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The House and Senate left Washington for the month of August with a lengthy, time-sensitive to-do list waiting when they return, including multiple key health care priorities.
There will only be three weeks before the end of the fiscal year to get everything done, and just 11 legislative days when both chambers will be in session at the same time.
Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize a sweeping pandemic preparedness bill, fund community health centers and renew opioid addiction services.
But the largest looming deadline is the appropriations bills to fund the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which are tied up in the House amid disagreements over abortion and spending levels.
GOP leaders scuttled a vote planned for Friday on legislation funding the FDA and the Department of Agriculture after moderate Republicans objected to a provision that would reverse the FDA’s decision to allow the abortion pill mifepristone drug to be dispensed through the mail and in retail pharmacies.
House Freedom Caucus members have also been demanding even deeper spending cuts than agreed to in the bipartistan debt ceiling deal.
The Labor-HHS bill advanced through a House Appropriations subcommittee earlier this month, but hadn’t even made it to the full committee before recess. The Republican-led House bill would slash or eliminate funding from a range of programs that deal with everything from family planning to teen pregnancy and even HIV.
Both FDA and HHS funding bills face a major fight in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where the Appropriations Committee has already passed its own version by near unanimous margins, owing to an agreement by Democratic and Republican leaders not to insert “poison pill” amendments.
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) argued in a floor speech that lawmakers should stay in Washington to strip out the “toxic, divisive, bigoted riders” in the bills, and ripped Republicans for delaying votes until September.
Pandemic preparedness
The House and Senate are taking different tracks in the reauthorization of the pandemic preparedness bill, complicating its path forward.
The Senate advanced a bipartisan version of the Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act out of committee, but the House is divided. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans advanced a bill on party lines after Democrats introduced their own version.
The primary disagreement is over drug shortages. Democrats are clamoring to give FDA more oversight authority to address the shortages, but Republicans are insisting on keeping the issues separate.
The Senate version contains some provisions addressing drug shortages, but only one involves beefing up FDA authority.
Congress is under pressure to stem drug shortages amid reports of doctors rationing cancer drugs and other medicine. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have said they are committed to dealing with the problems, but that it shouldn’t be part of the preparedness bill.
Energy and Commerce Committee GOP leaders released a discussion draft on Friday of drug shortage legislation focusing on the economic reasons for shortages, including giving some generic drug manufacturers the ability to raise the cost of their drugs if hospitals keep prices “artificially low” to the point where there’s no economic incentive.
Health centers
Legislation to reauthorize funding for community health centers also faces partisan challenges. But in this case, the House cleared its bill on a bipartisan basis, while the Senate is still working through disagreements, highlighting the work to be done.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, originally wanted tens of billions of dollars more for the centers. He was asking for $130 billion to fund the centers over the next five years as well as $60 billion to help grow the health care workforce.
But Sanders ended up canceling a planned markup during the last week of July. Raising some eyebrows, Sanders said he is working with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) to craft a bipartisan bill that will be “ready by the first week of September.”
Separately, Sanders and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued a joint statement pledging to partner and work towards legislation in the fall aimed at addressing primary care and other health care workforce shortages.
Opioids
At issue are several provisions of sweeping legislation signed into law in 2018 called the Support Act, which aimed to tackle the country’s drug overdose epidemic.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a bipartisan reauthorization and expansion bill, but advocates are concerned the Senate is behind.
HELP Committee ranking member Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced his own version of the bill on July 20, but hearings won’t be scheduled until September. Cassidy has warned that the committee is wasting time on partisan bills instead of easy bipartisan wins, such as the Support Act.
Insulin/PBM reform
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said for months that he wants to move legislation that would cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month for people with private insurance.
There’s hope to combine it with legislation reforming the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry into a package that could get bipartisan support.
But there’s no looming deadline and no guarantee it will get taken up in September.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who is a co-sponsor of one of the insulin bills with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), said she still has Schumer’s support heading into the fall, but has not heard anything about timing.
Multiple committees have advanced PBM reform bills in both the House and Senate, so they will all need to be combined into one floor-friendly package. | 2023-07-31T13:03:25+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-set-to-face-ticking-clock-on-health-care-priorities/ |
Marquette Golden Eagles (14-4, 6-1 Big East) at Xavier Musketeers (14-3, 6-0 Big East)
The Musketeers are 9-1 on their home court. Xavier averages 21.1 assists per game to lead the Big East, paced by Colby Jones with 5.5.
The Golden Eagles are 6-1 in conference games. Marquette ranks second in the Big East shooting 35.3% from 3-point range.
The Musketeers and Golden Eagles square off Sunday for the first time in conference play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Boum is averaging 17.7 points and 4.9 assists for the Musketeers. Jack Nunge is averaging 14.7 points and 7.5 rebounds over the last 10 games for Xavier.
Kam Jones averages 2.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Golden Eagles, scoring 16.1 points while shooting 36.2% from beyond the arc. Olivier-Maxence Prosper is averaging 14.7 points over the past 10 games for Marquette.
LAST 10 GAMES: Musketeers: 10-0, averaging 85.8 points, 37.9 rebounds, 22.5 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 51.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.1 points per game.
Golden Eagles: 8-2, averaging 83.7 points, 26.9 rebounds, 17.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 51.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.2 points.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-01-15T09:56:40+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/boum-and-no-12-xavier-host-no-25-marquette/2023/01/15/0815c7fc-94ae-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html |
ÄNGELHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The extraordinary general meeting on 13 December 2022 resolved to increase the company's share capital with SEK 29,984.62 by issuing 1,000,000 new shares to Alpraaz AB, a company owned by OXE Marine AB's (publ) board member Christian von Koenigsegg. The resolution was made in order to complete the company's directed share issue as press released on 20 November 2022.
All resolutions were made in accordance with the proposals that have been available before the general meeting. The complete proposals are published on the company's website www.oxemarine.com.
The general meeting's resolution means that the share issue that was press released on 20 November 2022 is now completed. For further information about the share issue, please refer to the press releases published on 20 and 21 November 2022 and which are available on the company's website www.oxemarine.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way to combine an electrical cable conduit and supporting mechanism for electrically-powered devices," said an inventor, from Brooklyn, N.Y., "so I invented the ELECTRO SNAKE. My design would offer an improved alternative to vinyl electrical cables and plastic power strips."
The patent-pending invention would provide the use of a flexible snake conduit and supporting hardware in electrical AC power strip and 5 volt DC USB power applications. In doing so, it offers a ready means of positioning an AC power strip in an elevated location. As a result, it increases convenience. The invention features an adjustable and durable design that is easy to access and use so it is ideal for households and businesses.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to reassure world leaders on Saturday that the United States would not default as he consulted with the heads of Australia, Japan and India in a meeting of the so-called Quad partnership that had been hastily rescheduled because of the debt limit standoff back in Washington.
Hoping to avert an outcome that would rattle the global economy and prove to be a boon to Beijing, Biden opened his third day in Japan at the annual Group of Seven meeting of the world’s most powerful democracies with a briefing from his staff on the latest fits and starts in talks over how to raise the federal debt limit.
The president also squeezed in meetings aimed at challenging China’s buildout across the Indo-Pacific. The Quad members originally had planned to meet in Sydney next week, but got together instead on the sidelines of the G7 so Biden could return to Washington earlier on Sunday in hopes of finalizing a deal to increase the U.S. borrowing limit before the government runs out of cash to pay its bills.
Biden said he felt there was headway in the talks with GOP lawmakers.
“The first meetings weren’t all that progressive, the second ones were, the third one was,” he said before a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “And then, what happens is the carriers go back to the principals and say, ‘This is what we’re thinking about.’ And then people put down new claims. I still believe we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done.”
In a sign of a renewed bargaining session in Washington, food was brought to the negotiating room at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday morning, only to be carted away hours later. No meeting was likely Saturday, according to a person familiar with the state of the talks who was not authorized to publicly discuss the situation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The shortened trip has reinforced a fundamental tension shaping Biden’s presidency: As he has worked to signal to the world that the U.S. is reclaiming the mantle of global leadership, at key moments, domestic dramas keep getting in the way.
Until Saturday, Biden had largely stayed out of the public eye at the summit, forgoing big public statements and leaving Friday’s leader dinner early. He has been spending time instead by a video monitor in a room next to his hotel suite, where aides in Washington have been keeping him apprised of the back-and-forth of debt limit talks.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan acknowledged that world leaders have pressed Biden about the standoff in Washington. But press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that, while there was intense interest in how the president would resolve a domestic showdown that has geopolitical ramifications, there was no panic — at least not yet.
“It’s not a hair-on-fire type of situation,” she said.
On the margins of the summit, Biden held talks with Albanese in lieu of the now-scrapped visit to Australia. U.S. officials said the trip would be rescheduled, and Biden has invited Albanese to Washington for a state visit.
Biden apologized for skipping Australia. Albanese said he understood the circumstances.
“I would have done exactly the same thing,” he told Biden, adding, “I’m very much looking forward to the state visit.”
The leaders signed a compact pledging to deepen their partnership on developing the raw materials used in clean energy technologies — as they each seek to move supply away from reliance on China. They also issued a joint statement outlining new areas of cooperation in space, trade and defense.
G7 leaders also sat down to discuss their investments in infrastructure in less advanced economies, a key counterbalance to the loans and construction that China has been providing. Biden said the U.S. has mobilized more than $30 billion in investments to date “and we’re just getting started.”
During a full meeting in the evening with all of the Quad leaders, Biden repeated his apologies about needing to move their gathering to Japan.
The president is sending U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to fill his spot at a summit of Pacific Island nations in Papua New Guinea on Monday. That presidential stop, too, was scrapped in order to get Biden back to Washington more quickly.
Biden’s visit would have been the first by an American president to the country. Those countries are being aggressively courted by the U.S. and China as the two powers compete for influence in parts of the world where shipping lanes are vital.
In Hiroshima, Biden and other world leaders agreed on a shared framework for improving their own economic resilience — a recognition that high levels of trade with China have become more of a risk than an opportunity for mature economies.
Sullivan said G7 leaders were acknowledging that “we do seek to cooperate with China on matters of mutual interest. And also that we will work to address our significant concerns that we have with China in a range of areas.” He repeated a phrase often used by G7 leaders that the group is looking to “de-risk, not decouple from China.”
Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a dinner Saturday for G7 leaders and other officials who participated in the summit.
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Associated Press writer Kevin Freking in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-05-21T02:07:53+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-biden-aims-to-reassure-world-on-us-debt-standoff-as-he-consults-with-indo-pacific-leaders/ |
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Last week, the Maine Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment rate in January had declined to 2.8 percent, the lowest it has been since February of 2020. This is unquestionably good news, and seems to indicate that Maine’s economy is returning to its pre-pandemic state.
But does it, really? That is a more complicated question than you might suspect.
There are many types of unemployment — structural, frictional, cyclical, etc — but whatever the cause, the government measures unemployment in a very specific way. Officially, the unemployment rate is calculated by evaluating the number of unemployed workers actively seeking work, measured against the total labor force.
This concept of a labor force will become important as we discuss this topic, because not everyone is in it. People who are retired and people who no longer wish to work are not counted as being in the workforce.
When unemployment rates typically go down, they do so for fairly simple reasons. Previously weak economic prospects turn around and optimism returns, so firms begin to hire additional workers in order to grow. Unemployed people who want jobs, in turn, end up filling these new positions.
There are other ways the unemployment rate can go down, though. Rather than changing the numerator in the unemployment calculation (number of unemployed people), you could instead change the denominator (people in the workforce).
Let’s say that we had 150 people, 100 of which were workers in the labor pool, and six of those people were not employed, but actively looking for work. That would give us a 6 percent unemployment rate.
Now let’s say that we had the same 150 people, but two of the previously unemployed citizens gave up looking for work and dropped out of the labor force. We would now have only 98 people in the workforce, and four unemployed people, giving us an unemployment rate of just over 4 percent.
The rate is lower, but is anything different? The same number of people exist, and the same number of people aren’t working, but the rate is lower.
Sadly, this is not a hypothetical exercise. When Janet Mills was sworn in as governor of Maine in January of 2019, our labor-force participation rate stood at 62.8 percent. Maine’s rate in July of 2022 was down to 58.8 percent, a full four percentage points lower. Four percentage points may not seem like that much, but it is an enormous loss of workers. It is the difference between 700,746 workers, and 678,439, and represents a loss of 22,307 people.
Talk to almost any business owner in Maine today, and you are likely to hear them complain of an inability to hire workers. Staffing issues have been plaguing everything from restaurants to ferry services to nursing homes.
Which begs the question: where did all the workers go?
Ask the Mills administration, and you will likely hear blame cast on Maine’s aging population. We’re the oldest state in the union, the logic goes, and after the pandemic, a lot of people decided to simply walk away and retire, and are not coming back.
Sure, that’s a factor. But neighboring New Hampshire is the second oldest state in the Union, and its labor-force participation rate stood at 65.7 percent in July, nearly 7 points higher than ours.
Was it the so-called “Great Resignation,” whereby fed-up workers left jobs in lower wage, labor-intensive jobs? Again, maybe a little. But generally speaking, workers quitting jobs they don’t like don’t just drop out of the workforce entirely, and instead search for new, better jobs. And with wages rising and desperate hiring managers, workers have never been better positioned to negotiate perks, benefits and higher pay. And Maine isn’t much different than any other state, New Hampshire included, in that regard.
So what gives? Well, it is a complex problem for sure, and it is one afflicting the county as a whole but it hasn’t been the same everywhere. States like Florida, Texas, Indiana and South Dakota have seemed to have both prevented a massive loss and had an easier time restoring their lost workforce than others (like Maine) with a more restrictive business climate.
The lesson of this should be that if you want people to work, you need policies that not only incentivize work but develop an economy where working is more attractive and barriers that make investment and growth harder are removed. The result could be higher paying jobs, and more people that want to work those jobs. | 2022-08-25T03:23:28+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/24/opinion/opinion-contributor/maines-low-unemployment-rate-may-not-be-good-news/ |
Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman has spoken with Stanford about its head coaching vacancy, coach John Harbaugh confirmed Wednesday.
Roman, who worked under then-Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh as the Cardinal’s tight ends coach and offensive tackles coach in 2009 and 2010, had been mentioned as a potential candidate for the job after David Shaw resigned Saturday. Shaw, a former Ravens assistant coach, went 96-54 in his 12 seasons at Stanford but ended each of his final two seasons with a 3-9 record.
Harbaugh was asked what would happen if Roman accepted the Stanford job with a substantial portion of the Ravens’ season remaining.
“I really don’t have a reference point on that. We’ll just cross that bridge when we get to it,” he said, describing Roman’s discussions with Stanford as preliminary. “I think we’re pretty far from that at this point.”
The Athletic first reported Wednesday that Stanford had talked with Roman about its vacancy. Shaw’s salary over his final seasons at the Pac-12 Conference school was estimated to be about $9 million annually.
Roman, 50, was named the NFL Assistant Coach of the Year in 2019, when the Ravens led the NFL in passing efficiency and rushing efficiency, according to Football Outsiders, and quarterback Lamar Jackson earned unanimous league Most Valuable Player honors.
Roman is considered one of the NFL’s most innovative run-game designers, but the Ravens’ passing game has come under criticism in recent years.
“We have really great coaches, they’re going to have opportunities, and we always try to encourage that,” Harbaugh said.
Baltimore Sun reporter Childs Walker contributed to this article.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 4, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Portland OR
1202 PM PDT Fri Nov 4 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington,
including the following counties, in northwest Oregon, Clackamas,
Clatsop, Columbia, Multnomah, Tillamook, Washington and Yamhill.
In southwest Washington, Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific, Skamania and
Wahkiakum.
* WHEN...Until 1000 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
River or stream flows are elevated. Ponding of water in urban or
other areas is occurring or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1151 AM PDT, satellite and forecast estimates indicate
heavy rain is moving into the advisory area. This will cause
urban and small stream flooding. Overflowing poor drainage
areas have already caused minor flooding in the advisory
area.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected at
the coast and inland valleys, with 2 to 4 inches in the
higher terrain of the Coast Range and Cascade foothills
through this evening.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Hillsboro, Oregon City, Battle Ground, Washougal, St. Helens,
Kelso, Sandy, Astoria, Seaside, Woodland, Warrenton,
Vernonia, Castle Rock, Cannon Beach, Stevenson, Long Beach,
Cascade Locks, Garibaldi, Manzanita and Cathlamet.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
A Flood Advisory means creeks are running high and may be out of
their banks. Roads in urban or rural areas may have ponding or
flooding in low areas.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom tests positive for COVID-19
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, a day after a high-profile meeting with the visiting prime minister of New Zealand.
Newsom has mild symptoms and will remain in isolation at least through Thursday and until he tests negative, his office said in a statement. The Democratic governor plans to work remotely during that time.
His office said Newsom, 54, will begin a five-day regimen of the Paxlovid antiviral.
The governor’s office said it has notified the delegation of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The two leaders met in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Friday to announce a climate change partnership. Ardern tested positive for the virus earlier in May.
The governor’s office said it does not know how Newsom contracted the virus. He is vaccinated and received his second booster shot this month.
Other public officials have recently announced testing positive for the virus, including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday and Vice President Kamala Harris last month.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-29T00:00:43+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/05/28/california-gov-gavin-newsom-tests-positive-covid-19/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top counterintelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy services for organizing the killing of the daughter of a leading Russian nationalist ideologue in a car bombing just outside Moscow.
Daria Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Alexander Dugin, a philosopher, writer and political theorist whom some in the West described as “Putin’s brain,” died when an explosive planted in her SUV exploded as she was driving Saturday night.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main KGB successor agency, said that Dugina's killing had been “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.”
In a letter expressing condolences to Dugin and his wife that was released by the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the “cruel and treacherous” killing of Dugina, hailing her as a “bright, talented person with a real Russian heart — kind, loving, responsive and open.”
Putin added that Dugina has “honestly served people and the Fatherland, proving what it means to be a patriot of Russia with her deeds.”
On Sunday, Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak denied any Ukrainian involvement in the killing.
In Monday's statement, the FSB accused a Ukrainian citizen, Natalya Vovk, of perpetrating the killing and then fleeing from Russia to Estonia.
The FSB said that Vovk arrived in Russia in July with her 12-year-old daughter and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived to shadow her. It said that Vovk and her daughter were at a nationalist festival, which Alexander Dugin and his daughter attended just before the killing.
The agency said that Vovk and her daughter left Russia for Estonia after Dugina's killing, using a different vehicle license plate on their way out of the country.
In a statement released by a close associate, Dugin described his daughter as a “rising star" who was “treacherously killed by enemies of Russia.”
“Our hearts are longing not just for revenge and retaliation, it would be too petty, not in Russia style,” Dugin wrote. “We need only victory.”
Dugin has been a prominent proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global clout and the unity of all ethnic Russians throughout the world. He has been vehemently supported Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to send troops into Ukraine and urged the Kremlin to step up its operations in the country.
The car bombing, unusual for Moscow since the gang wars of the turbulent 1990s, triggered calls from Russian nationalists to respond by ramping up strikes on Ukraine.
The explosion took place as Dugin's daughter was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with him. Russian media reports cited witnesses as saying the SUV belonged to Dugin and that he had decided at the last minute to travel in another vehicle.
On Sunday, Denis Pushilin, head of the Russia-backed separatist “Donetsk People's Republic” in Ukraine's east, quickly blamed the blast on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin.”
While Dugin’s exact ties to Putin are unclear, the Kremlin frequently echoes rhetoric from his writings and appearances on Russian state television. He helped popularize the “Novorossiya,” or “New Russia” concept that Russia used to justify the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Dugin, who has been slapped with U.S. and European Union sanctions, has promoted Russia as a country of piety, traditional values and authoritarian leadership, and spoken with disdain about Western liberal values.
His daughter expressed similar views and had appeared as a commentator on nationalist TV channel Tsargrad, where Dugin had served as chief editor.
Dugina herself was sanctioned by the United States in March for her work as chief editor of United World International, a website that the U.S. described as a disinformation source. The sanctions announcement cited a United World article this year that contended Ukraine would “perish” if it were admitted to NATO.
In an appearance on Russian television just Thursday, Dugina said, “People in the West are living in a dream, in a dream given to them by global hegemony.” She called America “a zombie society” in which people opposed Russia but couldn't find it on a map. | 2022-08-22T16:10:19+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/russia-blames-ukraine-for-nationalists-car-bombing-death |
US Coast Guard returns 273 migrants intercepted off Florida Coast to Cuba
The U.S. Coast Guard says it repatriated 273 Cuban migrants Sunday after intercepting a number of boats off the Florida coast on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
The migrants were returned to Cuba aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk, according to a news release.
"The Coast Guard continues to interdict and rescue migrants from grossly overloaded, unseaworthy vessels," said Lt. Cmdr. John Beal of Coast Guard District Seven.
"These illegal voyages are always dangerous and often deadly. We are working closely with partner agencies to save lives and prevent illegal entry to the United States via our southeast maritime border," Beal said.
The migrants were intercepted on several occasions on Dec. 31, 2022 and Jan. 1, 2023, the release said.
One of the vessels had capsized when a "good Samaritan" alerted the Coast Guard to its presence in waters about 35 miles north of Havana, it said.
According to the Coast Guard, once the migrants were aboard a Coast Guard cutter, they received food, water, shelter and basic medical attention.
The Coast Guard said its crews interdicted 4,795 Cubans since Oct. 1, 2022, compared to 6,182 Cuban migrants in all of fiscal year 2022, 838 Cuban migrants in fiscal year 2021 and 49 Cuban migrants in fiscal year 2020.
On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order activating the state's National Guard and directing law enforcement and other state agencies to provide resources to support local governments responding to the influx of migrants, his office said in a news release.
Last week, the National Park Service announced it was temporarily closing Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys to the public due to an influx of migrants from Cuba.
In a news release, the service said the park would be closed for several days "while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300 migrants who arrived in the park over the past couple of days."
The park is about 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of Key West and is only accessible by boat or seaplane.
"Like elsewhere in the Florida Keys, the park has recently seen an increase in people arriving by boat from Cuba and landing on the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park," the park service said.
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The park's closure "is necessary for the safety of visitors and staff because of the resources and space needed to attend to the migrants," the park service said.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia coach Kirby Smart's plan for a deep running back corps was based on more than making it through a 12-game regular season.
Smart wanted his backs to be fresh for the College Football Playoff. The No. 1 Bulldogs will take a group of four running backs, led by Kenny McIntosh, into the Peach Bowl semifinal against No. 4 Ohio State on Saturday.
McIntosh has started 12 games for Georgia (13-0) and leads the Bulldogs with 709 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns. At times, however, it's difficult to distinguish the senior's hold on the No. 1 role because Daijun Edwards is a close second, with 681 yards and eight touchdowns.
Kendall Milton and Branson Robinson have combined for more than 800 rushing yards and eight scores. That depth gives the defending national champion Bulldogs a strong running complement to quarterback Stetson Bennett's passing game.
The depth and balance at running back and other skill positions is Georgia's answer to Ohio State's high-scoring offense led by quarterback C.J. Stroud.
Smart says his plan at running back is about “health and necessity” and is based on an examination of Southeastern Conference offenses.
“Throughout our conference we’ve done studies, and very few backs have made it through the entire year with a large burden,” Smart said. “They tend to get injured. ... We try to build it where three to four backs can contribute and play.”
Georgia's best chance at making a run for another national title may be provided by its depth at running back and other skill positions.
“We don’t want to get into this part of the season and not have depth,” Smart said. “That’s what the rotation provides us.”
Ohio State linebacker Tommy Eichenberg said the Georgia running backs boast similar skills and strengths.
“Some are faster than others, but I’d say overall they’re all great running backs,” Eichenberg said.
Georgia has taken a similar approach at other skill positions.
Starters also are bracketed with “OR” designations on Georgia's depth chart at wide receiver and even at tight end, where starter Brock Bowers was the John Mackey Award winner as the nation's top player at the position. Massive Darnell Washington (6-7, 265) and freshman Oscar Delp provide good reason to consider two-tight end sets.
“Kind of a friendly competition,” Bowers said when asked about the depth at the position.
Bowers then paused.
“I don’t know about friendly, but it’s a mutual competition between everyone competing for spots,” he said. “Extra competition just makes everyone better. It definitely helps out on the practice field, too.”
Ohio State coach Ryan Day says Georgia's depth, especially after losing a record 15 NFL draft picks from last year's national championship team, is proof that Smart and his staff “have done a great job recruiting.”
“There’s guys who roll in the front, there’s guys who roll in the back end, multiple running backs, multiple wide receivers,” Day said. “So when you’re playing against a really good team who plays with a lot of depth and has recruited really well, that’s one of the things you have to prepare for. What does that mean? Well, you just have to know that you’re not going to just hone in on one or two guys. You’ve got to be aware of more than one of those guys, and that’s the sign of a good team.”
Ohio State also has utilized a committee approach at running back.
“Most of it’s been by originally by design, but then with the injuries that we’ve had a couple times with those guys, they’ve all practiced well,” offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said.
The Buckeyes lost their second-leading rusher, TreVeyon Henderson, to foot surgery. Leading rusher Miyan Williams has been slowed by a leg injury, but “had a really good go” in Monday's practice, Wilson said.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week in September, Pilot Company is extending its annual celebration for professional truck drivers who go above and beyond to keep America moving. To further recognize and thank these hero haulers, Pilot Company's Driver Appreciation will kick off on September 1 and last through October 31 with two months of exclusive offers, more points and events for professional drivers.
"Professional drivers go further every day to deliver more than 70 percent of the goods this country depends on, and we want to show how much we appreciate all they do," said Shameek Konar, Pilot Company CEO. "Thank you to our very own Pilot drivers and all the professional drivers out there for trucking through even the toughest times. We are honored to serve you, and we're going even further this Driver Appreciation to celebrate your immense contributions."
Pilot Company is showing its appreciation with extra savings, big rewards and more points just for professional drivers, including:
- Up to three free drink choices in the myRewards Plus™ app each week (September 1 through October 31, 2022) including Pilot fountain drinks and coffee, sodas, energy drinks and waters*
- Earn up to 500 bonus points in September with new activated in-app challenges*
- Discounts on various deli food items all September using the myRewards Plus™ app, including a 50% discount during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week* (Sept. 11 – 17, 2022)
- In October, earn even more points (up to 5 points per gallon) when fueling after activating PushForPoints™ in the myRewards Plus™ app*
- Free Safe and Road Ready Checks in September by Southern Tire Mart at Pilot Flying J. With every check completed, drivers will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win one of three sets of Bridgestone premium steer tires
During Driver Appreciation, Pilot Company is teaming up with Monster Energy for on-site celebrations at recently remodeled and new travel centers as part of its New Horizons initiative. Drivers and guests are invited to join the festivities, including events like a BMX show, freebies from the Monster Energy girls, special guests, gas card giveaways, swag and more. Upcoming events include:
- September 2, 2022, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Pilot Travel Center on 3006 North Williston Road in Florence, SC
- September 16, 2022, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Pilot Travel Center on 5231 Pearblossom Hwy in Palmdale, CA
- September 23, 2022, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Pilot Travel Center on 1701 Ashley Road in Boonville, MO
Professional drivers can redeem these promotions at any of the more than 750 participating U.S. Pilot and Flying J Travel Centers or owned and operated One9 Fuel Network locations. Canadian professional drivers will automatically receive one bonus point throughout September when fueling with their myRewards® card at participating Shell Flying J travel centers. Download the myRewards Plus™ app* to find the nearest participating travel center.
