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BERLIN (AP) — The acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alleged he was “mistreated” upon his arrival at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport on Saturday and had decided to return to Africa.
Ahmed Ogwell, who was on his way to attend the World Health Summit opening Sunday in Berlin, said in a tweet that his attendance at the event was in doubt after an encounter with “immigration personnel who imagine I want to stay back illegally.”
“I’m happier & safer back home in Africa. They invite you then mistreat you,” Ogwell wrote. “It’s time to stay away from non-friendly territories for me. … Very irritated. I’m done!”
In an update later in the day, he said, “I’ve decided to go back to my beautiful continent.”
However, the president of the World Health Summit, Axel Fries, said Ogwell had arrived at the conference’s hotel and “can therefore fully contribute” to the summit.
Ogwell did not give details about his alleged mistreatment. Germany’s federal police, which is in charge of passport controls at the country’s airports, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. An email to the Africa CDC was also left unanswered.
Ogwell’s tweets generated an inquiry and an apology from Frankfurt Airport’s Twitter account.
“As an international airport, we welcome all passengers and do not tolerate any form of discrimination or racism. We would like to have more information about this incident,” it said.
Ogwell’s tweets were liked and retweeted by thousands of Twitter users, among them World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros replied directly to Ogwell that “it is absolutely critical that all World Health Summit participants from Africa and all other countries are treated with respect.” | 2022-10-15T18:25:41+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/health/ap-head-of-africa-cdc-alleges-mistreatment-at-german-airport/ |
What to know about Dalton Kellett driving in the 2022 Indy 500
Scott Horner
Indianapolis Star
The 2022 Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for Sunday, May 29. The 33-car field will race 200 laps around the 2½-mile oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Here is what you should know about Dalton Kellett, who drives the No. 4 Chevrolet-powered car for A.J. Foyt Racing.
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How old is Dalton Kellett?
28.
Where is Dalton Kellett from?
Kellett is from Canada.
Dalton Kellett in IndyCar
Kellett is in his third IndyCar Series season.
Dalton Kellett in the Indy 500
Kellett has competed two times, finishing 31st in 2020 and 23th in '21.
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Here's what's available for practice, qualifying, Carb Day and the race | 2022-05-16T20:04:33+00:00 | indystar.com | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/indy-500/2022/05/16/indy-500-canadian-dalton-kellett-competing-2022-indianapolis-500/7416517001/ |
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban abortions nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The bill comes three months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion and marks the most serious effort by Republicans in Congress to pass a nationwide abortion restriction.
“I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand except in cases of rape, incest and save the life of a mother. And that should be where America’s at,” Graham said during a press conference.
The proposal also comes just two months before the midterm elections. Republicans in battleground states are trying to navigate a growing voter backlash to the Supreme Court decision while also appealing to the party’s base that’s pushing for immediate action on imposing total abortion bans.
Graham nodded to the balancing act, indicating that a more extreme ban wouldn’t be popular with mainstream voters.
“We’re trying to take a position we think will rally the country to be more sympathetic to an unborn child,” Graham said.
But the bill would retain state laws that are more restrictive while replacing laws in blue states that protect abortion.
The legislation includes exceptions for incest and rape and to save the life of the mother if she is in danger from a physical condition. It also includes a potential five-year jail sentence for any provider who violates the ban.
Graham, who just last month said the Supreme Court made the correct decision by leaving abortion decisions up to states, on Tuesday said elected officials have the power to define and regulate abortion, including in Congress.
“Abortion is not banned in America. It’s left up to elected officials in America to define the issue. States have the ability to do it at state level. And we have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue if we choose,” Graham said. “I have chosen to speak.”
Graham said he was motivated to act following attempts by Democrats to enshrine abortion protections into federal law. He previously supported a 20-week abortion ban, but since the Supreme Court ruled that Mississippi’s 15-week ban was constitutional, he wanted to go further.
“After [Democrats] introduced a bill to define who they are, I thought it’d be nice to introduce a bill to define who we are,” Graham said.
The legislation has no chance of getting a vote while Democrats are in control of the Senate. Even if Republicans take control, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he doesn’t intend to eliminate the filibuster to pass a national abortion ban, meaning the legislation would need 60 votes.
“We should have a law at the federal level,” Graham said during a briefing. “If we take the House and Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote.”
But Graham said he personally hasn’t had a conversation with McConnell about the bill and instead is leaving it up to the representatives of anti-abortion groups who joined him for the press conference, including Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has galvanized Democrats, giving them hope of stopping a red wave by tying Republicans to extreme abortion policies.
“Proposals like the one today send a clear message from MAGA Republicans to women across the country: your body, our choice,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday in a floor speech.
Graham said Republicans should go on offense and not be influenced by what Democrats might say.
“I think Republicans need to listen to this news conference and listen to these women [anti-abortion activists],” Graham told reporters. “We’re not gonna live in a world where … we retreat.”
In the House, where a group of more than 80 Republicans introduced a companion version of the bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered a similar message.
“The nationwide abortion ban proposal put forth today is the latest, clearest signal of extreme MAGA Republicans’ intent to criminalize women’s health freedom in all 50 states and arrest doctors for providing basic care,” Pelosi said in a statement.
“Make no mistake: if Republicans get the chance, they will work to pass laws even more draconian than this bill – just like the bans they have enacted in states like Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma,” Pelosi said.
Updated at 2:35 p.m. | 2022-09-14T14:29:35+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/graham-introduces-nationwide-15-week-abortion-ban-legislation-2/ |
MACON, Ga. (AP) — When Tracie Revis climbs the Great Temple Mound, rising nine stories above the Ocmulgee River in the center of present-day Georgia, she walks in the steps of her Muscogean ancestors who were forcibly removed to Oklahoma 200 years ago.
“This is lush, gorgeous land. The rivers are gorgeous here,” Revis said recently as she gazed over the forest canopy to a distant green horizon, broken only by Macon’s skyline, just across the water. “We believe that those ancestors are still here, their songs are still here, their words are still here, their tears are still here. And so we speak to them. You know, we still honor those that have passed on.”
If approved by Congress after a three-year federal review wraps up this fall, the mounds in Macon would serve as the gateway to a new Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve, protecting 54 river-miles of floodplain where nearly 900 more sites of cultural or historic significance have been identified.
Efforts to expand an existing historical park at the mounds site are in keeping with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s “Tribal Homelands Initiative,” which supports fundraising to buy land and requires federal managers to seek out indigenous knowledge about resources.
“This kind of land acquisition represents the best of what our conservation efforts should look like: collaborative, inclusive, locally led, and in support of the priorities of our country’s tribal nations,” Haaland said at last weekend’s 30th Annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration.
In an era when some culture warriors see government as the enemy, years of coalition-building have eliminated any significant opposition to federal management in the reliably Republican center of a long-red state. Hunting will still be allowed, even encouraged to keep feral hogs from destroying the ecosystem. Georgia’s congressional delegation is on board, and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has been welcomed as an essential partner.
“Our voice, our say has been all over this whole process for a while now,” said Revis, a Muscogee and Yuchi lawyer who moved to Georgia this year to join Seth Clark, mayor pro-tem of Macon, in advocating to give the National Park Service primary authority over the heart of her people’s ancestral land, which once stretched across Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama.
Unifying a patchwork of state and federally managed lands could help draw a million more visitors each year, spending a collective $187 million while hiking, canoeing, hunting, fishing and learning about Native American history, and generating $30 million in taxes while sustaining 3,000 more jobs, an economic impact study found.
“It’s a game changer for this region,” Clark said. “Reimagining our economic vitality through a sense of ecotourism is something that I just think is huge for this community.”
Gliding over the surface of the Ocmulgee, kayakers can see nothing but woodlands and wildlife, interrupted very occasionally by a bridge. Few know that 14 more ceremonial mounds, unexplored and vulnerable, rise from the swamps nearby.
Plans call for leaving the wilderness as untouched as possible while also building trails and access ramps. No land would be taken through eminent domain. Instead, park service oversight would facilitate raising money to expand the boundaries and increase public hunting areas by purchasing private wetlands from willing sellers.
The tribal government in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, also bought 130 acres (52.6 hectares) of bottomland to be surrounded by the park. Principal Chief David Hill said there are no plans to develop it — they want it preserved so that their 97,000 citizens always have a place of their own in the cradle of their culture.
“Our history is here. Our ancestors are here. Our stories started here. And we are committed to ensuring that this cherished site is protected,” Hill said.
Muscogean people say that history is fraught with trauma, but also pride at how they’re thriving now after surviving the Road to Misery, their phrase for the Trail of Tears. The forced march ordered by Congress removed 80,000 Native Americans from the eastern United States. Many died of illness, starvation or abuse as the federal government broke its promises to care for them in exchange for their lands.
White settlers had made their lives unbearable through relentless campaigns of “expulsion or extermination” in the 1820s and 1830s. And as soon as the Muscogee, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and other natives were gone from the Deep South, they were replaced by hundreds of thousands of slaves, sold down rivers by their northern owners to clear the land for cotton.
Settlers kept the place names, not knowing what they meant in Native languages.
Desecrations swiftly followed at the Ocmulgee Mounds, the spiritual, legislative and economic heart of the Creek Confederacy. Old growth trees were cleared for a slave labor camp. A massive funeral mound was blasted open for a railroad to ship cotton. Civil War battlements later carved up its fields.
About 700 acres (283 hectares) surrounding seven mounds were declared a national monument in 1936. But that did not stop archeologists from removing 2.5 million artifacts reflecting 17,000 years of continuous human habitation. Most remain unexamined in Smithsonian, park service and university archives.
For decades, the park was promoted with postcards featuring an exposed skeleton. It turned out to be the skull of one person and the bones of another, said Raelynn Butler, the tribal nation’s manager of historic and cultural preservation. “They didn’t treat us like people,” she said.
The facts about genocide and survival began to resurface in the 1970s when Revis’ aunt Addie and other tribal elders traveled back to Georgia to lead cultural discussions. “That was really where the first idea of the celebration came from — that we have got to change the narrative,” Revis said.
Twenty years of painstaking collaboration enabled the tribal nation to reunite and rebury the remains of 114 people at the mounds in 2017. And this February, an adjoining 1,000 acres (404 hectares) of sacred land were protected, purchased by the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund at no cost to the taxpayers, Haaland said. Expanding this to a park and preserve could protect another 85,000 acres (34,400 hectares) downriver.
“We get questioned all the time, ‘this is such a beautiful place, why’d you all leave?’ We weren’t asked to – we were forced to,” Hill said. “And that’s what we want to prevent in the future — the things we do now, it’s for our future generations. I don’t want them to go through that. So Oklahoma is home, but this is still our original home.”
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Michael Warren is a member of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity Team. | 2022-09-21T15:05:00+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-the-muscogee-get-their-say-in-national-park-plan-for-georgia/ |
This image provided by the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department shows Police Officer James Muhlbauer and K-9 Officer Champ. Muhlbauer, an officer who made the arrest in a notorious quintuple homicide nearly a decade ago; his police dog; and a pedestrian were all killed when a driver crashed into the officer's cruiser on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, authorities in Missouri said. The driver who struck the cruiser suffered minor injuries and was taken into custody.
Kansan charged in wreck that killed officer, pedestrian, K-9
An 18-year-old Kansas man is facing charges after a crash that killed a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer, a pedestrian and the officer's K-9 police dog
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 18-year-old Kansas man has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after a crash that killed a Kansas City police office r, a pedestrian and the officer's K-9 police dog, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office announced Friday.
Jerron Allen Lightfoot, of Tonganoxie, was speeding and ran a red light at an intersection Wednesday night before colliding with a patrol car driven by officer James Muhlbauer, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Online court records do not name an attorney for Lightfoot.
Muhlbauer was found unconscious in the front seat, wearing his seat belt. He was transported to a hospital, where he later died. A pedestrian, a man in his 50s who has not been identified, was found deceased under Muhlbauer's patrol car. The officer's K-9 partner, Champ, died in the collision.
Video surveillance of the intersection showed Muhlbauer had a green light when he drove into the intersection, according to court documents.
Lightfoot, who was not injured, was speeding and drove through the red light before the collision, according to the documents.
Lightfoot told officers he tried to stop but his car's brakes did not work, prosecutors said. Lightfoot said he felt “a lot of vibration” when he applied the brakes.
A check of Lightfoot's vehicle showed the vehicle’s brakes were working and the vehicle was traveling at 85 mph or more just before impact, prosecutors said.
Police said Muhlbauer, who was married and a father, was a 20-year veteran of the force. Champ had been a K-9 with the force for a year.
In 2014, Muhlbauer arrested Brandon Howell, a suspect in the deaths of five people in a Kansas City neighborhood, said Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Howell, who previously was acquitted in the killings of two Kansas teens, is serving multiple life terms, with no chance of parole, in the quintuple homicide.
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Playing video games is a favorite pastime for many after a long day at work or school. There are thousands of titles to choose from, spanning multiple genres and types. The most common method for relaxing in front of a display is with a video game console from Microsoft or Sony or a traditional desktop gaming computer.
But some players don’t want to be restricted to their lounge or entertainment room. They want to engross themselves in a fantasy world wherever they are, and the only way to do that effectively is with a gaming laptop. And Acer makes some excellent ones.
In this article: Acer Nitro 5 With 15.6-Inch Display, Acer Predator Triton 300 and Acer Predator Helios 300.
A short history of Acer laptops
Acer was founded in Taiwan in 1976, but at the time, it was called Multitech. It wasn’t until 1987 that it changed its name to Acer and reorganized into five groups. The consumer electronics division started focusing heavily on laptops and notebooks in the mid-2000s and has two product lines today.
- The Acer Nitro line is an entry- to mid-level gaming laptop. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but can render most of the latest titles.
- Acer’s Predator gaming laptops focus on mid-level to high-end specifications. They have powerful graphics cards and more RAM than the Nitro line. Predator laptops are divided into Helios and Triton models, with the Triton the more powerful.
Must-have components for a great gaming laptop
Several components determine which high-end video games you can play and at which settings.
- Graphics card: This is one of the most important parts of any gaming setup, and you can choose between graphics card makers Nvidia and AMD. A strong graphics card renders visuals at the highest detail settings. This lets you clearly see what is going on and heightens the immersion. It’s not a lot of fun if the graphics pixelate, stutter or struggle to render properly.
- RAM: The amount of random access memory is also hugely important. RAM is your computer’s short-term memory and determines how many instructions it can store when the processor needs it. Your laptop will struggle to execute actions if you don’t have enough for a particular video game, leading to stuttering or a reduction in visual quality.
- CPU: Just as critical is the central processing unit. This is your computer’s brain, determining how many instructions it can handle at once and relays to the other components what to do. The faster your CPU, the more strenuous tasks it can execute.
- Display: While bigger isn’t always a necessity, a larger display will elevate your gaming session. Laptops usually have an HDMI port for you to connect them to an external monitor, but most Acer devices have 15- or 17-inch screens.
- Gaming keyboard and mouse: To play your favorite games the same way you would on a desktop, it’s a great idea to add a gaming keyboard and mouse to your bundle. A laptop’s keyboard doesn’t have all the buttons you might need, and the trackpad is often awkward.
- Gaming headphones: An excellent pair of gaming headphones is a sound investment. A laptop’s built-in speakers are often inferior, and there’s no need for everybody else around you to hear your in-game sounds. There are great gadgets that provide 7.1 surround sound, a microphone for chatting with teammates or Bluetooth connectivity for cable-free audio.
Best Acer laptops for gaming
This gaming laptop is more expensive than most, but it comes packed with some of the best components. Visuals are driven by an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, a 12th-generation Intel i9 processor and 32 gigabytes of RAM. The 16-inch G-Sync display has a refresh rate of 240 hertz, and it comes with 1 terabyte of storage.
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Acer Predator Triton 300 Gaming Laptop
With a powerful Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card and 16 GB of RAM, this gaming laptop is an excellent choice. It uses a 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, has 1 TB of storage and has a 15.6-inch LED-backlit display. The keyboard has four-zone backlit RGB lighting, and Dolby Digital powers the speakers.
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Acer Nitro 5 With 15.6-Inch Display
This is a top-notch starter gaming laptop if you don’t want to spend a fortune. It has a widescreen LED-backlit 15.6-inch display with a maximum resolution of 1080p and a refresh rate of 144 hertz. The Nitro 5 comes with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor and 16 GB of RAM.
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This is the perfect gaming laptop if you require a solid graphics card and mid-range specifications. In addition to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, it has a 15.6-inch display with a 144 hertz refresh rate, 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of solid-state storage. The processor is an Intel i7 with a maximum clock speed of 4.6 gigahertz.
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2023 Acer 15.6 inch FHD Gaming Laptop
An excellent option for all your laptop gaming needs, this has a powerful Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, 32 GB of RAM and an Intel i7 processor. It comes with 1 TB of solid-state storage, has a 15.6-inch display and has a four-zone RGB backlit keyboard.
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Other gaming laptops worth considering
- The MSI GV15 has a 15.6-inch display and comes with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card.
- With an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card and a 17.3-inch display, the Asus TUF 17.3 is an excellent choice.
- The Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 has an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card and AMD Ryzen 5 processor.
- The Asus TUF F15 is a top-flight midrange gaming laptop.
- While not exactly a gaming laptop, the Acer Aspire 5 A515 can hold its own with video games.
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With ultra-expensive housing and high interest rates, purchasing a home in California can be a challenge. That’s why one state agency is trying to make the home-buying process easier for prospective buyers.
On Monday, the California Housing Finance Agency announced the debut of the California Dream For All Shared Appreciation loan program which assists first-time homebuyers with down payments.
Those who take advantage of the program must repay the original down payment loan plus a portion of the home’s appreciated value if they sell or transfer the property.
To be eligible for this program, Californians must:
- Be a first-time homebuyer meaning you haven’t owned your own home in the last three years.
- The property must be your primary residence; non-occupant are not allowed
- Complete two levels of homebuyer education counseling and obtain a certificate of completion through an eligible homebuyer counseling organization.
- Meet CalHFA income limits for the program
Income limits vary by county and range from $159,000 to $300,000.
The loan program also restricts the type of properties residents can purchase. The property must:
- Be a single-family, one-unit residence, including approved condominium/PUDs
- Guest houses, granny units and in-law quarters may be eligible under the loan program
- Manufactured housing is permitted.
- Condominiums must meet the guidelines of the first mortgage.
More information about the loan program can be found on the agency’s website.
To apply, prospective home buyers must meet with a CalHFA-approved home lender. Prospective home buyers can find the nearest loan officer online.
The average price of a home in California is $718,687, according to Zillow data, and in big metropolitan home areas, buying a home can cost even more.
For example, in San Francisco, the median home price is over $1.2 million; in Los Angeles, the median home price is $891,820, according to Zillow. | 2023-03-28T21:36:34+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/california/californias-newest-loan-application-aims-to-help-first-time-homebuyers/ |
With Rafael Nadal absent and Iga Światek’s dominance under threat, the French Open is hard to call
By George Ramsay, CNN
(CNN) — It felt like the beginning of the end of an era at the French Open when Rafael Nadal announced his absence from the tournament earlier this month.
Having struggled with a hip injury since the Australian Open, Nadal – a 14-time champion at Roland-Garros – is missing the second grand slam of the year for the first time since his debut in 2005.
He also announced that next year will be his last in professional tennis, which, when it comes, will be a defining moment in the history of the clay-court major – a competition Nadal has dominated for so long.
For now, there is the more pressing matter of who will win this year’s French Open in Paris when it gets underway on Sunday and concludes on June 11.
How to watch
In the United States, the French Open is available to watch on NBC, streaming service Peacock, Tennis Channel, and Bally Sports. In European territories except France, the tournament is aired on Eurosport.
A list of international broadcasters and the full draw are available on the French Open website.
Wide open men’s draw
Top seed Carlos Alcaraz is a clay-court specialist and was unbeaten in 12 matches before suffering a shock defeat against world No. 115 Fábián Marozsán at the Italian Open.
If he is to capture his second grand title, the 20-year-old may have to get past Novak Djokovic – a two-time French Open champion – in the semifinals.
Victory in Paris would see Djokovic win his 23rd grand slam title and overtake Nadal at the top of the men’s all-time list, further staking his claim as the greatest male tennis player in history.
But the Serbian, victorious at the Australian Open at the start of the year, has struggled this clay-court season, failing to get beyond the quarterfinals of three events and missing another with an elbow injury.
“A new generation is here already,” Djokovic said after his quarterfinal defeat at the Italian Open.
“I mean, Alcaraz is No. 1 in the world from [May 22]. Obviously, he’s playing amazing tennis. I think it’s also good for our sport that we have new faces, new guys coming up. It’s normal.
“We’ve been saying this for years, that we can expect it to come, that moment to come when you have kind of a shift of generations.”
Djokovic’s failure to win a title since the Australian Open and Alcaraz’s surprise defeat in Rome perhaps gives hope to some of the other challengers in Paris this year.
Daniil Medvedev – last week’s Italian Open champion – is on an excellent run of form and has the benefit of being on the opposite side of the draw to Alcaraz and Djokovic.
Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas, both former French Open finalists, will be hopeful of having deep runs, while sixth seed Holger Rune looks to be a star for the future having ousted Djokovic at the Italian Open.
‘Big three’ emerges
In the women’s draw, two-time French Open champion Iga Światek is the favorite, though she has not displayed the same dominance on clay compared to last year, when she cruised to the title as part of a record-breaking, 37-match winning streak.
Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina, ranked second and fourth in the world respectively, have emerged as fierce rivals to Światek at the top of the women’s game and both have beaten the Polish star in the past month.
That trio, which some are now calling the “Big Three,” have triumphed at the past four grand slams: Światek at the French and US Opens, Rybakina at Wimbledon and Sabalenka in Australia.
“The conditions in Paris should favor Światek, she feels comfortable there and is proving she is definitely playing at a high level of tennis,” said Eurosport expert and former world No. 7 Barbara Schett ahead of the tournament.
“I think it’s good for Iga to have these two players [Sabalenka and Rybakina] that can challenge her and make her stay at the No. 1 spot,” Schett added.
Światek, who has spent more than a year as world No. 1, could be dethroned by Sabalenka at the top of the rankings after the French Open. She begins her campaign against Spain’s Cristina Bucșa.
Spotlight on scheduling
Women’s tennis has been blighted by controversies in recent weeks, placing renewed focus on the scheduling of the women’s draw at Roland-Garros.
At the Madrid Open: ball girls on the main court were instructed to wear crop tops and short skirts and players in the doubles final were not permitted to speak after the match.
The ball girls’ skirts were later changed for long shorts – although the crop tops remained – and tournament organizer Gerard Tsobanian said it was “unacceptable” not to give the finalists the chance to speak to fans at the end of their match.
Then at the Italian Open, the final between Rybakina and Anhelina Kalinina was rescheduled due to rain and didn’t start until 11 p.m. local time on Saturday – a situation former player Rennae Stubbs described as an “abomination.”
The WTA, however, said that moving the match later was the “right thing to do” in a statement to Reuters.
Questions about scheduling may persist in the coming weeks given the way night sessions were scrutinized at last year’s French Open.
Only one of the 10 games scheduled as a night session in 2022 featured a women’s match – the second-round contest between Alizé Cornet and Jelena Ostapenko. Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo explained how men’s tennis has more “appeal” than the women’s game, to which Światek responded by labeling Mauresmo’s comments “disappointing.”
There is no shortage of star appeal at this year’s French Open.
Alongside the talented trio of Światek, Sabalenka, and Rybakina, the likes of Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia, Coco Gauff and Ons Jabeur – none of whom have won a grand slam – will be vying for the title at Roland-Garros.
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Public meeting announced to address residents' concerns over Modern Landfill
After months of residents vocalizing concern of how Modern Landfill is affecting local water quality, Republic Services and the landfill will hold an informational community meeting for Lower Windsor Township residents.
Township Manager Sande Cunningham said Thursday that, while the meeting will be held in the municipal building gymnasium, it is not a township-sponsored event.
The community meeting will be held in the Lower Windsor Township municipal building gymnasium on March 27 at 6:30 p.m. and will include a presentation on the upgrades to the landfill’s wastewater treatment facility. Experts from the landfill will also take questions from residents to address their concerns.
The meeting follows years of resident concern about the landfill's wastewater discharges into the Kreutz Creek and, more recently, concerns about so-called toxic "forever chemicals" found in nearby water supplies.
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"The goal of the meeting is to allow residents to have a meaningful dialogue with experts and have their questions answered," Tim O'Donnell, the landfill's general manager, said.
In 2017, Modern Landfill fell out of compliance with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protections limits on certain chemicals in its leachate. Since then, the landfill has complied with state Department of Environmental Protection to plan and install changes bring them up to code.
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The township board of supervisors asked Modern Landfill to put together a community meeting where residents could ask questions and learn about the wastewater treatment facility construction, O'Donnell said.
Plans are still being finalized but Modern Landfill officials will attend to provide information and will consist of a "diverse group of experts who will explain the all the different procedures we have in place to ensure we operate safely and responsibly," he said.
Ted Evgeniadis, the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper and the DEP have been invited to the meeting and are welcome to participate, O'Donnell said.
