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(KTLA) – Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist leader who recently dined with former President Donald Trump, was caught on camera hurling a drink at customers at a Hollywood In-N-Out Burger over the weekend.
Fuentes had apparently been confronted by diners and, according to TMZ, initially pretended to be someone else. The customers tossed small paper cups filled with ketchup at Fuentes on their way out the door.
The video shows Fuentes throwing his drink in their direction, splattering customers standing next to him who did not appear to be involved.
Police were not called to the scene and Fuentes left a short time later, TMZ reported.
Fuentes later took to Telegram to discuss the incident, according to Insider, saying that there was a “food fight at in n out” and adding, “nobody was harmed.”
Fuentes was a Boston University student when he attended a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted in violence in 2017. He became an internet personality who used his platform to spread white supremacist and antisemitic views. Fuentes leads a far-right extremist movement called “America First,” with supporters known as “Groypers.”
Two weeks ago, Fuentes attended a dinner with rapper Kanye West (aka “Ye”) who has also espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate.
Trump has said he was not aware of Fuentes’ white supremacist views before he hosted him.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-12-05T23:56:51+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-reportedly-hurls-drink-at-hollywood-in-n-out-customers/ |
Team USA secures Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow in their ninth victory in a row
By Matt Foster, CNN
The United States team retained the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, after surviving a spirited comeback from the International Team, winning the golf tournament by 17.5 to 12.5 and securing the Americans’ ninth overall victory in a row.
Xander Schauffele rolled in the decisive putt in his match against Canadian Corey Conners on the 18th hole to clinch the US team’s overall victory, sparking scenes of jubilation on the green from Schauffele and other players whose matches had finished.
The Presidents Cup is a biennial competition between Americans and an international team open to players outside the United States and Europe. The US team has now won 12 out of 14 Presidents Cups in history, losing only one overall tournament.
US captain Davis Love III sent out two of his heavy hitters, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, in the opening two matches in an effort to prevent International Team momentum building. Spieth delivered for Love as he beat Australian Cam Davis with three holes to spare, but Thomas surrendered an early lead to lose on the final hole to South Korean Si Woo Kim.
Patrick Cantlay and Tony Finau added more points to the board for the United States, while Colombian Sebastián Muñoz shocked world No.1 Scottie Scheffler to give the International Team an inkling of hope, along with Japanese team veteran Hideki Matsuyama’s tied match with Sam Burns.
Much of the build-up to the competition was dominated by how the teams and overall tournament had been affected by players joining the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series and thus being ineligible to compete in this year’s edition.
Eight of the International Team’s 12 players made their Presidents Cup debut this year, and six US players were also participating for the first time.
The 2024 Presidents Cup is set to take place at the Royal Montreal Golf Club in Canada from September 24-29 of that year. The same venue hosted the 2007 edition of the competition.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The last World Cup clash between the United States and Iran 24 years ago is considered one of the most politically charged matches in soccer history.
This time, the political overtones are just as strong and relations perhaps even more fraught as the U.S. and Iran face off once again on Tuesday in Qatar.
Iran’s nationwide protests, its expanding nuclear program and regional and international attacks linked back to Tehran have pushed the match beyond the stadium and into geopolitics.
No matter the outcome, tensions are likely only to worsen in the coming months.
When relations soured between the U.S. and Iran depends on who you ask. Iranians point to the 1953 CIA-backed coup that cemented Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s power. Americans remember the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and 444-day hostage crisis during the Iranian Revolution.
In soccer, however, the timeline is much simpler as this will be only the second time Iran and the U.S. have played each other in the World Cup.
The last time was at the 1998 tournament in France — a totally different time in the Islamic Republic. Iran won 2-1 in Lyon, a low point for the U.S. men’s team as Iranians celebrated in Tehran.
At the time, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised the Iranian team, saying “the strong and arrogant opponent felt the bitter taste of defeat.”
But off the pitch, Iran’s then-president, Mohammad Khatami, sought to improve ties to the West and the wider world. Inside Iran, Khatami pushed so-called “reformist” policies, seeking to liberalize aspects of its theocracy while maintaining its structure with a supreme leader at the top.
The two teams posed for a joint photograph, and the Iranian players handed white flowers to their American opponents. The U.S. gave the Iranians U.S. Soccer Federation pennants. They even exchanged jerseys, though the Iranians didn’t put them on. They later played a friendly in Pasadena, California, as well.
Fast-forward 24 years later, and relations are perhaps more tense than they’ve ever been.
Iran is now governed entirely by hard-liners after the election of President Ebrahim Raisi, a protege of Khamenei, who took part in the 1988 mass execution of thousands of political prisoners at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Following the collapse of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, sparked by President Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord, Tehran is now enriching uranium to 60% purity — a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels. Non-proliferation experts warn the Islamic Republic already has enough uranium to build at least one nuclear bomb.
A shadow war of drone strikes, targeted killings and sabotage has been shaking the wider Middle East for years amid the deal’s collapse. Meanwhile, Russia pounds civilian areas and power infrastructure in Ukraine with Iranian-made drones.
For two months, Iran has been convulsed by the mass protests that followed the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been earlier detained by the country’s morality police. The protests have seen at least 451 people killed since they started, as well as over 18,000 arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, an advocacy group following the demonstrations.
At the World Cup in Qatar, Iran’s 2-0 win against Wales provided a brief moment of good news for hard-liners. After the match, riot police in Tehran waved Iranian flags in the street, something that angered demonstrators. Khamenei himself acknowledged the win “stirred joy in the country.”
However, the supreme leader warned that “when the World Cup is taking place, all eyes are on it. The opponent typically takes advantage of this lax moment to act.”
As the demonstrations intensified, Iran has alleged without providing evidence that its enemies abroad, including the U.S., are fomenting the unrest. At a World Cup where organizers hoped to divorce politics from the pitch, those tensions have bled out around the stadiums with pro- and anti-government demonstrators shouting at each other.
Ahead of Tuesday’s match at Al Thumama Stadium, Iran has released a propaganda video with young children singing, including girls in white hijabs, in front of a small field. Waving flags and set against a blasting synthesizer beat, the children sing: “We back you on the bleachers, all with one voice Iran, Iran.”
“We are waiting for a goal, our heart second by second is beating for our Iran,” they add.
Such a win could prove to be a further boost to hard-liners. Already, they’ve reacted angrily to a protest by the U.S. Soccer Federation that saw them briefly erase the emblem of the Islamic Republic from Iran’s flag in social media posts.
It’s unclear whether any Iranian or U.S. government officials will be on hand for the match. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken already attended the U.S. match against Wales at the start of the tournament.
But opponents of Iran’s government are on hand in Qatar with their own message. Among them is former U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, who flew in Monday afternoon for the Iran match. Ortagus served in the Trump administration and was one of the faces of its so-called “maximum pressure” campaign.
“It’s one of those pivotal moments when geopolitics and sports collides,” Ortagus told The Associated Press. “You’re seeing the Iran team do what they can to stand up for the protesters and the people peacefully demonstrating.” | 2022-11-29T18:41:08+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/fifa-world-cup/iran-us-world-cup-clash-rife-with-political-tension/ |
SAN DIEGO — Home run milestones continue to be the talk of Major League baseball as the regular season winds down.
In New York yesterday, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge became the sixth player in history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols is two shy of joining the rarified air of 700 career home runs. Only three others have done that – all legends. Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.
As of Wednesday, the Cardinals have 13 regular season games left for Pujols to join baseball's 700 club.
Not that he really cares.
Not chasing a number
Want to get on Albert Pujols's bad side?
Mention to him, as sports writers constantly do, that he's chasing 700.
"I'm not chasing anything buddy," Pujols said at a packed dugout press conference before Tuesday's game against the San Diego Padres. "I mean, that's something that you guys are playing with it. I just, never chase any numbers and I accomplished so much. So, 22 years later I definitely [am not] going to chase anything."
Actually, Pujols does use his least favorite word-of-the-moment when he talks about chasing another World Series title. He helped St. Louis win championships in 2006 and 2011. And he wants another, before he retires after this season and ends a two-decade plus career that'll easily land him in the Hall of Fame.
A sedate affair turns electric
That ending always was going to be a fond but fairly sedate affair, with teams on the road honoring Pujols. The Padres did their part with a very San Diego gift of surfboards for Pujols and fellow retiree-to-be, St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina.
But Pujols has turned an easy going retirement tour into something electric, thanks to a home run barrage that ignited a somewhat sleepy final season.
He's hit a dozen since August 10th, and it's prompted reporters to use another phrase Pujols doesn't like (– we just can't get it right!! –) "power surge."
"My power surge?" Pujols asked in the dugout with a wry grin, "Ok I guess I didn't have any power – I had to surge for some."
The assembled reporters laughed.
"Just taking the same swing that I start taking in spring training for a week that I was there, and carry that into the season," Pujols continued, "and hopefully knowing that if I trust my process like I always have as a professional, sooner or later it's going to come around. And I think that it took this long, I don't know why. I think God has his ways to turn things around. But for me it was just [trying to] repeat the same swing that I've been doing for 21 years in my career."
Pujols acknowledges his swing speed is better now than years past. He's also been feasting on left-handed pitchers, who've given up nine of his last twelve homers. Tuesday the Padres offered up only right-handed pitchers. They held Pujols to two singles and a walk that drew boos from the homer-hungry fans at Petco Park.
A chance souvenir....
There'd be no lucky ones in the bleachers snagging a Pujols home run.
But high above the first base line, 36-year-old San Diegan Chris Wooldridge found himself perfectly positioned to catch the closest thing to history Tuesday night – an Albert Pujols foul ball.
"I just saw it pop up and it looked like it was coming right at me," Wooldridge laughed, "and it was just so perfect. I didn't have to move or anything."
Wooldridge said he hadn't been to a Major League game in maybe 15 years. He'll remember this one, and a chance souvenir from a 42-year-old player finishing with a bang.
"It's impressive," he said. "I mean, you're not supposed to be, y'know hitting as many home runs and playing at that caliber at that age. It's just really, really special."
And an absence of suspicion
There was a time, not too long ago, when a home run barrage by a 42-year-old would raise questions.
Not unreasonable questions to ask in San Diego, where Padres star Fernando Tatis, Jr. currently is serving a lengthy suspension after testing positive for a performance enhancing drug.
"Pujols has never had an issue ever in his entire career with anything," Wooldridge said, "[he's] been a stand-up player and role model and that's just something to applaud."
There've been no credible allegations against Pujols nor has he had the outlier performances – he never hit 50 home runs in a season. His major league career began in 2001, during the so-called steroid era and the same year Barry Bonds' 73 home runs set the single-season record but cast doubt on that and other records.
But Pujols has played most of his baseball since the game's become a standard-bearer in the fight against sports doping.
"The light switch went on in baseball," said U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart. "And they put in a policy that protects clean athletes."
Indeed, it's striking to note the absence of suspicion, among fans and sports journalists, about both Pujols's march toward 700, and Judge's single season home run exploits.
Tygart says baseball has earned people's trust with its wide-ranging efforts to combat doping.
"Testing is critically important," he said, "both in competition, out of competition, blood, urine. Having a good list [of prohibited substances], doing research to ensure the science stays ahead, or at least [in] lock step with those who might want to gain an advantage, and then the investigations and the intelligence – using information that comes to them."
Tygart believes baseball has put in place an "outstanding policy that really knocks it out of the park" on the elements that he says create a "Matrix of Effectiveness."
According to MLB, there were more than 1,400 Major League drug tests in 2003 and approximately 12,000 this year. All players now are tested, and randomly.
Unencumbered by suspicion, San Diego fans cheered all four of Pujols's at-bats Tuesday. Many stood, with cell phones recording hoped-for history.
It didn't happen, but fans on the road, and certainly in St. Louis, will keep turning out to watch one of baseball's great late season chases.
Or whatever Albert Pujols wants people to call it.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-21T22:51:55+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/sports/2022-09-21/st-louis-cardinals-slugger-albert-pujols-chases-baseball-history-700-home-runs |
LONDON (AP) — Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a royal wedding dowry more than 550 years ago.
Orkney Islands Council is due to debate options for “alternative models of governance” on Tuesday, including exploring the “Nordic connections” of the archipelago, which lies about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of the Scottish mainland.
Council leader James Stockan said the islands had been failed by both the Scottish government, 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the south in Edinburgh, and the U.K. government in even more distant London.
“On the street in Orkney, people come up and say to me, ‘When are we going to pay back the dowry? When are we going back to Norway?’ There is a huge affinity and a huge deep cultural relationship there,” Stockan told the BBC. “This is exactly the moment to explore what is possible.”
Norway kept a diplomatic distance from the debate.
“This is a domestic and constitutional British matter,” the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We have no view regarding this motion.”
Long an impoverished area dependent on the unpredictable fishing industry, Orkney prospered after large reserves of oil were discovered offshore in the 1960s. The islands, with a population of about 22,000, also have a burgeoning wind-power industry and a growing tourism sector.
But Stockan said Orkney gets less support from the Scottish government than other island communities in Shetland or the Hebrides, and is desperately in need of new ferries to keep its many islands connected.
“Every time we’ve been denied. We’ve been asked to wait, we have been asked to do another study,” he said.
“We do look with envy at the communities in Norway,” he added, “where there’s a completely different approach to the remote and rural” areas.
A report accompanying Stockan’s motion suggests Orkney should investigate options including a status like the Faeroe Islands, a self-governing dependency of Denmark that lies between Scotland and Iceland.
Another option is emulating Britain’s Crown Dependencies such as the Channel Islands, which are largely self-governing tax havens.
The report acknowledges that any constitutional change is a long way off, and would likely require a combination of petitions, referendums and legislation by the Scottish and U.K. governments. The governments in Edinburgh and London are themselves at loggerheads over the Scottish administration’s ambition to make Scotland an independent country outside the United Kingdom.
Along with the Shetland islands even further to the north, Orkney was under Norwegian and Danish control for centuries until 1472 when the islands were taken by the Scottish crown as part of Margaret of Denmark’s wedding dowry to King James III of Scotland.
“In a place where we have 5,000-year-old houses on the landscape, that’s pretty recent history for us,” said Leslie Burgher, an architect who serves as Norway’s honorary consul in Orkney.
Burgher said there were still “strong cultural and personal connections” between Norway and Orkney, where a parade every May 17 marks Norwegian Constitution Day. He said the Norse influence was widely evident, from place names and personal names to St. Magnus Cathedral, “a fabulous piece of medieval architecture” built in Norse times.
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit paid an official visit to the Orkney Islands in 2017.
The British government poured cold water on the idea of letting Orkney forge new links with Norway. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman, Max Blain, said there was “no mechanism” to change the status of Orkney.
“Fundamentally we are stronger as one United Kingdom. We have no plans to change that,” he said.
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Associated Press Writer Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this story. | 2023-07-04T23:45:25+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-some-in-scotlands-orkney-islands-want-to-return-to-norway-after-550-years/ |
ATLANTA, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive Ventures, a leading automotive technology and mobility venture capital firm, today announced the addition of industry leader Paul Whitworth to its Advisory team. This latest appointment further demonstrates the firm's focus on attracting top talent to identify the best companies, drive outsized growth, and realize superior returns for investors.
Paul has been at the forefront of automotive industry transformation, as both a strategist, entrepreneur, and skilled operator and currently serves as an executive with Trader Canada. Paul was a key leader in building Cox Automotive's multi-billion dollar Retail Solutions business. At Cox, Paul built the growth strategy, championed acquisitions of key automotive software companies, and lead day-to-day operations at several of the portfolio companies. Paul also has a successful track record as an entrepreneur with successes such as co-founder of AutoPoint, originating team member and advisor to vAuto, and co-founder of LightSource Renewables. Throughout his career, after graduating from MIT, Paul has been leading transformation in automotive at companies like Cox Automotive, Accenture, Hyundai Motor America, and Reynolds and Reynolds.
"We are thrilled to welcome one of the industry's most accomplished and successful veterans to Automotive Ventures as we continue to strengthen the capabilities of our growing team," said Steve Greenfield, founder and CEO of Automotive Ventures. "Paul's deep expertise across automotive strategy, digital innovation, and scaled entrepreneurship will be invaluable as we continue to deliver differentiated outcomes for both our portfolio companies and our Limited Partners."
"In my role as a senior leader at Trader Canada, I am seeking out the next innovative solutions to power the automotive industry forward," said Whitworth. "By working closely with Automotive Ventures I can help identify emerging solutions and assist smaller companies in scaling up from concept to maturity."
About Automotive Ventures
Automotive Ventures, a leading automotive technology and mobility Venture Capital firm, was founded in 2014 by Steve Greenfield, an industry expert on mergers, acquisitions, strategy and capital raises.
Automotive Ventures harnesses the knowledge and intuition that comes from 20+ years of automotive experience; oversight of more than $1 billion in acquisitions; and negotiation of hundreds of automotive software and data agreements.
Automotive Ventures is composed of a team of industry experts as employees, advisors, and investors who have built deep relationships with - and provide connections to - automotive industry decision-makers.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-3-6-6
(zero, three, six, six)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-3-6-6
(zero, three, six, six) | 2022-05-26T18:49:24+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17201238.php |
MIAMI – While not necessarily the preferred option, should the Miami Heat lose Max Strus and Gabe Vincent after Friday’s 6 p.m. start to NBA free agency, it is possible for those losses to come as part of sign-and-trade transactions.
The benefit there would be to create trade exceptions that could be utilized down the road, possibly to augment the roster after a potential trade for a top-tier addition, such as Damian Lillard.
The downside is that because Strus and Vincent would be receiving significant raises from last season’s minimum salaries, the trade exceptions would be equal to only one half of the 2023-24 salaries that Strus and Vincent would receive from other teams.
Trade exceptions can be used to deal for players under contract elsewhere. They cannot be aggregated and cannot be utilized to sign free agents.
Based on the Heat’s standing with the salary cap and luxury tax, such exceptions likely would not be utilized in the short term, but would remain in place for a calendar year.
The Heat currently hold a $4.7 million trade exception from last season’s trade of Dewayne Dedmon to the San Antonio Spurs. That exception expires Feb. 7.
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A midafternoon report linked the Heat to taking a meeting with Dallas Mavericks free-agent guard Kyrie Irving.
An NBA source denied such a meeting, with the Heat lacking the salary-cap wherewithal to add Irving in free agency.
Also, because of the Heat’s position against the luxury tax, they are unable to bring in a player through a sign-and-trade transaction.
Those parameters would limit the Heat to a minimum-salary offer in such a scenario.
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With the NBA free-agency negotiation period opening at 6 p.m., a cold, hard reality faces the Heat when it comes to the cap-space race:
Not only are the Heat operating in such a void, but there is precious little available throughout the league.
For the Heat, that means the ability to trim salary, and therefore ease the team’s luxury-tax pinch, through selling off contracts is limited if not impossible.
Exhibit A is guard Kyle Lowry, who is due $29.7 million this coming season, on the final year of the three-year, $85 million contract he signed with the Heat in 2021 free agency.
Exhibit B is guard Duncan Robinson, who is due $18.2 million this coming season on the five-year, $90 million free-agency contract he signed in that same 2021 offseason.
As a matter of perspective, entering the start of free agency, only the Houston Rockets ($60.4 million), San Antonio Spurs ($30.9 million) and Indiana Pacers ($30.4 million) have enough available cap space to absorb Lowry’s contract, not that there is any specific interest.
In addition to those three teams, only the Detroit Pistons ($26.3 million) and Orlando Magic ($21.8 million) have the available cap space to take in Robinson.
For the Heat, trimming payroll through moves with Lowry or Robinson therefore likely would require taking back salary, instead of the clean excising of contracts.
The benefit of patience with Lowry and Robinson, beyond possible on-court contributions in 2023-24, would be holding on to such contracts to package in a mega-trade, with Lillard and James Harden the biggest names being floated in that regard.
With Harden, who opted into the final year of his contract with the Philadelphia 76ers to grease the skids for a trade, the resolution should come quickly, due to salary-cap timing mechanisms.
With Lillard, it could come down to how proactive the Portland Trail Blazers stand in acquiring supporting veteran talent at the start of free agency.
While free-agency negotiations can begin at 6 p.m. Friday, agreements cannot be formalized until the July 6 end of the NBA transaction moratorium period.
The Heat completed their bookkeeping in advance of free agency by bypassing a qualifying offer to second-year center Omer Yurtseven, making him an unrestricted free agent.
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While Harden increasingly has been linked to a trade to the Los Angeles Clippers, former NBA executive John Hollinger at The Athletic offered the framework of a package that could work in such a Heat-76ers deal.
“The Heat can present by far the simplest deal for Philadelphia by sending Kyle Lowry’s expiring deal and one other pint-sized contract (either Haywood Highsmith or Nikola Jović) for Harden. Obviously Miami would have to include additional assets — possibly including first-rounder Jaime Jacquez and/or a lightly protected first-round pick in 2028 or 2030. In the wake of such a trade, the Sixers could stretch Lowry’s $29.7 million salary for 2023-24 and end up well below the tax apron.”
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As for projected price points for the Heat’s impending free agents, ESPN’s Bobby Marks, the former Brooklyn Nets executive, on Friday offered his thoughts.
Gabe Vincent: First-year salary on free-agent deal of $12 million to $14 million. (Heat hold Bird Rights and can match outside offers, but with significant luxury-tax penalty).
Max Strus: First-year salary on free-agent deal of $12 million to $14 million. (Heat hold Bird Rights and can match outside offers, but with significant luxury-tax penalty).
Jamal Cain: Veteran minimum. (Heat have two-way qualifying offer in place in order to match such outside offers.)
Orlando Robinson: Veteran minimum. (Heat have two-way qualifying offer in place in order to match such outside offers.)
Kevin Love: Veteran minimum. (Heat can offer up to $3.2 million, due to salary-cap exception.)
Cody Zeller: Veteran minimum.
Omer Yurtseven: Veteran minimum.
(The Heat’s other impending free agent, 43-year-old captain Udonis Haslem, has announced his retirement.)
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Check back throughout the day for updates leading to and through the 6 p.m. start of the free-agency negotiation period. | 2023-07-01T05:52:10+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/30/nba-free-agency-countdown-landing-spots-for-lowry-robinson-the-harden-heat-talk/ |
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it was ready for human-rights legal challenges to a tough new law intended to stop tens of thousands of migrants a year reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the government had “pushed the boundaries of international law” with a bill that will bar asylum claims by anyone who reaches the U.K. by unauthorized means, and will compel the government to detain and then deport them “to their home country or a safe third country.” They would be banned from ever reentering the country.
“If you enter Britain illegally, you will be detained and swiftly removed,” Braverman told lawmakers in the House of Commons as she introduced the government’s “Illegal Migration Bill.”
But critics said the plan is unethical and unworkable, since people fleeing war and persecution can’t be sent home, and is likely to be the latest in a series of unfulfilled immigration pledges by successive U.K. governments.
“There is nothing fair, humane or even practical in this plan, and it’s frankly chilling to see ministers trying to remove human rights protections for groups of people whom they’ve chosen to scapegoat for their own failures,” said Steve Valdez-Symonds of Amnesty International.
The government says the new law, once approved by Parliament, will deter migrants and hobble smuggling gangs who send desperate people on hazardous journeys across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the law would “take back control” of U.K. borders — a central pledge of the successful but divisive campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.
“The current situation is neither moral nor sustainable,” he said at a news conference, standing at a lectern emblazoned “Stop the Boats.”
“If we can’t stop the boats, our ability to help genuine refugees in future will be constrained.”
The bill calls for people arriving by boat to be detained for 28 days and then deported, with exceptions only for children, those medically unfit to fly and people at risk of serious harm, and with limited grounds for appeal. Migrants who are victims of human trafficking would be barred from using Britain’s modern slavery laws to prevent deportation.
Braverman acknowledged that the “robust and novel” legislation is likely to face legal challenges. She said she was “confident” it is compatible with Britain’s international obligations under refugee and human rights conventions — but acknowledged in a letter to Conservative lawmakers that there is a greater than 50% chance that it isn’t.
Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council charity, said the British government was “in effect behaving like those countries that show disregard to international human rights conventions, the likes of Myanmar, Russia, Belarus.”
Britain receives fewer asylum-seekers than some European nations such as Italy, Germany or France. But thousands of migrants from around the world travel to northern France each year in hopes of reaching the U.K., drawn by family ties, the English language or the perceived ease of getting a job.
Most attempt the journey in dinghies and other small craft now that authorities have clamped down on other routes such as stowing away on buses or trucks.
More than 45,000 people arrived in Britain by boat in 2022, up from 28,000 in 2021 and 8,500 in 2020. Most went on to claim asylum, but a backlog of more than 160,000 cases has led to many languishing in overcrowded processing centers or hotels, without the right to work.
The British government says many of those making the journey are economic migrants rather than refugees, and points to an upswing last year in arrivals from Albania, a European country that the U.K. considers safe.
Refugee groups say most of the channel arrivals are fleeing war, persecution or famine in countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. A majority of those whose claims have been processed were granted asylum in the U.K.
The charities say migrants risk the cross-channel journey because there are few safe, legal ways to reach the U.K.
The U.K. government says that once its new law is in place it will establish more legal paths to asylum, adding to those set up for people from Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Ukraine. But it hasn’t said how many people will be accepted, or when the program will start.
It’s also unclear which, if any, safe countries will be willing to take in people deported from Britain. A plan announced by the U.K. last year to send migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is mired in legal challenges. No one has been sent to the East African country, though Britain has already paid Rwanda 140 million pounds ($170 million) under the deal.
Cooperation with France on stopping the boats stalled amid Britain’s acrimonious split from the European Union, though relations have improved since Sunak took office in October. The two governments signed an agreement in November to increase police patrols on beaches in northern France, and Sunak hopes to cement further cooperation when he meets French President Emmanuel Macron at a U.K.-France summit on Friday.
Labour Party immigration spokeswoman Yvette Cooper accused the government of “ramping up the rhetoric on refugees” without solving the “deeply damaging chaos” in Britain’s asylum system.
“This bill isn’t a solution,” she said. “It is a con that risks making the chaos even worse.” ___
Follow AP’s coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-03-07T19:31:08+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-says-plan-to-stop-channel-migrants-pushes-bounds-of-law/ |
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R&D Cloud leader builds on triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and nearly 80% customer growth with chief product officer and head of revenue operations hires
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, today announced new executive leaders, Shawna Wolverton as chief product officer and Stuart Kerst as head of revenue operations. Wolverton, formerly of Zendesk and Salesforce, played a critical role in developing both companies' platform product strategies with a focus on end-user community engagement. Kerst brings 25 years' experience managing global field teams, most recently from Workday, but also SAP, HP, and SurveyMonkey.
"Both Shawna and Stuart have world-class experience in building the cloud ecosystems that revolutionized how multiple industries work," said Sajith Wickramasekara, CEO and co-founder of Benchling. "Biotechnology is leading the most important technological revolution since computing, and our R&D Cloud plays a critical role in unlocking that potential. Shawna and Stuart will help scale our product and our go-to-market as we support more customers across the broad reach of biotech — in agriculture, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, materials, and more."
In her new role, Wolverton will lead Benchling's ambitious goal to be the R&D Cloud at the center of an expansive biotech ecosystem. At Zendesk, Wolverton led the product organization as executive vice president of product. Prior to that, as senior vice president of product management at Salesforce, Wolverton was at the forefront of bringing a platform strategy to SaaS and in championing the role of developers and administrators in the Salesforce community. Throughout both her 14-year tenure at Salesforce and her more recent role at Zendesk, Wolverton developed products that served companies spanning small businesses all the way to Fortune 500. At Benchling, Wolverton will lead product and design.
"In this new era of R&D, where data, analytics, and automation offer a competitive edge, scientists need a central source of truth for their work. These scientists entrust Benchling with their most critical work — the customer demand and product love for the company is truly impressive," said Wolverton. "I'm honored to join the team at Benchling, and to build the solutions that enable scientists to spend more time doing the work that really matters, as they solve today's most pressing challenges."
At Benchling, Kerst will ensure the company scales a high-level of service globally, to organizations of all sizes. A seasoned leader with experience in business development, sales strategy, and field operations, Kerst came to Benchling from Workday, where he served as vice president of global field operations.
As biotech grows, Benchling continues to expand its R&D Cloud to support companies throughout their lifecycle of bringing transformative products to market. This year, Benchling incorporated in vivo research into its R&D Cloud with the acquisition of Overwatch Research and also launched novel solutions such as an AlphaFold beta integration.
The executive leaders join at a time of rapid growth for Benchling. In its most recent fiscal year, Benchling saw 80% year-over-year growth in customer count, with more than 900 biotechnology companies now using Benchling's R&D Cloud. The company's market leadership can be seen in the results it drives for customers:
- One in four biotech startups that went public in the last two years was built on Benchling.
- Nearly one in three of the new drugs and biologics approved by the FDA in 2021 were developed by Benchling customers.
- Customers have experienced a 62% reduction in scientists' time spent on avoidable logistical tasks with Benchling.
- Using Benchling, customers have reported an approximately 50% increase in confidence in data quality.
- Using Benchling improves ease of scientific data hand-offs by 102%, enabling cross-team collaboration.
In the last year, Benchling has expanded its executive bench with the appointments of Paul Robson as President of Field Operations, Lindsey Irvine as CMO, Richard Wong as CFO, and Zach Powers as CISO. The company also added Elena Donio to its board.
Benchling recently celebrated its ten-year anniversary, with a global team of over 750.
Join Benchling and apply for an open position: benchling.com/careers
About Benchling
Benchling is the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, software that unlocks the power of biotechnology. More than 200,000 scientists at over 900 companies and 7,500 research institutions globally have adopted Benchling's R&D Cloud to make breakthrough discoveries and bring the next generation of medicines, food, and materials to market faster than ever before. The R&D Cloud helps these organizations modernize their scientific processes and accelerate collaboration so they can convert the complexity of biology into world-changing results. For more, please visit Benchling.com.
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It's been a troubling year for the adventure tourism industry, which offers high-risk travel to customers wealthy enough to afford it, including rocket rides into space, treks to lofty mountain summits, and voyages to the sea floor.
Seventeen people died in 2023 trying to summit Mount Everest in Nepal, and more have needed rescue. Now a massive search is underway in the North Atlantic for a submersible carrying four tourists and a crewmember on a trip to view the wreck of the Titanic.
Critics say this growing sector of the travel industry largely has avoided government oversight, despite a history of accidents and fatalities. For people paying to make trips with a guide or an adventure travel company, it's often buyer beware.
"If you regulate, you're going to kill the sense of adventure, so no regulation was brought," said Alain Grenier, who studies high-risk travel at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
The Titan, the small submersible operated by a Washington state-based company called OceanGate, gives tours primarily in international waters, which means the experimental vessel avoided most U.S. safety rules.
In a 2019 interview with Smithsonian magazine, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush — currently missing aboard the Titan — complained about government rules.
"There hasn't been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It's obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations," Rush told the magazine. "But it also hasn't innovated or grown — because they have all these regulations."
A for-profit industry with government-funded rescues
Now an massive government response is being led by the U.S. Coast Guard, using vessels, aircraft and remotely operated submersibles, or ROVs.
"There are a lot of pieces of equipment flowing in from St. Johns [in Canada] right now. Some of the ROV capability that's arriving soon is really great," said Coat Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick on Wednesday.
The cost will be born almost entirely by taxpayers. OceanGate required passengers to sign liability waivers, and the company is unlikely to get a bill for this operation.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the company voiced gratitude for "the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies."
— OceanGate Expeditions (@OceanGateExped) June 19, 2023
Vessels from other countries are also involved, as are private ships. NPR asked the Coast Guard for an estimate of the cost of the search and rescue operation but hasn't yet received a response.
Risks and ethical questions for rescuers
Experts say there are also other, hidden costs. The search and rescue operation now underway is happening in a remote area of the North Atlantic, where seas can be rough and visibility limited. That's inherently dangerous.
When commercial adventure trips go wrong, and tourists need emergency aid, first responders often face significant risk.
Dr. Christopher Van Tilburg, an expert in emergency wilderness medicine based in Hood River, Ore., said members of his rescue teams have been injured while searching for lost climbers in the Pacific Northwest.
"It's almost inevitable. I've been on missions where rescuers have been injured. Fortunately, no one catastrophically," he said.
So far there have been no reports of injury among the crews searching for the Titan.
In addition to high profile incidents that involve tour companies, including the vanishing of the Titan, experts say there are also far more travelers taking on high-risk travel alone. Often they lack the experience or the equipment to do it safely.
Scott Van Laer, a former forest ranger in New York state's Adirondack Park, took part in more than 600 backcountry rescues, often involving visitors who were unprepared.
"Most of them are so thankful to receive help, but we have people we had to rescue multiple time for the same lack of preparedness or equipment. So not everybody does get the message," Van Laer said.
Big spenders, big search effort
This massive international response has been mobilized to rescue a handful of wealthy travelers who chose to purchase an extremely risky vacation. Critics say it reveals a stark contrast with the way migrants and refugees are often treated.
"Compare this with the tragedy that happened in Europe with those immigrants who sank, and nobody cared too much," Grenier said.
He referred to an incident last week when a ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving more than 500 migrants missing. According to Grenier, the search effort and media attention for that disaster were far more modest.
"Now you have the young and famous and the wealthy [aboard the Titan] and I don't think the search effort will stop," he said. "The question is, how far do we go to save people's lives?"
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Sixty-nine companies graduate from invitation-only program for CXOs of innovative, next-gen companies with dual-use NatSec tech.
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MissionLink.Next, an exclusive nationwide community that serves as a force-multiplier and gateway to accelerating innovation and advancing solutions to National Security threats, today announced the graduates of its Spring 2022 cohort.
Founded in 2010 by an elite advisory board comprised of the best and brightest minds from the defense, Intelligence and NatSec tech sectors, the Organization's mission is to connect passionate problem solvers with next-gen, mission-critical capabilities to the right resources, customers, investors, advisors and partners, ultimately solving national security concerns across commercial and federal sectors. For more than 10 years, MissionLink has been on the cutting edge of National Security and is recognized as the organization that has most captured the timeliness and immediacy of the latest security developments, discoveries and breakthroughs.
Jeremy King, cofounder and Organizing Board member, commented, "National security's mission has become much broader and is rapidly evolving, and the need for collaboration between the government and commercial sector is critical now more than ever. For decades, the answer was 'public-private partnership' – we believe it is now time to empower industry innovation and facilitate 'private-public partnership.' MissionLink has become the most exclusive room in the country to learn, share and contribute to the thought leadership and innovative technologies for what happens Next."
MissionLink's Spring 2022 cohort was selected by world class technologists and thought leaders, such as Will Grannis, CTO of Google, and Ron Gula, cofounder of Tenable Network Solutions, bringing together top founders and CXOs from across the US in the areas of cyber, artificial intelligence & machine learning, analytics, biotechnology, autonomy, microelectronics, quantum science, space, UAS/drones, 5G, virtual reality, synthetic environments, internet of things and emerging technologies.
Andy Lustig, cofounder and Organizing Board member, also commented: "Our objective is to seed and accelerate innovation across the country, from Washington DC to Silicon Valley and bridge enterprise and national security missions with dual-use commercial capabilities, and the Spring 2022 cohort is certainly representative of the innovation and momentum happening in NatSec tech."
Graduates of MissionLink's Spring 2022 cohort include:
- Allvision IO, Inc.
- Anametric
- Applied Insight
- Attivo Networks, Inc.
- BlackHorse Solutions
- BlueFoot Inc.
- Boldend, Inc.
- BreachRx
- CesiumAstro
- Chainalysis
- Chiplytics
- Code-X
- CodeLock, Inc.
- Copado
- Corsha, Inc.
- CTI
- cybrary
- Dashlane, Inc.
- Diveplane Corporation
- Enveil, Inc.
- Fend Incorporated
- Fornetix
- Fuzzbuzz, Inc.
- Gigantor Technologies Inc.
- Grey Market Labs
- greymatter.io
- Grist Mill Exchange
- Hidden Level Inc
- Hubble Technology Inc
- Hushmesh Inc.
- Improbable US Defense & National Security
- ION
- Ion Channel
- Janes
- Matterport
- Mind Foundry
- NetAbstraction
- NewSoTech, Inc.
- Nisos Holdings Inc
- Oceus Networks
- Ocient
- Perygee
- Quantifind
- Ramagine
- Reinventing Geospatial Inc
- Rivera Group
- RunSafe Security
- S of X Technology Partners LLC
- Safeguard Cyber
- Scapien
- SCYTHE
- Second Front Systems
- SightGain
- Sigma Defense
- Slingshot Aerospace
- Socure
- SpiderOak
- SpotterRF
- Stratolaunch
- Strider Technologies
- Terradepth Inc
- Tidal Security, Inc.
