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Alta and Soltera at McSweeny Farms are set to debut this Saturday
HEMET, Calif., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond American Homes of California, a subsidiary of M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MDC), is excited to announce the grand opening of two new neighborhoods in the popular McSweeny Farms masterplan: Alta at McSweeny Farms and Soltera at McSweeny Farms (RichmondAmerican.com/AltaSolteraMcSweeny). Scheduled to open on Saturday, November 5, both of these exceptional Hemet communities showcase an inspired array of single- and two-story homes with open layouts and designer details. All eight floor plans available are from the builder's sought-after Seasons™ Collection—designed to put homeownership within reach for a variety of buyers.
Model home tours
Prospective homebuyers and area agents are encouraged to stop by Alta and Soltera at McSweeny Farm for model home tours on Saturday, November 5, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
More about McSweeny Farms masterplan:
- Prime location near Highway 79 and I-215
- Close proximity to employment hubs, local shopping and outdoor recreation, such as Diamond Valley Lake and several golf courses.
- On-site amenities include a community clubhouse, a pool, a garden, a fitness center, an amphitheater, trails, parks, playgrounds and more
More about Alta at McSweeny Farms:
- One single-story plan and four two-story floor plans
- 3 to 6 bedrooms, approx. 2,080 to 3,040 sq. ft.
- Great room fireplaces and alternate kitchen layouts available
More about Soltera at McSweeny Farms:
- Three single-story floor plans
- 2 to 4 bedrooms, approx. 1,410 to 1,750 sq. ft.
- Covered patios and 3-car garages available
Those who choose to build a new home from the ground up at either McSweeny Farms community will have the opportunity to work with professional design consultants at the builder's Home Gallery™ to select colors, textures, finishes and fixtures for their new living spaces—a complimentary service!
Alta at McSweeny Farms is located at 371 Knotgrass Street in Hemet. Soltera at McSweeny Farms is located at 321 Knotgrass Street in Hemet. For more information, call 951.244.5180 or visit RichmondAmerican.com.
About M.D.C. Holdings, Inc.
Operating under the name Richmond American Homes, MDC's homebuilding subsidiaries have built more than 230,000 homes since 1977. Among the nation's largest homebuilders, MDC's subsidiary companies have operations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Mortgage lending, plus insurance and title services are offered by the following MDC subsidiaries, respectively: HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency, Inc. and American Home Title and Escrow Company. M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDC." For more information, visit MDCHoldings.com.
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Teaneck, No. 19 in the NJ.com Top 20, cruised past Demarest by a final of 66-34, in Teaneck.
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Teaneck, No. 19 in the NJ.com Top 20, cruised past Demarest by a final of 66-34, in Teaneck.
If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. | 2023-01-25T05:40:40+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2023/01/girls-basketball-no-19-teaneck-gets-back-into-win-column-rolls-demarest.html |
How to Watch the East Carolina vs. Houston Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the AAC Tournament Championship
Published: Mar. 9, 2023 at 3:12 PM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
The No. 4 seed Houston Cougars (15-15) are taking the court in the AAC championship game against the No. 3 East Carolina Lady Pirates (22-9). The title game is set for Thursday at 9:00 PM.
Hoping to catch this game live? Below, we provide all the details you need to know about how to watch this contest on fuboTV.
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East Carolina Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 9:00 PM ET
- Where: Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas
- TV: ESPN
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East Carolina vs. Houston Scoring Comparison
- The Cougars put up 9.1 more points per game (65.5) than the Lady Pirates allow their opponents to score (56.4).
- When it scores more than 56.4 points, Houston is 12-11.
- East Carolina is 19-5 when it allows fewer than 65.5 points.
- The Lady Pirates put up 63.9 points per game, only four more points than the 59.9 the Cougars give up.
- East Carolina is 19-1 when scoring more than 59.9 points.
- Houston has an 11-4 record when allowing fewer than 63.9 points.
- The Lady Pirates shoot 31% from the field, 14.9% lower than the Cougars allow defensively.
- The Cougars make 39.8% of their shots from the field, 7.6% lower than the Lady Pirates' defensive field-goal percentage.
East Carolina Schedule
Houston Schedule
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What it means to be a good dad isn't identical for everyone, and every family. Three fathers share some their own parenting experiences ahead of Father's Day in the United States.
Copyright 2023 NPR
What it means to be a good dad isn't identical for everyone, and every family. Three fathers share some their own parenting experiences ahead of Father's Day in the United States.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-17T22:17:57+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/2023-06-17/what-parenting-looks-like-according-to-fathers |
Cruise enthusiasts are going to have to wait a bit longer to sail on Carnival's next new cruise ship.
When Carnival's Jubilee finally does set sail in 2023, it will tie with Carnival's Celebration as the biggest ship ever for the company.
Carnival said in a statement that it had notified guests who were booked on the first six cruises for the Carnival Jubilee that the ship's delivery had been postponed. Guests have now been told that the first cruise will be on Dec. 23, 2023 out of Galveston, Texas.
The company said the ship is under construction in Germany, and told guests that supply chain issues were to blame for the delay.
The ship was previously set to be delivered in October 2023.
Once completed, the ship will sail directly to Galveston, Texas in order to be ready to depart for the Christmas holiday next year.
The company's cancelations will see its original plan to sail from Southampton, UK to Texas, plus five Caribbean sailings in 2023, removed from its previous itinerary.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said, “This is disappointing news, but with the notification from the shipyard, we are advising our guests as quickly as we can.”
“We appreciate their understanding as we work to deliver another spectacular ship that will provide a vacation experience our guests deserve and will absolutely love,” Duffy said. | 2022-12-13T01:04:21+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/national/carnival-delays-debut-of-biggest-ship-ever-adds-cancelations-to-schedule |
As of 8 p.m. Friday, nearly 4,000 MidAmerican customers were without power, with the majority out in the Iowa City area because of extensive damage to transmission structure, according to a news release.
Kimberly Cathelyn’s Ring video captured this video of a tornado in Geneseo that was part of the severe weather that left so many in the area without electricity.
While most customers in Iowa City and the Quad Cities will be restored by midnight, some customers will not be restored until Saturday morning between 6-9 a.m., the release says. A number of crews are focused on these areas of damage already, with additional crews enroute.
A high-wind advisory is in effect for these areas overnight, with the risk of 45-55mph wind gusts, which may cause additional damage and outages, the release says.
Here’s a look at the numbers at 8 p.m.: | 2023-04-01T05:31:41+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/crews-work-to-restore-power/ |
Updated July 6, 2022 at 3:03 PM ET
MOSCOW — The United States and Russia's bitter disagreements over the conflict in Ukraine have spilled over into new unexpected terrain: what to call the address of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Russian authorities have renamed the street outside the embassy after a separatist region that claims to be independent from Ukraine, "Donetsk People's Republic Square."
Like most of the world besides Russia, the U.S. refuses to recognize the Donetsk "republic" and, so far, appears to be refusing to use the new address.
The idea to rename the location surfaced in April, when Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced an online public vote that seemed intended to provoke by design.
The clear winner with 45% — and accusations of vote rigging — was Donetsk People's Republic Square.
When the new street signs went up last month, Russian officials embraced the moment.
"I hope the United States won't take too long to recognize the new republics," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova during a June press conference in which she welcomed the change. She added that Russians should feel free to write to the Embassy at the new address — often.
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin formally recognized the independence of Donetsk and its neighbor, the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, before sending in Russian troops he said were part of a "special military operation" to "liberate" the broader Donbas region from Ukraine.
Following the change of address, this week the U.S. unveiled a workaround of sorts. The Embassy's website quietly switched its listed contacts to coordinates: "55,75566° N, 37,58028°E." At least one section of the website, meanwhile, has kept the traditional address: Bolshoy Deviatinsky Pereulok No. 8.
An Embassy spokeswoman declined to comment on the change.
Yet Russian taxi driver Denis Usmanov — who's been shuttling passengers around Moscow for the past seven years — tells NPR both Russia and the U.S. miss a more essential point.
"It doesn't matter what they call it," says Usmanov in an interview with NPR. "The important thing is to get you where you need to go."
Where the streets have new names
For Moscow, the shifting nature of streets and politics isn't exactly new.
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 saw czarist-era addresses ditched in favor of those honoring the communist leadership.
The end of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought the return of many historical names — in what the city's democratically elected officials saw as one small but important facet of the changes underway.
"Symbolically, we wanted to show the end of one period and the beginning of another," Sergei Stankevich, who served as deputy mayor for the city in the early 1990s, says in an interview.
The U.S. has its own history of name changing when it comes to the Kremlin.
During the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials renamed a stretch of land near the old Soviet Embassy Andrei Sakharov Plaza in honor of the famed Soviet dissident physicist.
More recently, Washington, D.C.'s City Council changed the name of a square across from the current Russian Embassy in honor of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — a vocal opponent of President Vladimir Putin before Nemtsov's murder in 2015.
Former Deputy Mayor Stankevich notes that it took Moscow residents some time to adapt to the changing street name — and it may be a while before Russians, too, embrace Donetsk People's Square.
"It's just what today we call 'trolling,' " says Stankevich. "The Russian authorities are trying to make the Americans psychologically uncomfortable. And I suspect one day it will change again."
But even if Russia gets the last laugh for now, the U.S. can take some comfort in numbers.
This week, Moscow's mayor announced another online vote determined that the British Embassy, just down the road, will now be located at "Luhansk People's Republic Square."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-06T19:57:41+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/news-from-npr/2022-07-06/russia-and-the-u-s-engage-in-name-calling-over-the-u-s-embassys-moscow-address |
ISTANBUL (AP) — The trial of 36 people accused over a deadly bombing in central Istanbul last November began Tuesday, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. On Nov. 13, 2022 an explosion tore through Istanbul’s popular Istiklal Avenue – a busy thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants – killing six people, including two children, and injuring 99 others. Fifteen of the defendants, including the alleged bomber Ahlam Albashir, were in court for the start of the trial. Another 12 defendants participated via video link from prison. The whereabouts of the remaining nine are unclear.
Albashir faces a number of charges related to terrorism. If convicted, she faces up to seven life sentences and an additional 1,900 to 3,000 years in prison. Because the indictment was not read to her in her native Arabic, the presiding judge allowed her to postpone her defense until the next hearing. According to indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s office, Albashir and a man named as Bilal el-Hacmaus were intelligence operatives of the YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia group, and its political branch, the PYD. Turkey regards the YPG as the Syrian arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency within Turkey. According to the indictment, the two suspects were given special training by the YPG/PYD and sent to Turkey along with explosives, where they traveled to Istanbul with the help of a network established by the organization. El-Hacmaus managed to flee the country. Arrest warrants have also been issued for several PKK and YPG leaders with regards to the case, including PKK leader Cemil Bayik. It is not known whether he is in Turkey, Syria or Iraq. | 2023-05-10T08:42:15+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/trial-over-deadly-istanbul-bombing-begins-in-turkey/ |
Brittney Griner back in Russian court on cannabis charge
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) - Brittney Griner was back in court on Tuesday for her trial for cannabis possession amid U.S. diplomatic efforts to secure her release.
If convicted, the WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist could face 10 years in prison. As her trial has progressed, the Biden administration has faced growing public pressure to get her released.
In an extraordinary move, Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week spoke to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, urging him to accept a deal under which Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction, would go free.
The Lavrov-Blinken call marked the highest-level known contact between Washington and Moscow since Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than five months ago, the direct outreach at odds with U.S. efforts to isolate the Kremlin.
People familiar with the proposal say it envisions trading Griner and Whelan for the notorious arms trader Viktor Bout. It underlines the public pressure that the White House has faced to get Griner released.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday that Russia has made a “bad faith” response to the U.S. government’s offer, a counteroffer that American officials don’t regard as serious. She declined to elaborate.
Griner has acknowledged there were vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage when she was arrested at a Moscow airport in February. But she insisted that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage because she was packing hastily. Griner played for a Russian women’s basketball team in the WNBA off-season.
To bolster her case, her defense lawyers presented testimony from doctors that she was prescribed cannabis as a treatment for pain. Medical marijuana treatment is not legal in Russia.
While judges have leeway to consider mitigating factors under Russian law, acquittals are rare and account for less than 1% of cases in Russian criminal prosecutions.
A conviction, however, could potentially pave the way for Griner’s exchange as Russian officials said it could only happen after the judicial process is completed.
Tom Firestone, a Washington attorney who formerly served as legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, said Griner could be handed a tough sentence as a way for Russians “to maximize their leverage in negotiations.” He told The Associated Press that Russia “may want to let this play out a little bit longer and try to extract more concessions.”
Russian officials have scoffed at U.S. statements about the case, saying they show a disrespect for Russian law. They remained poker-faced, urging Washington to discuss the issue through “quiet diplomacy without releases of speculative information.”
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Eric Tucker in Washington DC contributed to this story.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-02T09:28:12+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/08/02/brittney-griner-back-russian-court-cannabis-charge/ |
OUAGADOUGOU – Volunteer militia groups supporting Burkina Faso's army have killed dozens of civilians of the ethnic Fulani group, including children, in the troubled country's west, a local rights group charged on Tuesday.
The military supporters killed nearly 30 civilians last week in Nouna town, a predominately Fulani and Muslim community, according to Daouda Diallo, executive secretary of the civic group, the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities. Burkina Faso's Fulani people have been increasingly targeted by the military and local defense militias because they are suspected of supporting the West African country's Islamic extremist rebels that have been inflicting violence on the country for years.
“They (support militia) essentially targeted resourceful or influential people and the able-bodied members of the community, resulting in the loss of many human lives,” said Diallo. The killings in Nouna were revenge attacks by volunteer fighters after jihadis attacked their headquarters, he said.
Burkina Faso’s government said it has launched an investigation into the killings of at least 28 people. In a statement Monday, Armel Sama Burkina Faso’s prosecutor called on the population to remain calm during the investigation and said the government would arrest the perpetrators who conducted acts of “unprecedented gravity.”
Extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people in Burkina Faso over the past seven years. Lack of confidence in the government's ability to stem the extremist violence led to two coups in Burkina Faso last year.
Violence against the Fulani people has increased since the country's new junta leader, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, seized power in September, allege rights groups. Between October and January Diallo's group documented nearly 250 cases of extrajudicial killings compared to 95 in the previous four months, said Diallo.
There were more initiatives for dialogue between communities and the jihadis under the rule of the previous junta leader, Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, which might have resulted in fewer killings, he said.
In an attempt to stem jihadi violence, the government has recruited tens of thousands of civilian volunteers to fight alongside the army. Both groups have been accused by rights groups of committing atrocities against civilians. Many Fulani community members say they're equally afraid of the jihadis as they are of the volunteer militias.
Burkina Faso's government didn't immediately respond to questions about the alleged abuses. In his New Year's speech to the nation, Traore thanked the volunteer fighters for their patriotism.
But across Burkina Faso, residents charge that the volunteers are rounding up civilians and killing them.
In December, seven volunteers abducted a father and son from their shop in Kongoussi town in the Center North region, Yacouba Diallo a resident who said he witnessed their abduction told The Associated Press by phone. The men were found dead in the forest two days later, the father had two gunshots to his body and the son was slaughtered with a knife, said Diallo.
As jihadi violence escalates, conflict analysts warn these killings will increase.
“I think we are currently seeing a grim turn in the crisis in Burkina Faso, as there has clearly been an increase in extrajudicial killings in recent weeks and the events in Nouna are the culmination of this trend,” said Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
“There is an imminent risk of further mass atrocities in the near future, possibly committed by any of the parties involved in the conflict,” he said.
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Mednick reported from Dakar, Senegal | 2023-01-03T13:31:09+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/01/03/burkina-faso-rights-group-alleges-28-dead-in-ethnic-killings/ |
Police: Man walking around Walmart parking lot with hatchet arrested for stealing truck
TEXARKANA, Texas (KSLA/Gray News) - Police in Texas arrested a man who they say stole a truck and walked around a Walmart store parking lot with a hatchet in his pants.
On Oct. 7, the Texarkana Texas Police Department said they received a call for a man who was walking around the Walmart parking lot with a hatchet in the front of his pants. Police said the 25-year-old man never took the hatchet out, but did run up to people and yell unintelligible words. The man’s bizarre behavior caused concern, prompting a witness to call 911.
KSLA reports the police department received a similar call from a nearby movie theater, but the man left before they got there.
Officers encountered the man, identified as Jerry Toney, as he was getting into a black Dodge pickup truck in the Walmart parking lot. He matched the description of the suspect from the movie theater as well, police say.
After removing the hatchet and baton from his pants, which he said he needed for protection, officers learned that the truck he was getting into had been stolen out of Wood County.
Toney was arrested and charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He was booked into jail with a bond set at $50,000.
Copyright 2022 KSLA via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-16T19:01:34+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/10/16/police-man-walking-around-walmart-parking-lot-with-hatchet-arrested-stealing-truck/ |
Watching Your Wallet: Managing rising credit card bills
Try to pay the minimum, on-time to protect your credit score
InvestigateTV - Credit card debt continues to climb in the U.S. as experts expect people to lean on their cards to offset inflation, rising interest rates and for help with basic expenses like food and utilities.
Rising prices could be detrimental to as many as 40% of Americans in households earning about $45,00 a year or less, according to recent analysis from NerdWallet.
Elizabeth Renter, a data analyst for NerdWallet, said if you are in financial trouble or can’t make your minimum payment on your credit card, get help. The first place to turn is your credit card issuer.
“Credit card issuers have financial hardship programs that aren’t just for the pandemic,” Renter said. “So, whether you lose a job or bills just get out of control. Give them a call and they may be able to help reduce your payments temporarily.”
If that doesn’t work, Renter said look for a nonprofit credit counseling or debt management firm that can help you make plans to tackle your debt.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-15T19:49:22+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/15/watching-your-wallet-managing-rising-credit-card-bills/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio will fund scholarships and a climate education program at the UCLA-based elementary school where he was once himself a scholarship student, the actor and the college said Tuesday.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Scholarship fund and the Climate Justice Education Program are set to begin in the forthcoming school year at the UCLA Lab School.
“I was fortunate enough to attend the Lab School due to the generous contributions of UCLA donors, and my experience profoundly transformed my worldview,” DiCaprio said in a statement to The Associated Press. “I am proud to have the chance to pass on my experience to those who might otherwise miss out on this opportunity, and to help create a program that will help guide the next generation of climate warriors.”
The school aims to provide innovative educational techniques for its students — whose ages range from 4 to 12 — that outside teachers can come to study.
DiCaprio’s scholarship fund will give its students who need financial aid, which he got as a child when he went to the school in the 1980s, and will help the school to maintain the diversity it seeks. About 40% of its students need financial help.
“This scholarship fund will provide many children access to UCLA Lab School, just as Leo had,” said Dr. Eric Esrailian, a professor in UCLA’s Health Sciences department and a longtime friend of DiCaprio.
The new and separate climate education program will seek to teach students from pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade about the science behind climate change and about the policy and leadership needed to address it. The school has sought to use its location, next to a creek amid redwoods on the Los Angeles university campus, to become a hands-on site for environmental teaching.
DiCaprio, 48, has long been an outspoken advocate for addressing the climate crisis.
Esrailian said the program “will position children — both at the Lab School and beyond — for a more sustainable and healthy life for themselves and for our planet.”
The amount of the donations behind the programs was not made public, but officials said generations of students will be the recipients.
“Expanding access to high-quality education and helping young people recognize the need to protect our planet are critical goals for our institution,” UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement.
DiCaprio, the Oscar-winning star of “Titanic,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “The Revenant” and “The Departed,” will next appear in “ Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese. | 2023-07-11T14:10:26+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-leonardo-dicaprio-to-fund-scholarships-climate-education-at-his-former-elementary-school/ |
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hunter Strategy today announced that it has been appraised at Level 3 of the Software Engineering Institute's CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model Integration). The appraisal validates Hunter's expertise in building first-class software and delivering integrated cyber risk management services for Commercial and Government customers.
Originally created for the U.S. Department of Defense to assess its industrial bases' software competencies, CMMI models have since been adopted on a global scale and expanded to gauge an organizations depth of quality and signal operational performance to customers.
"Hunter Strategy prides itself on our bold culture of continuous improvement. Achievement of CMMI Level 3 attests not only to this spirit of growth, but also demonstrates our consistent delivery of agile services throughout the lifecycle," Hunter's Founder, Matt Triner, stated. "Embedding quality processes and practices into all our business units is at the core of delivery," he added.
Headquartered in Washington DC's Cathedral Heights neighborhood, Hunter Strategy is a Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZone certified small business that offers strategic DevSecOps, cyber risk management, and Agile software engineering solutions to federal agencies, Fortune 1000 companies, and emerging technology firms. For more information, or to discuss partnership or employment opportunities, please contact us at sales@hunterstrategy.net or visit www.hunterstrategy.net.
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California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday.
CMS will allow California inmates to access limited services, including substance use treatment and mental health diagnoses, 90 days before being released. Since Medicaid was established, federal law has prohibited Medicaid money from being used for people who are in custody, with inmates having access to their health care coverage suspended.
The move will provide more stability for inmates and juvenile detainees as they exit institutions and reenter the outside world, CMS administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said Thursday.
She said the change will allow the state to “make unprecedented advancements for incarcerated individuals who have long been underserved.”
At least 10 other states have asked CMS for exemptions to use Medicaid dollars to treat inmates before they are being released. California could be a model for those states, especially since the program is new territory for Medicaid and is expected to be a massive undertaking, said Vikki Wachino, who oversees the Health and Reentry Project at the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York.
California state officials said Thursday that they hope some inmates will begin accessing services through Medicaid starting in 2024. Incarcerated people will be screened and assessed for eligibility to access the state’s Medicaid program. If eligible, case workers will help them develop a care plan for reentry.
It will take at least two years to roll out the program in all the state’s prisons, said Jacey Cooper, the state’s Medicaid director.
Millions of people are expected to be affected, with California releasing nearly half a million inmates from state prisons or county jails every year and roughly 80% of those people qualifying for Medicaid.
People who are leaving prison, jail or juvenile detention often don’t know where to start with getting medical care, Wachino said.
“Right now, there is an enormous barrier to care when people leave prison and jail,” Wachino said. “As you know, many times when they’re released, they’ve been left to fend for themselves, with very, very few supports.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-01-26T23:20:36+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/health/california-prison-inmates-to-get-some-medicaid-care/ |
WASHINGTON — Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court said it has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights.
The report released by the court Thursday is the apparent culmination of an investigation ordered by Chief Justice John Roberts a day after the May leak of the draft to Politico. At the time, Roberts called the leak an “egregious breach of trust.”
The leak touched off protests at justices’ homes and raised concerns about their security. And it came more than a month before the final opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was released and the court formally announced it was overturning Roe v. Wade.
The report also offers a window into the court's internal processes. It acknowledges that the coronavirus pandemic, which expanded the ability of people to work from home, “as well as gaps in the Court’s security policies, created an environment where it was too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the Court’s IT networks.” The report recommends changes so that it's harder for a leak to happen in the future.
Some questions and answers about the report:
IF THE INVESTIGATION DIDN'T FIND THE LEAKER, WHAT DID IT FIND?
Lax security and loose lips. Too many people have access to certain sensitive information, the report concluded, and the court’s policies on information security are outdated. The court can't actively track, for example, who is handling and accessing highly sensitive information.
Beyond that, some people interviewed by federal investigators called in to help with the probe acknowledged they didn't scrupulously follow the court’s confidentiality policies. In some cases, employees acknowledged "telling their spouses about the draft opinion or vote count,” the report said.
The leak doesn't appear to have been the result of a hack, but the report said investigators could not rule out that the opinion was inadvertently disclosed, “for example, by being left in a public space either inside or outside the building.”
HOW THOROUGH WAS THE INVESTIGATION?
Investigators conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees. They looked into connections between employees and reporters, including those at Politico. They looked at call logs of personal phones. They looked at printer logs. They even did a fingerprint analysis of “an item relevant to the investigation.”
Every person who was interviewed signed a sworn statement that they were not the source of the leak. Lying about that could violate a federal law on false statements.
After all that, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a onetime federal judge, was asked to assess the investigation. Chertoff described the investigation as “thorough” in a statement issued through the court.
One open question: It was unclear from the report whether the court's nine justices also sat for interviews.
WHAT WILL CHANGE AS A RESULT?
It seems clear the court will tighten its procedures, maybe upgrade equipment and likely do more training of personnel in response to the leak. But what it has done already or will do in the future, the court isn't saying. Investigators made a list of recommendations, but those weren't attached to the public version of the report to guard against “potential bad actors.”
WHAT ABOUT SPECULATION OF WHO IT WAS?
After the leak, speculation swirled in Washington about who the source could be. Conservatives pointed fingers at the liberal side of the court, speculating that the leaker was someone upset about the outcome. Liberals suggested it could be someone on the conservative side of the court who wanted to ensure a wavering member of the five-justice majority didn’t switch sides.
On social media, there was speculation that various law clerks could be the leaker because of their personal backgrounds, including connections to Politico and past writing. The report acknowledged investigators were watching.
“Investigators also assessed the wide array of public speculation, mostly on social media, about any individual who may have disclosed the document. Several law clerks were named in various posts. In their inquiries, the investigators found nothing to substantiate any of the social media allegations regarding the disclosure,” the report said.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The report says investigators aren't quite done, but it suggests that any active investigation is winding down. “Investigators continue to review and process some electronic data that has been collected and a few other inquiries remain pending,” they said. “To the extent that additional investigation yields new evidence or leads, the investigators will pursue them.”
The final paragraph of the report said, “In time, continued investigation and analysis may produce additional leads that could identify the source of the disclosure.” | 2023-01-20T12:34:25+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-leak-report-released/507-b6e0c511-992d-4540-8a69-3b69feadb248 |
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson sprinted onto the field to a light round of cheers Saturday at the Cleveland Browns' first open practice of training camp.
The noticeably muted reaction reflected the uncertainty surrounding Cleveland’s controversial new quarterback.
Watson was the focal point as the Browns worked out in front of a near-capacity crowd at their suburban headquarters. He briefly waved while running to the middle of the practice fields, but did not speak with the media.