Currently, construction on the wastewater treatment facility is over two-thirds of the way finished and is expected to be complete in May.
Treatment facility upgrades were originally expected to be completed in July 2021, was delayed. John Repetz, a DEP spokesperson, said the state extended the landfill's permit allowing it to temporarily exceed boron and osmotic pressure levels.
Despite getting DEP’s approval for an extended permit, the riverkeeper sued Republic Services and Modern Landfill in early January for violating the Clean Water Act. Evgeniadis, who has spoken about how the Kreutz Creek is affected by the landfill at several township meetings, said he will likely be at the March 27 community meeting.
A reverse osmosis system is the pinnacle of the upgrades. It will treat for several chemicals that had levels violating DEP standards and it will also filter out PFAS. However, the filter will not destroy the PFAS. Instead PFAS and the other chemicals will be captured in a concentrated waste stream and taken off site to be disposed at a licensed facility, according to the landfill.
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Despite the new filter, residents have remained skeptic about the upgrades and are unhappy with how long they have taken. Several residents worried about how the leachate may affect local drinking water and have even paid for their own drinking water testing.
For additional details on the March 27 community meeting, visit https://modernlandfillpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Community-Meeting-Water-Treatment-Plant-March-27-02-01.23.pdf.
— Reach Noel Miller at NMiller3@yorkdispatch.com or via Twitter at @TheNoelM. | 2023-02-16T22:01:21+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/02/16/public-meeting-announced-to-address-residents-concerns-over-modern-landfill/69904306007/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Authorities were on the scene of an alleged standoff in southwest Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning.
Early Wednesday morning, Oklahoma City police arrived at a home near S.W. 15th and Czech Hall Rd. as part of an investigation.
Officials told KFOR that they were searching for a robbery suspect, who refused to come out of the home.
Mustang Public Schools released the following statement in regards to the standoff:
“The safety and security of our students and staff is always our utmost priority. We are aware of a situation being reported in the vicinity of Trails Elementary. We have our SRO on site and our Director of Safety and Security is in contact with OKC PD as we continue to monitor the situation. After consultation with local law enforcement, there is no immediate threat to our schools, and we will welcome students this morning as we remain open. Our Transportation Department will make necessary adjustments based on guidance from law enforcement while at Trails Elementary and Meadow Brook Intermediate, once students arrive, will be on lock out (no outside activities) until the situation is resolved. We will follow up as soon as we receive additional information.”
Shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the suspect was taken into custody. | 2022-10-26T15:32:28+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/officers-search-for-robbery-suspect-leads-to-standoff/ |
Chick-fil-A’s new location on Kaliste Saloom Road will open May 11.
Construction of the location at 101 Meadow Farm Road that is replacing its previous restaurant at 3806 Ambassador Caffery Parkway is nearing completion after it began just after the first of the year, operator John Arton said.
The location will feature two drive-thru lanes that circle the building, an upgrade from the previous location that had two lanes that merged into one behind the building. Most Chick-Fil-A locations have that setup, which can hold more than 30 cars at one time or nearly 250 in one hour.
The previous location, which closed Friday, first opened in 1997 as the first one in Lafayette outside of the Acadiana Mall.
The location will be one of four in Lafayette and is expected to employ about 100, Arton said, about 25 more than usual. A fifth location is reportedly open at the corner of Ridge Road and Johnston Street, but corporate officials have not made an announcement. | 2022-05-03T19:07:30+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/business/article_40f67016-cb10-11ec-a02d-97882ffa2e4a.html |
SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors starting lineup is set to get a boost in the coming days.
After missing 10 straight games, Andrew Wiggins finally received a thumbs up from the Warriors medical staff for his return from a strained thigh muscle.
Wiggins was cleared to play as soon as Wednesday’s contest against the Utah Jazz, according to Steve Kerr. That would’ve been a much-needed addition for the Warriors playing on the second night of a back-to-back, which means they’ll likely be without Klay Thompson.
But Wiggins’ return will have to be held off for a little longer.
Wiggins is staying home for at least the next two games after he fell sick Monday, Kerr said.
“We were targeting tomorrow and that was likely to happen,” Kerr said, “but he came down ill yesterday.”
Wiggins is the latest Warriors player to catch a bug that seems to be going around the team as of late. Donte DiVincenzo missed Golden State’s two games in New York last week as he dealt with a head cold. Assistant coach Jama Mahlalela was also not on the bench for those games. Meanwhile, JaMychal Green remained in health and safety protocols.
Even though the Warriors will have to wait a little longer for their All-Star wing to return, he’ll be a welcome presence to a starting lineup that has been hit hard by injuries this month. Golden State will be without Stephen Curry indefinitely after he partially dislocated his left shoulder in a game two weeks ago. And Draymond Green has been playing through soreness in his right foot.
Though he was initially listed as probable, Green was cleared to play Tuesday night. Kerr brushed off the severity of Green’s foot soreness which stems from a soft tissue injury that started bothering him during the Warriors’ long road trip earlier this month.
“It’s not anything that should keep him out unless the pain is bothering him,” Kerr said. “Went through shootaround today, so just normal bumps and bruises of the season.”
Wiggins averaged 19.1 points while shooting at career-best clips from the field (51.1%) and deep (45%) through 22 games. He had his best offensive showing of the season Dec. 4, tallying 36 points on 14 of 19 shooting, going 8-for-10 from 3-point land.
But just as he said his 3-point shot never felt better, Wiggins landed on the team’s injury report and hasn’t played in a game since. The Warriors were cautious not to rush him back too quickly, noting groin injuries can be easily re-injured if not fully healed which would cause him to miss even more time.
Golden State is 3-9 without Wiggins this season entering Tuesday. | 2022-12-28T04:18:20+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/12/27/andrew-wiggins-nearing-return-to-warriors/ |
As was evident during the golden anniversary celebration of his ordination as a Christian minister, Russ Seger has many memories and stories to share. Two incidents that occurred in Iowa before he moved to Chadron are especially unique to him.
He notes that he is always saddened when someone he had come to know well while visiting with them as their Hospice minister in their final days completes his or her journey on this earth. He feels, though, that it’s his duty to maintain his composure during the funeral service so everything is done with dignity.
One time early in his ministry he said that didn’t happen. He had to pause before he stepped to the pulpit to speak, even though the deceased was 97 years old. Just a few days before that, this gentleman had requested that Russ baptize him by immersion before he passed away. He had been a church-goer for years, but had never been baptized and wanted that to take place.
“The whole process that we had gone through together got to me before I was supposed to speak. I had to ask the audience to bear with me for a few minutes while I shed some tears,” Russ remembers. “They were really mostly tears of joy.”
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The second incident was much different. Russ recalls that when he entered the hospital room where the ailing person was in bed, a long string of swear words were directed at him.
“He was trying to scare me off. To me, it was like saying ‘sic ‘em’ to a dog. It was a challenge that I rather enjoyed. I stayed and tried to convince him I was there to help,” Seger said
Before long, Russ said the Hospice patient mellowed and the two became acquaintances, if not friends. But what happened next came as a shock. The man confessed that he had two families and he needed Russ to do him a favor—get them together before he died.
That took some doing. The first wife and their three young-adult children lived in the Des Moines area. The second wife and their two younger children lived in San Diego.
“About a week after I had made some contacts, I went to the Des Moines airport and picked up the woman and the two younger children and took them to the hospital. They entered the man’s hospital room where the other wife and the three older children were already there. I introduced everyone and unfolded the story for them.”
Seger said the man, a well-to-do electrical engineer who traveled extensively while designing power grids, died a few days later while the Californians were still in town. They all sat together at the front of the funeral home while Russ conducted the service.
The man, who had already put his older children through college, also had made arrangements to pay for the younger children’s college.
“I’m not going to speak of the ethics of what had taken place,” Seger said. “But I was grateful I could help it have a peaceful ending.” | 2022-06-18T17:02:05+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/community/chadron/news/russ-seger-has-had-unique-experiences/article_dce19a36-0257-5420-a869-115e3a4d42ad.html |
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he was expelled from Colombia hours after he crossed the border from Venezuela to try to meet with some participants at Tuesday’s international conference to discuss his country’s political crisis.”
In a video posted on Twitter, Guaidó said he entered Colombia trying to escape Venezuelan government persecution, but that now he felt what he described as persecution by President’s Nicolás Maduro in Colombia.
Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said late Monday in a press release that Guaidó was “irregularly” in the country so immigration authorities escorted him to the international airport to take a plane bound to the U.S. | 2023-04-25T15:39:09+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/2023/04/25/venezuelas-guaido-denounces-being-expelled-from-colombia/ |
37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential
OAK BROOK, Ill., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone Company that manufactures LiftMaster® and Chamberlain® brand garage door openers powered by myQ®, 37 million garage door openers in the market today are not being used to their full potential. If you installed a new LiftMaster® or Chamberlain® smart garage door opener within the last seven years or just moved into a newly constructed home, chances are you have a garage door opener that you can monitor and control through the myQ app – anytime, from anywhere.
"With myQ, homeowners are not limited to opening and closing the garage door within line of sight of the garage. They can control, secure and monitor the garage door from anywhere with their smartphone through the myQ app," said Patrick Leitch, Marketing Director for Residential & In-Garage Delivery, Chamberlain Group. "We want to make sure everyone who has a myQ smart garage door opener knows it. So, we are calling for all homeowners to look up to see if there is a myQ logo plus Wi-Fi logo, or if it says "powered by myQ" on their garage opener."
In partnership with independent creative agency Schafer Condon Carter (SCC), Chamberlain Group has developed the nationwide, integrated "Look Up" campaign which will run across CTV, online video, direct mail, paid social (Twitter, Snapchat, IG and FB) and CRM.
"myQ is an amazing smart home technology that millions of homeowners don't realize they already have," said SCC Chief Creative Officer Denny Hebson. "To get people excited about the possibilities that already exist in their own garage, we created an integrated campaign encouraging our target to simply look up -- and see their garage door opener a little differently. With a movie trailer feel and stellar visual effects, we dramatize the mesmerizing power of myQ. It's so captivating, not even an alien invasion can get you to look away!"
Today, more than 7 million people use the highly rated myQ app (4.8-star app store rating with over one million verified reviews) to control, secure and monitor their garage door. This innovative technology helps enhance the security of the garage and home with real-time alerts that let homeowners know if they left the garage door open. The app's Guest Access feature also provides a safer way to share access to the home – no need to share keys or codes. Additionally, myQ works with Amazon Key for convenient and secure in-garage delivery of packages and groceries. You can even add a myQ camera or lock to enhance home security for greater peace of mind.
For those who do not have a myQ smart garage door opener, for less than $30, you can easily upgrade any leading brand garage door opener with a myQ Smart Garage Control device.
About Chamberlain Group
Chamberlain Group, a Blackstone company, is a global leader in smart access solutions across residential and commercial properties. Our prominent brands LiftMaster®, Chamberlain®, Merlin® and Grifco® are found in millions of residential and commercial access applications across the globe. Our innovative products and partnerships, powered by our myQ® smart technology, provide customers with smart access solutions to move safely through garages, homes, communities, businesses and storage facilities. Chamberlain Group pioneered vehicle-to-home connectivity through patented technology aboard hundreds of millions of vehicles. Chamberlain Group includes Controlled Products Systems Group, a leading wholesale distributor of perimeter access control equipment in the U.S., and Systems, LLC, one of North America's leading dock leveler manufacturers. Follow Chamberlain Group on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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SOURCE The Chamberlain Group | 2022-09-15T16:29:50+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/09/15/look-up-you-might-already-own-myq-smart-garage-door-opener-not-know-it/ |
Rocky the Hawaiian monk seal has returned to Kaimana Beach, where she first became famous for giving birth to first one, and then two pups.
The celebrity monk seal, also known as RH58, has been sighted at Kaimana since Monday, according to observers, resting and sunbathing along the shoreline.
Volunteers from Hawaii Marine Animal Response have been keeping an eye on Kaimana since her arrival at the beach.
Officials remind the public to keep a distance from endangered monk seals resting on shorelines, and to observe signs and perimeters set up around them.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recommends maintaining a distance of at least 50 feet from monk seals on land and in water. For monk seal moms and pups, NOAA recommends a distance of at least 150 feet.
Hawaiian monk seals give birth throughout the year, according to NOAA, but peak pupping season is March through August.
Rocky first caused a stir when she gave birth to a pup in June 2017 at busy Kaimana Beach. She usually gives birth on Kauai, but returned to Kaimana Beach again last summer to give birth to a pup named Koalani.
Her first pup born at Kaimana Beach – named Kaimana — gave birth in Janaury to her first healthy pup, named U‘i , which would be Rocky’s granddaughter. | 2023-04-06T02:02:45+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/04/05/breaking-news/rocky-the-monk-seal-returns-to-kaimana-beach/ |
Multi-Unit Franchisees Team Up to Expand Sky Zone Footprint to Gambrills, MD
GAMBRILLS, Md., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky Zone, the leader in the indoor active entertainment industry, today announced a new franchise agreement with a group of franchisees to expand into the Annapolis metropolitan area of Gambrills, Maryland. The multi-unit franchise operators and entrepreneurs – comprised of Oluwaseun Aina, Charles Salako, Adeola Adefemi, Nwaka Goke-Dele and Adebara Lawrence – will be opening the Gambrills park together, marking Sky Zone's eighth Maryland location. The announcement comes just weeks after news of the group's plans for a highly anticipated Sky Zone park opening in Frisco, Texas.
"Following the success of our announcement in Frisco, Texas, we saw firsthand the value of Sky Zone's reputation – earned fully by providing an unparalleled active play experience to guests and giving us unmatched support as franchisees," said multi-unit Sky Zone franchisee, Oluwaseun Aina. "We're excited to continue expanding the brand across the country while bringing innovative family-focused entertainment to communities like Gambrills."
As the leader in the indoor active entertainment industry and innovator of bounce-off-the-walls fun, Sky Zone gives children freedom to run, jump and play on a unique mix of attractions, including Ninja Courses that spark friendly competition; the Toddler Zone, a perfect place for the youngest jumpers to play; springy Air Courts that give guests of all abilities an extra boost while shooting baskets or scoring soccer goals; Drop Zones that provide a soft landing for our most fearless fliers; interactive iWalls that immerse players in a full-body play experience; and incredible Zip Lines that send riders soaring across the park.
"Given the steady rise in demand for active entertainment, we are thrilled many of our existing franchisees are interested in expanding their portfolios with Sky Zone," added Mike Revak, SVP of Franchise and Business Development at Sky Zone. "Sky Zone is eager to bring our distinct experience to important markets such as the Annapolis metro area."
Sky Zone is the ultimate location for birthday, team and school parties – with set up, clean up and hosting included. Sky Zone also offers parents many other options to keep their kids in on the action, including memberships that provide daily access, exclusive savings and invitations to members-only events.
With aggressive expansion plans, Sky Zone is searching for engaged community and business leaders to add to its ever-growing roster of new franchisees. To learn more about Sky Zone visit www.skyzone.com.
About Sky Zone:
Sky Zone is the active play destination for kids and kids at heart. The leader in indoor active entertainment, Sky Zone owns, operates and franchises parks across the US and Canada. The company helps its nearly 500,000 members and millions of yearly visitors make memorable moments with more than 60 smile-inducing attractions. Sky Zone elevates celebrations to the extraordinary, hosting millions of children at unforgettable birthday, team, and school parties every year. For more information about Sky Zone and to find your local park, visit www.skyzone.com.
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SOURCE Sky Zone | 2023-04-17T14:44:16+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/04/17/sky-zone-strengthen-maryland-presence-with-new-annapolis-metro-location/ |
By TOM KRISHER, MATT O’BRIEN, RANDALL CHASE and BARBARA ORTUTAY
The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk’s on-again off-again purchase of Twitter took a turn toward a conclusion Tuesday after the mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion.
Musk made the surprising turnaround not on Twitter, as has been his custom, but in a letter to Twitter that the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It came less than two weeks before a trial between the two parties is scheduled to start in Delaware.
In response, Twitter said it intends to close the transaction at $54.20 per share after receiving the letter from Musk. But the company stopped short of saying it’s dropping its lawsuit against the billionaire Tesla CEO. Experts said that makes sense given the contentious relationship and lack of trust between the two parties.
“I don’t think Twitter will give up its trial date on just Musk’s word — it’s going to need more certainty about closing,” said Andrew Jennings, professor at Brooklyn Law School, noting that the company may also be worried about Musk’s proposal being a delay tactic. After all, he’s already tried to unsuccessfully postpone the trial twice.
Trading in Twitter’s stock, which had been halted for much of the day pending release of the news, resumed trading late Tuesday and soared 22% to close at $52.
Musk’s proposal is the latest twist in a high-profile saga involving the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms. Much of the drama has played out on Twitter itself, with Musk — who has more than 100 million followers — lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech and had too many bots.
While some logistical and legal hurdles remain, Musk could be in charge of Twitter in a matter of days — however long it takes him and his co-investors to line up the cash, said Ann Lipton, an associate law professor at Tulane University.
A letter from Musk’s lawyer dated Monday and disclosed by Twitter in a securities filing said Musk would close the merger signed in April, provided that the Delaware Chancery Court “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s lawsuit against him and adjourn the trial scheduled to start Oct. 17.
Eric Talley, a law professor at Columbia University, said he’s not surprised by Musk’s turnaround, especially ahead of a scheduled deposition of Musk by Twitter attorneys starting Thursday that was “not going to be pleasant.”
“On the legal merits, his case didn’t look that strong,” Talley said. “It kind of seemed like a pretty simple buyer’s remorse case.”
Attorneys for Musk did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Musk has been trying to back out of the deal for several months after signing on to buy the San Francisco company in April. Shareholders have already approved the sale, and legal experts say Musk faced a huge challenge to defend against Twitter’s lawsuit, which was filed in July.
Musk claimed that Twitter under-counted the number of fake accounts on its platform, and Twitter sued when Musk announced the deal was off.
Musk’s argument largely rested on the allegation that Twitter misrepresented how it measures the magnitude of “spam bot” accounts that are useless to advertisers. Most legal experts believe he faced an uphill battle to convince Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the court’s head judge, that something changed since the April merger agreement that justifies terminating the deal.
Musk’s main argument for terminating the deal – that Twitter was misrepresenting how it measured its “spam bot” problem – also didn’t appear to be going well as Twitter had been working to pick apart Musk’s attempts to get third-party data scientists to bolster his concerns.
Neither Musk nor Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal have written anything about the deal on Twitter, where many developments in the dispute have been aired. Many of Musk’s tweets in the past 24 hours have been about a divisive proposal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing the ire of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Even if the deal now goes through without a hitch, it’s too soon to call a victory for Twitter, said Jasmine Enberg, an analyst with Insider Intelligence.
“The deal will solve some of the short-term uncertainty at the company, but Twitter is essentially in the same place it was in April,” she said. “There is still plenty of uncertainty around what Musk intends to do with Twitter, as well as the future of a company with a leader who has wavered in his commitment to buying it. And if we’ve learned anything from this saga, it’s that Musk is unpredictable and that it isn’t over yet.”
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Marcy Gordon in Washington contributed to this report.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations will seek $800 million more in aid from the international community to respond to soaring life-saving needs of Pakistani flood survivors, a U.N. official said Friday.
The unprecedented deluges — likely worsened by climate change — have killed 1,678 people in Pakistan since mid-June. About half a million survivors are still living in tents and makeshift shelters.
Julien Harneis, the U.N. resident coordinator in Pakistan, told reporters in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, that the latest appeal will be issued from Geneva on Tuesday. It comes just weeks after the agency sought $160 million in emergency funding for 33 million people affected by floods.
Harneis said the U.N. decided to issue the revised appeal “to respond to the extraordinary scale of the devastations" caused by the floods. Pakistan's displaced are now confronting waterborne and other diseases, he said. The outbreaks, health officials say, have caused more than 300 deaths so far.
Since July, several countries and U.N. agencies have sent more than 130 flights carrying aid for the flood victims, many of whom complain they have either received too little help or are still waiting for aid.
Officials and experts have blamed the rains and resulting floodwaters on climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited some of the flood-hit areas earlier this month. He has repeatedly called on the international community to send massive amounts of aid to Pakistan.
The Pakistani government estimates the losses from the floods to be about $30 billion. | 2022-09-30T12:33:49+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/UN-to-seek-800-million-more-in-aid-for-flood-hit-17477571.php |
Logitech Brio 4K webcam review
Webcams are becoming increasingly popular for both work meetings and catching up with friends or family. However, many integrated laptop webcams don’t have the best quality. The Logitech Brio 4K webcam offers impressive picture quality of up to 4K resolution, so you don’t have to put up with a grainy picture.
It also claims to have an easily adjustable field of view, a frame rate of up to 90 frames per second and a microphone with background noise suppression. We wanted to try out these features to see if they were up to scratch, so we tested the Logitech Brio 4K webcam, and this is what we discovered.
Testing the Logitech Brio 4K webcam
We want to know how products truly perform out in the real world, so we have a group of testers who try items in their own homes for an extended period. This lets us discover any quirks or weaknesses more easily, which might not be apparent during a cursory lab test.
For this article, our tester is a visual artist who uses their webcam for their creative work, video chats and other communication. They tried the Logitech Brio out in a range of scenarios and conditions to see how it fared.
What is the Logitech Brio 4K webcam?
The Logitech Brio is an external webcam capable of achieving a 4K resolution. It’s designed to clip onto your computer monitor or laptop’s screen to stream and record video. You can use it for all kinds of functions, including Skype or Zoom calls, livestreaming and creating video content. It’s made to work well in a range of lighting conditions.
Logitech Brio 4K webcam price and where to buy
The Logitech Brio has a retail price of $199.99, but you can often find it for around $150. It’s available at Amazon or Staples.
How to use the Logitech Brio 4K webcam
This webcam is extremely easy to use. Simply plug it in using the cables provided and it’s ready to go out of the box. You’ll need to download the Logi Tune app to change the settings or you can use a free third-party program called Open Broadcaster Software (OBS).
Logitech Brio 4K webcam benefits
Quality autofocus
The autofocus works smoothly, easily adjusting itself to keep your image sharp. We only had a few issues with the focus when we got significantly too close to the camera.
Good in all kinds of lighting
We tested this webcam in natural, artificial and low-light conditions and found that it adjusted easily to whatever we threw at it. Of course, the picture quality is slightly inferior in low lighting compared to natural lighting, but it’s still impressive.
Decent sound quality
The built-in microphone picked up sound well and was more than good enough for average use. That said, streamers or people creating professional-quality video content may want to use external condenser microphones or similar.
Adjustable frames per second
You can use the app to adjust the FPS. The highest FPS looks extremely smooth but takes a lot of bandwidth, while the lowest FPS looks somewhat grainy. The midrange settings offer an excellent balance of picture quality and practicality.
Changeable field of view
You can change between 90-degree, 78-degree and 65-degree fields of view, depending on whether you want a narrow focus or a wide angle to fit more on the screen. Changing between them is simple with the Logi Tune app.
Logitech Brio 4K webcam drawbacks
Colors may need some adjustment
We found some of the colors didn’t pop the way we wanted to with the out-of-the-box settings. However, you can play around and adjust them to your liking.
The clip could be improved
The provided clip that attaches the camera to your monitor or laptop isn’t the best. It slipped a few times while we were using it.
It doesn’t remember settings
This webcam can’t store your settings, so you’ll need to make any adjustments and set the field of view and FPS each time you use it.
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Rapinoe has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights, pay equity and the Black Lives Matter movement. She was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Originally broadcast Nov. 9, 2020.
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Rapinoe has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights, pay equity and the Black Lives Matter movement. She was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Originally broadcast Nov. 9, 2020.
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air | 2022-07-08T18:40:00+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2022-07-08/soccer-star-megan-rapinoe-says-patriotism-means-demanding-better-of-ourselves |
3 teens found dead in garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, police say
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (Gray News) – Three teenagers found dead in a New Mexico garage likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.
According to the Edgewood Police Department, the teens were found dead in the garage Sunday.
Police said a propane heater was found to be in use inside the garage.
Details about the victims are not yet being released, as police are still working to notify families.
The Edgewood Police Department would like to stress to the community the dangers of carbon monoxide and the importance of having carbon monoxide detectors in homes and workspaces where heaters and appliances are in use.
Carbon monoxide is extremely dangerous, as it cannot be seen, smelled, or heard.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-06T16:52:39+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/02/06/3-teens-found-dead-garage-likely-died-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-police-say/ |
(The Hill) — Former President Clinton is slamming the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying it contributes to putting “democracy at risk” and calling the high court “radical” and “activist.”
“This decision puts partisanship ahead of precedent, ideology ahead of evidence, and the power of a small minority ahead of the clear will of the people,” Clinton said in a statement on Friday.
“This jarring removal of rights that had long been guaranteed, along with decisions gutting the Voting Rights Act and abolishing any judicial remedy for admittedly unconstitutional gerrymandering by state legislatures and abuses of power by federal authorities, has put our democracy at risk in the hands of a radical, activist Court,” he added.
He said said voters should be electing people “who will defend, not deny, our cherished rights and liberties” in addition to confirming judges who put the importance of the Constitution over partisanship.
