harvesters seeking oysters had risen from last year and that 1,200 sacks of oysters per day were being pulled out of Mobile Bay, up from 800 a day last year. Oyster harvesters are limited to six sacks per day, each holding 85 pounds (39 kilograms). Bannon said those catching the limit can make $500 a day.
Other Gulf states have also imposed restrictions.
Mississippi allowed no harvest at all in 2021-2022 and has not announced an opening date for this year. That state’s oyster stocks, already in sharp decline, collapsed after the Mississippi Sound was swamped by Mississippi River floodwaters released through the Bonnet Carre Spillway in 2019. Heavy rains also dumped large amounts of freshwater into the Mississippi Sound in 2021, again upsetting the salinity needed for oysters to thrive.
The spillway release also led Louisiana to close public oyster harvests east of the Mississippi River from 2019 through 2022. Louisiana reopened those areas in October.
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2022-12-18T20:52:28+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-alabama-closes-some-oystering-areas-sparking-protests/
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When Jacinda Ardern announced this week she was stepping down as New Zealand’s prime minister, speculation began almost immediately about what she might do for a second act.
When she leaves, she will have accumulated 15 years experience as a lawmaker and five-and-a-half years as leader. She will also be just 42 years old. Observers say she has all sorts of career possibilities open to her.
Ardern said she was leaving the job because she no longer has “enough in the tank to do it justice” and has no immediate plans for her own future other than to spend more time with her fiancé and 4-year-old daughter.
“I’ll have to admit I slept well for the first time in a long time last night,” Ardern told reporters Friday, adding that she felt both sadness and relief.
Stephen Hoadley, an assistant professor of politics and international relations at the University of Auckland, said he couldn’t imagine Ardern would remain at home over the long term, given her energy and skills.
“She has the potential, she has the ability, she has the profile, she has the acceptability to do a whole lot of things,” Hoadley said. “Give her a few weeks to rest up, and to refill the tank, to use her phrase. But I would imagine by the end of this year, she’ll be off and running on a whole new career line.”
Hoadley pointed to the career path of Helen Clark, another former New Zealand prime minister who went on to become a top administrator at the U.N., leading the development program.
“Jacinda could be tapped by any number of United Nations, or charitable, or philanthropical, or other kinds of organizations,” Hoadley said.
“There are many, many possibilities, and her profile is so high that I think she would have her pick.”
Climate Change Minister James Shaw, who first met Ardern in about 2007 and has remained friends, said he was in shock but also not wholly surprised when Ardern told him of her plans to resign.
“It’s been a really intense five years,” Shaw said.
On top of a busy legislative program, Shaw said, Ardern had needed to steer the country through a series of crises, including a mass-shooting at two Christchurch mosques that left 51 people dead, a volcanic eruption that killed 22, and the coronavirus pandemic.
On top of that, Ardern also bore the brunt of a growing number of threats, Shaw said, and a toxic, misogynistic online culture that had grown worse in recent years.
“What I hope is that she can get some time at the beach with her family, uninterrupted, for a while,” Shaw said.
He said he believes Ardern when she says she doesn’t yet have firm plans for the future.
“I think she could do pretty much whatever she wants from this point,” Shaw said.
“Jacinda is one of the most selfless, determined, publicly-minded people I have ever met,” Shaw added. “So I would imagine that whatever it is, it will be in the public interest.”
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2023-01-20T22:55:17+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-new-zealands-ardern-has-many-possibilities-for-a-second-act/
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What you need for PC gaming
PC gaming has been around for decades and has steadily gained followers. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, however, spurred a huge explosion in gaming popularity, as millions of Americans were forced to stay home.
To start playing, you can buy a prebuilt gaming PC, or you can dive into the world of computer building to make sure you get reliable and high-performance components.
While the computer itself is the most important piece of the puzzle, it’s far from the only one. Things like an ergonomic chair, a capable headset, and a low-latency mouse and keyboard can contribute massively to a fun gaming experience.
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How to choose the right gaming PC
There are two ways to get your hands on a quality gaming rig. You can buy one that’s already built, or you can build one yourself. There are pros and cons to each.
Pros and cons of buying a prebuilt gaming PC
Contrary to what some hard-core enthusiasts claim, there’s no shame in buying a prebuilt gaming computer. In some cases, you can buy a prebuilt PC for less than you could assemble a similar system. With that in mind, though, there are some specific drawbacks to this method.
Most importantly, prebuilt gaming PCs may boast impressive specs but often rely on generic components with subpar manufacturing and quality control standards. That doesn’t apply to every prebuilt PC, but it is something to be aware of.
Pros and cons of building your own gaming PC
There’s no need to feel intimidated by the idea of building a computer. In a lot of ways, PC assembly is practically like building a Lego set — the vast majority of components, plugs, and wires only really fit in one place. The hardest part is contorting your wrist the right way to accommodate hard-to-reach pieces. In reality, deciding on which components to put in your build is a much more exacting task that requires a decent amount of research. Buying individual components can be expensive, but picking them yourself can ensure you have all the specs you want in your computer. With prebuilt models, you might have to compromise on certain features since the parts all come together already made.
Best prebuilt gaming PC brands
Skytech Shiva Gaming PC Desktop
If you’re looking for a gaming PC that’s already assembled, well-known manufacturers like Dell and MSI are great places to start. While they might not use the absolute most premium components, such as RAM and solid-state drives, you can rest assured that what they do use is relatively reliable.
Alternatively, there are a few somewhat upstart brands that have developed good reputations for prebuilt gaming rigs. One such company is SkyTech, which also happens to compile powerful components into attractive cases. If you’re not as concerned with how the PC itself looks, CyberPowerPC is another affordable option.
What you need to build your own gaming PC
Gaming PC cases
Antec NX410 ATX Mid-Tower Case
First, you need a good computer case to put everything in. There are several formats to choose from, but tower cases are the most common for gaming PCs. While they come in various sizes, modern tower cases have plenty of room for large gaming hardware.