The 26-year-old quarterback is awaiting a decision from retired judge Sue L. Robinson. She's determining if Watson violated the NFL’s personal conduct policy after being accused of sexual misconduct by 24 massage therapists. A lengthy suspension is possible.
“I can’t wait for us to get to play together, whichever week we see him,” Cleveland tight end David Njoku said. “Hopefully, it’s sooner than later. I’m excited. I can’t wait.
“But it’s not hard, we just have to take each day as it is. Whoever we have, we have to put our best foot forward and just keep working.”
Watson, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, signed a five-year, $230 million contract with the Browns after being acquired from Houston in exchange for three first-round draft picks in March. He was a member of the Texans during all of the alleged incidents.
Two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Watson on any of the criminal complaints. He has settled 20 of the 24 civil lawsuits filed against him, and the attorney representing the women has said he hopes to take the other four to trial next spring.
There were no boos directed toward Watson at practice, but All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett and standout running back Nick Chubb were welcomed onto the field with much louder, prolonged ovations.
“You can tell by the turnout that people want to go all-out for the Browns, but I think fans are being cautious,” said Hans Schneider, a 21-year season ticket holder and mayor of Wellington, Ohio. “Once a decision is made with Deshaun, there will be clarity.
“I’m very respectful of both sides, but regardless of the decision, some people will be happy and some will be unhappy about it.”
Watson did interact with several dozen young fans following the 80-minute practice, patiently signing autographs and taking photos on the sideline. He also gave away his cleats as prizes for playing games of rock, paper, scissors.
The lucky winners were 10-year-old Tanner Hall and 9-year-old Barrett Radel, who were wearing Chubb and Garrett jerseys. Only a handful of adults sported Watson’s No. 4, but the No. 6 of former Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield was well represented.
“I’m going to keep this in my room with me,” Radel said, beaming as he cradled Watson’s autographed shoe.
The fan interaction evoked warm memories for safety Grant Delpit, Cleveland’s second-round selection in 2020. The New Orleans native attended Saints practices as a pre-teen and was given an autographed football by his grandmother.
“I remember going to Saints training camp and that was the coolest thing ever,” Delpit said. “It’s cool to see it go full circle. I’m excited.”
Because of COVID-19 restrictions the past two summers, the Browns limited camp access to the public. Delpit is eager to make up for lost time.
“I haven’t really been here with (full access to) fans before, so we’re going to have some fun, man,” Delpit said. “I’m going to meet some kids and make some kids’ day. We’re going to try and make some people’s day out here.”
NOTES: The players will have their first day off Sunday after starting camp with four lower-intensity practices. “Don’t worry, there will be plenty of dog days in training camp where the players aren’t going to like me much,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. …
Garrett’s chiseled 6-foot-4, 272-pound physique remains a popular subject with his teammates. “I don’t know what else could change, it can’t get much bigger,” Delpit said. “He’s not getting no smaller. He’s the same Jurassic Myles.” …
Rookie WR Isiah Weston (knee) was carted off the field, joining Anthony Schwartz (left knee strain) and rookie David Bell (foot) with camp injuries at the position.
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NEW YORK — Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil both homered and drove in two runs, leading Carlos Carrasco and the streaking New York Mets past the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 on Tuesday night.
Carrasco (13-4) pitched into the seventh inning and struck out nine to win his fifth straight decision and tie for the National League lead in wins.
Lindor became the first Mets shortstop with multiple 20-homer seasons when he opened the scoring with a two-run shot in the third. He has scored at least one run in 12 straight games, the longest streak of his career and tied with Mookie Betts for the longest in the majors this season.
McNeil led off the fourth with a homer and added an RBI single in the sixth, extending his hitting streak to 12 games.
Darin Ruf laced a two-run single in the seventh for the Mets, who have won 14 of 16. They began the day with a seven-game lead in the NL East over Atlanta.
The first pitch was delayed 51 minutes due to torrential rains. The temperature at game time was 86 degrees, down about 10 degrees from earlier in the day.
Carrasco allowed two runs on seven hits and one walk. He carried a three-hit shutout into the seventh, when Jake Fraley hit a two-run homer and Austin Romine and Jonathan India chased the 35-year-old right-hander with consecutive two-out singles.
Mychal Givens struck out Nick Senzel to end the inning. Trevor May wriggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth before Seth Lugo threw a perfect ninth.
Mike Minor (1-9) lost his sixth consecutive decision after allowing four runs on five hits with three walks in 5 1/3 innings. He threw 110 pitches, his most since 126 for Texas on Sept. 26, 2019.
Cincinnati is assured of losing a series for the first time since the All-Star break.
FAMILY REUNION
Mets closer Edwin Díaz and his younger brother, Cincinnati Reds rookie reliever Alexis Díaz, exchanged the lineup cards at home plate before the game.
With several family members watching and wearing split Mets/Reds shirts picturing both brothers for the second straight night, Edwin and Alexis shook hands with the umpires and posed for a photo before hugging one another.
“It’s unbelievable,” their father, Edwin, said during the second inning. “Kids started playing at 5 years old, 6 years old. Their dream came true.”
It was the second time this season the Díaz brothers exchanged lineup cards at home plate. They also did it before the series opener between the teams in Cincinnati on July 4.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: INF/DH Mike Moustakas (left calf strain) was placed on the 10-day injured list after he got hurt legging out a single Monday night. It’s the fifth IL stint of the year for Moustakas, who was sidelined with a right biceps injury in April and was on the COVID-19 injured list three times thereafter. In a corresponding transaction, the Reds recalled Alejo Lopez from the minors. … India returned after exiting Monday’s game due to a right hamstring injury. … Farmer batted third and started at third base after being a late scratch from Monday’s lineup because of a stiff neck.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Justice, the leading fashion and lifestyle brand for tween girls, has announced an exciting partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to launch an exclusive back-to-school fashion collection celebrating the beloved animated series, Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls. In anticipation of the 25th Anniversary kicking off this fall, this collaboration aims to empower girls and ignite their imagination through a vibrant and trendsetting collection. Available exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide and online at Walmart.com, The Powerpuff Girls x Justice collaboration is set to be a game-changer in empowering girls to embrace their uniqueness and limitless potential.
Ignited by the values of confidence, sisterhood, empowerment, and self-respect, The Powerpuff Girls x Justice collab continues to redefine the fashion landscape. This extraordinary collection channels the excitement of motor racing and unleashes turquoise, pink, and daring checkerboard patterns. It is the ultimate back-to-school wardrobe for tweens, equipping them with the confidence to conquer any challenge. Prepare for vibrant mix-and-match outfits that encompass everything from printed denim that demands attention to a show-stopping, one-of-a-kind varsity jacket. Not to mention a 90's inspired 2-piece dress, cozy fleece sets tees that make a statement, backpacks that exude style, and super soft pajamas perfect for relaxing after a long day at school. This collaboration encourages tweens to embrace their individuality and unleash their true power.
At its core, the collection embodies the spirit of The Powerpuff Girls, a trio of super-powered sisters who save the world before bedtime. In line with The Powerpuff Girls' values, Justice believes in unity, friendship, and embracing one's unique abilities. By joining forces, Justice and The Powerpuff Girls aim to instill a sense of confidence and creativity in every young girl who wears their clothing.
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EPA proposes stricter limits on coal plant water pollution
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed strengthening a rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers across the nation.
Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets pollution standards to limit wastewater discharge from the power industry and other businesses. The Trump administration rolled back pollution standards so utilities could use cheaper technologies and take longer to comply with guidelines for cleaning coal ash and toxic heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic and selenium from plant wastewater before dumping it into waterways.
The Biden administration’s proposal for stricter standards at coal-burning plants also encourages the plants to retire or switch to other fuels such as natural gas by 2028.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the plan would particularly benefit low-income communities that have been disproportionately affected by pollution from coal-fired power plants. And it would provide “greater certainty for industry,” Regan said.
The National Mining Association slammed the plan, saying that EPA had acted on its “longstanding threat to make it impossible for utilities to make decisions based on ... what keeps the lights on,” and forcing them instead to make decisions “solely based on EPA’s environmental agenda.”
It called EPA’s approach “plainly irresponsible.”
The plan would address three types of wastewater generated at coal-fired power plants: from scrubbers that remove pollutants from exhaust systems; water used to flush out boilers at the bottom of a plant; and coal ash ponds that often leach into nearby waterways, EPA said.
Coal plants are responsible for as much as 30% of all toxic water pollution from all industries in the United States. The pollution affects aquatic ecosystems, drinking water and recreational waters.
Sierra Club attorney Joshua Smith said the changes were “a big step in the right direction” for forcing hundreds of coal-fired power plants across the country to take responsibility for the pollution that surrounding communities have long borne.
He added that the technologies used to eliminate the discharges highlighted by Biden administration officials have come a long way since a 2015 Obama-era rule that was rolled back under former President Donald Trump.
“At this point, it is cost-effective and technologically feasible for ... coal plants to eliminate those discharges,” Smith said.
Radhika Fox, assistant EPA administrator for water, said the rule would have almost no impact on electricity costs for households. “We estimate a 63 cents per year increase for a typical household,” Fox said.
The proposal includes a carve-out for coal-burning plants that plan to retire or stop burning coal by 2028 — and would allow such plants to continue meeting the 2015 and 2020 rules. The proposal also would extend a deadline for power plants to opt-in to the retirement or fuel-switch plan, “providing flexibility for some plants to cease burning coal earlier than they might otherwise do so,’’ the EPA said.
Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned electric companies, said it was still reviewing EPA’s proposal but applauded the agency’s “coordinated and holistic” approach to regulating the power sector.
Administration officials said the new rule would likely force the closure of at least one coal-fired power plant in the country, but did not provide more details.
Coal power usage in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the past decade thanks to competition from cheaper natural gas, declining prices for renewable energy and environmental regulations. Many plants have been shuttered, and a further 23% of the country’s operating coal-powered fleet is scheduled to retire by 2029, according to the Energy Information Administration.
The U.S. generated nearly 20% of its electricity in 2022 from coal-fired power plants, according to the EIA.
Thomas Cmar, senior attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice, said the rule would “finally force the power industry to do what it should have done decades ago.”
“We urge EPA to finalize the strongest rule possible as quickly as possible, so that power companies will no longer be allowed to profit off of treating our waterways like an open sewer for toxic pollutants,” Cmar said.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this story.
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AP source: College Football Playoff to expand to 12 by 2026
(AP) - The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four to 12 teams no later than the 2026 season.
A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that the presidents would like to have the new format in place as soon as the 2024 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made.
A process that started 14 1/2 months ago with an optimistic rollout of an ambitious plan, and then was derailed as conference leaders haggled over details and questioned each other’s motivations, is now finally moving forward.
The presidents approved the original 12-team proposal that called for the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large picks, as determined by a selection committee, to make the playoff. The top four seeds would be conference champions and receive byes into the second round.
First-round games would be played on campus and the rest at bowl sites.
There are still issues to be hammered out by conference commissioners who comprise the CFP management committee, which is scheduled to meet next week. Most revenue sharing and whether the logistical hurdles can be cleared in time for a new playoff to be up and running by 2024.
CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock announced in February that expanding for the 2024 and ‘25 seasons was off the table and attention would be turned to what the playoff would look like for 2026 and beyond. Last month, the CFP locked in sites for the championship games to be played after the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
But the 11 presidents who make up the Board of Managers ultimately decide what happens with the playoff, and they took matters into their own hands to push expansion forward. Mississippi State President Mark Keenum, the chairman of the board, said earlier this year the presidents planned to get more involved after the commissioners had given up on trying to expand before the end of the CFP’s current 12-year contract with ESPN.
Early expansion has been estimated to be worth an additional $450 million to the major college football conferences over the final two years of the deal. The current deal pays about $470 million per year.
Even after the February announcement, there were signs early expansion was not dead.
“It actually wouldn’t surprise me once we agree on the format, if it happens before the end of the current term,” Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said at the conference’s football media days in July. “Once you agree to the format, why wouldn’t you?”
Kliavkoff was one of three relatively new Power Five commissioners, along with the Big Ten’s Kevin Warren and Atlantic Coast Conference’s Jim Phillips, whose various objections to the 12-team proposal last year stalled the process.
That 12-team plan had been worked on for more than two years by a subgroup of the management committee that included Greg Sankey of the Southeastern Conference. Mistrust rose between the new commissioners, who had not been part of the process the previous two years, and the rest after it was revealed that the SEC could be adding Texas and Oklahoma to the powerhouse conference by 2024.
A meeting in June brought renewed hope for an agreement among the group, but the presidents still felt the need to provide a push.
Now that they have spoken and locked in a number, the assignment goes back to the commissioners. They meet again Thursday in Dallas to tackle those details and others.
Beyond 2025, there is no TV contract for the playoff. The plan is to take the new format to the open market and involve multiple TV partners instead of just ESPN. A 12-team, 11-game postseason system to crown a champion could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences.
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DUBLIN, Ohio – Hideki Matsuyama is starting to feel healthy, and being at the Memorial usually makes him happy. That much was evident Friday when the Japanese star rolled in a series of birdie putts for a 7-under 65 and a one-shot lead.
Matsuyama, whose first PGA Tour title came at Muirfield Village in 2014, made a 25-foot birdie on the par-5 seventh and a 30-footer on the par-3 eighth to take the lead in the morning, just as the wind was starting to blow.
Patrick Cantlay, a two-time winner at Muirfield Village, stayed with him most of the day and posted a 67. He was one behind, along with David Lipsky (69).
Matsuyama and Cantlay played together — Billy Horschel joined them and was 12 shots better than his opening 84 — and put on quite a show of ball-striking and timely putting.
“To make those putts at 7 and 8 were huge,” Matsuyama said. “I made some good par-saving putts today. The course is playing tough, especially the greens. If the greens get even harder than they are now, it's going to be a challenge this weekend. But today, the putts went in and so I'm satisfied.”
Cantlay has made only two bogeys in 36 holes, impressive considering how exacting Muirfield Village has played with fast fairways and warm, sunny conditions.
His best shot of the day was a 6-iron that covered the flag on the par-3 16th, the toughest of the par 3s and no one's favorite on the course Jack Nicklaus built. It pitched next to the hole and wound up in a tough lie in the rough. He had to made a 6-footer for par.
Rory McIlroy was mostly satisfied with his finish. He played well on Thursday only to get a terrible break when his ball hung in thick grass on the slope of a bunker, leading to a triple bogey on the 18th hole that wiped out his good work and gave him a 72.
This time he finished strong for a 68 that puts him in the mix going into the weekend.
McIlroy still doesn't feel entirely comfortable with this swing. Even after winning in Dubai at the start of the the year and contending at Bay Hill, he is trying to get his swing back in the same position it was. He can manage that fine on the range. Put a scorecard in his hand, or a hazard in his view and it becomes different.
It's a matter of trust and feel. He think he's getting there.
“An empty head is not great, but then obviously a head that’s full of clutter is no good, either,” McIlroy said. “So it’s trying to find that balance where you’ve got a couple of thoughts or a couple of ideas in your head, but you don’t let that overshadow what you’re really trying to do out there, which is being visual and trying to play shots and be as instinctive as possible.”
Jordan Spieth had a 72 and was four shots behind Matsuyama. Davis Riley, who opened with a 67 in tougher afternoon conditions, followed with a 78 in the relative calm of Friday morning.
Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler were among those playing in the afternoon.
The course has been playing much tougher in the afternoon because of the wind and relentless sun that bakes the fairways. Cantlay had 15 pars on Thursday in a round of 70 and felt he played well. He also knew Friday morning would be better for scoring and he needed to take advantage, and he did that.
So did Matsuyama, with a performance so strong that he putted for birdie on all but two holes. One of those was the 16th, where he saved par from a front bunker.
It led to the low score of the tournament so far with 60 players still going in the afternoon. But no one expects it to get any easier on the weekend.
Some players won't get that chance. The cut was shaping up to be the highest in 14 years (4 over). Among those certain to miss were Justin Thomas (75-75) and PGA contender Corey Conners (77-75).
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MICHIE LONG
Step right into the world of husband and wife artists Michie Long and Helene Goldstein. Long’s piece, “Boxer,” above, is part of the duo’s exhibit now on display in the Carmel Art Association (Dolores Street between 5th and 6th, Carmel), titled New Works. This exhibition of oils greets you with lush and vibrant color. Color, pattern and form are signatures of the couple’s bold and whimsical styles. Growing up in the high desert of southwest Texas, Long could always see to the horizon in every direction. When he began painting in oils at age 14, these early impressions of empty landscapes and vast unknowns became elemental to his compositions. He moved to California in 1970 to study at the Carmel Art Institute, and has resided on the Monterey Peninsula ever since. [AP]
WARREN CHANG
Pacific Grove Art Center’s (568 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove) Artists’ Exhibit 2022 is now on display until Aug. 25, presenting works generated by studio artists, instructors and board members. The artists in this exhibit practice a wide array of media including collage, textile, photography, printmaking, stained glass and painting. Warren Chang is best known for his paintings depicting the fieldworkers of Monterey County. His realist paintings are reminiscent of 19th-century painters, in particular Francois Millet, who also depicted scenes of peasant farmers in rural France. His other interest is social realism in California, capturing everything from homelessness to the Black Lives Matter protests, delivering an emotional impact through photo-like oil paintings (as shown above). [AP] | 2022-07-21T08:39:27+00:00 | montereycountyweekly.com | https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/entertainment/art/visuals-july-21-27-a-new-show-at-carmel-art-association-and-more/article_a8a29eae-0852-11ed-ae17-d745a7066cac.html |
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TALON, an industry leader in providing groundbreaking healthcare technology solutions, has announced the addition of Brad Dumke as Chief Customer Officer. A significant asset to TALON's continued growth and innovation, he will be responsible for ensuring that every TALON customer enjoys a seamless, superior experience with every aspect of the TALON solution and sees real, tangible results.
A veteran of both the healthcare industry and the United States Marine Corps, Dumke joins the TALON team with three decades of experience in health technology. Most recently, he served as Director of Business Development for Aceso Plasma. He was also the Co-Founder and Head Revolutionary at ChooseWell, a provider of digital mobile health applications that empower individuals and families to become and stay healthy.
"Brad's diverse and esteemed resume of accomplishments over his 30-year career are very impressive," said TALON Co-Founder, President, and CEO Mark Galvin. "His deep experience and proven track record in the healthcare technology sector will be invaluable as TALON continues to grow, innovate, and further streamline our customer experience."
"I feel lucky to be joining an amazing team at TALON who has already helped steer millions of consumers to high-value healthcare with some incredible cost and quality transparency tools," Dumke said in statement. "I look forward to digging in to ensure that all TALON customers receive the highest level of service and support while achieving total compliance and realizing a 20-40% reduction in healthcare spend.
TALON's mission is to educate, empower, and incentivize the American healthcare consumer to meaningfully reduce costs and create a healthier ecosystem. We've built the ultimate suite of software services designed to fulfill the requirements of the Transparency in Coverage Rule and No Surprises Act. Simply put, TALON protects healthcare stakeholders from overpaying for care while enabling seamless integration into the Payer's existing architecture, all without disruption or distraction. Our tools create free-market dynamics, starting with our ability to ensure full compliance with all mandates and extending through our consumer-driven MyMedicalShopper platform. Learn more at talonhealthtech.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. authorities say acted as a Russian agent for over a decade and tried to influence the 2020 presidential election through meetings with Rudy Giuliani has been criminally charged in New York in connection with purchases of luxury Beverly Hills real estate.
The charges against Andrii Derkach, 55, of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, were announced Wednesday in Brooklyn by U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.
Derkach has been characterized by the U.S. government as an “active Russian agent” for over a decade. Authorities say he met multiple times during the 2020 race with Giuliani, a close Trump ally, and released heavily edited recordings of Democrat Joe Biden in an effort to disparage him.
Prosecutors also say Derkach sought to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family through the purchase of two Beverly Hills condominiums even as he hid his interests in the transactions from banks.
The indictment includes charges of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering.
“The conduct of this Kremlin asset, who was sanctioned for trying to poison our democracy, has shown he is ready, willing, and capable of exploiting banking system in order to advance his illicit goals,” Peace said in a statement.
Michael J. Driscoll, head of the FBI’s New York office, noted that Derkach was sanctioned in September 2020 by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for trying to influence the 2020 election on behalf of Russian Intelligence Services through a “covert influence campaign.”
“While participating in a scripted Russian disinformation campaign seeking to undermine U.S. institutions, Derkach simultaneously conspired to fraudulently benefit from a Western lifestyle for himself and his family in the United States,” Driscoll said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Adams, head of a task force pursuing criminal wrongdoing by Russian oligarchs, labeled Derkach’s pursuit of U.S. real estate “particularly egregious hypocrisy.”
“Attempting to enjoy the safety, security, and freedoms of an open society, while secretly working to undermine that very society, is a hypocrisy that runs through every sanctions charge announced by the Task Force,” he said.
Derkach, a fugitive whose whereabouts are unknown, could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted of conspiring to violate sanctions and other conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Derkach served for about a decade in Ukraine’s Parliament as a member of a pro-Russian political party that was in power from 2010 to 2014.
According to the indictment, Derkach and a co-conspirator began in 2013 to pursue the purchase of the two condominiums.
As part of Wednesday’s legal actions, prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action to seize the condos and money that remains in U.S. brokerage and bank accounts controlled by Derkach.
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker reported from Washington | 2022-12-07T19:45:35+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-ukraine-ex-lawmaker-alleged-russian-agent-faces-us-charges/ |
DENVER — The suspect in the Club Q shooting changed his name while living in Texas in 2016, saying he wanted to protect himself and his future from his father and his criminal history, according to court records obtained by Denver7.
A judge in Bexar County, Texas, granted Nicholas Franklin Brink’s request to change his name to Anderson Lee Aldrich on May 2, 2016, about two weeks after his grandparents — who were his legal guardians at the time — filed the petition on his behalf. Aldrich was 15 years old at the time but would turn 16 a few weeks later.
Aldrich’s grandparents wrote in the petition that Brink wanted to change his name to Aldrich because he “wishes to protect himself + his future from any connections to birth father + his criminal history.” It also says that the boy’s father, Aaron F. Brink, had no contact with his son “for several years.”
Nicholas Brink signed an exhibit agreeing to change his name to Anderson Lee Aldrich, as did both of his birth parents, Aaron Brink and Laura L. Voepel, according to other exhibits attached to the petition.
The Denver Post first reported the stated motive behind the Club Q suspect changing his name. The Washington Post first reported that Aldrich had changed his name from Nicholas Brink when he was a teenager.
Denver7 has been working to uncover more about Aldrich’s past since he allegedly shot and killed five people and injured 19 other people in the shooting Saturday night at the popular LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
Aldrich was arrested for investigation of 10 charges, including first-degree murder after deliberation and bias-motivated crime, but he has not been formally charged.
He was released from the hospital on Tuesday and will be booked into the El Paso County jail. Aldrich will make his first appearance at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office said.
Police have not released a motive in the shooting, but the club and people in the community feel they were targeted in the attack. Investigators are looking into whether there were possible bias-motivated reasons behind the shooting as part of the investigation, officials said this week.
The Colorado Springs police chief said Aldrich started shooting as soon as he walked into Club Q, and he and others have called two men – Richard Fierro and Thomas James – heroes for confronting and subduing the shooter.
Denver7 Investigates confirmed Monday through Laura Voepel’s former landlord that Aldrich was the same person arrested in June 2021 in El Paso County after making threats to his mother regarding bombs, weapons and ammunition.
Video obtained by Denver7 shows Aldrich streaming live on his mother's Facebook account that day, wearing tactical gear and surrounded by weapons, discussing himself being barricaded in the home.
But, no charges were ever filed against him, and the case was sealed, so officials cannot discuss it because of state statute — including information as to why charges were not filed.
Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen said Monday that in criminal cases like the Club Q shooting case, prosecutors can file motions to unseal past criminal records, so it’s possible the 2021 case is unsealed. Denver7 and other media outlets are working in court to get the past case unsealed.
But court records from Texas and California shed new light on Aldrich’s life both before and after he took that name, as well as the lives of his parents.
Records from Orange County, California, show he was born in San Diego County on May 20, 2000. The family lived there, in Cardiff-by-the-Sea until February 2001, when they moved to Lake Elsinore, California. That summer, Laura and Aaron separated, and Laura and Nicholas moved to an apartment in Lake Elsinore.
Aaron Brink filed for divorce from Laura in September 2001, when Nicholas was about 16 months old, and asked a court to give custody of Nicholas to Laura. In her response, Laura also asked for custody. A child custody order granted legal custody to Laura and no visitation to Aaron. It also stipulated he would eventually pay her $300 a month in child support.
Court records from 2007 show the marriage was terminated, Laura changed her last name back to Voepel from Brink, and a judge agreed with the 2001 custody and child support order.
At some point, according to the Texas court records and the name change petition, Nicholas’s grandparents took custody of him in Riverside County, California, and were named his legal guardians. The grandmother is Aldrich's maternal grandmother and her husband is his step-grandfather.
A court administrator in Riverside County said the guardianship case cannot be accessed because it is a juvenile custody case, so the exact details about why they were granted guardianship over Nicholas are currently unknown.
Aaron F. Brink has the same middle name as his son’s original middle name, Franklin, according to records. Public records show he has several criminal cases in southern California, including DUI and possession of a controlled substance convictions.
Records show that Laura Voepel moved from California to San Antonio at some point during her son’s childhood. She and the boy’s grandparents have several of the same addresses there associated with each of them.
Criminal records show Voepel was charged with arson in January 2012, though the count was later reduced to criminal mischief. She was sentenced to five years of probation, but that was terminated on "unsatisfactory" grounds, according to records. Voepel’s father is California Assemblyman Randy Voepel, R-Santee, who had praised the Jan. 6 insurrection at one point and has voted against LGBTQ legislation, but he lost the election this year and was not one of the grandparents who signed the name change petition.
Websites and internet archives also show that Brink appears to have been harassed online starting in June 2015, shortly after his 15th birthday and about a year before he changed his name. A page created on a website that appears to be devoted to online “drama” accused Brink, by name and without evidence, of pedophilia and criticizes his appearance.
The page also contains a screenshot of an image in which his grandmother was purportedly trying to raise money to send the teenager to Japan for a trip.