- Titan Technologies, LLC
- Tomahawk Robotics
- VAST Data Federal Inc
- Vcinity, Inc.
- Veros Technologies
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Whitespace
The new graduates join over 500 CXO/founders who have previously gone through the program, including the founders and CEOs of Rapid7, MAG Aerospace, Cofense, Altamira, Cloudera, Cylance, Crowdstrike, Novetta and Dovel Technologies. Many of them credit MissionLink with providing their company with the game changing access, insight and opportunity needed to drive meaningful growth and impact to their industry and customers.
The MissionLink Organizing Board includes Jeremy King of Benchmark Executive Search; Matt Devost of OODA Inc.; and Andy Lustig and Katherine Ferguson of Cooley LLP. The Advisory Board is at the core of MissionLink's trusted innovation ecosystem and includes industry veterans who are committed to its success – including Sue Gordon, former NGA and CIA; Bill Crowell, former NSA; Charlene Leubecker, former CIA; Bob Gourley, former CTO at DIA; Bryan Ware, former DHS; Ron Ritchey, Chief Cyber Architect at JP Morgan Chase; Ellen McCarthy, former Department of State; Fran Landolf, former NSA; Cyndi Gula and Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures; Will Grannis, CTO of Google; Jen Sovada of Sandbox AQ; Lt Gen Rhett Hernandez, former Chief of Army Cyber Command; Peggy Styer and Jack Kerrigan of Razor's Edge Ventures; Tim Newberry, Entrepreneur in Residence at TenEleven Ventures; Wes Blackwell, Partner at Scout Ventures; and Constantine Saab, Partner at Valor Equity.
About MissionLink.Next
MissionLink.Next is a non-profit trade association and exclusive network that includes decision makers, government leaders, top founders and CEOs from across the US who are building the most cutting-edge mission critical capabilities in cyber, AI, virtual reality, IoT, space and quantum science. MissionLink.Next companies are addressing the next generation of threats across national security, healthcare, financial services, ecommerce, social media, life sciences, automotive and transportation, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Backed by an elite advisory board comprised of the best and brightest minds from defense, Intel and homeland security sectors, MissionLink's trusted innovation ecosystem fosters access, insight and opportunity to bridge enterprise and national security missions with dual-use commercial capabilities. For more information, please visit the MissionLink.Next website.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As continued fighting raises fears that Sudan could plunge deeper into chaos, foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out of the country. Most countries deployed military transport aircraft to fly people out, including France which used its airbase in neighboring Djibouti for the airlift. But not all is going smoothly – about 2,000 British nationals remain in Sudan, and many complain that their government isn’t giving them enough information about evacuation plans.
Although some flights included people of various nationalities, here’s a country-by-country accounting of evacuation efforts based on information available so far:
UNITED STATES:
U.S. special operations forces used helicopters to ferry 70 U.S. embassy personnel out of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, early Sunday. The U.S. government has told some 16,000 US citizens in Sudan that they need to fend for themselves and that there won’t be mass evacuations.
UNITED KINGDOM:
Some 1,200 British soldiers who were part of a military operation out of a key British air base on the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus helped evacuate around 30 U.K. diplomatic staff and their families out of Sudan. Arrangements are being made to fly the evacuees back home from Cyprus. There’s been no word on how many people were evacuated. Britain’s Africa Minister, Andrew Mitchell, said about 2,000 U.K. citizens still in Sudan have registered with the embassy and that “intense planning” was underway for a “series of possible evacuations.”
FRANCE:
Officials say France has evacuated 491 people, including citizens from 36 countries, on flights to Djibouti in the nearby Horn of Africa. They include 23 Sudanese citizens who were family members or had other links to foreigners being evacuated and 38 citizens of Niger. Another 36 were Irish citizens and nine were Americans. Others included three wounded people, two Greek citizens and one Belgian, as well as the German ambassador and several other foreign ambassadors.
GERMANY:
Four German military transport planes flew more than 400 people from Sudan to Jordan from where they’ll head to their home countries. Germany’s Foreign Minister Minister Annalena Baerbock said her country had evacuated citizens of 20 countries in addition to its own, and would try to continue doing so, even if the end of the ceasefire Monday could complicate the situation. The dpa news agency said among the evacuees were citizens of Australia, Bulgaria, the U.K., Belgium, Norway, Czechia, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal. The Austrian government said 27 people were Austrian citizens.
ITALY:
Italian Air Force C-130 transport aircraft airlifted some 200 people out of Khartoum airport Sunday evening and flew them to Djibouti. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said among them were 140 Italians, some Swiss, other Europeans and personnel from the Vatican’s embassy in Khartoum.
SPAIN:
Spain said it had evacuated approximately 172 people from the Sudanese capital to Djibouti so far, including 34 Spanish nationals and citizens of Argentina, Colombia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Poland.
SWEDEN & DENMARK:
Sweden says 25 of its embassy staff and their families were among the 388 people that French aircraft airlifted to Djibouti. Denmark said 15 of its citizens were among the group.
FINLAND:
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto tweeted that 10 Finns had been evacuated from Khartoum, including children. He said efforts were underway to evacuate several Finns who remain in the Sudanese capital.
NORWAY:
Norway’s Ambassador to Sudan Endre Stiansen has tweeted that he and two colleagues are “in a safe place outside the Sudan.”
POLAND:
Poland’s Foreign Ministry said 11 Poles – including the ambassador to Sudan, diplomatic staff and private citizens – have been evacuated as part of French and Spanish efforts.
NETHERLANDS:
A pair of Dutch air force C-130 Hercules have flown out of Sudan to Jordan Monday carrying evacuees of various nationalities, including Dutch. No exact numbers have been provided. Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said in a tweet more flights were planned “in close cooperation with partners and pending developments.”
TURKEY:
The Turkish government says it’s evacuating “hundreds” of its citizens by land to Ethiopia, from where they are scheduled to be flown to Istanbul.
GREECE:
Greece’s Foreign Ministry says 15 Greek nationals and their family members have been evacuated to Djibouti with the help of Italy.
JAPAN:
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says a military transport aircraft has airlifted 45 Japanese citizens and their families from Port Sudan and they are now on their way to Djibouti. Kishida said Monday only a handful of Japanese citizens remained in Sudan and the country would do its utmost to help them as soon as possible. Japan dispatched three transport and refueling planes, as well as 370 troops, to its military base in Djibouti to help the evacuation of about 60 Japanese nationals.
SOUTH AFRICA:
The South African government says at least 77 South African nationals, including embassy staff, are on on their way out of the Sudanese capital.
KENYA:
Kenya’s Foreign Ministry says 29 Kenyan students have crossed into Ethiopia and are en route to Nairobi, while the air force has a transport plane ready to fly out 18 students now on the road to the South Sudan border. Another two aircraft are expected to ferry 300-400 Kenyans to Jeddah.
PALESTINIANS:
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates says some 72 Palestinians have relocated to Port Sudan, while vehicle convoys are carrying about 200 Palestinians to Egypt.
SOUTH KOREA:
South Korea says a bus transporting at least 28 of its nationals, including embassy staff, has entered Port Sudan’s international airport where a South Korean military aircraft awaits to fly them to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
JORDAN:
Some 343 Jordanian nationals evacuated from Port Sudan arrived at Amman military airport aboard four transport aircraft.
EGYPT:
Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency says the country is urging the more than 10,000 Egyptian citizens in Sudan to head to consular offices in Port Sudan and Wadi Halfa in the north for evacuation. Buses carrying an undisclosed number of Egyptian citizens crossed into Egypt from the Arqin border crossing on Monday.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A ballot question seeking to make it more difficult to amend the Ohio Constitution was cleared for an August ballot on Thursday, and teams of Republican and Democratic lawmakers assigned to write pro and con arguments, respectively, to be presented to voters.
The process before the Ohio Ballot Board followed the raucous legislative floor session and months of drama leading up to approval of the measure, which is aimed at thwarting an effort to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution this fall. Abortion is currently legal in Ohio, up to 20 weeks’ gestation, as a lawsuit against a near-ban enacted in 2019 is argued.
On this August’s ballot, voters will be asked whether or not they support raising the threshold for passing future constitutional amendments from the simple majority Ohio has had in place since 1912 to a 60% supermajority. As a constitutional amendment itself, the 60% question will only need to pass by a simple majority of 50%-plus-one.
The bipartisan panel, chaired by Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, voted along party lines to certify the ballot language, which Democrats attacked as unfair and inaccurate. The arguments that voters see on their ballots are due to LaRose’s office by Monday.
Issue 1’s Republican backers are expected to characterize the effort as a constitutional protection act aimed at keeping deep-pocketed special interests out of Ohio’s foundational documents. Among groups supporting the higher bar are anti-abortion, pro-gun rights and business groups opposed to a burgeoning amendment that would raise Ohio’s minimum wage.
Democrats will use their arguments to paint the 60% threshold as an assault on Ohio’s long history of direct democracy. Some Democratic lawmakers led a “one person, one vote” chant and march after last week’s vote from the floor of the Ohio House — echoing cries of a large crowd of protesters gathered outside.
Should either side object to the others’ phrasing, they could file suit in the Ohio Supreme Court, which holds exclusive power to settle disputes in cases where lawmakers forward an ballot question straight to voters.
Democratic lawyer Don McTigue, representing the One Person One Vote Campaign, disagreed with the title LaRose’s office gave to the issue, which describes it as “elevating the standards” to qualify constitutional amendments of Ohio’s ballot. McTigue suggested “modifying” as more neutral, noting that it’s against Ohio law for ballot language to bias voters in one way or another.
It was too soon to say Thursday whether his client will file a legal challenge, McTigue said.
McTigue and Democrats on the board also argued for including the current 50%-plus-one standard in the ballot language, so that voters know what they’re changing, but the board rejected that idea.
The proposal also calls for doubling the number of Ohio counties — from 44 to all 88 — where backers of future initiative petitions would need to gather signatures in order to qualify for the ballot. As phrased by LaRose’s office, the question also appears to significantly raise the percentage of voters needed in each county, from 5% of those who voted in the last gubernatorial election to 5% of “all eligible voters.”
LaRose said his intention was to keep the ballot language simple, which Democratic state Sen. Bill DeMora said was disingenuous. “It’s sneaky and it’s illegal,” he said. | 2023-05-18T17:35:20+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/health/ap-ohio-board-approves-august-ballot-question-meant-to-thwart-abortion-rights-push/ |
DENVER (AP) _ ModivCare Inc. (MODV) on Thursday reported a loss of $28.5 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Denver-based company said it had a loss of $2.03. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.61 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.51 per share.
The provider of government-sponsored social services posted revenue of $647.8 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $589 million.
ModivCare expects full-year revenue in the range of $2.45 billion to $2.48 billion.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism is to appear Monday in federal court in Washington to face charges.
The arrest and extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi are a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas'ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas'ud would be the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.
His appearance was set for 1 p.m. EST.
The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Citizens from 21 countries were killed. Among the 190 Americans on board were 35 Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after a semester abroad.
The bombing laid bare the threat of international terrorism more than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It produced global investigations and punishing sanctions while spurring demands for accountability from victims of those killed. Several victims described as surreal the news that Mas'ud was finally in American custody.
“It was quite a moment," said Kara Monetti Weipz, sister of victim Rick Monetti, a Syracuse University student, and the president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103. “It was unbelievable that it was really happening after all these years, and especially after the last two years.”
The announcement of charges against Mas'ud on Dec. 21, 2020, came on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing and in the final days of the tenure of then-Attorney General William Barr, who in his first stint as attorney general in the early 1990s had announced criminal charges against two other Libyan intelligence officials.
The Libyan government initially balked at turning over the two men, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, before ultimately surrendering them for prosecution before a panel of Scottish judges sitting in the Netherlands as part of a special arrangement.
The Justice Department said Mas'ud faces two criminal counts related to the explosion.
U.S. officials did not say how Mas'ud came to be taken into U.S. custody, but late last month, local Libyan media reported that Mas'ud had been kidnapped by armed men Nov. 16 from his residence in Tripoli, the capital. That reporting cited a family statement that accused Tripoli authorities of being silent on the abduction.
In November 2021, Najla Mangoush, foreign minister for the country’s Tripoli-based government, told the BBC that “we, as a government, are very open in terms of collaboration in this matter,” when asked whether an extradition was possible.
Torn by civil war since 2011, Libya is divided between rival governments in the east and west, each backed by international patrons and numerous armed militias on the ground. Militia groups have amassed great wealth and power from kidnappings and their involvement in Libya’s lucrative human trafficking trade
A breakthrough in the investigation came when U.S. officials in 2017 received a copy of an interview that Mas'ud, a longtime explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, had given to Libyan law enforcement in 2012 after being taken into custody following the collapse of the government of the country’s leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
In that interview, U.S. officials said, Mas'ud admitted building the bomb in the Pan Am attack and working with two other conspirators to carry out the attack. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
That affidavit said Mas'ud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah. He handed Fhimah a medium-sized Samsonite suitcase containing a bomb, having already been instructed to set the timer so that the device would explode exactly 11 hours later, according to the document. He then flew to Tripoli, the FBI said.
Al-Megrahi was convicted in the Netherlands while Fhimah was acquitted of all charges. Al-Megrahi was given a life sentence, but Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He later died in Tripoli, still protesting his innocence.
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Associated Press writers Julie Walker in New York, Sylvia Hui in London, Jack Jeffery in Cairo and Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York, contributed to this report.
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KING COUNTY, Wash. — Starting May 28, King County Metro is bringing back a program that will help people get out of the city and get them outdoors at popular hiking trails throughout the county during the summer months ahead.
"I think it's a great thing, more mass transit is always good,” said Evan Ash, who was riding the light rail in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. "I'm going to sell my car in a couple weeks so still being able to go out and hike would be ideal because I would like to hike and get out there this summer."
That's the hope for King County Metro and Parks who want hikers to utilize the county's "Trailhead Direct" transit system to get to popular trails within the county like Mount Si, Mount Teneriffe and Little Si.
"I feel like it's a great way to get people out to popular trails," said Madi Fitzpatrick, who was riding the Trailhead Direct from Little Si.
The goal of this program, which launched back in 2019, is to also ease the congestion in some of these packed trailhead parking lots, reduce safety hazards and to get people like Fitzpatrick and her dog to the trails.
"It's great, I love public transportation, I don't have a car so it's the best and easiest way," said Fitzpatrick.
As more people continue to utilize this environment friendly transit system. The county hopes it will ensure that the only footprint people are leaving behind are from their boots and not their cars.
"It's excellent that we're trying to hit our goal with climate emission reduction, using mass transit is going to be a big part of that," said Ash.
This program is available every weekend and holiday from now until September 11. | 2022-05-29T01:31:23+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/king-countys-trailhead-direct-service-returns/281-3f1fde1d-b65f-49c1-a126-7ba48a880629 |
Drowning, Extreme Heat Deaths, Barbecue Burns and Firework Injuries are Increasing, According to ValuePenguin.com Research
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the July Fourth holiday weekend approaching, millions of Americans plan to barbecue, swim and set off fireworks to ring in America's independence, but are they celebrating safely? New research from ValuePenguin shows that holiday-related injuries are on the rise.
- Heat-related deaths increased by 56% between 2018 and 2021. Americans aged 85 and older and babies are the most at-risk age groups for heat injury and death.
- Firework injuries increased by 32% from 2012-2021. Teens aged 15 to 19 had the highest percentage of firework injuries (12.4%) in 2021. Despite this, 82% of parents with children younger than 18 say they think it's OK for kids to play with fireworks.
- Grill injuries requiring an emergency room visit rose by 18% from 2012-2021. Children younger than 10 accounted for 21% of emergency room visits for grill injuries in the 10 years examined — the highest percentage among age groups.
- A lack of pool safety awareness puts Americans at greater risk of drowning. 39% say they wouldn't be comfortable saving someone struggling in the water, and 17% of Americans say they don't know how to swim.
For Americans planning to host a July Fourth party, celebratory injuries shouldn't be their only worry. ValuePenguin Insurance spokesperson, Divya Sangameshwar, encourages party hosts to include an insurance review and safety checklist as part of their planning. "Taking safety precautions is important because you may be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars if you are a negligent host. Your home or renters insurance will offer some liability protection if an injured guest decides to sue, but it might not be enough." Sangameshwar says as a rule of thumb, if your net worth exceeds the level of liability coverage offered, you need to get more liability coverage or an umbrella policy to protect yourself.
Consumer Tips For A Safe July Fourth:
- Stay hydrated and avoid binge drinking to prevent serious heat injury. Recognize the signs of heat injury and seek prompt medical help.
- Be careful when handling a hot grill. Do not allow children or pets near the grill.
- Don't allow anyone in a pool unsupervised. Ensure pool areas are kept dry and clean to prevent slip and fall injuries.
- Leave the fireworks to the professionals. Even "safe" at-home fireworks like sparklers get as hot as 2000 F and can cause serious burns.
- Serve alcohol responsibly and call for rides for guests who overindulged. If a guest drives home drunk and gets into an accident, you could be liable.
ValuePenguin July Fourth Safety Studies:
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A shot of cold weather is expected to hit Connecticut Friday and Saturday with wind chills falling well below zero.
Temperatures are expected to drop late Thursday and persist through Friday and Saturday. Evening temperatures could reach the single digits or lower.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said wind chills in Litchfield County could drop to as low as 25-to-40 degrees below zero. Hartford, Tolland and Windham counties could see wind chills as low as 30 degrees below zero.
The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes, according to the NWS.
Gov. Ned Lamont said in a statement the state’s severe cold weather protocol will go into effect beginning at noon on Thursday, Feb. 2, and remain in effect until noon on Sunday, Feb. 5.
He urged people to seek shelter and stay out of the cold.
“Spending long periods of time outdoors in these conditions is not only harmful, it can be fatal,” Lamont said. “Shelters and warming centers are available across Connecticut. Anyone in need of a safe place to stay warm is urged to call 2-1-1 to get connected to a nearby location, and transportation can be provided if needed.”
Property owners should also be aware of the possibility of freezing pipes.
Where’s the snow?
Connecticut Public Meteorologist Garett Argianas said the quick dip in temperatures comes as Connecticut continues to experience a lack of snow.
“We’ve had a number of storms that have been largely rain through December into January,” Argianas said. “We’re not really running a deficit in the precipitation department, but we’re definitely running way behind on snowfall and that’s true for inland areas and also along the shoreline.”
In the Hartford area, Argianas said more than a dozen years were less snowy up through the end of January compared to this year.
But he said the lack of snowfall is particularly pronounced on the shoreline.
“Where we’ve had under an inch of snow through the end of January,” Argianas said. “That’s only happened once before in recorded weather history in the Bridgeport area.”
Argianas said the lack of snow is driven largely by bigger-picture weather patterns like La Niña, which is a condition in the Pacific Ocean that can impact worldwide weather patterns and lead to warmer, less snowy, winters.
This story will be updated.
Connecticut Public Radio’s John Henry Smith contributed to this report. | 2023-02-01T17:12:31+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2023-02-01/after-warm-spell-temperatures-in-connecticut-are-expected-to-drop-thursday-into-the-weekend |
Elementary school teacher, her 2 children found shot to death, officials say
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) - A woman who taught at an elementary school and her two children are dead after a shooting in a South Carolina neighborhood.
WMBF reports the Horry County Police Department responded to a home Wednesday afternoon near Centennial Circle and Carolina Forest Boulevard for a welfare check when they discovered three bodies inside the house.
The coroner’s office identified the bodies as 42-year-old Laura Moberley, 11-year-old Eric Moberley and 8-year-old Emily Moberley. They died from gunshot wounds.
An incident report showed that police tried to contact the people reportedly inside the home, but there was no answer. Officers then forced entry into the house through the front door, and the bodies were found.
“Our community is hurting today, and that is undeniable,” the Horry County Police Department said in a statement. “We ask that you be kind to one another - you may not know who has been impacted by this tragedy.”
Horry County Schools confirmed that Laura Moberley was working at the Carolina Forest Elementary School as a teacher and helping students improve their learning skills.
The school district added that Emily was a third-grade student at the elementary school and Eric was in the 11th grade at Ten Oaks Middle School.
On Thursday, the school district released the following statement:
“We are at a loss for words after learning of the tragic incident that affected an entire family with ties to Horry County Schools. We lift our strongest prayers for the Moberley family and for everyone who knew them. We encourage our community to keep our students and staff in their thoughts and prayers during this incredibly difficult time.
Our district has a team of counselors made up of professionals trained to help with the needs of students, parents, and school personnel at difficult times such as this. Our counselors are available at the affected schools for any student or employee who may need or want assistance surrounding this tragedy.”
Horry County police said the incident remains under investigation.
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Farm animals filled the outside lawn of Andy Woods Elementary School on Friday as students screamed with excitement as they got to pet and ride the animals while learning about the farm lifestyle.
The yearly event began a few years ago but started much smaller and has since developed to something bigger, said Jana Slaughter, pre-K teacher at Andy Woods Elementary.
“We started with a tractor and some corn the first year when I started and it was just my class. Then last year was the first year we had live animals and we included all of pre-K. This is the biggest it's been, we’ve gained animals every year,” she said. “I started working at Andy Woods in 2018 and I just saw the need for kids to have meaningful hands-on experiences, so I reached out to people in the community and here we are today with lots and lots of animals from different places.”
Throughout the farm event, students rotated through different sections and participated in activities such as horseback riding, using a corn grinding machine, getting on top of a tractor, feeding rabbits and cows, wool weaving, and even witnessed a cow getting milked.
Parents were also invited for the experience.
Joseph Juarez, dad of pre-K student at Andy Woods, was in attendance and grateful to witness her daughter experience the event, he said.
GALLERY: More photos from Farm Day at Andy Woods
“Any time I get the chance to get in an activity with Maddy and the school, I’m all for it. I was really excited they were going to have animals because she loves animals. I wanted to see her be around them,” he said.
Juarez said it was awesome to see the students be able to touch them and pet the animals.
Slaughter also conducts the yearly event with the hope it helps students with developing language skills and putting into place everything they learn in the classroom.
“Just having the experience will stick with them and they’ll remember the vocabulary and the things that they see and touch today from what we’ve learned,” she said.
She also said that she hopes it inspires students to get inspired to help out in the community with farming and agriculture. | 2022-10-01T11:44:18+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/news/andy-woods-elementary-students-experience-farm-day-on-campus/article_510fdfdc-410d-11ed-a1da-03174d8197b2.html |
Mick Schumacher declined several opportunities on Thursday to discuss his future in Formula One amid speculation he’ll be dropped by Haas at the end of the season.
The son of seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher is in his second season with Haas, where he was promoted to from the Ferrari Driver Academy. He’s been associated with Ferrari since 2019 after winning the European F3 championship.
Schumacher’s contract with the the academy is set to expire at the end of this year and Haas, which has an engine partnership with Ferrari, would not be obligated to keep the 23-year-old German if Schumacher is no longer part of the program.
Schumacher was asked ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix if he planned to stay at Haas for a third season; if he was talking to other teams; and, “what do you see as the pros and cons of what you do going forward?”
He skirted all three questions.
“I see the pros that I will be racing this weekend and the weekend after and hopefully in Singapore and Suzuka and the races to come,” Schumacher said at Circuit Zandvoort. “I’m excited for this weekend and our car should be quite strong and hopefully I will be able to score some points.”
Schumacher remained stone-faced when asked directly if he wanted to speak about his 2023 plans, and passed on two other questions about his future. The first asked about any conversations he’s had about remaining part of the Ferrari Driver Academy.
“I think in that sense what is being discussed behind the scenes between us is something that is between us, and I would rather keep between us and not speak publicly,” he said.
Schumacher later said “that’s contractual matters, which I can’t go into detail with,” when asked about his future on the F1 grid. If Haas does not retain Schumacher for next season and he’s unable to find another seat, the grid would lose both its German drivers because four-time champion Sebastian Vettel is retiring.
Schumacher was publicly put on notice earlier this season by Haas team principal Guenther Steiner to pick up his performance. He missed the second race of the season when he crashed in Saudi Arabia and was taken briefly to the hospital for evaluation. Schumacher also crashed out at Monaco.
He at last scored the first F1 points of his career in July at the British Grand Prix by finishing eighth at Silverstone. Schumacher was sixth the next race in Austria and has a total of 12 points. Kevin Magnussen, who returned to Haas this season after a one-year parting, leads F1’s only American team with 22 points.
Schumacher, meanwhile, has regressed since his back-to-back breakout races. He was 15th in France, 14th in Hungary and 17th last week in Belgium. Schumacher ranks 15th in the 20-driver standings.
Should he lose his current seat, there aren’t a ton of options for Schumacher. Daniel Ricciardo has been bought out of his contract at McLaren and is looking for a job and McLaren is hoping to win a fight with Alpine to use Oscar Piastri, the Alpine reserve driver, to fill Ricciardo’s seat.
Alpine wants Piastri for the seat opening when Fernando Alonso leaves to replace Vettel at Aston Martin.
Schumacher did receive one endorsement on Thursday when Alpine driver Esteban Ocon said he’s made it clear to the team that Schumacher is his choice to replace Alonso.
“My choice if I had anything to say would be Mick if he doesn’t have anything lined up for next year,” Ocon said. “Mick is a good friend of mine, so if I can help on that, that’s no problem. I think he has shown talents in the junior categories.
“He’s been very fast, you know, sometimes in Formula One. It’s not easy to perform with a car that’s a bit on the backfoot, and he’s a great guy and he could perform very well if he joined a competitive car and at the moment Alpine is competitive.”
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Which Nike football cleats are best?
Football players require lots of equipment, but you should start with a solid pair of shoes before anything else. Having reliable cleats is crucial for safety and performance, no matter your position.
Nike manufactures some of the best football cleats that offer plenty of comfort and traction necessary for moving quickly on the field. For example, the Nike Vapor Edge Pro 360 Men’s Football Cleats are a popular choice, thanks to their durable build, sleek design and ankle cuff for added support.
What to know before you buy Nike football cleats
Size and fit
Your football cleats should fit you comfortably with a bit of wiggle room in the toe box. If your cleats are too tight, you may get sore feet or develop blisters on your heel after a while. Many have a thin shape and build, making them awkward or uncomfortable for those with wide feet, but some styles are available in wide-foot options.
Position
If you play a skill position on offense that requires agility, such as running back or wide receiver, your cleats should be lightweight to run as fast as possible, and the same applies if you’re a defensive back and need to keep up with those players. Stability is more important if you’re a linebacker or a lineman on either side of the ball since you’ll be making physical contact with other players more often.
Cleat ankle cut
There are three football cleat cut styles: low-cut, mid-cut and high-cut. They refer to how high up the ankle the shoe extends. Low-cut shoes are lightweight and let you move fast, but they don’t provide the same ankle support as mid-cut and high-cut cleats.
Skill position players such as running backs, wide receivers and defensive usually prefer low-cut shoes to let them move with quickness and agility. Mid-cut and high-cut shoes are more suitable for tight ends, linebackers or linemen since they provide superior stability and support needed for blocking and tackling.
What to look for in quality Nike football cleats
Molded vs. detachable cleats
Quality Nike cleats have either molded or detachable cleats. Molded cleats have studs fused to the bottom plate and are great for playing on various surfaces. Detachable cleats require more maintenance, but they’re convenient if a stud becomes damaged since you can replace it easily instead of buying new shoes. With detachable studs, you can use short studs to play on dry turf surfaces, while long studs are better for traction on wet grass surfaces.
Durability
Football cleats take a lot of punishment, so It’s crucial to have a durable pair. The upper should be made using synthetic leather, and some shoes have overlays for added durability. Also, the upper should provide some ventilation to help you dry and cool as you play.
Color
Football cleats often come in many colors, so if you’re looking for training shoes, you can choose a color that matches your taste and style. For wearing during games, it’s advisable to wear cleats that complement the rest of your uniform or that are similar to your school or club’s colors.
How much you can expect to spend on Nike football cleats
You can get a reliable pair of cleats for $50-$100, but if you want something more durable, you can expect to pay up to $200.
Nike football cleats FAQ
What’s the difference between baseball and football cleats?
A. Football and baseball cleats look similar, but football cleats are usually heavier. Baseball cleats don’t need to be as durable, and unlike football cleats, the studs can be made of metal since there’s minimal risk of injuring other players.
Are turf rubber-bottom shoes suitable for wearing during games?
A. Rubber-bottom cleats are usually more lightweight and provide solid traction on various surfaces. However, they’re not as durable as traditional football cleats with spikes and
What are the best Nike football cleats to buy?
Top Nike football cleats
Nike Vapor Edge Pro 360 Men’s Football Cleats
What you need to know: These cleats have a high-quality construction and offer elite performance on the field.
What you’ll love: Instead of a traditional plate, these cleats have an internal chassis for support and flexibility. They have several studs on the bottom for superior traction, and the lightweight upper has a durable overlay. There’s also a breathable ankle cuff for extra ankle support.
What you should consider: They’re more suitable for those who play offensive and defensive skill positions than for linemen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Nike football cleats for the money
Nike Men’s Alpha Menace Varsity 2 Football Cleat
What you need to know: These cleats have a classic look and prioritize functionality, making them suitable for players of all skill levels.
What you’ll love: They’re made with synthetic leather and have a wedge midsole in the heel for added comfort. Each shoe has 12 lightweight studs for superior traction on grass and turf, and the heel tab makes it easier to slip them on and off.
What you should consider: They run small and aren’t available in half sizes. Also, some customers report that the ankle straps don’t stay secure during play.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Nike Men’s Alpha Menace Pro 2 Mid Football Cleats
What you need to know: These shoes are as comfortable as they are durable, so you can always play your hardest without worrying about wear and tear.
What you’ll love: These shoes have a hard-shell bottom plate with several spike studs for increased traction that let you perform lateral movements with agility. The midsole has phylon foam that conforms to your foot shape and increases responsiveness, and they’re available in 12 stylish colors.
What you should consider: They have a thin build and fit, making them unsuitable for those with wide feet.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
The court's action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.
The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge, with the same three justices in dissent. | 2022-06-30T15:25:42+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/High-court-rejects-COVID-19-shot-mandate-case-17276604.php |
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Jim Schwartz wants to help Myles Garrett find some solutions when opposing offensive coaches ask the same question to themselves every week:
"How do we keep him from wrecking this game?"
Garrett faced a constant barrage of double-teams and chips last season, yet he still managed to record 16 sacks, which matched the single-season franchise record he set in 2021.
But as Schwartz, who was hired by the Browns on Wednesday as their next defensive coordinator, begins to dive into ways the Browns defense can improve in 2023, he knows the key to unleashing the defense's full potential is to maximize all the talents Garrett brings off the edge.
"The way you affect the game the most in this league is through pass rush," Schwartz said. "We're going to put a lot of emphasis on pass rush. We'll set the bar high at the position."
Unleashing the top talent on a defensive line is how Schwartz has built his coaching career, one that'll reach its 30th season this year.
During his last stint as a defensive coordinator with the Eagles from 2016-20, Schwartz's defensive line ranked seventh in the league across five seasons with 208 sacks. Prior to Philadelphia, he had three players tally double-digit sacks when he was the defensive coordinator in 2014 with the Bills. Four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Mario Williams, for instance, set a career high 14.5 sacks and thrived in Schwartz's defense, which specializes in playing edge rushers further on the outside shoulder of tackles or tight ends.
The positioning, known as the "Wide 9" technique, allows edge rushers to utilize more space and creativity to rush the quarterback.
Schwartz didn't dive into the specific formations he has in mind to elevate Garrett and the rest of the defensive line next season, but his history suggests the D-Line will mirror that strategy in 2023.
No matter the formation, Schwartz knows the top necessity for the defense is to give Garrett as many chances as possible to take down the quarterback.
"It's my job to give him some answers and to be able to give him some pieces, scheme-wise and personnel-wise, around him to allow him to be free and more productive," Schwartz said. "The bar is set really high for a good reason.
"We're going to work real hard at it, and he's going to play his part."
Check out photos of Jim Schwartz speaking with the media after he was named the Browns' new defensive coordinator.
Back where it all started
Schwartz spent the first several minutes of his press conference reminiscing about his memories from the time he was a personnel scout for the Browns, led by then-head coach Bill Belichick, from 1993-95.
Starting as an unpaid intern, Schwartz's responsibilities included a variety of non-football jobs that included buying cigarettes for secretaries, driving people to the airport and filing papers. The hours were long, but they were also full of chances for Schwartz to listen to one of the greatest minds of the sport in Belichick. Nick Saban, Kirk Ferentz, Al Groh and Eric Mangini — all future NFL or college coaches — were on the staff as well.
"I got a Ph.D. in 'Football-ology' from the Browns and from Bill Belichick, and it was just awesome," Schwartz said. "I was mainly in scouting, but we wore a lot of different hats. As long as you had a good work ethic, you were willing to learn and you could keep your mouth shut, you could learn an awful lot — and I was pretty good at all three of those things."
Those lessons led Schwartz on a career that featured three previous stints as a defensive coordinator, a job as a head coach and winning a Super Bowl ring as the defensive coordinator with the Eagles in 2018.
Now, he's back where it all began, and he attributes what's been a successful 30-year career in the NFL to those arduous days in Cleveland.
"It all went back to the years I spent in this building," he said.
A desire to 'reward' the fans
As Schwartz's press conference came to a close, he wanted to make sure he left the podium with one final point about why he was drawn to take the Browns' defensive coordinator job: the fans.
"To be back among the passionate fans in the Midwest, you want to coach where the fans are passionate," Schwartz said. "Philadelphia, OK, check, we had that. Detroit, Buffalo, Tennessee, so you embrace that part of it. I think that's an important part of our process and an important part of what the organization goes through.
"I feel a tremendous amount of responsibility to the fans here to get this right and to reward them." | 2023-01-20T05:09:36+00:00 | clevelandbrowns.com | https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/news-notes-jim-schwartz-aims-to-help-myles-garrett-play-free-and-more-productive |
LOS ANGELES — When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars ceremony, many members of the live audience and TV viewers at home thought it was a joke — until they realized, to their horror, that it wasn’t.
After making little comment about the incident during his concert tour last year, and turning down numerous interview requests, Rock finally hit back on Saturday with a flurry of brutal jabs at Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, bringing up allegations of infidelity in their marriage and describing his Oscar-winning foe repeatedly as a “b—.” The comedic slapback came during Rock’s Netflix special “Selective Outrage,” broadcast live globally from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre.
“You never know who might get triggered,” Rock, dressed in an all-white outfit, joked in a (thinly) veiled allusion to the slap in his set’s opening moments, promising a show that would offend nobody. “Anybody who says ‘Words hurt’ has never been punched in the face.”
Later, during a riff on Snoop Dogg doing so many commercials, he made more pointed reference to Smith, who started out as a musician: “I’m not dissing Snoop,” he said to raucous laughter. “The last thing I need is another mad rapper.”
For much of the special, though, Rock avoided the hotly anticipated subject of his run-in with Smith to follow his friend and fellow Netflix comedian Dave Chappelle in an extended discussion of “wokeness” — including Chappelle’s regular target, trans people — and nod to such low-hanging comic fruit as O.J. Simpson, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, and the Kardashians. He also included edgy material about liking opioids and how the fact that he’s paid for abortions is a sign that he’s pro-choice: “I’ve paid for more abortions than any woman in this room.” Rock also tapped a more personal vein, with extended attention to child-rearing and his love life — and a mention that his mother was in the audience.
When Rock finally confronted the slap head-on, in the set’s final minutes, he pulled no punches. “I’m not a victim, baby. You’ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying,” he said, contrasting his response to Smith’s. “I took that hit like Pacquiao.”
Rock dredged up the question of Pinkett Smith’s alleged infidelity to her husband — an “entanglement” the couple have addressed on the show “Red Table Talk” by saying theirs is not a “conventional marriage.” “She hurt him way more than he hurt me,” Rock quipped. He also cited her as a catalyst in the contretemps as well, drawing whistles and gasps from the audience: “She starts it, I finish it. Nobody’s pickin’ on this b—.”
“You know what my parents told me?” he said, concluding the show with a literal mic drop. “Don’t fight in front of white people.”
Anticipation had been high that Rock would discuss the attack during the special — his first since Netflix’s “Chris Rock: Tamborine” — after previously telling audiences he would have to get paid before he would talk about the incident.
The premiere of “Selective Outrage” comes just days after Smith received a special award from the African American Critics Association for his performance in “Emancipation,” in which he plays a runaway slave. His appearance marked his first in-person speech since the Oscars ceremony. Earlier in the week, he was honored with an NAACP Image Award for outstanding actor in a motion picture for “Emancipation.”
The explosive Oscars moment came while Rock was presenting the award for best documentary. After Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith, the actor leaped from his seat, went onstage and struck Rock across the face.
