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GREAT FALLS — If you ever happen to be intrigued by the history of Lewis and Clark’s expedition, look no further than what is referred to as the "Ida Johnson Lecture Series." The program is sponsored by the Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.
Once a month, during the winter season, discussions are held about the expedition of Lewis and Clark, where people get to learn about various explorers who played a key role in America’s history.
Montana native and life-long artist Ron Ukrainetz presented the story of two members that were part of what is said to be one of the greatest explorations of the Northwest: Toussaint Charbonneau, and François Labiche.
"The biggest thing that makes these two gentleman unique, is how much they contributed, yet how different they were," Ukrainetz said. "One of them was a very experienced hunter, and river boatman, and the other was nothing more than a trader. He knew the trade business very well, and both of them contributed immensely to the expedition."
He added, "I think that history would be different in Charbonneau's case had he not been around. I think he impacted so many trade expeditions up the river. He was the go-to-guy for interpretation, local gossip, food services ... Labiche played an extremely important part on the expedition, but like a lot of people, when it was done, he was ready to become a farmer, a husband, and a father."
Ukrainetz is a renowned professional artist and member of the Lewis and Clark Honor Guard. He is widely known for his passion for early history, and the stories of Charbonneau and Labiche is one of many that he loves to tell.
“I think what interests me the most about these two, is that they were average people who chose to do something that was quite a bit different than anybody was doing at the time," he said. "They needed four people to go up river, but they only needed thirty-three to go out and back. There were a lot of people that applied, but didn’t make it, because they knew the excitement, and the pay wasn’t that bad for that time. The thirty-three that went out and back were the thirty-three that made a difference, and that’s exciting to me. One or two people that can decide to do something, and gather the best people to do the job, and make history.”
For more information about the "Ida Johnson Lecture Series," contact the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at 406-727-8733.
Click here to learn more about the lives of Charbonneau and Labiche. | 2023-01-12T16:49:27+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/great-falls-news/historian-shares-tale-of-explorers-charbonneau-and-labiche |
Transparent company data from all 50 US States now available to all in one place
LONDON, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenCorporates, the world's definitive source for company data, has made transparent company data from all 50 US States plus the District of Columbia, available to all.
Information on nearly 100 million companies registered in the US, and over 190 million company officers, has been collected from each State's official company register, unified and made available with clear traceability to its original source – so it can better solve a range of entity verification, analytics and data management challenges.
This overcomes the longstanding problem where this critical data was siloed in 51 inconsistent company registers, which makes it difficult for anybody to know who they're in business with or to analyse the US company universe as a whole.
Illinois company information was most recently added to OpenCorporates, following the State passing legislation to make its company information available as open data – a move OpenCorporates and its civil-society allies advocated for. For most States, information about newly incorporated companies is added to OpenCorporates within a week of it appearing in the State registry, and often it's even sooner.
Sarah Arana-Morton, CEO of OpenCorporates, said: "Unifying the company universe across all 50 US States is a significant step forwards in OpenCorporates' mission to deliver genuine corporate transparency. US federal government agencies, financial services firms and hundreds of other organisations already rely on OpenCorporates data – and this will only extend our leadership in the emerging transparent company data market".
As part of its mission, OpenCorporates makes all its information available as open data on its website, which is why millions of users visit it every month. API and Bulk Data access is also provided at no cost to social good causes, which allowed The Miami Herald and Bloomberg News to expose alleged abuse of Covid business relief schemes, such as the Paycheck Protection Program.
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To find out how transparent company data can transform your entity verification, Know Your Customer, investigations or data management processes, visit opencorporates.com or contact us at helpdesk@opencorporates.com.
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A man fatally shot his girlfriend in Dallas on Wednesday because he was upset she'd gotten an abortion, court records allege.
Harold Thompson, age 22, is facing murder charges in connection with the death of 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez.
The pair were in a "dating relationship," according to an arrest affidavit, and were seen walking together in a gas station parking lot the morning after Gonzalez had traveled to Colorado to get an abortion.
Texas has outlawed abortion in nearly every stage of pregnancy since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Colorado abortion law is among the country's most permissive, allowing for legal abortions at nearly every stage of pregnancy, without waiting periods.
A police investigator wrote that Thompson was believed to be the father of Gonzalez's child, and that he did not want her to end her pregnancy.
Video surveillance shows that Thompson put Gonzalez in a "choke hold" as they were talking, police say, but she "shrugs him off."
Thompson then pulled out a firearm and shot Gonzalez several more times before fleeing. Police declared Gonzalez dead at the scene.
Thompson is being held in a Dallas County jail. Court records show he will be represented by state-appointed counsel but did not list the name or contact information of his attorney.
A separate arrest warrant for Thompson, issued in March, was still active at the time of the shooting, court records show. The March affidavit does not name Gonzalez as the complainant, but the May affidavit describes her as "the victim" in the incident reported then.
The March affidavit states that Thompson had beat the victim, a woman pregnant with his child, several times throughout their relationship, including trying to strangle her and leaving her with a black eye.
The victim claimed that Thompson had "violently attacked her and left her bruised up" and remained "very fearful of the suspect," police wrote.
"She is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children," the warrant states. "She has kids from a different relationship, and suspect is very jealous of the complainant's ex-boyfriend."
Court records show Gonzalez's sister, Mileny Rubio, was a witness to the shooting.
"He was so angry that she wanted to get away from him," she told local news outlet local news outlet KXAS. She added later, "I knew she wasn't OK but we couldn't get help, we didn't know how."
Gonzalez had just ended a tumultuous, four-month relationship with Thompson when the shooting occurred, her family said.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-13T17:31:21+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-05-13/a-texas-woman-was-killed-by-her-boyfriend-after-getting-an-abortion-police-say |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
05-09-27-35-46, Cash Ball: 1
(five, nine, twenty-seven, thirty-five, forty-six; Cash Ball: one)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
05-09-27-35-46, Cash Ball: 1
(five, nine, twenty-seven, thirty-five, forty-six; Cash Ball: one) | 2022-10-15T01:21:38+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17510686.php |
STATEN ISLAND, New York (WPIX) – The New York City Fire Department has released a recording of a 911 call that details how five children ended up in a storm drain in Staten Island.
The five boys crawled into the storm drain around 6 p.m. Tuesday and got lost in the tunnel system, according to FDNY officials. In the 911 recording, dispatchers can be heard attempting to find out where the children actually are.
“What’s the address in Staten Island?” the dispatcher says at the start of the call.
“We don’t know,” the child on the other end of the call says. “Yeah … we’re stuck in the sewer.”
In apparent disbelief, the dispatcher asked again: “You’re stuck where?”
“In the sewer,” the boy responds.
FDNY dispatchers then tried to figure out which storm drain the children entered. The boys described a cemetery and a tunnel entrance near the Staten Island Zoo and Clove Lakes Park.
“It’s like a tunnel where all the pipes are,” one of the boys tells a dispatcher.
Later on the call, sirens can be heard in the background. The dispatcher tells the boys to “scream as loud as you can” to alert the first responders above ground.
The rescue teams ultimately find the entrance the boys had used, and follow the tunnels to their location.
“We might have hands on the kids right now,” one of the first responders eventually confirms. “We have all five children removed from the sewer, and EMS is assessing them as we speak.”
All of the kids, along with one firefighter, were transported to Richmond University Medical Center. No injuries were reported, officials said. | 2023-03-22T21:18:26+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/were-stuck-in-the-sewer-fdny-releases-911-call-after-5-kids-rescued-from-nyc-storm-drain/ |
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) ("GreenPower"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission, electric-powered, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, today announced the data results from the first round of its all-electric, zero-emissions school bus pilot project (click here for pilot video). The pilot, operated in conjunction with the state of West Virginia, is the first real-world testing of today's purpose-built, all-electric school bus technology.
"It's exciting to see first-hand the positive reactions from students, parents, drivers and educators as the first all-electric, zero-emission school buses transported kids in the state of West Virginia," said GreenPower CEO and Chairman Fraser Atkinson. "It was equally as rewarding to document the performance these purpose-built vehicles delivered."
For six weeks, three GreenPower Type D BEAST school buses were deployed on the daily routes in each of Cabell, Kanawha and Mercer counties. The buses traveled through differing terrain and weather conditions in both city and rural routes. Additionally, the BEAST was used in after school activities, transporting football teams and gear to the gridiron.
Tim Hardesty, deputy superintendent of Cabell County schools said, "We were pleased with the training and service support provided by the GreenPower team. As a new technology, this was our first experience with an electric bus, and it was a very good one."
And the drivers agreed. "I was greatly impressed with the drivability, comfort, and handling of the BEAST," said Carol Hall, one of the bus drivers during round 1 of the pilot. "The bus handled as good as, if not better than, our current diesel school buses with a turning radius far superior to our current Type C buses."
The total distance covered during round 1 of the pilot was more than 5,400 miles, transporting hundreds of school kids on a daily basis without incident. The overall performance was excellent with battery consumption ranging from 1.1 to 1.5 miles per each percent of State of Charge ("SOC").
"The BEAST school buses performed in the pilots just as we would have expected them to," Atkinson continued. "School districts saw between 110 and 150 miles per full charge, depending on conditions and operator tendencies, allowing them in some cases to only charge the bus overnight."
Round 2 of the pilot project is currently underway with a BEAST school bus operating in each of Grant, Monongalia and Ohio counties. The GreenPower all-electric, zero-emissions Type A school bus was added to the project at the beginning of round 2 with an ADA Nano BEAST operating in Clay County.
Contacts
Fraser Atkinson, CEO
fraser@greenpowermotor.com
Michael Perez
Vice President of School Bus, Contracts, and Grants
(909) 308-0960
Allie Potter
Skyya PR for GreenPower
(218) 766-8856
greenpower@skyya.com
GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van, and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com
This document contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, GreenPower's business and operations and the environment in which it operates, which are based on GreenPower's operations, estimates, forecasts, and projections. Forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts, but rather on current expectations and projections about future events, and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "upon", "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict or are beyond GreenPower's control. A number of important factors, including those set forth in other public filings (filed under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com), could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Consequently, readers should not place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. In addition, these forward-looking statements relate to the date on which they are made. GreenPower disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this releases © 2022 GreenPower Motor Company Inc. All rights reserved.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Homeowners in Fig Garden tell Action News they're canceling the walk nights on Christmas Tree Lane this year.
The decision this week came partly because of concerns over COVID.
2022 is the 100th year homeowners will deocrate the long stretch of Van Ness Avenue for the holidays.
But COVID forced them to cancel the popular walk nights in 2020 and they haven't returned since.
Seven people who attended a homeowner's association meeting Wednesday night tell us the group decided to not allow walkers in 2022.
They were concerned that they couldn't strictly follow and enforce CDC COVID recommendations for an event with thousands of people, so they might be open to lawsuits.
Dean Alexander, who does a lot of the prep work for Christmas Tree Lane, tells us they're still exploring avenues to bring back walk nights. | 2022-08-12T21:55:21+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/christmas-tree-lane-walk-nights-fig-garden-lights/12120533/ |
APOPKA, Fla., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Cannabis is thrilled to announce the opening of Sanctuary Miami, its southernmost location to date and the company's sixteenth dispensary in the state of Florida. The first Sanctuary dispensary in Miami-Dade County, Sanctuary Miami will be hosting its Grand Opening celebration on Saturday, December 10, 2022.
"It's been a fantastic year for us in terms of opening new locations here in Florida, but we've all been really eager to see the Miami location open its doors," said Jason Sidman, CEO of Sanctuary Cannabis. "To have a location in Florida's most iconic city is undoubtedly thanks to tireless work of all our teams, and we're excited to begin serving patients in the area," he added.
Located to the southwest of downtown Miami, Sanctuary Miami is located on SW 124th St. and just south of the Colonial Palms Plaza. The dispensary sits at the crossroads of the Pinecrest and Kendall neighborhoods and is just five miles south of the University of Miami campus.
"We want to close the year on the same strong note with which we started it, and opening a flagship location in Miami is a great way to do it," said Bill Dewar, Chief Operating Officer. "We're eager to introduce ourselves to the Miami patient community and look forward to serving them with our ever-expanding selection of products and services."
Sanctuary Miami will be hosting its Grand Opening celebration on Saturday, December 10, 2022, and the location will keep its usual hours of operation from 9am to 8pm. The festivities kick off at 11am with Mobile Culinary Kitchen serving up Cuban treats until 3pm, and the first 65 patients at Sanctuary Miami will receive one free order by presenting their receipt at the food truck. Odyssey Music will also be on-site from 11am to 3pm providing music and entertainment. All registered and first-time patients will be eligible for a 50-percent discount.
Sanctuary Cannabis, DBA Sanctuary, is a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company with operations in Florida, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The company was also recently awarded a provisional retail license in New Jersey. Sanctuary is rapidly expanding into new markets, bringing its high-quality, award-winning products as well as a steadfast commitment to creating positive impact in the communities in which it operates.
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US Rep. George Santos arrested on federal criminal charges
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican infamous for fabricating key parts of his life story, was arrested Wednesday on federal criminal charges ahead of an expected court appearance.
The indictment says Santos induced supporters to donate to a company under the false pretense that the money would be used to support his campaign. Instead, it says, he used it for personal expenses, including luxury designer clothes and to pay off his credit cards.
Santos also is accused of lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms and applying for and receiving unemployment benefits while he was employed as regional director of an investment firm and running for Congress.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the indictment “seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations.”
“Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself,” Peace said.
Santos surrendered on Wednesday and was expected to make an initial court appearance later in the day at a federal courthouse on Long Island.
Reached by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Santos said he was unaware of the charges.
Santos was elected to Congress last fall after a campaign built partly on falsehoods. He told people he was a wealthy Wall Street dealmaker with a substantial real estate portfolio who had been a star volleyball player in college, among other things. In reality, he didn’t work at the big financial firms he claimed had employed him, didn’t go to college and had struggled financially before his run for public office.
Questions about his finances also surfaced. In regulatory filings, Santos said he loaned his campaign and related political action committees more than $750,000, but it was unclear how he would have come into that kind of wealth so quickly after years in which he struggled to pay his rent and faced multiple eviction proceedings.
In a financial disclosure form, Santos reported making $750,000 a year from a family company, the Devolder Organization, but the charges unsealed Wednesday allege that Santos never received that sum, nor the $1 million and $5 million in dividends he listed as coming from the firm.
Santos has described the Devolder Organization as a broker for sales of luxury items like yachts and aircraft. The business was incorporated in Florida shortly after Santos stopped working as a salesman for a company accused by federal authorities of operating an illegal Ponzi scheme.
Many of Santos’ fellow New York Republicans called on him to resign after his history of fabrications was revealed. Some renewed their criticism of him as news of the criminal case spread.
“Listen, George Santos should have resigned in December. George Santos should have resigned in January. George Santos should have resigned yesterday. And perhaps he’ll resign today. But sooner or later, whether he chooses to or not, both the truth and justice will be delivered to him,” said U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro, a Republican representing parts of upstate New York.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was more circumspect, saying “I think in America, you’re innocent till proven guilty.”
Santos has faced criminal investigations before.
When he was 19, he was the subject of a criminal investigation in Brazil over allegations he used stolen checks to buy items at a clothing shop. Brazilian authorities said they have reopened the case.
In 2017, Santos was charged with theft in Pennsylvania after authorities said he used thousands of dollars in fraudulent checks to buy puppies from dog breeders. That case was dismissed after Santos claimed his checkbook had been stolen, and that someone else had taken the dogs.
Federal authorities have separately been looking into complaints about Santos work raising money for a group that purported to help neglected and abused pets. One New Jersey veteran accused Santos of failing to deliver $3,000 he had raised to help his pet dog get a needed surgery.
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Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report from Washington.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of U.S. Rep. George Santos at https://apnews.com/hub/george-santos.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-10T14:08:01+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/05/10/us-rep-george-santos-arrested-federal-criminal-charges/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added.
The cases are expected to be argued in April. In one involving a former postal employee, the justices will consider what accommodations employers must make for religious employees. The case comes when religious plaintiffs have generally fared well at the court, which is dominated 6-3 by conservative justices.
Under a federal civil rights law, employers can’t discriminate against employees because of their religion. The law says employees’ religious practices have to be accommodated unless the employer can demonstrate doing so is an “undue hardship” to the business. The justices are being asked to reconsider a 1977 Supreme Court case that challengers say means lower courts almost always side with employers “whenever an accommodation would impose any burden.”
The case the justices agreed to hear involves Gerald Groff, a former postal worker in Pennsylvania. Groff, a Christian, said his religious beliefs required him to be off on Sundays. Initially his bosses were able to accommodate him but eventually that ended. Groff resigned and sued the post office. Two lower courts have ruled against him.
Among other cases the justices agreed to hear:
—The case of Billy Raymond Counterman, who was charged with stalking a Colorado musician on Facebook, sending her messages over the course of two years. Counterman argued his messages were protected speech but a court found them to be unprotected “true threats” and he was ultimately sentenced to more than four years in prison. An appeals court also ruled against him. The high court will consider what prosecutors must show to prove a statement is a “true threat.”
—The case of a 94-year-old Minnesota woman who fell behind in her property taxes, then had her home confiscated by local authorities.
Hennepin County sold Geraldine Tyler’s home for $40,000 as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest and costs. But the county kept all the money.
Tyler’s lawyers say the practice, a version of which is used in roughly a dozen states, violates two constitutional provisions, barring excessive fines and taking property without fair payment.
—A case about reviving whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains Supervalu Inc. and Safeway overcharged government health-care programs for prescription drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The justices on Friday also agreed to hear appeals from the whistleblowers, who alleged that the companies defrauded the Medicare and Medicaid programs when they reported retail prices for generic prescription drugs, even though they had mainly been sold to customers at deeply discounted prices.
The cases stem from the companies’ effort to match a 2006 decision by Walmart to offer 30-day supplies of many generic drugs for $4.
Supervalu and Safeway matched the discounted price at their pharmacies, but they reported to the federal and various state governments a much higher “usual and customary” price when seeking reimbursement.
An expert for the whistleblower in the Safeway lawsuit testified that the company received $127 million more than it would have gotten had it reported the discounted price, according to court papers.
In the case against Supervalu, the whistleblower said the company matched Walmart’s discounted price 6.3 million times over 11 years, according to court papers.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed both cases, holding that the companies’ decisions to report the higher prices were “not objectively unreasonable.”
In urging the high court to reject the appeals, lawyers for Supervalu wrote that the correct price to report “may seem easy enough to determine in the abstract, but it is far from simple.”
The Biden administration is backing the whistleblowers. | 2023-01-14T21:14:03+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-high-court-takes-8-new-cases-1-about-a-religious-mailman/ |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, February 4, 2023
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WIND CHILL WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1003 PM EST Fri Feb 3 2023
...WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 40
below zero.
* WHERE...The Eastern Lake Ontario Region.
* WHEN...Until 1 PM EST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause
frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This is a potentially dangerous situation to be outdoors. If you
must be outside, be sure to cover all exposed skin. Frostbite can
occur in 15 minutes or less with apparent temperatures of
25 below zero or colder.
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST
SATURDAY...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST
* WHAT...For the Wind Chill Advisory, very cold wind chills. Wind
chills as low as 15 below zero. For the Winter Weather Advisory,
lake effect snow. Additional snow accumulations up to 2 inches
in the most persistent lake snows.
* WHERE...Chautauqua county. Greatest snow accumulations across
the Chautauqua Ridge.
* WHEN...For the Wind Chill Advisory, until 10 AM EST Saturday.
For the Winter Weather Advisory, until 4 AM EST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on snow covered and slippery road conditions.
Areas of blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as
little as 30 minutes.
Lake effect snow will fall in relatively narrow bands. If
traveling, be prepared for rapidly changing road conditions and
visibilities.
Submit snow reports through our website or social media.
occur in 30 minutes or less with apparent temperatures of
15 below zero or colder.
chills as low as 20 below zero. For the Winter Weather Advisory,
* WHERE...Cattaraugus county. Greatest snow accumulations across
the western portion of the county.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The cold wind
chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30
minutes.
* WHERE...Monroe, Wayne, and Northern Cayuga counties. Greatest
snow accumulations expected across the northern and eastern
suburbs of Rochester and portions of Wayne and Cayuga counties.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Areas of blowing
snow could significantly reduce visibility. The cold wind
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 20 below
zero.
* WHERE...Wyoming, Livingston, Ontario, and Allegany counties.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM EST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on
exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 15 below
* WHERE...Niagara, Orleans, Erie, and Genesee counties.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather | 2023-02-04T03:15:20+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/ny-wfo-buffalo-warnings-watches-and-advisories-17763187.php |
BERLIN (AP) — A former German military reserve officer was convicted Friday of spying for Russian intelligence for several years and given a suspended sentence of a year and nine months.
The Duesseldorf state court found that the defendant was in contact from October 2014 at the latest with several high-ranking employees of the military attache’s office at the Russian Embassy in Berlin who also worked for Russia’s GRU military intelligence service. The 66-year-old was identified only as Ralph G. in line with German privacy rules.
The court said he gave his Russian contacts information on the German military’s reserves as well as publications on the security and the defense policy of the U.S. and its Western allies, documents on the effect of sanctions imposed against Russia in 2014 on Germany, and a link to a working paper on the now-suspended Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
In addition to his position as lieutenant colonel in the German military reserves, the suspect was a member of German business committees, thanks to his civilian job as the sales manager of a company in Erkrath, near Duesseldorf, the court said.
Judges found that he was motivated by his Russia-friendly positions as well as a wish to be of interest to his Russian military contacts and strengthen his reputation as a “security expert.” He received invitations to Russian Embassy events in Berlin and to an annual security conference in Moscow.
The court said it took account of other factors in its verdict, including that nearly all the information he passed on was publicly available — but also the fact that his actions spanned more than four years.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-11-18T17:00:39+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/11/18/former-german-reserve-officer-convicted-of-spying-for-russia/ |
The FBI issued a public safety alert Monday about a financial sextortion scheme targeting children and teens.
The alert says law enforcement has received 7,000 reports this year of minors, mostly boys, being coerced into sending explicit images of themselves and then being extorted for money.
“The FBI has seen a horrific increase in reports of financial sextortion schemes targeting minor boys—and the fact is that the many victims who are afraid to come forward are not even included in those numbers,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
At least a dozen of the victims committed suicide after being extorted, according to the FBI.
The agency says the minors are being targeted on social media sites, games sites and video chat apps.
A large percentage of the sextortion schemes originate outside of the United States, primarily in West Africa, the FBI states.
“The sexual exploitation of children is a deplorable crime. HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) special agents will continue to exhaust every resource to identify, locate, and apprehend predators to ensure they face justice,” said Steve K. Francis, HSI acting executive associate director. “Criminals who lurk in platforms on the internet are not as anonymous as they think."
Parents are urged to talk to their children about the sextortion schemes and let them know it's OK to come to speak with an adult about these sensitive situations.
“The FBI is here for victims, but we also need parents and caregivers to work with us to prevent this crime before it happens and help children come forward if it does," Wray said. | 2022-12-19T21:27:26+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/fbi-issues-warning-about-financial-sextortion-scheme-targeting-children-teens |
Delivery driver stops attempted carjacking by causing crash
BALTIMORE (WBAL) - A Maryland delivery driver jumped into action and stopped a would-be carjacker in the act, grabbing him through the window as he tried to drive away.
Police say a delivery driver left the door to his car open when he ran into Baltimore’s RYMKS Bar and Grille to get food just before 11 p.m. Sunday. When he came back out, a 17-year-old allegedly got into the driver’s seat and took off down the street.
Police say the victim grabbed hold of the suspect through the window. The car crashed, slamming into the side of the restaurant.
“The car was moving pretty fast. The driver was actually hanging on the window, trying to get him out, as he crashed,” said Justin Crowder, manager at RYMKS.
The video shows after the crash, the victim pulled the suspect out of the car. Workers say he held him down until police got there and arrested the teenager.
No one was seriously injured in the incident. Crowder says, thankfully, no employees were outside when the car crashed.
“Just thinking about the fact that somebody could’ve been out here during that time, but they weren’t. So, that was just God. That was God,” he said.
Crowder says there was no damage to their building, just their dumpster, and they spent Monday cleaning up.
The incident adds insult to injury, Crowder says, coming just three weeks after the restaurant’s co-owner, Trevor White, was murdered.
“Words can’t explain the emotional pain that comes with it, but we’re striving every day to make sure we fulfill his dream,” Crowder said.
Still, Crowder is relieved the suspect is in custody and hopes it will serve as a warning to other teens.
“I just hope that there’s a life lesson from it, not just for him but for anyone else who may be in the same position, to just really think twice of what you’re doing, who’s watching, how this could impact your life,” he said.
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BOSSARD, Angela Grace, 54, Bloomington; 10 a.m., Eastview Christian Church, Normal.
CURRY, Janet "Jan", 67, Bloomington; 10:30 a.m., Evergreen Cemetery Memorial Chapel, Bloomington.
WALTERS, Pamela, 76, Delavan, 10 a.m., St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Emden.
ZILLER, Mary Elizabeth, 70, Bloomington, 11 a.m. at Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home, Bloomington. | 2022-11-02T18:09:57+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/funerals-today-for-nov-3/article_e9954ee4-5941-11ed-a00a-2368601c974f.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions prize has grown again to an estimated $1.35 billion after there was no winner of the lottery’s latest giant jackpot.
The numbers drawn late Tuesday night were: 7, 13, 14, 15, 18 and gold Mega Ball 9.
The new jackpot drawing on Friday night will be another milestone in the game, Mega Millions said in a statement early Wednesday.
“Now at $1.35 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is moving up and making history as the second highest Mega Millions jackpot ever," Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said in the statement.
The only Mega Millions jackpot larger than Friday’s prize is the $1.53 billion won in South Carolina in 2018, Mega Millions said.
The largest jackpot in the U.S. to date was a $2.04 billion Powerball won by a single ticket in California in November.
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The estimated $1.35 billion jackpot in the next drawing would only be distributed to a winner who chooses an annuity paid over 29 years. Nearly all grand prize winners opt to take a cash payout, which for Friday night’s drawing is an estimated $707.9 million.
There have been 25 drawings over three months since the last time a player matched all six numbers and claimed the jackpot.