For more information about Pilot Company's Driver Appreciation, visit pilotflyingj.com/driver-appreciation.
*Data rates may apply. Participating locations only. Terms and conditions apply. While supplies last.
Pilot Travel Centers LLC ("Pilot Company") keeps North America's drivers moving as one of the leading suppliers of fuel and the largest operator of travel centers. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Pilot Company has grown its network to more than 800 retail and fueling locations and supplies more than 14 billion gallons of fuel per year to the market. Pilot Company has fourth largest tanker fleet with more than 1,600 trucks that supply DEF, bio and renewable fuels, and provides hauling and disposal services to the oil field sector. Pilot Company serves 1.3 million guests per day and provides over 70,000 fleet customers with solutions for fuel, credit, factoring, services and rewards. Its Pilot and Flying J travel center network includes over 750 locations in 44 states and six Canadian provinces with more than 790 restaurants, 75,000 truck parking spaces, 5,300 deluxe showers, 6,200 diesel lanes and offers truck maintenance and tire service with Southern Tire Mart at Pilot Flying J. The One9 Fuel Network connects a variety of fueling locations to provide smaller fleets and independent professional drivers with everyday value, convenience, credit and perks. More information on locations and rewards are available in the myRewards Plus™ app.
Pilot Company is currently ranked No. 7 on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies. For additional information about Pilot Company, its 30,000 team members and commitment to giving back, visit www.pilotcompany.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Twitter failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online disinformation, drawing a rebuke Thursday from top officials of the 27-nation bloc.
The company signed up to the EU's voluntary 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation last year — before billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought the social media platform.
Under the code, online platforms including Google, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram parent Meta agreed to commit to measures aimed at reducing disinformation. They filed their first “baseline” reports last month showing how they're living up to their promises.
All who signed up to the voluntary code, which also includes ad-tech companies and civil society groups, submitted complete reports — except Twitter.
“I am disappointed to see that Twitter report lags behind others and I expect a more serious commitment to their obligations stemming from the Code,” Vera Jourova, the European Commission's executive vice president for values and transparency, said in a statement. “Russia is engaged also in a full-blown disinformation war and the platforms need to live up to their responsibilities.”
Twitter did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The social media company’s press office was shut down and its communications team laid off after Musk bought it last year.
EU leaders have grown alarmed about fake information thriving on online platforms, especially about the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian propaganda amid the war in Ukraine. Last year, the code was strengthened by connecting it with the upcoming Digital Services Act, new rules aimed at getting Big Tech companies to clean up their platforms or face big fines.
But Musk has raised concerns about what shows up on Twitter by ending enforcement of its policy against COVID-19 misinformation and other moves such as dissolving its Trust and Safety Council that advised on problems like hate speech and other harmful content.
Under the EU disinformation code, a standardized report includes data on how many advertising dollars flowing to “disinformation actors” were blocked; political ads that were labeled or rejected; examples of manipulative behavior such as fake accounts; and information on the impact of fact-checking.
Twitter’s report was “short of data, with no information on commitments to empower the fact-checking community,” the EU’s executive Commission said.
Thierry Breton, the commissioner overseeing digital policy, said it's “no surprise that the degree of quality” in the reports varies greatly, without mentioning Twitter.
TikTok, meanwhile, touted its efforts under the code to fight false information in Europe.
Caroline Greer, TikTok’s director of public policy and government relations, said in a blog post Thursday that the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app would expand use of labels on content from state-controlled media and beef up work addressing the impact of misleading information resulting from Russia's war in Ukraine.
“We’ll continue to invest extensively as we work together with others to combat disinformation and promote authentic online experiences for our communities,” Greer said. | 2023-02-09T12:53:45+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/eu-calls-out-twitter-for-incomplete-17773638.php |
Former talk show host and politician Jerry Springer has died, according to multiple media outlets.
The Associated Press reports that Springer died peacefully at his home in suburban Chicago. A cause of death was not immediately revealed. However, a family spokesperson said Springer had been ill.
“He’s irreplaceable and his loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humor will live on," Springer's longtime friend, Jene Galvin, said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
Springer was best known for hosting the controversial "Jerry Springer Show," which aired for 27 years. The show, which started in 1991, featured guests who would often get into physical altercations while being cheered on by a live studio audience. The show was often criticized for its sensational content.
Prior to his talk show, Springer worked as an attorney and then transitioned into politics. He was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971 and served as the city's mayor from 1977 to 1978.
Following his time in local politics, he worked as a reporter for a TV station in Cincinnati. That exposure fueled him to launch his popular talk show.
Springer was divorced and had one daughter.
He was 79 years old. | 2023-04-27T15:06:55+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/talk-show-host-jerry-springer-dead-at-age-79 |
Controlled Environment Farming is "growing like a weed"
CORONA, Calif., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), said the Controlled Environment Agriculture sector, which includes Vertical Farming and the company's own unique, portable indoor farms called GrowPods, have a bright future.
As reported by Morning Brew, vertical farming is "growing like a weed" and by 2029, could become a nearly $20 billion market worldwide with a CAGR of 24.30%, according to BIS Research.
What is fueling this growth?
According to a recent article in the investment publication, The Motley Fool, "With the global population continuing to expand, the world will need to double its food supply over the next three decades," they write. "That's a daunting task, as arable land shrinks due to climate change, urban sprawl, and soil destruction. At the current pace, farmable land could fall 50% by 2050," they add. "Since it's become more challenging to find additional farmland to meet our growing food needs, farmers are starting to go vertical."
This thought is echoed by an article in Digital Trends, which said: "Agriculture has come a long way in the past century. We produce more food than ever before — but our current model is unsustainable, and as the world's population rapidly approaches the 8 billion mark, modern food production methods will need a radical transformation if they're going to keep up. But luckily, there's a range of new technologies that might make it possible."
How it works:
Quoting Digital Trends, "Indoor farms allow us to grow food 24 hours a day, protect crops from unpredictable weather, and even eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides. If these farms were built in cities, we could mitigate crop loss due to shipping and storage, and cut down on fossil fuel usage because food wouldn't need to be transported very far after harvest."
In his seminal book, The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, Columbia Professor, Dr. Dickson Despommier, said indoor farming is a world-changing innovation whose time has come.
Despommier's visionary book explains how controlled environment farms will have change the face of this planet for future generations.
Controlled Environment farms allow users to:
- Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Protect crops from harsh weather
- Reduce and re-use water
- Provide jobs for local residents
- Eliminate pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides
- Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage
- Stop agricultural runoff
Endorsed by Retailing Giants
According to Forbes, companies including Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, Whole Foods and Target are embracing indoor farming.
Walmart writes on its website: "Vertical farming supplements traditional farming practices to help increase food supply and alleviate current challenges on the food system in a sustainable way."
Doug Heldoorn, CEO of ACTX, said GrowPods are transportable and scalable, so fresh, nutritious food can now be available on a consistent basis virtually anywhere in the world.
"GrowPods allow grocers, businesses, non-profits, local communities, and big box retailers the means to grow healthy food, year-round," he said. "Controlled Environment Farming is no longer just an idea... it's the future of our planet."
For information on GrowPods, or for a free quote on obtaining a CEA system, call (951) 381-2555 or visit: www.AdvancedContainerTechnologies.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor" provisions of U.S. Securities Acts. Forward-Looking Statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results can differ. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. ACTX undertakes no duty to update information in this release except as required.
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Here’s the latest installment of our Miami Dolphins Q&A, where South Florida Sun Sentinel writers David Furones and Chris Perkins answer questions from readers.
Q: Did Eich win the orange jersey for LG or C? –@FinzZombie on Twitter
A: Liam Eichenberg won the orange jersey Thursday, symbolic of Player of the Day the previous day, for his performance at center. Eichenberg, last year’s starting left guard, has appeared to handle his new responsibility pretty well.
Obvious, and possibly unnecessary disclaimer: It’s tough to judge centers, especially when no one is wearing pads.
The key here is Eichenberg wasn’t a distraction, he didn’t disrupt the offense. You didn’t see confusion or chaos on the offensive line because of missed assignments or bad reads. I don’t know if things ran as smoothly as they would have with Connor Williams at center, but I didn’t notice any center-caused blunders.
By the way, for the most part, I also didn’t notice right tackle Austin Jackson, and I mean that in a good way. Same for left guard Robert Jones. Don’t get it twisted. None were perfect. But, for the most part, they were all good enough during a three-day minicamp without pads to give you a chance to win.
And, yes, the entire offensive line was leaky on Day Three. The defense had its best day of the three-day minicamp.
But generally speaking, Eichenberg was good enough, Jackson was good enough and Jones was good enough.
Q: RBs are famous for running out of gas, specially if those tires have a lot of miles in them….a year or two contract,,,? –@CastleHugo on Twitter
A: Regarding Dalvin Cook, I’d insist on a one-year deal. The Dolphins are basically operating in a two-year window for a number of reasons (quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s expected 2025 salary being one reason; it’ll make it tough to add significant talent).
You’re right in saying running backs don’t stay on top for long. Cook has four consecutive 1,000-yard seasons (and Pro Bowl berths) but those go along with more than 1,500 career touches and a couple of significant surgeries (knee, shoulder). The thing is, Cook wouldn’t be a singular workhorse back with the Dolphins; he’d share the load with Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson Jr. and De’Von Achane. So it’s a good fit.
I think Cook makes Tagovailoa better, he makes play-caller Mike McDaniel better, he makes the offensive line better, he makes the passing game better, and he makes the Dolphins better.
I’m not saying Cook instantly makes the Dolphins a Super Bowl favorite.
I’m saying Cook makes the Dolphins better, and in many ways.
Q: How much work can we expect from Achane at RB? Not at the rumored WR snaps. He seems to have the possibility to be more dynamic than Mostert and Wilson. –@godscousinmatt on Twitter
A: Achane, the rookie third-round pick from Texas A&M, must first earn/receive a role. And he’ll do that by the Dolphins finding out what he can do. For example, we suspect he’ll be effective at outside runs. And we’ve been told he can run between the tackles and be effective in pass protection. Again, we’ll see.
Right now it’s up to Achane to show the Dolphins what he can do, and after that it’s up to the Dolphins to take advantage of his skills.
By the way, if the Dolphins acquire Cook, the backfield obviously gets crowded among Cook, Mostert, Wilson, Achane, Salvon Ahmed and Myles Gaskin.
If that situation happens, I’m wondering whether the Dolphins would make some phone calls to see if Mostert or Wilson is desired on the trade market. My guess is the plan would be to figure out a way to make touches work among Cook, Mostert, Wilson and Achane.
Whatever happens, I’m guessing they’d want Achane, their third-round pick, getting touches as a running back, receiver and kickoff returner.
Have a question?
Email David Furones, or tag @ChrisPerk or @DavidFurones_ on Twitter.
Previously answered:
Chris Simms ranking Tua No. 21 QB?
Can Miami bring Dalvin Cook home?
How will Jaelan Phillips be used in Vic Fangio’s defense?
Can Miami be comfortable with Austin Jackson as starting RT?
Why no change at special teams coordinator?
Should Tua consider retirement after latest concussion scare? | 2023-06-10T08:21:44+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/09/dolphins-qa-did-eichenberg-earn-orange-jersey-contract-length-for-dalvin-cook/ |
Braves vs. Red Sox Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - May 10
Wednesday's game features the Atlanta Braves (25-11) and the Boston Red Sox (21-16) clashing at Truist Park in what is expected to be a close matchup, with a projected 6-3 win for the Braves according to our computer prediction. First pitch is at 7:20 PM ET on May 10.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Braves will send Max Fried (2-1) to the mound, while Brayan Bello (1-1) will take the ball for the Red Sox.
Braves vs. Red Sox Game Info & Odds
- When: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 7:20 PM ET
- Where: Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia
- How to Watch on TV: MLB Network
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Braves vs. Red Sox Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Braves 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Braves vs. Red Sox
- Total Prediction: Under 10 runs
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Braves Performance Insights
- In eight games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 6-2.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Atlanta and its opponents have combined to hit the over six times.
- The Braves have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings.
- The Braves have entered the game as favorites 31 times this season and won 21, or 67.7%, of those games.
- This season Atlanta has won 12 of its 15 games, or 80%, when favored by at least -160 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Braves, based on the moneyline, is 61.5%.
- Atlanta is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking fifth with 197 total runs this season.
- The Braves have the sixth-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.48).
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The sight of Cher Horowitz in a Super Bowl ad might have you saying: “Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?”
But it’s actually a commercial for the cashback website Rakuten. A 15-second teaser for the upcoming Super Bowl commercial released on Feb. 2 showed Alicia Silverstone slipping back into her “Clueless” role as easily as if she was putting on her favorite Alaïa dress.
The ad shows Cher in her signature black-and-yellow plaid skirt set, seemingly back in the classroom at Bronson Alcott High School.
“Don’t bug, your girl is back,” she says to the camera.
The beloved film came out in 1995, officially launching Silverstone into superstardom. It remains a cultural touchstone that influenced fashion, language and female representation in the movies.
Rautken shared the video on their Twitter account, saying “As if we could wait until 2.12.23 to share this. #notsoclueless @AliciaSilv”:
As if we could wait until 2.12.23 to share this. #notsoclueless @AliciaSilv pic.twitter.com/vxG66FFUs0
— Rakuten (@Rakuten) February 1, 2023
Silverstone herself shared another clip from the commercial, a snippet that showed her playing with her gum in perfect Cher form:
I’m just gonna leave this here. pic.twitter.com/IsADz7VOHB
— Alicia Silverstone (@AliciaSilv) January 31, 2023
Twitter user @JillianRae729 replied with the original gum-twirling gif from “Clueless” which proves that Silverstone perfectly replicated the move for her Super Bowl commercial:
— â¡ Jillian Rae â¡ (@JillianRae729) January 31, 2023
“Rakuten came to me with this idea, and I thought it was really clever,” Silverstone told Variety about her decision to do the commercial for the cash-back shopping app. “When I think about Cher and about how she’s film’s most historic shopaholic, the idea that she would be able to use this app is the greatest hack ever, getting cash back on all your shopping. I feel like she would want everyone to know that.”
Unfortunately, in the same interview, she puts to bed any possible rumors about a “Clueless” reboot. Silverstone says that Amy Heckerling, the writer and director of “Clueless,” has never wanted to touch the masterpiece.
“She just felt like there’s magic in what we did,” Silverstone said.
She’s not wrong! Getting a glimpse of Cher during Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12 (or on TikTok!) will have to do. The big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles begins at 6:30 p.m. ET, with a half-time show from Rihanna.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-02-03T18:11:56+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/clueless-heroine-cher-is-back-in-super-bowl-ad |
TORONTO, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and a coalition of long-term investors (PIRC on behalf of pension fund clients, as well as Canadian responsible investing organization SHARE—the Shareholder Association for Research and Education—on behalf of The Catherine Donnelly Foundation, and Trillium Asset Management) welcomed reports that the two largest independent proxy advisors, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), recommended investors support the coalition's shareholder proposal requesting Starbucks' board of directors oversee an independent workers' rights assessment.
In its reasoning, Glass Lewis noted that shareholders would benefit from the company assessing its adherence to their existing workers' freedom of association and collective bargaining rights commitment. The advisor echoed the legal and financial risk concerns raised by the investor coalition.
ISS noted that with implementation of the proposal, shareholders would be able to better assess the company's compliance with their freedom of association policy and federal laws in response to collective bargaining by their workforce and how it is managing the associated legal, reputational, and financial risks.
The shareholder proposal requests an evaluation of management's adherence to Starbucks' stated commitments to workers' rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. It would also assess management non-interference when employees exercise their right to form or join a trade union, as well as recommend steps to remedy any practices found to be inconsistent with Starbucks' stated commitments.
Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote for the proposal leading up to and during the company's annual meeting on March 23.
The proposal underscores the importance of board oversight and transparency regarding Starbucks management's adherence to the company's human rights policy. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued numerous substantiated complaints against Starbucks, which heightened investor concerns regarding interference with worker organizing. Despite the coalition's efforts to engage the company, Starbucks failed to respond sufficiently.
"We are encouraged that both Glass Lewis and ISS have recommended that shareholders vote YES on our proposal to address the very real impacts that management's behavior has on their workforce and reputation," said New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. "As shareholders, we expect and demand better from a company that claims to promote a positive work environment. The onus is on Starbucks' board of directors to ensure that management is complying with applicable law as well as with company policy."
"Whether the vote is in the 30 percent, 40 percent, or 50 percent range, an unignorably large group of investors will be sending a message to incoming CEO Laxman Narasimhan and Board Chair Mellody Hobson," said Trillium Chief Advocacy Officer Jonas D. Kron. "The board needs to take an active lead in examining, with the benefit of a third-party assessor, whether management is living up to its commitments to worker rights."
"It is already clear that investors want to have confidence that Starbucks is walking the talk in respect of its commitment to ILO Core Labor Standards," said PIRC Head of Stewardship Tom Powdrill. "We urge the company to take the support for our proposal as an opportunity to get an independent assessment and to act on it."
"Workers are at the heart of Starbucks' success and central to the company's reputation." said Anthony Schein, Director of Shareholder Advocacy at SHARE. "The incoming CEO and board chair need to wake up and smell the coffee – their poor decisions have led to undeniable damage to the company's reputation. Shareholders expect the company to align with international standards and its own policies."
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Updated September 2, 2022 at 10:26 AM ET
A federal judge has unsealed a list of items the FBI seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during a court-authorized search last month. Read the list here:
There are few new details in this latest development.
The list includes U.S. government documents with secret classification marking; documents and photographs without a classification marking; magazines, newspapers and articles; documents with confidential, secret and top secret markings; empty folders with classified banners; empty folders marked "return to staff secretary/military aide"; articles of clothing/gift item; and books.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has not yet ruled on Trump's request for a special master, saying she will enter a written order at some point. Over the weekend, a federal judge said she was inclined to grant Trump's request, and a hearing on the matter took place Thursday, but it is now unclear when that decision will come.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-02T17:29:36+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2022-09-02/empty-folders-with-classified-banners-are-among-the-items-seized-from-mar-a-lago |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Video posted to Twitter appears to show a jet fighter intercepting a plane that flew into air space over the San Francisco area that was restricted due to President Joe Biden’s Bay Area visit.
In the video, found above, a fighter jet can be seen appearing to cut off the path of a slower-moving, single-engine plane flying over Marin County Tuesday.
NORAD officials confirmed on Twitter that fighter aircraft have responded to several general aviation aircraft that violated temporary flight restrictions near San Francisco on Tuesday.
“Pilots in the San Francisco area are strongly encouraged to check NOTAMS today and tomorrow to ensure they have the latest information on the VIP TFR,” NORAD tweeted.
“NOTAM” is an acronym for “notice to airmen.”
President Biden is in the Bay Area for a three-day visit. After arriving Monday, he visited a nature preserve in Palo Alto where he announced a $600 million climate initiative. On Tuesday, he was in San Francisco meeting with technology leaders to discuss AI.
Biden will also attend four Bay Area fundraisers as he ramps up his reelection campaign.
While in the Bay Area, news broke that President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden had pleaded guilty to tax and weapons charges. During a meeting in San Francisco on AI Tuesday, Biden responded, “I’m very proud of my son,” to a shouted question from a reporter about the matter. | 2023-06-21T01:04:46+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/video-fighter-jet-appears-to-intercept-plane-for-violating-biden-air-space/ |
HOUSTON, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Petroleum Corporation, the official fuel sponsor of the 127th Boston Marathon, sponsored a team of runners in the prestigious race on Monday, April 17, 2023. This year's team included educators, non-profit workers, a first responder, and two first-time marathoners from Boston.
"The amazing communities throughout the entire course were so supportive. Nobody knows me around here, but they know CITGO. Every time I ran past, folks would yell CITGO, and it was like they were calling my name," said Matthew Doherty, a teacher at Lemont High School. "When you see that huge CITGO sign when you're a mile away, it's one of the coolest feelings — everyone's cheering and it's the loudest moment in the whole race."
"I work in a very low socio-economic area, so for CITGO to pick me…I can't describe my gratitude," said Cathy Delamore, a teacher from the Houston area. "Because people like me and the kids I work with really need support."
Kyle Hosek, a CITGO employee, said at the finish line: "You can do anything you set your mind to. I beat my personal best and had a great marathon on my birthday. Thank you."
This year's race marks a solemn anniversary — ten years since the bombing at the 2013 finish line. On Saturday, members of the CITGO team attended a memorial service for the three spectators and two policemen who lost their lives.
"It was a sobering event to think back on, especially there at the finish line, so close to where that horrible event occurred, and realize that there was a group of people doing exactly what we are here to do today and that was tragically interrupted and taken from them," said Chris Kiesling, CITGO Assistant Vice President Light Oils Operations and Marketing. "But it was also uplifting to consider the people that ran to help instead of running away. It makes you proud to think about the spirit that the city of Boston has shown and continues to show as it holds this event."
CITGO also sponsored the marathon entries of two native Bostonians and Boston University students, Joshua Joseph and Douglas Alverado. "The CITGO sign is right next to my dorm," said Joseph. "Finishing will be like coming home." Alverado recalled the 2013 bombing. "I was actually at the finish line ten years ago," he said. "I left 30 minutes before the bombs went off. It feels amazing to be here and how much the city has recovered – just how really 'Boston Strong' it is."
CITGO presence at the event also included a "cheer zone" beneath the CITGO sign in Kenmore Square, where company representatives and spectators encouraged runners as they approached the final mile towards the Boylston Street finish line.
"Our CITGO sign in Kenmore Square has been a symbol of Boston pride and resilience since 1965," said Carlos Jordá, CITGO President and CEO. "We are honored to continue our support of the Boston Marathon and its thousands of participants — particularly our first responders, teachers, health and social workers, who work hard and put themselves on the line to keep us all safe, healthy, and thriving."
About CITGO
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry with a well-known brand. CITGO operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, La.; Lemont, Ill.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 769,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), CITGO is ranked as the fifth-largest, and one of the most complex independent refiners in the United States. CITGO transports and markets transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products and supplies a network of approximately 4,200 locally owned and operated branded retail outlets, all located east of the Rocky Mountains. CITGO Petroleum Corporation is owned by CITGO Holding, Inc.
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TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — The Humane Society for Greater Lafayette announced its capital campaign to fundraise for its new facility Thursday.
During a news conference at Lafayette's City Hall, elected officials for the Greater Lafayette Area joined the Humane Society in introducing the Capital Campaign. The goal is to raise $1.5 million for a new humane society shelter.
"This is going to be a no kill shelter that houses up to 145 cats and 70 dogs, and what is going to be really neat about it are the many services that are going to be offered as a part of the operations there," said Tippecanoe County Commissioner Dave Byers. "Adoption services, Educational classes, updated kenneling, medical procedures for injured animals and an exercise area."
The community has already raised $30,000, and the Humane Society for Greater Lafayette's President Sharon Dull is grateful for the actions taken by the community and community leaders.
"We're very fortunate to have the support here," said Dull. "Also with our prosecutor Pat Harrington, he's been very active in helping me pass three very important animal bills at the statehouse, along with Senator Alting and Representative Shelia Klinker. So we all work in coordination and try to make it as big of a priority as we can."
Both Mayors for the Greater Lafayette area also spoke at the press conference, saying they see an importance in improving upon the quality of life for homeless animals in the area and a new shelter is the first step in doing so.
Construction for the new shelter is set to break ground in 2023, and the Humane Society hopes to open its doors by 2024.
Click here to donate. | 2022-07-29T01:44:25+00:00 | wlfi.com | https://www.wlfi.com/news/humane-society-announces-capital-fundraising-campaign/article_62f896ac-0ed7-11ed-b912-5b77f693a45f.html |
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LUND, Sweden, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunovia (Nasdaq Stockholm: IMMNOV), the diagnostics company that has launched the world's first blood test dedicated to the early detection of pancreatic cancer, today announced it is realigning its Swedish operations with its strategic priorities to drive R&D productivity and focus on the US commercialization of the IMMray™ PanCan-d test.
In October 2022, Immunovia announced a research collaboration partnership with the Swiss diagnostic company Proteomedix. The partnership capitalizes on the combined expertise of two leading innovators in proteomics-based diagnostics. Following the early experience of the collaboration Immunovia has been able to better understand the opportunities available to the Company and has determined that the in-house need for R&D capability has changed. As a result, Immunovia has initiated a union consultation process with the aim of reducing the number of employees within R&D and Operations in Lund.
"Immunovia has entered a new phase with an increased focus on the commercialization of our IMMray™ PanCan-d test in the U.S., while maximizing our R&D productivity. The R&D and Operations teams in Lund have delivered very strong results in developing the IMMray™ PanCan-d test. At the same time, Immunovia is in the early stages of commercial execution, and the scope of the in-house R&D and Operations needs have changed. We are working to create a smooth transition for the employees affected by this change," said Philipp Mathieu, CEO and President of Immunovia.
Immunovia has initiated a consultation process with relevant Swedish unions to create the best possible transition for the affected employees. The Company will provide an update once the consultation process is concluded.
For more information, please contact:
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About Immunovia
Immunovia AB is a diagnostic company with the vision to revolutionize blood-based diagnostics and increase survival rates for patients with cancer.
Our first product, IMMray™ PanCan-d is the only blood test currently available specifically for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The test has unmatched clinical performance. Commercialization of IMMray™ PanCan-d started in August 2021 in the USA and IMMray™ PanCan-d is offered as a laboratory developed test (LDT) exclusively through Immunovia, Inc. For more information see: www.immunoviainc.com.
Immunovia collaborates and engages with healthcare providers, leading experts and patient advocacy groups globally to make this test available to all high-risk pancreatic cancer groups.
The USA, the first market in which IMMray™ PanCan-d is commercially available, is the world's largest market for the detection of pancreatic cancer with an estimated value of more than USD 4 billion annually.
Immunovia's shares (IMMNOV) are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.immunovia.com
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SOURCE Immunovia AB | 2023-01-19T08:49:50+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2023/01/19/immunovia-realigning-swedish-operations-with-strategic-priorities-its-focus-us-commercialization-immray-pancan-d-test/ |
(Stats Perform) – The FCS playoff quarterfinal between William & Mary and Montana State is basically about winning the line of scrimmage.
Montana State, the 2021 national runner-up, ranks first in the FCS in rushing yards per game (332.8) and is getting stronger by the day, while the visiting Tribe rank fourth (276.7) with a deep attack.