Less than an hour later, Smith was back onstage, this time making tearful but awkward reference to the attack as he accepted the lead actor award for “King Richard.” Days later, he resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures and was issued a 10-year ban from academy activities, including the Oscars.
The assault became the dominant talking point of last year’s Academy Awards, tarnishing what, up to that point, was a powerful celebration of Black achievement and excellence. He has addressed the incident occasionally, posting an Instagram video in July and making brief comments during interviews promoting “Emancipation.”
Read Rock’s full comments about the slap and the Smiths in “Selective Outrage” below.
“Y’all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith. I got smacked at the Oscars by this motherf—, and people ask, “Did it hurt?” It still hurts! I got “Summertime” ringing in my ears. But I’m not a victim, baby. You will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying. Never gonna happen. I can’t believe it, and I love “Men in Black.” Never gonna happen.”
“I took that hit like Pacquiao, motherf— ... I know you can’t tell on camera, but Will Smith is significantly bigger than me. We are not the same size. Will Smith does movies with his shirt off. You’ve never seen me do a movie with my shirt off. I’m in a movie getting open heart surgery, I’m in a sweater. Will Smith played Muhammad Ali in a movie. You think I auditioned for that part? I played Pookie in “New Jack City.” ... Even in animation, this motherf— is bigger. I’m a zebra, he’s a shark.”
“Will Smith practices selective outrage. Everybody knows what the f— happened. Everybody who really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s—. I didn’t have any “entanglements.” ... His wife was f— her son’s friend. Now, I normally would not talk about this s—. But for some reason (they) put that s— on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that lowdown. ... We all been cheated on. Everybody in here’s been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. “Hey, I was sucking somebody’s d—. How did that make you feel?”
“She hurt him way more than he hurt me, OK? Everybody in the world called him a b—. I called the motherf— to give him my condolences, he ain’t pick up for me. ... They called him a b—. They called his wife a predator. And who does he hit? Me. (Someone) he knows he can beat. That is some b—-ass s—.”
“I didn’t do nothing to this motherf—, OK? Years ago, she said I should quit the Oscars. I shouldn’t host because her man didn’t get nominated (for “Concussion”). The biggest piece of s— ever. ... So I did some jokes about him. That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish it. OK? That’s what happened. Nobody’s picking on this b—. She started this s—. Nobody was picking on her. She said me, a grown-ass man, should quit his job because her husband didn’t get nominated. And then (he) gives me a concussion. What the f—, man?
“I loved Will Smith. All my life I loved (him). ... He made some great movies. I have rooted for Will Smith my whole life. And now I watch “Emancipation” just to see him get whupped. Got me rooting for massa. A lot of people say, “Chris, how come you didn’t do nothing back?” ’Cause I got parents. Because I was raised, OK? You know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”
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BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burns & Levinson is pleased to announce that it represented client Ocean Canyon Resorts, a leading membership camping company headquartered in Texarkana, Texas, in its acquisition by American Adventure Holdings (AAH), an investment holding company. The acquisition was announced on July 7, 2022.
Ocean Canyon Resorts is the largest private membership camping system in the South Central U.S. For over 15 years, Ocean Canyon Resorts has offered best-in-class amenities, unique charm, and warm southern hospitality at their eight beautiful resort destinations located in the Sun Belt Region. With the acquisition, American Adventure Holdings now owns 17 resort locations in seven states, with approximately 30,000 members.
The Burns & Levinson deal team was led by Corporate and M&A Partner Andrew Merken with assistance from Corporate Associate Naveed Cheraghchi, as well as a number of subject matter experts.
"Interest in camping has skyrocketed over the past few years and it was exciting to work with Ocean Canyon Resorts and its talented management team on this significant growth opportunity for the company," said Merken. "This was a transformative event for the company and we look forward to watching as they expand their market leadership position as part of AAH's growing portfolio in the outdoor travel and leisure industry."
"Andy Merken and the entire Burns & Levinson team were invaluable to us during this entire sale process, and we could not have gotten through it without their guidance, experience and support every step of the way," said Peter Graffman, CEO of Ocean Canyon Resorts.
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Ex-Michigan QB, coach Scot Loeffler leads Bowling Green into Detroit bowl
Detroit — Scot Loeffler has coached all over the state of Michigan.
So perhaps it's appropriate that the fourth-year Bowling Green head coach's first bowl game will be played in downtown Detroit. Bowling Green will square off against New Mexico State in a battle of 6-6 squads in the Quick Lane Bowl at Ford Field at 2:30 Dec. 26.
"Our players and staff cannot be more excited to play in the 2022 Quick Lane Bowl," Loeffler said in a statement following the announcement Sunday afternoon. "It is a tremendous opportunity to play in Detroit, which is in our recruiting footprint.
"It will be an exciting game for both programs. I am looking forward to our great BGSU fans filling Ford Field to cheer us on as we go for our seventh win. Go Falcons!"
Loeffler played quarterback at Michigan in the 1990s, before embarking on a lengthy coaching career that included two stints at Michigan, including six years as quarterbacks coach from 2002-07. He also was quarterbacks coach at Central Michigan from 2000-01, and QB coach for the Lions in 2008.
After bouncing from Temple, to Auburn, to Virginia Tech, and to Boston College following his brief run with the Lions, Loeffler was named head coach of Bowling Green in November 2018.
He has the Falcons in a bowl for the first time since 2015. Bowling Green, out of the Mid-American Conference, played at Ford Field in the Motor City Bowl in 2003, holding off Northwestern, 28-24, and the Little Caesars Bowl in 2013, falling to Pittsburgh, 30-27.
Bowling Green boasts wins this season over MAC champion Toledo, as well as Western Michigan and Central Michigan. The Falcons are led by senior receiver Odieu Hiliare (704 yards, six touchdowns) on offense and senior defensive lineman Karl Brooks (Lansing Sexton; 10 sacks) on defense.
The Falcons will take on a New Mexico State team, which has no conference affiliation, that started the season with four losses, before winning six of its last eight to make a bowl game. After San Jose State had to cancel a game this season following the death of a freshman running back, New Mexico State made a late addition of Valparaiso to the schedule, and won, 65-3, on Saturday to qualify for the bowl game. Eight different New Mexico State players scored touchdowns Saturday.
The Aggies are coached by former Saginaw Valley State and Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill, who, in his first season, as New Mexico State has made a bowl game for the first time since 2017.
New Mexico State had just eight wins total since the start of 2018 before Kill's arrival.
"We still have a long long way to go," Kill recently told the Las Cruces Sun News. "At the beginning, I didn't think we would be where we are at, that's for sure.
"We have gotten better each week and have had some guys step up."
New Mexico State's offense has the potential to be potent, scoring 45 or more points four times this season. It is led by junior quarterback Diego Pavia, who's getting better later in the season. He was the national quarterback of the week two weeks ago, before throwing for three TDs and rushing for one against Valparaiso.
This marks the third straight time the Quick Lane Bowl won't include a Big Ten team. With two Big Ten teams going to the College Football Playoff, it didn't have enough eligible teams to fill out all its bowl tie-ins.
Quick Lane Bowl
BOWLING GREEN VS. NEW MEXICO STATE
▶ When: 2:30 Dec. 26, Ford Field, Detroit
▶ Records: Bowling Green 6-6; New Mexico State 6-6
▶ TV: ESPN
▶ Tickets: QuickLaneBowl.com
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Zoo welcomes rare gazelle calves to start the year
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Gray News) - A zoo in Ohio says it is celebrating a baby boom to start the year.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium reports it has welcomed three dama gazelle calves — the rarest of all gazelles — in January and February.
The zoo’s care team said they are thriving since being born to mothers Kix, Susie and Raisin.
“Since Heart of Africa opened in 2014, we’ve welcomed 14 dama gazelle calves, and every birth is special and important to the survival of this rare species,” said Shannon Borders, curator of the Columbus Zoo’s Heart of Africa region.
The three calves have not yet been named, and the team said they continue to bond with their mothers and one another in a behind-the-scenes area at the zoo.
“We’re proud of the dedication and expertise of our care teams who stepped in to help ensure that the calves have what they need for their health and overall wellbeing,” Borders said.
According to the zoo, the calves and their mothers have access to yards adjacent to their barns. The region’s 23-acre savanna that the dama gazelles share with other species is scheduled to reopen after the winter months.
Zoo officials said dama gazelles are critically endangered, with fewer than 300 left in their native range. And the breeding recommendations are part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan.
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- Two posters highlight findings from a long term safety study of VALTOCO in a pediatric population
- The first features investigational data indicating a doubling of time between VALTOCO treated seizure clusters across 12 months
- The second summarizes a sub-analysis showing no long-term safety differences for VALTOCO in patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and other pediatric epileptic encephalopathies
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurelis, Inc., today announced findings from a novel, investigational analysis of the time between seizure clusters in pediatric patients using VALTOCO® (diazepam nasal spray). Findings indicate a significant increase in these intervals, or SEIzure interVAL (SEIVAL) data, over a 12-month period. This data will be presented at the 51st Child Neurology Society Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 12-15, 2022. VALTOCO, a nasal spray for acute treatment of episodes of frequent seizures in adult and pediatric patients 6 years of age and older, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020.
An additional poster presents long-term safety data of VALTOCO for treating seizure clusters in patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) and other pediatric epileptic encephalopathies, which typically appears in infancy or early childhood.
"The SEIVAL data is promising and warrants further study to determine If we can lengthen the time between seizure clusters and enable patients to have fewer of these emergencies overall," said Adrian Rabinowicz, M.D., SVP Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. "The LGS findings also are an encouraging sign that diazepam nasal spray can be used safely in LGS patients, who often are on other chronic benzodiazepine medications."
Key Findings from these analyses include:
- The pediatric patient subgroup, ages 6 to 17, showed the same SEIVAL pattern that was reported in adults. For data across all Periods 1-4 (n=32), mean SEIVAL in this group increased from 13 days (Period 1) to 25.9 days (Period 4), and no effect of concomitant anti-seizure medication change was observed.
- Of the 163 treated patients, treatment-emergent events (TEAEs) were reported in 6 of 7 (85.7%) patients with LGS and 57 of 64 (89.1%) pediatric patients with encephalopathies. The only treatment-related TEAEs in ≥2 patients in either group was epistaxis (n=2). There were no serious TEAEs and no discontinuations due to TEAEs or deaths in either group.
Poster Presentation Information
- Examination of SEIzure interVAL data (SEIVAL) Over Time in Pediatric Patients in a Phase 3, Long-Term Open-Label, Repeat-Dose Safety Study of Diazepam Nasal Spray for the Treatment of Seizure Clusters (Poster #42)
- Do Patients with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Respond Differently to Diazepam Nasal Spray (VALTOCO®) than Other Patients with Pediatric Encephalopathies? Final Safety and Effectiveness Results From a Phase 3, Long-Term Open-Label, Repeat-Dose Safety Study (Poster #43, Selected as a guided poster tour)
Neurelis, Inc., is a commercial-stage neuroscience company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for the treatment of epilepsy and orphan neurologic disorders characterized by high unmet medical need. In 2020, the FDA approved Neurelis' VALTOCO® (diazepam nasal spray) as an acute treatment of intermittent, stereotypic episodes of frequent seizure activity (i.e., seizure clusters, acute repetitive seizures) that are distinct from an individual's usual seizure pattern in adult and pediatric patients 6 years of age and older. VALTOCO is a proprietary formulation of diazepam incorporating the science of INTRAVAIL®. Intravail's transmucosal absorption enhancement technology enables the noninvasive delivery of a broad range of protein, peptide and small-molecule drugs. In its approval of VALTOCO, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration also granted Neurelis Orphan Drug Exclusivity and recognized VALTOCO's intranasal route of administration as a clinically superior contribution to patient care over the previously approved standard-of-care treatment (a rectal gel formulation of diazepam). For more information on VALTOCO, please visit http://www.valtoco.com/. In addition to VALTOCO, Neurelis is developing NRL-2 for intermittent use to control acute panic attacks, NRL-3 as a noninvasive acute therapy to stop seizures that have progressed to status epilepticus, and NRL-4 as a noninvasive rescue therapy to address the escalation of acute agitation symptoms associated with schizophrenia and bipolar 1 mania in adults. In addition, Neurelis is developing NRL-1049 (previously known as BA-1049), an investigational, pre-clinical stage small molecule Rho kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, for the treatment of cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMS), a rare disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). For more information on Neurelis, please visit http://www.neurelis.com/. For the latest scientific information on VALTOCO, please visit http://www.neurelismedicalaffairs.com/.
VALTOCO® (diazepam nasal spray) is indicated for the acute treatment of intermittent, stereotypic episodes of frequent seizure activity (i.e., seizure clusters, acute repetitive seizures) that are distinct from a patient's usual seizure pattern in patients with epilepsy 6 years of age and older.
WARNING: RISKS FROM CONCOMITANT USE WITH OPIOIDS; ABUSE, MISUSE, AND ADDICTION; and DEPENDENCE AND WITHDRAWAL REACTIONS
- Concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids may result in profound sedation, respiratory depression, coma, and death. Reserve concomitant prescribing of these drugs for patients for whom alternative treatment options are inadequate. Limit dosages and durations to the minimum required. Follow patients for signs and symptoms of respiratory depression and sedation.
- The use of benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, exposes users to risks of abuse, misuse, and addiction, which can lead to overdose or death. Abuse and misuse of benzodiazepines commonly involve concomitant use of other medications, alcohol, and/or illicit substances, which is associated with an increased frequency of serious adverse outcomes. Before prescribing VALTOCO and throughout treatment, assess each patient's risk for abuse, misuse, and addiction.
- The continued use of benzodiazepines may lead to clinically significant physical dependence. The risks of dependence and withdrawal increase with longer treatment duration and higher daily dose. Although VALTOCO is indicated only for intermittent use, if used more frequently than recommended, abrupt discontinuation or rapid dosage reduction of VALTOCO may precipitate acute withdrawal reactions, which can be life-threatening. For patients using VALTOCO more frequently than recommended, to reduce the risk of withdrawal reactions, use a gradual taper to discontinue VALTOCO.
Contraindications: VALTOCO is contraindicated in patients with:
- Hypersensitivity to diazepam
- Acute narrow-angle glaucoma
Central Nervous System (CNS) Depression
Benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, may produce CNS depression. Caution patients against engaging in hazardous activities requiring mental alertness, such as operating machinery, driving a motor vehicle, or riding a bicycle, until the effects of the drug, such as drowsiness, have subsided, and as their medical condition permits.
The potential for a synergistic CNS-depressant effect when VALTOCO is used with alcohol or other CNS depressants must be considered, and appropriate recommendations made to the patient and/or care partner.
Suicidal Behavior and Ideation
Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), including VALTOCO, increase the risk of suicidal ideation and behavior. Patients treated with any AED for any indication should be monitored for the emergence or worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behavior, and/or unusual changes in mood or behavior.
Glaucoma
Benzodiazepines, including VALTOCO, can increase intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma. VALTOCO may only be used in patients with open-angle glaucoma only if they are receiving appropriate therapy. VALTOCO is contraindicated in patients with narrow-angle glaucoma.
Risk of Serious Adverse Reactions in Infants due to Benzyl Alcohol Preservative
VALTOCO is not approved for use in neonates or infants. Serious and fatal adverse reactions, including "gasping syndrome," can occur in neonates and low-birth-weight infants treated with benzyl alcohol-preserved drugs, including VALTOCO. The "gasping syndrome" is characterized by central nervous system depression, metabolic acidosis, and gasping respirations. The minimum amount of benzyl alcohol at which serious adverse reactions may occur is not known.
Adverse Reactions
The most common adverse reactions (at least 4%) were somnolence, headache, and nasal discomfort.
Diazepam, the active ingredient in VALTOCO, is a Schedule IV controlled substance.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Neurelis, Inc. at 1-866-696-3873 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (www.fda.gov/medwatch).
Please see full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning, for additional important safety information.
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Customers will have access to practical guidance in navigating day‐to‐day FCPA‐related issues
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today announced it has expanded its content in corporate governance with the addition of a landmark treatise titled "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement." The treatise will be available on both the VitalLaw and VitalLaw for Corporate Counsel platforms.
Authored by respected legal practitioners from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the resource is a comprehensive guide that addresses all aspects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and offers practical guidance to navigate day‐to‐day FCPA‐related issues, providing legal professionals with thorough, easy‐to‐understand content on these topics in one place. The title has approximately 30 appendices, including practical forms such as sample policies and due diligence checklists, sample contractual FCPA safeguards, compliance certifications, and more.
"This expansion on VitalLaw will provide our customers with beneficial resources and information on the FCPA, a high priority enforcement area for the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission," said Ken Crutchfield, Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. "Compliance with the FCPA is a priority for corporations, boards, and management teams around the world, and we are excited to provide our customers with this exceptional resource as we move forward on expanding the breadth of content across our platforms."
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- The FCPA's antibribery provisions and accounting provisions;
- The type of conduct for which corporations and individual officers and directors can be held civilly and criminally liable;
- How to implement a compliance program and risk mitigation measures;
- What to do when an FCPA issue arises, and more.
"The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a business practices statute, and compliance is critical for global corporations, boards, and management teams who regularly face existential legal and reputational risks from corruption threats and obstacles," said Martin Weinstein, Chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher's Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement Practice and co-author of the resource. "We are thrilled to partner with Wolters Kluwer to provide an updated, comprehensive guide to all things FCPA to help legal practitioners and in‐house counsel navigate the challenges of doing business successfully and legally around the world."
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U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday.
In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials blamed COVID-19 for about half the decline in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new coronavirus variants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths. Other contributors to the decline are longstanding problems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease.
“It's a dismal situation. It was bad before and it's gotten worse,” said Samuel Preston, a University of Pennsylvania demographer.
Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, given death rates at that time. It is "the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country," said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher focused on population health patterns.
U.S. life expectancy rose for decades, but progress stalled before the pandemic.
It was 78 years, 10 months in 2019. In 2020, it dropped to 77 years. Last year, it fell to about 76 years, 1 month.
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The last time it was that low was in 1996.
Declines during the pandemic were worse for some racial groups, and some gaps widened. For example, life expectancy for American Indian and Alaskan Native people saw a decline of more than 6 1/2 years since the pandemic began, and is at 65 years. In the same span, life expectancy for Asian Americans dropped by about two years, and stands at 83 1/2.
Experts say there are many possible reasons for such differences, including lack of access to quality health care, lower vaccination rates, and a greater share of the population in lower-paying jobs that required them to keep working when the pandemic was at its worst.
The new report is based on provisional data. Life expectancy estimates can change with the addition of more data and further analysis. For example, the CDC initially said life expectancy in 2020 declined by about 1 year 6 months. But after more death reports and analysis came in, it ended up being about 1 year 10 months.
But it's likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, CDC officials said.
Findings in the report:
—Life expectancy for women in the United States dropped about 10 months, from just under 80 years in 2020 to slightly more than 79 in 2021. Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
—COVID-19 deaths were the main reason for the decline. The second largest contributor was deaths from accidental injuries — primarily from drug overdoses, which killed a record-breaking 107,000 Americans last year.
—White people saw the second biggest drop among racial and ethnic groups, with life expectancy falling one year, to about 76 years, 5 months. Black Americans had the third largest decline, falling more than eight months, to 70 years, 10 months
—Hispanic Americans had seen a huge drop in life expectancy in 2020 — four years. But in 2021, life expectancy for them dropped by about two months, to about 77 years, 7 months. Preston thinks good vaccination rates among Hispanics played a role.
The report also suggests gains against suicide are being undone.
U.S. suicides rose from the early 2000s until 2018. But they fell a little in 2019 and then more in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. Experts had wondered if that may have been related to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and national disasters in which people band together and support each other.
The new report said suicide contributed to the decline in life expectancy in 2021, but it did not provide detail. According to provisional numbers from a public CDC database, the number of U.S. suicides increased last year by about 2,000, to 48,000. The U.S. suicide rate rose as well, from 13.5 per 100,000 to 14.1 — bringing it back up to about where it was in 2018.
If you or someone you know needs help, please contact the National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988, or reach out to the Crisis Text Line by texting ‘Home’ to 741741, anytime. | 2022-08-31T12:45:55+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/us-life-expectancy-plunged-again-in-2021-down-nearly-a-year/2928022/ |
Drew Lock returns to practice for Seahawks after COVID case
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Drew Lock has returned to practice for the Seattle Seahawks after testing positive for COVID-19 this past week and missing the team’s second preseason game. Seattle coach Pete Carroll says Lock reacted well to being back out on the field and had a normal amount of work. What that means for Seattle’s preseason finale next Friday at Dallas remains to be seen, according to Carroll although he said Lock should get significant playing time should he feel well enough. Lock is in competition with Geno Smith to be the starting quarterback after Russell Wilson was traded to Denver in the offseason. | 2022-08-22T00:43:25+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/ap-business/2022/08/21/drew-lock-returns-to-practice-for-seahawks-after-covid-case/ |
KYIV – The onset of autumnal weather, with rains making fields too muddy for tanks, is beginning to cloud Ukraine's efforts to take back more Russian-held territory before winter freezes the battlefields, a Washington-based think tank said Sunday.
Russia, meanwhile, pressed on with its call-up of hundreds of thousands of men to throw into the seven-month war, seeking to reverse its recent losses. It also deployed suicide drones Sunday against the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, Ukrainian authorities said. No casualties were immediately reported.
The Russian mobilization — its first such call-up since World War II — is sparking protests in Russian cities, with fresh demonstrations Sunday.
It is also opening splits in Europe about whether fighting-age Russian men fleeing in droves should be welcomed or turned away.
For Ukrainian and Russian military planners, the clock is ticking, with the approach of winter expected to make fighting more complicated. Already, rainy weather is bringing muddy conditions that are starting to limit the mobility of tanks and other heavy weaponry, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
But the think tank said Ukrainian forces are still gaining ground in their counteroffensive, launched in late August, that has spectacularly rolled back the Russian occupation across large areas of the northeast and which also prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin's new drive for reinforcements.
The partial mobilization has triggered an exodus of men seeking to avoid the draft — and sharp differences of opinion in Europe about how to deal with them.
Lithuania, a European Union member-country that borders Kaliningrad, a Russian Baltic Sea exclave, said it won't grant them asylum. “Russians should stay and fight. Against Putin," Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tweeted.
His counterpart in Latvia, also an EU member and bordering Russia, said the exodus poses "considerable security risks" for the 27-nation bloc and that those fleeing can't be considered conscientious objectors against the invasion.
Many “were fine with killing Ukrainians, they did not protest then,” the Latvian foreign minister, Edgars Rinkevics, tweeted. He added that they have "plenty of countries outside EU to go.”
Officials in other EU nations, however, say Europe has a duty to help, and fear that turning away Russians could play into Putin's hands, feeding his narrative that the West has always hated Russians and that the war is being waged to safeguard their country against Western hostility.
“Closing our frontiers would fit neither with our values nor our interests,” a 40-strong group of senators in France said in a statement. They urged the EU to grant refugee status to Russians fleeing mobilization and said turning them away would be “a mistake by Europe in the war of communication and influence that is playing out.”
The mobilization is also running hand-in-hand with Kremlin-orchestrated votes in four occupied regions of Ukraine that could pave the way for their imminent annexation by Russia.
Ukraine and its Western allies say the referendums in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions have no legal force. The votes are set to wrap up Tuesday but are being dismissed in Ukraine and the West as a sham, with footage showing armed Russian troops going door to door to pressure Ukrainians into voting.
Ukraine’s Reintegration Ministry said Russia has brought people from Belarus, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, Syria, Togo, Uruguay and Venezuela to act as supposed outside observers. The ministry warned that they “will be punished,” without specifying how.
In cities across Russia, police have arrested hundreds of protesters against the mobilization order. Women opposed to the call-up protested Sunday in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. Videos shared by local media showed a crowd of a few hundred people, mostly women, holding hands and marching in a circle around a group of police. Police later dragged some away or forced them into police vans. News website SakhaDay said the women chanted pacifist slogans and songs.
At least 2,000 people have been arrested in recent days for similar demonstrations around the country. Many of those taken away immediately received call-up summons.
Other Russians are reporting for duty. Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu have said the order applies to reservists who recently served or have special skills, but almost every man is considered a reservist until age 65 and Putin’s decree kept the door open for a broader call-up.
The Kremlin said its initial aim is to add about 300,000 troops to its forces in Ukraine, struggling with equipment losses, mounting casualties and weakening morale. The mobilization marks a sharp shift from Putin's previous efforts to portray the war as a limited military operation that wouldn’t interfere with most Russians’ lives.
The call-up is being accompanied by tougher punishments for Russian soldiers who disobey officers’ orders, desert or surrender to the enemy. Putin signed those measures into law on Saturday.
The Ukrainian government stopped allowing most men ages 18-60 to leave the country immediately after Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion under a general mobilization order intended to build a 1 million-strong military.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-09-25T11:37:55+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/09/25/winters-approach-sets-clock-ticking-for-ukraine-russia/ |
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak there as an emergency and are calling on rich countries to share the world’s limited supply of vaccines in an effort to avoid the glaring equity problems seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monkeypox has been sickening people in parts of central and west Africa for decades, but the lack of laboratory diagnosis and weak surveillance means many cases are going undetected across the continent. To date, countries in Africa have reported more than 1,800 suspected cases so far this year including more than 70 deaths, but only 109 have been lab-confirmed.
“This particular outbreak for us means an emergency,” said Ahmed Ogwell, the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control. “We want to be able to address monkeypox as an emergency now so that it does not cause more pain and suffering,” he said.
Last week, WHO said its emergency committee concluded that the expanding monkeypox outbreak was worrying, but did not yet warrant being declared a global health emergency. The U.N. health agency said it would reconsider its decision if the disease continued spreading across more borders, showed signs of increased severity, or began infecting vulnerable groups like pregnant women and children.
Globally, more than 5,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 51 countries, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of those cases are in Europe. No deaths beyond Africa have been reported.
Within Africa, WHO said monkeypox has spread to countries where it hasn’t previously been seen, including South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. But more than 90% of the continent’s infections are in Congo and Nigeria, according to WHO’s Africa director, Dr. Moeti Matshidiso.
She said that given the limited global supplies of vaccines to fight monkeypox, WHO was in talks with manufacturers and countries with stockpiles to see if they might be shared. The vaccines have mainly been developed to stop smallpox, a related disease — and most are not authorized for use against monkeypox in Africa. Vaccines have not previously been used to try to stamp out monkeypox epidemics in Africa; officials have relied mostly on measures like contact tracing and isolation.
“We would like to see the global spotlight on monkeypox act as a catalyst to beat this disease once and for all in Africa,” she said at a press briefing Thursday.
WHO noted that similar to the scramble last year for COVID-19 vaccines, countries with supplies of vaccines to stop monkeypox are not yet sharing them with African countries.
“We do not have any donations that have been offered to (poorer) countries,” said Fiona Braka, who heads WHO’s emergency response team in Africa. “We know that those countries that have some stocks, they are mainly reserving them for their own populations.”
WHO said last month it was working to create a mechanism to share vaccines with countries with the biggest outbreaks, which some fear could see vaccines go to rich countries like Britain, Germany and France, some of the agency’s biggest donors and who already have their own supplies.
While monkeypox cases in Europe and North America have been mostly identified in men who are gay, bisexual or sleep with other men, that is not the case in Africa.
WHO’s Tieble Traore said that according to detailed data from Ghana, the numbers of monkeypox cases were almost evenly split between men and women.
“We have not yet seen spread among men who have sex with men,” he said.
Among monkeypox cases in Britain, which has the biggest outbreak beyond Africa, the vast majority of cases are in men and officials have noted it is spreading only within “defined sexual networks of gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men.”
Scientists warn that anyone is at risk of catching monkeypox if they come into close, physical contact with an infected patient or their clothing or bedsheets.
In Africa, monkeypox has mainly been spread to people from infected wild animals like rodents or primates. It has not typically triggered widespread outbreaks or rapid spread between people.
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AP journalist Maria Cheng in London contributed. | 2022-07-01T18:55:37+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/international/african-officials-monkeypox-spread-is-already-an-emergency/ |
The Czech writer Milan Kundera was interested in big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism. But his books always approached them with a sense of humor, a certain lightness. Kundera has died in Paris at the age of 94, the Milan Kundera Library said Wednesday.
Kundera's most popular book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, follows a tangle of lovers before and after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It starts off ruminating on philosophy, but it has a conversational tone.
Kundera played with dichotomies — simple images against high-minded philosophy — presenting totalitarianism as both momentous and everyday. Sex being both deeply serious and kind of gross and funny.
"He's interested in what he calls the thinking novel," says Michelle Woods, who teaches literature at SUNY New Paltz. Woods wrote a book about the many translations of Kundera's work and she says Kundera thought readers should come to novels looking for more than just plot – they should leave with "more questions than answers."
Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929. His first book, The Joke, was a satirical take on totalitarian communism. The Czech government held up its publication, insisted that Kundera change a few things, but he refused. It was eventually published in 1967 to wide acclaim.
A year later, Czechoslovakia, which was in the middle of a cultural revolution, was invaded by the Soviet Union, and Kundera was blacklisted. His books were banned from stores and libraries. He was fired from his teaching job. He tried to stay in his home country but eventually left for France in 1975.
Kundera set Unbearable Lightness during this time in Czech history and the book was later made into a movie. Tomas — in the movie played by Daniel Day-Lewis — is a doctor who, amidst all this political turmoil and unrest, is busy juggling lovers.
The book coupled with his status as a writer-in-exile made Kundera popular across the globe — but Michelle Woods said he bristled at the fame.
"He really hated the idea that people were obsessed by the celebrity author," she says.
He didn't do many interviews and he didn't like being glorified. And even after being exiled from his home — he didn't like being seen as a dissident.
"It's maybe apocryphal, but apparently when he first went back to the Czech Republic he wore a disguise — a fake moustache and stuff, so he wouldn't be recognized," Woods says.
He was always interested in humor, especially in the face of something deathly serious. In a rare 1983 interview with the Paris Review, he said: "My lifetime ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form."
Mixing the two together, Milan Kundera believed, reveals something honest about our lives.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-12T12:23:15+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-07-12/milan-kundera-who-wrote-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-dies-at-94 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death.
Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s air-quality limits at least occasionally. The danger grows worse when that bad air is more persistent than the nightmarish shroud that hit the U.S. — usually in developing or newly industrialized nations. That’s where most of the 4.2 million deaths blamed on outdoor air pollution occurred in 2019, the UN’s health agency reported.
“Air pollution has no boundaries, and it is high time everyone comes together to fight it,” said Bhavreen Kandhari, the co-founder of Warrior Moms in India, a network of mothers pushing for clean air and climate action in a nation with some of the world’s consistently worst air. “What we are seeing in the U.S. should shake us all.”
“This is a severe air pollution episode in the U.S.,” said Jeremy Sarnat, a professor of environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. “But it’s fairly typical for what millions and millions of people experience in other parts of the world.”
Last year, nine of the 10 cities with the highest annual average of fine particulate matter were in Asia — including six in India, according to air quality company IQAir, which aggregates readings from ground level monitoring stations worldwide.
Fine particulate matter, sometimes denoted as PM 2.5, refers to airborne particles or droplets of 2.5 microns or less. That’s far smaller than a human hair, and the particles can reach deep into lungs to cause eye, nose, throat and lung irritation and even affect heart function.
Sajjad Haider, a 31-year-old shopkeeper in Lahore, Pakistan, rides his motorbike to work daily. He wears a mask and goggles against frequent air pollution in the city of 11 million, but suffers from eye infections, breathing problems and chest congestion that get worse as smog grows in winter.
On his doctor’s advice, he relies on hot water and steam to clear his chest, but said he cannot follow another bit of the doctor’s advice: Don’t go out on his motorbike if he wants to keep his health.
“I can’t afford a car and I can’t continue my business without a motorbike,” said Haider.
Last year, Lahore had the world’s highest average concentration of fine particulate matter at nearly 100 micrograms per cubic meter of air. By comparison, New York City’s concentration hit 303 at one point on Wednesday.
But New York’s air typically falls well within healthy levels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for exposure is no more than 35 micrograms per day, and no more than 12 micrograms a day for longer-term exposure. New York’s annual average was 10 or below the past two years.
New Delhi, a heaving city of more than 20 million where Kandhari lives, usually tops the list of the many Indian cities gasping for breath as haze turns the capital’s sky gray and obscures buildings and monuments. It’s worse in autumn, when the burning of crop residues in neighboring states coincides with cooler temperatures that trap deadly smoke over the city, sometimes for weeks.
Vehicle emissions and fireworks set off during the Hindu Diwali festival add to the murk, and the results include coughs, headaches, flight delays and highway pileups. The government sometimes asks residents to work from home or carpool, some schools go online and families that can afford them turn to air purifiers.
On Thursday, even as a hazardous haze disrupted life for millions across the U.S., New Delhi still ranked as the second-most polluted city in the world, according to daily data from most air quality monitoring organizations.
Kandhari, whose daughter had to give up outdoor sports over health scares related to the bad air, said the air pollution is constant but policymakers only seem to notice its most acute moments. That has to change, she said.
“We should not compromise when it comes to access to cleaner air,” Kandhari said.
Many African countries in the Sahara Desert regularly grapple with bad air due to sandstorms. On Thursday, AccuWeather gave nations ranging from Egypt to Senegal a rating of purple, for dangerous air quality. It was the same rating given this week to New York and Washington, D.C.
Senegal has suffered unsafe air for years. It’s especially bad in Senegal’s east as desertification — the encroachment of the Sahara onto drylands — carries particles into the region, said Dr. Aliou Ba, a senior Greenpeace Africa campaigner based in the capital of Dakar.
The Great Green Wall, a massive tree-planting effort aimed at slowing desertification, has been underway for years. But Ba said pollution has been growing worse as the number of cars on the road, burning low-quality fuel, increases.
In the U.S., the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act cleared up many smog-filled cities by setting limits on most sources of air pollution. The landmark regulation led to curbs on soot, smog, mercury and other toxic chemicals.
But many developing and newly industrialized nations have weak or little-enforced environmental laws. They suffer increased air pollution for other reasons, too, including a reliance on coal, lower vehicle emissions standards and the burning of solid fuels for cooking and heating.
In Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country, it’s often difficult to find clear blue sky, with power plants and vehicle emissions accounting for much of the pollution. It’s also one of the world’s largest coal-producing nations.
In one apartment building in the north of the city, between two busy ports where coal is shipped and stockpiled and where factories burn more, residents tried filtering coal dust with a net. It didn’t work.
“My family and I often feel itching and coughing,” Cecep Supriyadi, a 48-year-old resident, said. “So, when there is a lot of dust entering the flat, yes, we must be isolated at home. Because when we are outside the house, it feels like a sore throat, sore eyes, and itchy skin.”
An Indonesian court in 2021 ruled that leaders had neglected citizens’ rights to clean air and ordered them to improve it.
China has improved since Beijing was notorious for eye-watering pollution that wreathed office towers in haze, diverted flights and sent the old and young to hospitals to be put on respirators. When the air was at its worst, schools that could afford it installed inflatable covers over sports fields with airlock-style revolving doors and home air filters became as ubiquitous as rice cookers.
Key to the improvement was closing or moving heavy industries out of Beijing and nearby areas. Older vehicles were taken off the road, many replaced with electric vehicles. China still is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, but almost none is consumed at street level. The average PM 2.5 reading in Beijing in 2013 of 89.5 — well above the WHO’s standard of 10 — fell to 58 in 2017 and now sits at around 30. China had just one city — Hotan — in the world’s top 10 for worst air.
Mexico City, ringed by mountains that trap bad air, was one of the most polluted cities in the world until the 1990s, when the government began limiting the number of cars on the streets. Pollution levels dropped, but the city’s 9 million people — 22 million including suburbs — rarely see a day when air pollution levels are considered “acceptable.”
Each year, air pollution is responsible for nearly 9,000 deaths in Mexico City, according to the National Institute of Public Health. It’s usually worse in the dry winter and early spring months, when farmers burn their fields to prepare for planting.
Authorities haven’t released a full-year air quality report since 2020, but that year — not considered particularly bad for pollution, because the pandemic reduced traffic— Mexico City saw unacceptable air quality on 262 days, or 72% of the year.
In the summer months, intense rains clean the city’s air somewhat. That’s what brought Verónica Tobar and her two children out Thursday to a small playground in the Acueducto neighborhood near one of the city’s most congested avenues.
“We don’t come when we see that the pollution is very strong,” Tobar said. Those days “you feel it in your eyes, you cry, they’re itchy,” she said.
Her son was diagnosed with asthma last year and changes in temperature make it worse.
“But we have to get out, we can’t be locked up,” Tobar said as her children jumped off a slide.