Despite the game’s long odds of 1 in 302.6 million, players continue to purchase tickets as the size of the grand prize grows.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | 2023-01-11T11:46:00+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/new-mega-millions-jackpot-of-1-35b-is-games-2nd-highest/article_87255af3-6b01-5c83-ad72-498558b4c1b4.html |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
6-5-5-5, FIREBALL: 4
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
6-5-5-5, FIREBALL: 4
(six, five, five, five; FIREBALL: four) | 2022-07-24T05:12:38+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17325137.php |
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tulare County Sheriff Deputies are investigating an armed robbery in the Richgrove area Thursday morning.
Deputies say a man with a gun walked up on two people who were walking their dog.
The man demanded money, their wallets and cell phones.
No one was hurt.
The suspect drove off south on the Fomoso Porterville highway in a white 2012-2015 Chevy or GMG Truck with a green AG sticker on the back window.
Deputies are asking anyone with information to contact the Tulare County Sheriff's Office at (559) 733-6218. | 2023-04-13T23:42:38+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/tulare-county-richgrove-armed-robbery-people-walking-dog/13124090/ |
The best tools for making pumpkin cheesecake
Pumpkin cheesecake is a lightly spiced, creamy dessert that riffs on familiar flavors, welcoming fall with its tangy-sweet punch of cinnamon, bright lemon and sweet cream cheese. The technique for making pumpkin cheesecake is the same as the traditional, and making it at home is easy. You’ll need a great recipe and a few tools to get the job done.
Steps for making the perfect pumpkin cheesecake
Prepare the pan
Cheesecakes of all kinds are cooked and chilled in a springform pan. This pan consists of a round base enclosed by sides that spring open when a latch on the side is flipped.
Some bakers grease the pan’s sides and bottom, then line it with parchment paper, while others rely on butter or cooking spray alone. Whichever you choose, it’s important to be meticulous so your cheesecake releases easily.
If you are baking your cheesecake in a water bath, you’ll also need to seal the bottom of the springform pan with two layers of aluminum foil. This is added protection against water leaking into the pan as you bake it.
Make the crust
The crust is one of the most important parts of the cheesecake. It can be pressed into a disk on the bottom of the pan or up the sides to fully encase the creamy filling.
Crusts are usually a mixture of graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, a little sugar and even some salt. These are easy to adjust to accommodate gluten-free and vegan diets by subbing gluten-free graham crackers and plant-based butter.
Mix the filling
Making sure all ingredients are fully blended is critical in baking a perfectly creamy cheesecake.
Recipes vary, but most have a few ingredients in common, including:
- Cream cheese
- Sugar
- Lemon juice or zest
- Vanilla extract
Depending on the variety, you may also add eggs, sour cream or heavy cream. All ingredients should be at room temperature for easy mixing, and they should be beaten well before they are poured into the waiting pan.
Bake the cheesecake
To prevent cracks, cheesecake is baked in a water bath (also called a bain-marie) in a low oven. Add hot water to a large pan that is bigger than the diameter of your springform pan. You can also place the springform pan first, then carefully pour water around it.
Follow the baking directions for the recipe you select. Your cheesecake is done when it has a slight wobble in the middle.
If you go the non-traditional route and make your cheesecake in an Instant Pot, you’ll need a special insert to ensure the perfect bake.
Chill
Cooling your cheesecake completely is critical. This sets the filling and gives it the famous texture.
Different types of cheesecake
When people think of cheesecake, not everyone envisions the exact same kind of cheesecake. And with good reason — there is more than one style. Some have to do with differences in the ingredients, while others are unique in their preparations.
- New York-style: This cheesecake is dense and creamy. It uses extra cream cheese and is mixed with a generous amount of cream. New York cheesecake also uses additional eggs to bump up the richness.
- Traditional: Regular cheesecake is creamy like its big-ity counterpart, but it uses sour cream to provide an extra tang and lighten up the filling. The texture is silky, creamy, and less dense.
- No-bake: No-bake cheesecake is lightened by a variety of ingredients that can include ricotta and yogurt. The crust is pressed into the pan, the batter is poured and the cheesecake is placed in the fridge to set.
- Basque: This cheesecake has an entirely different texture and finish. The center is smooth and rich, but the outside is baked until the sugars in the filling caramelize to create a “burnt†look and a slight bitterness that cuts the richness of the filling.
Fresh vs. canned pumpkin
No matter the style, pumpkin is the shining star of this rich and creamy dessert. But is fresh or canned pumpkin better?
- Fresh: Fresh pumpkin requires more work but has a rustic flavor that works well in savory desserts. The flavor can be inconsistent, though.
- Canned: Canned pumpkin is easy to use in desserts, and the choice of professional chefs for its smooth, consistent flavor. Make sure to select one with no additional ingredients.
Everything you need to make pumpkin cheesecake
Morgenhaan Lifetime Measuring Cups and Spoons Set
This 13-piece set features measuring cups and spoons. Measurements are stamped onto the handles and cups for easy reading. The spoons are narrow enough to fit into spice jars, and the cups have smaller markings when you need less.
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Wilton Excelle Elite Nonstick Springform Pan
The 10-inch pan has a textured bottom that makes for easy release. The latch is smooth, closing securely and opening easily. It is nonstick, and it comes with a 10-year warranty.
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KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer
For perfectly smooth cheesecake batter, this has 10 speeds that range from a slow stir to a vigorous whip. It includes a flat beater, dough hook, pouring shield and wire whip. It comes in 13 colors.
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Hamilton Beach Electric Hand Mixer
If a stand mixer isn’t in your budget, this six-speed hand mixer is a good option. The stainless steel beaters are stored underneath the mixer, and the mixer has enough power to process large batches of cheesecake filling.
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Farberware Bakeware Nonstick Steel Roasting Pan
It’s a heavy-duty steel pan that fits a 10-inch springform pan for use as a bain-marie. It comes with a removable chrome-plated rack and is safe in the oven to 450 degrees. The handles are riveted for security.
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Happy Belly Organic 100% Pumpkin
This case of pumpkin is certified organic. It has no added sugar and is kosher. The pumpkin is grown and packed in the U.S., and it comes with a one-year guarantee.
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Violife Just Like Cream Cheese
This vegan cream cheese is free from gluten, soy and nuts. It has no preservatives and is free from genetically modified organisms.
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Pamela’s Products Honey Graham Crackers
Pamela’s offers certified gluten-free graham crackers that can easily swap in for regular graham crackers for those avoiding gluten. They are also dairy-free and kosher. This pack of two is enough to make one large cheesecake.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is telling senators to expect an initial vote as early as Tuesday on scaled-back legislation that would provide grants, tax credits and other financial incentives for companies that build semiconductor manufacturing plants in the U.S.
Both the House and Senate have passed sweeping bills that included numerous trade provisions, additional dollars for research and called for the development of regional technology hubs across the country. But lawmakers have struggled to reach a final compromise that could generate 60 votes in the Senate, the number needed to overcome procedural hurdles.
Lacking a larger agreement, Schumer, D-N.Y., will move to take up a “limited competition bill” that includes the $52 billion in financial incentives and research that was at the heart of the bills passed in the House and the Senate. It would also include a semiconductor investment tax credit, and additional pieces could be added if they’re ready.
Schumer’s plans were described by a person familiar with the private deliberations who was granted anonymity to discuss them.
The Biden administration has ramped up its advocacy for the semi-conductor bill in recent days, calling it essential that lawmakers take action before the August recess.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other administration officials met behind closed doors with senators on Wednesday to discuss the national security ramifications of relying on foreign countries for computer chip production. She held a similar briefing Thursday with House lawmakers. When asked if the administration would push Congress to support the scaled-back package that Schumer plans to put before the Senate next week, she said, “yes.”
“We want a robust bill. This is core to national security. Having said that, all options are on the table, because we’re out of time,” Raimondo said. “This is about: What can we get the votes for? We cannot wait, and if that’s what the members in the both the House and Senate feel is possible, well, let’s get it done.”
Raimondo said chipmakers are making decisions now about how to meet future demand. They are being offered lucrative incentives from other countries such as South Korea, Japan, France, Germany and Singapore to locate plants there. She cited Monday’s announcement by STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build a semiconductor factory in France as an example of other countries moving faster than the U.S. on the issue.
“If we don’t pass this, we’re going to wake up, other countries will have these investments, and we will say, ‘why didn’t we do this?'” Raimondo said.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said she talked to lawmakers Thursday about the importance of a secure supply chain for national security. She noted that the Javelin missile systems the U.S. has provided to Ukraine relies on more than 200 semiconductor chips.
“Pretty much every major system that the Defense Department uses, just like most major components or systems you all use in daily life, rely on semiconductors and microelectronics,” Hicks said. “For the Defense Department, we want to make sure that supply is unfettered, that it doesn’t have a risk of being disrupted or denied in some way.”
The U.S. is increasingly reliant on foreign manufacturers for the semiconductors used in automobiles, smart phones, computers and other products. The U.S. share of global semiconductor production has fallen from 37% to 12% over the last 30 years. The pandemic has shown why that can be a problem as manufacturers scramble to get the chips they need to make their products.
It’s unclear if even the scaled-back measure could gain the Republican support needed to pass the Senate. Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has threatened to derail the semiconductor legislation if Democrats revive their stalled package of energy and economic initiatives and seek to pass them on a party-line basis. Some of the Republicans who voted for the earlier Senate bill have endorsed his approach.
Many Democrats will also be unhappy about leaving some of their priorities behind. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., however, said at the end of the day, lawmakers must do “what is possible to do.” | 2022-07-15T01:33:17+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/business/schumer-readies-vote-on-scaled-back-computer-chips-bill/ |
SELLERSBURG, Ind. — Indiana State Police Department’s K-9 Rando received a bullet and stab protective vest, thanks to a donation from nonprofit organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc.
Rando’s vest was embroidered with the statement “Honoring those who served and sacrificed.”
Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. has donated nearly 5,000 vests to K-9s in all 50 states, in large part due to private and corporate donations.
To donate to Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., click here. | 2023-01-06T20:22:33+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/isp-k-9-rando-receives-protective-vest-donation-sellersburg-vested-interest/531-e9fe683d-484c-4251-9ffb-d64d1673cfe9 |
YANTAI, China, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Being the traditional advantageous industry of Yantai and even Shandong Province, its wine industry is also a famous industry in China and abroad. Yantai is the birthplace of China's modern wine industry, the largest wine-producing area in China, the only "International Grapes • Wine City" in Asia, one of the seven largest coasts of vineyards in the world, an observer of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), and the only "partnership" member of the Global Wine Tourism Organization (GWTO) in China. After more than 130 years of development, Yantai's wine has become a beautiful business card for promoting the city for the rest of the world getting to know it.
63 wineries have been built and are under construction in the city at the moment, forming a cluster of wineries represented by the project of Zhangyu International Wine City, the "One Belt, Three Valleys" winery gathering area in Penglai, and the Pula Valley winery cluster in Laishan. With the launching of wine tourism in Zhang Yu Wine Culture Museum, Chateau Zhangyu Castel, Chateau Junding, Chateau State Guest, Chateau Sifram and Chateau Wencheng, the wine culture and tourism industry is rapidly emerging. Since 2007, the Yantai International Wine Festival has been successfully held for 12 consecutive sessions and has been rated as one of the "30 most popular festivals" in China. It has played an important role in strengthening international exchanges and cooperation in the field of grapes and wine and promoting the wine culture.
Contact: Zhao Xiangyang
Tel: 0086535-6789710
E-mail: yt6789710@yt.shandong.cn
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11-year-old boy collects nearly 6,000 stuffed toys for Ukrainian children
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WJXT) – A Florida boy is on a mission to bring some comfort and joy to children in Ukraine.
The 11-year-old is partnering with businesses and the YMCA to collect stuffed animals to send to kids from the war-torn country.
By most accounts, Sage Goodall is a typical boy, with a ton of energy and a big personality.
None of that, however, compares to the size of his heart, a heart measured in stuffed animals.
It started simply enough, with Sage watching TV in the living room of his family’s house.
“CNN came on and it was saying about all these kids from Ukraine because of all their houses being blown up,” he said.
Sage and his mom Rhonda Goodall then decided to launch “Hugs for the Children of Ukraine.”
Each donated stuffed toy will go to a child impacted by the war.
“They need to feel what the normal kids of the world feel, when they can hug onto something when they feel scared or sad,” Sage said.
The family stored their first collections in the family living room.
Then the YMCA of Northeast Florida got involved. Its branches became donation sites, and each new toy became like a hug from thousands of miles away.
Goodall said she is still overwhelmed by the response.
“We didn’t know it would be this big,” she said. “To walk in here and see this, it’s heartfelt. The thought of a child, as Sage says, hugging one of these and being able to walk around with it and carry it around with them, they are every bit as special as every other person.”
With the response comes a message from Sage to his fellow kids: Every child is special - show kindness.
“Everyone is the same,” Sage said. “They’re just human beings, that God created them. They need to realize, ‘Don’t think about yourself, think about others before you.’”
Sage wants to make a positive difference one “hug” at a time.
Sage and the YMCA said they managed to collect nearly 6,000 stuffed animals to ship to Ukrainian children.
The 11-year-old is not done yet; he’s begun setting new goals and plans to continue collecting.
Copyright 2022 WJXT via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-09T21:37:58+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/08/09/11-year-old-boy-collects-nearly-6000-stuffed-toys-ukrainian-children/ |
Partnering with renowned sports and media personalities, 'Treat Them Like Royalty' Celebrates Those Who Have Made A Positive Impact On Their Lives As A Way To Give Back
Just in time for Mother's Day, guests can also give the royal treatment to the women in their lives with this special offer to save on select 2023 and 2024 river, lake, ocean or expedition cruises now through June 30.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Queen Voyages (AQV) is partnering with renowned sports and entertainment figures in the new "Treat Them Like Royalty" campaign, as a way to celebrate the individuals, charities and local community organizations who have supported them throughout their lives and careers. Each of the talent's selected recipients will receive a 9-day voyage from AQV, which offers a comprehensive portfolio of North American cruise vacations comprised of Rivers, Lakes & Oceans and Expedition experiences.
Star athletes and entertainers who have partnered with AQV to give back to their loved ones, charities and local community organizations in the promotion include Pittsburgh Steelers legend Jerome Bettis; Cleveland Brown alumni and NFL analyst Joe Thomas; New York Mets pitcher Adam Ottavino; star forward Kelly Olynyk of the Utah Jazz; hip-hop pioneer Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run DMC, media personality Peter Rosenberg for Hot 97 and ESPN's Michael Kay show, and influencer and New York Times best-selling author Anna Kloots.
"We are thrilled to have the support of these esteemed sports and entertainment figures as we continue to share what makes American Queen Voyages such a special experience with their extended guests," said Cindy D'Aoust, president, American Queen Voyages. "We have such a loyal following because our Crew truly does treat every guest like royalty. We are excited to partner together as a way for the talent to express their gratitude to those that have made a positive impact on their lives and careers and make their own lasting memories aboard our iconic vessels."
The enthusiasm from the sports and entertainment communities has opened AQV to new guests, inviting couples, friends, and families across the country to join in creating memories with loved ones aboard AQV's river, lake, and ocean cruises.
"There have been so many people that have shaped me into who I am today, especially my mom who has been the cornerstone of my success throughout my life and career," said Jerome Bettis, Pittsburgh Steelers alumni. "In celebration of Mother's Day, I couldn't think of a better way to treat my mom with the opportunity to cruise on American Queen Voyages and to receive a royal VIP treatment that she so well deserves."
Just in time for Mother's Day, guests can also give the royal treatment to the special women in their lives. The "Treat Them Like Royalty" offer gives guests the chance to save on select 2023 and 2024 river, lake, ocean or expedition cruises. Travelers receive up to $2,500 savings per stateroom with free economy-class roundtrip airfare from select gateways (or a $300 travel credit). They also get a $100 "Your Choice" onboard credit per guest. Click here to see available dates and cruise itineraries. Travelers looking to take advantage of this offer need to contact their travel advisor or book their cruise by June 30 using offer code: LIKEROYALTYAQV.
American Queen Voyages is the leader in encounter travel. Aboard its namesake American Queen – the largest steamboat ever built – guests enjoy an all-inclusive experience with locally sourced gourmet meals; unlimited beverages at open bars and lounges throughout the vessel; unlimited guided land tours; and daily onboard entertainment, from Broadway-caliber performances to stimulating lectures with in-house historians.
Beyond the Mississippi and adjacent rivers, AQV hosts voyages along the Columbia & Snake Rivers in the Pacific Northwest; the Great Lakes; Mexico & Costa Rica; Canada & New England; Alaska & British Columbia; and more. The American Queen Voyages brand enables guests to experience all its expansive opportunities for discovery of North American under one umbrella. Discovery runs deep for guests, connected by AQV whether river, lakes and oceans or expedition cruising.
For imagery of American Queen Voyage vessels and experiences, click here.
About American Queen Voyages
American Queen Voyages™, the leader in close-to-home encounter travel, offers the most varied and comprehensive portfolio of North American itineraries and experiences, comprised of American Queen Voyages Rivers, Lakes & Oceans and Expedition. Visit www.AQVoyages.com.
About Hornblower Group
Hornblower Group is a global leader in experiences and transportation. Hornblower Group's corporate businesses are comprised of three premier experience divisions: American Queen Voyages®, its overnight cruising division; City Experiences, its land and water-based experiences as well as ferry and transportation services; and Journey Beyond, Australia's leading experiential travel group. Spanning a 100-year history, Hornblower Group's portfolio of international offerings includes water-based experiences (dining and sightseeing cruises), land-based experiences (walking tours, food tours and excursions), overnight experiences (cruises and railways) and ferry and transportation services. Hornblower Marine, a subsidiary of Hornblower Group, provides vessel outhaul and maintenance services at Bridgeport Boatworks in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Additionally, Anchor Operating System, LLC, a subsidiary of Hornblower Group and independent entity, provides reservation, ticketing and website integration services for clients in the transportation, tourism and entertainment industries. Today, Hornblower Group's global portfolio covers 114 countries and territories, 125 U.S. cities and serves more than 30 million guests annually. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hornblower Group's additional corporate offices reside in Adelaide, Australia; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; London, United Kingdom; New York, New York; Dublin, Ireland; and across Ontario, Canada. For more information visit hornblowercorp.com.
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How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society By Brianna Scott, Jeanette Woods, Ailsa Chang Published July 19, 2023 at 1:51 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with scholar Safiya Noble about how advancements in artificial intelligence could further perpetuate biases in society. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-19T21:43:01+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2023-07-19/how-ai-could-perpetuate-racism-sexism-and-other-biases-in-society |
CA Reno NV Zone Forecast for Friday, November 18, 2022
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(NEXSTAR) — It’s been 44 years since the horror classic “Halloween” was first released in 1978 — when the world got its first glimpse of one of cinema’s scariest boogeymen, the un-killable Michael Myers. As the franchise prepares to release its 13th installment, “Halloween Ends,” you may want to catch up with the story so far.
With the “Halloween” franchise, however, that isn’t as simple as you might expect.
In total, there are three separate timelines stemming from the original movie, one remake timeline, and one standalone anthology film. Confused?
Films by release date
- “Halloween” (1978)
- “Halloween II” (1981)
- “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” (1982)
- “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” (1988)
- “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” (1989)
- “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” (1995)
- “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” (1998)
- “Halloween: Resurrection” (2002)
- “Halloween” (2007)
- “Halloween II” (2009)
- “Halloween” (2018)
- “Halloween Kills” (2021)
- “Halloween Ends” (2022)
While this is the order the films were released in, it’s not the order you’re meant to watch them in — especially if you want the story to make sense.
Original timeline
Movies in order: “Halloween” (1978); “Halloween II” (1981); “Halloween 4”; “Halloween 5”; and “The Curse of Michael Myers”
Key differences: Sequels in this timeline end with “Curse.” Movies 4-6 do not feature franchise star Jamie Lee Curtis or her character Laurie Strode. Instead, they center on Laurie’s young daughter, Jamie Lloyd, among other new characters.
Spoiler-free overview: Michael Myers terrorizes the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, over a period of about 20 years, beginning with the events of the first film.
Trivia: While widely panned to this day, “Curse” later received a second release in the form of a much mythologized “Producer’s Cut.” This version — which features some substantial plot differences — existed in bootlegs traded among fans for decades before an official release in 2014. The movie also stars future “Ant Man” superstar Paul Rudd.
‘H20’ timeline
Movies in order: “Halloween” (1978); “Halloween II” (1981); “Halloween H20”; and “Resurrection”
Key differences: All sequels included in this timeline are only sequels to the first two “Halloween” movies. Jamie Lee Curtis appears in all four of these films.
Spoiler-free overview: Over the course of one Halloween night, Laurie Strode (Curtis) narrowly escapes death. Still traumatized by the events, Laurie has faked her own death and relocated to California where she comes face-to-face with Michael 20 years later.
Trivia: A contract stipulation resulted in both the creation of “Resurrection” and Curtis’ appearance in it. Curtis had returned to the series under the impression that “H20” would be the end of it all. Franchise owner/producer Moustapha Akkad, however, had other plans. If you happen to watch the much-disliked “Resurrection,” you’ll see just how much Curtis didn’t want to be in the movie.
‘H40’ timeline
Movies in order: “Halloween” (1978); “Halloween” (2018); “Halloween Kills”; and “Halloween Ends”
Key differences: All sequels in this timeline are only sequels to the very first movie. The events of “Halloween II” (1981) never happened.
Spoiler-free overview: After a murderous rampage on Halloween night in 1978, Michael Myers is captured and imprisoned. Forty years later, Laurie Strode (Curtis), still alive and in Haddonfield, must face her fears after Michael escapes and returns on Halloween. The recently released “Halloween Ends” trailer reveals its events will take place four years after the events of the 2018 movie and “Kills.”
Trivia: Many original cast members aside from Curtis returned for the three new films, including Nick Castle, the first Michael Myers, and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards, who was a child in the first film. Original director Carpenter returned for all three new films — this time co-producing the scores.
Rob Zombie remake timeline
Movies in order: “Halloween” (2007) and “Halloween II” (2009)
Key differences: The 2007 movie is both a remake of the 1978 movie and a semi-prequel. While much of the film follows the same story as the original, it also expands upon Michael’s childhood and psyche. Jamie Lee Curtis does not appear in either of these films, though Laurie Strode (played by Scout Taylor-Compton) does. Another key difference: lots and lots more gore.
Spoiler-free overview: Events of the first film are pretty much the same as the original. Its follow-up centers on the connections between Laurie and Michael. Both survivor and killer attempt to reconcile their pasts while experiencing mysterious hallucinations.
Trivia: Danielle Harris, who played Laurie Strode’s child in the original timeline, stars in both Zombie films but as a different character.
‘Halloween III’
Only movie: “Halloween III: Season of the Witch.” This isn’t even a sequel to the first movie.
Key differences: No Michael Myers. The masterminds behind the first “Halloween,” director/writer John Carpenter and writer/producer Debra Hill, weren’t all that interested in continuing the Strode-Myers story beyond “Halloween II.” But, as Inverse explains, Universal wanted a third movie. Since the series was originally planned as an anthology (with each movie featuring a different story centered around the Halloween season), Carpenter and Hill forged ahead with a new sci-fi/supernatural story.
Spoiler-free overview: The Silver Shamrock novelties company is releasing three new Halloween masks for children to enjoy during a televised giveaway. Based on the fact that this is a horror movie, you can probably guess there’s more to the story.
Trivia: Although it was both a critical and commercial flop upon its release, “Halloween III” has become somewhat of a cult classic — and even re-evaluated and considered a good movie by some. Fondness for this outlier even made its way into the most recent films, with Silver Shamrock masks appearing briefly in the 2018 movie and prominently in “Kills.”
All-in-all, the “Halloween” franchise has earned over $700 million since 1978. The series has spawned not only films but several tie-in and standalone books, graphic novels and even a very-pixelated Atari video game.
“Halloween Ends” hits both theaters and Peacock on Oct. 14. If you’re still lost, maybe it’s best to just put on one of the “Friday the 13th” or “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movies. | 2022-10-01T15:14:54+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/what-order-do-i-watch-the-halloween-movies-in/ |
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: January 15, 2020 to May 31, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 16, 2022
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Learn more about your recoverable losses in TGTX:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that TG Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of the Company's therapeutic product candidates, Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Umbralisib marginal zone lymphoma and follicular lymphoma New Drug Application, the Biologics License Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, the supplemental New Drug Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, or the Ublituximab relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis Biologics License Application in their current forms; (iii) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in TG Therapeutics you have until September 16, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased TG Therapeutics securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the TGTX lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tg-therapeutics-loss-submission-form?id=30197&from=4.
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Kiefer Sutherland is the target in Paramount+'s new espionage drama, Rabbit Hole.
The actor stars in the eight-episode series, which launches Sunday, March 26 with the first two episodes, as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage. When he is framed for murder by powerful forces who have the ability to influence and control populations, John becomes the hunted.
ET exclusively debuts the official trailer and key art for the drama, which features an ensemble that includes Charles Dance as Dr. Ben Wilson, Meta Golding as Hailey Winton, Enid Graham as Josephine “Jo” Madi, Rob Yang as Edward Homm, Walt Klink as The Intern and Jason Butler Harner as Valence. John Requa and Glenn Ficarra serve as showrunners.
The two-minute trailer opens with Sutherland's John activating a bomb as he searches for answers. But when he comes across something that someone more powerful than he can imagine wants hidden forever, that's when John's life turns upside down. "You found something big enough to make you a target," Dr. Ben Wilson warns.
As John gets deeper and deeper in his journey to the truth, he's overwhelmed by the fact that "this time there are just too many possibilities" for who could be behind everything. "I can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not," he worries, as it becomes apparent he may not be able to trust anyone.
Watch the trailer for Rabbit Hole below.
"This is a classic thriller," Sutherland told ET's Will Marfuggi during the Television Critics Association press tour in January of his new series. "When John, Glenn and I first started talking about this project and they approached me about this idea that they had that they wanted to do, we were talking about films like Three Days of the Condor, some of those great spy thrillers of the '70s. I think what's so fascinating about the show is not necessarily the twist and turns but this hybrid of what our society has become. Technology has created as different a world for us now as the Industrial Revolution did for people at [that time]."
He further detailed what viewers can expect when Rabbit Hole launches next month.
