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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of CareDx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNA).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased CareDx common stock between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 22, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, CareDx, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the Company's RemoTraC service for remote, home-based, blood-drawing; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the class period artificially inflated; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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SOURCE Jakubowitz Law | 2022-06-10T11:00:38+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/06/10/cdna-shareholder-alert-jakubowitz-law-reminds-caredx-shareholders-lead-plaintiff-deadline-july-22-2022/ |
No. 7 Minnechaug boys lacrosse’s season came to a close after it fell to No. 2 Duxbury, 10-5, in the Elite Eight round of the Division II state tournament Tuesday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Next on deck For Explora’s Teen Science Cafe series features a helpful look at mental health. Teens get free admission and snacks during the talk which features Dr. Z, a forensic psychologist from Albuquerque. Attendees will learn about simple coping strategies to assist in times of stress.
Rene Palomares oversees X Studio, Explora’s teen center where the science cafes take place. The former high school teacher has seen firsthand that mental health is something teens struggle with.
He said he recently lost a former student to suicide, which made mental health a priority for him. “We never know what someone is going through. On paper, this former student was amazing. He played basketball, he was in college. You never know their struggle. So if we can get these coping mechanisms and provide that community,” Palomares said. “They need to know it’s okay to not feel okay but know they have a support system.”
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Palomares said they often facilitate listening sessions to hear directly from teens on what they would like to see as a featured topic of discussion for the science cafes. He said an intern he works with initiated the idea of exploring the topic of mental health, simply because he had his own questions about the topic.
He said everyone has been affected by mental health, especially during the pandemic. Palomares hopes to provide resources and healthy coping mechanisms to the attendees will help give them the tools to cope as they go into the new school year.
The event takes place Friday, July 29 at 5:30 p.m. at Explora. For more information, visit the event page on Explora’s website. | 2022-07-29T03:59:45+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/community/explora-hosts-free-teen-mental-health-event/ |
(The Hill) – The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago has answered one lingering question about Attorney General Merrick Garland: Yes, he’s willing to directly investigate Donald Trump.
But the unprecedented search of the former president’s home raises a number of questions about the breadth of the probe, the timing of the search, what investigators were seeking and what it means for Trump.
What Trump referred to as a “raid” of his home was the FBI execution of a search warrant approved by a federal judge after prosecutors were able to provide probable cause that a crime had been committed and that evidence would likely be found during the search.
But aside from a reported focus on White House documents in Trump’s possession, little is known about the investigation that prompted the extraordinary step or where it might lead.
It’s unclear what was seized in the search or whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) has found evidence to support charging Trump himself. Still, the execution of a search warrant on Trump’s property is the first public confirmation that the former president is linked to an active criminal investigation by federal law enforcement, a development that Garland had been unwilling to reveal.
“This was not a search conducted in the pro shop. It’s a search conducted in the former president’s residence and office…The former president is a target of this investigation,” said Jeff Robbins, a former federal prosecutor and congressional investigative counsel.
“This is something which no doubt has been worked on for weeks, if not months, has been drafted and reviewed by a squadron of FBI agents and personnel reaching up to the top levels of the FBI, reviewed by a squadron of Department of Justice prosecutors reaching up to the very highest level of the Department of Justice. And it’s fair to assume that it is an uncommonly specific showing of probable cause.”
In January, Trump handed over 15 boxes of materials to government records keepers amid concern he may have violated the Presidential Records Act.
Then, in June, Justice Department investigators, including a senior counterintelligence official, returned to him and were shown a basement room that contained government records, including some that had classified markings, according to multiple reports.
Trump and his allies in Congress have dismissed the FBI search as politically motivated.
In an interview with a conservative media outlet on Tuesday, Christina Bobb, an attorney representing Trump who was present at Mar-a-Lago during the search, said the former president’s legal team had been cooperating with DOJ in its inquiry and insisted that Trump had done nothing wrong.
“They’re going to have a hard time proving that he actually even knew anything was in the boxes or anywhere else,” Bobb said in an appearance on the Right Side Broadcasting Network.
“I don’t think there was anything of substance that was removed as far as the documents go. I think this is a case where DOJ and the FBI under the Biden administration is just trying to criminalize and really prosecute their predecessor which is something we see in dictatorships and third-world countries.”
What the search warrant was targeting and what materials were seized by the FBI are questions that could be answered by reviewing the warrant that authorized the agency to search Trump’s property, but attorneys representing the former president did not respond to requests for a copy of the document or details about its contents.
Trump’s attorneys could seek to challenge the basis for the warrant, but any court proceedings could reveal additional information about what DOJ was seeking.
Trump himself compared the search to Watergate, writing in a statement that “here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.”
But former prosecutors pushed back against that narrative.
“Is it unprecedented that a president or former president is the target of a criminal investigation that results in a search warrant being executed at his residence? Yes, that is absolutely unprecedented. But, on the other hand, the evidence of criminality is also unprecedented,” Robbins said.
Robbins pointed to other determinations that Trump was likely involved in criminal activity: a Georgia investigation into Trump’s efforts to pressure the secretary of state there to “find” more votes, as well as a ruling from a California-based federal judge who in March found it was more likely than not that Trump committed crimes in his effort to stay in power.
“Now you have a totally separate federal judge — separate from the first one — who has found that there is probable cause to believe that the former president has committed a very specific federal crime or number of crimes,” he added. “That does not have any indicia of a witch hunt.”
It remains to be seen whether the search will lead to criminal charges against the former president or anyone in his immediate orbit, but former prosecutors noted there are serious penalties for violating public records laws.
“Highly classified information is treated that way because of its extreme sensitivity. There is a whole range of material that is really a crown jewel, national security, high-consequence sequence. And if that’s what a person carried away rather than leaving it in the hands of the government and complying with the Presidential Records Act, that’s a gravely serious matter,” said John Barrett, a former federal prosecutor who worked for the independent counsel investigating the Iran-Contra scandal and also served in the DOJ inspector general’s office.
The Justice Department has been facing public scrutiny for months over whether it is actively investigating Trump as a House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol has presented a wide-ranging case that the former president engaged in criminal conduct in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
It’s unclear whether there is any overlap between the DOJ’s investigation into White House records that may have been stored at Mar-a-Lago and the separate investigations into the Jan. 6 riot and a scheme to present a fake slate of Electoral College electors who sought to swing the election to Trump.
Even if the warrant had nothing to do with DOJ’s Jan. 6 probe, the search could provide fodder for additional search warrants.
“If agents are authorized by a warrant to enter the premises, then they are entitled to seize not only the items that are specified in the warrant but also any contraband they can see in plain view. If they stumble upon documents that appear to be evidence of another crime, they may be able to obtain a second warrant to obtain them,” Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor wrote in an op-ed in USA Today.
“If once inside the safe, agents found documents or other items that incriminated Trump in, say, an election fraud scheme, they could potentially use that information to get another warrant.”
Barrett said next steps for the Justice Department depend on what investigators found in their search.
“Are there leads here? Are there next investigative steps to be taken? Are there witnesses to interview? Is this material probable cause in some way to arrest somebody or to search some other location? Or is this exonerating or not evidence of criminal activity? In which case, it might be a basis to sort of shut something down or wind something down. All of those things are possible,” he said.
Other close aides to Trump might also be weighing their own next steps.
“If you are the lawyer for, in no particular order, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani and others known or unknown, you now have to take quite seriously the Justice Department’s interest in prosecuting crimes,” Barrett said.
“These individuals certainly are in some potential jeopardy, and a lawyer has to advise their client that there is something — there is an approach — and that approach would be reaching a deal.”
The search could result in some fallout for Garland. Republicans are threatening serious oversight of DOJ should they seize majorities in Congress following the midterms, while a handful have demanded a briefing as early as Friday from him and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
But Garland has been unwilling to reveal any information about the Justice Department’s investigations, and it’s unlikely the full scope will be revealed unless prosecutors have an opportunity to lay it out in court.
“Only Garland and company know what’s behind the curtain,” Barrett said. | 2022-08-10T00:36:58+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/fbi-search-makes-clear-trump-is-target-of-probe/ |
N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s government clamped down on the country’s opposition Friday, suspending seven political parties and searching party offices a day after unprecedented protests around the country left more than 60 people dead.
Prominent opposition leader Succes Masra tweeted that the national headquarters of his Les Transformateurs party was “being ransacked by security forces who forced their way in.”
“After having shot 70 people, arrested, wounded and tortured more than 1,000 others, they are now attacking buildings and documents,” he tweeted.
Masra’s party was listed first among the seven suspended by Chad’s government for a 3-month period. The decree covers all political activities nationwide.
Demonstrators in the capital, N’Djamena, and several other cities took to the streets Thursday to protest against interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby extending his time in power by two more years.
Deby became head of a transitional government when his father, former President Idriss Deby Itno, died in April 2021 after more than 30 years in power. Mahamat Idriss Deby initially agreed to an 18-month transition, a term that would have ended Thursday.
However, the government recently announced he would stay in power another two years, prompting the protests. After using tear gas, security forces fired live ammunition at the demonstrators in N’Djamena, according to witnesses. A government spokesman confirmed 30 dead, though activists put the figure higher.
In the country’s second-largest city, Moundou, a morgue official said there were 32 deaths following a similar protest crackdown there. He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo later defended the government’s use of force, telling reporters the unrest was “an attempted coup.”
The deadly response drew swift rebukes from France, the United States and others. African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said he strongly condemned “the repression of the demonstrations.”
“I call on the parties to respect human life and property and to favor peaceful means to overcome the crisis,” he tweeted.
Thursday’s unrest was unprecedented in Chad, which saw little public dissent during the previous regime of Deby’s father. Officials have said the late Deby was killed by rebels while visiting his troops on the battlefield.
Several demonstrations have taken place since his son became interim leader. Security forces fired on civilians in two other instances, according to Amnesty International. | 2022-10-21T15:45:32+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-chad-govt-suspends-7-political-parties-after-deadly-protests/ |
Stocks rallied into the close on Wall Street, pushing the S&P 500 up 0.9%, as several companies reported better-than-expected results.
The Nasdaq composite led the market with a 1.5% gain Thursday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged with a gain of 0.3%.
Bond yields rose after a Federal Reserve official cautioned the end to its interest-rate hikes may not come as soon as markets had hoped. That cooled hopes that June could mark the first time in more than a year where the Fed doesn’t raise rates. Walmart rose after its results beat expectations.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 rose 39.28 points, or 0.9%, to 4,198.05.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 115.14 points, or 0.3%, to 33,535.91.
The Nasdaq composite rose 188.27 points, or 1.5% to 12,688.84.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 10.36 points, or 0.6%, to 1,784.86.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 73.97 points, or 1.8%.
The Dow is up 235.29 points, or 0.7%.
The Nasdaq is up 404.09 points, or 3.3%.
The Russell 2000 is up 44.01 points, or 2.5%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 358.55 points, or 9.3%.
The Dow is up 388.66 points, or 1.2%.
The Nasdaq is up 2,222.36 points, or 21.2%.
The Russell 2000 is up 23.61 points, or less than 1.3%. | 2023-05-18T21:04:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-thursday-18107272.php |
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man described by authorities as the ringleader of a group that used stolen identities to buy multiple vehicles worth a total of more than $1.5 million has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges, federal prosecutors said.
Alvin Rivera, 39, of Haverhill, faces more than 20 years in prison at sentencing on June 15, according to a statement Monday from the U.S. attorney's office in Boston.
Rivera provided stolen identities to his alleged accomplices, who between October 2017 and September 2020, visited Massachusetts car dealerships to purchase late-model vehicles and apply for 100% financing, federal prosecutors said.
They used stolen personal information, fraudulent Puerto Rico driver’s licenses and Social Security cards as proof of identification during those transactions, according to court documents. Many of the fraudulently purchased vehicles were exported out of the U.S.
Rivera's alleged accomplices also used the stolen identities to open bank accounts and apply for credit cards, authorities said.
Rivera personally used stolen identities to apply for credit and fraudulently purchase vehicles in a similar scheme in New Jersey between October 2017 and February 2018, prosecutors said.
He pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number | 2023-03-14T13:22:16+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/ringleader-of-stolen-id-vehicle-buying-scheme-17838125.php |
Braves vs. Guardians Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 3
The Atlanta Braves (56-27) will look for continued production from a batter on a hot streak versus the Cleveland Guardians (41-42) on Monday at 7:10 PM ET, at Progressive Field. Ozzie Albies is on a two-game homer streak.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Braves will send Bryce Elder (6-1) to the mound, while Gavin Williams will answer the bell for the Guardians.
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- Date: Monday, July 3, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: BSGL
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Venue: Progressive Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Elder - ATL (6-1, 2.44 ERA) vs Williams - CLE (0-0, 2.84 ERA)
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Braves Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Bryce Elder
- Elder (6-1) will take the mound for the Braves, his 17th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Tuesday, when he threw six innings against the Minnesota Twins, giving up two earned runs while allowing four hits.
- The 24-year-old has pitched in 16 games this season with a 2.44 ERA and 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .228.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his fourth consecutive quality start.
- Elder has pitched five or more innings in 16 straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has five appearances with no earned runs allowed in 16 chances this season.
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Guardians Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Gavin Williams
- The Guardians will look to Williams (0-0) to open the game and make his third start of the season.
- His last appearance came on Wednesday against the Kansas City Royals, when the right-hander went seven scoreless innings while giving up just one hit.
- In his two games this season, opposing hitters have compiled a batting average of only .122 against him. He has a 2.84 ERA and averages 7.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Williams has one quality start this year.
- Williams will look to prolong a three-game streak of lasting five or more innings (he's averaging 6.1 innings per appearance).
- In one of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
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Horse trapped in collapsed barn rescued by firefighters
DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (Gray News) – Crews in Tennessee gathered to help save a horse that became trapped in a collapsed barn over the weekend.
The Dickson County Emergency Management said the horse, named Cody, was found standing in a small space within the collapsed structure.
Firefighters used struts and lifters to stabilize the structure so rescuers could remove pieces of the barn and get through to the horse.
Once crews were able to get to Cody, two rescuers helped him out of the ruined structure and into the nearby field where medical staff could check him for injuries.
Officials said Cody was rewarded with an apple for being patient with the rescue crews as they worked to save him.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-17T21:19:36+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/07/17/horse-trapped-collapsed-barn-rescued-by-firefighters/ |
NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abelson Legal Search, a division of global search and staffing firm Howard-Sloan Search, is pleased to announce the addition of Donna Urban to Abelson's recruiting team in the position of Director. Donna is responsible for partner level recruiting, including groups, associate positions for major law firms, as well as in-house general counsel. Donna comes to Abelson from Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy, P.C. (Philadelphia, PA) where she was a Shareholder with the Business Practice Group. Abelson Legal Search started in 1990 as one of the first legal specialty recruiting firms in Philadelphia, and has been named the Best Pennsylvania Recruiting Firm for the past 10 years by The Legal Intelligencer.
Donna received her BS in Business Administration and Psychology from Thomas Jefferson University, and her Juris Doctor (JD) from Rutgers University School of Law. Prior to her tenure at Zarwin Baum, Donna spent 23 years at Flaster Greenberg, P.C. (Cherry Hill, NJ) as a commercial litigator across a wide range of practice areas, with a client list that included Fortune 500 and other national companies, and had extensive experience in firm management, including talent acquisition.
"Donna brings her own client base, extensive first-hand law firm experience, and the right connections. She is a stellar addition." Cathy Abelson, Founder, Abelson Legal Search
Donna sees a natural transition to legal search, assisting clients, identifying needs, and fulfilling them: "The culture at Abelson is collaborative. They care deeply for their clients and strive for excellence. As a former commercial litigation partner, I have a good understanding of firm needs and culture and can match highly qualified attorneys with the right firms. I am excited to join the team in this new phase of my professional journey."
Abelson Legal Search is a highly acclaimed attorney placement and staffing firm specializing in search, recruitment, and placement of attorneys, paralegals, and temporary legal professionals for law firms and companies of all sizes. Founded in 1990, Philadelphia-based Abelson Legal Search provides personalized services to meet specific needs of a wide range of clients, including top law firms, boutiques, and Fortune 1000 companies throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Abelson Legal Search is a division of Howard-Sloan Search.
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Howard-Sloan Search, founded in 1957, is a global search and staffing firm dedicated to providing specialized recruitment services tailored to client talent needs across diverse industries such as financial, legal, life sciences, HR, publishing, real estate, retail, supply chain, and technology. Committed to integrity and excellence, Howard-Sloan Search is the exclusive USA Member of IMSA Search Global Partners, with an international reach to over 25+ countries in 50+ offices around the world.
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“We couldn’t do this anymore.” - West Liberty firefighters say they will quit if requests aren’t met
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa (KCRG) - West Liberty could be without a fire department in a matter of weeks. The volunteers who make up the department sent the city a letter this week demanding they change how financial resources are divided up and accusing city leaders of micromanaging.
The city responded Thursday afternoon with their own message.
West Liberty Fire Chief, Kirt Sickels says this resignation letter came as the last straw. He says unfair treatment from the city has gone on for several years.
“It’s something that we really don’t want to do but the city has basically tied our hands,” he told TV-9. “We’ve been in limbo for about two and a half years and we are just trying to force hands so that we can finally get something done and start anew.”
The letter accuses the city of making outlandish demands to the department without giving them proper funding. It also states that administration made it hard or nearly impossible to recruit and hire additional volunteers.
“It’s been a hard couple years here lately. We’ve lost a lot of members due to moving, but some due to just the turmoil,” said Assistant Chief Tom Christensen.
Between that and the nearly 800 calls they went on last year, they say they’ve had enough. Their demands are simple - a 28E Agreement among the city, the fire department and the rural township they serve. Sickels says it would allow all three parties to make the decisions on how those resources should be spent.
The city responded Thursday afternoon stating the accusations were “either wrong or wholly unfounded”. The city says they’re willing to mediate the matter. But if they can’t come to an agreement before May 1st, they could lose the department, and have to rely on services farther out of the way.
“Atalissa, Nichols, they have an ambulance but they are only first responders so they cannot transport,” said said Christensen.
But the city says it’s committed to providing emergency services within the City limits.
Both sides write they don’t want this resignation go through.
“We are united and we hope the community and everybody will get behind us so that we can get that 28E Agency.”
Copyright 2022 KCRG. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-15T04:57:19+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/04/15/we-couldnt-do-this-anymore-west-liberty-firefighters-say-they-will-quit-if-requests-arent-met/ |
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Top Executives from Throughout the Industry to Converge on Las Vegas April 30 – May 4, 2023
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Asembia's upcoming annual Specialty Pharmacy Summit is scheduled for April 30 – May 4 in Las Vegas. Headlined as "AXS23" (Access the Market 2023), it is one of the most significant events of the year for doing business in the specialty pharmaceutical industry. This four-day meeting has grown to include nearly 8,000 senior executives and related professionals representing over 1,200 companies from throughout the pharmaceutical and related pharmacy service industry.
The conference provides participating attendees with an opportunity to conduct business and access the most current industry information; all while forging strong relationships within the pharmacy market. Held at Wynn & Encore Las Vegas, the Summit is comprised of a robust agenda that includes multiple networking receptions, powerful one-on-one business development opportunities, daily exhibit hours, continuing education sessions and insightful business seminars all designed to offer solutions that address challenges and optimize growth opportunities within the market.
Each year, Asembia's Summit is at the epicenter of the pharmacy market. "From Abbvie to Zydus, and nearly everyone in between, we are thrilled to welcome the full spectrum of industry stakeholders to Las Vegas for our 2023 conference," stated Robert Irene, President of Asembia. "The conference continues to attract leading organizations who share a common goal through their services and products offered; providing the best care and treatments possible to millions of patients throughout the United States & beyond," Irene continued.
To learn more and join industry peers representing pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, health systems, consultants, technology & digital health companies, payers, pharmacy benefit managers, service providers and other organizations at the conference visit www.asembiasummit.com.
About Asembia
Asembia is a leading provider of business solutions for specialty pharmaceuticals. The company collaborates with thousands of member pharmacies, manufacturer partners, prescribers, and other industry stakeholders to deliver solutions for the specialty pharmaceutical channel. Through shared business programs, contracting initiatives, patient support HUB services and innovative technology platforms, Asembia is committed to positively impacting the patient journey. Asembia is also the host of the industry's foremost annual meeting of specialty pharmacy stakeholders. For more information, visit www.asembia.com.
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SOURCE Asembia | 2023-04-20T12:39:25+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/04/20/asembias-axs23-summit-epicenter-expanding-pharmacy-market/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation’s oldest public and private universities.
The justices are hearing arguments Monday in challenges to policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard that consider race among many factors in evaluating applications for admission.
Following the overturning of the nearly 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade in June, the cases offer another test of whether the court now dominated by conservatives will move the law to the right on another of the nation’s most contentious cultural issues.
The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago.
But that was before three appointees of President Donald Trump joined, as well as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s first Black woman.
Lower courts upheld the programs at both UNC and Harvard, rejecting claims that the schools discriminated against white and Asian-American applicants.
The cases are brought by conservative activist Edward Blum, who also was behind an earlier affirmative action challenge against the University of Texas as well as the case that led the court in 2013 to end the use of a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
Blum formed Students for Fair Admissions, which filed the lawsuits against both schools in 2014.
The group argues that the Constitution forbids the use of race in college admissions and calls for overturning earlier Supreme Court decisions that said otherwise.
Colleges and universities can use other, race-neutral ways to assemble a diverse student body, including by focusing on socioeconomic status and eliminating the preference for children of alumni, Students for Fair Admissions argues.
The schools contend that they use race in a limited way, but that eliminating it as a factor altogether would make it much harder to achieve a student body that looks like America.
The Biden administration is urging the court to preserve race-conscious admissions. The Trump administration had taken the opposite position in earlier stages of the cases.
UNC says its freshman class is about 65% white, 22% Asian American, 10% Black and 10% Hispanic. The numbers add to more than 100% because some students report belonging to more than one category, a school spokesman said.
White students are just over 40% of Harvard’s freshman class, the school said. The class also is just under 28% Asian American, 14% Black and 12% Latino.
Nine states already prohibit any consideration of race in admissions to public colleges and universities: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.
In 2020, California voters easily rejected a ballot measure to bring back affirmative action.
Public opinion on the topic varies depending on how the question is asked. A Gallup Poll from 2021 found 62% of Americans in favor of affirmative action programs for racial minorities. But in a Pew Research Center survey in March, 74% of Americans, including majorities of Black and Latino respondents, said race and ethnicity should not factor into college admissions.
Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts received their undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard. Two other justices went to law school there.
But Jackson is sitting out the Harvard case because she was until recently a member of an advisory governing board.
A decision in the affirmative action cases is not expected before late spring. | 2022-10-31T13:03:01+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-supreme-court-takes-up-race-conscious-college-admissions/ |
MIAMI, Fla. -- The law school at Saint Thomas University in Florida is now named for civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.
"It's about coming together. We got to start building bridges past our ideology and politics and race to make this world a better place. And having Ben Crump's name on a catholic university's college of law, we're building those bridges," said STU President David A. Armstrong.
It's the first law school in the country named after a practicing Black attorney.
Local leaders, activists, and even celebrities were there to mark the occasion, WFOR reported.
"Ben has been an absolutely spectacular friend and guide, and that's why it was important for me to be here," said actor Will Smith.
"We will never forget this moment, this historic moment for Black history, for American history," Crump said during the dedication ceremony.
Crump, referred to by some as Black America's attorney general, has represented many people through their agony and activism.
The families of Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and most recently, Tyre Nichols, have turned to him for legal guidance and support.
"Benjamin Crump is more than just an attorney for me. He's a friend. He was supporter," said Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton.
"Mr. Crump has held me up when I felt like falling down," added Jamal Sutherlan's mother, Amy Sutherland.
For Crump, this honor is a continuation of a lifelong mission.
"This day is special, not so much because I'm given a recognition with the naming of the law school, but it is special because of what we are going to do at the Saint Thomas Law School to make a better world for all of our children," Crump said.
Saint Thomas University's Law School is considered one of the most diverse in the country, a fact that drew Crump to the institution in the first place.
"Education provides an opportunity for young people to have a seat at the table," Crump said.
The only other law school in the nation named for a Black person is the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. The Supreme Court justice is crump's personal hero. | 2023-02-09T22:20:41+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/who-is-ben-crump-law-school-st-thomas-attorney/12792248/ |
LOS ANGELES — The Big Melt is finally underway in the Sierra Nevada range, and soon there will be few wild places beyond the reach of water sounds: dripping, gurgling and roaring as runoff flows from lofty peaks to sage plains below.
But the whiplash change from extreme drought to epic snowpack is having very different consequences for a variety of species.
“In the ever changing ebb and flow of water in California, no given year is great for all species,” said Joshua Viers, a professor at UC Merced specializing in the hydrology of the Sierra Nevada. “But in a year like this one, which is exceptional by all measures, we are looking at a resetting of the dynamics of the entire ecological canvas from the redwoods to the desert.”
Competing interests are already playing out from inundated breeding grounds for waterfowl in Central California to snow-covered meadows near the California-Nevada border where an isolated, genetically distinct clan of bi-state sage grouse may forgo making ostentatious displays of romance because they have no place to hide from predators.