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Naishadham reported from Washington. Associated Press reporters Yu Bing in Beijing; Babar Dogar in Lahore; Mark Stevenson and Teresa de Miguel in Mexico City; Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi; Sam Mednick in Dakar, Senegal; Edna Tarigan and Victoria Milko in Jakarta; and data journalist Camille Fassett in Seattle contributed to this report. | 2023-06-09T18:20:22+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news/for-many-cities-around-the-world-bad-air-an-inescapable-part-of-life/ |
This marks the second loss for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which previously formed Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon is still fighting that historic first union win.
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This marks the second loss for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which previously formed Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon is still fighting that historic first union win.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-10-19T09:51:39+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2022-10-19/at-an-amazon-warehouse-in-upstate-new-york-workers-vote-against-unionizing |
To address a teaching shortage in the state, Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is proposing more flexible regulations in certain high needs subjects.
Currently, Massachusetts teachers with professional licenses are required to participate in a 150 hour internship to teach students with disabilities or English as a Second Language.
Proposed changes would allow classroom teachers to obtain a provisional license in those fields, before they complete an internship.
At this month's board meeting, Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeff Riley said the proposed amendments to state licensure would let more educators teach in fields where school districts are reporting major staffing challenges.
"This would allow traditional teachers an easier pathway to get a license in Special Education or ESL, or it would create some relief in a new license for [school] nurses and things like that," Riley said.
Board members voted unanimously in favor of the proposals. After a public comment period, a final vote is expected in June. | 2023-04-28T14:02:40+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-04-28/flexible-licensing-proposal-could-address-teacher-shortage-in-massachusetts |
Through April 2 1. AJ Allmendinger, 1. 1. Cole Custer, 1. 1. Austin Hill, 1. 1. Chandler Smith, 1.
Through April 2 1. AJ Allmendinger, 1. 1. Cole Custer, 1. 1. Austin Hill, 1. 1. Chandler Smith, 1. More NewsNorthwood baseball extends win streak to 11NU Roundup: T'wolves split in softball | 2023-04-03T19:14:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/nascar-xfinity-pole-winners-17876054.php |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "SuperCash" game were:
05-11-13-22-29-37, Doubler: N
(five, eleven, thirteen, twenty-two, twenty-nine, thirty-seven; Doubler: N)
¶ Maximum prize: $350,000 | 2022-09-23T03:12:04+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-SuperCash-game-17461120.php |
The following items were taken from Highland Park police department and Lake County court clerk reports, news releases and records. An arrest does not constitute a finding of guilt.
BURGLARY
Someone forced entry into a home in the 1900 block of Keats Court and ransacked multiple rooms. It is unknown if any items were taken.
An unknown individual or individuals entered a home in the 2900 block of Priscilla Avenue through an open garage door and then an unlocked door leading into the house. Purses, wallets, key fobs and three bicycles were stolen, as well as a vehicle parked in the driveway. The vehicle was later recovered by the Lansing Police Department.
Someone entered an unlocked vehicle in the 1200 block of Park Avenue West Aug. 9 taking credit cards which were fraudulently used with merchants.
DUI
Shirley Price Harwood, 52, of the 800 block of Harvard Court in Highland Park, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol Aug. 14. Police stopped Harwood near the intersection of Skokie Valley and Half Day roads. She was released on bond and is scheduled to appear in Lake County Court Sept. 23 in Waukegan.
CRIMINAL DEFACEMENT OF PROPERTY
Ryan A. Nedoss, 27, of the 2600 block of Roslyn Lane in Highland Park, was charged with criminal defacement of property, improper passing on right, disobeying a traffic control device and driving in the wrong lane Aug. 14. After responding to a report of criminal defacement of property in the 400 block of Green Bay Road, police encountered Nedoss following a traffic stop in the 700 block of Green Bay and took him into custody. He was released on bond and is scheduled to appear in Lake County court Sept. 15 in Waukegan.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
A business in the 1300 block of Half Day Road reported Aug. 9 a vehicle it rented to a customer was scheduled to be returned July 4 and was not yet been returned.
THEFT
Someone stole the catalytic converter from a vehicle parked in the 500 block of Hyacinth Place Aug. 9.
A business in the 1300 block of Half Day Road reported Aug. 11 a vehicle it rented Aug. 9 and due back Aug. 10 was sold through an online marketplace Aug. 11. | 2022-08-23T17:05:04+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/ct-hpn-highland-park-blotter-tl-0825-20220823-r4cir2fkhzflbnuylmesl4rdti-story.html |
- Researchers target CD123+/CD33+ leukemic cells while minimizing toxicity against healthy cells -
DURHAM, N.C., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CoImmune, Inc., a clinical stage immuno-oncology company working to redefine cancer treatment using best-in-class cellular immunotherapies, today announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that a strategy based on the company's proprietary Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Cytokine Induced Killer (CAR-CIK) cell platform provides advantages over single-targeting CARs including improved efficacy and high specificity in a model of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The preclinical data are published in Blood Advances, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Hematology.
"CAR-engineered T-cells have demonstrated high therapeutic potential, but further development is required to ensure a safe and durable disease remission in AML," said Andrea Biondi, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Scientific Director of the M. Tettamanti Research Center. "The impressive safety profile and encouraging activity of CAR-CIK cells is particularly attractive in the AML setting, in which older age and comorbidities hamper adoptive cell therapy options because of the risk of severe cytokine release syndrome or immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome."
The publication, titled, "IL-3-zetakine combined with a CD33 costimulatory receptor as a dual CAR approach for safer and selective targeting of AML," describes an approach to developing CAR-CIK cells that co-express a first-generation low affinity anti-CD123 interleukin-3–zetakine (IL-3z) and an anti-CD33 as co-stimulatory receptor without activation signaling domains (CD33.CCR). The dual strategy demonstrated powerful antitumor efficacy against AML targets without any relevant toxicity on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and endothelial cells. Specifically, the researchers found:
- CD123 and/or CD33 knockout impairs leukemia growth by modulating multiple cancer pathways in a model of NPM1-mutated AML.
- CAR-CIK cells mediate high antileukemic efficacy through transacting co-stimulation.
- Low affinity CAR-CIK cells decrease on-target/off tumor toxicity against endothelial and HSPCs in vitro.
- Low affinity CAR-CIK cells preserve antileukemic efficacy in vitro and improve antitumor control in vivo.
"CAR T-cell therapy in AML is limited by the absence of an ideal tumor-specific antigen," said Sarah Tettamanti, Ph.D., Tettamanti Center, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy. "In this study, we describe a novel strategy using CAR-CIK cells to target both CD33 and CD123 without the risk of severe on target/off-tumor toxicities. This approach has the potential to improve the outcome of patients with AML."
About CoImmune, Inc.
CoImmune is a privately held, clinical stage immuno-oncology company that will redefine cancer treatment using best-in-class cellular immunotherapies. Our allogeneic CAR-CIK technology platform for liquid and solid tumors is a variation on CAR-T therapy that promises enhanced efficacy with greatly reduced toxicity. Our autologous RNA-loaded dendritic cell technology for solid tumors uses amplified total tumor mRNA to program highly engineered dendritic cells to generate immune responses against neoantigens without the need to identify them. For more information visit www.coimmune.com.
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SOURCE CoImmune, Inc. | 2023-07-05T13:12:23+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/07/05/coimmune-announces-publication-preclinical-data-demonstrating-efficacy-specificity-car-cik-cells-acute-myeloid-leukemia/ |
Video: Car lands upside down after crashing through San Francisco barrier
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A car crashed through a dead-end barrier on a San Francisco street, plummeting over a steep hill to the road below and landing on its roof.
Videos posted on social media show the car flipping as it fell to Sanchez Street and 19th Street around 7:20 p.m. on Saturday. Witnesses told the San Francisco Fire Department that the driver didn't stop at the end of Cumberland Street.
Witnesses told KTVU the incident started with an attempted carjacking and ended at the base of the Sanchez Street Stairs.
No injuries were reported, the fire department said, but all the people in the car had fled.
"It looked like a scene out of Dukes of Hazard," said one person who came to inspect the scene Sunday.
Another person was amazed no one was killed.
"They just walked away," said Aimee Barber. "They lucky as hell."
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the San Francisco Police Department at 415-575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD. You may remain anonymous. | 2023-07-24T01:57:24+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/car-lands-on-roof-after-driving-through-san-francisco-dead-end |
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CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor gets a little agitated when people ask why he even wanted to win his first matchup with the Dolphins in late 2019, knowing the No. 1 draft position was on the line and a victory might have cost him the chance to select Joe Burrow.
It’s a question that he likely will have to answer any time the Bengals play the Dolphins, and especially this week as Burrow for the first time in his NFL career is set to go head-to-head with Tua Tagovailoa, another first-round quarterback from his draft class.
Tagovailoa, who went to the Dolphins at No. 5 in 2020, is working through a back injury from Sunday’s win against the Bills, but told reporters in Miami he is trying to do everything he can to play Thursday.
The Bengals lost that wild meeting in Miami, 38-35, in the penultimate game of Taylor’s first season, but they had rallied from a 23-point deficit to force overtime on a two-point conversion run that followed a 25-yard pass from Andy Dalton to Tyler Eifert on the final play of regulation. Four months later, Cincinnati drafted Burrow with the top overall pick and the rest is history.
“There are no guarantees in this profession you’re going to be here next year,” Taylor said. “To say why did you do everything to win a game is frustrating, to be quite honest with you. You don’t know what it’s like being in these offices when you’re not winning, so you do everything you possibly can to get it. … I just think it’s disrespectful to the game to not do everything you can to win. I get it, the fans probably wanted us to lose so we get the pick. I understand that. But the coaching side of it, not for one second.”
Burrow said Tuesday he remembers watching that game, knowing it could determine which team he was going to.
It turns out the Bengals still would have gotten the No. 1 pick with a 3-13 record, too, assuming the results would have stayed the same in the final week. Had they dropped to No. 2 and Burrow not been available, it would have come down to a decision between Justin Herbert and Tagovailoa.
“We didn’t need to rush to a decision, we had til April whatever it was, really liked watching Tua,” Taylor said when asked about his impressions of Tagovailoa going into the 2020 draft. “He was a winner. Played with a lot of confidence. Just thought he’d do a good job operating an offense in the NFL. It was clear he should be in the top of the draft, that was all very clear. For us, we just saw something in Joe we believed in. He needed to be the No. 1 pick. He was the right fit for us. Never waivered from that from the day we decided until now. That was the direction we went. Certainly, saw there were other quarterbacks who could be really successful for other teams. Just not for us.”
Burrow helped lead Cincinnati to its first playoff win since the 1990 season and the franchise’s third Super Bowl appearance in just his second season. He and the Bengals’ offense struggled the first two games this season, but are coming off a much better showing Sunday in a 27-12 win over the Jets.
Tagovailoa is off to an especially impressive start to his third year, leading one of the league’s top offenses with 925 yards passing (second behind Josh Allen) and helping Miami to a 3-0 record. The matchup of two offenses with a lot of firepower has drawn a lot of hype, but Burrow said he hasn’t thought about what that will look like on the field Thursday.
“You don’t really think about that on the offensive end until you get into the game,” Burrow said. “And then maybe the game changes, maybe they’re rolling on offense and you’ve got to change the way that you think about your game plan. It might change the way we call plays and the way I execute them, but going into the game you’re not really thinking about it.”
The first matchup between Burrow and Tagovailoa was supposed to happen in 2020, but Burrow was out with a torn ACL. Tagovailoa led the Dolphins to a 19-7 win, throwing for 296 yards and one touchdown.
Burrow last faced the former Alabama star in Week 8 of the 2019 college season when Burrow and LSU spoiled the Crimson Tide’s perfect record, handing them a 40-21 loss at home. That might have been the game when Burrow established himself as the No. 1 pick, though a lot of the talk had been about Tagovailoa to that point.
“It kind of told me that I could do what I thought I could do going into the season,” Burrow said. “Tua was the guy for two years and going in there and beating him, kind of gave me validation about what I felt about myself.”
Burrow doesn’t need that kind of validation now, but a win would be big for the Bengals as they try to get back to .500.
THURSDAY’S GAME
Dolphins at Bengals, 8:15 p.m., Amazon Prime, 700, 1530, 102.7, 104.7
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5 more arrested in deadly kidnapping of Americans in Mexico
Mexican authorities arrested five more people in connection to the kidnappings of four Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica said on Twitter Friday.
Six people have been arrested in total, including one on Tuesday, Barrios Mojica said.
"The Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (#FGJT) performed an arrest warrant against 5 people linked to the events of March 3 in Matamoros, for the crimes of aggravated kidnapping and intentional simple homicide. One more person who was arrested in recent days, was linked to the process," Barrios Mojica tweeted.
Earlier, a cartel apologized for carrying out what one victim's father has called "a senseless crime" that left two Americans and one Mexican woman dead.
The case remained "very confusing" to investigators, who were still obtaining information on the kidnapping last Friday and considering all angles, a Tamaulipas Prosecutor's Office official familiar with the investigation told CNN before news broke of the arrests.
An apology letter was issued Thursday by the Gulf Cartel, which is believed to be responsible for the kidnappings, and the group handed over five of its members to local authorities, according to images circulating online and a version of the letter obtained by CNN from an official familiar with the ongoing investigation.
CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the photos and has asked Mexican and U.S. authorities for comment.
"The [Gulf Cartel] apologizes to the society of Matamoros, the relatives of Ms. Areli, and the affected American people and families," reads the handwritten letter, referring to a Mexican woman who was also killed by a stray bullet in the shootout.
Though investigators believe the letter to be authentic, Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials participating in the investigation strongly doubt the sincerity of the group's apology, the official who shared the letter with CNN said.
One person who has been detained was undertaking "surveillance functions of the victims," Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said Tuesday, identifying the individual as 24-year-old Jose "N."
The Tamaulipas attorney general's office identified the person arrested Tuesday as Jose Guadalupe "G." A judge ordered him to be temporarily detained for five months for the investigation to be carried out, the attorney general's office said.
Officials would not confirm whether the man has any affiliations with criminal organizations.
The bodies of two Americans killed – Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown – were delivered to U.S. diplomatic authorities Thursday after undergoing forensic examination, Barrios Mojica said in a tweet.
"I've tried to make sense out of it and tried to be strong about it," Woodard's father, James Woodard, told reporters Thursday, which would have been his son's 34th birthday. "It just was a senseless crime."
The two survivors – Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams – returned to the U.S. on Tuesday to be treated in a hospital. Williams, who had been shot three times in his legs, has since undergone two surgeries and had rods placed in his legs, his wife said on a GoFundMe page to raise money for Williams's medical and living expenses.
A fifth American group member, Cheryl Orange, planned to travel with the group on the day of the kidnapping but had to stay behind because she did not have proper identification to cross the border. She told CNN that she has battled the guilt of narrowly missing the attack.
"I beat myself up in the beginning about that and I have everybody telling me that I need to be grateful. I really wish I was by Tay's side," Orange said, referring to her "best friend," Washington McGee by her nickname "Tay."
The tight-knit group had traveled from South Carolina to Matamoros so that Washington McGee could undergo a medical procedure. But the friends were violently intercepted by gunmen who fired into the Americans' van, roughly loaded them into the back of a truck and took them away, according to Washington McGee's mother and a video of the encounter.
The victims were shuttled to multiple locations before they were found in a house around Matamoros Tuesday, Villarreal said. Tamaulipas prosecutors have since found an ambulance that was used to transport the victims to first aid treatment at a clinic, which authorities have also located, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
'It was music to my ears to hear her voice'
As the group of friends crossed into Matamoros last Friday, Orange stayed behind at their hotel in Brownsville, Texas, becoming increasingly concerned as evening came and the friends hadn't returned, she told CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday.
"I said something's not right," Orange said. She reached out to her boyfriend and Washington McGee's brother to say she was getting worried.
When it came time for Orange to check out of their hotel the next morning, there was still no sign of Washington McGee and the others, Orange said. At that point, she became so concerned that she decided to call the police.
Orange reported the group missing on Saturday to Brownsville Police, according to a police report. The report states that police checked a local jail to make sure that no one in the party had been taken into custody, but no other action was taken.
Eventually, Orange saw the video of the kidnapping that was circulating online, showing Washington McGee being shoved into the back of a truck by armed gunmen and the other victims' bodies being dragged in beside her.
"My body clenched up. I dropped the phone. My stomach was in knots and I just began praying for the return of them," she said of seeing the video.
Upon finally hearing Washington McGee's voice after she was discovered alive, Orange was able to feel some relief. "It put me at ease a little bit. It was music to my ears to hear her voice," she said.
Meanwhile, the families of Woodard and Brown are left to grapple with the loss of their loved ones.
"That was hard for me to see those videos and see him dragged and thrown on the back of a vehicle. It's like god was preparing me already to know that it was probably the worst," Woodard's father said of watching the video of the kidnapping.
Woodard had accompanied his cousin, Washington McGee to Mexico for her procedure, but also to celebrate his upcoming 34th birthday, his father said. He described his son as a "sweetheart" and a "loving person."
"If you told me this day was coming I would have never believed it," James Woodard said. He later added, "A parent never expects to lose a child."
Apology letter follows arrest of cartel leader
U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials suspect the Gulf Cartel's apology letter was issued after the kidnapping exposed the cartel to considerable public attention and scrutiny of its actions, according to the U.S. official who confirmed the letter's authenticity.
In its letter, the cartel apologized to "the society of Matamoros, the relatives of Ms. Areli, and the affected American people and families," referring to the Mexican woman who was killed by a stray bullet.
It is common for Mexican cartels, especially in the northeast of the country, to release messages to the authorities or rival groups in the aftermath of high-profile incidents, according to Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University who studies the cartels.
The apology came after the arrest of a local Gulf Cartel leader, who was wanted for past kidnappings, in the city of Reynosa, about 55 miles west of Matamoros, according to a U.S. official briefed on the apprehension.
Any connection to last week's kidnapping of the Americans is unclear. But, as CNN has reported, the official believes members of the Gulf Cartel attacked the Americans in Matamoros, after mistaking them for Haitian drug smugglers.
The local cartel leader, Ernesto Sanchez-Rivera, is also known as "Metro 22" and is known to also have ties to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the source added.
CNN has reached out to the local prosecutor for more information on the apprehension but has not yet received a response.
The kidnapping of Americans has brought increased scrutiny to efforts to reign in cartel violence in Mexico, including from Republican lawmakers in the U.S. who have called for designating cartels as terrorist organizations and signaled their plans to file legislation allowing the U.S. military to operate in Mexico.
The pressure from Republicans has been met with a swift rebuke from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who says the actions would infringe on Mexican sovereignty. | 2023-03-10T23:20:06+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-arrests-made/43276016 |
YONGIN, South Korea, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GC Biopharma (006280.KS), a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to specialty plasma-derived therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Company's resubmission of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for its GC5107B (Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human) for patients with primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI).
The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date is January 13, 2024. If approved, GC Biopharma would be able to provide more treatment options for patients with PI in the U.S.
GC Biopharma aims to enter the U.S. market in the second half of 2024 if GC5107B is approved by the FDA as anticipated.
While the U.S. immunoglobulin market size is estimated at about US$ 10.4 billion in 2022 (as per MRB[1] 2022), there have been sporadic shortages as there are only a small number of immunoglobulin manufacturers considering the need for a massive investment in facility and sophisticated production know-hows.
About GC5107B
GC5107B is a liquid solution containing 10% immunoglobulin G (100 mg/mL) for intravenous infusion, manufactured from pooled human plasma from US donors. The manufacturing process includes three steps to reduce the risk of virus transmission. The steps are "Fractionation I+III, solvent/detergent (S/D) treatment, and Nanofiltration."
About Primary Humoral Immunodeficiency
Primary humoral immunodeficiency disease comprises a large, heterogenous group of disorders resulting from inborn errors of immunity. Patients with PI are unable to mount an immune response to pathogens and can experience recurrent bacterial, viral, fungal, and protozoal infections as a result. Global estimates project that up to 6 million people may be living with PI, but only 650,000 people worldwide have been diagnosed[2],[3],[4].
About GC Biopharma
GC Biopharma (formerly known as Green Cross Corporation) is a biopharmaceutical company that delivers life-saving and life-sustaining protein therapeutics and vaccines. Headquartered in Yongin, South Korea, GC Biopharma is one of the leading plasma protein and vaccine product manufacturers globally and has been dedicated to quality healthcare solutions for more than half a century.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which express the current beliefs and expectations of GC Biopharma's management. Such statements do not represent any guarantee by GC Biopharma or its management of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. GC Biopharma undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement contained in this press release or any other forward-looking statements it may make, except as required by law or stock exchange rule.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three progressive groups are spending more than $20 million in a new national ad campaign to promote President Joe Biden’s record as he begins his 2024 reelection race.
The ads from the groups Future Forward USA Action, Climate Power and Way to Win Action Fund, first shared with The Associated Press, aim to sell voters on Biden’s efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs, create clean energy jobs, and support the middle class as inflation takes a bite out of their take-home pay. The groups aim to remind Americans of what Biden has done in office, as many Democrats believe their party has not done enough to educate voters about what they have accomplished after 28 months in power.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has a good story to tell, and we’re making people aware of the real difference these policies will make in their everyday lives,” Chauncey McLean, the president of Future Forward USA Action, said in a statement. “This national advertising and marketing campaign will reach audiences on their TV and digital screens to highlight the Biden administration’s record of historic job growth and common-sense reforms that bring down costs for working people.”
The ads, which will air on national broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, were informed by Democratic research into what Americans knew about Biden’s accomplishments and which they responded to most positively when they heard about them, according to a person involved in the spending who was not authorized to speak publicly.
In an April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, Biden’s job approval rating stood at 42%, a slight improvement from 38% in March. The March poll came after a pair of bank failures rattled an already shaky confidence in the nation’s financial systems, and Biden’s approval rating then was near the lowest point of his presidency. The same poll showed just 47% of Democrats say they want him to seek a second term, up from 37% in February.
“America’s clean energy boom isn’t an accident. Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s clean energy plan, Big Oil is paying their fair share, and nearly 150,000 good-paying clean energy jobs are being created,” said Lori Lodes, executive director of Climate Power. “We’re excited to tell that story, and show Americans how President Biden’s clean energy plan is making a difference in their day-to-day lives.”
“The accomplishments of the Biden-Harris Administration are historic, and they’ve made life better for all people. We’re going to tell that story to the multi-racial, multi-generational majority who made these changes happen,” said Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Way to Win Action Fund. “Americans are coming together to defend our freedoms and rebuild our communities after a challenging period of history. These policy victories give us a chance to keep building a better future that works for all.” | 2023-05-08T15:51:58+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-political/pro-biden-groups-spend-20m-to-promote-record-ahead-of-24/ |
WASHINGTON – The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service.
His departure, which comes in the midst of an increasingly serious crisis over Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as disputes over detained Americans in Russia, had been expected this fall as he reached the usual length of time for U.S. ambassadors. But it was sped up due to family medical issue, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the situation.
“Ambassador Sullivan’s departure is planned and part of a normal diplomatic rotation,” the State Department said. “He has served a full tenure as U.S. ambassador to Russia, managing one of the most critical bilateral relationships in the world during unprecedented times.”
The department added: “The U.S. will continue to condemn unequivocally the Kremlin’s aggressive war against Ukraine and remain steadfast in our commitment to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the war has slowed to a grind with both sides trading combat strikes and small advances in the east and south. Both Russian and Ukraine have seen thousands of troops killed and injured, and Russia’s bombardment of cities has killed countless innocent civilians.
Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, will be the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow until a successor nominated by President Joe Biden replaces Sullivan.
A Boston native and big ice hockey fan who brought his skates and equipment when he left for Russia, Sullivan had returned to Moscow from a summer break just last week and had attended former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's memorial service on Saturday.
Sullivan took the helm of the Moscow embassy at a particularly difficult time in U.S.-Russia relations, which have only grown worse. He struggled to hold together a diplomatic mission dramatically reduced in staff as Washington and Moscow carried out an increasingly severe series of tit-for-tat expulsions.
Sullivan spoke frequently of his frustrations about deteriorating conditions for U.S. diplomats in Moscow, especially after Russian restrictions on American and local personnel forced major reductions in staffing.
His four-decade public service career included postings in Republican administrations as deputy secretary of state and senior positions in the departments of Justice, Defense and Commerce.
Sullivan was deputy secretary of state when he was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate with unusually strong bipartisan support to be ambassador to Russia in December 2019. Biden asked him to remain in the post when Biden took office last year.
He had been the lead U.S. official in talks with Russia on counterterrorism and strategic security and testified in his Senate confirmation hearing that Russian efforts to undermine democracies must be combated.
Sullivan told senators that he would be “relentless” in confronting Russia over election interference, hostile moves against neighbors such as Georgia and Ukraine, human rights abuses and violations of arms control agreements.
His time as the State Department's No. 2 official was not without controversy.
Sullivan was the one who delivered the news to Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that Trump had lost confidence in her and that she was being recalled early from the post.
Sullivan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was given no other explanation for Yovanovitch’s removal and told her that he did not believe she had done anything to warrant her recall.
Asked why he did not oppose Yovanovitch’s ouster or speak out publicly on her behalf at the time, Sullivan said ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president and can be removed with or without cause. He noted that his uncle, a former U.S. ambassador to Iran, had been recalled early from Tehran by the Carter administration for what the family believed to be unfair political reasons.
“When the president loses confidence in the ambassador, right or wrong, the ambassador goes,” Sullivan said. | 2022-09-05T08:22:34+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2022/09/04/us-ambassador-to-russia-leaving-post-as-ukraine-war-drags-on/ |
WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
242 PM CDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of eastern Hidalgo,
northwestern Cameron and western Willacy Counties through 330 PM
CDT...
At 241 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Sebastian to La Blanca to Santa Ana
National Wildlife Refuge. Movement was north at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Edinburg, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo, Donna, Elsa, Edcouch, Palmhurst, La
Villa and Lasara.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate Highway 69 C between mile markers 1 and 12.
US Highway 281 between mile markers 748 and 764.
US Highway 281 between mile markers 784 and 796.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 2607 9818 2606 9818 2606 9820 2608 9824
2633 9836 2667 9817 2673 9810 2673 9803
2661 9799 2657 9784 2635 9779 2634 9781
2635 9786 2630 9786 2620 9802 2606 9809
2607 9810 2606 9813 2607 9813 2605 9815
TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 163DEG 23KT 2637 9788 2627 9804 2605 9815
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's state-run COVID-19 testing sites are closing for good by Saturday.
The state first opened sites in the spring of 2020 to help slow the spread of the virus.
The Health Department said at-home tests are available at pharmacies and online and meet most testing needs. The tests are covered by many insurance providers and Vermonters are encouraged to have some at home in case they develop symptoms, the department said.
The department said in the comment section of its Twitter announcement that the state is ending the free testing due to declining federal funds and declining demand for PCR testing, the Burlington Free Press reported earlier this month.
Vermonters seeking PCR tests can check for availability with pharmacies or their health care provider, the department said.
“I want to thank Vermonters for using testing throughout the pandemic to lower the chance of getting or spreading COVID-19,” Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine said in a statement. “COVID-19 is still with us and will continue to evolve, but so has our knowledge of the virus and how to respond."
Levine urged people who test positive and are at higher risk to reach out to their health care provider as soon as possible to ask about treatment. | 2022-06-23T17:58:06+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Vermont-s-state-run-COVID-19-testing-sites-ending-17260966.php |
A Berkeley man and his son died on a whitewater rafting trip on the North Fork of the Nooksack River in Washington state on June 14, officials said.
Berkeleyside identified the man as John Coleman; the son's name wasn't released.
The father and son were on a commercially operated river raft with two women and a guide when the raft flipped over in a rapid just before 3 p.m. near the Snowline neighborhood in Glacier, a small town near the Canada border, the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The guide rescued the two women, and Coleman and and his son were swept down the river, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff’s office dispatched a swift-water rescue team along with K9 and drone teams to search the area, the release said. Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue and a helicopter also responded.
The body of the child was found that evening about a half mile from where the raft flipped over, while the missing male adult was found the next day farther down the river, just west of Glacier, the statement from the sheriff said. Both were wearing wetsuits, helmets and lifejackets, officials said.
The sheriff's office said neither of the deceased had obvious signs of trauma. The Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office determined drowning to be the the cause of death for both the child and the adult male. | 2022-06-23T19:21:10+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-father-and-son-die-in-rafting-accident-17261133.php |
Runway's Growth Capital Will Allow Brivo to Continue Driving Transformative Growth
WOODSIDE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Runway Growth Capital LLC ("Runway"), a leading provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, today announced the closure of a long-term senior secured credit facility of $75 million to Brivo Systems LLC ("Brivo"), a leading provider of cloud-based access control and smart building technologies. Brivo will use the capital to continue developing its successful ecosystem of access control solutions that are foundational to PropTech and widely deployed via security integration partners around the world.
Brivo Access, the company's SaaS-based enterprise platform, enables property owners and managers to view, control, and analyze security events and occupancy trends across all assets in their portfolio. It also enhances the experience of building occupants, vendors, and guests with touch-free opening of doors using wirelessly distributed mobile phone-based digital credentials. Full platform capabilities include access control, data analytics, AI-based anomaly detection, mobile credentials, identity management, workflow automation APIs, video surveillance, and visitor and delivery management.
"We are excited to support Brivo and its continued success delivering a comprehensive technology platform for commercial access and space management," said Jeff Goldrich, Managing Director, Technology at Runway. "Brivo has demonstrated remarkably consistent organic growth, which is a testament to both its product and leadership team. This deal represents an opportunity for Runway to partner with an innovative, industry-leading company in the growing PropTech sector."
"We selected Runway because they were able to deliver a flexible, custom package that met all of our needs," explained Steve Van Till, Founder and CEO of Brivo. "We know from working with the team that Runway will be a great growth partner for us."
Runway Growth Capital LLC is the investment advisor to investment funds, including Runway Growth Finance Corp. (Nasdaq: RWAY), a business development company, and other private funds, which are lenders of growth capital to companies seeking an alternative to raising equity. Led by industry veteran David Spreng, these funds provide senior term loans of $10 million to $75 million to fast-growing companies based in the United States and Canada. For more information on Runway Growth Capital LLC and its platform, please visit our website at www.runwaygrowth.com.
Statements included herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance, condition, or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in Runway Growth's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Runway Growth undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
Brivo, Inc., created the cloud-based access control and smart spaces technology category over 20 years ago and remains the global leader serving commercial real estate, multifamily residential, and large distributed enterprises. The company's comprehensive product ecosystem and open API provide businesses with powerful digital tools to increase security automation, elevate employee and tenant experience, and improve the safety of all people and assets in the built environment. Brivo's building access platform is now the digital foundation for the largest collection of customer facilities in the world, occupying over 300 million square feet across 42 countries. Learn more at www.Brivo.com.
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Red Sox vs. Phillies Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - May 5
Friday's game features the Boston Red Sox (19-14) and the Philadelphia Phillies (15-17) squaring off at Citizens Bank Park in what should be a competitive matchup, with a projected 6-4 win for the Red Sox according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 7:05 PM ET on May 5.
The Phillies will give the ball to Zack Wheeler (3-1, 3.86 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 4 on the season, and the Red Sox will turn to Chris Sale (2-2, 6.75 ERA).
Red Sox vs. Phillies Game Info & Odds
- When: Friday, May 5, 2023 at 7:05 PM ET
- Where: Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- How to Watch on TV: NBCS-PH
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Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Phillies
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In seven games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Red Sox have a record of 5-2.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by oddsmakers, Boston and its foes are 7-3-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The past 10 Red Sox contests have not had a runline posted by bookmakers.
- The Red Sox have been underdogs in 18 games this season and have come away with the win nine times (50%) in those contests.
- Boston has a mark of 5-2 in contests where bookmakers favor it by +125 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Red Sox have an implied victory probability of 44.4% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The offense for Boston is No. 2 in baseball, scoring 5.9 runs per game (195 total runs).
- The Red Sox have pitched to a 4.87 ERA this season, which ranks 23rd in baseball.
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DALLAS, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As previously announced, Vertical Capital Income Fund (NYSE: VCIF) paid a monthly distribution of $0.0721 per share to all shareholders of record as of June 17, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "Plan").
As a general matter, the amount of the Fund's distributable income depends on the aggregate gains and losses realized by the Fund during the entire year. Distributions may consist of net investment income, capital gains and return of capital but the character of these distributions cannot be determined until after the end of the Fund's fiscal year. However, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the terms of the Plan, the Fund may be required to indicate the source of each distribution to its shareholders. The following table sets forth the estimated sources of the current distribution, and the cumulative distributions paid during the 2022 fiscal year to date from the sources indicated in the table. All amounts are expressed on a per share basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
(1) You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Distribution Policy.
(2) The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this 19(a) Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
(3) The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income."
The Plan will be subject to periodic review by the Board, and the Board may amend the terms of the Plan including amending the annual rate of payment or may terminate the Plan at any time without prior notice to the Fund's shareholders. The Fund's distribution rate may be affected by numerous factors, including changes in realized and projected market returns, Fund performance, and other factors. There can be no assurance that an unanticipated change in market conditions or other unforeseen factors will not result in a change in the Fund's distribution rate at a future time. The amendment or termination of the Plan could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares. The public health crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak may exacerbate other pre-existing political, social and economic risks to which the Fund is exposed. The duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and its effects cannot be determined with certainty. In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and an exemptive order received by the Fund from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fund will provide its shareholders of record on each distribution date with a 19(a) Notice and issue an accompanying press release disclosing the sources of its distribution payment when a distribution includes anything other than net investment income.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in 19(a) Notices are only estimates and are not provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during its full fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes. Information on the Fund's 19(a) Notices, if any, can be found at www.vcif.us. The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
Shares of closed-end funds often trade at a discount from their net asset value. The market price of Fund shares may vary from net asset value based on factors affecting the supply and demand for shares, such as Fund distribution rates relative to similar investments, investors' expectations for future distribution changes, the clarity of the Fund's investment strategy and future return expectations, and investors' confidence in the underlying markets in which the Fund invests. Fund shares are subject to investment risk, including possible loss of principal invested. No Fund is a complete investment program and you may lose money investing in a Fund. An investment in the Fund may not be appropriate for all investors. Before investing, prospective investors should consider carefully the Fund's investment objective, risks, charges and expenses. For further details, please visit Vertical Capital Income Fund's website at vcif.us.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business and financial outlook of Vertical Capital Income Fund that are based on the Fund's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections and are not guarantees of future performance. There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on any such statements. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
About Vertical Capital Income Fund
Vertical Capital Income Fund (VCIF) is an NYSE-listed closed-end fund that seeks monthly income by investing primarily in performing non-agency residential whole loans secured by real estate. As a secondary strategy the Fund aims to provide total return by acquiring performing residential loans at a discount to the unpaid principal balance (UPB). VCIF realizes capital gains as loans are paid off before maturity. For more information visit VCIF.us and connect with the Fund on Twitter.
About Oakline Advisors, LLC
Oakline Advisors, LLC is the adviser to Vertical Capital Income Fund. Founded in 2013, Oakline Advisors, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that specializes in the residential whole loan market. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dallas, TX-based Behringer. Since its inception in 1989, Behringer, together with its affiliates, has raised equity of more than $6 billion in assets through public and private fund structures. For more information about Oakline and Behringer please visit their respective websites at oaklineadvisors.com and behringerinvestments.com.
Fund shares are identified by CUSIP 92535C104
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Ford’s not done building insane EV concepts to flex its electric muscles.
On Friday, while announcing its return to F1 racing with Red Bull Racing in 2026, Ford released a graphic showing how it believes racing leads to winning products. One of the images was the outline of a yet-to-be-revealed electric pickup demonstrator, presumably based on the F-150 Lightning. The other silhouettes are for new Mustang race cars and the previously revealed Ranger Raptor.
The next EV experiment could be a high-output F-150 Lightning. Ford has built a Mustang Mach-E with seven electric motors producing a combined 1,400 horsepower, an electric Ford Supervan with 1,972 hp, and even a 1978 F100 with an Eliminator electric crate engine.
Ford spokesperson Emma Berg said the company continues to evaluate how EVs fit into its motorsports strategy.
The production F-150 Lightning with the large 131-kwh extended-range battery produces 563 hp and 775 lb-ft of torque. Ford originally said the electric truck would do 0-60 mph in the mid-four-second range. The production truck is quicker than originally advertised, with its 0-60 mph time coming in at less than 4.0 seconds. It’s quicker than a standard F-150 Raptor, and probably about as quick as the F-150 Raptor R with its supercharged V-8 engine.
It’s unclear when the F-150 Lightning-based demonstrator teased by Ford will be revealed, how much power it will have, or what the upgrades might be, but it’s likely that it will run from 0-60 mph in less than 4.0 seconds. The electric Ford Supervan concept has undergone high-speed testing at the Nürburgring, and its multiple motors allow it to run 0-60 mph in less than 2.0 seconds.