"Disinformation is misinformation on purpose and a design to disrupt and it's something that we as a society have to learn how to deal with. We're in the process of trying to do that and that's what this show deals with," the 24 alum added. "I play a character, John Weir, who is normally the guy manipulating the situation and he's a corporate espionage person and really pulls scams that moves billions of dollars. What I liked about the show was that this is the guy who's normally in the position of power and is actually pulling the [strings] of power and all of a sudden, the conspiracy turns on him and he's desperate to try and figure out who's doing this to him and how powerful they are and what their intentions are. The show takes off from there, but it's watching someone going from chasing someone to running away from them."
Sutherland serves as executive producer, alongside writer-directors Requa and Ficarra, Charlie Gogolak, Suzan Bymel and Hunt Baldwin.
Rabbit Hole premieres with two episodes Sunday, March 26, followed by new episodes dropping every Sunday in the U.S. and Canada. It will launch Monday, March 27 in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. A premiere date for South Korea will be announced later.
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"Luna" Ranks First for Both Dog and Cat Names, With Beloved Mixed Breeds Topping List for Most Popular Type of Pets
CLEVELAND, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As 2022 comes to a close, Embrace Pet Insurance, a consistently top-rated pet health insurance provider for dogs and cats in the United States, is revealing the most popular pet names, breeds and common insurance claims from the past year.
Based on insights from Embrace's database of over 1.5 million quotes completed this year, below are the top 10 most popular names for dogs and cats in the United States:
Top 10 Dog Names of 2022
- Luna
- Bella
- Charlie
- Lucy
- Daisey
- Cooper
- Max
- Bailey
- Milo
- Coco
Top 10 Cat Names of 2022
- Luna
- Oliver
- Milo
- Bella
- Charlie
- Leo
- Loki
- Lucy
- Nala
- Lily
Top Dog and Cat Breeds of 2022
Embrace researched which breeds of dogs and cats proved most popular over the past year:
Top 10 Dog Breeds of 2022
- Mixed Breeds
- Labrador Retriever
- Golden Retriever
- Goldendoodle
- German Shepard
- French Bulldog
- Yorkshire Terrier
- Siberian Husky
- Labradoodle
- Chihuahua
Top 10 Cat Breeds of 2022
- Mixed Breed
- Tabby
- Maine Coon
- Siamese
- Ragdoll
- Bengal
- Siberian
- Sphynx
- Persian
- Russian Blue
Top Claims of 2022
While pet parents do their best to protect their beloved fur babies, unexpected accidents and illnesses can happen. Which health issues did canine and feline companions experience the most over the past year?
The most common insurance claims for 2022 for dogs and cats include:
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Weight Loss
- Otitis Externa (ear infection)
Each year, more and more pet owners are realizing the importance of having their pets protected with insurance before something unforeseen occurs.
"We have witnessed the pet insurance industry consistently grow and 2022 has been no exception," says Brian Macias, president, Embrace Pet Insurance. "When unexpected accidents and illnesses happen, a pet parent's focus should be on helping their pet get well, not worrying about the impact of medical expenses. That's why we're seeing so many more pet owners begin to understand the incredible value of pet insurance – it's peace of mind your pet is protected when they need it most."
For more information about Embrace Pet Insurance, please visit embracepetinsurance.com.
About Embrace Pet Insurance
Embrace Pet Insurance, a part of NSM Insurance Group, is a top-rated pet health insurance provider for dogs and cats in the United States. Embrace offers one simple yet comprehensive accident and illness insurance plan. In addition to insurance, Embrace offers Wellness Rewards, a non-insurance, optional preventative care product that is unique to the industry. Wellness Rewards reimburses for routine veterinary visits, grooming, vaccinations, training, and much more, with no itemized limitations. Embrace has received numerous accolades for customer and employee satisfaction, including being named the top pet insurance provider on the Forbes list of America's Best Insurance Companies 2022 and receiving the Great Place to Work™ certification. Embrace is a proud member of the North American Pet Health Insurance Association (NAPHIA) and continues to innovate and improve the pet insurance experience for pet parents across the country. For more information about Embrace Pet Insurance, visit EmbracePetInsurance.com or call (800) 660-3817.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers ace Jacob deGrom was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday with right elbow inflammation after early exits in two of his last three starts.
While his departures from those games were attributed to right wrist soreness and forearm tightness, general manager Chris Young said an MRI showed some inflammation in his elbow.
“There’s no need to push him,” Young said. “He came in today and felt OK, which is a positive, but given how important he is to us and our season, we’re going to play this very cautiously and see how he responds over the next several days to treatment.”
Young said the Rangers should have a pretty good idea in 7-10 days on what the next steps would be for the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner. DeGrom was coming off two injury-plagued seasons with the New York Mets when he signed a $185 million, five-year contract with Texas last December.
The AL West-leading Rangers recalled right-handed pitcher Yerry Rodríguez from Triple-A Round Rock.
When deGrom left a game in Kansas City after four hitless innings on April 17, the Rangers said the move was precautionary because of wrist soreness.
After the right-hander left his start against the New York Yankees with two outs in the fourth inning Friday night, manager Bruce Bochy said the move was again precautionary, and that deGrom had forearm tightness. Before Saturday’s game, and Young’s announcement, Bochy said the “same thing cramped up on” deGrom.
Young said he felt the wrist issue was different and under control.
“But was there some compensation from the wrist that maybe irritated this? Perhaps, but I can’t say for certain,” said Young, a former big league pitcher.
Texas has won all six games started by deGrom (2-0), but he has been limited to 30 1/3 innings. He has a 2.67 ERA with 45 strikeouts and four walks.
“He’s being very smart about it. He’s making us aware of how he’s feeling,” Young said. “He wants to be out there as much as anybody. He was very disappointed last night to have to come out of the game, but he felt like he shouldn’t push through and potentially make something worse than maybe it is. And I think today’s information confirms that he made the right decision.”
In between the two starts he left early over injury concerns, deGrom struck out 11 batters and allowed one earned run over six innings in a win against Oakland last Sunday.
DeGrom played his first nine big league seasons with the New York Mets. He waslimited to 156 1/3 innings over 26 starts the past two years.
Before missing the final three months of the 2021 season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, deGrom had a career-low 1.08 ERA over 92 innings. He was then shut down late in spring training in 2022 year because of a stress reaction in his right scapula and didn’t make his first big-league start until Aug. 2.
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Judge gives deadline extension to organizers trying to stop ‘Cop City’ with signature campaign
Jul 27, 2023, 10:39 AM | Updated: 11:44 am
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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday significantly extended the deadline for Atlanta organizers who have been trying to gather more than 70,000 signatures to force a vote on the construction of a police and firefighter training center that critics call “ Cop City.”
U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen ruled that the city had imposed an unlawful requirement that those collecting signatures have to be residents of Atlanta. A group of people who live in DeKalb County just outside the city had sued — saying they should be allowed to join in the canvassing effort and noting that the planned site for the training center itself is in unincorporated DeKalb County, outside the city limits.
“Requiring signature gatherers to be residents of the city imposes a severe burden on core political speech and does little to protect the city’s interest in self-governance,” Cohen wrote, adding: “The city has offered no specifics as to why permitting nonresident plaintiffs to gather signatures … will cause any disruption to the political process.”
Cohen said that the 60-day period for gathering signatures, which had put the deadline in mid-August, should be restarted. That means organizers will have until late September to gather the tens of thousands of signatures still needed for the proposed referendum to get on the ballot.
The effort is meant to allow voters to choose whether they want to repeal the ordinance that authorized the lease of the city-owned land upon which the project is set to be built.
As of Tuesday, organizers had gotten more than 30,000 residents to sign on to the effort, according to Paul Glaze, a spokesperson for the Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition.
Attorneys for the city and state had urged the judge to toss the entire referendum campaign, calling it “futile,” and “invalid,” but Cohen declined to rule on its legality, saying it was not up to him to decide that separate dispute.
“We are thrilled by Judge Cohen’s ruling, and the expansion of democracy to include our DeKalb neighbors, and levels the playing field for our coalition,” said Mary Hooks, a lead organizer for the coalition. “Cop City has been marred time and time again by the silencing of democratic input and repression of community participation, and since the launch of this campaign, we have been playing on a field tilted in the city of Atlanta’s favor.”
Organizers have said they need to collect the signatures by Aug. 14 in order to make it onto the November ballot. If the signatures take longer to gather, that would push the referendum to March’s ballot and potentially risk the city moving forward with constructing the facility in the meantime, though activists could seek a court order to prevent that from happening.
“We are focused on getting on the ballot, period,” Glaze told the Associated Press.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and others say the $90 million facility would replace inadequate training facilities, and would help address difficulties in hiring and retaining police officers that worsened after nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice three years ago.
But opponents, who have been joined by activists from around the country, say they fear it will lead to greater militarization of the police and that its construction will exacerbate environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area. The “Stop Cop City” effort has gone on for more than two years and at times has veered into vandalism and violence.
Organizers have modeled the referendum campaign after a successful effort in coastal Georgia, where Camden County residents voted overwhelmingly last year to block county officials from building a launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space.
The Georgia Supreme Court in February unanimously upheld the legality of the Camden County referendum, though it remains an open question whether citizens can veto decisions of city governments. | 2023-07-27T20:44:21+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3914038/judge-gives-organizers-trying-to-stop-cop-city-a-deadline-extension-for-signature-campaign/ |
ROCKVILLE,M.D. and SUZHOU, China, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, autoimmune, metabolic, ophthalmology and other major diseases, today presented the updated results of IBI351 (GFH925) (KRASG12C inhibitor) from a phase Ia clinical trial (NCT05005234) at the 2022 Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) Annual Meeting.
Phase Ia study of IBI351 (GFH925) monotherapy in patients with advanced solid tumors: updated results
IBI351(GFH925) is a novel, irreversible covalent inhibitor of KRASG12C mutation. The NCT05005234 study presented was a first-in-human study conducted in China to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of IBI351 monotherapy in patients with advanced solid tumors who failed or intolerant to standard of care treatment. As data cutoff (29 July 2022), 67 subjects were enrolled in the study, including 61 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), 5 colorectal cancer(CRC) and 1 pancreatic cancer. Approximately 50% patients received 2 lines or above prior systemic anticancer therapy. 37.7% of NSCLC patients had brain metastases. The highlights of the study results were as follows:
- Of 55 evaluable NSCLC patients, 28 achieved partial response (PR), with investigator assessed ORR 50.9% and DCR 92.7%. As data cutoff, most patients remained on treatment. Sustained treatment response was observed at low dose of IBI351. Median duration of response (DOR) and median progression free survival (PFS) were not reached yet.
- Of 21 patients with NSCLC treated at 600mg BID (the recommended phase 2 dose), better efficacy signal was observed, with investigator assessed ORR 61.9%(13/21) and DCR 100%.
- Of 5 CRC patients, 3 achieved PR, with investigator assessed ORR and DCR 60%. 1 pancreatic cancer patient achieved PR in 1st tumor assessment, and remained on treatment.
- As data cutoff, IBI351 was well tolerated. No DLT was reported and MTD was not reached. Treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) occurred in 92.5% (62/67) patients and the most common TRAEs were anemia, transferase increased, bilirubin increased, pruritus and fatigue. The majority of the TRAEs were grade 1-2 with 19.4% (13/67) of patients reporting grade 3 or higher TRAEs. There were no grade 5 TRAEs or TRAEs led to treatment discontinuation.
Favorable safety and tolerability and promising antitumor activity of IBI351 monotherapy were observed in previously-treated advanced NSCLC, CRC and pancreatic cancer harboring KRASG12C mutation. A single arm registrational trial of IBI351 monotherapy in previously-treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer is ongoing. More data will be presented at the future medical meeting.
Professor Yi-Long Wu from Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, stated: "KRAS mutation as the "undruggable" target for decades has become one of the most popular direction for clinical development recently. IBI351 is a novel, irreversible covalent inhibitor of KRASG12C mutation, whose preliminary data of safety and efficacy was reported at 2022 ASCO. The update data shows the favorable safety and promising activity of IBI351 (GFH925) monotherapy in KRAS G12C mutated advanced solid tumor. We look forward to more positive clinical data from this study. "
Dr. Hui Zhou, Senior Vice President of Innovent, stated: "We are pleased to present our clinical development updates at the 2022 CSCO, and that IBI351 monotherapy demonstrated encouraging efficacy and safety data in phase Ia study. A single arm registrational trial of IBI351 monotherapy in previously-treated advanced NSCLC is ongoing. We are working to advance into late stage clinical development to explore the potential of IBI351 as monotherapy and in combo-therapy. We are actively exploring next-generation immunotherapies, hoping to benefit more cancer patients."
About IBI351/GFH925 (KRASG12C Inhibitor)
Discovered by GenFleet Therapeutics, GFH925 (Innovent R&D code: IBI351) is a novel, orally active, potent KRASG12C inhibitor designed to effectively target the GTP/GDP exchange, an essential step in pathway activation, by modifying the cysteine residue of KRASG12C protein covalently and irreversibly. Preclinical cysteine selectivity studies demonstrated high selectivity of IBI351 towards G12C. Subsequently, IBI351 effectively inhibits the downstream signal pathway to induce tumor cells' apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. In September 2021, Innovent and GenFleet Therapeutics entered into an exclusive license agreement for the development and commercialization of IBI351 in China (including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) with additional option-in rights for global development and commercialization.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop, manufacture and commercialize high-quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high-quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune disease, metabolic disorder and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 35 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic disorder, autoimmune disease and other major therapeutic areas, with 8 approved products on the market. These include: TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection), Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor), olverembatinib (BCR/ABL TKI), Cyramza® (ramucirumab) and selpercatinib. An additional 2 assets are under NMPA NDA review, 4 assets are in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and 21 more molecules are in clinical studies.
Innovent has built an international team with advanced talent in high-end biological drug development and commercialization, including many global experts. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Sanofi, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center and other international partners. Innovent strives to work with many collaborators to help advance China's biopharmaceutical industry, improve drug availability and enhance the quality of the patients' lives. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com. and www.linkedin.com/company/innovent-biologics/.
Note:
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO®, and HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection) are not approved products in the United States.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection, Innovent)
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
Pemazyre® (pemigatinib oral inhibitor, Incyte Corporation). Pemazyre® was discovered by Incyte Corporation and licensed to Innovent for development and commercialization in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
CYRAMZA® (ramucirumab, Eli Lilly). CYRAMZA® was discovered by Eli Lilly and licensed to Innovent for commercialization in Mainland China.
Selpercatinib (Eli Lilly). Selpercatinib was discovered by Eli Lilly and licensed to Innovent for commercialization in Mainland China.
Disclaimer:
1. This indication is still under clinical study, which hasn't been approved in China or the U.S.
2. Innovent does not recommend any off-label usage.
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These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections and understandings of the management of Innovent with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond Innovent's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, Innovent's competitive environment and political, economic, legal and social conditions.
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Another whale has washed up upon the beaches of Jersey.
This is one of several whales that have washed up on the Jersey Shore since the summer.
Another whale has washed up upon the beaches of Jersey.
This is one of several whales that have washed up on the Jersey Shore since the summer.
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2 killed, 4 wounded in overnight New Orleans mass shooting
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - An early morning shooting killed two 19-year-olds and wounded four others in New Orleans, according to police.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. local time Monday in the Lower 9th Ward, the New Orleans Police Department reported.
Investigators said first responders found four victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
A man and a woman, both 19, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Authorities said two 18-year-old men were taken to the hospital, and two female victims, ages 17 and 18, arrived at a hospital in a private vehicle. The extent of their injuries was not released.
Detectives are working to identify a suspect and motive.
The identities of the deceased victims will be released by the parish coroner.
Copyright 2022 WVUE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-26T14:56:19+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/12/26/2-killed-4-wounded-overnight-new-orleans-mass-shooting/ |
- Student-designed investigation will test use of biosensors for water quality monitoring
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An experiment by Genes in Space 2021 contest winner Selin Kocalar, 18, of San Jose, California, will launch today to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Commercial Resupply mission SpX-25. Kocalar, then a high school senior, won the competition by proposing a new way to detect environmental contaminants in drinking water aboard spacecraft.
Kocalar's research project tests novel biosensor technology for potential use in water quality monitoring. Biosensors are biological systems engineered to detect specific molecules, often harmful contaminants. Kocalar will validate two biosensors, each of which will produce a fluorescent signal in response to the particular target molecules they are designed to detect. This fluorescence will be visualized by an astronaut using the Genes in Space Fluorescence Viewer, a compact and easy-to-operate tool for molecular visualization.
"I am thrilled about the possibilities that Genes in Space-9 opens for us," Kocalar said. "Hopefully this investigation can inspire future synthetic biology technologies for space, such as point-of-care medical diagnostics and biosensor-embedded spacesuits."
In collecting data for Kocalar's experiment, NASA astronauts will use BioBits, a cell-free gene expression system, in space for the first time. BioBits uses DNA-encoded information to synthesize biologicals in vitro, opening up possibilities for on-demand production of therapeutics, biomaterials, and research tools aboard spacecraft.
"This is the kind of experiment we had in mind when we started Genes in Space – one that can demonstrate a technological innovation that ultimately improves life on Earth," said Boeing's Scott Copeland, a co-founder of the Genes in Space program.
Kocalar, who will enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall, won Genes in Space as a student at Leigh High School in San Jose, California. Kocalar designed her experiment with input from her sponsor, Dylan Barcelos, who himself placed as a finalist in the Genes in Space competition in 2016, and her mentor, Harvard University scientist Bess Miller.
Kocalar's experiment will build on advances made by previous winners of the Genes in Space contest, including the first instance of CRISPR gene editing in space. Genes in Space was founded in 2015 by miniPCR bio and Boeing, with additional support from the ISS U.S. National Laboratory and New England Biolabs.
Learn more: www.genesinspace.org
Media contact: Katy Martin, genesinspace@minipcr.com, 781-990-8727
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed limits for the amount of potentially harmful PFAS, otherwise known as forever chemicals, allowed in the nation’s drinking water.
The first-ever standard announced Tuesday would be legally enforceable and follows years of increasing scrutiny over health concerns that PFAS present.
Public water systems would have to monitor for the six types of forever chemicals covered by the proposed regulation and reduce them if limits are exceeded, according to the EPA. The public would also have to be notified.
Ohio has more than 1,500 public water systems across the state. The EPA has scheduled a May 4 public hearing on the proposed regulations and anticipates a final decision by the end of 2023.
Elizabeth Barlik, spokeswoman for the Cleveland Water Department, said it’s too early to tell how the proposed regulations, should they be approved, will affect operations. She said the department has tested for PFAS in Lake Erie, the source of the city’s drinking water, and in the water once it leaves the city’s treatment plant and PFAS has never been detected.
The intakes for the city’s water are three to five miles offshore.
Forever chemicals have been around for decades, emerging from the Manhattan Project and then commercialized by the chemical industry. They have been used in a variety of products over the years, from grease-repelling wrappers and stain-resistant fabrics to fire-fighting foam.
The chemicals wind up in landfills and the water supply and are present around world, including remote areas where they would have arrived on the wind. The compounds, made up primarily of carbon and fluorine, are called forever chemicals because they don’t readily decompose.
The chemicals that would be subject to the new National Primary Drinking Water Regulation limits are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as individual chemicals and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA, also known as GenX Chemicals), perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS) and perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS) as mixtures.
There’s still a lot to be learned about the health effects of PFAS on humans, but have been linked to higher cholesterol levels, an increased risk of kidney and testicular cancer, and a greater risk of high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in pregnant women.
“This action has the potential to prevent tens of thousands of PFAS-related illnesses and marks a major step toward safeguarding all our communities from these dangerous contaminants,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a prepared statement.”
Peter Krouse covers the environment for cleveland.com. Read more of his stories here.
Searching for answers to ‘forever chemicals’ - U.S. EPA heading toward regulation
Cleveland Leaders to use Egypt trip to shape community response to climate change | 2023-03-14T18:51:55+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/03/us-epa-proposes-enforceable-drinking-water-limits-for-pfas-also-known-as-forever-chemicals.html |
Good news: Personal loan interest rates plunge for 3- and 5-year loans
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The latest trends in interest rates for personal loans from the Credible marketplace, updated weekly. (iStock)
Borrowers with good credit seeking personal loans during the past seven days prequalified for rates that were higher for both 3- and 5-year loans compared to the previous seven days.
For borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender between Sep. 20 and Sep. 26:
- Rates on 3-year fixed-rate loans averaged 11.47%, down from 11.93% the previous seven days and up from 10.70% a year ago.
- Rates on 5-year fixed-rate loans averaged 15.50%, down from 15.95% the previous seven days and up from 14.35% a year ago.
Personal loans have become a popular way to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and other loans. They can also be used to cover unexpected expenses like medical bills, take care of a major purchase or fund home improvement projects.
Personal loan interest rates fell over the last seven days for both 3- and 5-year fixed-rate loans. Rates for five-year loans fell by 0.45%, while 3-year loans saw a slightly larger drop of 0.46%. Despite today's decreases, interest rates for both loan terms are significantly higher than they were this time last year. Still, borrowers can take advantage of interest savings with a 3- or 5-year personal loan right now. Both loan terms offer interest rates significantly lower than higher-cost borrowing options like credit cards.
Whether a personal loan is right for you often depends on multiple factors, including what rate you can qualify for. Comparing multiple lenders and their rates could help ensure you get the best possible personal loan for your needs.
It's always a good idea to comparison shop on sites like Credible to understand how much you qualify for and choose the best option for you.
Here are the latest trends in personal loan interest rates from the Credible marketplace, updated monthly.
Personal loan weekly rates trends
The chart above shows average prequalified rates for borrowers with credit scores of 720 or higher who used the Credible marketplace to select a lender.
For the month of August 2022:
- Rates on 3-year personal loans averaged 15.03%, up from 11.04% in July.
- Rates on 5-year personal loans averaged 16.52%, up from 13.72% in July.
Rates on personal loans vary considerably by credit score and loan term. If you're curious about what kind of personal loan rates you may qualify for, you can use an online tool like Credible to compare options from different private lenders. Checking your rates won't affect your credit score.
All Credible marketplace lenders offer fixed-rate loans at competitive rates. Because lenders use different methods to evaluate borrowers, it’s a good idea to request personal loan rates from multiple lenders so you can compare your options.
Current personal loan rates by credit score
In August, the average prequalified rate selected by borrowers was:
- 9.05% for borrowers with credit scores of 780 or above choosing a 3-year loan
- 30.84% for borrowers with credit scores below 600 choosing a 5-year loan
Depending on factors such as your credit score, which type of personal loan you’re seeking and the loan repayment term, the interest rate can differ.
As shown in the chart above, a good credit score can mean a lower interest rate, and rates tend to be higher on loans with fixed interest rates and longer repayment terms.
How to get a lower interest rate
Many factors influence the interest rate a lender might offer you on a personal loan. But you can take some steps to boost your chances of getting a lower interest rate. Here are some tactics to try.
Increase credit score
Generally, people with higher credit scores qualify for lower interest rates. Steps that can help you improve your credit score over time include:
- Pay bills on time. Payment history is the most important factor in your credit score. Pay all your bills on time for the amount due.
- Check your credit report. Look at your credit report to ensure there are no errors on it. If you find errors, dispute them with the credit bureau.
- Lower your credit utilization ratio. Paying down credit card debt can improve this important credit-scoring factor.
- Avoid opening new credit accounts. Only apply for and open credit accounts you actually need. Too many hard inquiries on your credit report in a short amount of time could lower your credit score.
Choose a shorter loan term
Personal loan repayment terms can vary from one to several years. Generally, shorter terms come with lower interest rates, since the lender’s money is at risk for a shorter period of time.
If your financial situation allows, applying for a shorter term could help you score a lower interest rate. Keep in mind the shorter term doesn’t just benefit the lender – by choosing a shorter repayment term, you’ll pay less interest over the life of the loan.
Get a cosigner
You may be familiar with the concept of a cosigner if you have student loans. If your credit isn’t good enough to qualify for the best personal loan interest rates, finding a cosigner with good credit could help you secure a lower interest rate.
Just remember, if you default on the loan, your cosigner will be on the hook to repay it. And cosigning for a loan could also affect their credit score.
Compare rates from different lenders
Before applying for a personal loan, it’s a good idea to shop around and compare offers from several different lenders to get the lowest rates. Online lenders typically offer the most competitive rates – and can be quicker to disburse your loan than a brick-and-mortar establishment.
But don’t worry, comparing rates and terms doesn’t have to be a time-consuming process.
Credible makes it easy. Just enter how much you want to borrow and you’ll be able to compare multiple lenders to choose the one that makes the most sense for you.
About Credible
Credible is a multi-lender marketplace that empowers consumers to discover financial products that are the best fit for their unique circumstances. Credible’s integrations with leading lenders and credit bureaus allow consumers to quickly compare accurate, personalized loan options – without putting their personal information at risk or affecting their credit score. The Credible marketplace provides an unrivaled customer experience, as reflected by over 4,500 positive Trustpilot reviews and a TrustScore of 4.7/5. | 2022-09-27T23:30:13+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/money/personal-loan-rates-september-27-2022 |
(NEXSTAR) – Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is the undisputed champion when it comes to Christmas songs, but it may also pose some legal trouble for the singer. A songwriter, who says he co-wrote a song with the same title in 1989, is accusing her of copyright infringement.
Last week, Andy Stone filed a complaint in New Orleans federal court against Carey, her co-writer Walter Afanasieff, and Sony Music Entertainment. Stone is asking for at least $20 million in damages for copyright infringement, misappropriation, and additional claims, Reuters reports.
According to Stone – better known as Vince Vance in the band Vince Vance & the Valiants – the song he wrote was played “extensively” in late 1993 and appeared on Billboard charts. He has accused the defendants of illegally exploiting his style and causing confusion with their song.
Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” has topped the Billboard charts every year since 2019. As of 2017, the song had reportedly netted Carey more than $60 million, according to BBC.
In her memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah,” the singer says she composed most of “All I Want for Christmas is You” while using a “cheap little Casio keyboard.” With over 10 million sales and streaming units in the U.S., it is the first and only holiday song to be certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The fact that the songs share the same title is the basis for Stone’s copyright claim, according to Rolling Stone. He doesn’t argue that they sound alike – Carey’s has different lyrics and melodies than Stone’s song. Instead, Stone argues he has the copyright on any works with the title “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
There are other works bearing the title “All I Want for Christmas is You,” including multiple TV episodes and an animated film starring Carey herself. The United States Copyright Office shows there are 177 works sharing the same title. Song titles aren’t entitled to copyright protection in the U.S.
Stone’s lawyers explain in the lawsuit that they first contacted Carey, Afanasieff, and Sony last spring but were “unable to come to any agreement.”