“Things that were only in history books are now happening before our eyes,” Viers said. “A growing concern for ecosystem and water managers throughout the state is that we can expect increasing periods of prolonged drought punctuated by pronounced wetness from now on.”
Ryan Burnett, head of the nonprofit Point Blue Conservation Science’s Sierra Nevada group, agrees. “It’s a complicated situation for both wildlife and wildlife managers,” he said.
“For example, protected migratory birds will continue moving north along the Pacific Flyway because they didn’t get the memo that there was 30 feet of snow on their rest stops in the Sierras,” he said. “But birds endemic to the American West that nest close to the ground at high elevations, such as white-crowned sparrows, just don’t breed in heavy snow years like this one.”
Local populations of bears, deer, bobcats, and other common mammals along the western and eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada range are expected to thrive, scientists say. So will amphibian and native fish populations clinging to existence in streams that had been reduced to small ponds but will soon be flowing again and buzzing with insects.
Jason Coslovich, a biologist with the California Waterfowl Association in Central California, suggested that things are looking better for ducks such as mallards and gadwalls than at any other time in the last three years — a period spanning the most severe drought in 1,200 years.
“While I can’t guarantee that Central California will resemble a waterfowl convention after all the snowmelt moves downstream,” he said, “more surface water means more mallards and gadwalls will be sticking around to breed — so expect more ducks next year.”
Typically, it takes about six months for mallards to pair up, build a nest, lay a clutch of nine to 12 eggs, and begin raising hatchlings.
“A year ago, the local population of mallard ducks was down 25% due to drought,” Coslovich said. “Many of our ducks decided to search for better places to nest in Oregon and northern Idaho.”
This year, those birds will fulfill their life cycles in Central California rivers and lakes brimming with snowmelt, as well as in the vast flooded fields of rice farmers who are once again receiving 100% of their state water allocations.
Aerial surveys of booming waterfowl populations across the state are currently being conducted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists. The results are expected to become available later this year.
Separately, there is good news for the more than 40,000 California gulls that nest on islands in Mono Lake, east of Yosemite National Park: They will be less vulnerable to predators including coyotes because melting snow is expected to raise the surface level of the lake several feet by year’s end.
The potential bad news, however, is that the inflows could cause the lake’s water column to begin stratifying into a warmer, lighter upper layer, above a colder, lower layer, limiting the productivity of brine flies and shrimp that migrating birds feed on.
“After heavy rains and flooding in 1983, the lake stratified into hard layers,” Burnett said, “that took a few years to break up.”
A more pressing concern is the fate of the dwindling population of bi-state sage grouse, one of the most legally contested birds in America. There are only about 3,300 of the birds left — far fewer than the 5,000 that biologists say is required to sustain the population.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday approved reopening consideration of whether to list the bi-state sage grouse as endangered or threatened.
The birds were proposed for listing in 2013, but federal wildlife authorities abandoned the proposal two years later. In 2018, a federal court judge ordered the agency to re-evaluate the species’ situation.
Two years later, however, the Trump administration withdrew that proposal.
“The service’s announcement is a step in the right direction,” said Ileene Anderson, a biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity.
“The bi-state sage grouse is having a tough year because of the epic snow on its habitat,” she said. “I’m worried these beautiful dancing birds may not be able to dig deep enough to reach sagebrush, their primary food source.”
Only five months ago, biologists were struggling to determine how much water was needed to sustain the birds in an era of less snowpack, shorter rainy seasons and periods of prolonged drought.
Now, they worry that the rare birds are unusually easy prey for hungry golden eagles and coyotes because their breeding grounds are still blanketed in bright white piles of snow.
“In normal years, sage grouse use their coloring to hide in sage and tall grass,” Burnett said. “But where can they go when their breeding grounds are covered in white snow?”
“I don’t know the answer to that question,” he said. “I don’t think anyone does.” | 2023-05-01T17:11:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/epic-snowpack-upends-rhythm-of-life-for-many-species-in-sierra-nevada/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Inflation, rising prices and lingering effects of the pandemic all are making it harder for some families to afford necessities such as warm clothing for their children.
So the nonprofit Cradles to Crayons is partnering with Chicagoland communities, including those in the south suburbs, to collect coats for youth as winter approaches.
The nonprofit conducts the coat drive every year, but this year organizers say the need is more dire and they’ve upped their target number to 50,000 from 20,000 last year.
Communities collect coat donations for children up to age 12, which are taken to the nonprofit’s Giving Factory on the North Side of Chicago, where volunteers sort and package them for Cradles’ service partners.
In addition to clothes, Cradles collects school supplies, diapers and other items, giving away 70,000 backpacks to Chicago Public Schools students last year and 2 million diapers to families in need.
“There’s definitely a growing need we’ve seen over the past year,” said Dawn Melchiorre, executive director. “Coming out of the pandemic and with inflation, we’re seeing more and more families turning to the services we provide.”
Cradles works with about 75 different service partners around the Chicago area which are asking for more clothes and diapers.
Melchiorre pointed out diapers can cost between $80 and $100 per month, making them unaffordable for some families.
“What we’re trying to do is end clothing insecurity for kids at risk,” Melchiorre said. “It is something a lot of people don’t think about or talk about. It’s a hidden need that really affects children’s social-emotional development.”
Among service organizations in the south suburbs reporting an increased need for children’s clothes and supplies is South Suburban PADS in Chicago Heights and Country Club Hills, where staff have seen more homeless people seeking shelter since the pandemic began.
“There is always a need for coats but the need has grown because more people are experiencing homelessness, especially children,” said Doug Kenshol, executive director.
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Kenshol said PADS served as many as 160 people per night and 55 children in March 2022. The number decreased to 133 people with 36 children since July but that is expected to surge again.
“With temperatures dropping, numbers are climbing and we will soon hit our peak capacity again,” he said, adding a winter coat for a teen can cost $75 or more.
At the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, more people have been donating coats than in the past.
“I think what that means to us is that people are really more cognizant of need,” said Lorri Nagle, director of development. “I think those people who are in a position to share and give are doing that, not only because they feel the struggle, the challenges of inflation, but then I think they recognize those people who might not be as fortunate as they are struggling even more.”
South suburban drop boxes for the coat drive include Quilters Trunk, 10352 S. Western Ave., in Beverly, Morgan Park Sports Center, 11505 S. Western Ave., and Acorn Public Library, 15524 Central Ave. in Oak Forest. A full list of donation sites is at https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/chicago/take-action/donate-goods/items-we-accept/.
“We’re happy to be supporting the efforts that Cradles to Crayons are making,” said Scott Brost, facilities manager for Morgan Park Sports Center, a Chicago Park District facility. “There is a need within our community and we are a community first organization and want to help and assist in multiple ways.”
Janice Neumann is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown. | 2022-10-25T22:57:09+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-cradles-to-crayons-st-1027-20221025-srqmkmtupbhp5hl77uvtranqra-story.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — It's not every day you come across a robot, but on one campus, that's about to get turned on its head.
"A lot of times, we just throw technologies out there and we don't pay attention to how humans are going to be around them,” said Keri Stephens, co-director of the Technology and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas in Austin, a sprawling campus of more than 50,000 students.
It's also a place that's about to become a living and breathing experiment for things that are decidedly not living or breathing.
"Humans have all these different reactions when they see technologies like this, and so, we're going to be studying all of those interactions," Stephens said.
A five-year study is about to get underway on the UT campus that will look at how humans react to robots that are out and about in the real world. The fleet of robots will be acting as delivery vehicles for COVID-related supplies around campus.
"They can order them and the robot will then go without a person. But we'll be watching at a distance," Stephens said. "So, this study we're going to look at, ‘Do they trip over them? Do they stop and talk to them? Do they want to play with them? Do they kick them?’"
Those are all questions that have never been asked on this scale. The study will be the largest of its kind ever conducted involving human-robot interactions.
"The novelty really comes around looking at groups of people interacting with robots and the robots are out there in the public space," Stephens said.
Before the robots end up in public, though, they start out in labs on campus.
"We've been testing out a couple of walking strategies," said UT student Carlos Gonzalez, who was running tests on a robot in one of the labs. "It's like the challenge of getting something from simulation to the real world is the most exciting part."
That work is overseen by Professor Luis Sentis.
"There's a collection of techniques we're using to determine to what extent a community, like our campus, accepts the use of robotics in the wild,” Sentis said. "The reason why this became an important project is because we see more and more companies deploying robots in the wild, and it's going to happen more and more."
The federal government-funded National Science Foundation is putting up more than $3 million to fund this study. It is part of an effort to get answers to how robots could be a part of life on the streets before they fully hit the streets.
"We see a lot of applications of delivery robots well beyond just kind of the day-to-day deliveries, but possibly even into disasters and emergencies as well," Stephens said.
It is a potential helping hand that could become even more common in the coming years. | 2023-01-24T18:09:56+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/largest-study-of-human-robot-interactions-in-the-real-world-prepares-to-unfold |
US Coast Guard will lead investigation of Titan implosion with help from Canada, France, UK
(AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday it is leading an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible that was carrying five people to the Titanic, to determine what caused it to implode.
Capt. Jason Neubauer, chief investigator, said the salvage operations from the sea floor are ongoing, and they have mapped the accident site. He did not give a timeline for the investigation. The convening of a Marine Board of Investigation is the highest level of investigation conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard, Neubauer said.
Investigators are working closely with other national and international investigative authorities, including the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the French marine casualties investigation board and the United Kingdom Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Neubauer added. Evidence is being collected in the port of St. John’s, Newfoundland, in coordination with Canadian authorities.
The Coast Guard board can make recommendations to prosecutors to pursue civil or criminal sanctions as necessary.
“My primary goal is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to advance the safety of the maritime domain worldwide,” Neubauer said.
The U.S. Navy said Sunday that it won’t be using a large piece of salvage equipment that it had deployed to the effort to retrieve the Titan submersible.
The Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System had the capability of lifting an intact Titan back to the surface. The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday that debris from the submersible had been found roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic in North Atlantic waters.
The Titan submersible imploded on its way to tour the Titanic wreckage, killing all five on board. Debris was located about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) underwater.
The Navy would only use the ocean salvage system if there were pieces large enough to require the use of the specialized equipment.
“Efforts are focused on helping map the debris field in preparation for recovery efforts and to support investigative actions. Efforts to mobilize equipment such as the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System have been discontinued,” a Navy official told The Associated Press.
The Navy describes the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System as a “portable, ship lift system designed to provide reliable deep ocean lifting capacity of up to 60,000 pounds for the recovery of large, bulky, and heavy sunken objects such as aircraft or small vessels.”
The Titan weighed 20,000 pounds (9,071 kilograms).
The Navy is continuing to support the U.S. Coast Guard as operations continue.
On Saturday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said that it has begun an investigation into the loss of the submersible and has been speaking with those who traveled on Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince.
Authorities from the U.S. and Canada began the process of probing the cause of the underwater implosion and are grappling with questions of who is responsible for determining how the tragedy unfolded.
“We are conducting a safety investigation in Canada given that this was a Canadian-flagged vessel that departed a Canadian port and was involved in this occurrence, albeit in international waters,” said Kathy Fox, chair of the transportation board. “Other agencies may choose to conduct investigations.”
The Polar Prince left Newfoundland on June 16, towing the ill-fated Titan. There were 41 people on board the ship — 17 crew members and 24 others — including the five-man team of the Titan.
Fox said the Canadian Transportation Safety Board will share information it collects with other agencies, like the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Coast Guard, within the limits of Canadian law. Voice recordings and witness statements are protected under Canadian law, she said.
“We don’t want to duplicate efforts. We want to collaborate,” she said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also announced Saturday that they are studying the circumstances that led to the Titan deaths to decide whether a full investigation is warranted. That full probe will only take place if it appears criminal, federal or provincial law may have been broken, officials said.
The Coast Guard led the initial search and rescue mission, a massive international effort that likely cost millions of dollars. “The Coast Guard doesn’t charge for search and rescue nor do we associate a cost with human life,” said Rear Adm. John Mauger, of the Coast Guard First District.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the Titan, is based in the U.S. but the submersible was registered in the Bahamas. OceanGate is based in Everett, Washington, but it closed when the Titan was found. Meanwhile, the Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, was from Canada, and those killed were from England, Pakistan, France, and the U.S.
The deep-sea investigations promise to be long and painstaking. How the overall investigation will proceed is complicated by the fact that the world of deep-sea exploration is not well-regulated.
A key part of any investigation is likely to be the Titan itself. The Titan was not registered as a U.S. vessel or with international agencies that regulate safety. And it wasn’t classified by a maritime industry group that sets standards on matters such as hull construction.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was piloting the Titan when it imploded, had complained that regulations can stifle progress.
One question that seems at least partially resolved is when the implosion likely happened. After the Titan was reported missing, the Navy went back and analyzed its acoustic data and found an “anomaly” Sunday that was consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the vessel was operating when communications were lost, said a senior U.S. Navy official.
The Navy passed on the information to the Coast Guard, which continued its search because the data was not considered definitive, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive acoustic detection system.
The Titan launched at 8 a.m. that day and was reported overdue that afternoon about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rescuers rushed ships, planes and other equipment to the area.
Any sliver of hope that remained for finding the crew alive was wiped away early Thursday, when the Coast Guard announced that debris had been found near the Titanic.
Killed in the implosion were Rush; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
Questions about the submersible’s safety were raised by both by a former company employee and former passengers. | 2023-06-26T15:14:07+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/us-coast-guard-will-lead-investigation-of-titan-implosion-with-help-from-canada-france-uk/ |
A mostly forgotten native fruit enjoying a resurgence in popularity will be celebrated Saturday and Sunday, September 24-25, in the 18th annual York County Pawpaw Festival at the Horn Farm Center at Hallam.
The largest edible fruit growing in the eastern U.S., pawpaws grow wild and much more rarely under cultivation from Canada south through the Carolinas. They are most abundant from southern Pennsylvania to the south.
Widely used and cultivated by Native Americans and pre-Big Ag Americans, the difficult-to-store pawpaw fell out of favor in modern America. The large banana/citrus flavored fruit is now gaining favor in the exploding home gardening and wild-foods foraging communities.
The York County Pawpaw Festiva began 17 years ago, when Richard and Judy Bono hosted a pawpaw event at the Blue Moon restaurant in downtown York. A year earlier they had developed a passion for pawpaws during a visit to Deep Run Pawpaw Orchard, near Westminster, Maryland.
Despite the difficulties in cultivate pawpaws and the short duration of the fruit’s ripeness season, they developed their own orchard and began selling pawpaws at local farmers’ markets.
The festival today draws an estimated 1,800 visitors to the Horn Farm Center, where Richard Bono manages a small pawpaw orchard.
At the event, wild and cultivated pawpaw fruit and trees will be available for purchase, along with pawpaw cookbooks, books and t-shirts.
In addition, the festival will feature local food vendors, artisans and community organizations. Fresh produce from the Horn Farm, native plants, jams, jellies, honey and more will be for sale.
Tours of the farm and pawpaw orchard will be offered.
A $5 admission donation is asked of those attending the festival, which is a fundraiser for the Horn Farm Center.
The Horn Farm Center is a bioregional hub for learning through ecological land stewardship, experiential education and community partnership.
Pawpaws are the largest and most tropical fruit growing wild as a native tree in Pennsylvania. Each oblong fruit measures 3-5 inches long and weighs 6-12 ounces, with a light green skin with increasing black blemishes as it ripens.
The flesh of the ripe fruit, which is ripe for only a few days in mid- to late September and not palatable when it’s not ripe, has a unique flavor that’s described with comparisons to many other fruits and combinations of fruits but often note hints of banana, mango and pineapple.
In his book, Appalachian Home Cooking, Mark Sohn described the flavor as “forceful and distinct.”
Amid the custardy, sweet flesh of the pawpaw are the extraordinarily large, nutlike seeds. They are flat and range from 1-1.5 inches in length.
The pawpaw also is known as the Indian banana, Hoosier banana, Quaker delight, custard apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang, soursop or false banana.
It grows to a maximum of 40 feet in height with drooping, 12-inch-long, oblong leaves and, in spring before the leaves appear, 2-inch purple flowers.
Those flowers have a scent that’s been compared to rotting meat and are pollinated by flies rather than bees.
The species does best in floodplains and bottomlands, under partial shade of taller trees, but not in total shade. It tends to grow in thickets, appearing a few years after an area where it occurs naturally has been clearcut.
Pawpaw is enjoying an increasing notoriety among wild food foraging enthusiasts and backyard orchardists. There are a few national suppliers of frozen pawpaw pulp and some small-scale commercial growers catering mostly to localized markets. The fruit almost never appears in grocery store produce aisles, and only briefly at some roadside stands and farmer’s markets.
Researchers are working with the tree to determine if the problem of an incredibly short shelf-life for an easily bruised and damaged fruit can be overcome.
Contact Marcus Schneck at mschneck@pennlive.com. | 2022-09-19T20:46:35+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/09/pawpaw-festival-spotlights-a-forgotten-native-fruit-enjoying-a-resurgence.html |
- Traditional Swiss racing team to become Audi factory team from 2026 onwards
- Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Technical Development: "We are delighted to have such a competent and experienced partner for our Formula 1 project"
- Preparations for the development of the Audi Power Unit at the Neuburg facility are proceeding as planned
NEUBURG AN DER DONAU, Germany, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The next important milestone on the road to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship has been completed: Audi has selected Sauber as a strategic partner for the project and plans to acquire a stake in the Sauber Group. The partnership will see the traditional Swiss racing team competing as the Audi factory team from 2026 onwards using the power unit developed by Audi for the pinnacle of motorsport.
Following the announcement of its Formula 1 entry at the end of August, Audi's confirmation of its strategic partner marks the next milestone in the company's entry into the premier class of motorsport. With around 30 years of competitive experience, Sauber is one of the most renowned and traditional teams in Formula 1. While the power unit will be created at Audi's Motorsport Competence Center in Neuburg an der Donau, Sauber will develop and manufacture the race car at its site in Hinwil (Switzerland). Sauber will also be responsible for planning and executing the race operations.
"We are delighted to have gained such an experienced and competent partner for our ambitious Formula 1 project," says Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Technical Development at AUDI AG. "We already know the Sauber Group with its state-of-the-art facility and experienced team from previous collaborations and are convinced that together we will form a strong team." For example, Audi Sport has already regularly used the Sauber Group's high-tech wind tunnel in Hinwil, just under four hours away by car, during the successful Le Mans era and during the development of the Class 1 touring car for the DTM.
"Sauber is a first-class partner"
"Audi is the best partner for the Sauber Group," says Finn Rausing, Chairman of Sauber Holding. "It is clear that both companies share the same values and vision. We are looking forward to achieving our common goals with a strong and successful partnership."
Development of the power unit, which consists of an electric motor, battery, control systems and a combustion engine, is already in full swing at the facility of the specially founded Audi Formula Racing GmbH in Neuburg an der Donau.
More than 120 employees are already working on the project. "Sauber is a first-class partner for the use of the Audi Power Unit," says Adam Baker, managing director of the company. "We are looking forward to working with an experienced team that has helped shape many eras of Formula 1 history. Together, we want to write the next chapter starting in 2026."
The expansion of the Neuburg facility is in full swing
The timetable up to the first race with Audi participation in the 2026 season is ambitious: The expansion of the Neuburg facility in terms of personnel, buildings and technical infrastructure should be largely in place in 2023. The first tests with the power unit developed for the 2026 regulations in a Formula 1 test car are planned for 2025.
Formula 1 is taking a big step towards greater sustainability with the new regulations that will come into effect from 2026. This was an important prerequisite for Audi to decide to enter the championship. The power units will be more efficient than they are today, as the proportion of electric power will increase significantly. The electric drivetrain will then have nearly as much power as the internal combustion engine, which comes to 400 kW (544 hp). The highly efficient 1.6-liter turbocharged engines will be powered by sustainable synthetic fuel that is net CO2-neutral (according to EU standards). Formula 1 has also set itself the goal of being net CO2-neutral as a racing series by 2030.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats in Georgia predict dire outcomes should Sen. Raphael Warnock lose to challenger Herschel Walker this fall and Republicans regain control of Capitol Hill.
“They’re going to take away our democratic rights one after another,” longtime state lawmaker Nan Orrock warned partisans at a birthday party for the senator, who turned 53 on July 23. “Failure,” she said, “is not an option.”
Warnock took a different tack.
“I work with anybody to get something good done for the people of Georgia,” he told the same crowd, highlighting a trio of Republican senators with whom he has made legislative deals. Warnock mentioned President Joe Biden’s name just once and referred several other times only to “the president of the United States,” trying to distinguish himself from Biden — and the rising inflation that has marked his term.
Running for his first full Senate term, Warnock is pitching himself as a senator willing to do whatever it takes to help his state. That’s a shift from his approach in what were nationally elevated twin runoff campaigns won by Warnock and fellow Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in January 2021, giving their party Senate control two months after Biden was elected president.
Now, with inflation up and Biden’s popularity down, Warnock requires a more nuanced argument, and he’s selling his work in Washington, especially on the economy, as something distinct from the White House and the Senate’s Democratic leadership.
Republicans sense an opportunity in a state they dominated for two decades before 2020. Walker, a first-time candidate like Warnock was two years ago, is making every effort to shape the contest as a referendum on what his campaign calls the “Biden-Warnock agenda.”
“This is still a national race,” said Gail Gitcho, a senior adviser to Walker. “The burden is on Raphael Warnock and the extremely close ties he has to Joe Biden in this environment. Herschel has put him on the defensive.”
Warnock’s strategy of playing up his “bipartisan” credentials and leaving other Democrats to attack Republicans and rally the party faithful could be the incumbent’s only shot to recreate his runoff coalition. In that election, Democrats were united and enthusiastic; Republicans were not, especially GOP-leaning moderates whom then-President Donald Trump alienated with his lies that Biden’s victory was fraudulent. Some of those voters helped Warnock to his 94,000-vote win a 2% margin. This time, Warnock cannot depend on Trump to push those key swing voters in his direction.
Attracting them again starts with not directly dignifying Republican attacks.
Asked about Walker’s broadsides, Warnock ignored specifics and bemoaned “demagogues trying to divide us.”
He pivoted again when asked about Biden’s performance. “I’m focused on the job I’m doing,” Warnock said. “When that means standing with this person or that person, it’s based on what it does for Georgia.”
Even on the president’s accomplishments, Warnock avoids partisan cheerleading. He hailed the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package passed without any Republican votes, for its tax cuts aimed at lower-income workers. He praised a long-sought infrastructure bill as a “bipartisan” success that included “the Cruz-Warnock amendment.”
“Hear me out, now,” Warnock said, laughing as some of his supporters jeered Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The two men, Warnock explained, wanted to make the eastward expansion of Interstate 14 — now just a short stretch in central Texas — a federal priority. Because a Senate committee hadn’t endorsed the idea, the unlikely partners had to work the full Senate.
The amendment passed unanimously.
“Guess what: The highway that runs through Texas also runs through Georgia,” Warnock said. “It goes past red districts and blue districts. … Everybody needs to be able to get to where they need to go.”
Warnock noted other efforts with Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Marco Rubio of Florida. With Tuberville, he led a measure that would open European markets to peanut farmers in their two states. With Rubio, he worked on legislation to improve maternal mortality rates in the United States.
Tuberville is a staunch Trump ally. Rubio came to Georgia to campaign against Warnock at the outset of the runoff campaign. Warnock didn’t mention those details.
As for the uneven economy, Warnock notably referred to “global inflation” while sidestepping Biden.
He noted his work on a jobs and technology measure, which cleared the Senate on Wednesday with 17 Republican votes. The bill, which aims to boost computer chip production in the United States, would strengthen supply chains and expand national technology production, among other investments, Warnock explained.
The senator emphasized his proposals to cap insulin costs for people with diabetes and allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices from pharmaceutical companies. He reminded supporters that he called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax in February, early in the 2022 energy price surge.
“Somebody must have been listening,” Warnock said, because Georgia’s Republican administration suspended the state gas tax in March and “the president of the United States is now on record saying we should suspend the gas tax” nationally.
Warnock reminded reporters that he came out swinging when Biden’s budget plans called for closing the Pentagon’s combat readiness center in Savannah. “I stood up against the administration” and “a terrible idea,” Warnock said, taking a position that aligns him with the Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation.
Additionally, he said he’s “pushing the president of the United States right now” on student loan cancellations for some borrowers. Biden’s Department of Education already has eased some rules on debt repayment, and the president is still considering a more blanket forgiveness up to a cap. The White House has said a decision on the amount could come in August.
In Walker’s camp, Gitcho relishes the thought of Warnock replicating scenes from the two-month runoff blitz, when Biden traveled twice to Georgia and shared stages with Warnock and Ossoff. “The best surrogate Warnock could have,” she said of the beleaguered president. “But we know that won’t happen.”
Warnock instead appears ready to brandish his party credentials carefully. In fundraising solicitations and online ads, Warnock says he’s “running to keep Georgia blue.” But the campaign targets those to reliable Democratic voters.