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- Nissan Ariya on 39-inch tires set to drive from North Pole to South | 2023-02-04T10:13:06+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/automotive/internet-brands/ford-building-high-performance-f-150-lightning-concept/ |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top school board has voted to make more than 1,400 students eligible for waivers from traditional high school graduation rules.
The policy approved by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education without discussion came at the end of a three-hour meeting last week, The Advocate reported.
The issue was whether BESE should grant waivers for about 2,400 students statewide because of hardships sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. That effort failed.
BESE was then set to consider a request for a similar waiver because of Hurricane Ida from the superintendent of Terrebonne Parish, which suffered huge damages when the Category 4 storm landed Aug. 29. BESE member Doris Voitier, who is also superintendent of the St. Bernard Parish school system, amended the motion to include all 25 parishes listed in Gov. John Bel Edwards’ disaster declaration.
The motion won approval 7-0.
That means 59% of the 1,414 students who were not in line to get high school diplomas last week now have new options for getting one, including through a composite score of 17 on the ACT, which is supposed to measure college readiness, or a 17 on the subject that blocked their graduation through the traditional route.
A score of 17 on the ACT, which carries a top mark of 36, is well below the benchmarks set by the testing organization for college success.
Critics who objected to the statewide waiver renewed their criticism of the latest policy.
Stephen Waguespack, president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, said BESE’s decision amounts to lowering expectations for students.
“This motion to waive graduation requirements for roughly 1,400 eligible seniors is not doing these students any favors,” Waguespack said in a statement. “Rather, it sets them off to college or career options lacking the skills necessary to succeed. They deserve better.”
Most students who would benefit from the waiver failed to pass end-of-course exams in U.S. history, biology and other subjects. They are supposed to earn passing marks on English I or English 2; algebra I or geometry and biology or U. S. history.
Backers of the waiver argued that struggling students were entitled to leniency because of unprecedented pandemic disruptions that began in March 2020.
Critics said students only have to achieve the fourth of five achievement levels – called approaching basic – and had multiple chances to do so during their high school career.
Daniel J. Erspamer, chief executive officer for the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, criticized the board's move.
“We won’t improve our lagging educational outcomes by further watering down our already weak existing standards while expecting students to graduate with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful,” Erspamer said in a statement.
Students missed between one and 34 days because of the hurricane. Students in nine of the 25 affected parishes missed five days or less. | 2022-05-11T22:38:25+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/More-than-1-400-seniors-get-graduation-exemption-17166387.php |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Norwegian woman mountain climber and her Nepali Sherpa guide have set a new record by scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in 92 days, a Pakistani mountaineering official said.
On Thursday, Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa summitted K2 on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakorum Range — considered to be among the most dangerous peaks for mountaineers.
All the peaks the two summitted are above 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet), said Karrar Haidri, the secretary at the Pakistan Alpine Club.
The previous record-holder, Nirmal Purja, a Nepali-born British citizen, had scaled the 14 peaks in 189 days in 2019.
“A big congratulations to Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa on this remarkable achievement,” said Haidri. “They successfully and safely completed the scaling of all of the 14 highest peaks in the shortest time. They did it in 92 days.”
Also Thursday, Nepali Sherpa Nima Rinji at the age of 17 became the world’s youngest climber to summit K2. His summit was separate from Harila’s and Tenjen’s but the three were all part of a 20-member group that scaled K2 at different times on Thursday.
The 20 were now on their way back to base camp, where a festive welcome awaits them all, Haidri said.
K2 has one of the deadliest records for mountaineers, with most climbers dying on the descent, where the slightest mistake can trigger an avalanche and become fatal. Only a few hundred climbers have successfully reached its summit.
Considered extremely difficult to climb, K2 is not only the second-highest mountain after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are considered to be much more challenging. Pakistan’s military often launches rescue operations to find stranded mountaineers who travel to this South Asian country from all over the world for the sport.
Harila and Tenjen scaled Mount Everest in May and on Sunday, the two scaled Broad Peak, the world’s twelfth highest mountain, located in northern Pakistan, before starting their expedition to K2.
Earlier in July, Polish climber Pawel Tomasz Kope died after scaling Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat, known as “killer mountain” for its dangerous conditions. He was descending the mountain in bad weather conditions when he collapsed.
Harila, 37, first attempted to break the record and climb all 14 top peaks in 2022 but summitted only 12 of them after Chinese authorities restricted access to foreign climbers during the coronavirus pandemic. | 2023-07-27T23:39:01+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/ap-norwegian-woman-and-her-nepali-sherpa-guide-set-new-record-by-scaling-14-highest-peaks-in-92-days/ |
Backed by 5G and AI technology, the highly-scalable speech-to-speech translation turnkey solution reduces the MICE industry's dependence on costly interpreters and radio technology.
TAIPEI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwanese software developer VM-Fi will debut its groundbreaking real-time translating solution – Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System – on the global stage at CES 2022 from Jan 5-8, 2022. VM-Fi provides turnkey 5G real-time artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled simultaneous interpretation with wireless broadcasting to up to hundreds of personal smart devices. VM-Fi will be showcasing its technology at CES 2022.
The VM-Fi Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System, which has been proven and used successfully in multiple MICE (meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions) and tourism settings in Taiwan, received global recognition in November when VM-Fi beat out 1,800 submissions to be named a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Smart Cities product category.
"This recognition from CES underscores how groundbreaking our Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System and encourages VM-Fi to continue on our mission to weave the future of smart city living by freeing the world of language barriers. As a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree, VM-Fi's growth will be testament to the increasingly global, barrier-free 5G era of connectivity," said Maxwell Peng, CEO of VM-Fi.
Effective AI translation technology for MICE events
As the MICE industry recovers post-pandemic and moves to hybrid (in-person and digital) events, the need for real-time translation will take centre stage again. Onsite, simultaneous interpreters are incredibly expensive, taking into account setting up the interpreter's booth, audio system, and receiving radio booth.
The traditional way of running MICE and tourism events also eats up a massive amount of time, given that human interpreters are only able to translate a single sentence at a time. Both these time and cost barriers keep small businesses from competing on a level playing field with larger industry organizers.
VM-Fi's Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System changes the game, enabling businesses to reduce their dependence on human interpreters while simultaneously realizing cost and time savings of up to 3x. Using Qualcomm 5G technology and an in-house AI algorithm, VM-Fi delivers real-time human-like voice translation within a single-device turnkey solution that can broadcast up to hundreds of smart devices at your venue within 10 minutes of setting up via both 5G and Wi-Fi connectivity.
"We've seen first-hand how VM-Fi Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System has been able to alleviate communication difficulties with international teachings, sightseeing tours, and even international business meetings," Peng explained.
Supported by Qualcomm, 5G technology applied to VM-Fi
In 2020, VM-Fi was shortlisted in the "Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge 2020" and became a member of Qualcomm's global startup ecosystem. 5G technology then was applied to VM-Fi's one-to-many translation system. In 2021, through working with Qualcomm's 5G ecosystem and equipment companies, VM-Fi expanded its footprints in the global market. "As the world's leading wireless technology innovator, Qualcomm is committed to helping partners enrich their services through wireless technology. I am very pleased to see that VM-Fi enhanced its product competitiveness, expanded into the global market, and shined on the stage of CES," said ST Liew, Vice President, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., and President, Qualcomm Taiwan and South East Asia. "During the era of 2G, 3G, and 4G, the wireless application field was dominated by consumer smart phones and other smart devices, but with the 5G generation this instrument is just one of many branching points. More importantly, using AI and cloud services through 5G can create new intelligent services whether it be on smart devices, wireless transmissions, or other applications."
VM-Fi technology a success at "Meet Taipei"
At "Meet Taipei", which took place at one of Taiwan's largest 5G-enabled exhibition halls in mid-November, VM-Fi showcased the capabilities of its Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System and transmitted the translated speech instantly transmitted to each of the 200 attendees' personal smartphones, instantly breaking language barriers.
For those who are unable to attend CES 2022 in person, VM-Fi will be conducting a live online demo via Zoom on Jan 3-8, 2022 every night from 9PM to 10PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). Simply join using this Zoom Meeting ID: 881 7916 7283.
About VM-Fi
VM-Fi is dedicated to solving the problems of simultaneous interpreting services. The answer is VM-Fi, Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System. VM-Fi is using 5G and AI to deliver real-time speech translation from one device turnkey solution, with the scalability to broadcast to as many as hundreds of smart devices within 10 minutes.
Smart 5G Blazing Fast AI Speech Translation System has won the CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree and the ResorTECH 2020 Grand Prix Award (Japan). VM-Fi also successfully tendered for contracts awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (SME Public Procurement) from 2020 to 2023.
VM-Fi For more information, please visit VMFi.net, and follow VM-Fi on LinkedIn and Facebook.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A prominent leader of Uganda’s LGBTQ community said Thursday he was worried about becoming “homeless,” describing anguished calls by others like him who are concerned for their safety after the passing of a harsh new anti-gay bill.
“I am worried about being evicted,” said Frank Mugisha, head of the banned LGBTQ support group Sexual Minorities Uganda. “I am worried about being evicted from the place where I live, because I don’t own property. I could become homeless.”
The legislation “would make it impossible to me to live in this country and work here,” he said.
Mugisha spoke to The Associated Press amid growing pressure from the United Nations, the United States and others who are urging President Yoweri Museveni to block the legislation passed by lawmakers on Tuesday.
The bill prescribes the death penalty for the offense of “aggravated homosexuality” and life imprisonment for “homosexuality.” Aggravated homosexuality is defined as cases of sex relations involving those infected with HIV as well as minors and other categories of vulnerable people. Jail terms of up to 20 years are proposed for those who advocate or promote the rights of LGBTQ people.
A suspect convicted of “attempted aggravated homosexuality” can be jailed for 14 years and the offense of “attempted homosexuality” is punishable by up to 10 years, according to the bill.
It remains unclear when Museveni will notify the legislature about his intentions regarding the bill. He sometimes takes his time before signing bills into law. He has condemned homosexuality over the years and recently accused unnamed Western nations of “trying to impose their practices on other people.”
The bill was introduced last month by an opposition lawmaker who said his goal was to punish the “promotion, recruitment and funding” of LGBTQ activities in this East African country where homosexuals are widely disparaged. Only two of 389 legislators present during the voting session opposed the bill, including one taunted during plenary debate by his colleagues as “a homosexualist” after he presented a dissenting view.
International concern is rising over the legislation.
Washington has “grave concerns” about the bill, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday, adding that it would hamper tourism and economic investment in Uganda.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said if the law were enacted Washington would “have to take a look” at imposing economic sanctions on Uganda. He noted that this would be “really unfortunate” since most U.S. aid is in the form of health assistance, especially AIDS-related assistance.
The U.N. AIDS agency also warns that the legislation “threatens public health” because it would hurt efforts to fight HIV.
Anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has grown in recent weeks amid press reports alleging sodomy in boarding schools, including a prestigious one for boys where a parent accused a teacher of abusing her son. The recent decision of the Church of England to bless civil marriages of same-sex couples also has inflamed many, including some who see homosexuality as imported from abroad.
Cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors have put more pressure on the LGBTQ community, said Mugisha, the openly gay leader whose organization was shut down by authorities last year.
“Ugandans have been radicalized,” he said. “Even those who were sympathetic are no longer sympathetic because they worry about children.”
He said he was getting calls from members of his community who are worried about where to seek medical services and even where to rent.
“Many people are concerned about getting outed,” he said. “The question is: ‘What is going to happen to them?’”
Homosexuality is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries.
In Uganda, a deeply conservative Christian country, same-sex relations are already criminalized under a colonial-era law banning sex acts “against the order of nature.”
But civilian authorities for years have urged a more sweeping bill targeting homosexuals after one enacted in 2014 was nullified on procedural grounds by a panel of judges amid intense international pressure. | 2023-03-23T23:04:56+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/uganda-lgbtq-leader-says-gay-bill-threatens-homelessness/ |
It wasn't until Anthony Montalto was sitting next to his wife testifying in a Florida courtroom Wednesday that he realized he was wearing the same clothes he wore the last time he took his daughter Gina to a father-daughter dance.
"I was so happy to be her father," Montalto said as he delivered his victim impact statement in the trial of Gina's killer, who faces the death penalty for the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school on Valentine's Day 2018.
"Gina didn't come home from school that day," Jennifer Montalto said. She and her husband described their daughter, who was 14, as a kind girl, an avid reader who was quick to volunteer and who once saved a young boy who fell into the pool where she was playing.
Now there's an empty seat at their table, Jennifer Montalto said, a bedroom where her daughter will never sleep and a front door she will never walk through -- each of them objects that prompt a feeling of "unspeakable loss."
Where their house was once was filled with laughter, Anthony Montalto said, "now there's a deafening silence broken only by the deep sighs and soft sobbing that accompany what used to be happy memories of my children playing."
Wednesday was the third day of victim impact testimony in the trial of Nikolas Cruz, who has already pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The current phase of the trial is to determine Cruz's sentence: Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, while Cruz's defense attorneys are asking the jury for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
To recommend a death sentence, jurors must be unanimous. If they do so, the judge could choose to follow the recommendation or sentence Cruz to life instead.
Much of the testimony -- particularly from the parents of the 14 students killed -- focused on all the things the victims and their families will never get to do and the irreparable damage to their everyday lives.
"Our family is broken. There is this constant emptiness," said Max Schachter, the father of 14-year-old Alex, who loved chocolate chip cookies, playing the trombone and video games.
"I feel I can't truly be happy if I smile," Schachter said. "I know that behind that smile is the sharp realization that part of me will always be sad and miserable because Alex isn't here."
Isabel Dalu, a close friend of the family of Cara Loughran, told the court about all the things the 14-year-old was looking forward to when she was gunned down: Her birthday was a week later, and she'd be old enough to get her learner's permit. She'd recently started Irish dancing again, and she was excited to dance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. The family had a trip to Ireland for that summer to visit family.
"She dreamed of her first date, her first kiss and falling in love," Dalu said. "Cara dreamed of going to homecoming and prom, she dreamed of graduating at the top of her class with all of her loved ones watching."
"But Cara didn't make it to any of these milestones," she added.
Fred Guttenberg, the father of 14-year-old victim Jaime, said Tuesday that her older brother, who was also a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting, "Wishes it was him."
"He struggles," Guttenberg said, "with the reality that he could not save his sister, and he wishes it was him."
Melissa Feis, the widow of Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach who died after throwing himself in front of students to protect them from the gunfire, wrote in a statement read in court by a friend Tuesday that he "was the doting father who every little girl wishes and dreams about."
"I can see his light in Ariel and recognize his spirit woven into her fabric," the statement said, referring to their daughter, as Melissa Feis sat still in court with her eyes closed.
Raising their daughter as a widow "can be overwhelming and challenging," she wrote, and it's painful knowing there are milestones in their daughter's life that Feis has missed.
"Aaron isn't here to give his fatherly guidance and advice," she said. "It's heartbreaking and unimaginable at times. And yet, it's my reality."
'Never again will the world feel right'
To make their decision, jurors will hear prosecutors and defense attorneys argue aggravating factors and mitigating circumstances -- reasons Cruz should or should not be executed. Victim impact statements add another layer, giving the families and friends of the victims their own day in court, though the judge told the jury the statements are not meant to be weighed as aggravating factors.
"We don't have a system where it's the victims' families that get to decide whether you live or die if you kill their family members," Teresa Reid, legal skills professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, has told CNN.
"We don't have revenge. And so this is the mechanism that the family has."
The loss of her daughter Meadow Pollack, 18, has "destroyed" Shara Kaplan's life, she told the jury Tuesday, "and my capability of ever living a productive existence." To articulate how her daughter's death impacted her, she said, she would have to rip out her heart and show them how it had shattered into a million pieces.
And the Hoyer family will never be the same.
"We were a family unit of five always trying to fit into a world set up for even numbers," said Tom Hoyer, whose 15-year-old son Luke -- the youngest of three -- was killed. "Two-, four-, six-seat tables in a restaurant. Two-, four-, six-ticket packages to events. Things like that."
But the Hoyers are no longer a family of five, and "never again will the world feel right, now that we're a family of four," Hoyer said.
"When Luke died something went missing in me," he said. "And I'll never, never get over that feeling."
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Vladimir Putin has taken to comparing himself to some of his czarist predecessors, invoking their military triumphs. In June, he praised Peter the Great for “taking back and reinforcing” territory in the Baltics in the Great Northern War in the 18th century.
The parallels between the two conflicts are undeniable. Just as Nicholas underestimated his Japanese adversary, so did Putin, who was convinced that his invasion of Ukraine would be a walkover.
Just as Nicholas suffered embarrassing naval defeats, so has Putin, including, most dramatically, the destruction and sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
And just as Russia’s atrocity-ridden performance in the Russo-Japanese War cast a pall over Nicholas’s rule and hurt the Kremlin’s international standing, the Ukraine war has badly damaged Russia’s and Putin’s reputations.
To be sure, there are significant differences between the two wars. Most notable is that it was the Japanese who initiated the Russo-Japanese War. And there was a racist component to Nicholas’s hubris: a belief that a European power had nothing to fear from an Asian country, which surely wouldn’t have the gall to attack its forces. That assumption was blown to smithereens on the night of Feb. 4, 1904, when a squadron of Japanese destroyers launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet lying at anchor at Port Arthur on the coast of Manchuria.
The war was occasioned by both countries’ territorial aims in Manchuria, an area bordering both Russia and China. In negotiations before the conflict, which preceded World War I and has been called “World War Zero,” the Japanese had offered to recognize Manchuria as being within Russia’s sphere of influence in exchange for Russia’s recognition of the Korean Empire as being within Japan’s military-political orbit. (Korea, a monarchal state created just a few years earlier, presumably would be too weak to resist the two greater powers. It was: Japan would annex it in 1910.)
Nicholas balked and demanded the establishment of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Korea. Encouraging Nicholas in his obstinacy was his ally Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, who persuaded his czarist confidant that he was “savior of the White race” and had little to fear from the Japanese.
That delusion was neatly punctured by the Japanese attack on Port Arthur. The physical damage caused by the Japanese attack was minor, but the damage to Russian pride was incalculable. The fact that Japan had seized the initiative while the Russian Navy idled in port was a shock to the Russian people — just as Japan’s surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor four decades later would traumatize the American people.
The Japanese went on to besiege Port Arthur, capturing a key hilltop bastion from where they then used long-range artillery to pick off the ships of the blockaded imperial fleet, the same way that Ukrainians methodically knocked off hapless Russian tanks during the initial botched assault on Kyiv.
Ultimately, all six of Nicholas’s capital ships were sunk. Meanwhile, the morale of the besieged Russian soldiers ashore, who found themselves in freezing Port Arthur, thousands of miles from Russia’s major urban centers, with no ostensible reason to fight, plummeted, while their supply lines were cut.
It was not until the war moved ashore at the Battle of the Yalu River, where the Japanese defeated the Russian Eastern Detachment, that the Russians — and the world — began to take the Japanese military seriously. Despite the shock defeat, the czar’s army performed credibly, inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese. However, whatever glory it gained was vitiated by reports of the raping and killing of the Chinese populace of Manchuria in its path — further shades of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Russian fleet, undone by a combination of ineptitude, bad luck and superior Japanese seamanship, sailed from debacle to debacle. First, the Japanese fleet got the better of the Russian one at the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August 1904, naval history’s longest-range gunnery duel to date.
Still confident of victory, Nicholas sent his huge Baltic Fleet on an around-the-world voyage. The putative rescue mission was a fiasco. So incompetent were Nicholas’s captains that while off the coast of England, they somehow mistook a group of British fishing boats for Japanese raiders and opened fire, making the czar’s navy an international laughingstock.
Seven long months later, in May 1905, the Russian squadron finally arrived in the Far East, exhausted by its journey — and was destroyed in a matter of hours. The Russians lost all eight of their battleships and 5,000 sailors’ lives.
Shortly afterward, a combined Japanese army and navy operation occupied Sakhalin Island, forcing Nicholas to sue for peace. Both adversaries accepted U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s offer to mediate. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ministrations at the peace talks at Portsmouth, N.H.
Russia recognized Japan’s sphere of influence in Korea and agreed to evacuate Manchuria. Nicholas succeeded in rebuffing demands that he pay war indemnities. But he couldn’t undo the blow to Russian prestige — or the anger of the Russian people, which eventually helped lead to the Russian Revolution and Nicholas’s ouster and death.
The parallels between the Russo-Japanese War and the Ukraine war are not exact. But it is clear that Putin grossly underestimated the Ukrainians while discounting the other strategic consequences of the invasion, including the decisions by Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Meanwhile, the country he leads has become an international pariah.
Other consequences of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, including its outcome and the impact on Putin’s own rule, remain to be seen.
“Granted, in the specifics — the belligerents, the nature of the fighting, the geography, the competing imperial ambitions, the racist element to much of the fighting — the Russo-Japanese War and the Ukraine war are quite different from each other,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a Brookings Institution military expert and author of the forthcoming book “Military History for the Modern Strategist.”
“But,” he continued, “in revealing a Russian propensity to overconfidence and carelessness in some of its major military campaigns, the parallels between the two conflicts are haunting indeed.”
Gordon F. Sander is a journalist and historian based in Riga, Latvia, and the author of “The Hundred Day Winter War,” about the 1939-1940 Russo-Finnish Winter War. | 2022-08-01T11:47:00+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/08/01/putin-ukraine-nicholas-russo-japanese/ |
DALLAS (AP) — The federal government is suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says co-workers sexually harassed her, including asking her for sex and making explicit comments about rape in her presence.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that SkyWest discriminated against the woman by subjecting her to a hostile work environment and retaliating when she complained. She eventually quit.
SkyWest said it holds employees to high standards.
“While it is our policy to not comment on pending litigation, we have zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind and have established processes in place to follow up on any reported concerns,” the airline said in a statement.
The EEOC sued in federal district court in Dallas and asked that the woman receive back pay and punitive damages to be determined by a trial.
The agency said the woman joined Utah-based SkyWest in 2007, and the harassment started after she transferred to the airline’s parts and maintenance operation at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in 2019, including comments by the maintenance supervisor. She told another supervisor that she “felt singled out as … a young woman in a building full of men.”
The harassment caused the woman to take unpaid medical leave for about six weeks, and it continued when she returned. She was placed on administrative leave after filing a complaint with the airline’s human-resources department, according to the lawsuit.
Some of the woman’s co-workers corroborated her claims during an internal investigation, and an employee-relations manager recommended mandatory sexual-harassment training for all employees, the EEOC said. Five months later, in May 2020, after getting no update on the investigation, the woman resigned.
SkyWest is a regional airline that operates flights for bigger carriers including American Airlines. | 2022-08-18T19:45:43+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/us-says-skywest-employee-subjected-to-sexual-harassment/ |
Designed to meet customer demands, Inform empowers product managers to easily and quickly create, manage, and deliver critical transactional alerts across channels, through one API.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MoEngage, the insights-led customer engagement platform, today announced its new product, MoEngage Inform, a unified messaging infrastructure that enables brands to build and manage multichannel transactional alerts through one API.
Consumers expect immediate updates on critical transactional notifications at their fingertips. Using MoEngage Inform, brands can provide real-time transactional alerts to improve the customer experience, such as an order or booking confirmation after a product is purchased, a delivery notification when a package arrives, one-time passwords (OTPs) for approving transactions or logging in securely, or notifications around password resets, among other time-sensitive alerts.
Oftentimes, building, updating, and delivering these critical alerts requires significant engineering bandwidth and resources. There is a heavy reliance on development teams to maintain a transactional messaging infrastructure and add new channels; in some cases, integrating a new vendor or new communication channel provider can take at least eight weeks of engineering efforts.
Moreover, brands often encounter a siloed customer experience due to multiple delivery providers and API demands, resulting in limited visibility into customers' actions. There is no unified view of notifications received by customers, meaning product teams cannot easily identify if a customer has already received or has acted on an alert; potentially leading to customers receiving duplicate alerts across channels.
Inform makes transactional alert management seamless so brands can focus more on delivering the cohesive, time-sensitive messages that consumers want. Inform's single API requires a one-time setup, freeing up engineering bandwidth and pushing control to the product or marketing teams. MoEngage Inform is a component of the MoEngage Customer Engagement Platform, which together enables brands to have one platform to support all of their customer messaging and notifications needs, both transactional and marketing-related. Product and marketing teams will be able to have a unified view of the customer journey, so they can collectively understand and gather insights to inform future initiatives to deliver a better customer experience.
With MoEngage Inform, brands can achieve:
- Unified Customer Experiences - Get a unified view of how customers engage with the brand, including transactional and promotional messages across channels, and leverage an advanced algorithm that uses AI to determine what channels each customer prefers to receive critical alerts on and set a priority order automatically.
- Centralized Visibility and Performance - Track and optimize the performance of your multichannel transactional and promotional messages in one central dashboard.
- Reduced Engineering Resources and Improved Effectiveness - Power all transactional messaging with a single API and integrate with any communication channel with ease, supporting more than 30 providers.
- More Autonomy, Faster Delivery of Alerts - Get out-of-the-box templates to create new alerts in minutes, with alerts being delivered in under 5 seconds. A built-in fallback mechanism ensures critical alerts are delivered on other channels upon disruptions.
- Improved Data Security and Reporting - Achieve unified notification logs and delivery reports across channels, making identifying and debugging issues easier.
"As organizations grow, their messaging and communication needs become more complex. With MoEngage Inform, engineering teams can focus on delivering core offerings instead of building backend infrastructures, and product and marketing teams can deliver critical transactional alerts without breaking customer experiences," said Raviteja Dodda, CEO and co-founder of MoEngage.
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KEEP YOUR ALLERGIES AT BAY WITH THESE MEDICATIONS
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As we enter the warmer seasons, there are several fun outdoor activities you’d probably like to partake in. But one thing that keeps you from having some outdoor fun is your seasonal allergies.
“Seasonal allergies, also known as allergic rhinitis, is usually a constellation of symptoms including itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing, cough and fatigue,” BestReviews medical expert Dr. Michael Huynh says.
Allergies, especially outdoor allergens such as pollen and grass, can make going outdoors unbearable. Depending on their severity, you may be stuck indoors until your symptoms clear up. It may take several days, or weeks, for your allergy symptoms to calm.
“Although these symptoms can be quite debilitating to everyday activities and quality of life, there are remedies to combat symptoms,” Dr. Huynh says.
PLAN ACCORDINGLY
The best way to prevent or reduce allergic reactions is to plan. This is especially true for those who like to spend a lot of time outdoors. Before you head out, take steps to limit allergic reactions. For example, if you have a pollen allergy, avoid going outside during windy, dry days. Instead, participate in outdoor adventures after rainfall, as rain clears pollen from the air.
You can also check your weather app or local TV station to find out your area’s pollen forecasts and levels. If the pollen count is high, take allergy medications before going outside or stay indoors to prevent allergic reactions. You could also do outdoor activities later in the day since pollen counts are often higher in the mornings.
PURCHASE OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICINE
There are several over-the-counter medications you can use to alleviate allergy symptoms. Oral antihistamines, nasal sprays and oral decongestants are popular medications you can purchase online or at your local pharmacy. Some medications, such as nasal sprays, are more effective if taken before going outdoors.
RINSE YOUR SINUSES
If you’re dealing with nasal congestion, rinsing your sinuses could provide relief. Also known as nasal irrigation, rinsing your nasal passages with saline solution is a quick, easy way to relieve some of your allergy symptoms, such as a runny or stuffy nose. You can create your homemade solution or purchase a pre-made kit.
SPEAK WITH YOUR DOCTOR
If you have concerns about your allergies, reach out to your doctor. They can provide professional medical advice on managing and preventing seasonal allergies. In addition, they can provide prescription medications if necessary.
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Allegra Adult 24-Hour Non-Drowsy Antihistamine Gelcaps
This is a bottle of 60 gel capsules, and you’ll only need one pill for 24-hour allergy relief for indoor and outdoor allergens. The pills contain fexofenadine, a non-drowsy antihistamine. “Allegra is a great non-drowsy antihistamine medication that you can get over the counter,” Dr. Huynh says.
Flonase Allergy Relief Nasal Spray, 24-Hour Non-Drowsy Allergy Medicine
This contains the most prescribed allergy medication to prevent allergic reactions. “Flonase is a mild nasal steroidal spray that can help alleviate runny noses,” Dr. Huynh says. Children 12 and up can safely use it for allergies. The twin pack contains 144 metered nasal sprays.
Sudafed PE Sinus Congestion Maximum Strength Non-Drowsy Decongestant Tablets
This 36-count of tablets provide sinus relief. Each tablet is coated in a non-drowsy nasal decongestant. This product as it contains pseudoephedrine, which “helps constrict blood vessels in the nose, reducing mucus release,” Dr. Huynh says. You can take one tablet every four hours for allergy or cold symptoms.
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NeilMed Complete Sinus Nasal Rinse Kit
This saline solution offers a natural method for sinus relief. It has an isotonic saline nasal irrigation and moisturizing system that won’t burn or sting your nasal passages. The nasal rinse kit is preservative-, iodine- and latex-free.
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Vicks Personal Sinus Steam Inhaler
This steam healer delivers a warm mist to relieve allergy symptoms. Simply add tap water to start a five-to-15-minute treatment. You can use the inhaler with Vicks VapoPads for added relief.
Bausch and Lomb Opcon-A Eye Allergy Relief
This pack comes with two bottles that aid in eye irritation relief. These eye drops contain antihistamines to soothe itchy, dry and red eyes. It is recommended for eye irritation caused by pollen, ragweed, grass and pet dander.
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Benadryl Ultratabs Antihistamine Allergy Relief Medicine
This 100-count bottle of tablets provides allergy and cold relief. Each tablet has the antihistamine diphenhydramine hydroxyzine to alleviate upper respiratory symptoms temporarily. This medication may cause drowsiness but shouldn’t be used as a sleep aid.
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Zyrtec 24-Hour Allergy Relief Tablets
This 70-count bottle of 24-hour allergy relief tablets delivers prescription-strength relief for common allergy symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing and watery eyes. These tablets can be used by children 6 and older.
Nasalguard Allergy Relief and Allergen Blocker Nasal Gel
This topical gel provides a barrier against outdoor and indoor allergens. The gel is applied to the nostrils and upper lip to stop allergen triggers.
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SinuCleanse Soft Tip Neti-Pot Nasal Wash Irrigation System
This nasal irrigation system uses a saline solution to flush out your nasal passages. It comes with a soft tip to provide a comfortable nasal washing experience. This neti pot is bisphenol A-, latex- and preservative-free.
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WORTH CHECKING OUT
- These Magid Gemstone Y50 Performance Anti-Fog Safety Glasses with Side Shields help keep pollen from entering your eyes.
- The Navage Nasal Care Starter Bundle Nose Cleaner uses suction technology to flush out unwanted outdoor allergens.
- Vicks VapoInhaler provides on-the-go relief of nasal congestion.
- The Boogie Micro-Mist Inhaler Saline Spray delivers a gentle saline mist to soothe allergy symptoms.
- Honeywell Safety Products Nuisance Disposable Dust Mask can prevent you from inhaling pollen and other outdoor allergens.
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A house in Shaker Heights that sold for $750,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Shaker Heights in the past week.
In total, 31 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $283,950, $149 per square foot.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 10 even if the property may have been sold earlier.
10. $302,500, detached house at 3281 Hyde Park Ave.
The 1,736 square-foot single-family residence at 3281 Hyde Park Ave., Cleveland Heights, has been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in June and the total purchase price was $302,500, $174 per square foot. The house was built in 1920. The deal was finalized on Jun. 29.
9. $316,500, single-family residence at 19405 Scottsdale Blvd.
The sale of the single family residence at 19405 Scottsdale Blvd. in Shaker Heights has been finalized. The price was $316,500, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1954 and has a living area of 2,168 square feet. The price per square foot was $146. The deal was finalized on Jun. 23.
8. $323,000, single-family house at 2272 Westminster Road
The sale of the single-family home at 2272 Westminster Road, Cleveland Heights, has been finalized. The price was $323,000, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1920 and has a living area of 1,855 square feet. The price per square foot was $174. The deal was finalized on Jun. 27.
7. $325,000, single-family home at 2990 E. Derbyshire Road
The property at 2990 E. Derbyshire Road in Cleveland has new owners. The price was $325,000. The house was built in 1920 and has a living area of 2,060 square feet. The price per square foot is $158. The deal was finalized on Jun. 29.
6. $375,000, single-family house at 2664 Brentwood Road
A sale has been finalized for the single-family house at 2664 Brentwood Road in Beachwood. The price was $375,000 and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1953 and the living area totals 2,334 square feet. The price per square foot ended up at $161. The deal was finalized on Jun. 28.
5. $500,000, condominium at 13515 Shaker Blvd.
The 3,252 square-foot condominium at 13515 Shaker Blvd. in Cleveland has been sold. The transfer of ownership was settled in June and the total purchase price was $500,000, $154 per square foot. The condominium was built in 1925. The deal was finalized on Jun. 28.
4. $529,000, detached house at 21000 Sydenham Road
The property at 21000 Sydenham Road in Shaker Heights has new owners. The price was $529,000. The house was built in 1954 and has a living area of 2,592 square feet. The price per square foot is $204. The deal was finalized on Jun. 23.
3. $550,000, single-family residence at 2316 Richmond Road
The property at 2316 Richmond Road in Beachwood has new owners. The price was $550,000. The house was built in 1980 and has a living area of 2,547 square feet. The price per square foot is $216. The deal was finalized on Jun. 27.
2. $650,000, single-family home at 3025 Torrington Road
The sale of the single family residence at 3025 Torrington Road in Shaker Heights has been finalized. The price was $650,000, and the new owners took over the house in June. The house was built in 1952 and has a living area of 2,708 square feet. The price per square foot was $240. The deal was finalized on Jun. 27.
1. $750,000, single-family residence at 17210 Aldersyde Drive
The sale of the single-family residence at 17210 Aldersyde Drive, Shaker Heights, has been finalized. The price was $750,000, and the house changed hands in June. The house was built in 1924 and has a living area of 3,776 square feet. The price per square foot was $199. The deal was finalized on Jun. 27.
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Venice canals run dry amid fears Italy faces another drought
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Weeks of dry winter weather have raised concerns that Italy could face another drought after last summer’s emergency, with the Alps having received less than half of their normal snowfall, according to scientists and environmental groups.
The warning comes as Venice, where flooding is normally the primary concern, faces unusually low tides that are making it impossible for gondolas, water taxis and ambulances to navigate some of its famous canals.
The problems in Venice are being blamed on a combination of factors — the lack of rain, a high pressure system, a full moon and sea currents.
Italian rivers and lakes are suffering from severe lack of water, the Legambiente environmental group said Monday, with attention focused on the north of the country.
The Po, Italy’s longest river which runs from the Alps in the northwest to the Adriatic, has 61% less water than is normal at this time of year, it added in a statement.
Last July, Italy declared a state of emergency for areas surrounding the Po, which accounts for roughly a third of the country’s agricultural production and suffered its worst drought for 70 years.
“We are in a water deficit situation that has been building up since the winter of 2020-2021,” climate expert Massimiliano Pasqui, from Italian scientific research institute CNR, was quoted as saying by Corriere della Sera, a daily newspaper.
“We need to recover 500 millimeters in the northwestern regions: We need 50 days of rain,” he added.
Water levels on Lake Garda in northern Italy have fallen to record lows, making it possible to reach the small island of San Biagio on the lake via an exposed pathway.
An anticyclone has been dominating the weather in western Europe for 15 days, bringing mild temperatures more normally seen in late spring.
Latest weather forecasts do however signal the arrival of much-needed precipitation and snow in the Alps in coming days.
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(AP) — Many people who made their mark on the world passed in 2022. Here is a look back at dozens who left us this year.
January
Dan Reeves, Jan. 1, 2022: Dan Reeves, who won a Super Bowl as a player with the Dallas Cowboys but was best known for a long coaching career that included 4 more appearances in the title game with the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons, died January 1, 2022. He was 77.
Peter Bogdanovich, Jan. 6: Peter Bogdanovich, the ascot-wearing cinephile and director of 1970s black-and-white classics like “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon,” died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 82.
Sidney Poitier, January 6: Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died January 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Bob Saget, January 9: Bob Saget, the actor-comedian known for his role as beloved single dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House” and as the wisecracking host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died while on a stand-up tour. He was 65.
Ralph Emery, January 15: Ralph Emery, who became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television, died January 15 of natural causes, his family said. He was 88. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Charles McGee, January 16: Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died January 16. He was 102.
André Leon Talley, January 16: André Leon Talley, a towering and highly visible figure of the fashion world who made history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, died of a heart attack. He was 73.