Archives show the page was updated dozens of times on June 12, 2015, and a few times over the next few months. But it had not been updated since Oct. 9, 2015, until the shooting at Club Q. The page has been updated in the days since the shooting to call him derogatory names which uses bigoted language. It still contains pictures purportedly of Brink as a teenager but has been updated to use his current name of Anderson Lee Aldrich.
The page also includes links to a YouTube account that purportedly belonged to Brink that contains an animated video rife with profanity that was uploaded in 2012 and which has gained a few hundred views since Tuesday morning.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also confirmed to Denver7 Monday that Aldrich was on a list of membership rolls but had not been active for years.
This story was originally published by Jennifer Kovaleski and Blair Miller of KMGH in Denver, Colorado. KMGH's Danielle Kreutter also contributed to this report. | 2022-11-22T23:53:22+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/club-q-shooting-suspect-changed-name-in-2016-saying-he-wanted-to-protect-himself-from-father |
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NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Township Election in Fairbanks Township, St. Louis County, MN will be held on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at Petrell Hall from 5 pm to 8 pm. Absentee ballot applications will be available from the clerk. If you are a township resident and interested in running for one of these offices, Affidavits of Candidacy may be filed with the clerk at 3448 Lalonde Beach Road, Brimson, MN 55602. Candidate filing period opens on January 3, 2023 and closes at 5 pm January 17, 2023. Please call 218-848-2465 to schedule an appointment. Positions available are: 1 supervisor – 3 year term; 1 treasurer – 2 year term. A $2.00 filing fee is required. Jane Horton, Clerk (Dec. 14, 2022) 130240 | 2022-12-22T07:53:51+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/notice-notice-is-hereby-given-that-a-tow-stratica-legals-130240 |
BEIJING, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zepp Health Corporation ("Zepp" or the "Company") (NYSE: ZEPP) today reported revenues of RMB1.1 billion (US$155.4 million); a GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share of RMB0.31 (US$0.04); and a GAAP basic and diluted net loss per ADS of RMB1.23 (US$0.18) for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022. Each ADS represents four Class A ordinary shares.
"Despite the macro challenges that weighed on our overall performance in 2022, our self-branded products achieved a 28.5% quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue and continued gross margin expansion in the fourth quarter." said Wang Huang, Chairman and CEO of Zepp Health. "The encouraging growth margin improvement reflects our increasing brand recognition among global consumers, along with optimization of our product and channel mix. We are thrilled to see that, our self-branded products contributed 77.4% of our total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2022. This significant progress indicates that we have successfully transformed our business from one with revenue largely contributed by one single customer into a self-reliant, global consumer smart wearable and healthcare solution provider. We now offer a vast range of products that cover outdoor, sports, business, and entry-level consumer needs."
"We have continued to enrich our portfolio of smart health devices by leveraging our proprietary technologies. During the last quarter, on top of refreshing our GT range of products, we launched Amazfit Falcon, a premium multi-sport GPS watch featuring our proprietary smart coaching algorithm, Zepp Coach, to help users train scientifically and safely. We have also seamlessly integrated ChatGPT to elevate users' AI interactions with our smart wearables and deliver tailored services as well as to optimize our operational efficiency. We firmly believe that these AI interaction functionalities will unlock the full potential of our smart devices in the future. As we look to 2023, we are focused on achieving profitability and reinforcing our business resilience through cost-cutting initiatives. We remain confident in our ability to deliver additional shareholder value while providing our users with more refined and comprehensive healthcare and fitness technology products and services."
Chief Financial Officer Leon Deng added, "Our fourth quarter revenue came in at RMB1.1 billion, in line with the guidance, down 35.5% year-over-year, mainly as a result of the sales decline of Xiaomi band products. Still, we are very pleased that our self-branded products registered two consecutive high double-digit growth from the second quarter of 2022. As we continued to successfully launch our margin-accretive new products and finetune our sales channels, we achieved a gross margin of 20.7% in the fourth quarter, the highest in 2022. Moreover, our declined revenue and keen focus on disciplined expense management resulted in a 5.7% year-over-year and a 3.7% quarter-over-quarter decrease in operating expenses during the quarter. Despite our progress in controlling costs, our net loss for the period was RMB75.5 million and adjusted net loss was RMB60.3 million, compared to RMB8.8 million in the third quarter, due to reduced revenue resulting from the shrinking basic band market and RMB30.1 million valuation allowance recorded for deferred tax asset, which is non-cash in nature and does not materially affect our operations. Our operating loss has decreased to the lowest level this year, and our inventory levels have reduced by 18% compared to year-end 2021 as we continue to optimize our business operations. At the same time, we continue to generate positive cash flow via working capital management and we see further potential to optimize. Going forward, we will continue to right-size our organization and streamline our cost base further to achieve profitability in the near future."
Fourth Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Revenues
Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2022 reached RMB1.1 billion (US$155.4 million), a decrease of 35.5% from the fourth quarter of 2021. The decrease in total revenues mainly resulted from a 65.5% decline in sales of Mi Band. Our self-brand product sales decreased by 13.5% from the fourth quarter of 2021 and increased by 28.5% compared with the third quarter of 2022. The sales of our new products, including Amazfit Trex 2, GTR 4, GTS 4, GTS 4 mini, and Bip U Pro, have increased in this quarter. However, this growth was more than offset by the surge in COVID-19.
Total units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2022 decreased by 45.8% year-over-year to 4.5 million, compared with 8.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. This was mainly caused by an over 50.0% shipment decrease in Mi Band.
Impact of COVID-19 and Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Our Business
There was a surge of COVID-19 cases in November and December of 2022, which affected our supply chain and logistics in late 2022 and early 2023.
Meanwhile, the continued conflict between Russia and Ukraine affected freight costs, consumer confidence in Europe and the value of the Euro. Although Europe is one of the biggest sales regions for the Company, the situation currently does not have a material adverse impact on the Company.
Gross Margin
Gross margin in the fourth quarter of 2022 was 20.7%, 1.4 percentage points higher than 19.3% in the same period of 2021 and 1.6 percentage points higher than 19.1% in the third quarter of 2022. The fourth quarter's higher margin was driven by the high margin of our own self-branded products. During the quarter, we pruned our product portfolio, analysed the profitability of our retail channels, and cut those with lower efficiency and profitability.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses in the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB114.3 million, an increase of 21.9% year-over-year. This comprised 10.7% of revenues, versus 5.6% for the same period in 2021. The increase was mainly driven by lower government subsidies recognized in 2022, amounting to RMB27.7 million, resulting in higher R&D spending in 2022.
Selling and Marketing
Selling and marketing expenses in the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB125.1 million, a decrease of 17.8% year-over-year. During this sales season, we performed retail channel analysis on our product portfolio and cut the unprofitable ones.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses were RMB53.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, a decrease of 17.5% year-over-year. This comprised 5.0% of revenues, compared with 3.9% in the same period in 2021, and was largely attributable to strict administrative expense control and foreign currency fluctuation.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB292.8 million, a decrease of 5.7% year-over-year, which accounted for 27.3% of revenues for the period, as compared with 18.7% in the fourth quarter of 2021. The adjusted operating expenses were RMB277.6 million. The Company is in the midst of further internal reorganization and personnel optimization that best suite our current business operations.
Operating Income/(Loss)
Operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB71.0 million, compared with operating income of RMB10.1 million for the same period in 2021. The loss was mainly caused by lower revenue scale. Although revenue showed recovery from quarter to quarter, it could not cover fixed operating expenses in full. Adjusted operating loss, which excludes share-based compensation, was RMB55.7 million, which narrowed to the lowest level 2022. Operating loss was RMB73.3 million in the third quarter of 2022, RMB110.6 million in the second quarter of 2022, and RMB155.4 million in the first quarter of 2022, respectively. Adjusted operating loss was RMB65.0 million in the third quarter of 2022, RMB98.0 million in the second quarter of 2022, and RMB142.4 million in the first quarter of 2022, respectively.
Net Income/(Loss)
Net loss attributable to Zepp Health Corporation for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB75.5 million, compared with RMB36.3 million of net income in the fourth quarter of 2021. In the fourth quarter, the Company recorded RMB30.1 million valuation allowance of deferred tax asset, which is non-cash in nature and does not materially affect our operations. The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2022 also included share-based compensation amounting to RMB15.2 million, and severance package amounting to RMB10.1 million.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of December 31, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash of RMB973.3 million (US$141.1 million), compared with RMB1,005.7 million as of September 30, 2022 and RMB1,509.5 million as of December 31, 2021.
The Company continued to manage its working capital and inventory more efficiently and realized lower inventory levels at RMB1,021.9 million as of December 31, 2022, lower than that at the end of 2021.
Share Repurchase Program Update
The Company previously announced in its third quarter 2021 earnings release that the board had authorized a share repurchase program of up to US$20 million. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had used US$10.3 million to repurchase 3,218,934 ADSs. On November 21, 2022, the board authorized the Company to extend its share repurchase program over the next twelve months. Pursuant to the extended share repurchase program, the Company may repurchase its shares in the form of American depositary shares and/or the ordinary shares through November 2023 with an aggregate value of the remaining balance under the share repurchase program. The Company expects to fund the repurchases under the extended share repurchase program out of its existing cash balance.
Full Year 2022
Revenues
Total revenues of 2022 reached RMB4.1 billion (US$600.7 million), a decrease of 33.7% from the full year of 2021. The decrease in total revenues mainly resulted from a 49.2% decline in the sales of Mi Band. Our self-brand product sales decreased by 15.9% from the full year of 2021.
Total units shipped in the full year of 2022 decreased by 43.8% year-over-year to 20.3 million, compared with 36.1 million in the full year of 2021. This was mainly caused by a 50.9% shipment decrease in Mi Band.
Gross Margin
Gross margin in the full year 2022 was 19.4%, 1.5 percentage points lower than 20.9% in the full year of 2021. The full year's lower margin was caused by higher freight costs and clearance of previous-generation products and was partially offset by higher gross margin from new-product introductions. Our effort to improve the product margin was evident in the second to fourth quarters of 2022.
Research and Development
Research and development expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB517.1 million, an increase of 0.4% year-over-year. The increase was mainly caused by lower government subsidies, partially offset by strict expenses control measures.
Selling and Marketing
Selling and marketing expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB460.3 million, an increase of 5.0% year-over-year. The increase was due to our investments in building online and offline sales channels.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses were RMB235.9 million in the full year 2022, a decrease of 8.7% year-over-year. The decrease was largely attributable to strict administrative expense control.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB1,213.4 million, almost in line with last year. Adjusted operating expenses were RMB1,164.3 million. The Company paid RMB25.2 million severance package in 2022 and the personal-related expenses can be further optimized.
Net Income/(Loss)
Net loss attributable to Zepp Health Corporation for the full year of 2022 was RMB288.3 million, compared with RMB137.8 million in net income in 2021. In 2022, the Company recorded RMB35.2 million valuation allowance for deferred tax asset. The net loss attributable to Zepp Health Corporation also included share-based compensation amounting to RMB49.1 million, and severance package amounting to RMB25.2 million.
Outlook
For the first quarter of 2023, the Company's management currently expects net revenues to be between RMB0.60 billion and RMB0.75 billion, compared with RMB0.76 billion in the first quarter of 2022.
This outlook reflects continued uncertainty pertaining to the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on sales and on electronic component delays, as well as the expected sales seasonality of both self-branded and Xiaomi products. It is based on current market conditions and reflects the Company's current and preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change.
Conference Call
The Company's management team will hold a conference call at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (8:00 p.m. Beijing Time on March 21, 2023) to discuss financial results and answer questions from investors and analysts. Listeners may access the call by dialling:
Participants should dial in at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "Zepp Health Corporation".
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available at https://ir.zepp.com/investor.
A telephone replay will be available one hour after the call until March 28, 2023 by dialing:
About Zepp Health Corporation (NYSE: ZEPP)
Zepp Health changed its name from Huami Corp. (HMI) on February 25, 2021 to emphasize its health focus with a name that resonates across languages and cultures globally. The Company's mission continues to be connecting health with technology. Since its inception in 2013, Zepp Health has developed a platform of proprietary technology including AI chips, biometric sensors, and data algorithms, which drive a broadening line of smart health devices for consumers, and data analytics services for population health. Zepp Health is one of the largest global developers of smart wearable health and consumer fitness devices, shipping 20 million units in 2022. Zepp Health Corp. is based in Hefei, China, with U.S. operations, Zepp Health USA, based in Cupertino, California.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
We use adjusted net income/(loss), a non-GAAP financial measure, in evaluating our operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. Adjusted operating expenses represent operating expenses excluding share-based compensation expenses. Adjusted operating income/(loss) represents operating income/(loss) excluding share-based compensation expenses. Adjusted net income/(loss) represents net income/(loss) excluding share-based compensation expenses, and such adjustment has no impact on income tax. Adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to Zepp Health Corporation is a non-GAAP measure, which excludes share-based compensation expenses attributable to Zepp Health Corporation, and is used as the numerator in computation of adjusted net income/(loss) per share and per ADS attributable to Zepp Health Corporation.
We believe that adjusted net income/(loss) and adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to Zepp Health Corporation help identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be distorted by the effect of certain expenses that we include in net income/(loss) and net income/(loss) attributable to Zepp Health Corporation. We believe that adjusted net income/(loss) and adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to Zepp Health Corporation provides useful information about our operating results, enhances the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects and allows for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by our management in its financial and operational decision-making.
Adjusted net income/(loss) and adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to Zepp Health Corporation, should not be considered in isolation or construed as an alternative to net income/(loss), basic and diluted net income/(loss) per share and per ADS attributable to Zepp Health Corporation or any other measure of performance or as an indicator of our operating performance. Investors are encouraged to review the historical non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Adjusted net income/(loss) and adjusted net income/(loss) attributable to ordinary shareholders, presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures to our data. We encourage investors and others to review our financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
Exchange Rate
The Company's business is primarily conducted in China and the significant majority of revenues generated are denominated in RMB. This announcement contains currency conversions of RMB amounts into US$ solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to US$ are made at a rate of RMB6.8972 to US$1.00, the effective noon buying rate for December 30, 2022 as set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. No representation is made that the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted, realized or settled into US$ at that rate on December 30, 2022, or at any other rate.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the cooperation with Xiaomi, the recognition of the Company's self-branded products; the Company's growth strategies; trends and competition in global wearable technology market; changes in the Company's revenues and certain cost or expense accounting policies; governmental policies relating to the Company's industry and general economic conditions in China and the global. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
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Prince Harry’s 'Spare' sets world record for fastest-selling non-fiction book
Prince Harry's tell-all memoir "Spare" has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time, according to Guinness World Records.
It came after 1.43 million copies were sold during its first-day sale in the UK, US, and Canada.
Penguin Random House announced Wednesday that first-day sales for the Harry’s tell-all memoir topped 1.4 million copies, a record pace for non-fiction from a company that also publishes Barack and Michelle Obama, whose "Becoming" needed a week to reach 1.4 million when it was released in 2018.
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The sales figures for "Spare" include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
″‘Spare’ is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words," Gina Centrello, President and Publisher of the Random House Group, said in a statement.
"Looking at these extraordinary first-day sales, readers clearly agree, ‘Spare’ is a book that demands to be read, and it is a book we are proud to publish."
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One of the most highly anticipated memoirs in recent times, "Spare" is Harry’s highly personal and intimate account of his life in the royal family and his relationship with the American actor Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.
From accounts of cocaine use and losing his virginity to raw family rifts, "Spare" exposes deeply personal details about Harry and the wider royal family. Even Americans may flinch when he confides that a trip to the North Pole left him with frostbitten genitals that proved most irritating during his brother’s wedding to Kate.
New York Times critic Alexandra Jacob called the book, and its author, "all over the map — emotionally as well as physically," at times "frank and funny" and at other times consumed by Harry’s anger at the British press. In The Washington Post, Louis Bayard found "Spare" to be "good-natured, rancorous, humorous, self-righteous, self-deprecating, long-winded. And every so often, bewildering."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2023-01-15T04:25:10+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/prince-harrys-spare-is-the-fastest-selling-non-fiction-book-ever-guinness-says |
Silver gets smashed
Gold and silver sustained sharp losses. Silver was hit particularly hard in a wave of liquidation. So the near two-day decline from Thursday’s high to Friday’s low was one of the largest declines in silver seen in years.
The April Consumer Price Index rose 4.9% from a year earlier, indicating continued decline from a peak of 9.1% in June of 2022. April’s Producer Price Index was up 2.3% year-over-year, with initial jobless claims much higher than expected.
Sluggish Chinese inflation figures added to the negative tone, and copper broke a major support level with a new four months’ low. The U.S. dollar rose to its highest level in a month.
Planting proceeds but prices don’t sprout
Corn, soybeans, soy oil and soybean meal chopped back and forth without providing any boost to farm profits. The U.S. corn crop was roughly 50% planted and about 35% of beans are in the ground.
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Most farmers have been patiently waiting for soil temps to reach the 50-degree mark to ensure germination and good yields.
Friday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand report was friendly to wheat but not to corn or beans. The phenomenal rise in Kansas City hard red winter wheat continued, with July futures exploding another 60 cents per bushel to Friday’s high.
Supreme Court maddens hog producers
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California’s Proposition 12 on Thursday, which delighted animal welfare groups but provoked farmers involved in producing meat, especially hogs.
The five-justice majority endorsed the 2018 ethical pork law which bans the sale of pork from pigs housed in crowded cages or pens in which hogs cannot turn around freely. The National Pork Council warns the decision will knock small producers out of business and raise the price of all proteins.
Weekly winners and losers
Winners first: KC wheat is up over 75 cents per bushel, touching almost $9.00 on Friday. The U.S. Dollar Index rose over a penny and a half to 1.0250.
Losers last: July copper lost 15 cents per pound, and silver went down $1.75 per ounce. Crude oil dropped a dollar per barrel this week. Soybean oil lost more than 3 cents per pound since last Friday's close. The Dow Jones was trading down on the week.
Opinions are solely the writer’s. Walt Breitinger is a commodity futures broker in Valparaiso, Ind. He can be reached at (800) 411-3888 or www.indianafutures.com. This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell any market. | 2023-05-14T13:36:11+00:00 | helenair.com | https://helenair.com/business/futures-file/article_548caeae-ef9c-11ed-b618-e3efc054ad5b.html |
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a pair of spacewalks Friday, June 9, and Thursday, June 15, to install two new solar arrays.
NASA will discuss the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 1. Live coverage of the news conference and spacewalks will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website.
News conference participants are:
- Dina Contella, operations integration manager, International Space Station Program, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
- Diane Dailey, spacewalk flight director, NASA Johnson
- Megan Shutilka, spacewalk officer, NASA Johnson
U.S. media interested in participating in person must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 31, by calling 281-483-5111 or emailing jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. To ask questions, reporters must dial into the news conference no later than 11:45 a.m., June 1. Questions also may be submitted on social media using #AskNASA.
Each spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 9:15 a.m. and last about six-and-a-half hours with NASA coverage beginning at 7:45 a.m.
On June 9, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg will exit the station's Quest airlock to install an upgraded IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1A power channel on the starboard truss of the station.
Bowen will serve as extravehicular activity (EVA) crew member 1 and will wear a suit with red stripes. Hoburg will serve as extravehicular crew member 2 and will wear an unmarked suit. U.S. EVA 87 will be the ninth spacewalk for Bowen and the first for Hoburg.
On June 15, the same pair of astronauts will install an IROSA on the 1B power channel on the starboard truss. Assignments for U.S. EVA 88 will be determined at a later date.
The spacewalks will see the fifth and sixth IROSAs mounted to the existing station solar arrays. The new arrays are 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and will shade a little more than half of the original arrays, which are 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. The seventh and eighth IROSAs will be installed on future spacewalks. Each new IROSA will produce more than 20 kilowatts of electricity, and once all eight are installed, will enable a 30% increase in power production over the station's current arrays.
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Trump attorney Evan Corcoran appeared before a grand jury investigating the former president’s handling of classified documents on Friday, after an appeals court rejected his efforts to overturn the court order requiring his testimony earlier this week.
Corcoran was seen heading into a Washington, D.C., courthouse shortly before 9 a.m. on Friday, according to The Washington Post.
U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell had ordered Corcoran to testify before the grand jury, after finding that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that he may have provided legal advice in furtherance of a crime, which makes attorney-client privilege void. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Howell’s order on Wednesday.
Corcoran, who has represented former President Trump throughout the classified documents scandal, handed over 38 classified documents to the Justice Department in June 2022 in response to a subpoena for any remaining classified materials.
However, amid concerns that Trump had not fully complied with the subpoena, the FBI ultimately executed a search warrant of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in August 2022 and found about 100 more classified documents. | 2023-03-24T19:40:11+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/trump-lawyer-evan-corcoran-appears-before-grand-jury-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case/ |
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Ohio’s new distracted driving law goes into effect this week, which aims to make the roads safer for everyone by banning holding or using a phone or device to send texts, watch videos, or other dangerous distractions.
“If an officer sees you doing any of those things, they can pull you over,” AAA Public Affairs Manager Kara Hitchens said.
Ohio’s new distracted driving law goes into effect on Tuesday, April 4.
The law makes it a primary traffic offense for all drivers to use a phone or other device while a vehicle is moving, and if caught, it could come with a $150 fine and two points on your license.
“It’s advised that you pull over to the side of the road. Pull off the road and do those things at that time,” Hitchens said.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reports there have been at least 73,945 distracted driving crashes in Ohio since 2017, more than 2,000 of those fatal or with serious injuries.
“Distractions are at an unprecedented level, and we want to make sure that individuals are realizing the dangers associated and that it’s a national problem, but it’s really affecting us in Greene County,” Greene County Public Health Health Educator Loressa Gonyer said.
This month the Greene County Safe Communities Coalition, which is part of Greene County Public Health, is joining in a distracted driving awareness campaign called “One Text or Call Could Wreck It All” to educate about the dangers of distractions on the road.
“The law is targeting every driver, but we really want to focus on the teen drivers as they are the highest population of distracted drivers,” Gonyer said.
There are some exceptions to the new law. Drivers can use their devices when parked or stopped at a red light. They also can answer a phone call and hold it to their ears while talking. Emergency calls are permitted in all circumstances.
Hitchens said it’s safest to drive without any distractions from your phone.
“We just ask people to do whatever you can do,” Hitchens said. “You know, if it includes putting a phone in the back seat so that you aren’t tempted to, you know, try to grab it then.”
The law comes with a 6-month grace period. During that time, officers will attempt to educate drivers to break distracted driving habits before issuing any penalties. | 2023-04-03T13:16:55+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/ohios-new-distracted-driving-law-goes-into-effect-tuesday/ |
Slain teen ‘loved life,’ mom says before killer’s execution
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leesa Gray was a 16-year-old girl who found joy in her church youth group, sang in the school chorus and quietly stood up for teenagers who were bullied by their peers, according to friends and family.
“She was pretty happy-go-lucky, always smiling,” recalled Leesa’s mother, Wanda Farris. “That’s what I most remember her by, is her smile. She loved life and she was a good Christian girl.”
On Wednesday, Farris is scheduled to go to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to witness the execution by lethal injection of the man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing her daughter. Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., now 58, has been on death row 21 years.
Loden is among the death row inmates suing Mississippi over the state’s three-drug protocol for executions. A federal judge last week denied a request to block Loden’s execution while the lawsuit, which was filed in 2015, continues. Mississippi’s most recent execution was in November 2021.
During the summer ahead of what should have been Leesa’s senior year of high school, she worked as a waitress at her uncle’s restaurant in north Mississippi’s Itawamba County — a place that serves eggs, grits and biscuits in the morning, and hamburgers, steak and catfish later in the day. On June 22, 2000, she left work after dark and became stranded with a flat tire on a rural road.
Loden, a Marine Corps recruiter with relatives in the area, stopped about 10:45 p.m. According to an interview he later gave investigators, he forced Leesa into his van and spent four hours raping and sexually battering her before strangling and suffocating her.
In September 2021, Loden pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery. According to court records, Loden told Leesa’s friends and family during his sentencing: “I hope you may have some sense of justice when you leave here today.”
Farris told The Associated Press on Friday that she did not believe Loden’s apology.
“I don’t particularly want to see somebody die,” Farris said. “But I do believe in the death penalty. … I do believe in justice.”
Leesa’s best friend, Lisa Darracott, hopes the execution will bring her closure. Darracott — whose last name was Sheffield before she married — said she thinks every day about Leesa, whom she met the first day of kindergarten.
“Same name, different spelling,” said Darracott, 39. “Our mothers introduced us to distract us from that fact that we didn’t want to be there.”
She described Leesa as both quiet and outgoing, and welcoming to others.
When they were small, they would play at working in an office or keeping house, she said, and “give ourselves married names of whatever boy we had a crush on.” When they were older, they enjoyed dancing to Shania Twain’s “Any Man of Mine.”
“We had a secret obsession with the Spice Girls,” Darracott said with a laugh.
Leesa loved to do hair and makeup while she was a student at Itawamba Agricultural High School and would help Darracott get ready for dances.
Farris said Leesa had a job babysitting two young boys and loved taking part in the youth group at Bethel Baptist Church. She described her daughter as “a good kid.”
“She wasn’t perfect, now, mind you,” Farris said. “But she strived to do right.”
Farris said her daughter aspired to become an elementary school teacher.
Farris said she forgave her daughter’s killer years ago. A feeling came over her, and she believes it was the Lord speaking to her heart.
“I said, ‘I forgive you, Eddie Loden,’” Farris said. “I just felt at peace about it, but I started crying. I felt like I was betraying Leesa.”
She called her pastor, who assured her that Leesa would want her to forgive Loden.
Like Darracott, Farris hopes the execution will help her move on — but not forget.
“You just have this hanging over your head all these years,” Farris said. “Leesa is always going to be in my heart and my mind.”
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MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) – After six winning seasons, Minot State Baseball Head Coach Scott Eul is leaving the program to take over the same role at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
In six seasons at MSU, Eul led the Beavers to a 159-102 record, including six consecutive winning seasons, a school record of 36 wins in 2019 (36-18), and the 2018 NSIC Regular Season Championship.