Standing over birthday cakes and candles, the senator fondly recalled his runoff victory and thanked Georgians who “gave us the narrowest majority.”
“Think about what would have happened had it gone the other way,” he allowed. But at his crescendo 15 minutes later, the Baptist minister went bigger — and perhaps toward a potentially decisive middle.
“We are one nation,” he said, voice rising. “We are one people. And come November, Georgia is going to do it one more time.”
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24-year-old man indicted in connection with 11 drive-by shootings
A 24-year-old man has been indicted on 72 counts in the case of 11 drive-by shootings that spanned from December 2021 to May 2022 in West and South Phoenix.
The defendant in the case has been identified as Manuel Sierra, 24.
Prosecutors state that Sierra targeted and shot at homes and cars and put residents in "grave danger," according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
"We were very fortunate that none of the multiple shots fired over the past few months took an innocent life," said County Attorney Rachel Mitchell. "We cannot, however, underestimate the fear, anxiety and sense of worry these families felt as each night passed, not knowing when the bullet would come again."
Officials previously said Sierra targeted multiple members of an extended family over the six months, striking numerous homes and vehicles in south and west Phoenix along with sending threatening text messages.
At least half of the shootings involving residences occurred while they were occupied though nobody was injured, authorities said, adding that Sierra was previously a romantic partner with one of the family members
The indictment includes charges of endangerment, criminal damage, unlawful discharge of a firearm, drive by shooting, discharge of a firearm at a structure and disorderly conduct.
Reach breaking news reporter Haleigh Kochanski at hkochanski@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @HaleighKochans.
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High school students allegedly mob, beat assistant principal
SPRING, Texas (KPRC) - Students at a Texas high school are accused of forming a mob and beating an assistant principal so badly she was rushed to the hospital. Her colleagues say it’s not the first time something violent like this has happened at the school, and they don’t feel safe.
Staff members at Westfield High School in Spring, Texas, are coming forward after the assistant principal was allegedly beaten by several students Thursday at the school’s 9th Grade Center. They say this isn’t the first time students have injured staff members, and they fear it won’t be the last.
“It broke my heart. It makes me want to cry,” said a teacher at the school about the incident. “She loves those kids. She is the nicest person. She’s the best administrator that we have at Westfield High School.”
The teacher asked not to be identified out of fear of retaliation from Spring Independent School District, but she says she felt compelled to speak out after the assistant principal’s brutal beating, which allegedly happened after she tried to break up a fight.
“Three or four other kids jump in on her and just pummel her to the ground, and they are kicking her and pulling her hair,” the teacher said.
The victim’s family says she was left unable to talk after the attack and was suffering from excruciating head pain. Her father says it’s unclear how long she may have to stay at the hospital, as her pain needs to be constantly monitored. She will also need a CT scan.
The school district released a statement that reads in part, “All students involved in the altercation will be subject to the full extent of disciplinary action available. We take these issues very seriously as the safety of our students and staff is our highest priority. There will be no tolerance for any altercations or disruptions to learning.”
The teacher disputes the district’s words, adding the entire campus only has two officers.
“When you call for help to the front office, nobody ever shows up,” she said. “We don’t feel safe. Faculty don’t feel safe and parents... If the parents knew how unsafe the inside of the school is, they would be upset.”
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22 dogs rescued from Minnesota breeder
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - More than 20 dogs were rescued from a breeder north of the Twin Cities and will soon be up for adoption through the Animal Humane Society.
Sarah Bhimani, the communications strategist with the Animal Humane Society, told FOX 9 the organization rescued 22 dogs last week, including Labrador Retrievers, St. Bernards, setters, and a mix of doodles, from a breeder in a "rural county north of the Twin Cities."
The dogs range in age from 8 years old to puppies that were born on their way to the Animal Humane Society, Bhimani explained. Those puppies are now in foster care. All the animals received a vet examination and evaluation by the behavior specialist. Those who need it are receiving care.
The Animal Humane Society looked into the breeder after receiving a complaint about a property with too many animals. Because the person was a breeder, the Board of Animal Health got involved and has since revoked the breeder's license.
Bhimani says the dogs are "learning how to dog," noting many hadn't walked on a leash before and some are scared of going through doorways. AHS is on working on getting the dogs used to some of the basics of being a dog.
Some dogs are already available for adoption through the Animal Humane Society's website, while others will be posted in the coming days and weeks.
AHS is the only animal welfare organization in Minnesota with the "space, resources and expertise" to meet the needs of the animals who were rescued, Bhimani said. | 2022-12-08T23:40:35+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/22-dogs-rescued-from-minnesota-breeder |
Today in History
Today is Thursday, April 27, the 117th day of 2023. There are 248 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 27, 1994, former President Richard M. Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended by all five of his successors at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California.
On this date:
In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor.
In 1813, the Battle of York took place in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 as a U.S. force defeated the British garrison in present-day Toronto before withdrawing.
In 1865, the steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee; death toll estimates vary from 1,500 to 2,000.
In 1941, German forces occupied Athens during World War II.
In 1973, acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he'd destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
In 1978, 51 construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground.
In 1992, Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In 2010, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was extradited from the United States to France, where he was later convicted of laundering drug money and received a seven-year sentence.
In 2011, powerful and deadly tornadoes raked the South and Midwest; more than 60 tornadoes crossed parts of Alabama, leaving about 250 people dead and thousands of others injured in the state.
In 2015, rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands attended a funeral for Freddie Gray, a Black man who died from a severe spinal injury he'd suffered in police custody; the Baltimore Orioles' home game against the Chicago White Sox was postponed because of safety concerns.
In 2019, a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of Passover, killing a woman and wounding the rabbi and two others. (John Earnest, a white supremacist, has been sentenced to both federal and state life prison terms.)
Ten years ago: North Korea announced that Kenneth Bae, an American missionary detained for nearly six months, was being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government (Bae was later sentenced to 15 years of hard labor; he was released in November 2014 along with another American, Matthew Miller). Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives.
Five years ago: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history by crossing over to South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in; it was the first time a member of the Kim dynasty had set foot on southern soil since the end of the Korean War in 1953. The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released a lengthy report concluding that it found no evidence that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. The members of the Swedish pop supergroup ABBA announced that they had recorded new material for the first time in 35 years, with two new songs.
One year ago: Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria and threatened to do the same to other countries, using its most essential export as an attempt to punish and divide the West for its united support of Ukraine. The United States and Russia carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange in a time of high tensions over the war in Ukraine, trading a Marine veteran jailed by Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America. World leaders and the U.S. political and foreign policy elite gathered at Washington's National Cathedral to pay their respects to the late Madeleine Albright, America's first female secretary of state.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Anouk Aimee (ah-NOOK' EM'-ee) is 91. Rock musician Jim Keltner is 81. Rock singer Kate Pierson (The B-52's) is 75. R&B singer Herb Murrell (The Stylistics) is 74. Actor Douglas Sheehan is 74. Rock musician Ace Frehley is 72. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is 72. Pop singer Sheena Easton is 64. Actor James Le Gros (groh) is 61. Rock musician Rob Squires (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) is 58. Singer Mica (MEE'-shah) Paris is 54. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is 54. Actor David Lascher is 51. Actor Maura West is 51. Actor Sally Hawkins is 47. Rock singer Jim James (My Morning Jacket) is 45. Rock musician Patrick Hallahan (My Morning Jacket) is 45. Rock singer-musician Travis Meeks (Days of the New) is 44. Country musician John Osborne (Brothers Osborne) is 41. Actor Francis Capra is 40. Actor Ari Graynor is 40. Rock singer-musician Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) is 39. Actor Sheila Vand is 38. Actor Jenna Coleman is 37. Actor William Moseley is 36. Singer Lizzo is 35. Actor Emily Rios is 34. Singer Allison Iraheta is 31. | 2023-04-27T12:11:48+00:00 | kanw.com | https://www.kanw.com/new-mexico-news/2023-04-27/today-in-history-april-27-deadly-alabama-tornadoes |
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ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before merging with the Columbia River. His silvery ponytail flutters in the wind, and a string of eagle claws adorns his neck.
Kiona has fished for Chinook salmon for decades on his family’s scaffold at the edge of the falls, using a dip net suspended from a 33-foot pole — like his father did before him, and his son will after.
“Fishing is an art and a spiritual practice,” says Kiona, a Yakama Nation elder. “You feel exhilaration in your body when you dip that net in the water and feel the fish. Then, you’re fighting the fish. The fish is fighting you, tearing holes in the net, jerking you off the scaffold.”
He finds strength, sanctity, even salvation in that struggle. The river saved Kiona when he returned from the war in Vietnam. As he battled addiction, depression and trauma, the river gave him therapy no hospital could.
When he lies on the rocks by the rushing river and closes his eyes, he hears the songs and the voices of his ancestors. The water, he says, holds the history of the land and his people.
“It heals you.”
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From its headwaters in British Columbia where the Rocky Mountains crest, the Columbia River flows south into Washington state and then westward and into the Pacific Ocean at its mouth near Astoria, Oregon. Just below the confluence with the Snake River, the Columbia's largest tributary, the river turns through the Cascade Mountain Range, carving out the Columbia River Gorge.
It's a spectacular canyon, 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep, with cliffs, ridges, streams and waterfalls. The landscape and colors change dramatically from the brown hills, shrubs and sagebrush at lower elevations to the lush greens of ponderosa pines, fir and larch trees higher up. Eagles and ospreys nest all along the river.
For thousands of years, Native tribes in this area have relied on Nch’i-Wána, or “the great river,” for its salmon and steelhead trout, and its surrounding areas for the fields bearing edible roots, medicinal herbs and berry bushes as well as the deer and elk whose meat and hides are used for food and ritual. That reliance transcends the material realm into the spiritual, as the acts of gathering, consuming and respecting those foods are inextricably linked to the tribes' religious practice.
Yet the river is under threat. Warming waters linked to climate change endanger the salmon, which need cooler temperatures to survive. Hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and its tributaries have curtailed the river's flow, further imperiling salmon's migration from the Pacific upstream to their freshwater spawning grounds. Industrial pollution are also threats; testing by the Columbia Riverkeeper, a nonprofit that aims to protect water quality, shows that fish caught in the area are contaminated with flame retardants; polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs; and heavy metals.
Pollution and climate change are not only threatening the health of the river and its habitat, but also the millennia-old spiritual traditions that hold Native communities together.
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“We are the salmon people or river people,” says Aja DeCoteau, executive director of the Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which represents the interests of the four Columbia River treaty tribes — Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce — in policy, advocacy and management of the basin. “Without water there are no fish, plants or herbs.”
Each year the tribes honor the salmon, roots, berries, deer and elk — which they believe were originally placed in the land for their sustenance — with what are known as “first food ceremonies.” When children catch fish, dig roots or pick berries for the first time, they are stood up before their elders in the longhouse and recognized as food gatherers.
Elders speak of how streams flow from the mountains sanctified by the prayers of ancestors who went there to commune with the spirits. These rivulets then flow down and merge with the Columbia. If Nch’i-Wána is the main artery of the land, those streams are like the veins that feed it. So even the smallest creek is vital and sacred.
At communal meals, tribe members typically begin and end with water — “You take a drink of water to purify yourself before you eat and you end the meal with water to show respect for what you’ve eaten,” DeCouteau says.
Tribes also use the river's water and rocks for rituals such as sweat lodge purification ceremonies, held in low, dome-shaped structures where river rocks are heated along with herbal medicine.
“After you sweat and pray, there is also the practice of jumping in the river to cleanse yourself,” DeCouteau says. “It’s hard to continue practicing these rituals when the river is so contaminated.”
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Whether the day is 100 degrees or nine below zero, Terrie Brigham takes her fishing boat out every day before the crack of dawn. Her family, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, owns Brigham Fish Market in Cascade Locks, a bucolic riverbank town of some 1,500 residents about an hour's drive east of Portland. Her grandfather erected the family’s scaffolds in the 1950s.
On a cold June morning, Brigham watches proudly at the scaffolds as her 23-year-old nephew, Brigham Campbell, fights a large Chinook salmon thrashing about in his dip net. He secures the fish and holds it up with smile, and she lets out a loud whoop and captures the moment on her cellphone.
Fishing has been the family’s life and livelihood for generations, but it’s also a big part of her spiritual identity. Brigham speaks of her scaffold as if it were a temple, and her boat an altar.
“To me, the river is sacred. The water is sacred. The fish are sacred.”
Each year when Brigham catches the first fish of the season, she utters, “Thank you, Creator.” Then she puts a rope around its mouth so it can be used in the longhouse as part of the ceremony to welcome the fish back, known as the First Salmon Feast.
That first fish is always shared with others in the community, even if each person might get just a single bite.
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Bill Yallup Jr. was 6 when Celilo Falls “drowned,” as he puts it.
Known as Wyam to Native people, the thundering cascade was a sacred place where for 15,000 years Indigenous tribes netted salmon as the fish jumped upstream. It was also their economic nerve center, with the salmon trading for all manner of goods from feathers to copper to wampum, beads crafted from shells.
Yallup’s family came to Celilo Falls from Toppenish, Washington, when he was an infant.
“My mom cooked with water from the river,” he says. “You could hear those falls for miles. It was sacred sound.”
The falls fell silent in 1957 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erected The Dalles Dam, flooding the area and creating the Celilo Lake reservoir. His father brought him to Lyle, Washington, when he was 17. He learned to fish there.
As a young man, Yallup dreamed of a career in Hollywood as a writer and actor. He played a tribal elder in the show “Northern Exposure," a 1990s CBS comedy-drama series about quirky residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran for five seasons.
But, the mighty river has an unfathomable pull, and it drew him back. It reminds him of who he really is, Yallup says: “I'm a fisherman."
In his deep baritone, he enjoys telling stories of the river that have been handed down over generations.
A tale he has told hundreds of times narrates how Coyote, one of the most important characters in tribal mythology, brought the salmon back to the big river. The fish had left after a legendary battle between Mount Hood and Mount Adams, both portrayed as women in the story, caused the salmon to drain into the ocean. The fish told Coyote they would come back, but only if they were respected.
Young salmon, or smolts, swim down the Columbia to the ocean, where they grow for between one and five years. Then they migrate back upstream to spawn. Some are caught and become a source of sustenance for the people, and others die and become one with the environment. The cycle repeats over and over.
“The sacredness of this river," Yallup says, “lies in the sacrifice the salmon make each time they fulfill their promise to come back.”
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The Whitefoots are a large family spread across the West Coast. The best-known member of the clan, Patricia “Patsy” Whitefoot, is an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. A member of the Yakama Nation, she often travels along the river meeting family members and attending traditional tribal gatherings.
Her activism is as much a part of her Native identity as her religious practice is.
“If you are Indian, you’ll be political all your life,” she says.
On a recent afternoon, she visits cousins Debra and Sandy Whitefoot, who live near the Bonneville Dam in an “in-lieu fishing site,” lands set aside by Congress to compensate tribes whose villages were inundated by dams.
Many families here live in trailers without restrooms, lights or drains, and Debra, as executive director of the nonprofit Nch’i-Wána Housing, works to provide homes for Native people living along the river.
“My mom saw the world go by at Celilo,” she says, wiping away tears. “We have lost so much. We’re experiencing intergenerational trauma. My hope is I can make a village or a few villages for my people so we can heal and move forward.”
Sandy is smoking freshly caught salmon. She arranges the cleaned and cut-up pieces in trays and places them in a wooden smoking shed by the river. She has a job in a sandwich shop, but this, Sandy says, is “what I do.”
The first fish she ever caught was a steelhead off her father’s scaffold.
“It was one of the most exciting moments in my life,” she says.
Debra's son, Aaron Paul, and his partner, Betty Jean Sutterlict, live by the river as well. When their son, Bennie, finished high school last year, he had his graduation photo taken on the scaffold wearing a vest embroidered with an eagle carrying a salmon. He now attends Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana, and hopes to major in fisheries and wildlife.
Debra is proud of young people like her grandson, who grew up by the river doing homework under a streetlight, and are now going to college to learn about protecting their natural resources.
“They give me hope.”
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It was worries over the spring salmon's disappearance from the river that inspired Elaine Harvey to get her bachelor’s degree in aquatic and fishery science. She is also concerned for species like the Pacific lamprey, which has “been around since the dinosaurs” but today faces possible extinction.
Now a fish biologist for Yakama Fisheries, Harvey says what keeps her up at night is what she calls a “race to harness green energy” that has brought multinational corporations to the Columbia.
“Wind turbines and solar farms are impacting our archeological sites, cultural resource sites, wildlife and fish,” she says, pointing to a sacred mountain near the John Day Dam that the Native people call Push-pum. “Our root fields are on that mountain. We could lose access to our food.”
The tribes are also focused on preserving areas in tributaries such as the Klickitat and White Salmon, two glacial rivers that provide cold water for migrating salmon.
Harvey hopes to impart this knowledge and sense of stewardship to her children and grandchildren.
“We travel with kids to fishing stations, hunting grounds and root fields,” she says. “We give them the experience of camping on our lands.”
She connects to the land by sleeping on the ground and cooking on an open fire, just as her ancestors did when they were traveling these lands on horseback and by foot.
Harvey says she will never leave the river because that’s what she was taught by her elders.
“We have a real, deep connection to all these places. Our blood line is here.”
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Harvey’s cousin, Bronsco Jim Jr., was appointed mid-Columbia River chief when he was 21 and in that capacity performs longhouse services, first food ceremonies and funerals. He knows many sacred songs, one of which talks about the birth of the first salmon at a spot in the Columbia River.
“God’s authoritative word comes down upon (the salmon’s) body,” Jim says. “He jumps out of the water in a circular movement, and in that one revolution, he was given life.”
Sunlight streams into the longhouse during a recent ceremonial meal with elders at historic Celilo Village. Supported by tall wooden beams, the building has at its center the altar, a rectangle of earth that Jim cleanses with water before the service begins.
Jim is wearing shell earrings and a beaded necklace with the pendant of a horse’s silhouette honoring his ancestors who rode them. His soft, measured speaking voice rises into song, echoing throughout the room. It has no words but is a deep, visceral, prayerful sound capable of evoking goosebumps or tears.
Tribal members seated around a table bearing the first foods — in order, salmon, roots, berries — join in softly, waving their right hands away from their bodies and then inward toward their chests. The gesture harnesses the light and energy around them and delivers it to their hearts, Jim explains. Tribal beliefs forbid capturing these solemn services in video or photographs because that would freeze the prayers in time and prevent their transmission to the Creator.
In Native families that inhabit the Columbia Basin, education about first foods begins at home and continues in these longhouses, accompanied by teaching and ceremony. Deeply held beliefs also dictate the rules of food gathering.
“You can't just casually go out to gather food,” Jim says.
The ceremony for each of the foods is performed at a different time of year depending on when they become available. The salmon are the first to appear in the spring. The roots are ready to be dug in the summer and different berries are picked in the summer and the fall.
Community members are required to wait for that first feast to honor each food before they head out to harvest it. In the longhouse and out in the mountains, the food-gathering is accompanied by song.
“These songs and ceremonies are part of everything we do,” Jim says. “We need the river and these foods in our lives.”
Losing these irreplaceable foods and their sources could cost them their spiritual identity, he says.
"They feed our body and soul.”
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
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The seventh and final of Dodge’s “Last Call” models, which will based on the Challenger, won’t make its scheduled debut during November’s 2022 SEMA show, Dodge announced late on Monday.
Dodge blamed “product and supply challenges” for the disruption to its plans and said a new reveal date will be announced in due course.
The Last Call cars celebrate the end of the Challenger and Charger nameplates, at least as internal-combustion cars. The 2023 model year is confirmed as the last for the muscle-car duo in their current form. Should either nameplate return in the future, it will be on an electric vehicle.
The Last Call cars reference classic Challenger and Charger models from the past, and have limited production. Other cars in the Last Call collection include the Challenger Shakedown, Charger Super Bee, Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger, Charger King Daytona, and Challenger Black Ghost.
The seventh car is arguably the most anticipated, though Dodge hasn’t released any information on it. Rumors point to it being a Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody with a unique 850-hp version of the Hellcat supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. Such an output would eclipse even 2018’s Challenger SRT Demon, which had 840 hp running on 100 octane fuel and 808 hp on pump gas.
All Challengers and Chargers built for the 2023 model year will feature special goodies signifying them as the last of their kind. While this will vary from model to model, all will come with a commemorative plaque under the hood bearing the scripts “Last Call,” “Designed in Auburn Hills,” and “Assembled in Brampton.” Popular color options will also return, including B5 Blue, Plum Crazy, and Sublime.
As for Dodge’s electric future, it’s been previewed in the form of the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept. Unveiled in August, the sinister coupe looks ahead to Dodge’s first EV, set for an arrival in 2024.
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Pennsylvania’s long-term care facilities face a slew of issues, including staffing and budgetary shortages, that brought frontline caregivers to the state Capitol on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to more funding.
“Long-term care needs a long-term solution and that’s continued investment, Medicaid reimbursement and $99.1 million in [next] year’s state budget, just $12.50 per resident per day,” said Zachary Shamberg, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association, a statewide advocacy group for long-term care providers and residents.
This year’s state budget included a welcomed 17.5% increase in the daily payment toward long-term care residents covered by Medicaid, the first boost in a decade. That combined with federal American Rescue Plan Act funding provided a total of $515 million for long-term care programs.
But long-term care providers say that’s not enough to support the projected 66% growth in the commonwealth’s age 65 and older population in the next 15 years.
“If 2022 was about survival, then 2023 is about sustainability,” Shamberg said. “Who will continue to care?”
Shamberg spoke at a press conference with House Republican Leader Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County, and Rep. Patty Kim D-Dauphin and Cumberland counties. Both representatives emphasized the staffing crisis in long-term care facilities.
“We need to do a better job of making sure there is a career pathway that is easily taken, and for healthcare workers not to have to make the choice of ‘Do I work or do I go to school?’’ Cutler said.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Association is asking for more state funding to increase the reimbursement of residents reliant on Medicaid and help with staffing shortages.
“The problem is not getting better, and in the meantime it’s getting more expensive. Compassion does not pay the bills,” Kim said. “It comes down to investing in our workers to make sure that they feel valued and that they can pay for the things that are going on at home.”
The COVID-19 crisis saw many long-term care workers walk away from the field, because of concerns about the virus and vaccine mandates.
Noelle Kovaleski has worked in long-term care since she was 15 and is now a nursing home administrator in Lackawanna County. During the COVID-19 crisis, Kovaleski worked for 82 days straight, often 12 to 16 hour days, but said that she feels more pressure now than she did in 2020.
“Every day I fear that I am not going to have enough staff to care for my residents. I fear that the staff that I do have will resign to do more lucrative opportunities with less stress and responsibility,” Kovaleski said. “I worry that I cannot continue to keep up with the wages that my competitors are offering, and I spend sleepless nights trying to figure out how I can get through the next day.”
When long-term care facilities don’t have enough staff to meet government-mandated requirements, they have to “buy” more staff from a staffing agency. Kovaleski said that staffing agencies may charge more than double of what the hourly rate is for staff such as registered nurses. This means that long-term care facilities have to shell out more than $40 an hour extra for agency staff.
“You just have to do it because you have to meet those ratios,” Kovaleski said.
Aside from a budget stipend, Shamberg said the Pennsylvania Health Care Association said talks with legislators have been “very, very positive” and found it encouraging Cutler and Kim took the time to participate in their news conference.
“In politics today we don’t see a lot of bipartisan support,” Shamberg said. “To see leaders from both parties advocating for long-term care and for our most vulnerable population, that’s fantastic.”
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BEIJING, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong is more than an international business and financial center – it is an open and diverse place that blends Chinese and Western cultures, and it has always been nurtured and nourished by Chinese culture.
As Hong Kong celebrates the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland, Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Xiqu Centre in the city's West Kowloon Cultural District on Thursday.
During the visit, she learned about the cultural district's planning and latest developments, as well as its work in preserving and promoting Cantonese opera and traditional Chinese theater.
Peng arrived in Hong Kong by train with Xi in the afternoon to attend the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on July 1.
From Xiqu to Chinese cultural heritage
Stretching across 40 hectares of reclaimed land, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, blending art, education, open space and entertainment facilities.
Xiqu Centre, one of the district's first major cultural facilities, offers the opportunity to "explore and learn about Chinese cultural heritage and the different regional forms of xiqu," said its website.
During the visit, Peng watched a rehearsal of Cantonese Opera excerpts by the Tea House Rising Stars Troupe at its Tea House and spoke to the performers.
Thanks to the central government's support, Cantonese Opera was successfully inscribed onto the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2009 as a world intangible cultural heritage item.
The HKSAR government has been in collaboration with the community in the protection, transmission and promotion of Cantonese Opera and other intangible cultural heritage items.
A platform facilitating Chinese and Western cultural exchanges
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, various activities featuring traditional Chinese culture have been held, such as Chinese Kung Fu (Chinese martial arts) performance and the Hanfu (Chinese traditional costume) fashion show.
President Xi said on June 29, 2017, when visiting Hong Kong that he hoped the HKSAR can carry forward its traditional culture, play its role as a platform facilitating Chinese and Western cultural exchanges, and promote cultural exchanges and cooperation with the mainland.