His wife, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, called the decision “a step backward for women’s rights and human rights.”
The development comes as the high court ruled on Friday to eliminate federal-level abortion protections, which many anticipated after a leaked draft ruling last month.
Several states, including Missouri, South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky, have now effectively banned abortion. More are expected to follow. | 2022-06-25T03:39:53+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/bill-clinton-supreme-courts-roe-v-wade-decision-has-put-our-democracy-at-risk/ |
Extreme weather this year has led to biblical floods across the country. In addition to the devastating Yellowstone floods, there have been damaging episodes in Tennessee, Missouri and North Dakota. Most recently, deadly floods ravaged eastern Kentucky. Nearly 40 people were killed in those floods.
Just this summer, the U.S. has experienced four separate flooding events that statistically happen once in 1,000 years.
The first line of defense against flooding and climate change is functioning floodplains, places where rainfall can spill out onto and has room to move. A floodplain is a generally flat area of land next to a river or stream that is shaped and formed by the river. They hold water and store sediment during higher flows. The floodplains’ width is a function of the water and sediment that the river carries, and it varies from river to river. Floodplains along the West Fork of the White River can be over a mile wide on each side of the channel, while the floodplain on smaller streams may be only a hundred feet wide or less.
Regardless of floodplain size, it’s critical for when the river floods. Without a functioning floodplain, water and sediment must go somewhere else during a heavy rain, whether it’s filling up your basement, your neighborhood or an entire town.
Unfortunately, many Indiana floodplains have been disconnected from their rivers by levees and non-levee berms pushed up to protect agricultural fields. Unfortunately, that localized protection increases flooding downstream.
Over the past 40 years, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Indiana has worked with landowners and partner agencies, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Indiana State Department of Agriculture and Indiana Department of Natural Resources, to protect more than 100,000 floodplain acres on private lands. TNC is working to protect an additional 15,000 acres in Indiana by 2025. In addition to providing critical habitat for plants, birds, fish and mammals, these floodplain acres allow a river to spread during a heavy rain event, reducing the effects of flooding.
In addition, TNC is exploring the concept of reconnecting floodplains along the White River just northeast of Indianapolis, providing a much-needed function during more common extreme rainfalls brought on by climate change.
The value of floodplains, especially during more and more common extreme weather events, cannot be overstated. However, just like wetlands, the role of the State of Indiana to protect and conserve this natural infrastructure is being challenged. We need to give our rivers room to move, or the flooding will only get worse. | 2022-09-07T20:01:25+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/opinion/guest-columnists-protecting-our-indiana-floodplains/article_93cb9364-2ed1-11ed-a050-ab94cad1eaa2.html |
ANN ARBOR -- Michigan showed once again on Thursday it can compete with any team in the country. The Wolverines still haven’t proven they can actually beat those teams.
Michigan lost to No. 1 Purdue, 75-70, at Crisler Center late Thursday night. The Wolverines (11-9, 5-4) started strong and led by as many as six early. They got as close as three late, but Purdue’s big first-half run was the difference.
In a battle of talented centers, Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson tallied 21 points and seven rebounds to offset Zach Edey’s 19 and nine. Kobe Bufkin added 16 points for Michigan, but Purdue displayed the depth that has led to a 20-1 record this season (9-1 in the Big Ten).
Michigan was without its second leading scorer, Jett Howard, who sat with an ankle injury suffered in Sunday’s win over Minnesota. The freshman didn’t participate in pregame warmups and it’s unclear if he’ll be available for Sunday’s game at Penn State. Joey Baker started in his place, made three 3-pointers, and finished with 11 points over 29 minutes.
Purdue’s bench outscored Michigan’s 23-9. Freshman Fletcher Loyer scored 17 for the visitors, who shot 54 percent from the field.
Michigan just wasn’t quite good enough, much like in close losses to Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, among others, earlier this season. As such, Michigan’s NCAA Tournament hopes are on life support.
The Boilermakers’ 15-0 run gave them a 41-28 lead with three minutes left in the first half. Michigan had a scoring drought of more than five minutes, but fought to get within six at half.
Michigan started the second half with consecutive turnovers and fell behind 46-35. Bufkin was feeling it out of halftime; his 3 cut Michigan’s deficit to six with 13:31 left. A minute later, Jace Howard’s strong take from the 3-point line to the rim cut it to five. The Wolverines didn’t get closer until there were 14 seconds left.
Michigan played strong defense to the end of the shot clock twice on one possession, only for Purdue to grab an offensive rebound and make 3 to go up 58-48 with 10:36 left.
Baker rattled in a 3 from the left wing and Dug McDaniel’s soft floater fell in to get it back to five. Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn, a redshirt freshman, had two impressive baskets inside to make it 65-55 with 6:28 left. Baker drained another 3.
The teams traded baskets (or misses) for a stretch, preventing Michigan from getting closer until Dickinson’s deep 3 from the top of the key made it 71-65 with 36 seconds left. Baker dove to steal the ensuing (and careless) inbounds, and called timeout before sliding out of bounds. His wild 3 was corralled by Edey, though Edey’s missed free throw at the other end opened the door for a potential wild finish. Baker drove for a layup to cut it to four, and Michigan fouled again with 12.6 seconds left. This time Loyer converted both.
Baker then hit a ridiculous bank-shot 3, and Michigan fouled with 5.5 seconds left. Purdue made both to seal the win.
Michigan made nine 3s to Purdue’s five (albeit on 13 more attempts); Michigan had half as many turnovers (just six) as Purdue; Michigan yielded just six offensive rebounds. But the Wolverines, over 40 minutes, were not as sharp as their competition on either side of the ball.
Michigan’s energy and execution from the start were much improved from Sunday at least. The Wolverines looked like a completely different team.
Edey and Dickinson established themselves early. Edey scored his team’s first seven points, with two early post-ups on Dickinson and an improbable tip-in. Dickinson scored seven of Michigan’s first 12, including a 3-pointer and three-point play, as Michigan grabbed a 13-7 lead. The two big men seemed to maintain a friendly dialogue throughout the game.
Other Wolverines contributed early too, though. Terrance Williams II and McDaniel each drove for baskets. Will Tschetter came off the bench and promptly drained a 3. Williams scored all four of his points in the first 5:20 and Tschetter didn’t score again.
Tarris Reed Jr. dunked with 11:17 left in the half to give Michigan a 22-20 advantage but was whistled for a technical for jawing in the defender’s face after. It was the freshman’s third foul.
Edey sat for a few minutes, returned, and picked up where he left off. His sixth basket gave him 13 points and tied the game at 28 with 7:46 left in the half. It started a 15-0 run as Michigan went more than five minutes without scoring. Isaiah Barnes airballed a couple of 3s during the drought, as the Boilermakers proved they are more than just Edey.
Michigan scored the next seven points to close the half and make it 41-35 at the break.
Thursday was Michigan’s Pink Game in support of breast cancer awareness, and Juwan Howard and Michigan’s coaching staff wore suits and pink sneakers for the cause. | 2023-01-27T05:42:05+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2023/01/michigan-basketball-falls-to-no-1-purdue-misses-chance-at-huge-win.html |
B-Roll and Soundbites Capture Unique Learning Event
ORLANDO, Fla., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veterinarians and veterinary nurses/technicians attending the 22nd NAVC Institute wrapped up a week of hands-on intensive learning in Orlando today. Attendees practiced and mastered one specific area of veterinary medicine such as: knee and hip surgery on dogs; diagnostic imaging to detect cancer or guide dental procedures on rabbits; and advanced emergency and critical care skills in simulated emergency situations. In this unique, immersive conference, hosted by the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC), veterinary professionals worked side-by-side with world renowned experts in their field, perfecting new skills they can immediately use to provide life-saving and enhancing medical care for their patients.
"The exciting thing about veterinary medicine is that we are seeing it parallel human medicine more and more. Advancements, new techniques, new medications, and new ways of treating diseases are coming just as fast to veterinary medicine as they are to human medicine," said Dana Varble, DVM, CAE and NAVC Chief Veterinary Officer. "At the NAVC Institute, veterinary participants get to focus on one area and really master certain skills. For example, in emergency and critical care, they're not only perfecting their recognition of shock, but also learning to anticipate how the animal's condition might change suddenly, and how they can intervene to improve the chances of survival."
B-roll of NAVC Institute workshops, lectures and interviews with veterinary experts are available here: NAVC Institute 2023 Broll and soundbites.
Key session overviews and quotes from session leaders and instructors:
Emergency and Critical Care. This course included simulation-based learning where veterinarians and veterinary nurses/technicians worked side-by-side as they do in clinics to learn how to identify life-threatening conditions and treat animals in emergency situations. They treated potential patients using a high-fidelity simulator that produces heart and lung sounds, pulses, and breaths connected to a multi-parameter monitor, allowing participants to immerse themselves in a life-like environment, putting their knowledge and skills to test. "Simulation teaching is a well-established modality in human medicine and a growing area of education in veterinary medicine," said instructor Armi Pigott, DVM, DACVECC. "Simulation can create a lot of the emotional and physical feeling of a real case, and help someone who's never seen this specific situation before. The rising heart rate of the 'patient,' and the stress of being in there and treating this really sick patient in a fairly low stakes environment is incredibly beneficial. They can come in, practice, get things right, get things wrong, and then, we can talk about how it went. After that, they can practice over and over until they get it right."
Exotics. Exotic pets are more popular than ever with nearly 9 million American households owning an exotic pet including rabbits, hamsters, reptiles, birds, chickens and more. "The exciting thing about exotics is that the same things we can do for humans, dogs, and cats, including advanced imaging, we can do for our exotic species," said course leader Jennifer Graham, DVM, DABVP (Avian/ECM), DACZM. "Pet owners want these pets to receive the same quality of care from CT scans to MRIs, endoscopy, ultrasound, even advanced surgeries. So even though they're quite small, we're able to still provide that same level of care." Participating veterinarians and veterinary nurses/technicians advanced their skills working with pet birds, backyard poultry, small mammals including rabbits and hedgehogs, and reptiles. Coursework spanned a wide range including diagnostic imaging, rabbit and rodent dentistry and reptile reproductive surgery. They also learned to stabilize and treat exotics in an emergency situation.
Orthopedic surgery. Veterinarians participating in these sessions focused on diagnosis, pre-surgical planning, surgery techniques, pain management and postoperative care. Hands-on surgery procedures included knee, hip, femur and others. They also practiced pain management including how to perform epidural injections. "ACL tears in humans are very common. They are also extremely common in dogs, arguably, maybe even more common. There are a lot of similarities anatomically. But there are also some differences. The human tears a healthy ACL through their athletic activities, whereas oftentimes dogs have a degenerative process that is active within the ligament," said Ross Palmer, DVM, MS, DACVS and course leader. "Fortunately, surgical treatments for ACL equivalent injuries in dogs have advanced and the prognosis is really quite good."
Other courses focus on ultrasound, dentistry and soft tissue surgery.
The NAVC Institute took place May 21 - 25 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida.
About the NAVC
The North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing veterinary professionals worldwide. The world's leading provider of veterinary continuing education, the NAVC delivers essential training, tools and resources for veterinary professionals to stay abreast of advances in animal medicine and provide the best medical care for animals everywhere. Through its commitment to innovation and excellence, the NAVC has developed a diverse portfolio of products and services, including: educational events, headlined by VMX, the world's largest, most comprehensive continuing education conference and launchpad for new products and innovations within the veterinary industry; a robust digital platform for virtual learning and engagement; the veterinary industry's largest and award-winning portfolio of trade publications; and an advocacy arm which unites the veterinary community and pet lovers. The NAVC was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL. Since 2017, the NAVC has been recognized annually as one of the Top Workplaces by the Orlando Sentinel. To learn more about the NAVC's products and brands, visit https://navc.com/. To see our schedule of upcoming events, visit https://navc.com/calendar/.
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Morning news brief By Steve Inskeep Published December 29, 2022 at 4:10 AM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 11:17 N.Y. Rep.-elect George Santos is being investigated for lying about his past. Ukrainians prepare for a renewed offensive by Russian forces. A new far-right government is sworn in today in Israel. Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-12-29T11:22:49+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-12-29/morning-news-brief |
The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents from Tesla related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” features, according to a regulatory filing.
“To our knowledge no government agency in any ongoing investigation has concluded that any wrongdoing occurred,” Tesla said in the filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Austin, Texas, electric vehicle maker cautioned that if the government decides to pursue an enforcement action, it could possibly have a material adverse impact on its business.
Messages were left today seeking comment from the Justice Department and from Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department.
Tesla Inc. is already facing multiple investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for problems with its two driver-assist systems, Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving.”
Despite their names, Tesla still says on its website that the cars can’t drive themselves. Teslas using “Full Self-Driving” can navigate roads in many cases, but experts say the system can make mistakes, which even CEO Elon Musk acknowledges. “We’re not saying it’s quite ready to have no one behind the wheel,” CEO Musk said in October.
Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said the Justice Department could be looking at safety issues with the systems, or it could be investigating Tesla claims that the cars can drive themselves when they can’t.
“When you get the car, it really can’t do everything that’s been promised,” Brooks said. “Tesla is putting a vehicle out on the road that is unable to perform to the capabilities claimed. Yet we have drivers relying on those promises and essentially not paying attention to the drive because they think it is more capable than it is.”
The systems have been under investigation by NHTSA since June of 2016 when a driver using Autopilot was killed after his Tesla went under a tractor-trailer crossing its path in Florida. A separate probe into Teslas that were using Autopilot when they crashed into emergency vehicles started in August 2021. At least 14 Teslas that have crashed into emergency vehicles while using the Autopilot system.
Including the Florida crash, NHTSA has sent investigators to 35 Tesla crashes in which automated systems are suspected of being used. Nineteen people have died in those crashes, including two motorcyclists.
The agency also is investigating complaints that Teslas can brake suddenly for no reason.
“Full Self-Driving” went on sale late in 2015, and Musk has used the name ever since. It currently costs $15,000 to activate the system. Tsl
In 2019 he promised a fleet of autonomous robotaxis by 2020, and he said in early 2022 that the cars would be autonomous that year.
Since 2021, Tesla has been beta-testing “Full Self-Driving” using owners who haven’t been trained on the system but are actively monitored by the company. Tesla said this month that 400,000 owners are participating.
Auto safety advocates and government investigators have long criticized Tesla’s monitoring system as inadequate. Three years ago the National Transportation Safety Board listed poor monitoring as a contributing factor in a 2018 fatal Tesla crash in California. The board recommended a better system, but said Tesla has not responded.
NHTSA has noted in documents that numerous Tesla crashes have occurred in which drivers had their hands on the wheel but still weren’t paying attention. The agency has said that Autopilot is being used in areas where its capabilities are limited and that many drivers aren’t taking action to avoid crashes despite warnings from the vehicle.
In addition, the National Transportation Safety Board determined in 2020 that Tesla’s system to make sure drivers are paying attention is not adequate, and it should be limited to areas where it can safely operate.
Tesla shares were up just under 4% in this morning’s trading. | 2023-01-31T20:49:11+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/31/breaking-news/justice-department-seeks-tesla-automated-driving-documents/ |
Artists Patrick Paige II, Ego Ella May, and Flwr Chyld Join Raedio's Fast-Growing Artist Roster
LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raedio, the "audio everywhere" company under HOORAE Media, is announcing the addition of three new publishing acts to its growing artist roster. The three acts – Patrick Paige II, Ego Ella May, and Flwr Chyld – will be a part of Raedio's all-in-one ecosystem that includes a record label, music supervision, and podcasts.
"We're excited to help develop and elevate the newest members of the Raedio family while preserving their artist autonomy, which lies at the heart of our mission to support the overall growth of artist's careers by exposing them to our diverse ecosystem," says Christina "Xtina" Prince, General Manager of Raedio. "Each artist brings a unique sound and incredible talent to the table that we will help cultivate and showcase to a wider audience."
Patrick Paige II started his music career at an early age. He's since teamed up with Syd Bennett and Matt Martin to form GRAMMY nominated band The Internet whose discography include critically acclaimed albums like their debut Purple Naked Ladies, Ego Death, Hive Mind and Feel Good. Apart from being the bassist for the R&B band, Paige also has two solo albums under his belt that fuses his hip hop and jazz sounds and highlights why he is one to watch. Paige's credits include Malia's "Sunny Day" and "Satisfaction," Durand Bernarr's "Unblocked", and the latest GRAMMY-winning Beyoncé album on the song "Plastic Off The Sofa."
A South London native and recipient of a MOBO Award and JAZZ FM Award, Ego Ella May is known for her emotive lyricism which is heard in her critically acclaimed contemporary jazz compositions. With a steady stream of music projects that span over a decade, the highly expressive artist has credits seen across TV and Film from Issa Rae's Insecure, Queen Sugar, Run The World, and Dear White People.
With funk and soul influences on his unique neo-flower sound, Flwr Chyld has curated a cult R&B following and amassed millions of streams. Some of his notable credits include his EP Iridescent Luv, "Luv 2 U" single which reached the indie and R&B space and features with US and Global artists like Sebastian Mikael, Mia Gladstone, Ego Ella May and more. His most recent debut album Luv n Chaos has been featured on Spotify's Alternative R&B to Soul Lounge playlists.
The newest additions to Raedio's music publishing roster marks the company's continued growth in supporting artists through a wide array of opportunities that catapult their work to the forefront of the industry.
About Raedio
Raedio has established itself as an "audio everywhere" company that extends itself across media through its record label, publishing, music supervision and podcast divisions by developing culturally relevant, high quality music & audio content.
Raedio supports its talent through opportunities with sister agency ColorCreative, alongside film and television projects through HOORAE. This uniquely positions the company with the capability of a 360-degree integration across its multiple platforms and services. For more information visit https://theraedio.com.
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MAUMEE, Ohio, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Feed Factors, Ltd., a U.K.-based subsidiary of The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE), has been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of Sustainable Development. This category recognizes companies that develop products and services that have a positive impact upon and provide major benefits to the environment, society, and economy.
"Earning this award is a testament to all the hard work the Feed Factors team has put in, constantly striving to improve their business, specifically in organic trade. We believe that a consumer should be given a clear choice between intensively farmed products and organically grown," stated Feed Factors Managing Director Jason Hopkinson. "We are proud to have been selected for such a prestigious award which recognizes the company's work around the globe promoting organic farming and its products in a sustainable manner, to benefit generations to come."
"The Andersons environmental, social, and governance philosophy is to provide our customers with products and services that are of value while also taking action to be a good corporate neighbor by preserving our natural resources for future generations," stated The Andersons President and CEO Pat Bowe. "We are honored that Feed Factors has twice been named a winner of a Queen's Award for Enterprise: in 2022, for Sustainable Development, as well as 2019, for Innovation."
About Feed Factors, Ltd.
Feed Factors, Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Andersons, Inc. Principle activities include trading, importing, and distribution of agricultural commodities for human and animal consumption; specializing in organic grains and oilseeds. Its business model centers on promoting organic farming worldwide that doesn't exhaust the land and benefits waterways, wildlife, and insects. Feed Factors also supports the EU product environment footprint initiative (PEF) with carbon footprint and environmental impact as the key drivers. For more information, please visit www.feedfactors.com.
About The Andersons, Inc.
The Andersons, Inc., celebrating 75 years of service and named to Forbes® lists of America's Best Employers for 2022 and Best Employers for Diversity 2022 as well as America's Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek®, is a diversified company rooted in agriculture that conducts business in the commodity merchandising, renewables, and plant nutrient sectors. Guided by its Statement of Principles, The Andersons is committed to providing extraordinary service to its customers, helping its employees improve, supporting its communities, and increasing the value of the company. For more information, please visit www.andersonsinc.com.
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WHL
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Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Prince Albert 4 Brandon 3
Moose Jaw 9 Regina 5
Red Deer 2 Swift Current 0
Lethbridge 6 Calgary 4
Medicine Hat 7 Edmonton 2
Prince George 7 Victoria 1
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 2
Tri-City 3 Spokane 1
Seattle 5 Portland 2
Vancouver 3 Everett 0
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 3 Brandon 2
Regina 7 Moose Jaw 3
Winnipeg 4 Prince Albert 1
Swift Current 3 Red Deer 1
Victoria 7 Prince George 6 (SO)
Seattle 4 Portland 2
Calgary 2 Medicine Hat 0
Lethbridge 6 Edmonton 1
Tri-City 8 Spokane 2
Everett 4 Vancouver 1
Kamloops 5 Kelowna 4 (OT)
Sunday's results
Regina 4 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 3
Winnipeg 6 Prince Albert 1
Tri-City 5 Vancouver 2
Spokane 3 Everett 2
Tuesday's games
Edmonton at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Portland, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Moose Jaw at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Regina at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. | 2023-03-20T07:09:22+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17848830.php |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments for and against the Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan today, so we had locals weigh in on the discussion.
We turned to social media to spark the conversation, several reached out sharing their stories.
Someone said, “I pay mine, you pay yours.”
Another comment said, ”Forgive 50 percent max. Only if it passes. You borrow, you pay back.”
Others believed this called for a longer conversation.
One Facebook commenter shared. “I see nothing wrong with forgiving student debt, I see everything wrong with this having to be presented to the supreme court, who probably have more important cases to ponder.”
Another viewer sent an email arguing inflation and low incomes make student debt a bigger problem. But their main struggle is with paying interest.
“I want my $30K in interest returned on the $30K loan I took out because I still owe $30K somehow after paying $30K. The debts shouldn’t exist in the first place. We pay 3 mortgages a month 1. School loans 2. Home/rent 3. Childcare,” they said.
I brought the conversation to the University of Arizona students today. Raymundo Chavez Cervantez has no debt because of the assistance he receives from being in the military.
Still, he imagined having to pay out-of-state tuition. He believes the forgiveness maximum wouldn’t be enough.
“Out-of-state tuition was 20,000, so let’s say you would have to get a loan for that. The forgiveness would only cover one semester, and I don’t think that’s enough,” said Chavez.
John Smith paid his tuition up front, but he said it wasn’t easy.
“To be honest it takes a lot of work. It’s to the point where it feels like you’re going insane sometimes. But it’s fine because it’s paid off and I don’t need to worry about that,” said Smith.
Dixie Mitter in Sierra Vista is paying 600 dollars a month for student loans, and she said the forgiveness would lift a huge weight.
“For me personally and I’m sure for many people I had no idea when I was 18 how much debt would accumulate and how much that would affect my life.”
If you have student loan debt, repayments aren’t expected to resume until the end of summer. This could change with the supreme court decision.
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Reyna Preciado is a reporter for KGUN 9, she joined the KGUN 9 team in July of 2022 after graduating Arizona State University. Share your story ideas with Reyna by emailing reyna.preciado@kgun9.com or by connecting on Instagram, or Twitter. | 2023-03-01T01:54:48+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/student-loan-forgiveness-locals-weigh-in |
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday he was committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country’s infected blood scandal, which saw more than 2,000 patients die after contracting HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and 1980s.
But Sunak, who was testifying before an independent inquiry into the public healthcare scandal, was heckled by survivors and affected families when he did not give a clear answer on when full payments will be paid out.
The Infected Blood Inquiry was established in 2017 to examine how thousands of patients in the UK were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
An estimated 2,400 to 2,900 people died in what is widely described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service.
The contaminated blood was linked to supplies of a clotting agent called Factor VIII, which British health services bought from the U.S. Some of the plasma used to make the blood products was traced to high-risk donors, including prison inmates, who were paid to give blood samples.
Hundreds of survivors and affected families — some of whom have worked for decades to lobby for government compensation — packed into a London hotel conference room Wednesday as Sunak gave evidence to the inquiry.
Sunak acknowledged that victims of what he called an “appalling scandal” had been let down by successive governments over the years. His government was “making progress in resolving the years of injustice,” he stressed.
“This is an appalling scandal that has gone on for decades,” Sunak told the inquiry. “This is not just about historic wrongs. People are suffering and being impacted today.”
“Over a succession of not just years, but decades, justice has been denied to people. They haven’t received the recognition that they need and deserve,” he added.
The inquiry’s chairman, retired judge Brian Langstaff, told Sunak that affected families needed real action from his government.
“They recognize the evidence they’ve heard this week of work being done but there aren’t any details. There is no timeline. There is no structure yet in place,” Langstaff said.
The government said last year that survivors and bereaved partners of those who died will receive 100,000 pounds ($129,000) as interim payment.
Langstaff recommended in April that compensation should be expanded to include more people whose lives were blighted by the scandal, such as parents who lost their children.
But Sunak reiterated that authorities will wait for the inquiry’s full report to be concluded before considering whether to extend the compensation plan for victims. The final report is expected later this year.
Clive Smith, chairman of the Haemophilia Society, said delays in the compensation have “only compounded the suffering of those who have been waiting for this for so long”.
“People who have waited 40 years expect to see a significant demonstration of political will and a commitment to get this done as soon as is practical,” Smith said. | 2023-07-27T15:17:24+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-uk-prime-minister-urged-to-speed-up-compensation-for-infected-blood-scandal-victims/ |
CHICAGO, Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council (MACRC) today announced a major victory in the fight against wage theft and tax fraud in the building trades. Acting on information provided by the MACRC, the Illinois Department of Labor is requiring a bulk storage contractor to pay nearly $500,000 back to its workers for failing to meet state-certified prevailing wage and benefit rates.