Note whether or not the case you choose comes with case fans. Consider picking up some extra fans to ensure sufficient ventilation. You might want to pick up an aftermarket central processing unit (CPU) cooler to ensure your temperatures stay in a safe range.
One extremely important part to research is the power supply. It’s responsible for converting AC electricity to DC and managing the current levels delivered to each component. Do not cheap out on your power supply and get something from a generic brand name. It’s important to research and purchase a dependable power supply unit. A poor-quality model can damage your expensive components and even light itself on fire. There are plenty of good PSU suppliers, but Seasonic and Corsair are two of the best.
Gaming motherboards
Next is the motherboard and CPU combination. The two competing CPU manufacturers, Intel and AMD, use entirely different CPU socket configurations and motherboard wiring designs. You’ll need to decide on both components together. Intel has historically offered the best gaming performance, but AMD has exceeded that with some recent models.
The jury remains out on which brand is ultimately better. It’s a massive point of contention among the most enthusiastic PC gamers. Do your homework and research motherboards thoroughly if you plan on installing a high-end CPU and overclocking it. Only premium motherboards offer the stability needed for significant overclocking.
Getting the right graphics card
There are currently two competitors in the graphics processing unit (GPU) scene: Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia produces more units than AMD, and they tend to be slightly faster. The graphics card release cycle is usually around 18 months. New GPU families typically offer significant performance gains over previous models.
As long as the RTX 3000 series remains the most advanced and most common, the 3080 and 3080 Ti will continue as the top high-end GPU choices for most users. However, these and the 3090 are expensive.
For those who don’t want to spend an arm and a leg, the RTX 3070 and 3070 Ti currently offer the best bang for the buck. They’re capable of maintaining anywhere from playable to great frame rates in modern titles — in some cases at resolutions up to 4K. For budget-friendly builds, the RTX 3050 is a reasonable choice and the most affordable, although the RTX 3060 is far more future-proof.
Of course, GPU recommendations will change significantly once any of the manufacturers release new lineups. Since 2021, the industry has also been waiting eagerly for Intel to enter the fray with its Arc GPUs, which are slated to compete with the RTX 3070 at the top end.
How to find the best gaming monitor
Once you’ve acquired the hardware, the next most important step is picking a monitor. It’s a critical step. It doesn’t matter how fast your PC is if your monitor doesn’t support high frame rates or resolutions.
Best frame rates for a gaming PC monitor
Samsung 34 Inch Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor
Monitors with 1080p are remarkably affordable, and most modern Full HD gaming monitors support frame rates of 120 hertz or more. It’s worth considering a 1440p display if you’re running an RTX 3060 GPU or faster. This is especially true if you want a monitor 27 inches or larger.
What size is good for a PC gaming monitor?
Dell 32 Inch Curved 4K UHD Monitor
Some gamers consider 32 inches the sweet spot for a gaming monitor due to the remarkably immersive experience such a large display provides. In that case, you’ll need at least a 1440p resolution for best results. However, at 32 inches, a 4K resolution does make a noticeable difference.
Best manufacturers of PC gaming monitors
LG UltraWide QHD 34-Inch Computer Monitor
You’ll find tons of monitor manufacturers to wade through while looking for the best. Some, such as Sceptre and Acer, usually focus on budget-friendly options (although Acer’s Predator line does have impressive specs). Others, including LG, Dell, and HP, make a variety of displays that are good for both work and play. Companies like BenQ and Samsung also offer several high-performance monitors.
Curved vs. flat monitors for gaming
Dell Curved Gaming, 34 Inch Curved Monitor
Additionally, take into account whether you want a curved or flat monitor. Once they get above 27 inches, flat LCD panels start to show distortion around the edges. Curved monitors are often engineered by premium manufacturers specifically for gaming. Some of the most notable curved monitors are those in the ultrawide class. These require significant hardware firepower to run smoothly but deliver the most immersive gaming possible outside of virtual reality.
The best PC gaming peripherals
Human inputs devices or HIDs
Logitech F310 Wired Gamepad Controller
Once you have your PC and monitor, you need devices to play. You need a mouse and keyboard just to use a PC, so you might as well get models that are made for gaming. Mechanical keyboards and gaming mice are engineered to withstand heavy use while transmitting your inputs with no noticeable lag. If you look carefully, you can also find plenty of wireless mice that have low enough latency for satisfying and effective gameplay. Also, consider a gaming-centric mouse pad to minimize friction and your reaction time in fast-paced titles.
With that said, don’t limit yourself to using the mouse and keyboard. For example, games played from the third-person perspective, such as the Assassin’s Creed series, are often significantly more fun to play with a gamepad. You’ll also need a quality joystick for some genres, particularly flight simulators.
Headsets and speakers
Corsair HS75 XB Wireless Gaming Headset
You have a few choices when it comes to audio. You can opt for a pair of computer speakers, many of which come with subwoofers if you like room-filling sound. However, you may experience more realistic gameplay when using a gaming headset.
Keep in mind that if you don’t play multiplayer games, then you don’t need the high-quality microphone that comes with many headsets. In that case, a pair of noise-canceling headphones can perform better for gaming than even some of the best dedicated headsets. If you do use your headset or headphones for gaming most of the time, you might also want to pick up a headset stand to keep them safe when not in use.
What kind of furniture you need for gaming
A desk
Gamers around the world have had plenty of fun playing on a simple kitchen table and folding chair, but those get uncomfortable quickly. A typical computer desk will do just fine in most cases, but dedicated players might want to spring for a specialized gaming desk. These tend to offer large amounts of real estate and handy features, such as enhanced cable management and cup holders.
A comfortable chair
Razer Iskur X Ergonomic Gaming Chair
Meanwhile, gaming chairs can be a source of controversy. There are countless options available from retailers everywhere. Most resemble flashy race car-style bucket seats. Many of these can be uncomfortable, poorly ventilated, or easily damaged. While some brands, such as Merax, do make decent-quality racing-style gaming chairs, a traditional ergonomic office chair will also work just fine. These are engineered to keep you comfortable.