Neither Stone’s legal team nor the defendants have responded to Nexstar’s request for comment on the lawsuit. | 2022-06-06T19:22:31+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/mariah-carey-sued-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you/ |
Olive Oil isn't as slim as the win Pekin chalked up in tripping Champaign Central 40-38 in an Illinois boys basketball matchup on December 3.
You're reading a news brief powered by ScoreStream, a world leader in fan-driven sports results and conversation. Help us collect and deliver more game results from your favorite teams and players by downloading the ScoreStream app. Nearly a million users nationwide share team scores and player performance stats with this convenient free app. | 2022-12-04T04:24:15+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/sports/high-school/basketball/boys/pekin-claims-close-encounter-of-the-winning-kind-over-champaign-central-40-38/article_756e728e-5f40-544f-9625-8fd266a4d8fb.html |
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global logistics service provider J&T Express announces the expansion of two sorting centres in Indonesia to meet growing local business demand and upgrade work environment for employees, along with a free shipping campaign for customers, in celebration of the company's seventh anniversary in the country.
Since its launch in Indonesia in August 2015, J&T Express has grown quickly to own a global network covering 13 countries across the globe, providing customers with integrated logistics solutions through intelligent infrastructure and digital logistics network.
Charles Hou, Group Vice President of J&T Express, said, "Indonesia is where we started. It is where we delivered our first parcel and made our first step in the global journey. I'm very proud for what we have achieved over the years, yet I am more grateful for the tremendous support of all the delivery men and women, our staff, our business partners and our customers. Like the nature of our business, our success is a relay. It is only made possible by the effort of every single person along the way.
To better serve the growing local market and provide better working environment for its employees, J&T Express is expanding and optimizing 70th and 71th sorting centres, respectively in East Java and Kalimantan, the areas with high business volumes, according to Robin Lo, CEO of J&T Express Indonesia.
To meet the rising demand of delivery services, the two upgraded sorting warehouses in the city of Madiun and Banjarmasin each covers an area of about 20,000 square meters with a building area of more than 12,000 square meters. Starting operation in November and December, respectively, the sorting centres' processing volume are expected to double with the use of automatic sorting machines in the future.
Meanwhile, J&T Express has launched the "Stop Bayar Ongkir" (Stop Pay Shipping Fee) program on August 20 as part of the anniversary celebration to show gratitude to its customers in Indonesia. The terms and conditions of the "Stop Bayar Ongkir" program can be accessed through the Indonesia official website at www.jet.co.id.
Robin Lo said, "This is one of the few times we have held a delivery fee promotion for customers, although with a different scale. We noticed that delivery services have now become a necessity for the communities. For this reason, on this occasion, we launched a 100% free delivery program as a form of appreciation to our customers who have supported J&T Express over the last seven years and contributed to building J&T into a major delivery service provider in Indonesia."
J&T Express also celebrated its fourth anniversary in Vietnam and Malaysia in July and August, respectively, launching similar programs to show appreciation for customer support.
About J&T Express
J&T Express is a global logistics service provider with leading express delivery businesses in Southeast Asia and China, the largest and fastest-growing market in the world. Founded in 2015, J&T Express' network spans thirteen countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt. Adhering to its "customer-oriented and efficiency-based" mission, J&T Express is committed to providing customers with integrated logistics solutions through intelligent infrastructure and digital logistics network, as part of its global strategy to connect the world with greater efficiency and bring logistical benefits to all.
Group official website: www.jtexpress.com
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ARDEN, N.C. (WNCN) — A group in the North Carolina mountains has taken in nearly a dozen kittens rescued from a shelter in Florida that was hit by Hurricane Ian.
The 11 kittens were rescued from a shelter in Manatee County, Florida, after Ian hit, causing destruction over much of Florida.
The kittens arrived early Thursday morning at the Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance in Arden, which is located a couple of miles south of Asheville.
The kittens were dehydrated, emaciated, and full of parasites when they arrived.
“Many of them are in pretty rough shape, but our team is already hard at work making sure they get all the medical care and nutritious food they need to get on track,” the group wrote on Facebook.
The kitten alliance, formed three years ago, has staffers that are familiar with caring for very young cats, according to Andee Bingham, executive director of the Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance.
The problems with the kittens include hair loss possibly from ringworm and respiratory infections. Some of the kittens from Florida are also underweight.
Friday, the alliance said the kittens are improving.
“All 11 of the small kittens who came to us yesterday morning from hurricane-struck Florida are doing well!,” the group said on Facebook. “The three very sick ones are receiving lots of medical care to help them feel better, and the one with weakness in her back legs has begun physical therapy.”
It could be about six weeks before the kittens are healthy enough and old enough for people to adopt them.
Click here to donate to the kitten alliance to help them get the kittens ready for adoption. | 2022-10-08T07:52:39+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/animals/group-in-nc-mountains-helping-11-kittens-in-rough-shape-rescued-after-hurricane-ian-in-florida/ |
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Abby Meyers scored 13 of her 22 points in the first quarter to help Maryland get off to a quick start and the No. 13 Terrapins defeated Rutgers 78-67 on Monday.
Kaylene Smikle scored scored 29 points and grabbed nine rebounds, both season bests for the freshman, to lead Rutgers (6-10, 0-4). Kassondra Brown added 12 points and Chyna Cornwell had 13 rebounds to go with eight points.
The Scarlet Knights had 22 turnovers that were turned into 23 points but they closed the game on a 12-0 run.
Meyers set the tone early, opening the scoring with a pair of 3-pointers. She made 5 of 7 shots with three triples and a pair of 8-0 runs helped the Terrapins lead 24-9 after one quarter.
Elisa Pinzane hit a 3-pointer to open the second quarter to make it an 18-point lead but Smikle had 11 points to lead Rutgers back. It was 40-33 at the half as a Smikle layup capped a 7-0 run.
Smikle opened the second half with a basket but Miller had two layups, Sellers had a three-point play and Meyers another 3-pointer and the lead was quickly back to 50-35. Maryland outscored the Scarlet Knights 27-11 to take a 67-44 lead into the fourth quarter.
Maryland home against Michigan State on Saturday when Nebraska visits Rutgers.
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AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-01-02T22:25:25+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/meyers-has-22-no-13-maryland-women-top-rutgers-78-67/2023/01/02/6a06511e-8ae2-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla said Monday that sold a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, but the number fell short of CEO Elon Musk’s pledge to grow the company’s sales by 50% nearly every year.
The 2022 figure topped the prior record of 936,000 vehicles delivered in 2021, but it was shy of the 1.4 million needed to reach the company’s 50% growth target. Sales grew 40% year over year, while production climbed 47% to 1.37 million.
The shortfall came despite a major year-end sales push that included rare $7,500 discounts in the U.S. on the Models Y and 3, the company’s top-selling models.
Tesla Inc., which is based in Austin, Texas, also had to deal with rising cases of the novel coronavirus in China, which cut into production at its Shanghai factory.
With the extra U.S. push, Tesla delivered more than 405,000 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter. But that missed Wall Street projections. Analysts polled by data provider FactSet expected 427,000 deliveries from October through December and 1.33 million for the full year.
“Thank you to all of our customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and supporters who helped us achieve a great 2022 in light of significant COVID and supply chain related challenges throughout the year,” the electric vehicle and solar panel company said Monday.
Tesla didn’t roll out any new models last year, and it’s facing increasing competition from legacy automakers and startups such as Lucid and Rivian, which are continually introducing new electric vehicles.
But Musk has promised to start producing the long-awaited Cybertruck electric pickup this year. The company also has started delivering its electric semis.
The discounts, offered during the last two weeks of the year, raised questions about whether demand was softening for Tesla products as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to combat inflation.
That, coupled with Musk’s behavior after his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, helped to push Tesla shares down more than 65% last year, bumping Musk out of the top spot for the world’s wealthiest person, according to Forbes.
The company’s stock decline for the year, its worst ever, was more than triple the drop in the S&P 500, which was down 19.4%.
Musk wrote on Twitter Dec. 30 that the company’s long-term fundamentals are strong, but “short-term market madness” is unpredictable.
Some investors are worried that Twitter has distracted Musk from the car company. Musk said last month that he plans to remain as Twitter’s CEO until he can find someone willing to replace him in the job. | 2023-01-02T19:15:28+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/ap-tesla-says-it-sold-a-record-1-3-million-vehicles-last-year/ |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is pushing back hard against Republican efforts to cast him as an advocate of gender reassignment surgery for minors, saying his detractors have misrepresented his position and invoking his Christian faith and support for parental rights to explain why he vetoed a measure that banned gender-affirming care for children.
Beshear, a Democrat seeking a second term in a race that could test the political potency of Republican messaging on transgender issues, said in an interview that he has always opposed gender reassignment surgery for children.
“My position on this has always been clear,” Beshear said. “I have never supported gender reassignment surgery for minors, and they don’t happen in Kentucky.”
It’s a direct response to what he says is a patently false Republican narrative that suggested he supports such surgeries. The Courier Journal has reported there is no record of such surgeries for minors happening in Kentucky.
The GOP attacks, coming from groups backing Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron and from the candidate himself, were meant to cut into Beshear’s popularity in the conservative-leaning Bluegrass State.
Kentucky’s showdown for governor is one of the most closely watched campaigns this year and could provide insight about voter sentiment heading into 2024 elections for the White House and Congress.
A new ad released Monday by the Beshear campaign doubles down on his previous statements opposing the surgeries for minors and his campaign’s denunciation of the GOP attack. And it reflects the governor’s determination to not cede so-called family values issues to Cameron, the state’s attorney general.
Looking into the camera, Beshear invokes his Christian faith and support for parental rights to counter the drumbeat of GOP criticism he’s faced in the months since he vetoed a sweeping transgender bill that included a ban on gender-affirming care for young transgender people. The veto was overridden by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature.
“My faith guides me as governor and as a dad,” Beshear says in the ad. “I’m a deacon in my church and I believe that all children are children of God.”
In vetoing the bill, the governor said it allowed “too much government interference in personal healthcare issues and rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children.” The measure prevents trans youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
“When I took office, I vowed to support parents, because as parents, we know what’s best for our kids, not politicians in Frankfort or Washington,” Beshear says in the ad.
Tucked into the legislation was a ban on gender reassignment surgery for minors. Republican groups have used Beshear’s veto as an opening to unleash the campaign attack on Beshear. In recent comments to news media outlets, the Republican Governors Association said: “If Andy Beshear doesn’t support sex change surgery for minors he should have signed the bill that would ban sex change surgery for minors, plain and simple.”
The Fairness Campaign, a Kentucky-based LGBTQ+ advocacy group, has never promoted such surgeries for minors, said Chris Hartman, the group’s executive director.
Hartman called the Republican attack on Beshear a “gross mischaracterization” of the governor’s position.
The transgender health care legislation in Kentucky was part of a national movement, with at least 20 states having enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Most of those states face lawsuits.
Those who oppose gender-affirming care raise fears about the long-term effects treatments have on teens, argue research is limited and focus particularly on irreversible procedures such as genital surgery or mastectomies. Yet those are rare. Doctors typically guide kids toward therapy or voice coaching long before medical intervention. At that point, puberty blockers, anti-androgens that block the effects of testosterone, and hormone treatments are far more common than surgery. They have been available in the United States for more than a decade and are standard treatments backed by major doctors’ organizations.
Beshear’s decision to take on the GOP-driven transgender issue represents a new twist in ad strategy. He’s focused on touting the state’s surging economy — including record-setting economic development and historically low unemployment rates — messages that remain the central theme of his campaign.
Cameron, meanwhile, has played up social issues in his bid to unseat Beshear in November, accusing the governor of having “emboldened a radical gender ideology.” In a tweet last month, the Republican nominee echoed the barrage of transgender-related attacks against the governor, saying Beshear and his allies “believe kids should have access to sex change surgery and drugs.”
Cameron also has hammered away at Beshear’s veto of a bill last year to ban transgender girls and women from participating in school sports matching their gender identity. That veto also was overridden.
“Andy Beshear could not be further from your values than anything,” Cameron said in a recent speech.
Beshear accuses his Republican challenger of trying to stoke divisions with such talk.
“I think we’re better than that, and my faith teaches me that we’re supposed to love each other as ourselves, and there’s no exceptions,” the governor said in the interview. “I think people out there are tired of division, are tired of groups of people yelling at each other, and just want to support a candidate or want a government that tries to focus on things that are good for everyone.” | 2023-07-24T13:12:52+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-democratic-governor-pushes-back-against-transgender-related-attacks-by-gop-in-kentucky-campaign/ |
When she was 21 years old, Penny Wolin checked into a residential hotel in the heart of Hollywood.
The year was 1975 and the building was the St. Francis Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard — the same strip where movie legends have long immortalized their hand and footprints in wet cement.
The St. Francis was built in 1926, during the heyday of silent films, a place abuzz with the glitz and glamor of old Hollywood. But half a century later when Wolin arrived, the St. Francis was a very different place.
Its rooms were filled with people who felt like they didn't quite fit anywhere else. People whose dreams, as she put it, were bigger than their rooms.
"People stayed there either for the night or 30 years — and anywhere in between," Wolin told NPR.
So she got out a camera and single strobe light and a tape recorder, and for the next three weeks of her time there, Wolin strove to connect with the people who formed the community at the St. Francis, one by one.
Wolin grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and remembers a time when she was a child and her dad would take her to the part of town that had residential hotels. He would always hold her hand a little tighter, she says, and that got her to wondering: Who lives in these buildings?
When she arrived at the St. Francis, she began to understand.
"It was people that needed a place to be, whether they were on their way up, or maybe on their way down," Wolin says.
Nearly 50 years since her stay, Wolin's photographs and the stories she heard have been turned into a book, Guest Register. Included are photos of everything from an American man in his 70s and his new French-born girlfriend, to the empty room that had belonged to a stuntman until he died the night before Wolin was due to photograph him.
Then there was the plumber-electrician who loved to wear lace.
"I would see this fellow that would leave in the morning, and he was a muscular plumber," Wolin recalls. "And then he would come back at the end of the day and go to his room and then another kind of person would emerge, which was a beautiful woman in a lace dress and high heels, and it was him. And he would leave."
As Wolin writes the book, he was well liked and respected by all who got to know him. So she wanted to know him, too.
Wolin also fondly remembers the orphan brothers from Nebraska, who had managed to stay together since ages three and five, and were now out exploring the world as young adults.
"It just warmed my heart," Wolin says. "They were just these great guys from Nebraska that said, 'Let's go to Hollywood.'"
For many of the residents of St. Francis, it was the myth of Hollywood that drew them to the city. Wolin says that idea is alive and well, and can still hold true. She describes Hollywood not just as a geographical location, but an existential place.
"And you can make something for yourself," she says. "You can become a photographer, a musician, all these things that you want to be, there's hope that you can be them. So Hollywood is built on hope."
St. Francis itself meant different things to different people, Wolin says. Like the woman who lived with her boyfriend and worked at Arby's and kept an immaculately clean room.
"So, for her, it's a place to stay for a short period of time," Wolin says. "[But] the fellow in the penthouse that had been there for probably decades, he understood the dynamics of where he was and had become comfortable with it. It was home, there was a home for people."
Then there was the man in room 540, who left Wolin a handwritten note that simply said: "There is a room for you here." It was a note that would sustain her for years to come.
"It became the mantra that no matter how bad things can be in the journey of finding your path ... if this is as bad as it gets, it's not so bad," Wolin says. "If there was room here for me, at the existential hotel, well, then I have a place to be in the world and people will look after me."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-18T11:47:33+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/npr-top-stories/2022-09-18/the-allure-of-hollywood-comes-to-life-through-the-residents-of-the-st-francis-hotel |
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the Wimbledon finals, a series of scandals at Northwestern University and the FIFA women's world cup.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the Wimbledon finals, a series of scandals at Northwestern University and the FIFA women's world cup.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-15T13:01:36+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/sports/sports/2023-07-15/saturday-sports-wimbledon-finals-northwestern-university-scandal-fifa-womens-world-cup |
WARSAW – A 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada was arrested at Warsaw airport on suspicion of illegal possession of heroin worth over $515,000, officials in Poland said Friday.
Customs officers at Frederic Chopin Airport decided to check the woman's luggage Sunday after becoming suspicious of her itinerary and her uneasy behavior. Packages with 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of heroin were discovered under a false suitcase bottom.
The woman, traveling from Malawi and Kenya through Doha and Warsaw, denied any wrongdoing and said family members had given her the suitcase with gifts for relatives in Canada, according to Aleksandra Skrzyniarz, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Warsaw.
She was detained for three months and prosecutors have opened an investigation. Under Polish law, she faces up to 15 years in prison for illegal possession of narcotics.
Denmark officials confirmed that a Danish citizen was detained in Poland and said the ministry is “providing consular assistance.” | 2022-08-19T17:47:21+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/weird-news/2022/08/19/poland-nabs-octogenarian-with-5-kilos-of-heroin-in-suitcase/ |
This Rhode Island team has reached the Final Four, but it's not who you think it is
PROVIDENCE — Of all the in-state college basketball teams, one that’s flown under the proverbial radar is the Rhode Island College women’s team.
For the first time in the 46-year history of the program, the Anchorwomen have qualified for the NCAA Division III Final Four. Yet the Anchorwomen are familiar with NCAA Tournaments since this is the sixth time in program history that they’ve made this trip.
“I’d be lying if I said ‘yes’ because I didn’t envision this,” coach Jenna Cosgrove said. “I don’t think anything that happened was an accident.
"The goal this year was to win a first-round NCAA game and last year we fell short.”
More:Here are the 5 wins that got Providence basketball into the NCAA Tournament
The Anchorwomen already have vanquished Rowan, Scranton, Chicago and Babson en route to a semifinal game against Christopher Newport at 5 p.m. Saturday at Trinity College in Hartford.
Just as impressive is that RIC won a program-record 28 games and lost only three. Cosgrove, who is in her sixth season as the head coach, has had some outstanding teams. But the 2022-23 team stands out above the others.
“This team is really special in terms of how deep we are and that we practice really hard every day,” Cosgrove said. “We have an unselfish group.
“One thing that has been a key this year is we don’t have one super star. We have five people on the court who share the ball. On any given night, anyone can step up for us. That makes us hard to scout.”
Good point considering only two Anchorwomen are scoring in double figures: Newport’s Izabelle Booth (12.2 points per game) and Angelina Nardolillo (11.5 ppg).
More:Rhode Island women's basketball selected to WNIT; here's who Rams will play
“It feels great,” said Madison Medbury, a sophomore guard from Scituate who was a three-time All-State selection and a four-time All-Division honoree while playing for Scituate High. “We’re having the most fun at this point of the season and it’s great still to be playing.”
Since the Anchorwomen are “only” two wins away from a national championship, Medbury has put any thoughts of what might happen well in the rearview mirror.
“Honestly, we take it one game at a time,” she said. “I don’t find it difficult to focus on it because [the game against Christopher Newport] is all I’ve been thinking about this past week.”
While the Anchorwomen average a modest 65.7 points per game, arguably the hallmark of this team is its defense. Through 31 games, RIC is allowing an average of only 51 points per game. Christopher Newport, which plays in the New Jersey Athletic Conference, compiled a 30-0 record and averaged 85.1 points per game.
“Defense is always what we preach,” Cosgrove said. “This team has completely bought into defense better than any team I’ve ever coached.
“After we came back from Scranton [a 62-55 victory in a second-round game], we were 15th in the nation in scoring defense and sixth in the country in rebounding margin [plus 12.5].”
Medbury is one of the keys to the Anchorwomen’s defense, since she was voted to the Little East Conference’s All-Defensive Team.
More:How has Providence basketball fared in the NCAA tournament? Here's PC's top-5 performances
That’s noteworthy considering she scored more than 1,000 points in her career while playing for the Spartans.
“Since I’ve been a kid, all the coaches I’ve played for have preached defense first,” Medbury said. “So, it’s been ingrained into what I am as a player.”
The story within the story of the team’s school-record 28 victories is that it was 13-2 on the road. At the Final Four, the Anchorwomen won’t be playing within the friendly confines of the Murray Center.
“I just don’t think this team has let anything faze it,” Cosgrove said. “This team has bonded together and road trips have allowed our team to do this.
“We’re playing our best basketball and these ladies are having fun together.”
What could be more fun than dominating the Little East Conference?
The Anchorwomen have won three consecutive regular-season and tournament championships. That prompts the question: What is more difficult — annexing that initial championship or retaining it?
“I think they are both difficult,” Cosgrove said. “That’s a credit to our athletic department by allowing us to play during COVID [the 2020-2021 season]. Most schools shut down during COVID.
“We played 11 games and it helps prepare us mentally and physically.”
Besides Booth — who was voted First-Team All-Region 2 by D3hoops.com; First-Team All-Little East; and Second-Team All-New England by the New England Women’s Basketball Association — and Medbury, two other Rhode Island natives have made significant contributions to the team — Johnston’s Antonia Corsinetti (82% free-throw shooting) and Glocester’s McKenzie Field.
“When I took this job, I wanted to get the best players from Rhode Island,” said Cosgrove, who was voted the Region 2 Coach of the Year. “They play a real crucial part. It definitely is a big factor in having the Rhode Island kids on our team.”
Medbury didn’t hesitate when discussing reasons why Cosgrove has molded the Anchorwomen into a Final Four team.
“I think her toughness and balance has helped us because she doesn’t take it lightly on us in practice,” Medbury said. “She knows how to deal with us during the times when there have been lows.”
To date, “lows” have been at a minimum. | 2023-03-17T12:07:05+00:00 | providencejournal.com | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/sports/college/2023/03/17/ric-womens-basketball-team-reaches-ncaa-division-3-final-four/70005158007/ |
A few years ago, kids and parents walked into iT’Z to get their entertainment fix.
Children could bowl or play arcade games. Parents and guardians, if they needed a few minutes away from the kids, could go have a beer — or two. That was, of course, before iT’Z shut down in April 2016.
Now, seven years later, this building houses the new commissary for Dion’s. At 53,000 square feet, Dion’s uses the space for producing and packaging its ranch, baked goods and sandwich baguettes. It’s also a warehouse of sorts, storing the needed products to outfit the 27 Dion’s stores spread across New Mexico, Colorado and Texas.
Known as the Peter DeFries Corp. Commissary and Bakery, a nod to the founders of Dion’s, the facility opened for business earlier this year.
“This is (the place) where some of the magic happens,” Dion’s CEO Mark Herman told the Journal. “We’re well known for our dressings — especially our ranch, green chile ranch and Greek — and this is where all of those millions of cups … are born.”
The move to the new facility, which was completed in February, was years in the works, Herman said.
The company purchased the property in early 2021 from Goodman Realty Group. Dion’s has spent north of $10 million on the purchase and renovation of the facility, as well as some upgrades to equipment. The goal is to eventually add a restaurant in an unused parcel of land near the facility.
Scott Goodman, the president of Goodman Realty Group, said his company received many offers for the property, but went with Dion’s.
“Dion’s is a staple in our community,” Goodman said. “(This is a product of) local businesses helping local businesses.”
Herman said the new space makes it easier to accommodate the recent growth of the pizza chain, which has gained a cult-like following among New Mexicans.
In recent years, Dion’s has opened locations across New Mexico — and expanded into neighboring states.
“Our business has grown in the last five years with additions of stores in New Mexico and in Colorado,” Herman said. “And so that extra business (meant) we were cramped for space at the old facility.”
The new space by no means is tight.
The facility is nearly 15,000 square feet larger. The ceiling is 23-feet high in the facility, taller than the previous commissary Dion’s occupied — which allows for more space for stacking and storage. Rows of products line the facility. Chilled rooms sit on the south side of the commissary, some used to store meats, cheeses and other products.
Production hubs line the north end of the facility where some of the most sought after products, such as the ranch, are produced and packaged.
A baking team rolls baguettes in a 66F room — about 4,100 per day. A large silo filled with flour, used in baking the brownies, cookies and baguettes sold at Dion’s restaurants, sits on the far northwest end.
Dion’s produces about 4.5 million cups of ranch and 1.5 million baguettes each year, as well as fruit cups, brownies and cookies. Some rooms feature modern upgrades for food safety, like a new-to-the-market anti-microbial plastic that helps keep “viruses or microbial agents from coming in here,” Herman said.
All these upgrades and extra space are key in any future expansion.
“It’s more efficient,” Herman said. “We can more than double the number of stores someday and keep this facility.” | 2023-04-22T00:23:14+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2592632/new-space-for-dions.html |
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally set the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14 — a month earlier than scheduled despite the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake that killed some 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
The elections could be the country’s most significant ones in decades. Erdogan is seeking to extend his two decades in power, and the voting will determine whether Turkey continues on the increasingly authoritarian course set by the strongman politician.
Erdogan has ruled over Turkey since 2003, first as prime minister and as president since 2014. The upcoming elections could present him with his stiffest electoral challenges.
Turkey is struggling with a troubled economy, soaring inflation and the aftermath of the Feb. 6 earthquake, which left hundreds of thousands of people across 11 Turkish provinces sheltering in tents or temporary accommodation.
Erdogan on Friday raised his country’s death toll from the earthquake to more than 47,000.
Many have criticized his government’s response to the earthquake and accuse it of failing to prepare the earthquake-prone country for a disaster in waiting.
Experts have pointed at lax enforcement of building codes as a major reason why the earthquake was so deadly.
Earlier this week, Turkey’s disparate opposition parties, including nationalists, Islamists and conservatives, ended month of uncertainty that had frustrated supporters of the anti-Erdogan bloc and nominated a joint candidate to run against Erdogan.
The six opposition parties, which have pledged to roll back the erosion of rights and freedoms, united behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the 74-year-old leader of the center-left, secularist Republican People’s Party, or CHP.
“May our decision to renew the elections be beneficial for our country, our nation, the Turkish Grand National Assembly and our political parties,” Erdogan said after putting his signature on a decision confirming the election date, which was then published in the Official Gazette.
The Supreme Electoral Council will now determine the electoral calendar. A runoff presidential election would be held on May 28 if none of the candidates secure more than 50% of the vote.
The presidential and parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held on June 18, but the government moved them forward to avoid coinciding with the Hajj pilgrimage, a university entrance exam and the start of the summer vacation season.
Erdogan has signaled that he will base his electoral campaign on the reconstruction of the earthquake-devastated provinces, trying to convince voters that only his government — which was behind a construction boom that helped drive economic growth — can rebuild lives.