The case involves Beecher-based Bulk Storage, Inc. which specializes in bulk storage structures for salt, sand, and fertilizer. The Illinois Department of Labor (DOL) reached a settlement with Bulk Storage ordering the company to provide back pay to their employees after the MACRC filed charges alleging multiple violations of the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act. The charges stem from Bulk Storage projects funded with taxpayer dollars. Some of the projects where Bulk Storage was caught paying less than prevailing wage include a storage dome facility for the City of West Chicago, a salt barn for Dundee Town Road District, and a public works building for Elk Grove Village.
Under DOL's terms, Bulk Storage is forced to pay its workers an additional $483,828, plus $85,000 in penalties to the DOL.
"Wage theft and the loss of tax revenue hurts us all," said MACRC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Gary Perinar. "It exploits workers, many of whom are unaware of their right to receive fair wages and benefits to support themselves and their families. It puts signatory union contractors at a disadvantage against unscrupulous contractors who lowball bids through fraudulent practices. And it cheats communities out of much-needed tax dollars to fund new projects and public services. Thanks to our research team for uncovering these injustices against working families and to the Department of Labor for enforcing the law."
The Prevailing Wage Act requires contractors and subcontractors to pay laborers, workers and mechanics employed on PUBLIC WORKS construction projects no less than the general prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar character in the county where the work is performed.
"The Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council is proud of the wins we've helped facilitate against contractors who try to cheat the system," said Perinar. "Our tax fraud department is dedicated to rooting out cases of wage theft and we will continue to pursue them aggressively."
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By SUSIE BLANN
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.
A Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed three people and wounded 13 others Friday night, according to the mayor. Kramatorsk is the headquarters for Ukrainian forces in the country’s war-torn east.
The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of the two main Ukrainian-held ones in Donetsk province, the focus of an ongoing Russian offensive to capture eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Saturday its forces had taken control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk, the provincial capital that pro-Moscow separatists have controlled since 2014.
Russian troops and the Kremlin-backed rebels are trying to seize Ukrainian-held areas north and west of the city of Donetsk to expand the separatists’ self-proclaimed republic. But the Ukrainian military said Saturday that its forces had prevented an overnight advance toward the smaller cities of Avdiivka and Bakhmut.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov also claimed that Russian strikes near Kramatorsk, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Donetsk city, destroyed a U.S.-supplied multiple rocket launcher and ammunition. Ukrainian authorities did not acknowledge any military losses but said Russian missile strikes Friday on Kramatorsk had destroyed 20 residential buildings.
Neither claim could be independently verified.
The Ukrainian governor of neighboring Luhansk province, part of the Donbas region that was overrun by Russian forces last month, claimed that Ukrainian troops still held a small area in the province. Writing on Telegram, Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai said the defending troops were holed up inside an oil refinery on the edge of Lysychansk, a city that Moscow claimed to have captured, and also control areas near a village.
“The enemy is burning the ground at the entrances to the Luhansk region because it cannot overcome (Ukrainian resistance along) these few kilometers,” Haidai said. “It is difficult to count how many thousands of shells this territory of the free Luhansk region has withstood over the past month and a half.”
Further west, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region reported more Russian shelling of the city of Nikopol, which lies across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Gov. Yevhen Yevtushenko did not specify whether Russian troops had fired at Nikopol from the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Writing on Telegram, he said Saturday that there were no casualties but residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged.
Nikopol has undergone daily bombardment for most of the past week, and a volley of shells killed three people and damaged 40 apartment buildings on Thursday, he said.
Russia and Ukrainian officials have accused each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia plant in contravention of nuclear safety rules. Russian troops have occupied the plant since the early days of Moscow’s invasion, although the facility’s Ukrainian nuclear workers continue to run it.
Ukrainian military intelligence alleged Saturday that Russian troops were shelling the plant from a village just kilometers away, damaging a plant pumping station and a fire station. The intelligence directorate said the Russians had bused people into the power plant and mounted a Ukrainian flag on a gun on the outskirts of Enerhodar, the city where the plant is located.
“Obviously, it will be used for yet another provocation to accuse the armed forces of Ukraine,” the directorate said, without elaborating.
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly alleged that Russian forces were using the plant as a shield while firing at Ukrainian communities across the river, knowing that Ukrainian forces were unlikely to fire back for fear of triggering a nuclear accident.
They said Russian shelling on Friday night killed one woman and injured two other civilians in the city of Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine’s southern Mykolayiv region also said a woman died there in shelling.
For several weeks, Ukraine’s military has tried to lay the groundwork for a counteroffensive to reclaim southern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region. A local Ukrainian official reported Saturday that a Ukrainian strike had damaged the last working bridge over the Dnieper River in the region, further crippling Russian supply lines.
“The Russians no longer have any capability to fully turn over their equipment,” Serhii Khlan, a deputy to the Kherson Regional Council, wrote on Facebook.
The British Defense Ministry said Saturday that damage to bridges across the Dnieper means that “ground resupply for the several thousand Russian troops on the west bank is almost certainly reliant on just two pontoon ferry crossing points.”
“Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the (damaged) bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability,” the British said.
On Saturday, the deputy director of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka hydropower plant 60 kilometers (37 miles) upriver from the city of Kherson said one of its generating units was out of service after a Ukrainian missile strike. Arseniy Zelenskyy said further strikes could endanger the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant because its water intakes use the reservoir formed by the Kakhovka plant’s dam.
Days after explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea destroyed up to a dozen aircraft, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said Kyiv should make retaking the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014 one of its goals of the war.
“Russia started a war against Ukraine and the world in 2014, with its brazen seizure of Crimea. It is obvious that this war should end with the liberation of Crimea,” Mykhailo Podoylak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, wrote Saturday on Twitter. “And also with the legal punishment of the initiators of the ‘special military operation’” – the Kremlin’s term for its war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility for the explosions Tuesday at the Saki air base in Crimea. Russian defense officials have denied any aircraft were damaged — or that any attack even took place — attributing the blasts to on-site munitions that exploded.
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TUSCON, Ariz., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nurse RaDonda Vaught received a sentence of three years' probation after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult in an incident that occurred on Dec 26, 2017. For the nurse, this ends years of wondering whether she would spend 8 years in prison, but not the questions about the event.
Nurse Vaught erroneously gave vercuronium, a paralyzing agent, to a 75-year-old patient instead of Versed, a sedating agent, prior to a procedure. She had overridden several warnings as she accessed the medication from the pharmacy cabinet. The software system issues so many warnings, often trivial or inappropriate, that it had become routine to override them so that patient care could proceed. After administering the dose, she was called away to assist in the emergency room. Tragically, the patient died.
Hundreds of workers rallied outside the courthouse during the sentencing hearing, warning that criminalizing errors would lead to more hospital deaths because of reluctance to report errors.
Nurse Vaught immediately acknowledged her error. The hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, did not, however, notify the county medical examiner of an unexpected death, but attributed it to a brain bleed. The hospital also failed to notify state or federal officials of the error or the death, though they were obligated by law to do so. The incident did not become public until an anonymous tip prompted an unannounced federal inspection almost a year later, when many serious deficiencies were found.
"The nurse was criminally charged and has a felony conviction, but what happened to hospital officials responsible for reporting and correcting hazardous conditions?" asks AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D. "Why can paralyzing agents even be obtained by nurses for patients getting a routine scan?"
"Threatening a nurse with a decade in prison for a terrible but unintentional error does not fix the system problems or make patients safer, but it does cause capable, dedicated people to re-think their career plans."
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Its motto is omnia pro aegroto (everything for the patient).
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Eric Healy and Jake Darley join Stratifyd's executive team to accelerate company growth and market position.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. , Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratifyd – a leading customer experience analytics and insights platform – announced today that Toronto-based investment firm Georgian expanded its investment in the company leading a $10M Series B3 funding round. Georgian's most recent investment enables Stratifyd to accelerate its product roadmap, hire key personnel and expand its presence in emerging vertical markets.
To support Stratifyd's high-growth objectives, the company recently added Eric Healy and Jake Darley to its executive team, as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, respectively. Healy and Darley each bring decades of experience working across leading enterprise software, marketing and technology services organizations.
Healy joins Stratifyd from Aura, a General Catalyst and Warburg Pincus-backed cybersecurity organization, where he worked in both general management and sales leadership roles. Eric's prior experience includes a role as President & Board Member of HGGC-backed, MyWebGrocer. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Publicis-Groupe owned Rosetta, where he was charged with enhancing Rosetta's position as a leading customer engagement and services firm, resulting in placement as an AdAge A-List agency.
Darley joins Stratifyd from Qualtrics, where he most recently served as COO for North American Enterprise Sales within EmployeeXM. Darley also built and led the Global Deal Operations organization for Revenue Operations at Qualtrics; his responsibilities spanned Deal Desk, Prescriptive Pricing & Deal Strategy, RFI/RFP Proposal Development, ROI Analysis and Competitive Intelligence. Prior to Qualtrics, Darley was employed by enterprise work management leader, Adobe Workfront as both Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and Director of Finance.
In their respective roles, Healy will define and communicate a compelling vision and growth strategy for Stratifyd's business, allowing the company to capitalize on opportunities as a leader in the Customer Experience (CX) software space; Darley will focus on creating operational efficiencies and financial best practices required to accelerate Stratifyd's growth.
"Stratifyd is at a key phase in the company's growth and bringing in seasoned executives is critical to optimizing vertical expansion, customer satisfaction, and overall scalability," said Simon Chong, co-founder and lead investor at Georgian. "Eric and Jake are proven executives who have shaped growing companies into market leaders. We're confident that their leadership, combined with the appetite for Stratifyd's best-in-class products, will propel Stratifyd in the customer experience market."
"In an age of high customer churn rates, it's undeniable that improvements to the customer experience have a significant impact on business success; 84% of companies that focus on CX investments experience a corresponding increase in revenue," said Eric Healy, Stratifyd's Chief Executive Officer. "Stratifyd best-in-class products and solution provide data analytics and capabilities that drive improved customer experiences across myriad industries. I look forward to working with the Board and the entire Stratifyd team to not only accelerate our growth but our overall impact in this market."
Founded in 2015, Charlotte-based Stratifyd puts the power of data science into the hands of business users through its experience analytics and insights platform. The company's Smart AI™ experience and insights platform is designed to help today's businesses that lack the time and resources to quickly uncover insights and drive value from experience, operational, and behavioral data. Herein, Stratifyd's vendor-neutral approach connects experience, behavioral, and operational data to remove data blind spots, uncover prescriptive insights, and enable smarter decisions. Stratifyd is trusted by startups, enterprise, and Fortune 500 companies to improve experiences across channels, drive efficiencies, and increase employee and customer loyalty. To learn more about the company's no-code approach to AI, visit www.stratifyd.com.
Georgian invests in high growth companies across North America that harness the power of data and trust. Based in Toronto, Georgian's team brings together software entrepreneurs, machine learning experts, experienced operators and investment professionals. To learn more about Georgian, please contact info@georgian.io or visit us at www.georgian.io
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NEW YORK (AP)(Rob Higgins had 15 points in Saint Francis (BKN)’s 81-73 victory against Delaware State on Wednesday night.
Higgins was 6 of 14 shooting, including 0 for 3 from distance, and went 3 for 5 from the line for the Terriers (3-4). Di’Andre Howell-South shot 5 for 8, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc to add 12 points. Zion Bethea recorded 11 points and was 2 of 8 shooting, including 2 for 3 from distance, and went 5 for 10 from the line. Larry Moreno and Josiah Harris also had 11 each.
The Hornets (1-6) were led by Khyrie Staten, who recorded 16 points and two steals. Cameron Stitt added 12 points for Delaware State. In addition, Aaron Lemon-Warren had eight points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-12-01T14:33:51+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/saint-francis-bkn-defeats-delaware-state-81-73/ |
A plane crashes – now what? A look inside an NTSB investigation
They look at the human, the machine, and the environment.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - In 2019, a Nevada couple was killed when a small aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near the Indianapolis regional airport. The cause of that crash was pilot error.
In 2018, two people were killed in a train derailment west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The cause of the accident was likely break failure.
Three employees of a Missouri duck-boat company were charged with involuntary manslaughter after 17 people were killed in one of the deadliest tour boat accidents in US history. The initial cause of the boat sinking was a rare weather event, and vulnerabilities with the craft that made it susceptible to taking on water.
All of these causes were determined by comprehensive investigations by the NTSB.
“A goal is to determine what caused the crash and possibly make safety recommendations to prevent it from happening again,” explains Keith Holloway with the NTSB.
Holloway says investigators are on scene within three days. During that time, they comb the area, gathering as much evidence as they can.
“They will request radar data, weather information, the maintenance records, the information about the pilots. They medical background, the pilots, the flight history of the pilot, things like that,” said Holloway.
They will also look into air traffic control communications, possible mayday calls, and eye witness accounts. When all the initial evidence is gathered, they issue a preliminary report.
“the main thing that the investigators look into is the human, the machine, and the environment,” says Holloway.
During the next 12 to 24 for months, they compile their final report. This includes sending forensic evidence back to the lab in Washington, sometimes requiring full reconstruction of an aircraft.
For aviation expert Paul Stone, who worked with the NASA Apollo Gemini program in the ‘60s, it’s a painstaking process that contributes to the greater good of safe air travel.
“Everything they do in the airline industry is just headed towards safety. So it’s come a long ways Continues to go that way,” said Stone.
Currently, commercial air travel is one of the safest means of transportation. The US hasn’t seen a major airline crash since 2009.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Enviva Inc. ("Enviva" or "the Company") (NYSE: EVA) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors who purchased the Company's securities between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022, inclusive (the ''Class Period''), are encouraged to contact the firm before January 3, 2023.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2460, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 310-301-3335, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at bschall@schallfirm.com.
The class, in this case, has not yet been certified, and until certification occurs, you are not represented by an attorney. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member.
According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Enviva misrepresented the sustainability and environmental benefits of its wood pellet production. The Company overstated the cash flow generated by this business. The Company misled investors about its future business prospects. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements were false and materially misleading throughout the class period. When the market learned the truth about Enviva, investors suffered damages.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A private fundraising campaign is underway in Norway to erect a statue of a walrus that drew crowds of spectators but was euthanized Sunday after authorities concluded the massive marine mammal posed a risk to humans.
Known affectionately to fans as Freya, the walrus became a popular attraction in the Oslo Fjord in recent weeks despite warnings from officials that people should refrain from getting close and posing for pictures with the animal.
“The shooting of Freya has a strong negative signal effect that we in Norway, and especially Oslo, are not able to provide living space for wild animals,” the citizens’ group behind the online fundraising drive said in its appeal.
“By erecting a statue of the symbol Freya quickly became, we will always remind ourselves (and future generations) that we cannot or should not always kill and remove nature when it is ‘in the way,’” the appeal continues.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the group has raised 156,409 kroner ($16,143), according to the fundraising website. Organizers said if they fail with the project, the funds would go to the local chapter of World Wildlife Fund.
Walruses are a protected species, and as recently as last month, officials said they hoped Freya would leave of her own accord and that euthanasia would be a last resort. The head of Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries said Sunday that they considered moving the animal elsewhere but concluded it wasn’t a viable option.
Atlantic walruses normally live in the Arctic. It is unusual but not unheard of for them to travel into the North and Baltic Seas. Another walrus, nicknamed Wally, was seen last year on beaches and even a lifeboat dock in Wales and elsewhere.
Freya liked to clamber on top of small boats, damaging them.
The Norwegian Veterinary Institute said Tuesday that it had received the body of the 600-kilogram (1,320-pound) female walrus and would carry out a necropsy for scientific purposes. | 2022-08-16T22:19:59+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/norway-group-wants-to-erect-statue-of-euthanized-walrus/ |
WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; z - regular season champion; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Moose Jaw 5 Brandon 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 3 (OT)
Wednesday's results
Red Deer 8 Calgary 3
Seattle 6 Vancouver 0
Thursday's results
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Friday's results
Regina at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Victoria, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Lethbridge at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m. | 2022-04-15T07:47:40+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17082659.php |
While Famine Looms, War in Ukraine Reduced the Percentage of Fully-Funded Hunger Programs in 2022, According to Action Against Hunger
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Only 47% of hunger funding needs through the UN humanitarian system are met, leaving a hunger funding gap of 53%, according to the Action Against Hunger 2023 Hunger Funding Gap Report. Released today, the analysis also found that countries experiencing the worst hunger crises received less hunger funding (by the percentage of appeals filled) than countries with lower rates of hunger.
While overall funding rose slightly in 2022, support was spread even thinner as needs grew. In 2022, only 3% of hunger program needs were fully funded and the majority (65%) of appeals were not even fulfilled to the halfway point. In 2021, 7% of hunger programs were fully funded and 57% of were not funded halfway. Zero nutrition-related appeals were fully funded in 2022, down from 15% in 2021.
The Action Against Hunger 2023 Hunger Funding Gap report was issued shortly before the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which increased the cost of food, fertilizer, and energy. One in three households in Ukraine are estimated to be food insecure, and the war also has had far-reaching ripple effects. Approximately 828 million people—one in ten worldwide—are undernourished and as many as 50 million people in 45 countries are on the verge of famine.
"Before the war, all of Somalia's wheat imports came from Russia or Ukraine. By raising prices for food and fertilizer, the war in Ukraine is killing Somali children, too," said Ahmed Khalif, Country Director for Action Against Hunger in Somalia. "Our team looked at the percentage of funder-related appeals fulfilled by the global community and found that countries with lower hunger rates received more funding than countries experiencing the worst hunger crises. I see the impact, as the needs here keep growing every day."
For the report, Action Against Hunger identified 13 countries that experienced "crisis" levels of hunger or worse in 2021 and analyzed how much funding those countries subsequently received, both for ongoing and emergency hunger-related programs in 2022. The analysis draws on food insecurity data from 2021 to show what funding decisions are made after donors see where hunger is greatest. This approach controls for the potential that hunger levels would be lower in countries that receive more funding.
"Hunger is a complex issue and funding is just part of what it will take to end hunger in our lifetimes. Yet, after working for more than 40 years across 50 nations—including all of the countries analyzed in this report—we know that closing the hunger funding gap is a critical step," said Eric Bebernitz, Director of External Relations, Action Against Hunger. "While some donors gave more last year, needs rose even faster than support from the global community. It's short-sighted, since according to a USAID study, each dollar invested in resilience reduces later humanitarian spending by up to $3."
The report is the result of Action Against Hunger's analysis of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Response Plan funding data, as well as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Population Tracking Tool (IPC).
About Action Against Hunger
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Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, grabbed a woman by the neck and kissed her against her will three times earlier this year, according to new information in an affidavit.
Mahomes was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of battery after the incident at Aspens Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kansas, on Feb. 25.
During a brief hearing on Tuesday, a Johnson County judge agreed to Mahomes’ request to have his bond agreement modified so he could talk to three of four people listed as witnesses, who are his friends.
Mahomes declined to comment before and after Tuesday’s hearing. He has been free after posting $100,000 bond.
The hearing came a day after a redacted affidavit provided more details of the alleged assault on the restaurant’s owner, Aspen Vaugh.
Investigators said Mahomes shoved a waiter at the restaurant who tried to come into a room where he was with Vaughn. After the waiter left, Mahomes grabbed her by the throat and forcefully kissed her three different times without her consent, according to the court document.
She told police Mahomes was a friend of her stepdaughter and had caused trouble and been asked to leave the restaurant in the past.
According to the affidavit, two servers in the area did not hear her call for help but later confirmed that she told them about the assault and showed them a bruise on her neck.
Mahomes, who is a social media influencer on TikTok and Instagram, asked Vaughn not to tell anyone what happened and then said he could help her business because he has a “large social media following,” investigators said.
Vaughn’s boyfriend came to the restaurant and, after finding out what happened, ordered Mahomes and his friends to leave.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Johnson County District Judge Thomas M. Sutherland said Mahomes could not speak to one of the witnesses, who had direct knowledge of the incident. He warned the other three witnesses they could not talk to Mahomes about the case, Kansas City media reported.
Mahomes’ preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31. | 2023-05-17T13:54:32+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/jackson-mahomes-grabbed-and-kissed-woman-against-her-will-three-times-prosecutors-say/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have grown fond of “buy now, pay later” services, but the “pay later” part is becoming increasingly difficult for some borrowers.
Buy now, pay later loans allow users to pay for items such new sneakers, electronics, or luxury goods in installments. Companies such as Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna and PayPal have built popular financial products around these short-term loans, particularly for younger borrowers, who are fearful of never-ending credit card debt.
Now, as the industry racks up customers, delinquencies are climbing. Inflation is squeezing consumers, making it tougher to pay off debts. Some borrowers don’t budget properly, particularly if they are persuaded to take out multiple loans, while others may have been credit risks to begin with.
“You have an industry with a higher concentration of subprime borrowers in a market that hasn’t been effectively tested through (this type of economy), and you have a kind of a toxic brew of concerns,” said Michael Taiano, an analyst with Fitch Ratings, who co-wrote a report in July highlighting some of the concerns with the industry.
The most popular type of buy now, pay later loans allow for four payments over six weeks — one payment at the time of purchase and three others that borrowers often try to sync up with pay periods. Longer-term loans for bigger purchases are also available. Most of the short-term loans have no interest attached to them. Companies that do charge interest can clearly state upfront how much a borrower will pay in financial charges.
Given those features, consumer advocates and financial advisors initially had seen buy now, pay later plans as a potentially healthier form of consumer debt if used correctly. The biggest concern had been late fees, which could act as a hefty finance charge on a small purchase if a borrower is late on a payment. The fees can run as high as $34, plus interest. But now as delinquencies are rising, and companies are being more aggressive in marketing their products, advocates see a need for additional regulation.
The industry is growing rapidly, according to a report released Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Americans took out roughly $24.2 billion in loans on buy now, pay later programs in 2021, up from only $2 billion in 2019. That industry-wide figure is only expected to jump even more. Klarna’s customers bought $41 billion worth of product on its service globally in the first six months of the year, up 21% from a year ago. At PayPal, revenue from its buy now, pay later services more than tripled in the second quarter to $4.9 billion.
Jasmine Francis, 29, a technology analyst based in Charlotte, North Carolina, said she first used a buy now, pay later service in 2018 to buy clothes from fast-fashion brand Forever21.
“I remember I just had a cartful,” she said. “At first, I thought, ‘Something’s gotta go back,’ and then I saw Afterpay at checkout – you don’t pay for it all right now, but you get it all right now. That was music to my ears.”
How healthfully customers are using buy now, pay later loans is unclear. Fitch found that delinquencies on these services rose sharply in the 12 months ended March 31, while credit card delinquencies remained steady. And according to the CFPB, a growing percentage of loans the industry is making are being charged off — or loans it considered so delinquent that they were likely uncollectible. The industry’s charge-off rate was 2.39% in 2021, a figure that is now likely higher given the economic turmoil this year. In 2020, that figure was 1.83%.
“This upward trend on delinquencies is continuing,” said Rohit Chopra, director of the CFPB, in a call with reporters.
Credit reporting company TransUnion found that buy now, pay later borrowers are using the product just as much as credit cards, piling on debt on top of additional debt. A poll by Morning Consult released this week found 15% of buy now, pay later customers are using the service for routine purchases, such as groceries and gas, a type of behavior that sounds alarm bells among financial advisors. The CFPB report also found a small, but growing number of Americans using these products for routine purchases as well.
“If these buy now, pay later plans are not adequately budgeted for, they can have a cascading impact across a person’s entire financial life,” said Andre Jean-Pierre, a former Morgan Stanley wealth advisor who now runs his own financial planning firm focused on helping Black Americans adequately save and budget.
Another concern among advisers and consumer advocates, as well as Washington lawmakers and regulators, is the ease with which consumers can layer on these installment loans.
Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday about new financial products, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, noted the benefits of plans that allow consumers to pay for things in installments. But he also criticized the way in which the industry promotes the plans.
“Ads encourage consumers to use these plans for multiple purchases, at multiple online stores — racking up debt they cannot afford to repay,” Brown said.
The short-term loans are potentially problematic because they’re not reported on a consumer’s credit profile with Transunion and Experian. Further the buy now, pay later industry’s customers skew young — meaning they have little credit history. Hypothetically a borrower could take out several short-term loans across multiple buy now, pay later companies — a practice known as “loan stacking” — and they would never appear on a credit report. If a person puts too many items on buy now, pay later plans, budgeting could be difficult.
“It’s a blind spot for the industry,” Taiano of Fitch said.
In a statement, the buy now pay later industry trade group pushed back on the characterization that its products could saddle borrowers with too much debt.
“With zero to low-interest, flexible payment terms, and transparent terms and conditions, BNPL helps consumers manage their cash flow responsibly and live healthier financial lives,” said Penny Lee, CEO of the Financial Technology Association.
Meanwhile providers of buy now, pay later services see rising delinquencies as a natural consequence of growth, but also an indication that inflation is hitting Americans most likely to use these services the hardest.
“We have seen some stress (among those with the lowest credit scores), and those are starting to have a hard time,” said Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Affirm, one of the largest buy now, pay later companies.