The HKSAR is encouraged to develop into an international hub for cultural exchanges in the country's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).
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MELBOURNE, Fla., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Young's Communications, LLC ("Y-COM" or the "Company"), a premier Florida-based construction services provider to telecommunications, utility, and power infrastructure companies, backed by Grain Management, LLC ("Grain"), announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Borecomm Solutions Inc. ("Borecomm"), an underground telecommunications construction business.
Headquartered in Florida, Borecomm focuses on fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) construction, using specialized assets, equipment, and a skilled team to meet growing network service needs in the region's residential market.
Y-COM CEO Chad Rasmussen said, "Our new partnership with Borecomm is another compelling catalyst for our business as we gain capacity in new markets with increased demand for residential broadband services. The assets this acquisition brings will expand our capabilities in underground construction and allow us to better service the companies meeting the FTTH market needs in our service area."
"The equipment used by Y-COM's growing business is in very high demand," said Nikola Trkulja, Managing Director at Grain, "making this acquisition very exciting for the team. Through partnerships like Borecomm, Y-COM has skillfully navigated around potential supply chain constraints to maintain the highest standard of quality for its clients. We look forward to continued work together targeting new markets and growing Y-COM's service offering."
Borecomm is the third acquisition for Y-COM since Grain acquired the business last year. Shutts & Bowen LLP served as legal advisor to Y-COM in this transaction.
About Y-COM
Young's Communications, LLC was founded in 1972 as a contractor for wiring CATV / TV coaxial cable lines, and today operates as a super regional provider of infrastructure services to the telecommunications, utility, and power sectors. The Company offers a full suite of capabilities, including underground, aerial, and emergency services to its customers. For more information, visit Y-COM's website at www.ycominc.com.
About Grain Management
Grain Management, LLC is a leading global investment firm that focuses on broadband infrastructure and technology companies that connect the world to the information economy. Founded in 2007, Grain invests exclusively in the global telecommunications sector, employing a rigorous, data-based process buoyed by deep industry expertise to identify investment opportunities in key areas of telecommunications infrastructure, including fiber networks, wireless spectrum and cell towers. For more information visit www.graingp.com.
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NINGDE, China, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 17, CATL and NIO signed a five-year comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement in the city of Ningde, Southeast China's Fujian Province. Wei Zhu, executive president of passenger vehicle business unit of CATL, and Alan Zeng, senior vice president of NIO, signed the agreement. Dr. Robin Zeng, founder, chairman and CEO of CATL, and William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, attended the signing ceremony.
The comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement further deepens CATL's strategic partnership with NIO. The two parties will advance technological cooperation in new brands, new projects and new markets, improve supply-demand coordination, propel overseas expansion, and develop the business model centering on long service life batteries.
CATL and NIO will continue to leverage their respective resource advantages to build a battery supply system with efficiency and synergy and improve innovation capabilities and efficiency based on advanced battery technology, thus delivering a more pleasant travel experience to smart electric vehicle users.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pipefy, the industry leader in low-code automation solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been named the winner for Best Procure-to-Pay Software in the prestigious 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Awards. This achievement serves to further highlight Pipefy's commitment to helping businesses centralize and optimize their procure-to-pay process faster and with greater ease than ever before.
The FinTech Breakthrough Awards, hosted by the independent market intelligence organization FinTech Breakthrough, recognize the most innovative and disruptive companies and products in the global financial services and technology industry today. Pipefy's win solidifies its standing as a leader in procure-to-pay solutions.
Pipefy's aim is not only to devise and launch innovative features that centralize and streamline the P2P cycle, but also to provide procurement teams with the resources they need to adapt their processes as circumstances evolve.
Throughout the last year, Pipefy has incorporated advanced automation functionalities, broadened the scope of integrations accessible to users, and focused on enhancing the software's performance and ease of use. Pipefy fosters the digital transformation of procurement procedures by connecting with the ERPs, apps, and systems teams use for procurement and sourcing.
"Being named a winner for Best Procure-to-Pay Software underscores our dedication to providing a top-notch solution for businesses in need of centralized and efficient procurement workflows," said Alessio Alionço, CEO of Pipefy. "We are honored to be recognized by FinTech Breakthrough for our efforts to optimize the procure-to-pay process through our low-code process automation platform."
Pipefy's award-winning low-code automation solution helps finance and IT teams collaborate to build, modify, and automate their P2P processes while simultaneously conserving developer resources. This intuitive, low-code framework helps organizations establish trust in their processes while enhancing efficiency and reducing errors.
"Our team is constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the world of procurement and payment automation," continued Alionço. "This accolade is a testament to the hard work, innovation, and dedication of our entire team, and we look forward to continued success in the years to come."
To learn more about Pipefy's procurement software, go to https://www.pipefy.com/purchasing-software/.
About Pipefy
Pipefy is the low-code process automation platform that increases team productivity and efficiency, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams in IT, Finance, HR, Customer Operations, and more. Through its workflow automation and low-code framework, Pipefy helps businesses achieve stack extensibility and process excellence for every team in every department.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) expanded her lead over Republican challenger Tudor Dixon to 16 points in a poll from the Detroit Free Press released on Thursday.
Fifty-five percent of likely voters said they would support the current governor, compared to the 39 percent who said they would back the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate, the poll found. Six percent were undecided.
Whitmer’s lead has grown by 5 points since an August Free Press poll that showed her at 50 percent and Dixon at 39 percent.
Some Republican strategists have voiced concerns recently that hard-line GOP candidates, like Dixon, may be alienating voters. Dixon said in an interview in August that she only supported abortion exceptions if the life of the mother is in danger and suggested that rape victims could heal through giving birth.
Abortion was a top issue among likely Michigan voters in the Free Press poll, tied with inflation at 24 percent.
Whitmer is also leading Dixon in favorable ratings. While 52 percent of likely voters rated Whitmer favorably, only 24 percent said the same of Dixon. Both candidates had 44 percent unfavorable ratings.
The current governor is drawing on bipartisan support for her reelection bid, with more than 150 Michigan Republicans launching Republicans for Whitmer this month.
The Free Press poll was conducted by EPIC-MRA of Lansing, Mich., from Sept. 15 to 19 with 600 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. | 2022-09-22T21:15:15+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/whitmer-opens-up-16-point-lead-in-michigan-governors-race/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond said Tuesday it will be shuttering 150 more stores as the beleaguered home goods chain cuts costs as it works to stay afloat.
The announcement came after the company based in Union, New Jersey, said it had raised about $1 billion through offerings of preferred stock and warrants to purchase the company’s common stock. The funds will be used to pay off its debt, it said.
The company’s volatile stock, which rose 92% on Monday, fell 47% on Tuesday, ending the day at $3.01, down 82% over the past year.
In early January, Bed Bath & Beyond warned that it may need to file for bankruptcy. A few weeks later, it said it was i n default on its loans and didn’t have sufficient funds to repay what it owes.
The latest store closures come as the chain has been reducing its footprint dramatically over the past year. According to a regulatory filing, it will have shuttered more than 400 stores, nearly half of its fleet. That includes the remaining 50 standalone Harmon Face Value Stores, which sells beauty and household products. The company said it anticipates keeping 360 of its namesake stores in addition to 120 BuyBuy Baby stores.
Bed Bath & Beyond also said in the filing that it expects sales at stores opened at least a year to be down anywhere from 30% to 40% during its first fiscal quarter, with “sequential quarterly improvement after that.” | 2023-02-08T23:30:32+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/money/ap-struggling-bed-bath-beyond-closing-150-more-stores/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders endorsed a plan Thursday for sending Ukraine 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition within the next 12 months to help the country counter Russia’s invasion forces.
EU foreign and defense ministers approved the plan for a fast-track purchasing procedure earlier this week, and the leaders of the bloc’s 27 member nations gave it their political blessing at a summit in Brussels Thursday.
“Taking into account the security and defense interests of all member states, the European Council welcomes the agreement … to deliver ground-to-ground and artillery ammunition to Ukraine and, if requested, missiles,” the meeting’s conclusions on Ukraine read.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked leaders for the initiative earlier during a video call. According to a diplomat with direct knowledge of the conversation, Zelenskyy spoke from a moving train as he visited besieged Ukrainian cities.
The diplomat, who could not be identified because discussions took place behind closed doors, said Zelenskyy also asked leaders to deliver modern aircraft and long-range missiles to help Ukraine’s resistance.
With Ukraine facing ammunition shortages after more than a year of fighting, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas brought to the table last month the idea of the EU setting up a joint purchasing plan similar to the one devised during the coronavirus pandemic to buy vaccines.
“What is critical is sending ammunition to Ukraine fast, because that might bring a change in this war,” Kallas said as she arrived at the summit.
Under the plan, the European Defense Agency will — in parallel with deliveries — aggregate requests from member states to restock, and lead a fast-track procedure for direct negotiations with industrial providers of ammunition in Europe.
According to various estimates, Ukraine is firing 6,000-7,000 artillery shells a day, around a third of Russia’s total.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said this week he secured approval for earmarking 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to encourage member nations to provide artillery shells from their existing stocks and any pending orders. Another 1 billion euros would go toward accelerating new orders and encouraging countries to work together on making purchases through the European Defense Agency or in groups of at least three nations.
Hungary has said it will not take part in getting ammunition to Ukraine, citing its commitment to peace, but said it would not prevent other members from doing so by blocking the deal.
Last month, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the EU was partly to blame for prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine by sanctioning Russia and supplying Ukraine with money and weapons, rather than seeking to negotiate peace with Moscow.
Bulgaria’s president, Rumen Radev, also ruled out the delivery of shells as long as a caretaker government remains in charge in the country.
“This is our sovereign decision,” he said. “Bulgaria will support European diplomatic efforts to restore peace.”
Leaders also discussed the possibility of topping up with an extra 3.5 billion euros the European Peace Facility — a fund being used to reimburse member countries that provide weapons, ammunition and military support to Ukraine.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres joined the EU leaders for lunch on Thursday. Guterres described a grim global situation, with the world facing a “perfect storm” in many parts of the world.
“More hunger, more poverty, less education, less health services,” he said. “And it is clear that our international financial system is not fit for purpose to deal with such a huge challenge.”
The EU leaders also are set to discuss the bloc’s competitiveness and its response to the $369 billion U.S. Inflation Reduction Act. Friday’s discussions will focus on economic and financial issues.
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Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this story.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-03-23T16:57:23+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/eu-leaders-set-to-endorse-more-military-support-for-ukraine/ |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
227 PM CDT Mon May 8 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Austin,
southeastern Burleson and central Washington Counties through 300 PM
CDT...
At 226 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Round Top, or 14 miles west of Brenham, moving north at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Brenham, Somerville, Burton, Lake Somerville Dam, Lake Somerville
State Park & Trailway, Carmine, Lyons, Independence and Quarry.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Badger 5" game were:
05-09-15-24-26
(five, nine, fifteen, twenty-four, twenty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $10,000
¶ Maximum prize: $45,000 | 2022-10-11T04:08:53+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Badger-5-game-17500478.php |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Paper Company (NYSE: IP) (the "Company") announced today that it has commenced a cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to $400 million aggregate principal amount (the "Aggregate Maximum Amount") of its outstanding 8.700% Notes due 2038 (the "8.700% Notes"), 7.75% Notes due 2025 (the "7.75% Notes"), 7.35% Notes due 2025 (the "7.35% Notes"), 7.30% Notes due 2039 (the "7.30% Notes"), 7.20% Notes due 2026 (the "7.20% Notes"), 7.15% Notes due 2027 (the "7.15% Notes"), 6 7/8% Notes due 2023 (the "6 7/8% 2023 Notes"), 6 7/8% Notes due 2029 (the "6 7/8% 2029 Notes"), 6.65% Notes due 2037 (the "6.65% Notes"), 6.40% Notes due 2026 (the "6.40% Notes"), 6.00% Notes due 2041 (the "6.00% Notes"), 5.150% Notes due 2046 (the "5.150% Notes"), 5.000% Notes due 2035 (the "5.000% Notes"), 4.80% Notes due 2044 (the "4.80% Notes"), 4.400% Notes due 2047 (the "4.400% Notes") and 4.350% Notes due 2048 (the "4.350% Notes" and, together with the 8.700% Notes, the 7.75% Notes, the 7.35% Notes, the 7.30% Notes, the 7.20% Notes, the 7.15% Notes, the 6 7/8% 2023 Notes, the 6 7/8% 2029 Notes, the 6.65% Notes, the 6.40% Notes, the 6.00% Notes, the 5.150% Notes, the 5.000% Notes, the 4.80% Notes and the 4.400% Notes, the "Notes"). The terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the Company's offer to purchase dated September 12, 2022 (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase").
In the Offer, the Company is offering to purchase, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, its 8.700% Notes, 7.75% Notes, 7.35% Notes, 7.20% Notes, 7.30% Notes, 7.15% Notes, 6 7/8% 2023 Notes, 6 7/8% 2029 Notes, 6.65% Notes, 6.40% Notes, 6.00% Notes, 5.150% Notes, 5.000% Notes, 4.80% Notes, 4.400% Notes and 4.350% Notes as summarized in the table below, which sets forth certain information regarding the Notes and the Offer:
The aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased in the Offer will not exceed the Aggregate Maximum Amount. Tendered Notes will be accepted in the order of the acceptance priority level for such series (in numerical priority order) as set forth in the table above, with 1 being the highest acceptance priority level, and based on whether the Notes are tendered at or before the Early Tender Deadline or after the Early Tender Deadline, as described in the Offer to Purchase. Notwithstanding the acceptance priority level, if any Notes are purchased in the Offer, Notes tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline will be accepted for purchase in priority to Notes tendered after the Early Tender Deadline and at or prior to the Expiration Time (as defined below). Accordingly, if the Aggregate Maximum Amount is reached in respect of tenders made at or prior to the Early Tender Deadline, no Notes tendered after the Early Tender Deadline (regardless of acceptance priority level) will be accepted for purchase, unless we increase the Aggregate Maximum Amount. Under certain circumstances, Notes accepted for purchase in the Offer may be subject to proration, so that the aggregate principal amount of Notes accepted for purchase in the Offer will not exceed the Aggregate Maximum Amount.
The Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on October 7, 2022 unless extended (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time") or earlier terminated. Holders of Notes must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes at or before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 23, 2022, unless extended (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Deadline") to be eligible to receive the Total Consideration for the applicable series of Notes. Any Notes tendered before the Early Tender Deadline may be withdrawn at any time at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 23, 2022, unless extended (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Withdrawal Deadline").
Holders of Notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or before the Early Tender Deadline, and that are accepted for purchase will receive the applicable Total Consideration for such Notes, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase. Holders of Notes that are validly tendered after the Early Tender Deadline and at or before the Expiration Time and accepted for purchase will receive the applicable Tender Consideration for such Notes, which equals the Total Consideration for Notes of such series minus the applicable Early Tender Premium for the applicable series, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase (the "Tender Consideration").
The date of payment for Notes validly tendered at or before the Early Tender Deadline and accepted for purchase is referred to as the "Early Settlement Date." The date of payment for Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Deadline and at or before the Expiration Time and accepted for purchase is referred to as the "Final Settlement Date." The Early Settlement Date is expected to be September 27, 2022 and the Final Settlement Date is expected to be October 12, 2022. The Early Settlement Date and the Final Settlement Date are each referred to as a "Settlement Date." Holders whose Notes are accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on their purchased Notes from the last interest payment date for such Notes to, but excluding, the Early Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date, as applicable.
The "Total Consideration" for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes tendered and accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer will be determined in the manner described in the Offer to Purchase by reference to the applicable Fixed Spread specified in the table above for a series of the Notes over the yield based on the bid-side price of the applicable Reference U.S. Treasury Security specified in the table above, as calculated by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on September 26, 2022, unless extended (the "Price Determination Time").
Notes tendered may be validly withdrawn at any time at or before the Withdrawal Deadline, but not thereafter, except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law (as determined by the Company). Notes tendered after the Withdrawal Deadline may not be withdrawn except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal rights are required by law (as determined by the Company).
The Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase.
The Company has retained Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. to serve as Lead Dealer Manager for the Offer. The Company has also retained Global Bondholder Services Corporation to serve as depositary and information agent for the Offer.
Requests for documents relating to the Offer may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation by telephone at (855) 654-2015 or (212) 430-3774, in writing at 65 Broadway, Suite 404, New York, New York 10006. Questions regarding the Offer may be directed to Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. at 1 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019, Attn: Liability Management Group, Toll-free: (866) 627-0391, Collect: (212) 250-2955.
This press release is not a tender offer to purchase or a solicitation of acceptance of a tender offer, which may be made only pursuant to the terms of the Offer to Purchase. In any jurisdiction where the laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer will be deemed made on behalf of the Company by one of the Dealer Managers or one or more registered brokers or dealers under the laws of such jurisdiction.
None of the Company, its board of directors, the depositary, the information agent, any of the Dealer Managers or the trustee for the Notes is making any recommendation as to whether holders should tender Notes in response to the Offer. Holders must make their own decisions as to whether to tender Notes, and, if so, the principal amount of Notes to tender.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements related to the expected timing, terms and completion of the Offer, and similar statements concerning anticipated future events and expectations that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "could," "should" and "would," and variations of these words or comparable words. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, and inherently involve risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the following: the amount of Notes tendered and satisfaction of the conditions of the Offer contained in the Offer to Purchase. Other factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing materially from such forward looking statements are discussed in greater detail in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. We undertake no obligation to make any revision to the forward-looking statements contained in this press release or to update them to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
About International Paper
International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a leading global producer of renewable fiber-based products. We produce corrugated packaging products that protect and promote goods, and enable worldwide commerce, and pulp for diapers, tissue and other personal care products that promote health and wellness. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., we employ approximately 38,000 colleagues globally. We serve customers worldwide, with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, North Africa and Europe. Net sales for 2021 were $19.4 billion. Additional information can be found by visiting internationalpaper.com.
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DENVER — Registration for Colorado's largest running event has begun.
The Denver Colfax Marathon presented by Cigna returns to its traditional spring date next year on Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21, 2023.
More than 20,000 runners are expected to participate in the 17th annual Denver Colfax Marathon, which will again serve as a Boston Marathon-qualifying event.
The 2023 Denver Colfax Marathon weekend will include a marathon, half marathon, 10 miler, 5K and the nation’s largest marathon relay.
Race organizers said the first 500 runners that register will receive the lowest prices of the season.
The marathon travels through Denver's City Park, Denver Fire Station No. 1, Empower Field at Mile High and Sloan Lake. The half marathon traverses through Denver Zoo.
Denver Colfax Marathon registration is available at RunColfax.org.
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BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is set to visit Buchanan County families impacted by Tuesday night’s floods.
On Friday at 11 a.m., the governor will arrive at Twin Valley Elementary/Middle School to unload supplies at the community resource center and meet with families to hear firsthand accounts of the flooding that either damaged or destroyed 400 structures.
Youngkin will then travel to M&M Body Shop in Pilgrims Knob — one area that was hit the hardest — to see how businesses were impacted and meet the business owners.
This is a developing story. | 2022-07-15T15:01:56+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/virginia/youngkin-visiting-those-affected-by-buchanan-co-floods/ |
A U.S. judge this week ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent the harming of humpback whales by West Coast commercial fishermen catching sablefish.
The Endangered Species Act requires the fisheries service to develop a plan to reduce the number of whales accidentally injured or killed by the fishery, but the agency neither crafted such a plan nor started to create one, the ruling said.
About 150 commercial fishing vessels use traps to capture sablefish in waters off California, Oregon and Washington.
The fish dwell on muddy ocean floors deeper than 650 feet (200 meters). To target the fish, fishermen place multiple heavy pots on the seafloor and link them together with heavy-duty fishing line.
The number of pots range from 15 to 50 while the lines can stretch about two miles (three kilometers), according to court documents. The fishery deployed an annual average of 75,000 pots from 2015 to 2019, the document said.
U.S. District Court Judge James Donato found inadequate the agency’s reasoning that it didn’t have enough money to develop take-reduction plans for all species that need them. The judge said insufficient funds may absolve the government from meeting all deadlines for such plans, but the agency “cannot indefinitely delay” creating them.
Donato ordered the parties back in court next month to discuss the next steps.
Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for the agency, said officials are reviewing the decision and didn’t have further comment at this time.
Donato’s ruling responds to a lawsuit filed last year by the Center for Biological Diversity, a major environmentalist organization. The complaint said humpback whales can die of starvation or infection when they become entangled in sablefish pot gear.
Fishing lines can wrap around a whale, sometimes anchoring the whale in place, which can drown or severely injure it, the lawsuit said. Whales can also swim away, dragging the gear behind. In such cases, fishing line can dig into the whale’s body and drain its energy.
Most of the fishing was concentrated off Astoria and Newport in Oregon and off Fort Bragg and San Francisco in California, the lawsuit said.
Humpback whales live in oceans around the world and often migrate long distances. In the North Pacific, they feed in colder waters during the summer and breed in warmer waters during the winter.
There are two distinct populations of humpback whales in West Coast waters. The Mexico population is classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. These whales breed and calve along the Pacific coast of Mexico and feed from California to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
The Central America population is endangered. These whales breed and calve in waters off Costa Rica, Guatemala and other Central American counties. In the summer, they swim north to feed in waters off California, Oregon Washington and British Columbia. | 2023-03-16T18:09:09+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/judge-wants-plan-to-protect-humpback-whales-from-fishery/ |
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has fired the director of its top intelligence agency amid two separate cases of hacking of politicians’ cellphones, Spanish media reports said Tuesday.
Spain’s EFE news agency and other media report that Spain’s Cabinet agreed Paz Esteban would be relieved as head of Spain’s National Intelligence Center, or CNI.
The Cabinet is expected to make an official announcement later Tuesday.
The decision comes after Esteban admitted last week in a closed-door committee of Spain’s Parliament that her agency had legally hacked the phones of several Catalan separatists after receiving judicial permission.
Her agency is also under scrutiny for recent revelations by the government that the cellphones of both Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the defense minister were also infected with the Pegasus spyware by an “external” power.
The 64-year-old Esteban became the first woman to head the CNI in July 2019, first on an interim basis before her appointment was made permanent in February 2020.
Esteban’s predecessor had received criticism for failing in 2017 to stop preparations by Catalan separatists to hold an independence referendum that had been deemed illegal by Spain’s top courts.
The alleged phone hacks of more than 60 Catalan politicians, lawyers and activists was denounced last month in areport by the Canada-based digital rights group Citizen Lab.
The list of phones that were allegedly infected by Pegasus spyware, which the Israeli company NSO says it only sells to government agencies, includes the current regional head of northeast Catalonia. The Citizen Lab report says the hacks started in late 2019, with Esteban in charge of the CNI.
Sánchez’s minority left-wing coalition has often had to rely on votes Parliament from Catalan separatist parties, which have threatened to withdraw their support if the government doesn’t accept responsibility for the hacking.
Defense Minister Margarita Robles, whose phone was victim of a separate hack by unknown actors, has defended the targeting of Catalan politicians for their involvement in a separatist plot that tried and failed to separate Catalonia from the rest of Spain five years ago.
The CNI has also been accused of neglecting the security of the phones of Sánchez and Robles.
In the aftermath of the Catalan hacks, the government announced last week that scans of the phones of its government head and top defense official had revealed that they had been infected by Pegasus spyware in May and June of 2021. They said that the perpetrator was unknown.
The leader of Spain’s conservatives, the leading opposition party, slammed the decision. He said the government had sacrificed Esteban to the Catalan separatists.
“It is a monstrosity that Sánchez offers the head of the CNI director to the separatists, once again weakening the State to assure his survival,” Popular Party president Alberto Nuñez Feijóo wrote on Twitter.
But Gabriel Rufián, the parliamentary spokesman of for the Catalan party ERC, said that dismissal of Esteban was not about appeasing the separatists.
“It seems logical, with all my respects to Esteban, that in a country that admits that the phones of the prime minister and defense minister have been illegally spied upon for the head of the CNI to assume the responsibility,” Rufián said.
Esteban had always maintained a low profile as appropriate for her profession. After obtaining university degrees in philosophy and literature, she joined Spain’s intelligence services as an analyst in 1983 before working her way up to its top job. | 2022-05-10T11:11:15+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/reports-spain-fires-intelligence-chief-amid-hacking-scandal/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Iranian-born brothers were charged in Sweden with aggravated espionage for allegedly spying for Russia and its military intelligence service GRU for around a decade, prosecutors said Friday. One of the men worked for Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency.
Authorities identified them as Peyman Kia, 42, and Payam Kia, 35. One of the brothers was also indicted for the alleged gross unauthorized handling of secret information. It wasn’t immediately clear which of them it was.
“It has been a complex investigation concerning a crime that is very difficult to investigate and the suspicion concerns very serious criminality directed against Sweden’s intelligence and security system,” National Security Unit chief prosecutor Per Lindqvist said.
“The information that has been obtained, transmitted and divulged could, by the fact that if it comes into the hands of a foreign power, result in detriment to Sweden’s security,” Lindqvist said in a statement.
He later told The Associated Press that the case involved “extremely sensitive topics,” but declined to elaborate.
