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WASHINGTON – Democrats are picking an early fight with the House Republican majority over committee seats, nominating two California lawmakers for the Intelligence Committee in open defiance of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's vow to block them.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a letter sent to McCarthy over the weekend, asked that Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell be reappointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a prestigious panel with access to sensitive, classified information. There is no “precedent or justification” for rejecting them, Jeffries said.
The letter amounts to an early test for McCarthy as he settles into the speakership, with the Republican rank-and-file looking to the Californian to follow through on his public pronouncements. McCarthy has warned that Republicans in the majority could extract a measure of revenge against Democrats for stripping Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona from their committee assignments in the last Congress.
Democrats said they were justified in removing Greene and Gosar from committees because of incendiary commentary, including on social media, they they said incited potential violence against colleagues. McCarthy adamantly opposed both actions and described them as partisan power grabs.
The speaker’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Jeffries' letter.
Both Schiff and Swalwell are veterans of the Intelligence panel. Schiff was the committee’s chairman for four years and served as the lead impeachment manager for then-President Donald Trump’s first Senate trial, in which Trump was acquitted over charges related to his pressure on Ukraine’s leader to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden. McCarthy recently said that Schiff “put America for four years through an impeachment that he knew was a lie.”
McCarthy tried to have Swalwell removed from the Intelligence panel in March 2021 based on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy. His resolution against Swalwell, which was voted down in the Democratic-led House, cited information that the suspected spy, Christine Fang, came into contact with Swalwell’s campaign as he was first running for Congress in 2012 and participated in fundraising for his 2014 campaign.
Federal investigators alerted Swalwell to their concerns and briefed Congress about Fang in 2015, at which point Swalwell says he cut off contact with her.
McCarthy has said that “if you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Swalwell on any committee.”
But Schiff told colleagues back in 2021 that Republican leaders, including then-House Speaker John Boehner and the then-chairman of the intelligence panel, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, were briefed on the situation with Swalwell at the time and “expressed no opposition to his continued service" on the Intelligence committee.
Jeffries denied that the actions against Greene and Gosar set a precedent, emphasizing in his letter to McCarthy that some Republicans joined with Democrats in stripping them of their committee seats. In Greene’s case, it was 11 Republicans. In Gosar’s case, two.
“This action was taken by both Democrats and Republicans given the seriousness of the conduct involved, particularly in the aftermath of the violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol,” Jeffries said in the letter. “It does not serve as precedent or justification for the removal of Representatives Schiff and Swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior.”
He noted that Republicans have placed freshman Rep. George Santos, R-.N.Y., on two committees, despite his rampant lies to voters about his background and credentials.
“The apparent double standard risks undermining the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that is so desperately needed in Congress,” Jeffries said.
Appointments to the Intelligence panel, and other select committees, are the prerogative of the speaker, in consultation with the minority leader.
Swalwell asked Jeffries to name him to the panel, citing his experience as a county prosecutor. He said in a January 5th letter to Jeffries it is not for the speaker to remove members from committees based on “fabricated stories or political revenge.”
Schiff issued a similar letter, stating “there is no basis for his threatened retaliation other than placating the most extreme members of his party.”
Jeffries letter over the weekend did not mention another lawmaker McCarthy has threatened to have removed from her committee, Rep. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota. A Democratic policy panel meets this week and is expected to seat Omar on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Removing her from the panel would require a majority vote in the House.
Omar has at times clashed with fellow Democrats over Middle East policy. Two months after she arrived in Congress in 2019, the House approved a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry — without mentioning her by name — after she made remarks that critics said accused Israel supporters of having dual allegiances.
Two years later, Omar tweeted an exchange with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a video conference in which she called for justice “for all victims of crimes against humanity.”
In remarks that drew the most attention, she said, “We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. I asked @SecBlinken where people are supposed to go for justice.”
She would say later her remarks were “in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries.”
Omar in her letter said that she would be honored to continue serving on the Foreign Affairs panel, where she could offer a unique perspective as a Somali-American, a refugee and the only Africa-born member of Congress. | 2023-01-23T22:56:33+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/01/23/democrats-defy-mccarthy-with-2-selections-for-intel-panel/ |
New Papaya Global SuiteApp meets Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform development standards and best practices.
TEL AVIV, Israel and LAS VEGAS, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Papaya Global, the leading global people management platform for the remote working era, today announced that its Papaya Global SuiteApp has reached the "Built for NetSuite" status. The new SuiteApp, built using the Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, helps organizations improve visibility into global payroll and simplify audit trails for complex workforces. This provides finance leaders with a complete ledger of all employee costs including payroll, benefits, taxes, and reimbursements.
As global hiring and remote work expands for organizations, so have the challenges of siloed systems and complex compliance requirements. As a result, business leaders, especially CFOs, struggle to consolidate multi-country workforce costs and data related to payroll — creating blind spots around the business's biggest cost and greatest asset.
"Previously, organizations had to rely on old data and disparate systems to understand the complete picture of their largest business expense and greatest asset — their people," said Eynat Guez, Papaya Global CEO and co-founder, who announced the partnership today at NetSuite's annual user conference SuiteWorld. "Papaya Global's integration with NetSuite delivers complete visibility into the total cost of payroll for global workforces, regardless of where an organization is paying its employees."
The integration with Papaya Global unifies all payroll data in NetSuite, providing additional control without extra steps to streamline the process of consolidation. In addition, finance teams also gain access to fully automated journal entries and payroll ledgers. As a result, NetSuite users may benefit from faster data entry and approvals, higher quality data, and fewer missed deadlines or reversals. These powerful tools can be used to assist with audit readiness and help users to close the books, accurately and with ease.
"Papaya Global's product can help finance and payroll leaders address the growing complexity of accurately calculating total and detailed costs related to payroll," said Guido Haarmans, group vice president, SuiteCloud Developer Network and Partner Programs, Oracle NetSuite. "This new SuiteApp integrates leading cloud ERP and global payroll technologies and helps NetSuite customers improve visibility and control over payroll data to make more informed business decisions."
Built for NetSuite is a program for NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) partners that provides the information, resources, and methodology required to help partners verify that their applications and integrations meet NetSuite standards and best practices. The Built for NetSuite program is designed to give NetSuite customers additional confidence that SuiteApps, like Papaya Global, have been built to meet these standards.
For information about Built for NetSuite SuiteApps, please visit www.netsuite.com/BuiltforNetSuite. For more information about the Papaya Global SuiteApp, please visit www.suiteapp.com.
Oracle NetSuite's SuiteCloud platform is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the industry's leading cloud-based financials/ERP software suite, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly-created mission-critical applications built to extend the power of NetSuite.
The SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) is a comprehensive developer program for independent software vendors (ISVs) that build apps for SuiteCloud. All available and approved SuiteApps are listed on SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where NetSuite customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud and the SDN program, please visit https://www.netsuite.com/portal/developers/overview.shtml
Papaya Global powers global hiring by enabling people, payroll, and payment management for organizations in over 160 countries. When companies want to remove barriers to global hiring, enhance engagement, and optimize employee experience at the same time - they call Papaya Global. Papaya's automated, cloud-based SaaS platform provides an end-to-end solution, from onboarding to ongoing management and cross-border payments. The platform is customizable to all business requirements, integrates with existing HRIS management tools, and uses intelligent technology to ensure compliance and eliminate errors. It gathers all employee information into one place, creating a highly visible system for tracking payroll spending, and providing real-time business intelligence. Papaya's team currently spans Tel Aviv, New York, Austin, London, Kiev, Singapore, and Melbourne. http://www.papayaglobal.com
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Idaho gas prices fall
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Average gasoline prices in Idaho have fallen 6.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.59/g Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 802 stations in Idaho.
Prices in Idaho are 8.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 74.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Idaho was priced at $3.11/g yesterday while the most expensive was $4.39/g, a difference of $1.28/g.
Historical gasoline prices in Idaho and the national average going back 10 years:
- March 20, 2022: $4.33/g (U.S. Average: $4.23/g)
- March 20, 2021: $2.91/g (U.S. Average: $2.88/g)
- March 20, 2020: $2.41/g (U.S. Average: $2.11/g)
- March 20, 2019: $2.40/g (U.S. Average: $2.60/g)
- March 20, 2018: $2.57/g (U.S. Average: $2.56/g)
- March 20, 2017: $2.47/g (U.S. Average: $2.29/g)
- March 20, 2016: $1.92/g (U.S. Average: $1.98/g)
- March 20, 2015: $2.45/g (U.S. Average: $2.43/g)
- March 20, 2014: $3.34/g (U.S. Average: $3.53/g)
- March 20, 2013: $3.43/g (U.S. Average: $3.70/g)
Neighboring areas and their current gas prices:
- Montana- $3.21/g, down 3.4 cents per gallon from last week's $3.25/g.
- Boise- $3.74/g, down 5.5 cents per gallon from last week's $3.79/g.
- Spokane- $3.72/g, up 1.7 cents per gallon from last week's $3.70/g.
The national average price of diesel has fallen 5.6 cents in the last week and stands at $4.25 per gallon.
The national average price of gasoline has fallen 4.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.40/g today. The national average is up 4.3 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 82.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.
"The broad concern over recent failures of the U.S. and global banking system has put enough downward pressure on oil prices that we saw a reprieve in rising gasoline prices in the national average last week. But, it may be temporary in nature, and is unlikely to be a long lasting trend," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. "While California and areas of the West Coast saw some moderation in price, supply challenges amidst the transition to summer gasoline have led to sharp price increases in Arizona, and other markets saw varying impacts at the gas pump over the last week. Should the outlook for the banking sector improve, we could again see gasoline prices race higher, while continued or additional distress could raise the possibility of a broader economic slowdown, keeping gasoline prices in check. Overall, there are a lot of possibilities."
You can find the lowest gas prices in the area HERE. | 2023-03-20T17:47:32+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/life/gas-prices/2023/03/20/idaho-gas-prices-fall-7/ |
New dispensary expands patient access to medical cannabis; grand opening specials available
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of a new medical dispensary in Hobe Sound, Florida. Located at 10835 SE Federal Hwy., the doors will open at 9 a.m. on December 2, with ongoing regular hours of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.
Grand opening festivities throughout the day at the new dispensary will include numerous partner giveaways, music, food trucks, deals and specials, and all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. Trulieve also offers statewide home delivery, convenient online ordering and in-store pickup. As always, all first-time guests are eligible for a 50% new customer discount at any Florida-based location.
"Trulieve is thrilled to open a new dispensary in Hobe Sound and continue expanding access to medical marijuana for Florida's patient population," said Trulieve's Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "The Company is driven by a commitment being active in the communities we serve and providing tailored, high-quality care and exceptional customer experiences."
As the state's leading medical cannabis provider, Trulieve patients across Florida can choose from the largest selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including smokable flower, concentrates, edibles, capsules, syringes, tinctures, topical creams, vaporizers, and more.
Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands includes Alchemy, Co2lors, Cultivar Collection, Modern Flower, Momenta, Muse, Roll One and Sweet Talk. Patients also have access to beloved brands such as Bellamy Brothers, Bhang, Binske, Blue River, Black Tuna, DeLisioso, Khalifa Kush, Love's Oven, Miami Mango, O.pen and Sunshine Cannabis, all available exclusively at Trulieve in Florida.
For more information, or to learn how to become a registered patient, please visit Trulieve.com and connect on Instagram or Facebook.
About Trulieve
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with established hubs in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, anchored by leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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SOURCE Trulieve Cannabis Corp. | 2022-12-02T14:21:22+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/02/trulieve-opening-medical-marijuana-dispensary-hobe-sound-florida/ |
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The University of Rio Grande Valley is providing students alternative parking due to road closures around the school.
Schunior Street, between Sugar Road and Nevarez Street will be closed indefinitely for road construction.
Students should consider taking Chapin Street or Sugar Road and they can park around the baseball stadium.
There are 10 additional parking lots on Van Week Street.
UTRGV has provided a map providing alternate parking and routes regarding the street closure for the Edinburg campus. | 2022-08-31T17:22:57+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/road-closure-leads-to-parking-lot-changes-at-utrgv/ |
LONDON, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) solution has a new dashboard enabling fund managers to seamlessly track and pick investments that align with the key ESG indicators mandated for SFDR reporting, the principal adverse impact indicators or PAIs.
The solution offers complete coverage of mandatory PAIs by combining data aggregated by Bloomberg with data on controversial weapons and UNGC violations from ESG Book, a sustainability data and technology provider, and data on civil liberties and political rights from Freedom House, a non-profit organisation that monitors the health of democracy and freedom worldwide.
Aligning fund composition with SFDR definitions is complex, as firms need to demonstrate to clients and regulators how they achieve Article 8 and 9 fund classifications, as well as disclose how they account for sustainability risks in their investment decisions. Bloomberg's SFDR dashboard enables firms to analyse and track underlying companies in each fund they are invested in against a peer group of companies and across a range of ESG criteria, including principles of good governance defined in SFDR. This facilitates additional due diligence and confidence in fund classification decisions.
"Bloomberg's SFDR solution goes beyond supporting firms with reporting, it helps investors manage portfolios with SFDR's objective in mind, which is to drive investments towards more sustainable companies. We help fund managers cut through the complexity and empower them to conduct precise due diligence on the sustainability of their investments," said Nadia Humphreys, Business Manager, Sustainable Finance Solutions at Bloomberg.
To further streamline investment management, Bloomberg's portfolio and risk analytics solution, PORT, now integrates SFDR data so investors can assess investments, whether ESG-related or not, and conduct regulatory reporting—all in one place.
Bloomberg's SFDR solution helps clients with the challenging disclosure of PAI indicators by mapping them to company reported ESG data on over 15,000 companies globally. To help firms measure the carbon footprint of portfolio investments, another key SFDR assessment, Bloomberg provides company reported emissions and estimates for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions based on a proprietary machine learning smart model as well as an implied-industry model, resulting in coverage of over 100,000 companies.
Building on this coverage, Bloomberg provides fund-level ESG analytics for over 60,000 mutual funds and 10,000 ETFs by combining fund holdings data with Bloomberg's company-level ESG data. Bloomberg's Fund ESG Analytics provide objectively comparable ESG metrics and scores, including as reported and estimated greenhouse gas emissions. This enables clients to easily compare funds, gain a view into funds that may meet SFDR criteria, and invest according to their own ESG objectives and preferences, even if funds have no disclosures.
Bloomberg's SFDR solution is available through the Bloomberg Terminal and to Enterprise Data clients via Data License, and can be accessed through Bloomberg's ready-to-use data website,
. To view Bloomberg's new SFDR dashboard, visit ESG SFDR
For more information, visit our website here
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. For more information, visit Bloomberg.com/company or request a demo.
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Tupperware parties may soon be a thing of the past.
The company recently announced that it is seeking the assistance of financial advisers to improve its capital structure amid doubts that it can stay in business.
"The Company is doing everything in its power to mitigate the impacts of recent events, and we are taking immediate action to seek additional financing and address our financial position," said Miguel Fernandez, president and CEO of Tupperware Brands.
The company was created in 1946. The original line of Tupperware included plastic containers with tight seals.
SEE MORE: Tuesday Morning to close more than 250 stores after bankruptcy filing
According to the company, the first designs didn't sell well in stores. Soon after, Tupperware Brands began recruiting people to sell the products out of their homes. Women spearheaded the effort, allowing them to earn an income in an era when many were staying home. In the decades to follow, Tupperware became a staple in kitchens across the country.
However, amid a changing landscape of household goods, Tupperware's yearly revenue has continued to fall. In November, Tupperware reported a net sales of $302.8 million, a decrease of 20% from the same time in the year prior.
Tupperware's stock prices have also tumbled over the last year. In 2013, its stock price reached $97 a share. On Tuesday, shares were selling for $1.26.
In a filing with the Securities and exchange commission, Tupperware said it may be forced to "discontinue its operations entirely" if it doesn't obtain adequate capital resources or get amendments to its current credit agreement. | 2023-04-11T20:50:27+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/tupperware-warns-it-could-go-out-of-business-amid-financial-turmoil |
Harmony Venture Labs (HVL) has launched ListedKit, a real estate project and transaction management tool created in collaboration with agents that equips professionals to manage the client experience from contract to closing.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmony Venture Labs (HVL), a Birmingham-based venture studio that launches and develops high-growth startups, has announced the launch of their most recent studio venture–ListedKit.
ListedKit helps demystify real estate transactions and takes the complexity out of closing. With their task list and progress tracking feature, document storage and custom workflows, both agents and clients have a new level of transparency throughout the home buying and selling process. The mobile-friendly suite of integrated real estate solutions improves efficiency and transparency, reduces administrative tasks and increases customer satisfaction.
"ListedKit is a win-win for real estate professionals and their clients. Realtors who use ListedKit will be able to manage more transactions and grow their business while saving time and money. And their clients will have better visibility into the process, every step of the way," said Derrick Magnotta, CEO of ListedKit.
Founded by Shegun Otulana in 2020, the HVL team specializes in creating new ventures and helping founders build their own. By generating new solutions and supporting entrepreneurs, HVL's goal is to foster an ecosystem of empowerment and economic opportunity within the community.
"Buying or selling a home can be one of the most stressful moments in life. Realtors play such an important role in supporting their clients through the ups and downs of the process. ListedKit is one of the first tools built to support agents in this crucial part of their job," said Shegun Otulana, Founder of Harmony Venture Labs.
About ListedKit
ListedKit is a real estate project and transaction management tool created in collaboration with agents that equips professionals to manage the client experience from contract to closing. Real estate transactions can be complex -–but with task lists, a progress tracking feature, document storage, custom workflows and vendor management tools, agents and clients alike have visibility into the real estate journey, every step of the way. Learn more at www.listedkit.com.
About Harmony Venture Labs:
Harmony Venture Labs (HVL) is a venture studio led by a team of experienced founders and experts who launch startups, grow our portfolio of brands, support SaaS entrepreneurs and invest in our people and community. HVL believes that technology platforms should be used to benefit people and their communities and that new venture creation is a powerful vehicle to deliver value. Through strategy, marketing, design and product guidance, HVL helps its portfolio companies navigate their journey to faster, sustainable growth.
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From taboo to tampon freedom, Citron Hygiene takes action on Menstrual Hygiene Day to stop the double standards in restroom hygiene
TORONTO, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Citron Hygiene, a global washroom hygiene services company, and Aunt Flow, provider of free-vend period product dispensers, are expanding their partnership and commitment to end period poverty in North America. Together, both organizations are working to create period positive spaces where menstruators are no longer forced to macgyver unhygienic ways to collect menstrual blood and miss work, school, and other critical activities due to menstrual hygiene inequity.
Nearly one in four students struggle to afford period products, and 23% of lower income students have reported that they have had to choose between buying period products and food/clothing. Despite 86% of menstruators reporting that they have started their period unexpectedly in public without the menstrual hygiene supplies they needed, shame, secrecy and unaffordable costs prevent fair, hygienic and equitable access to period products. This is period poverty.
The cost of period poverty is immense, the lack of dignity is unforgettable. Studies have shown that up to 70% of menstruators have missed school or work because of their period, and that their period prevents them from participating fully in social activities.
Robert Guice, CEO of Citron Hygiene, said, "We are committed to combating period poverty and supporting menstrual equity. We help businesses and institutions in Canada, USA and UK satisfy the basic needs of females and other menstruators who use their washrooms by providing vending machines that dispense free period products for emergency use and proper, safe disposal units. By continuing our partnership with Aunt Flow to the USA and Canada, we reinforce our commitment to the menstrual movement in North America."
"EVERYONE should have access to quality period products, yet food stamps and WIC do NOT cover these basic necessities. No one should EVER have to choose between food and tampons. By partnering with Citron Hygiene, we are excited to expand our impact of creating more period positive spaces and fighting to end period poverty internationally!", said Claire Coder, CEO of Aunt Flow.
And the good news keeps flowing…
Ahead of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on May 28, Citron Hygiene is sponsoring an Instagram Live event on May 26 at 1 p.m. EST and 10 a.m. PST, hosted by Aunt Flow and PERIOD, a global non-profit organisation supporting period equity.
The Instagram Live event is focused on the Menstrual Equity for All Act as well as breaking taboos, stigma and access to period products in schools. No student should have to choose between their education and staying at home to manage their period, yet 1 in 3 people under the age of 25 struggle to afford menstrual products.
Join Citron Hygiene and Aunt Flow in supporting a growing menstruation movement on May 26th LIVE @periodmovement.
About Citron Hygiene LP
Citron Hygiene LP is a leading global company that provides washroom hygiene products and services to businesses and institutions that seek to enhance their brand by providing their customers and employees with an elevated washroom experience. With industry experience spanning 45 years, Citron Hygiene is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has service locations throughout Canada, US, and the United Kingdom. Citron Hygiene is a private portfolio company of Birch Hill Equity Partners, a Canadian mid-market private equity firm. To learn more, visit www.citronhygiene.com
About Aunt Flow
Aunt Flow is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to period products. Claire Coder founded Aunt Flow after getting her period in public without the supplies needed. At 18-years-old, she dedicated her life to developing a solution to ensure businesses and schools could sustainably provide high-quality period products for free in bathrooms. Now, 900+ companies have joined the menstrual movement with Aunt Flow, providing free-vend dispensers stocked with 100% organic tampons and pads. For every 10 tampons and pads sold, Aunt Flow donates 1 to a menstruator in need. We call this people helping people. PERIOD.® For more information and to join the menstrual movement, visit www.goauntflow.com
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LANSING, Mich. – A shortage of poll workers has concerned local election officials in some parts of the country as the midterm elections approach. Not so in Michigan.