“Coach Eul has built an incredible tradition of success for the Minot State baseball program and his contributions to Beaver Athletics will be missed,” Minot State Athletic Director Kevin Forde said. “We wish Coach Eul and his family all the best in St. Louis and thank him for his service to Minot State.”
Eul made the move to be closer to family in Missouri while continuing his coaching career.
A national search for Eul’s replacement is underway. | 2022-07-27T01:20:19+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/local-sports/scott-eul-resigns-as-minot-state-baseball-coach/ |
Statement from the general manager of KOB-TV
The Ronchetti campaign’s allegations that KOB-TV colluded with the Michelle Lujan Grisham campaign are patently false. For over 70 years, KOB-TV has adhered to the highest standards of journalism integrity and would never engage in behavior that would undermine our standards, the respect of our viewers, or the public trust. We take accusations like this, even unfounded ones, very seriously and if we find that a staff member acted on their own and without our knowledge they will no longer be part of the team at KOB-TV.
We actively invite the Ronchetti campaign and the alleged anonymous source to contact KOB-TV and share all relevant evidence so we can fully investigate these allegations and maintain our commitment to transparency and the high standards we have set for the people we serve in New Mexico.
-Michelle Donaldson
Vice President & General Manager, KOB TV | 2022-11-03T20:08:58+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/statement-from-the-general-manager-of-kob-tv/ |
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is looking to boost already strong energy ties with Algeria to further wean Italy off Russian energy, a focus of her two-day visit to the North African nation starting on Sunday.
Russia’s war in Ukraine, which upset global strategic and economic dynamics, gave a new and urgent dimension to ties between Algiers and Rome, long dependent on Russian energy. Other European Union nations also have scrambled to find sources of replacement for Russian energy.
Italy and gas-rich Algeria now want to build on then Premier Mario Draghi’s successful initiatives last year to boost Algerian energy supplies to Italy and, an Algerian diplomat said, “push beyond that.”
“We want Italy to become a European hub for Algerian gas. A junction for other EU countries,” Algeria’s ambassador to Rome, Abdelkrim Touahria, said in an interview with Rome daily Il Messaggero, published on Saturday.
Algeria has replaced Russia as Italy’s No. 1 energy supplier, sending natural gas via the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline.
An initial deal last year concluded by Draghi added 9 billion cubic meters of gas by 2023-2024, Eni said at the time. Months later, in July, a $4 billion agreement between the companies Eni, the Italian energy company, Occidental and Total was concluded.
Meloni is expected to meet with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as well as the nation’s prime minister. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi is to be among those in the delegation.
“Today we are the leading energy partner of Italy,” Touahria said. “But we aim to push beyond that.”
Touahria, the Algerian ambassador, said that Italy’s Eni and the Algerian oil company Sonatrach are also looking together to the future with projects like oil and gas exploration in the south Sahara.
Besides energy, a raft of topics also will be discussed during Meloni’s visit, from naval construction to cars and startups.
Meloni’s far-right-led coalition won a September national election, and it was likely that immigration and migrant issues, dear to the European far-right, would be on the agenda.
Italy is a magnet for migrants escaping poverty, war and other woes in their home countries, and North Africans, often from Tunisia and Algeria, are among them.
Algeria’s ambassador to Italy met this week with Italy’s interior minister before Meloni’s visit. Italian consular officials in Rome regularly try to identify illegal migrants thought to be Algerian held in Sardinia and southern Italy, the official Algerian news agency APS quoted Touahria as saying.
Meloni and Tebboune met in November on the sidelines of a climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort town. | 2023-01-22T19:19:42+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-italys-meloni-eyes-boost-in-strong-energy-ties-with-algeria/ |
What is a Dutch oven?
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron 4.5-Quart Signature Dutch Oven
- Lodge Enameled 6-Quart Dutch Oven
- Staub 7-Quart Round Cocotte
A Dutch oven may look more or less like an ordinary pot, but it can accomplish far more than your typical saucepan. The thick cast iron walls and fitted lid help Dutch ovens trap heat and moisture for consistent cooking and baking, and their durability means they may never need to be replaced. If you’re ready to break out your big-batch recipes for friends and family again, here are the best Dutch ovens to help you entertain deliciously and easily.
Do you need a Dutch oven?
Pot roast isn’t the only dish made better and easier by a Dutch oven. A Dutch oven provides a slow and low cooking environment that’s perfect not just for braising roasts and simmering stews, but also for baking bread or making pies and cobblers. The tight-fitting lid traps moisture to keep food from drying out. Plus, thanks to the Dutch oven’s sturdy construction and durable materials, you can use it to cook over just about any heat source: in your oven, on your stovetop (including induction burners), on the grill or over a fire.
A Dutch oven’s versatility doesn’t end when your food is cooked either. Dutch ovens make attractive oven-to-table serving dishes, especially colorful enameled models.
What to look for in a Dutch oven
Dutch oven materials
Cast iron is a popular traditional material for Dutch ovens. The completed oven is either left unfinished or treated with a nonstick enamel coating. Pure cast iron Dutch ovens will need to be seasoned as you would with a cast iron skillet, while enamel Dutch ovens should not be seasoned.
Other common materials used in Dutch ovens are stainless steel and cast aluminum. These metals are lighter-weight than iron and offer similar heat-conducting properties.
Dutch oven size
Most Dutch ovens are sized between 5 to 7 quarts, but they’re also available as small as 2 quarts or larger than 13. If you plan to use your Dutch oven to frequently cook for large groups, you’ll want a 7-quart or larger version. Just keep in mind that higher-capacity Dutch ovens, especially those made from cast iron, will be quite heavy.
Dutch oven shape
Almost all Dutch ovens on the market are round or oval, and which shape is best for you may depend on the kind of food you plan to cook. Choose an oval-shaped Dutch oven to better accommodate large cuts of meat like a whole chicken. Round Dutch ovens can handle roasts, stews, soups and more.
Take note of the Dutch oven’s sides during your shopping as well. Sloped sides will create less surface area at the bottom for browning, while straight, up-and-down sides create a larger cooking surface.
Dutch oven color choices
Thanks to their enamel coating, some cast iron Dutch ovens are available in a rainbow of colors. The enamel isn’t just aesthetically pleasing. A light-colored ceramic interior makes it easier to view how browned the contents are. A dark interior can make it harder to gauge your cooking progress.
How to care for a Dutch oven
By properly cleaning your Dutch oven, you can help ensure it’ll last for years. The right way to care for your Dutch oven will depend on its finish. Unfinished cast iron needs to be seasoned to prevent food from sticking, and if your seasoning has built up properly, you may not even need to use soap. Just scrub it out with hot water and salt, then dry thoroughly.
Enameled and stainless steel Dutch ovens can sometimes go through the dishwasher, but you may prefer to hand-wash yours with soapy water and a plastic scrub brush. Make sure it’s cooled down before it’s washed to avoid thermal shock, which can damage the enamel.
What you need to buy for entertaining with a Dutch oven
Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron 4.5-Quart Signature Dutch Oven
It’s iconic for a reason: This Dutch oven comes in a variety of colors, and the enameled cast iron body and stainless steel lid knob are oven-safe to 500 degrees. It’s comparatively light, cooks evenly and consistently and resists chipping or cracking.
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Lodge Enameled 6-Quart Dutch Oven
Lodge is well-known for its quality cast-iron skillets, and the company’s cast-iron Dutch oven features a chip-resistant, easy-to-clean nonstick enamel surface. Its gently curved sides make stirring easier, and it comes in more than a dozen colors.
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Tramontina 5-Quart Covered Dutch Oven
It doesn’t have the traditional look one might associate with Dutch ovens, but this stainless steel model boasts even heating thanks to its three-layer 18/10 stainless steel over an aluminum core. It features a 5-quart capacity, a tight-fitting lid and a lifetime warranty.
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This all-black matte enameled Dutch oven prevents stains and is scratch-resistant. Its lid has small spikes that trap flavor-loaded condensation and drip it back onto your cooking in a self-basting process.
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Victoria Cast Iron 4-Quart Dutch Oven
This Dutch oven is made from pure cast iron, which distributes heat evenly and traps moisture, and its lid features self-basting dimples. It comes pre-seasoned with non-GMO flaxseed oil, a Kosher-certified seasoning.
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Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast Iron Double Dutch Oven
Don’t have a cast iron skillet yet, either? The lid of this pre-seasoned, pure cast iron 5-quart Dutch oven doubles as a 10-inch skillet. The domed shape makes it great for bread-baking, too.
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Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron 15.5-Quart Oval Dutch Oven
It’s pricey, but this massive enameled Dutch oven can cook a show-stopping holiday meal and display it with elegant style. Easily monitor your cooking thanks to the light-colored enamel interior.
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All-Clad 6.5-Quart Cast Aluminum Dutch Oven
This oval Dutch oven is roomy enough for large roasts and cooking whole chickens, yet its cast aluminum construction means it weighs only 7 pounds, which is much lighter than similar cast iron ovens. It’s oven-safe to 400 degrees.
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Michigan State Football Coach Mel Tucker Takes Winning Ways Digital with First-Ever NFT Series
Published: Aug. 4, 2022 at 12:30 PM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
EAST LANSING, Mich., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Michigan State Football is taking their on-field success into the digital realm, minting and dropping a series of limited edition NFTs (non-fungible tokens) featuring coach Mel Tucker in partnership with NFT marketing agency Lambert Global and fan and loyalty platform TiiCKER. The NFTuck™ series represents the first major conference football coach to be featured in a NFT campaign and includes digital tokens that give fans certified ownership of physical and virtual assets as well as gated access for experiences, all of which can be purchased, stored and sold online.
The NFTuck assets feature exclusive experiences, digital images and animations, and limited-edition coins. (www.SpartyNFT.com) The NFTuck series, dropping today to coincide with the first day of practice for the Michigan State Spartans, will include three different NFTs for Spartan fans to choose from: the Bowl Championship Ring NFT, Tuck Shoe NFT, and Tuck Coin NFT. Each of the NFTs will be available in extremely limited quantities on the NFT exchange Rarible, perfect for the MSU fan looking for an exclusive collectible or gift.www.Rarible.com/NFTuck
Just 37 of the Bowl Championship Ring NFT will be available, reflecting Michigan State's score in its victory over rival University of Michigan as commemorated on the side of the Peach Bowl® ring. The Tuck Shoe NFT will include just 50 of this signature item and animation. The Limited Edition and one-of-one Tuck Coin NFT will come with a digital image and a free, commemorative physical coin minted with your unique number between 1-99, recognizing the jersey number of Spartan greats and players of today.
In addition to the NFTs themselves, NFTuck collectors will get exclusive perks such as access to Coach Tucker (@Coach_mtucker) in-season via private video/chat channels exclusive only to NFT holders and on-field access to practice during the 2022 season. One hundred percent of the profits from sales of NFTuck will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan for their Tackle Football and Cheer leagues.
"We're training our student athletes to see the next play before it happens, on the field and in life, and winning in the virtual world is what's next," said Coach Mel Tucker (Tii:TUCK), who joined the Spartans as Head Coach in 2020 and who last year led the team to a Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl victory and top-10 ranking nationally, while sweeping Big Ten Coach of the Year awards from both his fellow coaches and the media.
NFTuck is a first-in-the-nation NFT drop for a coach and team. Lambert and TiiCKER are also working with Michigan State and Coach Tucker to build an in-house NFT Program for Spartan football that will be a student-athlete-first platform and unique among all NFT and NIL programs in Division 1 athletics.
"The culture and track record that Coach Tuck is building at MSU is magnetic, and his drive for innovation both in the game and out is just adding to the momentum. He's also about delivering for his student-athletes and MSU fans, and while other programs talk about NFTs, Coach did it," said Jeff Lambert (Tii:JEFE), CEO and Founder of TiiCKER, a shareholder loyalty platform that connects investors with perks for owning stock. Jeff is also an MSU grad and member of the MSU Varsity Club for current and former student-athletes.
NFTs are digital contracts that use blockchains – the same technology behind digital currencies – to prove ownership of a particular digital asset, like an image or a GIF. That means collectors of the NFTucks will be the only owners of these digital keepsakes and can show them off or trade them on all major NFT exchanges. NFTs have a strong following with a market that grew to $40 billion in 2021.
About NFTuck™ NFTuck is a collaboration of Michigan State Football (MSUFootball @MSU_Football), MSU Head Football Coach Mel Tucker (@Coach_mtucker), national PR and integrated marketing firm Lambert Global (Lambert @lambertglobal), and shareholder loyalty platform TiiCKER (TiiCKER.com @tiickerperks). For more information on the NFTuck project, visit SpartyNFT.com.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc. | 2022-08-04T17:05:43+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/08/04/michigan-state-football-coach-mel-tucker-takes-winning-ways-digital-with-first-ever-nft-series/ |
DENVER — Sunday is National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, which is being observed by the DEA and across the country. An organization called Facing Fentanyl established the day, which is meant to honor and remember the lives lost to fentanyl poisoning.
The group organized an event in honor of Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in Denver on Sunday. There will be several speakers there, including Mitchico Duff who flew in from North Carolina. It was the first time Duff had ever been on an airplane, and she traveled to Colorado to share her daughter's story.
"She was stolen from me, without her knowledge. She didn't know that she was taking fentanyl," Duff explained after arriving in Denver. “She was 23, and she did not want to die. She wanted to live. She has a five-year-old little girl who's turning six in three days. And we have to celebrate that without her mom being there.”
Duff said she could not believe what happened to her daughter, Michiko. She said her daughter believed she was ingesting cocaine, not fentanyl, and that her case is being investigated as a homicide.
“We heard of a drug overdose. But this fentanyl was something new that came in and took us by storm," said Duff. “I just said she was murdered by fentanyl, it was the hardest thing in my life. I wanted to say she had a stroke, she had a heart attack, because that was embarrassing.”
Duff does not believe there is enough diversity when it comes to speaking out about the dangers of illicit fentanyl.
“This thing is not about Black or white. It's about taking back our humanity. It's about saving our kids. We will have no future if this war takes over," Duff said. "I'm going to stand and I'm going to talk and I need everybody else to come and stand with me.”
Meanwhile, a booth near the Boulder Farmers Market is handing out more than 800 free naloxone kits over the weekend. Naloxone is a nasal spray that has the ability to reverse an opioid overdose.
“In Colorado, you don't need a prescription to have it, but you have to go to a pharmacy to get it. Which makes it kind of uncomfortable sometimes," said Trina Faatz, the facilitator for the Boulder County Substance Use Advisory Group, who added that naloxone is not free at a pharmacy.
Colorado Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day will be held in the Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park across the street from the State Capitol on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Those behind the event say Colorado is one of nearly 30 states holding events in honor of Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day on Sunday. | 2022-09-09T05:15:52+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/sunday-national-fentanyl-prevention-and-awareness-day |
MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, May 13
Saturday's MLB schedule features a slew of interesting pitching matchups, and we've got all of the probable pitchers highlighted below. Top billing goes to the matchup between the Giants and the Diamondbacks, who will be sending Anthony DeSclafani and Zac Gallen to the hill, respectively.
Read on to find the likely starting pitchers for every game on the calendar for May 13.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Rays at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Shane McClanahan (7-0) to the bump as they face the Yankees, who will hand the ball to Nestor Cortes Jr. (3-2) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Yankees
- TB Odds to Win: -135
- NYY Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 7.5 runs
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- Game Time: 1:05 PM ET
- Streaming: MLB Network (regional restrictions may apply)
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Mariners at Tigers Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Bryce Miller (1-0) to the mound as they face the Tigers, who will counter with Alex Faedo (0-0) when the clubs play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Tigers
- SEA Odds to Win: -175
- DET Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8 runs
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- Game Time: 1:10 PM ET
- Streaming: MLB Network (regional restrictions may apply)
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Reds at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Nick Lodolo (2-1) to the bump as they play the Marlins, who will hand the ball to Sandy Alcantara (1-3) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -190
- CIN Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 7 runs
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- Game Time: 1:10 PM ET
- Streaming: BSFL (regional restrictions may apply)
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Cubs at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Hayden Wesneski (2-1) to the mound as they face the Twins, who will give the start to Joe Ryan (5-1) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at Twins
- MIN Odds to Win: -175
- CHC Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 7.5 runs
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- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Streaming: BSN (regional restrictions may apply)
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Braves at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Atlanta Braves will send Bryce Elder (3-0) to the mound as they take on the Blue Jays, who will give the start to Jose Berrios (3-3) when the teams face off on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Braves at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -120
- ATL Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 3:07 PM ET
- Streaming: SN1 (regional restrictions may apply)
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Mets at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The New York Mets will send Joey Lucchesi (1-0) to the mound as they take on the Nationals, who will counter with Trevor Williams (1-1) when the clubs play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mets at Nationals
- NYM Odds to Win: -145
- WSH Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Streaming: MASN (regional restrictions may apply)
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Rangers at Athletics Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Jon Gray (2-1) to the hill as they face the Athletics, who will hand the ball to JP Sears (0-3) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Athletics
- TEX Odds to Win: -150
- OAK Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Live Stream Rangers at Athletics
- Game Time: 4:07 PM ET
- Streaming: Fox Sports 1 (regional restrictions may apply)
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Cardinals at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Steven Matz (0-4) to the hill as they face the Red Sox, who will counter with Chris Sale (3-2) when the clubs face off on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Red Sox
- BOS Odds to Win: -135
- STL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 10 runs
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- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Streaming: NESN (regional restrictions may apply)
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Angels at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Reid Detmers (0-3) to the mound as they play the Guardians, who will look to Cal Quantrill (2-2) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Guardians
- LAA Odds to Win: -115
- CLE Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Game Time: 6:10 PM ET
- Streaming: BSGL (regional restrictions may apply)
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Pirates at Orioles Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Roansy Contreras (3-3) to the mound as they take on the Orioles, who will hand the ball to Tyler Wells (2-1) for the game between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Pirates at Orioles
- BAL Odds to Win: -160
- PIT Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:05 PM ET
- Streaming: MASN2 (regional restrictions may apply)
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Royals at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Zack Greinke (1-4) to the hill as they take on the Brewers, who will hand the ball to Adrian Houser (0-0) for the game between the clubs on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Royals at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -165
- KC Odds to Win: +140
- Total: 9 runs
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- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
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Astros at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Houston Astros will send Brandon Bielak (0-1) to the hill as they play the White Sox, who will counter with Dylan Cease (2-2) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Astros at White Sox
- CHW Odds to Win: -135
- HOU Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Live Stream Astros at White Sox
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Streaming: FOX (regional restrictions may apply)
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Padres at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The San Diego Padres will send Joe Musgrove (1-0) to the hill as they face the Dodgers, who will look to Julio Urias (4-3) when the clubs play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Padres at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -155
- SD Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Streaming: FOX (regional restrictions may apply)
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Giants at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The San Francisco Giants will send DeSclafani (3-2) to the mound as they take on the Diamondbacks, who will give the start to Gallen (5-1) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Giants at Diamondbacks
- ARI Odds to Win: -165
- SF Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 8 runs
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- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
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Phillies at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Ranger Suarez (0-0) to the bump as they take on the Rockies, who will counter with Ryan Feltner (2-2) for the matchup between the clubs on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Rockies
- PHI Odds to Win: -160
- COL Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 11.5 runs
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As the movie Oppenheimer plays in theaters across the country, families affected by fallout from atomic testing in New Mexico are pushing Congress for compensation.
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As the movie Oppenheimer plays in theaters across the country, families affected by fallout from atomic testing in New Mexico are pushing Congress for compensation.
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Germany vs. Colombia: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 30
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Germany will meet Colombia, in the middle round of group-stage matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 30 at 5:30 AM ET in Sydney, Australia.
This game will be available on Fox Sports 1.
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How to Watch Germany vs. Colombia
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 5:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
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Germany Group Stage Schedule
Germany's Recent Performance
- In its previous match, Germany got a 6-0 victory over Morocco, taking 15 shots and outshooting by 10.
- Germany was led by Alexandra Popp, who scored two of her side's goals versus .
- Popp's Women's World Cup statline through one appearance for Germany includes two goals.
- In one Women's World Cup game so far, Klara Buehl has recorded one goal while adding one assist.
- During Women's World Cup play, Lea Schuller has scored one goal (but has no assists).
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Germany's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Merle Frohms #1
- Chantal Hagel #2
- Kathrin Hendrich #3
- Sophia Kleinherne #4
- Marina Hegering #5
- Lena Oberdorf #6
- Lea Schuller #7
- Sydney Lohmann #8
- Svenja Huth #9
- Laura Freigang #10
- Alexandra Popp #11
- Ann Katrin Berger #12
- Sara Daebritz #13
- Lena Lattwein #14
- Sjoeke Nusken #15
- Nicole Anyomi #16
- Felicitas Rauch #17
- Melanie Leupolz #18
- Klara Buehl #19
- Lina Magull #20
- Stina Johannes #21
- Jule Brand #22
- Sara Doorsoun #23
Colombia Group Stage Schedule
Colombia's Recent Performance
- In its most recent match on July 24, Colombia defeated South Korea 2-0. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Linda Caicedo and Catalina Usme paced Colombia by tallying a goal each. They had one and three shots, respectively.
- Usme has one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup (one game).
- Caicedo has one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
Colombia's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Catalina Perez #1
- Manuela Vanegas #2
- Daniela Arias #3
- Diana Ospina #4
- Lorena Bedoya #5
- Daniela Montoya #6
- Cami Reyes Calderon #7
- Marcela Restrepo #8
- Mayra Ramirez #9
- Leicy Santos #10
- Catalina Usme #11
- Sandra Sepulveda #12
- Natalia Giraldo Alzate #13
- Angela Daniela Baron #14
- Ana Maria Guzman #15
- Lady Andrade #16
- Caroline Arias #17
- Linda Caicedo #18
- Jorelyn Carabali #19
- Monica Ramos Santana #20
- Ivonne Chacon #21
- Daniela Caracas #22
- Elexa Marie Bahr Gutierrez #23
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You can shop Black Friday all of November at Home Depot
According to a recent opinion piece in The Hill, it’s impossible to predict inflation. The best way to protect your budget against rising costs is to incorporate strategic spending. This means taking advantage of sales on items you need, such as power tools and home security systems, not just on the ones you want. Home Depot’s Black Friday sale begins today, giving you ways to save all month long.
When is the Home Depot Black Friday sale?
Many retailers have realized that the past few years have changed spending habits. Budgets are stretched thin and people don’t want to incur more debt, so they’re rolling back their holiday spending. Creating an urgency such as a one-day sale isn’t as effective as it used to be. This has forced retailers to create extended holiday savings events.
Home Depot, for instance, has decided to give consumers access to lower prices for an entire month. While you have to wait until Nov. 3 to take advantage of in-store savings, online shoppers can find deep discounts starting today. This means you don’t have a limited window. You can plan your purchases around your financial schedule and still save.
Home Depot Black Friday deals you can get now
This comprehensive selection of tools has 1/4-inch, 3/8-inch and 1/2-inch sockets and ratchets along with over 160 other tools. The tools are forged from chromium alloy steel and come with a durable case. Sold by Home Depot
Milwaukee M18 18V Lithium-Ion Cordless Combo Kit
The Milwaukee M18 cordless tool kit comes with everything the handyperson needs for nearly any job. You get 10 power tools, two batteries, two travel bags and a charger. Sold by Home Depot
LG Electronics 24-Inch Stainless Steel Front Control Dishwasher
Right now, you can save hundreds of dollars on a dishwasher at Home Depot . This 24-inch model has a customizable rack, four spray arms and offers quiet operation. The two-stage drying gives you more efficient and more complete drying. Sold by Home Depot
DeWalt 15-Amp Corded 12-Inch Double Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw
A quality miter saw is an essential tool for making the angled cuts needed for molding, trim work, rafters and more. This offering from DeWalt has 10 positive stops and bevels up to 48 degrees left and right. The dust system captures over 75% of dust to keep you breathing easier while working. Sold by Home Depot
Ridgid Portable Pro Jobsite Table Saw with Stand
This portable 10-inch table saw has a 30-inch rip capacity and a 15-amp motor to deliver enough power to tackle tough jobs. The soft start function gradually ramps up the blade speed for a smooth and quiet start. The on-board tool storage is a welcome feature. Sold by Home Depot
Ryobi One+ 18V Cordless 6-Tool Combo Kit
Ryobi’s six-tool combo kit comes with a drill/driver, an impact driver, a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, a multi-tool and an LED light along with two batteries, a charger and other accessories. The set comes with a three-year manufacturer’s warranty and the batteries are compatible with over 260 cordless tools. Sold by Home Depot
Milwaukee 18-Volt Lithium-Ion XC Starter Kit
This set comes with two M18 batteries and a charger. These RedLithium extended capacity batteries have advanced job site protection and are compatible with over 200 Milwaukee M18 tools. Sold by Home Depot
DeWalt Atomic 20-Volt Max Compact Drill/Impact Combo Kit
This two-tool combo kit gives you a cordless drill/driver and an impact driver. It also has two 20-volt max lithium-ion batteries, a charger and a travel bag. The tools in DeWalt’s Atomic series have a compact design to provide more power in a smaller size to make your projects easier. Sold by Home Depot
Kohler Elmbrook Elongated White Toilet with Quiet-Close Seat
You might not expect to find a toilet on sale, but this one is. It offers a traditional two-piece style with an elongated bowl for added room. The chair-height seating makes sitting down and standing up less of an effort. Sold by Home Depot
Husky 3-Ton Low Profile Floor Jack
A floor jack gives you effortless lifting whenever you need it. This model can handle up to 6,000 pounds and has a maximum height of 19.75 inches. The rear swivel casters let you easily adjust the position of the jack to get it exactly where you need it. Sold by Home Depot
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PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies’ four-game winning streak is over.
The question of whether they need to upgrade the fifth starter position continues after a 5-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.
Cristopher Sanchez was again solid and not the reason the Phillies lost. He gave them fifth-starter production.
Sanchez allowed three runs - two earned - in five innings, the second straight game he gave up three runs in one inning but none in the rest of his outing. He left with the game tied.
The left-hander, who had struggled with command in the minor leagues, walked just one and struck out three. Entering the game, Sanchez’s WIP of 0.88 was the best in the National League since his recall from the minor leagues on June 17.
Before Wednesday’s action, Phillies GM Dave Dombrowski admitted he would be looking for rotation depth before the Aug. 1 trade deadline, while complimenting Sanchez’s performance.