According to the charge sheet obtained by the AP , the men have “jointly” passed information to the Russian military intelligence service GRU during the period Sept. 28, 2011-Sept. 20, 2021.
It added that the data were acquired through one of the men’s work within Sweden’s domestic intelligence agency and the country’s armed forces. The data originates from several authorities within the Swedish security and the intelligence service.
His brother helped with the contacts with “Russia and the GRU including matters of surrender of information and receipt of compensation.” According to the charges, Payam Kia “dismantled and broke a hard drive which was later found in a trash can” when his brother was arrested.
The case has been investigated by Sweden’ domestic security service, SAPO. Sweden’s prosecution authority said much of the information in the preliminary investigation is secret and could not offer details.
SAPO said it became suspicious of the former employee and a preliminary investigation was launched in 2017. Lindqvist said the inquiry was started “because there was a suspicion that there was a mole, an insider” within Sweden’s intelligence community.
The domestic spy agency confirmed that Peyman Kia had worked there between 2014 and 2015, and that before that had worked in the Swedish armed forces. “It is during these employments that the suspected acquisition must have taken place.”
Swedish media said that he worked for the armed forces’ foreign defense intelligence agency MUST and reportedly worked with a top secret unit under MUST which was dealing with Swedish spies abroad. He later worked for Swedish Customs.
“The suspected crime is a risk that every security service is well aware of, although we do everything to counter it,” said Anders Kassman at SAPO.
Peder Ohlsson, head of the armed forces’ press department, called the crimes “very serious.”
Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson said he had been informed of the case, but declined to comment.
The brothers became Swedish citizens in 1994, and the Expressen daily quoted one of the men as saying that he speaks Persian fluently. The younger brother, reportedly has worked for SAPO, Swedish media reported..
They were arrested in September and November 2021. Both have denied any wrongdoing, Swedish media reported. The brothers face up to life imprisonment if convicted. A life sentence in Sweden generally means a minimum of 20-25 years in prison. | 2022-11-11T15:49:45+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-iran-born-brothers-charged-in-sweden-with-spying-for-russia/ |
Jelena Ostapenko 2023 Viking International Eastbourne Odds
As action in the Viking International Eastbourne nears its conclusion, a quarterfinal is coming up for Jelena Ostapenko versus Camila Giorgi. Ostapenko has the second-best odds at +350 to win this tournament at Devonshire Park International Tennis Centre.
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Ostapenko at the 2023 Viking International Eastbourne
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 23 - July 1
- Venue: Devonshire Park International Tennis Centre
- Location: Eastbourne, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Ostapenko's Next Match
After beating Harriet Dart 6-3, 6-4, Ostapenko will face Giorgi in the quarterfinals on Thursday, June 29 at 11:00 AM ET.
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Jelena Ostapenko Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +1600
- US Open odds to win: +2800
- Viking International Eastbourne odds to win: +350
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Ostapenko Stats
- In the Round of 16 on Wednesday, Ostapenko defeated No. 142-ranked Dart, 6-3, 6-4.
- In 20 tournaments over the past 12 months, Ostapenko has gone 33-19 and has won one title.
- Ostapenko has won one tournament over the past year on grass, with a record of 7-1 on that surface.
- Ostapenko, over the past year, has played 52 matches across all court types, and 22.7 games per match.
- Ostapenko, over the past year, has played eight matches on grass, and 26.9 games per match.
- Over the past year, Ostapenko has won 68.3% of her service games, and she has won 39.8% of her return games.
- Ostapenko has claimed 79.4% of her service games on grass over the past year and 37% of her return games.
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This flu season is expected to be more intense than the past few seasons.
“This upcoming flu season is not going to be like the past two flu seasons which were virtually non-existent because of all the social distancing and mask wearing,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said.
Australia recently reported its worst flu season in five years. How the flu season goes in the Southern Hemisphere is a strong indicator for the Northern Hemisphere’s flu season.
“It should be a flu season that is reminiscent of those pre-pandemic,” Dr. Adalja said. He recommends his patients to get a flu shot late October to early November.
Experts say the elderly are at the highest risk for severe disease.
“There are a lot of different flu vaccines and it’s important to talk to your doctor to see which might be the best for you,” Dr. Adalja said.
There are three flu vaccines preferentially recommended for people 65 year or older, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Those include the Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine, Flublok Quadrivalent recombinant flu vaccine and Fluad Quadrivalent adjuvanted flu vaccine.
Vaccine effectiveness can vary, but recent studies show flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40 and 60 percent, according to the CDC.
Dr. Adalja said you can get a flu vaccine and a COVID booster shot at the same time.
“You may have a little bit more side effects when you do that but it is something you can do for convenience,” he said.
On average, up to 41 million people catch the flu every year, which can result in up to 52,000 deaths, according to the CDC. | 2022-10-06T20:17:27+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/cdc-recommends-stronger-shots-for-seniors-for-what-could-be-a-bad-flu-season |
4 people shot at Indiana park during memorial for slain man
Published: Apr. 12, 2023 at 6:46 PM PDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Four people were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at an Indiana park during a memorial, police said.
The shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. during a balloon release at McCormick Park in Fort Wayne, Officer Anthony Krock told The Journal Gazette.
One woman and three men were taken to a hospital. Krock did not release their conditions.
Krissy Williams told the newspaper that the memorial was held to honor Tyreece Vachon, 19, who was fatally shot Tuesday outside an apartment complex.
Police did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Greg Henry will present at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference in New York, New York. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. PT / 1:30 p.m. ET. Couchbase management will also participate in investor meetings. A live webcast and replay will be available on the Company's investor relations website.
About Couchbase
Modern customer experiences need a flexible database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase's mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers – all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications. For more information, visit www.couchbase.com and follow us on Twitter @couchbase.
Couchbase®, the Couchbase logo and the names and marks associated with Couchbase's products are trademarks of Couchbase, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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$2.85 million committed to humanitarian agency since 2011
EDMONTON, AB, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - PCL Construction is pleased to announce a combined $600,000 donation to the Canadian Red Cross and American Red Cross disaster management programs. This commitment continues our long-time partnership with Red Cross and will see $100,000 donated to each agency this year and in 2024 and 2025.
As part of its worldwide efforts, the Red Cross assists victims of weather emergencies and other catastrophic disasters across North America and supports humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. At PCL, we're committed to building a better future together, and this renewed commitment will help Red Cross immediately deploy resources where they're needed most.
"Recent news of wildfires and other extreme weather events in Canada and the United States reminds us that a disaster can suddenly leave people without basic necessities," said Dave Filipchuk, president and CEO, PCL Construction. "PCL is committed to leaving positive legacies in the communities where we live and work, and contributing to Red Cross is just one way we do that."
PCL's donations provide financial support for Red Cross disaster management programs in both Canada and the United States. These programs prepare communities for crisis situations through investment in disaster-response operations, training and infrastructure. PCL has also contributed to specific disaster relief efforts, including Red Cross responses to wildfires in Fort McMurray, earthquakes in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina. Learn more about the impacts of donating to the Red Cross here.
This commitment will bring PCL's total contributions to the Canadian and American Red Cross societies to $2.85 million since 2011.
PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and in Australia. These diverse operations in the civil infrastructure, heavy industrial and buildings markets are supported by a strategic presence in more than 30 major centers. Together, these companies have an annual construction volume of more than $8 billion, making PCL the largest contracting organization in Canada and one of the largest in North America. Watch us build at PCL.com.
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Bidens' tax returns show they paid $137,658 in federal income tax
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, made $579,514 last year and paid $137,658 in federal income taxes. That works out to a 23.8% tax rate, more than the average of roughly 14% for all U.S. households.
The Bidens' earnings have trended slightly downward over the past three years, after averaging more than $600,000 in 2020 and 2021. The median U.S. household income was $69,717 in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Releasing their tax returns
The White House on Tuesday released the tax returns of the Bidens and Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. This once routine rite of passage for presidents and aspirants to the Oval Office became a source of controversy under Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, who declined to release his taxes and ultimately had six years' worth of returns released last year by a House committee.
More:These Delawareans are on TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2023
The Bidens' income has dropped since 2019, when they earned nearly $1 million, primarily from book sales, speeches and their teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia Community College. The former vice president and Delaware senator often notes in speeches that he was once the poorest lawmaker in the Senate, so much so that he could not afford a home in Washington and had to commute by Amtrak.
In a Rose Garden speech about child care Tuesday, Biden said he couldn't keep a home in Delaware and also afford a home for his family in Washington during his 36 years as a senator.
The Bidens' salaries
As president, Biden earned a salary of $400,000. His wife, Jill, was paid $82,335 for her job teaching at Northern Virginia Community College. They paid state taxes of $29,023 in Delaware and $3,129 in Virginia.
The Bidens gave $20,180 to 20 different charities. The largest gift was $5,000 to the Beau Biden Foundation, a nonprofit that works to combat child abuse and is named for their son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015 at age 46. They gave $1,680 to St. Joseph on the Brandywine, the church in Delaware that the president attends. The Bidens also donated $2,000 to the Fraternal Order of Police Foundation.
More:It was a moment that inspired an F Bomb. Biden celebrates 13 years of Affordable Care Act.
The tax filings of the vice president and her husband showed them earning $456,918. They paid $93,570 in federal income tax for a rate of 20.5%. They also paid $17,612 in California income tax, while Harris' husband paid $9,697 in District of Columbia income tax for his work at Georgetown University's law school. They contributed $23,000 to charity.
Biden campaigned on the transparency of his personal finances, releasing 22 years of tax filings ahead of the 2020 election. It was a direct challenge to Trump, who argued for years that an audit prevented him from releasing his taxes — though the IRS had mandated for four-plus decades that the tax returns of sitting presidents and vice presidents be audited.
Tuesday was the deadline for paying federal taxes. | 2023-04-19T17:14:08+00:00 | delawareonline.com | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2023/04/19/joe-jill-biden-federal-income-tax-returns-declining-earnings-tax-day/70130167007/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-02-07-08-10-11-14-15-17-21-22
(one, two, seven, eight, ten, eleven, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two) | 2022-07-31T19:38:00+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Midday-17341514.php |
As summer heats up, 7-Eleven is helping folks cool down with free Slurpees for a limited time.
The convenience store is giving away a free small Slurpee to customers in honor of its 96th birthday on Tuesday, July 11.
It's just birthday business as usual for 7-Eleven, which has been giving away free Slurpees each year on July 11 since 2002.
This year customers can get an extra frozen drink by utilizing 7-Eleven's or Speedway's rewards programs, and you don't have to wait until Tuesday to claim the freebie.
You'll have a chance to try limited edition Slurpee flavors like Sprite Lymonade Legacy, Fanta Dragon Fruit Zero Sugar, Hibiscus Lemonade and Summertime Citrus.
Here's how to double your chances for brain freeze:
How to get free Slurpees
Slurpee Day: July 11
On Tuesday, July 11, all customers can visit their local 7-Eleven, Speedway or Stripes convenience store and ask for their free Slurpee.
There's no coupon or app needed in-store this year, unlike the past three years. In 2020, 7-Eleven canceled free Slurpee day because of the COVID-19 pandemic, opting to give loyalty customers a coupon in its rewards app that they could redeem throughout the month of July, to discourage large crowds.
How to get an extra Slurpee
People who are part of the free 7REWARDS and Speedy Rewards programs will get a coupon in the app for an additional free Slurpee. Members can scan their app or physical rewards card at checkout to redeem the coupon starting July 1.
To sign up, download the 7-Eleven or Speedway app, or sign up in person.
Delivery
Customers can order a free Slurpee through 7-Eleven's delivery service, 7NOW, on Saturday, July 8 only.
Other deals
Loyalty members will also get access to $1 food deals on pizza slices and other snacks. | 2023-07-08T04:29:58+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/7-eleven-free-slurpee-day-2023/507-2502d427-4e92-40c3-af4e-0f118c60f15d |
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis on Saturday took to the streets in protests, now in their 11th week, against plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government to overhaul the country’s legal system.
The protesters say the proposed changes undermine the country's democracy by restricting the power of the Supreme Court. Netanyahu and his allies say the plan is needed to curb what they claim are excessive powers of unelected judges.
The main protest in the central city of Tel Aviv drew tens of thousands of people who waved Israeli flags and traffic sign banners that read “Dead End!” and “Risk Ahead!” Smaller protests were reported in other parts of the country.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu swiftly rejected a compromise proposal by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to resolve the standoff, deepening the crisis over a program that has roiled the country and drawn international criticism.
Israeli police deployed a water cannon to disperse protesters gathered at a main junction in Karkur, a town in northern Israel.
A video obtained by The Associated Press showed the water canon spraying at protesters as they chanted “Democracy,” in Hebrew. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured.
Netanyahu and his ultranationalist and religious coalition allies have pledged to plow ahead with the legal changes despite the demonstrations. Business leaders, legal experts and retired military leaders have joined the protests, and Israeli reservists have threatened to stop reporting for duty if the overhaul passes.
In the latest step of the overhaul plans, the Israeli parliament on Monday advanced a bill that would make it harder to oust Netanyahu over the corruption charges against him, as it plowed ahead with the broader plan to overhaul the judiciary. | 2023-03-18T20:48:40+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/israelis-protest-legal-overhaul-plans-for-11th-17847271.php |
WARREN, N.J. and MUMBAI, India, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LTIMindtree (NSE: LTIM) (BSE: 540005), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, today announced that it has partnered with Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT), the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance, and Microsoft to build a solution that will enable insurers to migrate their on-premises core systems to the cloud in a quick and efficient manner.
The solution brings together LTIMindtree's core modernization expertise, migration tools, and accelerators, Duck Creek's industry-leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform 'Duck Creek OnDemand', and Microsoft's comprehensive and secure Azure cloud platform. It will help insurers gain competitive advantage by delivering superior customer experience, innovation, cost-efficiency, and revenue growth. LTIMindtree's comprehensive end-to-end cloud migration framework and remediation bots empower insurers to fully harness the agility and power of Duck Creek OnDemand to achieve predictable outcomes and transform their businesses.
"Insurers of all sizes are increasingly looking to tap into SaaS-based core systems to boost their ability to launch new products, reach new customers, and provide differentiated experiences," said Mukund Rao, Chief Business Officer for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance at LTIMindtree. "Our solution will help them take a holistic approach to 'core-to-experience' transformation for thriving in the marketplace of the future."
"As customer demands and digital technologies evolve, insurers must drive continuous product innovation, accelerated speed-to-market, higher responsiveness, and personalized omnichannel experiences to stay relevant and resilient," said Rohit Bedi, Chief Revenue Officer at Duck Creek Technologies. "This solution will make it faster and easier for insurers to achieve their strategic goals by realizing future-ready, cloud-based core systems."
"Amid a fast-changing insurance landscape, it is imperative for insurers to thrive on disruption and convergence by empowering intelligent insurance," said Kim Vogel, GM Insurance Sales for Microsoft Corp. "By combining capabilities of Microsoft, Duck Creek, and LTIMindtree, this solution will enable new ways for insurers to boost agility, delight customers, drive new business models, enhance partner collaboration, and achieve better business outcomes. It will help insurers leapfrog operational challenges and complexities to deliver higher availability, scalability, security, and resiliency of their core systems."
About LTIMindtree
LTIMindtree is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. As a digital transformation partner to more than 700 clients, LTIMindtree brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world. Powered by nearly 90,000 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, LTIMindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — combines the industry-acclaimed strengths of erstwhile Larsen and Toubro Infotech and Mindtree in solving the most complex business challenges and delivering transformation at scale. For more information, please visit www.ltimindtree.com.
About Duck Creek Technologies
Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT) is the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of the property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance industry. We are the platform upon which modern insurance systems are built, enabling the industry to capitalize on the power of the cloud to run agile, intelligent, and evergreen operations. Authenticity, purpose, and transparency are core to Duck Creek, and we believe insurance should be there for individuals and businesses when, where, and how they need it most. Our market-leading solutions are available on a standalone basis or as a full suite, and all are available via Duck Creek OnDemand. Visit www.duckcreek.com to learn more. Follow Duck Creek on our social channels for the latest information – LinkedIn and Twitter.
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The D.C. United soccer team announced Friday that it had fired the club's athletic trainer for allegedly making a "discriminatory hand gesture" in a photo that appeared on social media one day earlier.
Though the club didn't name him in its statement, the Washington Post reported that the person let go was Reade Whitney. He is listed on D.C. United's website as the head athletic trainer.
According to the newspaper, Whitney was fired after a team photo showed him displaying what's commonly understood to be the "OK" hand signal, a gesture that's been increasingly used by white supremacists in recent years.
"There is no place for racism, homophobia, misogyny, or discrimination of any kind in our sport and world and D.C. United do not tolerate any acts of this nature," the team said in a statement.
Efforts to reach Whitney for comment were not immediately successful.
The "OK" hand gesture — making a circle with the thumb and index finger while the other three fingers point out — is typically used to indicate that all is well.
But experts say the once-innocuous signal has also been adopted by white supremacists and other far-right groups recently.
The Anti-Defamation League lists it among the symbols used by hate groups, and the Southern Poverty Law Center says it's commonly deployed by white nationalists and internet trolls.
Whitney's firing was announced a few hours before the team said it was also suspending two players while Major League Soccer investigates possible violations of league policy.
D.C. United players Taxi Fountas and Nigel Robertha were placed on paid administrative leave and would be unavailable for team activities, the club said.
The Athletic reported that Fountas was accused of directing a racial slur toward Robertha in a recent training session, and that Robertha physically assaulted Fountas in response.
It's unclear if Whitney's firing and the matter involving the two players are related.
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New research analyzed 40,000 threats in customer environments to uncover the most impactful trends, threats, and techniques
Findings showed a notable increase in cloud and identity-specific techniques
Eight out of the top 10 threats are regularly observed during early stages of ransomware intrusions
DENVER, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Canary, a leader in managed detection and response, today unveiled its fifth annual Threat Detection Report. This in-depth report is based on analysis of approximately 40,000 threats identified in 250 petabytes of telemetry collected from the company's customers' cloud workloads, identities, SaaS applications, networks, and endpoints over the past year. This research highlights the trends Red Canary's experts observed as adversaries continue to organize, commoditize, and scale their cybercriminal operations. It also includes an examination of the techniques and tools that adversaries rely on most often when they conduct cyber attacks.
"Our aim with this report is to provide everyone from executives to practitioners with a comprehensive view of the threat landscape, including new twists on existing adversary tradecraft," said Keith McCammon, co-founder and Chief Security Officer at Red Canary. "The Threat Detection Report offers unique data and insights, accompanied by recommended actions. From taking back control of the attack surface to how to monitor for attacks targeting cloud-based infrastructure and applications, we hope this report provides organizations with what they need to effectively detect and respond to cybersecurity threats."
Red Canary's visibility into organizations' technology environments has continued to expand in breadth and depth. An increase in data sources for the Threat Detection Report over the past year has shed light on new trends, threats, and techniques, including:
Trends
- Social engineering, account takeover, and modified email rules are driving a rise in email account compromises.
- Identity attack trends included intercepting multi-factor authentication (MFA) requests and compromising data from Office 365.
- Initial access tradecraft relied heavily on compressed archives and container file types in phishing emails as well as SEO poisoning and malvertising.
Threats
- Offensive security tools such as Mimikatz, Cobalt Strike, Impacket, and BloodHound all made the list of top threats.
- Raspberry Robin activity, spread by USB drives, was discovered by Red Canary in May 2022. It is occasionally paired with SocGholish, a ransomware precursor, which also made it into the list of the top 10 threats affecting Red Canary customers in 2022.
Techniques
- Endpoint-based administration, automation, and management utilities such as the Windows Command Shell, PowerShell, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) continued to be the most common adversary techniques.
- Research showed a noticeable increase in cloud and identity-specific techniques.
The full report is intended as a reference library for security practitioners to improve their ability to prevent, mitigate, detect, and emulate cyber threats. It offers detailed guidance on data sources that log relevant evidence of adversary behaviors, tools that collect from those data sources, how security teams can use this visibility to develop detection coverage, and much more deeply actionable information.
Learn more
- The full report is available now: https://redcanary.com/resources/guides/threat-detection-report/
- A condensed executive summary version of the report is also available: https://redcanary.com/resources/guides/threat-detection-report-exec-summary/
Methodology
The Threat Detection Report sets itself apart from other annual reports by offering unique data and insights, accompanied by recommended actions derived from a combination of expansive visibility and expert, human-led investigation and confirmation of threats.
Each of the nearly 40,000 threats were not prevented by the customers' expansive security controls. They are the product of a breadth and depth that Red Canary leverages to detect the threats that would otherwise go undetected.
About Red Canary
Red Canary is a leader in managed detection and response (MDR). We serve companies of every size and industry, focusing on finding and stopping threats before they can have a negative impact. As the security ally for 800+ organizations, we provide MDR across our customers' cloud workloads, identities, SaaS applications, networks, and endpoints. For more information about Red Canary, visit: https://www.redcanary.com.
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(WHTM) — Some people watch the Super Bowl for the football, some watch it for the Halftime Show, and some watch it for the commercials.
Year-after-year, the Super Bowl breaks records for the most watched television broadcast in the United States. According to sportsnaut.com, since the year 2010 the Super Bowl has averaged over 100 million viewers.
From an advertising standpoint, this arguably would be the best place to advertise your product. You’ll get the views and if your commercial is “Super Bowl commercial worthy,” you’ll probably have lots of word-of-mouth.
However, there is a small issue.
Super Bowl commercials are expensive.
Let’s say you work on the advertising team for a relatively new company. You’re looking into advertising your product but don’t know where to start.
Most companies will start promoting locally. According to Skyworks Marketing, you can buy a 30 second commercial on your local television channel for around $5-$10 per 1,000 views.
Let’s say your company starts to grow and you begin selling your product on a national level. According to Statista, you can buy a commercial slot for national television channels starting at $115,000.
Now you’ve made it big, and the logical next step is to purchase a Super Bowl commercial.
There are a lot of different factors when it comes to the cost of buying a commercial, but the average price of Super Bowl commercials is $7 million.
For many companies, investing in Super Bowl commercials has really paid off. Take Budweiser for example.
Most people associate Budweiser with the Clydesdales, who also appear in Budweiser’s iconic commercials. Many people look for the Budweiser commercials just to see the Clydesdales.
Budweiser has spent nearly $500 million on Super Bowl ads, according to Statista. This makes Budweiser the Super Bowl’s largest commercial partner.
Large companies, like Amazon, aren’t afraid to shell out some cash in order to get their name out there. Amazon spent $26 million on their Alexa voice assistant commercial in 2022, making it the most expensive advertisement in Super Bowl history.
Super Bowl commercials are known for being memorable. However, commercials weren’t always the way they are today.
Advertising used to focus heavily on selling the product. For example, if you saw a commercial for a sponge before the 1960’s, it was likely the commercial would show a demonstration of the sponge, provide information about the sponge, and tell you the cost.
Companies still follow this instructional method; however, many companies focus on connecting with the emotions of their audience through storytelling.
In the 1960’s things started to change. Companies started to create stories with their advertisements and focused less on selling the product itself.
Super Bowl commercials almost always tell a story, connecting with the emotions of their viewers. That is what makes these commercials so effective. | 2023-02-08T21:14:03+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/how-much-does-a-super-bowl-commercial-cost/ |
Mother charged with attempted murder after throwing child off bridge, police say
Published: Sep. 24, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
HOUMA, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - A woman in Louisiana is accused of throwing her child off a bridge Friday evening.
WVUE reports the Houma Police Department received a call around 5 p.m. regarding a mother throwing her 18-month-old child off the Liberty Street Bridge before jumping into the water herself.
Police said the boy is expected to recover after he was transported to an area hospital for treatment.
Authorities identified the mother as Asha Randolph. Houma police said the incident remains under investigation, but Randolph has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — One good break. One great shot. That’s what it took Sunday for Patrick Cantlay to win the BMW Championship for the second straight time with a finish that was nothing like last year except for his clutch moments.
One other difference: The victory didn’t give him the No. 1 seed going into the FedEx Cup finale next week at East Lake in Atlanta.
That was of little concern to Cantlay after his birdie-par finish for a 2-under 69, giving him a one-shot victory over Scott Stallings at Wilmington Country Club.
“I was glad not to go six holes in a playoff,” Cantlay said, referring to his unlikely playoff win last year at Caves Valley over Bryson DeChambeau.
This looked to be headed that way when Cantlay and Stallings were tied down the stretch, with Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele lurking.
Tied with two holes to play, Cantlay took an aggressive line to cut off the corner of a dogleg and figured he was headed for a cluster of bunkers. But the ball landed short of the last bunker, took a big hop over the sand, and tumbled into the first cut and rolled out to the fairway, just 64 yards from the hole.
“I thought hitting it on that line, it would for sure be in a bunker,” he said. “Got an excellent break — maybe one of the best breaks I’ve gotten coming down the stretch — and when you get a break like that you need to pay it off.”
That he did, hitting a spinner with a wedge that skipped and stopped 5 feet behind the hole for birdie and a one-shot lead. Stallings in the group ahead narrowly missed a birdie putt from just inside 10 feet on the last hole for a 69.