Conservative groups and local Republican Party operatives who have pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election have recruited poll workers here by the thousands. Similar recruitment efforts on the right have bolstered the ranks of poll workers in some other states with nationally watched races.
Seeding the ranks of front-line election workers with people recruited by groups promoting election conspiracies has raised alarms among some that the people at the foundation of the election system could try to undermine it.
“It concerns me when the motivation to serve as a poll worker is fueled through misinformation and people who have been fed lies, in some cases, for years now,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat. “Since the spring, clerks have come at us with concerning questions they’re getting and in some cases, hundreds of poll worker applications that seem to be motivated by nefarious intent.”
In Oakland County, the state’s second-most populous, Republicans “discouraged about the outcome of the 2020 election” have been urged to sign up as poll workers through a new Republican National Committee recruitment program.
“If you’re angry, fed up and fearful of a repeat of the horror show of November 2020, then this is one way you can help,” the Oakland County GOP website reads.
In Florida, three men who are part of the Miami-Dade GOP executive committee and also are reported to have ties to the far-right Proud Boys extremist group applied for and qualified to serve as poll workers in Miami. Election officials said they decided not to assign a precinct to one of them after learning he had been charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump's refusal to admit his loss in the 2020 presidential race and his repeated lies about widespread fraud have permeated the Republican Party and persuaded almost six in 10 GOP voters that the election was somehow stolen from him. There is no evidence of widespread fraud, and Trump's claims have been rejected by dozens of judges and debunked by top officials in his own administration.
The falsehoods have led some GOP officials to push efforts aimed at ensuring what they insist is “election integrity.” Among those efforts are the steps taken across the country to recruit and train people to work at polling places and serve as poll watchers who monitor for problems.
The RNC said it has made a multimillion-dollar investment for this year's election cycle that includes 17 state “election integrity directors” and 37 in-state “election integrity counsels.” The group says it has recruited over 11,000 poll workers in Michigan. In neighboring Wisconsin, the recruitment effort has brought in an additional 5,000
In Milwaukee, that effort has led to five times as many partisans becoming election workers as in previous years. The head of the Milwaukee Election Commission, Claire Woodall-Vogg, said she is confident the system of checks-and-balances will catch anyone who might try to interfere with voting, noting that a second election inspector must sign off on each task.
“Anyone who might have bad intentions, we would immediately, I think, be able to identify,” she said.
The fraud claims about 2020 are especially deep-seated in Michigan, where the GOP candidates for governor, secretary of state and attorney general have repeated them.
Election inspector manuals created by Michigan for America First, an affiliate of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn’s group The America Project, encourage supporters to work at polls because “election cheating and fraud is not possible without collusion from poll workers.”
Poll workers, known as election inspectors in Michigan, are hired, trained and paid by local governments to assist in running elections. They are required to disclose party affiliation and are expected to be impartial in their duties as government employees, but do not have to live in the county where they will work the polls.
In Flint, the Michigan GOP and RNC are suing election officials to force them to hire more Republican election inspectors. Michigan law compels clerks to strive for equal party representation, but local officials say worker shortages often make that goal impossible to reach.
Several issues with poll workers in Michigan already have surfaced this year.
Before the state's August primary, a Republican candidate for governor instructed poll workers to unplug voting equipment as a way to root out potential fraud.
In Macomb County, just north of Detroit, Clerk Anthony Forlini has faced backlash for his decision to hire activist Genevieve Peters to help recruit poll workers. Peters was outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and is seen on video encouraging the crowd to “storm the gates.”
Forlini said getting election deniers involved in the process helps them "believe in the systems we’ve put in place."
A township clerk south of Grand Rapids had a similar intention when he invited James Holkeboer to participate in the primary. The clerk, Michael Brew, was quoted in police records as saying that Holkeboer “is a person that doesn’t have a lot of confidence in the election process.”
Holkeboer is now charged with falsifying election records and using a computer to commit a crime. He faces up to five years in prison after inserting a USB drive into an electronic poll book the night of the primary. He told investigators he wanted his own copy to make sure the voter roll matched one that had been obtained through records requests.
“It was extremely alarming and incredibly egregious,” said Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons, a Republican.
The Michigan Democratic Party is not recruiting election inspectors but is instead ensuring it has “eyes and ears on the ground” through poll watchers to ensure there is no voter intimidation or interference from within, said Erica Peresman, the party's voter protection director.
She said that while the party has recruited for these positions in the past, the effort was boosted due to “what we have been reading about with regard to the Republican Party's efforts and its allies' efforts this year.”
Peresman said Democrats are prioritizing polling locations such as Detroit where the party is especially concerned about partisan behavior.
GOP leaders targeted Detroit following the 2020 presidential election, claiming fraud was possible there because just 170 of the 5,486 election officials were Republicans.
Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey said Republicans sent her a list of 800 names to be poll workers earlier this year, a significant increase over previous election years. She said she welcomed the extra help and invited them to complete the necessary training — though only 200 did.
“I think they just found for themselves that it wasn’t going to be as easy as we thought it was going to be to disrupt the process,” Winfrey said.
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Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger and Claire Savage in Milwaukee, and Adriana Gomez Licon in Miami contributed to this report.
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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New Substack will Provide Daily Headlines of all Kennedy Media, Combat Censorship, Misinformation and Boost Candidate's Positive Vision for America
Will Feature Expert Guest Authors Including Jeffrey Sachs, David Talbot, Colonel Douglas Macgregor, John Leake
NEW YORK, July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- World-leading economist Jeffrey Sachs, bestselling author and historian David Talbot and Ukraine war critic Colonel Douglas Macgregor are among the expert guest authors to be featured in The Kennedy Beacon, a new Substack launched today to support the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The publication comes courtesy of American Values 2024, the pro-Robert F. Kennedy superPAC. It will combat censorship while highlighting Kennedy's positive vision for America. In addition, The Kennedy Beacon will feature guest columns, regular columnists, and a staff of writers covering issues about which Kennedy most cares: censorship, peace, homelessness, federal government corruption, mass incarceration, drug addiction, and the environment.
The SuperPAC American Values 2024 raised more than $10 million to date.
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"With so many publications spilling so much ink on the presidential race, one might reasonably ask what the value of another publication is focused on the election?" writes American Values co-Chairman, Mark Gorton in one the new journal's first posts.
"The Kennedy Beacon does not seek to redo the work of so many other publications," he continues. "In fact, the first regular feature of The Kennedy Beacon will be a daily news round-up of what is being said by the rest of the media. This news roundup will save time and effort for people interested in following what is being said about RFK Jr."
"Kennedy is leading Democrats back to their roots," said Tony Lyons, President of Skyhorse Publishing, and co-founder of the superPAC. "His commitment to free speech, peace, safeguarding our environment, economic recovery and healing the divide in our nation are the same principles his father and uncle championed."
"At the same time, we haven't seen a coordinated smear campaign against a candidate by establishment elites as intense as Kennedy faces daily…they are petrified that Kennedy will unite the country and tell the truth," said Lyons. "We plan on separating the myths vs. realities with the Beacon."
Coinciding with the formal launch of the new Substack, Columbia University economics professor, and bestselling author, Jeffrey Sachs, contributes a passionate and detailed take-down of President Biden's and America's Ukraine policies.
David Talbot, Salon founder and author of numerous bestselling books including The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government will contribute a weekly column.
Author and journalist John Leake will also write a weekly column, focusing on censorship as it pertains to Kennedy's campaign for president.
Follow The Kennedy Beacon at https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KennedyBeacon.
About American Values 2024
American Values 2024 is a Super PAC dedicated to electing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to President of the United States. The SuperPAC was co-founded by Mark Gorton, CEO of Tower Research Capital, and Tony Lyons, President of Skyhorse Publishing. Executive Director is John Gilmore. Learn more at https://americanvalues2024.org/.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmes, a global, full-service clinical research organization (CRO) dedicated to supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation, today announced that it is providing data, statistical analysis, and project management support for new research that will test the Moderna mRNA vaccine at more than 50 sites in South and East Africa.
The clinical trial, which will include about 15,600 participants, seeks to better understand infection and disease in immunocompromised populations in order to prevent severe COVID-19 and chronic SARS-CoV-2 infections and minimize the risk of transmission. The study will also address the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine's resistance to the variants that have been detected in South Africa and surrounding countries.
An important focus of the study is to evaluate vaccine efficacy among people living with HIV, including the influence of prior infection and degree to which they are immunocompromised.
Emmes has partnered with the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN), with operations based at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, to conduct this research. Fred Hutch is the CoVPN operations center for vaccine studies and has conducted numerous HIV studies around the world in the past few decades as part of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fred Hutch was selected as the CoVPN operations center to build upon the expertise and infrastructure of the HVTN. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Health and Human Services are funding the study.
Emmes will provide the database, data management services, statistical support, project management coordination, and central safety monitoring support. The study includes participant enrollment, vaccination, and follow-up and is expected to last about 27 months. Subsequently, Emmes will conduct the data and statistical analysis, addressing the relative risks of COVID-19 and severe COVID-19. This part of the contract will conclude in September 2024.
According to Valerie Brown, Emmes' project leader, "It is an honor for Emmes to join the COVID-19 Prevention Network and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in this important research. This has far-reaching public safety implications in the global effort to control the pandemic."
The data produced from this clinical trial will allow COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to be utilized expeditiously in South Africa and other countries where the COVID-19 variants are spreading. The research will provide access to an early and highly effective option for controlling the pandemic in these countries, prior to the availability of a vaccine tailored to the resistant strain or strains.
Dr. Christine Dingivan, Chief Executive Officer of Emmes, said, "Our earlier research support for COVID-19 therapies and vaccines has now evolved to more specific sets of patients, from those who are immunocompromised to populations across the world where variants are now spreading. Over 20 percent of Emmes' employees have worked on COVID-related projects this past year, and we are committed to continuing our efforts to build the body of knowledge that will ultimately result in an end to this pandemic."
About Emmes
Founded in 1977, Emmes is a global, full-service CRO dedicated to excellence in supporting the advancement of public health and biopharmaceutical innovation. The company's clients include numerous agencies and institutes of the U.S. federal government and a wide range of biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies throughout the world. To learn more about how our research is making a positive impact on human health, go to the Emmes website at www.emmes.com.
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There's drama brewing in the golf world over a new golf ball for professional male golfers. Why a new golf ball? Well, the pros are driving balls way farther than they did in the past, in part due to better golf equipment. And that is changing the character of some of the sport's classic courses. NPR's Gus Contreras reports on the history of the game and where it could be headed next.
GUS CONTRERAS, BYLINE: Golf equipment has evolved a lot through the years.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER: And that's where he's headed - just a little bit wide. But this ball appears to be hammered.
CONTRERAS: Clubs used to be made with wood, and the original ball was made out of leather stuffed with goose feathers, a far cry from the modern tech that utilizes titanium drivers and highly engineered golf balls.
JONATHAN WALL: If you go all the way back to when Tiger Woods first entered the professional golf scene in the late '90s, you know, that was, in my opinion, when equipment had this massive spike in technology.
CONTRERAS: That's Jonathan Wall, managing editor for equipment at golf.com.
WALL: And I think that's when the governing body started to take a closer look and say, all right, the balls may be going too far now. So what are we going to do to help rein back in distance?
CONTRERAS: The solution back then was to stretch out classic golf courses to their maximum distances, in theory to make it more challenging for the long hitters. But now the sustainability of that model is being questioned. Longer courses need more attention, land and water. So the new proposed solution is to create two separate golf balls, one for professionals and one for the everyday player. They don't want the pro ball to go as far as it currently does. A typical drive would be 20 yards shorter. The best example is like in baseball. There's a wooden bat used in major leagues and a metal bat used in college and recreational play. The wooden bats require that extra bit of skill to pound the ball 300-plus feet.
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BILLY HORSCHEL: There is many factors that go into this, and I don't believe the golf ball should have been singled out.
CONTRERAS: Professional golfer Billy Horschel was speaking on the "No Laying Up" podcast. He's won many tournaments.
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HORSCHEL: Yes, distance has increased on the PGA Tour. There's no doubt about that. We are making a change for 0.1% of the golfers in the world.
CONTRERAS: Horschel disagrees with the proposed rule change. He doesn't think there is a problem with distance or the ball. But at the local level, where the majority of recreational golfers play, there's a trickle-down effect, says Will Smith. He's co-founder of National Links Trust, the nonprofit organization that manages the three public golf courses in Washington, D.C., including East Potomac Golf Links. Smith points out that this course is almost outdated now.
WILL SMITH: Eighteen full holes opened in 1923. So here we are 100 years later, and we're trying to build a golf course that can then challenge and be interesting to golfers who hit the ball probably on average 30, 40, 60 yards further.
CONTRERAS: Smith and his organization plan to renovate the D.C. courses, including making some holes longer, to stay relevant with modern equipment.
SMITH: Because when people make their decisions about where they want to play golf, one of the things they look at is yardage and - rightly or wrongly. Someone who's really good at golf might think that that's not a worthy test.
CONTRERAS: Golf equipment companies are in the business of helping people hit the ball further and argue the new pro ball will take the fun out of the game. Again, Jonathan Wall.
WALL: Everybody's been playing the same golf ball for eons. So to now tell them that there's going to be a pro ball and an amateur ball, it's just something that doesn't compute with a sport that's steeped in history.
CONTRERAS: Golf's ruling bodies hope to finalize a new ball by 2026 but are making it clear this change won't stop long drives or affect the weekend golfer for now. Gus Contreras, NPR News.
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Close to $200,000 raised in November for college scholarships
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fourteen leading California hoteliers have donated $75,000 to support California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation student scholarships, bringing to nearly $200,000 the amount raised in November.
More than $100,000 was donated during CHLAHF's annual Scholarship Awards Gala in early November, which awarded $165,000 in scholarships to 52 students pursing degrees in hospitality, tourism and culinary arts at 10 California colleges and universities.
"There is no doubt that investing in the future of hospitality brings out the true spirit of giving embodied by so many California hoteliers," said Michael Pace, CHLAHF's Chair, and General Manager at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco. "I'm overwhelmed by the genuine generosity of these hospitality leaders – THANK YOU.''
The 14 hoteliers and their organizations who contributed to CHLAHF all are members of CHLA's board of directors or its executive committee. They include:
- Visit Santa Barbara, Tom Patton, CHA
- Pacific Palms Resort, Hee-Won Lim
- Ridgemont Hospitality, Dhruv Patel
- Sunstone Hotel Investors, Cormac O'Modhrain
- Pacific Plaza Hotels, Laurenne Douglas
- Coast Redwood Hospitality, Bijal Patel, CHA
- JW Marriott at LA Live/Ritz-Carlton LA, Javier Cano
- Handlery Hotels, Jon Handlery
- Ensemble Real Estate Solutions & Investments, Kristi Allen
- Park Hotels & Resorts, Joe Piantedosi
- Woodside Hotel & Resorts, John Spear
- InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Michael Pace
- AHLA, Chip Rogers
- Hotels of Disneyland Resort, Nic Hockman
About the California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
CHLAHF is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships and research in support of industry employees and hospitality students. Our aim is to raise the profile and promote excellence in the California hospitality industry. For more information, please go to https://chlafoundation.org.
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Stocks fell broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street on Thursday and banks were among the biggest weights on the market following weak earnings and a warning from JPMorgan Chase.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq fell 0.1%. JPMorgan Chase reported a sharp drop in earnings for its latest quarter, falling short of forecasts. CEO Jamie Dimon reaffirmed a pessimistic view of the economy. Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier.
It follows a worrisome report on Wednesday showing prices at the consumer level remain high.
As the Associated Press reported, banks had some of the biggest losses and weighed heavily on the market. JPMorgan Chase fell 3.7% after reporting a sharp drop in earnings for its latest quarter, falling short of forecasts. CEO Jamie Dimon stuck by his warning earlier this summer that a “hurricane” is headed for the economy. | 2022-07-14T20:24:31+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/us-stocks-fall-as-jpmorgan-releases-weak-earnings-warning |
BOISE, Idaho — The City of Boise is encouraging childcare workers to stay in the field with its new Childcare Incentive Pay program.
On average, childcare workers earn about $12 an hour. Director of Community Partnerships, Kate Nelson, said this program will help supplement low wages.
Starting Aug. 1, 2,000 licensed childcare providers and workers in Boise can apply for a one-time $1,500 grant. Money for this $3-million grant comes out of the city’s $34 million American Rescue Plan funding, according to Nelson.
There are about 1,900 child care workers in Idaho. Nelson said the city made sure there was enough money to go around.
“It is really important that we indicate to childcare providers that as a city, we see them,” Nelson said. “We value the work that they provide, and we want to offer all of the support that we can.”
Since the average childcare worker earns about $24,000 a year, this incentive pay is a 6% increase, Nelson said.
Childcare worker Jennifer Meyer is in her seventh year in the industry. She said the 1,500 will not only help her cover daily expenses, but also encourage her.
“I always say tell people you're always in this job not for the money you're in it for the love of children,” Meyer said, “and just the money is a benefit, and that little bit is going to definitely be helpful.”
Low wages are not the only the only problem the industry faces. There are also not enough workers, which Beth Oppenheimer, Idaho Association for the Education of Young people executive director, said impacts the economy.
In a recent City of Boise survey, 90% of parents said they rely on family members to help with childcare. Of those, Nelson said 50% of parents missed work because of childcare issues.
The more childcare workers, the less strain on families.
“A lot of people think childcare, ‘Oh, that's a family issue,’ Oppenheimer said. “But it really is an economic driver, because without it, we other businesses can't hire and retain a workforce as well.”
The City of Boise is partnering with the Idaho Association for the Education of young children to help raise awareness about the program. Oppenheimer said healthcare providers should expect a letter in the mail explaining what the program is and how to apply.
Once applications are submitted, she said people should expect funds around November.
While some might not think $1,500 is enough, Oppenheimer said it is a good start toward creating a flourishing health care industry.
“Any extra income that they can get will really help stabilize their ability to stay in the field and make a livable wage,” Oppenheimer said.
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A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from lifting the pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 next week.
That public health order, which had been set to end on Monday, allows immigration authorities to quickly expel migrants at the border without allowing them to seek asylum.
The ruling is a victory for the Republican-led states that are pushing to extend the restrictions.
More than 20 states signed on to a lawsuit brought by Arizona, Missouri and Louisiana. They argued that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not go through the proper procedures to end Title 42, and should have considered the impact on state health care systems and other costs.
U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays in Louisiana granted the preliminary injunction those states had been seeking, saying they were likely to prevail on their claim.
"Today's ruling is a significant win as Title 42 is one of the few immigration policies that is actually working," said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in a statement.
The CDC first authorized the Title 42 restrictions in March of 2020, saying they were necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19. In April of this year, the CDC said those restrictions were no longer necessary to protect public health, and moved to terminate the policy on May 23rd.
The preliminary injunction was not unexpected. Judge Summerhays had already granted a temporary restraining order in the case, and indicated that he was sympathetic to the states' arguments.
Still, immigrant advocates were disappointed.
"Title 42 and this lawsuit were never about public health but a transparent attempt to end asylum," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been challenging the legality of the public health order in a separate case.
"If the administration doesn't immediately seek to undo the injunction, it will say a lot about whether the White House truly wants Title 42 to end," Gelernt said.
The Department of Justice says it intends to appeal the ruling.
"CDC has now determined, in its expert opinion, that continued reliance on this authority is no longer warranted in light of the current public-health circumstances," said Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley in a statement. "That decision was a lawful exercise of CDC's authority."
The injunction leaves tens of thousands of migrants in limbo in cities and towns south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Title 42 has had a catastrophic effect on asylum seekers," said Sameera Hafiz, the policy director with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
"Border officials have the ability to employ measures recommended by public health experts to keep asylum seekers safe as they seek refuge in the U.S. There is no excuse for the continuation of Title 42, other than allowing the anti-immigrant playbook to continue," Hafiz said in a statement.
The Department of Homeland Security has been preparing for a possible influx of migrants when Title 42 ends. Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley, and pledged to scale up the enforcement of normal U.S. immigration laws when Title 42 is lifted.
"We will be increasing the number of criminal prosecutions to meet the challenge," Mayorkas said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Since it was put in place by the Trump administration, Title 42 has sharply limited the number of migrants who can seek asylum at the southern border. But migrants who are quickly expelled under the policy are also shielded from criminal prosecution. Mayorkas and other administration officials argue that restoring those consequences will help to deter migrants from crossing repeatedly, and drive border numbers down.
The Biden administration has faced bipartisan criticism for moving to end Title 42 at a time when border apprehensions are near record levels.
Immigration authorities encountered migrants at the southern border more than 234,000 times in April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That's one of the highest totals ever recorded, although tens of thousands of migrants crossed multiple times and were counted more than once in the total.
The April total also includes more than 20,000 Ukrainians fleeing from the war in their country, who crossed into the U.S. at the southern border before the launch of a new program intended to bring Ukrainians directly from Europe.