Louie Anderson, January 21: Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,” died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer. He was 68.
Don Wilson, January 22: Don Wilson, the co-founder and rhythm guitarist of the instrumental guitar band The Ventures, died at 88 in Tacoma of natural causes, surrounded by his four children, The News Tribune reported. The band’s hits included “Walk, Don’t Run,” and the theme song for “Hawaii Five-O.” With over 100 million records sold, the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Mugler, January 23: French fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler, whose dramatic designs were worn by celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Cardi B, died. He was 73. No cause of death was given. Mugler, who launched his brand in 1973, became known for his architectural style, defined by broad shoulders and a tiny waist. The use of plastic-like futuristic fabric in his sculpted clothing became a trademark.
Moses J. Moseley, January 23: Moses J. Moseley, who appeared as a pet zombie on the TV series “The Walking Dead,” died. He was 31. Cheryl Kaleda of Premier Talent gave no further details.
Howard Hesseman, January 29: Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on “Head of the Class,” died from complications following colon surgery. He was 81. As Dr. Johnny Fever on CBS’ “WKRP in Cincinnati,” Hesseman became a counterculture icon at a time when few hippie characters made it onto network television.
Cheslie Kryst, January 30: Cheslie Kryst, the 2019 winner of the Miss USA pageant and a correspondent for the entertainment news program “Extra,” died after jumping from a Manhattan apartment building. She was 30.
February
Monica Vitti, February 2: Monica Vitti, the versatile movie star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” and other Italian alienation films of the 1960s, and later a leading comic actress, died. She was 90. “Goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema,” the current culture minister, Dario Franceschini, wrote in a statement.
Betty Davis, February 9: Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and ‘70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis’ landmark fusion of jazz and more contemporary sounds, died. She was 77. Sometimes referred to as “Madonna before Madonna,” Davis was the rare woman to make funk albums in the 1970s, and her three albums from that time were showcases for her fearless personality and sexuality and insistence on control of her material and her image.
Ivan Reitman, February 13: Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” died peacefully in his sleep at home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. He was 75. Known for big, bawdy comedies that caught the spirit of their time, Reitman’s big break came with the raucous, college fraternity sendup “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which he produced. He directed Bill Murray in his first starring role in “Meatballs” and then again in “Stripes,” but his most significant success came with 1984’s “Ghostbusters.”
Brad Johnson, February 18: Brad Johnson, who jumped from rodeo cowboy to portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots and film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg’s “Always” and “Melrose Place,” died at the age of 62. Johnson died February 18 of complications from COVID-19 but his death was not revealed until June 4.
Gary Brooker, February 19: Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s’ most enduring hits, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home. He was 76. He had been receiving treatment for cancer. A statement posted on the band’s official website said: “With the deepest regret we must announce the death on February 19 2022 of Gary Brooker MBE, singer, pianist and composer of Procol Harum, and a brightly-shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry.”
Lindsey Pearlman, February 19: Actor Lindsey Erin Pearlman, who had roles in “General Hospital,” “American Housewife” and other shows, was found dead days after she was reported missing in Los Angeles, authorities said. Her body was found Friday morning when officers responded to a call for a death investigation in a residential neighborhood of Hollywood, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Jamal Edwards, February 20: Jamal Edwards, a British music entrepreneur who championed U.K. rap and grime and helped launch the careers of artists including Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and Stormzy, died. He was 31. His mother, broadcaster Brenda Edwards, said Monday that her son died the day before after a sudden illness. She said the family was “completely devastated. He was the center of our world.” Edwards founded the online music channel SBTV as a teenager in 2006.
Mark Lanegan, February 22: Mark Lanegan, the singer whose raspy baritone and darkly poetic songwriting made Screaming Trees an essential part of the early Seattle grunge scene and brought him an acclaimed solo career, died at age 57. No cause was given. In a memoir released last year, Lanegan said a severe case of COVID-19 left him hospitalized in a coma.
Sally Kellerman, February 24: Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “MASH,” died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. She was 84. Kellerman had a career of more than 60 years in film and television. She played a college professor who was returning student Rodney Dangerfield’s love interest in the 1986 comedy “Back to School.” And she was a regular in Altman’s films, appearing in 1970’s “Brewster McCloud,” 1992’s “The Player” and 1994’s “Ready to Wear.”
March
Katie Meyer, March 3: Stanford goalkeeper Katie Meyer, who memorably led the Cardinal to victory in the 2019 NCAA College Cup championship game, has died. She was 22. Her death was ruled a suicide. “There is no indication of foul play, and Meyer’s death was determined to be self-inflicted,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Mitchell Ryan, March 4: Mitchell Ryan, who played a villainous general in the first “Lethal Weapon” movie, a ruthless businessman on TV’s “Santa Barbara” and had character roles on the soap opera “Dark Shadows” and the 1990s sitcom “Dharma & Greg,” died of congestive heart failure at his LA home. He was 88. His career spanned more than a half-century, beginning with an uncredited role in the 1958 Robert Mitchum film “Thunder Road.”
Emilio Delgado, March 10: Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children’s lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on “Sesame Street,” died from the blood cancer multiple myeloma. He was 81. As Luis, Delgado, a Mexican American, got to play an ordinary, non-stereotypical Latino character at a time when such depictions were few and far between on TV, for adults or children.
Traci Braxton, March 12: Singer and reality TV star Traci Braxton died at the age of 50. TMZ reported Traci’s husband Kevin Surratt said she had been battling cancer. “We have come to a time where we must inform the public that after a year of privately undergoing a series of treatment for esophageal cancer our beloved Traci Braxton has gone on to glory,” Surratt told TMZ. Traci got her career start in “The Braxtons,” a musical group featuring herself and her sisters Toni, Towanda, Trina and Tamar, during the ’90s.
Brent Renaud, March 13: Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine. The 50-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas, native was gathering material for a report about refugees when his vehicle was hit at a checkpoint in Irpin, just outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
William Hurt, March 13: William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as “Broadcast News,” “Body Heat” and “The Big Chill,” died of natural causes peacefully, among family, his son said. The Hollywood Reporter said he died at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 71. Hurt was four times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
John Clayton, March 18: Longtime NFL journalist John Clayton died following a short illness. He was 67. Nicknamed “The Professor,” Clayton spent more than two decades covering the Pittsburgh Steelers for the The Pittsburgh Press and the Seattle Seahawks for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Clayton moved to ESPN in 1995, becoming one of the lead NFL writers for the company. Clayton appeared on TV and radio for ESPN and worked at the company for more than 20 years.
Don Young, March 19: Alaska GOP congressman Don Young, the longest-serving member of Congress — known as the Dean of the House — died “while traveling home to Alaska to be with the state and people that he loved.” He was 88. Young, representing a state known for its natural beauty, wildlife, ecology and environment, also pushed back against federal control of Alaskan lands; established a 200-mile fishing limit to support the state’s fishing industry; and helped pass the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act in 1997, which set guidelines for wildlife refuges.
Madeleine Albright, March 23: Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, died of cancer, her family said. She was 84. A lifelong Democrat who nonetheless worked to bring Republicans into her orbit, Albright was chosen in 1996 by President Bill Clinton to be America’s top diplomat, elevating her from U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, where she had been only the second woman to hold that job.
Taylor Hawkins, March 25: Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, died during a South American tour with the rock band. He was 50. The band said in a statement his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.” Foo Fighters had been scheduled to play at a festival in Bogota, Colombia, on the night he died. Hawkins’ final concert was 4 days before at another festival in San Isidro, Argentina.
Jeff Carson, March 26: Country music singer and songwriter Jeff Carson, who scored hits with “Not On Your Love,” and “The Car” before becoming a police officer, died of a heart attack in a Tennessee hospital. Carson was 58. His singles “Not On Your Love” and “The Car,” won Carson his first Academy of Country Music award for video of the year. Carson’s career had 14 singles on the Billboard chart in his career.
Paul Herman, March 29: Paul Herman, a prolific actor who appeared in “The Sopranos” and “The Irishman,” died on his 76th birthday. TV fans might best remember Herman for his recurring role on HBO’s “The Sopranos” as Peter “Beansie” Gaeta, a pizzeria owner and former mobster who maintained a friendship with Tony Soprano amid tensions with incarcerated mob boss Richie Aprile.
Tom Parker, March 30: Tom Parker, a member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted, died after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was 33. Parker announced his diagnosis in October 2020, and underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
April
Estelle Harris, April 2: Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, died. She was 93. As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
Bobby Rydell, April 5: Bobby Rydell, a pop singer and star of the 1963 film “Bye Bye Birdie,” died of pneumonia. He was 79. The Philadelphia native saw 34 of his singles land on the Billboard Hot 100, with the most well-known being “Wild One.” Others include “Volare,” “The Cha-Cha-Cha,” and “We Got Love,” according to Variety. Rydell was still touring with a performance scheduled for June in Atlantic City.
Gilbert Gottfried, April 12: Gilbert Gottfried, the actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes, died from a rare genetic muscle disease that can trigger a dangerously abnormal heartbeat. He was 67. “The first comedian I saw who would go on and all the other comics would go in the room to watch,” standup comic Colin Quinn said on Twitter. Gottfried also did frequent voice work for children’s television and movies, most famously playing the parrot Iago in Disney’s “Aladdin.”
Liz Sheridan, April 15: Liz Sheridan, an accomplished actress of stage and screen who had her breakout role in the 1990s playing Jerry’s mom on “Seinfeld,” died peacefully in her sleep, TMZ and Deadline reported. Her death came just 5 days after her 93rd birthday and nearly two weeks after her fellow “Seinfeld” star Estelle Harris, who played George Constanza’s mother on the sitcom, also died at age 93.
Art Rupe, April 16: Music executive Art Rupe, whose Specialty Records was a premier label during the formative years of rock ‘n roll and helped launch the careers of Little Richard, Sam Cooke and many others, died at the age of 104. Rupe’s most lucrative and momentous signing was Little Richard, a rhythm ’n blues and gospel performer since his teens who had struggled to break through commercially.
DJ Kay Slay, April 17: Pioneering hip hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay and worked with top stars, died of complications from COVID-19 at age 55. His family release a statement through New York radio station HOT 97, where he hosted “The Drama Hour” for more than two decades.
Robert Morse, April 20: Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru,” died after a brief illness. He was 90. More recently, he played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in “Mad Men,” the hti AMC drama that debuted in 2007. The role earned him an Emmy nomination in 2008 as best guest actor in a drama series.
Orrin Hatch, April 23: Former U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, who served in the U.S. Senate for 42 years, died at 88 in Salt Lake City. His cause of death was not specified. Hatch was the longest-serving senator in Utah history, spanning the terms of seven U.S. presidents from 1977 to 2019.
Naomi Judd, April 30: Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, died at age 76. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.” The statement did not elaborate further. The Judds were to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame the next day.
May
Mickey Gilley, May 7: Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, died at the age of 86. Overall, he had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No. 1 songs. He received six Academy of Country Music Awards, and also worked on occasion as an actor, with appearances on “Murder She Wrote,” “The Fall Guy,” “Fantasy Island” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Fred Ward, May 8: Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” died. He was 79. A former boxer, lumberjack in Alaska and short-order cook who served in the U.S. Air Force, Ward was a San Diego native who was part Cherokee. One early big role was alongside Clint Eastwood in 1979’s “Escape From Alcatraz.”
Adrieane Payne, May 9: Former Michigan State basketball standout and NBA player Adreian Payne died in a shooting. He was 31. A 29-year-old was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Robert McFarlane, May 13: Former White House national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, a top aide to President Ronald Reagan who pleaded guilty to charges for his role in an illegal arms-for-hostages deal known as the Iran-Contra affair, died from complications of a previous illness at a hospital in Michigan. He was 84. ″I did indeed withhold information from the Congress,” he told reporters at the time. “I believe strongly that, throughout, my actions were motivated by what I believed to be in the foreign policy interest of the United States.″ He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, along with five other figures from the scandal.
Richard Wald, May 13: Richard Wald, a longtime journalist who helped build ABC News into a powerhouse following a career in newspapers, died days after he suffered a stroke. He was 92. Explaining why he joined NBC News in the late 1960s, Wald often said, “I didn’t leave newspapers. Newspapers left me.” He was NBC News president from 1973 to 1977, where he installed Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley as “Today” show hosts. He also let screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky trail him for two days, and became the model for the network news president in the satiric film “Network.”
Vangelis, May 17: Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, died at 79. “Vangelis Papathanassiou is no longer among us,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted, calling him an “electronic sound trailblazer” whose death is “sad news for the entire world.”
Marnie Schulenburg, May 17: Marnie Schulenburg, a soap actress who played the character Alison Stewart on CBS’ “As the World Turns,” died from complications of metastatic breast cancer. She was 37. “Please don’t say Marnie lost her battle to cancer. It’s simply not true. I watched her kick cancer’s ass every day since diagnosis,” her husband, actor Zack Robidas wrote in a post on Facebook.
Roger Angell, May 20: Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, died of heart failure. He was 101. He was voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame for writing. At age 93, he completed one of his most highly praised essays, the deeply personal “This Old Man,” winner of a National Magazine Award.
Andy Fletcher, May 26: Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who for more than 40 years added his synth sounds to Depeche Mode hits like “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Personal Jesus,” died at 60 from natural causes at his home in the UK. “Fletch had a true heart of gold and was always there when you needed support, a lively conversation, a good laugh, or a cold pint,” the band said in a social media post.
Ray Liotta, May 26: Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” died. He was 67. Liotta was in the Dominican Republic shooting a new movie and did not wake up. His fiancee found him. Robert De Niro, who co-starred with Liotta in “Goodfellas,” said in an emailed statement that he was saddened by Liotta’s passing. “He is way too way young to have left us,” De Niro said.
Alan White, May 26: Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes who also played on projects with John Lennon and George Harrison, died at his Seattle-area home after a brief illness. He was 72. White joined Yes in 1972, replacing original drummer Bill Bruford. In a band noted for frequent lineup changes, White was a constant and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017.
Bo Hopkins, May 27: American actor Bo Hopkins, best known for his roles in “Wild Bunch” and “American Graffiti,” died of a heart attack. He was 80. During his career, he appeared in more than 100 films and television roles. He appeared in his final film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” in 2020. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Ronnie Hawkins, May 29: Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, died after an illness. He was 87. “Hawkins is the only man I ever heard who can make a nice sexy song like ‘My Gal is Red Hot’ sound sordid,” Greil Marcus wrote in his acclaimed book about music and American culture, “Mystery Train,” adding that “The Hawk” was alleged to “know more back roads, back rooms and backsides than any man from Newark to Mexicali.”
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June
Marion Barber, June 1: Former NFL running back Marion Barber III died at 38. He was found dead in his Forth Worth apartment after police were called to do a welfare check. Throughout his career in the NFL, Barber rushed 4,780 yards, on 1,156 attempts, an average of 4.1 yards per attempt, and scored 53 touchdowns on the ground. As a receiver, he caught 179 passes for 1,330 yards with six TDs.
Alec John Such, June 5: Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of Bon Jovi, died at the age of 70. No details on when or how John Such died were immediately available. Bon Jovi credited John Such for bringing the band together, noting that he was a childhood friend of drummer Tico Torres and brought guitarist and songwriter Richie Sambora to see the band perform. John Such had played in a band called the Message with Sambora.
Jim Seals, June 7: Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” died at the age of 80. Their other popular songs included “Hummingbird,” and “You’re the Love.” Seals and Crofts also released the controversial “Unborn Child,” an anti-abortion song that came out the year after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and was banned by some radio stations.
Philip Baker Hall, June 12: Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” died at the age of 90. Among Hall’s many other credits were Michael Mann’s “The Insider,” as “60 Minutes” producer Don Hewitt, and Lars von Trier’s “Dogville.” Hall appeared in “Say Anything,” “The Truman Show,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Zodiac,” “Argo” and “Rush Hour.” Hall played the neighbor Walt Kleezak on “Modern Family.” His last performance was in the 2020 series “Messiah.”
Raymundo Garduño Cruz and Juan Francisco González Aguilar, June 16: Two actors on the Netflix series “The Chosen One” were killed and six other cast or crew members were injured after the van they were riding in crashed near Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula.
Tyler Sanders, June 16: Tyler Sanders, known for appearances on “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “The Rookie,” and “Just Add Magic: Mystery City,” Sanders was found unresponsive in his Los Angeles home, TMZ reported. He was declared dead at that time, and authorities did not suspect foul play.
Mark Shields, June 18: Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields, who shared his insight into American politics and wit on “PBS NewsHour” for decades, died at 85. “Mark Shields had a magical combination of talents: an unsurpassed knowledge of politics and a passion, joy, and irrepressible humor that shone through in all his work,” PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff said in a statement. “He loved most politicians, but could spot a phony and was always bold to call out injustice. Along with Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil, he personified all that’s special in the PBS NewsHour.“
Tony Siragusa, June 22: Tony Siragusa, the charismatic defensive tackle who was part of one of the most celebrated defenses in NFL history with the Baltimore Ravens, died at 55. “There was no one like Goose — a warrior on the field and a team unifier with a giving, generous heart who helped teammates and the community more than most people know,” said Brian Billick, the coach of that 2000 team. “We would not have won the Super Bowl without him. This is such stunning, sad news.”
Mary Mara, June 26: Mary Mara, who appeared on television shows including “Ray Donovan,” “Dexter” and “ER” in an acting career that spanned more than 30 years, died in a drowning accident. She was 61. She acted in movies including “”Mr. Saturday Night” with Billy Crystal and “Prom Night.” Her last credit was in 2020, in a movie called “Break Even.”
July
James Caan, July 6: James Caan, perhaps best known for his role in “The Godfather,” in which he played the violent and reckless Santino “Sonny” Corleone, died at the age of 82. Caan was already a star on television, breaking through in the 1971 TV movie “Brian’s Song,” an emotional drama about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, who had died of cancer the year before at age 26. Younger audiences may know him from his part as Walter in the Christmas comedy “Elf.”
Shinzo Abe, July 7: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. He was later pronounced dead after receiving massive blood transfusions, officials said.
Tony Sirico, July 8: “Sopranos” star Tony Sirico, known by fans of the beloved HBO mobster series as Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gaultieri, died July 8 at the age of 79. “It pains me to say that my dear friend, colleague and partner in crime, the great TONY SIRICO has passed away today,” actor Michael Imperioli wrote. “Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i’ve ever known.” Sirico was also known for his roles in “Goodfellas,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Cafe Society” and others.
Larry Storch, July 8: Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died of natural causes. Storch was 99. Storch’s credits included “Funny Valentine,” “Sweet 16,” “Sex and the Single Girl,” “S.O.B.,” “Airport,” “Treasure Island” and “Oliver Twist.” On TV, he guest-starred on such shows as “Married… With Children,” “Archie Bunker’s Place,” “Trapper John, M.D.,” “Fantasy Island,” CHiPS,” “The Love Boat,” “Get Smart,” “Love American Style,” “Gilligan’s Island” and “Car 54 Where Are You?”
Ivana Trump, July 14: Ivana Trump, former President Donald Trump’s first wife, died in an accident from blunt impact injuries to her torso. She was 73. NBC reported that a New York City official said Ivana Trump was found on her apartment’s spiral staircase when authorities arrived at her home. Ivana and the former president married in 1977 and had three children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
William Hart, July 14: William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such classic “Sound of Philadelphia” ballads as “La-La (Means I Love You)” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” died from complications during surgery. He was 77.
Nolan Neal, July 18: Nolan Neal, a former contestant on “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent,” died at age 41. The singer was found dead in his Nashville apartment, his cousin Dylan Seals told both TMZ and People. Neal made it to the quarterfinals on the 15th season of “America’s Got Talent,” where he performed his original song “Send Me a Butterfly.”
Taurean Blacque, July 21: Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor who was known for his role as a detective on the 1980s NBC drama series “Hill Street Blues,” died at age 82. Blacque had two biological sons and adopted 11 children and was the spokesman for the county of Los Angeles Adoption Service. In 1989, Blacque was asked by President George H.W. Bush to become the national spokesperson for adoption. He was survived by 12 children, 18 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
Shonka Dukureh, July 21: Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in this year’s movie about Elvis Presley, was found dead in a bedroom at her home in Nashville, police said. She was 44. Nashville police said there were no signs of foul play. The actor, who also shared the stage at Coachella this year with Doja Cat, had a theater degree from Fisk and graduated from Trevecca Nazarene with an education degree.
Bob Rafelson, July 23: Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died. He was 89. Rafelson directed and co-wrote “Five Easy Pieces” and produced seminal New Hollywood classics including Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” and Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider.”
Paul Sorvino, July 25: Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” died of natural causes. He was 83. Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.” He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
Tony Dow, July 27: Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77. “Tony was not only my brother on TV, but in many ways in life as well. He leaves an empty place in my heart that won’t be filled,” Jerry Mathers, who played Beaver, said in a Facebook post. “Tony was always the kindest, most generous, gentle, loving, sincere, and humble man, and it was my honor and privilege to be able to share memories together with him for 65 years.”
Nichelle Nichols, July 30: Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, died at the age of 89. Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ rabid fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies. It also earned her accolades for breaking stereotypes that had limited Black women to acting roles as servants and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.
Bill Russell, July 31: Bill Russell, who redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country, died at 88. The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., supported Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first Black coach in any major U.S. sport.
Pat Carroll, July 31: Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner for “Caesar’s Hour” and the voice Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” died at age 95. She won an Emmy for her work on the sketch comedy series “Caesar’s Hour” in 1956, was a regular on “Make Room for Daddy” with Danny Thomas, a guest star on “The DuPont Show with June Allyson” and a variety show regular stopping by “The Danny Kaye Show,” “The Red Skelton Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show.”
August
Vin Scully, August 2: Vin Scully, who for more than 60 years was the voice of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, died at the age of 94.The Dodgers announced Scully’s death on social media, calling the incomparable legend of the broadcast booth, “the heartbeat of the Dodgers.” He was a MLB Hall of Fame inductee in the 1980s, becoming one of only a handful of announcers to receive the honor. In 2016 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Baseball Digest lifetime achievement award.
David McCullough, August 7: David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, died at 89, less than two months after his wife, Rosalee. Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary. “Hamilton” author Ron Chernow once called McCullough “both the name and the voice of American history,” while on Burns tweeted that McCullough was a friend and “gifted teacher” to him.
Olivia Newton-John, August 8: Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as “Physical” and “You’re the One That I Want” and won countless hearts as everyone’s favorite Sandy in the blockbuster film version of “Grease,” died. She was 73. She had 14 top 10 singles just in the U.S., won four Grammys, starred with John Travolta in “Grease” and with Gene Kelly in “Xanadu.” The fast-stepping Travolta-Newton-John duet, “You’re the One That I Want,” was one of the era’s biggest songs and has sold more than 15 million copies.
Lamont Dozier, August 8: Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, died at age 81. Over a four-year period, 1963-67, Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland crafted more than 25 top 10 songs and mastered the blend of pop and rhythm and blues that allowed the Detroit label, and founder Berry Gordy, to defy boundaries between Black and white music and rival the Beatles on the airwaves.
Anne Heche, August 12: Anne Heche, who suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” caused by a lack of oxygen, when her car crashed into a Los Angeles area home Aug. 5 and fire erupted, was declared legally dead a week later. She remained on life support for organ donation. In the late 1990s she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films. In 1997 alone, she played opposite Johnny Depp as his wife in “Donnie Brasco” and Tommy Lee Jones in “Volcano” and was part of the ensemble cast in the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Wolfgang Petersen, August 12: Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” died from pancreatic cancer at 81. Heralded as an antiwar masterpiece, “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen’s direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
Dorli Rainey, August 12: Dorli Rainey, a self-described “old lady in combat boots” who became a symbol of the Occupy protest movement when she was photographed after being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, died at 95. In November 2011, in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Rainey, then 84, joined protesters in blocking downtown intersections. She was hit when Seattle police used pepper spray to clear the crowd. The photo become a worldwide symbol for the protest movement. “It’s a gruesome picture,” she told the AP. “I’m really not that bad looking.”
Virginia Patton, August 18: Virginia Patton Moss, who played Ruth Dakin Bailey in the Frank Capra Christmas classic died Thursday, Aug. 18 of natural causes at the age of 97. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, moved to Hollywood as a teenager to pursue acting. During her 7-year-long career, she appeared in plays and movies before retiring at the age of 24 to marry Cruse Moss and move to Michigan.
Leon Vitali, August 19: Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, died at 74. Vitali was so fascinated by Kubrick and his processes that he made an unusual decision: He gave up on acting and devoted himself entirely to the famously demanding director for over two decades.
Tom Weiskopf, August 20: Tom Weiskopf’s golf skill went far beyond his 16 victories on the PGA Tour and his lone major at Troon in the British Open. He was always candid, often outspoken and unfailingly accurate in the television booth. He found even greater success designing golf courses. Weiskopf died at his home in Big Sky, Montana, at the age of 79, his wife said. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2020.
Tim Page, August 24: Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page died of liver cancer at his Australian home. He was 78 years old. He stood out for his flamboyance and extravagant personality as well as his talent and commitment as a photographer. He inspired the drug-addled photojournalist played by Dennis Hopper in the Francis Coppola-directed, Oscar-winning 1979 Vietnam War movie “Apocalypse Now.”
Len Dawson, August 24: Whether it was in the huddle during the early days of the AFL or behind the microphone as the NFL grew into the behemoth it is today, Len Dawson carried himself with an unmistakable swagger and self-assurance that earned him the well-worn nickname “Lenny the Cool.” He was a Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl championship, then a Hall of Fame broadcaster who brought football into the homes of millions on the iconic HBO show “Inside the NFL.” He was 87.
Joe E. Tata, August 24: The proprietor of the fictional Peach Pit diner from “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Joe E. Tata, died at the age of 85. From 1990 to 2000, Tata starred as Nat Bussichio in the ’90s teen drama. While he’s known for that role by many, he had quite a resume. He played various roles on hit television series like “Batman,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “Magnum P.I.,” “Hillstreet Blues,” and more.
Charlbi Dean, August 29: Charlbi Dean, the South African actor and model who had a breakout role in “Triangle of Sadness,” which won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died at age 32 from a sudden, unexpected illness. Dean also had a recurring role as the assassin Syonide on the DC Comics television series “Black Lightning,” which aired on the CW from 2018 to 2021.
Mikhail Gorbachev, August 29: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet president and the man known for ending the Cold War, died at 91. Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation. His decline was humiliating. His power was hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
Earnie Shavers, August 31: Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, died. He was 78. Shavers’ death came a day after his birthday. He didn’t take up boxing until he was 22. Shavers fought from 1969-1995, which included two abbreviated returns from retirement. He finished 74-14-1 with 68 knockouts. “He was one of the hardest punchers in boxing,” Larry Holmes said.
September
Marsha Hunt, September 7: Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, died. She was 104. She was well under 40 when MGM named her “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress.” And by the early 1950s, she was enough of a star to appear on the cover of Life magazine and seem set to thrive in the new medium of television when suddenly “the work dried up,” she recalled in 1996. The reason, she learned from her agent, was that the communist-hunting Red Channels publication had revealed that she attended a peace conference in Stockholm and other supposedly suspicious gatherings. Alongside Hollywood stars Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Danny Kaye, Hunt also went to Washington in 1947 to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was conducting a witch hunt for communists in the film industry.
Queen Elizabeth II, September 8: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended to the throne in 1952 and reigned for 70 years, died at the age of 96. Britain’s longest-serving monarch is the only sovereign most Britons have ever known. The queen had been a constant presence as Britain navigated the end of empire, the swinging ’60s, the labor strife of the 1980s, international terrorism, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The BBC played the national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” over a portrait of her in full regalia as her death was announced, and the flag over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-staff as the second Elizabethan age came to a close.
Bernard Shaw, September 8: Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor and a pioneering Black journalist remembered for his blunt question at a presidential debate and calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 from Baghdad as it was under attack, died at 82. “In all of the years of preparing to being anchor, one of the things I strove for was to be able to control my emotions in the midst of hell breaking out,” Shaw said in a 2014 interview with NPR. “And I personally feel that I passed my stringent test for that in Baghdad.”
Ramsey Lewis, September 12: Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country’s most successful jazz musicians, died. He was 87. Lewis is revered in jazz circles for 1960s hits like “The ‘In’ Crowd,” “Hang on Sloopy” and “Wade in the Water.” He earned three Grammy awards and seven gold records. The trio’s first record in 1956 was “Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing.”
Ken Starr, September 13: Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, died at 76. In a bitter finish to his investigation of the Lewinsky affair that engendered still more criticism, Starr filed a report, as the law required, with the U.S. House of Representatives. He concluded that Clinton lied under oath, engaged in obstruction of justice and followed a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with the president’s constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. House Republicans used Starr’s report as a roadmap in the impeachment of the president, who was acquitted in a Senate trial.
Jean-Luc Godard, September 13: Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the film world’s most influential directors, died at 91. Godard died peacefully and surrounded by loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, his family said in a statement. The statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland, as the cause of death.
Irene Papas, September 14: Irene Papas, the Greek actress and recording artist renowned for her dramatic performances and austere beauty that earned her prominent roles in Hollywood movies as well as in French and Italian cinema over six decades died. She was 93. Papas became known internationally following performances in “The Guns of Navarone” in 1961 and “Zorba the Greek” in 1964, acting alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. In all, she starred in more than 50 movies.
Henry Silva, September 14: Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, died at age 95. He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Las Vegas heist film that was a showcase for Sinatra, Dean Martin and other “Rat Pack” members; and “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold War thriller about brainwashing and the assassination of the president that starred Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. (In his last film appearance, Silva was cast in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake from 2000 that starred George Clooney and Brad Pitt).
Maury Wills, September 19: Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, died. He was 89. During his 14-year career, Wills batted .281 with 2,134 hits and 586 stolen bases in 1,942 games. Wills broke Ty Cobb’s single-season record for stolen bases with his 97th swipe on Sept. 23, 1962. That season he became the first player to steal more than 100 bases.
Louise Fletcher, September 23: Louise Fletcher, best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in the 1975 Milos Forman film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died of natural causes. She was 88. Her portrayal of the sadistic Ratched, opposite Jack Nicholson, continued to be her most acclaimed until her death. The film, based on Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, won all five major Academy Awards after its release — including an Oscar for Nicholson and the Best Picture trophy.
Pharoah Sanders, September 24: Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, died at the age of 81. The saxophonist’s best-known work was his two-part “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” from the “Karma” album released in 1969. The combined track is nearly 33 minutes long.
Coolio, September 28: Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died at age 59. Coolio won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” that sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise” and was played constantly on MTV. The Grammy, and the height of his popularity, came in 1996, amid a fierce feud between the hip-hop communities of the two coasts, which would take the lives of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. soon after.
Bill Plante, September 28: Bill Plante, one of the longest-serving White House broadcast journalists in history, died of respiratory failure. The award-winning CBS correspondent was 84 years old and lived in Washington, D.C. Plante retired from CBS News as senior White House correspondent in 2016 after 52 years with the news division. He served four tours in Vietnam – with award-winning reporting on the fall of Saigon and Cambodia – covered the civil rights movement, all the presidential elections from 1968 to 2016, and was the anchor of the “CBS Sunday Night News” from 1988 to 1995.
October
Sacheen Littlefeather, October 2: Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” in 1973, died after a fight with breast cancer. She was 75. In June, the Academy apologized to Littlefeather for her treatment when she took the stage to speak on Brando’s behalf during the broadcast, and she attended an in-person presentation of that apology on Sept. 17.
Loretta Lynn, October 4: Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, died at her home in Tennessee. She was 90. Her honesty and unique place in country music was rewarded. She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.
Judy Tenuta, October 6: Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Goddess of Love” and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died of ovarian cancer. She was 72. Her heart-shaped face, topped by bouffant hair with a flower accent, conveyed an impression of sweet innocence that was quickly shattered by her loud, gravelly delivery and acidic humor, expletives included. The accordion she made part of her act was “an instrument of love and submission,” as she fondly called it.
Robbie Coltrane, October 7: Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, died at a hospital in his native Scotland. He was 72. He appeared in all eight “Harry Potter” movies as the young wizard’s mentor and had a wide variety of other parts, including a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough” and Pip’s guardian Mr. Jaggers in a 2012 adaptation of Dickens’ “Great Expectations.”
Angela Lansbury, October 11: Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” died just five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, “Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and was nominated again in 1962 for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent and the title character’s mother.
Bruce Sutter, October 13: Bruce Sutter, the full-bearded closer who paid for his own elbow surgery as a low minor leaguer and later pioneered the sharp-dropping pitch that came to dominate big league hitters for decades, died at 69. Sutter played in a era when closers routinely got more than three outs. He threw more than one inning for 188 of his saves and five times pitched more than 100 innings in a season.
James McDivitt, October 13: James McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, died at the age of 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images. He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Leslie Jordan, October 24: Leslie Jordan, the actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including “Will & Grace” and “American Horror Story,” died in a single car crash in Hollywood. He was 67. Jordan earned an unexpected new following in 2021 when the longtime Los Angeles resident area spent time during the pandemic lockdown near family in his hometown. He broke the sameness by posting daily videos of himself on Instagram.
Ash Carter, October 24: Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, died of a heart attack. He was 68. “I made the decision to admit women to all military specialties without exception,” Carter said in a later interview on the decision. “They are 50% of the population. We can’t afford to leave off the table half of the population who can, if they’re the ones who have the best qualifications, do the job.”
Julie Powell, October 26: Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, died of cardiac arrest. She was 49. Powell’s 2005 book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” became the hit, Nora Ephron-directed film “Julie & Julia,” with the author portrayed in the movie by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Child. Her sophomore and last effort — titled “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession” — was a bit jarring in its honesty. Powell revealed she had an affair, the pain of loving two men at once, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing sex with a stranger.
Jerry Lee Lewis, October 28: Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died at 87. In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined the Country Hall of Fame this year. The Killer not only outlasted his contemporaries but saw his life and music periodically reintroduced to younger fans, including the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary “Trouble in Mind.” A 2010 Broadway music, “Million Dollar Quartet,” was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Perkins and Cash.
November
Takeoff, November 1: At just 28, rapper Takeoff had cultivated a rich hip-hop legacy with Migos — along with a reputation as the trio’s most lowkey member — before he was killed in a shooting outside a Houston bowling alley. He had hoped to gain more respect for his lyrical ability through “Only Built for Infinity Links,” an album he released with Quavo in October. “It’s time to give me my flowers,” Takeoff said on a recent episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” acknowledging his reputation as “chill.” “I don’t want them later on when I’m not here.”
Dow Finsterwald, November 4: Dow Finsterwald became a footnote in history as the first player to win the PGA Championship in stroke play and the last U.S. captain of a Ryder Cup before continental Europe was invited to join. Finsterwald, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour, died at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 93.
Aaron Carter, November 5: Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead at his home in Southern California. He was 34. Carter opened for the Backstreet Boys tour in 1997 — the same year his gold-selling debut self-titled album released. In 2017, Carter opened up about his substance abuse on an episode of “The Doctors.”
Kevin Conroy, November 10: Kevin Conroy, the prolific voice actor whose gravely delivery on “Batman: The Animated Series” was for many Batman fans the definitive sound of the Caped Crusader, died from cancer. He was 66. Conroy was the voice of Batman on the acclaimed animated series that ran from 1992-1996, often acting opposite Mark Hamill’s Joker. Conroy continued on as the almost exclusive animated voice of Batman, including some 15 films, 400 episodes of television and two dozen video games, including the “Batman: Arkham” and “Injustice” franchises.
Gallagher, November 11: Gallagher, the long-haired, smash-’em-up comedian who left a trail of laughter, anger and shattered watermelons over a decades-long career, died at age 76 at his home in Palm Springs. His act included observational humor (“What about Easter? Whose idea was it to give eggs to an animal that hops”), political commentary (“They don’t call a tax a tax. They call it a revenue enhancer”), invented sports (synchronized Ping-Pong) and his trademark Sledge-O-Matic destruction.
John Aniston, November 11: Actor John Aniston died at the age of 89, his daughter Jennifer Aniston confirmed. The veteran actor was best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis in “Days of Our Lives.” He won a Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement award earlier this year for his 37-year role on the soap opera. “Soap operas have just the right amount of recognition,” he said in an interview with the Television Academy Foundation. “You get just enough to satisfy your ego but not enough to disrupt your life. Whereas some people, my daughter being one of them, can’t go anywhere.”
Robert Clary, November 16: Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” died. He was 96. He remained publicly silent about his wartime experience until 1980 when, Clary said, he was provoked to speak out by those who denied or diminished the orchestrated effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews. A documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. The forearms of concentration camp prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers, with A5714 to be Clary’s lifelong mark.
Nicki Aycox, November 17: Actress Nicki Aycox, known for her roles in “Supernatural” and “Jeepers Creepers 2,” died at the age of 47 after a battle with leukemia. Aycox played the original Meg Masters in the show “Supernatural,” a character who was possessed by a demon.