Cantlay needed par to win and fanned his drive into a bunker, the ball above his feet, 158 yards to pin on a steeply pitched green.
“I tried to slice an 8-iron about as hard as I could and went to about where I thought I could get it, and it was one of the best shots I hit all week,” he said.
His putt caught the lip of the cup, leaving him a tap-in, about the easiest shot he had all day.
Cantlay, who finished at 14-under 270, became the first player to win the BMW Championship in consecutive years since the FedEx Cup began in 2007. No one has ever repeated in any of the playoff events. The victory, his second of the year, moved him to No. 3 in the world.
He played all four rounds with Schauffele, and only later did he realize he could have used a little help from his best friend on tour. Schauffele (71) missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the last hole that would given him third place and moved Scheffler to fourth.
That would have made Cantlay the No. 1 seed, which comes with a two-shot lead before the Tour Championship begins. Now he will start two shots behind Scheffler, who had missed a short par putt on the last hole that ultimately didn’t cost him in the FedEx Cup.
Stallings has gone 238 starts since his last victory eight years ago at Torrey Pines, and he played like that drought might end. But he missed four birdie chances inside 18 feet at the end, the last one from just inside 10 feet.
The consolation prize is his first trip to the Tour Championship.
“That was the biggest goal of the year,” Stallings said. “Better late than never.”
Stallings wasn’t alone. Adam Scott is making his way back to East Lake. He was at No. 77 in the FedEx Cup when the postseason started and a tie for fifth last week moved him to No. 45.
Scott made eagle on the 12th hole and hit some superb lag putts on firm, crispy greens at Wilmington for a 71 to tie for fifth.
Needing a par on the last hole, Scott tugged his tee shot to the edge of a bunker, meaning he had to stand in the sand and try to hit out of a sticky first cut with the golf ball about thigh-high. He pulled that into a bunker, then hit a splendid shot to tap-in ran.
“I guess that’s the beauty of the FedEx Cup playoffs the way they are. You can scratch it around a lot for the year and have a couple good weeks and get heavily rewarded by getting to East Lake and being in that top 30 and all the perks that come with it,” Scott said.
Aaron Wise had a 73 and earned the 30th spot. He was among four players who moved into the top 30 who are eligible for the Tour Championship. The others were Stallings, Scott, Aaron Wise and K.H. Lee, who had a 65 on Sunday to tie for fifth.
DIVOTS: The Presidents Cup qualifying ended Sunday. The six qualifiers for the U.S. team are Scheffler, Cantlay, Schauffele, Sam Burns, Justin Thomas and Tony Finau. The leading eight qualifiers for the International team are Cameron Smith, Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Joaquin Niemann, Joohyung “Tom” Kim, Adam Scott, Corey Conners and Mito Pereira. … Collin Morikawa made a quintuple-bogey 10 on the 12th hole and shot 79, his highest score in his three years on the PGA Tour. … Viktor Hovland made an ace on the second hole. He didn’t win a car, but BMW donated a full four-year scholarship to a caddie from the Evans Scholars Foundation.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-22T17:33:28+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/patrick-cantlay-wins-another-thriller-at-bmw-championship/ |
‘Heightened alert’: Abortion providers brace for ruling
(AP) - In her first week on the job at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, Amanda Kifferly was taught how to search for bombs. About a year later, protesters blocked the entrances and exits of the The Women’s Centers, at one point pulling Kifferly into something resembling a mosh pit, where they surrounded her and shoved her around.
And on the night of last winter’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could end the nationwide right to abortion, people gathered outside a clinic in New Jersey with lawn chairs, a cooler and a flaming torch — a sight that brought to mind lynchings and other horrors of the country’s racist past, says Kifferly, who now serves as vice president for abortion access.
Such scenes have become familiar for providers and patients across the country over the decades since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. At times the violence has been far more severe, including bombings, arson and murders — from the 1993 killing of Dr. David Gunn outside a Florida abortion clinic to the 2015 fatal shooting of three people inside a Colorado Planned Parenthood.
Now providers and some in law enforcement worry what will come next. They’re preparing for an increase in violence once the Supreme Court rules, saying there has historically been a spike when the issue of abortion gets widespread public attention, such as after a state approves new restrictions. If the decision ends Roe v. Wade — as a leaked draft opinion indicates may happen — they also anticipate protests, harassment and other violence to be more concentrated and intensify in states where abortion remains legal.
“We know from experience, it’s not like the people protesting clinics in banned states just pack up and go home,” said Melissa Fowler, chief program officer for the National Abortion Federation.
The group and the hundreds of abortion clinics it represents have been on “heightened alert” since the opinion leaked, Fowler said. The organization has staff who specialize in security on call around the clock. They go out to clinics to do drills with employees and volunteers on scenarios such as bomb threats or active shooters and advise them on things like where to position security cameras. They also conduct safety assessments at the homes of physicians, monitor online threats and consult with local law enforcement.
In some places, local police are working with clinics to try to tamp down the potential for violence. In Jacksonville, Florida, the sheriff’s office said last month they would station an officer outside the clinic, and police in Little Rock, Arkansas, installed a camera atop a crane near an abortion clinic that has been the site of protests, hoping to deter bad actors.
Immediately following the leak and for days afterward, police in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, initiated extra patrols around The Women’s Center location, Kifferly said.
But the relationship between clinics and local police isn’t always a positive one, and clinics must weigh whether having a heavy police presence will frighten patients, Fowler said. In Kifferly’s experience, how well clinics and police departments work together varies by city and state. She recalled asking an officer for help as she was assaulted outside the Philadelphia clinic, and the officer responding that she should “call 911.”
NAF, which collects monthly data from its over 500 members on harassment and violence, reported a spike in incidents in 2020, the most recent year for which the group has published data. The number of death threats or threats of harm and of assault and battery both increased by more than double, and providers reported more than 24,000 incidents of hate email or internet harassment.
Abortion providers reported an uptick after Donald Trump became president, and “extremists felt like it was OK for them not to be in the shadows,” Fowler said. The coronavirus pandemic seemed to exacerbate things, Kifferly said, and in all four states where The Women’s Centers operates — New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia and Pennsylvania — “we were besieged by protesters” angry that abortion clinics were open while their churches or businesses were closed.
Abortion opponents also have been targets of violence, and say they’ve also seen an increase in incidents since the draft opinion leaked, though the FBI in a 2020 memo described the incidents as historically “rare.”
Shortly after the draft opinion became public, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis said the draft had made extremist violence — by people on either side of the issue — more likely.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said there were more than 40 incidents of violence, intimidation and vandalism at pregnancy centers and churches in recent weeks.
In early June, a man with a gun, knife, zip ties and other items was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in the middle of the night. He told police he wanted to kill the justice because he was upset about the draft opinion as well as the fatal mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The court is expected to issue its ruling in the coming days or weeks.
As for what might occur next for abortion providers, much focus has been on how to provide care to people seeking it, should abortion be banned in more states. But Fowler said another concern is also front of mind: “We also need to focus on safety.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-22T14:42:25+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/06/22/heightened-alert-abortion-providers-brace-ruling/ |
Kits available in November for Distribution
LONDON, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virax Biolabs ("Virax" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of viral diseases, announced today the distribution of a RSV-Influenza-COVID Triple Virus Antigen Rapid Test Kit has been launched in markets accepting the CE mark, such as the European Union. The test kits are for use in both at-home and in point-of-care settings to accurately identify infections related to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza and COVID-19 with results typically available in 15 minutes. The specialized diagnostic kits can be found by contacting the company's sales representatives.
While lesser known to the general public than influenza and COVID-19, RSV can be a serious illness. According to the European Health Management Association, RSV is the most common cause of hospitalization in infants and also causes a large number of hospitalizations among the elderly. RSV infection can lead to pneumonia, congestive heart failure and severe symptoms in those with preexisting conditions involving the lungs.
Virax's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, James Foster commented "the major industrialized economies are facing a triple threat this year through higher levels of RSV and influenza infections on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Giving people the ability to test for all three at home will improve the ability of healthcare systems to manage these infections in a timely manner. This is a welcome addition to our ViraxClear line of tests."
The RSV-Influenza-COVID Triple Virus Antigen Rapid Test Kit is an in vitro immunochromatographic assay for the qualitative and differential detection of nucleocapsid protein antigen from influenza A (including the subtype H1N1), influenza B, RSV and COVID-19 in nasal swab specimens from individuals with or without symptoms or other epidemiological reasons to suspect Flu A/B, RSV and /or COVID-19 infections.
About Virax Biolabs Group Limited
Founded in 2013, Virax Biolabs is an Innovative Biotechnology company focused on the diagnosis of and the detection of immune responses to viral diseases.
In addition to distributing an array of viral test kits in unique geographies, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is currently developing a proprietary T-Cell Test technology with the intention of providing an immunology profiling platform that assesses each individual's immune risk profile against major global viral threats. T-Cell testing can be particularly effective in the management and therapeutics of COVID-19 as well as other threats including Monkeypox, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Herpes and Human Papillomavirus. For more information, please visit www.viraxbiolabs.com.
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Passport Parking app now available to offer easier, more convenient parking payments throughout the City
WHITTIER, Alaska, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Whittier, Alaska is launching an easier way to pay for parking with Passport, a mobility software and payments company that is trusted by cities to manage their parking and mobility infrastructure. With Passport's platform in place, the City can access insights and data while providing a better user experience for its parkers.
With Passport's mobile payment application, Passport Parking, paying to park is convenient and seamless. After downloading the free app from the App Store or Google Play, a user enters the respective zone number, license plate number and the desired length of time for parking. Users can receive notifications when their sessions are about to expire and view receipts and parking history directly from their smartphones. The app also enables visitors to pay for camping at the city campground located at the head of the bay and boat launch fees.
"Passport's technology simplifies our operations and empowers our residents and visitors with more parking payment options," says Whittier Harbormaster, David Borg. "With this launch, our residents and visitors can park with peace of mind and spend more time enjoying Whittier's family-friendly attractions and stunning views on the Prince William Sound."
More than 800 cities, private operators and universities in North America trust Passport's digital mobility platform as the only end-to-end system for managing mobile pay parking, parking enforcement, digital parking permits and mobility management. The platform is designed to provide cities with the data and insights to dynamically manage their curb space.
"The demand for contactless payment options continues to rise – especially for everyday tasks, such as parking," says Corey Norrell, Passport account executive. "In addition to offering the community a convenient way to pay for parking, we are thrilled to enable the City of Whittier to collect, aggregate and visualize all mobility data in one central location through our platform."
The Passport Parking app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Users can also manage their parking online at passportparking.com.
Passport is a mobility software and payments company that builds solutions to centrally manage complexities at the curb. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's mobility management platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also the 2021 Fintech category winner for the NC Tech Association's Industry Driven award.
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New partnership redefines fan experience through digital collectibles, content and activations featuring the world's best golfers
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PGA TOUR and Autograph, the web3 brand co-founded by Tom Brady, today announce a long-term deal to create a comprehensive "digital collectibles" NFT platform, revolutionizing golf fandom by allowing fans to celebrate their love of the game by owning a token of its storied history.
The PGA TOUR will work with Autograph to create a digital collectibles platform that pulls from TOUR competition video, data, imagery and other competition-related components. Golf fans will have the opportunity to own and collect NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) featuring the best PGA TOUR golfers in the world as well as some of their favorite moments from the archives and the current FedExCup Season. Additionally, collectors will have a chance to earn rewards with a wide range of utility, including access to exclusive digital, in-person and onsite experiences, along with other program benefits.
"The PGA TOUR is excited to work with Autograph to offer digital collectibles that highlight the most talented golfers in the world and their role in the sport's history," said Len Brown, PGA TOUR Chief Legal Officer, and EVP, Licensing. "The TOUR is continuously looking for innovative ways to engage fans to bring them closer to the game and their favorite players, so we're thrilled to start building the future of golf fandom with the Autograph team."
"We are thrilled to expand our roster of iconic partners with the addition of the PGA TOUR as our first professional league," said Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder and co-chairman of the board at Autograph. "Over the last year, we have defined the future of fandom by leveraging NFT technology to bring fans closer to the icons they love across sports, music and entertainment and each other. We look forward to unlocking new potential and offering our community exclusive access to the PGA TOUR team through this partnership."
"I'm very excited to be a part of this next chapter with Autograph and the PGA TOUR," said Tiger Woods, who sits on Autograph's Board of Advisors. "Enhancing the golf world with NFTs will create a connection between us as players and the fans."
The TOUR's exclusive NFT Digital Collectibles platform with Autograph will launch in early 2023. To learn more and sign up for news and updates, visit autograph.io/pgatour.
By showcasing golf's greatest players, the PGA TOUR engages, inspires and positively impacts our fans, partners and communities worldwide.
The PGA TOUR, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, co-sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Canada. Members on the PGA TOUR represent the world's best players, hailing from 28 countries and territories outside the United States (90 international members). The PGA TOUR has long-term domestic distribution partnerships for broadcast coverage on CBS, NBC and Golf Channel and video streaming service on ESPN+. Internationally, PGA TOUR coverage is available across 200+ countries and territories in 27 languages via 43 local broadcast partners, in addition to the digital streaming service platform GOLFTV powered by PGA TOUR. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations to maximize charitable giving, and to date, tournaments across all Tours have generated more than $3.37 billion.
Fans can follow the PGA TOUR on PGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, on the PGA TOUR app and on social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram (in English, Spanish and Korean), LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao, Douyin and LINE.
Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the most iconic brands and legendary names in sports, entertainment, and culture to create unique digital collections and experiences to better connect fans to the things they love. Notable Board of Director members include Sam Bankman-Fried, Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, Peter Mattoon, and Michael Meldman. Co-founded by Tom Brady and headquartered in Los Angeles, Autograph is building the future of fandom through a streamlined and inclusive process, authentic and creative products, and exclusive partnerships. Members of the star-studded Advisory Board have dropped their first collections that sold out in record time with drops from Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, Tony Hawk and more.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)Isaiah Range scored 31 points as Alabama State beat Lane College 90-78 on Thursday night.
Range had seven rebounds and three steals for the Hornets (2-11). Duane Posey pitched in with 17 points with 13 rebounds. Antonio Madlock added 13 points as the Hornets ended a five-game losing streak.
The Dragons were led by Kylan Haywood with 23 points, four assists and four steals. Floyd Williams added 20 points, four steals and two blocks. Kelvin Allen had 15 points.
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What is the filibuster, and why does it matter in Nebraska?
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group of lawmakers is continuing this week to filibuster all bills that come before the Nebraska Legislature — even the ones they support — in protest over a bill that would ban gender-affirming treatments for minors.
Supporters of that bill say they’re trying to protect children from making body-altering decisions they may later regret. Opponents say it’s an unconstitutional overreach meant to marginalize LGBTQ+ people.
Filibusters are rare in most U.S. state legislatures, but common in Nebraska. Lawmakers use the tactic in each session of the unique one-chamber Nebraska Legislature to try to force compromise on contested bills. This streak of filibusters is the longest in the state’s history and lawmakers behind them vow to block every bill through the end of the 90-day session. Here’s a look at how it could play out:
WHAT’S A FILIBUSTER?
It’s a political maneuver that extends debate on a bill in an effort to delay or block its passage. Burning that debate time can also delay votes on other bills and can force lawmakers to work longer days.
While filibuster rules vary across the U.S., they bring to mind a lawmaker giving lengthy speeches on the legislative floor to stop a bill, as Jimmy Stewart’s character did in the 1939 classic movie, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
In 2013, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, drew national attention by speaking for 13 hours straight to try to stop legislation restricting access to abortion.
In Nebraska, lawmakers can seek to delay bill votes by introducing amendments and motions to it, which are debated by the entire body.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NEBRASKA?
For weeks, a single Omaha Democrat has filibustered nearly every bill to come before the Nebraska Legislature.
The move from Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh makes good on a threat she made to conservative lawmakers promising to stonewall all legislation if they advanced a bill out of committee that would outlaw gender-affirming therapies for those under 19. It is one of roughly 150 bills targeting transgender people that have been introduced in state legislatures this year.
Now, she’s got backup. Cavanaugh paused her filibuster for a day earlier this month after the bill was scheduled for debate, believing it did not have the votes to advance. But after eight hours of debate over three days, the bill passed, thanks to a Democratic legislator who voted with Republicans. That led other lawmakers to pledge they would join Cavanaugh in filibustering every bill for the rest of the session.
HOW DOES THE FILIBUSTER WORK IN NEBRASKA?
Nebraska’s filibuster rules are less severe than in other states, some of which forbid lawmakers from sitting, taking a bathroom break or speaking on anything other than bill being filibustered.
The Nebraska rules also allow them to discuss pretty much whatever they want, as evidenced by Cavanaugh’s monologues on everything from her favorite Girl Scout cookies to the plots of animated movies her children have watched.
Nebraska rules, instead, place time limits on filibusters. Bills must go through three rounds of debate to pass, and up to eight hours of debate is allotted for the first round before a cloture vote — or a vote to end debate — is taken. If the bill is uncontested, it can get through that process and be voted on much sooner. But if it’s filibustered, it usually takes the full eight hours.
The second round gets up to four hours of debate, and the final round gets up to two hours. If a cloture vote gets 33 or more votes, debate ends and a vote is taken on the bill. If cloture gets less than 33 votes — in any round — the bill is considered dead for the year.
Former Sen. Ernie Chambers, a left-leaning former lawmaker from Omaha, served 46 years as a state senator and mastered the use of the filibuster to try to tank bills he opposed and force support for bills he backed. But he had a knack for convincing lawmakers to change their minds, often within days.
The Nebraska Legislature is also the only one in the U.S. that is officially nonpartisan. But each of its 49 lawmakers self-identify as Republican, Democrat or independent and tend to propose and vote for legislation along party lines.
Republicans hold 32 seats, while to Democrats hold 17 seats. Although bills can advance with a simple majority, it takes a supermajority — 33 votes — to end debate to overcome a filibuster. That’s more than the 30 votes needed to override a governor’s veto.
WILL IT WORK?
It remains to be seen whether filibustering lawmakers can run out the clock before the session ends or sway other lawmakers to vote down the trans health bill.
The effort has succeeded in stunting the work of the Legislature this session. Speaker of the Legislature Sen. John Arch acknowledged last week that the effort has already stymied the number of bills lawmakers will be able to pass, even though he added nighttime debates starting this week.
Nearly 200 bills passed in the last 90-day session in 2021. This year, the Legislature is on track to pass only a fraction of that before it adjourns in early June. Not a single bill has passed, and only 32 have advanced from the first round of debate.
The minority has had some success in filibustering bills. Last year, progressive lawmakers used it to block an abortion ban and a law allowing people to carry concealed guns without a permit.
The effort has not derailed the trans health bill, which advanced from the first round of debate last week.
The filibuster is getting some pushback from other Democrats.
“I don’t have the luxury to blow up everything,” said Omaha Sen. Justin Wayne, adding he wants to tackle bills related to criminal justice and improvement of school and child services.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona county's plan to hand count all ballots cast in next week's election has triggered a court challenge, marking the latest twist to the effort by rural Cochise County to mollify skeptics distrustful of its vote-counting equipment.
The lawsuit came Monday as Democrats agreed to help provide volunteers to assist in the tally of an estimated 50,000 early and Election Day ballots in the Republican-heavy county, which strongly backed former President Donald Trump in 2020.
State law on hand counts, which are usually limited to a small percentage of the votes, says party chairs from at least two recognized parties must provide a list of people to help count the vote and no more than 75% can be from the same party.
The counts would be in addition to the official machine tabulation.
Arizona has become the hotspot for election denialism these past two years, and in recent weeks armed people have staked out ballot drop boxes in an effort to dissuade what they contend is potential illegal voting. A federal judge last week refused to issue an order blocking the poll-watching, saying the groups organizing it had a First Amendment right to be there. That prompted the Justice Department to jump into the fray Monday, saying the efforts raise concerns about illegal voter intimidation.
The two Republicans on the three-member Cochise County board of supervisors have pushed for the full hand count, and the GOP county Recorder is going along, saying he believes that five races on the ballot can be hand counted in just two days. That seems optimistic, given issues in rural Nye County, Nevada, where a nascent hand-count effort was beset with issues before the state Supreme Court halted it last week. County officials there are tallying more than two dozen races and are pledging to restart the count as soon as possible.
Cochise County's full hand count was blessed by the Republican attorney general, whose office issued an informal opinion last Friday saying the county could tally all early and Election Day ballots. The secretary of state's office has said that is illegal, however, and warned that it may sue. It OK-ed hand-tallies of all Election Day ballots but said counting all the early votes, which make up more than 80% of ballots in most counties, would be illegal. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is a Democrat who is running for governor.
An independent group called the Arizona Alliance of Retired Americans did not wait, suing Cochise County and several of its officials on Monday. The presiding judge sent the case to nearby Pima County to avoid a conflict since county officials were named. A judge in Tucson has not yet set a hearing schedule.
The lawsuit seeks an order halting a full hand count of early ballots, echoing the legal view of Hobbs' office.
The county board's decision has led to fiery meetings in the past week, with the lone Democrat vowing to do all she could to block the effort and the county attorney siding with the secretary of state and saying a full count would be illegal. At a brief meeting on Tuesday where the board was to talk about hiring outside lawyers for the two Republicans, nothing was accomplished after no one would make a motion to consider the item.
Efforts to hand-count ballots are driven by unfounded concerns among some Republicans that problems with vote-counting machines or voter fraud led to former President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat.
Supervisors in Pinal County, a much larger and growing suburban area just south of metro Phoenix's Maricopa County, also have been considering a hand count. That board plans to discuss the issue on Wednesday,
The elected Republican county attorneys in both jurisdictions have warned their respective boards that there is no legal authority to expand a hand-count of ballots.
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LONDON (AP) — Kentucky and Michigan finally played their London game, but organizers aren’t exactly running a fast break to get back to the British capital.
The Basketball Hall of Fame London Showcase was delayed because of the coronavirus, and Sunday’s game tipped off an hour before England played Senegal for a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals.
“Two years ago, we were supposed to be here — and now the World Cup. We’ve certainly had our hurdles,” said John Doleva, president and CEO of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Wildcats beat Michigan 73-69 in the marquee game at O2 Arena before 8,242 fans as part of a doubleheader that featured Marist against Maine earlier.
That’s less than half the sold-out crowds of the regular-season NBA games held at the O2 between 2011 and 2019 — and the NBA has since switched its annual Europe game to Paris.
Doleva said 10,000 would have been a “tremendous success” and that the eight-thousand range is still a victory considering most English sports fans were watching their team’s 3-0 win over Senegal in Qatar.
A return to London is possible, he said, but they’re looking at other European cities, too, and probably not for next season.
“It could be London, it could be Paris,” Doleva said. “I can’t say that this is going to be happening every year. We’ll look at that as we go forward, but we pretty much know that it’s not going to happen next year because the planning cycle is so long.”
Both coaches praised the cultural experiences for the players, who did some sightseeing and stopped by soccer club Chelsea’s stadium, Stamford Bridge, for a tour.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard thought the World Cup match hurt attendance, though.
“I’m sure a lot of folks were at home or in pubs watching the football match,” he said. “Overall, it would have been great if we had could have had more fans (here).”
Maine guard Gedi Juozapaitis did his part — the London native had family and friends watching from the stands.
“This was the first time they’ve seen me play live since I left (for the U.S.),” the senior said.
Kentucky and Michigan each received $500,000 for the game but had to pay their own expenses, Doleva confirmed.
“These are two marquee teams. We want to make sure that we’re bringing great basketball to wherever we go,” he said.
The Hall of Fame had originally hoped to fill the vacuum left when the NBA switched to Paris.
“With COVID, we got a little bit knocked off kilter,” Doleva said. “It has to be a few years in advance, and during the COVID cycle we just didn’t have a chance to do that, to talk about international trips.
“It’s a big project to take four teams to a foreign country. We have to make sure that the teams and the timing is right.”
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A study published by researchers from the Ohio State University shows that few people rejoice in the death of anti-vaxxers, but there are some who lack empathy toward them.
The study was inspired by the Herman Cain Awardforum on Reddit. The subreddit often shares stories of those publicly declaring opposition to COVID-19 vaccines or social distancing efforts before becoming significantly ill with the virus.
Herman Cain was a former presidential candidate who died in July 2020 with COVID-19 10 days after attending a rally for then-President Donald Trump.
The researchers found that 4.6% of those surveyed said those who refused to get the vaccine deserved to die.
“We have people who are judging anti-vaxxers and considering them deserving of some level of suffering, but on the other hand, there’s very little positive emotion about watching them suffer,” study co-author Rebecca Frazer said in a press release.
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The researchers presented mock Facebook status updates from someone named Terry Adams. One of the posts expressed uncertainty about the COVID-19 vaccine. In this case, researchers found most people were understanding of Adams.
But when Adams later authored posts about contracting COVID-19, the response from some depended on whether Adams regretted not getting the vaccine. The researchers noted that 63% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans thought people like Adams deserved a full recovery.
“Republicans were more okay with Terry continuing to question the vaccine and less positive than Democrats when Terry regretted not getting the vaccine,” study co-author Matthew Grizzard, an assistant professor of communications at Ohio State, said.