PC gaming FAQ
Q. Are gaming laptops worth it?
A. If you want to game while traveling, a gaming laptop is the only easy way to do it. However, bear in mind that they’re very niche products. High-performance laptops are considerably more expensive than even remotely comparable desktop PCs. In some respects, they can’t touch desktop performance. But in case you travel a lot, there are plenty of worthwhile gaming laptops available.
Q. Do I need a gaming router?
A. If your current router supports the WiFi 5 standard or better, you’re probably set in terms of casual online multiplayer gaming. If you’re serious about it, though, some gaming routers prioritize connected PCs busy with online games. The drawbacks to premium gaming routers are that they’re quite expensive and big.
If you need to upgrade your connectivity without investing in a new router, run a physical Ethernet cable. This will eliminate the lag and network interference that cause most problems with multiplayer gaming.
Q. Why are graphics cards so expensive?
A. To put it simply, supply and demand are to blame. Some blame price hikes on cryptocurrency miners. While they do contribute, the reality is that more people want high-powered GPUs than ever before. The good news for consumers is that manufacturers recognize this and are doing everything in their power to increase production capacity in the coming years.
Q. Is PC gaming better than console gaming?
A. This frequently asked question is actually a trick question. Consoles are often preferred for their general accessibility. It’s much easier for a novice to turn on a single device and plug in a controller than it is to assemble an entire PC setup. Similarly, console gaming can now actually be cheaper than PC gaming, which wasn’t the case until recently.
Naturally, PCs are more versatile, but there’s no better or worse way to play video games. Just make sure to take breaks to avoid eye strain, get your work done before you play all night, and be polite and kind in multiplayer lobbies and game chats.
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2023-07-03T19:56:38+00:00
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kdvr.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book project is one she helped write. Winfrey has teamed with the author, educator and Atlantic columnist Arthur C. Brooks on “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier,” to be published Sept. 12 by Portfolio Books.
“I started reading Arthur Brooks’ column ‘How to Build a Life’ during the early days of the pandemic,” Winfrey said in a statement released Wednesday by Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. “I found myself happily anticipating each week’s lesson, which turned out to be a recipe for growing forward. When I discovered he taught happiness at Harvard, I wanted to extend that to the rest of us.”
Brooks, who teaches a “Leadership and Happiness” class at Harvard, said in a statement that he had long admired Winfrey, who last year praised his bestseller “From Strength to Strength” and interviewed him for her “Super Soul” podcast.
“As a social scientist, I look at the data and evidence on what leads to the greatest happiness, while Oprah knows how to reach people at the most important critical points in their lives,” he said. “This book will introduce readers to the incredible science of happiness, based on the best research available.”
Other books written or co-written by Winfrey include “What I Know for Sure,” “The Path Made Clear” and “Food, Health and Happiness.”
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2023-05-11T06:32:43+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/winfrey-teams-with-arthur-c-brooks-on-book-about-happiness/
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OCC® Achieves Year-over-Year Increases in Net Sales and Gross Profit in the Third Quarter and First Nine Months of Fiscal Year 2022
ROANOKE, Va. , Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Optical Cable Corporation (Nasdaq GM: OCC) ("OCC®" or the "Company") today announced financial results for its third quarter ended July 31, 2022.
Consolidated net sales for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 increased 11.2% to $17.4 million, compared to net sales of $15.6 million for the same period last year. The Company experienced an increase in net sales in its specialty markets, including the wireless carrier market, in the third quarter of fiscal 2022, compared to the same period last year. The increase was partially offset by a decrease in net sales in the enterprise market.
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, the Company continued to see product demand, sales and production volume increase compared to the same period last year. Its sales order backlog/forward load exceeded $15.0 million at the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2022—remaining approximately three-to-five times higher than typical levels—as product demand continues to be robust.
Production volumes continued to be tempered during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 by supply chain and labor constraints, hindering further net sales increases. The Company experienced improvement in production labor recruitment during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, from which the Company expects to benefit in the future. The training of new production employees impacts production volumes (and labor costs) until those employees are fully trained and operating at capacity.
Gross profit increased 17.6% to $4.8 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared to gross profit of $4.1 million for the same period last year.
Gross profit margin, or gross profit as a percentage of net sales, was 27.7% in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 compared to 26.2% in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021.
Gross profit margins during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 were impacted by increases in production labor and material costs, partially offset by necessary prospective price increases on new sales orders for many of the Company's products.
SG&A expenses increased to $5.0 million during the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, compared to $4.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021. The increase in SG&A expenses was primarily the result of net increases in employee and contracted sales personnel related costs.
For the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, OCC recorded a net loss of $372,000, or $0.05 per basic and diluted share, compared to net income of $5.4 million, or $0.71 per basic and diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, with gain on the extinguishment of the Company's paycheck protection program loan and employee retention tax credit positively impacting results in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021.
Consolidated net sales for the first nine months of fiscal year 2022 increased 13.3% to $49.0 million, compared to net sales of $43.3 million for the first nine months of fiscal year 2021. The Company achieved increases in net sales in both its enterprise and specialty markets, including the wireless carrier market, in the first nine months of fiscal year 2022, compared to the same period last year.
OCC reported gross profit of $13.9 million in the first nine months of fiscal year 2022, an increase of 23.8% compared to gross profit of $11.2 million in the first nine months of fiscal year 2021.
The Company's gross profit margins tend to be higher when it achieves higher net sales levels due to its operating leverage, as certain fixed manufacturing costs are spread over higher sales. This operating leverage positively impacted the gross profit margin during the first nine months of fiscal year 2022, particularly during the first quarter of fiscal year 2022. This positive impact during the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 was partially offset during the second and third quarters by the impact of increasing costs of raw materials, created by rapidly occurring inflation, for sales orders accepted prior to raw material cost increases.