“We are starting the election calendar even as we are focusing all of our attention on healing the wounds caused by the earthquake, rebuilding and restoring our cities and ensuring that our people obtain homes as soon as possible,” Erdogan said.
“We need to implement a program that will heal the wounds of an unprecedented destruction in an unprecedented speed,” he said. “The only way to overcome the direct and indirect effects of the earthquake and normalize the situation in the region and our country as soon as possible is through the implementation of decisions by a strong political will.”
The Turkish leader has conceded shortfalls in his government’s response in the early stages of earthquake, but said that rescue efforts were hampered by winter weather and the destruction of infrastructure. He has promised to rebuild tens of thousands of homes within the year.
The six-party opposition, known as the Nation Alliance, has vowed to restore a parliamentary democracy in Turkey should they dislodge Erdogan, abolishing the presidential system that he introduced. Opponents say the system, which was narrowly approved in a 2017 referendum and was installed following elections in 2018, has amounted to “one-man rule” without checks and balances.
In addition to Kilicdaroglu’s CHP, the opposition alliance is made of Meral Aksener’s nationalist Good Party; Temel Karamollaoglu’s conservative Felicity Party; Gultekin Uysal’s Democrat Party; The Democracy and Progress Party led by Ali Babacan; and Future Party chaired by Ahmet Davutoglu.
Turkey’s second-largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, has signaled it is prepared to talk to the opposition alliance about extending its support to Kilicdaroglu. | 2023-03-11T05:16:15+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/erdogan-sets-turkey-election-date-for-may-14/ |
UAE announces plans to invest $54B in energy and triple renewable sources
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates plans to triple its supply of renewable energy and invest up to $54 billion over the next seven years to meet its growing energy demands. The plans also include investments in low-emission hydrogen fuel and developing infrastructure for electric vehicles. The UAE’s vice president announced the plans on Monday following a Cabinet meeting. The major oil-producing nation has pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2050, without fully explaining how, and is hosting the COP28 climate summit later this year. | 2023-07-04T19:45:31+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/04/uae-announces-plans-to-invest-54b-in-energy-and-triple-renewable-sources/ |
Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court made it easier Monday for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.
The justices ruled 5-4 that trial judges who are asked to resentence inmates may look at a wide range of factors, including some that have nothing to do with crack cocaine offenses that had produced longer stints in prison, disproportionately for people of color.
The high court settled a disagreement among the nation’s appellate courts over what judges should do in these cases.
The case before the justices involved Carlos Concepcion, who is serving a 19-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to possessing at least five grams of crack cocaine with an intent to distribute.
But the length of Concepcion’s prison term really was determined by previous state court convictions that made him a career offender under federal law.
In 2019, Concepcion asked for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act that President Donald Trump signed into law a year earlier. Concepcion argued that the law made him eligible for a shorter term, but he also pointed to his earlier convictions, one of which had been thrown out and others of which were no longer considered violent crimes under intervening Supreme Court decisions.
Still, the judge refused to consider changes to his sentence.
“The District Court in this case declined to consider petitioner Carlos Concepcion’s arguments that intervening changes of law and fact supported his motion, erroneously believing that it did not have the discretion to do so,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her opinion for the court.
An unusual group of justices joined her, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-27T14:50:09+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/06/27/supreme-court-rules-inmates-seeking-reduced-prison-terms/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Farmers markets gave people something they desperately sought during the pandemic: A place to shop outdoors, and at the same time support smaller, often local businesses.
The markets are now building on that goodwill as the customers that became regulars and the vendors who set up shop in 2021 and 2022 return for the new season. Back in 2020, the markets were deemed non-essential and had been forced to close. Small vendors ranging from farm stands to dog treat makers say the markets offer them access to customers and a connection to the community.
Taylor Choy, operations manager at Green City Market in Chicago, said the Green City Saturday market used to bring in 5,000 to 10,000 shoppers pre-pandemic. Now that figure is 8,000 to 15,000. Green City is one of nearly 7,000 farmers markets listed in the USDA local food directory, up from about an estimated 2,000 in 1994, per the the Farmers Market Coalition.
Some shoppers shy away from farmers market vendors because prices are typically higher than those at grocery stores due to the labor and small scale involved, even though most farmers markets accept food assistance vouchers. But the inflation of the past two years has brought about a shift.
Prices for some typically cheap staple items in grocery stores rose sharply due to high inflation and various issues. For instance, egg prices rose partly due to avian flu and toward the end of last year the cost of a dozen had doubled from 12 months earlier. Bread and flour prices rose partly because of the Ukraine crisis.
“The benefit to shopping at a farmers market is that it’s directly from the farm and so they’re not going to see the same type of supply chain issues (grocery stores have),” Choy said. “In fact, I’ve seen the cost of eggs at a grocery store increase, but then our price of our eggs at our market stayed the same.”
A farmers market can also be a showroom for prospective restaurant clients. Zaid Kurdieh owns Norwich Meadows Farm in Norwich, New York, and is a vendor at the GrowNYC farmers market in Union Square in Manhattan. He said the most valuable aspect of the market is getting to know the chefs and restaurant owners that scour the market for farm-fresh produce.
Kurdieh said his farm tries to grow “everything you could possibly grow in our region,” which ranges from “asparagus to zucchini and everything in between.” Restaurant clients make up about 50% of his business.
“We have a lot of relations with a lot of different people, and that is because of the farmers market,” he said. “Without this showcase, if you will, our showroom here, we wouldn’t be able to do some of the things that we do.”
Other vendors, many offering goods that go beyond traditional farm table stands, have sprouted up since the pandemic, either because their jobs dried up and they needed a new occupation or the pandemic caused them to reassess their priorities.
Kat Levitt, who worked in the food industry, is one of those vendors at Green City Market in Chicago. She worked in marketing for chefs and restaurants until the pandemic hit and the industry basically shut down. She realized she could use her relationships with farms to make single-ingredient, dehydrated cat and dog treats, everything from ‘pup prosciutto’ and lambs’ lungs to dehydrated fruits and vegetables under the name Treats de Cuisine.
Levitt opened a storefront, but also opened a stall at Green City Market this year to grow her customer base. The market is dog-friendly, with up to 900 dogs coming through the market on a single Saturday. So, her business has been a hit and she’s looking to expand her presence from one tent at the market to two. About 40% of her sales come from the market.
“It’s helping my company grow even further,” she said. “It is tremendously impacting how many more customers I’m reaching and the different neighborhoods I’m reaching now.”
That’s also true for Tiffany Lewis, who started her cookie company Cookies with Tiffany during the pandemic and has been a vendor at five Seattle-area farmers markets for three years.
“We get in front of a lot of customers that might not have heard about us otherwise,” she said. “Customers at farmers markets tend to be there because they want to support local artisans and are willing to pay the price for excellence.”
While markets can be a good showcase for vendors, they have their drawbacks too. For one, they’re dependent on the weather. Even though a market may be open “rain or shine,” bad weather tends to drive away customers.
“The weather plays a major role in your sales for the day,” said Ali Washington, who is market manager for two downtown Atlanta markets. “If it rains, snows, or whatever you can possibly miss a full day’s worth of sales.”
Washington, who is also a market vendor with her loose-leaf tea company Soul Food Holistic Healing, said there’s a physical impact as well, from setting up and breaking down vendor booths.
“It takes a lot to have a nice display and to do the setup multiple times a week can take a toll on your body over time,” she said.
For Mark Luff, who operates organic vegetable farm Flatwater Farms in Buchanan, Michigan, and also sells at Green City Market, the cost and logistics can be problematic too since the market is nearly 100 miles from the farm. He estimates it costs him $600 just to get to the market.
Still, reaching the farmers market crowds is worth the effort, according to Luff. You can test out new products – Luff is selling hops water, a carbonated non-alcoholic drink, for the first time this season – and establish a regular customer base.
“The relationships we have already formed there and the sales trajectory that it has put us on are vital to the business,” he said.
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This story has been updated with the correct spelling of Green City Market’s Taylor Choy’s last name. | 2023-06-27T17:49:26+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/business/ap-business/farmers-markets-thrive-as-customers-and-vendors-who-latched-on-during-the-pandemic-remain-loyal/ |
The Republican and Conservative parties have both endorsed Joe Sempolinski for the August 23rd Special Election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
This election will be to finish the current Congressional term vacated by Tom Reed and will take place in the district as it has been configured for the last 10 years.
The Democratic party has endorsed Max Della Pia to run in the special election.
Whoever is elected will take office almost immediately and serve until January 3, 2023.
Sempolinski first declared his candidacy for Congress last July 2021. He is the current Chairman of the Steuben County Republican Committee. He is also a former senior Congressional staffer. He lives with his wife and daughters in Canisteo. | 2022-06-13T14:54:28+00:00 | wrfalp.com | https://www.wrfalp.com/republican-conservative-parties-endorse-sempolinski-in-special-election/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
2-2-4-7, WB: 4
(two, two, four, seven; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Night" game were:
2-2-4-7, WB: 4
(two, two, four, seven; WB: four) | 2022-07-03T04:32:13+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Night-game-17281815.php |
Top Dermatologist-Recommended Skincare Brand in the U.S. Reinforces Commitment to Innovative, Efficacious Products with New Launches that Help Customize Skincare Routines
NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CeraVe, the #1 dermatologist recommended skincare brand in the United States1, is introducing three new products to its growing portfolio of effective skincare solutions this month: Comforting Eye Makeup Remover, Makeup Removing Cleanser Balm and Skin Renewing Eye Cream. As with all CeraVe products, each product was developed with dermatologists and is formulated with three essential ceramides – 1, 3 and 6-II – to restore and maintain the natural protective skin barrier.
As a brand dedicated to providing therapeutic skincare for all, CeraVe is continuously innovating and expanding its lineup of efficacious products with a range of uses and benefits to meet users' ever-evolving skin needs.
- Comforting Eye Makeup Remover: This bi-phase water and oil makeup remover gently removes dirt and stubborn eye makeup, including long wear eye makeup and waterproof mascara, leaving skin feeling clean, comforted and refreshed, without any greasy residue left behind. Featuring a soothing, milky texture, the makeup remover features hyaluronic acid and ceramides, and is ophthalmologist-tested, allergy-tested and alcohol free, making it suitable for contact lens wearers and for all skin types.
- Makeup Removing Cleanser Balm: The brand's first-ever cleansing balm is formulated with plant-based jojoba oil to help retain moisture as you cleanse, leaving skin feeling nourished and comforted. The unique melting formula effectively dissolves long-wear makeup on the whole face, as well as waterproof mascara, without leaving a greasy residue or drying out skin. It's non-comedogenic and suitable for all skin types, including sensitive skin.
- Skin Renewing Eye Cream: Joining the Skin Renewing line, this eye cream contains an anti-aging Peptide Complex to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and crow's feet, as well as caffeine to reduce both puffiness and the appearance of dark circles. The lightweight and deeply hydrating formula delivers all-day moisture for younger, healthier looking skin, leaving the under eye area visibly smoothed and brightened.
"I've been using CeraVe for more than a decade and confidently recommend the brand to my patients because I know each product is carefully formulated with ingredients that safely and effectively address a wide range of skin concerns," says triple board-certified dermatologist Dr. Mamina Turegano. "I'm excited that their newest products offer even more makeup-removing and anti-aging options for my patients that incorporate ingredients I can trust for all skin types."
"As part of our mission in providing therapeutic skincare for all, we are continuously consulting dermatologists to ensure we're developing products that are meeting the ever-evolving needs that they hear from their patients," says Jasteena Gill, VP of Marketing at CeraVe. "In working closely with dermatologists in both development and formulation, CeraVe continues to deliver products that are gentle yet effective for all skin types, and we are excited to introduce these three new offerings that will help consumers continue to customize their skincare routines to uniquely address their own skin's needs."
All three new products are available now at drugstores nationwide and Amazon, with the new Comforting Eye Makeup Remover at $10.99, Makeup Removing Cleanser Balm at $12.99 and Skin Renewing Eye Cream at $24.99.
The latest launches join CeraVe's extensive line of cleansers, serums, moisturizers, sunscreens and more, all formulated with the combination of ceramides 1, 3 and 6-II that are essential to restoring and maintaining the skin's natural barrier. For more product information and skincare tips, visit CeraVe at www.cerave.com and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
1 IQVIA, ProVoice Survey, 12 months ending January 2022
About CeraVe
Founded in 2005 and developed with dermatologists, CeraVe is the first and only brand to offer a complete line of products containing essential ceramides and patented MVE technology to help restore the skin's natural protective barrier. CeraVe has a full line of skincare products to follow the dermatologist-recommended steps of: cleanse, treat, moisturize, and protect. The brand's mission is to provide therapeutic skincare for all. For more information, visit the brand on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or at www.cerave.com.
About L'Oréal
L'Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With its unique international portfolio of 34 diverse and complementary brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 25.8 billion euros in 2016 and employs 89,300 people worldwide. As the world's leading beauty company, L'Oréal is present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and e-commerce. Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 3,870 people, are at the core of L'Oréal's strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all over the world. L'Oréal's sustainability commitment for 2020 "Sharing Beauty With All" sets out ambitious sustainable development objectives across the Group's value chain. For more information visit www.loreal.com.
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LEVUEN, Belgium (AP) _ Materialise NV (MTLS) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $1.4 million.
The Levuen, Belgium-based company said it had net income of 2 cents per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 2 cents per share.
The 3D printing software and medical and industrial products company posted revenue of $56.8 million in the period, missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $57.1 million.
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WYNNEWOOD, Pa., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Only five scientists in history have won a Nobel prize twice, and among those five is K. Barry Sharpless, a Class of 1959 alumnus of Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. This incredible honor puts Sharpless in the company of Marie Curie.
On October 5, the 2022 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to scientists K. Barry Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, at Stanford University, and Morten Meldal, at the University of Copenhagen. The three were recognized for devising a method to "click" molecules together that has been described as working like "molecular Lego."
A longtime faculty member at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, Sharpless himself coined the term "click chemistry" to "describe reactions that are fast, high-yielding, and clean, meaning that they do not produce a lot of unwanted side-products," explained Dr. Phillip Broadwith, in the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine Chemistry World. "One of the first 'click reactions,' the copper catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, was discovered independently by Sharpless and Meldal and had sprouted its own branch of synthetic chemistry," he added. Catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition is now a widely used method to make drugs and map DNA.
K. Barry Sharpless won his first Nobel prize in chemistry in 2001 for his work on catalyzed oxidation reactions, another type of chemical reaction used to produce drugs.
Sharpless's father, a birthright Quaker, sent him to Friends' Central School in seventh grade. A shy student who was passionate about his work, Sharpless was known to make up excuses for social occasions in order to spend time in the lab. It was clear from his yearbook quote – where he is described as a "science whiz" – that his passion for science began early. He was also enthusiastic about learning German while at Friends' Central, and Sharpless developed a proficiency that was enhanced by his contact with the exchange students from the Hans Hubert Gymnasium in Gräefelfing near Munich. The Sharpless family hosted one of the students.
In his junior year at Friends' Central, Sharpless grew 12 inches and was recruited for the football team when the coach spotted him beating some of the top players in arm wrestling.
In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tim Patterson '59, who played on the undefeated football team along with Sharpless, described him as, "just a regular guy. He didn't push anything in front of you saying he was brighter than the rest of us."
Another passion for Sharpless in his school days was fishing. He spent the summers exploring the banks of the Manasquan River, later learning to sail with his uncle and catching fish. He contemplated marine biology before deciding on chemistry as his career focus.
After graduating from Friends' Central in 1959, Sharpless attended Dartmouth College, and he went on to receive a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University. He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and, in 1990, he joined the faculty of Scripps Research Institute, where he is the W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry.
Along with two Nobel prizes, Sharpless has been widely recognized for his scientific achievements over many decades, being elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and receiving, among myriad accolades, the King Faisal International Prize for Science and the 2019 Priestley Medal, the American Chemical Society's highest honor.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Seven weeks before the premiere debate of the 2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event could prove messy and divisive for the party.
Some candidates, like former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, are struggling to meet fundraising and polling requirements to make it on stage. He and others are pushing back on a loyalty pledge the Republican Party is insisting candidates sign to participate. And the race’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, is considering boycotting and holding a competing event instead.
That’s turning what is typically the highly anticipated opener of the election season into a source of uncertainty for the candidates and broader party. The frustration is particularly acute for candidates who hoped to use the forum as a powerful opportunity to confront Trump and try to blunt his momentum.
“If the outcome of all of these machinations is a very limited field and no Trump in the first debate, it’s hard to see how that can be successful,” Hutchinson said in an interview. Still, he said he was confident he will make it to the stage, even though he said he has only received contributions from “over” 5,000 donors.
“We’re not there yet. We’ve got a ways to go. And we fully intend to get there,” he said.
The Republican National Committee has said that, in order to participate in the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee, candidates must have received contributions from at least 40,000 individual donors, with at least 200 unique donors in 20 or more states. They also must earn at least 1% in three high-quality national polls, or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and August 21.
Candidates will also have to sign a pledge “agreeing to support the eventual party nominee,” according to an RNC press release, and one agreeing not to participate in any non-RNC sanctioned debate for the remainder of the election cycle.
“Our criteria is very clear, we are ensuring quality polls are used to determine which candidates make the debate stage and we are confident that there will be enough polls for our candidates to qualify,” said RNC spokeswoman Emma Vaughn.
The candidates who say they have qualified so far include Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Some lesser-known candidates, such as conservative radio host Larry Elder, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, appear unlikely to make the cutoffs.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who launched his campaign on June 7, has not yet released a tally of donors, but his campaign said it had raised “well into five digits” in the weeks since his announcement.
“Getting in late made it more difficult, but we’re confident we’ll get there,” said Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley.
As part of that effort, the campaign focused on direct mail, aided by the list it has rented from Pence’s nonprofit, Advancing American Freedom. That group had well over 40,000 donors, and Pence aides are hopeful those donors will also give to the former vice president’s campaign.
He’s also been holding a series of fundraisers, including one in Boston next week that will be hosted by top Massachusetts Republican donor Bob Reynolds, the CEO of Putnam Investments.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has also expressed confidence he will hit the benchmarks, has pitched himself as the candidate most qualified to directly take on Trump onstage. While Trump’s threats to boycott have complicated that argument, Christie’s campaign has nonetheless urged donors to give even $1 to help him qualify.
Anthony Scaramucci, the financier who served briefly as Trump’s White House communications director and is now supporting Christie, recently encouraged even those who have no intention of voting for the former New Jersey governor to nonetheless chip in.
“Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, whether you would vote for Chris or wouldn’t vote for Chris, we need someone onstage to tell the truth and put a stop to this nonsense,” he said during a recent podcast interview with the candidate.
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith has urged his followers to do the same. Smith told The Associated Press that he’s not endorsing any candidate but feels it is “imperative to have Christie onstage for several reasons.”
“Christie’s presence will force both Trump and DeSantis to defend their positions in ways others may be unable to pull off,” he said in an email, adding that watching Christie tussle with the likes of Trump and DeSantis would “be must-see TV, in my opinion.”
At the same time, Christie has criticized Trump for threatening to boycott.
“He should show up because he owes it to the Republican Party and the voters of the Republican Party to stand up and defend his record,” he said on CNN Thursday, urging viewers to visit his website, “donate to me, make sure I’m on that stage, because, if I am, I will raise those issues right to the president’s face.”
Trump, according to campaign officials, has yet to make a final decision on his plans. But he has indicated both publicly and privately that he is not inclined to participate, and aides have been considering options for an alternative event.
DeSantis said Thursday night that he planned to participate in the debate “regardless” of Trump’s decision.
“I hope everybody who’s eligible comes. I think it’s an important part of the process and I look forward to being able to be on the stage,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has skipped a major GOP debate. During his 2016 campaign, Trump boycotted the final GOP gathering before the Iowa caucuses and instead held his own campaign event, a flashy telethon-style gathering in Iowa that was billed as a fundraiser for veterans. While the event earned him headlines and drew attention away from his rivals, Trump went on to lose the Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz — a loss some supporters blamed on his debate decision.
In 2020, Trump pulled out of the second general election debate against Joe Biden after the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates sought to make it virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had recently tested positive for COVID-19, but said he would only debate onstage.
Lower-polling candidates during the crowded Democratic primary voiced similar frustrations about the debate process in 2019. But this year’s GOP drama is unique in part because the party is requiring that candidates promise to support the eventual nominee, which has given pause to Trump’s fiercest critics.
The RNC has so far declined to release the actual language of the pledge it intends to make candidates sign. It is expected to be similar to 2016, when candidates had to affirm that, if they did not win the nomination, they would “endorse the 2016 Republican presidential nominee regardless of who it is” and not run as an independent or accept the nomination of any other party.
So far, only former Texas Rep. Will Hurd has said definitely that he will not sign the pledge because he refuses to support Trump if he becomes the eventual nominee.
Hutchinson, who said he wants to wait to see the pledge’s exact language, said he believes that everyone running should have the chance to appear.
“The first debate particularly should be an open affair where the candidates should be showcased,” he said.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel has repeatedly defended the criteria, which came after so many candidates ran in 2016 that debates had to be split in half — with lower-polling candidates participating in an earlier forum.
“Not everybody deserves to be on that debate stage,” she said in a recent interview on Newsmax.
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Associated Press reporters Michelle L. Price in New York, Sara Burnett in Chicago and Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina contributed. | 2023-07-07T16:10:58+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/ap-first-gop-debate-next-month-faces-threats-of-boycott-as-lower-polling-candidates-scramble-to-qualify/ |
Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found.
The study in Thursday’s journal Science found droughts in general are being triggered faster. But it also showed that a special and particularly nasty sudden kind — called “flash droughts” by experts — is casting an ever bigger crop-killing footprint.
It comes only in the growing season – mostly summer, but also spring and fall – and is insidious because it’s caused not just by the lack of rain or snow that’s behind a typical slow-onset drought, hydrologists and meteorologists said.
What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil.
“It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” said UCLA and National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Daniel Swain, who wasn’t part of the study. Swain called the issue “very relevant in a warming climate.”
The term flash drought was coined around 2000 but it really took off in 2012, when a $30 billion sudden drought struck the central United States, one of the worst droughts since the infamous Dust Bowl devastated the Plains in the 1930s, according to the study.
“Because it occurs very, very fast people started to focus on this new phenomenon,” said study lead author Xing Yuan, dean of the School of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. “For the 2012 drought, actually the drought just developed in a very severe condition just within a month.”
Most of China’s Yangtze River basin last summer was struck by a flash drought that developed within only a month due to high temperatures, which also triggered wildfires, Yuan said. Parts of the river dried up and there was an energy shortage in southern China because hydropower wouldn’t work, he said.
“It developed very fast so you don’t have enough time to prepare for this drought,” Yuan said.
Another sudden drought happened in the U.S. Southeast in 2016 and was a factor in devastating wildfires in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, said Jason Otkin, a study co-author and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The current drought in the Oklahoma-Texas panhandle and Kansas started two years ago as a rapid onset drought, said Joel Lisonbee, a climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Integrated Drought Information System in Colorado. He wasn’t part of the study but praised it, saying “essentially a warmer world allows for faster onset of drought.”
Yuan, Otkin and their research team looked back at droughts, how fast they occurred and what kind they were, across the globe since 1951 and found flash droughts are happening more often in nearly three-quarters of the climate regions of the world. They also found droughts of all kinds happening faster.
Although they couldn’t quantify how much faster because of the variability in places and times, Yuan said it would be fair to say droughts are happening weeks earlier than they once did.
Yuan said some of the bigger increases in sudden droughts have been in Europe and Australia. Outside experts pointed to the Amazon as prone to them.
“We have to pay attention to this phenomenon because it’s increasing,” Yuan said.
Yuan’s team also used computer simulations – both with worst-case warming and more moderate warming – and projected that the proportion of flash droughts will increase in a warmer world and droughts will continue to keep happening faster.
By definition, flash droughts – because they result from low soil moisture levels – are especially bad for agriculture, experts said.
The trouble is there has been an old way of thinking that “we have months or years before we need to worry about drought,” said Mark Svoboda, director of the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
That’s the reason why Svoboda, who wasn’t part of this study, said he pioneered the term “flash drought’’ and wanted to “dispel the notion that droughts only manifest themselves over long period of time.”
Svoboda’s agency recommends that farmers, ranchers, municipal water suppliers and hydropower plants come up with plans for droughts. For example, farmers and ranchers should know how susceptible they are to drought and have alternative plans for plantings or foraging.
NOAA’s Lisonbee said in an email that the problem is “in a slowly evolving drought if a farmer thinks the season ahead will be dry, they may consider a more drought-tolerant crop that season, but when a flash drought occurs it is likely the crops are already in the ground and there is little that can be done.”
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HILVERSUM, Netherlands, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group N.V. ("UMG" or "the Company") today announced the results of its first-ever Annual General Meeting of shareholders ("AGM") held earlier today.
All resolutions on the AGM agenda were adopted with a majority of the votes cast, including, among others:
- a positive advisory vote on the 2021 Remuneration Report;
- the adoption of the 2021 financial statements;
- the appointment of Bill Ackman, Nicole Avant, Cyrille Bolloré and Sherry Lansing as Non-Executive Directors;
- the issuance of shares and the exclusion of the pre-emptive rights in relation to such shares under, and the approval of, the 2022 Universal Music Group Global Equity Plan;
- the approval to award annual long-term incentive and special grants to Executive Directors; and
- the re-appointment of Ernst & Young Accountants LLP and Deloitte Accountants B.V. as joint external auditors for the financial year 2022.
The proposal to adopt a final dividend of EUR 0.20 per share was also approved. With the interim dividend of EUR 0.20 per share that was paid in October 2021, this brings the total dividend for the financial year 2021 to EUR 0.40 per share. The following timetable shall apply with respect to the payment of the final dividend:
May 16, 2022: Ex-dividend date;
May 17, 2022: Dividend record date; and
June 8, 2022: Final dividend payment date.
Further details of the AGM, including the voting results, are available on the Company's website: https://investors.universalmusic.com/governance/agm.
About Universal Music Group
At Universal Music Group (EURONEXT: UMG), we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information on Universal Music Group N.V. visit www.universalmusic.com.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican running for governor in Wisconsin suggested Tuesday that he did not support enforcing the swing state’s near-total ban on abortions, saying “I will never arrest a doctor” before his campaign walked back his comment.