Following is a capsule preview of the William & Mary-Montana State quarterfinal:
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No. 5 Seed William & Mary (11-1) at No. 4 Seed Montana State (11-1)
Kickoff – 10:15 p.m. ET Friday (ESPN2) at Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman, Montana
Series – First meeting
Coaches – William & Mary: Mike London (23-15, fourth season; 85-75 overall); Montana State: Brent Vigen (23-4, second season)
3 Players to Watch – William & Mary: QB Darius Wilson (144 of 221, 2,190 yards, 16 TDs, 6 INTs; 522 rushing yards, 4 TDs), RB Bronson Yoder (177 carries, 1,133 yards, 12 TDs), OLB John Pius (71 tackles, 19 TFL, 12 QBH); Montana State: QB Tommy Mellott (1,401 passing yards, 9 TD passes; 1,013 rushing yards, 9 TDs), LB Callahan O’Reilly (76 tackles, 4 INTs, 2 FR, 3 FF), S Ty Okada (63 tackles, 4 TFL, INT, 7 PBU)
Notable – Brrr, the temperatures will be in the low 20s Friday evening. This is William & Mary’s fifth appearance in the FCS quarterfinals and Montana State’s seventh, including a 1984 national championship season. W&M, a CAA co-champ, is 6-0 on the road, but Montana State, a Big Sky co-champ, is on a program-record 19-game home winning streak. MSU’s top-ranked rushing attack is surging with the return of QB Sean Chambers (19 TD runs) and RB Isaiah Ifanse (program-record 3,552 career yards) from injuries. Yoder, W&M’s rushing leader, has 522 yards and seven touchdowns in the last five games. Behind center, Wilson has accounted for three or more total TDs in each of the Tribe’s last three games, while the Bobcats utilize Mellott and Chambers (two TD passes on two attempts in a second-round win over Weber State). W&M DE Nate Lynn posted his 10th forced fumble in the last two seasons while the Tribe had six takeaways in a second-round win over Gardner-Webb. MSU has a +12 turnover margin, with O’Reilly accounting for seven takeaways.
Up Next – The winner will play either No. 1 seed South Dakota State or No. 8 seed Holy Cross in a national semifinal on Dec. 16 or 17.
Prediction – Montana State 32, William & Mary 24 | 2022-12-07T19:51:10+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/fcs-quarterfinal-round-playoff-preview-capsule-william-mary-at-montana-state/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — From his home in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Graeme Dean says there’s plenty that’s disheartening about the state of the country and politics these days. At the center of one of this year’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, he’s on the receiving end of a constant barrage of vitriolic advertising that makes it easy to focus on what’s going wrong.
But the 40-year-old English teacher has no intention of disengaging from the democratic process. In fact, he believes that the first national election since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is “more significant” than in years past.
“This could very well sway the country in one direction or another,” the Democratic-leaning independent said.
Dean is hardly alone in feeling the weight of this election. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center of Public Affairs Research finds 71% of registered voters think the very future of the U.S. is at stake when they vote this year. That’s true of voters who prefer Republicans win majorities in Congress, and those who want to see Democrats remain in control, though likely for different reasons.
While about two-thirds of voters say they are pessimistic about politics, overwhelming majorities across party lines — about 8 in 10 — say casting their ballot this year is extremely or very important.
The findings demonstrate how this year’s midterms are playing out in a unique environment, with voters both exhausted by the political process and determined to participate in shaping it. That could result in high turnout for a midterm election.
In the politically divided state of Michigan, for instance, over 150,000 voters have already cast absentee ballots. A total of 1.6 million people have requested absentee ballots so far, surpassing the 1.16 million who chose the option in the 2018 midterm election.
In follow-up interviews, poll respondents reported distinct concerns about the country’s direction despite agreement that things are not working.
Rick Moore, a 67-year-old writer and musician in Las Vegas, said he’s dissatisfied with President Joe Biden, and “not just because I’m a Republican.” Moore called him “more of a puppet” than any other president in his lifetime.
“It’s important to me that Republicans are in control of as much as possible because we’re not going to get rid of the Democratic president anytime soon,” Moore said.
In general, Moore said, he doesn’t like the way Democratic politicians run their states, including Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, adding that Democrats are “using the word democracy to make all of us do what they want.”
“I would just like to see my voice more represented,” he said.
Since the last midterm elections, voters have grown more negative about the country and people’s rights: 70% say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., up from 58% in October 2018.
Republicans have become enormously dissatisfied with a Democrat in the White House. While Democrats have become less negative since Donald Trump left office, they remain largely sour on the way things are going.
Fifty-eight percent of voters also say they are dissatisfied with the state of individual rights and freedoms in the U.S., up from 42% in 2018. About two-thirds of Republicans are now dissatisfied, after about half said they were satisfied when Trump was in office. Among Democrats, views have stayed largely the same, with about half dissatisfied.
Shawn Hartlage, 41, doesn’t think her views as a Christian are well represented, lamenting that she’d love to vote “for someone that really stood for what you believe,” but that it’s very important to her to vote anyway.
The Republican stay-at-home mother of two in Washington Township, Ohio, said the direction of the country is “devastating,” noting both inflation and a decline in moral values.
“I’m scared for my children’s future,” Hartlage said. “You always want to leave things better for them than what you had, but it’s definitely not moving in that direction.”
Teanne Townsend of Redford, Michigan, agrees that things are moving backward. But the 28-year-old called out abortion, health care and police brutality as especially concerning areas in which rights are being threatened.
“We have minimum progression in the right direction for a lot of areas, especially for people of minority (groups). Their rights are not the same as those of other races and cultures,” the Democrat, who is African American, said.
A children’s health and mental health specialist, Townsend said she’s voting for her constitutional right to an abortion this year. If passed, the state’s ballot initiative would guarantee abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution.
“I feel like it’s just a lot that’s at stake,” Townsend said, adding that she’s both “optimistic and nervous” about the outcome but that it’s “the right thing” for people to be able to vote on it.
The poll showed majorities of voters overall say the outcome of the midterms will have a significant impact on abortion policy, with Democratic voters more likely than Republican voters to say so. Most voters across party lines say the outcome will have a lot of impact on the economy.
More voters say they trust the Republican Party to handle the economy (39% vs. 29%), as well as crime (38% vs. 23%). Republicans also have a slight advantage on immigration (38% vs. 33%). The Democratic Party is seen as better able to handle abortion policy (45% vs. 22%), health care (42% vs. 25%) and voting laws (39% vs. 29%).
Despite the uncertainty in the outcome, Dean in Pennsylvania has faith in the American system to work for the will of the people.
“I think it’s important that our representatives represent what the majority of people want,” Dean said. “That’s what we claim we do in this country and it feels like it is what should happen. And I am hopeful.”
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The poll of 961 registered voters was conducted Oct. 6-10 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. | 2022-10-18T19:24:28+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-most-say-voting-vital-despite-dour-us-outlook-ap-norc-poll/ |
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaTek, a global leader in providing the latest in Wi-Fi technology, announced today that it has successfully completed interoperability testing for Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) on MediaTek Filogic Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6E chips, in collaboration with Federated Wireless, the leading innovator of private wireless and shared spectrum services. Federated Wireless is conditionally approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate an AFC system, which manages access to spectrum by standard-power indoor and outdoor unlicensed devices in the 6 GHz band.
An AFC system enables standard power operation for indoor and outdoor unlicensed devices, such as 5G CPEs, fiber gateways, and ethernet gateways, to transmit over 850 MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz frequency band. Doing so provides Wi-Fi products with improved range, faster connectivity speeds and improved capacity, which is particularly helpful as Wi-Fi 7 technology continues to proliferate.
"Our leadership in Wi-Fi technology would not be complete without ensuring our customers have easy access to AFC solutions," said Alan Hsu, corporate vice president of Connectivity at MediaTek. "We are very happy to partner with Federated Wireless and to have finished an extensive series of integration testing. Our Filogic Wi-Fi 7 and 6E chips, including the CES 2023 Innovation Award-winning Filogic 880, will soon support Standard Power operation in the 6GHz spectrum for companies producing Wi-Fi devices."
MediaTek and Federated Wireless successfully completed AFC Device-to-AFC System interoperability testing consisting of a comprehensive set of positive and negative tests drawn from the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) AFC System certification specification. The positive tests included verifying the proper AFC calculation and response of spectrum availability at several locations. The negative tests included verifying proper AFC System error handling. In addition, all tests employed security measures that went above and beyond those specified by the WFA's Standard Device Interface (WFA SDI) requirement documentation, ensuring the highest degree of privacy and data security across all AFC System communications.
"We are proud to partner with MediaTek to perform these critical interoperability tests to ensure that the commercial industry is ready for standard power device operations to begin," said Kurt Schaubach, chief technology officer at Federated Wireless. "Federated Wireless prides itself on being a premier collaborator with our partners and customers interested in spectrum sharing solutions."
The completion of these interoperability tests removes the final roadblock for customers to start utilizing Federated Wireless' AFC system on MediaTek Filogic Wi-Fi 7 and 6E chips. This milestone enables customers to begin launching standard power indoor and outdoor device operations through an AFC system upon full approval by the FCC.
To learn more about MediaTek's leadership in Wi-Fi, please visit: https://www.mediatek.com/products/networking-and-connectivity/filogic-wifi6-wifi7.
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MediaTek Incorporated (TWSE: 2454) is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables nearly 2 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. Our dedication to innovation has positioned us as a driving market force in several key technology areas, including highly power-efficient mobile technologies, automotive solutions and a broad range of advanced multimedia products such as smartphones, tablets, digital televisions, 5G, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD) and wearables. MediaTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smart technology, more easily and efficiently than ever before. We work with the brands you love to make great technology accessible to everyone, and it drives everything we do. Visit www.mediatek.com for more information.
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SOURCE MediaTek Inc. | 2023-01-02T16:20:20+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/01/02/mediatek-federated-wireless-join-forces-complete-afc-testing-wi-fi-7-6e-chipsets-6ghz-standard-power-operation/ |
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Officials say water pressure should be gradually returning to a small New Jersey city across the Hudson River from Manhattan stricken by a water main break that left most residents with no water service or low water pressure.
Hoboken Mayor Ravinder Bhalla says crews have successfully isolated the broken water main, which he called “the critical step needed to allow water to flow around the area and water pressure to return to the rest of the city.”
Bhalla said Tuesday evening that water pressure should gradually return in the coming hours. Veolia, the company that provides city water, said crews were reopening valves to stabilize water pressure throughout the city.
The problems in Hoboken began around noon Monday, when a construction crew accidentally struck a water main. Veolia said the force of the rupture penetrated two mains or an interconnection of mains, and it isolated one 16-inch main but was working to isolate the other one.
Veolia said it was safe to drink the water and didn’t issue a boil water advisory. But related problems prompted the city to issue a state of emergency and close public schools and municipal offices. Hoboken University Medical Center started evacuating some patients Tuesday because of the lack of water.
City officials set up water stations and placed portable toilets across Hoboken. | 2023-03-01T15:55:03+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-water-main-break-leaves-many-without-service-in-nj-city/ |
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SINGAPORE, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Timely and effective monitoring of wound healing status is critical to wound care and management. Impaired wound healing, such as chronic wounds (i.e. those that do not heal after 3 months) and post-burn pathological scars, could result in life-threatening medical complications and considerable economic burden to patients and healthcare systems worldwide.
A recent invention by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), provides a simple, convenient and effective way of monitoring wound recovery so that clinical intervention can be triggered in a timely manner to improve wound care and management.
Currently, wound healing is typically examined visually by a clinician. Wound infections are mostly diagnosed via swabbing followed by a bacteria culture which involves long waiting time and does not provide timely wound diagnosis. This makes accurate prediction of wound healing challenging in the clinical setting. In addition, wound assessment typically requires frequent manual removal of dressing, which elevates the risks of infection and may cause additional pain and trauma for patients.
"To address this challenge, NUS researchers combined our expertise in flexible electronics, artificial intelligence (AI) and sensor data processing with nanosensor capabilities of IMRE researchers to develop an innovative solution that could benefit patients with complex wound conditions," said Associate Professor Benjamin Tee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering under the NUS College of Design and Engineering, and the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology.
The PETAL (Paper-like Battery-free In situ AI-enabled Multiplexed) sensor patch comprises of 5 colorimetric sensors that can determine the patient's wound healing status within 15 minutes by measuring a combination of biomarkers – temperature, pH, trimethylamine, uric acid and moisture of the wound. These biomarkers were carefully selected to effectively assess wound inflammation, infection as well as the condition of the wound environment.
"We designed the paper-like PETAL sensor patch to be thin, flexible and biocompatible, allowing it to be easily and safely integrated with wound dressing for the detection of biomarkers. We can thus potentially use this convenient sensor patch for prompt, low-cost wound care management at hospitals or even in non-specialist healthcare settings such as homes," explained Dr Su Xiaodi, Principal Scientist, Soft Materials Department, A*STAR's IMRE.
The sensor patch is able to operate without an energy source – sensor images are captured by a mobile phone and analysed by AI algorithms to determine the patient's healing status.
Assoc Prof Tee said, "Our AI algorithm is capable of rapidly processing data from a digital image of the sensor patch for very accurate classification of healing status. This can be done without removing the sensor from the wound. In this way, doctors and patients can monitor wounds more regularly with little interruption to wound healing. Timely medical intervention can then be administered appropriately to prevent adverse complications and scarring."
The design and fabrication of the PETAL sensor patch was reported in the scientific journal Science Advances on 16 June 2023.
Battery-free sensor analyses five wound biomarkers in a single patch
Most wearable wound sensors measure only one or a small number of parameters, and they require bulky printed circuit boards and batteries. The PETAL sensor patch, on the other hand, currently measures 5 biomarkers and does not require any battery to operate. More biomarkers can be added if required.
Each PETAL sensor patch consists of a fluidic panel patterned in the form of a five-petal pinwheel flower, with each 'petal' acting as a sensing region. An opening in the centre of the fluidic panel collects fluid from wound and distributes the fluid evenly via 5 sampling channels to the sensing regions for analysis. Each sensing region uses a different colour-changing chemical to detect and measure the respective wound indicators – namely temperature, pH, trimethylamine, uric acid and moisture.
The fluidic panel is sandwiched between 2 thin films. The top transparent silicone layer allows for normal skin functions of oxygen and moisture exchange, and it also enables image display for accurate image capture and analysis. The bottom wound contact layer gently attaches the sensor patch to the skin and protects the wound bed from direct contact with the sensor panel, to minimise wound tissue disruptions.
After sufficient wound fluid is accumulated (usually within a few hours or over a few days), the PETAL sensor patch will complete the detection of biomarkers within 15 minutes. Images or a video of the sensor patch can be recorded on a mobile phone for classification using the proprietary AI algorithm.
In lab experiments, the PETAL sensor patch demonstrated a high accuracy of 97 per cent in differentiating healing and non-healing chronic and burn wounds.
Wound-friendly and versatile
There are no apparent signs of adverse reactions observed on the skin surface in contact with the PETAL sensor patch over four days, demonstrating the biocompatibility of the PETAL sensor patch for ambulatory wound monitoring.
In the current study, the performance of the PETAL sensor patch was demonstrated on chronic wounds and burn wounds. This AI-enabled technology can be adapted and customised for other wound types, by incorporating different colorimetric sensors, such as glucose, lactate or Interleukin-6 for diabetic ulcers. The number of detection zones can also be easily reconfigured to detect different biomarkers concurrently, so its application can be broadened for different wound types.
Next steps
An international patent for this invention has been filed and the researchers plan to advance to human clinical trials next.
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MIAMI (AP) — Trea Turner hit a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning that lifted the United States over Venezuela 9-7 Saturday night and into the World Baseball Classic semifinals.
The defending champion U.S. will face Cuba on Sunday night for a spot in the WBC final against Japan or Mexico. St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright will start for the U.S. against Cuba.
Venezuela second baseman and Houston Astros star Jose Altuve left in the fifth with a right hand injury after he was hit by a pitch from Daniel Bard. The Astros said there will be an update on his status Sunday.
Trailing 7-5, the United States loaded the bases in the eighth on a walk, single and hit by pitch against losing pitcher Jose Quijada. Silvino Bracho relieved and Turner, the No. 9 batter in the U.S. lineup, sent his 0-2 changeup 407 feet to deep left field for the third grand slam in American WBC history.
“Individually, I think this is probably the biggest hit that I’ve had … probably right up there with any hit I’ve ever had,” Turner said.
U.S. manager Mark DeRosa said Saturday’s win was one of the three greatest game’s he’s ever been a part of — including winning the World Series with the San Francisco Giants in 2010.
“I told the guys before the game, I wanted to match their passion,” said DeRosa, who once played for the Venezuelan professional team Leones del Caracas. “I had played over there. I had been a part of that, coming out of the dugout and jumping around … When Trea clipped that ball, honestly, I saw about 35 guys, including the coaches, kind of black out and lose their minds for a minute. So it was just an awesome moment.”
David Bednar, the fifth of seven U.S. pitchers, got the win and Ryan Pressly finished with three straight outs for the save.
Luis Arraez, playing the ballpark that he’ll soon call home with the Miami Marlins, had the first multihomer game of his professional career and drove in four runs for Venezuela.
The U.S. team boasts a roster of big names that many picked to repeat as WBC champions.
All nine batters in the U.S. starting batting order were All-Stars, including Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout, Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and third baseman Nolan Arenado.
The U.S. is in the top six in the tournament in batting average (.296), RBIs (34) and hits (48), and every American starter had a hit against Venezuela, which had gone 4-0 in group play.
“Unfortunately, this is baseball,” Venezuela manager Omar López said. “We have to accept this and as men we have to keep our heads up. It is not easy, especially when they came back in the game.”
Venezuela took a 6-5 lead in a four-run fifth after Ronald Acuña Jr.’s sacrifice fly to deep center.
Salvador Perez drove in the tying run with a line-drive double that sneaked just inside the left-field foul line.
Arraez hit a two-run drive to right field in the first off Lance Lynn, his first home run in his new home park, and added another high off the right field foul pole in the seventh against Bednar to give Venezuela a two-run lead. Arraez, the reigning AL batting champion, was traded to the WBC host Miami Marlins this offseason after four seasons in Minnesota.
Bard replaced Lynn with a 5-2 lead in the fifth and loaded the bases with two walks, an infield hit and the pitch that injured Altuve.
Bard was pulled after Gleyber Torres scored on a wild pitch to make it 5-3 and Arraez hit an RBI groundout against Jason Adam.
The U.S. hit five straight singles to start the game. Betts led off the first with an infield single, then the speedster raced from first to third on Trout’s single to center, scoring when he forced a throwing error by Acuña.
Kyle Tucker homered for the U.S. in the fifth off Astros teammate Luis Garcia.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-20T00:48:18+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/turners-grand-slam-lifts-us-over-venezuela-into-wbc-semis/ |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brent Key held the ball given to him by his new boss and pointed to the gold “GT” logo on it, a symbol the former Georgia Tech lineman turned interim head coach tasked with holding his alma mater’s struggling program together has held close for a quarter century and counting.
“That means everything to me,” Key said, tapping the embossed letters for effect.
Sure looked like it, for both Key and the group he’s now suddenly in charge of leading.
Five days after Geoff Collins was fired four games into his fourth season, the Yellow Jackets responded with a stunning 26-21 victory over No. 24 Pittsburgh on Saturday night that was emphatic as it was improbable.
The defense harassed the defending ACC champions into three turnovers. Quarterback Jeff Sims threw for a touchdown and ran for another. Hassan Hall gashed the Panthers for 157 yards rushing.
And Key — who admittedly didn’t know what to do during pregame after being promoted from offensive line coach to take over for Collins — was at ease in the middle of it all, creating a self-belief in his group that appeared non-existent during a 1-3 start that cost Collins and athletic director Todd Stansbury their jobs.
“After the week we had, we were able to block out all the noise, eliminate all the distractions and … focus on moving forward,” Key said. “So happy for these kids. We believed in them. We knew they had it in them.”
Georgia Tech (2-3, 1-1 ACC) ended a nine-game losing streak to FBS opponents — the last five by a combined score of 210-20 — by frustrating the Panthers (3-2, 0-1) for long stretches and making the plays that mattered late.
Linebacker Charlie Thomas recovered a fumble and picked off Pitt quarterback Kedon Slovis to set up two of Gavin Edwards’ four field goals. The inspired Yellow Jackets converted Pitt’s three turnovers into 13 points, including a 21-yard touchdown pass from Sims to E.J. Jenkins with 10:30 to play that gave Georgia Tech a 19-7 lead.
The Panthers (3-2, 0-1) drew within five on a 26-yard touchdown pass from Slovis to Jaden Bradley with 1:57 to go but Hall raced 63 yards on the first play of Georgia Tech’s ensuring possession and Sims later darted in from 18 yards out with 1:25 remaining to effectively seal it.
“I think Coach Key, he just came in, he knew that coach Collins being fired was a devastating time for us,” Sims said. “He came in and just kept our confidence up.”
Tasked with trying to make something of his alma mater’s season, Key promised the Yellow Jackets would “play the best brand of football we possibly can.”
At soggy and cold Acrisure Statdium, that meant relying heavily on a defense that never let Slovis or the Panthers get comfortable until they were too far behind.
The USC transfer completed a deceiving 26 of 45 passes for 305 yards with three touchdowns — two in the final 2 minutes — and an interception as Pitt’s offense sputtered in the second half without junior running back Israel Abanikanda. The ACC’s leading rusher exited late in the first half with an undisclosed injury and his replacement, Vincent Davis, fumbled twice in Pitt territory to set up Georgia Tech scores.
“Offense didn’t really get started until the last two series of the game,” Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi said. “If we would’ve done that (have any rhythm) the whole game, we would have had a chance … Obviously I didn’t do a good enough job of getting them ready.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Georgia Tech: Key, the first alum to lead the program since Bill Curry’s tenure in the 1980s, made a pretty compelling opening statement that he should be considered for the full-time gig to replace Collins. What Georgia Tech lacked in aesthetics it made up for in grit while largely shutting down an offense that came in averaging 36 points a game.
Pitt: The Panthers began the season talking about repeating as the ACC champs and maybe mounting an insurgent run at the CFP. An overtime loss to Tennessee last month derailed the CFP dream — as remote as it was — and now they’re playing catchup in the Coastal Division just one game into conference play.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Considering the carnage just above them in the polls, the Panthers appeared to have a chance to vault back into the top 20. Instead, they will drop out of the rankings for the first time since early November of last year after losing at home as a 22-point favorite.
UP NEXT
Georgia Tech: Returns home next Saturday to face Duke. The Yellow Jackets beat the Blue Devils last October, their last victory over an FBS opponent before Saturday night.
Pitt: Finish a home-heavy start to the 2022 season when Virginia Tech visits next Saturday. The Panthers have won each of the last two meetings, including a 28-7 victory in Blacksburg last October.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana judge on Thursday blocked the state’s abortion ban from being enforced, putting the new law on hold as abortion clinic operators argue that it violates the state constitution.
Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon issued a preliminary injunction against the ban that took effect one week ago. The injunction was sought by abortion clinic operators who argued in a lawsuit that the state constitution protects access to the medical procedure.
The ban was approved by the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature on Aug. 5 and signed by GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb. That made Indiana the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
The judge wrote “there is reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution” and that the clinics will prevail in the lawsuit. | 2022-09-22T14:28:23+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/judge-blocks-indiana-abortion-ban-week-after-it-took-effect/article_0b341c3c-2deb-5e14-83e8-04aa0919926a.html |
WALTON COUNTY, Fla. , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Jason Turchin announces the filing of several product liability lawsuits against Tristar Products, Inc. on behalf of victims burned by allegedly defective pressure cookers. The new pressure cooker lawsuits involve burn injuries caused by use of the Emeril Lagasse pressure air fryer duet and other Tristar pressure cookers. The new lawsuits are titled Beets v. Tristar Products, Inc., Flood v. Tristar Products, Inc., Taveras v. Tristar Products, Inc., Bryniarski v. Tristar Products, Inc., Dobson v. Tristar Products, Inc., and Garnett v. Tristar Products, Inc., which were filed in the Circuit Court for the Walton County, Florida.
The Plaintiffs each allege they sustained severe burns in separate incidents using a Tristar distributed product. The pressure cooker lawyers at the Law Offices of Jason Turchin handled numerous previous cases against Tristar Products, Inc. involving the Power Pressure Cooker XL, and these products have not been recalled to date despite the number of injured consumers across the United States.
"Tristar claims the pressure cookers and air fryers have safety mechanisms to prevent opening while under pressure, yet we've represented many victims burned when the lids opened while the units were still pressurized," says Turchin. Turchin's firm was previously lead counsel in a consolidated federal lawsuit against Tristar Products in New Jersey titled IN RE: TRISTAR PRODUCTS LITIGATION. "Since our initial lawsuits, Tristar has moved their corporate registration around, from what appeared to be a postal box in South Florida and now to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida," adds Turchin.
Turchin's firm is co-lead counsel in a national pressure cooker class action lawsuit filed against Sunbeam Products, Inc. involving the 600-V1 model Crock-Pot Multicooker. That product has now been recalled. His law firm also represents victims burned by exploding contents from pressure cookers, including claims against Maxi-Matic, Gourmia, Bella Housewares, Instant Pot and more.
Turchin continues to represent pressure cooker burn victims in the hopes that companies will fix alleged defects to prevent more people from getting hurt. "We want to make sure these products are safe. There should be zero tolerance for failure," adds Turchin.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A week after bitter divisions dominated a national Republican gathering, Democrats holding their own meeting are eager to showcase just how much they agree on.
There will be no party chair fight since Jaime Harrison isn’t up for reelection until 2025. There is no candidate jostling for a White House bid since President Joe Biden is expected to seek a second term. And there is no national reckoning after a surprisingly strong midterm showing.
The only real point of contention for the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in Philadelphia this weekend is a proposed overhaul of the 2024 presidential primary calendar, which has angered top party leaders in New Hampshire. But even that is largely moot since Biden isn’t expected to face a major challenge for the nomination.
The DNC on Saturday is expected to approve a new lineup for the party’s presidential primaries, deferring to Biden, who has championed South Carolina’s primary opening voting on Feb. 3. New Hampshire and Nevada would jointly follow three days later, on Feb. 6, with Georgia coming next on Feb. 13 and Michigan two weeks after that.
The president has argued that replacing the party’s leadoff caucuses in Iowa, a majority white state, with a presidential primary in South Carolina, where nearly 27% of the population is Black, would empower the voters of color whom Democrats rely on but have taken for granted.
The party is solidly behind Biden seeking a second term despite his being the oldest president in U.S. history and revelations that he may have mishandled official documents. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 77% of Democrats approve of how Biden is handling his job.
Unity remains the party’s mantra after Republicans took 15 ballots last month just to elect a House speaker, with GOP members nearly coming to blows on the House floor.
“We’re fending off a Republican House that’s crazy and actually defending our gains from the first years. So it just doesn’t make sense to be saber-rattling right now about a future race when we’re all just sort of in the fight together,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which backed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, rather than Biden, in Democrats’ 2020 presidential primary.
Warren, like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and other major 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, say they expect Biden to run again and will support him when he makes a bid official.
Sanders is instead urging the DNC to ban accepting funding from super PACs and other outside political groups during future Democratic primaries. That’s an idea some Democratic elders have opposed, arguing that Republican candidates will continue to accept such financial support and that their party shouldn’t “unilaterally disarm.”
Still, most top progressive organizations and grassroots activist groups have also shied away from suggesting Biden could face a major primary challenge. President Jimmy Carter’s loss to Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election followed a strong primary challenge from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Harrison, who rose to national prominence with an unsuccessful 2020 bid against South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, will remain chair until after next year’s presidential race. That’s in stark contrast to Ronna McDaniel, who won another term as head of the Republican National Committee during a contentious meeting last week in California. Members openly questioned the GOP’s midterm performance and former President Donald Trump’s continued hold on the party.
Harrison teared up during a December party rules committee meeting when Democrats’ new primary calendar was first approved and predicts he may get emotional again this weekend. He recalled going to vote with his grandfather before his death in 2004 and how the U.S. Constitution once counted his Black ancestors in South Carolina as three-fifths of a person.