But the normally reliable Phillies’ bullpen was touched for a pair of runs in four innings, while the Brewers’ pen pitched four shutout frames.
The star of Sunday’s 12-inning win - reliever Jeff Hoffman - walked the leadoff hitter in the seventh after a 1-2-3 sixth. William Contreras gave the Brewers a 4-3 lead with a two-out double off Matt Strahm, lining an 0-2 pitch into left-center field.
Andrew Bellatti was touched for a run in the ninth.
Phillies’ All-Star Nick Castellanos hit a solo home run to lead off the fourth, and the Phillies tied it in the bottom of the fifth with a little luck.
With runners on the corners and one out, Kyle Schwarber smoked a line drive to the left of shortstop Willy Adames, who looked like he had a chance at the catch but second base umpire Brennan Miller was in his way. The ball rocketed into the left-center field gap, and Brandon Marsh scored all the way from first on Schwarber’s two-run single.
Schwarber turned out to be the last Phillies’ baserunner of the game until the ninth when they put two runners on. Bryson Stott was caught stealing and Alec Bohm struck out to end the game.
Despite the loss, the Phillies maintained their hold on the third wild card spot as the Marlins lost for the sixth straight game.
THURSDAY’S PITCHERS: The Phillies and Brewers finish the three-game series on Thursday with a 12:35 p.m.
Taijuan Walker (11-3, 4.00) pitches for the Phillies, while former Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes (8-5, 3.73) goes for the Brewers.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy health industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the healthcare industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- US FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation for Blood Test to Help Diagnose Inaccessible Brain Tumors
"In my opinion, a non-invasive blood test that detects circulating tumor cells (CTCs) would help to address many of the problems associated with complex brain tumor diagnosis," said Dr. Kevin O'Neill, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Chairman of the Brain Tumor Research Campaign and Principal Investigator for the Brain Tumor Research Charity's Centre of Excellence working at the Imperial College, London. - Defeat "Low E" in 2023: New National Survey Finds That 89% of People are Suffering from Low Energy (Spoiler Alert: Fitness is the Antidote)
Planet Fitness commissioned a national study, which found that 89% of people would be willing to give up something they cherish just to have high energy for a year, including online shopping for a month (40%), social media (36%), caffeine (33%) for a year, or even sex for a month (33%). - Novavax Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Trial for COVID-19-Influenza Combination and Stand-Alone Influenza Vaccine Candidates
Stanley C. Erck, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novavax, says, "We believe that like influenza, COVID-19 will also be seasonal moving forward, and that there is room in the market for new alternatives to provide better protection against the impact of influenza, particularly in older adults, and to explore the potential to combine this with protection from COVID." - Blue Cross Blue Shield Companies Form Synergie Medication Collective, a New Venture to Radically Improve Affordability and Access to Costly Medications for Millions of Americans
These high-cost treatments include multi-million-dollar gene therapies and infusible cancer drugs and represent a substantial portion of overall drug spend, with significant growth in future spend anticipated. - Jumpstart Your 2023 Health Journey with MyFitnessPal
This year, two-time New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, chef, television host and producer, Ayesha Curry, is collaborating on the challenge by lending her tips, tricks and recipes to help members build healthy habits and achieve their personal health goals. - World's First Standardized Tool Measures Outcomes Associated with Grief Support Services
Known as the Inventory of Youth Adaptation to Loss (IYAL), the tool measures changes over time - related to a youth's communication, sense of social support, sense of connection, and social and emotional experiences of loss and resilience. - SiPhox Health Introduces World's First Lab-Quality Home Blood Testing Platform at CES Leveraging cutting edge silicon photonic chip technology, the SiPhox Home offers consumers lab-grade results for proteins and hormones in under five minutes.
- Chris Hemsworth's Centr Announces 'Moves That Matter' to Create Healthier Habits in 2023 for All
The goal of this campaign will be to motivate users to bank active minutes in support of a healthy milestone goal and a charitable donation to Good Sports. - Helix & CDC to Study the Role of Human Genetics in Vaccine Effectiveness
The partnership will examine up to 10,000 individuals who have had breakthrough infections and severe COVID outcomes, despite full vaccination. - Baracoda Unveils BHeart, World's First Health Tracker Powered Entirely by the User
Integrated discreetly within bracelets and watch bands compatible with any classic timepiece, BHeart uses its patent pending BMotion energy harvesting technology to recharge itself entirely by motion, body heat and environmental light. - Promising Early Results from Using imp's Landline Call Screening Technology as an Alzheimer's and Dementia Phone Solution
Caregivers of seniors with Alzheimer's or dementia are increasingly relying on imp as an essential tool in their care management process. For the caregiver, imp provides remote management and 100% control over who can call. For the senior parent, imp transforms their phone, making every call a wanted call. - Noodles & Company Joins Forces With BetterHelp To Promote Mental Health and Provide Up to $1 Million in Free Online Therapy
To promote mental wellness in honor of January's Mental Wellness Month, and spread Uncommon Goodness, Noodles & Company and BetterHelp have come together to launch the platform's first-ever restaurant partnership to offer free online therapy to Noodles & Company guests.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential run with several advantages, including his brand as “Trump, plus competence” and lots of money from big donors.
“Clearly major donors want to move on from Donald Trump, and there is a lot of money being spent to try to defeat Donald Trump,” Alex Conant, Republican strategist and founding partner at Firehouse Strategies, says.
But running as “Trump-not-Trump” has put DeSantis in a tough spot — and it’s showing in his sagging poll numbers.
“He wants to be able to criticize Trump, but he does so very softly,” says Tim Miller, writer-at-large for The Bulwark. “He pussyfoots around the issue and then he repeats Trump’s talking points.”
Today, On Point: Why Ron DeSantis’ presidential strategy isn’t working.
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Tim Miller, Writer-at-large for The Bulwark. Co-host of The Next Level podcast. Former communications director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. Former spokesman for the Republican National Committee during Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign. Author of “Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell.”
Mary Ellen Klas, State Capitol bureau chief for the Miami Herald.
Alex Conant, Republican strategist and founding partner at Firehouse Strategies. Former communications director for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign and Tim Pawlenty’s 2012 presidential campaign.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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(AP) – After going dark for a year, the Golden Globes return to the air Tuesday on a one-year audition to try to win back their awards-season perch and relevancy to a Hollywood that shunned the awards after an ethics and diversity scandal.
Stars and studios boycotted last year’s ceremony, which NBC opted not to televise, saying the Hollywood Foreign Press Association needed time to make “meaningful reform.” A year later, much — though not all — of Hollywood appears ready to party, again.
Following red carpet coverage (E! will air it live beginning at 6 p.m. EST), the broadcast from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, starts at 8 p.m. on NBC. For the first time, the show will also be livestreamed, on NBCUniversal’s Peacock. When the Globes were on the brink, NBC reworked its deal with the HFPA, putting the awards on a one-year contract and moving the show to Tuesday from its regular Sunday night spot.
The Globes will unfold against the backdrop of heavy rains that have lashed Southern California and caused flooding up and down coastal areas and in the mountains outside Los Angeles. Prolonged rainfall, exceeding a foot since Sunday in some regions, caused flooding, mudslides and evacuations. More precipitation was forecast for Tuesday.
Hosting is comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who won an Emmy last year for his HBO special “Rothaniel.” Eddie Murphy and Ryan Murphy are set to receive tributes. Presenters include Ana de Armas (a nominee for “Blonde”), Jenna Ortega (nominated for “Wednesday”), Billy Porter, Tracy Morgan, Jennifer Coolidge (nominated for “White Lotus”) and Quentin Tarantino. Sean Penn will also introduce a message from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
UNTANGLING THE GLOBES’ MESS
The Globes were plunged into chaos shortly before a largely remote pandemic 2021 awards show when a Los Angeles Times report revealed that the HFPA, then numbering 87 members, had no Black members. A separate New York Times report showed that the group — an often ridiculed collection of little-known foreign journalists based in Los Angeles — paid its members some $3 million in annual salaries, and detailed a litany of ethical lapses in how the organization regularly interacted with potential nominees.
Under mounting pressure, the HFPA pledged to reform, diversified its membership and changed some of the ways it operates. It now has 96 members, including six Black members, along with 103 nonmember voters. Billionaire Todd Boehly purchased the Globes through his Eldridge Industries, and has begun turning the nonprofit group into a for-profit company.
IS ANYONE STILL BOYCOTTING?
Reaction to the Globe nominations last month was muted, with few stars publicly celebrating. But only one nominee has stated emphatically that he will not attend: Brendan Fraser. Though nominated for best actor for his performance in “The Whale,” Fraser said he would not participate in the Globes. In 2018, Fraser said he was groped in 2003 by longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association member Philip Berk. Berk, who is no longer an HFPA member, denied it.
Eyes will be especially trained Tuesday on Tom Cruise, whose “Top Gun: Maverick” is nominated for best picture, drama. Cruise responded more forcefully to the HFPA revelations than almost anyone in the industry, returning his three Golden Globe awards.
But all studios are again participating in the Globes.
As it has for most award shows, viewership to the Globes telecast has cratered. After the 2020 awards were watched by 18.4 million, the 2021 edition managed just 6.9 million, according to Nielsen. Still, the Globes remain a valuable marketing tool for awards contenders, propping up ads for films in the long stretch between the holidays and the Oscars, which air March 12. Some of this season’s top contenders, including Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and Todd Fields’ “Tár,” have struggled to attract large audiences.
THE NOMINEES
Martin McDonagh’s feuding friends tale “The Banshees of Inisherin” comes in with a leading eight nominations, including nods for actors Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s existential action comedy “Everything Everywhere all at Once” is up for six awards, including nods for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Several of the past year’s biggest box-office hits are also in the mix. Along with “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tár” and “The Fabelmans,” the nominees for best picture, drama, include James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”
On the TV side, the public school sitcom “Abbott Elementary” leads with five nominations, including a nod for Quinta Brunson’s lead performance. “The White Lotus,” “Dahmer,” “The Crown,” “Pam & Tommy” and “Only Murders in the Building” all scored four nominations each.
Other nominees include: Brad Pitt (“Babylon”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”), Daniel Craig (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”), Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), Julia Roberts (“Gaslit”), Donald Glover (“Atlanta”), Bill Hader (“Barry”), Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”), Kevin Costner (“Yellowstone”), Diego Luna (“Andor”) and Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”). | 2023-01-11T00:14:27+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/the-golden-globes-return-tuesday-in-a-1-year-audition/ |
DALLAS, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NYSE: NREF) (the "Company") today announced a dividend for its 8.50% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (NYSE: NREF PRA) of $0.53125 per share. The dividend will be payable on April 25, 2023, to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 13, 2023.
About NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., is a publicly traded REIT, with its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NREF" primarily focused on originating, structuring and investing in first-lien mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, convertible notes, multifamily properties and common stock investments, as well as multifamily commercial mortgage-backed securities securitizations, multifamily structured credit risk notes and mortgage-backed securities. More information about the Company is available at nref.nexpoint.com.
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Former NFL running back hospitalized after saving his kids from drowning, reports say
(KY3/Gray News) – Former NFL running back Peyton Hillis was hospitalized after a swimming accident while saving his children from drowning, according to multiple reports.
ESPN said the water rescue happened Wednesday in Pensacola, Florida, and reportedly involved at least one family member. Escambia County emergency services did not identify the people involved but said two adults and two children were rescued by a bystander.
Two adults went to the hospital, including one taken by helicopter, ESPN stated. KNWA reporter Alyssa Orange said Hillis was the adult transferred by helicopter.
The Arkansas Razorbacks football Twitter account posted Friday about Hillis, who went to college and played football there from 2004-2007.
“Thinking about our man @thepeytonhillis. Encouraged to learn he’s doing better after his heroic act saving his family,” the tweet stated.
Greg Hillis, identified as Peyton Hillis’ uncle, said on Facebook that Peyton Hillis is doing better.
“He’s still in intensive care and having some problems with his kidneys and his lungs but the doctors say he is improving,” he wrote. “I just wanted to head off any rumors that may be started. I’m sure he would want everyone to know that he appreciates all of the prayers being thrown up on his behalf!!!”
Peyton Hillis played seven seasons in the NFL with the Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants. His best season was in 2010 with the Browns, when he had more than 1,600 total yards from scrimmage and 13 touchdowns.
He was featured as the cover athlete on the Madden NFL video game the following season.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies have arrested a man they believe is responsible for a deadly shooting in early September.
Francisco Arismendi Giraldi Baez, 19, was booked into the Orange County jail on Oct. 6, records show.
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The shooting happened on Sept. 8 around 10:41 p.m. at a shopping plaza in the 11000 block of East Colonial Drive near Rouse Road.
Trey Scott Kennedy, 30, died in the shooting, deputies said. The man was found in front of a Sherwin-Williams store. The second victim was rushed to a hospital with critical injuries, deputies said. Investigators have not provided an update on the second victim.
Investigators have not said what led up to the shooting or why they believe Giraldi Baez pulled the trigger.
He faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, grand theft and drug possession charges.
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Transition to University Broadens Scope and Offerings
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences, a leader in the field of holistic and natural approaches to medicine and health sciences, is proud to now be Sonoran University of Health Sciences. New degree programs, a state-of-the-art research institute, and expansion of free healthcare delivery and access in underserved communities propelled the transformation to Sonoran University.
"We are thrilled to announce that we are now Sonoran University," said Dr. Paul Mittman, president and CEO. "Our students, faculty, staff, and trustees sought a name that reflects the institution's values and aspirations. The Sonoran Desert's biodiversity, beauty, and resilience honors the University's past and captures our expansive goals for the future. Becoming a university is the next logical step in establishing Sonoran University of Health Sciences' position as the preeminent health sciences institution."
Sonoran University's goal is to shape a healthier future by supporting students as they train to excel as healthcare professionals, enhancing the health and well-being of its patients and communities, and discovering effective treatments for humanity grounded in the healing power of nature.
The University is comprised of six unique branches, each part is connected to shape a healthier future for the local and global community. They include:
College of Naturopathic Medicine – Training future naturopathic physicians and healthcare leaders to utilize the best in evidence-based conventional, complementary, and alternative medicines and therapies for ideal patient outcomes.
College of Nutrition – The fully online programs offered include a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition, a Master of Science in Nutrition Business Leadership, and Supervised Practice Experience. All programs offered focus on the fundamental importance food and nutrition play in healthcare.
Ric Scalzo Institute for Botanical Research – Botanical research focused on developing safe and effective new products and improving existing botanical therapeutics through rigorous scientific exploration – bridging the gap between a research benchtop and a patient's bedside.
Medical Center – A world-class medical center focused on naturopathic primary care.
Neil Riordan Center for Regenerative Medicine – An interdisciplinary, patient-centered clinic providing safe and effective non-opioid treatments for patients suffering from chronic pain.
Sage Foundation for Health – Providing the support to offer healthcare services to individuals and families in need at no cost throughout Maricopa County.
These branches give students and the community access to unique opportunities, one-of-a kind training, individualized learning, and holistic approaches to care and research. More programs and degree offerings will be added in the coming years.
For more information on Sonoran University, please visit www.sonoran.edu
About Sonoran University of Health Sciences
Formerly known as Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Sonoran University shapes a healthier future through to the healing power of nature. The University has three pillars: education, community engagement, and research. Dedicated to the ideal that everyone deserves high-quality healthcare, we engage students in rigorous, innovative academic programs, discover and expand knowledge, and empower individuals and communities to achieve optimal health. Our vision is a world that embraces the healing power of nature.
For more information, follow Sonoran University on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Carrier Content Cloud Distribution enables carriers to get their content in front of thousands of P&C and employee benefits brokers
MILWAUKEE, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading insurtech provider, Zywave, today announced the launch of a new offering, Carrier Content Cloud Distribution, which leverages Zywave's Content Cloud to distribute collateral and thought leadership material from insurance carriers to a significant network of brokerages and agencies serving the P&C and employee benefits markets.
In addition to directly connecting insurance carriers to a network of over 110,000 users at 3,500 brokerages and agencies, the new Carrier Content Cloud Distribution solution also includes comprehensive reporting capabilities. With an integrated, user-friendly reporting dashboard, carriers are able to seamlessly track impressions, shares and downloads of their uploaded content.
"The Carrier Content Cloud Distribution solution is a game-changer for carriers by enabling them to expand their reach in the broker ecosystem through Zywave's world-class content distribution channel," said Zywave senior vice president Jeff Cohen. "This helps carriers position themselves as thought leaders and industry experts, while expanding trading relationships and bolstering submission flow. The true beneficiary is a more informed policy holder."
In 2021, over five million pieces of content were downloaded from Zywave's sophisticated content platform. Carrier Content Cloud Distribution is designed specifically for insurance carriers to upload content and control where and how that content is distributed. The solution also enables carriers to choose which users and specified agencies can access their content, as well as which assets are accessible. With direct access to Zywave's vast network of insurance professionals, carriers will have the opportunity to increase brand awareness and increase revenue potential, while maintaining good stewardship among brokers and policyholders.
The innovative reporting functionality within Zywave's Carrier Content Cloud Distribution solution provides carriers visibility into the number of companies that view their imported assets, with all reporting measures available to download for offline analysis. This time-saving capability delivers key insights into how each piece of content is performing, in addition to showing who are the most engaged users of the content, which, ultimately, can lead to a larger prospect pool.
For more information on the Carrier Content Cloud Distribution solution visit https://www.zywave.com/carrier/carrier-content-cloud-distribution/.
Zywave leads the insurtech industry, fueling business growth for its partners with cloud-based sales management, client delivery, content and analytics solutions. Zywave's all-in-one platform provides customizable, user-friendly options that enable insurance professionals to build a unique solution to fit their specific growth goals—their own Modern RevOps Machine. More than 15,000 carriers, agencies and brokerages worldwide—including all of the top 100 U.S. insurance brokerages—use Zywave solutions to enhance client services, achieve business growth and promote greater health, wellness, risk management and safety. Additional information can be found at www.zywave.com.
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Return of the Dream Canteen Coming October 14th on Warner Records
Surprise Announcement Comes As North American Stadium Tour Kicks Off In Denver
LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight, Red Hot Chili Peppers announced their brand new studio album, Return of the Dream Canteen will be released October 14th on Warner Records. The surprise announcement was dropped at Denver's Empower Field to rapturous response as the North American leg of their critically and commercially acclaimed global stadium tour kicked off.
We went in search of ourselves as the band that we have somehow always been. Just for the fun of it we jammed and learned some old songs. Before long we started the mysterious process of building new songs. A beautiful bit of chemistry meddling that had befriended us hundreds of times along the way. Once we found that slip stream of sound and vision, we just kept mining. With time turned into an elastic waist band of oversized underwear, we had no reason to stop writing and rocking. It felt like a dream. When all was said and done, our moody love for each other and the magic of music had gifted us with more songs than we knew what to do with. Well we figured it out. 2 double albums released back to back. The second of which is easily as meaningful as the first or should that be reversed. 'Return of the Dream Canteen' is everything we are and ever dreamed of being. It's packed. Made with the blood of our hearts, yours truly, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Red Hot Chili Peppers will continue the tour through California with a special hometown performance in Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium, then through Chicago, Toronto, and more before wrapping up the North American leg in Arlington, TX on Sunday, September 18th at Globe Life Field. A roll call of some of the most acclaimed, eclectic and vital artists across various genres - including HAIM, Beck, Thundercat, The Strokes, King Princess, St. Vincent and Post Malone - will be joining the band on select dates.
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US developing satellite system to track hypersonic weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will spend $1.3 billion to develop advanced satellites that will be able to better track hypersonic missile threats, the Pentagon said Monday, announcing two new contracts that will put the detection and tracking systems in orbit by 2025.
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, said the contracts will provide 28 satellites, as the U.S. moves to greatly expand and enhance its ability to counter increasing threats from Russia and China.
Both countries have been making strides in their development of hypersonic missiles, which are more difficult to track and shoot down because they maneuver more in flight than conventional weapons that travel in predictable paths. Last year China tested what U.S. officials said was a hypersonic missile, and Russia has used the weapons in strikes during the war in Ukraine.
“Russia and China have been developing and testing hypersonic glide vehicles — these advanced missiles that are extremely maneuverable,” Tournear told Pentagon reporters Monday. “These satellites are specifically designed to go after that next generation version of threats out there so that we can detect and track these hypersonic maneuvering vehicles and predict their impact point.”
Additional funding for the program was provided by Congress specifically in response to concerns in the Indo-Pacific region, in response to China’s rapidly progressing military development.
Hypersonic weapons are defined as anything traveling beyond Mach 5, or five times faster than the speed of sound. That’s about 3,800 mph (6,100 kph). Intercontinental ballistic missiles far exceed that threshold but travel in a predictable path, making it possible to intercept them.
Historically, Tournear said, the U.S. has not flown satellites that were designed to detect and go after such maneuverable hypersonic weapons. Currently, he said, “we have limited capability to do that tracking aspect.” He added, however, that “clearly we don’t have zero capability to do tracking.”
The new satellites, he said, will enable the U.S. to detect the launch, follow the hypersonic missile as it changes course, calculate where it is heading and provide that data to forces who can launch interceptors.
The contracts were awarded to teams led by L3Harris Technologies, Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems of Redondo Beach, Calif. L3Harris will produce 14 satellites at a cost of about $700 million, and Northrop will produce 14 at a cost of about $617 million. The total cost of the program, including the launches and ground control and support, will be about $2.5 billion.
Tournear said the program represents a shift for the U.S. toward a larger, overlapping system of satellites. Rather than relying on larger, more expensive satellites that stay in orbit for 15 or more years, the U.S. will have a greater number of cheaper satellites that would be replaced about every five years.
One set, he said, would be at a lower orbit of about 1,000 kilometers, and a second set would be at a medium orbit of about 10,000-20,000 kilometers, providing a more resilient presence. He said the first 28 satellites would likely be followed by a second group of about 54.
Earlier this year, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced that they will work together to develop hypersonic missiles. The April announcement came amid growing concerns about China’s escalating military assertiveness in the Pacific. Last October, U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that China had conducted a test of a hypersonic weapon, calling it a “very significant event” that was “very concerning.”
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Local school districts and the former owner of Arlington International Racecourse have agreed on how large the property tax bill payable this year should be, but negotiations with the new owners — the Chicago Bears — for future tax years and payments are still ongoing.
Former racetrack owner Churchill Downs Inc. will pay $7.9 million in property taxes this year, up from the $2.7 million it paid before closing the track in 2021.
Arlington Heights-based Township High School District 214, Palatine-based Township High School District 211 and Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 — an elementary school district — all receive property tax revenue from the racetrack site.
District officials confirmed the schools and Churchill Downs Inc. reached the agreement May 31, though the Cook County Board of Review still must approve it.
But because the settlement is only good for one year, the Bears — new owners of the 326-acre property as of February — will have to re-negotiate the value of the land if they want to bring down their 2023 property tax bill. The 2023 taxes will be assessed by the end of this year then be payable in 2024.
“Next year it will be back to the original assessed value,” said Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele.
The Bears will likely try to avoid a bill that could reach $16 million, based on Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s recent reassessment of the land’s value.
The assessor establishes how much properties are worth in Cook County. In the case of Arlington International Racecourse, the assessment jumped from $33 million to $197 million, or roughly what the team paid for the property. The Bears had been pushing to have the property assessed at $37 million, Pioneer Press previously reported.
Months before closing on the sale of the land, the football team proposed a multi-billion dollar redevelopment project for the former horseracing site, including a domed stadium, luxury residences, and business and entertainment districts.
School district leaders wary of the proposed redevelopment’s potential impact on student enrollment, coupled with possible cuts to district revenues due to tax breaks, have pushed to have the property valued at $95 million.
“It is important to know that the 2023 and 2024 assessments have yet to be set by the County Assessor, and no agreement has been reached between the school districts and the Chicago Bears with respect to those two years,” leaders from each of the three districts said in a joint statement.
Hence, negotiations continue between the school districts and the Bears.
Kaegi’s office assessed the former racetrack at about $197 million, roughly equal to what the football team paid for it earlier this year.
If that valuation holds, the team would be expected to pay $16 million in property taxes next year. That is why the Bears have been negotiating with the school districts over future payments, a spokesperson said.
Even with the assessor’s valuation, if the Bears and school districts come to an agreement, as the school districts did with Churchill Downs, the land value could be lowered and, as a result so would the tax bill. This year should mark Churchill Downs’ final payment of taxes on the property.
The Bears will have a chance to appeal the assessor’s valuation of the land for the 2023 tax year in a bid for a lower tax bill, which Steele said she expects them to do, along with many others in Cook County.
“Next year, the Bears are going to be in the position of having to to verify or justify their intent to appeal,” Steele said. “I think next year will be the interesting year.”
The Tribune’s Robert McCoppin contributed.
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Joanna Krupa and Douglas Nunes are calling it quits, ET has learned.
Nunes filed divorce documents, obtained by ET, in Los Angeles County, citing irreconcilable differences. He listed the separation date as Jan. 2, 2023.
The former Real Housewives of Miami star and model married the business tycoon in Poland in 2018. At the time, a source told ET that Krupa and Nunes, who got engaged in March 2018, opted for a "small wedding" at Benedictine Abbey in Krakow.
"The couple wanted to elope but decided to have close family and friends," the source explained. "There was about 30 people at the wedding... the couple is over the moon excited for their future."
In November 2019, Krupa announced on Instagram that she had welcomed her first child with Nunes. Krupa shared the news alongside the first photos of her baby girl, Asha-Leigh.
Nunes is asking for joint legal and physical custody and is requesting the courts to terminate ability to award Krupa spousal support.
Krupa was previously married to Romain Zago, but the couple divorced in 2017.
TMZ was the first to report on Nunes' divorce filing.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — A new medical detox facility is now located at North Alabama Shoals Hospital.
Genesis Medical Detox, based in Pulaski, Tennessee, partnered with LifePoint Health, that owns North Alabama Shoals Hospital, to create the new unit.
It is currently the only hospital-based detox center in the Shoals.
The hospital's renovation of a wing on the fourth floor includes eight beds, all single occupancy rooms with space available for expansion. There's a group recreational/meeting room and cafeteria.