The number of apprehensions made by Border Patrol last month actually declined slightly compared to March, to just over 200,000. But that is still one of the largest monthly totals on record.
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Which Alvin and the Chipmunks gift is best?
Novelty act Alvin and the Chipmunks have been rocking out since they began recording their squeaky-voiced songs in 1958. Generations continue to enjoy the iconic songs, as well as TV series and movies featuring the cute rockers.
Because of the enduring appeal of Alvin and the Chipmunks, there are fans young and old that would appreciate a gift featuring the squirrel-like trio. From vintage items to movies to toys and more, we’ve found some outstanding Alvin and the Chipmunks merch for just about any fan.
Who are Alvin and the Chipmunks?
In addition to Alvin, who’s known for his mischievous ways, the Chipmunks include goofy Theodore and smart Simon. In the early years, the group members were often at odds with their manager Dave Seville, which led to silly interchanges on musical recordings that delighted young listeners.
The most notable characteristic of the Chipmunks’ distinctive sound is the high-pitched voices that were created in the studio by speeding up the recordings. The group became so popular among youngsters that it won awards and inspired the release of comic books, a children’s TV series, and more musical recordings.
Over the years, Alvin and the Chipmunks have been featured in movies, TV specials, and other animated series. They also continued to release new music collections through the 1990s and early 2000s, including “The Chipmunks Rock the House” and the country album “Chipmunks in Low Places.”
Types of Alvin and the Chipmunks gifts
While fans still love the Chipmunks’ music, shows, and movies, it’s been several years since the latest release. Therefore, it can be difficult to find items like Alvin and the Chipmunk toys. If you are searching for a present for a Chipmunks enthusiast or collector, you have options. Below we’ve done the searching for you and rounded up our favorite finds that feature the furry bandmates.
What are the best Alvin and the Chipmunks gifts to buy?
Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift
Fisher-Price Alvin and the Chipmunks RC Skate Tricks Alvin
What you need to know: A fun, interactive toy that’s great for kids but also appeals to Alvin and the Chipmunks collectors.
What you’ll love: Not only is this Alvin toy powered by a remote to perform exciting tricks, it also plays sounds and phrases that add to the fun. We love the cute skateboard theme and easy-to-use controls.
What you should consider: A few customers reported toys that were damaged when they arrived.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift for the money
Bendon Publishing Alvin and the Chipmunks Coloring and Activity Book Set
What you need to know: If you’re looking for an affordable gift that features Alvin and his friends, you can’t go wrong with this pair of activity-filled books.
What you’ll love: Two books that are packed with pages for coloring or completing challenging activities. The adventures of the Chipmunks are depicted throughout this affordable set.
What you should consider: It can be a toss-up whether you receive books with the Road Chip or Chipwrecked theme.
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Top vintage Alvin and the Chipmunks gift
Vintage 90s Alvin and the Chipmunks Soft Rubber Figures
What you need to know: This trio of figures is the best option if you’re looking for vintage Alvin and the Chipmunks toys for a new fan or long-time collector.
What you’ll love: This collection includes Alvin, Theodore, and Simon figures from the early 1990s. Each figure is three inches in height and nicely detailed.
What you should consider: Figures may be low in stock, so it’s best not to hesitate to make your purchase.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift for toddlers
Alvin and the Chipmunks Toddler Bedding Sets
What you need to know: You can dress up your young Alvin and the Chipmunks fan’s room in style with this complete toddler bedding set that features the trio in bold colors.
What you’ll love: Preschoolers will love this bedding set’s colorful rocker Chipmunks graphics, while parents will love how the pieces are designed to fit toddler-sized beds. It comes with fitted and flat sheets, a pillowcase, and a bedspread.
What you should consider: Washing the items with care is important to help prevent fading and shrinking.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift of clothing
What you need to know: A cool T-shirt that’s available in a wide selection of sizes for kids and adults.
What you’ll love: Alvin’s personality is accurately depicted on this fun shirt that sports his likeness with a mischievous grin. You can choose from sizes for small and older kids, as well as adults.
What you should consider: This shirt is crafted of cotton material that may shrink a bit when laundered.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift for young fans
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” movie
What you need to know: Kid-friendly content and an adorable theme make this movie a good choice for any child that loves the Chipmunks and animated films.
What you’ll love: A family film that features the lovable cast of Chipmunks performing their songs on an exciting road trip.
What you should consider: Older kids may not find this moving very entertaining.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift for movie buffs
“Alvin and the Chipmunks” 2007 Poster Print
What you need to know: Alvin, Theodore, and Simon on a movie poster that the young and young at heart can appreciate.
What you’ll love: This poster features the Chipmunks from their 2007 feature film. It’s a fun option for fans of various ages who love to watch the furry band members on the screen.
What you should consider: If you are shopping for a young child who enjoys the Chipmunks, this isn’t the best option.
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Top Alvin and the Chipmunks gift for binge-watching
Alvin and the Chipmunks 4-Movie Collection
What you need to know: Choose this set of four classic Alvin and the Chipmunks movies for anyone who loves to indulge in funny, family-friendly animated movies.
What you’ll love: Great for kids that love to watch animated Chipmunk films, as this collection includes four of their most popular movies. The box set comes in a choice of DVD or Blu-Ray.
What you should consider: Although rare, a few customers report faulty discs that didn’t play.
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DALLAS, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today reported third quarter revenue of $5.24 billion, net income of $2.30 billion and earnings per share of $2.47. Earnings per share included a 2-cent benefit for items that were not in the company's original guidance.
Regarding the company's performance and returns to shareholders, Rich Templeton, TI's chairman, president and CEO, made the following comments:
- "Revenue increased 1% sequentially and increased 13% from the same quarter a year ago, about as expected. During the quarter we experienced expected weakness in personal electronics and expanding weakness across industrial.
- "Our cash flow from operations of $9.0 billion for the trailing 12 months again underscored the strength of our business model. Free cash flow for the same period was $5.9 billion and 29% of revenue. This reflects the quality of our product portfolio, as well as the efficiency of our manufacturing strategy, including the benefit of 300-mm production.
- "Over the past 12 months we invested $3.3 billion in R&D and SG&A, invested $3.1 billion in capital expenditures and returned $7.1 billion to owners.
- "TI's fourth quarter outlook is for revenue in the range of $4.40 billion to $4.80 billion and earnings per share between $1.83 and $2.11. We continue to expect our 2022 effective tax rate to be about 14%."
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Reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is provided in the table below.
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We urge you to carefully consider the following important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations of TI or our management:
- The duration and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, government and other third-party responses to it and the consequences for the global economy, including to our business and the businesses of our suppliers, customers and distributors;
- Economic, social and political conditions, and natural events in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including global trade policies;
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- Instability in the global credit and financial markets;
- Our ability to recruit and retain skilled personnel, and effectively manage key employee succession; and
- Impairments of our non-financial assets.
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(Our Auto Expert) – The 2024 Ford Mustang is the seventh generation of the iconic sports car that has been a fan favorite for almost six decades. The Mustang was first introduced in 1964, and since then, it has been a symbol of American muscle and performance. The 2024 Mustang is set to continue this legacy with its advanced technology, athletic engines, and track-focused features.
The 2024 Mustang is set to go on sale in the U.S. in the summer of 2023 and will be assembled at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, MI. The new Mustang is designed to offer the most exhilarating and fun driving experience, making it the perfect car for those who love speed and performance.
One of the most exciting features of the 2024 Mustang is the Remote Rev, which allows drivers to rev the car’s engine remotely using the key fob. This feature is sure to turn heads and make the Mustang stand out from the crowd. Another new feature for the 2024 model year is the Bronze Appearance Package, which provides further customization options straight from the factory. The package adds Sinister Bronze alloy wheels with bronze badges and is available on both EcoBoost and GT models, with or without the optional Performance Pack.
The exterior of the 2024 Mustang is edgier yet timeless, with modern chiseled looks added to its heritage-inspired design. The upper grille design shape is influenced by the original 1960s design, and the tri-bar LED headlamps continue the Mustang’s classic lighting signature. The roofline is optimized for driver entry and exit without removing their helmet on the track, and the extended rear deck houses new crisp signature tri-bar lighting and redesigned diffuser for improved aerodynamic balance in the rear.
The interior of the 2024 Mustang is the most technologically advanced, driver-centric cockpit of any Mustang to date. The all-new cockpit offers two flowing and curved displays that can be quickly customized to show information the driver wants or needs to see. The 12.4-inch digital instrument cluster can be customized to display different animated designs and new drive-mode-dependent visuals. The digital instrument cluster can be optionally configured to flow seamlessly into a 13.2-inch SYNC® 4 center stack. The all-new race-inspired flat-bottomed steering wheel adds to the sporty feel of the Mustang.
The powertrain of the 2024 Mustang is the most advanced and athletic engine ever. The fourth-generation Coyote V8 engine makes 486 HP and 418 lb-ft of torque, and the available active-valve performance exhaust system enables the Mustang GT coupe and convertible to make that power. The fourth-generation Coyote V8 also features a class-first, dual intake, and dual throttle body induction system, which helps minimize induction loss by enabling higher air flow rates. The 6-speed manual transmission is standard, and the Mustang GT with manual transmission includes standard rev-matching. The 10-speed automatic transmission is available.
The Mustang GT and EcoBoost models are both available with an optional Performance Pack, which adds a host of track-focused features, including a front tower brace, Torsen® limited-slip differential, and optional MagneRide active suspension. The Performance Pack also offers wider rear wheels and tires, larger Brembo brakes, and optional RECARO seats, and active exhaust. The GT Performance Pack adds brake ducts for even more enhanced cooling and a standard auxiliary engine oil cooler.
The 2024 Mustang also comes equipped with available Ford Co-Pilot360® technology features, including Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop-and-Go, Lane Centering Assist, Evasive Steer Assist, and Reverse Brake Assist. Owners can stay connected with their car via the FordPass app, which can utilize remote features such as remote vehicle start and stop, door locking and unlocking, scheduling a start time, locating the vehicle, and vehicle health and status checks.
In conclusion, the 2024 Ford Mustang is a car that is sure to turn heads and make a statement on the road. With its advanced technology, athletic engines, and track-focused features, the Mustang is the perfect car for those who love speed and performance. The Mustang has been the world’s best-selling sports car over the last ten years combined, and the 2024 Mustang is set to continue this legacy. | 2023-07-25T00:19:05+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/automotive/whats-next-for-the-worlds-best-selling-sports-car/ |
Texas officials are moving forward with a plan to take control of Houston’s public school district. It would be one of the largest state takeovers in U.S. history.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Dominic Anthony Walsh, education and families reporter for Houston Public Media.
Tong also speaks with Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, about the state’s plan to take over Houston public schools.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration’s “harmful, racist and insensitive” policies towards African Americans.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity said this week that it would move its 2025 convention from Orlando to another location that is yet undecided. The convention draws between 4,000 and 6,000 people and has an economic impact of $4.6 million, the fraternity said.
The decision comes after the NAACP and other civil rights organizations this spring issued a travel advisory for Florida, warning that recently passed laws and policies are openly hostile to African Americans, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Willis Lonzer, the fraternity’s general president, said in statement on Wednesday that the decision was motivated in part by Florida’s new education standards that require teachers to instruct middle school students that slaves developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“Although we are moving our convention from Florida, Alpha Phi Alpha will continue to support the strong advocacy of Alpha Brothers and other advocates fighting against the continued assault on our communities in Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis,” Lonzer said.
An email seeking comment on Saturday about the fraternity’s decision was sent to Jeremy Redfern, the governor’s press secretary and the governor’s office.
DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has come under fire this week over Florida’s new education standards. Among those criticizing the Florida governor on Friday was a rival for the Republican nomination, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the Senate.
Responding to the criticism, DeSantis said Friday that he was “defending” Florida “against false accusations and against lies. And we’re going to continue to speak the truth.”
In May, the NAACP joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state’s largest job sectors. The groups cited recent laws that prohibited state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory, and the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses.
They also cited laws that they say made life more difficult for immigrants in Florida and limited discussions on LGBTQ topics in schools.
At least nine other organizations or associations have pulled the plug on hosting conventions in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, two of the state’s most population convention cities, because of Florida’s political climate, according to local media reports.
Florida is one of the most popular states in the U.S. for tourists, and tourism is one of its biggest industries. More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to Visit Florida, the state’s tourism promotion agency. Tourism supports 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and visitors spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, the last year figures are available.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear expressed confidence Thursday that he's on solid legal ground in allowing Kentuckians with debilitating conditions to legally possess medical marijuana, calling it a viable alternative to addictive medications in a state ravaged by the opioid crisis.
The Democratic governor's comments followed a backlash from prominent Republicans criticizing the executive order he signed Tuesday. Beshear's action will enable Kentuckians to possess up to 8 ounces of medical marijuana at any one time for use for specified medical conditions, provided the cannabis is purchased legally in other states. They’ll need to keep their receipt for proof.
A Kentuckian would need certification from a licensed health care provider to verify a diagnosis for at least one of 21 conditions that qualify. Those include cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and post-traumatic stress disorder. The order is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023.
The governor said Thursday he would be “happy” to rescind his order if the state's GOP-dominated legislature passes legislation next year to legalize medical cannabis.
“But until they act, it’s my job to stand up and be there for folks” suffering from chronic or terminal illnesses and who could benefit from medical cannabis, Beshear said at his weekly news conference.
The governor touted medical cannabis as an alternative to addictive opioid medications. Until the legislature takes action, he said, his order allowing its use under strict conditions could save Kentuckians from drug overdoses or potential suicide attempts caused by chronic conditions.
“Think about what opioids have done to us — just devastated our state,” Beshear said Thursday.
Fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky last year, according to a report released in June. It showed that 2,250 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2021 as the increased use of fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid — resulted in a record death toll in the state.
Some leading Republicans, including Attorney General Daniel Cameron, claimed the governor's unilateral action had overstepped his authority. Cameron said Tuesday that lawmakers "must be allowed to have their say” on the issue. He said his office was reviewing the governor's action to determine its "next steps.”
Cameron is among several GOP candidates vying to challenge Beshear in next year’s gubernatorial election, when the Democratic incumbent will seek a second term.
Republican state Rep. Jason Nemes, a leading supporter of legalizing medical marijuana, said in a social media post following Beshear's action: “As much as I support his effort to bring medical marijuana to Kentucky, this unprecedented power grab cannot stand.”
Beshear has expressed frustration with the legislature’s inability to legalize medical cannabis and insists the overwhelming majority of Kentuckians want to see it made legal.
He insisted Thursday that he acted within his authority based on the constitutional pardon powers granted to Kentucky governors. Beshear, a former attorney general, said there would be “no grounds” for any lawsuit challenging his executive action.
“I think you’re seeing a lot of reactions from people who’ve gotten caught up on the General Assembly vs. the executive branch, or them vs. me," Beshear said.
“This is not about us,” he added. "It’s about ... a veteran suffering from PTSD that’s had suicidal thoughts. It’s about somebody suffering from chronic pain. And if they’d just step back and think about the people that we’re trying to help, I think you’d hear a different tone.”
Jared Bonvell, a military veteran from northern Kentucky, said his health was deteriorating when a friend suggested he try marijuana for his medical conditions. He was using 13 medications at the time. Bonvell said he was skeptical, but “when I first started it, I started dropping medication after medication after medication." He said he got healthy and realized that he had a future.
“But then I was faced with, now you’re a criminal,” he said while attending Beshear's announcement on Tuesday. “It didn’t make sense.”
An advisory committee formed by the governor spent months gathering public input before Beshear took the action. He first floated the possibility of executive action on the issue in the spring, after a medical cannabis legalization bill again died in the legislature. The measure passed the House but stalled in the Senate. | 2022-11-17T21:51:31+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Beshear-defends-legality-of-his-action-on-medical-17592875.php |
NEW YORK — Steve Bannon, who managed Donald Trump's successful 2016 campaign for the presidency and served his administration as a White House adviser, pleaded not guilty Thursday to New York state charges that he laundered money by diverting funds donated to the We Build the Wall organization.
The organization, launched in 2018, raised more than $15 million after promising to help build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to curb illegal immigration.
Bannon was indicted under state law in New York on six charges, including two counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy.
"It is a crime to turn a profit by lying to donors, and in New York, you will be held accountable," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a written statement. "As alleged, Stephen Bannon acted as the architect of a multimillion dollar scheme to defraud thousands of donors across the country – including hundreds of Manhattan residents."
New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office worked with Bragg's on the investigation, said Bannon's conduct was particularly egregious because he was well-known as an influential ally of former President Trump.
"There cannot be one set of rules for everyday people and another for the wealthy and powerful," she said.
Bannon strongly denied the accusations.
"It's all nonsense. They will never shut me up," The Associated Press reported Bannon as saying when he left court.
The indictment closely tracks a case brought against Bannon in 2020 by the U.S. Justice Department. In that case, two of Bannon's co-defendants pleaded guilty, and a third received a mistrial and may be retried.
Bannon pleaded not guilty but was never tried because President Trump pardoned him on his final day in office. The White House said at the time, "Mr. Bannon has been an important leader in the conservative movement and is known for his political acumen."
The next month, The Washington Post reported that the Manhattan district attorney had begun looking at whether Bannon could be charged under state law.
The then-president's pardon covers only federal crimes, not the state crimes with which Bannon has now been charged.
Bannon's lawyers may argue that the charges should be dismissed under New York's double-jeopardy law.
Paul Manafort, another Trump adviser, successfully argued for the dismissal of state charges against him in 2019. But, unlike Bannon, Manafort had been tried and convicted in federal court before he was charged in New York. Like Bannon, Manafort received a pardon from Trump in the final month of his presidency.
Before joining the Trump campaign in 2016, Bannon rose to prominence as an executive at Breitbart, a right-wing website.
District Attorney Bragg and Attorney General James have experience bringing oversight to Trump and his dealings. They cooperated on an investigation that resulted in criminal tax evasion and conspiracy charges against the Trump Organization and its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, in 2021. Weisselberg has pleaded guilty.
The Trump Organization is scheduled to be tried starting in October.
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Mayor to litterbugs: Trash Jackson, get embarrassed
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - City leaders are launching a new campaign to curb litter, one that will include stepped-up enforcement and the possible closure of streets that have become dump sites.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced the new program, dubbed “Stop Trashing Jackson,” which will begin with a cleanup campaign on March 4.
“We are coming forward with a robust plan across several departments and also working with some of our external partners, such as Keep Jackson Beautiful, in order to tackle this issue head-on,” he said. “I want to be clear: we are ready to deploy every resource that we have toward this.”
Lumumba said the program is designed not only to eliminate “large swaths of litter,” but to change the culture in the city.
“This is a problem that rests deep within our neighborhoods, deep within the businesses within our communities, deep within our church community,” he said. “And so, as my mother would say, if you don’t show love or if you don’t respect your home, no one else will.”
Lumumba said the campaign will likely include controlled burns at dumping sites and the closure of streets that are being used for illegal dumping.
“If we can’t show respect for our community, then you no longer have the luxury of using it as a shortcut to get around your communities,” he said.
Parks and Recreation is responsible for cleaning most rights-of-way in the city. It’s a never-ending task, according to Parks Director Ison Harris.
“We’ve done some extensive cleaning in the last few weeks only to find the next day and the day after that it backtracks again,” he said.
[Read: Lee planning cleanup day to address illegal dumping on Hilda Drive]
To help keep those areas clean, Lumumba says Jackson is looking at some potential cleanup contracts, as well as improved ways to capture and prosecute litterbugs, such as a database where people can upload pictures of violators.
“We’re looking at how we connect that to immediate prosecution of those individuals through our municipal court system,” Lumumba said. “We’re going to make it clear: we’re going to embarrass you when you litter in our city.”
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Updated May 4, 2022 at 7:58 PM ET
Amber Heard took the witness stand in a Virginia courtroom on Wednesday to discuss her experiences and her relationship with Johnny Depp, her ex-husband, who is suing Heard in a $50 million defamation case.
"I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is," Heard said when her attorney asked how she felt about the case. "This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything."
Heard spoke on her own behalf after her legal team presented a clinical psychologist who said the actress was diagnosed with panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Over more than two hours Heard described years of alleged abuse at the hands of Depp. Depp has denied committing violence against Heard in his own lengthy testimony in the case at the Fairfax County Circuit Court.
In court, Heard described first meeting Depp when she was 22, saying there was a mutual electricity between them, despite both being in other long-term, committed relationships.
Years later, when they both had separated from their partners, they fell in love, according to Heard. She called those early days of the relationship a whirlwind romance.
"When I was around Johnny I felt like the most beautiful person ... made me feel like a million dollars," she said.
But as her testimony continued, Heard, now 36, accused Depp of psychological and physical violence, often triggered by heavy drinking and drug use. The abuse, she said, began with demeaning name calling, accusations of infidelity, constant belittling, and violent fits that included smashing glass and punching walls. Often, he'd punch a wall near her face, she said.
Heard said the first time Depp hit her was when she had asked him about a muddled tattoo on his arm; he said it reads "Wino."
"I just laughed 'cause I thought he was joking. And he slapped me across the face," she told the jury. Not knowing how to respond, she recalled that she laughed again "because I didn't know what was going on."