“They didn’t always think I was a whole man in this state,” Harrison remembered his grandfather saying, before urging him, “Never let anyone tell you that you don’t matter.”
“That this president would step into the tradition of the Democratic Party — go into Iowa, go into New Hampshire to say, you know what, it is now time that we elevate the voices of people like my grandfather, like my grandmother, to allow them to get a say in determining who should be president of the United States,” Harrison added. “For me, I was emotional because of that.”
But the new lineup has its detractors. New Hampshire, already a general election battleground state, has a law that mandates holding the nation’s first presidential primary, which Iowa only circumvented with its caucus. Its Democrats have joined with top state Republicans in vowing to hold the nation’s first presidential primary next year regardless of the DNC calendar.
That raises the possibility that, if Biden were to bypass a rogue New Hampshire primary, he could lose the state to a challenger who campaigns there unopposed.
Such a scenario may trigger “potential embarrassment” for Biden that creates “an opening for an insurgent candidate — serious or not — who can garner media attention and capitalize on Granite Staters’ anger about being passed over,” New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley wrote to the DNC rules committee.
DNC rules committee member Joanne Dowdell of New Hampshire seized on the same theme, noting, “This is not how any of us would like to kick off a reelection campaign.”
That’s unlikely to keep the DNC from approving the new primary calendar. But the proposal has drawn some opposition beyond New Hampshire.
Matt Hughes, a DNC member who is second vice chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, was the first signature on a letter released Thursday to DNC members from local officials in his state, as well as Nevada, Michigan and Georgia.
It urged the party to choose the first primary state from a competitive state like those four — arguing that doing so would allow Democrats to concentrate campaign resources on areas that are more competitive in the general election than deeply Republican South Carolina.
Hughes said such calls shouldn’t be seen as defying Biden. Instead, he said, the party having an incumbent president who won’t face primary opposition is the perfect time to make changes that shape future cycles.
“What we should be thinking about is absolutely the long-term impact. In 2024, it makes a lot of sense. This is relatively low impact,” Hughes said. “This is the perfect opportunity to talk about the lineup of states without regard to possible candidates in the field, who benefits and who losses.” | 2023-02-02T15:11:14+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/ap-after-bitter-rnc-meeting-democrats-look-to-project-unity/ |
Which lawn mower is right for you?
With spring weather comes greener lawns and taller grass. For most home dwellers, that also means it’s time to start up your lawn mower so you can keep your home’s landscaping trimmed and vibrant all season long.
Not every lawn mower is built the same, and not every lawn requires the same type of equipment. Whether you have a small city yard, a rural multi-acre plot or something in between, we’ll cover the most popular styles of mowers to make your buying decision easier.
Types of lawn mowers
There are plenty of options to consider when purchasing a lawn mower, so we’ll be examining four popular styles. Each has its benefits, with some styles designed for smaller spaces and others meant for combating harsh yard conditions. Your yard size, fuel preference, budget and intended usage will play an essential role in choosing the perfect mower.
Gas lawn mowers
While some gas mowers are available in self-propelled versions, we’ll focus on push mowers. Gas lawn mowers are often more powerful than similar electric models and ideal for small and medium-sized yards.
Troy-Bilt 21-inch 160cc GCV Series Honda Engine 3-in-1 Gas Lawn Mower
Built using a Honda Auto Choke engine and sporting 11-inch rear wheels, you can expect a high-quality cut from a machine that won’t quit on you. This Troy-Bilt mower also features a rear bag and additional mulching options so it can provide your lawn with the best overall care.
Available at Home Depot
Electric lawn mowers
Best suited for smaller lawns, electric lawn mowers have their upsides. Though not always as powerful as their gas-powered counterparts, electric mowers save you money on fuel, require little maintenance, produce less noise and are better for the environment.
Greenworks 12 Amp 20-Inch 3-in-1 Electric Corded Lawn Mower
A corded mower does give you less range, but the range isn’t usually an issue for smaller yards. Since this Greenworks mo
wer requires a plug-in, it doesn’t need charging and won’t run out of battery halfway through a mow.
Available at Amazon
EGO Power+ LM2021 20-Inch 56-Volt Lithium-ion Cordless Battery Lawn Mower
EGO Power+ makes some of the most heavy-duty electric mowers on the market, which rival the power of gas mowers in many cases. The rechargeable 56V ARC Lithium battery and brushless motor allow this model to operate continuously for up to an hour without losing power or being restricted to an extension cord’s length.
Available at Amazon.
Sun Joe MJ401E 14-inch 12 Amp Electric Lawn Mower
The perfect budget option for small yards, this lightweight Sun Joe mower provides consistent cuts while catching all of the grass clippings in a detachable rear bag. Just plug it in, push the start button, and you’re ready to go.
Available at Target
Self-propelled lawn mowers
Self-propelled mowers don’t take all the hard work out of mowing your lawn, but they do help, especially with larger yards. Available in both gas and electric options, they tend to be slightly more expensive but can help save you time and energy.
Honda 21-inch NeXite Variable Speed 4-in-1 Self-Propelled Mower
Honda has been producing quality lawn mowers for years. The NeXite 4-in-1 self-propelled model is an excellent option for medium to large yards, delivering excellent power with seven height adjustment settings and four discharge options, including mulching and leaf shredding. This Honda mower is a worthy investment designed to conquer yards up to an acre.
Available at Home Depot
Toro Recycler 22-inch SmartStow High Gas Self-Propelled Mower
A good bang for your buck, this budget-friendly Toro mower works well for mid-sized lawns. Though what sets the SmartStow model apart from the competition is its ability to store in a compact position, making it easy to squeeze in a shed or tight space.
Available at Walmart
Riding lawn mowers
Also known as lawn tractors, these are designed for mowing large areas. Though they require the least amount of effort on your part, they come with the highest price tag.
Troy-Bilt Bronco 42-inch 19 HP Briggs and Stratton Engine Automatic Gas Riding Lawn Mower
A relatively low-cost option, the Troy-Bilt Bronco utilizes a tight turn radius making it easy to navigate around sheds, bushes, gardens and trees. This mower comes with the option to add on additional accessories like a mulching kit, leaf bag or snowblower.
Available at Home Depot
48V Brushless 30 in. 50 Ah Battery Electric Rear Engine Riding Mower
An environmentally-friendly mower designed to handle up to one acre on a single charge, this model does not require any gas or oil and features a handy control panel where you can monitor your settings and even turn on the cruise control feature. Perhaps the best part about this electric riding mower is the minimal maintenance.
Available at Home Depot
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ENCINO, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intake Services Inc. of Encino CA is proud to announce its new Legal Intake Conversion Service offered to law firms and legal marketing agencies across the country. The new service allows Intake Services Inc. to perform an "intake" of a law firm's leads generated from social media, radio and television and to quickly convert those leads into signed retainers. All prospective clients are met with empathy and support and Agreements and contracts are sent via email, text message, priority shipping and depending on the area in person to ensure a speedy conversion.
Intake Services, Inc. is staffed by the brightest and most experienced intake specialists in the industry. Each intake team is managed by a Certified Victim Advocate who is experienced in providing support to victims of traumatic events and can provide insight into complex issues.
"An Intake specialist is the gateway to a personal injury or mass tort law firm and for law firms the first impression they make is key" Says Rob Gorman Communications Manager at the Company "How you provide intake, how quickly you respond to an online request, how adept you are at connecting with your prospective clients is what will make a client choose your firm instead of someone else's"
Intake Services, Inc. provides legal intake support for almost every type of personal injury case and is staffed with the brightest minds in the legal support industry. All campaigns are matched with a specific in-house intake specialist team which is hand selected to handle the type of demographic the law firm is marketing to. Not every law firm knows how to connect to every type of client. Intake Services Inc. helps bridge the gap. They are staffed to handle a large volume of leads and can also help smaller firms grow by increasing their conversions.
"The Intake Conversion Service allows law firms and legal marketers to have their leads called quickly, to vibe with their respective clients and to set the tone for the relationship moving forward," Rob Gorman chimes in. "In this digital age you need to make contact, connect with your prospective clients and convert them in a manner that is easy for both the firm and the consumer. Plain and simple."
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SOUTHINGTON, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospitality begins and thrives at the personal level, with an environment tailored to the needs of the guest, built on the concept of providing a unique experience to each individual. LMBM Inc.'s new Trilogy Retreat Property understands this concept and has put it into practice, offering "getaways with a purpose."
Trilogy specializes in the necessities of its guests beyond just individual renewal – also offering:
- Couples' Encounters
- Family Retreats
- Staff Development
- Group Gatherings
- Special Event Hosting
Combining a mini resort, 'bed and breakfast' feel, and the ability to customize each aspect of guests' stay, this sanctuary offers the quintessential venue to pause life and focus on self-care.
The idyllic 24-acre gated sanctuary, located between Cleveland and Youngstown, OH, provides booking options of 4 bedrooms in the main house as well as a separate guest cottage. Overnight packages include breakfast and lunch prepared in a commercial grade kitchen.
Amenities include:
- Heated Swimming Pool
- Meeting Spaces
- Fitness Room with Sauna
- Hot Tub
"People are starting to understand the need to unplug and get away from the noise of the world in order to take care of themselves and restore mental health, as well as spiritual desires," says Director of Trilogy, Greg Wasinski.
For those looking to host single day events, Trilogy is perfect for an array of special occasions including weddings, celebratory events, faith learning, and days of rest, reflection, and restoration.
The sprawling front lawn blends into a scenic two-acre lake is situated next to a tranquil rock garden, complete with a picnic area and fire pit, accessible via the peaceful forest walking path. Trilogy's lake is fully stocked to offer the opportunity for fishing either on the shore or in a boat- equipment is available if required.
Trilogy Retreat Property is available for booking and touring; to inquire or schedule a visit, contact Aimee Noelle at 833-538-6323 or info@trilogy.center or visit trilogy.center.com.
Let Me Be… Ministries (LMBM Inc.), founded in 2009, is a non-profit, 501(c)3 ministry based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. LMBM extends the message of hope through faith beyond conventional houses of worship with online and in-person events, digital media, published resources, and spiritual direction. Their faith and real-life mission remains to enrich personal growth, encourage community, and help restore the value of family.
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It’s been 40 years since “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” first landed in theaters. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, the friendly alien — and his earthling friends — have been made into a Fisher-Price Little People Collector set.
Released in 1982, “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” is centered around a 10-year-old boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) who befriends a lost alien and helps him find his way home. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film also stars a young Drew Barrymore as Elliott’s sister, Gertie. The highest-grossing film for the year of its release, “E.T.” pulled in more than $359 million at the box office. It also won four Oscars and dozens of other awards.
In collaboration with Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the new E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Little People Collector Special Edition Figure Set celebrates the memorable film with figurines of Elliott, Gertie, and, of course, E.T. In fact, E.T. is the first creature from outer space to be made into a Little People Collector figure.
The Elliott figurine is shown in the red sweatshirt that he wore on the high-flying bicycle getaway in the film, while Gertie is dressed in her overalls and carrying the flowerpot of geraniums E.T. rescued. E.T. has a glowing chest and finger, which as fans will remember, possesses supernatural powers.
Made for all ages, each figurine stands at about 2.5 inches tall. The set is priced at $20 and can be purchased on Amazon or through Mattel’s website. It is currently priced at $14.97 at Walmart, but the price may change.
Other Little People Collector sets inspired by television and film include figures from Disney’s “Frozen,” “The Golden Girls.” “The Office,” and (the latest) “Ted Lasso.”
You can also purchase an Inspiring Women collection, which includes author and poet Dr. Maya Angelou, aviator Amelia Earhart, civil rights activist Rosa Parks and astronaut Sally Ride.
Who else would you like to see turned into a Little People set?
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Azure Power Global Limited ("Azure" or the "Company") (NYSE: AZRE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Azure investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between June 15, 2021 and August 26, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AZRE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) there were procedural irregularities, including deviations from safety and quality standards, at one of Azure's plants; (2) certain project data was manipulated; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's internal controls and procedures were not effective; (4) Azure had received a credible whistleblower report alleging such misconduct; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Azure during the relevant time frame, you have until October 31, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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To strengthen its competitiveness and increase efficiency, Essity is today announcing the following changes to its organizational structure and Executive Management Team, valid as of December 31, 2022.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the new organizational structure Essity will comprise of four business units:
- Consumer Goods Americas
- Consumer Goods EMEA
- Professional Hygiene
- Health & Medical
Consumer Goods Americas will include consumer tissue, baby care, feminine care and incontinence products retail in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Andres Gomez, currently Vice President Sales and Marketing Hygiene Andean and Caribbean within Essity, will be appointed President Consumer Goods Americas.
The Consumer Goods business unit headed by Volker Zöller remains unchanged but will be renamed Consumer Goods EMEA.
The business unit Professional Hygiene will also include the Latin America Professional Hygiene business. Pablo Fuentes, current President Essity Latin America, will assume the role of President for this business unit. He succeeds Don Lewis, who has decided to leave Essity as previously announced.
The business unit Health & Medical Solutions will also include the Latin America medical business and be renamed Health & Medical, headed by Ulrika Kolsrud.
Furthermore, the global unit Global Operational Services will be transformed into – Digital and Business Services. This unit will be headed by a Chief Digital Officer.
Global Procurement, currently part of global unit Global Operational Services will be integrated into Global Supply Chain, headed by Donato Giorgio.
Robert Sjöström, currently President Global Operational Services, will take up a new role within Essity and leave the Executive Management Team. He will continue to report to Essity's President and CEO Magnus Groth as Senior Advisor Strategic Projects.
"These changes will streamline our organization which will increase our efficiency and capability to leverage innovation and digitalization across Essity and strengthen the focus on our consumer products categories in the Americas", says Magnus Groth, Essity President and CEO.
All changes come into effect December 31st, 2022. The recruitment of the position Chief Digital Officer starts now.
"I would like to wish Andres, Pablo and Robert the best of luck in their new roles and look forward to working with them as we continue to build an even stronger Essity for the future", says Magnus Groth.
Vinda, Essity Australasia and Knix will not be affected by the above changes. Essity Group Functions and global unit Global Brand, Innovation & Sustainability remain unchanged.
For further information, please contact:
Per Lorentz, Vice President Corporate Communications, +46 733 13 30 55, per.lorentz@essity.com
Johan Karlsson, Vice President Investor Relations, +46 705 11 15 81, johan.ir.karlsson@essity.com
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Waste Solutions ("Certified"), a market leading sustainability-oriented recycling and waste solution services provider and current portfolio company of Broadview Group Holdings, LLC ("Broadview") and EXI Investment Partners ("EXI"), announced it has acquired FRG Waste Resources ("FRG" or the "Company").
Founded in 1996 and based in Northern California, FRG has more than 26 years of sustainability expertise providing customized waste diversion and recycling solutions across North America. The Company is a multifaceted provider of innovative waste diversion services and equipment for its forward-thinking customer base operating in technology, biotechnology, healthcare, automotive, restaurants, retail, among other sectors. The Company plays an instrumental role in helping its customers attain their LEED, ISO, Zero-Waste, and ESG goals through its programmatic waste management and reporting services.
"FRG is a highly complementary addition to our platform, and we believe that welcoming FRG to the Certified family will unlock new, untapped growth potential for both FRG and the broader Certified business," said Justin Dalton, Certified's CEO. "The addition of FRG's services and formidable presence in waste solutions across the country will enable us to better serve our customers as we expand our capabilities."
"Thanks to FRG's outstanding leadership team and legacy, the Company has earned an exceptional reputation among its customers," said Clay Hunter, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Broadview. "We were impressed by the Company's differentiated market leadership from day one and have grown increasingly more excited about the growth prospects a partnership with FRG and Certified brings to the platform. We look forward to welcoming FRG to the Certified platform and supporting their next phase of growth."
Certified Waste Solutions is a leading sustainability-oriented provider of recycling and waste diversion services. The Company provides comprehensive waste management and reporting services for industrial, office, and retail customers aimed at diverting landfill waste, complying with local regulations, and attaining LEED, Zero Waste, ESG-focused initiatives, in addition to recovered paper processing.
Broadview Group Holdings, LLC invests in and partners with successful business owners and growth-oriented leadership teams to help scale and create significant and sustainable value in commercial and industrial products, specialty distribution, commercial and industrial services, and B2B food and agriculture businesses. Broadview's permanent capital base and long-term perspective ensure true alignment with its partners and portfolio companies. Broadview Group's principals have decades of experience leading and scaling businesses and providing strategic insight and other expertise as executives, lead investors and board members in a variety of businesses and industries.
EXI Investment Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high cash-flowing, well-managed businesses with substantial unrealized growth opportunities. EXI seeks to build enduring and compounding value over an extended timeframe with small and mid-size industrial and business service companies. The founding partners of EXI have more than 60 years of collective private equity experience and a track record of successfully growing companies of this nature.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Warriors vs. Kings NBA Playoffs Game 3 on April 20, 2023
Stephen Curry and Domantas Sabonis are among the players with prop bets available when the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings play at Chase Center on Thursday (at 10:00 PM ET).
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Warriors vs. Kings Game Info
- Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, NBCS-BA, and NBCS-CA
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Chase Center
NBA Props Today: Golden State Warriors
Stephen Curry Props
- Curry's 29.4 points per game average is 0.1 less than Thursday's over/under.
- Curry has averaged 0.6 more rebounds per game (6.1) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (5.5).
- Curry has averaged 6.3 assists per game this year, 1.2 less than his prop bet on Thursday (7.5).
- Curry has made 4.9 three pointers per game, 0.4 more than his over/under in Thursday's game (4.5).
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Klay Thompson Props
- The 23.5-point prop total for Klay Thompson on Thursday is 1.6 higher than his scoring average, which is 21.9.
- Thompson averages 0.4 fewer rebounds than his over/under on Thursday (which is 4.5).
- Thompson has dished out 2.4 assists per game, which is 0.1 less than Thursday's over/under.
- Thompson has knocked down 4.4 three-pointers per game, which is less than his over/under in Thursday's game (4.5).
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NBA Props Today: Sacramento Kings
Domantas Sabonis Props
- Thursday's over/under for Sabonis is 19.5 points, 0.4 more than his season average.
- Sabonis' rebounding average -- 12.3 -- is 1.2 lower than his over/under on Thursday.
- Sabonis' assist average -- 7.3 -- is higher than Thursday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Sabonis has knocked down 0.4 three-pointers per game, which is less than his over/under in Thursday's game (0.5).
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De'Aaron Fox Props
- De'Aaron Fox's 25 points per game average is 1.5 less than Thursday's over/under.
- Fox has averaged 0.3 fewer rebounds per game (4.2) than his prop bet total in Thursday's game (4.5).
- Fox has averaged 6.1 assists per game, 0.6 more than Thursday's assist over/under (5.5).
- Fox has hit 1.6 three-pointers per game, 0.9 fewer than his over/under in Thursday's game (2.5).
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Presentation to Discuss Correlation Between Use of High-Frequency (10 kHz) Spinal Cord Stimulation and Reductions in HbA1c and Body Weight
Nevro to Participate in ADA's Painful Diabetic Neuropathy Symposium and Host Product Theater Presentation
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nevro Corp. (NYSE: NVRO), a global medical device company that is delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions for the treatment of chronic pain, today announced that data from an analysis of the 24-Month SENZA Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (PDN) Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), the largest RCT to evaluate spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to treat PDN, will be presented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 83rd Scientific Sessions to be held June 23-26, 2023 in San Diego, CA.
Nevro will present important secondary findings from the landmark SENZA-PDN RCT that compared Nevro's proprietary, high-frequency (10 kHz) SCS plus Conventional Medical Management (CMM) for the treatment of PDN to CMM alone. The presentation of secondary data will be the first look at the correlation between the use of a 10 kHz SCS implant and reductions in HbA1c (A1C) and body weight. These results are also summarized in an ADA abstract entitled "Painful Diabetic Neuropathy: Patients Treated with High-Frequency (10 kHz) Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Experience Significant Reductions in A1C and Weight."
"Nevro continues to lead the way in the development of robust clinical data for the use of 10 kHz Therapy™ for patients suffering from chronic pain and PDN," stated Kevin Thornal, CEO and President of Nevro. "Previously reported profound pain relief and sensory improvement, coupled with reductions in A1C and weight reported here, further demonstrate the benefits of 10 kHz SCS treatment in the comprehensive care of patients with PDN."
Nevro HFX™ will be featured during an ADA product theater presentation by Dr. David C. Klonoff and Dr. Erika Petersen and during an invited presentation by Dr. Erika Petersen in an ADA symposium on the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy. Nevro will showcase the company's HFX platform of SCS solutions in Exhibit Booth #1225.
Details for the product theater and symposium presentations are below:
ADA Product Theater Presentation: Pathophysiological Impact of Nevro HFX™ High Frequency (10 kHz) Spinal Cord Stimulation for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
- Presenters: Dr. David C. Klonoff; Dr. Erika Petersen
- Date & Time: Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 10:15-11:00 AM PT
- Location: Exhibit Floor, Product Theater 2
ADA Symposium: What Is the Best Approach to the Management of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy?
- Presenter: Dr. Erika Petersen
- Date & Time: Monday, June 26, 2023 at 1:30-3:00 PM PT
- Location: Room 24
Only registered attendees of the ADA Scientific Sessions will be able to access the product theater presentation and the exhibit hall.
About Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (PDN)
The World Health Organization estimates 422 million adults live with diabetes worldwide and the prevalence (8.5%) has nearly doubled over four decades.1 Diabetes may cause systemic damage with profound impact on health-related quality of life and is potentially life-threatening. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a common complication presenting as pain and other dysesthesias, including numbness, burning, or tingling. Approximately 20% of patients with diabetes will develop painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), a progressive, potentially debilitating chronic neuropathic pain condition.2 In the U.S., it is estimated that there are approximately 140,000 to 200,000 PDN patients each year that become refractory to conventional medical management, representing an annual total addressable market opportunity of approximately $3.5 billion to $5.0 billion.3,4
About the ADA Scientific Sessions
The American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions offer researchers and health care professionals from around the globe an exclusive opportunity to share ideas and gain knowledge about the recent advances in diabetes research, treatment, and care. Attendees will have access to more than 3,000 original research presentations, take part in thought-provoking speaking engagements with leading diabetes experts, and expand their professional networks. For more information, please visit the ADA Website: https://professional.diabetes.org/scientific-sessions.
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Nevro routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the "Investor Relations" section of its website at www.nevro.com. The company encourages investors and potential investors to consult the Nevro website regularly for important information about Nevro.
About Nevro
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Nevro is a global medical device company focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 patients globally. Nevro's comprehensive HFX™ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a Senza SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic pain of the trunk and limb and painful diabetic neuropathy.
Senza®, Senza II®, Senza Omnia™, and HFX iQ™ are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary 10 kHz Therapy™. Nevro's unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach™ throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud™ insights for enhanced patient and practice management.
SENZA, SENZA II, SENZA OMNIA, OMNIA, HF10, the HF10 logo, 10 kHz Therapy, HFX, the HFX logo, HFX iQ, the HFX iQ logo, HFX Algorithm, HFX CONNECT, the HFX Connect logo, HFX ACCESS, the HFX Access logo, HFX COACH, the HFX Coach logo, HFX CLOUD, the HFX Cloud logo, RELIEF MULTIPLIED, the X logo, NEVRO, and the NEVRO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nevro Corp. Patents covering Senza HFX iQ and other Nevro products are listed at Nevro.com/patents.
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1 World Health Organization. (2016). Global report on diabetes. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204871
2 Schmader K. E. (2002). Epidemiology and impact on quality of life of postherpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy. The Clinical journal of pain, 18(6), 350–354.
3 CDC National Diabetes Statistics Report 2020.
4 Trinity Partners Market Research 2017.
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Married couple found dead in home; police search for suspect
MARSHFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Authorities in Massachusetts are looking for a 27-year-old man they say was involved in the killings of a married couple in a community south of Boston, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Carl Mattson and Vicki Mattson, both 70, were found dead with “obvious signs of trauma” in their Marshfield home just after 9 p.m. Tuesday by police responding to a well-being check, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said at a news conference.
They appeared to have been stabbed and beaten, but autopsy results are pending, he said.
Police are now looking for Christopher Keeley, who Cruz said was “acquainted” with the couple, although he did not disclose their exact relationship. The victims were targeted and the killings were not a random act of violence, he said. He did not disclose a motive.
Keeley, who is considered armed and dangerous, may be driving a black Jeep Wrangler that belonged to the victims, Cruz said. It’s unclear how long he has been gone and he may be out of state, he said.
Keeley, who faces murder charges, may have changed his appearance, including dyeing his hair red, Marshfield police Chief Phillip Tavares said.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-30T17:41:57+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2022/11/30/married-couple-found-dead-home-police-search-suspect/ |
Shelby American will offer five newly built 1963 Shelby Cobra Dragonsnakes, each priced from $750,000, the company announced last week.
Original Dragonsnake Cobras are among the rarest of the competition Cobras built by Shelby during the 1960s. Developed exclusively for drag racing, only a handful were built, and one of them sold last year for almost $1.4 million.
Each of Shelby’s five reproduction cars will honor a distinct original, with a prototype shown during last week’s 2023 Carlisle Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The prototype honors the Cobra 289 Dragonsnake bearing chassis no. CSX2093 and raced by Bruce Larson, who dominated NHRA competition in the Northeast in the mid-1960s. He was on hand at the recent Ford gathering to help unveil the reproduction, which like the original features a bright coat of Fuchsia Metallic paint.
Ed Hedrick would end up purchasing the car in 1966 and continuing its winning streak. He won every national-level NHRA competition he entered, helping to cement chassis CSX2093 as the most successful drag-racing Cobra of all time.
According to Shelby, chassis CSX2093 started out life as a road-going Cobra and was later turned into a Dragonsnake. Among the modifications made were the addition of rear fender flares, American Racing wheels, drag radials, a roll bar, a Sun tachometer, and various chassis tweaks. The car was also fitted with a hard-top roof to help improve aerodynamics.
“The 1960s Shelby Dragonsnake program began when a small group of young Shelby American production employees developed and drag raced a pair of the roadsters to amazing success,” Gary Patterson, Shelby’s president, said in a statement. “We reopened Dragonsnake production so fans can experience the thrill of launching a new Shelby Cobra down the quarter mile.”
Shelby won’t actually build the new cars. Tasked with that duty is Pennsylvania company Legendary GT Continuation Cars, which has previously built cars for Shelby. The five cars will feature aluminum bodies and an authentic chassis with 4.0-inch round tube main rails, and at least one of them will also honor Larson’s car.
The suspension and brakes will also be the same used in the 1960s, while the wheels will be a custom set of 15-inchers in the original style, and wrapped in Mickey Thompson drag radials. Other touches will include an aluminum radiator, electric cooling fan, 3.0-inch lap belts, and a tach and rearview mirror both mounted to the dash.
Under the hood will sit a 364-cubic-inch aluminum V-8 topped by a Weber carburetor system and mated to a Tremec 5-speed manual transmission. According to Shelby, the engine will develop 500 hp and only have about 2,100 pounds to hustle.
The production time for one of the reproduction cars will take approximately one year.
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Only about one-in-five people who would benefit from using a hearing aid are using one. With 30 million Americans who are hearing impaired, allowing those with hearing impairments easier access to hearing aids could benefit millions.