“I would not call it a sort of preamble to a potential downturn, but it’s not the same kind of a smooth sailing it’s been,” he said, adding that Affirm is taking a more conservative approach towards lending.
Buy now, pay later took off in the U.S. after the Great Recession. The product, analysts said, largely has not been tested through a great period of financial distress, unlike mortgages or credit cards or auto loans.
Despite these concerns, the consensus is buy now, pay later companies are here to stay. Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay, which is owned by Block Inc., as well as PayPal and others are now widely embedded in Internet commerce.
Further, the industry’s growth is attracting more players. Technology titan Apple earlier this summer announced Apple Pay Later, where users can put purchases on a four-payment plan over six weeks.
“I generally plan purchases that I make using PayPal ‘Pay in 4’ so that my due dates for purchases land on my pay dates, as the due dates are every other week,” said Desiree Moore, 35, from Georgia.
Moore said she tries to use buy now pay later plans to cover purchases not in her usual monthly budget, so not to take money away from the needs of her children. She has been increasingly using the plans with inflation making items more expensive and is so far able to keep up with the payments.
Francis, the technical analyst, said it’s now common among her friends to pay for travel with the installment loans, to not completely drain their bank accounts in case of emergencies.
“If I come back home from vacation and have two flat tires, and I just spent all that money on plane tickets, that’s $400 you don’t have at the moment,” she said. “Most people don’t have savings. They just have enough for those flat tires.”
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AP Personal Finance Reporter Cora Lewis contributed to this report from New York. | 2022-09-15T15:16:24+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-as-buy-now-pay-later-plans-grow-so-do-delinquencies/ |
Officials encourage prep as hurricane season starts in SC
Published: May. 29, 2022 at 3:13 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has proclaimed Hurricane Preparedness Week starting Sunday.
The South Carolina Emergency Management Division is emphasizing this year that people know their evacuation zone, how to prepare their homes to ride out a storm and what highways they need to take to evacuate.
They are using the slogan “Know Your Zone, Prepare Your Home, Remember Your Route.”
Health officials say residents should also make sure their COVID-19 boosters and vaccinations are up to date and include masks and other disease-fighting items in their hurricane kits.
Four hurricanes have directly or indirectly impacted South Carolina in the past six years.
Copyright 2022 Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-29T20:18:46+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/05/29/officials-encourage-prep-hurricane-season-starts-sc/ |
Man wins almost $400,000 in lottery a day after getting engaged
Published: Jul. 4, 2023 at 8:21 PM CDT|Updated: 23 minutes ago
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG/Gray News) - A man in Iowa won nearly $400,000 one day after getting engaged.
Nick Miller popped the question to his girlfriend on June 22. The next day, he bought a lottery ticket in an InstaPlay game at a Casey’s in Cascade.
Miller said the money will go a long way for a house and a wedding.
This is one of three big lottery prizes won in Iowa in two days last month.
The other winning tickets were bought in Davenport and in Ottumwa.
Copyright 2023 KCRG via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-05T01:47:05+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2023/07/05/man-wins-almost-400000-lottery-day-after-getting-engaged/ |
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges were possible after the two countries negotiated the trade of American basketball player Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.Related video above: 'We've not forgotten about Paul Whalen,' President Biden saysAsked whether other prisoners could be swapped, Putin replied that "everything is possible," noting that Thursday's exchange of Griner for Bout involved compromises."We aren't refusing to continue this work in the future," he added.Despite negotiating the swap for WNBA star Griner, the most high-profile American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless.Bout, dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for providing arms for some of the world's worst conflicts, was seen in Russia as unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.A day after returning to his homeland after 14 years in a U.S. prison, he said the West was bent on destroying Russia.Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment."The West believes that it has failed to finish us off when the Soviet Union began to collapse," Bout said. "And our efforts to live independently, be an independent power is a shock to them."Russian state media hailed his release, carrying the footage of him talking to his family from a private jet following a swap at Abu Dhabi's airport and then embracing his wife and his mother on a snowy tarmac in Moscow.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Griner-Bout exchange was agreed to between Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies and that contacts were held exclusively to hammer out its specifics."It has no impact on the overall state of bilateral ties that looks sad," Peskov said in televised remarks.U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelan's release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the "sham espionage" charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom.Peskov said that "special services may continue their work if necessary," and also noted the role of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in helping broker the swap.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that more U.S.-Russian prisoner exchanges were possible after the two countries negotiated the trade of American basketball player Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Related video above: 'We've not forgotten about Paul Whalen,' President Biden says
Asked whether other prisoners could be swapped, Putin replied that "everything is possible," noting that Thursday's exchange of Griner for Bout involved compromises.
"We aren't refusing to continue this work in the future," he added.
Despite negotiating the swap for WNBA star Griner, the most high-profile American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless.
Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at his news conference after the Summit of the Intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.
Bout, dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for providing arms for some of the world's worst conflicts, was seen in Russia as unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.
A day after returning to his homeland after 14 years in a U.S. prison, he said the West was bent on destroying Russia.
Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment.
"The West believes that it has failed to finish us off when the Soviet Union began to collapse," Bout said. "And our efforts to live independently, be an independent power is a shock to them."
Russian state media hailed his release, carrying the footage of him talking to his family from a private jet following a swap at Abu Dhabi's airport and then embracing his wife and his mother on a snowy tarmac in Moscow.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Griner-Bout exchange was agreed to between Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies and that contacts were held exclusively to hammer out its specifics.
"It has no impact on the overall state of bilateral ties that looks sad," Peskov said in televised remarks.
U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelan's release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the "sham espionage" charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom.
Peskov said that "special services may continue their work if necessary," and also noted the role of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in helping broker the swap. | 2022-12-09T17:39:31+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/putin-more-prisoner-exchanges-possible-after-brittney-griner-release/42199196 |
Former New York City prosecutor, journalist and television personality Star Jones is back behind the bench as she takes over as “Divorce Court” judge.
The show kicked off its 23rd season on Monday, and it airs on MyINDY-TV 23 weekdays at 10:30 a.m.
“As a fan of television’s longest-running court show, I was honored to be considered to take over the ‘Divorce Court’ TV bench, following in the footsteps of three incredible women, Judge Mablean Ephriam, Judge Lynn Toler, and Judge Faith Jenkins,” said the original “The View” co-host in a press release. “I will offer the parties before ‘Divorce Court,’ as well as viewers, a no-nonsense approach to the law and a decision driven by my proven legal expertise, compassion and empathy, personal experiences and hard-earned common sense.”
Watch the video above to hear from her about the show’s premiere. | 2022-08-22T23:22:09+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindiana/star-jones-takes-over-as-divorce-court-judge/ |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Caleb Downs, the No.1 safety in the class of 2023 announced a verbal commitment to the University of Alabama Wednesday.
The 6-foot safety weighing 185 pounds attends Mill Creek High School, located in Hoschton, Ga. He is the third player out of Georgia to join Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide, along with Justice Haynes and Dylan Lonergan.
According to 247Sports, Downs is the No.13 player in the country, but No.1 in his position and in his state. In three high school seasons, Downs has 186 tackles, 33 pass breakups and 14 interceptions.
The Tide’s class of 2023 recruits is ranked No.5 nationally according to 247Sports. | 2022-07-27T21:03:30+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/alabama/five-star-safety-caleb-downs-commits-to-alabama/ |
In recent health news, according to a recent study 48% drop in cancer death after patients receive bariatric surgery. In a study of 30,000 patients from the Cleveland Clinic the study, weight loss even achieved through bariatric surgery reduced the risk of obesity-related cancer.
Obesity-related cancer was a composite of these 13 cancer types: esophageal adenocarcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, postmenopausal breast cancer (diagnosed at ≥55 years of age) or breast cancer in younger patients who had bilateral oophorectomy, multiple myeloma, and cancers of the gastric cardia, colon, rectum, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, ovary, corpus uteri, and thyroid. | 2022-06-08T18:35:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/bariatric-surgery-can-help-reduce-cancer-risk/ |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — With the weather starting to warm up, it’s almost time for the kids to grab their fishing poles for the Parks and Recreation Department and Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Kids Fishing Rodeo.
Kids will not only get a chance to cast their lines, but when they snag a fish, it will be measured and recorded by Texas Parks and Wildlife staff.
Prizes will be awarded by age divisions: 2-6 yrs, 7-11 yrs and 12-16 yrs.
The categories and prize levels are 1st, 2nd & 3rd Smallest Trout, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Largest Trout, and 1st & 2nd Largest Other Species. Judging is based on length, not weight.
Bring your own fishing pole and bait and head out to Plum Lake at 1702 Sheppard Access Road on Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m. until noon. | 2023-02-22T03:42:50+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/parks-and-recreations-kids-fishing-rodeo/ |
Suspected drunken driver going more than 125 mph at time of crash, authorities say
PHOENIX (Arizona’s family/Gray News) - Authorities in Arizona say a man is facing charges after crashing into several cars while suspected of driving under the influence.
Arizona’s Family reports the crash happened around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday on Loop 202 when a Honda Accord was traveling at more than 125 mph on the highway.
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the vehicle smashed into three cars before ricocheting off a wall and overturning near the 52nd Street exit.
Traffic cameras near the scene showed traffic being diverted off the highway while the crash scene was being investigated.
Authorities said a 19-year-old was behind the wheel of the Honda. He was hospitalized after the crash and expected to be booked into jail once released.
The public safety department said the 19-year-old is facing DUI, criminal damage and endangerment charges.
Another driver suffered minor injuries in the crash, according to the department.
Copyright 2022 Arizona's Family via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-15T00:54:55+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/14/suspected-drunken-driver-going-more-than-125-mph-time-crash-authorities-say/ |
DETROIT, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocket Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RKT) ("Rocket Companies" or the "Company"), a Detroit-based FinTech platform company consisting of tech-driven real estate, mortgage, and financial services businesses – including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Homes, Rocket Auto and Rocket Money (formerly known as Truebill)– today announced the Company will issue its second quarter 2022 earnings on August 4, 2022. Management will host a conference call to discuss results at 4:30 p.m. ET on this date, and a press release detailing the Company's results will be issued prior to the call.
A live webcast of the event will be available online at ir.rocketcompanies.com, or by navigating to Rocket Companies' 2Q Earnings Call Webcast. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Investor Relations website following the conclusion of the event. If you are having issues viewing the webcast, please see the event help guide.
About Rocket Companies
Founded in 1985, Rocket Companies is a Detroit-based FinTech platform company consisting of personal finance and consumer technology brands including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Homes, Amrock, Rocket Auto, Rocket Loans, Rocket Money (formerly known as Truebill), Rocket Solar, Rocket Mortgage Canada (formerly known as Edison Financial), Lendesk, Core Digital Media, Rocket Central and Rock Connections.
Rocket Companies' mission is to be the best at creating certainty in life's most complex moments so that its clients can live their dreams. The Company helps clients achieve the dream of home ownership and financial freedom through industry-leading client experiences powered by its simple, fast and trusted digital solutions. Rocket Companies ranked #7 on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2022 and has placed in the top third of the list for 19 consecutive years. For more information, please visit our Corporate Website or Investor Relations Website.
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SOURCE Rocket Companies, Inc. | 2022-07-21T20:42:13+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/21/rocket-companies-announces-second-quarter-2022-earnings-date/ |
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Police say at least five people were killed in a gun battle with security forces outside South Sudan's central bank in the capital, Juba.
Spokesman Maj. Gen. Daniel Justin late Friday denied reports of a robbery attempt at the bank. He said the armed people had stolen money from a parked car near the petroleum ministry.
“Our forces followed the culprits until they were apprehended around the central bank. When they found our roadblock, they decided to fire, and our forces responded by killing five of them," he told reporters.
He said were all South Sudanese nationals.
The central bank in a statement confirmed the incident occurred outside its premises and said calm had returned. | 2022-12-17T06:37:27+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/South-Sudan-police-say-5-killed-in-confrontation-17660478.php |
Historic transaction to strengthen company's railway operations by securing strategic segment of network
ATLANTA, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) announced today the execution of a purchase agreement under which the company's operating subsidiary, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, will acquire substantially all of the assets of the Cincinnati Southern Railway (CSR), an approximately 337 mile railroad that runs from Cincinnati, Ohio to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The CSR is currently owned by the City of Cincinnati and operated by the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company (CNOTP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Railway, under a lease agreement expiring in 2026.
The agreement provides the company ownership of approximately 9,500 acres of land that sits under infrastructure maintained and operated by Norfolk Southern. Further, it ensures Norfolk Southern will own the line in perpetuity, while eliminating uncertainty around future lease costs. The line is one of the highest density segments of the company's network, with as many as 30 trains a day traveling the route.
"The Cincinnati Southern Railway is a critical artery linking the Midwest and the Southeast and plays an important role in our powerful network that serves more than half the U.S. population," said Norfolk Southern President and Chief Executive Officer Alan H. Shaw. "This agreement sets the framework for Norfolk Southern to own a core line in our network in perpetuity, allowing us to advance our strategic objectives of improving service, enhancing productivity, and creating an even stronger platform for accelerated growth, all while eliminating uncertainty around future control of the line and lease costs."
Upon the close of the transaction, projected to occur in the first half of 2024, the City of Cincinnati will receive cash consideration of approximately $1.62 billion. Norfolk Southern intends to finance the transaction through a combination of internal and external sources. The City of Cincinnati plans to use the proceeds of the transaction to form an infrastructure fund that will benefit the citizens of Cincinnati for generations to come. The trust would solely fund the rehabilitation, modernization, or replacement of existing infrastructure such as streets, bridges, municipal buildings, parks, and green space. The closing is subject to certain conditions, including approval by the voters of Cincinnati and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Alico, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALCO) between February 4, 2021 and December 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important April 18, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Alico securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Alico had deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (2) as a result, the Company had improperly calculated Alico's deferred tax liabilities over a multi-year period; (3) accordingly, the Company would likely be required to restate one or more of its previously issued financial statements; (4) the foregoing would impede the timely completion of the audit of the Company's financial results in advance of its year-end earnings call; and (5) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ 1st Source Corp. (SRCE) on Thursday reported net income of $32.7 million in its third quarter.
The South Bend, Indiana-based bank said it had earnings of $1.32 per share.
The holding company for 1st Source Bank posted revenue of $98.5 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $90.9 million, missing Street forecasts.
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Detectives seek motive in fatal California school stabbing
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives on Thursday were investigating what prompted a fight between three students at a Northern California high school that ended in one fatally stabbing another as more than two dozen classmates watched.
A 15-year-old freshman was booked on suspicion of homicide and other charges in connection with Wednesday’s fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. One 16-year-old junior was killed and another injured, police said.
The attack shocked Santa Rosa — a community best known for its wineries about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) north of San Francisco — and prompted lockdowns of several nearby schools as officers searched for the teenage suspect.
The school will be closed for the rest of the week. Principal Adam Paulson, in a message to parents, students and the school community, called the stabbing “the darkest day anyone can remember at Montgomery High,” according to the Press-Democrat.
The deceased victim was identified as Jayden Jess Pienta, 16, according to Santa Rosa police. He was a junior. The victim who survived the stabbing is also a 16-year-old junior.
Jayden’s stepfather, Tom Lenwell, told KTVU he was reeling from the violence.
“I’m hurt. I’m sad. I’m never going to see Jayden again,” Lenwell told reporters. “I’m not going to be able to joke and laugh with him. Those days are gone.”
Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Christopher Mahurin on Thursday said investigators are working to interview the 27 students who were inside the classroom at the time, as well as the teacher and teacher’s aides.
Members of the New Vintage Church gathered Thursday morning to pray for the school community.
Officers will be on the school’s campus Monday when it reopens, Mahurin said.
But some parents said they wanted to hear more about the school’s plans and also would press the school board about children’s safety at next week’s meeting.
“I don’t feel like the school district’s had any response,” said Libby Dalton, whose 16-year-old son is a sophomore. “They canceled school for two days but what’s next? How are they going to keep our kids safe after that?”
Parents were feeling “fear, anger and a lot of frustration,” Dalton said, adding that there were already safety concerns after a student brought a gun to school last year.
The violence started when the two juniors came into the classroom and started a fight with the freshman, police said. Teachers initially broke up the brawl but the freshman then pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed the juniors.
Mahurin said detectives have not yet discovered why the upperclassmen began the brawl, though the three students appear to have known each other and had fought previously.
Dalton said her son knew the students involved but they weren’t in his grade and she didn’t know what sparked the dispute.
“There’s a lot of fights at Montgomery,” she added. “They just have that culture there that they fight. The kids fight there. They pick on each other and they try and stand up for themselves and then they all end up suspended.”
Her son was suspended for a day after he fought back after being picked on in the boy’s locker room, she said.
“There’s no discipline for the bullies,” she said. “I don’t know what went on between those three boys but they definitely don’t support the kids that do get picked on.”
Santa Rosa police have not released the name of the 15-year-old student, a freshman, because he is a juvenile. He was booked on felony charges of homicide, attempted homicide and having a weapon on a school campus. He was additionally booked on a misdemeanor charge of battery on a school campus.
The teenager was taken into custody Wednesday hiding in a creek bed after he fled the classroom. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately have a comment Thursday about the potential filing of charges.
“This is truly a sad day. The tragedy that happened here today is heartbreaking,” Anna Trunnell, the Santa Rosa City Schools superintendent, said at a news conference.
Several students raised questions at the news conference about their safety and asked why school officials did not do more to stop the students’ behavior despite knowing there were problems between the three teens. The officials walked out instead of answering.
Officials had earlier said none of the campuses in the Santa Rosa City Schools District have metal detectors or police officers inside.
There were no mentions of the violence on the district’s website or social media accounts on Thursday morning. A Facebook page for Montgomery High School appeared to have been taken down.
Paulson, the high school’s principal, and Santa Rosa City School District spokeswoman Vanessa Wedderburn didn’t answer voice and email messages seeking comment Thursday.
With more than 1,600 students, Montgomery High School is the second largest school in Santa Rosa and in need of major repairs, according to a report published by The Press-Democrat last week.
The school, built in 1958, has exposed wires hanging from the rafters in hallways, wooden skirting around the foundation of old portable classrooms is rotting and students often must wait to get home to go to the bathroom because the ones at the school are foul smelling and there aren’t enough available, according to students who spoke to the newspaper.
Lisa Cavin, associate superintendent of business services for the Santa Rosa City Schools district, told the newspaper the district hasn’t had the funds for some projects over the years and that constant vandalism diverts money.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-03T04:18:49+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/03/03/detectives-seek-motive-fatal-california-school-stabbing/ |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An activist said he has again flown huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items and an anti-North Korea placard across the tense inter-Korean border, despite the North’s recent warning of a deadly attack over his activities.
Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector-turned-activist, said the 20 balloons launched from a South Korean border town on Sunday carried 20,000 masks and tens of thousands of Tylenol and Vitamin C tablets.
He said one of the balloons carried a placard with a message that reads “Let’s eradicate Kim Jong Un and (his sister) Kim Yo Jong," along with their photos. He said no other propaganda statements were carried by the balloons.
For years, Park has floated helium-filled balloons with numerous, small anti-Pyongyang leaflets with harsh criticism of the Kim family’s authoritarian rule in North Korea. But he’s recently changed his cargo to masks and other health products amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Korea is deeply angered by such activism and in response to Park's changed cargo has made the highly questionable claim that such objects caused the country's COVID-19 outbreak. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the country's leader, said last month that North Korea would respond by “wiping out the South Korean authorities” if “rubbish” continued to be flown from South Korea.
Days after Kim Yo Jong’s warning, a man wielding a steel pipe attacked Park at a rally in Seoul, breaking the activist's arm.
Police said the attacker was detained but didn’t immediately provide further details. Park said he believes North Korea has ordered pro-Pyongyang forces in South Korea to attack his group, a claim that cannot be independently confirmed.
In a failed assassination attempt in 2011, South Korean authorities captured a North Korean agent who tried to kill Park with a pen equipped with a poison needle.
North Korea is extremely sensitive to leafleting campaigns and other outside attempts to criticize the Kim family’s authoritarian rule of its people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. In 2014, North Korea fired at balloons flying toward its territory, and in 2020 it destroyed an empty South Korean-built liaison office in the North to express its anger over leafleting.
Last year, South Korea, under its previous liberal government that sought to improve ties with the North, enforced a contentious new law criminalizing such civilian leafleting campaigns. He was handed a suspended fine of 3 million won ($2,190) over previous balloon flights.
After Park sent balloons carrying medicine across the border in July, police said they were investigating Park’s activities. Park said he wasn’t contacted by police over the launch.
Police weren’t immediately available for comment on Park’s newer balloon floating. | 2022-09-05T05:43:01+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Activist-floats-balloons-again-despite-North-17419673.php |
With more extreme rain expected for California, the Bay Area's Russian River is expected to flood again. KQED's Danielle Venton reports on how people there are preparing.
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With more extreme rain expected for California, the Bay Area's Russian River is expected to flood again. KQED's Danielle Venton reports on how people there are preparing.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-01-07T13:29:07+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-01-07/bay-area-residents-are-preparing-for-the-russian-river-to-flood-again-early-next-week |
BOSTON, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It is announced today that Boston Hemp Inc., one of the nation's top retailers of premium hemp products has partnered with Herb.co to promote their brand on a national level. Herb is one of the top websites in the world and is focused on delivering robust content specifically related to the world of Cannabis.
Through this partnership, Boston Hemp Inc. is working with Herb's development team to create rich content that focuses on the features of Boston Hemp Inc.'s wide variety of premium hemp products including hemp flower infused with potent cannabinoids such as Delta-8 THC, HHC or THC-O, wax/dabs, edibles and vapes.
Herb is an online cannabis community that seeks to breakdown the stigma around weed by acting as a thoughtful curator of cannabis products, experiences and culture. They help users discover the best products, new products, information on strains, how-to guides and experiences in their cities through content and community.
Through this partnership Boston Hemp Inc. hopes to further amplify their growing brand to a community of like-minded individuals. Through strategic marketing exposure they hope to increase site traffic and acquire new customers.
Boston Hemp Inc. is one of the nation's top retailers of premium hemp products. They have a wide variety of hemp flower strains that can be infused with additional cannabinoids such as Delta-8 THC, HHC or THC-O, gummies that are filled with fruity flavor and pack a punch, concentrates, tinctures and vapes. They sell their products all over the world. Their products are available for sale on-line at www.BostonHempInc.com and at their retail location in Hanover, Massachusetts. Wholesale inquiries are welcome and can be made by emailing Kevin@BostonHempire.com
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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.
The nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX’s Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.
None of the rocket will be recovered. Instead, if all goes well, the first-stage booster, dubbed Super Heavy, would drop into the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft on top would continue eastward, passing over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans before ditching near Hawaii. The whole flight, if successful, would last just 1 1/2 hours.
The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.
A stuck booster valve scrapped Monday’s try. Hundreds of space fans returned to the launch site at Boca Chica Beach on the eve of the second launch attempt, snapping more selfies.
“I’ve been waiting for this, really, for years,” said Bob Drwal, a retired engineer who drove down from Chicago with his wife, Donna. | 2023-04-20T12:04:47+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/spacex-rocket-launch/ |
Landmark Lanes celebrates 95 years
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee’s Landmark Lanes is one of the oldest and longest-running bowling lanes in the country, and this week they’re celebrating 95 years in business!
Brian Kramp is visiting Landmark Lanes to try the various activities they offer and learn why it's so special to Milwaukee. | 2022-09-29T17:49:44+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/real-milwaukee/landmark-lanes-celebrates-95-years |
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who announced over the weekend that he will not run for president in 2024, about the direction of the Republican Party.
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Celebrity chef Rachael Ray and the ProStart program will give aspiring cooks and restauranteurs a chance to train for culinary careers in high school.
The South Dakota Retailers Association announced Rapid City Central High School is one of 38 schools nationwide that will receive a $5,000 grant from The Rachael Ray Foundation for the school’s ProStart program.
The Rachael Ray Foundation ProStart Grow Grants and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation provided the 38 grants, totaling $225,000, to ProStart schools that have demonstrated a strong need to engage and educate high school students who are interested in restaurant and food service jobs.
ProStart is a nationwide, two-year program for high school students that develops future restaurant and hospitality industry leaders.
In South Dakota, ProStart is a joint effort of the South Dakota Department of Education, the South Dakota Retailers Association and the South Dakota ProStart Advisory Committee. Funding from The Rachael Ray Foundation ProStart Grow Grants will prepare the Rapid City Central High School ProStart program to begin offering culinary arts and restaurant management courses, according to a press release from the South Dakota Retailers Association.
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Information from Rapid City Area Schools about specifically how the money will be used is not yet available because the district is still completing the approval process to receive the grant funds.
The ProStart curriculum was developed more than 15 years ago to teach students in high school about culinary arts and restaurant management and to inspire interest in food service professions, according to Seanna Regynski, the South Dakota ProStart Coordinator with the South Dakota Retailers Association.
“In the past few years, you can see an increase of everybody needing employees. The National Restaurant Association created (ProStart). They saw that need of those types of industry positions and people to fill them. They created a curriculum to spark that interest at an earlier age (in hopes that) students enjoy it so much they decide to work in a restaurant post-high school,” Regynski said. “I think there’s a lot of success in finding students are interested in the culinary field after taking the program.”