He slapped her two more times, according to Heard.
"You would think you would have a response but I, as a woman, had never been hit like that. I'm an adult, and I'm sitting next to the man I love and he slapped me for no reason," she said.
Heard said Depp begged for forgiveness immediately following the incident and promised never to harm her again, and within days she did forgive him. That began an ongoing pattern cycle of abuse, she testified.
Heard's lawyers showed the jury a photograph in which her arm appears bruised. She said Depp "grabbed me by the arm and kind of just held me on the floor screaming at me. I don't know how many times he hit me in the face."
Heard claimed she learned to note difference in Depp's behavior depending on the drugs he was taking at the time.
"Johnny on speed is very different from Johnny on opiates. Johnny on opiates is very different from Adderall and cocaine Johnny, which is very different from quaaludes Johnny."
Earlier in the day, psychologist Dawn Hughes testified that Heard endured emotional abuse and intimate partner violence during her time with Depp.
Depp is suing Heard over a 2018 op-ed published by The Washington Post in which Heard called for change in how the U.S. treats abuse survivors and urged support for the Violence Against Women Act.
The essay didn't directly refer to Depp by name, but his 2019 court complaint states, "the op-ed plainly was about ... Ms. Heard's purported victimization after she publicly accused her former husband, Johnny Depp, of domestic abuse in 2016, when she appeared in court with an apparently battered face and obtained a temporary restraining order against Mr. Depp."
Depp sued Heard for three counts of defamation, seeking at least $50 million in compensatory damages and a punitive award of at least $350,000, along with attorney fees and court costs.
Heard, 36, has filed a countersuit against Depp, 58, seeking $100 million in damages and saying his legal team falsely accused her of fabricating claims against Depp.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)The San Francisco 49ers lost more than a game in a sloppy season-opener at Chicago.
The Niners lost starting running back Elijah Mitchell to a knee injury in the 19-10 loss to the Bears on Sunday. Mitchell is expected to be sidelined for about two months.
”He was pretty down,” coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday. ”For obvious reasons were down for him. Elijah went through a lot last year. It’s well documented, the injuries he had. He really worked hard this offseason. He was feeling really good going into that game. I thought he looked really good before he got hurt.”
This marks the second straight season when the 49ers lost their top running back to a knee injury in the season opener. Raheem Mostert went down with a season-ending injury in Week 1 last year, leading to Mitchell becoming the main back as a rookie when he became the fifth different player to lead San Francisco in rushing in five years under Shanahan.
Mitchell had 963 yards rushing at an average of 4.7 yards per carry last year, despite dealing with a series of injuries. He was excited to be healthy going into this season but lasted only one game.
Jeff Wilson Jr., the 2020 rushing leader, figures to get a heavy load with Mitchell out. Rookie Tyrion Davis-Price, a healthy scratch on Sunday, also should be in the mix, along with undrafted rookie Jordan Mason.
”We’re always been comfortable with Jeff just because of his experience and what he’s done here,” Shanahan said. ”We know what we’re going to get. The other two guys, they made our team for a reason. They’re two talented players that we think can help us a lot running the ball. But they got to grow up fast.”
But Shanahan has always been able to find capable running backs.
The other issues on Sunday are more pressing, from a shaky performance by Trey Lance in his first game since being named the starting quarterback, to 12 penalties to breakdowns on defense that led to big plays.
”It’s tough to win when we commit those penalties and it starts with me and we got to make sure to clean those up because I felt we had every opportunity to win that game and our defense had every opportunity to completely dominate that game,” Shanahan said. ”That’s what allowed them to get three touchdowns in a row.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Deebo Samuel runs. There was a lot of talk this offseason about whether the Niners would continue to rely heavily on using Samuel as a running back. Shanahan didn’t shy away from it in the opener. Samuel had eight carries for 52 yards, including a 6-yard run for San Francisco’s only TD.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Penalties. The Niners were extremely undisciplined, getting penalized 12 times for 99 yards. The penalties handed the Bears five first downs in the game, including drive-extending personal fouls on third down by linebackers Dre Greenlaw and Azeez Al-Shaair. Greenlaw had two personal fouls.
STOCK UP
Safety Talanoa Hufanga. The second-year player stepped into the starting lineup this season and was very busy in the opener. He had a team-high 11 tackles, including two for losses, and also intercepted a pass.
STOCK DOWN
Lance completed only 13 of 28 passes in wet conditions for 164 yards. He missed an open Tyler Kroft on a potential TD throw in the first half, took a sack to knock the Niners out of field position and then threw a late interception that helped seal the loss. Lance did show a few bright signs with a couple of big throws and 54 yards rushing but did nothing to quiet skeptics who wonder if Jimmy Garoppolo should regain his starting job this season.
INJURIES
Shanahan hopes TE George Kittle (groin) will be able to practice Wednesday after missing the opener. … DT Javon Kinlaw sprained his ankle in the game but was able to return.
KEY NUMBER
4. San Francisco allowed only four completions to wide receivers. The problem was a few of those became big plays. Former Niner Dante Pettis got wide open on a broken play that led to a 51-yard TD from Justin Fields that changed the tide of the game. Byron Pringle had a 22-yard catch and Equanimeous St. Brown got free for an 18-yard TD catch.
NEXT STEPS
The 49ers host Seattle in their home opener on Sunday looking to avoid their first 0-2 start since 2017.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – At the start of a new year, Cleveland’s premiere early-music chamber ensemble got a new leader.
On Wednesday, Les Delices announced the appointment of Laura Potter as executive director, effective immediately. She joins the head office alongside oboist Debra Nagy, the group’s founding artistic director. | 2023-01-04T21:37:46+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/clevelands-les-delices-ensemble-appoints-new-executive-director.html |
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
President Joe Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA’s new space telescope — the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
NASA said Biden will show a “deep field” image. That shot is likely to be be filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible. Part of the image will be of light from not too long after the Big Bang.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.”
The images to be released Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the early days of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. Astronomers measure how far back they look in light-years with one light-year being 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” said Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist said in a recent media briefing.
How far back did that first image look? Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the telescope to go even deeper.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said, with the new telescope, the cosmos is “giving up secrets that had been there for many, many decades, centuries, millennia.”
“It’s not an image. It’s a new world view that you’re going to see,” he said during the briefing.
Zurbuchen said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
At 21 feet (6.4 meters), Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by a bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Four previous micrometeoroid strikes to the mirror were smaller. Despite the impacts, the telescope has continued to exceed mission requirements, with barely any data loss, according to NASA.
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
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AP Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn contributed.
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A few weeks ago, my partner and I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge and headed up Highway 101 for about six hours to visit a spectacular sliver of America. Nestled along roughly 40 miles of Northern California coastline, Redwood National and State Parks is a sprawling park system — three state parks and one national park — housing 133,000 acres of natural wonders. It boasts stunning lagoons, rivers, and beaches, eye-popping hiking and biking trails, a rich array of wildlife, and some of the oldest and tallest trees on the planet.
We hiked the James Irvine Trail in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, which has got to be one of the best hikes on the West Coast. The trail starts with a wooden bridge over a flowing creek and instantly leads you into groves of enormous redwood trees. The trees are thousands of years old, with heights as tall as the Statue of Liberty and diameters as wide as 18 feet. They are marvels of evolution, communicating, cooperating, and sharing resources with each other through root systems. They have bark so thick that they can survive scorching wildfires. Scientists trace redwood ancestry back 160 million years, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth.
Meandering miles through this breathtaking primeval forest, the trail leads to Fern Canyon. It's a place so otherworldly that Steven Spielberg chose it as a setting for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Passing through Fern Canyon, we reached grasslands where we came face to face with a gang of Roosevelt elk. After nervously circumventing the gang, we arrived at Gold Bluffs Beach, where we gazed upon a rocky, forested coast jutting out into the sparkling Pacific Ocean. I cannot recommend this hike enough.
However, the doorstep to this natural treasure — a treasure so valuable that the United Nations has declared it a World Heritage Site — is bleak. It's a town called Orick. Driving through the town on Highway 101 to get to the park, you pass boarded-up motels, ramshackle houses, rusted-out cars, and properties that look like junkyards. Parts of Orick look like the setting for a zombie movie.
I've seen rural towns like Orick before, towns that have gone through economic catastrophes and never recovered. Towns whose abandoned buildings stand as macabre monuments to a more prosperous age. But what makes Orick so strange is it's literally the gateway to this gorgeous World Heritage Site. It's the closest town to the parks. Redwood National Park has an administrative headquarters there. Orick itself sits in a beautiful valley near the ocean, and it's surrounded by lush parkland. It's pretty much the perfect jumping off point for a whole range of outdoor adventures.
So why are its motels all shut down? Why aren't there restaurants or more places for tourists to shop? Why hasn't anyone invested in infrastructure or upkeep? What the heck happened to Orick?
The Contentious Creation Of Redwood National Park
In 1963, a team of scientists with the National Geographic Society, exploring an area just a mile north of Orick, discovered what they declared to be the tallest tree in the world. Towering at 362 feet, the tree was found along Redwood Creek within private logging land. They named the tree Howard Libbey, after a founder of the logging company that owned the land. The tree graced the cover of National Geographic in 1964.
By that point, the mighty coastal redwood forest — which once covered 2 million acres of coast spanning from Big Sur to southern Oregon — had been logged down to an area of just 300,000 acres. Much of that logging took place after World War II, when a housing construction boom fed an insatiable demand for redwood lumber. That was Orick's heyday. Back then, it boasted four sawmills, good union timber jobs, a highway bustling with cars and logging trucks, a slew of restaurants, bars, motels, and shops, a 350-seat movie theater, and a population of almost 3000 people.
However, Orick's thriving timber economy was a threat to one of the last remaining bastions of ancient redwoods. Technological advances had enabled the logging industry to clearcut redwoods at an unprecedented scale. The resulting ecological devastation was contributing to floods and mudslides in the area. Realizing that existing state parks only protected 50,000 acres (about one-sixth) of the remaining forest, environmentalists began an impassioned movement to create a new national park.
The logging companies and workers based in and around Orick hated the idea of creating a new national park. They derived their livelihoods from cutting down trees in the area where the park was proposed. After some squabbles and compromises, however, in 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signed into law an act that created Redwood National Park, protecting 58,000 acres of the forest. To this day, there's a giant grove of old-growth redwoods in the park named Lady Bird Johnson Grove, in honor of the president's wife. Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, along with First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon, came to the area to dedicate it.
The creation of the park, however, did not end the battle between loggers and environmentalists. Over protests, timber companies began cutting down redwoods on land within a half-mile of the park. And so began a second, even more heated battle over proposals to further expand the park.
As momentum for park expansion picked up steam in 1977, local loggers organized a "Talk to America" convoy to Washington, DC. By then, Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer, was president. The loggers transported a nine-ton peanut carved out of redwood to give to him. They put a sign on it that said, "It may be peanuts to you, but it's jobs to us!" When the activist motorcade of 25 semi-trucks completed the nine-day journey to the nation's capital, they met with presidential aides and tried to give President Carter the peanut. The aides refused it.
"The redwood peanut actually came back to Orick," says Donna Hufford, a local Orick businesswoman who has lived in the town since 1970. "It's still here. We haven't really made a great icon out of it. But it is here, down in front of the one gas station that we have left."
In 1978, President Carter signed into law an act that expanded the Redwood National Park by 48,000 acres, nearly doubling its size. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus estimated that at least 1,000 timber jobs would be killed in the park's first year of expansion — although he also predicted, probably rightly, that these jobs would be eventually lost anyway, once the forest's resources were exhausted. After all, logging towns across the West Coast — most of which are not located next to national parks — have a history of going bust once the trees in the area have all been cut down. However, in this case, the timber industry had clear boogiemen: hippie-dippie "tree huggers" and the federal government.
"The problem was when the national park took over, you could just start to see the demise of logging," Hufford says. "And that was the people's lifeblood, and they were fighting for it."
Facing protests, Secretary Andrus, an Oregonian who came from a logging family and had worked as a logger himself, fought to include provisions to contain the economic fallout of the park's expansion. The law expanding the park created The Redwood Employees Protection Program, which provided payments, pension benefits, and retraining to timber workers who lost their jobs. A subsequent analysis by the US Government Accountability Office found that the program doled out more than a hundred million dollars to 3,500 former timber workers between 1978 and 1988, far exceeding initial projections. The report also found that only 432 of the 3,500 workers enrolled in retraining programs. The authors blamed program delays and design flaws, including the payments not being tied to retraining, and they wrote "the benefits became a disincentive to work." The fact that there weren't many great jobs in the area to train for probably didn't help. The last payments were made in 1989.
The Failed Promise Of Tourism
This welfare program for displaced workers was never supposed to be a permanent solution to the collapse of the timber industry. Instead, lawmakers and environmental groups sold tourism as the gleaming plug to fill the economic hole. They argued that the national park would bring a huge amount of tourism to Orick and surrounding areas — above and beyond existing tourism to the area's three state parks.
It's true that national parks tend to provide benefits to the local economies around them. One recent study by economists Andrea Szabo and Gergely Ujhelyi finds that parks have "substantial multiplier effects on the economy driven by visitation," particularly for the hotel, retail, and construction industries. Is Redwood National Park different?
Szabo and Ujhelyi were kind enough to crunch some numbers for us, and they found that "Redwood receives considerably fewer visitors than other national parks." In 2019, Redwood National Park saw only about a half million visitors. For comparison, Yosemite, in central California, saw almost 4.5 million visitors — 800% more.
Redwood National Park's numbers, however, don't necessarily include visits to the area's three state parks that it's jointly managed with (a unique federal-state arrangement that began in 1994). We reached out to the National Park Service to try and get an estimate of that. Many visitors, they said, consistently report that they go to both the state and national parks, but we couldn't get solid numbers on total visits. "We are in the process of securing much more accurate visitor data, as we are well aware that we have been significantly undercounting total visitation to Redwood National and State Parks," says NPS spokesperson Erin Gates.
While the data isn't solid, it's pretty clear that Redwood National and State Parks are significantly less popular than most major national parks. Maybe it's because the parks are so far from large population centers. Maybe it's because the region tends to be pretty cold and foggy. Maybe it's because people don't really value old trees much, or they don't recognize how special these specific trees are. Maybe it's because people just don't know how amazing this entire area is.
Locals, however, have long blamed management of the national park for failing to deliver on the promise of tourism. Unlike many other national parks, Redwood lacks a grand lodge. It has neither drive-in campsites, nor an extensive trail system (although the state parks do). It doesn't seem to invest much in marketing or visitor services. Locals complain that people often just blast through Orick on Highway 101 on their way to the park. They park, pee, glance at some trees, and then continue onwards.
"Redwood National Park is not a park in the sense of Yosemite, Yellowstone, or Mount Rushmore," testified one local official to Congress in 1995. "It is a preserve." In other words, it's more about conservation, not visitation.
All this might explain why Szabo and Ujhelyi find that "the hotel industry appears to be less important for the area than for other national parks." They added that while hotel income is growing in other national park areas, it appears to be flat over time around Redwood.
That said, Redwood National Park does attract some economic activity. The National Park Service estimates that, in 2019, it contributed about $32 million to the regional economy, supporting 446 local jobs. But wherever this job-creating tourist money is going, most of it is clearly not going to Orick. The town has dwindled to a population of fewer than 400 people — 26 percent of whom live in poverty.
An "Orphan" Lost In The Woods
When Redwood National Park was expanded, the federal government gave regional officials $13.4 million to fund infrastructure and provide high-risk loans to businesses in the area. They used the money to create the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission, which to this day provides loans to businesses that have a hard time getting money from other sources.
Gregg Foster, the current executive director of the commission, says most of this federal assistance never flowed to Orick. Much of it went to create a marina and an improved airport elsewhere in the county. Part of the problem, he says, is Orick has lacked any real political representation. It's an unincorporated town, lacking a city council or mayor.
Over the years, Orick's lack of self-determination has frustrated local residents. It's been subject to the whims of bureaucrats at the national park, the coastal commission, the fish and game commission, the regional water quality board, county supervisors, and countless other outside agencies. It doesn't even control its own main street. That's Highway 101, which is managed by the state. A morass of red tape, Foster says, has hurt investment and business in the area. And, he says, officials haven't pursued a smart development plan to turn the town around. He calls Orick an "orphan."
"Everybody has a kind of little piece of regulating Orick, but no one has really — in my opinion — taken on the responsibility of helping them transition," Foster says. "And there were a lot of promises made years and years ago saying, 'You're going to thrive because you're the gateway to this incredible place, this UNESCO World Heritage Site.' But no one has invested in the infrastructure to make that happen."
In 2003, Redwood National Park shut down what locals considered to be one of the few boons for Orick's tourism industry. For decades, hundreds of families would drive their RVs up to the area and camp along "Freshwater Spit," a small stretch of land that sits between Freshwater Lagoon and the Pacific Ocean, just south of Orick. These visitors would often eat and shop at spots in town. The problem: this was right on the shoulder of Highway 101 en route to the park. The highway-side camping rankled transportation officials, environmentalists, and park rangers. They issued a new regulation prohibiting camping, which, Foster says, was "the final nail in the coffin" for Orick's struggling tourism industry.
After camping on Freshwater Spit was outlawed, locals organized picket lines along the highway and even made death threats against park rangers. When a pipe bomb was found in an outhouse, the park service sent in a SWAT team to end the fracas.
In the years since, many of Orick's businesses have fallen like dominoes. In 2019, Humboldt County health authorities shuttered the Palm Cafe, one of the last remaining restaurants in the town, after an inspection found rat urine, cockroach feces, and "unapproved insecticides," amongst other health code violations. The Palm Cafe also had an adjacent motel that closed down.
Late last year, country officials closed down Orick's Green Valley Motel, after finding "inadequate sanitation, structural and fire hazards, faulty weather protection, hazardous electrical work and mechanical equipment, inadequate heat supply, solid waste accumulation, infestations of rats, cockroaches and bedbugs." By then, the name Green Valley Motel had become kind of a misnomer. With dirt cheap rates, the motel mainly catered to a transient population who rented out rooms on a monthly basis.
"I've got to say, I think closing down the Green Valley Motel was a blessing," says Orick local Donna Hufford. "It had gotten so bad there: drug dealing, broken down cars, garbage everywhere, no maintenance, holes in the roof — nobody's painted it for 30 years, probably. That's not the kind of thing you want to see going through the main part of town."
For years, Donna and her husband Joseph have been hoping for investment, development, street beautification — anything that could help save their dying little town. Joseph grew up in Orick in the 1950s and 60s, when the town was thriving, and after his father died, he took over his family's sand and gravel plant. In the years since, the Huffords have been investing in Orick. They were involved in the creation of Elk Meadow Cabins in the mid-2000s, which is the last remaining lodging business in Orick. Donna managed the cabins for about 13 years.
"We have family that still lives here and wants to live here. And my husband's heritage goes back to the Indians, so he's really rooted here," Hufford says. "And we want to see Orick be all it can be."
Recently, the Huffords received a loan from the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission to buy and renovate one of the town's shuttered motels. They've named the revamped motel Roosevelt Base Camp, and they hope to open it up for business next month.
"Our little family has never lost hope that good things will happen here," Hufford says.
The Huffords' story is an inspiring one of hope and perseverance as their little town gasps for air, choked by the monster of deindustrialization. But not all residents in Orick have adapted to the area's economic struggles within the bounds of the law.
"We have people who are so destitute, and drugs and alcohol are everywhere," Hufford says. "They cause problems, and we have the park rangers with their guns, and they have the same authority as a law enforcement officer, so there's this tension."
Next week in the Planet Money newsletter: a story about a black market that threatens Redwood trees and has led rangers to bring down the strong arm of the national park, even obtaining search warrants and knocking down Orick doors with AR-15s. The strange underground economy of tree poaching — that's next week in the Planet Money newsletter. Subscribe here.
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LITHONIA, Ga. — Police and fire crews are on the scene of a DeKalb County Little Caesars where a suspected burglar was pulled from an exhaust vent after getting trapped Tuesday morning.
DeKalb County police told 11Alive that crews responded around 9:20 a.m. at the pizza restaurant off Covington Highway. The fire chief said the suspect had been in there for hours.
Authorities say the man was discovered by Army recruiters working next door as they came into work for the day. By 10:30 a.m., 11Alive crews on scene saw the man being removed.
"I'm not sure what time the restaurant closes at night but the oven still gives off heat after they close I imagine," DeKalb Fire Cpt. Jason Daniels said. "For him to get down into the pipe and escape with no injuries, again he had to do it in a certain window of time when the oven was cool enough and obviously nobody was there."
The man walked into an ambulance shortly after being removed and was taken to the hospital. We were told he was thirsty and hungry.
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Back in 2016, Kid Cudi wrote a heartfelt letter to his fans explaining that he needed help. The musician was struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts, so he checked himself into a rehabilitation facility.
"I am not at peace. I haven't been since you've known me. If I didn't come here, I would [have] done something to myself," he explained.
But another danger was lurking.
In a recently published interview with Esquire, the artist revealed that two weeks after entering rehab, he had a stroke and was subsequently hospitalized. It was a terrifying and traumatic event. It slowed his speech and movements so badly that his manager urged him to step away from music while he underwent weeks of physical therapy to recover.