Jason David Frank, November 20: Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children’s series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” died at the age of 49. Neither the cause of death nor when exactly he died was released. Early in the first season, Frank’s Tommy Oliver was first seen as a villain, brainwashed by the evil Rita Repulsa. But soon after, he was inducted in the group as the Green Ranger and became one of the most popular characters on the show.
Wilko Johnson, November 21: Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an unexpected career renaissance after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, died at 75. Johnson helped give Dr. Feelgood a dangerous edge with his choppy, relentless guitar style and thousand-yard glare — a look terrifying enough to earn him a role later in life as silent executioner Ser Ilyn Payne on “Game of Thrones.”
Irene Cara, November 26: Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” died at the age of 63. The exact date of her death was not immediately revealed. Cara sang on the soaring title song with the chorus — “Remember my name/I’m gonna live forever/I’m gonna learn how to fly/I feel it coming together/People will see me and cry” — which would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award for best original song.
Freddie Roman, November 26: Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, died of a heart attack. He was 85. He performed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Bally’s Grand in Atlantic City, and he roasted the likes of Rob Reiner, Chevy Chase, Jerry Stiller and Hugh Hefner. He also conceived of “Catskills on Broadway.”
Donald McEachin, November 28: Rep. Donald McEachin, a Democrat representing Virginia’s fourth Congressional District since 2017, died after a battle with colorectal cancer. He was 61. Eachin’s chief of staff, Tara Rountree, said in a statement, “We are all devastated at the passing of our boss and friend, Congressman Donald McEachin.”
Brad William Henke, November 29: Former NFL player and actor Brad William Henke died at 56. Henke was best known for his role in “Orange Is the New Black.” Henke’s career took him to the NFL before he found success acting, graduating from the University of Arizona, where he played defensive line, and joining the New York Giants in 1989, according to his IMDB page. He would go on to play in Super Bowl XXIV with the Denver Broncos before he retired in 1994 after suffering a number of injuries.
Christine McVie, November 30: Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as “You Make Loving Fun,” “Everywhere” and “Don’t Stop,” died at 79 after a short illness. McVie was a steady presence and personality in a band known for its frequent lineup changes and volatile personalities — notably fellow singer-songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
December
Gaylord Perry, December 1: Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using the pitch, died at the age of 84. Perry’s 1974 autobiography was titled “Me and the Spitter,” and he wrote it in that when he started in 1962 he was the “11th man on an 11-man pitching staff” for the Giants. He needed an edge and learned the spitball from San Francisco teammate Bob Shaw.
Bob McGrath, December 4: Bob McGrath, one of the original cast members of Sesame Street, died peacefully at his home at the age of 90. McGrath joined Sesame Street as a founding cast member in 1969, playing the character of Bob Johnson. He would remain part of the cast for several decades before his retirement in 2016.
Kirstie Alley, December 5: Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit “Cheers” and in the “Look Who’s Talking” films made her one of the biggest stars in American comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died after a brief battle with cancer. She was 71. In recent years she appeared on several other reality shows, including a second-place finish on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2011. She appeared on the competition series “The Masked Singer” wearing a baby mammoth costume earlier this year.
Mills Lane, December 6: Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame boxing referee who was the third man in the ring when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear, died at his home in Reno. He was 85. Lane suffered a stroke in 2002. Lane officiated more than 100 title fights, sharing the ring with greats such as Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis, and was respected for his fairness and toughness. Mills Lane was also a judge and district attorney, respected for his fairness and toughness — just as he was in the ring.
Grant Wahl, December 9: American sports journalist Grant Wahl died while covering the World Cup in Lusail, Qatar. He was 48. American media said Wahl, known for his longtime writing for Sports Illustrated, was unable to be revived after falling ill while covering a match between Argentina and Netherlands. While Wahl said he tested negative for COVID-19, he was told he likely had bronchitis and was prescribed antibiotics and cough syrup. Wahl ended the statement explaining he felt “a bit better… but still: No bueno.”
Gary Friedkin, December 9: Actor Gary Friedkin, known for his roles in such shows as “Happy Days” and “Young Doctors in Love,” died from COVID-19 complications in an Ohio hospice. He was 70. Friedkin was born in Ohio but eventually moved to Los Angeles and started his acting career, which also featured a role as an Ewok in the “Star Wars” trilogy.
Paul Silas, December 11: Paul Silas — who touched the game of basketball as a player, coach and president of the National Basketball Players Association — died. He was 79. Silas began his career as a head coach with a three-year stint leading the then-San Diego Clippers starting in 1980. After spending more than a decade as an assistant, he returned to being a head coach and spent time with the Charlotte Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Charlotte Bobcats.
Kawānanakoa, December 11: Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died. She was 96. “Abigail will be remembered for her love of Hawai‘i and its people,” her 69-year-old wife said in a statement, “and I will miss her with all of my heart.” Kawānanakoa held no formal title but was a living reminder of Hawaii’s monarchy and a symbol of Hawaiian national identity that endured after the kingdom was overthrown by American businessmen in 1893.
Angelo Badalamenti, December 11: Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” died of natural causes. He was 85. Badalamenti worked with other directors too, including Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke!), Danny Boyle (“The Beach”) Paul Schrader (“The Comfort of Strangers”) and Walter Salles (“Dark Water”). He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.”
Mike Leach, December 12: Mike Leach, who helped revolutionize football from high school to the NFL with the Air Raid offense, died following complications from a heart condition. He was 61. In 21 seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State, Leach went 158-107 after taking an unusual path to the profession.
Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, December 13: “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, died at the age of 89. His reign as Mafia boss ended when he, notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger and others were charged in a sweeping racketeering case in 1995. Salemme and Bulger fled after they were tipped off to the impending indictment by Bulger’s FBI handler, John Connolly Jr.
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, December 14: Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” died at the age of 40. The Los Angeles coroner said Boss’ cause of death was suicide. “I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children – Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia,” Ellen DeGeneres stated on Twitter, alongside a photo of the two embracing in a hug backstage. | 2022-12-27T22:01:18+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/in-memoriam-those-we-lost-in-2022/ |
Questions surrounding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) presidential campaign strategy are multiplying as he continues to trail former President Trump in the polls nearly a month after his highly anticipated campaign launch.
In a sign of just how concerned some of the governor’s allies are, the spokesperson for the pro-DeSantis PAC Never Back Down recently referred to Trump as the “runaway front-runner” in the primary and said that DeSantis faced an “uphill battle.”
Meanwhile, DeSantis’s campaign faced backlash this week after sharing a video attacking Trump over his past comments in support of the LGBTQ community, leading some Republicans to raise concerns.
One Republican strategist described the DeSantis PAC spokesperson’s comments as “a very clear-eyed moment.”
“They realize they’re in a hole,” the strategist told The Hill. “They realize they can potentially win this and they are the only other game in town, but again, they are in a big hole.”
The spokesperson, Steve Cortes, made his headline-grabbing comments on Sunday during a Twitter Spaces conversation.
“Right now, in national polling, we are way behind. I’ll be the first to admit that,” said Cortes, who previously worked as an adviser to Trump. “I believe in being really blunt and really honest. It’s an uphill battle.”
Cortes emphasized that he still believed DeSantis could win, while also pointing out how Trump’s prior experience could be aiding him.
“The former president has debated through two successive presidential cycles, so of course he possesses a lot of experience in that arena,” he said. “But I am convinced that Governor DeSantis will outperform expectations and inform large audiences about his amazing life, political record, and winning agenda for the presidency.”
“Taking on an incumbent or former president in the primary always represents a significant challenge,” Cortes continued. “I gladly embraced that reality in joining the team. All of us on Team DeSantis remain convinced that the governor has a strong path to the nomination, and the best chance of any Republican to defeat Biden in the general election.”
Still, there are reasons for allies of the governor to be worried. Around the same time Cortes’s comments surfaced, the DeSantis campaign’s “war room” sparked outrage and confusion with a video attacking Trump over LGBTQ rights, including for comments the former president made in support of the community after the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida in 2016.
Among those who criticized DeSantis were LGBTQ Republicans like Rep. George Santos (N.Y.) and 2024 rivals like former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
“They are looking for anything to garner attention so that they can use that to piggyback so they can spread their message,” said Ford O’Connell, a Florida-based GOP strategist, in response to the video. “If Trump isn’t taking up the news oxygen, Hunter and Joe Biden are taking up the news oxygen.”
Polling shows that after his launch in late May, DeSantis has struggled to gain traction in national and early state-level polling.
The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Trump with 52.4 percent support, while DeSantis trails at 21.5 percent support. And a new Echelon Insights poll released Wednesday showed fellow Republican contender Vivek Ramaswamy gaining traction on DeSantis. The poll shows Trump leading the pack at 66 percent, DeSantis at 52 percent support and Ramaswamy at 40 percent support. In May, Echelon showed Ramaswamy in fourth place behind former Vice President Mike Pence.
“Everyone goes, my God, this Vivek guy is not going to win but he’s the only guy actually pushing the ideas envelope and the ideas that he’s pushing is actually reinforcing a lot of what Trump is saying,” O’Connell said.
But Trump is still DeSantis’s biggest obstacle.
“I will tell you that Trump is in a much stronger position now than he was in 2016,” O’Connell said. “They recognize that lightning in a bottle is their best chance to win this, so what they need to do is they need to get out there and make sure that everyone knows who Ron is, his biography and what he stands for.”
And DeSantis and his campaign have been focused on getting boots on the ground in the early caucus and primary states, most recently hitting up New Hampshire for the Fourth of July holiday.
“The rain may have been heavy, but the enthusiasm was high,” DeSantis spokesperson Andrew Romeo said in an email to reporters summing up the campaign stops. “Hundreds of Granite Staters turned out to show their support for the governor and his forward-looking vision for a better America.”
In a statement to The Hill on Wednesday, DeSantis’s campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin described the primary as “a marathon, not a sprint.”
“Ron DeSantis has been underestimated in every race he has won, and this time will be no different,” Griffin said. “Donald Trump has to explain to Republican voters why he didn’t do the things he is now promising in his first term as president. Governor Ron DeSantis over-delivered on his promises as governor and has the national vision we need to restore our country, clean out DC, and lead our Great American Comeback.”
So far, it appears that DeSantis’s bumpy start hasn’t dissuaded donors from lining up behind him. On Thursday, the campaign announced it had raised $20 million in its first six weeks, though that trailed the more than $35 million Trump’s campaign raised for the second quarter.
Of course, there’s also the possibility of further shakeups to the race between now and the Iowa caucuses, including the first Republican presidential primary debate, which is set to take place in August.
“I kind of view the first debate as the beginning of the campaign, quite honestly,” said Justin Sayfie, a Florida-based Republican strategist. “That’s when voters will get to start to view the candidates side by side.”
But it’s unclear whether Trump will even attend the debate and whether some of the lower-polling candidates will make the stage.
“The dynamic changes if Trump’s on stage versus not on stage,” Sayfie said. “It changes if Chris Christie is on stage versus not on stage. We don’t even know those things yet.”
And if the news cycle — including Trump’s recent indictments — is indicative of what’s to come, there could be more twists and turns going into next year.
“The important thing, and I think people recognize this in a primary, is to not peak too soon and there’s historical references,” Sayfie said. “I remember when John McCain had an event in Miami in 2007 and people were begging me to show up at his fundraiser and not even bring a check.”
“His campaign was literally on life support and he ended up becoming the Republican nominee,” he added.
But others have suggested that DeSantis peaked following the midterm elections when Florida Republicans saw sweeping victories there while Trump’s endorsed candidates largely performed poorly in other parts of the country.
“The mistake they made, and again, it’s a mistake most people running for a new office make, they assume people know more about Ron than they actually do,” O’Connell said. | 2023-07-07T12:04:50+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/republicans-sound-alarm-over-desantiss-sagging-campaign/ |
I have a hard time being still. I can sit with a cup of coffee in the morning with my dogs on my lap and slowly wake up. I can do my morning meditation, read something motivational and write in my journal. But once that quiet morning time is done, I am up and running.
I rarely take a full day off. I am always writing. I am always planning my next speech or my next book. I am always thinking about ways I can help more, give more and do more.
I think many of us are like this. We are caught up in the busyness of life. We hustle from one meeting to another, one commitment to another, one task to another. It is easy to become overwhelmed with life.
When I am in this kind of perpetual movement, I forget to breathe. It isn’t intentional. It sounds odd, but I hold my breath as if that helps me go faster and get more done. When I catch myself doing this, I make myself close my eyes and breathe to reset the rhythm of my body. There have been times in my life when I didn’t pay attention and allow myself the time to be still. There have been times when I pushed too long and too hard. My body broke down, giving me no choice but to be still and heal.
Occasionally, we are given a quiet time in life. It may be a moment, a day, or a month of stillness. We may become anxious. It’s too quiet. Too slow. Too boring. Don’t confuse boredom with peace. Occasionally, we are given a purposeful pause— to feel the empty space, to hear the quiet, to stop the movement.
Be grateful for a full, happy, busy life, but never overlook the beauty of the purposeful pause. There are times when we are meant to pause. We are meant to take time. Sit still. Stand still. Be still. Be grateful for times of space, quiet, and stillness. Be grateful for a peaceful space of time just for you.
Being bored is a gift. Boredom is a time to heal. Don’t reach for distractions or numbing diversions like screens, food, alcohol, or other people. Allow the space for healing. It’s a powerful peaceful place. Boredom is a time of quiet that can turn the volume up on our happiness. Boredom is where creativity is born. Boredom is when you can silence everything else in the world and be still.
When you are running the race of life, going faster and faster, trying to keep up - stop. When you are overwhelmed with a problem and are searching for an answer – stop. When you are pushing so hard that you forget to breathe – stop. Stop before your body and mind are pushed to a limit which causes a health situation that forces you to stop.
Allow your body and your mind the space to be still. To do nothing. It is in this space that your body rejuvenates. It is in this space that your mind clears out the messy problems. It is in this space that every step of life becomes easier… one breath at a time. One moment of stillness at a time.
Pennie’s Life Lesson: When you allow your mind the space to do nothing, it is easier to do everything.
Pennie Hunt is a Wyoming-based author, blogger, and speaker who teaches how to "Love Your Life ... NO MATTER WHAT!" She is the author of the book, “Love Your Life- NO MATTER WHAT -76 Tips to Live Life With Love and Gratitude,” and writes the blog, “From the Corner of Spirit & Brave.” Visit her online at: www.PennieHunt.comEmail: penniehunt@gmail.com | 2023-06-15T18:08:19+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/opinion/columnists/hunt-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do-do-nothing/article_b065287e-0b8e-11ee-a162-3b2ef801b12d.html |
LONDON (AP) — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.
European Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted that Twitter had pulled out of the EU’s disinformation “code of practice” that other major social media platforms have pledged to support. But he added that Twitter’s “obligation” remained, referring to the EU’s tough new digital rules taking effect in August.
“You can run but you can’t hide,” Breton said.
San Francisco-based Twitter responded with an automated reply, as it does to most press inquiries, and did not comment.
The decision to abandon the commitment to fighting false information appears to be the latest move by billionaire owner Elon Musk to loosen the reins on the social media company after he bought it last year. He has rolled back previous anti-misinformation rules, and has thrown its verification system and content-moderation policies into chaos as he pursues his goal of turning Twitter into a digital town square.
Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta are among those that have signed up to the EU code, which requires companies to measure their work on combating disinformation and issue regular reports on their progress.
There were already signs Twitter wasn’t prepared to live up to its commitments. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, blasted Twitter earlier this year for failing to provide a full first report under the code, saying it provided little specific information and no targeted data.
Breton said that under the new digital rules that incorporate the code of practice, fighting disinformation will become a “legal obligation.”
“Our teams will be ready for enforcement,” he said. | 2023-05-27T18:56:37+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-eu-official-says-twitter-abandons-blocs-voluntary-pact-against-disinformation/ |
Growth fueled by global team of established ServiceNow experts driving extraordinary client results
VISTA, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NewRocket, an Elite ServiceNow Partner that advises and supports clients in designing, implementing, and managing digital workflows to improve employee and customer experiences, has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2022. The list is the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America, providing a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful independent businesses. Following the unification of six legacy companies this year, NewRocket has achieved rapid growth by partnering with customers to address their most challenging problems, cultivating talent across the ServiceNow ecosystem, leading with empathy, and delivering excellence.
"NewRocket's place on the Inc. 5000 list is a huge testament to the drive, agility, and creativity of our Crew," says CEO Matt Stoyka. "Every Crew Member has had a hand in shaping our core values, and the culture we've created together is the momentum behind the growth we've achieved in such a short period of time."
With certification badges across all four ServiceNow workflows, NewRocket is distinct in the ecosystem, with the capability to go beyond technical implementation, working end-to-end to advise, implement and operate for clients at scale.
NewRocket has significant experience advising and supporting more than 1,000 customers across all areas of the NOW platform to maximize their investment and achieve their transformation goals. Delivered by an established and growing global team of experts with industry experience, NewRocket enables organizations to maximize their ServiceNow investment and deliver extraordinary experiences.
"Building a world-class company is never easy. Our global Crew of experts has done an amazing job supporting our customers to maximize the performance and value of the ServiceNow platform. We are laser-focused on creating opportunities for our Crew to build their ServiceNow expertise and knowledge because they are the foundation of our culture, and culture fuels worlds-class outcomes," says Stoyka.
With its origins amid the remote work era, NewRocket leveraged the pandemic's challenges as an opportunity to build a remote-first, empathy-driven culture, and target ecosystem gaps in an explosively growing market. As digital transformation continues to spark growth across industries, NewRocket brings deep platform expertise, specialized industry experience, and empathetic design thinking to high-demand service areas through an agile model that is experience-centric and delivers outcomes faster to maximize clients' investments at scale.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Today, NewRocket has 520+ highly skilled ServiceNow experts worldwide, with an unrivaled depth and breadth of ServiceNow experience delivering more than 4,000 projects for 1,000 customers, including 20% of the Fortune 200. Learn more about NewRocket at newrocket.com.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
An Elite ServiceNow partner, NewRocket is recognized as ServiceNow's Americas Partner Award Winner 2021 and Global Partner Award Winner 2021. As one of only three providers with certification badges across all four ServiceNow workflows, NewRocket has significant experience advising and supporting more than 1,000 customers across all areas of the NOW platform to maximize their investment and achieve their transformation goals. Creating extraordinary experiences is at the core of everything we do. Whether we're building and implementing workflows, designing portals, managing risk, and security programs, or offering data and insights to fuel businesses, we deliver incredible outcomes for the people at the forefront of the technology. Our collaborative, experience-centric approach to problem-solving enables an empathetic experience that makes technology easy to use. NewRocket goes beyond to help confidently design and implement transformative strategies that deliver real value. Then, we help sustain a healthy, current, and highly available ServiceNow platform to continually evolve and enable internal and external customers to thrive. We digitally transform, optimize, and manage businesses - from the server room to the board room. With global reach and local presence, we bring innovative and creative solutions to customers in Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, and Technology.
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Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Police investigating a woman’s death after being shot at a bar have made two arrests not directly tied to her death.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says two men involved with security at JD’s Pub, Jordan Morris, 32, and Cameron Lumpkin-Weremay, 22, are facing charges.
Bar patron Deja Morse, 27, died April 2 when the car taking her to the hospital after the shooting was involved in a crash.
According to an affidavit provided by the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, Lumpkin-Weremay owns Chosen Protection Services, a security guard agency that is not licensed in the state of Indiana. Court documents show the company employed three guards, including Morris. Investigators say both men were working security for JD’s Pub on the night Morse was shot.
Police found a video of Morris and Lumpkin-Weremay at the bar, armed with handguns and rifles. They say Morris had an active protective order against him, prohibiting him from carrying firearms.
“For security guards who are carrying firearms, we want you to do it safely, we want you to do it to the limits of the law,” IMPD Officer William Young said. “But again, the more concerning part is they weren’t licensed to act as a security agency.”
Morris is charged with misdemeanor invasion of privacy on April 22 and a warrant is out for his arrest. Lumpkin-Weremay is charged with one count of working as a security guard without a license.
“When you’re operating a business, we want you to do it the right way, by the limits of the law. And hopefully, if you’re doing it that way, it would deter any type of violent crime,” Young said.
IMPD detectives tell I-Team 8 that JD’s Pub did not have liquor or entertainment license. The pub is closed indefinitely. I-Team 8 ran into new owners of a completely different business moving into the former pub.
The arrests come as Crime Stoppers made a public call for help with policing bars around Indy.
“We do pay attention to the bar scenes. However, it’s a community collaborative effort,” Young said. “We can’t be everywhere. We can’t be everywhere, every day, every night.”
Police say the cases of Morris and Lumpkin-Weremay are separate investigations from the homicide of Morse.
IMPD says the men have not been booked and mugshots were not immediately available.
IMPD has not released information regarding who shot Morse. | 2022-04-30T01:20:34+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/impd-arrests-2-security-guards-after-womans-shooting-at-bar/ |
PAM Wayfinding discusses how marketing digital signage is more powerful when it connects visitors with destinations, events and brands.
LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We typically think of digital signage as serving a few roles. First, it's an advertising medium. We're all familiar with the ubiquitous large-format digital screens found in most public places – and we're all aware how good we've become at blocking those out. Lesson One is that if signage of any kind doesn't serve a very clear and specific purpose, it's no longer an effective means of either advertising or communications.
More commonly we find value in informational digital signage. For the most part, this kind of sign does provide information we want to know, such as movie listing times, building directory information or perhaps a list of upcoming events. Customers already have this basic level of information available on their mobile devices. Most marketing digital signage fails to connect information with an action.
Customers expect digital signage to provide more than a starting point. They want and need a conclusion if they're going to make the most of their precious time. Not providing this information is a huge opportunity missed, costing immediate sales and longer term customers.
So how do we create that connection?
Customers are at their most attentive when they're planning. We're all aware of this scenario – we've arrived and are planning our trip around the district. We're a little lost and want clarity. We're in a heightened state of attention due to this stress.
A customer who can quickly see a sign with SPECIFIC, PERSONALIZED information is a happy customer. A sign can point to a restaurant name, but a sign saying "Fish Tales Happy hour" is more likely to win customers. That's the power of well-executed marketing digital signage.
Done well, it will pay huge dividends for sales.
Jason Hutty | 1 888 462 6364| jhutty@pam.co
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SINGAPORE (AP) _ Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. (KLIC) on Wednesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $14.6 million.
On a per-share basis, the Singapore-based company said it had net income of 25 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 37 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 20 cents per share.
The semiconductor equipment maker posted revenue of $176.2 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in March, Kulicke and Soffa said it expects revenue in the range of $150 million to $190 million. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had expected revenue of $252.1 million.
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There are few things that are certain in horse racing, and this is one of them: Rich Strike isn’t going to surprise anybody in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
His days of anonymity are over. Such is how it works after winning the Kentucky Derby.
The Triple Crown season ends Saturday with the third and final jewel, the Belmont Stakes, the mile-and-a-half marathon that drew only eight horses this year. Among them is the Derby winner, after Rich Strike’s connections passed on the Preakness and decided that keeping the horse on a normal training and recovery schedule was wiser than chasing the Triple Crown.
He’s rested. He figures to be ready. And the lasting image of his Derby win — roaring past the leaders down the stretch in an absolute show of force — will surely compel more than a few bettors on Saturday to figure that he will be able to do the same thing at the Belmont.
Thing is, there’s a saying in racing: Pace makes the race.
And when it comes to pace, the Belmont will not be the Kentucky Derby.
Take nothing away from Rich Strike and his Derby win. His story was incredible: Getting into the field at the last minute, going off at odds of nearly 81-1, coming out of what seemed like nowhere to win at the end. But it’s also important to remember that everything broke his way that day, including a pace that could be best described as somewhere between vigorous and supersonic and drained most of the horses of all their energy long before the finish line.
That won’t be the case in the Belmont. The race — a quarter mile longer than the Derby, and probably the longest race that any of these horses will ever run — is way too long for anyone to try such shenanigans. There might not be much of a pace at all.
Traffic won’t be an issue, with only eight horses. One of them is going to have to be the early leader, which is going to be an unusual spot for whichever one emerges there. The eight horses in this field have combined for 53 lifetime starts. They’ve also combined for just three times leading races after a half-mile. Translated: Almost 95% of the time, these horses aren’t the leader around the midpoint of a race.
The only recent, and the most prominent, exception to that stat comes from We the People, a horse whose ownership group includes celebrity chef Bobby Flay. We the People went basically wire-to-wire to win the Grade 3 Peter Pan at Belmont last month, perhaps taking a bit of advantage from the course being wet that day. (There is a slight chance of rain in Saturday’s forecast as well.)
We the People controlled the pace in the Peter Pan, and therefore controlled the race. He’ll have the opportunity to do the same on Saturday.
Creative Minister is in the Belmont after the Preakness, where he ran a very solid third. Nest, the lone filly in the field, is interesting — she’s never missed the board in her first six starts, and trainer Todd Pletcher isn’t going to put her in here for no reason. He must see a path to winning the thing, and he won it with a filly before when Rags to Riches prevailed in 2007. Pletcher is also sending another contender in Mo Donegal to the Belmont, fully rested after the Derby.
Preakness winner Early Voting isn’t in the race. That means, unless Rich Strike wins, this will be the fourth consecutive year where three different horses win the three Triple Crown races. The last time that happened in four straight years was 1926 through 1929.
Bet on that happening again. Rich Strike won’t get the pace he needs on Saturday. And nobody will beat Bobby Flay.
The pick is We the People, over Nest and Mo Donegal.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-11T07:19:50+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Analysis-We-The-People-the-pick-in-Belmont-Stakes-17234966.php |
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Lima Memorial Health System was recognized for its quality care of heart attack patients. The hospital earned accreditation from the American College of Cardiology for their ability to diagnose and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack.
Guidelines set by the organization say patients need to be seen within a timely manner when the heart attack first happens. This is because of the teamwork starting with the EMS to the ER team before they reach the Cath lab, which leads to better chance of survival and lower death rates.
“These multiple layers of protection that we put in place, it is all in the hope that, number 1 we recognize the patients that are at risk and fix them before it become a MI (myocardial infarction), before it become a heart attack,” says Dr. Mehran Arabpour, Interventional Cardiologist at LMHS. “But once it does become a heart attack, we have the process in place to make sure that those patients get the best care possible, with the best outcome. And when they go out of the hospital, they have a minimal level of disabilities for years to come.”
This is the seven time, that Lima Memorial has received it's Chest Pain Center Accreditation.
Copyright 2022 by Lima Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-25T04:16:13+00:00 | hometownstations.com | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/lima-memorial-gets-accreditation-for-being-a-chest-pain-center/article_08e915fe-83c8-11ed-ae79-fbfa7692d41c.html |
BANGKOK (AP) — Companies from at least 13 countries have helped Myanmar build up its capacity to produce weapons that are being used to commit atrocities following a 2021 military takeover, independent international experts have found.
The report released Monday by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar details how the country has stepped up arms production since the army seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, igniting a mass public opposition movement.
The army’s takeover from elected civilian leaders reversed nearly a decade of progress toward democracy after 50 years of military rule. After security forces used lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, opponents of military rule took up arms. Some U.N. experts have characterized the situation as a civil war.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has documented more than 2,700 civilian deaths in the violence, including 277 children, while more than 13,000 people have been detained. The true number is believed to be much higher.
Companies in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East are supporting the military supply chain, the report says, urging those businesses to ensure they are not facilitating human rights abuses.
The growth of the homegrown arms industry comes as some countries have enforced arms embargoes or sanctions against individuals and companies involved in trading or manufacturing arms.
In October, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions against Aung Moe Myint, a businessman close to the army who it said facilitates arms deals on its behalf. His brother, Hlaing Moe Myint, and the trading company they founded, Dynasty International Company Ltd., were also targeted. One of its directors, Myo Thitsar, also was designated for sanctions.
In November, the U.S. imposed sanctions on aircraft suppliers to the military, citing deadly air strikes on civilians.
Myanmar has no private arms makers, so any such companies are run by the Ministry of Defense and Directorate of Defense Industries, the report said.
Local factories still can draw upon licensed technology and overseas supply chains, technical support and other backing, sometimes by sending equipment to Singapore and Taiwan for upgrading and maintenance, it said.
In a statement, council expert Chris Sidoti urged that governments investigate and when justified initiate action against companies that enable Myanmar’s military to make weapons used in “indiscriminate attacks on civilians.”
“Foreign companies that profit from the suffering of the Myanmar people must be held accountable,” said Sidoti, a human rights lawyer and a member of the U.N. Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar from 2017 to 2019.
A report last year by the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights outlined some of those links, naming companies in Russia, China, Ukraine, Israel, Singapore and the Philippines.
A major factor driving the buildup in the domestic arms making industry is the risk that imports of arms, military aircraft and other weaponry will be cut off by embargoes or sanctions. The army is now self-reliant in making small arms and light weapons, the report says.
Myanmar’s arms-making capacity includes a wide variety of items from assault rifles and machine guns to mortars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, missiles and missile launchers and artillery and air defense systems, it said.
Land mines and naval mines are among other products being made in Myanmar, said the report, citing people who have worked in the industry and also photos of weapons displayed at a defense and security exhibition in Bangkok that showcased such products.
Weapons factories, known as “KaPaSa,” an abbreviation of the local name for the Directorate of Defense Industries, draw on components such as fuses, optical sights and detonating caps imported from India and China. They also have computer numerical control, or CNC, machines for milling, grinding and other functions made in Austria, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and the United States, the report said.
The exact number of such factories is unclear but analysis of satellite images and other information has identified dozens of such facilities.
Much of the technology used in the arms-making industry was transferred for civilian use before the military took control, ousting the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
But more research is needed on the complex network of suppliers, licensors of technology and other details of weapons manufacturing, the report said.
Myanmar has endured decades of armed conflict between the central government and ethnic minorities seeking greater autonomy, mostly in border regions.
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Find more of AP’s Asia-Pacific coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/asia-pacific | 2023-01-16T12:19:53+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-report-myanmar-arms-industry-growing-after-army-takeover/ |
The kid has confidence.
That part of the Tyler Herro equation is undeniable, going back to the guard’s draft-night wardrobe choice in 2019 and even before that night he was selected in that first round by the Miami Heat.
So Saturday night’s fullcourt, driving, 3-point pull-up attempt in traffic with one-tenth of a second to play that gave the Heat a 126-123 victory over the Utah Jazz?
Been there, done that this season.
Well not exactly there.
But rather with a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left in the Nov. 2 home victory over the Sacramento Kings, and then the 19-foot pull-up game-winning jumper with 5.7 seconds left in the Dec. 14 road victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Still, in a season the NBA is introducing a Clutch Player of the Year Award named after Jerry West, Herro has staked an impressive early candidacy.
“With a name like Herro, you got to be a hero,” teammate Victor Oladipo said in the wake of Herro’s winner that gave the Heat a 19-18 record going into Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the third stop on this five-game trip. “But it’s impressive, man. His ability to want to be in those moments and have the confidence to take those shots and make those shots is impressive.”
It has, of course, been a double-edged sword, as it is with any player with the guts and guile to step up in such moments. There also was the errant potential winning attempt in the Nov. 4 road loss to the Indiana Pacers, as well as the ill-advised wayward late 3-point attempt in the Dec. 10 home loss to the San Antonio Spurs.
But in a season that has the Heat with an NBA league-leading 25 clutch games this season (a game that has a margin of five points or fewer inside the final five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime), it has become evident that Herro is up such moments, with the Heat now 14-11 in such games.
For Herro, it again was a case of trying to make a moment.
“Just trying to create and get a shot off, trying to create a shot whether it was for myself or for a teammate, Herro said of his fullcourt sprint, an effort required with the Heat out of timeouts. “We didn’t want to go to OT. So just glad the shot went in.”
Herro said he knew there would be a shot, just perhaps not a leaning attempt between two defenders.
“I’m going to get somewhere for sure, whether it’s off one leg, two legs, whatever it is,” he said, “just trying to get to a spot and just create a shot for myself or for a teammate.
“Time was running out and I was just able to get it up. I saw some space and I was able to get it up.”
Moments earlier, when the Heat could have run down the clock and limited the Jazz’s comeback opportunity, there was the flip side of the Herro-coaster.
“I told him really the only thing that the head coach would say is the one pull-up he had, we still had about nine or 10 seconds left on the clock. Work that a little bit longer,” Erik Spoelsrtra said of that wayward attempt. “But you want the ball in his hands because you know that he wants those moments. As he’s increasing his playmaking ability. He’ll make the right play.”
For the Heat, it was a needed play, after blowing a similar late lead the night earlier against the Denver Nuggets at the start of the trip.
So Herro took the inbounds pass, got to his spot, lofted his shot, and created hope for a better start to 2023 than the slog of the first half of a Heat season that has yet to produce a record more than one game above .500.
“For Tyler to do it as many times as he’s done this year and continue to build off it, it just shows his work ethic,” Oladipo said. “You don’t see it, obviously. But you see the end result. But we see the grind.
“I mean, he always is going to give us a chance to win. He has supreme confidence in his game. We have confidence in his game, as well. In those moments, we put the ball in his hand because we’re confident he’s going to make the right decision. He just has to keep growing. He’s still young. But at the end of the day, I remember being that age too. The whole world is like in front of you. But one thing about him is he works, so the sky is the limit because of that.”
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LONDON (AP) — The British government offered millions of public sector workers pay raises Thursday in a bid to end an array of strikes that have crippled trains, health care and other services for more than a year amid the biggest cost-of-living crisis in generations.
On the day that tens of thousands of doctors in Britain’s state-funded health service launched a five-day walkout, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accepted pay recommendations from independent review bodies. But he insisted that there would be no more discussions with unions.
Like other nations in Europe, Britain has faced disruptive strikes as workers, from teachers to train drivers and nurses, have pressed for their pay to keep pace with a sharp increase in consumer prices. A major train strike across Italy stranded tourists and commuters Thursday.
“Today’s offer is final,” Sunak said. “There will be no more talks on pay. We will not negotiate again on this year’s settlements and no amount of strikes will change our decision.”
He said the accepted recommendations are a “fair deal for the British taxpayer” and offered assurances that they wouldn’t stoke further inflation.
Police will see a 7% pay raise, while teachers will get 6.5% and the striking doctors, who are at the early stages of their careers in the publicly funded health care provider, will receive 6%.
Hospital consultants, set to strike in England next week, also will receive a 6% rise. Some of the professions, including the junior doctors, will be getting additional payments.
Already, Sunak said leaders of the teaching unions announced that they’re suspending all planned strikes immediately and that they will recommend members to back the pay offer.
“I want to address those yet to do so,” the prime minister said. “Now that we’ve honored the independent pay recommendations, I implore you: Do the right thing, and know when to say yes.”
Early signs appear to be positive for the government, with the FDA union, which represents civil servants, saying the offer appears to be “both fair and reasonable.”
The pay offers shine a particular spotlight on the junior doctors on the first day of what is being described as the longest-ever strike in the National Health Service. They are asking for a 35% pay bump.
The British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, has asked for the big leap in pay to bring junior doctors’ pay back to 2008 levels once inflation is taken into account. The workload of England’s 75,000 or so junior doctors also has swelled as patient waiting lists for treatment hit record highs following the coronavirus pandemic.
The doctors’ strike will cause huge disruption for the already embattled NHS. About 650,000 operations were canceled during previous strikes by health providers, and tens of thousands of others are expected to be called off over the coming weeks.
The striking doctors say they know the impact of their walkout on the health service but insist that they have been left with no alternative.
“This isn’t a celebration, this is years of declining pay, declining conditions, frustration, and this is what has culminated as a result,” Alex Gibbs, a striking 31-year-old doctor said outside University College Hospital in north London.
“We don’t go into medical school thinking this is what we’re going to have to do, but it’s what we’ve got to do to try and restore the NHS,” Gibbs said.
Britain, like other countries, is grappling with high inflation for the first time in years. Price rises were first stoked by supply chain issues resulting from the pandemic and then by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sent energy and food prices soaring.
Though inflation has come down slightly from its double-digit peak — to 8.7% — it is far above the Bank of England 2% target.
Sunak said there will be no new borrowing to fund the pay deals and that departments will have to “reprioritize” spending, raising fears of cuts across public services.