The ProStart curriculum is taught in 17 schools throughout South Dakota, and it is being introduced this upcoming school year at Rapid City Stevens and Central High Schools, Regynski said. Central High School applied for and was selected to receive a grant from The Rachael Ray Foundation. Mobridge High School is the only other school in South Dakota to receive a ProStart Grow Grant.
The South Dakota Retailers Association press release said Central High School will receive an upgrade to its classroom to prepare students to work with industry-specific equipment.
“I believe Central will be using those grant funds to start their program – things like curriculum and buying equipment. A lot of schools will put in industry-specific kitchens for students to use so when they go to post-secondary school or into the work force in restaurants, they’re familiar with that equipment,” Regynski said.
“They learn safety and sanitation, management skills, knife skills and how to take care of their equipment,” she said. “The curriculum is basically what students would learn in post-secondary school, so they’re learning it at a high school level. … It’s a program we are passionate about as far as how we facilitate the program for students in South Dakota and provide those opportunities for exploration of that industry, and it’s just something we’re really proud of.”
Ray is the Emmy-winning host of “Rachael Ray Show,” now in its 16th season. She has hosted several shows on Food Network including “$40 a Day,” which featured an episode highlighting Tally’s in Rapid City and other Black Hills eateries.
The Rachael Ray Foundation is a private foundation funded by a portion of the proceeds of each sale of Rachael Ray Nutrish® pet foods. The foundation supports causes Ray is most passionate about, such as helping animals in need and working with organizations to empower kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking.
“ProStart programs, and the educators who support them, provide high school students across the country with skills they need to be successful throughout life,” Ray said in a press release. “We (The Rachael Ray Foundation) are proud to support the dreams, passion, and hard work that these Grow Grant recipients display in their classrooms and schools as they cultivate the next generation of restaurant and food service professionals.”
"ProStart is a great opportunity for high school students to learn culinary and hospitality management skills applicable in an array of businesses, from restaurants to hotel management," Nathan Sanderson, executive director of the South Dakota Retailers Association, said in a press release. "This is real-world career preparation at its finest." | 2022-07-10T06:24:53+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/rapid-city-central-high-school-receives-culinary-grant-from-rachael-ray/article_9f2e337c-c3f0-5b99-8365-930de04009c5.html |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — One high school student is fighting for their life and another is injured after they were both shot outside of George Wythe High School Thursday afternoon. The school was put on lockdown in response to the shooting.
Officers with the Richmond Police Department (RPD) were called to the school around noon Thursday. There, officers found the first victim, a boy, with life-threatening injuries outside of the school in a wooded area by the parking lot. The boy was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Police said the second shooting victim, another boy, took himself to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
At a 2 p.m. news conference, Acting Police Chief Rick Edwards said the department believes there could be more than one suspect involved in the shooting, and that police are continuing to investigate the shooting timeline.
“I’m not sure if they [the victims] went to school this morning, or if they were inside and came out during lunch,” Edwards continued.
Edwards said the department does know how many shots were fired in total but is not ready to release the information.
George Wythe High School is located across the road from one of Richmond’s crime hotspots — The Belt Atlantic Apartments. In his first crime briefing as acting chief, Edwards announced that the police department would be focusing on a number of crime hotspots in the city — including Whitcomb, Creighton, Fairfield, Gilpin and Mosby Courts as well as the Belt Atlantic Apartments.
Several other schools in the area were put under a lock and teach Thursday in response to the shooting but the lockdowns have since been lifted.
Richmond Public Schools sent out a statement shortly after the shooting:
“URGENT: Dear George Wythe Families, we are sending this message to make you aware that George Wythe HS is under lock and teach due to a shooting in the parking lot. The Richmond Police Department is on scene and is actively investigating the situation. Please remember that during a lock and teach, campus movement is restricted and no one will be allowed enter or depart the school until the situation is resolved. Please know the safety of our students and staff is our top priority, and we will share further updates today.”
“There are too many guns in this city, and they are being used too often,” RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras said at the news conference.
Officers remained at the school investigating the shooting for several hours Thursday.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Stay with 8News for more. | 2023-04-27T20:18:23+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/virginia/two-students-shot-outside-george-wythe-high-school-in-parking-lot-one-left-with-life-threatening-injuries/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, killing both crewmembers, authorities said. It was the second time in less than a week that a combat jet crashed in a residential area in Russia.
The Irkutsk region’s governor, Igor Kobzev, said the Su-30 fighter jet came down on a private, two-story building housing two families. He said that there were no casualties on the ground as the building’s five residents were out at the moment of the crash.
He said the residents would be offered temporary accommodation and compensation.
The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known and an official probe has started. On Oct. 17, an Su-34 bomber crashed near an apartment building in the Sea of Azov port of Yeysk and exploded in a giant fireball, killing 15 and injuring another 19.
The crashes might reflect the growing strain that the fighting in Ukraine has put on the Russian air force.
The United Aircraft Corporation, a state-controlled conglomerate of Russian aircraft-making plants, said in a statement that the plane in Sunday’s incident came down during a training flight before its delivery to the air force. The jet carried no weapons during the flight.
Surveillance camera videos posted on Russian social networks showed the fighter in a nearly vertical dive and then exploding. Other videos showed the building engulfed by flames and firefighters deployed to extinguish the blaze.
Irkutsk, a major industrial center of more than 600,000 in eastern Siberia, is home to an aircraft factory producing Su-30s, a supersonic twin-engine, two-seat fighter that has been a key component of the Russian air force. China, India and many other countries also use the planes.
Sunday’s crash was the 11th reported noncombat crash of a Russian warplane since Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Military experts have noted that as the number of Russian military flights increased sharply during the fighting, so did the number of crashes. | 2022-10-24T00:17:32+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-russian-warplane-crashes-into-building-in-siberia/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Garcia Holmes wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.
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DENVER, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cousins Maine Lobster, leading food truck concept and provider of the tastiest Maine lobster rolls across the country, announces their upcoming grand opening at Joyride Brewing Company on Saturday, January 28.
Cousins Maine Lobster Denver will be led by brothers Raj and Rahul Mohan, who joined the Franchise Family in 2020 when they launched in the San Francisco Bay Area. That market rapidly grew to support three food trucks and will soon expand to a brick and mortar location.
"Denver presented an interesting opportunity for us to offer a unique product via a unique method. There is not a lot of lobster availability for consumers in Denver and the market is very food truck friendly. We have already experienced a warm welcoming from breweries and other businesses seeking to partner with us and we are excited to deepen our ties with the community," explained Raj Mohan.
"Raj and Rahul have built an impressive team and infrastructure to support their business in San Francisco and we have no doubt that they will replicate that model in Denver," explained Cousins Maine Lobster co-founder Sabin Lomac, who will attend the grand opening. "Their steady growth has been strategic and they have been innovative partners for us to work with to expand our brand and nationwide."
Cousins Maine Lobster Grand Opening
Saturday, January 28
11:30am - 8:30pm
Joyride Brewing Company
2501 Sheridan Boulevard
Edgewater, CO 80214
FMI: https://www.facebook.com/CMLDenver
Founded in 2012 by real-life cousins and Mainers, Jim Tselikis and Sabin Lomac, Cousins Maine Lobster began with a food truck and a shared vision to extend the highest-quality Maine lobster to the lobster-starved masses by making it affordable and accessible. After appearing on Shark Tank a few months later, Jim & Sabin partnered with Barbara Corcoran and began franchising, partnering with local entrepreneurs to bring Maine lobster to over 40 cities nationwide. For more information on Cousins Maine Lobster franchise opportunities, visit https://www.cousinsmainelobster.com/franchise/ or call 207-387-2707.
Contact:
Annie Tselikis
Cousins Maine Lobster
atselikis@cousinsmainelobster.com
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DEAR ABBY: I have a huge crush on my husband’s friend, “Shane.” I think about him daily and fantasize about him every night. He used to come into the place where I work once a month. I wanted to tell him back then how I felt, but I chickened out.
I recently changed jobs, and he came into where I work now. I made a point of talking to him but said nothing about how I feel. I’m sure he could tell by the way I was smiling. I went to the races when Shane was racing and wanted to tell him then. My husband was there and went over to talk to him, so I stayed sitting on the bleachers. When my husband returned, he said Shane asked him where I was.
Abby, I have felt this way for two years. My husband and I have been married for seven. When I’m driving home from work, I fantasize about Shane riding in the car with me. I hurry to get to town hoping I’ll see him at the gas station or passing by. I’m considering contacting him on Messenger. I have never thought about my husband this way. Please give me some advice on what to do.
— OVER THE MOON IN MISSOURI
DEAR OVER: Nowhere in your letter did you mention whether your feelings for Shane are reciprocated. If you contact him, what exactly do you plan on telling him — that you love him? That you lust for him? Your efforts would be better spent trying to figure out what happened to the excitement in your marriage rather than starting a romance with your husband’s friend.
If you do what you have in mind and Shane doesn’t feel the same way, it will be enormously embarrassing. If he does have similar feelings, your husband will be devastated. The next time you have a fantasy about Shane, I urge you to switch to another channel.
DEAR ABBY: My grandson is 24. He was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome after he graduated from high school. He was first diagnosed with ADHD when he was young, then, years later, as bipolar. Since high school, he spends his time in his bedroom playing video games. He has no social interactions and doesn’t engage much, if at all, with his two younger brothers. He also doesn’t get along well with his stepfather.
My daughter, his mother, is desperate for help but has been unable to find it. Most programs are designed for children or are too far away. Even trying to find a counselor locally who specializes in Asperger’s has led to blind alleys.
Where do we go to find help for him? He’s very functional but somewhat naive socially, and my daughter is fearful of him falling in with the wrong crowd. He has become depressed, and after years of turning his nose up at getting help, he actually wants it now. What do we do?
— SEEKING HELP IN TEXAS
DEAR SEEKING: Forcing help on a person who isn’t ready usually accomplishes little. That your grandson is finally willing to accept that he needs help is hopeful. Suggest that your daughter reach out to an organization called AANE, the Asperger/Autism Network, and ask for guidance for her son. To have questions and concerns addressed and to receive information and resources, she should visit aane.org.
— ANDREWS MCMEEL | 2022-07-19T09:14:10+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/dear_abby/woman-cant-stop-thinking-about-her-husbands-friend/article_5236c003-3056-5019-8733-9ba09ca27c9b.html |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister warned Thursday that any actions seen as endangering a Russian peacekeeping contingent in a separatist region of Moldova would be considered as an attack on Russia itself.
Sergey Lavrov’s statement in an address at Russia’s top foreign affairs school underlined concerns that Moldova’s Transnistria region, which borders Ukraine, could be drawn into the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Russia has stationed peacekeepers there since the 1992 end of a three-month war that left Transnistria outside Moldovan control. Russian forces also guard a large ammunition dump in the region.
In April, tensions in Moldova soared after a series of explosions in Transnistria.
“Everyone should understand that any kind of actions that will raise a threat to the security of our servicemen will be considered in accordance with international law as an attack on the Russian Federation,” Lavrov said.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-09-01T11:11:15+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/lavrov-warns-moldova-about-threats-to-peacekeepers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
We had Panthers athletes Kayden Snelling, Kendall Swanson and O'Quinn Gerdes plus fourth-year coach Josh Pritchard explain to us what they most appreciate about Oakwood's football program:
1. Ramping up the intensity
Pritchard doesn't have much trouble motivating his PBL athletes.
He knows how to cram quite a few words into a quickly-timed speech. And his players have responded well to his brand of leadership, winning nine games in Pritchard's first season of 2019 and making him The News-Gazette's All-Area football Coach of the Year that year.
And that only touches upon how Pritchard hypes up his guys on the field.
"We're always in the locker room (before games), and once Coach Pritchard finishes his prep talk he starts screaming. And then everyone behind him starts screaming," said Snelling, a senior receiver and linebacker. "When we were freshmen, we were definitely scared because we had never experienced that before. And when he started screaming randomly ... it was kind of scary."
2. A long time coming
Prep football holds strong roots in Paxton particularly. The first IHSA-documented season of Panthers football occurred in 1909, and the program finished with a 5-2 record.
Since Paxton gave way to the PBL cooperative in 1990, the Panthers have qualified for the playoffs 20 times, including twice under Pritchard.
"Every time you look in the stands, you see everybody (and) you're just amazed how many fans we actually have," said the senior lineman Swanson, "and how many people get behind us on a Friday night."
PBL's current senior class cites the Mighty Mites youth football program as important in making them stronger together on the high school gridiron.
"Just being with them for 10 years, building the relationship we've got," Swanson said, "it's pretty special, and I wouldn't change it at all."
3. Big-play potential
When asked for their favorite memories thus far as PBL football players, all three of Snelling, Swanson and senior running back/defensive back O'Gerdes spoke about participating in a touchdown play that went for significant yardage.
It's something to look out for from the Panthers, regardless of who takes the field on offense.
"It'd have to be the 63-yard pass a couple minutes into the game (against Chillicothe IVC last season)," Snelling said. "Mason (Bruns) just kind of threw it up and told me to go get it. ... That and the interception, the pick-six against Dwight (in April 2021)."
"We went out for a screen play (against Iroquois West in April 2021), and after I got done blocking I just remember running all the way down to catch Tyler (Smith)," Swanson said. "I was the second kid there, but it was as fast as I've ever run (for 65 yards)."
"Definitely my first touchdown in high school varsity, against St. Joe in Week 9 (last season)," Gerdes said. "When I got to the sideline (after rushing for a 35-yard score), everyone was jumping all over me. I didn't even expect to get that touchdown. Nobody did."
4. Filling their bellies
Food is an important topic for any high school football program, and the Panthers are no exception.
After a Saturday morning film session, one might find the Panthers chilling at Paxton's Arcade Cafe.
As the lineman of this athlete trio, Swanson must offer an opinion on the business' top dining option.
"Probably the haystack," he said. "It's got biscuits on the bottom, and then hashbrowns, gravy, eggs."
"Kendall's in his happy place," Snelling added with a smile.
Pritchard said the Paxton Mexican establishment Pueblo Lindo has been especially generous in supporting the Panthers.
"They closed down the whole restaurant, let our players come in and eat after the football games," Pritchard said.
For this season, Pritchard said Snelling's mother managed to acquire several financial contributions to PBL's postgame food cause.
"His mom, within an hour, had eight people willing to donate $300-plus to sponsor a meal," Pritchard said. "That goes to show the community really does care about these players."
5. A look at the lineup
The Panthers are fairly experienced on both sides of the ball, though there is an unknown element to PBL's offense with the addition of sophomores Conner Vaughn and Robert Boyd-Meents at quarterback and running back, respectively.
Gerdes, Snelling and senior Aiden Johnson are among Vaughn's receiving options, while seniors such as Swanson, Aaron Kavajecz and Alex Swanson are tasked with protecting Vaughn and opening up rushing lanes for Boyd-Meents.
Eight seniors are expected to start on defense: Kavajecz, Kendall Swanson and Aden Grohler on the line; Gerdes, Snelling and Ty Graham at linebacker; and Johnson and Dalton Jones in the secondary.
"We have a lot of talent and hardworking kids," Gerdes said. "We can make a difference no matter what conference we're in. ... We're definitely not doubting ourselves, because we know what we can do." | 2022-08-25T16:08:13+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/sports/2022-prep-football-special-section-why-we-love-paxton-buckley-loda-football/article_67b7b74d-07b8-5fe6-b90b-36888a8e763f.html |
Isolated rain with dry conditions Father’s Day weekend
As a low pressure moves out of the region chances of rain will diminish throughout Wednesday and drier conditions into the weekend. Along with little rain chances, warmer air from the southwest is set to make its approach by Friday in the 70s with possible 80s on Sunday and Monday. This Father’s Day weekend is looking to be the ideal time to bring out the grill and cook out as chances of sun will stick around.
Thursday: Isolated rain showers in the eastern half; partly sunny skies elsewhere
>Highs: High 50s near the lake; Low to Mid 60s inland
Friday: Mostly sunny skies; seasonal temperatures
>Highs: Mid to High 60s near shore; High 60s to Low 70s inland
Saturday: Partly cloudy skies; warming air
>Highs: Mid 70s to isolated Low 80s
Sunday: Mostly sunny skies; warm and dry
>Highs: High 70s to Low 80s
Monday: Partly cloudy skies; warming trend continues
>Highs: Low 80s
Tuesday: Partly cloudy skies; dry stretch continues with warm air
>Highs: 80s
Copyright 2023 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-14T18:41:39+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/06/14/isolated-rain-with-dry-conditions-fathers-day-weekend/ |
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — An environmental activist who was fatally shot in a confrontation with Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester’s family said Monday as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned.
The family of Manuel Paez Terán held a news conference in Decatur to announce the findings and said they are filing an open-records lawsuit seeking to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the Jan. 18 killing of Paez Terán, who went by the name Tortuguita and used the pronoun they.
The family’s attorneys said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which has been probing the shooting for nearly two months, has prevented Atlanta police from releasing additional evidence to the family. The wooded area where Paez Terán was killed has long been dubbed “Cop City” by opponents who occupied the forest there to protest the 85-acre (34-hectare) tract being developed as a massive police and firefighter training facility.
“Manuel was looking death in the face, hands raised when killed,” civil rights attorney Brian Spears said, citing the autopy’s conclusions. “We do not stand here today telling you that we know what happened. The second autopsy is a snapshot of what happened, but it is not the whole story. What we want is simple: GBI, meet with the family and release the investigative report.”
In a statement, the bureau said it’s preventing “inappropriate release of evidence” to preserve the investigation’s integrity.
Paez Terán’s death and their dedication to opposing the training center has vaulted the “Stop Cop City” movement onto the national and international stage, with leftist activists from across the country holding vigils and prompting some to travel and join the protest movement that began in 2021. A few protests have turned violent, including earlier this month when more than 150 masked activists left a nearby music festival and stormed the proposed site of the training center, setting fire to construction equipment and throwing rocks at retreating law enforcement officers.
Authorities have said officers fired on Paez Terán after the 26-year-old shot and seriously injured a state trooper while officers cleared activists from an Atlanta-area forest where officials plan to build the training center. The investigative bureau says it continues to back its initial assessment of what happened.
Paez Terán had been camping in the forest for months to oppose building “Cop City.” Their family and friends have said the activist practiced non-violence and have accused authorities of state-sanctioned murder.
The investigative bureau has said no body camera or dashcam footage of the shooting exists, and that ballistics evidence shows the injured trooper was shot with a bullet from a gun Paez Terán legally purchased in 2020.
Spears said the family commissioned a second autopsy after the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an initial one. Officials have not released the DeKalb County report, so it’s unclear whether it reached a similar conclusion that Paez Terán had their hands raised, the palms facing inward at the time of the shooting.
“Manuel loved the forest,” their grieving mother, Belkis Terán, said. “It gave them peace. They meditiated there. The forest connected them with God. I never thought that Manuel could die in a meditation position.”
The family’s autopsy report describes Paez Terán’s body as being torn up, shot at least a dozen times and that “many of the wound tracks within his body converge, coalesce and intersect, rendering the ability to accurately determine each and every individual wound track very limited, if even impossible.”
The report also says it is “impossible to determine” whether the activist was holding a firearm at the time they were shot.
The autopsy was conducted by Dr. Kris Sperry, who was the investigation bureau’s longtime chief medical examiner until he abruptly resigned in 2015 after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Sperry “claimed hundreds of work hours at the GBI when he actually was working for clients of his forensic-science consulting firm.”
Atlanta City Council approved building the proposed $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in 2021, saying a state-of-the-art campus would replace substandard offerings and boost police morale, which is beset by hiring and retention struggles in the wake of violent protests against racial injustice that roiled the city after George Floyd’s death in 2020.
In addition to classrooms and administrative buildings, the training center would include a shooting range, a driving course to practice chases and a “burn building” for firefighters to work on putting out fires. A “mock village” featuring a fake home, convenience store and nightclub would also be built for authorities to rehearse raids.
Paez Terán moved from Florida last year to join activists in the woods who were protesting by camping out at the site and building platforms in surrounding trees.
Self-described “forest defenders” say that building the training center would involve cutting down so many trees it would damage the environment. They also oppose investing so much money in a project which they say will be used to practice “urban warfare.”
Since Paez Terán’s death, numerous protests have been held in Atlanta, some of which have turned violent, including when masked activists on Jan. 21 lit a police car on fire and shattered the windows of a downtown skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation and.
On March 5, a group threw flaming bottles and rocks at officers as others torched heavy machinery at the construction site where the training center is expected to be built. Twenty-three people are facing domestic terrorism charges in connection with that attack. Activists maintain that those who were arrested were not violent agitators “but peaceful concert-goers who were nowhere near the demonstration.” | 2023-03-13T21:15:50+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/autopsy-cop-city-protester-had-hands-raised-when-killed/ |
House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff for comments he made several years ago about investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, rebuking the Democrat and frequent critic of the former president along party lines.
Schiff, who will stand in front of the House while the resolution is read, becomes the 25th House lawmaker to be censured. He was defiant ahead of the vote, saying he will wear the formal disapproval as a “badge of honor” and charged his GOP colleagues of doing the former president’s bidding.
“I will not yield,” Schiff, who is running for the Senate in his home state, said during debate over the measure. “Not one inch.”
More than 20 Republicans voted with Democrats last week to block the censure resolution, but they changed their votes this week after the measure’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, removed a provision that could have fined Schiff $16 million if the House Ethics Committee determined he lied. Several of the Republicans who opposed the resolution last week said they opposed fining a member of Congress in that manner.
The final vote was 213-209. The revised resolution says Schiff held positions of power during Trump’s presidency and “abused this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.” Schiff was one of the most outspoken critics of the former president as both the Justice Department and the Republican-led House launched investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia in 2017. Both investigations concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election but neither found evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
“Representative Schiff purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people,” the resolution said.
Schiff, the former Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial, has long been a top Republican political target. Soon after taking back the majority this year, Republicans blocked him from sitting on the intelligence panel.
The House has only censured two other lawmakers in the last 20 years. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona was censured in 2021 for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword. Former Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York was censured in 2010 for serious financial and campaign misconduct.
The censure itself carries no practical effect, except to provide a historic footnote that marks a lawmaker’s career. But the GOP resolution would also launch an ethics investigation into Schiff’s conduct.
While Schiff did not initiate the 2017 congressional investigation into Trump’s Russia ties — then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a Republican who later became one of Trump’s most ardent defenders, started it — Republicans arguing in favor of his censure Wednesday blamed him for what they said was the fallout of that probe, and of the separate investigation started that same year by Trump’s own Justice Department.
Luna said that Schiff’s comments that there was evidence against Trump “ripped apart American families across the country” and that he was “permanently destroying family relationships.” Several blamed him for the more than $30 million spent by then-special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the Justice Department probe.
Schiff said the censure resolution “would accuse me of omnipotence, the leader of some a vast Deep State conspiracy, and of course, it is nonsense.”
Democrats aggressively defended their colleague. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who led Trump’s second impeachment, called the effort an “embarrassing revenge tour on behalf of Donald Trump.”
Mueller, who led the two-year Justice Department investigation, determined that Russia intervened on the campaign’s behalf and that Trump’s campaign welcomed the help. But Mueller’s team did not find that the campaign conspired to sway the election, and the Justice Department did not recommend any criminal charges.
The House intelligence committee probe launched by Nunes similarly found that Russia intervened in the election but that there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy. Schiff was the top Democrat on the panel at the time.
Schiff said last week that the censure resolution was “red meat” that Speaker Kevin McCarthy was throwing to his conference amid squabbles over government spending. Republicans are trying to show their fealty to Trump, Schiff said.
He said he warned the country during impeachment proceedings three years ago that Trump “would go on to do worse. And of course he did worse in the form of a violent attack on the Capitol.”
After Democrats won the House majority in 2018, the House impeached Trump for abuse of power after he threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine and urged the country’s president to investigate then-candidate Joe Biden. Schiff was the lead House prosecutor making the case for conviction to the Senate, arguing repeatedly that “right matters.” The Republican-led chamber ultimately acquitted him.
Trump was impeached a second time a year later, after he had left office, for his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. The Senate again acquitted Trump.
In the censure resolution against Schiff, Luna also cited a report released in May from special counsel John Durham that found that the FBI rushed into its investigation of Trump’s campaign and relied too much on raw and unconfirmed intelligence.
Durham said investigators repeatedly relied on “confirmation bias,” ignoring or rationalizing away evidence that undercut their premise of a Trump-Russia conspiracy as they pushed the probe forward. But he did not allege that political bias or partisanship were guiding factors for the FBI’s actions.
Trump had claimed that Durham’s report would reveal the “crime of the century” and expose a “deep state conspiracy” by high-ranking government officials to derail his candidacy and later his presidency. But the investigation yielded only one conviction — a guilty plea from a little-known FBI employee — and the only two other cases that were brought both ended in acquittals at trial.
On Wednesday, just before the vote, Schiff’s campaign sent out a fundraising email that said Luna had introduced “yet ANOTHER resolution to censure me.”