SG&A expenses increased 10.0% to $14.8 million during the first nine months of fiscal year 2022 from $13.4 million for the first nine months of fiscal year 2021. The increase in SG&A expenses during the first nine months of fiscal year 2022 compared to the first nine months of fiscal year 2021 was primarily the result of increases in employee and contracted sales personnel related costs.
OCC recorded a net loss of $1.5 million, or $0.20 per basic and diluted share, for the first nine months of fiscal year 2022, compared to net income of $6.6 million, or $0.88 per basic and diluted share, for the first nine months of fiscal year 2021, with gain on the extinguishment of the Company's paycheck protection program loan and employee retention tax credits positively impacting results during the first nine months of fiscal year 2021.
Neil Wilkin, President and Chief Executive Officer of OCC, said, "Our third quarter results reflect the OCC team's success executing in a dynamic market that continues to demonstrate robust demand for our diversified product offering. During the quarter, we made progress in scaling up our production team to increase our production capacity, and these efforts will continue so we can meet expected strong product demand and capture additional growth opportunities. In addition, the OCC team continued to successfully execute strategies designed to mitigate the impact of supply chain constraints and inflationary pressures."
Mr. Wilkin added, "As a result of our growth strategies, demand for our suite of mission-critical cabling and connectivity products and solutions continues to be strong, and our large sales order backlog bodes well for the remainder of the fiscal year and into next year. We continue to focus on executing our growth strategies, increasing production capacity and operating efficiently as we serve our customers and end-users and drive enhanced value for shareholders."
As previously announced, OCC will host a conference call today, September 12, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Individuals wishing to participate in the conference call should call (800) 225-9448 in the U.S. or (203) 518-9856 internationally, Conference ID: OCCQ322. For interested individuals unable to join the call, a replay will be available through Monday, September 19, 2022 by dialing (800) 839-5637 or (402) 220-2562. The call will also be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed by visiting the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.occfiber.com.
Optical Cable Corporation ("OCC®") is a leading manufacturer of a broad range of fiber optic and copper data communication cabling and connectivity solutions primarily for the enterprise market and various harsh environment and specialty markets (collectively, the non-carrier markets) and also the wireless carrier market, offering integrated suites of high-quality products which operate as a system solution or seamlessly integrate with other providers' offerings.
OCC® is internationally recognized for pioneering innovative fiber optic and copper communications technologies, including fiber optic cable designs for the most demanding environments and applications, copper connectivity designs to meet the highest data communication industry standards, as well as a broad product offering built on the evolution of these fundamental technologies.
OCC uses its expertise to deliver cabling and connectivity products and integrated solutions that are best suited to the performance requirements of each end-user's application. And OCC's solutions offerings cover a broad range of applications—from commercial, enterprise network, datacenter, residential and campus installations to customized products for specialty applications and harsh environments, including military, industrial, mining, petrochemical and broadcast applications, as well as for the wireless carrier market.
Founded in 1983, OCC is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia with offices, manufacturing and warehouse facilities located in Roanoke, Virginia, near Asheville, North Carolina and near Dallas, Texas. OCC's facilities are ISO 9001:2015 registered and its Roanoke and Dallas facilities are MIL-STD-790G certified.
Optical Cable Corporation™, OCC®, Procyon®, Superior Modular Products™, SMP Data Communications™, Applied Optical Systems™, and associated logos are trademarks of Optical Cable Corporation.
Further information about OCC® is available at www.occfiber.com.
This news release by Optical Cable Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company" or "OCC") may contain certain forward-looking information within the meaning of the federal securities laws. The forward-looking information may include, among other information, (i) statements concerning our outlook for the future, (ii) statements of belief, anticipation or expectation, (iii) future plans, strategies or anticipated events, and (iv) similar information and statements concerning matters that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown variables, uncertainties, contingencies and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from our expectations, and such known and unknown variables, uncertainties, contingencies and risks may also adversely affect Optical Cable Corporation and its subsidiaries, the Company's future results of operations and future financial condition, and/or the future equity value of the Company. A partial list of such variables, uncertainties, contingencies and risks that could cause or contribute to such differences from our expectations or that could otherwise adversely affect Optical Cable Corporation and its subsidiaries is set forth in Optical Cable Corporation's quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") under the heading "Forward-Looking Information." OCC's quarterly and annual reports are available to the public on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. In providing forward-looking information, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update this information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by applicable laws and regulations.
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2022-09-12T13:15:27+00:00
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kmvt.com
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BROOKLYN (PIX11) — An armed Brooklyn man allegedly abducted and repeatedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Christopher Fiesco, 32, was arraigned on charges of predatory sexual assault, first-degree criminal sexual assault, second-degree kidnapping, luring a child and related offenses in connection with the May 2 incident, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.
“This was a chilling assault of an innocent child making his way home from school in broad daylight,” Gonzalez said. “Thankfully this brave young victim survived this horrific attack and was able to lead police to his alleged assailant, who we will now seek to bring to justice.”
Fiesco allegedly grabbed the teen’s arm near Winthrop Street and East 98th Street on May 2 and asked him for the time, officials said. The man allegedly threatened the teen with a knife when he tried to leave, then told the 13 year old not to scream. Fiesco allegedly took the teen to an East 53rd Street building, then forced him to climb a fire escape and go through a window into an apartment.
Once they were inside, the teen was told to shower. Fiesco allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted him before letting the teen leave.
Fiesco was ordered held without bail. He’s set to return to court on Aug. 10.
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2022-06-21T23:21:31+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/news/boy-13-was-on-his-way-home-from-school-when-he-was-abducted-sexually-assaulted-brooklyn-da/
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(NewsNation) — There has been a rise in crime across the country that is only expected to get worse in the hot summer months.
But right now, some police unions are sounding the alarm over a nationwide officer shortage.