The unit opened on Jan. 9. To date it has treated 34 clients.
Genesis founder/CEO Peter Dacchille and Chief Operating Officer Tim Brennan joined forces in 2016 to provide a 15-bed residential treatment and recovery program in Pulaski, Tennessee.
Magnolia Ranch offers a 28-day residential treatment program that addresses the root of addiction through various therapies. It takes a 12-steps-based approach along with its clinical program seven days a week.
"Our goal is to get the clients medically well first, but they must go further to treat the root issue of their addiction," Dacchille said.
Brennan agreed, adding that it's imperative the clients find a program after (detox) to reach eventual success because "so many times they go through detox and begin to feel better and want to go straight home. That typically doesn't work."
Dacchille and Brennan's interest in detox and recovery comes from personal experience as both are recovering addicts themselves.
Dacchille and Brennan, coming up on 12 years and 9 years of sobriety, respectively, began the Genesis venture in 2020 with their detox center in Pulaski, Tennessee.
"We've been there, walked the path these clients are now walking, and we know what it takes to get and stay sober, and that makes our company different," Dacchille said.
The Shoals center has had clients come from as far as Wisconsin.
The center's assessment team does a pre-assessment and will accept, among other insurances, Medicare and Medicaid.
The efficiency of the program in the hospital setting is a model that the two men say has been a godsend as treatment is safer.
The 20-member staff includes the admissions team, eight nurses, a community educator, physician and medical director, Dr. Aaron Karr.
Dacchille said transportation can also be provided for clients with pickup within a 2 1/2-mile radius.
It's another aspect of the program that helps alleviate obstacles to treatment, he added.
Most of the clients are receiving treatment for alcohol and/or opioid addiction.
Brennan said if it becomes necessary, the program can nearly double the number of clients it admits.
Beth Loften, the chief nursing officer at North Alabama Shoals Hospital, said they all have the same goal: To serve the community.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to serve our community, as well as those who come from far off," Loften said. "It's a great partnership whereby we all want the same thing — total wellness for these clients."
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Lottery officials say two people claimed a $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot
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Strikeouts not enough for slumping White Sox pitchers
The Chicago White Sox are showing so far that strikeouts aren’t everything.
Chicago’s pitching staff leads the major leagues with 10.17 strikeouts per nine innings. The White Sox also have a team ERA of 5.96 — only Oakland is worse at the moment. Those pitching woes are a big reason Chicago has been perhaps baseball’s most disappointing team to this point. The White Sox pulled off a dramatic 12-9 win over Tampa Bay on Sunday, but they’d lost 10 in a row prior to that, and even after the victory they are 8-21.
Fangraphs.com gives Chicago just a 4% chance of making the playoffs, even in a manageable AL Central. The White Sox have already allowed at least 12 runs in a game five times.
In some ways, the White Sox are a reflection of their ace pitcher. Last year, Dylan Cease issued the most walks in the majors but still posted a 2.20 ERA and finished second in the Cy Young vote.
This season, he’s 2-1 with a 4.15 ERA, and as a team, Chicago’s pitching is a mess. The White Sox have struck out a lot of hitters, but they’ve also allowed 48 home runs and 124 walks. Again, only Oakland has been worse in both those categories.
Two years ago, Chicago won 93 games and appeared to have pulled off a successful rebuild. The White Sox had just won a division title by 13 games, and Cease, Lucas Giolito, Carlos Rodón, Tim Anderson, Luis Robert, Eloy Jiménez and Yoán Moncada were all in their 20s. Now Anderson and Moncada are on the injured list, Rodón is a New York Yankee, and the start of Chicago’s season has been a disaster.
ON THE MEND?
Philadelphia was another team that began slowly this season, but the Phillies didn’t stay down for long. They’ve won seven of their last nine games — including two of three at Houston in a World Series rematch — and are back above .500. There’s also a chance Bryce Harper could return from his injured elbow this week.
Trea Turner has had a quiet start for the Phillies, so their offense could use Harper. On the pitching side, Aaron Nola has had three straight quality starts, including an eight-inning, one-run effort against Houston on Friday night.
LINE OF THE WEEK
Nathan Eovaldi of the Texas Rangers threw a three-hit shutout Saturday night in a 2-0 win over the New York Yankees. He struck out eight.
The Yankees also lost to the Rangers the next day, 15-2. They’ve dropped six of eight and are now just a game over .500, tied with Boston at the bottom of the AL East.
TRIVIA TIME
Name the four pitchers besides Eovaldi who have pitched shutouts this season.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
Give the White Sox credit for this, at least: When they finally snapped their 10-game skid, they did it in style.
Chicago was down 9-5 in the bottom of the ninth Sunday against Tampa Bay. With one out, the White Sox strung together a single, a hit batter and then an RBI double by Jake Burger. A sacrifice fly made it a two-run game but left Chicago down to its last out.
Elvis Andrus then hit an RBI single, and Lenyn Sosa followed with a single of his own. Adam Haseley tied it with a single that scored Andrus. Then Andrew Vaughn hit a three-run homer to give the White Sox a 12-9 victory.
Earlier in the inning, Chicago’s win probability was at 0.6% according to Baseball Savant.
TRIVIA ANSWER
Sandy Alcantara, Gerrit Cole, Max Fried and Alex Cobb.
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The smell of natural gas rarely gets thought of as a recession risk in Europe.
Other risks include limited supply links between some countries, uneven levels of gas storage across Europe ahead of what could be a brutal winter, and a reluctance by some governments to take politically difficult decisions such as delaying the closure of nuclear plants in Germany or the tremor-prone Groningen gas field in the Netherlands to diversify away from Russian energy.
These stresses make Europe all too vulnerable to a form of energy blackmail by Russia — the source of about 40% of the EU’s gas consumption — as Vladimir Putin seeks to exploit cracks in Western opposition to his invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has already cut gas to a handful of countries including Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands. A full cutoff could result in the EU economy losing as much as 2.65% of gross national expenditure, according to IMF researchers.
How can the EU get ahead of this threat? One plan floated by the European Commission on Wednesday is to prod countries down an unpopular but necessary road of demand reduction. By calling for an initially voluntary 15% cut in natural gas use by member states, the idea is to entrench a sense of collective action and sacrifice — similar to the energy sobriety proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron’s administration.
This is logical, but it’s also a very blunt tool that could erode unity rather than strengthen it.
Reliance on Russian gas varies greatly by country: A pan-EU cut of 15% relative to average pre-invasion levels would offset a halt to Russian pipeline imports, according to Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. But required cutbacks at the member-state level would range from zero to a whopping 54%. If fines start being issued by Brussels to enforce cutbacks, EU squabbles could rise from a grumble to a roar.
Instead, carrots, not just sticks, should be wielded to encourage cooperation — ideally in the form of a “grand bargain,” reckons Bruegel’s Georg Zachmann.
Such a bargain would involve not just a focus on demand but on supply. Beyond securing new pipeline and LNG supplies from abroad, EU leaders need to look to each other to take tougher decisions for the common good. Delaying the closure of nuclear plants, pumping more Groningen gas and burning coal for emergency purposes would be politically unpopular but would serve to reduce dependence on Russia and increase gas storage, at least in the short-term.
Necessary demand reduction would also be softened by pooling energy and financial resources. Money could pay for earthquake-proofing houses in Groningen, for example. And in the spirit of the EU’s united response to Covid-19, it should also support vulnerable households: Price increases have already raised the cost of overall per-capita consumption in the bloc by 160 euros a month on average, according to the European Commission. Assistance could take the form of assembling a compensation fund for financially vulnerable households financed by joint EU borrowing.
This kind of grand bargain makes sense, especially as both France and Germany — the twin engines of EU policy-making — face challenges in their energy transition. France isn’t dependent on Russian gas, but its nuclear plant portfolio is in disrepair and the state is proposing to nationalize utility Electricite de France SA at a cost of around $10 billion. Germany, meanwhile, is facing a true “Lehman moment,” as a gas crunch punishes its industry and the likes of Uniper SE.
Yet such an effort would require strong leadership, which has been in short supply. The tendency so far has been to pass national measures to dull the pain of inflation, rather than send a more difficult message of reducing demand while increasing cooperation, or abandoning long-held principles on nuclear.
EU leaders such as Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz need to invoke not just the “blood, sweat and tears” of wartime sacrifice, but also the call for solidarity that would diffuse the burden and resist Putin’s pressure — the crisis calls for sovereignty as well as sobriety. Until then, the odor of natural gas will smell too much like defeat.
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At Last, a Road Map for Europe’s Energy Crisis: Maria Tadeo
• Your Old Fridge Is Vladimir Putin’s Friend. Dump It!: Javier Blas
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Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering digital currencies, the European Union and France. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes.
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Former NFL player Marshawn Lynch accused of DUI in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported former NFL star Marshawn Lynch was arrested after he was accused of driving under the influence.
Officers stopped a vehicle at about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday because they suspected the driver, identified as Lynch by police, was impaired, KVVU reported.
Upon further investigation, Las Vegas police reported officers determined Lynch had been driving impaired.
According to police, Lynch was then arrested and taken to the Las Vegas City Jail where he was charged with DUI.
Lynch retired from the NFL after the 2019 season after playing for 13 seasons, according to ESPN. During his career, he played for the Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders.
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CLEVELAND, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Freedonia Group analysis projects growth in demand for yogurt pouches to continue to outpace that of other yogurt packaging formats, boosted by a healthy increase in sales of squeezable yogurt products. Bottles will also log above average growth due to ongoing interest in drinkable yogurts including kefir and other non-dairy yogurt alternatives, particularly among health-conscious adults. In contrast, slow growth in the mature spoonable segment will limit opportunities for cups and tubs.
Demand for yogurt packaging is forecast to grow 1.3% per year to $605 million in 2025, limited by slow growth in overall yogurt consumption and stagnation in the dominant spoonable yogurt market. Factors supporting growth include:
- the ongoing popularity of yogurt as a convenient, healthy snack and as a meal supplement/substitute
- increasing use of value-added yogurt packaging products such as multi-compartment cups, paper cups (which provide sustainability advantages), and pouches with fitments that facilitate on-the-go consumption
- rising use of higher value stand-up pouches in lieu of traditional tubs for larger volumes of yogurt to reduce food waste and lightweight packaging
- growing sales of single-serving yogurt multipacks, which are more packaging-intensive than products sold individually
Yogurt Packaging, now available from the Freedonia Group, provides historical data (2010, 2015, and 2020) and forecasts for 2025 for yogurt packaging demand by value in current dollars (including inflation) by application, product, and material.
Applications:
- spoonable yogurt
- squeezable yogurt
- drinkable yogurt
Products:
- cups
- tubs
- bottles and jars
- pouches (e.g., pillow, stand-up, and side seal) and bags
- boxes and folding cartons
- other yogurt packaging (e.g., lidding, sleeves)
Materials:
- plastic (including bioplastics)
- other materials (e.g., paper and paperboard, glass, foil)
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) will host a conference call on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, at 11 a.m. EST to discuss 2022 fourth-quarter and full-year financial results.
Interested parties may listen to the conference call by visiting MPC's website at www.marathonpetroleum.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on MPC's website for two weeks. Financial information, including the earnings release and other investor-related material, will also be available online prior to the conference call and webcast at www.marathonpetroleum.com.
About Marathon Petroleum Corporation
MPC is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure. More information is available at www.marathonpetroleum.com.
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Man who stormed Capitol with dad gets 2 years in prison
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Delaware man who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with his Confederate flag-toting father was sentenced on Monday to two years behind bars.
Hunter Seefried, 24, was convicted alongside his father of felony and misdemeanor charges by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in June. Hunter and Kevin Seefried opted for a bench trial, which is decided by a judge, rather than have their case be heard by a jury.
The father and son traveled to Washington from their home in Laurel, Delaware, to hear Trump’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6. They were among the first rioters to approach the building near the Senate Wing Door, according to prosecutors.
After watching other rioters use a police shield and a wooden plank to break a window, Hunter Seefried used a gloved fist to clear a large shard of glass in one of the broken windowpanes, prosecutors said. The judge found that two other rioters had destroyed the window before Seefried cleared the piece of glass.
Widely published photographs showed Kevin Seefried carrying a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol after he and Hunter, then 22, entered the building through a broken window.
An attorney for Hunter Seefried had asked for probation and home detention instead of prison time. He said in court papers that his client only went to the Capitol that day because his father pushed him to join. And he noted that the son never hurt or threatened anyone at the Capitol.
“Hunter is a decent, hardworking and caring young man, who was misled and got caught up in the unfortunate events of January 6, 2021,” attorney Edson Bostic said in an email. “He is very remorseful and wished he could relive and change his behavior that day.”
Kevin Seefried is scheduled to be sentenced in January.
Both men were convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College that day.
The judge also convicted the Seefrieds of misdemeanor charges that they engaged in disorderly conduct and illegally demonstrated inside the building. But he acquitted Hunter Seefried of other misdemeanor charges.
They are among about 900 people who have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack. More than 420 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses.
Roughly 300 Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced, with sentences ranging from probation to 10 years behind bars.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jayson Tatum knew he was sitting on 48 points entering the final minute of the Boston Celtics' Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday and briefly thought about backing the ball out and letting the clock run down with the outcome well in hand.
Then he remembered a text from Jamal Crawford earlier this season after Tatum refused to take a late shot against the Miami Heat and finished the game with 49 points.
“Jamal texted me after the game and he's like, ‘If you’re ever that close to 50, nobody is going to remember the time and score, they're just going to report if you got 50 or not,'” Tatum said. “That’s what was going through my mind: Jamal telling me if you get that close to 50, go get it.”
So Tatum let loose on a 3-pointer from the left wing with 38 seconds left and swished it, giving him a season-high 51 points — causing the crowd to erupt with chants of "MVP! MVP! — as the Celtics beat the Hornets for the second time in three days, 130-118.
It was the seventh 50-point game of Tatum's career.
Derrick White added 19 points and eight assists and Malcolm Brogdon scored 16 for the Celtics, who have won seven straight games. Boston is 33-12 on the season, the best record in the Eastern Conference.
Tatum was 15 of 23 from the field and 14 of 14 from the foul line.
"He makes me look like a better coach," Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said.
Mazzulla said he liked the way Tatum excelled at executing against different coverages the Hornets threw at him.
“He didn't settle for shots,” Mazzulla said. “He got catch-and-shoots, he got off the dribbles, he got layups. The other piece of that is the humility of our team to really work with him to get those 51 points."
Added White: "He wants to be great and he takes that challenge each and every night. He’s seen a lot of defense during his time in the league and he is making the right read off of that.”
Jalen McDaniels led the Hornets with a career-high 26 points on 5-of-7 shooting from 3-point range. LaMelo Ball finished with 25 points on 8-of-23 shooting. Mason Plumlee had perhaps his best all-around game of the season, with 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the Hornets (11-34), who’ve lost eight of their last nine games.
The Celtics set the tone early, jumping out to a 35-22 lead in the first quarter after holding the Hornets to 28.6% shooting from the floor.
Charlotte would fight back to cut the lead to 100-98 early in the fourth quarter, but White was fouled by Dennis Smith Jr. on a 3-point attempt and made all three free throws.
Moments later, the Celtics got three long offensive rebounds on one possession before White drove to the rim and scored to increase the lead with 6:34 left, causing Hornets coach Steve Clifford to punch the air in frustration.
“When a shot goes up, all five guys should be coming back for the rebound,” Clifford said. “That is the way we want it. Defensive rebounding is a challenge for our team and we're not overly physical. We have a habit of leaking out and it has cost us two games."
Tatum took over down the stretch, finishing with 17 points in the fourth quarter.
He drilled a step-back 3 from the top of the key over Smith to push the lead to 10 and then buried the Hornets with a long 3 with 1:02 left. Tatum smiled when asked about the MVP chants.
"I hear them and just being in North Carolina, it all feels a little more special, having gone to school two hours away," said Tatum, who spent one season at Duke before entering the NBA draft. "Coming here feels like I'm back home a little bit."
MLK JR. DAY
During pregame warmups, the Celtics and Hornets wore gray and white T-shirts for Martin Luther King Jr. Day that read “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all” on the front and “Honor King” on the back.
TIP-INS
Celtics: Finished 24 of 25 from the free-throw line.
Hornets: P.J. Washington had 17 points. ... Clifford said he hopes to get Gordon Hayward (hamstring) and Cody Martin (knee soreness) back for the team's upcoming four-game road trip.
UP NEXT
Celtics: Host Washington on Thursday night.
Hornets: Open a four-game road trip at Houston on Wednesday night.
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Who is John Eastman and why is he being referred for charges?
Anyone following the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault has probably heard the name John Eastman, the law professor who was referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution on criminal charges on Monday.
Eastman allegedly pitched then-President Donald Trump on a scheme described Monday by Democratic committee member Rep. Pete Aguilar of California as a “meritless proposal” — “a combination of bogus election fraud claims and … fake electoral ballots to say that (Vice President) Mike Pence, presiding over the joint session, could reject legitimate electoral votes for President-elect Biden.”
Moreover, the committee pointed out that even before the 2020 election had taken place, Eastman had “admitted” that Pence would not be able “to lawfully refuse to count official electoral votes,” and yet formulated a scheme for him to do so anyway.
The panel has made a criminal referral of Eastman for possible charges of obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States; both are symbolic, unless the Justice Department chooses to act on them.
“I think the point can’t be lost that a congressional referral, criminal referral, as much attention as it’s getting, really carries no legal significance,” said Charlie Burnham, Eastman’s attorney, on a call with reporters following Monday’s Jan. 6 committee meeting. His other attorney, Harvey Silvergate, said one has to look “very closely at what Dr. Eastman did and see whether in fact he was engaged in a political act or whether it’s actually criminal.”
So who is John Eastman?
A professor at Chapman University Law School in Southern California until mid-January 2021, and once a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Eastman was a former private attorney for President Trump and an informal adviser in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Eastman became known for his widely-discredited theory, which he proposed in a memo, that former Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to delay or even reject the certification of state electors. According to Greg Jacob, Pence’s former counsel, Eastman acknowledged two days before Jan. 6 that his plan wouldn’t hold up in court if Pence followed through and would violate the Electoral Count Act. Pence himself insisted he lacked any such authority. Eastman later in 2021 would try to distance himself from the memo outlining how Pence could potentially help block the election certification process.
Additionally, according to the committee, Eastman allegedly advocated for selecting a false slate of electors in a bid to keep Trump in office.
Eastman spoke during Trump’s rally at the White House Ellipse ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, to the consternation of some of his colleagues at Chapman University, where he was employed at the time. After the attack, over 140 Chapman faculty members signed a letter calling for his resignation, writing that Eastman “spouted lies about ‘secret folders’ to fire up an angry crowd and stood approvingly next to Rudy Giuliani as he called for ‘trial by combat.'” Eastman, who retired shortly after the attack, called the letter “defamatory.”
Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said in an order that communications from Eastman show Trump and his lawyers pushed claims of voter fraud that he knew to be false in federal court and to the public in order to delay the counting of electoral votes. That order was part of a legal battle between Eastman and the House select committee.
But Eastman and his attorneys insist the judge and committee are only showing the evidence that’s helpful to them.
“By cherry-picking the things that supported their position and ignoring all the rest, they had a preponderance of the evidence,” Eastman told reporters Monday.
On the call with reporters, CBS News asked Eastman why he would participate in a Zoom meeting with journalists but refused to answer the committee’s questions about Jan. 6, pleading the 5th Amendment repeatedly instead.
Eastman said the House panel was a “much more biased forum,” and was “clearly conducting a criminal investigation, which is beyond their purview” as the legislative branch.
Eastman decried what he called the “the criminalization of our political process” and “criminalization” of political opponents.
Burnham, Eastman’s attorney, argued Congress could be setting a bad precedent referring political opponents for criminal prosecution.
The Jan. 6 panel must wrap up its work by the end of the year, because House Republicans, who have disparaged the select committee’s work, take control of the House in January. The panel has also made criminal referrals to the Justice Department for Trump, and referred four House Republicans, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, to the House Ethics Committee for potential sanctions. | 2022-12-20T02:27:15+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/who-is-john-eastman-and-why-is-he-being-referred-for-charges/ |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones and his company were ordered by a judge Thursday to pay an extra $473 million for promoting false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre, bringing the total judgment against him in a lawsuit filed by the victims' families to a staggering $1.44 billion.
Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis imposed the punitive damages on the Infowars host and Free Speech Systems. Jones repeatedly told his millions of followers the massacre that killed 20 first graders and six educators was staged by "crisis actors" to enact more gun control.
"The record clearly supports the plaintiffs' argument that the defendants' conduct was intentional and malicious, and certain to cause harm by virtue of their infrastructure, ability to spread content, and massive audience including the infowarriors," the judge wrote in a 45-page ruling.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said he hopes the award sends a message to conspiracy theorists who profit from lies.
"The Court recognized the 'intentional, malicious ... and heinous' conduct of Mr. Jones and his business entities," Mattei said in a statement.
On his show Thursday, Jones called the award "ridiculous" and a "joke" and said he has little money to pay the damages.
"Well, of course I'm laughing at it," he said. "It'd be like if you sent me a bill for a billion dollars in the mail. Oh man, we got you. It's all for psychological effect. It's all the Wizard of Oz ... when they know full well the bankruptcy going on and all the rest of it, that it'll show what I've got and that's it, and I have almost nothing."
Eight victims' relatives and the FBI agent testified during a monthlong trial about being threatened and harassed for years by people who deny the shooting happened. Strangers showed up at some of their homes and confronted some of them in public. People hurled abusive comments at them on social media and in emails. And some received death and rape threats.
Six jurors ordered Jones to pay $965 million to compensate the 15 plaintiffs for defamation, infliction of emotional distress and violations of Connecticut's Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Jones has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights. He says he will appeal the verdicts. He also has said he doesn't have the money to pay such huge verdicts, because he has less than $2 million to his name — which contradicted testimony at a similar trial in Texas. Free Speech Systems, meanwhile, is seeking bankruptcy protection.
Jones said Thursday that he has only a "couple hundred thousand dollars" in his savings account.
A message seeking comment was left for Jones' lawyer, Norm Pattis.
Bellis found Jones and Infowars' parent company liable for damages without a trial last year, as a consequence for what she called his repeated failures to turn over many financial documents and other records to the plaintiffs. After the unusual "default" ruling, the jury was tasked only with deciding on the amount of compensatory damages and whether punitive damages were warranted.
Jones says he turned over thousands of documents and the default ruling deprived him of his right to present a defense against the lawsuit.
The punitive damages awarded by the judge include about $323 million for the plaintiffs' attorney fees and costs and $150 million for violations of the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
In Connecticut, punitive damages for defamation and infliction of emotional distress are generally limited to plaintiffs' legal fees. The Sandy Hook plaintiffs' lawyers are to get one-third of the $965 million in compensatory damages under a retainer agreement — putting their legal fees at $322 million.
But there is no cap on punitive damages for violations of the Unfair Trade Practices Act. The plaintiffs had not asked for a specific amount of punitive damages, but under one hypothetical calculation they said such damages could be around $2.75 trillion under the unfair trade law.
In a similar trial in Texas in August, Jones was ordered to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of another child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting for calling the massacre a hoax. A forensic economist testified during that trial that Jones and Free Speech Systems have a combined net worth as high as $270 million.
A third and final trial over Jones' hoax claims is expected to begin around the end of the year in Texas. As in Connecticut, Jones was found liable for damages without trials in both Texas cases because he failed to turned over many records to the plaintiffs.
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This version corrects the spelling of Judge Bellis' first name to Barbara, instead of Barabara. | 2022-11-11T00:13:17+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-473m-more-to-sandy-hook-families |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition parties met Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign following the most dramatic day of monthslong political turmoil, with protesters storming the leaders’ homes in a rage over the economic crisis.
Protesters remained in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence, his seaside office and the prime minister’s home, saying they would stay until the resignations are official. The president’s whereabouts were unknown, but a statement from his office said he ordered the immediate distribution of a cooking gas consignment to the public, suggesting that he was still at work.
Soldiers were deployed around the city but troops simply watched from afar as crowds of people splashed in the pool of Rajapaksa’s sprawling residence, lounged on beds and took selfies of themselves on their cellphones to capture the moment. The chief of defense staff, Shavendra Silva, called for public support to maintain law and order.
Occupants of the prime minister’s official residence cooked in an outdoor kitchen, played the tabletop game carrom and slept on sofas.
Ranjith Madduma Bandara, a top official in the main opposition United People’s Force, said that separate discussions were held with other parties and lawmakers who broke away from Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition and more meetings were planned. It was unclear when an agreement might be reached.
Another opposition lawmaker, M. A. Sumanthiran, said earlier that all opposition parties combined could easily muster the 113 members needed for a majority in Parliament, at which point they would call on Rajapaksa to install the new government and resign.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Saturday he would leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday. Pressure on both men had grown as the economic meltdown set off acute shortages of essential items, leaving people struggling to obtain food, fuel and other necessities.
If both president and prime minister resign, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena will take over as temporary president, according to the constitution.
Rajapaksa appointed Wickremesinghe as prime minister in May in an effort to solve the shortages and start economic recovery.
Wickremesinghe had been part of crucial talks with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout program and with the World Food Program to prepare for a predicted food crisis. The government must submit a plan on debt sustainability to the IMF in August before reaching an agreement.
Analysts say it is doubtful any new leader could do more than Wickremesinghe. His government’s efforts showed promise, with much-needed fertilizer being distributed to farmers for next season’s cultivation and cooking gas orders arriving in the country Sunday.
“This kind of unrest could create confusion among international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank,” political analyst Ranga Kalansooriya said, adding that a new administration should agree on a common program for economic recovery.
He said while Wickremesinghe was working in the right direction, his administration was not implementing a long-term plan to go with its focus on solving day-to-day problems.
It is unlikely that an all-party government will agree on IMF-backed economic reforms without some parties losing their political support.
Wickremesinghe said Saturday it was not proper for him to leave without a government in place.
“Today in this country we have a fuel crisis, a food shortage, we have the head of the World Food Program coming here and we have several matters to discuss with the IMF,” he said. “Therefore, if this government leaves there should be another government.”
Four Cabinet ministers have resigned since Saturday’s protests.