“Hearing loss of such a private thing,” said Dr. Janice Trent, owner of Hearing Healthcare Services. “It's an invisible disorder, and people don't always want others to know that they have a hearing loss. So I think starting out this will be a great way for people to try it out and see, whether or not they actually get a benefit from it.”
The hearing aids you'll see in pharmacies starting next week are for adults who believe they have mild to moderate hearing loss.
You can get the device without an exam and you can fit them on your own.
But there will be some trial and error.
“Hearing aids take a little bit of time to get adjusted to. Now, when you put on a pair of glasses, you often get your vision corrected to 2020. Hearing aids are great. They help, but your brain needs time to adjust. You're getting sounds amplified that you might not have heard before,” said Dr. Barbara Kelley, executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America.
The Food and Drug Administration didn't mandate a return policy on the devices. That means you need to check the label beforehand to ensure that specific devices can be returned.
Many of these devices will cost under $1,000 and some insurance companies will cover them.
Medicare doesn't pay for hearing aids, but several medicare advantage plans do. Any hearing aids you get over the counter should last about 5 to 6 years. | 2022-10-13T17:31:43+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/hearing-aids-will-soon-be-available-over-the-counter |
AKRON, Ohio – Students who want to obtain a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctor degree can now do so in less time thanks to a partnership between Kent State University and the University of Akron School of Law.
The collaborative program, commonly referred to as a three-plus-three degree program (3+3), offers a sequential system that allows students earn both degrees in six years instead of seven.
“We are delighted to begin this new 3+3 partnership with Kent State,” Emily Janoski-Haehlen, the University of Akron School of Law Dean, said in a news release. “Year in [and] year out, the law school enrolls more incoming students from Kent State than any other school besides the University of Akron, so we believe there will be a lot of interest in this new program.”
“Kent State is thrilled to offer this opportunity for our students, which allows them to gain such an amazing educational experience through Kent State and the University of Akron School of Law, while also saving time and money,” Melody Tankersley, Kent State University Senior Vice President and Provost, said in the release. “Our students will be able to transition seamlessly to receive both their undergraduate and law degrees in six years instead of seven.”
Interested students can apply for the program at the time of their initial Kent State admission application or any time while enrolled at the university. Kent State currently offers degree pathways for 11 majors.
After selection and admission, students will automatically be admitted into Akron Law after they complete three years or more of a bachelor’s degree. Additional program requirements include maintaining good academic, financial and disciplinary standing at Kent State; satisfying the Akron Law character and fitness standards, and meeting Law School Admission Test and grade point average standards.
Earlier this year, Kent State announced a 3+3 agreement with Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. The University of Akron School of Law offers 3+3 programs with Walsh University, the University of Mount Union, Robert Morris University and Youngstown State University. University of Akron students enrolled in political science or philosophy degree programs can also apply for the program.
To learn more about the Kent State to University of Akron School of Law Juris Doctor 3+3 Program or other University of Akron partnerships, visit http://www.uakron.edu/law/admissions or email lawadmissions@uakron.edu.
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How to use smart home routines
Smart home devices are more popular than ever, but many underestimate what you can do with them. Voice assistants let you create routines that make your life easier, especially when used in tandem with other smart devices. We interviewed our tech expert, Jaime Vazquez, to learn more about smart home routines.
Everything you need to know about smart home routines
What is a smart home routine?
These routines are a series of actions that happen in response to a specific command or event. You can trigger them at a particular time or when you say a certain phrase.
In many cases, they rely on other smart home devices to carry out the actions necessary for the routine. For example, you can use smart bulbs to turn your lights on each morning.
What can you do with smart home routines?
Smart home routines often control lighting, but the sky is the limit when you have numerous smart devices in your house.
According to Vazquez, “some fun ones are specific greetings for video doorbells; when someone rings it, you can have it deliver a particular greeting message and turn on a light. If you have a smart garage door opener, it can determine your proximity, open the garage, turn on some lights and let your family know you’re home.”
If you have kids, you can create routines to help them go to bed or get ready for school. For example, you may have the lights blink or dim when it’s close to bedtime.
How to set up a smart home routine
The process varies depending on the voice assistant you use. Still, in most cases, you begin by navigating to your device’s settings and clicking on “routines.”
Most voice assistants have numerous preset routines. If you want to design your own, simply follow the on-screen prompts and select the devices you want to use, the things you’d like those devices to do and the command you’ll use to trigger the routine.
Alexa devices have several options to trigger routines; these options can be found in the “when this happens” menu. If you select the “voice” option, you can use a particular voice command to start your routine, whereas the “schedule” option starts it automatically at a specified time. You can use the schedule option to create recurring routines.
If you choose the “smart home” option, you can trigger the routine in response to one of your device’s smart sensors. For example, you can use this option to turn on a fan or air conditioner if your smart thermostat determines your home exceeds a specific temperature.
Alexa devices also have a “sound detection” option that can trigger routines in response to everyday sounds, such as a baby crying or a dog barking. This feature is ideal for notifying you when your child or pet needs you.
Which devices do you need to optimize your routines?
Smart plugs are the most versatile addition to your routines. These devices let you turn lamps, appliances and other devices on and off. If you want to incorporate your home’s lighting, you may want to consider a few smart bulbs throughout your home.
Smart thermostats can detect temperature changes in your home for routines, and Amazon’s Echo Show device can trigger routines in response to detecting a particular person.
If you incorporate your smart coffee maker into your routine, you can wake up to a hot pot of coffee every morning. Additionally, if you have a smart lock, you can use it to ensure your doors are locked after you leave for work.
Smart light strips can add ambiance to your entertainment room when you sit down to relax for the day. You can use your robot vacuum in your smart home routine to ensure you come home to a clean house.
Smart home routine FAQ
Is there a particular voice assistant that’s best for smart home routines?
A. According to Vazquez, ”they’re all good at it. In general, Alexa is the best for ease of use, Google is the best for voice recognition and Apple is the best for privacy.”
How many routines can you have on Alexa?
A. Currently, you can have up to 99 routines on your Alexa device.
Smart home devices our expert recommended
TP-Link Kasa Smart Plug Four-Pack
These can be paired with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. You can group separate outlets when creating routines, making them work more efficiently. You can use the Kasa app to track each device’s power consumption.
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A 7th grader is the winner of a $10,000 dollar national science competition prize for discovering how to save bee populations.
Rory Hu says her love for honey inspired her to better understand the global decline of the honeybee population.
While there are many things that negatively affect bees, Hu says exposure to pesticides prevents them from feeding and sustaining the colony.
"The pesticides may prevent the bees from being able to do the daily functions of the hive," Hu said. "So, for example, they might get lost on their way to finding food, or they might not be able to remember where the sites that they found food were and not be able to communicate to the other bees where the food was."
At 11 years old, Hu found that tea polyphenols and caffeine could repair the honeybee's learning and memory. Polyphenols are compounds that stimulate the brain. Hu is now 13 years old.
"And this is extremely important because beekeepers can add tea polyphenols and caffeine to their sucrose, which could potentially save many honeybee lives," Hu said.
Sucrose is what honeybees eat.
Hu's science experiment earned her the $10,000 dollar STEM Talent Award from the Department of Defense in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.
Hu says she plans to continue spearheading conservation efforts and educating youth about bees through a nonprofit educational organization she co-owns called the Bee Initiative. | 2023-06-01T00:56:02+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/7th-grader-successfully-finds-way-to-save-honeybee-populations |
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez doesn’t need any help at the plate.
The All-Star got it anyway Wednesday in Houston’s 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox when he wasn’t called out after a third strike.
Alvarez led off Houston’s third by taking a ball against Rich Hill. After that, home plate umpire Jim Wolf called strike one, and Alvarez fouled off a pitch for strike two. Wolf then called the third strike, but didn’t punch Alvarez out.
No one appeared to notice the mistake. Alvarez remained in the box, and Hill went back to the mound. Alvarez, who has 30 homers and 72 RBIs, grounded out on the next pitch.
Astros manager Dusty Baker said he didn’t realize what happened at the time and was told about it after the game.
“Everybody missed it,” Baker said.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora was not asked about the play.
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On Sunday, June 18, the Titan, an underwater vessel that’s designed to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, lost contact with the ship it was launched from and has since gone missing. As of June 20, the missing vessel operated by the private company OceanGate has yet to be found.
Soon after news of the missing vessel spread, several viral tweets seen millions of times claimed that the submarine is operated with a video game controller.
THE QUESTION
Is Titan, the missing Titanic exploration vessel, piloted with a video game controller?
THE SOURCES
- CBS Sunday Morning video segment which included a tour of the inside of the vessel
- Logitech
- OceanGate Inc., the company that created and operates the missing vessel
- Onshape, the company that produced the engineering design tools used in the vessel’s construction
- Amazon
THE ANSWER
Yes, Titan is piloted with a video game controller.
WHAT WE FOUND
Many of the viral tweets share similar images of Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, holding a video game controller while inside the Titan. Those are screenshots from a CBS Sunday Morning segment in which Rush confirmed the ship is operated by a video game controller.
On Nov. 27, 2022, CBS News published an article and video in which CBS journalist David Pogue went on an expedition with the vessel, named Titan. He was given an on-camera tour of the vessel by Rush. CBS also posted the same video to its YouTube channel.
“We run the whole thing with this game controller,” Rush told Pogue about three and a half minutes into the video. Rush then showed off the game controller, which appeared to be modified to have large joysticks, to the camera.
The controller appears to be this wireless Logitech F710 controller — with the aforementioned modified joysticks — designed to be used for video games played on a personal computer. New versions of the controller are sold for about $50 on Amazon.
There are photos both on OceanGate’s website and social media which feature the controller. A photo OceanGate posted to its Twitter account clearly shows someone operating the sub using a gaming controller — the same controller seen in the CBS clip. Two other photos in the galleries on OceanGate’s website show the controller inside of the Titan.
Although the photo isn’t on OceanGate’s website, OceanGate’s site does link to a blog post by Onshape, a company that produces engineering design tools used in Titan’s construction, that includes a photo in which someone appears to be actively piloting Titan with the video game controller.
Onshape also says Titan uses a video game controller for navigation, “allowing crew members to be able to take turns piloting without any knowledge of traditional submarine gauges and instrumentation.”
The Titan uses “off-the-shelf components” to make the vessel “simple to operate and replace parts in the field,” OceanGate’s website says.
The controller doesn’t make the vessel go up and down — it just navigates it from side-to-side. The Titan is a kind of submersible vessel that uses flotation devices to rise and fall while within the water. So if the controller malfunctioned, it would not prevent the Titan from returning to the surface.
Titan isn’t the first underwater vessel to make use of video game controllers. The World Economic Forum reported in 2018 that the U.S. Navy was experimenting with using Xbox controllers to operate digital periscopes.
VERIFY has reached out to OceanGate for comment. | 2023-06-20T22:08:03+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/technology-verify/missing-titanic-submarine-titan-piloted-video-game-controller/536-7e694b3a-c483-4f6e-9900-be01e1991113 |
Proceeds from Valour sales to support veteran organizations across Canada
EDMONTON, AB, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company opening the world to cannabis, today announced the launch of Valour, a new cannabis cultivar designed for veterans, by veterans. Five per cent of net profits from the sale of Valour products will be used to support veteran organizations across Canada.
Sold under the MedReleaf brand, Valour, aptly named by Canadian veterans, was developed alongside the veteran community to embody their most desired aroma, flavour and appearance traits. An original cultivar bred by Occo, Aurora's leading science and genetics business, Valour, is derived from Chemdawg, OG18 and Skunk genetics and features notes of forest pine, sweet citrus and pungent gas. A premium indica, Valour contains 20-26% THC and is available in 5g and 15g dried flower, as well as pre-rolls which are exclusive to veteran Aurora medical patients.
"We're honoured to support Canadian veterans, and proud that we were able to work hand-in-hand with the veteran community to provide a product that best serves their needs and preferences," says Andre Jerome, Interim SVP of Medical Sales at Aurora Cannabis. "We are committed to serving those who have served our country and are giving back a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Valour to fund the important work that veteran-focused organizations do to support their community."
Proceeds from the sale of Valour, up to $200,000 per year, will be used to contribute cash and in-kind donations to veteran-focused organizations and clinics across Canada, including: Fondation Le Balancier / The Pendulum Foundation, The Post Traumatic Growth Association, The Valhalla Project and Thunder Ride Trois-Rivières, among others.
For more information about Valour or to learn more about becoming an Aurora medical cannabis patient, visit Aurora Medical.
Aurora is opening the world to cannabis, serving both the medical and consumer markets. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is a pioneer in global cannabis, dedicated to helping people improve their lives. The Company's adult-use brand portfolio includes Aurora Drift, San Rafael '71, Daily Special, Whistler, Being and Greybeard, as well as CBD brands, Reliva and KG7. Medical cannabis brands include MedReleaf, CanniMed, Aurora and Whistler Medical Marijuana Co. Aurora also has a controlling interest in Bevo Farms Ltd., North America's leading supplier of propagated agricultural plants. Driven by science and innovation, and with a focus on high-quality cannabis products, Aurora's brands continue to break through as industry leaders in the medical, performance, wellness and adult recreational markets wherever they are launched. Learn more at www.auroramj.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Aurora's common shares trade on the NASDAQ and TSX under the symbol "ACB".
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These forward-looking statements are only predictions. Forward looking information or statements contained in this news release have been developed based on assumptions management considers to be reasonable. Material factors or assumptions involved in developing forward-looking statements include, without limitation, publicly available information from governmental sources as well as from market research and industry analysis and on assumptions based on data and knowledge of this industry which the Company believes to be reasonable. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances could cause actual events, results, level of activity, performance, prospects, opportunities or achievements to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, the ability to retain key personnel, the ability to continue investing in infrastructure to support growth, the ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms, the continued quality of our products, customer experience and retention, the development of third party government and non-government consumer sales channels, management's estimates of consumer demand in Canada and in jurisdictions where the Company exports, expectations of future results and expenses, the risk of successful integration of acquired business and operations, management's estimation that SG&A will grow only in proportion of revenue growth, the ability to expand and maintain distribution capabilities, the impact of competition, the general impact of financial market conditions, the yield from cannabis growing operations, product demand, changes in prices of required commodities, competition, and the possibility for changes in laws, rules, and regulations in the industry, epidemics, pandemics or other public health crises, including the current outbreak of COVID-19, and other risks, uncertainties and factors set out under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual information form dated September 20, 2022 (the "AIF") and filed with Canadian securities regulators available on the Company's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and filed with and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company cautions that the list of risks, uncertainties and other factors described in the AIF is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect its results. Readers are urged to consider the risks, uncertainties and assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities law.
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
Feb. 4, 1923: An appropriate dedication of the John McBarnes Memorial Hall will be arranged for the formal opening of the building. The dedication may be only a simple ceremonial, if prominent speakers cannot be secured. It is hoped, however, to make the occasion as auspicious as was the laying of the cornerstone, May 27, 1922, when thousands of persons thronged into the city.
75 years ago
Feb. 4, 1948: A $7.50 increase in fees per semester was approved by the Illinois State Normal University Senate. The increase will become effective July 1. The raise, based on the increased cost of educating students, was approved by the Teachers College board at its January meeting and was recommended to the university senate by the ISNU administrative council. This will mean that ISNU's all-inclusive fees during the regular year will be $40 per semester instead of $32.50.
50 years ago
Feb. 4, 1973: Ten inmates at the McLean County Jail are receiving free basic education under the auspices of the Bloomington-Normal Adult Education Program. The program, a first for the county, consists of basic instruction in English, math, science, social science and the Constitution. Of 40 inmates surveyed at the county jail in December, only 10 had high school diplomas.
25 years ago
Feb. 4, 1998: When Marc Becker and his wife, Cheryl Musch, planned to go to southern Mexico during winter break, they thought they were volunteering to build a school. But all that changed after the Dec. 22 massacre of 45 Indians in the town of Acteal, one of many areas affected by fighting between the government and Zapatista Army of the National Liberation. So Becker, an Illinois State University professor who teaches Mexican history, and Musch instead found themselves taking testimony from people who survived the attack.
100 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
Gerthart's
Union Gas and Electric Co.
Hoover
Dr. J.A. Moore Dentists
Moberly & Klenner
W.P. Garretson
W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
The Pantagraph want ads
Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | 2023-02-04T13:01:30+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/75-years-ago-illinois-state-university-ups-fees-by-7-50-a-semester/article_ef6b6178-9d25-11ed-a3be-f344c0f2ced5.html |
Donald Trump is reinstated to Facebook after 2-year ban
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook parent Meta is reinstating former President Donald Trump’s personal account after a two-year suspension following the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The company said in a blog post Wednesday it is adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules.
“In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation,” Meta, which is based in Menlo Park, California, said.
Trump, in a post on his own social media network, blasted Facebook’s decision to suspend his account as he praised his own site, Truth Social.
“FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since “deplatforming” your favorite President, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account. Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!” he wrote.
He was suspended on Jan. 7, a day after the deadly 2021 insurrection. Other social media companies also kicked him off their platforms, though he was recently reinstated on Twitter after Elon Musk took over the company. He has not tweeted.
Banned from mainstream social media, Trump has been relying on Truth Social, which he launched after being blocked from Twitter.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-25T22:56:37+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/01/25/donald-trump-is-reinstated-facebook-after-2-year-ban/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Cooley is the new men’s basketball coach at Georgetown, hired away from Big East rival Providence in the hopes of rebuilding a once-proud program that dropped to new lows under former star player Patrick Ewing.
Georgetown announced the move on Monday, after Providence issued a news release saying that Cooley had resigned.
“I plan on hitting the ground running, getting to work on the court and cultivating relationships in and around the District,” Cooley said in a statement released by his new employer. “Accepting this opportunity with Georgetown is not a decision I took lightly.”
He leaves the Friars with a 242-153 record after 12 years and seven March Madness appearances with a total of three wins in the tournament; the highlight was a trip to the Sweet 16 in 2022. His team went 21-12 this season, closing with four consecutive losses, including in the first round of the Big East Tournament against Connecticut and the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Kentucky.
“Coach Cooley is a mentor to young men, and a consistent winner with an impressive body of work,” Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed said. “His previous experience gives him an understanding of our Jesuit values and I am confident that he is the coach to return our program to prominence within the Big East and nationally.”
Cooley’s name was linked to the Georgetown job even as Providence’s season was still in progress, and so he was asked after the 61-53 defeat against Kentucky on Friday whether he would be returning. The initial reply: “Next question.”
When a follow-up query came about whether there was a chance that was his last game with the Friars, Cooley avoided a direct answer.
“There’s all kinds of rumors and speculation, and I know you guys are trying to do your job. I get it,” said Cooley, whose daughter is a student at Georgetown. “But after a game like this, I just think it’s fair to talk about our players. I think it’s fair to talk about the game.”
The Hoyas will be the 53-year-old Cooley’s third team as a college head coach; before Providence, he was at Fairfield for five seasons. He is the first Georgetown head coach in about a half-century without a direct tie to the late John Thompson Jr., who took the job in 1972, was in charge of the team when Ewing was a player, then was succeeded by assistant Craig Esherick, who was followed by Thompson’s son, John III, who gave way to Ewing.
Ewing was fired on March 9 after going 75-109 in six seasons, 13-50 over the past two. Georgetown made only one March Madness appearance in that time, bowing out in the first round in 2021.
It was quite a difficult stretch for Ewing and the school he led to a national championship in 1984 and helped make two other runs to the title game.
His last two contests in charge at his alma mater were a pair of losses by a combined 72 points, one to close the regular season against Creighton and one in the Big East Tournament against Villanova.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas LEARNS bill is on its way to the governor’s desk for signature after its passage in the Senate on Tuesday marked the measure’s final approval by the General Assembly.
The 145-page bill quickly moved through the legislative process since its Feb. 8 introduction, backed by the Republican supermajority supporting the cornerstone legislation of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
LEARNS will make several changes to the Arkansas education system, including a voucher program broadening support for school choice, raising starting teacher pay to among the highest in the country and enlarging support for technical trade education. The bill also emphasized literacy requirements for third and fourth-grade students.
Detractors of the bill have expressed concern with its $297 million year-one price tag, $150 million of which is new money, according to Department of Education calculations.
Others have expressed concern about broadening the impact that school choice efforts will have on struggling public schools, as well as the measure ending the 1983 Teacher Fair Dismissal Act.
Sanders began presenting Arkansas LEARNS as part of her gubernatorial campaign and emphasized it in her inauguration speech, in which she said she wished to be known as “The Education Governor.”
The governor released a statement shortly after the bill’s passage, calling its measures the “biggest, boldest, most conservative education reforms in America.”
Today’s final passage of the biggest, boldest, most conservative education reforms in America makes Arkansas a blueprint for the country. Arkansas LEARNS will raise teacher pay, empower parents, and give our students the skills to succeed in life. These changes can’t come soon enough,” Sanders said. “I’m deeply grateful for the legislators who worked around the clock to pass Arkansas LEARNS by massive margins: 78-21 in the House and 26-8 in the Senate. I’m ready to sign it into law tomorrow and end the failed status quo that has governed our education system for far too long. Every kid should have access to a quality education and a path to a good paying job and better life right here in Arkansas.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
It is unclear if the bill will not face additional challenges even with the governor’s signature. Some committee testimony during the legislative process claimed the LEARNS plan and its voucher formula might go against the precedent-setting 1994 Lakeview decision that established school funding criteria in Arkansas. | 2023-03-08T00:04:53+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/arkansas-learns-bill-passes-senate-heads-to-gov-sanders-for-signature/ |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said Penn State coach James Franklin acted as a “ringleader” when the No. 4 Wolverines and No. 13 Nittany Lions clashed nearly two weeks ago, dismissing Franklin’s claim that a policy change was needed to keep things orderly beneath Michigan Stadium.
Harbaugh said Monday it wasn’t the lack of a policy that caused a problem between the teams.
A lot of heated words were exchanged and Michigan players reportedly said Penn State players threw peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at them as the teams headed to the locker room at halftime of a close game that the Wolverines won in a 41-17 rout on Oct. 15.
“Like you saw, pretty clearly, that (Penn State players) completely stopped. They weren’t letting us get up the tunnel,” Harbaugh said. “And it just seemed like such a sophomoric ploy to try to keep us out of our locker rooms. And (Franklin) looked like he was the ringleader of the whole thing.”
Franklin said there should be a policy in place to prevent teams heading to the locker rooms at the same time and suggested the need for some sort of buffer to separate the teams.
“All there has to be is a two-minute or minute buffer in between the two teams,” Franklin said. “We’re not the first team that’s had issues like that. To me, under the current structure, we won’t be the last.”
There were no reports of any physical confrontations.
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According to the Department of Labor, vehicle maintenance and repair prices have seen their largest increase since 1974.
Supply chain issues and a shortage of qualified technicians are partly to blame.
"Generally speaking right now, there are more jobs than people to fill those jobs. So that's going to cost the employers more because they have to find the right people and they have to train them often,” said Brian Moody with Kelley Blue Book.
Moody says rising labor rates are a big factor.
"If you have a desirable skill and there are a few people that have that skill, you can command more for your services,” Moody said.
From rear-view cameras to blind-spot monitoring systems, vehicles today are also packed with features that keep us safe on the road. But they can add to repair bills.
Moody says even though maintaining vehicles is more expensive, drivers shouldn't skip routine maintenance as a way to cut corners.
"If you can't afford to fix all of the things that are wrong with your car at once, ask the mechanic... ‘Hey, can you help me to prioritize these things? Which are the things that are going to fail and which are things that are just niceties?’” Moody said. “And if you have that relationship, they'll work with you and say, ‘Hey, let's do these things first, then bring it back in a month and then we'll do these things.’"
Moody says it's better to hang on to an old vehicle and pay for repairs. He says buying a new one right now is more expensive in the long run because of higher interest rates and insurance costs. | 2022-11-18T14:36:31+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/is-maintaining-an-older-car-more-expensive-than-buying-new |
MDT's Self-reliant Manufacturing Capacity Ensures Sustained Volume Production and Stable Supply of High-quality Products for Industrial and Automotive Customers
NUREMBERG, Germany and ZHANGJIAGANG, China, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd. (MDT), a leading manufacturer of magnetic sensors specializing in AMR (anisotropic magnetoresistance) and TMR (tunneling magnetoresistance) technologies, will demonstrate its AMR angle sensors at SPS and Electronica. Designed for angular position measurement in a variety of applications including servo and BLDC motors, rotary encoders, linear displacement sensors, speed sensors, and flow meters, they exhibit outstanding angular precision, large air-gap tolerance, high immunity to noise and interference, offering pin-compatibility to existing products, along with options for compact packages and digital outputs.
MDT's AMR angle sensors have been supplied to select volume customers for more than five years. They now become available to all customers worldwide, offering drop-in replacement for existing products with low cost, high maturity and excellent performance metrics qualified in many applications. MDT's AMR sensors and TMR sensors complement each other's technical strength and offer a comprehensive coverage for a wide range of industrial applications.
MDT fully owns an advanced magnetic sensor fab with an annual in-house production capacity in billions of AMR and TMR sensors. While the semiconductor industry has been facing growing challenges from Covid and global chip supply shortage in the past few years, MDT's volume customers have not experienced any supply interruptions, thanks to the highly consolidated and self-reliant supply chain that provides customers a strong guarantee of stable supply and on-time delivery. MDT's next milestone is to upgrade the AMR portfolio and prepare it for automotive applications, with ongoing activities in conjunction with the IATF-16949 certification to be completed in early 2023.
MDT will showcase AMR/TMR sensors and modules, and welcome all customers and visitors at SPS (booth 4A.614, Nov.8-10, Nuremberg) and Electronica (booth B3.543/2, Nov.15-18, Munich). Featured AMR angle sensors at MDT's show booth include:
- AMR3013P: high-precision and low-power, SOP8 package pin-compatible to existing products
- AMR3003L/AMR3008: compact LGA package, widely used in rotary encoders
- AMR3108AP: digital output with SPI/ABZ/UVW/PWM interfaces, high accuracy, 20,000 RPM high-speed operation, TMR-assisted 360° measurement
- AMR4100: a versatile rotary sensor for both on-shaft/off-shaft measurements
- AMR4020/AMR4050: off-shaft measurement for rotary magnetic scales in 2mm/5mm pole-pitch
MultiDimension Technology was founded in 2010 in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, China, with branch offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Ningbo in China, Tokyo, Japan, and San Jose, Calif., USA. MDT has developed a unique intellectual property portfolio, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities that can support volume production of high-performance, low-cost AMR and TMR magnetic sensors to satisfy the most demanding application needs. Led by its core management team of elite experts and veterans in magnetic sensor technology and engineering services, MDT is committed to creating added value for its customers and ensuring their success. For more information about MDT please visit http://www.multidimensiontech.com.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”
The prize was announced Monday by the Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
The committee said their work had shown in their research “why avoiding bank collapses is vital.”
Nobel prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10.
Unlike the other prizes, the economics award wasn’t established in Alfred Nobel’s will of 1895 but by the Swedish central bank in his memory. The first winner was selected in 1969.
Last year, half of the award went to David Card for his research on how the minimum wage, immigration and education affect the labor market. The other half was shared by Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for proposing how to study issues that don’t easily fit traditional scientific methods.
A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Oct. 3 with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system.
Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had shown that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, that can be used for specialized computing and to encrypt information.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases such as cancer more precisely.
French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The panel commended her for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explore life in France since the 1940s.
The Nobel Peace Prize went to jailed Belarus human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties on Friday. | 2022-10-10T12:56:27+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/3-us-based-economists-receive-nobel-prize-for-work-on-banks/ |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge blocked Las Vegas police, prosecutors and defense attorneys Wednesday from accessing a slain investigative journalist’s cellphone and electronic devices over concerns about revealing the reporter’s confidential sources and notes.
Then she backed away from the case, citing an immediate appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
“I don’t think I have jurisdiction anymore,” Clark County District Judge Susan Johnson told attorneys for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, county prosecutors, defense attorneys, and lawyers representing the Las Vegas Review-Journal and dozens of media organizations. “Let’s see what the Supreme Court says.”
The judge pointed during a brief hearing to her restraining order, issued minutes earlier, and acknowledged the fast track taken on a question that all sides agree needs a state high court ruling.
Her order blocks immediate review by police of six devices that attorneys for the newspaper expect contain source names and notes compiled by reporter Jeff German before he was killed Sept. 2 in a knife attack outside his home.
Police and prosecutors want to comb the records for additional evidence that Robert “Rob” Telles, a former Democratic elected county official, fatally stabbed German in response to articles German wrote that were critical of Telles and his managerial conduct.
Telles’ court-appointed public defenders want to learn whether other people had a motive to kill German.
The police department, the Clark County district attorney’s office and Telles’ defense lawyers jointly sought the appeal.
The newspaper, backed by organizations including The Associated Press and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, maintains that police should not have the devices at all. It argues that confidential information, names and unpublished material are protected from disclosure under strict state law, federal privacy statutes and constitutional First Amendment safeguards.
Telles, 45, was Clark County public administrator, overseeing an office that handles assets of people who die without a will or family contacts. He was arrested Sept. 7 and remains jailed without bail pending a preliminary hearing on murder and other charges.
He lost his party primary for reelection in June and was stripped by a court order last month of his elected position.
Telles was suspended Wednesday from practicing law by a state high court order citing pending disciplinary proceedings against him by the State Bar of Nevada. The order noted that Telles has been charged with murder and “appears to have transferred significant funds” from his law practice trust accounts.
Authorities say surveillance video, Telles’ DNA on German’s body and evidence found at Telles’ home connect him to German’s killing.
Attorney Matthew Christian, representing the police department, said the investigation can’t be completed until detectives review all possible evidence pertinent to the case.
Johnson previously acknowledged that because it is rare for a U.S. journalist to be killed because of their work, there was little legal precedent for her to follow to allow investigators to access German’s files.
A proposal that might have had the judge appoint an independent panel to review the records collapsed because the newspaper doesn’t want Las Vegas-area investigators who may have been sources for, or the subject of, German’s work involved in the process.
German, 69, spent 44 years reporting on organized crime, government corruption, political scandals and mass shootings, first at the Las Vegas Sun and then at the Review-Journal. He was widely respected for his tenacity and confidential contacts in police, court and legal circles. | 2022-10-20T17:06:48+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/ap-fight-over-slain-reporters-files-going-to-nevada-high-court/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday that the U.S. will open an embassy in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in its latest move to blunt China’s increasing influence in the Indo-Pacific.
The new embassy in Port Vila will be the fifth diplomatic mission that the U.S. has either opened or announced that it will build in the region over the past three years as it seeks to confront what it sees as a threat or challenge from China.
“Consistent with the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, a permanent diplomatic presence in Vanuatu would allow the U.S. government to deepen relationships with Vanuatu officials and society,” the State Department said in a statement.
“Establishing U.S. Embassy Port Vila would facilitate areas of potential bilateral cooperation and development assistance, including efforts to tackle the climate crisis,” it said.
That announcement follows a high-level visit to Vanuatu and other Pacific islands led by the White House’s top Asia-Pacific coordinator, Kurt Campbell. The U.S. is currently represented in Vanuatu by the American ambassador in New Guinea.
The U.S. recently opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands and will soon open one in the Maldives. Other embassies to be opened include in Tonga and Kiribati.
The administration has also moved to shore up existing close ties with the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau by extending agreements with those Pacific nations that give them billions of dollars in aid in return for military and other basing rights. | 2023-03-31T20:55:01+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/us-boosts-anti-china-pacific-push-with-embassy-in-vanuatu/ |
LUBBOCK, Texas – Trey Wolff kicked a 20-yard field goal in overtime, lifting Texas Tech over No. 22 Texas 37-34 after the Red Raiders overcame a two-touchdown deficit in the second half but let a lead slip away in the final seconds Saturday.
Texas’ Bijan Robinson fumbled on the first play of overtime, and Donovan Smith led the Red Raiders to the 2-yard line before Wolff’s winning kick in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
Fans of Texas Tech (3-1, 1-0) thought Wolff’s 45-yard kick for a 34-31 lead with 21 seconds left in regulation was enough for their first home win over Texas since Michael Crabtree’s last-second catch beat the top-ranked Longhorns 14 years ago.
The Longhorns had other ideas.
Hudson Card’s 28-yard pass to Tarique Milton got the Longhorns (2-2, 0-1) close with six seconds remaining, and they picked up another 10 yards on a quick pass with two seconds to go. Bert Auburn's 48-yard kick as time expired forced overtime.
Robinson’s 40-yard scoring run in the third quarter gave Texas a 31-17 lead, but the Red Raiders responded with their third TD drive of at least 10 plays.
Smith kept the tying drive alive with a cutback run for 5 yards on fourth-and-4 before his 19-yard pass to Baylor Cupp for a 31-31 tie midway through the fourth quarter.
The Red Raiders converted fourth downs on five of six scoring drives in regulation, and were six of eight overall.
“They forced us a little bit when they got up 31-17,” first-year Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said. “They were huge. If we don’t do that, we don’t have enough time to get back in the game and definitely win the game.”
Texas Tech beat the Longhorns in a Big 12 opener for the first time in six tries and ended a six-game home losing streak. Fans stormed the field after that 2008 victory, and did it again Saturday after Wolff’s winner.
“I was asked at the end what it means to us,” said McGuire, a former Baylor assistant and lifelong Texan facing the Longhorns for the first time. “It means we’re 1-0 in the Big 12. I’m fired up to beat Texas. Don’t get me wrong. But I’m more fired up to be 1-0.”
It might be Texas’ last trip to Lubbock depending on whether the Longhorns leave early for the Southeastern Conference in 2024. The schools are talking about continuing a rivalry that has been played for 63 consecutive seasons.
For the Longhorns, the loss was reminiscent of the first three games in a six-game losing streak that soured coach Steve Sarkisian’s Texas debut last season. They had double-digit leads in all three losses.
Still limping at times because of the high ankle sprain sustained after starter Quinn Ewers sprained a clavicle against No. 1 Alabama, Card threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns with Ewers watching in uniform on the Texas sideline.
Robinson had 101 yards and two TDs before the crippling mistake from the Heisman Trophy hopeful to start overtime.
Smith threw for 331 yards and two touchdowns. Myles Price caught a career-high 13 passes for 98 yards, including a 5-yarder on fourth-and-3 on the way to what the Red Raiders thought would be Wolff’s winning kick in regulation.
THE TAKEAWAY
Texas: This was Sarkisian’s chance to build some momentum for the program two weeks after a one-point loss at home to then-No. 1 Alabama. Now the Longhorns will have to try again in two weeks against their biggest rival, No. 6 Oklahoma.
Texas Tech: The Red Raiders stayed mostly with high-percentage throws on methodical drives with Smith after the sophomore threw five interceptions in the previous two games. He didn’t throw any picks in 56 attempts, completing 38 for an average of 8.7 yards per completion.
UP NEXT
Texas: Hosts West Virginia next Saturday.
Texas Tech: The only back-to-back road games of the season starts at Kansas State next Saturday.
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Stocks gave up an early gain and stumbled Tuesday on Wall Street’s first trading day of 2023 after closing out its worst year since 2008.
The S&P 500 fell 0.7% as of 1:56 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 145 points, or 0.4%, to 33,001 and the Nasdaq fell 1%.
Long-term bond yields fell significantly. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, fell to 3.79% from 3.88% late Friday. Stock and bond markets were closed Monday for the observed New Year’s Day holiday.
Markets in Europe and Asia gained ground.
U.S. oil prices fell 3.1% and weighed down energy stocks. Hess fell 5.2%.
Tesla plunged 14% after the electric vehicle maker’s 2022 sales disappointed investors.
Gold producer Newmont rose 4.3% for one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 as prices for the precious metal rose.
Investors are opening a new year with the same concerns that dominated markets in 2022. Inflation is easing, but remains stubbornly hot. That has prompted the Federal Reserve to remain aggressive.
The central bank, along with others worldwide, has been raising interest rates to slow economic growth. That has left Wall Street bracing for the recession and higher unemployment that could result from those policies.
The Fed will release minutes from its December policy meeting on Wednesday, potentially giving investors more insight into its decision-making process and thoughts heading into 2023. The central bank’s next policy decision on interest rates is set for Feb. 1.
The Fed’s key lending rate stands at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% after rocketing from a range of 0% to 0.25% at the beginning of 2022. The U.S. central bank forecasts that it will reach a range of 5% to 5.25% by the end of 2023 and it currently doesn’t call for a rate cut before 2024.
Investors are looking ahead this week to several updates on the employment market, which has been a strong area of the broader economy. That has helped buffer the economy from a recession, analysts have said, but it also makes the Fed’s fight against inflation more difficult and raises that risk that it could go too far and bring on a recession.
The government will release a report Wednesday on job openings for November, followed by a weekly report on unemployment on Thursday. The broader and closely-watched monthly report on employment, for December, will be released on Friday.
Wall Street is also waiting on the latest round of corporate earnings reports, which will start flowing heavily around the middle of January. Analysts polled by FactSet expect earnings for companies in the S&P 500 to broadly slip during the fourth quarter and remain flat for the first half of 2023. | 2023-01-03T20:09:23+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-asian-markets-mixed-ahead-of-fed-report-us-jobs-data-2/ |
WAGONER COUNTY, Okla. — A mother is speaking out as she continues to battle in a civil rights lawsuit against Wagoner County.
Pam Krueger filed the suit in 2021 against the Sheriff's office after her son, Jeffery Krueger, died in their custody in 2019.
Investigation records show that deputies conducted a traffic stop of Jeffery because they said they saw him swerving and he was not compliant when they approached the car, so they pointed their weapons at him.
Body camera video shows deputies struggling with Krueger for several minutes, trying to get him cuffed. He was tased multiple times and Krueger is clearly bleeding heavily.
He is eventually put on a stretcher and taken to the hospital, where a medical examiner's report says he died of heart problems.
It says he had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
The lawsuit claims the arrest was unconstitutional and that Krueger had bipolar disorder and should not have been treated in that way.
The OSBI investigated the incident and district Attorney Jack Thorpe decided not to press criminal charges on anyone involved due to that report.
He wrote in a letter when he made the decision in 2019, "The non-deadly force utilized by these deputies upon arrestee Jeffery Krueger was justified..."
It goes on to say, "Krueger resisted arrest and fought both officers for several minutes" and that "Krueger attempted to attack Phillips and attempted to possess his firearm."
"They failed him, the citizens of wagoner county. They failed the state. They need to be held accountable," said Pam.
Pam says she'll continue to fight until this suit is settled and she doesn't want this to happen to any other family.
"It's very difficult when more incidents like Jeffery's happen and we see them on the news and in the newspapers and we still it's still happening to people," said Pam
"He had the best smile ever. He was kind and caring," said Pam.
FOX23 spoke with Krueger's attorney Mark Lyons on the case.
"They're supposed to have training on people who have emotional problems or people who are mentally ill," said Lyons, "If they would have showed the least bit of humanity to him, we wouldn't be here."
Lyons said it is a disservice to the good police officers who try to do a good job.
In 2019, Sheriff Chris Elliot made a statement regarding the body cam footage from Jeffery Krueger's arrest.
"I didn't see anything in the body cam footage that would give me alarm that the deputies did anything inappropriately," said Elliot. | 2023-05-25T19:05:47+00:00 | fox23.com | https://www.fox23.com/news/local/mother-sues-wagoner-county-sheriffs-office-after-sons-death/article_e7c78256-fa97-11ed-aa5b-6bde18ed04af.html |
For some people, sneakers are little more than an attractive footwear option. For others, they're an obsession.
From humble beginnings in 1970s hip-hop and b-boy culture, then ballooning through Nike's Air Jordans in the 1980s, the sneaker industry is a $75 billion-plus behemoth with die-hard fans scattered throughout the world. Known colloquially as sneakerheads, fans are hooked on collecting the latest styles and rare versions and often have collections reaching into the hundreds.
One of Louisiana's most prominent sneakerheads is Derek Curry, the founder and owner of clothing and sneaker boutique Sneaker Politics. First opening in Lafayette in 2006, Sneaker Politics now has additional stores scattered throughout Louisiana and Texas (now in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Austin and Dallas). Sneaker Politics is one of the leading stores of its kind in the country.
Like many — if not most — sneakerheads, Curry's passion for shoes began when he was a kid. He was immediately hooked by their look, the cool factor, and the athletes who wore them.
"I just started off liking shoes, man," he said. "It was such a big thing growing up. Getting a fresh pair of shoes, going to school with them on ... that was the main attention grabber there was. And supporting athletes, too, since I was a big fan of Deion Sanders, Charles Barkley, MJ (Michael Jordan) of course. Just being able to wear those guys' shoes."
For Curry, with Nike and Jordan, the branding, the storytelling turned his interest into a next-level collectable realm and, eventually, a store with an edge in the business.
Sneaker Politics has the rare and sought-after Tier Zero contract with Nike, meaning it gets the brand's most exclusive releases before anyone else. It acts as a sort of barometer for the manufacturer.
"They basically look at us as influencers in our territories," he said — giving an idea of what will and won't sell before the shoes are more widely distributed. "They know we have a younger and forward thinking customer willing to get that different shoe and try that different technology out, wear that crazy color no one else is thinking of yet."
Though he's occupied with his ever-growing business, Curry hasn't lost sight of the shoes that hooked him in the first place. His favorite model is a Nike Air Max 1, while his most valuable one is a Nike x Coraline Dunk, of which only 15 were made. As for the size of his current collection ... well, it's big.
"I got to a point where I had shoes at my mom's house. I had shoes at my house. I had shoes stashed at my kids' house. I would keep them at work and everything," he said, laughing. "My girlfriend was finally like, 'OK, this is enough. If you buy one, you've got to get rid of one at my house.'"
Despite his girlfriend's ultimatum, and his ongoing downsizing, Curry estimates his collection to be around 350 sets of sneakers (down from a peak of 500). His paring down has also been helped by one of his children sharing his shoe size.
Two Sneaker Politics customers, and devout sneakerheads, are Lafayette workmates Jonathan Pellegrin and Brittney Williams. Both have dozens of pairs they've collected over the years ("just under 100," in Pellegrin's case), all lovingly curated and cared for.
Pellegrin began collecting in 2015 after being inspired by a sneakerhead roommate in college. Williams began her collection just a few years ago, though she had fostered a love of sneakers since childhood.
"Growing up I saw so many different shoes come out," Williams said. "My family weren’t quite able to get me what I would call 'designer type' sneakers. So I kind of made it my mission when I became an adult, to go back and get all the shoes I wanted when I was growing up. So that's what I've kind of been doing, little by little."
Both have sneakers that mean a bit more than others.
For Pellegrin, his most treasured pair is a set of Air Jordan 1 Travis Scott Mochas, a collector's favorite featuring backwards Nike swooshes. It's also, he says, his most "exclusive" pair. According to most online sites that sell the rare pair of shoes, they are typically valued at around $2,000, but some sites sell them for more than $8,000 for reasons that difference to sneakerheads.
Both Pellegrin and Williams wear the shoes they collect in a rotation, which begs the question: With pairs often valued in the hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, are there any that they won't wear? The answer is simple. "No," said Pellegrin.
So what keeps sneakerheads hooked? For Williams and Pellegrin, it's about style, culture, and a never-ending array of new and interesting sneakers to look forward to.
"I wish I had more feet so I could wear more shoes," Pellegrin said. "(The manufacturers) just come out with so many bangers. They keep coming out with so many good shoes. It's like Pokemon: you gotta collect them all."
The same goes for Curry.
"I've been into shoes since I was 12 years old, and I've been running shoe businesses for the last 17 or 18 years," he said. "You'd think I would be over it by now. But to this day, when we get a new shoe in and I see it, I still get excited. I want to wear it right away. It's just, I guess, that expression, that difference. It's just that little conversation piece — that little piece of art you get to wear." | 2023-06-07T18:42:07+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/louisiana-sneakerheads-have-a-passion-for-sneakers/article_c27207f8-048b-11ee-8086-8f748ed47d02.html |
Biden: GOP must move off ‘extreme’ positions, no debt limit deal solely on its ‘partisan terms’
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit and that there would be no agreement to avert a catastrophic default only on their terms.
“It’s time for Republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan deal to be made solely, solely, on their partisan terms,” Biden said in Hiroshima, Japan, where he attended the Group of Seven summit.
Biden said he had done his part in trying to raising the debt ceiling so the U.S. government can keep paying its bills. “Now it’s time for the other side to move from their extreme position,” he said.
Biden and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., were expected to talk later Sunday, likely as Biden flew home on Air Force One after cutting short his trip in light of the strained negotiations.
“My guess is he’s going to want to deal directly with me in making sure we’re all on the same page,” Biden said of McCarthy, adding that he believed a compromise remained possible.
GOP lawmakers are holding tight to demands for sharp spending cuts, rejecting the alternatives proposed by the White House for reducing deficits.
Republicans want work requirements on the Medicaid health care program, though the Biden administration has countered that millions of people could lose coverage. The GOP also introduced new cuts to food aid by restricting states’ ability to wave work requirements in places with high joblessness. That idea, when floated under President Donald Trump, was estimated to cause 700,000 people to lose their food benefits.
GOP lawmakers are also seeking cuts to IRS funding and asking the White House to accept provisions from their proposed immigration overhaul.
The White House has countered by keeping defense and nondefense spending flat next year, which would save $90 billion in the 2024 budget year and $1 trillion over 10 years.
“I think that we can reach an agreement,” Biden said.
Republicans had also rejected White House proposals to raise revenues in order to further lower deficits. Among the proposals the GOP objects to are policies that would enable Medicare to pay less for prescription drugs and the closing of a dozen tax loopholes. Republicans have refused to roll back the Trump-era tax breaks on corporations and wealthy households as Biden’s own budget has proposed.
For months, Biden had refused to engage in talks over the debt limit, insisting that Congress was trying to use the borrowing limit vote as leverage to extract other policy priorities.
But with the U.S. Treasury Department saying that it could run out of cash as soon as June 1 and Republicans putting their own legislation on the table, the White House launched talks on a budget deal that could accompany an increase in the debt limit. | 2023-05-21T10:56:04+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/05/21/biden-gop-must-move-off-extreme-positions-no-debt-limit-deal-solely-on-its-partisan-terms/ |
Lawmakers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia voted to drop a controversial "foreign agents" bill on Friday after days of mass protests in the capital, Tbilisi, and widespread criticism from the West.
The law would have required all individuals, civil society organizations, and media outlets that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents, opening the door to monitoring and possible sanctions.
Supporters say such a measure would increase transparency, but its many critics fear it would stifle dissent, the media and democracy itself. They compare it to a similar law in Russia that the Kremlin has used to crack down on NGOs and independent journalists.
Thousands protested outside the parliament building in Tbilisi this week in demonstrations that turned violent after police responded with water cannons and pepper spray.
The ruling Georgian Dream party reversed course on Thursday.
"As a party of government responsible to every member of society, we have decided to unconditionally withdraw this bill that we supported," it said in a statement translated by RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty.
The lawmakers cited the need to reduce "confrontation" in society, according to the BBC. But they also said the bill had been "represented in a bad light and in a misleading way," and that they plan to do more to clarify its purpose once the "emotional background subsides."
Eto Buziashvili, a researcher with the Atlantic Council, said that many in Georgia saw the withdrawal as a "tactical retreat," giving lawmakers time to regroup before reintroducing the bill.
"The protesters are posting on social media that they should not calm down, and they should not take this as a big win because there is always [the] threat that the ruling party will pass this law again," Buziashvili told Morning Edition on Thursday.
Protesters returned to the streets, even after that announcement, to push for the total abandonment of the bill and the release of the more than 100 people who had been arrested at previous days' demonstrations, the Associated Press reports. (The interior ministry said Friday it had freed all 133).
The following morning lawmakers voted 35-1 against the bill, in a session that lasted four minutes and included no discussion.
Many activists as well as Georgian officials — including the president — cheered the withdrawal of the bill, but suggested the struggle is far from over. And it comes at a time when the country, which shares a border with Russia, is pushing to align itself more with the West.
President Salome Zourabichvili had vowed to veto the bill, though lawmakers in the majority could have overridden it. She congratulated the Georgian people on their victory in a statement and video released Thursday from a working trip to the U.S.
"This will of the people was demonstrated wonderfully," she said. "This was shown not only in Georgia, but also abroad. All our partners saw this extraordinary attitude and really the will of the people towards the European path of Georgia."
What the law would do
The foreign agent bill is actually two pieces of legislation, which drew immediate backlash when lawmakers introduced them in February.
The first required non-governmental organizations and media outlets that receive more than 20% of their annual revenue from a "foreign power" (which includes government agencies, foreign citizens and other foundations and associations under international law) to register with Georgia's Justice Ministry.
They would also have to submit an electronic financial declaration and data about that funding, which Human Rights Watch says duplicates tax reporting obligations and puts peoples' privacy at risk. Those who do not comply could be fined the equivalent of $9,600.
"The proponents of the bill have not explained how this duplicative and onerous reporting increases transparency or accountability, but rather appears to be a blatant effort to restrict the ability of associations and media to operate freely and independently, and stigmatize independent groups," said Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
A second version of the bill, introduced later that month, expanded the definition of foreign agents to include individuals and increased the penalties from fines to up to five years in prison.
Activists and officials in Georgia and beyond were quick to criticize the proposed legislation. It was slammed by hundreds of local nongovernmental groups and media outlets, the United Nations in Georgia, the U.S. State Department and the European Union, among others.
"[The law] would stigmatize and silence independent voices and citizens of Georgia who are dedicated to building a better future for their own communities," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in February, adding that its adoption could "potentially undermine Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration."
Critics draw parallels to a repressive Russian law
Critics of the bill say it was modeled after Russia's "foreign agents law," which was passed in 2012 and has been used to crack down on NGOs, independent media and other Kremlin critics — especially during its war in Ukraine.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that Russia's law violates the European Convention, which has an article protecting the right to association. It said restrictions for organizations that receive funding from foreign sources were not justified and interfere with their legitimate functions, Human Rights Watch explains.
"No to the Russian law" was one of the chants favored by protesters in Tbilisi this week.
Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker, who was at the protests, told All Things Considered on Wednesday that the law looks "eerily similar" to Russia's and will "have a very chilling effect on ... those organizations that do really hard work here to try to raise the level of Georgia's democratic status."
More than 80% of Georgia's population is in favor of joining the European Union, and Forestier-Walker saw people of all generations coming out to protest the law.
"They are genuinely aggrieved to see their government introducing Russian-style laws to muzzle free speech, to muzzle alternative opinions and to basically really take control of this country in an authoritarian way," he says.
He notes that the government has been "extremely capable at manipulating" the part of society that is worried about Georgia becoming too pro-Western, at risk of coming into another direct conflict with Russia (which invaded in 2008).
"At the same time, I get a sense that a lot of Georgians really say enough is enough, that this law goes one step too far," he adds.
Georgia is trying to join the EU and NATO
The vast majority of Georgian people are pro-Western, and the country has aimed to formalize those alliances since it gained independence in 1991. But the ruling Georgian Dream party — led by oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia — has made that difficult.
"In the last few years, and especially over the past 18 months, Georgia's ruling coalition has made a series of moves that seem designed to distance the country from the West and shift it gradually into Russia's sphere of influence," the European Council on Foreign Relations wrote in December.
Georgia is a close partner — but not a member — of NATO, which has promised since 2008 that the country can join when it meets "all necessary requirements."
It applied for EU membership, along with Ukraine and Moldova, in March 2022 just after Russia's invasion. It was the only one of the three to not get candidate status, which EU leadership said will only happen once it makes certain reforms.
The foreign agents bill was seen as hurting Georgia's chances, with the EU itself warning that adoption of the law would be "inconsistent ... with EU norms and values."
On Thursday, the EU delegation in Georgia welcomed the party's decision to withdraw the bill and encouraged its political leadership to resume pro-EU reforms.
Georgia's president, Zourabichvili, told Bloomberg that she doesn't think the near-passage of the bill will endanger the country's EU aspirations.
In fact, she thinks it has increased their odds, "because it has shown very effectively" where the Georgian public stands.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-10T16:39:44+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-03-10/georgians-have-been-protesting-a-controversial-bill-for-days-lawmakers-scrapped-it |
MARTINEZ, Calif. (BCN) — The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against a man for stealing a U.S. Postal Service truck in Martinez last month. Charges were filed Feb. 28 against 35-year-old Joshua Scott Anderson. Authorities said Anderson approached the truck around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 2 at the Lotus Apartments in the 3900 block of Alhambra Avenue.
Anderson allegedly used force to rob the postal carrier of their key and stole the truck, which carried letters and parcels. The truck was recovered about 30 minutes later, but several trays of mail and parcels were missing.
Anderson was later arrested and charged with second-degree robbery, carjacking, driving or taking a vehicle without consent, and mail theft. The complaint also lists an enhancement for prior convictions of vehicle theft, special allegations for committing a felony while on probation, and prior convictions of first-and second-degree burglary, vehicle theft, and identity theft.
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Anderson is currently in the Martinez Detention Facility. He was arraigned Wednesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez. U.S. Postal Inspection Service San Francisco Division Inspector in Charge Rafael Nunez said in a statement, “The Postal Inspection Service takes threats to our employees and the theft of mail very seriously, and we will vigorously pursue those who commit such crimes.”
Prosecutors said incidents of mail theft and postal carriers being robbed — sometimes at gunpoint — have increased nationwide.
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TIJUANA (Border Report) — Irene Flores has spent the last 17 years of her life selling magazines and newspapers to northbound border commuters at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
Flores says she’s there bright and early each morning, except for Sundays, trying to make a living.
For the last six weeks, she’s been noticing a “different” type of commuter as she strides along traffic lanes looking to make a sale.
“You can identify them easily,” Flores said in Spanish. “They’re jammed into cars, entire families who normally don’t cross in the morning and they all look nervous.”
Flores is talking about Russian migrants who have been coming to Tijuana in greater numbers than anyone can remember.
“We saw a lot of them in 2021, but not like this,” she said.
Flores said she sees up to 20 cars each morning loaded with Russian migrants who are trying to get past U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
“Some cross while running, others hide in the trunks of cars. … I’ve seen some open doors and sneak into cars belonging to strangers,” said Flores. “CBP officers try to stop them, but they jump out of their cars and make a run for it.”
CBP did not respond to an email from Border Report asking if this is in fact happening. But Flores insists there’s no mistaking this trend.