“The vote and debate will happen imminently,” the email read, asking recipients to donate to help him fight back. “Once more, I have to be on the House floor to listen as MAGA Republicans push false and defamatory lies about me.”
Democrats also argued that the House censure resolution is an effort to distract from Trump’s recent indictment on federal charges of hoarding classified documents — several of which dealt with sensitive national security matters — and attempting to conceal them. House Republicans, most of whom are loyal to Trump, say the indictment is more evidence that the government is conspiring against the former president.
“This is not a serious resolution,” said Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., but political theater to “distract from Donald Trump’s history of transgressions and now indictments.” | 2023-06-22T00:23:53+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/house-censures-rep-adam-schiff-over-trump-russia-investigations/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
9-6-7, SB: 4
(nine, six, seven; SB: four)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
9-6-7, SB: 4
(nine, six, seven; SB: four) | 2022-09-26T18:37:28+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Midday-game-17467658.php |
Yu Chang Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Mariners - July 31
Published: Jul. 31, 2023 at 7:25 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Monday, Yu Chang (coming off going 0-for-1) and the Boston Red Sox face the Seattle Mariners, whose starting pitcher will be George Kirby. First pitch is at 9:40 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-1) against the Giants.
Yu Chang Game Info & Props vs. the Mariners
- Game Day: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
- Stadium: T-Mobile Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Mariners Starter: George Kirby
- TV Channel: ROOT Sports NW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -118)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +310)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +210)
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Yu Chang At The Plate
- Chang is hitting .163 with two doubles, five home runs and three walks.
- Chang has had a hit in 11 of 30 games this year (36.7%), including multiple hits three times (10.0%).
- He has hit a home run in five games this season (16.7%), homering in 5.3% of his trips to the dish.
- Chang has picked up an RBI in 10 games this season (33.3%), with more than one RBI in five of those contests (16.7%).
- He has scored a run in 11 of 30 games so far this season.
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Yu Chang Home/Away Batting Splits
Mariners Pitching Rankings
- The 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Mariners pitching staff ranks seventh in MLB.
- The Mariners have the fifth-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.84).
- The Mariners give up the seventh-fewest home runs in baseball (115 total, 1.1 per game).
- Kirby (9-8) is aiming for his 10th win when he gets the starting nod for the Mariners in his 21st start of the season. He's put together a 3.49 ERA in 123 2/3 innings pitched, with 112 strikeouts.
- The right-hander last pitched on Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins, when he tossed four innings, allowing five earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 25-year-old's 3.49 ERA ranks 20th, 1.075 WHIP ranks eighth, and 8.2 K/9 ranks 39th.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-31T12:58:41+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/sports/betting/2023/07/31/yu-chang-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
BILLINGS — Less than two years ago, Caden Handran of Scobey and Drew Wyman of Great Falls High were helping their home state to a sweep in the Montana-Wyoming All-Star Basketball Series.
Fast forward and the duo has climbed the collegiate mountaintop with College of Idaho, as the Yotes won the NAIA men's basketball national championship with a 73-71 win over Indiana Tech last Saturday in Kansas City.
"We were just a together group and we knew it was going to happen. We just had to weather the storm. We did. It got a little close, but we got it done," Handran told MTN Sports.
College of Idaho's title run wasn't without drama, as it held 20-point leads in both the semifinal and championship games before winning in nail-biting fashion. In fact, it was a late bucket and a split at the foul line by the second-team All-American Wyman to essentially win the title.
"I'll be honest — I was a little nervous that I missed the second one and it was a two-point game, but I ran back. Next play mentality. You've got to get back on defense and try to get a stop," Wyman said.
Handran and Wyman have played together on the AAU scene for years and envisioned a moment like this coming out of high school in 2021. Wyman was a Montana Gatorade player of the year for the Bison, while Handran had a tremendous amount of success at Scobey in helping the Spartans to a co-championship in 2020 and the outright State C crown in 2021.
So how does this national championship rank?
"Don't get me wrong, a state championship is awesome. Coming from a small town and a community like that where everyone was at the state games, it just meant a lot to our community and it was awesome, but it's not even close," Handran said. "It's surreal, honestly. Everyone back in Scobey was watching, too, so they took at as theirs. As they should, because I kind of did it for everybody."
There's a chance the Yotes bring back everyone next season, but they've got to hit the books before worrying about a repeat.
"I definitely think we're going to take a few weeks here to recover and get our physical and mental health right. Get a little caught up on classes because we missed 10 days," Wyman said. "I bet we'll start up in three, four weeks if I had to guess. We'll start lifting, getting strong and ready for the next season. We'll get some scrimmages going, some spring stuff going and it'll be good. We'll be ready to go and try to run it back next year."
Handran, Wyman and their College of Idaho teammates will likely appear near the top of next year's preseason polls. | 2023-03-22T22:00:50+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/community/athlete-of-the-week/q2-aow-caden-handran-drew-wyman-reflect-on-naia-national-title-with-college-of-idaho |
A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have begun to help slow the rise in obesity among America’s children — even teenagers who can buy their own snacks, a new study showed.
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The national study found a small but significant decline in the average body mass index of more than 14,000 schoolkids ages 5 to 18 whose heights and weights were tracked before and after implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
The study is new evidence that improving the quality of school meals through legislation might be one way to help shift the trajectory of childhood obesity, which has been rising for decades and now affects about 1 in 5 U.S. kids. Whether the program has begun to turn the tide for the whole country, and not just the groups of kids studied, is still unclear. About 30 million children in the U.S. receive school lunches each day.
“You have the potential to really impact their excess weight gain over the course of their entire childhood,” said Dr. Aruna Chandran, a social epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She led the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, was the first national legislation to improve school meals in more than 20 years. It increased the quantity of fruits, vegetables and whole grains required in school meals.
The new study analyzed nationwide data from 50 cohorts of schoolchildren from January 2005 to August 2016, before the law took effect, and data from September 2016 to March 2020, after it was fully implemented. Researchers calculated kids' body-mass index, a weight-to-height ratio.
It found that a body mass index for children, adjusted for age and gender, fell by 0.041 units per year, compared to before the law took effect. That amounts to about a quarter of one BMI unit per year, Chandran said. There was a slight decline in kids who were overweight or obese, too, the study showed.
One way to think of the change is that for a 10-year-old boy with an elevated body-mass index, the decline would amount to a 1-pound weight loss, noted Dr. Lauren Fiechtner, director of nutrition at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
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“This is important as even BMI flattening over time is likely important,” she said. Holding kids' weight steady as they grow can help keep obesity in check.
Previous studies have shown weight-related effects of the federal law among children from low-income families. The new study is the first to find lower BMI in kids across all income levels.
At the same time, significant decreases in BMI measures were seen not only in kids ages 5 to 11, but also in those age 12 to 18.
“That’s an incredible shift,” Chandran said. “These are kids who potentially have their own autonomy to buy their own snacks.”
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The new results come within days of the release of updated standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, decreased sodium and increased flexibility for whole grains. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the study shows that healthy school meals are “critical for tackling diet-related conditions like obesity.”
But some researchers cautioned against interpreting the study’s findings too broadly. Some of the children included in the study might not have been enrolled in school meals programs, or their district may not have fully implemented the nutrition requirements, said Kendrin Sonneville, associate professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Significantly, measures like BMI, even when adjusted for children, “should not be used as a proxy for health,” she added.
A slight reduction in those measures, she said, “doesn’t tell us whether the health, well-being, concerns related to food security of children participating in the school breakfast or lunch program improved."
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Focus on reproductive rights maybe a bigger issue in 2024 for Democrats
Political analysts say right now voters are really concerned about the economy.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - In the nearly five months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Democrats have focused on making abortion rights the center-piece of their campaigns.
It’s all to push their supporters to the ballot box to hold on to the balance of power in Congress.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is the executive director of the online network MomsRising. Its website says it’s more than a million members strong.
“The ability to decide if, when, and how many children to have. Reproductive rights is absolutely going to drive people of all genders to the polls,” said Rowe-Finkbeiner.
In a recent poll, the Kaiser Family Foundation found abortion access and reproductive health is activating Democratic women especially in states where abortion is currently illegal.
Thirteen states have enacted full bans on abortions according to a tracker in the New York Times.
“I think for me I always thought the reproductive health issue as an election issue was going to take a little bit of time,” said Katie Wonnenberg, a political analyst with Public Private Strategies in Washington, D.C.
Wonnenberg says while reproductive health is an important issue this election cycle, the economy and inflation is something that’s currently impacting all voters.
“I think it will be huge in 2024 because we’re going to see more and more stories about women’s access being cut off,” said Wonnenberg. “The harm it’s doing to individuals and their families. Right now, we just have an economic uphill that I think is really hard.”
The Kaiser Family Foundation did find in its poll that neither party held a distinct advantage when it came to motivating voters.
It was just that the issues driving them were different. For Republicans, it’s the economy. For Democrats, it’s reproductive health.
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Think cold brew's just for warm weather? Think again. Every season is cold brew season.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- STōK Cold Brew, one of the largest and fastest growing cold brew coffee brands, and the fastest growing brand with Millennials in 2022**, has announced a NEW Espresso Blend Cold Brew, hitting shelves now. Word to the wise: The moment you take your first-ever sip of STōK Cold Brew, you're signing up for an all-consuming, lifelong obsession. The kind of obsession that's with you every day, 365 days a year. That's why STōK has decided to debut its new Espresso Blend Cold Brew in January. As far as they're concerned, it's the perfect time of year to cozy up to a cold brew that's as dark and delicious as the crisp winter sky at 4pm.
Recognizing that younger consumers not only love their coffee cold, but also appreciate a good espresso, STōK's Espresso Blend Cold Brew Coffee brings the two together for the brand's darkest, boldest roast yet. A new permanent fixture in STōK's highly popular portfolio of cold brew coffee, it is brewed low and slow, hitting your tastebuds with hints of chocolate, brown sugar, caramel, dried fruit, and nuts. It is darkness dialed up to 11. It's the cold brew for go-getters who won't let below-freezing temperatures – or anything else for that matter – get in the way of their drink of choice.
Think cold brew's just for warm weather? Think again. If you haven't noticed that every season is now cold brew season, a recent survey* confirms it: 70% of cold brew coffee lovers drink it all year long. According to the survey, 75% of cold brew aficionados would stockpile their preferred brew in a bunker if there was ever risk of a shortage… and they wouldn't hesitate to brave a blizzard in search of their next icy buzz. That's dedication. That's called having no chill. And STōK is officially here for it. After all, 50% of cold brew coffee lovers consider the liquid gold their coping mechanism in life.
"At STōK, every season is cold brew season. We're thrilled to kick off the new year with the release of our darkest, boldest roast yet and settle the debate once and for all if it's ever too cold for cold brew. By the way, it's not," said Brittney Polka, Vice President of Ready to Drink Beverages, and lead for STōK Cold Brew at Danone North America. "Younger consumers not only love their coffee cold, but they also appreciate a good espresso. STōK's Espresso Blend Cold Brew answers what consumers are looking for in the category, and we're excited to continue giving them new ways to enjoy the coffee house experience from the comfort of their homes."
From light and dark roasts to seasonal favorites, STōK offers a variety of flavorful brews so cold brew coffee drinkers can have their coffee house experience at home – minus those tiny heart-shaped swirls of floating foam…sorry, but not sorry. Brewed at low temperatures for 10 hours, featuring Arabica-based blends and a higher ratio of beans to water than typical hot brews, STōK Cold Brew Coffee is bold without being bitter and just what you need to help get you through the pow pow (that's fresh snow for those that don't get any).
Available in 48oz. multi-serve bottles, STōK's Espresso Blend Cold Brew is now available in stores nationwide for an SRP of $5.99, so fans can run hot and keep their coffee cold. To get down with the darkness, use the store locator to find the brew near you: stokbrew.com/where-to-buy.
STōK Cold Brew was founded on the belief that there's a better way to do everything. Brewed low and slow, we believe in time and patience, not heat. STōK offers a variety of cold brews in multi-serve formats to satisfy those who are obsessed with a growing taste for higher quality. For more information on how STōK delivers on bold and smooth coffee, visit SToKColdBrew.com and join the conversation @SToKcoldbrew on Instagram and @SToKcoldbrew on TikTok.
Danone North America is a purpose-driven company and an industry leader in the food and beverage category. As a Certified B Corporation®, Danone North America is committed to the creation of both economic and social value, while nurturing natural ecosystems through sustainable agriculture. Our strong portfolio of brands includes: Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Happy Family® Organics, Honest to Goodness®, Horizon® Organic, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK™, Two Good®, Wallaby® Organic and YoCrunch®. With more than 6,000 employees and 16 production locations across the U.S. and Canada, Danone North America's mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible. For more information, visit www.danonenorthamerica.com/. For more information on Danone North America's B Corp™ status, visit: https://bcorporation.net/directory/danone-north-america.
*Custom Survey fielded Dec 9-12, 2022 via Suzy, the nationally representative consumer panel and insight platform; N = 1000, 18–64-year-olds that classify themselves as Cold Brew Coffee Lovers
**Fastest Growing Brands 2022. Morning Consult. (2023, January 9). Retrieved January 19, 2023, from https://morningconsult.com/fastest-growing-brands-2022/
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, April 10, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 132
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
908 PM CDT MON APR 10 2023
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 132 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
KINGFISHER LINCOLN LOGAN
PAYNE POTTAWATOMIE
IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA
NOBLE
IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
JEFFERSON STEPHENS
IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
COMANCHE COTTON
IN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN TEXAS
ARCHER CLAY WICHITA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ARCHER CITY, CHANDLER, DAVENPORT,
DUNCAN, GUTHRIE, HENNESSEY, HENRIETTA, HOLLIDAY, KINGFISHER,
LAKESIDE CITY, LAWTON, MEEKER, OKARCHE, PERRY, PRAGUE, RINGLING,
RYAN, SCOTLAND, SHAWNEE, SHEPPARD AFB, STILLWATER, STROUD,
TEMPLE, WALTERS, WAURIKA, WELLSTON, AND WICHITA FALLS.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Angelina River Near Lufkin.
* WHEN...Until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 162.0 feet, Minor lowland to diminish and end on the
lower Angelina River.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:30 PM CDT Monday the stage was 162.2 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 8:30 PM CDT Monday was 162.3 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 162.2
feet just after midnight tonight.
- Flood stage is 161.0 feet.
- Flood History...No available flood history.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHERE...Guadalupe River At Victoria.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 23.0 feet, Minor lowland flooding occurs. Fox's Bend
in Riverside Park is inaccessible, and the Riverside Boat Ramp
parking area is affected by flood waters.
- At 7:15 PM CDT Monday the stage was 22.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is currently cresting around 22.85 ft
and is expected to gradually fall throughout the night,
falling below minor flood stage late tomorrow morning.
- Flood stage is 21.0 feet.
Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:
Fld Observed Forecasts (10 pm)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Guadalupe River
Victoria 21.0 22.8 Mon 8 pm 16.5 10.0 7.5 6.6 6.5
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MILWAUKEE, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Epizyme (NASDAQ:EPZM) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Ipsen.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/epizyme-inc or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges Epizyme's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Epizyme holders will receive only $1.45 per share at the closing of the transaction, for an initial estimated aggregate consideration of $247 million plus one contingent value right (CVR) per share. Each CVR will entitle its holder to deferred cash payments of $0.30 per CVR payable upon the first achievement of $250 million in aggregate net sales of Tazverik (excluding sales in Japan and Greater China) in any period of four consecutive quarters, by 31 December 2026 and $0.70 per CVR payable upon receipt of U.S. regulatory approval necessary for the commercial marketing and sale of the combination of Tazverik and R² (rituximab and lenalidomide) in second-line follicular lymphoma by 1 January 2028. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Epizyme by imposing a significant penalty if Epizyme accepts a superior bid. Epizyme insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Epizyme's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Epizyme.
If you own Epizyme common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/epizyme-inc.
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The same-day delivery company and shopping accomplice unveils data based on recent study of caregiver, teacher and college student purchasing plans, paired with recommendations from the actress; announces multi-city tour for the whole family to attend!
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back to school is just around the corner, which is why today, Shipt, the same-day delivery company and shopping accomplice, is releasing the Ultimate School Shopping Guide to help parents, teachers and college students navigate what to buy ahead of the return to school. Shipt also tapped its trusted brand ambassador and mother of two, Kristen Bell, to offer her expertise in back to school preparation.
Known for their personalized shopping experience, Shipt recently polled parents, caregivers, teachers and college students to uncover the top must-have school supplies for back to school preparation. Rooted in insights from the survey as well as proprietary Shipt data, the same-day delivery company created the Ultimate School Shopping Guide, a shoppable menu of school essentials to assist consumers throughout the retail season. Available on the Shipt app now, customers can purchase everything they need for the first day ahead of time with ease.
"Back to school season is incredibly exciting - new school supplies, new teachers and new routines - but can also feel overwhelming and stressful with all that's needed to prepare and purchase," said Rina Hurst, Chief Business Officer at Shipt and mother of two young kids. "After a summer of free time and fun activities, it's difficult to get back into the mindset of the school season, which is why Shipt is taking the guesswork out of back to school shopping this year. Our Ultimate School Shopping Guide makes back to school shopping easy by sharing insights from parents, teachers and students around the country on what products you really need to purchase this year, and where you can save your budget. With just a few, easy steps, you can have your entire Ultimate School Shopping Guide delivered right to your door so you can focus on getting organized and ready for the busy year ahead."
July is the most popular time to begin school shopping, according to teachers (50%) as well as parents and caregivers (37%). So, where should shoppers start? According to Shipt's Ultimate Shopping Guide, here are the top insights to know:
- No Back-to-Back Backpacks: To no surprise, backpacks are one of the hottest items to purchase for parents of students, with a staggering 84% of parents purchasing a new backpack every year.
- Write This One Down: While nearly half of parents (41%) claim they buy just 5-15 pens or pencils for the year, those same supplies are what more than half of parents (52%) claim their children run out of the fastest.
- Classroom SOS: For those looking to lend a helping hand, the top two items that teachers run out of the fastest in their classroom are pencils and dry erase markers (last year alone, Shipt delivered nearly 5,000 dry erase marker packs!).
- Lunch Box Ready: Preparing school lunches is a full-time job for some parents with over one in four (28%) reporting that they purchase school snacks and lunch supplies on a daily basis. Did you know over 27 million packages of Cheez-Its® were sold last year around back to school season, as well as 23 million packages of Goldfish® and nearly 900,000 Nature Valley Granola Bars, according to Shipt data?
- Digital Classrooms: In addition to pens, notebooks, calculators and books, teachers are also purchasing bigger ticket items this back-to-school season with 72% planning to purchase an electronic tablet for school use.
- Dorm Room Decorators: Living in a college dorm is likely the first time students have total control over their bedroom decor – so, what will they do with this new found freedom? Over half plan to use photos to decorate (59%) or store-bought art (58%). Additional dorm room must-haves include bedding sets with pillows, microwaves, towels and lamps.
- Keepin' It Cool: Whether you're hosting, studying or late night-snacking, don't forget to add a mini fridge to your dorm room must-haves this school year. Almost half of college students (44%) report that they've purchased a mini fridge in the past and plan to do so again. And, what's the number one item stocked in their mini fridges? One in three college students (33%) say beverages.
In addition to the survey's data-driven insights, Kristen Bell, mother of two with years of back to school preparation, also shared her recommendations on must-have supplies, including Yoobi Ring Binders, re(zip) Lay Flat Leak Proof Reusable Lunch Bags, Hello Bello Organic Kids' Multivitamin Fruit and Veggie Vegan Gummies, Yoobi Chalk Markers and more.
"As a mother of two active children, I'm always striving to plan ahead and relying on trusted resources to help my family get everything done," said Kristen Bell, actress and mother. "A back to school shopping hack I will never go without is Shipt's personalized shopping and same-day delivery. I know I can count on my Preferred Shopper to get the kids' must-have school supplies and snack essentials without worry."
The celebrate the season, the same-day delivery platform is also putting the wheels on its own bus by launching a series of exciting events in New York City (7/20-7/21), Boston (7/23-7/24), Philadelphia (7/27-7/28), and Baltimore (8/1-8/2). The family friendly Shipt Back to School Bus will showcase this year's trending products; share helpful insights for parents, teachers and students; offer fun, interactive games and more! For specific locations for each city, follow Shipt on Instagram (@Shipt).
In the spirit of being everyone's go-to shopping accomplice, Shipt and Kristen Bell are donating 2,000 backpacks valued at nearly $50,000 to Operation Backpack, a non-profit dedicated to connecting children in need with new backpacks filled with grade-specific school supplies. Attendees are invited to join Shipt on the tour by building backpacks on-site for Shipt and Kristen Bell to donate on their behalf. If you are interested in donating to Operation Backpack, Shipt encourages you to do so through their website at https://www.voa.org/operation-backpack.
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Shipt brings the store to your door. Through a community of Shipt Shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt's Newsroom.
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-The new relationship brings CHOP's world-class pediatric healthcare to patients and families across the award-winning Main Line Health System-
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Main Line Health announced an affiliation agreement that will fully transition Main Line Health's pediatric care and services from Nemours Children's Health to CHOP.
CHOP doctors and advanced practice providers will care for pediatric patients at select Main Line Health locations, including the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at Main Line Health's four acute care hospitals: Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital, and Riddle Hospital, as well as Bryn Mawr Hospital's inpatient Pediatric Unit and Emergency Department. The pediatric nursing and ancillary staff currently employed with Main Line Health hospitals will remain in place.
Main Line Health and CHOP have already begun to collaborate, utilizing the combined expertise and infrastructure of the two organizations to deliver outstanding and convenient care to patients and families at Main Line Health suburban locations. In April 2022, CHOP began to provide complex ophthalmic care for premature babies at all four Main Line Health hospitals' NICUs. In May, care expanded to neonatal and pediatric cardiovascular services, including cardiology consultation, echocardiography, and EKG interpretation at Main Line Health hospitals.
Effective October 2022, CHOP will provide:
- 24/7 professional coverage at all four Main Line Health hospitals' NICUs
- 24/7 professional coverage of the Pediatric Unit at Bryn Mawr Hospital
- Pediatric coverage in the Bryn Mawr Hospital Emergency Department
- Neuro-pediatric services, including EEG interpretation and continuous EEG monitoring
- Surgical consultation and bedside procedures for the Level III NICU's at Bryn Mawr Hospital and Lankenau Medical Center
In addition to clinical services, the affiliation seeks to bring the best of both organizations together for collaboration in pediatric training and education. In July 2022, Main Line Health's surgical and urology residents began fulfilling their pediatric specialty rotations at CHOP. The organizations will also explore additional clinical education and research collaborations.
In the Fall of 2022, CHOP will open a new CHOP outpatient specialty care center on the Bryn Mawr Hospital campus. The center will include 14 patient care rooms for Cardiology, Fetal Heart, Neurology, Gastroenterology and Endocrinology specialty care. Additional pediatric specialty services will follow.
"We are delighted to embark on this affiliation with Main Line Health, which will allow us to provide families with the best of both of our organizations," said Madeline Bell, President and CEO of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Driving this alliance is our shared dedication to improving children's health, and we look forward to working together to advance pediatric patient care."
"Nemours has been a valued partner of Main Line Health for 25 years; providing excellent care to our pediatric community. Now, we look forward to a long and collaborative relationship with CHOP in delivering comprehensive and convenient pediatric care, programs and services to our youngest patients and families everywhere. The expertise and synergy between our two institutions will lead to limitless opportunities, innovation and outstanding pediatric clinical care," said Jack Lynch, FACHE, President and CEO of Main Line Health.
A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
Founded in 1985, Main Line Health is a not-for-profit health system serving Philadelphia and its western suburbs. Main Line Health's commitment—to deliver advanced medicine for treating and curing disease, playing an important role in prevention and disease management as well as training physicians and other health care providers—reflects our intent to be the region's premier choice for clinical care, research, and education. A team of more than 10,000 employees, 3,000 nurses and 2,000 physicians care for patients throughout the Main Line Health System.
At Main Line Health's core are four of the region's most respected acute care hospitals—Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital and Riddle Hospital—as well as one of the nation's premier facilities for rehabilitative medicine, Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital.
Main Line Health also includes Mirmont Treatment Center for drug and alcohol recovery; Main Line Health HomeCare & Hospice, which includes skilled home health care, hospice and home infusion services; Main Line Health Centers, primary and specialty care, lab and radiology, and other outpatient services located in Broomall, Collegeville, Concordville, Exton, King of Prussia and Newtown Square; Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, a biomedical research organization; and Main Line HealthCare, one of the region's largest multispecialty physician networks.
Main Line Health is the recipient of numerous awards for quality care, and service, including U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, System Magnet® designation; the nation's highest distinction for nursing excellence and the Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Performance Excellence (MAAPE) Excellence Award. Main Line Health is committed to creating an environment of diversity, respect, equity, and inclusion, has proudly received awards in this area and has embraced the American Hospital Association's #123forEquity Pledge to Act to eliminate disparities in care. We are dedicated to advancing patient-centered care, education, and research to help patients stay healthy and live their best lives. For more information, please visit: https://www.mainlinehealth.org/
Contacts:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
Natalie Solimeo
Senior Public Relations Specialist
(267) 426-6246
solimeon@chop.edu
Main Line Health:
Phil Ellingsworth Jr.