Tim Michels is locked in a tight race with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and abortion has been a major issue. Michels, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, said in the Republican primary that he backed a state law dating to 1849 that makes it a felony for doctors to perform nearly all abortions.
But last month Michels had changed course and said he would sign a bill granting exceptions in cases of rape and incest. He repeated that position Tuesday during a Q&A at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee, but went a step further.
“I will never arrest a doctor, as they’re saying,” Michels said. “I’m a reasonable guy.”
Under Wisconsin’s abortion ban, doctors who perform abortions can be found guilty of a class H felony, punishable by up to six years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. The governor is not responsible for enforcing the law, but Michels’ comment suggested he did not support anyone arresting a doctor who would violate it.
Michels’ spokesperson Anna Kelly attempted to clarify his comment, saying it was the district attorneys, not the governor, who enforce laws.
“He’s not a DA or beat cop arresting anyone,” she said.
Evers’ campaign spokesman Sam Roecker accused Michels of trying to hide his true support for “locking up doctors who provide abortions,” noting his longtime support for banning abortions.
“He’s either lying to voters today, in a desperate attempt to hide his radical positions, or he was lying to them for the last six months,” Roecker said.
Democratic district attorneys in the state’s two largest counties where abortions had been performed before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade have said they won’t enforce the state’s ban, which was enacted before women had the right to vote and before the Civil War.
Abortion has seeped into all of the top races in Wisconsin this election cycle.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit, supported by Evers, seeking to overturn the state’s ban. His Republican challenger, Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney, has said he wants to allow district attorneys to cross county boundaries to enforce the ban.
That is not currently allowed under state law unless a district attorney asks for assistance. Kaul has said he would not enforce the abortion ban.
Evers and his allies have been spending tens of millions of dollars on television advertising to hammer Michels on his previous support for the 1849 law, which he called the “exact mirror” of his position. Evers is challenging the law in court and has twice called special sessions of the Legislature seeking to repeal the ban and create a way to put the question before voters. Republicans rejected both proposals.
Democrats are trying to make the governor’s race a referendum on abortion, pointing to public polls that show broad bipartisan support for legal abortions and at the very least exceptions for rape and incest.
Michels said Tuesday that the attacks against him on abortion are “just not sticking.”
Evers said he would not sign a bill granting abortion exceptions for rape and incest if it leaves the underlying abortion ban in place. Evers also said he would grant clemency to any doctor who is convicted under the law and sentenced to prison.
While Democrats have tried to make the race about abortion, Michels has focused on crime. He promised Tuesday to reduce crime statewide and in Milwaukee, promising “life will be better for everybody.”
Michels also promised to have “massive” tax reform, including lowering the income tax to a nearly flat rate for all filers of around 5%.
Michels said after the event, in response to a question from a reporter, that he would “certainly” accept the results of the November election after previously not committing fully to that. He also promised to sign a number of bills Evers vetoed that Republican supporters said were designed to make elections more secure. A number of the measures made it more difficult to vote absentee.
“No one two years from now, four years from now, six years from now, whatever, will ever have a question about election integrity here in Wisconsin,” Michels promised.
Michels also suggested that he would be open to breaking up the state Department of Natural Resources into two agencies, one to deal with hunters and the other focused on business regulations. | 2022-10-19T11:48:59+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-wisconsin-republican-michels-i-will-never-arrest-a-doctor/ |
The new portrait of House Democratic leadership came into much sharper focus on Friday, as a rush of up-and-coming lawmakers launched bids to assume the top spots less than 24 hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) announced her intent to step down.
Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (Calif.) all declared their candidacies for the top three Democratic seats in the next Congress, respectively — a widely anticipated development that was delayed only by the long, slow counting of ballots from the Nov. 8. All three are expected to glide to power.
The well-orchestrated shakeup proceeded largely without the drama that frequently accompanies leadership transitions — a remarkable dynamic considering that Pelosi and her top two deputies, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Democratic Whip James Clyburn (S.C.), have been leading the party for almost two decades. The pent up energy from younger lawmakers itching to climb into the leadership ranks has been simmering for years, and had a high potential for boiling over.
Yet Jeffries, who’s seeking to replace Pelosi, is running unchallenged after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) decided against a bid for the top spot. And Clark is also without competition, despite speculation that Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who heads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, might take her on. Instead, Jayapal announced Friday that she’ll seek another term leading the progressives.
Clearing the way for a smooth changeover, Pelosi’s announcement to step down had a domino effect: Within hours, Hoyer had followed suit (although both he and Pelosi will remain in Congress in more everyday roles), and Clyburn had endorsed Jeffries, Clark and Aguilar for the top three spots. Hoyer in a statement on Friday gave his “resounding endorsement” to Jeffries.
On Thursday, asked how it felt to be stepping out of leadership after so long, Hoyer told reporters “Not good.” But on Friday morning, he seemed more resigned to the change.
“Why is it time? Well, I think for one thing when you’re in the minority, it really is time to train people to be in the majority,” the Maryland Democrat told MSNBC in an interview Friday morning. “I thought it was a good time.”
Yet the transition hasn’t been entirely conflict-free.
While Clyburn has ceded his No. 3 position, he’s now seeking to remain in leadership next year in the No. 4 assistant leader slot. That move caught many of his colleagues by surprise, and it prompted Aguilar, who was eyeing the assistant leader spot, to vie for caucus chair instead.
That eleventh-hour shift carries heavy significance for Rep. Joe Neguse, a rising Colorado Democrat who had announced his bid to replace Jeffries as caucus chair just last week.
It’s unclear if Neguse will continue to seek that spot, but the signs for him are ominous.
Pelosi and Clyburn both endorsed Aguilar this week. And in a Democratic Party that touts its diversity, there will be plenty of pressure to keep Aguilar, a member of the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus, among the top leaders. The Congressional Black Caucus, of which Neguse is a member, is already on its way to being well represented with Jeffries and Clyburn.
Further down the leadership line, the races get more competitive.
Two popular California Democrats, Reps. Ami Bera and Tony Cárdenas, are vying to lead the party’s campaign arm in the next Congress — a high-stakes cycle when Democrats will be fighting to keep the White House and win back control of the lower chamber. That seat was vacated with the midterm defeat of the current chairman, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.).
And at least four Democrats are seeking to replace Aguilar as caucus vice chair: Reps. Debbie Dingell (Mich.), Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Ted Lieu (Calif.) and Joyce Beatty (Ohio).
All of the Democrats’ leadership elections are scheduled for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
The changing of the guard is a transformational development for House Democrats, who have been led by the same triumvirate for nearly two decades.
Pelosi, who came to Congress in 1987, became the party leader in 2003, the same year Hoyer became the No. 2 Democrat. Clyburn joined them as No. 3 in 2006. They’ve been there together ever since.
The monopoly the “big three” has had on the top tier of the caucus for the past 20 years prevented a younger and ambitious crowd of Democrats from rising in the ranks.
In the final stretch to this year’s midterm elections that eager crop of liberals became more and more outspoken, publicly calling for new blood in the highest echelons of the party.
“I have been very vocal, including with my own leadership in the House, that we need a new generation, we need new blood, period, across the Democratic Party in the House, the Senate and the White House,” Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told NBC News in an interview last month.
In the House next year, she’ll get her wish. | 2022-11-19T12:07:51+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/hill-politics/democrats-first-leadership-shakeup-in-decades-takes-shape-with-no-drama-almost/ |
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Ryan Truex joked that he held his breath in nervous anticipation during the last 30 laps of a race he had dominated from start. He worried when the caution flag might come out, when there would be a flat tire, a wreck, anything that could derail a 13-year wait for a NASCAR victory.
Nothing could deny Truex at the Monster Mile.
Getting choked up as he approached the checkered flag, Truex won for the first time in 188 career NASCAR starts across all three national series in the Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway.
“People that know me, know that I’m not an emotional guy,” Truex said. “It took me a minute before I could key up and say anything because I couldn’t really talk. It has been such a long road and a lot of self-doubt along the way and wondering if it is ever going to happen, am I good enough to do this?”
The 31-year-old younger brother of former NASCAR champion Martin Truex Jr. sure was good enough on the concrete-mile track. He swept the first two stages and cruised down the stretch, leading 124 of the 200 laps to win by 4.82 seconds.
“This is for everyone that doubted me,” Truex said. “I belong here. I just proved that.”
Truex is winless in 26 Cup starts (none since 2014), is 0 for 73 in the Truck Series and hadn’t won in 88 previous races in the second-tier Xfinity Series. He did have a second and a third among his four previous starts this season in the No. 19 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.
“Most people didn’t believe in me and I still did,” said Truex, who is from nearby Mayetta, New Jersey. “Just so thankful to be here. Just amazing. I was just waiting for something to happen. I was praying, please God, let me get to the end of this.”
Once he did, big brother was waiting for him. Martin Truex Jr. stuck his head in Ryan’s window and offered congratulations before he parked it in victory lane.
“It’s been a long road. Honestly, I’m on cloud 9,” Ryan Truex said. “The weight off my shoulders is unexplainable. To dominate in a car that good, oh my God, it’s just amazing.”
Truex, who finished a season-worst 17th last Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway, shares the No. 19 and has only one more scheduled Xfinity start this season.
Truex made his first NASCAR start as a teenager in the second-tier series in 2010.
“It is so easy to doubt yourself and be down on yourself, but you just keep digging, keep pushing through, just a huge relief to get the white flag,” he said.
Josh Berry, who starts Sunday in the Cup series for the injured Alex Bowman, finished second. Justin Allgaier, Austin Hill and John Hunter Nemechek complete the top five.
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AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-30T18:54:21+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports-news/ryan-truex-dominates-dover-for-1st-career-nascar-victory/ |
Time to feel like a rockstar.
Grammy nominated Post Malone is heading out on tour, which will make a stop on Aug. 10, at Isleta Amphitheater.
Post also announced his return to North America with the ‘If Ya’ll Weren’t Here, I’d Be Crying’ Tour following his highly successful trek across the US and Canada last year and Europe this year for his long awaited ‘Twelve Carat Tour’. The 2023 North America run will give fans his signature exhilarating performance with music from his upcoming album as well as fan-favorites in a completely reimagined show.
Post Malone’s next album, “Austin,” will be released on July 28.
Presale tickets go on sale on 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 17, via Citi at citientertainment.com.
General public sale begins at 10 a.m. Friday, May 19, at livenation.com.
“I love y’all so very much and I’m so excited to get out and do some more shows for y’all,” Post Malone says. “Help me put a baby through college and come on out. Some cool new production, new songs, and a very very handsome man up on stage. Sending love to you and yours.”
Post Malone will release his next single entitled “Mourning” on Friday May 19.
Post Malone emerged in 2015 with the diamond-selling “Congratulations” (feat. Quavo) and achieved back-to-back No. 1 debuts on the Billboard Top 200.
In 2022, he pushed boundaries again with his fourth full-length offering, “Twelve Carat Toothache,” which marked his fourth consecutive Top 5 bow on the Top 200.
He even scored “the highest-certified single in RIAA history” with the 17x-platinum “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)” (feat. Swae Lee).
In 2023, he garnered a Grammy nomination for “I Like You (A Happier Song)” (with Doja Cat), marking his 10th career nomination in six years. | 2023-05-16T14:43:28+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2599186/find-out-when-post-malone-will-perform-in-albuquerque.html |
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights.
“Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,” Kirby said in a statement issued by the airline. “I sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days — often through severe weather — to take care of our customers.”
Kirby concluded by promising “to better demonstrate my respect for the dedication of our team members and the loyalty of our customers.”
Kirby caught the private flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Denver on Wednesday, when United canceled 750 flights — one-fourth of its schedule for the day. That figure does not include flights on United Express.
United has canceled nearly 3,000 flights this week, with the largest number at its Newark Liberty International Airport hub in New Jersey, which was hit by thunderstorms for much of the week.
Kirby blamed disruptions in Newark last weekend on a shortage of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. He said in a note to employees “that the FAA frankly failed us” by reducing the rate at which planes could arrive and depart the airport, where United is the dominant carrier.
Canceled flights left United planes and crews out of position, hobbling the airline when bad weather hit on Sunday, Kirby said.
As United continued to struggle throughout this week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose department includes the FAA, said on Twitter that airlines had recovered from the storms “with the exception of United.” He drove home the point by including a bar graph that compared United’s cancellation rate with the rest of the industry.
United’s operation has improved since midweek. The percentage of canceled flights fell from 26% on Wednesday to 18% Thursday and 8% through Friday evening, according to tracking service FlightAware. However, even on Friday, United was on pace to lead all U.S. carriers in canceled flights for a seventh straight day.
United vowed to fix its operation in time for the July 4 holiday weekend, which promises to be a hectic one at the nation’s airports. More than 2.7 million people were screened Thursday at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, and Friday was expected to bring similar crowds — possibly bigger.
United passengers have taken to social media and talked to reporters about long airport lines and sleeping in airports after flights were canceled.
Unions representing the airline’s pilots and flight attendants have joined in the criticism, accusing United management of poor planning, a lack of crew schedulers, and operating too many flights.
Chicago-based United said it did not pay for the CEO’s flight on Wednesday. The airline declined to say whether Kirby frequently takes private planes. | 2023-07-03T01:25:25+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-passengers-were-stuck-because-united-airlines-canceled-their-flights-the-ceo-took-a-private-plane/ |
Boone: `Uncomfortable, somber’ until Judge agreed to stay
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Boone was worried last Tuesday, wondering whether Aaron Judge would leave the New York Yankees for the San Francisco Giants.
“All the tea leaves that day and the uncertainty of it all, it was a little bit of an uncomfortable, somber, not sure day,” the Yankees’ manager recalled Friday.
Boone was asleep his hotel room at the winter meetings in San Diego that night when a friend texted “Congrats.” News of Judge’s decision to accept a $360 million, nine-year contract from the Yankees broke about 5:30 a.m. PST. Boone then checked and learned Judge was staying in pinstripes.
“That morning we flipped the script on me a little bit,” he said with a smile during a break while handing out presents to children at the Yankees’ winter wonderland event.
Boone got more good news Thursday when the Yankees agreed to a $162 million, six-year contract with left-hander Carlos Rodón. The deals with Judge and Rodón are both subject to successful physicals.
“Obviously, we’re talking about a really, really talented guy that’s really starting putting it together here these last couple of years and, hopefully, he can have a big impact on us,” Boone said.
Judge’s deal is likely to be finalized next week.
Rodón, an All-Star the past two seasons, joins a rotation that includes Gerrit Cole, Nestor Cortes and Luis Severino, with Frankie Montas, Domingo Germán and Clarke Schmidt also in the mix.
“It’s got a chance to be really, really special,” Boone said. “A lot of talented pitchers. But, again, we’re here in December. We’ve got to go out and do it. But I like potentially where we’re starting from.”
Boone spoke with Rodón on Thursday. The third overall pick in the 2013 amateur draft, Rodón was hampered by injuries early in his career and let go by the White Sox after the 2020 season, then re-signed. He went 13-7 with a 2.37 ERA for Chicago in 2021, striking out 185 in 132 2/3 innings, and followed that by going 14-8 with a 2.88 ERA and 237 strikeouts in 178 innings for San Francisco last season.
“He’s been someone that’s been on our radar for a couple of years, honestly,” Boone said. “And then to see him now go out and really put together the kind of seasons he has the last two years I think is a realization of a lot of people within the industry that expected this out of him when he was a top pick out of N.C. State.
“He’s become one of the game’s really great pitchers. The way he’s thrown the last couple of years, he’s a top-of-the-rotation guy,” Boone added. “Over the last couple of years he’s probably learned a lot about himself and his mechanics. I know he’s made some mechanical changes that have really unlocked him and unleashed him.”
NOTES: Boone said RHP Michael King is on pace to be ready for spring training. King fractured his pitching elbow on July 22.
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Mom says she’s struggling after son spends $6,000 on Google Play
ELYRIA, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - An Ohio mom is trying to make ends meet after her son with special needs spent thousands of dollars online, WOIO reports.
“I was like ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ but I kind of just had faith that it would all work out,” Emily Chonko said.
When Chonko checked her bank account last month and saw nearly $6,000 worth of charges, she said she nearly passed out.
“When I first seen it, like my whole stomach just fell,” she said. “I cried. I just felt like a big baby.”
Chonko quickly discovered her 10-year-old son Julian was behind the long list of charges from Google Play.
“I told them that my son was nonverbal. He’s autistic, that he didn’t understand what he was doing. He was just basically living his best life and getting all the coins for his game and didn’t really understand the concept of money and how it works,” Chonko said.
She immediately started a dispute with KeyBank and Google.
Chonko said she had two-step verification set up on her phone but somehow her son figured out her password and was able to make the purchases.
“The bank never flagged it. They never notified me,” she said.
Chonko is raising 8-year-old Gabriella and 10-year-old Julian on her own. Her children’s father died from diabetes complications earlier this year.
“We’ve been going through a lot lately,” Chonko said. “We’re going to get through it. It’s not a bad life, just a small bad moment so we’re trying to stay positive.”
She said Google denied her claim almost right away. KeyBank launched an investigation, and at first, they credited her the money. But she received a letter from KeyBank on Monday that made her heart sink.
“They just told me yesterday in the mail that they took back the credit and that they weren’t going to go forward with the claim, that they denied it,” she said.
KeyBank took back all of the money they had credited her. Chonko said she needs that money to take care of her family.
“I was using it to save up for a bigger place for us because where we’re at is just really small. It’s a two-bedroom, and they’re still sharing a room, and she wants her own room. They’re just getting older and everything with inflation right now and living paycheck to paycheck,” she said.
Chonko said she is hoping KeyBank and Google will reconsider. In the meantime, she’s removed her bank cards from her phone and started a fundraising page to help get her life back on track.
Google and KeyBank did not respond to a request for comment.
Copyright 2023 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-24T13:26:50+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/05/24/mom-says-shes-struggling-after-son-spends-6000-google-play/ |
Chief Justice Roberts says Supreme Court can do more to 'adhere to the highest standards'
Chief Justice John Roberts said there is more the Supreme Court can do to "adhere to the highest standards" of ethical conduct, an acknowledgment that recent reporting about the justices' ethical missteps is having an effect on public perception of the court.
Speaking at a law dinner Tuesday where he was honored with an award, Roberts provided no specifics but said the justices "are continuing to look at the things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment."
He said he is "confident there are ways to do that consistent with our status as an independent branch of government and the Constitution’s separation of powers."
The court has resisted adopting an ethics code of its own, and Roberts has raised questions about whether Congress could impose a code of conduct on the court.
All nine justices recently signed a statement of ethics that Roberts provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee. His remarks Tuesday suggested he knows that statement is not enough to quiet critics.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends President Joe Bidens State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The chief justice's remarks follow a series of stories, mainly by the investigative news site ProPublica, that have detailed lavish trips and other gifts provided to Justice Clarence Thomas by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.
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Democrats have used the revelations to call for stronger ethics rules for the Supreme Court, and the Democratic-controlled Senate has held two hearings on ethics issues in recent weeks. Republicans have defended Thomas.
Roberts, who has led the court since 2005, also said the hardest decision he has made as chief justice was to keep protesters away from the court last year, in the wake of the leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
"The hardest decision in 18 years I had to make was whether to erect fences and barricades around the Supreme Court. I had no choice but to go ahead and do it," he said at the American Law Institute dinner in Washington.
The fencing was removed before the court's new term began in October. | 2023-05-24T14:44:04+00:00 | fox13seattle.com | https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/chief-justice-roberts-says-supreme-court-can-do-more-to-adhere-to-the-highest-standards |
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — If you don’t want your car stolen, you lock the doors. But for push-to-start cars, it may not be enough, a technology expert warns.
Relay devices can be used to steal push-to-start cars by amplifying your key fob signal. Many newer cars just need your key to be inside the car – not inside the ignition – to start. Relay devices trick the car into thinking the key is inside, allowing a thief to drive away.
“Somebody within so many meters of it will have this device and it will relay the key fob’s signal to the device in the car so the car thinks that key fob is next to it and it unlocks it,” said Scott Gibson, head of Computer and Information Science at ECPI University.
Without a relay device, a person can typically unlock their car from about 30 feet away. With a relay device, the signal can be amplified anywhere from 100 to 300 feet.
“Typically these types of attacks happen in residential areas where a lot of people have their keys hanging by the door or in the kitchen, an apartment community or townhouse community where keys are typically closer to where a car is parked,” Gibson explained.
“They can open your car and within 30 seconds to two minutes be out of your driveway with your vehicle,” Gibson continued.
Gibson said the devices were first used in Europe. In recent years, they have gained popularity in the U.S. as a keyless way to steal cars.
“You could find these devices online probably between $80 and $150,” Gibson said.
Any car with push-to-start is vulnerable, according to the Master Locksmiths Association.
Gibson said drivers with a push-to-start car could take extra precautions to avoid getting hit. You could purchase a pouch or bag that blocks your key’s fob signal. You could also put it further into your home, Forbes suggests, away from windows. Old-school steering wheel locks also help.
“You’ve got to treat it no different and protect it no different than you would another electronic device like your cell phone. It’s a computer. Smart vehicles are computers. They are connected,” Gibson explained. | 2022-07-27T20:26:10+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/relay-devices-being-used-to-steal-push-to-start-cars/ |
Fire razes school dormitory in Guyana, killing at least 19 children, many of them Indigenous
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A nighttime fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 19 students and injuring several others at a boarding school catering to remote, mostly Indigenous villages, authorities said.
“This is a horrific incident. It’s tragic. It’s painful,” President Irfaan Ali said, adding that his government was mobilizing all possible resources to care for the children.
The fire broke out shortly before midnight in the dormitory building of a secondary school in the southwestern border town of Mahdia, a gold and diamond mining community about 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the capital, Georgetown, the government said in a statement.
The government initially said 20 students were killed, but fire officials later revised the toll to 19, with several others injured
“When firefighters arrived on the scene, the building was already completely engulfed in flames,” Guyana’s Fire Service said in a statement. “Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the relatives and friends of those young souls.”
The department said 14 students died at the scene and five others at a local hospital. Officials said two children remain in critical condition and four have severe injuries. Six students were flown to Georgetown for treatment, while five others remain at a hospital in Mahdia, with another 10 under observation.
“Firefighters did manage to rescue some 20 students by breaking holes in the northeastern wall of the building,” the department said. “Our team is still on the ground investigating as we seek to provide clarity regarding how the fire started and all other necessary information.”
The school serves mostly Indigenous children aged 12 through 18, National Security Adviser Gerald Gouveia said. He said it was too early to speculate what might have caused the fire, adding that heavy thunderstorms in the area posed a challenge to those responding by air.
“It was a battle for us,” he said. “The pilots were very brave, very determined.”
He added that the government and emergency responders “made a gigantic effort” to save as many people as possible.
Ali said officials were contacting parents and mobilizing psychologists to help deal with those affected by the fire.
“I cannot imagine the pain right now of the parents,” he said. “This is a major disaster.”
Local newspaper Stabroek News reported that the fire broke out in a girls’ dormitory.
The opposition party, APNU+AFC, issued a statement also said it will seek a thorough investigation and thanked people in the small community for helping authorities rescue children who were trapped.
“We need to understand how this most horrific and deadly incident occurred and take all necessary measures to prevent such a tragedy from happening again in the future,” opposition lawmaker Natasha Singh-Lewis said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-05-22T14:58:15+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/us-world-news/fire-razes-school-dormitory-in-guyana-killing-at-least-19-children-many-of-them-indigenous/ |
William Haupt III
The author is a Center Square contributor
“America only stops being great when its people cease cooperating and start blaming each other. These divisions have been ruthlessly created and exploited in recent years.”
– Stewart Stafford
In an attempt to get back into the good graces with the Medici family in the 16th century, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a book called “The Prince.” In his book, he praised the Prince’s power to conquer the people by dividing them into discontented groups.
That was 500 years ago and every successful politician has read it. Why? It still applies today because people let them do it to them.
In 1768, a song published in both the Pennsylvania Journal and Pennsylvania Gazette newspapers helped to inspire and unite the colonies in their fight for independence. Scribed by founding father John Dickinson, it became known throughout the colonies as “The Liberty Song.” Dickinson told the colonies to “Join hand in hand, brave Americans we all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall!”
Midterm elections follow a predictable script. The party who occupies the Oval Office always loses seats in the Senate and especially in the House. Historically this has been called the “presidential penalty.” No matter how good or bad the country is doing, people use the midterms to let the party in charge know they expect more.
This election didn’t fit the mold, and the GOP wonders why.
For weeks, Republicans predicted a “red wave” in the midterms that would carry them back into power in Congress. They believed voters would repudiate Democratic policies that have caused runaway inflation, a rise in violent crime and an ominous border policy that threatens their security.
As Republicans lick their wounds, they fail to see the forest through the trees in their historic losses.
Despite the fact that 70% of the country thinks progressives are taking America down the wrong path, two-thirds think we’re in a recession, are pessimistic about our future, and many Americans believe Biden’s policies are destroying capitalism, the GOP midterm red wave turned into a ripple.
“Voters showed they believe our party is leading the country in the right direction.”
– Nancy Pelosi
Although the nation is in a mess from top to bottom, voters chose status quo over change that they could believe in because they didn’t have faith in many candidates that ran against the incumbents.
The GOP themselves lost this election in the primaries, and they don’t realize it or want to admit it.
Republicans are now the party of average America. Democrats are the party of factions, identity groups, liberal white college grads, wealthy left coast kooks and liberal media. If the GOP doesn’t retool its message to serve their average voter, it’ll soon become an antique political dinosaur.
The Grand Old Party is living in the past using antiquated weapons to fight a modern campaign war. The new liberal far left has adapted and changed and has a tool box of new weapons to use against Republicans and use them freely to take out anyone who is a threat to their dominance.
“Unlike Republicans, we Democrats never lie or deceive voters to win elections.”
– Hillary Clinton
Since all politics are local, that is where the GOP continues to fall flat on its face. While Democrats have hand picked their candidates for the primaries, Republicans fight each other for months over who is the best candidate, which exposes their weaknesses and liberal media exploits it for the left. Democrats remain united since that easily out-duels a divided Republican army.
Political strategists claim races considered “toss-ups,” “leaning” or “too close to call” were won by the left because of weaker candidates on the right. They contend that was the key to so many victories by the left.
Successful politicians profit from their mistakes. If a party’s favorite son becomes damaged goods in the eyes of the media, they distance themselves from the public for the good of the party. They are willing to work “out of sight and out of mind” to help elect other qualified candidates for their party.