In New York City alone, new data is revealing that 1,596 officers have either resigned or retired so far this year. That’s up nearly 40% from this time last year, the largest mass departure on New York Police Department record.
A 2021 survey from the Police Executive Research Forum showed a 45% increase in retirements and a nearly 20% spike in resignations over the previous year.
The NYPD is pushing back on those numbers from the police union, saying that departures are only slightly higher than the previous year.
To help discuss why this wave of resignations is happening, retired NYPD detective Michael Alcazar joined “Morning in America” on Monday.
“This is not the time to lose police officers. Historically, summer months are always the highest in crime, highs in shootings and highs in homicides. We’re on track to hit that also, and we have been losing a lot of police officers,” Alcazar said.
He described having trouble with recruitment, saying he has students he teaches who are normally excited to get on the police department. But this past April, Alcazar only had three students who were supposed to go into the police academy, and they actually turned the offer down.
“They’re apprehensive,” Alcazar said, “They’re not sure if it’s something they want to do anymore.”
Alcazar said the students are scared and ask him for advice, but he won’t give them advice because it’s a life decision they have to make for themselves. He said he doesn’t recommend they get into policing if they aren’t ready for it.
Historically, police officers stay in the job for decades until they can retire, but recent data shows more members of law enforcement retiring earlier.
“It’s something I’ve actually never experienced, or have heard of where police officers are actually quitting in the police academy, quitting before they hit their 20 years,” Alcazar said. “And then when you have the senior people that are eligible for retirement, meaning they’ve done their 20 years … when they’re eligible to retire, they retire.”
Alcazar explained that he stayed on the force for 30 years because he enjoyed the job. But these days, he said, senior officers don’t want to play pension roulette: They’re not sure if they’re going to get the backing from the department.
“The city council pretty much makes everything for the criminal. They don’t support the police officers. Police officers don’t know if qualified immunity is on the table,” Alcazar said, “Do they have the protections? If they do their work properly, legally? Are they going to be indemnified by the police department? And that’s something they’re asking themselves. So, if they’re not sure, they’re leaving. They’re retiring, and we’re losing a lot of senior police officers that are valuable in training new young police officers.”
The same thing is happening across the nation in cities like Chicago and Oakland, California. Police recruitment is at an all-time low. The departments don’t feel supported by the council members in the local community.
“In Philadelphia, they’re going through the same thing,” Alcazar said. “And I heard that they’re thinking about bringing back retired police officers, meaning the retired police officers can collect their pension and go back to work to earn a salary. That sounds like desperation to me.”
Alcazar suggested that the NYPD could look at doing something like that if it is looking for solutions to their police officer shortage. However, he doesn’t know of any police officers who would be willing to come back from retirement.
“Police officers in New York are underpaid. They’re underpaid and they’re overworked because of this shortage of police officers, meaning now they have to answer more radio runs, more 911 calls. For the average police officer in NYPD used to handling maybe eight to 10 jobs during their to work, I heard they’re having like 30 to 40 jobs, and it’s a very stressful job to begin with. And it’s daunting. It’s bad on their mental and physical welfare.”
Alcazar believes that it’s become “just a job” to a lot of officers, and it isn’t worth it to them or their families.
There were seven NYPD officers shot in the first weeks of 2022, including the two officers — Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora — who died from their injuries after being shot while responding to a domestic incident in Harlem.
It’s not safe for police to do their jobs, and Alcazar said officers don’t want to do it anymore.
There’s been a 40% increase in robberies in the city of New York and a nearly 15% increase in rapes. According to the NYPD crime statistics, police are busier than ever, and they need more officers on the force to keep up with the demand.
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2022-06-13T18:21:14+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/police-exodus-causes-nationwide-officer-shortage/
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on the street in Philadelphia on Monday night, killing four men and wounding two boys in the latest outbreak of gun violence in the United States, police said. The victims were apparently random, with no connection immediately known between them and the shooter.
The shootings took place over several city blocks in the southwestern neighborhood of Kingsessing. Responding officers chased the suspect as he continued to fire, and he was arrested in an alley after surrendering, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference.
“At this point all we know is that this person decided to leave their home and target individuals,” Outlaw said.
He had a bulletproof vest, multiple magazines, an “AR-type rifle,” a handgun and a police scanner, she said.
Officers were flagged down at about 8:30 p.m., and multiple calls of shots fired came in from the Kingsessing. Police found some gunshot victims, and as they were attending to them, they heard more gunfire, Outlaw said.
The suspected shooter was identified as a 40-year-old man. One other person was in custody, but no other details were immediately available.
Outlaw described the scene as covering an area of two by four blocks and said dozens of shell casings were found.
“At this point you can see there are several scenes out here,” Outlaw said. “We’re canvassing the area to get as much as we can, to identify witnesses, to identify where cameras are located and to do everything to figure out the why,” Outlaw said.
The dead men ranged in age from 20 to 59. The two hospitalized victims are boys, ages 2 and 13. They are in stable condition, Outlaw said. There didn’t appear to be a connection between the shooter and the victims.
The shooting occurred a day after gunfire erupted at a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the southwest, killing two people and wounding 28 others. The wounded in that shooting ranged in age from 13 to 32, with more than half of them minors, according to officials.
The Philadelphia violence marks the country’s 29th mass killing in 2023, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
So far this year, the nation has witnessed the highest number on record of mass killings and deaths to this point in a single year.
There have been more than 550 mass killings since 2006, according to the database, in which at least 2,900 people have died and at least 2,000 people have been injured.
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2023-07-04T03:56:05+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-multiple-people-shot-in-philadelphia-suspect-in-custody/
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Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.
Terms of the settlement reached by Meta Platforms, the holding company for Facebook and Instagram, were disclosed in court documents filed late Thursday. It will still need to be approved by a judge in a San Francisco federal court hearing set for March.