The study's authors noted, however, that the majority of respondents did not take pleasure in someone suffering from COVID-19.
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“We saw a moral judgment by those who thought Terry deserved some level of suffering or death, and they wanted justice to be served, or at least what they considered justice,” Frazer said. “But even they didn’t express a lot of happiness at Terry’s death.”
But that moral judgment may come from the thought that by opposing COVID-19 vaccines and social distancing measures, those individuals put themselves and others at risk.
Leading researcherssay getting vaccinated continues to lower the risk of serious complications of COVID-19.
“It is more a feeling that anti-vaxxers acted immorally and maybe put others at risk. And because of that, they deserve some level of suffering. But even those who are judging these anti-vaxxers most harshly are typically not rejoicing in their suffering or death,” Grizzard said.
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said Thursday, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
Kim’s speech to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War was apparently meant to boost internal unity in the impoverished country amid pandemic-related economic difficulties. While Kim has increasingly threatened his rivals with nuclear weapons, it’s unlikely that he would use them first against the superior militaries of the U.S. and its allies, observers say.
“Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country’s nuclear war deterrent is also ready to mobilize its absolute power dutifully, exactly and swiftly in accordance with its mission,” Kim said in Wednesday’s speech, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
He accused the United States of “demonizing” North Korea to justify its hostile policies. Kim said regular U.S.-South Korea military drills that he claimed target the North highlight U.S. “double standards” and “gangster-like” aspects because it brands North Korea’s routine military activities — an apparent reference to its missile tests — as provocations or threats.
Kim also alleged the new South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is led by “confrontation maniacs” and “gangsters” who have gone further than previous South Korean conservative governments. Since taking office in May, the Yoon government has moved to strengthen Seoul’s military alliance with the United States and bolster its own capacity to neutralize North Korean nuclear threats including a preemptive strike capability.
“Talking about military action against our nation, which possesses absolute weapons that they fear the most, is preposterous and is very dangerous suicidal action,” Kim said. “Such a dangerous attempt will be immediately punished by our powerful strength and the Yoon Suk Yeol government and his military will be annihilated.”
South Korea expressed “deep regret” over Kim’s threat and said it maintains a readiness to cope with any provocation by North Korea in “a powerful, effective manner.”
In a statement read by spokesperson Kang In-sun, Yoon’s presidential national security office said South Korea will safeguard its national security and citizens’ safety based on a solid alliance with the United States. It urged North Korea to return to talks to take steps toward denuclearization.
Earlier Thursday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry repeated its earlier position that it’s been boosting its military capacity and joint defense posture with the United States to cope with escalating North Korean nuclear threats.
In April, Kim said North Korea could preemptively use nuclear weapons if threatened, saying they would “never be confined to the single mission of war deterrent.” Kim’s military has also test-launched nuclear-capable missiles that place both the U.S. mainland and South Korea within striking distance. U.S. and South Korean officials have repeatedly said in the past few months that North Korea is ready to conduct its first nuclear test in five years.
Kim is seeking greater public support as his country’s economy has been battered by pandemic-related border shutdowns, U.S.-led sanctions and his own mismanagement. In May, North Korea also admitted to its first COVID-19 outbreak, though the scale of illness and death is widely disputed in a country that lacks the modern medical capacity to handle it.
“Kim’s rhetoric inflates external threats to justify his militarily focused and economically struggling regime,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are in violation of international law, but Kim tries to depict his destabilizing arms buildup as a righteous effort at self-defense.”
Experts say North Korea will likely intensify its threats against the U.S. and South Korea as the allies prepare to expand summertime exercises. In recent years, the South Korean and U.S. militaries have canceled or downsized some of their regular exercises due to concerns about COVID-19 and to support now-stalled U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program in return for economic and political benefits.
During Wednesday’s speech, Kim said his government recently set tasks to improve its military capability more speedily to respond to military pressure campaigns by its enemies, suggesting that he intends to go ahead with an expected nuclear test.
But Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said North Korea won’t likely conduct its nuclear test before China, its major ally and biggest aid benefactor, holds its Communist Party convention in the autumn. He said China worries that a North Korean nuclear test could give the United States a justification to boost its security partnerships with its allies that it could use to check Chinese influence in the region.
North Korea recently said it is moving to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak amid plummeting fever cases, but experts say it’s unclear if the country can lift its strict restrictions soon because it could face a viral resurgence later this year. During Wednesday’s event, Kim, veterans and others didn’t wear masks, state media photos showed. On Thursday, North Korea reported 11 fever cases, a huge drop from the peak of about 400,000 a day in May.
North Korea has rejected U.S. and South Korean offers for medical relief items. It has also said it won’t return to talks with the United States unless it first abandons its hostile polices on the North, in an apparent reference to U.S.-led sanctions and U.S.-South Korean military drills.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
8-7-6, FIREBALL: 7
(eight, seven, six; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
8-7-6, FIREBALL: 7
(eight, seven, six; FIREBALL: seven) | 2023-01-08T05:20:41+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17702426.php |
CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation announced on May 17, 2023 that it had filed suit in federal court to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from stripping about 2 million acres from wild horses in southwest Wyoming for the benefit of private livestock ranchers.
"This decision must not be allowed to stand," said Neda DeMayo, president of Return to Freedom (RTF), a national nonprofit wild horse and burro advocacy organization. "The BLM is using an agreement with livestock ranchers as an excuse to violate its responsibilities under the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Federally protected wild horses and burros must not be allowed to be removed from our public lands due to private landowner pressure -- or whole herds will vanish across the West."
RTF is joined in the lawsuit by plaintiffs Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER), a Colorado non-profit organization, and wild horse photographers and advocates Meg Frederick and Angelique Rea.
Under the BLM's changes, finalized on May 8, 2023, the agency will:
- remove 1.95 million acres from wild horse use by converting the Salt Wells and Great Divide Herd Management Areas to inactive Herd Areas not managed for horses;
- manage the herd on the 393,000-acre White Mountain Herd Management Area as non-reproducing, effectively zeroing it out, too, with the agency considering population management tools that are dangerous, inhumane, unproven, costly (surgical sterilization of mares), ineffective (sex-ratio skewing) or that do not have a fully understood effect on wild herds (gelding stallions);
- slash its population target for the 478,000-acre Adobe Town Herd Management Area from a range of 610-800 wild horses to just 225-450 horses; and
- potentially engage in illegal and unnecessary surgical sterilization of the resident wild horses.
The BLM says that it amended its Resource Management Plan based on an agreement it entered into in 2013 with the Rock Springs Grazing Association.
The ranching group sued for the removal of all of the wild horses from the 2-million-acre Checkerboard region, an unfenced area of alternating, one-mile-square blocks of public and private land set up in the 1860s as part of negotiations with the Union Pacific railroad.
BLM's reason for removing land from wild horse use: complying with its legal obligations to America's wild horses is too much trouble for it.
"The BLM can't just throw up its hands because Congress handed it a challenge," said Hilary Wood, president of plaintiff FRER. "That's just not good enough for the agency charged with conserving wild horses and burros on our public lands on behalf of all Americans."
The announced changes demonstrate explicit bias and violation of federal law. And during a $1.1 million, three-month-long helicopter roundup from late 2021 to early 2022. the BLM set the stage for the changes by capturing and removing 3,502 wild horses from their home ranges in Southwest Wyoming. Thirty-seven wild horses died during the roundup.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
Front Range Equine Rescue (FRER) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to end the abuse and neglect of horses through rescue and education. It was incorporated in the State of Colorado in 1997. FRER's "Save the Wild Horses" campaign provides rescue, education, advocacy and legal action to protect America's wild horses. To learn more, visit www.frontrangeequinerescue.org.
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GRAPHIC: Officials euthanize deer after it crashes through window of family’s home
FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - A deer that crashed into an Alabama family’s home left the inside looking like the scene of a horror film.
“It sounded like a herd of elephants breaking glass upstairs,” one of the homeowners said, describing the scene.
The Florence homeowner, who asked not to be identified, said the deer crashed through a bedroom window on the ground floor of her home on Wednesday.
She told WAFF she and her husband were downstairs when they heard the sound of the glass breaking. Her husband opened the door to the home’s staircase and saw the deer run by at the top of the stairs.
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Officers with the Florence Police Department attempted to enter the home upon arrival at the scene, but the homeowner said police were charged by the animal and were forced back outside. Authorities said they made the decision to euthanize the deer after animal control arrived at the home. A Florence officer shot and killed the animal.
An area resident who needed deer meat retrieved the animal from officers at the scene.
The homeowner said she wasn’t sure what caused the deer to enter her home. She said she has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years and has never seen a deer inside the house. She said a lot of work currently being done in the area may have disturbed the animal.
The deer was reportedly inside the home for about 20 minutes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will announce it is sending up to $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems, U.S. officials said Monday, as Ukrainian and Western leaders try to sort out the impact of the brief weekend insurrection in Russia.
The aid is aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has been moving slowly in its early stages. It wasn’t clear Monday if Ukrainian forces will be able to take advantage of the disarray in the Russian ranks, in the aftermath of the short-lived rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner mercenary group that he has controlled.
An announcement on the aid package is expected Tuesday. This would be the 41st time since the Russian invasion into Ukraine in February 2022 that the U.S. has provided military weapons and equipment through presidential drawdown authority. The program allows the Pentagon to quickly take items from its own stocks and deliver them to Ukraine.
Because the aid packages are generally planned in advance and recently included many of the same critical weapons for the battlefront, the contents weren’t likely chosen based on the weekend rebellion.
But, the missiles and heavy vehicles can be used as Ukraine tries to capitalize on what has been a growing feud between the Wagner Group leader and Russia’s military brass, with simmering questions about how many of Prigozhin’s forces may leave the fight.
The mercenaries left Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and moved hundreds of miles toward Moscow before turning around after less than 24 hours on Saturday.
According to the officials, the U.S. will send 30 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 25 of the armored Stryker vehicles to Ukraine, along with missiles for the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and the Patriot air defense systems. The package will include Javelin and high-speed anti-radiation (HARM) missiles, demolition munitions, obstacle-clearing equipment and a wide range of artillery rounds and other ammunition.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid has not yet been publicly announced.
According to the Pentagon, the U.S. has delivered more than $15 billion in weapons and equipment from its stocks to Ukraine since the Russian invasion, and has committed an additional $6.2 billion in supplies that haven’t yet been identified. The more than $6 billion extra is the result of an accounting error, because the military services overestimated the value of the weapons they pulled off the shelves and sent to Ukraine over the past year.
More broadly, the U.S. has also promised to send more than $16.7 billion in longer-term funding for various weapons, training and other equipment through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and an additional roughly $2 billion in foreign military financing.
The U.S. has at least $1.2 billion in drawdown authority that hasn’t yet been committed but will expire at the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30. The remaining $1.9 billion in USAI funds does not expire until the end of the next fiscal year, in September 2024.
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Associated Press writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report. | 2023-06-26T22:29:22+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/us-to-send-500-million-in-weapons-military-aid-to-ukraine-officials-say/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Woman files for protective order against Cavs’ Rajon Rondo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville woman has filed for an emergency protective order against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rajon Rondo and alleges the former Kentucky star brandished a gun and threatened her life. News outlets report the woman alleges Rondo “became enraged” last week during a confrontation and filed for the EPO on Friday in Jefferson County Family Court. She says in the EPO that Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn. Rondo returned and beat on a window with a gun before giving the gun to former Louisville Metro Police interim chief Yvette Gentry and leaving. | 2022-05-17T02:11:48+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/16/woman-files-for-protective-order-against-cavs-rajon-rondo/ |
Texas A&M Aggies (3-2) at DePaul Blue Demons (3-2)
The Aggies have gone 0-0 away from home. Texas A&M is ninth in the SEC shooting 33.0% from deep. Solomon Washington paces the Aggies shooting 60% from 3-point range.
TOP PERFORMERS: Umoja Gibson averages 2.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Blue Demons, scoring 17.0 points while shooting 38.5% from beyond the arc. Javan Johnson is shooting 45.2% and averaging 16.4 points for DePaul.
Wade Taylor IV is averaging 14.2 points and 2.2 steals for the Aggies. Julius Marble is averaging 8.8 points for Texas A&M.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Spotted Lanternflies, an invasive species that can cause extreme damage to trees, crops and vines, are headed to southern Virginia.
Currently, Virginia’s Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine includes Winchester city, along with the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Warren, according to the Virginia Farm Bureau.
The VAFB said early next month, this quarantine zone will expand to the cities of Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Manassas, Staunton and Waynesboro. It will also be expanded to Albemarle, Augusta, Carroll, Page, Prince William, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Wythe counties.
“Together, pesticide treatment and the Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine have slowed the spread of this invasive pest,” David Gianino said, the program manager for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Office of Plant Industry Services. “However, surveys conducted by VDACS indicate that spotted lanternfly populations have now become established in other cities and counties.”
According to Virginia Cooperative Extension agent Mark Sutphin, the species has been traced back to a cargo load of landscaping stone shipped from China to Pennsylvania in 2014. Since 2018, the lanternflies have been abundant in Frederick County.
Sutphin said spotted lanternflies assemble in large amounts and drink extensive amounts of sap, which drains resources from plants. They then release a sugary substance called honeydew that leads to the growth of black sooty mold and prevents the photosynthesis of understory leaves. This prevents plants’ growth.
“Beyond direct damage to crops, the lanternfly also poses a risk to any business reliant on import and export of goods between states, as other states consider quarantines to prevent the spread of the invasive species,” said Ben Rowe, VAFB district field services director.
These pests feed on over 100 different species of plants, including wine grapes, which will directly affect Virginians, according to the VAFB.
“The vines get stressed, which reduced hardness going into the winter, and can lead to complete death,” Sutphin said.
He said although quarantines and insecticides help stop the effect of this species, there is no way to completely stop their spread.
VDACS said that regulated items are required to be without the presence of spotted lanternflies of eggs before they are taken outside the designated quarantine area. | 2022-06-23T19:21:33+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/spotted-lanternflies-invasive-species-headed-to-southern-virginia/ |
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta, a leader in sustainable materials management and a premier provider of environmental solutions benefitting businesses and communities, announced that emissions data is now available to the public online for the Covanta Hillsborough Waste-to-Energy Facility in Tampa, FL, which every year processes 523,000 tons of waste that would have otherwise gone to methane-producing landfills.
With this information now ready on the facility's website, the Hillsborough County community is given an unfettered virtual seat into the control room to view the very same data that operators use to monitor operational performance at the Waste-to-Energy facility, which serves county residents with reliable and sustainable waste management.
Waste-to-Energy facilities convert the waste that remains after recycling into electricity for homes and businesses. This technology diverts waste from landfills, a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
"By making this data readily available, we hope to provide the communities of Hillsborough County a feeling of confidence and pride knowing that the waste being processed at the Waste-to-Energy facility is being done so both sustainably and safely," said Tequila Smith of Covanta, which operates the county-owned facility. "Furthermore, we hope the public comes to appreciate the positive contributions of Waste-to-Energy technology in terms of mitigating global warming, increasing recycling and moving us toward our climate goals."
Continuous emissions monitoring is an important tool in determining a Waste-to-Energy facility's compliance with the strict emission limits set forth in its operating permit, which is established in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act and Florida's strict regulatory requirements. The Hillsborough facility has been consistently recognized for exceptional operations, including OSHA's stringent Voluntary Protection Program Star certification, and operates below the established permit's emission limits.
"The Covanta Hillsborough facility provides a vital service to our community and to our environment. Each year waste from county households and businesses is converted into enough continuous electricity to power 23,000 homes for one year. At the same time, we are reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 462,000 tons – the equivalent of taking 90,000 passenger vehicles off the road," said Tequila Smith of Covanta. "The release of continuous data from Covanta demonstrates transparency and accountability for this sustainable solution."
With 8 Covanta facilities across the state, Florida relies on Waste-to-Energy more than any other state in the nation for the safe and environmentally responsible disposal of municipal solid waste. Combined, the facilities reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions by more than 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. The facilities also recycle 172,000 tons of metal a year, enough to build 130,000 cars.
Covanta is a leader in sustainable materials management providing environmental solutions to businesses and communities. Through its network of facilities and state-of-the-art services, Covanta is a single-source partner in solving today's most complex environmental challenges. For more information, visit covanta.com.
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NEW YORK, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Hesai Group (NASDAQ: HSAI) pursuant and/or traceable to Company's initial public offering conducted in February 2023 (the "IPO"), of the important June 6, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Hesai securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Hesai class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=13347 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 6, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement contained false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Hesai Group's gross margin decrease was caused by a lower in-house utilization rate; (2) Hesai Group's gross margin was 30% for the fourth quarter—which was completed over a month before the date of the amended registration statement; and (3) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times and negligently prepared. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Hesai class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=13347 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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(NEXSTAR) – Bed Bath & Beyond told Nexstar Monday that it will be closing 87 additional stores, an announcement that comes days after the beleaguered home goods chain said it had defaulted on its loans.
The company also plans to close five buybuy BABY stores as well as all of its Harmon beauty locations.
Bed Bath & Beyond said the closures are being done to increase efficiency as the company works with advisors to “consider multiple paths” as the retailer tries to turn the business around.
“This store fleet reduction expands the Company’s ongoing closure program of approximately 150 lower-producing Bed Bath & Beyond banner stores,” a spokesperson told Nexstar. “We will update all stakeholders on our plans as they develop and finalize.”
Impacted store locations were not immediately available Monday.
Last Thursday, Bed Bath & Beyond said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had defaulted on its loans, which may force it to consider restructuring its debt in bankruptcy court.
The filing included some of the other strategies Bed Bath & Beyond is employing to improve its financial position, such as lowering costs, trimming capital expenditures, trying to rework rental deals with landlords and reducing the footprint of its stores, as well as the caveat that “these measures may not be successful.”
Bed Bath & Beyond warned on Jan. 5 that it was considering options including filing for bankruptcy, saying that there was “substantial doubt” that it could stay in business. A week later, it reported a 33% drop in sales and a widening loss for its fiscal third quarter that ended Nov. 26, compared with the year-ago period. Sales at stores opened at least a year — a key indicator of a company’s health — dropped 32%.
Its recently appointed president and CEO, Sue Gove, blamed the poor holiday performance on inventory constraints and reduced credit limits that resulted in shortages of merchandise on store shelves.
Typically, struggling retailers file for bankruptcy protection after the holiday shopping season because they have a cash cushion coming from the two-month sales period.
Still, turning around Bed Bath & Beyond is expected to be difficult amid increasing competition from discounters. Its struggles come as the economy is weakening, and shoppers are tightening their purse strings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-01-30T23:44:59+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/bed-bath-beyond-announces-87-more-store-closures/ |
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were burdened with all the questions and doubts going into last season — and that outside noise only got louder as the season crept along. The C’s struggled to an 18-21 start as Tatum weathered a slow start and Brown endured an early hamstring injury.
That’s when the detractors were at their loudest: Could the two young stars in Boston work together? As the Celtics engineered a remarkable turnaround to No. 2 in the East and an NBA Finals run, the noise has finally quieted down. Even with Brown stuck in Kevin Durant trade rumors, there weren’t many doubts of whether the duo of Tatum and Brown could work together in Boston going forward.
Now, the Celtics enter the 2022-23 season as title favorites. Boston was just two wins away from its 18th banner with Brown and Tatum leading the way. Armed with one of the deepest rosters on the league, the Celtics — and to a same extent, Tatum — are looking to take the next step. Tatum took the time to break down his relationship with Brown in a sit-down interview with Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks.
“Everybody talking about you got to trade one or the other, you got to pick,” Tatum said. “It’s like, wait, you got two guys under 26 at one of the best players at their respective positions. Two-way players. Why would you ever want to split that up? Nobody can win a championship together until they do it. So it’s like, yeah, we haven’t won so you can say we can’t do it. But it’s not like we don’t have any time left. We’re both still so young.”
Tatum put up the best season of his young career, named an All-Star, first-team All-NBA and averaged a career-best in points, rebounds and assists. Brown’s numbers regressed after being named to his first All-Star team a season prior, though that was partly because of a slow return from his hamstring.
While the Celtics do have a deep roster that can go 10 players deep, they’re still banking on natural improvements from their two best players. Tatum, 24, continues to add to his stardom while Brown, 25, looks to become a consistent All-Star annually. That’s where the duo’s relationship stands as they look to get back to the Finals.
“There’s no competition,” Tatum said. “When he made his first All-Star team, I was extremely happy for him. I know how much that meant to him, how hard he worked for that and that he deserved it. It’s enough money and attention and shots or whatever to go around. We on the same team and we’re trying to accomplish something together.” | 2022-08-24T21:54:54+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2022/08/celtics-jayson-tatum-on-relationship-with-jaylen-brown-after-nba-finals-run-working-toward-future.html |
Stars vs. Kraken: Betting Trends, Odds, Advanced Stats - NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 6
Published: May. 13, 2023 at 6:46 AM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
The Dallas Stars take the road to square off with the Seattle Kraken in Game 6 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Saturday, May 13, starting at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Stars have a 3-2 edge in the series. The Stars have -165 odds on the moneyline against the Kraken (+140).
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Stars vs. Kraken Game Info
- When: Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington
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Stars Betting Insights
- The Stars are 43-24 when favored on the moneyline this season.
- When playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -165 or shorter, Dallas has a record of 26-11 (winning 70.3%).
- The Stars have an implied moneyline win probability of 62.3% in this contest.
Kraken Betting Insights
- This season the Kraken have won 24 of the 54 games, or 44.4%, in which they've been an underdog.
- Seattle has a record of 15-10 in games when oddsmakers have them as underdogs of at least +140 on the moneyline.
- The Kraken have a 41.7% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
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Stars Advanced Stats
- In its past 10 games, Dallas has not gone over.
- During their last 10 games, the Stars have scored 1.8 more goals per game than their average on the season.
- The Stars' 281 goals this season make them the seventh-best scoring team in the league.
- The Stars have allowed the third-fewest goals in league action this season, 215 (2.6 per game).
- With a +66 goal differential, they're ranked fourth-best in the NHL.
Kraken Advanced Stats
- In Seattle's past 10 games, it has gone over the total once.
- Over their last 10 games, Kraken's game goal totals average 9.4 goals, 1.2 goals lower per game than their season-long game scoring average.
- The Kraken's 289 total goals (3.5 per game) are the fourth-most in the league.
- The Kraken have conceded 3.1 goals per game, 252 total, which ranks 14th among league teams.
- Their +37 goal differential is 10th-best in the league.
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One of the most grueling climbs in the world claimed the life of an American.
The 69-year-old died on May 1 while attempting to scale Mount Everest.
He was climbing with a group from International Mountain Guides when he died.
"We can confirm that this event was not the result of a climbing accident or route condition that would be of potential impact or safety concern to any other teams on the mountain," the group said in a statement.
SEE MORE: Record-breaking climbers safely return from Mount Everest
The climber was reportedly at an elevation of 21,000 feet when he died.
"He was feeling unwell and passed away at Camp 2," Pasang Tshering Sherpa told Agence France-Presse. "Efforts are underway to bring (back) his body."
This wasn't the man's first attempt at climbing Mountain Everest. AFP reports he reached Camp 3 last year before abandoning the climb.
Hundreds of people attempt to climb Mount Everest every year, but it's not uncommon for a life to be lost on the trek. Since the early 1900s, more than 300 people have reportedly died while attempting to climb the world's tallest mountain.
The American is the fourth person to die on Mount Everest this year. Three Nepali climbers reportedly died after being caught in an avalanche in April.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-02T18:27:25+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/american-dies-while-attempting-to-climb-mount-everest |
BOISE, Idaho – A mom accused of killing her two youngest children and a romantic rival described some people as possessed or “zombies,” four of whom were later killed or shot at, the woman's former friend told jurors.
Melanie Gibb testified Thursday in the Idaho trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, telling jurors that the two became friends at a church event in 2018 but that Vallow Daybell's spiritual beliefs soon veered away from what they had been taught at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Prosecutors say Vallow Daybell and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, used those religious beliefs to justify the deaths of anyone who stood in the way of their romantic relationship. Both are charged with murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday. They face the same charges in connection with the death of Daybell's late wife, Tammy Daybell.
Both have pleaded not guilty. Chad Daybell is expected to stand trial several months from now, but prosecutors began presenting their case against Vallow Daybell on Monday.
Gibb told jurors that Vallow Daybell claimed some people were “light” and others were “dark,” meaning they had been possessed by evil spirits. Gibb said people Vallow Daybell labeled as “dark” included her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who was shot and killed by Vallow Daybell's brother in July 2019; her two youngest children, who were missing for roughly eight months before their bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell's yard in 2020; and Brandon Boudreax, who was shot at by an unknown assailant shortly after he divorced Vallow Daybell's niece in 2019.
Gibb's testimony was the first time jurors heard about the death of Vallow Daybell's fourth husband. The couple was estranged when Charles Vallow was shot and killed outside his Phoenix, Arizona-area home by Vallow Daybell's brother, Alex Cox. Cox claimed the shooting was self-defense and was never charged in connection with the death. He later died of what was determined to be natural causes in December 2019.