Our founders envisioned patriots like Donald Trump would step forward and run our nation out of dedication for maintaining the principles established in our Constitution. And he did that and more. He was the only president since George Washington who was not a politician but a patriot to serve.
And it was for that very reason the liberal media went out of their way to turn America against him.
Republicans have a long history of shooting themselves in the foot criticizing their own candidates during the primaries, which turns into critical talking points used by the Democrats and the media.
“To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
It is sad but true the liberal media has used Mr. Trump to divide the Republican Party as well as America. And the more Mr. Trump fights back to protect his reputation and false charges waged against him by Democrats and media, the more they discredit him in every form of media.
A recent Pew Research poll shows only 22% of Republicans say they would like Mr. Trump to continue to remain a major political figure within the GOP but prefer that he did not run again for president in 2024. A third of Republicans, 32%, say for the good of the party, Mr. Trump should retire from politics, and 25% are undecided. Only 21% feel that Mr. Trump should run again for president.
No matter what your opinion is about Donald Trump, he was a very successful president. But that is in the past, and it is time to move on. No matter how much he is admired as a patriot, Republican strategists blame his endorsement of marginally qualified candidates for many losses this election.
“Beware who endorses you. Media picks up on it quickly and uses it to bury you.”
– Herman Cain
Abraham Lincoln told us, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Republicans are the party of working class Americans who believe in the traditional values that made this a great nation and want to see it remain that way.
It is time the GOP realizes they are playing into the hands of the left with divided loyalties to Mr. Trump. As long as liberal media can vilify Donald Trump to benefit the left, they will. Republicans need to unite and pick the best candidates if they want to start winning again and use Donald Trump’s business acumen to work behind the scenes to finance and win elections.
With so many independent voters today, it is vital for the GOP to avoid as much controversy and ridicule of their candidates as possible if they want to win support from the independents. These people are “independents” because they wish to avoid political controversy or won’t admit they support either political platform, even if they do. This group can deliver any party a win or a loss.
It is time the GOP unites under one banner to support candidates that have a broad appeal to the average voter rather than one segment of the party. This is what the GOP must do to win elections. “
Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them; every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”
– Matthew 12:25 | 2022-11-19T20:36:05+00:00 | newspress.com | https://newspress.com/republicans-must-unite-to-win-elections/ |
ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster.
Teams in southern Turkey’s Hatay province cheered and clapped when a 13-year-old boy identified only by his first name, Kaan, was pulled from the rubble. In Gaziantep province, rescue workers, including coal miners who secured tunnels with wooden supports, found a woman alive in the wreckage of a five-story building.
Stories of such rescues have flooded the airwaves in recent days. But tens of thousands of dead have been found during the same period, and experts say the window for rescues has nearly closed, given the length of time that has passed, the fact that temperatures have fallen to minus 6 degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit) and the severity of the building collapses.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6, reducing huge swaths of towns and cities to mountains of broken concrete and twisted metal. The death toll has surpassed 35,000.
In some areas, searchers placed signs that read “ses yok,” or “no sound,” in front of buildings they had inspected for any sign that someone was alive inside, HaberTurk television reported.
Associated Press journalists in Adiyaman saw a sign painted on a concrete slab in front of wreckage indicating that an expert had inspected it. In Antakya, people left signs displaying their phone numbers and asking crews to contact them if they found any bodies in the rubble.
The quake’s financial damage in Turkey alone was estimated at $84.1 billion, according to the Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation, a non-governmental business organization. Calculated using a statistical comparison with a similarly devastating 1999 quake, the figure was considerably higher than any official estimates so far.
In other developments, Syria’s president agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment for millions of earthquake victims, the United Nations announced.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the decision by Syrian leader Bashar Assad to open crossing points at Bab Al-Salam and Al Raée for an initial period of three months. Currently, the U.N. has only been allowed to deliver aid to the northwest Idlib area through a single crossing at Bab Al-Hawa.
Some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the epicenter, almost no houses were left standing in the Turkish village of Polat, where residents salvaged refrigerators, washing machines and other goods from wrecked homes.
Not enough tents have arrived for the homeless, forcing families to share the tents that are available, survivor Zehra Kurukafa said.
“We sleep in the mud, all together with two, three, even four families,” Kurukafa said.
Turkish authorities said Monday that more than 150,000 survivors have been moved to shelters outside the affected provinces. In the city of Adiyaman, Musa Bozkurt waited for a vehicle to bring him and others to western Turkey.
“We’re going away, but we have no idea what will happen when we get there,” said the 25-year-old. “We have no goal. Even if there was (a plan), what good will it be after this hour? I no longer have my father or my uncle. What do I have left?”
Fuat Ekinci, a 55-year-old farmer, was reluctant to leave his home for western Turkey, saying he did not have the means to live elsewhere and that his fields need to be tended.
“Those who have the means are leaving, but we’re poor,” he said. “The government says, go and live there a month or two. How do I leave my home? My fields are here, this is my home, how do I leave it behind?”
Volunteers from across Turkey have mobilized to help millions of survivors, including a group of chefs and restaurant owners who served traditional food such as beans and rice and lentil soup to survivors who lined up in the streets of downtown Adiyaman.
The widespread damage included heritage sites in places such as Antakya, on the southern coast of Turkey, an important ancient port and early center of Christianity historically known as Antioch. Greek Orthodox churches in the region have started charity drives to assist the relief effort and raise funds to rebuild or repair churches.
In Syria, authorities said a newborn whose mother gave birth while trapped under the rubble of their home was doing well. The baby, Aya, was found hours after the quake, still connected by the umbilical cord to her mother, who was dead. She is being breastfed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being treated.
Such accounts have given many hope, but Eduardo Reinoso Angulo, a professor at the Institute of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said the likelihood of finding people alive was “very, very small now.”
David Alexander, a professor of emergency planning and management at University College London, agreed. He said the odds were not very good to begin with.
Many of the buildings were so poorly constructed that they collapsed into very small pieces, leaving very few spaces large enough for people to survive in, Alexander said.
“If a frame building of some kind goes over, generally speaking we do find open spaces in a heap of rubble where we can tunnel in,“ Alexander said. “Looking at some of these photographs from Turkey and from Syria, there just aren’t the spaces.”
Winter conditions further reduced the window for survival. In the cold, the body shivers to keep warm, but that burns a lot of calories, meaning that people also deprived of food will die more quickly, said Dr. Stephanie Lareau, a professor of emergency medicine at Virginia Tech in the U.S.
Many in Turkey blame faulty construction for the vast devastation, and authorities have begun targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed. Turkey has introduced construction codes that meet earthquake-engineering standards, but experts say the codes are rarely enforced.
As the scale of the disaster has come into view, sorrow and disbelief have turned to rage over the sense that the emergency response was ineffective. That anger could be a political problem for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who faces a tough reelection battle in May.
Turkey’s death toll has exceeded 31,000, and the health minister said more than 19,000 survivors were being treated in hospitals. Deaths in Syria, split between rebel-held areas and government-held areas, have risen beyond 3,500, although those reported by the government haven’t been updated in days.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths met Monday with Syria’s President Bashar Assad and foreign minister after visiting Aleppo and seeing the devastating damage there.
He stressed that the United Nations doesn’t have heavy equipment for excavations or search-and-rescue efforts “so the international community as a whole needs to step up to get that aid where it’s needed.”
In addition, the U.N.’s humanitarian partners need ambulances, medicine, shelters, heaters and emergency food, water and sanitation and hygiene items, Dujarric said.
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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey, and El Deeb from Adana, Turkey. Bernat Armangue in Antakya, Tanya Titova in Malatya, Turkey, and Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed. | 2023-02-13T22:35:19+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-as-survival-window-closes-more-rescued-in-quake-in-turkey/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A government attorney for the Philippines was fatally shot in an Uber while visiting Philadelphia, officials said Sunday.
John Albert Laylo was heading to Philadelphia International Airport with his mother to board a flight and was stopped in the Uber at a red light near the University of Pennsylvania around 4:10 a.m. Saturday, officials said.
Several rounds were fired into the Uber from a black car behind it, police said. The black car then pulled up alongside the Uber and fired several more rounds into it, police said in a news release.
Laylo was shot in the back of the head and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead Sunday, police said.
No one was arrested, and no weapon has been found, police said. Authorities did not offer a suspected motive or say whether Laylo, his mother or the Uber driver were intentionally targeted. Homicide detectives are investigating and are looking for surveillance video.
The consulate general of the Philippines said the victim was an attorney for its government, Philadelphia’s KYW-TV reported.
It wasn’t clear whether the Uber driver or Laylo’s mother were injured, but the latter posted to Facebook on Sunday, indicating she had been hit by shrapnel and saying she had been on vacation with her son, whom she referred to as Jal and said was 35 years old.
“Never did I imagine or dream that … the end of our vacation will be like this!” Leah Bustamante Laylo wrote in a post accompanied by snapshots of her and her son touring sites in New York, Washington and Philadelphia. “We travelled together and we are supposed to go home together! I will bring him home soon in a box!”
Philadelphia, along with other large U.S. cities, is experiencing a surge in gun violence. In one notable episode June 4, a gun melee in the South Street entertainment district, about 3 miles from the shooting that killed Laylo, left three people dead and several others injured. | 2022-06-20T11:12:38+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/philippine-government-attorney-fatally-shot-in-philadelphia/ |
Josh Allen is the first Buffalo Bills player to be named cover athlete for the Madden video game series.
The Bills Pro Bowl quarterback was named Madden 24 cover athlete by EA Sports Wednesday, one year after being the most used player in the game. Allen called it “a childhood dream come true” on social media.
Allen, who has been a vocal proponent of the video game franchise, started last season with a 92 overall rating in the game and peaked at 96 during the season. Being named to the cover confirms his status as one of the NFL’s best and most popular players.
The 27-year-old currently ranks No. 7 in jersey sales for 2023 and had the top-selling jersey during 2022.
Allen follows John Madden, the game’s namesake, on the cover. Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady shared the cover in 2022, while Lamar Jackson was on the cover in 2021 and Mahomes in 2020.
Madden was first created in 1988, with players being used on the cover since 2001. The game is scheduled to be released Aug. 18 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 Pro, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Slim and Windows.
Former Madden cover athletes:
2001: Eddie George; 2002: Daunte Culpepper; 2003: Marshall Faulk; 2004: Michael Vick; 2005: Ray Lewis; 2006: Donovan McNabb; 2007: Shaun Alexander; 2008: Vince Young; 2009: Brett Favre; 2010: Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald; 2011: Drew Brees; 2012: Peyton Hillis; 2013: Calvin Johnson; 2014: Barry Sanders; 2015: Richard Sherman; 2016: Odell Beckham Jr.; 2017: Rob Gronkowski; 2018: Tom Brady; 2019: Antonio Brown; 2020: Patrick Mahomes; 2021: Lamar Jackson; 2022: Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes; 2023: John Madden; 2024: Josh Allen. | 2023-06-07T18:11:20+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/josh-allen-becomes-first-bills-player-to-be-featured-on-madden-cover/article_955b6a9a-054c-11ee-8503-dbb8c8857da9.html |
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Emjay, the leading cannabis retailer and delivery service based in California, proudly stands in support of actors and writers participating in the nationwide strike. In a heartfelt gesture, Emjay's Los Angeles dispensary representatives will be present at various strike locations this weekend, distributing vouchers that grant card-carrying members of SAG-AFTRA or WGA the privilege of exempting all cannabis taxes from their next purchase at Emjay.
The team from Emjay will make stops at prominent studios such as Netflix, CBS, and Fox, aiming to provide a dose of lighthearted relief to the hardworking members of SAG and WGA through cannabis.
Chris Vaughn, the CEO of Emjay, expressed enthusiasm about the team's involvement with the local community, stating, "The CBS Studio is just down the street from our West Hollywood dispensary, so we're really seeing the strikes first hand. We're excited to connect with the strikers on a deeper level and, hopefully, offer them some value while they fight for fairness."
Emjay extends the exclusive offer to card-holding members of SAG-AFTRA or the WGA, enabling them to redeem their vouchers at Emjay's Los Angeles location at 345 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, 90036, or conveniently order online for delivery through their website, heyemjay.com.
Learn more about how to get verified using the online option by visiting Emjay's blog.
The Emjay team eagerly looks forward to building stronger bonds with the creative and hardworking members of their community during these trying times.
For more information about Emjay's offerings in the Los Angeles area, please visit https://heyemjay.com/cannabis-delivery-los-angeles.
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Emjay, the premier California-based cannabis delivery and retail platform, was launched in early 2019 with a mission to redefine the cannabis shopping experience for consumers. Boasting retail locations in West Hollywood and La Mesa, California, Emjay distinguishes itself by offering an unparalleled selection of products that surpasses its competitors. Emjay's commitment to customer satisfaction is exemplified by their immediate and scheduled delivery services, providing customers with convenience at prices that surpass those offered by competing dispensaries and services.
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Updated: Jun 28, 2022 / 06:22 AM EDT | 2022-06-28T12:04:34+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/weather/allergy-alert/allergy-alert-june-27-2022/ |
NEW YORK, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS, TDSPrU, TDSPrV) between May 6, 2022 and November 3, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TDS securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the TDS class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=15807 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Company and its subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation ("UScellular"), made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants had no reason to believe UScellular's "free upgrade" promotional activity, which was tested and trialed during the second quarter of 2022, was effective at reducing the Company's postpaid churn rate as they represented to investors, as opposed to merely adding new postpaid subscribers, when its churn rate was actually increasing or remaining constant over most quarters in the class period; (2) UScellular was not making progress with respect to its churn rate, as it represented to investors; (3) UScellular was not in fact balancing its promotional activity and its profitability; (4) due to extreme competition among postpaid carriers, UScellular did not have the flexibility to offset the costs from widespread, expensive promotions with price increases; and (5) as a result of the Companies' decision for UScellular to continue engaging in heavy promotions to address its postpaid subscriber churn rate despite any lack of positive impact on churn rate, UScellular's profitability substantially declined. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. ("Sunlight" or the "Company") (NYSE: SUNL). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Sunlight and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On September 28, 2022, Sunlight issued a press release "announc[ing] that an installer liquidity event and volatile interest rates will impact its full-year 2022 financial performance" and that "[a]s a result, the Company is withdrawing its previously-provided full-year 2022 outlook metrics." Sunlight stated that "[o]ne of Sunlight's largest solar installers has notified the Company that due to cash flow challenges, the installer is in the process of winding down its operations, likely restricting its ability to fully meet its financial obligations. As a result, Sunlight expects to impair $30 to $33 million in advances to that installer on the Company's balance sheet as of September 30, 2022."
On this news, Sunlight's stock price fell $1.44 per share, or 57.14%, to close at $1.08 per share on September 29, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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(The Hill) — A Los Angeles Chargers player says he was sexually assaulted by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent at a California-area airport.
“I really just got sexually assaulted by TSA at @JohnWayneAir. After I asked the gentleman to please stop BC I’m uncomfortable and I feel that this part of the check is unnecessary (After he felt what was needed),” Chargers defensive end Sebastian Joseph-Day wrote in a tweet on Friday. “Then they told me I was the problem after 3 TSA agents swarmed me.”
In his Twitter thread, Joseph-Day called the incident with the TSA agent “extremely unnecessary and dehumanizing,” adding that he feels he’ll have to “jump through hoops” just to file a complaint on the situation.
I’m not sharing this on Twitter for sympathy,” Joseph-Day, who joined the Chargers after winning a Super Bowl with the crosstown rivals Rams in 2021, wrote in a tweet. “I’m sharing this so this group of gentleman and staff aren’t allowed to do this ever again to another human being.”
Joseph-Day said that a TSA supervisor threatened to call the police on him if he didn’t finish the search.
“It’s 1 thing if they apologized after my concerns, but the supervisor threatened to call the sheriff on me if I didn’t finish the search after I expressed I was just violated & told me to watch my mouth,” Joseph-Day said in response to John Wayne Airport’s Twitter account. “I don’t think it’s just a TSA issue.”
In a statement to Fox News, TSA said it is aware of the allegations Joseph-Day made, saying they are looking into the matter.
“TSA is aware of allegations made by a traveler who was screened by TSA officers at John Wayne Orange County Airport Friday morning. We are looking into the matter to determine if our procedures were followed and whether any corrective action needs to be taken,” the agency told Fox News.
“TSA remains committed to treating every traveler with dignity and respect while carrying out its security screening responsibilities”
The Hill has reached out to the NFLPA, the NFL’s players union, for comment and more information. | 2023-03-27T20:05:53+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/chargers-lineman-says-he-was-sexually-assaulted-by-tsa-agent/ |
Town to host memorial for newborn girl found dead in garbage truck
PLAIN CITY, Ohio (WBNS) - Police in Plain City, Ohio, are trying to unravel a mystery.
The body of a newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found in the back of a garbage truck last Thursday.
The identity of the mother or father is unknown, as well as where the infant was born or died.
Nadia Melescchuk has called Plain City, Ohio, her home for over 30 years, but she says Thursday’s tragedy shook the small town.
“It was so brutal,” she said.
Plain City Police Chief Dale McKee said no matter where the baby girl was from, she will forever be part of the community.
“I said from Day 1, I felt like this baby never had a proper life. So the one thing I wanted to do and one thing the community wanted to do is make sure that this baby had a proper burial,” he said.
Thanks to community donations, the town will be hosting a memorial Saturday at the Ferguson Funeral Home, followed by a burial at Forest Grove Cemetery. McKee said this was a joint collaboration from multiple village agencies coming together.
“This is the Plain City I know. I’ve been here 27 years. I’ve seen Plain City do this so many times and just want to help out,” he said.
Mayor Jody Carny said as a mother, she mourns with her community.
“You want to hope that everybody has a good life. In reality, there are some people out there that do not have good situations or people or family to turn to,” she said.
Carney said if you find yourself in a difficult situation as a new parent, there are resources in the community for support.
“I think our local churches are really good resources along with we have daily needs assistance, which may help young mothers that may not have a support system to finding the resources,” she said.
“Babies are precious. They are a gift from God,” Melescchuk said.
As of Wednesday evening, the investigation in the death was ongoing.
Police are reaching out to the public in hopes of receiving information about the possible parents and uncovering what happened.
Copyright 2023 WBNS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-22T15:20:35+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2023/06/22/town-host-memorial-newborn-girl-found-dead-garbage-truck/ |
The Company will donate 1% of all purchases on January 16, 2023, to the College Graduation Assistance Program Fund
LAKEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers®, the leading family-operated organic and natural grocery retailer in the U.S., is pleased to announce its upcoming in-store fundraising campaign in support of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. (JJOA) on January 16, 2023. The company is on a mission to raise $60,000 or more to JJOA's College Graduation Assistance Program (GAP) Fund by donating a portion of their sales at their stores nationwide.
The GAP Fund is used to provide scholarship endowments to directly satisfy tuition debt of students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Natural Grocers pledges to donate 1% of sales from its 165 stores, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to help students attending HBCUs achieve their goals.[i]
Raquel Isely, Vice President of Marketing for Natural Grocers states, "We're pleased to continue our partnership with Jack and Jill of America, Inc. in 2023. Through this partnership, we became aware of the GAP Fund and its life-changing contributions. Every year, a notable number of seniors attending HBCUs are ineligible to graduate due only to small, unpaid bills. We humbly support JJOA's fundraising initiative towards the GAP Fund and hope this donation can provide a direct lifeline for HBCU students to lessen the impact of tuition debt."
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER
The partnership between the two entities was born of a shared value system of commitment to the communities and families they serve through education and empowerment.
Natural Grocers has a longstanding history of giving back to its communities since it was established in 1955. With 165 stores in 21 states, Natural Grocers' commitment is manifested by supporting the health and wellbeing of its communities with free Nutrition Education and high-quality affordable health and wellness choices that are accessible to all.
Founded in 1938, JJOA is proudly engaged with 262 chapters, representing more than 50,000 family members making a difference in communities nationwide. The organization is dedicated to nurturing future African American leaders by strengthening children through leadership development, volunteer service, philanthropic giving, and civic duty.
In addition to the national fundraising campaign on January 16, 2023, the partnership extends to a year-round give-back program with 13 JJOA regional chapters based in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, and Arkansas. Every JJOA member in these markets has received a Natural Grocers + Jack and Jill of America Partnership card, which when presented at a Natural Grocers checkout automatically triggers an uncapped 5% of sales give-back to the organization. 2.5% goes back to their chapter and 2.5% goes to the JJOA HBCU GAP Fund. Members also receive additional cards to share with friends and family.
Visit the Natural Grocers' Store Directory to find the nearest participating store. Additional details on the partnership can be found here.
- Click here to learn more about the Jack and Jill Foundation of America, Inc. and the College GAP Fund.
- TEXT "CloseTheGAP" to 44321 to directly support the College GAP Fund and educate students from HBCUs.
- For media inquiries contact kmacarelli@naturalgrocers.com.
ABOUT NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE
Founded in 1955, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company will have 165 stores in 21 states. Visit www.naturalgrocers.com for more information and store locations.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israel's prime minister Thursday that he condemns any attempts to deny or downplay the Holocaust, offering reassurance after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sparked outrage with remarks to that effect earlier this week.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Scholz in Berlin, Abbas on Tuesday accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years. Scholz, who was standing next to Abbas, didn't immediately react to the comments but later strongly criticized them.
Scholz's office said the German leader spoke by phone Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid to discuss relations between their countries.
“The chancellor emphasized that he sharply condemns any attempt to deny or relativize the Holocaust,” Scholz spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said.
“The comments by President Abbas in Berlin were intolerable and completely unacceptable to (the chancellor) and the entire German government,” Hebestreit said.
“Keeping alive the memory of the civilizational rupture of the Shoah is an everlasting responsibility of this and every German government,” he added, referring to the Holocaust by the commonly used Hebrew word.
Lapid's office said he thanked Scholz both in his role as Israeli prime minister and as the son of Holocaust survivors.
Post-war German governments have long argued that the word Holocaust refers to a unique crime: the systematic murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis and their henchmen during the Third Reich.
On Wednesday, Abbas appeared to walk back his comments. His office said in a written statement that the Palestinian leader's reference "was not intended to deny the singularity of the Holocaust that occurred in the last century.”
While Abbas’ remarks drew outrage in Europe, the United States and Israel — Lapid called them “not only a moral disgrace, but a monstrous lie" — Scholz received criticism as well for not intervening immediately at the news conference held at his chancellery.
“That a relativization of the Holocaust, especially in Germany, at a press conference in the Federal Chancellery, goes unchallenged, I consider scandalous,” said Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Abbas' comments came in response to an Associated Press question about the the 50th anniversary of the attack by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, which resulted in the death of 11 members of the Israeli team and a German police officer.
In their call, Scholz and Lapid also agreed to meet in Berlin soon. Lapid took over as interim prime minister earlier this summer after the government he helped form collapsed. He hopes to hold on to the job after Israelis head to the polls in November.
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Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report. | 2022-08-18T13:08:01+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/In-call-with-Israeli-PM-Scholz-condemns-17381532.php |
MOBILE, Ala., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Distributed Ledger, Inc. (DLI), a blockchain and cryptocurrency service provider, is excited to announce Bitcoin mining is coming to the City of Mobile, Alabama in partnership with the GulfQuest Maritime Museum Board in the form of a new sustainable revenue source poised to fuel growth for the next decade.
The City of Mobile is home to one of the largest ports in the United States with a trade volume of over 65 million per year. To honor Mobile's 340-year historic port and its competitive intermodal based maritime industry, GulfQuest was opened in 2015 as a 120,000 sq ft non-profit interactive museum that sits on the mouth of the Mobile River dedicated to showcasing and telling the story of the maritime heritage of Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. Rooted in history, GulfQuest plays an integral role in portraying the city and state's history, while keeping its eyes on the use case of our maritime industry's competitive growth. Maersk Shipping, the world's largest container shipper, already has 50% of all containers globally on its dynamic TradeLens Blockchain. The entire world is moving in the direction of Blockchain and bitcoin in all industries and governments.
DLI is using a modified shipping container to house 100 of Bitmain's Antminer S19s all of which will be fully air cooled on-site. These machines will mine Bitcoin around the clock as it lays the groundwork for government funding and subsequent infrastructure funded through crypto mining revenue.
The evident monetary gains are just the beginning as DLI and GulfQuest drive blockchain adoption on a government scale. Former Mobile Mayor Mike Dow and current Executive Director of GulfQuest Board states, "The hi-tech revenue source of Bitcoin mining, is tied to the education, adoption and growth of the next level of encrypted and secure growth of the internet designed to provide a dramatic time and cost savings and a higher level of security for the global maritime industry." The city's willingness to explore more use cases in blockchain and cryptocurrency is evident with the passing of DLI's and GulfQuest's bitcoin mining project in Mobile's City Council Meeting for April 2022.
"We couldn't be more excited at the opportunity to bring blockchain technology and bitcoin to the State of Alabama and more importantly, the great City of Mobile. Our goal at DLI is simple, help companies and institutions with the understanding, accumulation, and usage of cryptocurrency." - Mike Francis, Distributed Ledger CEO
About Distributed Ledger, Inc.: DLI is a blockchain technology company headquartered in Daphne, Alabama with additional offices in Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin, and Mexico.
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MIAMISBURG, Ohio (WXIN) — A toy sold at Walmart stores nationwide up until July is being recalled because it can tip forward when a young child is riding it.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves Blue’s Clues Foot to Floor Ride-on toys. This toy is made with plush light blue fabric with spots and is in the shape of the iconic Nickelodeon dog Blue.
The ride-on toy has four wheels with handlebars tucked behind the dog’s ears. It’s intended for toddlers 18 months to 3 years old.
The recall was initiated after Huffy Corporation received 19 reports of children falling forward while they were riding the toy. 18 facial injuries have been reported.
The recalled model number is 55061 with the date codes of 15221,15921, 19921, 21021, 22321, 23721, 26821, 28821 or 29421. The date code and model number are on the label located under the body of the product near the sound unit and battery door.
Anyone with the recalled toy should put away from children immediately. They can contact the firm for a free kit with instructions to install a new stop bar on the toy.
Anyone with questions can contact Huffy Corporation at 800-872-2453 from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, or by sending an email to service@huffy.com. | 2022-08-26T01:28:04+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/blues-clues-toy-recalled-after-children-suffer-facial-injuries/ |
In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it’s natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change.
Much of what’s causing problems worldwide is coming out of a roiling Pacific Ocean, transported by a wavy jet stream, experts said.