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
Uproar over the revelations led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by U.S. lawmakers during a high-profile congressional hearing and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Even though Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, the social network still boasts about 2 billion users worldwide, including nearly 200 million in the U.S. and Canada.
The lawsuit, which had been seeking to be certified as a class action representing Facebook users, had asserted the privacy breach proved Facebook is a “data broker and surveillance firm,” as well as a social network.
The two sides reached a temporary settlement agreement in August, just a few weeks before a Sept. 20 deadline for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his long-time chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to submit to depositions.
The company based in Menlo Park, California, said in statement Friday it pursued a settlement because it was in the best interest of its community and shareholders.
“Over the last three years we revamped our approach to privacy and implemented a comprehensive privacy program,” said spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce. “We look forward to continuing to build services people love and trust with privacy at the forefront.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-23T23:39:30+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/2022/12/23/facebook-parent-meta-will-pay-725m-settle-user-data-case/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which Powell appeared to discuss the economic impact of interest rate hikes.
Videos of the phone call have been posted on social media. In one clip, Powell says a “recession is almost as likely as very slow growth” this year. Powell has said before that the Fed’s rapid series of rate hikes in the past year would slow the economy and even potentially cause a recession.
A spokesperson for the Federal Reserve said “the video appears to have been edited, and I cannot confirm it is accurate.”
“Chair Powell participated in a conversation in January with someone who misrepresented himself as the Ukrainian president,” the spokesperson said. “It was a friendly conversation and took place in a context of our standing in support of the Ukrainian people in this challenging time. No sensitive or confidential information was discussed.”
The spokesperson would not say whether the call demonstrated that the Fed faces security lapses or what steps would be taken to try to prevent it from occurring again.
“The matter has been referred to appropriate law enforcement, and out of respect for their efforts we won’t be commenting further,” the spokesperson said.
The phone call was reportedly carried out by a duo of longtime Russian pranksters, Vladimir Kutznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, according to Bloomberg News. The pair have previously tricked other world leaders into conversations under false pretenses, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde earlier this year and then-UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in 2018.
The Powell incident has come to light at a time when the Fed is under intense scrutiny over its interest rate hikes, which are intended to cool the economy and slow inflation. Yet if the Fed keeps rates too high for too long, a recession could result.
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2023-04-27T21:37:48+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/feds-powell-was-tricked-by-fake-call-from-russia-pranksters/
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HOUSTON, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four astronauts, who recently returned from six months in space, will make their first public appearance in Houston since splashing down in October. The crew will be available for interviews at 5 p.m. CST Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Space Center Houston.
NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will be at Johnson's official visitor center to share highlights from their mission with the public at 6 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. the crew will help recognize key contributors to its mission success in an award ceremony immediately following the free, public event.
Reporters must request an in-person interview no later than noon Wednesday, Nov. 30, by emailing Dana Davis at dana.l.davis@nasa.gov.
The international crew launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 flight, the fourth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. Lindgren and Cristoforetti made their second spaceflights, now with 311 and 369 days in space respectively. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut, she is second on the all-time list for most days in space by a woman. This was the first spaceflight for Watkins and Hines. Watkins made history by becoming the first black woman to serve on a long-duration space station mission.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission launched in April 2022 to the space station, where the crew joined Expedition 67. Splashing down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Hines, Lindgren, Watkins, and Cristoforetti spent 170 days aboard the space station, traveled 72,168,935 miles, and completed 2,720 Earth orbits.
The crew continued the important scientific investigations and helped maintain the orbiting laboratory while onboard. Among the variety of research performed during the mission, the astronauts also investigated microgravity-induced changes in the human immune system similar to aging, tested a novel water-reclamation membrane, and examined a concrete alternative made with a material found in lunar and Martian dust.
Stay current on space station activities by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter, as well as the station Facebook and Instagram accounts and the space station blog.
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2022-11-28T23:45:51+00:00
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Clovis teens face charges for alleged retaliatory shooting, mistaken ID
CLOVIS, N.M. — Two teenagers were arrested by police and now face charges for an alleged retaliatory shooting that became a near-tragic case of mistaken identity.
14-year-old Cesar Tapia and 16-year-old Andrew Chavez were each arrested by police for driving by in a 2000-2005 Chevrolet Impala and allegedly shooting at a car with two people inside of it.
The teens reportedly told police the shooting was revenge for a shooting in October 2022. However, police say the man and the woman, whose car was shot at by the teens, had no involvement in the October shooting.
The man and the woman were uninjured in the shooting, which happened around 1:46 p.m. Tuesday.
A nearby doorbell camera captured the shooting and the suspect vehicle, which police found Wednesday in front of a home on the 500 block of West 17th Street. Police say Tapia and Chavez were in the home and were detained after a search of the home turned up two firearms.
The two teens were arrested and charged after talking to officers. They now face charges of:
- Shooting at or from a motor vehicle
- Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
- Conspiracy
- Tampering with evidence.
The third teen hasn’t been located. Police say he was in the backseat of the Chevrolet when the shooting happened.
If you have any information regarding this incident or where the third teen may be, you’re asked to call the Clovis Police Department at 575-769-1921.
Anonymous tips can also be submitted to the CPD website or by calling Curry County Crime Stoppers at 575-763-7000.
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2022-12-15T20:40:11+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/clovis-teens-face-charges-for-alleged-retaliatory-shooting-mistaken-id/
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman fatally shot her terminally ill husband at a Daytona Beach hospital on Saturday and then barricaded herself in his room for hours before surrendering, police said.
According to Daytona Beach police, the 76-year-old woman shot her 77-year-old husband in the head. He had been ill for some time, police explained, and the couple had planned the shooting together.
“Apparently because he was terminally ill, they had a conversation about it and they actually planned this approximately three weeks ago, that if he continued to take a turn for the worst, he wanted her to end this,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young told reporters during a press conference. “Apparently the goal was for him to do it, but he didn’t have the strength, so she had to carry it out for him.”