“I see it every morning, then the officers have to close down the lanes for five to 10 minutes and it creates a bigger backup.”
Others who frequent the border said they too have noticed the issue.
“It’s a problem,” said Plablo Maciel. “It’s a big problem because when they close down the lanes to make arrests they make the lines longer and we have to wait more to cross the border on our way to work.”
The latest CBP data shows that Border Patrol agents and CBP officers have encountered Russian nationals 19,296 times this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2021. Immigration authorities encountered Russian nationals 13,240 times in FY 2021 and 5,946 in FY 2020, and the majority of those encounters took place at ports of entry.
Additionally, 45 percent of all migrant encounters involving Russian nationals this fiscal year occurred in the San Diego Sector.
Mexican officials said hotels in Tijuana are filled with Russian migrants who are visiting Mexico with tourist visas.
Mexico’s Customs office in Tijuana reported that for the first two months of this year, more than 28,000 Russians have entered Mexico.
“Without a doubt, in the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in the numbers of Russians coming to our city,” said researcher Jose Maria Ramos, who works for Tijuana’s Colegio de la Frontera. “Some do make it across and are able to ask for asylum, but most are returned.”
Ramos added the numbers of Russian migrants are up this year and expects more in the future along with migrants from other parts of the world. | 2022-06-03T02:46:23+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/border-report-tour/increasing-number-of-russians-arriving-intent-on-crossing-at-california-port-of-entry/ |
Sheriff: Deputy killed deputy in ‘extremely dumb’ accident
PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — A deputy mistakenly shot and killed his roommate, who was also a deputy, as the two took a break from playing an online game with friends while they were off duty, a Florida sheriff said.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey called the shooting “an extremely dumb and totally avoidable accident” in a video posted on social media on Sunday afternoon in which he announced that Deputy Andrew Lawson, 23, was charged with manslaughter.
Deputy Austin Walsh, 23, died at the scene in their apartment in Palm Bay early Saturday morning.
The roommates had taken a break from playing the online game and were standing around talking when Lawson took out a gun he believed he had unloaded and “jokingly” pointed it at Walsh, the sheriff said. A round fired and hit Walsh.
Lawson immediately called 911 and was “distraught” and “devastated” when first responders arrived, Ivey said. Lawson cooperated fully with the investigation, which was conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Palm Bay Police Department.
Ivey said Lawson and Walsh were best friends and roommates.
“Folks, this unnecessary and totally avoidable incident not only took the life of an amazing young man and deputy, but it has also forever changed the life of another good young man who made an extremely poor and reckless decision,” Ivey said.
The sheriff said Walsh had been with the agency since he was 18.
“Austin was such a great kid, and our hearts are broken over his loss. He will be deeply missed by our agency, our community and our prayers are with his family,” Ivey said.
Lawson was taken to the Brevard County Jail on a “no bond” warrant, the sheriff said. It was not immediately known whether he has a lawyer who can speak on his behalf.
The sheriff called Lawson “a great kid who sadly made a horrible and irresponsible decision that has forever impacted so many.”
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Lisle Benet jumped in front of Cicero Morton 1-0 to begin the final half.
The scoreboard was in hibernation in the final half, with neither team scoring.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A columnist who recently won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation jury award against Donald Trump can update a similar lawsuit with his more recent public comments in a bid for over $10 million more in damages from the ex-president, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in another legal loss for Trump.
The ruling by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan gave new life to a defamation lawsuit by writer E. Jean Carroll that was stalled by appeals after the U.S. Justice Department supported a request by Trump’s attorneys to substitute the United States for him as the defendant on the grounds that he cannot be held personally liable for comments made while carrying out presidential duties.
The 2020 defamation lawsuit was originally filed after Carroll wrote in a 2019 book that Trump raped her in a midtown Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store after he turned a friendly and flirtatious chance encounter between the pair into a violent encounter once behind a closed dressing room door.
Trump, she maintained, disparaged her afterward, spoiling her career and reputation, as he denied ever meeting her at the store located across the street from Trump Tower, where Trump resided before assuming the presidency as a Republican in January 2017.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
Nine jurors agreed in a civil trial last month that Carroll had failed to prove that she was raped in the spring 1996 encounter, but they agreed there was sufficient evidence to conclude Trump had sexually abused her. They also agreed he defamed her by making false statements last October in a deposition and in public comments that damaged her reputation.
Since the jury awarded $5 million in damages, Trump’s attorneys have filed arguments asking to reduce the award to less than $1 million or grant a new trial on damages. They say the jury proved Trump was not lying when they rejected Carroll’s rape claim.
Trump, 76, who did not attend the trial, has continued to insist he didn’t really know Carroll, 79. In his fall deposition, he misidentified her in a photograph as his ex-wife Marla Maples.
The day after the verdict at a CNN town hall, Trump repeated his longstanding claims that he didn’t know Carroll, called her a “whack job” and repeated his claims that she made up the story that he attacked her.
Days later, Carroll’s lawyers asked the judge if she could amend her defamation lawsuit to add Trump’s latest comments and demand at least $10 million and “very substantial” punitive damages.
In his two-page order Tuesday, Kaplan noted that Justice Department lawyers say they’ll have to reevaluate whether the United States should be substituted for Trump as a defendant based on new events affecting the lawsuit, including the new claims made by Carroll that are based on statements he made while no longer president. He’s allowed submissions to be made on the issue through Aug. 3.
Trump’s attorney did not immediately comment.
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents Carroll and is not related to the judge, said in a statement: “We look forward to moving ahead expeditiously on E Jean Carroll’s remaining claims.” | 2023-06-15T13:41:45+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/judge-lets-columnist-amend-defamation-claim-with-over-10-million-demand-for-damages-from-trump/ |
(WGHP) — A Houston Texans running back has been charged with a felony, according to the NFL.
BleacherReport says that running back Darius Anderson, 24, was charged Friday with burglary with intent to rape, a first-degree felony.
“We are aware of the report involving Darius Anderson,” the Texans said in a statement given to Aaron Wilson of Pro Football Network. “We are gathering information and have no further comment at this time.”
According to the report, court records indicate that Anderson broke into a woman’s home and pursued her into the bathroom, leaving when she called the police. Anderson has bonded out and, as part of his bail agreement, cannot possess a firearm or return to the woman’s home.
Anderson was on the Texans’ practice squad last season and signed a futures deal with them. He has not played in an NFL game so far. He was signed as a free agent by Dallas, but was waived. He was signed by the Colts and never played.
He played for Texas Christian University from 2016-2019.
His arraignment will be Wednesday. | 2022-07-19T15:00:29+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/houston-texans-running-back-charged-with-burglary-with-intent-to-rape/ |
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Pistons made a bold move in their latest attempt to become relevant in the NBA again.
Detroit reached an agreement to hire former Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams, according to two people familiar with the situation.
One of the people, speaking on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced, told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that Williams agreed to a six-year contract.
Phoenix fired Williams two-plus weeks ago, two years after reaching the NBA Finals and a year after he won the league’s coach of the year honors.
The 51-year-old Williams won 63% of his games over four regular seasons with the Suns, but they were eliminated in the Western Conference semifinals two years in a row after losing to Milwaukee in the 2021 NBA Finals.
The Pistons would be thrilled to approach that level of success anytime soon under Williams.
Detroit won an NBA-low 17 games last season, losing 30% or fewer games for the fourth straight season under Dwane Casey, who stepped down as coach with one year left on his contract to take a role in the front office.
The Pistons did not have good fortune in the draft lottery, landing the No. 5 pick overall for the second straight year and missing out on an opportunity to draft 7-foot-3 French pro Victor Wembanyama, a 19-year-old supertalent expected to be the first overall pick of the San Antonio Spurs.
Detroit, a three-time NBA championship franchise, has earned a spot in the playoffs just twice in 14 years. The Pistons have not won a postseason game since 2008, when they advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the sixth straight time during a remarkable run that included winning the 2004 NBA title and falling a game short of repeating as champions.
Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren, the No. 5 and No. 13 pick overall last summer, did provide hope for the future with their play last season. Cade Cunningam, the No. 1 pick overall in 2021, had his second season stunted by shin surgery after playing in just 12 games.
Bojan Bogdanovic, who averaged a career-high 21.6 points, Isaiah Stewart, James Wiseman and Marvin Bagley are expected to be back.
The young team, with some experienced players in the rotation, will have a proven leader on the bench.
Williams is 367-336 in nine seasons as an NBA head coach with a 29-27 postseason record. He had a five-year stint with the New Orleans Pelicans, who fired him in 2015 with a 173-221 record and two playoff appearances.
While Williams was an assistant coach with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2016, his wife, Ingrid, died from injuries sustained from a car crash in which she was hit head-on by an SUV that crossed the center line after losing control.
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Denver contributed to this report.
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The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration will leave the agency this summer, putting pressure on the White House to quickly find a replacement after President Joe Biden’s first choice withdrew last month.
Billy Nolen, who has been acting administrator for the past year, said in a memo to staff that it has been a dream job.
“But now it is time for a new captain to guide the FAA,” Nolen said in the memo. “I told (Transportation Secretary Pete) Buttigieg and notified the White House that I will depart as a new nominee is named this summer.”
Biden’s first pick, Denver International Airport CEO Phillip Washington, withdrew in March after it became clear his nomination was dead in the Senate Commerce Committee, where Democrats hold just a one-vote majority. Washington faced stiff opposition from Republicans, who said he lacked enough aviation experience, and failed to win public support from an independent and a moderate Democrat on the committee.
Some Republican senators said Nolen — a former airline pilot who briefly ran the FAA’s safety office — would have been a better choice, but there was no indication that he was under consideration.
Asked two weeks ago whether Nolen might be nominated for the job, Buttigieg — whose department includes the FAA — said he would not discuss names.
In a statement Friday, Buttigieg said, “Billy is a tremendous leader, a true expert, and a dedicated public servant. He has kept safety as the FAA’s north star through one of the most complex periods in modern aviation.”
The FAA has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since Stephen Dickson stepped down in March 2022, halfway through his five-year term.
The agency is under public scrutiny after several close calls between airline planes, some of which appeared to have been caused by FAA air traffic controllers clearing planes to use the same runway at roughly the same time.
Nolen responded by convening a “safety summit” in March, which was attended by dozens of representatives from airlines, pilot unions and other groups. He has said aviation is safer than ever — there have been no fatal crashes involving U.S. airline planes since 2009 — but that the FAA cannot become complacent.
The FAA also faces staffing shortages that have slowed air traffic, and an outage in an alert system in January briefly stopped all departing flights nationwide. | 2023-04-22T21:56:23+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/acting-head-of-federal-aviation-administration-is-leaving/ |
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a truck driver and understand that the average owner-operator cannot afford expensive pumping equipment for tanker trailers like the big companies. I created the T-CONNECTOR as a simple and affordable means of offloading liquid cargo for delivery. My design eliminates the need to invest in pumps that are very expensive to install and maintain."
The patent-pending invention provides a new fitting to link a semi-truck's air line connector to the tank for pressurization and dispensing of liquid cargo. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using a hydra-chem pump or a PTO pump. As a result, it would simplify the pressurization process. The invention features a simple design that is easy to install and maintain so it is ideal for truck drivers hauling fluids in tank trailers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.
Two cases involving the abuse were on a list of many cases the court said it would not hear. And, as is typical, the court did not comment in saying it would not hear the cases.
Ohio State University had urged the court to review a ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that revived lawsuits that had been dismissed. The men who sued are among hundreds of former student-athletes and other alumni who say they were abused by Strauss, who worked at the school from 1978 to 1998.
They say university officials failed to stop him despite complaints raised as early as the late 1970s. Many of them allege Strauss abused them during required physicals and other medical exams at campus athletic facilities, a student health center, his home and an off-campus clinic.
Strauss killed himself in 2005 at age 67. The university in 2018 announced an investigation into Strauss’ abuse and the university’s conduct. It has apologized to his victims and reached over $60 million in settlements with at least 296 people.
But the university eventually sought to have the remaining unsettled cases dismissed, arguing that the time limit for the claims had long passed.
The remaining plaintiffs have argued that they filed timely claims and that the time limit didn’t start running until the 2018 investigation into Strauss’ abuse made his conduct public. The men say that was when they first learned that the school had been aware of Strauss’ abuse and failed to protect them from him. Many also only realized then that they’d been victims of abuse since Strauss disguised his abuse as medical care, their lawyers said.
In a statement, lawyers for the plaintiffs said they were pleased the Supreme Court decided not to hear the cases. “We look forward to returning to the trial court, having our clients’ stories heard, and gathering further evidence of OSU’s widespread cover-up of Dr. Strauss’s serial predation,” they said. | 2023-06-26T20:53:22+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/supreme-court-lets-lawsuits-over-team-doctors-sexual-abuse-proceed-against-ohio-state/ |
(iSeeCars) — Whether you’re a fan of electric cars or prefer the traditional exhaust note from internal combustion there’s no denying a simple truth – electric cars are fast! Using an electric motor (or dual motor) powertrain to create horsepower and torque results in instant, no-waiting-required throttle response, a critical factor for quick 0-60 mph times.
Electric sports cars also deliver impressive quarter mile times for drag racing, and they can provide the added high-speed torque needed to overcome wind resistance at triple-digit velocities, making electric hypercars among the fastest cars you can buy, rivaling traditional high-speed vehicles from premium automakers like BMW, Bugatti, Ferrari, and Mercedes-Benz.
But there’s a downside to the increased power output and acceleration delivered by electric drivetrains: weight. The added poundage of electric motors and battery packs doesn’t contribute to confident braking or nimble handling, which means even the fastest EVs in a straight line don’t necessarily make the best performance cars when it’s time to turn.
What does that mean for electric supercars with sleek styling, high horsepower, and an even higher price tag? It means they will absolutely deliver neck-straining acceleration, but they may not be the best cars for lapping Laguna Seca or the Nurburgring.
With that said, let’s take a look at the quickest and fastest electric cars. For this list we won’t be adding points for EPA efficiency ratings or a long range between charging sessions. These electric vehicles will be judged solely on speed. That also means practical and high-value EVs, like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6, don’t make the cut in our top 10 fastest electric cars list.
- Aspark Owl
We’re starting this list with a car you probably haven’t heard of, but one with a verified zero-to-60 time of 1.69 seconds and a top speed of 249 mph. With four electric motors and 1984 horsepower, all operating under a carbon fiber body, it’s easy to see how this Japanese hypercar delivers the goods. But it also costs over $4 million and weighs over 4,000 pounds, confirming that even the fastest electric car remains a weighty proposition.
- Rimac Nevera
Just the look of the Nevera screams speed and power, but the acceleration and top-speed numbers confirm it. A zero-to-60 time of 1.85 seconds and a top speed of 258 mph put this Croatian creation well into supercar status, while its large 120 kWh battery gives it an impressive 300-plus mile range. At nearly 4,800 pounds it’s no lightweight, and at $2.5 million it weighs pretty heavily on your bank account, too.
- Pininfarina Battista
We’re back to supercar looks and supercar pricing with the Battista.
A $2.2 million check gets you from zero to 60 in 1.8 seconds and a top speed of 217 mph. The four-motor, all-wheel drive design is powered by the same 120 kWh battery from the Rimac, giving the Battista a 300-mile range and a curb weight north of 4,500 pounds. If you want to combine the future of horsepower with classic Italian styling, this one delivers both.
- Tesla Model S Plaid
We’re going to skip over the Tesla Roadster because, well, it doesn’t exist yet after being promised for years. We’re sure it will arrive, eventually, but we’re holding this list for actual production cars, which means the 1.9-second (0-60 time), 200 mph top-speed Tesla Model S Plaid get’s position 3. At least this one costs under a million dollars (a mere $136,000), yet it remains a tubby transporter at 4,700 pounds.
- Lucid Air Dream Performance
This car might have the perfect name, and hitting 60 mph in 2.5 seconds while coddling its occupants in comfort might be the perfect form of modern transportation. We like the Lucid’s premium design, inside and out, and while $170,000 isn’t chump change it’s quite accessible by this list’s standards. Top speed is a commendable 168 mph, range is almost 500 miles, and curb weight, once again, is high (4,630 pounds).
- Tesla Model X Plaid
This is the crossover version of the Model S Plaid, so it sits a little higher than the S and has funky “falcon” rear doors that are pretty cool – whey they work. It also sprints to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds and has a top speed of 163 mph (leave those doors open and it might fly…). It features the same 1,000-horsepower, four-wheel drivetrain as the Model S, but it weighs even more (5,390 pounds!), which is why it’s half-a-second slower.
- Nio EP9
Once a lowly Chinese EV start up, Nio now offers the EP9, with a zero-to-60 time of 2.7 seconds. That’s quick, but given two sub-$200,000 Teslas and a Lucid are quicker, it makes the $3.5 million price tag feel a bit out of place. Still, the EP9 looks like a supercar and tops out at a supercar-like 217 mph. The 1,341 horsepower drivetrain features four motors, and range is said to be about 265 miles. Curb weight is relatively light at 3,825 pounds.
- Porsche Taycan Turbo S
We’re edging closer to three seconds, but the Taycan Turbo S manages to stay under that time with a 60 mph sprint in 2.6 seconds and a top speed of 161 mph. Its 616 horsepower drivetrain and $185,000 price tag feel quite reasonable for that kind of performance, though a 235-mile range might have you watching the battery meter more closely. You also get the bonus of Porsche’s vast dealer network when it’s time for service.
- Audi RS e-Tron GT
Like its mechanical twin, the Porsche Taycan, Audi’s RS e-Tron GT uses four electric motors to deliver a 2.9-second zero-to-60 time. Horsepower is rated at 637 while top speed hits at 155 mph. The Audi has a meatier look than the Porsche, and it feels a bit more relaxed and luxurious, as befitting the brand. It also offers a similar 232 miles of range and weighs in at over 5,000 pounds (5,171), but its combination of performance and luxury is sublime.
- Tesla Model 3 Performance
Early on, Elon Musk recognized the potential for rapid acceleration from EVs. He’s imbued that trait in every Tesla, including his starter model, the Model 3. In “Performance” trim the Model 3 bangs out a 3.2-second zero-to-60 time and offers a 162 mph top speed. This is the cheapest go-fast car on our list, with an MSRP of $63,000. It also delivers over 300 miles of range, making it a compelling option for fun and function.
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Idaho court tosses lawsuits aiming to block abortion bans
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that the state Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right. The court dismissed lawsuits brought by Planned Parenthood against the governor and leaders of the Legislature that had sought to block the implementation and enforcement of the state’s new abortion bans. The head of Planned Parenthood in the region said the court’s ruling created a dark day for the state of Idaho, but abortion foes applauded the decision. A majority of the justices said in the ruling that the state Constitution offers no fundamental right to abortion. | 2023-01-06T06:31:41+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/01/05/idaho-court-tosses-lawsuits-aiming-to-block-abortion-bans/ |
MEXICO CITY, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV: FIBRAPL 14), the leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today announced that it has recast its sustainable and unsecured line of credit of US$400 million.
FIBRA Prologis amended and restated its $400 million unsecured, sustainability-linked revolving line of credit with a syndicate of nine banks. Additionally, an accordion feature provides FIBRA Prologis with the option to increase the credit facility up to US$500 million subject to lender approval. The new credit facility has an initial maturity of April 27th, 2026 with two one-year extensions at borrower's option, subject to the payment of an extension fee. Based on the FIBRA's rating, the current spread is 150 basis points. The spread can be adjusted +/- 2 basis points upon achievement of certain KPIs. This represents a reduction of 50 basis points from pricing in the prior line of credit.
"We are very pleased to recast this line of credit for FIBRAPL with better conditions, thanks to the strong support from our sponsor and its long-standing relationship banks," said Jorge Girault, senior Vice-President, Fund Asset Management Prologis Property Mexico. "This transaction is a testament of our commitment to the integration of environmental sustainability into the management of our business adding significant value to our stakeholders."
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of March 31, 2023, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 225 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.6 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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Impending weather has led to Harrisburg University delaying the beginning of The Roots concert, according to the Harrisburg University Facebook page.
Doors will now open at 7:30 p.m. at Riverfront Park, with Yam Yam performing at 8 p.m. The Roots will take the stage at 9 p.m.
The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch at around 3 p.m. Saturday, which will last through 9 p.m. | 2023-07-29T22:31:34+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/07/the-roots-concert-opening-delayed-due-to-weather.html |
(The Hill) — The Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut at least 1,000 employees in North America, largely from its engineering department.
A company spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the company began informing some salaried employees that their jobs will be cut in the following weeks.
The spokesperson also told the media outlet that managers informed employees that layoffs were coming in meetings on Monday, asking the affected teams to work from home for the rest of the week.
The Hill has reached out to Ford for comment and more information.
The news comes nearly a week after initial reports of another round of layoffs happening at the company. The latest cuts impacted employees who worked in the company’s electric vehicle (EV) and software division, as well as those who work in Ford’s gas-engine side of the business.
Ford also had a round of layoffs last August, cutting about 3,000 white-collar and contract employees. The company announced in January that it was starting to cut 3,800 jobs in its European departments.
General Motors and Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, also announced layoffs of their workforce earlier this year.
Ford expects to lose $3 billion in operating profit on its EVs business in 2023, the Journal reported. | 2023-06-27T19:11:52+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/ford-planning-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-workers/ |
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First US Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: FUSB) (the "Company"), the parent company of First US Bank (the "Bank"), today reported net income of $2.2 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 ("4Q2022"), compared to $1.9 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 ("3Q2022") and $1.7 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 ("4Q2021"). For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company's net income totaled $6.9 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, compared to $4.5 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of 60.6% in diluted earnings per share.
Comparing 2022 to 2021, earnings improvement was driven primarily by reductions in non-interest expense following strategic initiatives that were initiated by the Company beginning in the third quarter of 2021. The strategic initiatives included the cessation of new business development at the Bank's wholly owned subsidiary, Acceptance Loan Company, Inc. ("ALC"), as well as efforts to reorganize the Bank's retail banking, technology and deposit operations functions. As a result of these efforts, non-interest expense was reduced by $4.7 million, or 14.3%, comparing 2022 to 2021.
"We are pleased to wrap up a very strong year of earnings growth," stated James F. House, President and CEO of the Company. "The strategic initiatives that we began 15 to 18 months ago to improve both operating efficiency and asset quality are reaping significant rewards in the current environment. The coming year is expected to present many challenges as we continue to face a rising interest rate environment and a slowing economy. However, we continue to believe that our balance sheet is well-positioned for the volatile environment in which we find ourselves," continued Mr. House.
Net income grew by $0.4 million, or 19.8%, in 4Q2022, compared to 3Q2022 due, in part, to growth in net interest income. Quarter-over-quarter net interest margin improved by 17 basis points in 4Q2022 compared to 3Q2022. In addition, the Company's provision for loan and lease losses decreased by $0.6 million as loan growth slowed, particularly in the indirect consumer category, during the last quarter of the year.
Other Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights
Loan Growth – The table below summarizes loan balances by portfolio category at the end of each of the most recent five quarters as of December 31, 2022.
The Company's total loan portfolio increased by $23.3 million, or 3.1%, during 4Q2022. Loan volume increases during the quarter were driven primarily by growth in the Bank's construction, commercial and industrial, consumer indirect, and 1-4 family residential secured categories. Growth in these categories was consistent with continued commercial economic activity and resiliency in consumer demand during the quarter. Loan growth was partially offset by decreases in the multi-family residential, direct consumer, and branch retail categories. The decreases in direct consumer and branch retail loans were consistent with management's expectations related to the Company's business cessation strategy at ALC. As of December 31, 2022, loans totaled $775.1 million, an increase of $64.2 million, or 9.0%, since December 31, 2021. The majority of year-over-year growth resulted from the consumer indirect and multi-family residential categories.
Net Interest Income and Margin – Net interest income totaled $9.9 million in 4Q2022, compared to $9.5 million in 3Q2022 and $9.3 million in 4Q2021. The improvement compared to both prior quarters resulted from loan growth, as well as margin expansion as earning assets repriced faster than interest-bearing liabilities amid the rising interest rate environment. Net interest margin was 4.27% in 4Q2022, compared to 4.10% in both 3Q2022 and 4Q2021. For the year ended December 31, 2022, net interest income totaled $36.9 million, slightly below $37.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in 2022 was attributable to reductions in interest and fees on ALC loans in connection with the ALC cessation of business strategy, as well as increases in interest expense resulting from the rising rate environment. Comparing 2022 to 2021, interest and fees on ALC loans decreased by $4.3 million, while the Company's interest expense increased by $1.3 million. These reductions in net interest income were mostly offset by growth of $5.6 million in interest income attributable to the Bank's other earning asset categories comparing 2022 to 2021. Full-year net interest margin was 4.07% in 2022, compared to 4.23% in 2021. As ALC's loan portfolio continues to pay down, there will be continued reduction in interest and fees attributable to ALC's loans. As of December 31, 2022, remaining loans, net of unearned interest and fees, in ALC's portfolio totaled $20.2 million. This amount represents a reduction of 57.9% of total loans in ALC's portfolio from September 30, 2021, immediately following implementation of the cessation of business strategy. As the pay down of ALC's loans continues, the Company is continuing efforts to deploy funds in the Bank's other loan and investment categories in order to offset reductions in interest income resulting from the pay down.
Deposit Growth and Deployment of Funds – Deposits totaled $870.0 million as of December 31, 2022, compared to $846.5 million as of September 30, 2022, and $838.1 million as of December 31, 2021. Core deposits, which exclude time deposits of $250 thousand or more, totaled $778.1 million, or 89.4% of total deposits, as of December 31, 2022, compared to $775.1 million, or 92.5% of total deposits, as of December 31, 2021. Total average funding costs, including both interest- and noninterest-bearing deposits and borrowings, was 0.77% in 4Q2022, compared to 0.51% in 3Q2022, and 0.33% in 4Q2021. For the year ended December 31, 2022, average funding costs totaled 0.48%, compared to 0.35% for the year ended December 31, 2021. As the cost of deposits and borrowings continues to rise, management seeks to deploy earning assets in an efficient manner to maximize net interest income amid the rising interest rate environment. During 4Q2022, the Company sold investment securities with a principal balance totaling $8.6 million at a net loss of $83 thousand. The intent of these sales was to effectively prune the investment portfolio and allow for reinvestment in higher-earning assets in future periods. Investment securities, including both the available-for-sale and held-to-maturity portfolios, totaled $132.7 million as of December 31, 2022, compared to $145.9 million as of September 30, 2022, and $134.3 million as of December 31, 2021.
Loan Loss Provision – The Company's loan loss provision totaled $0.5 million in 4Q2022, compared to $1.2 million in 3Q2022, and $0.5 million in 4Q2021. The reduction in provision compared to 3Q2022 resulted primarily from reduced loan growth in 4Q2022, particularly in the Bank's indirect consumer portfolio. For the year ended December 31, 2022, loan loss provisions totaled $3.3 million, compared to $2.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase in provision expense comparing 2022 to 2021 reflected both an increase in charge-offs associated with ALC's loan portfolio, as well as qualitative adjustments applied to the portfolio in response to heightened inflationary trends and other economic uncertainties that emerged in 2022. In management's view, the combination of the business cessation strategy, coupled with deteriorating economic conditions, including elevated inflation levels, increased overall credit risk during 2022, particularly in ALC's loan portfolio. Loan loss provisions recorded by the Company during 2022 included expense of $2.0 million associated with ALC's loans and $1.3 million associated with the Bank's portfolio. While loan loss provisions at ALC resulted primarily from increased charge-offs and heightened economic risk factors, provisions at the Bank resulted primarily from loan growth. Due to its classification as a smaller reporting company by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company is not required to adopt the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) model to account for credit losses until 2023. Management has calculated a preliminary allowance for credit losses under the CECL accounting model as of January 1, 2023. Although the calculation is not final, and is subject to further evaluation, management currently expects to record an increase to credit loss reserves upon the adoption of CECL of approximately $2.4 million. Of this amount, approximately $0.7 million, or 29%, is associated with ALC's run-off loan portfolio, while the remainder is associated with the Bank's loan portfolio. In accordance with CECL transition accounting guidance, the adjustment will be recorded directly to retained earnings during the first quarter of 2023 and will not impact the Company's current period earnings.