At least one highway in drought-mired California looked more like a river because of torrential rain from what is technically called an atmospheric river of moisture. New Year’s brought shirtsleeve weather to the U.S. East and record high temperatures to Europe as the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday was more than 2.6 degrees (1.4 degrees Celsius) hotter than the late 20th century average. And this is after frigid air escaped the Arctic to create a Christmas mess for much of the United States.
“All the ingredients are in place for two weeks of wild weather especially in the Western U.S.,” private meteorologist Ryan Maue said in an email.
Maue said the big driver is a three-year La Nina — natural temporary cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters world weather patterns — that just won’t quit. It is creating literal waves in the weather systems that ripple across the globe. And on certain parts of the waves are storms where the atmospheric pressure drops low and quickly, called bomb cyclones, that are quite wet, and they travel on atmospheric waves that transport the weather called the jet stream.
The jet stream now is unusually wavy, said Maue and Woodwell Climate Research Center climate scientist Jennifer Francis. The storms dip over the warm subtropics “and create a conveyor belt of of moisture to strafe the West Coast of the U.S,” Maue said.
“I’d describe the jet stream and bomb cyclones as a runaway Pacific freight train loaded with moisture,” said Maue, former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Trump administration. “Climate change adds more fuel to the locomotive engine.”
More than 5 inches of rain fell on Saturday in the Sacramento area and California braced for bigger storms Wednesday and Thursday. As of Wednesday, snowpack was third highest in 40 years, more than 170% of normal.
In addition to La Nina, a different natural temporary weather event called the Madden-Julian Oscillation enhances storms in the western Pacific, Maue said.
Francis points to a “blob” of warm sea water off the Aleutian Islands, a phenomena that is happening more often, and a ‘’crazy warm” Arctic — Wednesday it was 5.8 degrees (3.2 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1979-2000 average — as part of what’s juicing up the Pacific.
And with a wavier than normal jet stream, extremes of all kinds go up and down and around the planet, Francis said.
“You can think of it like a jump rope. When you start to flick it at one end, that ripple goes through the whole jump rope eventually,” Francis said Wednesday. “And so it could be that the waving as such, being perhaps driven in the Pacific, could be accentuating it also over Europe.”
A weather station in Delemont, Switzerland, on the French border, smashed its January record with an average daily temperature of 18.1 degrees Celsius (nearly 65 Fahrenheit) on the first day of the year. In Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday it broke a January record at 17.2 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) and it was 17.9 degrees Celsius (64.2 Fahrenheit) in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, according to extreme weather tracker Maximiliano Herrera.
Swiss weather service MeteoSuisse quipped on its blog: “… this turn of the new year could almost make you forget that it’s the height of winter.”
This extreme weather has “a silver lining,” especially with the record heat in Europe in January easing winter heating fuel crunches caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, said Colorado meteorologist Bob Henson of Yale Climate Connections. And California, where there’s been a more than 20-year megadrought that worsens wildfires, is getting much-needed rain and snow — too much of it, actually.
Roads and levees in California were washed out early in the week. Schools were closed Wednesday in the San Francisco area as more than 8,000 sandbags were given out in anticipation of extensive flooding. Flights were cancelled.
“Excessive rainfall over already saturated soils will result in rapid rises on creeks, streams and rivers as well as flooding in urban areas,” forecasters said in a report.
Except for the impressive record heat in Europe, “which is yet another example of the manifestation of human-induced climate change,” Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said he finds nothing too unusual.
Weather is naturally extreme “so the recent events we’ve been seeing can occur naturally,” said Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Masters now at Yale Climate Connections. “But with the disruption to global weather patterns that climate change is bringing the probability of seeing unusual weather events in any season increases.”
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President Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term at the end of April and sworn in over the weekend. But his right-wing rival Marine Le Pen did better than last time, implying a divided France.
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President Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term at the end of April and sworn in over the weekend. But his right-wing rival Marine Le Pen did better than last time, implying a divided France.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-05-10T22:01:25+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-05-10/macron-won-frances-presidency-but-the-votes-indicate-an-increasingly-divided-nation |
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Taking a break in the paddock after watching Max Verstappen during a practice session Saturday at the Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne teenager Kaitlyn Bourne was loving her day at the track.
The 17-year-old Bourne, who was wearing a clear plastic poncho over a Red Bull sweater on a wintry day at Albert Park, is a massive fan of Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo, who is sitting out this season.
But Bourne, who comes from a motorsport-loving family and watches every Grand Prix race, hopes that one day she will have the chance to support a female F1 driver.
“It is still a very male dominated sport, so it would be good to bring in more females. I think it could happen,” she said.
There has not been a woman driver in a Formula 1 race for more than 40 years. But with estimates suggesting that 40% of current Formula 1 fans are female, the motorsport industry is making a concerted effort to ensure that changes.
The highest-profile female driver in recent years has been Danica Patrick. The now-retired American is the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel car racing — her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in an IndyCar Series race.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said this week in Melbourne he believes gender equality in the sport is inevitable.
“I think it is fantastic to see the amount of girls, females, that are showing interest in Formula One now and we’re seeing it at all levels,” he said. “I think the interest is growing. It is appealing to more women to get involved in the sport, whether that is from an engineering basis, or across all aspects of the organization.
“As the sport does become more accessible, and we are pushing to make it more accessible, I think that is something that will naturally happen anyway.”
Horner was responding to reports that a team evenly divided between men and women from the cockpit to the executive offices was looking to enter F1 within two to three years.
Former British American Racing founder Craig Pollock told CNN last week he hoped to debut “Formula Equal” from the 2025 or 2026 season.
FIA chief executive Mohammed ben Sulayem posted on social media that he had instructed his staff to consider launching an “expressions of interest” process for prospective teams.
Pollock said he had interest from financial backers for his proposal to field an 11th team.
“Our ambition is to deliver and build opportunities and pathways for women to get to the very top level inside motorsports,” Pollock told CNN. “The concept and the idea is to try and build a Formula One team (that is) 50% male, 50% female, which is extremely hard to do if you have an existing Formula One team. It’s a lot easier with a clean sheet of paper.”
Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer said the importance of equality in Formula One was clear to all participants.
“So anything we can do to increase diversity in F1, I think everyone here would welcome it,” he said.
Bourne, whose interest in Formula One increased via the Netflix hit series Drive to Survive, said the introduction of the W Series in 2019 was a step in the right direction. That series was criticized for not including any female drivers, even from the W series.
“I think it is getting better. I know there is a women’s series now. So that is good,” she said.
Aaliya Ally, who is also from Melbourne, was attending the race with a friend.
“In terms of gender equality, I think it is good that there are more opportunities for women,” she said. “But I hope that it continues to get better and better and that they keep expanding it.”
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More AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-01T20:24:35+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports-news/gender-equality-coming-to-a-formula-one-racing-team-soon/ |
Jessica Green kept the phone sealed in its original box assuming one day it would become a collector's item. She plans to use the proceeds from the sale to fund her cosmetic tattoo business.
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Jessica Green kept the phone sealed in its original box assuming one day it would become a collector's item. She plans to use the proceeds from the sale to fund her cosmetic tattoo business.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-22T11:09:23+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2023-02-22/a-first-edition-8-gigabyte-2007-iphone-from-2007-sells-for-more-than-63-000 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for a visit focused on semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
His visit is the latest in a recent string by U.S. politicians that have angered China, which claims the self-governing island off its coast as part of its territory and says the visits encourage Taiwan independence forces.
Ducey is on a mission to woo suppliers for the new $12 billion Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) plant being built in his state. He is traveling with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry president and the head of the state’s economic development agency.
He will meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, business leaders and university representatives in the semiconductor industry, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The governor’s office said he will travel to South Korea and meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and business leaders later this week.
“The goal of this trade mission is to take these relationships to the next level – to strengthen them, expand them and ensure they remain mutually beneficial.”
American states are competing to attract a multibillion-dollar wave of investment in chip factories as the U.S. government steps up spending on expanding the U.S. semiconductor industry with a recently passed law. Last week, the Indiana governor visited Taiwan for a similar purpose.
Taiwan produces more than half the global supply of high-end processor chips.
U.S. officials worry that the United States relies too heavily on Taiwan and other Asian suppliers for processor chips used in smartphones, medical devices, cars and most other electronic devices.
Those worries have been aggravated by tensions with China over technology and security. The potential for disruption was highlighted by chip shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic that sent shockwaves through the auto and electronics industries.
Beijing fired missiles into the sea near the island starting on Aug. 4 after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited, disrupting shipping and air traffic, and highlighting the possibility that chip exports might be interrupted.
A law approved by Congress on July 29 promises more than $52 billion in grants and other aid to develop the U.S. semiconductor industry and a 25% tax credit for investors in chip factories in the United States.
State governments are now promising tax breaks and grants to lure chip factories they hope will become centers for high-tech industry.
Intel Corp., the only major U.S. producer, announced plans in March 2021 to build two chip factories in Arizona at a cost of $20 billion. The company has had another facility in Arizona since 1980.
In January, Intel announced plans to invest $20 billion in a chip factory in Ohio.
TSMC, headquartered in Taiwan and which makes chips for Apple Inc. and other customers, announced plans last year to invest $3.5 billion in its second U.S. manufacturing site on the northern outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.
The company recently completed construction of the main buildings at the $12 billion north Phoenix facility and can now start moving in manufacturing equipment, with production expected to start by 2024, according to Ducey’s office. TSMC’s decision to build the facility has led other Taiwan-based suppliers to expand in Arizona, with investments totaling $1 billion already announced.
Ducey’s five-day trip to Taiwan and South Korea comes as the Republican governor prepares to leave office because of term limits in January. One of the former businessman’s major focuses in his eight years in office has been on boosting Arizona’s economy by adding to its manufacturing base. New electric vehicle companies have begun production, adding to its existing semiconductor firms.
South Korea’s LG Energy Solutions announced in April that it planned to invest $1.4 billion to build an electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility on land it purchased in the Phoenix suburb of Queen Creek. The company later said it would reassess its plans because of changing global economic conditions. Arizona development officials continue to work with LG.
U.S. semiconductor manufacturing has long been established in Arizona, and the state has more than 200 production facilities in addition to Intel and the new TSMC plant.
TSMC’s first U.S. semiconductor wafer fabrication facility is in Camas, Washington. It also operates design centers in San Jose, California, and Austin, Texas.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics says it will break ground in 2024 for a $17 billion chip factory near Austin, Texas. The state says it is the biggest single investment to date in Texas.
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McDonald reported from Beijing, China. Associated Press Reporter Bob Christie contributed from Phoenix. | 2022-08-31T03:59:51+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/ap-arizona-governor-to-focus-on-semiconductors-in-taiwan-visit/ |
The Bismarck Larks entered Saturday on a five game losing streak, but had a favorable opponent at home to try and turn things around.
The Larks defeated the La Crosse Loggers 9-7 in the second of their four game series.
In the Expedition League, the Souris Valley Sabre Dogs extended their win streak to nine games with a walk-off win over Red River 4-3. | 2022-06-12T04:18:46+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/local-sports/larks-snap-losing-streak-with-win-over-la-crosse/ |
Colorado’s Tad Boyle is on the verge of becoming the winningest coach in program history, and he will do it with a young squad looking to make waves in the Pac-12 and reach the NCAA Tournament.
Boyle is entering his 13th season on the Buffaloes’ bench and has amassed a 254-155 career record and five NCAA Tournament appearances. He needs eight wins to pass Sox Walseth atop the Colorado chart for coaching victories, and he goes for his first when the Buffs host UC Riverside on Monday night in Boulder.
Boyle’s roster is flush with inexperienced players but he is optimistic about the season.
“I love where our program is right now,” Boyle said recently. “We’ve had great continuity in our coaching staff. We’ve had great continuity with our players.”
Colorado has two returning starters in juniors Tristan da Silva and Nique Clifford, while KJ Simpson will build on a solid freshman season. Julian Hammond III will be counted on to provide more production in his sophomore year and big men Luke O’Brien and Lawson Lovering hope to make bigger leaps this year.
Lovering is a 7-footer whose freshman season was shortened by injury. He averaged just 1.9 rebounds last year but showed he can do more by grabbing five boards in 20 minutes in an exhibition win against Nebraska on Sunday.
The Highlanders, picked to finish fifth in the preseason Big West coaches poll, are facing a Pac-12 opponent for the second straight year — and hope for the same results. UC Riverside beat Arizona State 66-65 on the road when J.P. Moorman II made a 70-foot heave at the buzzer.
Moorman has moved on but the Highlanders have a senior guard in Zyon Pullin, who was named to the preseason All-Big West team. They also have Flynn Cameron, who scored 21 points in a 94-79 exhibition win against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Oct. 28.
Cameron is one of five players head coach Mike Magpayo has recruited from New Zealand and Australia.
“He is an outstanding recruiter, leader, and developer of student-athletes and coaches, and he does things the right way,” UC Riverside athletic director Wes Mallette said of Magpayo.
–Field Level Media | 2022-11-04T11:51:15+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ncaa-mens-basketball/tad-boyle-opens-13th-season-at-colorado-vs-uc-riverside/ |
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BROWNSVILLE - A Brownsville woman said she got her money back for a headstone order she wanted canceled.
Adela Alvarez said she chose a psalm to put in on her husband's headstone after he died last July.
Alvarez said she made arrangements in December with Roseland Memorial Gardens in Brownsville.
When she went to make her first payment in March, she said the terms of her agreement were different.
Martinez said she decided it would be better to make a headstone elsewhere and asked for a refund. She said the company wasn't responsive.
When asked about the issues, Roseland Memorial Gardens sent us the following statement:
"We do not discuss specific client concerns with the media. Instead, it is our policy to work to resolve any possible concerns directly with client families. However, we understand that this matter has been resolved and to the satisfaction of the customer."
Alvarez later told CHANNEL 5 NEWS she received a check for the amount she wanted returned. | 2023-02-10T12:36:06+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/videos/brownsville-woman-receives-refund-on-gravestone |
Christmas Day 2022 falls on a Sunday - a day when most government services are closed year-round.
That means the holiday will be “observed” by many on Monday, Dec. 26. The best plan, however, if you want to conduct business the day after Christmas, is to call first. This listing assumes everything listed is closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25.
- Banks: Closed Dec. 26.
- CAT: Fixed route service ends at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 24. Wherever fixed route buses are in their route at that time will turn around at that location (even mid-route) and begin inbound. No service on Dec. 25. On Dec. 26, fixed route service will operate on a Saturday service schedule. No trips will leave the downtown Harrisburg Transfer Center after 6 p.m. and service will end by 6:30 p.m.
- County government: Adams and Cumberland counties closed Dec. 23 and Dec. 26. Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties closed Dec. 26. Perry County closed Dec. 26 and Dec. 27.
- Federal government: The Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Harrisburg will be closed Dec. 26.
- Grocery stores: Aldi, B.J.’s Wholesale Club, Costco, Giant, Karns, Sam’s Club, Sharp Shopper, Walmart, Wegmans and Weis are closed on Dec. 25 but will be open on Monday, Dec. 26. Most grocery stores also will close early on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24.
- Harrisburg parking: Free Dec. 24-26.
- Libraries: Dauphin County Library System - closed Dec. 24-25. Cumberland County Library System - Coy, closed Dec. 23-26; New Cumberland, closing at 1 p.m. Dec. 23, closed Dec. 24-26; East Pennsboro, closing at 3 p.m. Dec. 22, closed Dec. 24-25; Fredricksen, John Graham, closed Dec. 24-25; Amelia Givin, Bosler, Simpson, closed Dec. 24-26. Lebanon County Library System - Annville closed Dec. 23, all libraries closed Dec. 24-26. Middletown Public Library - Closed Dec. 23-25. Hershey Public Library - Closed Dec. 24-25.
- Liquor stores: All stores will close by 6 p.m. Dec. 24. All stores closed Dec. 25.
- Municipal government: Camp Hill, Carlisle, Derry Twp., East Pennsboro Twp., Hampden Twp., Middlesex Twp., Palmyra and Susquehanna Twp. are closed Dec. 26. South Middleton Twp. is closing early on Dec. 23 and is closed Dec. 26. Dillsburg, Lemoyne and Silver Spring Twp. are closed Dec. 23 and Dec. 26. Harrisburg is closed Dec. 26-27.
- PA Media Group: Closed Dec. 26.
- PennDOT: Closed Dec. 24 and Dec. 26.
- Post Office: Closed Dec. 26.
- Public schools: Closed the week between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Some schools also are closed on Dec. 23 including Annville-Cleona, Carlisle, Central Dauphin, Derry Twp., Halifax, Harrisburg, Mechanicsburg and West Shore. Lower Dauphin has a half day on Dec. 23. East Pennsboro Twp., Millersburg and Palmyra will dismiss early on Dec. 23. Harrisburg and Derry Twp. will dismiss early on Dec. 22.
- Rabbittransit: Fixed route service will end at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 24. York fixed route service will make its last departure from the King Street Station at 5:30 p.m. No service on Dec. 25.
- Retail stores: Most closed Dec. 25. Most open Dec. 26.
- State government: Closed Dec. 26.
- Trash collection: Trash collection is not likely to be affected because the holiday falls on a weekend. | 2022-12-22T12:13:16+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/12/christmas-day-2022-is-a-sunday-will-i-get-mail-on-monday-will-the-liquor-store-be-open.html |
An 11-member team of Wright State University students earned a high honor in a worldwide synthetic biology research project competition held in Paris in October.
Their project? How to detect dangerous manganese in drinking water and soil. Their competition? About 6,500 students competing across 45 countries in 346 other teams. Their high honor? A silver medal.
They are Wright State’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team, part of Biotechnology Outreach Bolstered through Education in STEM and Development, or BioBESTD, a Defense Department program to develop a national workforce in biotechnology.
Scientists from Wright State’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Air Force Research Laboratory mentored the team.
“We’ve been working on this since February 2022,” said Jaidan Peters, a senior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology from New Carlisle. “It was an almost yearlong effort, to do the preliminary research, collect data — this has been our baby. To see our hard work come back to us in the form of a silver medal, we’re all excited and proud of what we’ve done.”
The silver medal recognizes that the team’s project exceeded a number of standards. Other teams earned silver honors, as well as higher gold awards and lesser bronze honors.
The event was the iGEM Grand Jamboree, a global synthetic biology competition for young science, technology, education and math researchers. Peters, who traveled to Paris for the competition, said there were about 3,500 participants there in person and 3,000 taking part online.
Madhavi Kadakia, Ph.D., vice provost for research and innovation, said the team’s project “involves the development of a biological sensor to detect manganese from water and soil samples. Their rationale was the manganese levels above World Health Organization limits occur in developing countries and are associated with neurologic dysfunction and Parkinson’s-like disease.”
Kadakia, who accompanied those on the iGEM team who went to Paris, said the team “worked on a sensor for detecting manganese contamination in water and soil samples using synthetic biology approaches to both sense and sequester manganese.”
The goal is to use the system to filter manganese from drinking water in a better way than existing methods.
“Everyone focuses on lead,” Peters said, “but how many people know about manganese contamination? It’s just as bad. We were meeting a need that we felt wasn’t being met.”
The members met as a team for about an hour a week and otherwise worked on their own. They also met with their mentors weekly.
The team members, their class, major and hometown are:
- Jaidan Peters, senior, biochemistry and molecular biology, New Carlisle
- Alex Stone, junior, biomedical engineering, Piqua
- Crista Hernandez, sophomore, biomedical engineering, Fairborn
- Emma Tetlak, junior, marketing and human resource management, Dayton
- Sara McLain, senior, biochemistry and molecular biology, Bloomington, Indiana
- Padma Deepa Doppalapudi, sophomore, electrical engineering, Beavercreek
- Paulette Aruagbon-Ogbomo, junior, biomedical engineering, Dayton
- Natasha Kennel, sophomore, physiology and neuroscience, Beavercreek
- Madeline Gruenberg, junior, biochemistry and molecular biology, Centerville
- Megan King, junior, biochemistry and molecular biology, Johnstown
- Jeremy Rismiller, senior, chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology, Ansonia
In addition to Kadakia, the team was mentored by Michael Craig, Ph.D., research associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Weiwen Long, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology; and Amy Breedon, Ph.D., Michael Goodson, Ph.D., Chia Hung, Ph.D., Claretta Sullivan, Ph.D., and Nancy Kelley-Loughnane, Ph.D., of the Air Force Research Lab.
Craig and Gruenberg were with Kadakia and Peters in Paris.
Noting that not all the team members were biochemistry majors, Peters said, “The bond is we all have a passion for science.”
He added that being on iGEM shows a passion for research experience and leadership.
Wright State’s iGEM team was founded in 2021 with funds Kadakia secured. The iGEM team is supported through a subcontract through UES, Inc., and is part of the larger BioBESTD program.
That 2021 team won a bronze award. Kennel was a member of that team.
“Being a part of last year’s team definitely showcased the challenges of conducting a science competition in the midst of a global pandemic,” she said. “Having to adjust our project to accommodate virtual means was a first for our mentors. That’s why as a returning iGEM team this season we were very fortunate to have that experience from last year to help guide us.”
As for this year, she added, “I am not shocked that we received the rating that we did and knew we would perform well with how much preparation we did for the competition, but to be completely honest I found out the results during my 8 a.m. calculus class and had to contain myself from jumping out of my seat. I am really proud of what our team was able to accomplish this year.”
“Maybe next year,” Peters said, “we’ll get a gold medal.”
About the Author | 2022-12-22T13:45:46+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/gem-of-a-team-takes-silver-in-paris/KTRHNL4D6VG7LE3UABPMUDBQAA/ |
SARDIS CITY, Ala. (WAFF) - It’s Groundhog Day and that means its time to head to Sardis City, Alabama, to hear from everyone’s favorite meteorologist, Sand Mountain Sam.
Many people are familiar with Punxsutawney Phil, but not many people know about Sand Mountain Sam in Marshall County. Sam is an opossum who makes a prediction about the weather around Feb. 2 each year.
Sam predicted that an early spring is on the way in 2023. | 2023-02-02T21:54:27+00:00 | wandtv.com | https://www.wandtv.com/news/sand-mountain-sam-predicts-early-spring-on-groundhog-day/article_0e9d4aac-a334-11ed-bf9d-2319a6f0b224.html |
Detroit Lions predictions vs. Dallas Cowboys: Why Lions may be in for another tough loss
Free Press sports writers share their predictions with the Detroit Lions' latest game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday (1 p.m., CBS) in Arlington, Texas:
Dave Birkett
The Cowboys should be an angry bunch coming off last week’s loss to the Eagles, and Dak Prescott’s return makes their roster whole again. They have a ferocious pass rush, a balanced offense and they’ve held five of their six opponents under 20 points this season. The Lions can’t expect to win that low-scoring a game given the state of their defense, but their recipe for an upset is to run the ball. They need to keep Micah Parsons and the rest of the Cowboys front at bay, and sneak a big play or two out of their passing game or special teams. Anything short of that, and the Lions’ meager postseason hopes will fall even further out of reach. The pick: Cowboys 31, Lions 21.
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Carlos Monarrez
Prescott’s return and Parsons’ uncanny defensive versatility might be too much for the Lions to overcome, even with the bye week to prepare. But don’t count the Lions out entirely. Prescott might be rusty and the Cowboys’ defense, while amazing, had a hard time last week stopping Philly’s offense, which is comparable to the Lions’. The pick: Cowboys 30, Lions 26.
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Jeff Seidel
The Lions will try to keep the score down — and their defense off the field — with a slow-motion, run-oriented attack. That might keep the score down and limit the number of possessions, but it's not gonna help in the win column. Dallas rolls. The Lions roll over. The pick: Cowboys 31, Lions 21.
Shawn Windsor
The Lions will keep it competitive for a while and let’s give the offense two touchdowns and a field goal — Dan Campbell will go for two and miss. But with Prescott back and the state of the Lions’ defense still a mess, the Cowboys pull away. The pick: Cowboys 27, Lions 16.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and its Idaho tributaries must stay in effect.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division review made public Thursday found that steelhead, spring and summer chinook, sockeye and fall chinook that return to Idaho in rivers from the Pacific Ocean still need their federal protections.
The protections include limits on fishing, restrictions on how much water can be used for irrigation, pollution controls for industries and dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The review said that threats from climate change increase the urgency of completing recommended fish recovery actions — including improving fish passage at hydropower dams, restoring their habitats, controlling predators and changing hatchery practices.
Of the four species that return to Idaho, sockeye salmon are considered the most imperiled and were classified as endangered in 1991. The fish reproduces in high mountain lakes in central Idaho and they teetered on extinction for much of the 1990s.
An elaborate hatchery program operated by the Idaho Department of Fish and game that tracks the genetic history of individual fish is aimed at restoring the species.
But the population of the sockeye salmon has not improved much since it was listed as endangered, the review said. The species remains “at high risk of extinction” amid challenges from climate change, a lack of food in oceans blamed on water warming and because of sea lion predation.
Snake River spring and summer chinook, classified as threatened in 1992, include fish populations in part of the Snake River and in Washington state in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers. The fish are also deemed threatened in parts of Idaho’s Salmon River.
Historically, the fish spawned in Idaho areas that they can no longer reach, including above the Hells Canyon Dam and parts of the Clearwater River basin, the federal review said.
“Overall, the information analyzed for this 5-year review indicates an increased level of concern in the risk status” for the fish, researchers wrote.
The researchers cited declining population trends and that no fish populations are reaching a minimum threshold set by the Interior Columbia Technical Recovery Team. The team works to interpret information related to fish recovery.
Fall chinook were classified as threatened in 1992 and include fish in the mainstem Snake River below Hells Canyon Dam, the Salmon River and Clearwater River basins and in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers in Washington state.
Those fish could be recovered by reintroducing them above above the Hells Canyon Dam complex. But Idaho officials have fought that option, fearing protections for fish above the dams could limit riverside farming and ranching operations.
The review found that the fish extinction risk has decreased for Snake River fall chinook, but “the implementation of sound management actions to address hydropower, habitat, hatcheries, harvest and predation remain essential to recovery.”
Steelhead, a favored sport fish classified as threatened in 1997, include fish in the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers and in the Tucannon, Grande Ronde and Imnaha rivers in Washington state. The review noted that there are no longer any steelhead that once spawned in tributaries above Hells Canyon Dam. | 2022-08-20T17:38:41+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/us-protections-for-idaho-salmon-steelhead-are-here-to-stay/ |
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