Authorities in Arizona, however, have indicted Vallow Daybell with conspiring to kill Charles Vallow with Cox's help. The Idaho prosecutors also say Cox had a hand in the eastern Idaho deaths, conspiring with Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell to kill the kids and Daybell's previous wife.
Vallow Daybell has not yet entered a plea in the Arizona case.
JJ had autism, and once Charles Vallow was dead, Vallow Daybell had a hard time taking care of him and having enough time with Chad Daybell, Gibb said. Vallow Daybell and the two kids moved to Rexburg, Idaho, after Charles Vallow's death — closer to the town where Chad Daybell lived with his family — and that's when Vallow Daybell began claiming JJ was possessed, Gibb said.
“She said he would say things like, ‘I love Satan’ and climb up on the cabinets and refrigerator,” Gibb said.
Tylee wasn't home at the time, and Gibbs said Vallow Daybell claimed to have sent the teen to live in a college dorm with some friends. Both children were last seen alive in September 2019, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, Chad Daybell's then-wife, Tammy Daybell, died in October 2019. Her death was originally reported as natural causes, but prosecutors became suspicious after Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell married just two weeks later. Prosecutors said Tammy Daybell's body was exhumed and that an autopsy showed she died from asphyxiation.
Gibb told jurors that Chad Daybell called her in November of 2019, warning her not to answer her phone if Rexburg police called because Vallow Daybell had told investigators JJ was visiting Gibb in Arizona.
Gibb confronted Vallow Daybell about the boy's whereabouts in a recorded phone call a month later. Prosecutors played the recording for the jury.
“Your salvation is in trouble,” Gibb tells Vallow Daybell in the call. “I believe you have been deceived by Satan. He has tricked you. Tammy dies, and then your husband died, and then he’s missing. It doesn’t sound like God’s plan to me. In my gut, it feels weird.”
“You know me, Mel,” Lori Vallow replies. “This doesn’t sound like you. This sounds like you’re being influenced by somebody dark.” | 2023-04-15T17:23:13+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/04/14/friend-of-slain-kids-mom-describes-zombie-claims-to-jury/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale price increases in the United States slowed sharply last month as food and energy costs declined, a sign that inflationary pressures may be easing as the Federal Reserve considers whether to keep raising interest rates to fight higher prices.
From January to February, the government’s producer price index fell 0.1%, after a 0.3% rise from December to January. Compared with a year ago, wholesale prices rose 4.6%, a big drop from the 5.7% annual increase in January.
A significant driver of last month’s wholesale inflation slowdown was a huge drop in the prices of eggs, which plummeted 36.1% just in February. Egg prices had previously surged after a widespread outbreak of avian flu.
Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core wholesale prices were unchanged from January to February. The core measure can provide a better read of longer-term inflation trends. Compared with a year ago, core prices rose 4.4%, down from a 5% annual increase in January and a 5.8% rise in December.
Services prices at the wholesale level declined in February, slipping 0.1%. A substantial 1.1% drop in shipping costs lowered overall services prices.
Energy prices dropped 0.2%, with the costs of heating oil, natural gas and diesel fuel all declining. Food prices sank 2.2% from January to February, a third straight monthly decline and the sharpest since June 2020. That drop suggests that grocery store prices, which have been growing at a slower pace, could ease further in coming months.
The producer price data reflects prices charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers, and it flows into an inflation gauge that the Federal Reserve closely tracks. It can provide an early sign of how fast consumer inflation will rise.
The drop in shipping costs could help people like Stephanie Herbig, owner of the Cheeky Bird women’s boutique in Kansas City. High inflation forced Herbig to reduce the number of items she imports from overseas because “the cost of that is a lot higher.” She is becoming choosier, she said, about which products she stocks.
“I’m just trying to be creative and selective, really making sure that the brands that I bring in have a wide range of attractiveness to people trying to stay within some price points that are comfortable,” Herbig said.
Wednesday’s wholesale figures follow a report Tuesday on consumer prices that showed that inflation is still rising faster than the Fed would prefer. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are seen as a better gauge of long-term inflation, rose 0.5% from January to February, the highest such rate since September. That is a far higher pace than is consistent with the Fed’s 2% annual target.
But the failure of two large banks since Friday has raised fears about financial instability and has complicated the Fed’s upcoming decisions about how high and how fast to raise interest rates to fight inflation. Despite chronically high inflation, some economists expect the central bank to suspend its year-long streak of interest rate hikes when it meets next week.
Many other analysts foresee only a modest quarter-point rate increase next week rather than the half-point Fed hike they had previously expected. The Fed, for now, may focus on boosting confidence in the financial system before it resumes its long-term drive to tame inflation.
That would be a sharp shift from just a week ago, when Chair Jerome Powell suggested to a Senate committee that if inflation didn’t cool, the Fed could raise its benchmark interest rate by a substantial half-point at its meeting March 21-22. When the Fed raises its key rate, it typically leads to higher rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and many business loans.
The next day, testifying to a House committee, Powell cautioned that no final decision had been made about what the Fed would do at the March meeting.
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AP Video Journalist Nick Ingram contributed to this report from Kansas City. | 2023-03-15T20:49:20+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/us-wholesale-inflation-fell-last-month-on-lower-food-costs/ |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — More hunters headed afield for pheasants in South Dakota and took more of them during the 2022 season.
That’s according to harvest data delivered Friday during the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission at Good Earth State Park.
Upland game biologist Alex Solem said hunters reported bagging 1,158,716 roosters. That was 8.6% more than for the prior year.
There were 129,367 hunters, up 1.9%, he said. They included 53,846 residents and 73,887 non-residents. The pheasant hunting season ran from Oct. 15 to the end of January.
The top counties for pheasant harvest were Aurora, Beadle, Brown, Brule, Davison and Hughes.
Hunters also did well on sharp-tail grouse and prairie chickens, according to Solem. He said hunters reported harvesting 63,617, a 19% increase from 2021. There were 16,765 hunters, up 9%. They included 9,149 residents and 7,616 non-residents.
The estimates were based on responses to surveys sent to 15,000 residents and 15,000 non-residents who bought licenses and hunted upland gamebirds in the 2022 seasons. Hunters who bought preserve licenses weren’t included.
The pheasant harvest was “incredible,” according to Solem. “It’s not too far off from the heyday of the mid-2000s when we were harvesting two million pheasants,” he said.
Said commission chair Stephanie Rissler of Vermillion, “The numbers look good.” | 2023-06-09T18:51:35+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/hunters-harvest-1-1-million-pheasants-in-2022-season/ |
HOUSTON (AP) — A revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children is set to be debated Thursday before a federal judge who previously ruled the program illegal.
Attorneys representing the nine states that have sued to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department and DACA recipients were scheduled to appear at a court hearing before U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen.
In 2021, Hanen declared DACA illegal, ruling that the program had not been subjected to public notice and comment periods required under the federal Administrative Procedures Act. Hanen also said the states seeking to stop it had standing to file their lawsuit because they had been harmed by the program.
Ahead of the hearing on Thursday morning, more than 50 people gathered at a park near the courthouse to show their support for DACA.
Many of them held up signs that read: “Immigration Reform Now,” “Protect DACA” and “Immigrant Power Immigrant Rights.”
The states claimed they incur hundreds of millions of dollars in health care, education and other costs when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. The states that sued are Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas and Mississippi.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld Hanen’s ruling in 2022 but sent the case back to him to review changes made to the program by the Biden administration.
The new version of DACA took effect in October and was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process.
In court filings, Texas and the other states argued that the updated program is essentially the same as the 2012 memo that first created it and remains “unlawful and unconstitutional.” The states also argued that the White House overstepped its authority by granting immigration benefits that are for Congress to decide.
The U.S. Justice Department argued in court filings that the states failed to show any direct injury because of DACA and that Congress has given the Department of Homeland Security the “authority and duty to set immigration enforcement policies.”
“DACA is lawful. DACA is consistent with the many policies of the U.S. government in the past under different presidents,” said Nina Perales, with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who will be speaking before Hanen on behalf of DACA recipients.
Hanen has left the Obama-era program intact for those already benefiting from it. But he ruled there can be no new applicants while appeals are pending.
There were 580,310 people enrolled in DACA at the end of December, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Hanen is not expected to immediately rule after Thursday’s court hearing. But whatever decision he makes is expected to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time.
In 2016, the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 over an expanded DACA and a version of the program for parents of DACA recipients. In 2020, the high court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration improperly ended DACA, allowing it to stay in place.
President Joe Biden and advocacy groups have called on Congress to pass permanent protections for “ Dreamers,” which is what people protected by DACA are commonly called. Congress has failed multiple times to pass proposals called the DREAM Act to protect DACA recipients.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2023-06-01T19:12:42+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/revised-daca-program-to-be-debated-before-texas-judge-who-previously-ruled-against-it/ |
MONTPELIER, Ind. (WXIN) — Family and neighbors are mourning the loss of an Indiana man and his young great-grandson who were killed when a suspected drunk driver plowed through a home and into a porch filled with people.
Jerry “Jake” Michael, 74, and Jenson Reynolds, 5, were killed on June 2, after a driver veered off a street in Montepelier, drove through the backyard, crashed into the back of the house and exited through the front porch.
Two other people were hurt, including Jenson’s young sister and the children’s father. Both were airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital.
“The grandpa, Jake, the one that got killed, they was all super nice over there,” said neighbor Jamie Winningham. “If you needed anything they would help.”
Police arrested Brandi Bare, 46, after witnesses at the scene identified her as the driver. According to court documents, police said her speech was slurred, her eyes were bloodshot, and she smelled of alcohol.
Bare also slipped out of a squad car shortly after police placed her in the back, and tried to flee before officers caught up with her, according to a police affidavit.
Bare is charged with two counts each of causing death when driving while intoxicated, reckless homicide and causing serious bodily injury when driving while intoxicated.
As of Tuesday morning, Bare was still an inmate at the Blackford County Jail. But her bond had been set at $5,000 — something that doesn’t sit well with Jerry Michael, the son of Jake and the uncle of Jenson.
“She has a $5,000 bond. Is that all my family is worth?” Michael asked. “She destroyed a family. She killed my dad, killed my nephew. It should have never happened.”
Supporters of the Michael family held a protest Monday at the city hall in Hartford City, News Channel 11’s sister station WANE reported. They called for the $5,000 bond to be revoked.
“We’re hurting,” Jenson’s uncle Braxton told News Channel 11’s sister station WANE in Indiana. “It’s amazing this whole community came together … I have no words. It’s just unbelievable.
A Change.org petition was also started to revoke Bare’s bond. As of Wednesday morning, it had more than 9,000 signatures.
“We’re tough, were made of steel … We might bend but we ain’t gonna break,” said Jerry Michael. | 2022-06-08T16:42:11+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/she-destroyed-a-family-boy-5-and-great-grandfather-killed-after-accused-drunk-driver-crashes-through-house/ |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday his administration will suspend a federal rule that bars higher levels of ethanol in gasoline during the summer. The move, which Biden announced during a visit to Iowa, is intended to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine. Iowa is a key producer of the corn-based fuel additive.
A look at how that the decision to authorize year-round use of so-called E15 will impact gas supplies, prices and the environment.
What action is Biden taking?
Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol. At Biden's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver to allow widespread sale of 15% ethanol blend that is usually prohibited between June 1 and Sept. 15 because of concerns that it adds to smog in high temperatures.
Senior Biden administration officials said the move will save drivers an average of 10 cents per gallon at 2,300 gas stations that sell E15, as the high-blend ethanol is known. Those stations are mostly in the Midwest and the South, including Texas, according to industry groups.
Why is Biden doing this?
Lawmakers from both parties and ethanol advocates have urged Biden and the EPA to allow year-round sales of E15, calling it a cheaper and readily available domestic alternative to traditional gasoline. The U.S. has banned imports of Russian crude oil since the country's late February invasion of Ukraine, disrupting global markets and raising prices.
“Homegrown Iowa biofuels provide a quick and clean solution for lowering prices at the pump, and bolstering production would help us become energy independent once again,″ said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a longtime ethanol proponent. Grassley and 15 other senators sent Biden a letter last month urging him to allow year-round E15 sales.
Ethanol groups called Biden's action a major win for American drivers and U.S. energy security. "It means cleaner options at the pump and a stronger rural economy,” said Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy, a biofuel trade group.
How will this affect the environment?
Biden administration official say the short-term move will have little effect on the environment and that EPA will work with states to "ensure there are no significant air quality impacts through the summer driving season.''
Environmentalists questioned that, saying ethanol production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion and raises prices for corn and other crops.
“The ethanol lobby will be happy and kids with asthma will be sicker,'' said Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “However well-meaning (Biden's action) might be, kids and the elderly shouldn’t pay the price with their health for slight gas savings.''
A recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences revealed that the federal ethanol mandate inflated corn prices by 30% from 2008 to 2016, made corn-based ethanol more carbon intensive than gasoline and increased annual fertilizer use by up to 8%, polluting waterways.
Has the EPA done this before?
The EPA has lifted seasonal restrictions on E15 in the past, including after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The Trump administration allowed for year-round E15 sales starting in 2019, but a federal appeals court struck down the policy change in July 2021, saying the EPA overstepped its authority.
The decision dealt a significant blow to the ethanol industry and corn farmers who had anticipated increased ethanol demand through year-round sales of the higher blend.
How is this different from Trump's action?
Senior Biden administration officials said they expected the EPA waiver to survive a likely court challenge, saying that unlike the open-ended Trump rule, the action is limited to this summer and is prompted by a supply disruption caused by the war in Europe.
Greater use of E15 should "help alleviate some of the pain that we’ve seen since Russia launched this war against Ukraine,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan told a Senate committee last week.
But critics said the only emergency is Biden's dropping poll numbers.
Emergency fuel waivers are reserved for acute supply disruptions, such as those resulting from a hurricane, said Chet Thompson, president & CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represents petroleum refiners.
“An additional three months of E15 sales won’t do anything to address high crude oil prices, and 98% of retail (gas) stations can’t even sell the fuel,'' Thompson said. “This is politics, not a real solution for drivers.”
Will E15 hurt my car's engine?
E15, often sold at the pump as Unleaded 88, for its octane rating, can safely be used in all cars, trucks and SUVs from 2001 on. Those model years represent more than 90% of vehicles on U.S. roads. The ethanol industry says the fuel is one of the most tested in history and has no effect on vehicle drivability. More than 20 billion miles have been driven in cars and trucks using Unleaded 88, a number continues to grow.
What is the price of E15 gas?
E15, or Unleaded 88, typically sells for 10 cents a gallon less than E10, the standard formulation for U.S. cars. The price difference between Unleaded 88 and conventional gasoline without ethanol is around 40 cents.
Will I get better mileage from E15 gas?
There is no noticeable difference between the mileage achieved when using E15 and mileage when operating on E10.
Can I use E15 in my lawnmower and other small engines?
E15 has not been approved by EPA for use in non-automotive engines such as boats, motorcycles, lawn mowers and other small engines. E10, the standard ethanol formulation, is approved for small engines. | 2022-04-13T00:02:12+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-ethanol-gasoline-explainer/507-e823ab64-4e21-4ed3-80b0-5cd84e1cd253 |
HONOLULU (AP) — Olympic surfing champion Carissa Moore won the AAU James E. Sullivan Award as the United States’s most outstanding college or Olympic athlete.
Moore is the first surfer and first native Hawaiian to win the 92nd annual award. She was presented the trophy on Thursday in Honolulu.
Moore, a five-time world champion and two-time winner of the Triple Crown of Surfing, became the first Olympic champion in women’s short board at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
She grew up surfing in the same waters as Duke Kahanamoku, the noted “father of surfing.”
Moore was inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame in 2014.
“Carissa Moore is a perfect example of what this award represents — athletic excellence, leadership, character, and sportsmanship,” AAU President J.B. ”Jo” Mirza said.
This year’s other finalists were: softball player Jocelyn Alo, wrestler Jordan Burroughs, baseball player Ivan Melendez and Alabama quarterback Bryce Young.
Moore joins such former honorees as Bobby Jones, Wilma Rudolph, Carl Lewis, Mark Spitz, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps and Michelle Kwan.
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (WISH) — Ahead of Hagerstown, Indiana’s opening game at the Little League World Series on Thursday at 3 p.m.EST on ESPN, News 8’s Charlie Clifford shares a look into the fun the team is having behind the scenes in Williamsport.
(Photos courtesy of Patrick Vinson) | 2022-08-18T16:05:20+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/gallery-hagerstowns-adventure-at-the-little-league-world-series/ |
More than 80 seniors won’t walk at graduation over prank involving cement in toilets
BURLINGTON, N.C. (WXII) - Dozens of seniors in a North Carolina school district were barred from participating in their high school graduation ceremonies over pranks that caused thousands of dollars in damage to school property.
More than 80 students in the Alamance-Burlington School System were involved in a May 25 senior prank in which six high schools were vandalized, according to the school district.
The worst damage was done at Walter Williams High School in Burlington, where cement poured into the school’s toilets caused $4,000 in damages. The vandalism at other schools included overturned desks, graffiti and garbage, according to the school district.
Since then, the school district says it’s identified 86 of the students involved. All but three are seniors who won’t be allowed to walk across the stage at graduation.
“I said the numbers will probably rise because we’re still investigating. This is not over,” Superintendent Dr. Dain Butler said.
Police have also charged seven students, five of whom are 18 years old, with misdemeanors.
Butler says there’s zero tolerance for this misbehavior. He adds that because things have changed over the years in how law enforcement responds to disturbances at schools, things could have been much worse.
“Think about this, guys: Eastern Alamance High School, the Mebane Police rolled up on that school with our kids. They’re trespassing. We’re trained these days to think active shooter. How do we protect our campus? Think about what could have happened that night,” he said.
Butler hopes that moving forward, students learn from this incident and don’t make the same mistakes.
“We’re preparing our kids to be adults, and in the real world, when you make a mistake, you’re held accountable. So, they may not see it now, but I’m really trying my best to prepare them for what’s next in our world,” he said.
The students not allowed to walk at graduation will have the opportunity to receive their diplomas after June 12.
Copyright 2023 WXII via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-07T10:39:13+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2023/06/07/more-than-80-seniors-wont-walk-graduation-over-prank-involving-cement-toilets/ |
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Justin Fields will sit out the Chicago Bears’ game Sunday against the New York Jets, and Nathan Peterman will start at quarterback after backup Trevor Siemian was injured in warmups.
With Siemian set to start, the Bears announced about an hour before kickoff he injured his oblique and would be replaced by Peterman.
Siemian will serve as the backup, but Peterman is now Chicago's only healthy active quarterback.
Fields, who is having a productive second NFL season, injured his left — non-throwing — shoulder in Chicago’s 27-24 loss to Atlanta last Sunday. He was listed as questionable on the team’s final injury report Friday. Fields made the trip with the team to New York and threw lightly on the field at MetLife Stadium, but Chicago officially listed him as inactive 90 minutes before kickoff.
Fields said earlier this week his injury is a shoulder separation with ligament damage within the AC joint. While the injury is to his non-throwing shoulder, he was experiencing some pain in that shoulder on his follow-through when he threw.
Entering this week, Fields ranked fifth in the NFL in rushing with 834 yards to lead all quarterbacks. He has run for seven touchdowns this season, including six in the past five games.
He also joined Arizona’s Kyler Murray as the only QBs in the Super Bowl era with both a passing and rushing touchdown in five straight games.
Peterman was promoted Saturday from the practice squad to serve as the backup to Siemian, but will now find himself under center against the Jets.
The 28-year-old Peterman will make his first start since 2018, when he was with Buffalo. He was 31 of 49 for 188 yards and no touchdowns with three interceptions in the Bills' 41-9 loss to Peterman's current team.
Peterman last played in a regular-season game last season for Las Vegas, but didn't throw a pass in mop-up duty in the Raiders' 20-9 loss to the Bears in Week 5. His last regular-season pass came in Week 12 of the 2020 season for the Raiders.
Chicago is also without two starters on defense with cornerback Kyler Gordon and safety Jaquan Brisker out with concussions.
The Bears-Jets matchup already had lost some of its luster before Fields was ruled out. New York benched Zach Wilson, the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s draft, this week in favor of Mike White. Wilson has struggled mightily in his second season while Fields — selected nine picks after him — has developed into one of the league’s most exciting quarterbacks.
Wilson was listed as inactive for the game, with Joe Flacco serving as White's backup.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-27T18:01:47+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Bears-Fields-out-vs-Jets-Siemian-to-start-at-QB-17613749.php |
Argument between neighboring hotel room guests leads to large drug find
PLAINFIELD, Conn. (WFSB) - When Plainfield police officers responded to a Quality Inn on Lanthrop Road for a disturbance, they discovered over 540 bags of fentanyl, among other drugs.
Police arrived on scene and connected with a male victim who said he was threatened with physical violence by a female after asking the neighboring room to quiet down.
The woman was identified as 40-year-old Nicole Marcoux, of Brooklyn, CT. She was with 40-year-old Giovanni Serranolugo, of New York.
As police conducted their investigation, spoke to the pair, and confirmed a confrontation had occurred, officers observed drug paraphernalia in plain view in the hotel room.
Police say Serranolugo also tried to wipe a white powder, believed to be an illegal narcotic, off the TV stand.
A search of the room with the help of K-9 Gage uncovered a large amount of narcotics including over 540 bags of fentanyl, over 100 grams of crack cocaine, and over 30 grams of cocaine.
Police say drug paraphernalia was also found.
All of the narcotics were packaged for sale.
Marcoux was issued a misdemeanor summons for breach of peace 2nd degree and released on a written promise to appear.
Serranolugo was placed under arrest and charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, two counts of Possession of narcotics with intent to sell, operating a drug factory, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Serranolugo was released on a $50,000.00 bond and is scheduled to appear in court.
Copyright 2023 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-17T21:45:04+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/17/argument-between-neighboring-hotel-room-guests-leads-large-drug-find/ |
NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Fortune and Great Place to Work revealed their annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, with Cisco taking top honors for the third year in a row. Of this year's leader, Fortune Senior Reporter Megan Leonhardt writes, "Cisco continues to work toward improving workforce diversity. It increased the number of employees self-identifying as African American or Black overall from 5.9% in fiscal year 2020 to 10% in FY22. Since 2000, the company has achieved a 60% increase in African American and Black employees in entry-level through manager roles, and a 94% increase in representation at the director level. The number of African American and Black employees within the vice president and C-suite ranks grew by 160% during the last fiscal year." Read more about the companies on the list here.
- Cisco
- Hilton
- American Express
- Wegmans Food Markets
- Accenture
- Nvidia
- Atlassian
- Salesforce
- Comcast NBCUniversal
- Marriott
- 96 of the 100 best companies provide remote work options
- 17 companies cover 100% of health care premiums on at least one of their plans
- 22 companies offer an unlimited number of free mental health sessions to their employees
- 47% of new Atlassian hires live more than two hours away from a physical company office
- Wegmans has given $135 million in scholarships to more than 44,000 employees since 1984
- 109,349: The current number of open positions at the 100 Best Companies to Work For
"Leading the 'best company' through the 'worst thing'": a profile of Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins by Susie Gharib
"Visa moved part of its C-suite to Atlanta to diversify company ranks—but making a dent in the city's income inequality problem is an uphill battle" by Ellen McGirt
"Over 150,000 people have been let go so far this year. Are layoffs a confession of bad management?" by Geoff Colvin: If 2023 is "the year of efficiency," what were the CEOs of Meta, Amazon, and others doing in all those previous years?
"Marc Benioff says he can juggle empathy, cost cuts and layoffs as he doubles down on efficiency at Salesforce" by Michal Lev-Ram: Can Benioff maintain a "we're family" culture amid tough times?
"Recent Salesforce and Meta job cuts show even good severance packages won't soften the blow for workers" by Megan Leonhardt
"How to rebound from a mid-career layoff" by Alicia Adamczyk
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
1002 PM CDT Tue May 9 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN JIM WELLS AND SOUTH CENTRAL LIVE OAK COUNTIES...
At 1002 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Annarose, or
18 miles south of George West, moving southeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Midway, Annarose, Rancho De La Parita and Westdale.
This includes US Highway 281 between mile markers 646 and 660.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Blood drive, plate lunch benefit to help families of paramedics involved in deadly crash
PORT ALLEN, La. (WAFB) - You can help out several families that have been impacted by a deadly crash involving an ambulance earlier this week in Pointe Coupee Parish.
The Louisiana Firemen’s Association announced it is hosting a blood drive and plate lunch benefit for the families of Kymber Nezat and Hunter Fruge’.
The crash happened on Tuesday, June 27 along Morganza Highway in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Nezat, a paramedic inside of the ambulance, died in the crash. The patient riding in the ambulance at the time of the crash, identified as Albert Bordelon, 82, also died.
Hunter Fruge’ remains in the hospital fighting for his life.
The blood drive benefit will take place at the Louis Mouch Arena in Port Allen on Sunday, July 2 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Barbecue chicken plates can be purchased for $10 as a part of the benefit dinner. Donations are also welcome.
Organizers say all proceeds and donations will benefit the Nezat and Fruge’ families.
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