He also said the 6.5% pay award for teachers will be “fully funded,” with additional money for schools over the coming two years, and that increased charges for visas and NHS contributions for non-U.K. citizens will raise about 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion). | 2023-07-13T14:33:55+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-tens-of-thousands-of-doctors-in-england-start-longest-strike-in-health-systems-history/ |
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LISHUI, China, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agricultural products supplier in China, today announced its latest high volume order shipping to the Middle East. The repeat multi-product order for the Company's dried Shiitake mushrooms and black fungus comes from one of Farmmi's long-term customers. The customer will export the Shiitake mushrooms to Jordan.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, commented: "We have made significant progress on our long-term business strategy, led by sales growth in our key target markets. Investments we made in our supply chain, sales network and high-quality agriculture products give Farmmi a competitive advantage as we continue to focus on profit expansion and value creation for all shareholders. We are excited by our progress and the extensive long-term opportunities ahead of us in our target markets. We are also excited about the near-term opportunities, which have become even more favorable with the easing of pandemic restrictions. As a result, Farmmi is well positioned for growth and success, with multiple business catalysts helping to accelerate our growth."
About Farmmi, Inc.
Established in 1998, Farmmi Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI) is an agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of edible mushrooms like Shiitake and Mu Er, as well as other agricultural products. Farmmi sells its products both online and offline. For further information about the Company, please visit Farmmi's website.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of Mexico City announced Thursday that 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city’s subway system after a series of accidents that officials suggested could be due to sabotage.
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said mechanical problems in recent months may have been due to “not normal” causes. She appeared to suggest, but did not say, that it could involve some form of sabotage.
“In recent months, incidents have been occurring that we categorize as not normal,” Sheinbaum said, adding that she had asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to dispatch the quasi-military National Guard and he agreed.
The mayor said Guard officers would be posted at subway stations “and some other facilities” in the system and would be there “for some months.”
She did not explain how the Guard officers, mostly drawn from the army and assigned to law enforcement, could help control a situation that appears to be caused by maintenance, design or operational flaws.
Mario Alberto Hernández, the head of one of the city’s 195 subway stations, said that “this decision is more about politics than anything that would be useful here.” He described the system’s lack of spare parts as so severe that “they are cannibalizing old, discarded trains to get spare parts.”
The move also touched on the national debate over López Obrador’s habit of relying on the military for everything from law enforcement to infrastructure construction projects.
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez human rights center said the announcement “is concerning, because it is obvious that this agency reproduces the military’s problems with a lack of transparency and excessive use of force.”
The subway system said the officers would not be armed, but internet users wondered whether adding 6,000 more bodies to the mix will worsen the severe crowding often seen in the city’s trains and subway platforms.
Accidents on the subway have been a recurrent embarrassment for Sheinbaum, who is considered the most likely candidate of López Obrador’s Morena party to succeed him in the 2024 elections. Like the president, Sheinbaum often ascribes setbacks to a conservative conspiracy against her.
López Obrador was somewhat more specific, saying the Guard would be there to prevent “provoked,” or intentional accidents.
“What we want is for there not to be psychosis, for people not to have to worry about some accident in the subway, and that it could have been provoked,” the president said.
“If they call that militarization or whatever, then we will take responsibility for that,” he said.
The latest accident came Saturday, when two subway trains collided while between stations, killing one person and injuring dozens. Local media reported there had previously been signaling problems on that stretch of track.
In May 2021, an elevated section of the subway system collapsed, causing 26 deaths and injuring nearly 100 people. An investigation blamed deficiencies in construction, and 10 former officials have been charged with a form of manslaughter, injury and damage to property, but none have been jailed.
Poor welding, a lack of maintenance, antiquated electronic systems and the city’s frequent earthquakes and soft soil conditions have all been blamed in the past for problems on the subway, but sabotage has never before been seen as a cause.
But in the last several days, Sheinbaum said, there had been three “not normal” problems found on subway cars or tracks, including the failure of a tire “that had just been inspected.” The city’s subway cars run on both tires and rails.
Subway riders were skeptical about sending the National Guard into the largely underground metro system.
Manuel Alejandro, a clothing and sneaker vendor who rides the subway almost every day, said, “The National Guard isn’t going to solve anything … it would be better to give the subway the periodical maintenance it needs.”
“It stops a lot, the lights go off,” Alejandro said of the trains. “It seems like they are looking for excuses.”
Tarcisio Montaño, a building maintenance worker who generally supports López Obrador and his anti-poverty programs, said some of the criticism of subway problems is an attempt by political rivals “to smear the government.”
But Montaño also acknowledged the system is underfunded and poorly maintained. “Where does all the money from the tickets go?” he asked.
And he, too, saw no need for the National Guard. “They are there to defend the country, not to keep watch for you on the subway,” he said.
On Thursday, the officers seemed to be simply strolling or standing at the platforms or stations, and the force said: “The National Guard is attending to the public, patrolling subway platforms and stations to provide greater security for riders.”
Mexico City’s subway system has 226.5 kilometers (141 miles) of track and 195 stations. It serves an average of 4.6 million passengers every day. With tickets costing the equivalent of 25 cents, it is also one of the cheapest subways in the world and has suffered from insufficient budgets for years.
The tech publication “Rest of World” reported this week that current and former subway workers say the metro system’s communication network is so bad that they must rely on messaging apps on their cellphones to keep in touch between train operators and avoid accidents.
In 2021, a fire in the antiquated control center of the subway system killed one person and sent 32 others to the hospital, while knocking out service on half of the subway lines in the city of 9 million inhabitants. Some of the technology at the control center appeared to be 1970s-era analog equipment.
Subway workers have complained for years of underfunding.
Juan Carlos Hernández González, the head of another subway station, said “the National Guard isn’t useful for anything right now, what is lacking is maintenance,” adding “the drivers get on the trains and pray to God there won’t be problems.”
Some people questioned whether it was the best use of National Guard, given the the persistent drug cartel violence in Mexico. The Guard has an operational force of about 106,000 officers nationwide. As of Thursday, more officers were assigned to the Mexico City subway than to 29 of Mexico’s 32 states, some of them highly violent.
Lilly Tellez, a senator from the conservative opposition National Action Party, wrote in her social media accounts that “there are areas of Mexico without a single National Guard officer, and today they are going to send 6,000 into the metro, to satisfy a paranoia about sabotage.” | 2023-01-13T19:42:44+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-national-guard-sent-to-mexico-city-subway-on-sabotage-worry/ |
Deputies: Child found living in 'deplorable' Florida home filled with feces, 300 rats 'roaming freely'
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida woman was arrested after deputies said they found a child living in a home that was filled with animal feces, roaches, and hundreds of free-roaming rats.
Shannon Marie Morgan, 38, was arrested on 12 counts of animal cruelty and one count of child neglect. Her bond was set at $26,000.
According to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a home in Beverly Hills, Florida on Dec. 7 for an animal cruelty complaint.
"Immediately upon entering the residence, Sheriff’s Office personnel were overwhelmed by the pungent smell of ammonia," the agency wrote on Facebook.
Deputies reportedly found several cages and glass aquariums filled with snakes and rodents. There were also rats and cats running freely in the home, the sheriff's office said.
"The build-up of fecal matter and urine in the house and cages caused an infestation of flies, roaches, and other bugs. Moving throughout the house officials were taken aback by the other deplorable conditions such as trash, dirty dishes, and rotten food scattered all throughout the residence, causing more roaches and flies to pervade the area."
In another room, deputies said they found two more cages containing a ferret and a dog.
The sheriff's office said: "The ferret’s cage was littered with urine and feces and the dog’s cage was entirely too small. Both animals were deprived of food and water."
The deputies then entered a second bedroom, occupied by a juvenile, that allegedly had trash built up all over the floor and the mattress was covered with roaches.
"Blood was also observed on the floor created by the loose cats eating a rat," the sheriff's office described.
In a third bedroom, authorities said they found 50 rodents in cages "in addition to over 300 other rodents roaming freely."
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"Abuse of any kind should not be tolerated," said Sheriff Mike Prendergast. "The conditions of this residence and the animals in this case were so bad, Sheriff’s Office personnel were cautioned about making entry. Neither children nor animals should ever endure this type of environment."
Animal control officers removed seven cats, one dog, and one ferret from the home. The sheriff's office said the house has been secured for further investigation to include the removal of the other remaining animals. | 2022-12-11T14:34:44+00:00 | wogx.com | https://www.wogx.com/news/deputies-florida-woman-kept-child-in-deplorable-home-filled-with-feces-300-rats-roaming-freely |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The memory of Dan Wheldon hung over Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, the 11th anniversary of his fatal crash, as NASCAR opened the third round of its playoffs at the track.
It marked the first time a major race has been held at Las Vegas on the anniversary of Wheldon's 2011 death. A plaque dedicated to him hangs outside the track.
The 33-year-old British driver died when his head hit a post after his car went airborne and sailed about 325 feet into the catchfence as part of a 15-car accident in the IndyCar season finale.
IndyCar has not returned to Las Vegas since.
As tributes to Wheldon splashed across social media on Sunday, Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric said before the NASCAR race that Wheldon's death had an impact on him at an early stage of his racing career.
“The significance of Dan's passing was that he was probably the first driver that I had gotten to know going to IndyCar races (to) have a fatal injury,” Cindric told The Associated Press. “That was a really big moment for me in my life. I think Dan's passing, I realized how much tighter the sport is as a community.”
Cindric was 13 at the time and returning from a legends race when he learned of Wheldon's death. His father, Tim Cindric, is the president of Team Penske and was at the Las Vegas race. Tim Cindric said his son wore a commemorative Wheldon bracelet for years until it fell apart; Austin Cindric said he ran a “Lionheart” sticker in his legends car in tribute. Lionheart was Wheldon's nickname.
Chris Powell, president of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, said he still thinks often of Wheldon and the horrific crash.
“I think we learned a lot, I think IndyCar learned a lot and, looking back at it now, I think the approach that they took could probably still be questioned,” Powell told the AP. "But if anybody thought there was an opportunity for it to be any more dangerous than any other race on oval, then they would have had second thoughts about it. But at the time, nobody thought it was going to be dangerous.
“And what happened here I believe could have happened on any oval.”
Wheldon did not have a ride in 2011 but put one together for the Indianapolis 500 and won the race for the second time in his career. Then IndyCar created a special promotion trying to lure stars to its season finale by offering a $5 million bonus to any non-IndyCar regular who could drive from the back of the field to win the race.
Wheldon would have split the money with a fan selected in a random drawing.
Allowing Wheldon to take the challenge was a stretch — he won 14 races on ovals, including the two Indy 500s — but because he had no full-time ride that season, he qualified for the bonus.
Wheldon was the in-race reporter for ABC during the event, and he spoke with the announcers during the warmup laps. In a brief interview, Wheldon defended his participation and the entire IndyCar Series.
“I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t think that I could win,” he said from his car. “Certainly I am not underestimating the talent of the other drivers in the field. I think IndyCar has got a phenomenal field right now.”
Wheldon was killed minutes later when the crash began ahead of him at the start of the 12th lap. The race featured a season-high 34 cars and Wheldon had picked his way through the field and gained at least 10 spots when he came upon the accident and had nowhere to go to avoid the spinning cars and flying debris.
An investigation into the crash found that Wheldon appeared to be attempting to avoid the cluster of cars spinning toward the top — he had slowed from 224 mph to 165 — but his path was blocked by other cars. His first contact with another car sent him airborne.
The race was the first for IndyCar in a three-year lease agreement, but the series never returned. Powell said he has communicated many times with IndyCar that it is welcome to return but believes the series finds it “too emotional” to come back.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans should get used to “uncomfortable” postage rate increases in coming years as the U.S. Postal Service seeks to become self-sufficient, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Thursday.
The Postal Service Board of Governors sets postage rates, but DeJoy said he’ll advocate for raising prices until “we have accomplished our objective of projecting a trajectory that shows us being self-sustaining.”
“I believe we have been severely damaged by at least 10 years of a defective pricing model which cannot be satisfied by one or two annual price increases, especially in this inflationary environment,” he added.
DeJoy made the remarks at a Board of Governors meeting in which the Postal Service reported a loss of about $1.7 billion for the latest quarter.
A sweeping overhaul meant to shore up the Postal Service’s financial future will be reflected in the next quarter’s results. The long-delayed law also ensures six-day-a-week mail delivery.
The bill was signed by President Joe Biden on the same day the Postal Service announced plans for the latest rate increase.
If the increase wins final approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission, then the cost of a first-class “forever” stamp will grow by 2 cents to 60 cents, effective July 10. | 2022-05-05T23:27:52+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/postmaster-general-get-used-to-uncomfortable-rate-hikes/ |
Oz ratchets up questions about Fetterman’s health as Pennsylvania Senate race gets acrimonious
By Dan Merica and Eva McKend, CNN
Mehmet Oz was quick to wish John Fetterman well and offer prayers as the Democrat recovered from a stroke earlier this year.
But now that the two are officially facing each other in one of the highest profile Senate races of 2022, the Republican Senate nominee and his campaign aides are making clear that they view their Democratic opponent’s stroke — and lingering health issues that have impacted his speech — as fair game in the general election.
Oz’s campaign, through a series of statements and comments to reporters, has already shown a stepped-up aggression on the state of the Democratic lieutenant governor’s health months removed from his near deadly stroke. They have questioned Fetterman’s diet, suggested he can’t stand for more than 10 minutes and accused his campaign of lying about the health challenges Fetterman faces.
Fetterman and his team have responded by questioning the strategy, labeling it “grotesque” and suggesting it is even worse than politics as usual.
Oz’s focus comes as the Republican candidate looks to shake off what has been a trying summer, where Fetterman — even as he was off the campaign trail and recovering from the stroke and implementation of a pacemaker with a defibrillator — consistently outraised Oz and opened a double-digit lead over him in some polls. The critiques stem from the fact Fetterman has yet to commit to debates against Oz.
“One candidate had a stroke 3 months ago, and the other is a professional television personality, so our eyes are wide open about whose strengths this plays to,” Joe Calvello, a spokesperson for Fetterman, said in response to questions about the debates. “Still, John is up for debating Oz — we’re not going to do this on Oz’s terms and timeline,”
Fetterman has said that his stroke almost killed him and that he did not do enough to look after his own health. When he fully reemerged earlier this month with an event in Erie, he said, “Three months ago, my life could have ended but I’m so grateful to be here tonight as well.”
He followed up his return with a union-focused rally in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and he will headline a rally on Sunday in Mercer County.
Fetterman’s speech was halting at the events in Erie and Pittsburgh, with the candidate sometimes taking long pauses and dropping words. Democrats who attended a Fetterman fundraiser over the summer reported a similar experience with the lieutenant governor — his speech was focused but, at times, halting.
It’s something that Republicans have used to question whether Fetterman is even fit to campaign for Senate.
On Tuesday, Oz’s campaign highlighted this stepped-up focus with a statement that looked to draw attention away from the now much-maligned video of Oz attacking rising prices under President Joe Biden by putting together a crudité plate — not exactly the appetizer of the people — at a local grocery story. Fetterman’s campaign has hounded Oz for the video, including selling “Let them eat crudité” stickers and filming a fundraising video that questioned whether the wealthy Oz could actually represent the commonwealth.
In response, Oz spokeswoman Rachel Tripp lashed out: “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly.”
Fetterman’s campaign has been tight-lipped on details about the candidate’s recovery. A Fetterman spokesman has said the candidate is “doing really well,” “walking 5-6 miles a day” and “following doctor’s orders,” but Fetterman has been cautious about speaking one-on-one with reporters in the wake of his stroke and discussing his own health challenges.
Oz’s shift to focus on his health looks to seize on that uncertainty.
To criticize Fetterman for failing to agree to debate Oz, campaign communications director Brittany Yanick said, “If John is too sick to debate and is concerned he can not stand in front of cameras for more than 10 minutes, then he should just say so.”
It’s a significant shift for Oz. The candidate initially responded to Fetterman’s stroke by tweeting that he was “thankful that (Fetterman) received care so quickly” and that his “whole family is praying for your speedy recovery.”
Just weeks ago, when asked about Fetterman’s first event, Oz said he was “over the moon” that the lieutenant governor was back to campaigning, saying, “I’d love to have him out there talking about what he wants to do to make Pennsylvania a better place.”
Fetterman and his campaign have responded to Oz’s attacks with calls for empathy and criticism of the strategy.
“I had a stroke. I survived it. I’m truly so grateful to still be here today,” Fetterman said in response to the Oz campaign’s “eaten a vegetable” statement. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could never imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.”
Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, called the vegetable statement “grotesque” and Val Arkoosh, a doctor and one of the Democrats who ran against Fetterman in the Senate primary, told reporters that, “No real doctor, or any decent human being, would ever mock a stroke victim.”
But Barney Keller, an Oz campaign spokesman, told CNN on Wednesday that they fully stand by their questions about Fetterman’s health, including the suggestion that he eat more vegetables, and argued that the focus is primarily aimed at getting Fetterman to debate.
“I don’t see how it is ridicule to encourage someone to have a healthier lifestyle,” Keller said. “Nobody is attacking his health. We all hope he gets better. What we are criticizing is him lying about his health. That is an important distinction.”
Keller says that the Oz campaign will continue to focus on Fetterman’s health “so long as he continues to lie about it.”
“Since the primary, the guy has had two Zoom interviews and two public appearance and all we are saying is stop pretending like everything is OK and just say you can’t debate because you aren’t not able to,” Keller concluded.
Calvello responded to the accusation of lying by saying Fetterman has been “clear about his health. As he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a few weeks back, he’s in speech therapy, and as he told KDKA, he still has some trouble with some auditory processing.”
“We’re trying to have an honest conversation about health, one that thousands of Pennsylvanians have probably had with their own families,” Calvello said. “But let’s be clear: Last night, Oz’s team made an extremely insensitive and frankly unhinged remark about John’s health.”
Keller’s commentary reflects the way Republicans have started to argue privately and publicly that Fetterman’s health is on the table as a campaign issue.
“You have to put Fetterman on defense and this is the way to do it,” said a top Republican strategist working on Senate races.
The operative admitted that Oz and Republicans “have to be careful about how you talk about it,” but “raising questions about his health is completely fair and on the table.”
Democrats who have attended Fetterman’s events have been far more forgiving.
“When someone is recovering from that serious of a situation,” said Pittsburgh steelworker Jojo Burgess, “I think that he’s back fairly quickly, to be honest with you.”
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BERLIN (AP) — A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant Tuesday of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists in the eastern city of Chemnitz four years ago.
The arson attack in October 2018 happened a few weeks after Chemnitz was shaken by anti-migrant protests following the killing of a German man for which a Syrian migrant was later convicted.
The Chemnitz regional court ruled found the 50-year-old restaurant owner guilty of 15 counts of attempted murder and fraud. Judges said he had ordered the attack to obtain a large insurance payout, leaving open a window through which unknown accomplices were able to enter the restaurant.
At the time of the attack, 15 people were sleeping in apartments above the restaurant. Nobody was seriously injured.
German police initially said a xenophobic motive couldn’t be ruled out but that they were investigating “in all directions.”
The court sentenced the defendant to eight years in prison, German news agency dpa reported.
The defendant’s lawyers had sought his acquittal. The verdict can be appealed. | 2022-10-11T21:04:11+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-german-court-man-ordered-arson-attack-on-own-restaurant/ |
By AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden fell when he tried to get off his bike at the end of a ride Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, but said he wasn’t hurt.
“I’m good,” he told reporters after U.S. Secret Service Agents quickly helped him up. “I got my foot caught” in the toe cages.
Biden, 79, and first lady Jill Biden were wrapping up a morning ride when the president decided to pedal over to a crowd of well-wishers standing by the bike trail. Biden, who was wearing a helmet, tumbled when he tried to dismount, apparently falling on his right side and rolling on to his back before being helped up.
The president quickly collected himself and spent several minutes chatting with people who had gathered to watch him bike. Biden did not need medical attention and is “fine”, according to a White House statement.
The Bidens are spending a long weekend at their Rehoboth Beach home. They marked their 45th wedding anniversary on Friday.
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MILWAUKEE, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Briggs & Stratton today announced that Kristina Cerniglia has joined the Company as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.
Cerniglia joins Briggs & Stratton after serving eight years at Hillenbrand, Inc. as Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Hillenbrand, Inc., she spent 23 years in the financial organizations at Stanley Black & Decker and United Technologies Corporation. Cerniglia currently serves on the Board of Directors for Littelfuse, Inc. and Margaret Mary Health.
"Kristina has demonstrated that she is a transformational leader with the ability to influence results across an entire enterprise," says Steve Andrews, President & CEO at Briggs & Stratton. "As Briggs & Stratton continues to transform and grow, her extensive background and strong leadership capabilities will drive continuous improvement. I look forward to the experience and fresh perspectives Kristina will bring to the organization."
Cerniglia is succeeding Mark Schwertfeger who served as the SVP & CFO. The Company is thankful for his contributions and leadership throughout the years.
In September 2020, KPS Capital Partners, through a newly formed affiliate, acquired substantially all of the assets of Briggs & Stratton and appointed Steve Andrews as President & CEO. Since that time, the Company has welcomed David Dooley, Vice President and General Manager of the Company's Allmand business; Chris Mapes, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, Brian Hazelton, Senior Vice President & President of the Company's Power business, and Michelle Kumbier, Senior Vice President & President of the Company's Turf & Consumer Products business as new direct reports of Andrews. The addition of Cerniglia further strengthens the Briggs & Stratton executive leadership team and reinforces a commitment to redefining Briggs & Stratton as a new company with a strong future.
Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world's largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Billy Goat®, Allmand®, SimpliPhi®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Inotiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOTV).
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According to a filed complaint, Inotiv, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CATIC Family of Companies is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in each of its subsidiaries, including CATIC, CATIC Title and Universal Component Lender Services (UCLS). Pursuant to the company's corporate social justice strategy, the CATIC Family of Companies aspires to play an active role in building better communities by promoting fair and equitable treatment for all underrepresented groups, particularly women and people of color. Since June 2020, the Board of Directors and the senior leadership team have collaborated to employ various strategic initiatives that will cultivate and sustain a truly inclusive work environment for all employees. According to James Czapiga, Esq., President and CEO, "I am proud of how far CATIC has come in creating a 'people first culture' where all voices are heard and embraced. We continue to focus on cultivating a meaningful and sustainable workplace culture where diverse perspectives and fair treatment are embraced by all employees."
The CATIC Family of Companies is pleased to share its first Annual Inclusion Report. This inaugural report explains how the company initiated its DE&I journey across the organization in 2020 and the initial impact it has had on the company's overall workplace culture since its inception. According to Damon Carter, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, "From a leadership perspective, we continue to actively integrate inclusive workplace practices into the foundation of our culture. We've learned that in order to significantly move the needle in this regard, we must create a variety of engaging workplace initiatives that will inspire our employees to get involved in supporting our strategic efforts, and it's great to see many of our employees answering the call. Additionally, we quickly realized the value of building strategic partnerships with various organizations in our community with similar interests, which has created amazing opportunities for advocacy and learning along this intentional journey."
The 2021FY Annual Inclusion Report outlines various strategic initiatives that have been implemented as part of the company's corporate social justice reform strategy. For instance, the company implemented an employee-led project team called "The Initiative," which is currently focused on improving homeownership rates for people of color. Additionally, several employees identified a significant gap with respect to the overall experience of women of color in the workplace and the company has decided to launch a new affinity group for women of color working in the Title industry. Furthermore, the report highlights how CATIC employees have demonstrated their personal commitment to building a workplace culture that cultivates a genuine sense of community and belonging in various ways. Our people are the key to successfully advancing the company's corproate social justice efforts and they play a critical role in making the CATIC Family of Companies a great place to work every day.
Ultimately, the senior leadership team firmly believes that by thoughtfully employing a deliberate strategic effort over time, the CATIC Family of Companies will be able to successfully advance DE&I across the organization, while continuing to make a real difference in the community every day. Moreover, this report is intended to help inspire others across the Title industry to start their own DE&I journey or encourage those already doing their part to champion fair and equitable treatment for all underrepresented groups in the Title industry.
Click here to view the CATIC Family of Companies 2021FY Annual Inclusion Report.
If you are interested in partnering with the CATIC Family of Companies on any of the various corporate social justice initiatives outlined in the report, please send an email to socialjustice@catic.com. We would welcome having the opportunity to discuss new ways to collaborate with others who have similar interests.
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Which beige throw pillow is best?
Throw pillows add a decorative accent to elevate any couch, bed or chair and are an inexpensive way to refresh a room. Throw pillows also help add coziness and comfort, making furniture appear less bare. While beige has had a bad rap in the past for being too boring, neutral tones are back in style.
Beige throw pillows come in a variety of textures. For a quilted one, the Madison Park Quebec 20-by-20-Inch Quilted Decorative Pillow adds a touch of elegance to any space.
What to know before you buy a beige throw pillow
Cover material
Throw pillows come in a range of materials. You can find covers made from cotton, polyester, wool, linen, velvet, chenille, faux fur and leather. Some users prefer plush materials that feel soft and cozy, like velvet or fur. Others might prioritize materials that are easy to clean, like polyester or cotton, especially in households with pets or kids.
Size and shape
Throw pillows are typically smaller and fuller than standard pillows. Most are square with dimensions of 18 inches by 18 inches or 20 inches by 20 inches. Square pillows also come in smaller or larger sizes. Lumbar pillows are rectangular and typically measure around 12 inches by 20 inches. This shape and size are ideal for neck and spine support. You can also find round throw pillows.
Filling
Most throw pillows have a polyester filling, which is durable, hypoallergenic and affordable. Down is made of feathers, which offer a fluffy feel. However, this filling material isn’t vegan- or allergy-friendly. Down alternatives are a more expensive polyester fill that offer the plush feel of down. Lastly, a memory foam pillow contains a foam insert that is adjustable for a firmer or softer feel.
Texture
A throw pillow can offer a subtle accent to furniture, especially those with textures (as opposed to a smooth cover). For instance, a faux fur pillow offers a shaggy and plush texture. A waffle cotton cover offers a subtle geometric pattern. And a burlap or woven linen pillow offers rustic charm.
What to look for in a quality beige throw pillow
Removable cover
Many throw pillows aren’t machine washable, especially if they feature covers that are sewn shut. These should only be cleaned by hand. Some have removable covers that are machine washable. A removable cover will extend the life of your pillow and allow you to change out the covers, which some users like to do for each season.
Closure
Removable covers feature a closure to keep the case on the insert.
- Zipper closures completely close the case. The zipper is often hidden, so it won’t dig into your skin as you lounge.
- Envelope closures feature an extra flap of material on the back of the pillow. You can simply tuck the insert into the cover.
- Button closures are a slight variation on the envelope closure. Buttons are added onto the flap to secure it shut. You may also see ties used instead of buttons.
Embellishments
The texture of a throw pillow is often enough to add a decorative element to a room, but some go a step further and add ornamental embellishments to the cover. These include tufts, buttons, ruffles, pom-poms, embroidery and jacquard. These elements are also beige but sometimes come in another color.
Trim
You can opt for a more subtle embellishment on the trim of special throw pillows. A piped edge adds definition, and piping can come in beige or another color. Pillows trimmed with pom-poms, fringe or tassels offer a bohemian look and typically come in the same color as the pillow.
How much you can expect to spend on a beige throw pillow
Beige throw pillows cost between $11-$60, depending on the brand, size, material and quantity. Buying a set of two is often more economical, and pairs start at $10.
Beige throw pillow FAQ
How do I keep a throw pillow fluffy?
A. You can hand-fluff your pillow by pressing and releasing it or by shaking it. Some are safe to put in the dryer with a dryer ball to air dry or in a no-heat setting. Also, consider buying an insert that’s 2 inches larger than your case for a fluffier pillow.
Should I sleep on a throw pillow?
A. If you’re decorating your bed with cozy throw pillows, it can be tempting to sleep on them. However, you should try to avoid this since throw pillows aren’t as easy to clean as regular pillowcases, and decorative elements can get damaged.
What’s the best beige throw pillow to buy?
Top beige throw pillow
Madison Park Quebec 20-by-20-Inch Quilted Decorative Pillow, 2-Pack
What you need to know: This beautiful pair of pillows stay comfortable without losing their shape.
What you’ll love: The quilted stitching is subtle and elegant. The design and quality of the fabric are top-notch. They’re perfect for either the bed or the sofa and have an overstuffed feel.
What you should consider: Some felt these were too firm, but the pillows do soften up over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top beige throw pillow for the money
Harper Lane Geo Decorative Throw Pillow
What you need to know: This low-cost pillow features geometric embroidery and is nice and plump.
What you’ll love: Although care instructions say only to spot-clean, some users had luck putting this pillow in the washer and dryer. One side has texture and a pattern, and the other side is solid beige, so you can reverse the pillow to change the look.
What you should consider: You can’t remove the cover, and the geometric pattern may be hard to match with some decor.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Worth checking out
Saro Lifestyle Mongolian Faux Fur Decorative Pillow
What you need to know: For a fun texture, this faux fur pillow adds an immediate upgrade to your space.
What you’ll love: This accent piece is trendy, incredibly soft and sleek. The cover holds its shape over time, and the color doesn’t fade, even after repeated washing.
What you should consider: The cover isn’t removable and is spot-clean only, although many reviewers had luck machine washing the pillow.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
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The technology-driven plasma collection company introduces its modern approach to a new market.
BAY CITY, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parachute opened a new plasma donation center today in Bay City, bringing its modern and consumer-driven donation experience to residents of Matagorda and neighboring counties. The donation center offers donors an opportunity to earn extra money by donating life-saving plasma.
"The U.S. is facing a critical health care crisis and blood plasma shortage, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is impacting patients' access to essential treatments for chronic illnesses including primary immunodeficiencies, bleeding disorders, and cancer," said Wayne Sharp, Parachute's VP of Operations. "At its core, Parachute is focused on two things: improving the donation experience for our members and increasing access to plasma for patients who rely on it. We look forward to serving the Bay City community and are confident that donors will appreciate the convenience of our seamless booking and payment experiences."
Parachute's mission is to increase national access to plasma by introducing thoughtfully designed plasma donation centers to new communities. Parachute combines technology and hospitality with donor experience, allowing members to schedule donations, receive customer support, and manage payments through a mobile application.
The new plasma donation center is located 3521 7th Street in Bay City, Texas. To schedule a donation download the Parachute app.
Delivering the best experience possible to as many plasma donors as possible. Parachute's mission is to increase national access to life-saving plasma by reimagining the plasma donation experience into one that is modern and convenient. To learn more about Parachute, visit www.joinparachute.com
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Cryptobike by Compass UOL rewards bike users in "Tour de Terre," an environmentally friendly use of crypto
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital transformation company Compass UOL announced today its new Cryptobike mobile app, an innovative way to inspire large organizations to use cutting-edge technologies to help reduce global carbon emissions and reward people with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for using their own bikes.
Cryptobike users will receive a new NFT when they ride each of the four stages of the Tour de Terre at 103 miles, 206 miles, 620 miles, and 2067 miles.
The Tour de Terre is similar in distance to the 2,200 miles in the famous Tour de France circuit, but rather than completing it at one time, Cryptobike users will log their miles when biking to work, or in the park.
Cities around America have invested in bike paths to make it safer to pedal to work, but 76 percent of Americans still prefer to commute by car vs. 10 percent by bike. In contrast, the Tour de Terre uses crypto to help regular people do something for the environment by themselves.
The creation of digital assets like NFTs, called crypto mining, already takes up 1.7 percent of the nation's total power usage according to a recent White House report. The report says U.S. crypto mining uses between 120 and 140 kilowatt-hours per year, comparable to the power needs of entire countries like Denmark.
Facing this new reality, technology companies, investors, and enthusiasts are looking for ways to develop the transformative applications enabled by crypto while mitigating its environmental impact.
"Cryptobike offers a win for the planet because the energy saved by replacing cars for bikes is greater than the energy needed to create the NFTs to award riders who take on the Tour the Terre," says Alexis Rockenbach, CEO of Compass UOL. "This shows how a small choice can have a huge impact on the planet and how technology can be used to make the world a better place."
By choosing the use of bikes, around 1 ton of CO2 is not emitted into the atmosphere, a pollutant that a small car would release on this same route of just over 2,000 miles.
The Tour de Terre also offers partnership opportunities for organizations working on meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment criteria. Companies can offer their own rewards for community milestones, such as the first million miles logged.
The Cryptobike app is available for iOS and Android at no cost. Once installed, it connects to the popular Strava app to access the user's ride logs, based on which the exclusive NFTs are minted as each stage is accomplished.
Compass UOL is a visionary organization which develops transformational business platforms for large global organizations using cutting-edge technologies. Our mission is to help our clients enhance their business success and create disruption to build leadership positions in their industries. We combine the principles of digital transformation, cloud-native technologies, cognitive computing, mixed reality immersive technologies and more, in an agile mindset model. To learn more, visit https://compass.uol.
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Highway Shootout Caught on Texas Police Helicopter Video
Whoa, this is a graphic video. Viewer discretion is advised.
Seriously, it shows people getting shot and blood, so don't scroll down if you you don't want to see it.
The video opens with a police chase winding down on a highway in Texas. A DPS officer has blocked the suspect's car from oncoming traffic, and the suspect is using his car door as a shield.
Man of action
The officer charges the car with his gun drawn like a dang action movie star. This man is not messing around.
Bang Bang Bang
The officer pops off a quick shot, which misses. The suspect returns fire and strikes the officer in the right arm. The officer goes down and rolls away to safety.
Backup arrives
As soon as the officer is shot, another DPS officer fires and hits the suspect, causing him to spin around and hit the ground, losing his gun in the process.
It's over.
The suspect is apprehended, and the officer gets help applying a tourniquet to his arm. We then see the officer getting helped to the helicopter that has been recording the ordeal, which then airlifts him to get treatment. | 2023-03-29T01:36:07+00:00 | newstalk1290.com | https://newstalk1290.com/highway-shootout-texas-police-helicopter-video/ |
Republicans in the Florida state legislature are lining up behind Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) likely presidential bid.
Ninety-nine of the state’s 113 Republican state lawmakers endorsed the governor’s White House aspirations on Wednesday, giving him a jolt of momentum as he nears a formal campaign announcement.
The new endorsement list comes just a day after the legislature’s top two Republicans — Senate President Kathleen Passidomo and House Speaker Paul Renner — threw their support behind DeSantis for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nod.
So far, only one member of the Florida legislature, state Sen. Joe Gruters, has endorsed former President Donald Trump, DeSantis’s main rival for the Republican’s presidential nomination. Trump previously described his support in Florida as “almost universal.”
The slate of endorsements comes less than two weeks after the Florida legislature wrapped up its annual legislative session, a 60-day stretch that saw state lawmakers pass a long list of DeSantis’s biggest policy priorities.
“Ron DeSantis’s support among Republicans in the Florida legislature is almost universal because these lawmakers have partnered with the governor to pass the most robust conservative agenda in the history of the state, putting Florida at the top of the rankings on every key metric,” a top official with DeSantis’s political operation said.
Trump has still racked up a long list of endorsements from Florida Republicans. More than half of the state’s 20-member Republican House delegation has thrown their support behind his 2024 comeback bid. So far, only one, Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), has endorsed DeSantis.
Trump’s campaign on Wednesday accused DeSantis and his team of putting undue pressure on state lawmakers to endorse the governor by threatening to veto legislation unless they get behind him.
“There are some brave legislators who have stood up to DeSantis’ Swamp-like behavior and resisted his intimidation tactics in order to do what is right for Florida and the country,” Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign, said in a statement.
“Those who he can’t control — including almost the entirety of the Florida federal congressional delegation — have endorsed President Trump because he’s the only candidate who can beat Joe Biden and take back the White House.”
DeSantis hasn’t formally launched a presidential bid yet, but is widely expected to do so in the coming weeks. He spent Saturday traveling through Iowa, the crucial first-in-the-nation caucus state for Republicans, and his political shop moved into a new office on Monday.
His team has also begun inviting donors and top supporters to Miami for an event later this month, signaling a presidential campaign announcement is likely.
DeSantis and Trump have engaged in a bitter, and at times chaotic, battle for endorsements in recent days.
On Tuesday, Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nod, rolled out a list of endorsements from more than 50 New Hampshire state lawmakers, including four who had previously announced their support for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
One of those legislators, state Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia, later told NBC News she was “endorsing both” Trump and DeSantis, while another state lawmaker, Rep. Lisa Smart said she was still supporting Trump, despite signing an endorsement form pledging to back DeSantis.
DeSantis also scored endorsements from 37 state legislators in Iowa ahead of his trip to the state on Saturday. Trump, meanwhile, rolled out his own slate of 150 Iowa endorsements, though at least three of those people told Axios that they hadn’t been consulted by Trump’s team about their support and remained undecided.
The legislators’ endorsements also come after DeSantis suffered two high-profile defeats in Tuesday’s elections. His endorsed candidate in the Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary, Kelly Craft, lost to Trump’s pick, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron; meanwhile, in Florida, a DeSantis-backed Republican lost to Democrat Donna Deegan in the Jacksonville mayoral race. | 2023-05-17T21:02:29+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/florida-gop-legislators-line-up-behind-desantis-ahead-of-likely-2024-bid/ |
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