He said officers deployed a flash-bang device as a distraction in order for them to use “less-lethal” measures to subdue her. The woman did not harm herself and no others were wounded.
“She could be facing a first-degree murder charge,” Young said. “They’re working on the paperwork, but she will be charged.”
As the incident unfolded, Dr. Joshua Horenstein, listed as a cardiologist for AdventHealth, responded to a police department tweet, saying he was locked in a closet during the incident. Police later said the staff and patients were removed from the area, but their efforts were complicated by the fact that most patients on the floor were on ventilators.
No staff or patients were threatened during the incident. The Daytona Beach Police Department is investigating how the woman was able to bring the gun into the hospital.
AdventHealth officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
If you are in crisis, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline anytime at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2023-01-22T15:29:44+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/woman-fatally-shot-dying-husband-at-florida-hospital-police/
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GUANGZHOU, China, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG), a leading Chinese beauty company, today announced that it has published its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report. The report underscores the Company's strategic ESG initiatives for its development as a long-term, sustainable and environmentally-friendly business, as well as reviews its ESG achievements for the 2021 fiscal year.
To view the report in full, please visit the ESG section on the Yatsen Investor Relations website. Alternatively, please click here for the English version and here for the Chinese version of the 2021 report.
About Yatsen Holding Limited
Yatsen Holding Limited (NYSE: YSG) is a leading player in China's beauty market with a mission to create an exciting new journey of beauty discovery for consumers in China and around the world. Founded in 2016, the Company has launched and acquired multiple color cosmetics and skincare brands including Perfect Diary, Little Ondine, Abby's Choice, Galénic, DR.WU (its mainland China business), Eve Lom and Pink Bear. The Company's flagship brand, Perfect Diary, is one of the top color cosmetics brands in China in terms of online retail sales value. Leveraging its digitally native direct-to-customer business model, the Company has built core capabilities which enable it to launch and scale multiple brands quickly while offering a wide selection of products to a growing variety of customers. The Company reaches and engages with customers directly both online and offline, with expansive presence across all major e-commerce, social and content platforms in China.
For more information, please visit http://ir.yatsenglobal.com/.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Yatsen Holding Limited
Investor Relations
E-mail: ir@yatsenglobal.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Emilie Wu
Tel: +86-21-6039-8363
E-mail: yatsen@thepiacentegroup.com
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: yatsen@thepiacentegroup.com
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2022-06-02T11:33:12+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/06/02/yatsen-issues-inaugural-esg-report/
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CHICAGO (AP)The sputtering Chicago White Sox got Tim Anderson back on Monday night, returning the dynamic shortstop to the top of their lineup.
Anderson was activated from the 10-day injured list after being sidelined by a strained right groin. Anderson, who turns 29 on Thursday, got hurt while making a play in the field during a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on May 29.
The reigning AL Central champions went 8-10 while Anderson was sidelined.
”I want to be careful of putting too much pressure on him, but he thrives on it,” manager Tony La Russa said. ”So I think it’s important that he knows how important he is. That’s what he’s earned. We’re better because he’s here.”
Anderson hit .356 with five homers, 19 RBIs and eight steals in his first 40 games this year. The 2019 AL batting champion prepared for his return with four rehab appearances with Triple-A Charlotte, going 5 for 15.
”It’s been good. I’ve been feeling healthy,” Anderson said. ”I’ve been moving. I’ve been playing defense. Pretty much doing everything.”
To make room for Anderson on the active roster, third baseman Yoan Moncada was placed on the 10-day IL with a strained right hamstring. Moncada left Friday night’s 13-3 loss at Houston in the third inning.
The White Sox have been hit hard by injuries this year. Moncada joins an IL list that also includes outfielder Eloy Jimenez, closer Liam Hendriks, catcher Yasmani Grandal and key reliever Aaron Bummer.
”There’s many possible explanations ranging from the most insular, to something perhaps we’re doing in our training methods, to the most broad in terms of the unique offseason that we all had and the shortened spring training,” general manager Rick Hahn said before Chicago’s series opener against Toronto.
”This is something that’s going on throughout the game. It doesn’t mean we aren’t each day trying to answer that question in terms of what perhaps are we doing, if not appropriate, what can we do to help stem this tide on the fly.”
Moncada also has been sidelined by oblique and quad injuries this year. He appeared to be finding his form when he got hurt, going 7 for 17 with a homer and six RBIs in his last four games.
”It is a very mild strain, not to by any means minimize what he’s feeling because it’s there and certainly a mild strain has the risk of turning into something more serious if we aren’t careful,” Hahn said.
Jimenez is slated to restart his rehab with Charlotte on Tuesday. The slugger had surgery April 26 to repair a torn hamstring tendon behind his right knee. His first rehab period in the minors was shut down because of leg soreness.
Hendriks and Grandal also are doing well, according to Hahn, while Bummer is going to be more of a slower process with his left lat strain. Hendriks is coming back from a right forearm strain, and Grandal has experienced lower back spasms.
Grandal’s 10-day IL stint was made retroactive to June 12, and Hahn said he isn’t sure the veteran catcher is going to need a rehab assignment in the minors.
”Let’s see how long this goes,” Hahn said. ”Again, he’s had a really good last three days so if he has another really good three, let’s see where we are at.”
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2022-06-21T03:56:51+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/sports/baseball-championship/anderson-returns-for-white-sox-moncada-sidelined-by-injury/
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The forecast is showing a hot day in Bloomington. It looks like it will be a warm 82 degrees. Today's forecasted low temperature is 66 degrees. Most likely, the area will see rainfall today. Currently, there is 60% chance of precipitation in today's forecast. High UV indexes are expected. Be careful outside, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon. If your shadow is shorter than you, seek shade and wear protective clothing and generously apply sunscreen on exposed skin. The Bloomington area should see a light breeze, with forecast models showing only 6 mph wind conditions coming up from the West. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Stay in the know. Visit pantagraph.com for local news and weather.