He was 32 at the time.
While that's young, a February 2020 article in the journal Stroke suggests that between 10% and 15% of strokes occur in people ages 18 to 50. And rates among people under 45 appear to be on the rise. Recent research in the United States and Europe has found that "ischemic stroke in younger adults is increasing," according to the paper.
Ischemic is one of two types of stroke. They're the most common, accounting for about 87% of strokes, according to the American Stroke Association, and they occur when a vessel supplying blood to the brain is obstructed. Meanwhile, hemorrhagic strokes make up about only 13% of cases. They're caused by a weakened vessel that ruptures and bleeds into the surrounding brain. The blood accumulates and compresses the surrounding brain tissue.
May Kim-Tenser, a neurologist with Keck Medicine of USC, told NPR that young people are mistaken in thinking they're innately protected from having a stroke. But there are factors that they can control to reduce their risk.
In Cudi's case, the artist has been candid about going on a two-week cocaine binge before checking himself into rehab. "When you do drugs or smoke, that drives up your blood pressure, and high blood pressure can be a contributing factor," Kim-Tenser explained.
Other reasons for increased strokes in young people are poor diet and more sedentary lifestyles. The latter, she noted, has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It probably didn't help that younger people were just sedentary at their job. They were sitting, zooming for meetings, not really moving as much," Kim-Tenser said.
Sitting still for hours was one of the factors in model Hailey Bieber's mini-stroke in March.
The 25-year-old said in a YouTube video that she had been eating breakfast when she suddenly felt a "weird sensation" from the top of her right shoulder through the tips of her fingers. One side of her face drooped for about 30 seconds, and she lost the ability to speak for some time.
Doctors eventually concluded she'd experienced a "perfect storm" of conditions that likely caused a transient ischemic attack (TIA) — a brief blockage of blood supply to the brain — often called a mini-stroke by doctors.
In the days before the TIA, Bieber had flown from Paris to Los Angeles without getting up to walk or move around the plane. She'd also recently recovered from COVID-19, which some researchers believe produces blood clots. Finally, Bieber had also begun taking birth control pills, "which I should have never been on because I am somebody who suffered from migraines anyway," she noted, adding that she hadn't talked to her doctor about it.
Bieber, who is considered an influencer in all things beauty and style related, said she hoped her video would help others understand how to recognize signs of a stroke and share resources for anyone "going through something similar."
Kim-Tenser said spreading the word is imperative to understanding stroke prevention.
"Obviously, there are genetic causes, but there are also things we can change," she said. "Just moving your body is probably one of the best things you could do, and you could probably decrease the risk through diet and exercise."
And if someone is actively experiencing acute stroke symptoms, Kim-Tenser has three words to remember: "Time is brain!"
In such emergencies, don't call loved ones for help. Call 911 immediately, she said, because the sooner a patient can get to an emergency room, the sooner doctors can start administering stroke protocols.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a 30-kilometer (19-mile) security corridor on Turkey’s border with Syria in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Erdogan’s office said Sunday.
Referring to Kurdish militants that Ankara considers terrorists, Erdogan reiterated the “importance and urgency” of creating the corridor in northern Syria in accordance with a 2019 agreement between Turkey and Russia, the statement added.
The call came three weeks after Turkey launched air and artillery strikes in Syria and Iraq in response to a bomb attack in Istanbul on Nov. 13 that killed six people and wounded dozens. The Turkish government has blamed the bombing on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its Syrian affiliate the People’s Protection Units, or YPG.
Both groups have denied involvement in the attack.
The PKK has waged a 38-year insurgency against Turkey that has led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives. It is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. The YPG, however, is not designated as a terror group by Washington or Brussels and has spearheaded the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.
Erdogan has threatened to follow up strikes on northern Syria with a ground offensive. A planned Turkish invasion earlier this year was halted amid opposition by the U.S. and Russia, both of which have military posts in the region.
Under a 2019 deal signed with Turkey, Russia promised to establish a buffer zone between the Turkish border and YPG forces that would be controlled by the Syrian army and Russian military police. The agreement was not fully implemented although both Russian and Syrian government forces are present in the border region, as well as some U.S. troops.
Moscow, which is the main backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has closely cooperated with Turkey in northern Syria in the past and in recent months has pushed for reconciliation between Ankara and Damascus.
The call between Erdogan and Putin follows a visit to Turkey this week by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin for talks on the situation in Syria.
In a readout of the call, the Kremlin said “close contacts” would be maintained between the Russian and Turkish defense and foreign ministries.
The presidents also discussed energy — Russia has offered to make Turkey a hub for the sale of its natural gas — as well as the deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey that safeguards the export of Ukrainian grain from its Black Sea ports.
Erdogan told Putin that the agreement could be expanded to “different food products and other commodities gradually,” his office added without providing further detail.
Moscow said the deal “requires the removal of barriers to relevant supplies from Russia in order to meet the needs of the countries most in need.” Russia has complained that its own grain and fertiliser exports are being hampered by sanctions on ships and banks.
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Associated Press writer James Heintz in Moscow contributed to this report. | 2022-12-11T15:14:38+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-turkeys-erdogan-calls-on-putin-to-establish-syrian-corridor/ |
How to Watch Men's Swiss Open Gstaad Today: Live Stream and More - July 16
Published: Jul. 16, 2023 at 1:45 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
There are four matches in the Swiss Open Gstaad (clay) qualifying qualification final today, the best being No. 130-ranked Otto Virtanen against No. 156 Hamad Medjedovic. All the tennis can be found via live stream.
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Swiss Open Gstaad Information
- Tournament: The Swiss Open Gstaad
- Round: Qualifying round
- Date: July 16
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- Venue: Roy Emerson Arena
- Location: Gstaad, Switzerland
- Court Surface: Clay
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Today's Best Match Insights: Virtanen vs. Medjedovic
- Through eight tournaments so far this year, Virtanen is yet to win a title, and his overall record is 4-8.
- Medjedovic hasn't won any of his three tournaments so far this year, posting an overall 6-3 record.
- Virtanen has played 12 matches so far this year (across all court types), and 24.3 games per match.
- On clay, Virtanen has played six matches so far this year, totaling 25.5 games per match while winning 41.8% of games.
- Virtanen has won 21.9% of his return games so far this year, and 80.0% of his service games.
- Medjedovic is averaging 28.4 games per match in his nine matches played this year across all court types, with a 50.8% game winning percentage.
- On clay courts, Medjedovic has played five matches (averaging 26.4 games per match and 8.8 games per set).
- Medjedovic has put together a service game winning percentage of 76.3% on all surfaces (87-for-114 in service games) and a return game winning percentage of 25.2% (28-for-111 in return games).
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Inside a warehouse at the industrial Port of Portland lies what some believe could be the answer to Oregon’s housing crisis — a prototype of an affordable housing unit made from mass timber.
Once mass-produced at the factory being planned at the port, the units ranging from 426 square feet (40 square meters) to 1,136 square feet (106 square meters) could be deployed across the state to be assembled in urban and rural communities alike, potentially alleviating a critical housing shortage that has driven Oregon’s high rates of homelessness.
“I can’t wait to see these homes rolling down the road to those communities who need them right now,” said newly inaugurated Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek, who visited the prototypes Friday. “We have to do this day in and day out in order to meet the goals of providing enough housing for every Oregonian in this state. Because that is the long-term solution to end homelessness.”
On her first full day in office earlier this month, Kotek signed an executive order setting a new housing construction target of 36,000 units per year — an 80% increase over current production — in a bid to address the state’s housing shortage.
Mass timber has yet to be widely adopted for affordable housing construction. While Oregon officials are seeking to change that, some environmental groups have expressed concern that increased logging could lead to deforestation if not managed sustainably, which could add to global warming.
Mass timber is made from layers of wood that are stacked, often in perpendicular layers, then compressed and fastened together to make large panels or beams. Already popular in Europe, where it was developed in the 1990s, mass timber is gaining ground in the U.S. The tallest mass timber building in the world, the 25-story Ascent MKE building, opened in Milwaukee last summer, surpassing Norway’s 18-story Mjostarnet tower.
Proponents of mass timber say it uses less energy and emits less carbon than concrete and steel. They also claim it can help reduce wildfire risk, as the material can be made of the smaller trees in a forest’s underbrush. And they point to the rural jobs the industry can create.
The Oregon Mass Timber Coalition received a $41 million federal grant last year to help finance the construction of the housing factory at the Port of Portland. Members of the coalition, which is made up of government agencies and Oregon universities, say the factory would make it easier to produce prefabricated homes.
“The beauty of it is, you can cut the openings required for electrical and plumbing and stuff like that,” said Iain MacDonald, director of the TallWood Design Institute, a member of the coalition. “And you can do all that on a computer-controlled machine in the factory. Then when you get to the job site, it’s a really fast assembly. It’s basically an assembly operation rather than a construction operation.”
The TallWood Design Institute is a collaboration between the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.
Producing more factory homes also would allow the state to ramp up housing despite a labor shortage that’s seized the manufacturing and construction industries, MacDonald said.
But some environmental groups say cutting down more trees will release more carbon and reduce forests’ ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
“The business has gone toward clear cutting, spraying, replanting and cutting them down 35 years later,” said Sean Stevens, executive director of conservation organization Oregon Wild. “When you do that 40-year rotation, you never let them get to that point where they could really contribute to storing more carbon. You’re treating it like a crop at that point.”
Environmental groups have also pushed back on the idea that cutting younger trees will mitigate wildfire risk.
“The reason we’re having big fires today is extreme fire weather that is triggered mostly by climate change, high winds, hot temperatures, low humidity,” said Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist at conservation organization Wild Heritage. “I think there’s some credibility with taking smaller trees, but it isn’t going to solve the fire problem.”
Some wildfire victims, however, are set to directly benefit from the units. The first completed prototype will go to a couple, Barbara and Scott Benedict, who lost their home in the 2020 Labor Day wildfires that devastated southern Oregon.
“You can’t really say what it means to you,” Scott Benedict said of the new home, which is expected to be delivered to his property in the small town of Otis a few months from now. “We’ve been without a home for 2 1/2 years.”
Affordable housing developers say that using mass timber will allow them to move quicker to rebuild after crises like wildfires and to address systemic issues like the housing shortage.
Ernesto Fonseca, CEO of Hacienda CDC, the Portland nonprofit that worked on designing the prototypes at the city’s port, said it took about six weeks to build six model units. When the factory becomes fully operational, Fonseca estimated it could produce four to six units per day, compared to three to four years for a more traditional project.
“The most significant aspect of this is speed,” Fonseca said. “Rapid rehousing became our driving principle.”
The units will initially range in price from $200,000 for a studio to about $400,000 for a three-bedroom unit, according to Fonseca. He said that he expects prices to go down once the factory is up and running a few years from now. The median sale price of a home in Oregon was $473,400 as of December, according to the online real estate brokerage site Redfin.
Oregon is short 110,000 housing units and needs to build more than a half-million homes over the next 20 years in order to keep up with demand, officials have estimated. The goal of building 36,000 new homes per year outlined in Kotek’s executive order would allow the state to meet that target. Housing advocates have welcomed the order but say that removing bureaucratic red tape will be key to making sure that quota is met.
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Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Claire on Twitter. | 2023-01-28T12:34:40+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-oregon-pins-hopes-on-mass-timber-to-boost-housing-jobs/ |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Lindsey Horan, angry over being knocked down minutes earlier by Danielle Van de Donk, scored a revenge goal minutes later in the second half Thursday to help the United States squeeze out a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands at the Women's World Cup.
The Dutch struck first with a goal from Jill Roord in the first-half to surprise the Americans, who remained unbeaten in 19 consecutive matches with Horan's second-half score.
Horan’s goal on a header off a corner kick from Rose Lavelle in the 62nd minute followed several minutes of jawing between the two teams: Horan was angry after she was knocked off her feet and even cursed in the direction of Van de Donk — her teammate for club team Lyon.
“Honestly, me and Dan always go up against each other and it’s a physical battle. I respect her so much because that’s how it should be, it should be competitive at all times,” Horan said. “Once we got through that tackle, all I wanted to do was score.”
The Americans tried to calm Horan, who responded with her 29th international goal, fourth in the World Cup, and second consecutive in this tournament.
Horan got the ball from Lavelle and before it even crossed the goal line, Horan’s expression showed she knew she was on target.
“Heat of the moment I got a little (angry) at her,” Horan said of Van de Donk. “But, Rose put in an absolute dime and I got on the end of it. I’m happy for the goal.”
With the draw, neither team secured a spot in the knockout round yet, with one group match remaining. Both the Americans and the Dutch sit atop the Group E standings with a win and a draw, but the U.S. has the edge for the lead with more goals.
The United States plays Portugal in its group finale on Tuesday in Auckland, while the Netherlands plays Vietnam the same day in Dunedin.
The game was a rematch of the 2019 Women's World Cup final, a 2-0 win for the Americans in a game played in Lyon, France. It was the Americans' second straight trophy in the tournament, and fourth overall.
Roord's strike from atop the box went though Horan's legs to put the Dutch ahead in the 17th minute.
Dominique Janssen had a good chance from distance in the 29th minute, but U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher jumped for it and the ball skirted above the crossbar and into the netting.
Horan's header off a cross in the 36th minute went wide left as the pace became more frenzied with halftime looming.
Lavelle, who was hampered by a knee injury in the run-up to the World Cup, was subbed in for the United States at the half. Lavelle, who scored one of the goals in the World Cup final four years ago, replaced Savannah DeMelo.
The Netherlands went into halftime with that single goal lead. It was just the sixth time the United States had trailed at the half in 52 World Cup matches, and first time since trailing Sweden at the break in the opening round in 2011.
“I think the first half, we feel a little bit disappointed in how we played but I think we fixed things right away, the pressure that we got on, and the amount of chances and opportunities that came from it,” Horan said. “Proud of the team and the response.”
The sky was sunny but temperatures were in the 50s in New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, and there was a stiff breeze for the match. The crowd was announced at 27,312.
“Very happy with mentality, very happy with the belief, especially from the young ones to mimic the older, experienced ones. Looking forward to the next one,” U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said.
The Americans, vying for a record third consecutive World Cup title , defeated Vietnam 3-0 in their tournament opener. Sophia Smith scored a pair of goals and Horan added the other.
Andonovski used the same lineup for the Dutch that he used against Vietnam. He's turned to Julie Ertz, normally a midfielder, to play at center back in the absence of veteran Becky Sauerbrunn, who injured her foot and was not able to play in the World Cup.
Megan Rapinoe, the American star who came in as a substitute in the opening game against Vietnam for her 200th appearance with the team, was not used in Thursday's match. Rapinoe has announced that this is her final World Cup and she will retire at the end of the season.
The Dutch were without forward Lineth Beerensteyn, who was hurt early in her team’s 1-0 victory over Portugal to open the tournament. Katja Snoeijs replaced her in the starting lineup against the United States.
The Dutch were also missing leading scorer Vivianne Miedema, who ruptured her ACL while playing for Arsenal in December. She has 95 career goals for the Dutch.
The United States was undefeated in all but one of its meetings with the Dutch — the first game in 1991.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the team at their hotel on the eve of the match and was at the game. Blinken was in Wellington for a formal bilateral meeting with New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta, and he will also meet with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.
The top finisher in the group opens the knockout round in Sydney against the second-place finisher in Group G, which includes Sweden, South Africa, Italy and Argentina.
The second-place finisher heads to Melbourne against the top Group G team. | 2023-07-27T07:02:40+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/us-netherlands-match-at-womens-world-cup-ends-in-1-1-draw/507-0a8c9b9b-d5f2-4fb1-be24-7ad632d05d5c |
MARENGO TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan State Police arrested a driver after investigators say he crashed into a tree, which killed his passenger.
Troopers responded to I-94 near mile marker 116 in Marengo Township around 7 a.m. Saturday.
Investigators say the driver, a 37-year-old man from Portage, lost control, ran off the road and hit a tree.
He suffered minor injuries; however, his passenger, 30-year-old Evangelina Alvarez from Kalamazoo, suffered life-threatening injuries.
State police say Alvarez died on the way to the hospital.
Troopers arrested the driver, who was showing signs of intoxication, for operating while intoxicated causing death, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice.
State police will not release the driver’s name until he’s arraigned in court.
Investigators say the driver was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash, but evidence shows Alvarez was not. | 2023-02-26T01:50:34+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kzoo-bc/calhoun/state-police-driver-arrested-for-owi-tampering-with-evidence-after-deadly-crash |
Following a series of monumental Supreme Court rulings, Vice President Kamala Harris says fundamental issues are at stake.
The court handed down three sweeping decisions in two days, upending race-based college admissions, student loan forgiveness and LGBTQ+ protections. The cases were followed with high anticipation that the court, which has a conservative majority, could overturn decades of precedent.
"There's so much at stake," Harris said in an interview with NPR's Michel Martin on Friday, hours after the Court wrapped its final day of opinions for the term. The vice president spoke to NPR after speaking at a moderated discussion on maternal health and reproductive rights at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
The Supreme Court struck down President Biden's $400 billion student debt relief plan, saying he exceeded his executive authority. In another Friday ruling, a conservative justice supermajority sided with a web designer who refused to create websites for same-sex weddings. A day earlier, those same six conservative justices effectively ended affirmative action, the practice of using race as a factor in college admission decisions.
Noting that the rulings arrive a year after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, the vice president says she sees a troubling theme that runs through the country's highest court.
"I do believe that there is a national movement afoot," she said, adding, "It is about an attack on foundational freedoms and on the access to opportunity."
On addressing student loan forgiveness, Harris said, "We are going to be creative in the way that we can provide some relief to this population that we have front of mind on this issue."
The vice president says she bears the responsibility of helping inform Americans about their fundamental freedoms such as the right to privacy. But she's counting on voters to help restore protections like reproductive care.
"The court took rights from the people of America," she said. "Congress can put those rights back. We can't."
Her focus right now is also on the campaign trail, where she and President Biden are running for 2024 reelection.
"I'm traveling around the country to make sure that people know not only what they have received [under the Biden administration] — because they stood in line for hours during the height of a pandemic in 2020 demanding these things — but also what is yet to come," Harris said. "And that includes what we will do to continue to fight, to make sure that people's freedoms and rights are protected."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-01T02:50:06+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2023-06-30/kamala-harris-says-fundamental-freedoms-are-at-stake-with-the-supreme-court-rulings |
Children in Westfield were lying awake at night, worried that John List — who had vanished after killing his family — might be hiding in their attic or crawl space.
Rumors were rampant, but clues to his whereabouts were scarce. Police and FBI agents were searching desperately for any hint of where the mass murderer was hiding.
But the man himself? He was living the quiet life more than 1,500 miles away.
He would later say that life in Westfield, with the family he decided to kill, had been rather stressful. So he wanted to unwind, while at the same time reinventing himself, like “The Great Gatsby,” with a new life story.
In its latest episode, NJ Advance Media’s investigative true crime podcast, “Father Wants Us Dead,” explores the international manhunt for List, who meticulously killed his mother, wife and three children on Nov. 9, 1971. Before disappearing without a trace, he left a letter justifying his actions — right down to explaining that he left his mother crumpled in a storeroom in the attic because “she was too heavy to move.”
In the fifth episode of the podcast, available now wherever you get your podcasts, a psychiatrist who examined List reveals a mental health diagnosis that List himself didn’t understand, even as it shaped his twisted reasoning when he decided to kill.
Reporters Rebecca Everett and Jessica Remo will also take listeners along as they visit sites from List’s second life, meeting people who knew him in the ‘70s and ‘80s as Robert P. Clark, a quiet accountant who said his first wife had died and he had no kids.
Ironically, while List was hiding, his notoriety was reaching new heights: His crimes inspired a horror movie in 1987, “The Stepfather,” featuring a moralizing man who marries into and kills off each family that disappoints him.
While the movie came and went from theaters, List himself remained hiding in plain sight in a new marriage to an unsuspecting woman.
Based on information gleaned from dozens of interviews and hundreds of pages of police and FBI documents, “Father Wants Us Dead” is an in-depth and chilling narrative from two reporters with more than 25 years of combined experience.
The first five episodes of “Father Wants Us Dead” are available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can subscribe on those platforms to be alerted when new episodes drop. Episodes, photos and other information are also available at fatherwantsusdead.com.
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Rebecca Everett may be reached at reverett@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-05-24T15:32:02+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/05/diagnosed-and-deadly-new-episode-of-father-wants-us-dead-podcast-goes-inside-a-killers-mind.html |
Houston's Kelvin Sampson on Auburn basketball playing in Birmingham: 'That's a great break'
BIRMINGHAM — When Houston coach Kelvin Sampson learned on Selection Sunday that Auburn basketball landed in the Courgars' region, he questioned why the Tigers got to play so close to home.
"So, Auburn gets to play in Birmingham?" Sampson asked Sunday. "Maybe we should've been a 9-seed."
The Tigers (21-12) took down Iowa on Thursday and Houston (32-3) topped Northern Kentucky. The duo of winners will see one another in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in Legacy Arena (6:10 p.m. CT, TBS).
With the meeting now official, Sampson said "there's nothing we can do about it."
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"Auburn is really good," Sampson said. "I think anybody that makes the NCAA Tournament would like to be in their situation right now, but you know, good for them. That's a great break, but we've got a lot more pressing matters to worry about than that. We have to go see how many healthy bodies we have right now."