Non-interest Income – Non-interest income totaled $0.7 million in 4Q2022, compared to $1.1 million in 3Q2022 and $0.9 million in 4Q2021. The decrease comparing 4Q2022 to 3Q2022 resulted primarily from gains on the sale of premises and equipment in 3Q2022 that were not repeated in 4Q2022, as well as losses associated with investment securities sales in 4Q2022. Compared to 4Q2021, the reduction in 4Q2022 resulted from the losses on sales of investment securities, combined with reduced service charge and other ancillary revenues comparing the two periods. For both years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, non-interest income totaled $3.5 million.
Non-interest Expense – Non-interest expense totaled $7.1 million in 4Q2022, compared to $7.0 million in 3Q2022, and $7.4 million in 4Q2021. The increase in expense comparing 4Q2022 to 3Q2022 resulted primarily from various miscellaneous expense categories, combined with a modest increase in salaries and benefits. For the year ended December 31, 2022, non-interest expense totaled $28.1 million, compared to $32.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, a decrease of 14.3%. The year-over-year expense decrease resulted primarily from the cessation of ALC's business, as well as other efficiency efforts conducted by the Bank. As a result of these efforts, significant reductions were realized associated with salaries and employee benefits, occupancy and equipment, and other expenses associated with technology and professional services. Non-interest expense during 2022 was further reduced by $0.3 million in nonrecurring net gains on the sale of other real estate owned (OREO). Due primarily to the significant reduction in non-interest expense, the Company's efficiency ratio improved to 69.5% for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to 80.9% for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Asset Quality – The Company's nonperforming assets, including loans in non-accrual status and OREO, totaled $2.3 million as of December 31, 2022, compared to $2.8 million as of September 30, 2022, and $4.2 million as of December 31, 2021. The reduction in nonperforming assets during 2022 resulted mostly from the sale of OREO properties during the period. Reductions in OREO totaled $1.5 million during 2022 and included the sales of banking centers that were closed in 2021. As a percentage of total assets, non-performing assets totaled 0.24% as of December 31, 2022, compared to 0.28% as of September 30, 2022, and 0.43% as of December 31, 2021. Net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans increased in 2022 to 0.30% as of December 31, 2022, compared to 0.16% as of December 31, 2021. The increase resulted from accelerated charge-offs of ALC's run-off portfolio of loans.
Shareholders' Equity – As of December 31, 2022, shareholders' equity totaled $85.1 million, compared to $90.1 million as of December 31, 2021. The decrease in shareholders' equity resulted from reductions in accumulated other comprehensive income due to declines in the market value of the Company's available-for-sale investment portfolio, as well as repurchases of shares of the Company's common stock during the year ended December 31, 2022. The market value declines in investment securities available-for-sale were the direct result of the increasing interest rate environment in 2022. No other-than-temporary impairment was recognized in the portfolio as of December 31, 2022. The market value decrease in available-for-sale securities was partially offset by an increase in the market value of cash flow derivative instruments that hedge certain deposits and borrowings on the Company's balance sheet. As of December 31, 2022, the Company's ratio of tangible common equity to tangible assets totaled 7.84%, compared to 7.67% as of September 30, 2022, and 8.63% as of December 31, 2021.
Share Repurchases - During 2022, the Company completed share repurchases totaling 412,400 shares of its common stock at a weighted average price per share of $10.87. The repurchases were completed under the Company's existing share repurchase program, which was amended in April 2021 to allow for the repurchase of additional shares. During 4Q2022, the share repurchase program was extended through December 31, 2023. Under the program, 596,813 shares remain available for repurchase as of December 31, 2022. No shares were repurchased during 4Q2022.
Cash Dividend – Commensurate with the earnings growth experienced in 2022, the Company increased its quarterly dividend to $0.05 per share of common stock in 4Q2022, a 67% increase over the dividend of $0.03 per share paid during the previous three quarters of 2022 and all four quarters of 2021.
Regulatory Capital –During 4Q2022, the Bank continued to maintain capital ratios at higher levels than required to be considered a "well-capitalized" institution under applicable banking regulations. As of December 31, 2022, the Bank's common equity Tier 1 capital and Tier 1 risk-based capital ratios were each 11.07%. As of December 31, 2022, its total capital ratio was 12.19%, and its Tier 1 leverage ratio was 9.39%.
Liquidity – As of December 31, 2022, the Company continued to maintain excess funding capacity sufficient to provide adequate liquidity for loan growth, capital expenditures and ongoing operations. The Company benefits from a strong core deposit base, a liquid investment securities portfolio and access to funding from a variety of sources, including federal funds lines, Federal Home Loan Bank advances and brokered deposits.
About First US Bancshares, Inc.
First US Bancshares, Inc. (the "Company") is a bank holding company that operates banking offices in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia through First US Bank (the "Bank"). In addition, the Company's operations include Acceptance Loan Company, Inc. ("ALC"), a consumer loan company, and FUSB Reinsurance, Inc., an underwriter of credit life and credit accident and health insurance policies sold to the Bank's and ALC's consumer loan customers. The Company files periodic reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Copies of its filings may be obtained through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or at www.firstusbank.com. More information about the Company and the Bank may be obtained at www.firstusbank.com. The Company's stock is traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "FUSB."
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, as defined by federal securities laws. Statements contained in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These statements may address issues that involve significant risks, uncertainties, estimates and assumptions made by management. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements following the date of this press release, except as required by law. In addition, the Company, through its senior management, may make from time to time forward-looking public statements concerning the matters described herein. Such forward-looking statements are necessarily estimates reflecting the best judgment of the Company's senior management based upon current information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
Certain factors that could affect the accuracy of such forward-looking statements and cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements are identified in the public filings made by the Company with the SEC, and forward-looking statements contained in this press release or in other public statements of the Company or its senior management should be considered in light of those factors. Such factors may include the rate of growth (or lack thereof) in the economy generally and in the Company's service areas; the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's business, the Company's customers, the communities that the Company serves and the United States economy, including the impact of actions taken by governmental authorities to try to contain the virus and protect against it, through vaccinations and otherwise, or address the impact of the virus on the United States economy (including, without limitation, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and subsequent federal legislation) and the resulting effect on the Company's operations, liquidity and capital position and on the financial condition of the Company's borrowers and other customers; the impact of changing accounting standards and tax laws on the Company's allowance for loan losses and financial results; the impact of national and local market conditions on the Company's business and operations; strong competition in the banking industry; the impact of changes in interest rates and monetary policy on the Company's performance and financial condition; the pending discontinuation of LIBOR as an interest rate benchmark; the impact of technological changes in the banking and financial service industries and potential information system failures; cybersecurity and data privacy threats; the costs of complying with extensive governmental regulation; the possibility that acquisitions may not produce anticipated results and result in unforeseen integration difficulties; and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's public filings, including, but not limited to, the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Relative to the Company's dividend policy, the payment of cash dividends is subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors and will be determined in light of then-current conditions, including the Company's earnings, leverage, operations, financial conditions, capital requirements and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors. In the future, the Board of Directors may change the Company's dividend policy, including the frequency or amount of any dividend, in light of then-existing conditions.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to the financial results presented in this press release that have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), the Company's management believes that certain non-GAAP financial measures and ratios are beneficial to the reader. These non-GAAP measures have been provided to enhance overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and position. Management believes that these presentations provide meaningful comparisons of financial performance and position in various periods and can be used as a supplement to the GAAP-based measures presented in this press release. The non-GAAP financial results presented should not be considered a substitute for the GAAP-based results. Management believes that both GAAP measures of the Company's financial performance and the respective non-GAAP measures should be considered together.
The non-GAAP measures and ratios that have been provided in this press release include measures of tangible assets and equity and certain ratios that include tangible assets and equity. Discussion of these measures and ratios is included below, along with reconciliations of such non-GAAP measures to GAAP amounts included in the financial statements previously presented in this press release.
Tangible Balances and Measures
In addition to capital ratios defined by GAAP and banking regulators, the Company utilizes various tangible common equity measures when evaluating capital utilization and adequacy. These measures, which are presented in the financial tables in this press release, may also include calculations of tangible assets. As defined by the Company, tangible common equity represents shareholders' equity less goodwill and identifiable intangible assets, while tangible assets represent total assets less goodwill and identifiable intangible assets.
Management believes that the measures of tangible equity are important because they reflect the level of capital available to withstand unexpected market conditions. In addition, presentation of these measures allows readers to compare certain aspects of the Company's capitalization to other organizations. In management's experience, many stock analysts use tangible common equity measures in conjunction with more traditional bank capital ratios to compare capital adequacy of banking organizations with significant amounts of goodwill or other intangible assets that typically result from the use of the purchase accounting method in accounting for mergers and acquisitions.
These calculations are intended to complement the capital ratios defined by GAAP and banking regulators. Because GAAP does not include these measures, management believes that there are no comparable GAAP financial measures to the tangible common equity ratios that the Company utilizes. Despite the importance of these measures to the Company, there are no standardized definitions for the measures, and, therefore, the Company's calculations may not be comparable with those of other organizations. In addition, there may be limits to the usefulness of these measures to investors. Accordingly, management encourages readers to consider the Company's consolidated financial statements in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure. The table below reconciles the Company's calculations of these measures to amounts reported in accordance with GAAP.
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UN report charges South Sudan officials of rights violations
By DENG MACHOL
Associated Press
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A United Nations-backed panel of investigators alleges that several officials in South Sudan have perpetrated serious human rights violations and should be held accountable for their crimes, in a report released Monday. The governor of Unity State, Joseph Monytuil, is cited among local leaders involved in gross violations of human rights, in addition to senior government and military officials, in the report by the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. The report says the world’s youngest nation must tackle “impunity” to stem persistent violence and rights abuses. Perpetrators of the most serious crimes, including widespread attacks against civilians and extrajudicial killings, remain unpunished, according to the report. | 2023-04-03T22:06:28+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/04/03/un-report-charges-south-sudan-officials-of-rights-violations/ |
Brian Walshe has now been indicted for the murder of his wife Ana Walshe.
“Brian Walshe entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder at his Quincy District Court arraignment in January,” Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey said. “This indictment moves the case to the Norfolk Superior Court, where it will be arraigned anew in the coming weeks. That date has not yet been set.”
Walshe has remained behind bars, with at least one date in lower court continued earlier this month, as prosecutors sought an indictment to bump the case up to the Superior Court. That indictment was announced at around 5:40 p.m. Thursday.
The indictment charges Walshe with the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, 39. It also charges him with misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and for improper conveyance of a human body. If convicted of the murder, Walshe would be subject to a mandatory life sentence behind bars.
The disappearance of Ana Walshe from her Cohasset home on the first day of the year dominated local headlines, especially when Briane Walshe, 48, was no longer considered a help in the search for his wife but instead suspected of her murder.
He was arrested and charged with first misleading the police on Jan. 9, which got him behind bars as the authorities continued to investigate Ana’s disappearance — including finding blood and a bloody knife in the basement of the couple’s home. Brian Walshe was then charged with her murder on Jan. 17. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Quincy District Court the next day.
That search revealed Brian Walshe’s horrifying alleged internet searches beginning in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, the day Walshe had told police is wife took an early flight to Washington D.C., where she works. Those searches include “How long before a body starts to smell,” “Can you be charged with murder without a body,” “Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body,” and “Can you be charged with murder without a body?”
“This is only a step in a long process, during which Brian Walshe enjoys the Constitutional presumption of innocence and all of the protections afforded him under the Constitution,” Morrissey said. “We are thankful to the detectives who have put so many hours into assembling the evidence in this matter and the witnesses who have assisted us in coming to this step.” | 2023-03-30T23:04:00+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/30/brian-walshe-indicted-in-murder-of-wife-ana-walshe-in-their-cohasset-home/ |
MILWAUKEE — ‘Ballot curing’ is now banned in Wisconsin less than two months away from the November election. A judge ruled this week that the practice that had been allowed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission since 2016 violates state law.
For the past six years, municipal election clerks were able to fill in missing witness address information on absentee ballot envelopes. The ruling means that if the information isn’t corrected in time by the voter, the ballot will not be counted.
Absentee ballots start going out for the general election in less than two weeks. This time, it’s going to be more important than ever for voters to double-check their ballot envelopes before sending them back.
“It's so simple but you can, you can miss a line,” said Milwaukee voter Donald Griffin.
WATCH: Ben Jordan explains ballot curing
Griffin thinks the decision to no longer allow clerks to fill in missing witness information will ultimately disenfranchise voters, but Virginia Willingham thinks otherwise.
"You don't really know my true address or this that and the other, so I would prefer you mail it back to me and I can do it myself or call me, one of the two,” she said.
Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Paul Farrow says the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s 2016 decision went against state law and he applauds the Waukesha County judge’s ruling to no longer allow it.
“In state law, the statutes read that an individual is the only person that can cure their absentee envelope as they send it in,” Farrow said. “In fact, it even dictates that if the individual’s witness doesn’t put their address down, the ballot cannot be counted. It’s right there in statute.”
Following the 2020 presidential election, the non-partisan Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau reviewed nearly 15,000 absentee ballot certifications. It found that on 6.9 percent of those ballot envelopes, clerks filled in missing information on the witness address line.
Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg says in Milwaukee’s Spring General Election, officials fixed witnesses' addresses just over 300 times, but far more voters are expected to turn out in November.
“We have a long history of if a voter’s intent is clear we don’t try to discount someone’s vote on a technicality,” she said.
Woodall-Vogg says that’s why Milwaukee absentee voters will receive a bright orange reminder with their ballot. Woodall-Vogg adds that if the ballot envelope is returned without all the information needed, it will be mailed back for the voter to fix.
"If a voter is waiting until the last minute to return their absentee ballot and something is missing, there's very little time to cure that and that's when we are going to be looking, seeing if we have current contact information for the voter and doing everything that's within our power to make sure their vote is counted,” she said.
Woodall-Vogg says if the witness’ address misses the city, state or even the zip code, the ballot cannot be counted until it’s fixed by the absentee voter. | 2022-09-09T22:13:18+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/decision2022/ballot-curing-ban-what-wisconsin-absentee-voters-need-to-know-to-make-sure-their-ballot-is-counted |
Each week, The News-Gazette will show a screenshot of a home from a movie or TV show and ask readers, “Who lives here?” Email your guess of a character who resides there to wholiveshere@news-gazette.com, and we’ll give a winner a shoutout on next week’s page. Be sure to include your full name and town of residence.
LAST WEEK’S ANSWER
NO ONE correctly guessed the apartment shared by FRANK REYNOLDS (Danny DeVito, left) and CHARLIE KELLY (Charlie Day) in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (2005-present). | 2023-07-22T12:04:28+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/film-television/who-lives-here-july-22-2023/article_b0f6db8c-a24e-5463-a520-796d62f4445b.html |
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John Huh shoots 2-under 70 in round two of the Sanderson Farms Championship
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John Huh hit 11 of 18 greens in regulation during his second round at the Sanderson Farms Championship, finishing at 2 under for the tournament. Huh finished his day tied for 60th at 2 under; Thomas Detry and Mackenzie Hughes are tied for 1st at 10 under; Sepp Straka is in 3rd at 9 under; and Scott Stallings, Garrick Higgo, and Mark Hubbard are tied for 4th at 8 under.
On the 554-yard par-5 11th hole, Huh reached the green in 3 and sunk a 29-foot putt for birdie. This moved Huh to 1 under for the round.
On the 584-yard par-5 14th, Huh had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and two putting. This moved Huh to even for the round.
After a 294 yard drive on the 330-yard par-4 15th, Huh chipped his third shot to 4 feet, which he rolled for two-putt bogey on the hole. This moved Huh to 1 over for the round.
After a drive to the right side of the fairway on the 479-yard par-4 16th hole, Huh had a 164 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Huh to even-par for the round.
On the 418-yard par-4 second, Huh had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and one putting, moving Huh to 1 over for the round.
After a 291 yard drive on the 591-yard par-5 third, Huh chipped his third shot to 3 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved Huh to even for the round.
On the 403-yard par-4 eighth hole, Huh reached the green in 2 and sunk a 17-foot putt for birdie. This moved Huh to 2 under for the round.
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Scooter has a frizzy crown of white hair like a mad scientist, a tongue that hangs out of his mouth, a wrinkly pot belly, and hind legs that appear reversed. He's just been declared the ugliest dog in the world — and that's not a bad thing.
The 7-year-old Chinese Crested won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California on Friday, wowing judges with his unique looks and heartrending backstory.
According to his biography on the contest's website, Scooter was nearly euthanized as a puppy when a breeder took him to a Tucson, Arizona animal control facility. He was born with two deformed back legs, and it didn't look like he would ever be able to walk or even crawl. That didn't stop a volunteer from rescue group Saving Animals from Euthanasia from seeing Scooter's potential, and his new life began.
"Today Scooter is not only surviving but thriving," his biography says. "He has no idea that he is any different from any other dog."
Scooter has always used his two front legs to get around, swaying back and forth and using his rear end as a "tripod." Because he tires easily moving around in his unique way, Scooter's owner, Linda Elmquist, raised some funds to get him a mobility cart, allowing him to "zoom around and check things out."
Elmquist said she's "overjoyed and incredibly proud" of Scooter's win.
"Despite the challenges he has faced with his deformed hind legs, Scooter has defied all odds and shown us the true meaning of resilience and determination," she said in a statement to the contest. "He has become an inspiration to countless people around the world.”
Scooter competed with the likes of four-time competitor Wild Thang, a 7-year-old Pekinese known for his "glamorous/ugly" charm and protruding tongue, and Harold Bartholomew, a 16-year-old "curmudgeonly" chihuahua. They won second place and the community service-based "Spirit Award," respectively.
In contrast to traditional dog shows, the decades-old World's Ugliest Dog Contest welcomes dogs of all breeds and sizes and raises awareness for animal rescues. Contest organizers say despite the name, it's all about beauty — just the less perfect, more unique kind.
"The annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is not about making fun of 'ugly' dogs, but having fun with some wonderful characters and showing the world that these dogs are really beautiful!" a description on the event's website says. | 2023-06-26T14:02:23+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/meet-scooter-the-worlds-ugliest-dog-2023-winner/507-adab3261-0b2f-4343-ba0c-9cf16b0984bc |
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Nick Lorusso smashed a bases-loaded single off the wall in the bottom of the 11th inning to send overall No. 15 seed Maryland to a 7-6 win over Connecticut on Sunday night to force a deciding game for the College Park Regional.
The Terrapins (48-13) and Huskies (48-14) meet Monday afternoon for a berth in the Super Regionals.
No. 9 hitter Kevin Keister rapped a one-out single in the bottom of the 11th off UConn reliever Devin Kirby. Jack Sullivan relieved and Luke Shliger singled on his first pitch. Sullivan plunked Chris Alleyne with his second pitch to load the bases.
Lorusso drove a 1-2 pitch off the right-field wall to give the Terps the win. Maryland lost to UConn 10-5 on Saturday night. Maryland beat Wake Forest 10-5 earlier Sunday to stay alive.
Troy Schreffler hit a two-run homer in a three-run first for Maryland. Lorusso added a solo shot to lead off the fifth to make it 4-0.
UConn tied it in the top of the sixth with just two hits.
Andrew Johnson, the seventh Maryland pitcher, went one inning to improve to 2-0. Lorusso had three hits.
David Smith drove in two runs for UConn. Kirby fell to 2-1 with the loss.
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More AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-06-06T05:33:31+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Lorusso-gives-Terps-win-in-11-7-6-over-UConn-17221535.php |
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” isn’t airing on TV this year, and it’s for the second time since the holiday special premiered 56 years ago.
The Halloween special premiered on Oct. 27, 1966, nearly a year after “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered on Dec. 9, 1965, on CBS. “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” premiered in 1973.
After airing on CBS for decades, the specials made a network switch to ABC in 2000 and 2001. In 2018, AppleTV+ bought all of the rights to the Peanut specials. In 2020, the specials became exclusively available on the platform, NPR reported.
While PBS was allowed to show the holiday specials in 2021, this year that’s no longer the case. Fans will have to download AppleTV+ to watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” along with the other holiday specials.
Nevertheless, AppleTV+ confirmed in a press release that the platform will provide non-subscribers with windows to watch the specials for free.
• “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” - Oct. 28-31
• “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” - Nov. 23-27
• “A Charlie Brown Christmas” - Dec. 22-25
“Costumes, candy, this classic special — some things just scream Halloween. Join the Peanuts gang for a timeless adventure as Charlie Brown preps for a party, Snoopy sets his sights on the Red Baron and Linus patiently awaits a pumpkin patch miracle.”
Read more via NPR.
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- Kurt Russell will make appearance at Pa. food and spirits event to sign bottles of wine | 2022-10-18T17:10:20+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/10/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-wont-air-on-tv-in-2022-along-with-other-peanut-specials.html |
Texas Drive-By Shooting Erupts With Bullets Flying Everywhere
On a quiet afternoon in Texas, chaos erupted as a drive-by shooting had bullets flying everywhere.
A camera catches the moment a car drives up and unloads at least 50 rounds into the front of the house in the video at the bottom of this article.
At first, we thought this was an alternate angle of the video we posted last week due to the sheer number of bullets fired. Nope, turns out this is new.
Two Shooters
There's really not too much to break down about this video. There appear to be two shooters, one in the front side passenger seat, and the other in the back.
Hail of Bullets
We counted at least fifty rounds being fired here, probably more, it's hard to keep up. The digital green square that's overlayed when the camera detects movement jumps around the screen as it attempts to keep up with all of the smoke and debris from the bullet impacts.
Stay Safe Out There
It's such a cowardly act, driving up to someone's house, in the cover of night, and spraying it with bullets. We couldn't find any more information on the condition of the people in the house, or if it was occupied at all at that time. Hopefully, no one got seriously hurt.
Check out the video for yourself below and stay safe out there. | 2023-04-19T18:13:44+00:00 | newstalk1290.com | https://newstalk1290.com/texas-drive-by-shooting-bullets-flying/ |
BOSTON, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the end of Mental Health Awareness month is upon us, our focus shifts to how to be well this summer. Erin Andrews, LMHC, an expert in cognitive behavioral therapy who serves as Manager of Clinical Affairs for the leading college mental health solution Uwill, shares 10 tips to improve your mental health this summer.
- Get outside! Studies have shown that spending more time outdoors has a measurable impact on your mood.
- Be active. Exercise in any form can decrease your experience of anxiety and depression symptoms, increase concentration and boost mood.
- Practice gratitude. A simple gratitude practice helps to increase optimism and allow you to focus on the good rather than the bad. Allowing you to improve your outlook on life.
- Eat well. The phrase you are what you eat is shockingly accurate. When we eat processed foods, we feel worse. Think fridge foods versus pantry foods.
- Get some sleep. When we sleep well consistently, we focus better, we are more motivated, we perform better. Try for 8 to 10 hours with consistent sleep and wake times.
- Connect with others. Make plans with people in your life. When we spend time with people we love, we boost positive emotions and have a more positive outlook.
- Do what you love. Engaging with hobbies (things you enjoy doing, not what you put on your resume to sound good) increases joy and pleasure within your day.
- Be kind to yourself. We are our own worst critics. We identify every way we fall short with ease, try to do the same with your strengths and what you do well. If that sounds too challenging, try to speak to yourself how you speak to your friends.
- Take a breath. Taking deep intentional breaths helps us to reset. It decreases our experience of stress and anxiety. Think belly breathing.
- Ask for help when you need it. We all have moments where the distress is high and we struggle to cope. Asking for help in those moments is a strength! Uwill is here for you when you need some support.
About Erin Andrews, LMHC
An expert in cognitive behavioral therapy, Erin manages Uwill's work providing clinical support to therapists, while also managing high-risk and trauma-related events. She received her Master's degree in mental health counseling and wellness from New York University.
About Uwill
Uwill has become the leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students. Utilizing its proprietary technology and counselor team, the platform offers users an immediate connection to an available therapist based on their unique needs and preferences. Uwill's secure environment facilitates video, phone, chat and message sessions. In addition, Uwill offers 24/7/365 emergency assistance, instructor-led events to complement therapy, seamless coordination of care, and full transparency with campus health centers. Uwill has been described by mental health advocates as the most effective and cost-efficient way to support students. Clients include Boston College, University of Michigan, University of California Santa Barbara, and Xavier University. Uwill is the teletherapy education partner for NASPA. For more information, visit uwill.com
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NEW HOPE, Minn., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- P-A Industrial Services (PAIS), a Donaldson company that offers preventative maintenance/filter change services, parts, and equipment for dust/mist/fume collection systems, industrial fans, air compressors, and nitrogen/oxygen generators, is pleased to expand its operations to the Sioux Falls area. This includes the regions of eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa.
With over 100 years of combined industry experience, the company strives to help make its clients' plants safer and more productive workplaces. As part of the Donaldson family, the global leader in industrial filtration solutions, PAIS is pleased to expand its scope of expertise and technology.
PAIS can service, repair, design, and install various types of dust/mist/fume collection and compressed air systems from numerous global brands, such as Donaldson, Atlas Copco, and more. This includes everything from installing compressed air piping and new equipment to providing on-site baghouse filter changes and dust/mist/fume collector replacement parts such as diaphragm valves and fans.
Regarding the company's Preventative Maintenance & Remote Monitoring Program, PAIS offers a total system approach and broad product expertise that enables its team to optimize all equipment components in a system. When remotely monitoring, the company utilizes Donaldson's proprietary iCue™ connected technology to provide operational insights directly to end users.
PAIS staff consists of thoroughly trained and factory-authorized field technicians to perform service, data collection, and trending of all key points. This includes fan performance, compressed air quality, filter condition, filter pressure differential, air velocity, airflow (CFM), and maintaining detailed documentation for record keeping and historical trending.
The key benefits of investing in the PAIS Preventative Maintenance & Remote Monitoring Program include helping to prevent equipment downtime, ensuring clean air for the working environment, assisting in managing air emissions, supporting OSHA/EPA/MPCA regulatory compliance, and receiving recommendations for system efficiency that support lower operating costs and higher productivity.
PAIS General Manager Patrick Becker notes, "More and more companies are addressing inefficiencies head-on and striving to work smarter, not harder. PAIS is here to help. We look forward to serving you!"
About: P-A Industrial Services is a one-stop shop for services, parts, and equipment for various industrial applications. As a Donaldson company, PAIS can provide its clients with innovative technology to help their businesses operate at peak efficiency.
Contact: To learn more about PAIS, visit https://www.paindustrialservices.com/ or contact Patrick Becker at pbecker@pa-is.com.
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