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TORONTO and OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cordelio Power and Tenaska are pleased to announce a joint development agreement to originate new wind projects in select power markets in the United States.
Under the five-year agreement, Tenaska will originate and develop new wind energy projects exclusively for Cordelio, with a focus on power markets in MISO, PJM and the Western Interconnection. As part of the arrangements, Cordelio has acquired a 1,000 MW portfolio of renewable projects currently under development by Tenaska.
Nick Karambelas, Cordelio's Chief Commercial Officer, said: "We look forward to working with Tenaska, a proven developer, to build out a large-scale portfolio of wind projects over the next several years, as we expand our efforts to provide clean power to North American markets."
"Tenaska's business is relationship-driven, and our team looks forward to continued collaboration with Cordelio as we advance wind development across the U.S.," said Joel Link, senior vice president in Tenaska's Strategic Development and Acquisitions Group.
Cordelio previously acquired two other wind development projects from Tenaska, including the Firebrick project in Missouri, and Tenaska will continue to support the development of each of those projects.
Cordelio is a renewable power producer that manages an operating portfolio of over 1,200 MW of renewable power assets in Canada and the USA. We also oversee a growth pipeline of over 14,000 MW of wind, solar and storage projects spread across the USA. We strive to work with all of our stakeholders in an efficient, safe and environmentally responsible manner. Cordelio is wholly owned by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
For Further Information:
Ajay Sharma – Vice President, Cordelio Power
647-201-2546
Email: asharma@cordeliopower.com
www.cordeliopower.com
Tenaska is proud to be one of the leading independent energy companies in the United States, with a reputation for high standards and expertise in natural gas and electric power marketing, energy management, development and acquisition of energy assets, and operation of generating facilities. Forbes magazine consistently ranks Tenaska among the largest private U.S. companies. Gross operating revenues were $18.4 billion in 2021. Tenaska has developed, managed and/or operated approximately 22 gigawatts (GW) of natural gas-fueled and renewables generation. Its development portfolios include more than 23 GW of solar, wind and energy storage projects.
For Further Information:
Tenaska: Timberly Ross
Office: 402-691-9517
Mobile: 402-669-4073
Email: tross@tenaska.com
www.tenaska.com
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2022-08-30T13:58:13+00:00
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IRVINE, Calif., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modulim, a health technology company that delivers point-of-care microvascular and data insights to save limbs and improve lives, announced today that it has launched its Limb Assessment, Management, & Preservation (LAMP) solution to enable accountable care organizations to achieve better outcomes for high-risk Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients.
With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) 2022 launch of the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model, participating nephrology practices are implementing new processess to provide more holistic and cost-effective care for their patients. The new KCC value-based care program incentivizes proactive care coordination to reduce preventable hospitalizations, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the total cost of care.
"Renal patients with diabetes are at increased risk for amputations due to their underlying microvascular and peripheral arterial disease. We have published findings discussing circulatory signatures that are specific to the 'renal foot'. As stated by the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF), these patients can benefit from a programmatic and multidisciplinary approach to reduce these complications and improve patient outcomes" said David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at Keck School of Medicine.
Modulim has developed the LAMP solution that integrates Clarifi® Imaging System and Modulim Cloud to deliver actionable clinical insights for the management of high-risk patients. Studies have shown that the prevalence rate of ulcers (25.7%), hospitalizations related to limb complications (15.5%), amputations (8.8%), and death (1.3%) for dialysis patients with diabetes is extremely high and represents a large burden on healthcare systems worldwide.1 LAMP provides value-based care groups an easy-to-implement programmatic solution that integrates limb microvascular assessment to facilitate population health management and multidisciplinary care coordination for these high-need patients.
"The new KCC value-based care programs incentivize proactive care coordination to reduce preventable hospitalizations and improve outcomes. Our high-risk renal patients are at elevated risk for amputations due to their underlying diabetes and peripheral arterial disease and there is a need to manage and reduce these complications and improve patient outcomes with coordinated care" said Terry Ketchersid, Chief Medical Officer for the Integrated Care Group at Fresenius Medical Care North America.
The announcement to enter this market comes after Modulim conducted a successful multi-site pilot at several dialysis clinics in Southern California. "When we look at the statistics, every 7 seconds someone dies from diabetes, every 20 seconds a diabetic patient is amputated, and the cost of diabetic foot ulcers is greater than the 5 most deadly forms of cancer. It is clear that we have an unmet epidemic in our healthcare system," said Charlie Huiner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Modulim. "We are 100% focused on improving outcomes by changing healthcare from reactive to proactive for these patients. We are excited to work with leading dialysis providers, nephrology groups, and specialists to improve the lives of the estimated 600,000 kidney disease patients on dialysis in the U.S. who commonly suffer from lower limb circulatory complications."
Modulim delivers transformative imaging and data solutions that empower clinicians to better diagnose, treat, and manage lower limb complications. Clarifi®, powered by Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) technology, quantifies and maps tissue health at the point-of-care through non-contact rapid microvascular assessment. Modulim Cloud™ promotes timely, proactive data-driven decisions to better manage patient care by digitally connecting clinicians and healthcare systems. Modulim is based in Irvine, CA, with a team dedicated to delivering powerful healthcare solutions that revolutionize the standard of care for patients with diabetes, kidney disease, and peripheral vascular disease.
Clarifi is a registered trademark of Modulated Imaging (dba Modulim).
References:
- Kaminski, M.R., Lambert, K.A., Raspovic, A. et al. Risk factors for foot ulceration in adults with end-stage renal disease on dialysis: a prospective observational cohort study. BMC Nephrol 20, 423 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-019-1594-5
Contacts
Blake Byrne
Director of Marketing
(949) 825-5095
bbyrne@modulim.com
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2022-07-06T19:51:13+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/modulim-announces-intent-drive-value-based-care-nephrology-market-with-custom-limb-preservation-solution/
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