Star guard Marcus Sasser has been battling an injury for the Cougars. He didn't play in the conference tournament title game and only got 14 minutes Thursday. Sampson said the senior gave it a try against the Norse, but decided to shut it down.
The Cougars have yet to study Auburn, but freshman forward Jarace Walker said he knows the Tigers "play hard, (have) a lot of defensive intensity (and) they crash the boards."
Houston forward Reggie Chaney, asked about the potential raucous enviornment his team may face against Auburn on Saturday, sited the Cougars' undefeated record on the road: "It ain't nothing new to us."
"I know it's going to be a hostile atmosphere, but it's nothing we haven't played in before this year," redshirt freshman Emanuel Sharp said. "I know Auburn is a good team, but we're going to battle."
Following his team's loss, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said in a perfect world the Hawkeyes would've played in a more neutral territory, but added that wasn't the reason his team lost. The fans in attendance Thursday were overwhelming in favor of Auburn.
Now it's Houston's turn to deal with it.
"We've played in environments like that, so I feel like we'll be ready to go," Walker said.
Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. | 2023-03-17T06:30:09+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2023/03/17/auburn-basketball-houston-kelvin-sampson-ncaa-tournament-march-madness/70018995007/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he'd be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he'd be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at the forefront of the conversation on gun regulations.
Activism had yielded results for years for the 28-year-old son of a preacher and a teacher. At age 15, he prodded a school board to get his Memphis high school more textbooks. After college, he fought a planned oil pipeline through wetlands and poor, predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city’s south. The project was canceled in 2021.
The push to boot Pearson and two other Democrats has kept national attention fixed on reliably Republican Tennessee. They hope the pressure from thousands of students, parents and others who have protested at the Capitol for gun control can yield quick change. GOP Gov. Bill Lee has called for legislation to keep firearms away from people who could harm themselves or others. But Republican lawmakers have been noncommittal, and want to adjourn soon, possibly this week.
Meanwhile, it's hard not to look ahead for Tennessee Democrats. The attention has attracted the kind of campaign cash that has eluded them for years.
“I think there’s a new awakening that’s happening,” Pearson told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. “And we’re going to be able to consistently build on that, because the issues that we’re fighting aren’t going away, and the people who are fighting aren’t going away, either.”
Pearson was expelled for protesting on the House floor alongside a fellow Democratic Black lawmaker, Nashville’s Rep. Justin Jones. Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is white, was spared by one vote. Jones and Pearson have since been restored.
Pearson said his activism and oratory came partly “through osmosis” — from his mother, an English teacher, and his father, a preacher — as he “grew up financially poor, but spiritually rich.”
He briefly attended school in a wealthy Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., and realized that, by comparison, the school he attended in Memphis lacked resources. On his return, Pearson said, he held up his mother’s bachelor degree and his algebra book before school board officials, asking how students could ever get a degree without enough textbooks. Days later, he showed up at school to more books.
“I remember walking in, and it’s just like, ‘Oh, so this is change?’” Pearson said. “You take an issue, you raise your voice, you explain the injustice, you fight for it.”
Pearson attended Bowdoin College in Maine, then returned to Memphis and helped lead a winning fight against the planned oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and north Mississippi. The Memphis City Council was considering an ordinance to make it harder for the company to build the pipeline, but no vote occurred before the cancelation.
Republican state lawmakers noticed.
In 2022, they largely stripped the ability of local governments to stop oil and gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Pearson, who lobbied against the bill, helped secure some amendments. But he said the GOP's legislative supermajority showed its “punitive” attitude toward left-leaning cities.
“The problem with that entire legislative process was the pipeline was canceled before we passed any laws locally," Pearson said. “And so, it’s trying to have an overcorrection to something that wasn’t a correction.”
Pearson subsequently won a primary election for the seat left open after Rep. Barbara Cooper died. With no general election opponent, local officials installed him early on an interim basis.
Republican legislative leaders chastised the Democrats targeted for removal for breaches of decorum and rules — House Majority Leader William Lamberth said Thursday that “you can't step into the well, whip out a bullhorn and start yelling at folks.”
Pearson said the move represented more than a miscalculation.
“I think the Republican Party of Tennessee was hoping that expelling us would somehow expel our fight, and they were wrong,” Pearson said. “It wasn’t just a miscalculation. It was the result of anti-democratic behavior that has become aligned to this Republican Party.”
A day after the expulsions, Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut said he had helped to raise $425,000 for Pearson and Jones. It’s unclear how high the amount has grown nearly two weeks later.
Tennessee's Democratic Party on Friday told prospective donors it had raised almost $400,000 in one week.
Sitting lawmakers can’t take campaign cash during legislative sessions, but Pearson and Jones were able to go on a dayslong fundraising spree at the height of their popularity because Republican lawmakers kicked them out. It's unclear how much they raised.
Pearson said the wave of attention and campaign donations presents “a responsibility, an obligation and an opportunity.”
The Republican supermajority in the House has allowed the GOP to waive rules to fast-track certain bills, cut off debates and more. Johnson, the third lawmaker targeted for expulsion, said Democrats must try to elect enough progressive lawmakers to affect change.
“We’ve got to get 10 seats,” Johnson told the AP last week. “We need to get 10 folks who are going to speak up, and stand up, and not bow down to the supermajority.”
Democrats have struggled to recalibrate since Phil Bredesen lost to Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn in 2018 by nearly 11 percentage points, despite being a popular, moderate former governor. Only Nashville-Davidson County and Memphis' Shelby County voted against Gov. Lee's 2022 reelection.
Pearson wants to see more organizations and resources in the state focused on preventing gun violence and boosting other progressive issues, along with the “political activation” of young people.
“I’m hopeful that we will be able to use resources to keep our fight going and to get progressive voices in the state of Tennessee and the state Legislature,” Pearson said, “because there are a lot of people in our communities who can speak no more because they suffered from the effects of gun violence.” | 2023-04-19T04:39:14+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/04/18/restored-tennessee-rep-pearson-charts-progressive-path/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian hardliners on Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics.
The caricatures were published at a time of persistent anti-government protests in Iran, now in their fourth month. Demonstrators are calling for the downfall of its Islamic Republic and are challenging its hardline establishment.
The demonstrations outside of the French embassy follow previous attempts by Iran’s rulers to mobilize their supporters in counter-demonstrations.
Hundreds of protesters, including students from seminary schools, shouted “Death to France” and accused French President Emmanuel Macron of insulting Iran while urging Paris to stop “animosity” toward Tehran. Police officers, some of whom appeared to be holding images of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, kept the demonstrators at a distance from the embassy building.
State television said some clerics held similar protests in the shrine city of Qom, the center of religious learning in Iran.
Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Sunday linked the French magazine’s cartoons with what officials have repeatedly alleged is the West’s plot to spread purported riots in Iran.
Later in the day, President Ebrahim Raisi offered his first reaction to the French cartoons and echoed similar claims. “Resorting to insults on the pretext of freedom is a clear indication of their frustration in concluding plot for chaos and insecurity” in Iran, he said.
Charlie Hebdo has a long history of publishing vulgar cartoons mocking Islamists, which critics say are deeply insulting to Muslims. Two French-born al-Qaida extremists attacked the newspaper’s office in 2015, killing 12 cartoonists, and it has been the target of other attacks over the years.
Its latest issue features the winners of a recent cartoon contest in which entrants were asked to draw the most offensive caricatures of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
One of the finalists depicts a turbaned cleric reaching for a hangman’s noose as he drowns in blood, while another shows Khamenei clinging to a giant throne above the raised fists of protesters. Others depict more vulgar and sexually explicit scenes.
Anti-government protests erupted across Iran in September after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating its strict Islamic dress code.
The unrest has grown into one of the severest challenges to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution that brought it to power. Human rights groups say that at least 517 protesters have been killed and over 19,200 people have been arrested amid a violent crackdown by security forces. Iranian authorities have not provided an official count of those killed or detained.
On Saturday, authorities executed two men convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer in the demonstrations.
The Saturday hangings brought to four the number of people known to have been executed since the unrest began in September over the death of Amini. All of the sentences were handed out in rapid, closed-door trials that have been met with international criticism.
Sunday was also the third anniversary of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s downing of an Ukrainian passenger plane with two surface-to-air missiles, killing all 176 people on board — a tragedy that ignited an outburst of anger across Iran. Tehran initially denied responsibility for downing the plane before admitting to having mistakenly done so amid high tensions with the U.S.
An Iranian court has yet to issue a verdict three years into the trial of 10 military personnel who have not been publicly identified but are allegedly implicated in the plane’s downing.
Families of the victims met on Sunday at the site of the crash to hold a memorial ceremony separately from an official commemoration organized at Tehran’s international airport, which had been the point of departure for the flight.
In a separate development on Sunday, a court sentenced Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, to a five-year prison term for “propaganda against the system,” Iranian media reported.
The outspoken and pro-reform Hashemi has been in prison since late September after she was arrested by security forces for supporting protests that have been led by women opposing the mandatory headscarf or hijab under the Islamic Republic.
In 2011, Hashemi was convicted and served five years in prison over similar security charges.
Iranian officials have continued to claim the months-long protests are being driven by foreign agents but have offered no proof.
Following Charlie Hebdo’s publishing of cartoons mocking Iranian clerical figures, authorities in Tehran shut down on Thursday a decades-old French research institute and called the closure a “first step” in their response. | 2023-01-08T22:16:29+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-amid-unrest-irans-hardliners-turn-their-anger-to-france/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudan’s capital.
For days after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum on April 15, the 49-year-old Sulieman treated the city’s wounded. He and other doctors ventured out as explosions shook the walls of homes where Khartoum’s people cowered inside. Gunfire between the two factions battling for control resounded in the streets.
“Say, ‘Nothing will happen to us except what God has decreed for us,’” Sulieman, a U.S.-born gastroenterologist who divided his time and work between Iowa City, Iowa, and Khartoum, said in one of his last messages to worried friends on Facebook last week, as fighting persisted. ”And in God let the believers put their trust.”
The morning that Sulieman decided he had to risk the dangerous escape from Sudan’s capital with his parents, American wife and his two American children was the morning that the war found Sulieman, friends say.
In the wholesale looting that has accompanied fighting in the capital, Khartoum, a city of 5 million, a roving band of strangers surrounded him in his yard Tuesday, stabbing him to death in front of his family. Friends suspect robbery was the motive. He became one of two Americans confirmed killed in Sudan in the fighting, both dual nationals.
Authorities say the other, with ties to Denver, was caught in a crossfire. They have not released that American’s name.
Mohamed Eisa, a Sudanese doctor who practices in the Pittsburgh area, was a close colleague of Sulieman. Over the years, “sometimes I asked him, ‘Bushra, what are you doing here? What are you doing in Sudan?″ Eisa recalled.
”He always says to me, ’Mohamed, listen — yes, I love living in the United States … but the United States health care system is very strong,” and one doctor more or less won’t make a difference.
Eisa said Sulieman would tell him: “In Sudan, everything I do has so much impact on so many lives, so many students and so many medical professionals.”
The sudden illness and death of Eisa’s father in Khartoum meant Eisa was in Sudan when fighting broke out. Now trying to get back to his American wife and children in the U.S., Eisa spoke late last week from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea now crowded with Sudanese and foreigners who made the dangerous 500-mile (800-kilometer) drive from the capital in hopes of securing spots on ships leaving Sudan.
Eisa described a journey through checkpoints manned by armed men, past bodies lying in the streets, and past vehicles carrying other families killed attempting the escape route.
After evacuating all U.S. diplomats and other U.S. government personnel April 22, the U.S. conducted its first evacuation of private American citizens Saturday. It used armed drones to escort buses carrying between 200 and 300 U.S. citizens, permanent residents and others to Port Sudan.
Sudanese in their country and in the U.S. spoke of Sulieman’s killing as a special loss.
He was a well-respected colleague at the Gastroenterology Clinic and Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, hospital president Tom Clancy said. Sulieman’s older children live in Iowa.
He traveled back to Sudan several times a year with medical supplies he had collected for that country, colleagues said.
A nurse at the Iowa City clinic who declined to be identified because the nurse was not authorized to speak called him one of the best. “His love for his patients was over the top,” the nurse said. Colleagues considered him a powerhouse doctor and humanitarian, an upbeat man with an infectious laugh who populated his texts with smiley faces and cats wearing sunglasses.
In Sudan, Sulieman directed the medical faculty at the University of Khartoum and was a founder and director of a doctors’ humanitarian group, the Sudanese American Medical Association.
He would help organize and drive medicine and supplies to Sudan’s countryside, arrange rural training for midwives and help bring in cardiologists to perform surgeries for free.
His efforts continued after two Sudanese commanders who earlier had joined forces to derail Sudan’s moves toward democracy suddenly launched an all-out battle for power.
Two weeks of fighting have killed more than 500 people, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry. Doctors say fighters have abducted at least five physicians, taking them away to treat combatants.
Sulieman was one of many doctors who kept showing up at hospitals, regardless, said Dr. Yasir Elamin, a Sudanese-American doctor in Houston.
Sulieman and other doctors in Khartoum treated the wounded, delivered babies and provided other urgent care until it became too dangerous for him to leave his home.
Concern about taking his father away from needed dialysis had kept Sulieman from leaving Khartoum, colleagues said.
On Tuesday, he decided he would take his father for dialysis, then try to flee Khartoum with his family, he told friends.
The band of men surrounded him before he could leave. They plunged a knife into his chest. Fellow doctors at Khartoum’s Soba Hospital, where he had worked, were unable to save him.
In Washington, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby extended “deepest sympathies” to Sulieman’s family.
“For nothing. For nothing,” Eisa, his colleague in Sudan, said of Sulieman’s killing, before finally finding passage over the weekend on a ship out of Sudan.
“You know who you killed?” another Sudanese colleague, Hisham Omar, posted among Facebook tributes from the country’s medical workers, in a message aimed at the attackers who killed Sulieman.
“You killed thousands of patients,” that colleague wrote, speaking of the impact that Sulieman — one doctor — knew he had in Sudan, and all the Sudanese he would have aided in the years ahead. “You killed thousands of needy people. You killed thousands of his students.”
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Sulieman was born in the U.S., not Sudan. | 2023-04-30T21:22:10+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-powerhouse-us-doctor-slain-in-sudan-killed-for-nothing/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Duke City Gladiators are headed into the IFL Playoffs on a two-game winning streak, after wrapping up their regular season with a 39-32 victory over Northern Arizona on Saturday. It was once again a thrilling finish, but this time at home, the Gladiators took a 39-32 lead with just four seconds to play.
DC ends their regular season with an 8-8 record. They will now make their second-consecutive IFL Playoff appearance, in just their second year in the league.
The Gladiators will play at the Arizona Rattlers in the first round of the IFL Playoffs on Sunday, July 23. | 2022-07-17T19:39:29+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/local-sports/dc-gladiators-head-into-ifl-playoffs-on-2-game-winning-streak/ |
Latest certifications further position SuccessKPI as the most secure and reliable insight and action platform serving enterprise contact centers globally.
CHANTILLY, Va. , Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessKPI, Inc., a cloud-native contact center customer experience insight and action platform provider, announced the completion of ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD in addition to previously achieved SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and PCI DSS Level 1. The expanded security compliance enables business users to comply with regulations while securely and confidently collecting, analyzing, understanding, and acting on customer insights from around the world.
SuccessKPI's all-in-one insights and action platform provides a 360-degree view into the health of the contact center from the agent to the CEO. The platform includes a purpose-built business intelligence layer, contact center analytics, speech and text analytics, speech transcription, quality management, SuccessKPI Playbooks™, and advanced reporting and visualizations.
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Romy Gonzalez Player Prop Bets: White Sox vs. Tigers - May 28
Published: May. 28, 2023 at 11:27 AM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
The Chicago White Sox, including Romy Gonzalez and his .520 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including four extra-base hits but no homers), battle starter Eduardo Rodriguez and the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his previous game (1-for-3) against the Tigers.
Romy Gonzalez Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Sunday, May 28, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Comerica Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Eduardo Rodríguez
- TV Channel: BSDET
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -133)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +280)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +195)
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Romy Gonzalez At The Plate
- Gonzalez is batting .196 with two doubles, two triples and a walk.
- Gonzalez has picked up a hit in nine games this season (40.9%), including one multi-hit game.
- In 22 games played this year, he has not gone deep.
- Gonzalez has had at least one RBI in 22.7% of his games this year (five of 22), with more than one RBI three times (13.6%).
- He has scored a run in three of 22 games so far this season.
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Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Tigers has a collective eight K/9, the fifth-worst in MLB.
- The Tigers have a 4.43 team ERA that ranks 20th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Tigers rank 23rd in baseball in home runs given up (65 total, 1.3 per game).
- Rodriguez makes the start for the Tigers, his 11th of the season. He is 4-4 with a 2.19 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 61 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander's last time out came on Tuesday against the Kansas City Royals, when he tossed five innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing eight hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB play this season, the 30-year-old ranks fifth in ERA (2.19), sixth in WHIP (.957), and 32nd in K/9 (8.9).
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The visiting Miami Marlins regained key players while the St. Louis Cardinals lost one of their mainstays for the three-game series that continues Tuesday.
The Cardinals won the opener 9-0 on Monday after placing starting center fielder Harrison Bader on the 10-day injured list due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
“It’s impacted everything I’ve done, from the second the season started, from running in the outfield to swinging in the box, moving in different directions,” Bader said. “Obviously speed is a big part of my game and being explosive in all directions in the outfield is part of my game.
“The past couple sharp pains I felt, it wasn’t me out there, it wasn’t the version of myself I need to be for this team to win a World Series.”
Dylan Carlson will shift to center field while Lars Nootbaar takes over in right field in Bader’s absence. Outfielder Conner Capel arrived from Triple-A Memphis to provide depth until Tyler O’Neill (left hamstring strain) comes off the IL. Capel, 25, made his major league debut on Monday as a defensive replacement.
The Cardinals also placed right-handed starting pitcher Jack Flaherty (right shoulder stiffness) on the 15-day IL on Monday and promoted right-hander James Naile from Memphis. Naile pitched a scoreless inning in his big-league debut Monday night.
The visiting Marlins got Brian Anderson back at third base after he spent a month on the IL due to a bulging back disk, and he went 1-for-3. Miami optioned infielder Luke Williams to Triple-A Jacksonville.
Anderson hopes to avoid further trips to the IL.
“I think that just comes down to staying on my maintenance, making sure that my core and my legs are underneath me, that way I don’t put that much strain on my back,” Anderson said, according to MLB.com.
“I think originally it was definitely a pain thing I couldn’t tolerate. I could hardly walk at one point. I think after I got the shot, I started feeling a little bit better, and now just getting a good routine of getting my legs going, my core ready and then swinging the bat after that.”
Marlins second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. was out again Monday due to back spasms, but outfielders Jorge Soler and Avisail Garcia returned to the lineup after missing time over the weekend.
The Cardinals will start Dakota Hudson (5-4, 3.72 ERA) in the middle game of the series. In his last two starts, Hudson allowed a combined seven runs on 11 hits and eight walks in 9 1/3 innings.
Hudson has not faced the Marlins this season. In his career, he is 1-0 with a 0.93 ERA against them in three appearances, including one start.
The Marlins will continue their parade of top pitching prospects in this series by starting left-hander Braxton Garrett (1-2, 4.08 ERA), who was the seventh overall pick in the 2016 draft.
Garrett has worked just 17 2/3 innings in his four starts this season. In his latest outing, he struck out seven batters while yielding two runs (one earned) in 4 2/3 innings against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday. Garrett allowed nine hits and a walk in that game, which the Marlins won 3-2.
In his only career appearance against the Cardinals, he allowed two runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings during a no-decision on June 14, 2021.
–Field Level Media | 2022-06-28T11:56:41+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/cardinals-aim-to-build-on-blowout-win-over-marlins/ |
Police video shows Idaho killings suspect in traffic stop
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Newly released body camera video shows the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students being pulled over for allegedly running a red light about a month before the killings.
The video shows Washington State University campus police stopping Bryan Kohberger on Oct. 14, 2022, in Pullman, the Idaho Statesman reported Thursday.
During the nearly 10-minute video, WSU Police Officer Isobel Luengas parks her vehicle behind Kohberger’s 2015 Hyundai Elantra in a parking lot. Luengas approaches Kohberger as he sits in the car and she says he drove through a red light. She asks for Kohberger’s license, vehicle registration and proof of insurance.
Kohberger tells the officer he was stuck in the middle of the intersection.
“I was behind you the whole time,” she said. “You’re not supposed to enter the intersection at all for that reason because if the light turns red, then you’re stuck in the intersection.”
Kohberger, then a WSU graduate student living in Pullman, says he is unfamiliar with how to drive through crosswalks because he’s from rural Pennsylvania and asks for further explanation.
“It never even occurred to me that was actually something wrong,” Kohberger said. “I’m just curious about the law. I don’t mean to disagree with anything.”
Luengas notes in the video that Kohberger’s registration was current, with an expiration of Nov. 22, 2022. The officer eventually lets him go with a warning.
Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho.
The bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found on Nov. 13, 2022, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus.
The slayings shocked the Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University.