Director, Communications
(484) 580-1182
ellingsworthph@mlhs.org
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Securities Litigation Partner James (Josh) Wilson Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses Exceeding $50,000 In DLocal To Contact Him Directly To Discuss Their Options
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against DLocal Limited ("DLocal" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DLO).
If you suffered losses exceeding $50,000 investing in DLocal stock or options and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: www.faruqilaw.com/DLO.
There is no cost or obligation to you.
Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading minority and Woman-owned national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
On November 16, 2022, Muddy Waters Capital LLC ("Muddy Waters") published a research report concluding that DLocal "is likely a fraud." Muddy Waters alleges that DLocal has repeated disclosures about its Total Processing Volume and accounts receivable "that flatly contradict one another" and that there is "a contradictory discrepancy between two key subsidiaries' accounts payable and accounts receivable." Muddy Waters also alleges that DLocal engaged in multiple misrepresentations to disguise the timing and the source of funding for an insider option exercise.
On this news, DLocal's share price fell $10.76, or more than 50%, to close at $10.46 per share on November 16, 2022, thereby injuring investors.
Then, on December 1, 2022, Muddy Waters published another report stating that DLocal has held calls with clients from several banks, stressing that it had separated client funds from its own. The report also said that DLocal's calls with clients were "non-specific" and "sweet-talking," and that "all [the Company] needed to do to address this issue was provide an explanation as to how the cash flows reconcile."
On this news, DLocal's share price fell $2.21, or 15.1%, to close at $12.39 per share on December 1, 2022.
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Tuesday briefing: Louisville shooting; abortion pill ruling appeal; Justin Jones; leaked Pentagon papers; Great Salt Lake; and more
Tuesday briefing: Louisville shooting; abortion pill ruling appeal; Justin Jones; leaked Pentagon papers; Great Salt Lake; and more
Monday briefing: Abortion pill rulings; sea level rise; Jon Rahm’s Masters win; next year’s total solar eclipse; and more | 2023-04-11T12:35:04+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/the-7/tuesday-april-11-2023/ |
FTC, FDA crack down on companies selling copycat snacks containing Delta-8 THC
By Jen Christensen, CNN
(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration and the US Federal Trade Commission say they have sent warning letters to six companies for selling products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC) that look strikingly similar to popular snack foods.
Delta-8 THC is the psychoactive cannabinoid from the Cannabis sativa plant, of which marijuana and hemp plants are two varieties.
The agencies said children, and maybe even some adults, could easily confuse these delta-8 THC products – packaged to look like Sour Patch Kids, Doritos, Gushers, Jolly Ranchers, Cheetos, Nerds Ropes and Oreos – for the real thing.
Some of the products have clever names like Double Stuff Stoneos, Medicated DopeRope Bites or Stoney Patch. Others, like delta-8 THC Doritos and Cheetos products, have the same name as the original snack, with THC disclosed in tiny writing at the bottom and back of the packages. The DopeRopeBites that look like Nerds Rope candy use the same Nerds mascot.
The FTC said that the products may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts in or affecting commerce, including marketing practices that may pose a health or safety risk.
“Marketing edible THC products that can be easily mistaken by children for regular foods is reckless and illegal,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a news release. “Companies must ensure that their products are marketed safely and responsibly, especially when it comes to protecting the well-being of children.”
There have been more than 125 reports of adverse events from January 2021 through May 2022 among people using edibles with delta-8 THC, the agencies said. At least 10 of the reports specifically mention the copycat products.
The six companies that were sent cease-and-desist letters were Delta Munchies, Dr. Smoke LLC (also known as Dr. S LLC), Exclusive Hemp Farms/Oshipt, Nikte’s Wholesale LLC, North Carolina Hemp Exchange LLC and The Haunted Vapor Room.
The FTC letters demand that the companies stop marketing edible delta-8 THC products that imitate popular foods using packaging that is “likely to appeal to young children.”
It gave the companies 15 working days to show proof of specific actions they have taken to address the concerns.
The companies have not responded to requests for comment from CNN.
These kinds of products have been a consistent concern. In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert to public health departments and doctors about products containing delta-8 THC that can cause health problems, particularly those with “insufficient labeling.”
In June 2022, the FDA warned consumers about the potential dangers of eating foods with delta-8 THC, especially for kids, who are more vulnerable to the effects.
Delta-8 THC can produce similar results to the chemical compound in the marijuana plant that creates the high users feel, but it’s not regulated at the federal level like marijuana is. The chemical most often comes from the hemp plant rather than the marijuana plant.
The Farm Bill of 2018 removed hemp from the Controlled Substance Act. Some states, though, have banned the sale of delta-8 THC.
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Shirin Ebadi’s troubles may have begun on the playground, when she discovered an inner compulsion to defend underdogs. Possibly, they started with her father, who treated her as the equal of any boy. Or was it later, after the Islamic Revolution exploded in 1979, and she was forced from her position as one of Iran’s first women judges?
What is clear is that things unmistakably worsened in 2003, when Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work as a human rights lawyer. At that point, far from regarding her as untouchable, Iran’s theocratic regime doubled down on its efforts to destroy her.
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A heroine of Iran’s feminist movement, Ebadi has had to watch from abroad as the latest wave of protests rocks the government. Since September, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, accused of violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law, died in police custody, infuriated Iranians have flooded the streets. At least four people have been publicly executed. Rights groups believe hundreds more have been killed by security forces, and untold numbers imprisoned.
In the decades before the revolution, Iran was largely ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Shah and then his son, Mohammad Reza Shah, hoped to modernize Iranian society, in part by advancing women. Nevertheless, activists and intellectuals were suppressed by a loathed police force, and a broad coalition of Iranians, including many educated women, supported the monarchy’s removal.
Since the revolution, Iranian women have attempted to get the story of their oppression out to the world. Published in 2003, Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran” describes a group of young women who created a free space for themselves through literature.
Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis,” a memoir in comic strips, continues to move readers with the story of one girl’s experience under the regime. An animated film version released in 2007 is equally affecting, and an excellent starting point for anyone who wishes to better understand Iran.
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Shirin Ebadi’s “Until We Are Free’' is similarly grounded in personal experience. (A documentary based on the book, “Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free” was recently released.) But she was an adult on the front lines, contesting an increasingly brutal regime.
She depicts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was president from 2005 to 2013, as reckless, vengeful and even idiotic, at one point announcing that an Iranian high school girl had discovered how to create nuclear energy.
As Ebadi’s story unfolds, the noose tightens. From the 1990s on, government agents watched her every move, sometimes in comical fashion. (For a time, a shoeshine man stationed himself outside her apartment on a quiet residential street.) In 2000, she was jailed for three weeks.
Eventually, Ebadi found herself on a list of targets for assassination. After she received the Nobel, the regime peddled the idea that she was a foreign agent. A mob attacked her home.
In the meantime, religious persecution and censorship flourished. The regime began going after Ebadi’s colleagues and, slowly but surely, her family. Both of Ebadi’s daughters went abroad to study and wisely stayed away, settling in London and New York.
In 2009, Ahmadinejad won reelection in what was widely seen as a rigged vote. Massive demonstrations followed, and Ebadi, who was traveling, was warned not to return. The scene of her roaming the Amsterdam airport, and finally stepping out of the queue for a homebound flight, is thick with all she has given up.
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Worse was in store. Back in Iran, security forces entrapped Ebadi’s husband in a sexual liaison, and filmed the encounter. Threatened with death by stoning, he agreed to tape a denunciation of his wife. Ebadi writes simply: “They take the person you love the most away from you.”
For Roya Hakakian, it was merely her home. In her memoir “Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran,” she recalls an atmosphere of love enveloping the revolution’s early days, and she believed in its promise.
Raised in a tradition-minded Jewish family, she had dreamed of a life in which women enjoyed more freedom. Now, the regime was confiscating what freedoms they had, and embracing antisemitism as well. At Roya’s all-girls high school, non-Muslim students were restricted to designated water fountains and bathrooms. Her parents’ belated decision to follow their relatives to the United States plays out in a grimly climactic scene.
Nina Ansary, who also left for the United States as a girl, intriguingly argues that the single-sex schools imposed by the regime became the hatcheries of Iran’s feminist movement. In “Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran,” she reaches into the history of the Persian Empire to find periods of women’s equality, throwing their recent experience into painful relief.
So far, comparatively few of their stories have been told. But those we have portray multiple layers of loss, in what Hakakian memorably describes as a jihad against the self.
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MIAMI — The game was fumbling away. The winning streak was about to end.
Then Julius Randle came to the rescue.
The Knicks All-Star connected on an improbable and acrobatic game-winning 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left in Friday’s 122-120 victory over the Heat, capping a thrilling game and exquisite performance.
Randle finished with 43 points, including six in the final minute. As great as he’s been at different points over the last three seasons, Friday represented the best single shot of Randle’s Knicks career.
But the play started as a disaster. Randle had committed a turnover on the previous possession, leading to Tyler Herro hitting the go-ahead lay-up for the Heat with under 30 seconds left. Since Tom Thibodeau had earlier unsuccessfully challenged a play, the Knicks had no timeouts to set up the game-winner.
So the ball was nearly turned over twice before Randle found enough space to rise for the game-winner. He shot 16-for-25 with eight 3-pointers and nine rebounds.
The Knicks (38-27), seeded fifth, won their eighth straight and moved 4 ½ games above the No. 7 Heat.
New York controlled Friday’s game early while building a 17-point lead in the first half.
It was peak embarrassment for the Heat in the second quarter, when Josh Hart converted an explosive and-1 lay-up and the Miami crowd erupted — really erupted — in a ‘Let’s Go Knicks’ chant. Oftentimes the home crowd drowns out such joy from the visitors. But not Friday. At least not in the first half.
The story flipped in the third quarter when the Heat got going and the fans seemed to change allegiances. Jimmy Butler paced the comeback and finished with 33 points in 33 minutes.
The Heat leaned into the old Knicks rivalry by playing an intro on Jumbotron with flashbacks to the 90s contests. There’s a renewed sense of significance attached to the matchup because of their respective spots in the standings.
Still, Thibodeau pushed back at the media for suggesting players were extra motivated against Miami.
“I know your job is to create stories. I think our job is to stay focused,” the Knicks coach said. “I think it’s part of the league, it’s great for the league. There are a ton of great stories. Your jobs are easy. But for us, we got to lock in and take what’s in front of us.”
Miami has struggled while coping with injuries and age. Coming off the conference’s top record last season, it entered Friday’s contest as losers of five of its last six games.
Kyle Lowry was out again for Miami with knee soreness, continuing his calamitous season. Jimmy Butler was listed as questionable before the game but predictably played, providing the home team with its best punch.
Erik Spoelstra was intense and unusually short in his pregame comments, darting away from the podium after the second question — which was about the Knicks’ improvement.
“Josh Hart has been a good addition. Their health. That game we played in New York, Brunson didn’t play. So they’ve built some continuity. And their offense has really been clicking the last three or four weeks.”
A potentially devastating development arrived in the third quarter. Jalen Brunson, the catalyst to New York’s surprisingly strong season, came up limping after contesting a dunk attempt from Jimmy Butler.
Brunson hobbled back under the rim to try to draw a charge on Butler on the follow-up, but he was in obvious pain and quickly left for the locker room. Luckily for Knicks, who’ve somehow avoided major injuries to their top players other than Robinson, Brunson returned ready to play in the fourth quarter with his ankle taped.
He finished with 25 points.
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ST. LOUIS – Drivers may start to notice a little bit of relief at the pump after weeks of record-high gas prices.
The average price of regular unleaded fuel has dropped 10 cents in Missouri since the start of July, leading to the state’s largest weekly decline in gas prices so far in 2022, according to the American Automobile Association.
The state’s average gas price, currently at $4.47, is still $1.66 higher per gallon compared to this time last year, per AAA Gas Watch. The current average rates around St. Louis are $4.60 per gallon for regular unleaded gas and $5.39 for diesel, both down slightly from record-highs in mid-June.
Business Insider reports that gas prices have decreased in recent weeks as global demand for crude oil has also decreased. AAA says supply is also increasing in some regions.
Some of the main factors behind the recent drop include crude oil prices decreasing due to concerns about a decline in global demand as well as increased regional supply. Experts advise drivers that July could be an up-and-down month in prices.
“The largest weekly decline in 2022 for fuel prices is good news for drivers, but we’re not out of the woods just yet,” said AAA Spokesperson Nick Chabarria. “Gas prices will remain elevated compared to one year ago and could fluctuate in July, which is typically one of the highest months for fuel demand.”
On average, gas in Missouri is cheaper than 39 other US states, according to AAA. The average cost of gas nationwide right now is around $4.75.
AAA recommends the following steps to improve fuel efficiency and save even more at the pump:
- Slow down and drive the speed limit. Higher speeds result in more aerodynamic drag.
- Avoid “jackrabbit” starts and hard accelerations.
- Use cruise control on the highway to help maintain a constant speed and save fuel.
- Minimize your use of air conditioning.
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AMSTERDAM, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON) (Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and services, announces the completion of two management share transfers as part of the Group's incentive program announced in February 2022.
Following our press release on 28 February 2022 detailing the new incentive plan rules and specific awards, today we can confirm the completion of share transfers to the Group CEO and Group CFO. The shares were awarded as part of VEON's Deferred Share Plan. This award represents a further step in aligning the executive team's remuneration with the successful implementation of our digital operator strategy and long-term value creation for our shareholders.
As previously communicated, Group Executive Committee ("GEC") members will over time accrue and then maintain a minimum level of VEON shares. This will be equivalent to 6.0x the annual base salary for the Group CEO and 2.0x annual base salary for other GEC members. Following this transaction, the total number of ADR/ORDs held by Kaan Terzioglu is 1,674,900 and by Serkan Okandan is 222,172.
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Mississippi State football lands three 4-star commits in one day
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi State football is making noise in the recruiting trail under first-year head coach Zach Arnett and his staff.
Tuesday, three four-star recruits committed to the Bulldogs. All three hail from the Magnolia State.
Dynamic wide receiver Braylon Burnside announced his decision to stay in his hometown Starkville after receiving offers from SEC rivals Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Auburn, and Arkansas.
I guess y’all was waiting on me huh , i love starkvegas https://t.co/52yFnbr7zb
— Braylon Burnside ✞ (@BraylonBurnside) June 20, 2023
Another wide receiver, four-star J.J. Harrel from Sardis, Mississippi, committed to MSU over Ole Miss, LSU, and Alabama.
Starkville I’m Home🐶🐶🐶 https://t.co/lSOsMCYVef
— JJ Harrell (@JJHarrell_4) June 20, 2023
On the defensive side of the ball, P.J. Woodland, a four-star cornerback from Hattiesburg, chose to join the Bulldogs over LSU to sport the maroon and white of Mississippi State.
Let’s work!!! 😁 @HailStateFB pic.twitter.com/uBlzt2m9mG
— pj woodland ✞ (@iamprentiss) June 20, 2023
All three athletes will join MSU in 2024 and represent a class that ranks No. 20 in the country, according to 247Sports, with five four-star athletes.
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Former Red Wings coach Wayne Maxner dies at age 80
Former Detroit Red Wings coach Wayne Maxner, who guided the team for parts of two seasons in the early 1980s before Mike Ilitch bought the franchise in 1982, died on Thursday at age 80 in Clinton, Ontario.
Maxner coached the Red Wings from 1980-1982 with a career record of 34-68-26 in 129 games, a winning percentage of .368. His winning percentage and victories during the team's pre-Stanley Cup championship years ranks 15th among Detroit coaches with at least 100 regular-season games behind the bench.
After only 20 games as coach of Detroit's AHL farm team in Adirondack in 1980, Maxner replaced Red Wings coach Ted Lindsay on Nov. 25, 1980 and led the team to a record of 16-29-15 for 47 points in 60 games. He was fired on March 8, 1982 after posting a record of 18-39-12 for 48 points in 69 games.
Born on Sept. 27, 1942 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Maxner was the leading scorer for the Niagara Falls Flyers in 1962-63 in the Ontario Hockey Association (the OHL's predecessor). He earned the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as league MVP with 32 goals and 62 assists in 50 games on a team which was affiliated with the Boston Bruins and featured future NHLers Terry Crisp, Gary Dornhoefer, Don Awrey and Derek Sanderson.
Maxner, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound left winger, played two years with the Bruins from 1964-1966 and scored eight goals with nine assists in 61 career games. His first NHL goal was on New York Rangers goalie Marcel Paille in Boston's 3-3 tie at Boston Garden on Dec. 5, 1964.
After a 10-year pro career with the WHL's San Francisco and California Seals, the AHL's Hershey Bears, Montreal Voyageurs and Springfield Kings and the EHL's Long Island Ducks, Maxner began his coaching career with the QMJHL's Hull Festivals for one season in 1974-75 and then four seasons with the OHL Windsor Spitfires.
In 1979-80, Maxner led the Spitfires to the league final before losing to Mike Keenan's Peterborough Petes, a team which featured future Hall of Famer and ex-Red Wings defenseman Larry Murphy. Maxner also coached the OHL Sudbury Wolves and London Knights before returning to Windsor from 1991-1993.
Maxner's cause of death is unknown. He is survived by his son Wayne, daughter Shelley and stepdaughters Leigh and Averil.
Maxner's ashes will be returned to Halifax where he first learned to skate on Chocolate Lake. The family requests donations be made to Huron Hospice through Falconer Funeral Home in Clinton.
Winning percentage of Wings coaches in regular season*
1. Dave Lewis (.672)
2. Scotty Bowman (.656)
3. Tommy Ivan (.653)
4. Mike Babcock (.649)
5. Jimmy Skinner (.591)
6. Bryan Murray (.568)
7. Johnny Wilson (.538)
8. Jack Adams (.512)
9. Jacques Demers (.502)
10. Sid Abel (.501)
11. Jeff Blashill (.447)
12. Bobby Kromm (.431)
13. Alex Delvecchio (.400)
14. Nick Polano (.400)
15. Wayne Maxner (.368)*List includes Detroit coaches with at least 100 regular-season wins from 1926-2023. Dave Lewis ranked No. 1 with only 169 games. Jack Adams coached the most games at 964. Mike Babcock had the most wins at 458. Current coach Derek Lalonde has a winning percentage of .488 after 82 games.
Number of victories by Wings coaches in regular season*
1. Mike Babcock (458)
2. Jack Adams (413)
3. Scotty Bowman (410)
4. Sid Abel (340)
5. Tommy Ivan (262)
6. Jeff Blashill (204)
7. Jacques Demers (137)
8. Bryan Murray (124)
9. Jimmy Skinner (123)
10. Dave Lewis (100)
11. Alex Delvecchio (82)
12. Nick Polano (79)
13. Bobby Kromm (79)
14. Johnny Wilson (67)
15. Wayne Maxner (34)
*List includes Detroit coaches with at least 100 regular-season wins from 1926-2023.
. | 2023-07-28T23:41:48+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2023/07/28/former-detroit-red-wings-coach-wayne-maxner-dies-at-age-80/70484283007/?src=rss |
MILWAUKEE – Elly De La Cruz became the first Reds player since 1919 to steal second, third and home in the same inning, the latest electrifying play from the franchise-changing rookie, and Cincinnati beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-5 on Saturday.
De La Cruz broke a 5-5 tie in the seventh inning with a two-out RBI single off Elvis Peguero, then got to work making the reliever's life miserable. He stole second. Then, on a 1-2 pitch from Peguero (1-2), he swiped third without a throw.
The rattled reliever caught the ball from his catcher in front of the mound and turned his back as he walked slowly toward the rubber. Pausing only to put his helmet back on, De La Cruz walked down the third base line, broke into a sprint and easily beat Peguero's rushed throw to the plate.
De La Cruz bounced up in jubilation and skipped toward the dugout, leaping to high-five his teammates. After Joey Votto made the last out, Peguero was booed off the field.
The surging Reds, who were 27-33 when De La Cruz was promoted from the minors on June 6, improved to 23-7 since and expanded their lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central to two games.
De La Cruz has 16 stolen bases in 30 games and went 2-for-5 Saturday to improve his batting average to .328. The shortstop's only blemish was a nonchalant toss to second for the final out, but the play withstood a replay challenge.
Lucas Sims (3-1) threw 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, Jonathan India's sacrifice fly in the ninth gave the Reds a three-run lead, and All-Star Alexis Diaz got the last three outs for his 26th save in 27 chances.
Willy Adames homered twice for the Brewers, a solo shot in the first and a two-run blast, his team-leading 16th, in the third.
Joey Votto hit a two-run homer in the fourth off Milwaukee starter Colin Rea, and Will Benson hit a solo shot in the third for Cincinnati, which set a franchise record of 22 consecutive games with a homer. The 1956 Reds went deep in 21 straight games.
Brice Turang’s run-scoring triple in the fourth off Reds starter Luke Weaver made it 5-4. Cincinnati's Jake Fraley tied the game 5-all with an RBI double in the fifth.
Milwaukee's Christian Yelich extended his hitting streak to eight straight games with a run-scoring double in the third.
Brewers manager Craig Counsell was ejected in the top of the ninth after plate umpire John Tumpane called a balk on Abner Uribe. Third baseman Brian Anderson was also tossed.
BURNES AN ALL-STAR
Milwaukee RHP Corbin Burnes (7-5, 3.94 ERA) was named to the NL All-Star team for the third straight year, replacing Atlanta Braves RHP Spencer Strider.
ROSTER MOVES
The Reds selected the contract of RHP Michael Mariot, optioned RHP Tony Santillan to Triple A-Louisville and designated OF Henry Ramos for assignment. ... The Brewers recalled Uribe from Triple-A Nashville, designated RHP Tyson Miller for assignment, reinstated RHP Jason Alexander (right rotator cuff) from the 60-day injured list and optioned him to Nashville, and sent RHP Jack Cousins (right shoulder) to the Rookie ACL Brewers on a rehab assignment.
UP NEXT
LHP Wade Miley (5-2, 3.36 ERA) starts for the Brewers in Sunday's series finale. The Reds had not announced a starter.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott" or the "Company") (NYSE: ABT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Abbott and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced its investigation into four consumer complaints of infant illness related to powdered infant formula produced by Abbott in its Sturgis, Michigan facility. Among other things, the FDA indicated that it had already found several positive contamination results from onsite environmental samples for a bacteria linked to infant illnesses and death. The same day, Abbott recalled certain popular infant formula products manufactured in the Sturgis facility.
On this news, Abbott's stock price fell $3.79 per share, or 3.14%, to close at $116.79 per share on February 18, 2022.
On March 22, 2022, the FDA reported its findings that, among other things, Abbott had failed to establish adequate process controls for its infant formula related to the presence of microorganisms and to prevent environmental contamination.
On this news, Abbott's stock price fell $4.97 per share, or 4%, to close at $116.92 per share on March 23, 2022.
On April 22, 2022, a redacted copy of a whistleblower complaint sent to the FDA in October 2021 was made public, revealing, among other things, that previous issues with the Sturgis facility were known to Abbott's management far earlier.
On this news, Abbott's stock price fell $4.51 per share, or 3.8%, to close at $113.50 per share on April 29, 2022.
Then, on June 8, 2022, investors learned that, contrary to the Company's repeated denials, Abbott was aware of the whistleblower's formal allegations in early 2021, when it was reported that the FDA whistleblower had filed a complaint in February 2021 with the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety & Health Administration ("OSHA"), and that OSHA delivered that complaint to Abbott and the FDA during the same month.
On this news, Abbott's stock price fell $4.17 per share, or 3.5%, to close at $112.71 per share on June 9, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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BALTIMORE, Md. — If you’re the kind of person who enjoys a nice cocktail or drink, sitting at a bar can sometimes be a place to escape. But if you’re the person behind the bar, like Amie Ward, serving customers can often be stressful.
"In terms of harassment in our industry, there are incredibly high numbers," Ward explained.
Ward, 41, first got into the service industry at the age of 14. She now bartends around the city of Baltimore. But nearly three decades of hard work have taken a toll on her body. She knew it was doing the same to others in the industry, so she decided to do something about it.
"I was watching people being in constant pain behind the bar," Ward said.
A few years ago, Ward created what’s known as “Healthtender” training classes. Ward is also a personal fitness coach. She's now developed stretching classes, yoga classes, and even pool workouts in the summertime—all aimed a promoting physical fitness specifically for servers.
"Being in the industry is an athletic endeavor because you’re on your feet for 12 hours a day, more than most endurance athletes are," she noted.
Ward often has clients video themselves for 30 minutes while working, and then, she analyzes movements that might be causing pain. She’ll suggest ideas to a bartender to prevent injury like adjusting how they hold a bottle or maybe not mixing a drink too rigorously.
"I can teach people how to hold their body behind the bar and engage their core and what their posture looks like.
There’s a mental health aspect to all to all of this service industry wellness training, too. Ward will often connect folks to a group called Heard. It's an online portal where people in the food and beverage industry can go to attend free online support groups. | 2023-02-10T22:33:56+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/this-bartender-is-on-a-mission-to-improve-mental-health-in-her-industry |
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