Even though both Wickremesinghe and Abeywardena, the parliament speaker, said in their speeches that they had spoken with the president, they did not say anything about his whereabouts.
Protesters also broke into the prime minister’s private residence and set it on fire during the melee on Saturday. A party official, Ruwan Wijewardena, said Wickremesinghe was inside when the protesters gathered but security officers removed him to a different location.
Wijewardena said such acts will only polarize the society and political parties.
“If these kinds of incidents keep on going, we can wave bye-bye to the IMF and any international assistance that is going to come to the country,” he said. “If there is lawlessness, if there is no coming together among the political groups, there is no way the international community can come in and help this country.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Washington was tracking the developments in Sri Lanka and urged Parliament to work quickly to implement solutions and address the people’s discontent.
Speaking at a news conference in Bangkok, Blinken said the United States condemns attacks against the peaceful demonstrators while calling for a full investigation into any protest-related violence.
Pope Francis opened his Sunday remarks after noon prayers at the Vatican by voicing concern about Sri Lanka.
“I unite myself to the pain of the people of Sri Lanka, who continue to suffer the effects of the political and economic instability,’’ the pontiff said. “Together with the bishops of the country, I renew my appeal for peace, and I implore those who have authority not to ignore the cry of the poor and the needs of the people.’’
Sri Lanka is relying on aid from India and other nations as leaders try to negotiate a bailout with the IMF. Wickremesinghe said recently that negotiations with the IMF were complex because Sri Lanka was now a bankrupt state.
Sri Lanka announced in April that it was suspending repayment of foreign loans due to a foreign currency shortage. Its total foreign debt amounts to $51 billion, of which it must repay $28 billion by the end of 2027.
Months of demonstrations have all but dismantled the Rajapaksa political dynasty, which has ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades but is accused by protesters of mismanagement and corruption. The president’s older brother resigned as prime minister in May after violent protests saw him seek safety at a naval base. He later moved into a house in Colombo. | 2022-07-10T20:49:21+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/sri-lanka-opposition-meets-to-name-new-govt-amid-turmoil/ |
Tom Brady suggests he may retire…again
Published: Sep. 14, 2022 at 7:54 AM PDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
(CNN) - Tom Brady is suggesting he may retire soon – again.
The 45-year-old quarterback retired after the 2021 season, only to reverse the decision six weeks later.
Maybe this time it would be for real.
Speaking on his “Let’s Go” podcast, Brady said he’s got more responsibilities now with kids who are growing up.
He also pointed out that for the past 23 years he hasn’t been able to celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving with his family.
Brady may also be eager to move on to easy money. He’s inked a 10-year deal with Fox to work as an NFL analyst.
The role is reportedly worth $375 million and starts whenever he retires.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-14T15:25:58+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/09/14/tom-brady-suggests-he-may-retireagain/ |
A 26-year-old man who police said was driving a garbage truck when he got into a 2021 crash in Lebanon County has been charged with vehicular homicide.
Zachary Gilbert crashed the garbage truck around 8:45 a.m. June 4, 2021, on State Drive in South Lebanon Township, township police said.
Police on Thursday said the passengers of the other vehicle involved in the crash suffered “numerous serious injuries.” Additional details on the extent of those injuries were not immediately available. | 2023-03-02T16:18:57+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2023/03/garbage-truck-driver-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-in-central-pa-crash.html |
If you and your crew are Apple users who enjoy making plans together, a new app will make your lives a little easier. Freeform is a new collaboration app available for iOS 16.2 or later.
This app lets you collect all of your ideas, no matter how many you come up with. Freeform’s virtual whiteboard will expand to contain whatever you add, even when collaborating with others.
It’s not just a note-taking app, either. Freeform has lots of brush styles and colors to choose from, so you can draw diagrams, incorporate sketches or add comments as well as files. You can even draw on the canvas with your finger on your iPhone and iPad or using Apple Pencil.
Another helpful feature Freeform offers are integration with FaceTime and Messages. You can work on a board with others while on a FaceTime call or a Messages thread.
If you alternate between multiple devices, you can pick up right where you left off by logging into the app. In addition, since Freeform boards are stored in iCloud, your data will sync across all your Apple devices.
Photos, videos, documents, PDFs, website and map location links and loads of other file types are supported by Freeform. You can insert images or scan documents directly onto your whiteboard using your iPhone or iPad camera or drag and drop content from other apps like Files and Finder. You can export a board as a PDF or take a screenshot.
“Freeform opens up endless possibilities for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to visually collaborate,” Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a news release. “With an infinite canvas, support for uploading a wide range of files, iCloud integration, and collaboration capabilities, Freeform creates a shared space for brainstorming that users can take anywhere.”
As of Dec. 13, Freeform will be pre-installed on every iPhone, iPad, and Mac supporting iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 or macOS Ventura 13.1. To get it now for your iPhone or iPad, you can download it from the App Store, but it is now being automatically installed when you update your device.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-12-20T21:03:41+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/freeforn-app-let-apple-users-collaborate-projects |
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a simple way to enhance the appearance of the vent located beneath the F-150 logo at a truck's front fender," said an inventor, from Riverview, Fla., "so I invented the TRUCK VENT ACCESSORY. My design enables you to dress up and customize your truck."
The patent-pending invention provides an eye-catching accessory for pickup trucks. In doing so, it eliminates the need to settle on displaying the dull factory vent beneath the logo. As a result, it enhances the appearance of a pickup truck and it could attract attention. The invention features a decorative design that is easy to apply so it is ideal for the owners of pickup trucks. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tallahassee sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TLS-283, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Lilly plans to slash some insulin prices, expand cost cap
(AP) - Eli Lilly will cut prices for some older insulins later this year and immediately expand a cap on costs insured patients pay to fill prescriptions.
The moves announced Wednesday promise critical relief to some people with diabetes who can face annual costs of more than $1,000 for insulin they need in order to live. Lilly’s changes also come as lawmakers and patient advocates pressure drugmakers to do something about soaring prices.
Lilly said it will cut the list price for its most commonly prescribed insulin, Humalog, and for another insulin, Humulin, by 70% in the fourth quarter, which starts in September. The drugmaker didn’t detail what the new prices would be.
List prices are what a drugmaker initially sets for a product and what people who have no insurance or plans with high deductibles are sometimes stuck paying.
Patient advocates have long called for insulin price cuts to help uninsured people who would not be affected by price caps tied to insurance coverage.
Lilly’s planned cuts “could actually provide some substantial rice relief,” said Stacie Dusetzina, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University who studies drug costs.
She noted that the moves likely won’t affect Lilly much financially because the insulins are older and some already face competition.
“It makes it easier for Lilly to go ahead and make these changes,” she said.
Lilly also said Wednesday that it will cut the price of its authorized generic version of Humalog to $25 a vial starting in May.
The cost of a prescription for generic Humalog ranges between $44 and close to $100 on the website GoodRx.
Lilly also is launching in April a biosimilar insulin to compete with Sanofi’s Lantus.
Lilly CEO David Ricks said in a statement that it will take time for insurers and the pharmacy system to implement its price cuts, so the drugmaker will immediately cap monthly out-of-pocket costs at $35 for people who are not covered by Medicare’s prescription drug program.
The drugmaker said the cap applies to people with commercial coverage and at most retail pharmacies.
Lilly said people without insurance can find savings cards to receive insulin for the same amount at its InsulinAffordability.com website.
The federal government in January started applying that cap to patients with coverage through its Medicare program for people age 65 and older or those who have certain disabilities or illnesses.
American Diabetes Association CEO Chuck Henderson said in a statement he applauded the steps Lilly was taking and called for other insulin makers to also cap patient costs.
Aside from Eli Lilly and the French drugmaker Sanofi, other insulin makers include the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.
Insulin is made by the pancreas and used by the body to convert food into energy. People who have diabetes don’t produce enough insulin.
People with Type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day to survive. More than 8 million Americans use insulin, according to the American Diabetes Association. Research has shown that prices for insulin have more than tripled in the last two decades, and pressure is growing on drugmakers to slow the increases.
The state of California has said it plans to explore making its own cheaper insulin. Drugmakers also may face competition from companies like the nonprofit Civica, which plans to produce three insulins at a recommended price of no more than $30 a vial, a spokeswoman said.
Drugmakers may be seeing “the writing on the wall that high prices can’t persist forever,” said Larry Levitt, an executive vice president with the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care.
“Lilly is trying to get out ahead of the issue and look to the public like the good guy,” Levitt said.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. became the first company to commercialize insulin in 1923, two years after University of Toronto scientists discovered it. The drugmaker then built its reputation around producing insulin even as it branched into cancer treatments, antipsychotics and other drugs.
Humulin and Humalog and its authorized generic brought in a total of more than $3 billion in revenue for Lilly last year. They rang up more than $3.5 billion the year before that.
“These are treatments that have had a really long and successful life and should be less costly to patients,” Dusetzina said. ___ Follow Tom Murphy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thpmurphy
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-01T14:22:52+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2023/03/01/lilly-plans-slash-some-insulin-prices-expand-cost-cap/ |
OTTAWA, Ontario — Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, Mads Sogaard stopped 32 shots and the Ottawa Senators beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on Monday night.
Gustav Forsling scored twice for the Panthers in their fourth straight loss. Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 21 saves as Florida remained three points behind Pittsburgh for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference.
Tkachuk got the Senators on the scoreboard first, getting a pass from Thomas Chabot and firing a slap shot past Bobrovsky for his 34th of the season 9:02 into the first period.
Brannstrom made it 2-0 with 1:05 left in the opening period, picking up a loose puck in the right circle and firing it past Bobrovsky on a power play for his third.
Forsling got the Panthers on the board 5:58 into the second, with a long one-timer from the left point past Sogaard.
DeBrincat’s one-timer from the left circle off a pass from Drake Batherson on a power play pushed the Senators’ lead to 3-1 with 38 seconds left in the middle period. It was his 24th.
Forsling got his second of the night and 12th of the season at 9:15 of the third to pull the Panthers back within one.
However, Stützle scored Ottawa’s third power-play goal of the night with 2:23 remaining for his 36th, and Pinto added an empty-netter less than a minute later to cap the scoring.
BETTMAN EXPECTS SENATORS SALE THIS SUMMER
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman met with Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe and the National Capital Commission representatives before the game.
Following his day at City Hall and reviewing the proposed site for a potential new downtown arena, Bettman met with the media at the Canadian Tire Centre and offered very little with regards to the sale of the NHL franchise, saying only that there are about half a dozen candidates still in the mix to purchase the club.
He described the process for the sale of the franchise as “robust” and that the level of interest expressed has been “meaningful.” Bettman also said it should take about another six weeks to be finalized. He did add that midsummer is the likely time frame for final approval.
“To make things crystal clear, and I’ve said this repeatedly, if the team is going to move, the only move that will be permitted is downtown,” Bettman said. “The Senators are not leaving Ottawa.”
UP NEXT
Panthers: At Toronto on Wednesday night in the second of a four-game trip.
Senators: Host Philadelphia on Thursday night in the middle game of a three-game homestand.
___ | 2023-03-28T03:05:02+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nhl/2023/03/27/panthers-senators/4912334c-cd0e-11ed-8907-156f0390d081_story.html |
UPDATE 6/10/2022 — According to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, 16-year-old Davis Cody was killed from a gunshot wound from the incident.
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Shortly before 10:30 p.m., the NOPD began investigating a fatal shooting near Algiers.
Fourth District officers traveled to the 1900 block of Hendee Street in response to a call of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers located two gunshot wound victims.
Details in the NOPD Major Offense Log released Thursday morning, unknown suspects began firing shots at two teenagers.
According to police, a 16-year-old male was declared deceased on the scene.
A 17-year-old female was transported via EMS to a local hospital for treatment where her condition was unclear.
NOPD detectives are gathering evidence and information to identify those responsible for this incident, as well as a motive. This remains an open investigation.
The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office will identify the deceased victim and official cause of death upon completion of the autopsy and notification of family.
Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to contact NOPD Homicide Detective Tanisha Smith at 504-658-5300, or call anonymously to Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP. | 2022-06-10T21:59:19+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/nopd-teenager-killed-in-wednesday-night-shooting-2nd-teen-injured/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
The man, John Montenegro Cruz, argued that the jury should have been informed he would be ineligible for parole if spared from death. Cruz says Arizona has been defying the Supreme Court on the issue.
Cruz's lawyer, Neal Katyal, says efforts to tell the jury that Cruz was not parole-eligible were rejected. Arizona says Cruz failed to make the precise requests he needed to under Supreme Court precedent.
At least one juror has said that had she known that a “life sentence without parole” was an alternative to death, she “would have voted for that option.”
The case is important not only for Cruz, but also for other inmates on death row in Arizona who are in the same situation.
Cruz was convicted of the 2003 murder of Tucson police officer Patrick Hardesty. Hardesty and another officer were investigating a hit-and-run accident that led them to Cruz, who attempted to flee and shot Hardesty five times.
A 1994 Supreme Court case, Simmons v. South Carolina, says that in certain death penalty cases, jurors must be told that choosing a life sentence means life without the possibility of parole. That's required when prosecutors argue that the defendant will pose a threat to society in the future.
In a 2016 case, Lynch v. Arizona, the Supreme Court told Arizona directly that it needed to comply with Simmons. But Cruz says Arizona has continued to defy the high court.
“It sounds like you're thumbing your nose at us,” Justice Elena Kagan told lawyer Joseph Kanefield, who argued for Arizona.
The case is not necessarily one that will divide the court between its six conservative and three liberal justices.
In addition to Kagan, the court's two other liberal justices, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, suggested Cruz should get a new penalty phase of his trial where it's clear to jurors that he's ineligible for parole if he's not sentenced to death.
But conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett also at one point suggested sympathy for Cruz's view, saying Arizona's argument “just seems like hair splitting." Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch suggested they would vote for the state.
The case is John Montenegro Cruz v. State of Arizona, 21-846. | 2022-11-01T23:14:17+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/High-court-told-jurors-were-misled-in-Arizona-17550740.php |
First Round's on Me (FROME) a brand new dating app geared towards helping singles connect in real life
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New dating and social networking app, First Round's On Me (FROME), is now available for iOS and Android devices. Founded on the concept of bringing back real dating and driven by the pervasive need for in-person connection, FROME is an online dating app designed to get people off their phones and together in real life. With its unique feature offering discounts at some of LA's hottest bars, coffee shops and restaurants, FROME also helps users find the perfect date spot, and alleviate the stress (and awkwardness!) when it comes to the bill.
The inspiration behind the name First Round's On Me is a nod to a time when people met for the first time, by chance, in person. You'd see someone across the bar, go up to them and ask if you could buy them a drink. In today's online dating world, and especially during a global pandemic with exposure to social and professional interactions slowly coming back, this "natural" style of meeting rarely occurs. Over the years, singles have gravitated towards a digital dating experience — whether they like it or not. With its venue partnerships offers and prompts to actively set up dates, FROME helps facilitate the old school way of kismet experiences in dating through the comfort and safety of their home.
"I am proud to help humans connect and stop relying only on technology," says founder and CEO, Joe Feminella who was inspired to design FROME after years spent on dating apps that never resulted in actual in person dates. Disillusioned with a dearth of bland digital interactions and the endless swiping cycle, he was motivated to find a way to encourage people to put the phone down and set a date to get to know each other in person, how he believes people should get to know each other.
"The dating-app world is saturated, yet it consistently leaves people unsatisfied. The more time I spent swiping, the more I realized it wasn't an effective way to make a real connection. Technology has solved so many problems in today's world, but one thing it hasn't done and probably will never do, is help people fall in love. That needs to be done in person." says Feminella.
With an emphasis on both inclusivity and intimacy, FROME melds the ease of technology with the value of organic meetings: Instead of forcing users to rely on an app for a potentially infinite amount of time, it motivates them to get out in public and meet each other. Each time a user signs on, they have the option to select between one of two modes: Available Today (those free for a date tonight) and Available This Week (those who like to plan ahead). When a user finds someone they're interested in, they send an invitation for a time and place to meet for a drink. If the recipient accepts — it's date! The date is then added to their calendars, (one date per day, Romeo!). One of the app's unique features is a time-based chat made available six hours prior to the date, giving users some time to break the ice before meeting in person later that day. From there, the rest is up to them!
FROME is proud to be partnering with a number of Los Angeles bars and coffee spots, including The Bungalow, Cha Cha Matcha, Juneshine, Library Alehouse, Independence Bar and Bravo Toast. A premium version of the FROME app will be launched later in 2022 and is slated to hit other major U.S. cities including Miami, New York, Austin, Dallas, and Chicago, in the coming year.
For more information, visit firstroundsonme.co or follow us on Instagram @firstroundsonme
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Reset Summer Camp for Digital Detox & Life Skills, now in its sixth year, is expanding to Canada. In the summer of 2023 Reset will open on the campus of Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada just east of Montreal.
Founded in 2018, Reset is the first of its kind, offering a clinical, therapeutic summer camp program for teens suffering from excessive screen-time overuse, social-media, and gaming addiction. Since the pandemic Reset is also driving a special focus on social engagement and general Life Skills.
"None of our kids are really excited to attend camp." says Michael Jacobus, Executive Director, "but after they have been here for a few weeks, they begin to adjust back to the kids they were before their tech addictions."
Since the advent off COVID, screen-addiction has only gotten worse and social skills have faltered. Reset offers a 4-week summer camp program that includes group and individual therapy, socialization, life skills all in a good old fashioned summer camp environment.
This summer the California camp runs from July 2 - July 30 and the Canadian camp runs from July 9 - August 6. Both programs close with a Family Workshop Weekend for parents and siblings.
For more information or to start your application process, visit: www.resetsummercamp.com
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Julia Minson dove into research when her mom got lung cancer, and discovered a new experimental drug that had a small chance of helping her mom. The doctor was skeptical, but Minson pushed back.
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Julia Minson dove into research when her mom got lung cancer, and discovered a new experimental drug that had a small chance of helping her mom. The doctor was skeptical, but Minson pushed back.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-24T22:53:40+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/2023-07-24/a-daughters-story-of-pushing-to-try-a-new-experimental-drug-for-her-moms-cancer |
Joey Gallo Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Orioles - July 9
Published: Jul. 9, 2023 at 11:24 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Sunday, Joey Gallo (.522 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including two home runs) and the Minnesota Twins play the Baltimore Orioles, whose starting pitcher will be Kyle Gibson. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless showing (0-for-3) against the Orioles.
Joey Gallo Game Info & Props vs. the Orioles
- Game Day: Sunday, July 9, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Orioles Starter: Kyle Gibson
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -133)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +230)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +100)
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Joey Gallo At The Plate
- Gallo has eight doubles, a triple, 15 home runs and 31 walks while hitting .184.
- Gallo has reached base via a hit in 29 games this season (of 68 played), and had multiple hits in six of those games.
- He has hit a long ball in 14 games this season (20.6%), homering in 6.6% of his trips to the plate.
- Gallo has had an RBI in 16 games this year (23.5%), including six multi-RBI outings (8.8%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- In 35.3% of his games this season (24 of 68), he has scored, and in three of those games (4.4%) he has scored more than once.
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Joey Gallo Home/Away Batting Splits
Orioles Pitching Rankings
- The 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Orioles pitching staff ranks eighth in the league.
- The Orioles' 4.18 team ERA ranks 16th across all league pitching staffs.
- Orioles pitchers combine to give up 106 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 18th in baseball).
- The Orioles will send Gibson (8-6) to make his 19th start of the season. He is 8-6 with a 4.73 ERA and 78 strikeouts through 102 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last appearance came on Tuesday against the New York Yankees, when the righty went six innings, surrendering four earned runs while allowing three hits.
- The 35-year-old's 4.73 ERA ranks 53rd, 1.364 WHIP ranks 51st, and 6.8 K/9 ranks 57th among qualifying pitchers this season.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-09T18:01:24+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/sports/betting/2023/07/09/joey-gallo-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
Posted: Jun 17, 2022 / 09:44 PM CDT Updated: Jun 17, 2022 / 09:44 PM CDT SHARE This weekend will be very warm and humid with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Triple-digit temperatures will return next week, and breezier winds may reaggravate fire weather concerns. | 2022-06-18T04:47:14+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/local/latest-forecast-with-meteorologist-haley-fitzpatrick-135/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but the congressman escaped serious injury.
“I’m OK,” Zeldin said in a statement. “Fortunately, I was able to grab his wrist and stop him for a few moments until others tackled him.”
Zeldin’s campaign said the attacker was taken into custody and the congressman continued his speech.
The attacker climbed onto a low stage where the congressman spoke to a crowd of dozens outside Rochester, flanked by bales of hay and American flags. A video posted on Twitter shows the two falling to the ground as other people try to intervene.
Among those who helped to subdue the attacker was Zeldin’s running mate, former New York Police Department Deputy Inspector Alison Esposito, said state GOP Chair Nick Langworthy.
Langworthy told The Associated Press that he didn’t have any details on the attacker or his weapon but exchanged text messages with Zeldin afterward while the congressman was speaking to police.
“He is fine. He’s not seriously injured. It’s just a chaotic scene there,” Langworthy said. He said Zeldin had “just a little scrape” but it wasn’t what anyone would consider an injury.
Emails and phone messages were sent to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, and phone messages were left with the county’s emergency dispatch.
Langworthy called on Hochul to issue a security detail for Zeldin to protect him on the campaign trail.
“This could have gone a lot worse. This could have really ended in a horrible way tonight and this is unacceptable,” he said.
Hochul’s press secretary Avi Small referred questions about providing Zeldin with a security detail to New York state police
In a statement, Hochul condemned the attack and said she was “relieved to hear that Congressman Zeldin was not injured and that the suspect is in custody.”
Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who has represented eastern Long Island in Congress since 2015, is a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
He has focused his campaign on fighting crime but faces an uphill battle against Hochul. He’ll need to persuade independent voters — which outnumber Republicans in the state — as well as Democrats in order to win the general election.
Democrats are expected to focus on Zeldin’s vocal defense of Trump during both of his impeachments and objection to the election results.
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ZIMMERMAN, Vivian Irene
Age 93, of Vandalia, formerly of Beavercreek, passed away Friday, May 13, 2022. Service 12:00 pm, Wed., May 18 at Tobias Funeral Home, Beavercreek Chapel, Beavercreek, OH.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Publix supermarket chain isn't offering the COVID-19 vaccine to children younger than 5.
The Florida-based chain hasn't explained its decision.
Publix has 1,288 stores in seven Southern states and was instrumental in distributing the vaccine when it was initially released.
It currently offers the vaccine to children 5 and older.
Florida is the only state that didn't pre-order the under-5 vaccine, and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has recommended against vaccinating healthy children.
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Other major pharmacies, including Walgreens and CVS, have already begun vaccinating young children.
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MRB Founder Michael Becce brings 30+ years of tech media and analyst relations expertise with focus on information technology and cybersecurity
NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MikeWorldWide, a leading independent PR agency, today announced that it has acquired MRB Public Relations, Inc., a boutique technology-focused public relations firm that was recognized as one of the world's top channel-focused public relations firms by research and advisory firm Forrester Research, Inc.
MRB founder Michael Becce and senior employee Angela Tuzzo, a 17-year MRB veteran along with support staff, will join MWW's global tech practice led by Maria Brown. The practice grew 174% in 2022, with clients across SaaS, B2B, enterprise, cloud security, fintech, venture-backed startups, media platforms and consumer technology.
"MRB's deep expertise in the tech industry—leveraging analyst relations and media research techniques—will help better communicate our client partners' value proposition in today's changing media landscape," said Michael Kempner, founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide. "Michael's relationships in the tech media community will be invaluable to our clients and team members as our practice continues its rapid growth."
MRB Public Relations was founded in 1992 as a media research firm, helping leading business work with broadcast and technology trade media. With a focus on information technology and cybersecurity, MRB has led its clients to numerous lucrative acquisitions, and over two billion dollars in funding.
"MRB has a great deal of success building its clients into much larger entities and after substantial funding rounds or acquisitions, it's not uncommon for those clients to desire bigger agencies with more capabilities than we offer," said Michael Becce, CEO of MRB. "Now, these clients can continue to leverage our media relations capabilities, but grow into other facets, like digital, search, and influencer marketing and leverage a bevy of innovative AI, reporting and analytics tools that will escalate their campaigns."
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MikeWorldWide is a leading independent, integrated public relations agency serving global clients across the US & Europe. It employs more than 230 communications experts that live at the intersection of consumer brand marketing, technology, and corporate reputation. The award-winning firm applies its expertise and culture of caring through research, strategy, creativity, empathy, and insight for clients to maximize the potential of every marketing channel. It delivers breakthrough communications for the global enterprises, corporate leaders and innovative brands who are driving the creative economy. Open positions at MWW can be found here. To learn more about MikeWorldWide, visit mww.com.
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CADILLAC — Forecasters say some nasty weather is coming this way.
On Tuesday, the National Weather Service post in Gaylord issued a hazardous weather outlook for the region, including Wexford and Missaukee counties.
According to the alert, severe weather was expected to enter the region Tuesday evening.
“Significant ice accumulations are possible across eastern upper Michigan this evening and tonight,” the alert states. “Ice accumulations are also expected across portions of far northern lower. There is also a chance for thunderstorms later today and into tonight. While not expected, a severe thunderstorm and localized flash flooding cannot be ruled out. The primary threat from any severe thunderstorm would be large hail.”
On Wednesday, NWS forecasters say there likely will be an increase in the potential for severe weather, including thunderstorms in the afternoon, including large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.
“A round of severe storms is likely Wednesday afternoon as a strong cold front sweeps through the area,” reads an NWS alert. “The result will be the potential for a window of intense thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon, potentially coinciding with school dismissal times and after school activities. The primary hazards will be very large hail and tornadoes, along with the potential for damaging wind gusts.”
Strong and gusty winds are expected to occur late Wednesday through Thursday, and localized river flooding is possible Wednesday into Thursday.
NWS also issued a flood watch for Wexford and Missaukee counties, effective at 8 p.m. Tuesday night until Wednesday morning.
Occasional showers and a few thunderstorms are expected. Widespread rainfall amounts of half an inch to an inch and a half are possible. Localized amounts will be higher, from 2 to 3 inches. Flooding could result in places that receive heavy rain Tuesday night.
Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. | 2023-04-05T04:10:15+00:00 | cadillacnews.com | https://www.cadillacnews.com/news/severe-weather-possible-tonight-into-thursday/article_534b9b6e-d303-11ed-96f8-7f1731941edb.html |
By BARRY HATTON and ARMANDO FRANCA
Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — As a former nightclub bouncer and black-belt karate instructor, Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos doesn’t shrink from the challenges thrown up by her latest lavish creation.
The 51-year-old, renowned for her big, in-your-face installations, is now creating a ceramic wedding cake that’s 12 meters (40 feet) high and 15 meters (50 feet) wide for exhibition in England.
“The Wedding Cake” is mostly made of Portugal’s famous ceramic tiles called “azulejos.” Vasconcelos is using them in pastel pink, green, blue and yellow in what is her most ambitious outdoor project yet.
And she savors the battle. “Every day you know that something will happen and something new will come up and you have to solve problems,” she said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “It’s a very dynamic and alive thing.”
Her drive to make “The Wedding Cake” happen has already taken five years, being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, since she first mentioned it to British investment banker Jacob Rothschild. He wanted it for the gardens of Waddesdon Manor in southeast England, which hosts weddings.
Rothschild, Vasconcelos says at her studio in a former riverside boathouse in Lisbon, became her “partner for this crazy journey.”
Vasconcelos has built her reputation over the past two decades. Her trademark features are large, flamboyant pieces that juxtapose the high brow and low brow, draw on Portuguese handicraft traditions, allude to women’s perspectives, and possess a stealthy sense of humor.
She made a splash on the international art scene at the 2005 Venice Biennale with “A Noiva” (The Bride), a five-meter-long (16-feet-long) chandelier crafted from 25,000 wrapped tampons.
Her “Marilyn,” in 2009, is a giant pair of stiletto shoes, well over head height, made from stainless steel saucepans and lids.
A mass-produced ceramic German Shepherd Dog is sheathed in an intricate length of crochet made by women in Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands.
In 2012, Vasconcelos became the first woman and the youngest artist to exhibit at the Palace of Versailles, drawing 1.6 million visitors. Four years ago, she became the first Portuguese with a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
“The Wedding Cake” will have three tiers, with stairs for people to walk up to the top. Placed in a wooded area, it will also have water features and lighting.
After the installation’s various sections are trucked to England, the effort of putting it all together will begin. The unveiling is tentatively scheduled for the end of May.
Meanwhile, Vasconcelos is also working on getting her 4th dan in karate — another test of her mettle.
“If you’re not a fighter, you can’t do karate,” she says.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: AWF), a closed‑end management investment company, declared on this date, December 2, 2022, a monthly income distribution of $0.0655 per share of Common Stock plus an additional one-time special income distribution of $0.0977 per share of Common Stock. The total distribution of $0.1632 is payable on January 20, 2023 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 16, 2022. Ex‑date will be December 15, 2022.
The distribution, which is deemed to be received by shareholders in 2022 for federal income tax purposes, represents full payment of the $0.0655 January 2023 distribution plus an additional one-time special income distribution of $0.0977 so as to enable the Fund to comply with the Internal Revenue Code's minimum distribution requirements for the current year.
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund, Inc. is managed by AllianceBernstein L.P.
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The Federal Reserve and the stock market are butting heads over the central bank’s efforts to fight inflation.
Stocks capped a steep two-day sell-off on Friday, wiping out gains from a rally earlier in the week driven by hopeful economic news. Inflation as measured by the consumer price index had fallen for the fifth straight month — and far more than analysts expected — according to data released right before the Fed was set to slow down its interest rate hikes.
While the Fed did end up boosting rates by a smaller amount than its previous four hikes, a dour forecast from officials, including Chairman Jerome Powell, shook markets out of their optimism. Instead of signs of lower interest rates ahead, the Fed warned rates would be even higher and stay that way for longer.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 281 points Friday, falling 0.9 percent on the day for its second straight week of losses. The S&P 500 index closed 1.1 percent lower, and the Nasdaq closed with a loss of 1 percent on the day, respectively.
“The Fed and the stock market are fighting. They’re in a brawl right now,” said Callie Cox, U.S. investment analyst at online investment firm eToro, in a Friday phone interview.
“The stock market’s been itching for a pivot for months now, really since the summer, and the Fed time and time again has told us that they’re serious about inflation, they want to get inflation under control, and if that means keeping rates high for a while, so be it,” she added.
As interest rates continue to rise, businesses will face steeper borrowing costs and have less money to invest in expansion, making their stocks less appealing to investors. Households will also have less expendable income to throw in the market as interest rates on their mortgages, car payments and credit cards rise.
The stock market’s hardship, however, is an important part of the Fed’s plan.
Fed officials know their tough talk about keeping rates high and snuffing out inflation at whatever the cost alarms investors and traders. Those warnings are intended to keep Americans’ expectations in check and force businesses to feel the squeeze of high rates without rising stock prices to buffet the blow.
“The Fed knows that its words are equally as powerful in a world where social media is so pervasive and information just moves so quickly,” Cox said. “The Fed is preparing markets for what’s coming before it actually happens. This time around, though, it just feels a little bit more painful because the Fed needs to get inflation down.”
Powell said during a Wednesday press conference that the U.S. still had “a long ways to go” before inflation was down to a sustainable level. He added that the only way for the Fed to achieve that goal was to keep its foot on the brakes of the economy with high interest rates meant to boost the unemployment rate.
The November jobless rate of 3.7 percent is just 0.2 percentage point below its level in February 2020, then a five-decade record low. But the U.S. workforce has roughly 4 million fewer workers now than it did before the onset of the pandemic, while businesses are posting record numbers of open jobs.
With fewer workers available to fill open jobs, businesses have been forced to boost wages to attract candidates — and prices to compensate for that higher pay. That dynamic, Fed officials say, is the reason why inflation has remained high even as prices for almost all goods other than food have fallen.
“We have too many jobs and too few workers, so that means that wage inflation is going to be far from a sustainable average, and we’re going to have that passing through to prices. That’s what we’re working on right now,” said Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve of San Francisco, at a Friday event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
“To be honest with you, I don’t quite know why markets are so optimistic about inflation,” Daly said.
On Wednesday, Fed officials boosted their projections for how high they would need to raise interest rates and how long they would keep them at levels meant to hinder the labor market.
They now expect to hike interest rates to a span of 5 to 5.25 percent by the end of 2023, up from the 4.5 to 4.75 range officials projected in September, and they don’t foresee cutting rates until 2024.
The Fed also sees its rate hikes taking a serious toll on the U.S. economy, projecting the jobless rate to increase by 0.9 percentage points to 4.6 percent by the end of 2023 and economic growth slowing to 0.5 percent. While Fed officials say it may be possible to avoid heavy job losses in that scenario, most outside economists believe such an increase in the jobless rate would mean more than 1 million Americans losing work.
“The Fed did not welcome the disinflation trends that have just started to emerge and focused on robust job gains and elevated inflation. Any hopes of a soft landing disappeared as the Fed seems like they are committed to taking rates much higher,” said Edward Moya, senior markets analyst at OANDA, in a Wednesday note to clients.
A Fed-driven recession or steep slowdown would be more bad news for the stock market as companies struggle with lower sales and fewer households have the flexibility to put money in risky assets. But higher rates in and of themselves could be a larger and longer-term damper on the stock market.
Stocks exploded in value in the years following the Great Recession as the Fed kept its baseline interest rate range near zero. The market’s stunning rally accelerated even more during the COVID-19 pandemic, when low interest rates and trillions of dollars in federal stimulus helped fuel new records across all three major indexes.
With rates likely to stay high for much longer, Cox said the days of the market smashing through record highs again are likely far away.
“When we look at 2023, we kind of see a year of purgatory,” she said. | 2022-12-17T11:34:18+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/fed-wall-street-in-a-brawl-over-inflation-cure/ |
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As Incarnate Word left tackle Nash Jones awaits the snap, his eyes scan through the secondary, noting the alignment of the corners and safeties.
If he can diagnose where the coverage players are rotating, he’ll know where the front seven plans to apply pressure, and if he needs to hand off a blocking assignment to one of his teammates.
Coach G.J. Kinne said the skill is one most linemen don’t develop until reaching the NFL level, but Jones is applying the technique as a junior, benefiting from the experience of starting every game since he stepped on campus.
The skill is also a product of all the aspects of the game Jones doesn’t have to worry about. When Jones switched from right tackle to left tackle after his first year in the program, offensive line coach Jordan Shoemaker asked if he’d like right guard Caleb Johnson to flip sides along with him, and Jones immediately said yes.
With two anchors in place on the left and three more returning starters rounding out the group, UIW’s offensive line has been one of the best in the FCS, Kinne said, allowing the Cardinals to rank third in the nation with 46.6 points and 541.8 yards per game.
“The biggest thing is trust. I trust my brothers are going to do what they’re supposed to do,” Jones said. “If the call is something where we need to communicate a lot, we don’t have to communicate as much as somebody else would. We’re already on the same page. We’re already on the same wavelength.”
After Kinne took the reins of the program in December and started to dissect his roster, he was struck by the Cardinals’ size up front.
Stanley Mark, a 283-pound right guard, is the only starter who doesn’t eclipse 300 pounds. Kinne said Johnson in particular carries much more than his listed weight, mauling opponents at close to 350 or 360 pounds.
“We have an FBS O-line,” Kinne said. “They know what they’re doing. If they’re not the top O-line unit in the country, they’re one of the top.”
Jones, Johnson and center Reid Francis are all in their third years starting, while Mark and sophomore right tackle Jimeto Obigbo took hold of starting jobs last season.
“It shows in how fast we can play. There’s not a lot of thinking on the field. We just execute,” Francis said. “We can look at each other with certain looks, know what we’re trying to say and make certain calls.”
Arriving at UIW in the 2020 recruiting class with the weight room and other team activities shuttered by COVID-19, Jones said he prepared for his first season through 2 p.m. workouts with his father “every single day, on the dot,” either in the home gym or by lifting weights in the garage.
“When I got here, coach Shoe told me I had a chance to take that spot, but it’s on me to go take it,” Jones said. “He put me in the fire a little bit, getting my tail beat up by some of the older guys. But through preparation and working with him, I was able to come out on top.”
Sharing the offensive line room with his twin brother Emeka, Jimeto earned his first start near the midpoint of last season.
“He has the opportunity to be maybe the best out of all of them,” Kinne said. “He’s unbelievable. Just to move the way he does, and he really cares about football. He’s really intelligent. He has a chance to be really, really special.”
Though Jones is often the group’s vocal leader, Francis makes many of the line calls from center, shifting into the role for the first time in spring 2021 and finding it to be a “second home.”
Mark, a Steele product, brings a fiery presence, Jones said, showing a willingness to “get in a fight if he needs to.”
Johnson, nicknamed “Big Show” because of his beard, bald head and hulking frame that resemble the professional wrestler, provided Jones a “security blanket” when he everything seemed to be moving so fast as a “wide-eyed freshman.”
Kinne also highlighted the group’s depth, calling sophomore Dorian Strawn a starter “anywhere else in the conference.” The Cardinals this season introduced offensive packages that utilize a sixth lineman.
“When I first got in, I didn’t know anybody. Now, I consider those guys my brothers,” Jones said. “If I have a really hard time and I need some help from somebody, I know exactly who I can call on. The chemistry we have right now is absolutely amazing.”
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Twitter: @GregLuca | 2022-10-06T21:07:23+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/local-colleges/article/Stout-offensive-line-drives-UIW-s-high-powered-17491893.php |
Mountain Brook native Colby Jones selected in the 2nd round of the NBA Draft
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Mountain Brook native Colby Jones has been selected in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets.
Jones started his high school career playing for Pinson Valley before transferring to Mountain Brook for his final three years. Jones played at Mountain Brook for coach Bucky McMillin, who is now the Head Coach at Samford.
After graduating from Mountain Brook, Jones committed to and played for the Xavier Musketeers for three seasons before declaring for the NBA Draft.
During his time as a Musketeer, Jones averaged 12.1 points per game and appeared in 83 career games while starting in 79 of them.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney representing two parents who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre said Thursday that the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee has requested two years’ worth of records from Jones’ phone.
Attorney Mark Bankston said in court that the committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has requested the digital records.
The House committee did not immediately return a request for comment.
A day earlier, Bankston revealed in court that Jones’ attorney had mistakenly sent Bankston the last two years’ worth of texts from Jones’ cellphone.
Jones’ attorney Andino Reynal sought a mistrial over the mistaken transfer of records and said they should have been returned and any copies destroyed.
He accused the Bankston of trying to perform “for a national audience.” Reynal said the material included a review copy of text messages over six months from late 2019 into the first quarter of 2020.
Attorneys for the Sandy Hook parents said they followed Texas’ civil rules of evidence and that Jones’ attorneys missed their chance to properly request the return of the records.
“Mr Reynal is using a fig leaf (to cover) for his own malpractice,” Bankston said.
Rolling Stone, quoting unnamed sources, reported Wednesday evening that the Jan. 6 committee was preparing to request the data from the parents’ attorneys to assist in the investigation of the deadly riot.
A jury in Austin, Texas, is deciding how much Jones should pay to the parents of a child killed in the 2012 school massacre because of Infowars’ repeated false claims that the shooting was a hoax.
Last month, the House Jan. 6 committee showed graphic and violent text messages and played videos of right-wing figures, including Jones, and others vowing that Jan. 6 would be the day they would fight for President Donald Trump. | 2022-08-04T15:51:15+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/sandy-hook-attorney-jan-6-panel-asks-for-alex-jones-texts/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Which Lightning McQueen beds are best?
If your child loves the movie “Cars,” there may be no better way to surprise and impress them at bedtime than with a Lightning McQueen bed. No matter the age of your child, Lightning McQueen beds are a surefire way to make bedtime easier for both of you, and to help liven up playtime in their bedroom.
Choosing which model bed to go with may not be as surefire. Out of a handful of options, this Two-Piece Delta Children Lightning McQueen Bed offers an impressively-realistic take on the style, with working headlights for your children to play with, making it a top choice.
What to know before you buy a Lightning McQueen bed
Placement
It’s important to consider where you plan to put your Lightning McQueen bed. Your intended space will need to accommodate a bed frame. Since some Lightning McQueen beds tend to be somewhat bulkier than other bed frames, it may be important to consider how that might affect the space it’s going into.
Mattress size
Along with the size of the Lightning McQueen bed frame, it’s also important to get a frame that will fit the mattress size you’re planning to use. Lightning McQueen beds typically use a standard-size crib mattress, making it large enough for young kids. However, some models are made to fit a twin-size mattress.
Bed frame materials
A few different Lightning McQueen beds exist out there, so picking out the kind of construction materials you want may help narrow down the options. Most Lightning McQueen beds are made from some kind of hard plastic material, though you may also find some models that are made out of wood.
What to look for in a quality Lightning McQueen bed
Durable
Any kid’s bed needs to be durable enough to hold up against a fair amount of play. This may be even more true for something as cool as a Lightning McQueen bed. Durability comes down to the types of material the bed is made from. Some hard plastic beds are less likely to deteriorate in time than those made from wood.
Safe
Especially for those with young kids, finding a Lightning McQueen bed that is also safe is critically important. Younger kids may require a Lightning McQueen bed with guardrails or other barriers to help prevent your child from falling out of the bed, while older children sleeping in a twin bed may not have this issue.
Stylish
In addition to the more practical components of a Lightning McQueen bed, many users make their choice based on the style of a bed. Many higher-end models may offer a realistic look, working headlights or other feature that plays into the bed’s overall style and function.
How much you can expect to spend on a Lightning McQueen bed
Depending on what you’re looking for in a bed frame, Lightning McQueen beds range a little bit in price. You can find less expensive Lightning McQueen beds ranging from $58-$100, while more expensive models with additional features may cost between $100-$310.
Lightning McQueen bed FAQ
Do Lightning McQueen beds come in a twin size?
A. While most Lightning McQueen toddler beds fit a standard crib mattress, there are ones that come in the twin size. Lightning McQueen twin beds can be found from a variety of online retailers. Most of the twin sizes include a bed frame without the mattress.
Are Lightning McQueen beds made by Disney?
A. Most Lightning McQueen beds are not made by Disney. They are made by other companies with licensed images and decorations inspired by the “Cars” movies.
What are the best Lightning McQueen beds to buy?
Top Lightning McQueen bed
Delta Children Two-Piece Lightning McQueen Twin Bed with Working Headlights
What you need to know: This Lightning McQueen twin bed is the ultimate immersive bed, featuring working headlights and a convincing car design that kids love.
What you’ll love: Made from a sturdy molded plastic, this race car bed from Delta Children features Lightning McQueen’s classic number 95 decal and working headlights that take three LR44 batteries each.
What you should consider: A twin-size mattress is not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Lightning McQueen bed for the money
Delta Children One-Piece Lightning McQueen Toddler Bed with Guardrails
What you need to know: Those on a budget will appreciate this simple, plastic Lightning McQueen bed at a fair price.
What you’ll love: Made for toddlers, this race car bed is perfect for children 15 months and up. It offers a classic Lightning McQueen design that’s squared off to fit easily in just about any space. It also includes low guardrails for extra safety, but with a design that kids can still get in and out of with ease.
What you should consider: Some users said this model’s guardrails weren’t quite high enough for their young toddlers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Delta Children One-Piece Lightning McQueen Car Bed with Sturdy Wooden Frame
What you need to know: With a wooden bed frame for a standard crib mattress, this model offers some of the more exciting, realistic graphics out there.
What you’ll love: With extra-high guardrails and durable wooden construction, this bed’s graphics are what makes it one of the more-coveted models. It also includes a side panel that matches Lightning McQueen’s in the “Cars” movies, and a super-safe entryway at the foot of the bed.
What you should consider: Some users had difficulty assembling the bed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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4.9 magnitude quake strikes southern Haiti; 3 dead, several injured
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring several others, authorities said.
The quake struck before dawn near the southern coastal city of Jeremie at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me,” Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jeremie, told The Associated Press by phone.
The three people who died were found under a collapsed house where rescuers were searching for more people, Frankel Maginaire with Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency in Jeremie told the AP.
He said that several children were hospitalized with injuries they received after they panicked and ran.
Mpitabakana said things fell around his house and that he and other colleagues are contemplating sleeping outdoors if there are strong aftershocks.
“There were so many people out on the street, and a lot of panic,” he recalled of the moments after the quake struck.
Claude Prepetit, a geologist and engineer with Haiti’s Bureau of Mines and Energy, told Radio Caraibes that smaller earthquakes that occurred earlier this year in southern Haiti led to the bigger one that struck Tuesday.
The earthquake struck almost two years after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti and killed more than 2,200 people, with Les Cayes sustaining the most damage. Some people who lost their homes last August are still living in camps.
“We had two years to prepare,” Prepetit said.
In 2010, a magnitude 7 quake near the densely populated capital, Port-au-Prince, killed at least 200,000 people and caused widespread devastation to buildings.
Tuesday’s earthquake comes as Haiti struggles to recover from heavy floods over the weekend that killed at least 45 people, injured 85 and flooded more than 13,600 homes. Prime Minister Ariel Henry has requested international assistance.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-06T12:50:32+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2023/06/06/49-magnitude-quake-strikes-southern-haiti-3-dead-several-injured/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper said he ran out of patience with Matt Rhule’s inability to get the franchise “over the hump.”
Tepper fired his second coach in four years on Monday, dismissing Rhule five games into his third losing season.
Rhule, the first NFL coach to be fired this season, went 11-27 with Carolina and leaves with roughly $40 million remaining on the seven-year, guaranteed $62 million contract he signed in 2020, when he made the jump from Baylor to the pros.
Defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach Steve Wilks will serve as interim coach.
Tepper said in April he would be patient with Rhule, saying it takes time to build a winner in the NFL.
“It’s a funny thing, that thing called patience,” Tepper said Monday during a 30-minute news conference. “If you ask the average fan out there, they would think I was ridiculously patient. … I think you have to show the right amount of patience and (look at) the progress that is being made. Are we winning more? Are we progressing in different ways? In all of those situations we spoke of, it hasn’t been that.”
Two of Rhule’s longtime assistants — defensive coordinator Phil Snow and assistant special teams coach Ed Foley — were also fired. Both coaches previously worked for Rhule at Temple and Baylor.
Rhule did not respond to voice and text messages on Monday.
The Panthers fell to 1-4 with Sunday’s 37-15 loss to San Francisco — their 11th defeat in the last 12 games — as 49ers fans made Bank of America Stadium their East Coast home.
Tepper admitted the blowout loss was a factor in his decision.
“There’s numerous reasons why you make a decision,” Tepper said. “Might have been a little bit of lost intensity on the field (Sunday), which was different from the first four games.”
Tepper, the second-wealthiest owner in the NFL, lured the 47-year-old Rhule away from Baylor with a deal that was notable for its length and dollar value for a rookie NFL coach. Tepper will have to pay out the rest of the deal unless Rhule takes another job. In that case, the money he makes will count against what he’s owed by the Panthers.
General manager Scott Fitterer’s job appears safe for now and Tepper indicated he would like a “better balance” in roster decisions between his GM and next head coach.
Rhule had more power to shape the roster than Fitterer did.
Rhule’s teams went 5-11 in 2020 and 5-12 last year. The Panthers hoped Rhule could turn things around in his third year as he did at Baylor and at Temple before that.
The team had constant turnover at quarterback under Rhule, with Teddy Bridgewater as the starter in 2020 and Sam Darnold and Cam Newton getting starts last year.
The Panthers traded for Baker Mayfield this offseason. But the 2018 No. 1 overall draft pick has been awful, ranking last in the NFL in ESPN’s total quarterback rating. Mayfield has completed 54.9% of his passes and is averaging fewer than 200 yards passing per game with four touchdowns and four interceptions.
The poor play at the game’s most important position put unsustainable pressure on Carolina’s defense. Under Rhule, the Panthers were 1-27 when allowing an opponent to score 17 or more points.
Rhule was unpopular when the season began and fans targeted him even more after the Panthers lost their season opener to the Cleveland Browns in what was dubbed the “Baker Bowl.” Chants of “Fire Rhule!” got louder with each game at home, where the Panthers are 1-3.
Tepper wouldn’t discuss his strategy for finding a new coach or even disclose who will lead the search. The 53-year-old Wilks will be in consideration for the full-time job.
“No promises were made, but if he does an incredible job, he has to be in consideration,” Tepper said.
Wilks spent one year as Arizona’s coach in 2018, going 3-13.
Wilks becomes the second Black coach to lead the Panthers. The other, Perry Fewell, served as interim coach after Rivera was fired and went 0-4.
Wilks joined Brian Flores’ lawsuit in April, alleging racist hiring practices by the NFL when there are vacancies for coaches and general managers. Wilks joined the lawsuit along with Ray Horton.
The lawsuit alleges that Wilks was discriminated against by the Cardinals in 2018 when he was hired as a “bridge coach” but was given no meaningful chance to succeed.
Tepper said he wouldn’t rule out hiring another college coach, but indicated that history suggests it might be better to find a coach with more NFL experience.
Tepper fired Ron Rivera, the winningest coach in franchise history, with four games left in 2019 with the Panthers at 5-7.
The Panthers have not been to the playoffs since 2017 — the year before Tepper bought the team — and have not won a playoff game since winning the NFC championship in 2015 to reach the franchise’s second Super Bowl.
“We have to build a culture of winning,” Tepper said.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-11T14:00:08+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ap-panthers-fire-matt-rhule-after-1-4-start-wilks-takes-over/ |
Hong Kong leader condemns unusual uptick in registration withdrawals from organ donation system
HONG KONG (AP) —
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee condemned an unusual rise in the number of withdrawal requests to the city’s organ donation system, saying Tuesday that police would investigate suspicious cases.
According to the government, the city’s centralized organ donation registration system received nearly 5,800 withdrawal applications in the five months since December, when the government raised the possibility of establishing an organ transplant mutual assistance program with mainland China. More than half of the withdrawal applications were found to be invalid, either as duplicate applications or coming from people who had never opted in.
At a regular press briefing, Lee pointed to those who withdrew their applications without ever registering, calling the moves suspicious.
“I severely condemn those who attempt to cause damages to this noble system which saves lives through organ donations,” he said. “This is a shameful act.”
Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to China in 1997, has a separate system for matching donated organs to patients and does not have any standing mechanism to share cadaveric organs with institutions in mainland China. Cross-border organ transplants have been permitted on a case-by-case basis, if the situation warrants.
Under an opt-in system, Hong Kong currently has more than 357,000 registrants in the financial hub that houses 7 million people. Organ donations have been met with resistance in both Hong Kong and China because of an ingrained cultural desire to keep bodies intact.
The government issued a strong-worded statement Monday, saying it could not rule out that a small number of people made withdrawal attempts in a bid to undermine the reputation of the system, and to increase administrative burden. Without naming any platforms or any individuals, it said it noticed a small number of people had distorted the virtue of organ donation by promoting the idea that donors should scrutinize the identity of the recipients online. Some also urged others to withdraw from the system, it added.
On Hong Kong’s Reddit-like forum LIHKG — where pro-democracy supporters discussed strategies for the 2019 anti-government movement — some users were skeptical about the proposed system. Others posted a link for making withdrawals from the register.
The Hong Kong government floated the proposal after a baby girl underwent the city’s first transplant using a heart donated from mainland China in December. It said the organ assistance program under consideration could be activated immediately after medical personnel could not match a donated organ with a suitable patient locally.
The political row over the proposed mutual assistance program reflected some Hong Kongers’ distrust of China’s health system, as well as their grievances toward Beijing, which has cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy movement with a sweeping national security law.
Hong Kong’s medical standards are considered some of the highest in the world. While China’s medical system has advanced over the past few decades, many Hong Kongers remain skeptical about its health care services. Allegations of forced organ harvesting in China, particularly targeting minorities in detention, have added to concerns about a cross-border organ cooperation.
In 2015, Beijing ceased transplanting organs taken from executed prisoners in response to human rights concerns and later provided data to the international community to show it was fighting against illegal organ transplants.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-05-23T08:49:03+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/health/hong-kong-leader-condemns-unusual-uptick-in-registration-withdrawals-from-organ-donation-system/ |
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