Kohberger remains in custody with a court hearing set for late June.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cavan Biggio hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and Whit Merrifield scored on an overturned call to lead the Blue Jays to a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins Sunday.
Merrifield was originally called out at the plate, but the call was reversed after Twins catcher Gary Sanchez was deemed to have interfered with Merrifield, whose right foot collided with Sanchez's left leg as he slid into home plate. The out would have ended the inning.
Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli was ejected for arguing the call, the eighth time in his career he was thrown out and third this season.
Toronto remained two games ahead of Tampa Bay for the top wild card in the American League. Minnesota's lead in the AL Central shrank to one game after a win by Cleveland.
After scoring two early runs, the Blue Jays stifled a late Twins' comeback. Jose Miranda drove in Minnesota's first run, an RBI single in the eighth inning, for his fourth consecutive game with at least one RBI. Luis Arraez tied the game in the ninth with an RBI single.
Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman pitched six scoreless innings, allowing six hits and striking out five. It was a redemption for Gausman, who was knocked out after 3 2/3 innings in his last start against the Twins in June, when he gave up nine hits and five runs, three earned. He has now thrown 14 scoreless innings over his last two starts.
After blowing the save opportunity in the ninth inning, Jordan Romano (4-3) closed out the Twins in the 10th with a 1-2-3 inning.
Minnesota starter Chris Archer pitched five innings and allowed two runs on four hits while striking out four. It was only the fourth time this season that Archer lasted five innings in a start.
Back-to-back hits in the second and third innings produced early runs for Toronto. Teoscar Hernandez singled to open the second inning and scored on a double by Bo Bichette. Biggio doubled to start the third inning and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. drove him in with an RBI single.
Caleb Thielbar (2-1) pitched the 10th for the Twins and gave up the Biggio sac fly.
Vladamir Guerrero Jr. went 1 for 4 to extend his career-high hitting streak to 18 games. It's the longest active hitting streak in Major League Baseball.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Blue Jays: LHP Tim Mayza was placed on the 15-day injured list with a dislocated right shoulder. Mayza was removed from Saturday's game with the injury after attempting to make a tag on a play at home plate and awkwardly landing on his shoulder. RHP Trent Thornton was recalled from Triple-A to replace Mayza.
Twins: RHP Emilio Pagán is day to day with what the team called a right lat cramp. Pagán left Sunday's game in the sixth inning with the injury ... Minnesota is “hopeful” for a September return for RHP Kenta Maeda, Baldelli said. Maeda underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2021.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: LHP Yusei Kikuchi (4-5, 4.86 ERA) takes the mound Monday in the first game of a three-game series in Baltimore against the Orioles. Kikuchi allowed two runs over four innings in his most recent start, against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Twins: Minnesota has Monday off before a starting a two-game interleague series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on Tuesday.
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SOUTH BEND, Indiana — Notre Dame promoted tight ends coach Gerard Parker to offensive coordinator on Saturday as head coach Marcus Freeman rebuilds his staff.
Parker is in his second season at Notre Dame. He joined the staff after Freeman was elevated to replace Bran Kelly, who left to become LSU coach after the 2021 regular season.
Before coming to Notre Dame, Parker spent the two previous seasons (2020-21) at West Virginia as offensive coordinator. He also worked with Freeman as assistants at Purdue from 2013-16.
“I know firsthand the person, teacher, recruiter and innovative football mind he is,” Freeman said in a statement. “I look forward to watching our offense flourish under Gerard’s leadership and direction.”
Parker served as interim head coach at Purdue in 2016 after Darrell Hazell was fired. He has also done stints as receivers coach at Penn State, Duke and Marshall.
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NEW YORK , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIVO), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by SD Biosensor, Inc. ("SDB") and SJL Partners LLC ("SJL"). Under the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $34.00 in cash for each share of Meridian stock owned, leaving SDB owning approximately 60% and SJL owning approximately 40% of Meridian. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.53 billion.
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Years before he came to the Senate, Raphael Warnock spent time bedside with Georgia residents suffering from the long-term effects of diabetes, a condition made worse by limited access to life-saving drugs like insulin.
“I’ve seen the human face of this up close as a pastor. I’ve been there and witnessed what happens when diabetes goes on untreated,” Warnock said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve been there with families when they received the news that a loved one will have to receive an amputation.”
That work as a pastor helped the freshman senator push Congress to take its first step in limiting the high cost of insulin for millions of Americans.
The passage of the expansive climate change and health care bill this month delivered key Democratic priorities to voters months before the midterm elections, including provisions to lower health care costs.
As a result, by 2026, Medicare will gain the power to start negotiating costs for pharmaceuticals and its beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket prescription costs will be limited to $2,000 starting in 2025.
But the most immediate relief will take effect in January when the cost of insulin for patients on Medicare will be capped at $35 a month.
The provision, a longstanding priority for Democrats, will bring relief to an estimated nearly 2 million people across the country who currently pay an average of $572 annually out-of-pocket for insulin, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In Warnock's state, the annual average is higher, coming in at $591 for more than 50,000 Georgia residents whose lives are dependent on the drug.
Around 7 million Americans require insulin daily and 14% of them are spending nearly half of their income after food and housing costs on the medicine, according to a Yale University study.
“It's devastating for a family to have to make those choices,” Lisa Murdock, chief advocacy officer for the American Diabetes Association, told the AP. “This is a life-saving medication. You can’t live without it, and we shouldn’t have people in this country who are having to choose to do that.”
The issue of insulin pricing is more pronounced in the U.S. than in other nations, and it has gotten worse over the past two decades. According to a 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, between 2002 and 2013, the price of insulin tripled. And between 2012 and 2016, prices continued to climb, nearly doubling, a congressional report released in March found.
The issue has been a perennial one in Congress, with a broad bipartisan consensus recognizing the problem, but little agreement on a solution. That is why organizations like the American Diabetes Association have sought to fight the battle for affordable insulin in the states, starting in 2019 when Colorado became the first state to institute a cap on copays for insulin.
“From there, we just ran with it,” Murdock said. “We currently have 22 states and the District of Columbia with a monthly copay cap in place and we will continue to work on that as long as we need to raise the conversation."
While several states passed legislation that capped the price for Medicare and private insurance, the new federal law doesn't go as far. The legislation introduced by Warnock had initially included the monthly cap both for Medicare recipients and those privately insured.
But during an hourslong voting series, Republicans stripped out the portion that would have included private insurance, which is used by the majority of those in need of insulin. Some of the GOP senators who voted for it to be removed represent states with some of the highest mortality rates for diabetes, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the time, Republicans who voted against the provision said it violated Senate budget rules, but Democrats intentionally did not drop it, daring their colleagues across the aisle to vote on the Senate floor to strip it out.
“In reality, the Dems wanted to break Senate rules to pass insulin pricing cap instead of going through regular order,” Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, tweeted after the vote. Johnson added that he had previously “voted for an amendment, that Dems blocked, to provide insulin at cost to low-income Americans.”
But Warnock said the quarrel over procedural rules meant failing on substance.
“The blocking of a provision that would have provided the same cap for folks on private insurance is yet another example of why people hate politics and, and what’s wrong with Washington,” he said.
The provision did however get seven Republicans on board. And while it wasn't enough to pass the broader cap, it was more support than for any previous effort to cap insulin prices in Congress. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated that expanding affordable access to insulin will be a priority for the chamber in September.
Advocates say a potential legislative response to address the gaps in coverage could come in the form of the Insulin Act, a bipartisan proposal introduced last month by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, that would include a cap on the private marketplace. The legislation also has mechanisms in place that would lower the list price for insulin, providing relief for diabetes patients without insurance.
“We are grateful for the step forward in the Inflation Reduction Act, but now we’re focused and really urging Congress to bring up the Insulin Act as soon as possible,” said Campbell Hutton, vice president of regulatory and health policy at JDRF, a New York-based nonprofit that funds type 1 diabetes research. | 2022-08-25T22:23:26+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/insulin-cap-for-medicare-patients-signals-hope-for-others-as-prices-continue-to-climb/2924026/ |
Tropical Storm Colin threatens a wet weekend for Carolinas
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Colin formed along the South Carolina coast on Saturday, bringing the threat of rain and high winds for a day or two during the holiday weekend before improving for Monday’s July Fourth celebrations.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami warned of the possibility of localized flash flooding along the Carolinas coast through Sunday morning. At 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, the storm’s center was about five miles (10 kilometers) west of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph). It was moving northeast at 7 mph (11 kph).
The hurricane center said a tropical storm warning was in effect for a stretch from north of Little River, South Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, including Pamlico Sound. The storm is not expected to strengthen as it moves into the Atlantic on Monday.
“Colin will continue to produce locally heavy rainfall across portions of coastal South and North Carolina through Sunday morning,” the center said. Isolated amounts could reach up to 4 inches (10 centimeters).
“This rainfall may result in localized areas of flash flooding,” the center said.
Some Fourth of July celebrations planned Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina, were canceled after significant water had pooled on the field at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park and more rain was expected.
“Obviously, we’re disappointed,” said Scott Watson, the city’s director of cultural affairs. “This promised to be a great family event, and we hate to have to cancel.
Organizers were also forced to cancel a festival planned in Southport, North Carolina.
“The safety of Festival goers, vendors, volunteers, emergency workers and everyone is our highest priority,” festival spokesperson Trisha Howarth said in a statement.
Separately, the center of Tropical Storm Bonnie rolled into the Pacific on Saturday after a rapid march across Central America, where it caused flooding, downed trees and forced hundreds to evacuate in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
Late Saturday morning, the storm was centered about 65 miles (100 kilometers) south of the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph). It was moving to the west at 15 mph (24 kph).
It’s one of the rare storms to make an Atlantic to Pacific crossing without losing tropical storm force, thus maintaining its name. Forecasters said Bonnie is likely to become a hurricane this week off the southern coast of Mexico, but was unlikely to make a direct hit on land.
Many Nicaraguans still remember Hurricane Joan, a powerful 1988 storm that wreaked havoc on the coast and caused almost 150 deaths in the country.
“We are waiting for the storm to hit, hoping that it won’t destroy our region,” Bluefields resident Ricardo Gómez, who was 8 when Joan hit, said before Bonnie arrived.
The area was also battered by two powerful hurricanes, Eta and Iota, in quick succession in 2020, causing an estimated $700 million in damage.
Officials in Costa Rica expressed concern that the storm would unleash landslides and flooding in an area already saturated by days of rain. The government said seven shelters in the northern part of the country already held nearly 700 people displaced by flooding.
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As early evening settled in on Sunday, members of the Monterey Park, Calif., community came and went near the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, mourning and trying to process what had happened the night before.
Police tape, barricades and memorials of candles, flowers and handwritten notes offered a somber mood on what was meant to be a day of celebration for Lunar New Year.
The residents had come to mourn the mass shooting that left 11 people dead and many others injured.
"I would've still been outside enjoying the festivities, eating the good food, watching ... the plays, the lights, the fireworks, whatever's going on that they have scheduled because it was a three-day event," Monterey Park resident Yang Zuo, 34, said of what should have been happening on Sunday.
Instead, Zuo was visiting the intersection near the dance studio with his daughter, the two of them holding hands, as he spoke with NPR about how the attack was impacting the community that is more than 65% Asian.
"Chinese community-wise, I don't think we've ever encountered anything of this magnitude," Zuo said.
When he first heard the news, he said he was "jaws to the floor" shocked.
"Because this is a very conservative community where everybody is, for the most part, over 40," he said.
"Everybody just minds their own business. They're just here to make an honest living. The dance studio is behind the Bank of America that everybody goes to, it's also right next to the sheriff's station. So this is a very safe neighborhood."
The impact of the shooting will reach the global ballroom dance community
Nearby, Adam Jona, a ballroom dance instructor at the studio, said he was still in denial about what had transpired less than 24 hours before.
Jona said he was supposed to be teaching at Star Ballroom on Saturday night, but last minute scheduling changes led to his class being canceled. He said that while the majority of patrons of the studio were elderly or retired Asian Americans who came for recreational classes, the shooting would impact the global ballroom dancing community.
"A lot of highly acclaimed famous dance coach[es] come here and give classes and private lessons and prepare before showcases," Jona said. "So it does not only affect this community but a much larger dance community as well."
Prior to the shooting, Jona described the atmosphere as one where people could come to take a load off and relax – and that was what was planned for the Lunar New Year's Eve celebration.
"People come in, they have fun, they dress up, they draw raffles and they dance," he said. "This is not a violent place."
"It's a ballroom dance studio. You're supposed to just enjoy."
When Jona spoke to NPR, none of the names of the victims had been released yet, but he said he was bracing himself to hear that some of the people he knew were gone.
How Monterey Park became the 'first suburban Chinatown'
Min Zhao, a professor of sociology and Asian American Studies at UCLA, has taken classes at the dance studio before, but was not there on Saturday.
She doesn't live in the community, but said she, like many others of Asian descent, visits frequently. The draw to the area began in the '80s, she said.
"In the 1970s, Monterey Park was a multi-racial community already and then in the 1980s there has been very strong foreign investment in the community from Taiwan and other parts of Asia ... and then that investment really kind of started to attract immigrants from Asia," Zhao said.
"So as the suburban Chinese community, as it's evolved, it becomes a magnet for the more resourceful middle-class Chinese immigrants."
Throughout Monterey Park, the signs of businesses and community centers are written in Chinese characters. This is a reflection of the vibrant character of the city that attracts immigrants and Asian Americans alike, she said.
Zhou said she was devastated when she heard the news of the shooting.
"It's so dear to my heart that community," she said. "My heart went to the victims. It could have been me and it could have been everybody. I feel angry too that such things are happening in our community."
She said she believes this attack cannot be separated from the rise in anti-Asian incidents across the U.S.
"Whatever the motive of the killer, one thing to me is for certain: that that person is definitely emboldened by the gun culture in this society and also by the violence against Asians in recent years, especially during the pandemic," Zhou said.
As for how this attack will impact individuals in the Asian community, Zhou said that even walking down the street can be scary for her personally.
"That fear is kind of traumatizing," she said.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee of experts to determine if the expanding monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread outside Africa should be considered a global health emergency.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he decided to convene the emergency committee on June 23 because the virus has shown “unusual” recent behavior by spreading in countries well beyond parts of Africa where it is endemic.
“We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread,” he told reporters.
Declaring monkeypox to be an international health emergency would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and mean that WHO considers the normally rare disease a continuing threat to countries globally.
The U.K. said Monday it had 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men. British scientists said last week they could not tell if the spread of the disease in the U.K. had peaked.
The meeting of outside experts could also help improve understanding and knowledge about the virus, Tedros said, as WHO released new guidelines about vaccinating against monkeypox.
Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, WHO’s emergencies director for Africa, said case counts were growing every day and health officials face “many gaps in terms of knowledge of the dynamics of the transmission” — both in Africa and beyond.
“With the advice from the emergency committee, we can be in a better position to control the situation. But it doesn’t mean that we are going straight to a public health emergency of international concern,” he said, referring to WHO’s highest level of alert for viral outbreaks. “We don’t want to wait until the situation is out of control to start calling the emergency committee.”
The U.N. health agency does not recommend mass vaccination, but advises the “judicious” use of vaccines. It said controlling the disease relies primarily on measures like surveillance, tracking cases and isolating patients.
Last month, a leading adviser to WHO said the outbreak in Europe and beyond was likely spread by sex at two recent rave parties in Spain and Belgium.
Scientists warn that anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, is susceptible to catching monkeypox if they are in close, physical contact with an infected person or their clothing or bed sheets.
WHO has been working with partner countries to create a mechanism by which some vaccines for smallpox — a related disease — might be made available to countries that are affected, as research continues into their effectiveness against the new outbreak.
Tedros said more than 1,600 cases and nearly 1,500 suspected cases have been reported this year in 39 countries, including seven where monkeypox has been reported for years. A total of 72 deaths have been reported but none in the newly affected countries, which include Britain, Canada, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United States.
The ongoing outbreak of monkeypox in Europe and elsewhere marks the first time the disease has been known to spread among people who have no travel links to Africa. | 2022-06-15T03:51:40+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/health-2/ap-health/who-convenes-experts-to-decide-if-monkeypox-is-an-emergency/ |
GEORGETOWN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo boys soccer team won the 4A UIL State Championship Friday afternoon after beating Palestine 3-0 in the final.
Hidalgo forward Reynaldo Cantu scored twice in the first five minutes of the contest.
Joaquin Rosales scored the third goal later in the first half.
This was the second state title for Hidalgo in school history. The last time the Pirates won the state title was in 2009. | 2023-04-15T04:53:30+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/local-sports/hidalgo-pirates-win-2023-soccer-state-championship/ |
BEIJING, July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China's leading Baijiu maker Wuliangye on Monday initiated the Harmony and Beauty Global Tour in Paris, France.
Themed on "Harmony and Beauty", the event marked the company's first overseas cultural activity after China's adjustment of COVID-19 pandemic response, aiming at showcasing Chinese Baijiu culture to the world through art, fashion, and other cultural forms and facilitating cultural exchanges and mutual understanding between China and France.
Accompanied by the melodious song "La vie en rose" played by traditional Chinese instrument Guzheng, calligrapher Zhu Jingyi wrote down the Chinese characters of "Harmony and Beauty" on site to interpret the diverse aspects of the theme through his calligraphy.
Later, at the banquet, guests raised their glasses and enjoyed the harmonious and aromatic taste of Wuliangye with the introduction of Fabrice Prochasson, president of the French chefs association, praising its pursuit of excellence in quality and its profound heritage.
During the event, the "Harmony and Beauty" edition limited gift box was also unveiled, which were co-created by artists from both countries, featuring French elements such as the Eiffel Tower and the Seine River, as well as Chinese cultural elements such as traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting.
It is noted that the gift box is scheduled to be officially released in 2024 as a tribute to the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France.
"As we approach the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France in 2024, the first stop of the Wuliangye Harmony and Beauty Global Tour is set in France. It is a new chapter in the friendship between China and France," said Zeng Congqin, Chairman of Wuliangye Group.
He further mentioned that the event will be hosted in Oceania, America, Southeast Asia, and other regions to bridge cultural exchanges and mutual understanding among different countries and civilizations, and to allow global consumers to taste rich aroma of fine liquor.
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Billions pour into bioplastics as markets begin ramping up
CLEVELAND (AP) — In a world increasingly troubled by the persistent harm that plastic — manufactured in petrochemical plants — has had on the environment, companies are investing billions of dollars to ramp up production of plastics made from natural, renewable materials that can be safely composted or can biodegrade under the right conditions.
Bioplastics have long been used in medical applications. The stitches you got after cutting your hand slicing onions were likely made of a bioplastic thread that harmlessly dissolved into your body.
But the nascent bioplastics industry envisions a far bigger role for materials made from corn, sugar, vegetable oils and other renewable materials in the hope of grabbing a larger share of a nearly $600 billion global plastic market.
Since large-scale production began in the 1950s, fossil fuel plastics have made food safer to consume and vehicles safer to drive, for example. Yet plastics are seen as one of the world’s leading environmental threats with its production responsible for emitting million tons of greenhouse gases each year.
Of the 9 billion tons of fossil fuel plastic produced since the 1950s, only 9% percent has been recycled, studies have shown. The rest has been buried in landfills, burned or has polluted land and waterways. The chemical structure of fossil fuel plastic means it can never fully disintegrate and instead breaks down into smaller and smaller particles.
For now, bioplastic represents just 1% of global plastic production. If plastic made with fossil fuels is the enormous Mall of America in Minnesota, bioplastics would be a 7-Eleven.
Companies and investors see opportunities. Data from i3 Connect show investment in bioplastic manufacturing reached $500 million in the first three months of 2022, exceeding the previous high of $350 million in the last quarter of 2021. The money is coming in from both corporations and venture capitalists.
Zion Market Research estimates the bioplastics market will surge from $10.5 billion in 2021 to some $29 billion in 2028.
Danimer Scientific is one company making a big bet on bioplastic with a recent expansion of its plant in Winchester, Kentucky, The Georgia-based firm makes a bioplastic called PHA using microorganisms that ferment with canola oil. The result is plastic pellets that manufacturers can use to mold products in the same way they use petrochemical plastic, Danimer CEO Stephen Croskrey said in an interview.
The expansion has made Danimer one of the largest PHA producers in the world.
Straws and plastic drink stirrers made from Danimer’s PHA are being used in Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts and large venues like Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California, Croskrey said.
“We have active development projects for just about anything you can imagine,” he said.
Testing has shown products made from Danimer’s PHA can biodegrade in six months in marine environments and two years in soil, Croskrey said.
The other primary bioplastic sold today is PLA, polylactic acid, usually produced by fermenting sugar from corn and sugar cane. One producer is Minneapolis-based NatureWorks, a joint venture by Cargill, one of the world’s largest privately-held corporations, and Thailand-based PTT Global Chemical. It is the largest PLA company in the world, capable of producing 150,000 metric tons of bioplastic pellets annually at a plant in Blair, Nebraska.
NatureWorks is building a $600 million plant in Thailand that will increase its production capacity by 50%, said Leah Ford, the company’s global marketing communications manager, in an interview.
The company’s “biggest visibility market,” Ford said, is compostable food service items such as plastic cutlery, clear cups, wrappers and containers that, along with restaurant food waste, can be converted into a dark organic material to enrich soil in gardens and on farms. That’s important because food waste clogs recycling machinery and contaminates recyclable petroleum plastics.
Some Starbucks stores use disposable cups lined with NatureWorks’ PLA, Ford said.
NatureWorks has become something of a game changer in the United Kingdom, where PG Tips, a big name in tea, has switched from polyester tea bags to bags made with cellulose and a thin layer of NatureWorks’ PLA that are fully compostable, Ford said.
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal released a study in 2019 that said petroleum-based polyester tea bags leach billions of microplastic particles when steeped in hot water. Around 60 billion cups of tea are consumed annually in the UK.
One of the criticisms of bioplastic made with corn and sugar is that it uses arable land on a hungry planet. Ford called that concern unfounded. NatureWorks uses sugar extracted from corn while the rest of the kernels are used to produce sweeteners, ethanol, cooking oils and livestock feed.
PLA, unlike PHA, does not easily biodegrade in nature. It needs to be mixed with food waste in industrial composters to biodegrade. When buried in landfills, PLA will eventually disintegrate, but that would likely take decades.
NatureWorks has formed a partnership with PHA manufacturer CJ Bio to produce a bioplastic that can more easily biodegrade. The company, headquartered in South Korea, is expanding its plant in Indonesia and is planning to build a large plant in the Americas, said Raj Kirsch, vice president of research and development at CJ Bio.
Blending the two types of bioplastic “brings a lot of value propositions to the final end product,” Kirsch said in an interview.
Ramani Narayan, a professor of chemical engineering at Michigan State University, has worked with Cargill in the past to help with PLA production.
Narayan said companies are using biodegradability claims to make their products more attractive to consumers. But the term is “misused, abused and overused because everything in the world is biodegradable given the right time and environment.”
California, Narayan noted, has banned the use of the term “biodegradable” in marketing. The world needs to replace petroleum plastic with plastic materials that have been verified and certified as completely biodegradable, he said.
Narayan acknowledged that bioplastics are easier to biodegrade than petrochemical plastic which can take centuries to disintegrate, shedding worrisome microplastic along the way. Yet the fact that PHA takes longer to break down in cold oceans and lakes than in temperate climes shouldn’t be sugarcoated.
“It will take time, and you need to say that,” Narayan said.
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This Peoria barbershop is expanding with a second location
PEORIA — Campustown is getting a new barbershop.
J+B Studio by Bob the Barber plans to celebrate the opening of a second location on West Main Street with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 15.
Bob Khoury, who owns and operates the business with his wife, Joyce, has been cutting hair in Peoria for over a decade.
Khoury grew up in Lebanon, where he began working as a barber at an early age to help support his family following the death of his father.
The couple immigrated to the United States in 2010 in search of safety and opportunity for their four children, the oldest of whom is now 18. It meant leaving behind hundreds of loyal customers amassed over a two-decade career and starting from scratch in a new city, Khoury said.
"I was walking from house to house giving out flyers," he said. "People said, 'OK, who are you?'"
Over the following 10 years, he slowly built a reputation with the help of word of mouth and online reviews, becoming a fixture in the local business community.
The COVID-19 pandemic and government-mandated lockdown forced Khoury to close his shop from March to May of 2020.
After three months, he reopened his business, this time in a larger space on West Glen Avenue. He said that some customers who had gotten accustomed to having family members cut their hair at home were slow to return, but business eventually picked back up.
Khoury said he chose the Campustown location for his second barbershop to be more accessible to the Bradley University students who frequented his other location.
"The kids say, 'We don't have [a] car. We have to take Uber or we have to wait for our friend to come to Glen,'" Khoury said. "Maybe if I open in Campustown I can make it happen."
Twelve years after opening his first barbershop in Peoria, Khoury is pleased with what he and his business have achieved.
"I left my country to come live the dream here," he said, "and I'm living the dream."
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. Aug. 15 at the shop's new location at 1200 West Main St., Suite 16. | 2022-07-21T16:12:29+00:00 | pjstar.com | https://www.pjstar.com/story/business/2022/07/21/jb-studio-by-bob-the-barber-opening-campustown-in-peoria-illinois/7829703001/ |
CHICAGO, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the leading organization that oversee the standards for physician board certification in the United States has named Martin V. Pusic, MD, PhD to serve as then new Director of the Research and Education Foundation (REF). In this role, Dr. Pusic will provide content leadership and guidance for ABMS programs, initiatives and research aimed at advancing certification as well as offer direct consultation to similar efforts conducted by the ABMS 24 Member Boards.
Dr. Pusic is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, serving as Senior Associate Faculty for Boston Children's Hospital and Scholar-in-Residence, Brigham Education Institute, Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He previously was an Associate Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics at New York, University following a series of faculty positions at Columbia University, University of British Columbia, McGill University, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, MD. In addition to his academic roles, he also held a wide range of clinical appointments in Emergency Medicine at each of these institutions and is board certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics for whom he serves as a Board Examiner.
Dr. Pusic completed his Premedical Studies in Physiology at the University of British Columbia where he went on to receive his medical doctorate. He obtained a Master of Arts in Medical Informatics from Columbia University and received his Doctor of Philosophy in Cognition and Learning from Teacher's College at Columbia as well.
Throughout his career he has been active in a variety of national professional societies including the Academic Pediatrics Association, American Educational Research Association and is currently a member of both the Emergency Cardiac Care, Education Science & Programs Subcommittee and the Pediatric Emphasis Group for the American Heart Association and is also a member of the Technology Enhance Learning Committee for the Association for Medical Education in Europe. He also served as the Co-chair of the Master Adaptive Learner Interest Group of the American Medical Association (AMA) Accelerating Change in Education Consortium as well as the Co-chair of the Program Evaluation Committee for the Consortium and is the current President of the Society for Directors of Research in Medical Education. Dr. Pusic has been elected member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Pediatric Society which recognizes achievement in pediatric research.
He has been the recipient of grants to support his vast research projects and has served as an investigator (often the lead) in more than 100 studies focused on learning analytics, and the role and impact of research, data and informatics on medical education and learning. Dr. Pusic's work has been published in peer and non-peer reviewed publications, he has written 20 book chapters and has served as a reviewer and editor presented at meetings across the globe.
Founded in 1971 the REF identifies and establishes partnerships with academic health centers, universities, hospitals and health systems and other health care organizations to develop and promote research programs. It is focused on conducting and assessing educational initiatives to improve physician performance through the certification standards that are in place to improve health care and keep physicians and medical specialists up to date. The REF also guides and facilitates national and international research on certification and develops works to identify and obtain funding to support these research initiatives.
About ABMS
Established in 1933, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is responsible for the creation of standards overseeing physician certification in the United States. Dedicated to improving the quality of care to the patients, families and communities they serve, the 24 ABMS Member Boards develop educational and professional standards and programs of assessment to certify physicians and medical specialists. More than 975,000 physicians and medical specialists are certified by one or more of the ABMS Member Boards in one or more of 40 specialties and 89 subspecialties. For more information about ABMS, visit abms.org or call (312) 436-2600.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Monday, June 27, 2022
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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
Marine Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
1102 PM CDT Sun Jun 26 2022
A Marine Weather Statement has been issued for the following areas...
Coastal waters from Cameron LA to High Island TX out 20 NM...
Coastal waters from Intracoastal City to Cameron LA out 20 NM...
Waters from Cameron LA to High Island TX from 20 to 60 NM...
Waters from Intracoastal City to Cameron LA from 20 to 60 NM...
At 1100 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm,
capable of producing winds to around 30 knots. This thunderstorm was
located near West Cameron 100, or 19 nm southeast of Cameron, moving
southwest at 25 knots.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Mariners can expect gusty winds to around 30 knots, locally higher
waves, and lightning strikes. Boaters should seek safe harbor
immediately until this storm passes.
Cloud to water lightning is occurring with this storm. If caught on
the open water stay below deck if possible, keep away from
ungrounded metal objects.
LAT...LON 2971 9296 2966 9284 2924 9308 2934 9354
2978 9327 2978 9326
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-06-27T05:19:05+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/weather/article/TX-Marine-Warning-and-Forecast-17267383.php |
Brownsville PD: Bomb threat hoax led to evacuation of UTRGV Brownsville, TSC campuses
Brownsville PD: Bomb threat hoax led to evacuation of UTRGV Brownsville, TSC campuses
A bomb threat hoax led to the Friday evacuation of the Brownsville University of Texas Rio Grande Valley campus and the nearby Texas Southmost College campus, according to police.
The threat was a hoax, according to Brownsville police spokesman Lt. Martin Sandoval.
Police were dispatched to the TSC Rustebeg building after the college’s security dispatch center received the bomb threat, according to a news release from TSC.
The area was cleared shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, according to TSC and a UTRGV spokesman.
This story has been updated throughout | 2022-07-02T02:13:12+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/brownsville-pd-bomb-threat-hoax-led-to-evacuation-of-utrgv-brownsville-tsc-campuses |
It may seem like our Preseason NJ.com Top 20 was in place for a long time.
That’s because it indeed was.
It may seem like our Preseason NJ.com Top 20 was in place for a long time.
That’s because it indeed was.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The Big Ten basketball tournaments are coming to Minneapolis.
As part of the Big Ten’s effort to rotate host sites around its 11-state footprint, Minneapolis will become the fifth city to host the men’s tournament. Washington (2017) and New York (2018) were recent hosts, with Chicago and Indianapolis the most frequent host sites.
On the women’s side, Minneapolis will be the first non-Indianapolis host since 2015, when the tournament was held in in suburban Chicago. Target Center was the host of the NCAA Women’s Final Four earlier this month.
The Big Ten also finalized an agreement to keep the football championship game in Indianapolis through 2024. Lucas Oil Field has been the sole host of the game since it began in 2011.
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More AP college sports coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-04-20T17:56:48+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/big-ten-basketball-tournaments-to-make-stop-in-minneapolis/2022/04/20/28c643ca-c0cc-11ec-b5df-1fba61a66c75_story.html |
Teacher arrested after teen found naked, beaten, officials say
BEECH ISLAND, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT/Gray News) - Four people were arrested – including a current teacher in Aiken County, South Carolina – after a 17-year-old was found beaten and lying naked on the side of the road.
The boy was found early Jan. 3 at Blackstone Camp Road and Atomic Road, according to the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office. He was “completely unclothed and the victim appeared to have been brutally beaten,” a deputy wrote in a report.
A deputy tried to speak with the victim, but he was hard to understand because his face was so swollen.
Deputies learned the teen had been lying on the side of the road all night.
Among those arrested in the case was Raquel Stevens, 35, on charges of possession of anabolic steroids 100 doses or more, possession of fentanyl, violation of drug distribution law possession with the intent to distribute of controlled substance near a school and unlawful neglect of a child.
She also made headlines back in 2018 when she forgot her toddler was in her car and left the child there for nearly 10 hours while she worked as a North Augusta Middle School math teacher.
The Aiken County School District said officials considered taking her certificate, after that 2018 arrest but charges were eventually dropped.
“In July 2019, those charges were removed and the state reinstated her teaching certificate. She returned to work in August of 2019 and has performed her duties and responsibilities as a classroom teacher since that time without incident,” said the Aiken County Public School District.
The district confirms Stevens is still a teacher in the district and has been placed under administrative leave following this most recent arrest.
“Educators are held to a high standard of professional and personal conduct. This week’s arrest is certainly upsetting and she will remain on administrative leave pending further investigation,” said the school district in a statement given to WRDW.
The four arrests took place after investigators executed search warrants Wednesday at sites in North Augusta and Beech Island.
As the investigation progressed, investigators were able to identify Patrick Omar Stevens, 36, of North Augusta, and Derrick Lydale Nixon, 32, of Beech Island, as suspects involved in the assault, according to deputies.
During the search of both locations, investigators seized a couple of pounds of marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, anabolic steroids, fentanyl and numerous firearms.
While executing the search warrants simultaneously, investigators seized over 2 pounds of marijuana, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, anabolic steroids and fentanyl, according to authorities.
The North Augusta Department of Public Safety, Aiken Department of Public Safety and ATF Rage Unit assisted with the investigation.
Patrick Stevens was arrested on charges of attempted murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, kidnapping, possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, violation of drug distribution law, four counts of possession of a controlled substance (dextroamphetamine, concerta and vyvanse), possession of anabolic steroids 100 doses or more, possession of fentanyl, possession with the intent to distribute near a school and unlawful neglect of a child.
Nixon was arrested on a charge of and presenting a firearm.
Also arrested was Rickey Drayton, 62, on two counts of possession of cocaine first offense, operating a stash house and possession with intent to distribute marijuana first offense.
Patrick Stevens appeared to be the only one of the four suspects still in Aiken County jail as of Monday morning.
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Indiana doctor’s lawyer tells AG to halt false statements
By ARLEIGH RODGERS
Associated Press/Report for America
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer on Friday emailed the Indiana state’s attorney general asking him to stop spreading false or misleading information about an Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion in June on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter to Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on behalf of obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard, who performed a medical abortion on the girl.
The letter says Rokita’s statements Wednesday on Fox News “cast Dr. Bernard in a false light and allege misconduct in her profession.” DeLaney said the doctor could file a defamation claim against Rokita if he does not comply.
Rokita told Fox that his office was investigating whether Bernard violated medical privacy laws by talking about the victim to the Indianapolis Star, and he said she failed to notify authorities about suspected child abuse. He offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.
Records obtained by The Associated Press and other local media show Bernard submitted the report July 2, which is within the state’s required three-day reporting period for an abortion performed on a girl younger than 16.
“We are especially concerned that, given the controversial political context of the statements, such inflammatory accusations have the potential to incite harassment or violence from the public which could prevent Dr. Bernard, an Indiana licensed physician, from providing care to her patents safely,” the letter states.
A 27-year-old man has been charged in the girl’s rape, confirming the case that was scrutinized by Republican politicians and some media outlets. Those reactions grew in intensity after Democratic President Joe Biden expressed sympathy for the girl when signing an executive order protecting some abortion access last week.
“Like any correspondence, it will be reviewed if and when it arrives. Regardless, no false or misleading statements have been made,” Kelly Stevenson, a spokesperson in Rokita’s office, said via email.
Bernard tweeted Friday that she hopes “to be able to share my story soon.”
“It has been a difficult week, but my colleagues and I will continue to provide healthcare ethically, lovingly, and bravely each and every day,” she wrote.
Dr. Diana Contreras, chief health care officer at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, issued a statement saying, “No medical provider should be harassed, intimidated, or criminalized for doing their job. It is unconscionable and unacceptable, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The White House on Wednesday pushed back against the notion that the absence of several key leaders from this week’s Summit for the Americas amounts to a backslide for democracy as administration officials sought to play up efforts on food security, climate and other areas to be discussed at this week’s summit.
As President Joe Biden made his way to Los Angeles for the summit, top advisers argued that the summit wasn’t a lost cause just because Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and other leaders have decided to stay away from the gathering over the U.S. excluding Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua — all countries that send large numbers of migrants to the U.S. and neighboring countries — because they are led by authoritarians.
Among the new programs Biden is expected to unveil in the coming days are a $300 million in food security financing initiative, a new Caribbean climate partnership that will help Caribbean countries access low carbon energy sources, and a program to train 500,000 health workers in the Americas over the next five years.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House “will be putting specific dollars into producing tangible results.”
“When you tally all that up and look at the practical impact of what the summit deliverables from the United States will mean for the public sphere, it is significantly more impactful on the actual lives and livelihoods of the people of this region than the kinds of extractive projects that China has been invested in,” Sullivan told reporters Wednesday while aboard Air Force One.
Migration has taken center stage at an assembly of Western Hemisphere leaders, reflecting its emergence as a top foreign policy issue at this week’s summit, but it has largely been overshadowed by differences over Biden’s invitation list.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday at a summit event on Wednesday called differences in political outlooks a “strength” of the region.
“We have democratic governments of the left, of the right, and of the center. But despite what political differences there are, if the fundamentals are there, we’re going to be able to work very, very effectively together,” Blinken said.
The “Los Angeles Declaration,” to be announced while Biden meets with his counterparts from North, Central and South America Wednesday through Friday, are a brief call to action that supporters hope will guide countries on hosting people fleeing violence and persecution and searching for more economic stability.
“We regard this as an unprecedented set of statements and actions by the of the region to deal with a hemispheric crisis,” Sullivan said.
The United States has been the most popular destination for asylum-seekers since 2017, posing a challenge that has stumped Biden and his immediate predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
But the U.S. is far from alone. Colombia and neighboring South American countries host millions who have fled Venezuela. Mexico fielded more than 130,000 asylum applications last year, many of them Haitians, which was triple from 2020. Many Nicaraguans escape to Costa Rica, while displaced Venezuelans account for about one-sixth the population of tiny Aruba.
“Countries are already having to do this, so rather than each country trying to sort this out and figure it out for themselves, what we’re doing is saying, ‘Let’s come together in a coherent way and construct a framework so we can all work together to make this situation more humane and more manageable,’” said Brian Nichols, assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
Biden was scheduled to arrive at the summit Wednesday, trailed by questions about how much progress he can make on migration and other issues when some of his counterparts from the region are staying home.
The controversy has undermined the start of the summit, which is being hosted by the U.S. for the first time since the inaugural event in 1994, at a time when China has been trying to make inroads in the region.
Although Biden was heavily involved in Latin America while he was vice president, his focus has largely been elsewhere since taking office as president last year. He’s been trying to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia while also rallying allies to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Some concrete measures may be announced, perhaps funding for development banks. Nichols said in an interview Monday that discussing any specific initiatives would be premature, but officials have made clear that the agreement will be largely aspirational.
There is widespread agreement that relief must target growth and stability for entire communities in which migrants live, not just migrants.
“If you only help the migrants and not the communities around them, that’s counterproductive,” Nichols said.
The agreement may call for more pathways to legal status, mechanisms to reunite families, more efficient and humane border controls and improved information sharing, according to experts who have seen early drafts.
In another area, Biden on Wednesday planned to announce a new partnership to help rebuild the economies of Latin American and Caribbean countries, which suffered the steepest contractions during the pandemic and have struggled with global inflation that followed.
The administration wants to draw greater private investment into those countries. The White House outlined development goals for the region in a fact sheet that includes clean energy, stronger supply chains and improved governance on corruption and tax issues.
Leaders of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — each critical to any regional migration strategy — are skipping the Summit of the Americas, depriving Biden of symbolic heft and unity amid the photo opportunities and pageantry starting with an inaugural ceremony Wednesday.
Upon leaving for Los Angeles on Tuesday, Mexico’s Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico’s close relationship with the United States was unchanged and noted that López Obrador will visit Washington in July.
President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador said a migration accord would be an important recognition of what governments are facing.
“(When) you speak about problems and it becomes part of a declaration, a summit as important as this, obviously the problem exists, the problem enters the consciousness of those who should be part of the solution,” he told a group of civic activists in Los Angeles.
The migration accord took shape during discussions of top diplomats in Colombia in October and in Panama in April. Experts who have been consulted by governments say it is largely driven by the U.S. and other countries that take in lots of migrants, such as Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama.
The strategy appears to resemble a U.S.-only plan that Vice President Kamala Harris announced last July, calling for “secure and humane management of borders” and more paths to legal status.
So far, the Biden administration has little to show for it.
The meeting of regional leaders comes as several thousand migrants on Tuesday walked through southern Mexico — the largest migrant caravan of the year — with local authorities showing no signs yet of trying to stop them.
Mexico has tried to contain migrants to the south, far from the U.S. border. But many have grown frustrated there by the slow bureaucratic process to regularize their status and the lack of job opportunities to provide for their families.
U.S. authorities are stopping migrants crossing the Mexican border more often than at any time in about two decades. Under a pandemic-era rule aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, many are quickly expelled without a chance to seek asylum. But Title 42 authority, which a federal judge in Louisiana has kept in place, is applied unevenly by nationality.
In Eagle Pass, Texas, one of the busiest spots for illegal crossings, Cubans freely wade through the Rio Grande and are released in the United States on humanitarian parole, aided by Cuba’s refusal to take them back. On the flip side, Mexico has agreed to take back migrants expelled from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as Mexico.
Cristian Salgado, of Honduras, hoped he would be treated as Cubans he saw when he crossed illegally with his wife and 5-year-old son about a month ago but U.S. authorities turned him back to the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras without allowing him to plead his case. He remembers a border agent saying, “There is no asylum for Honduras.”
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Associated Press writers Maria Verza in Mexico City, Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, and Chris Megerian and Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report. | 2022-06-08T21:11:04+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/white-house-plays-up-summit-initiatives-amid-no-shows/ |
Inspired by football, bright skies, adorable trick-or-treaters and more
KERRVILLE, Texas, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- James Avery Artisan Jewelry, a family-owned jewelry retailer based in Texas, announces the launch of its fall 2022 collection. The new collection offers classic designs customers know and love, including statement silver chains as well as designs inspired by faith, love and nature. New collection additions include 14K gold and sterling silver sunflowers, a new heart drops anklet that pairs perfectly with the necklace and earrings and more.
"We hope these designs remind our customers of their favorite fall activities – Friday night lights, exploring their scenic Texas surroundings, stargazing and celebrating the fall holidays with family and friends," says Sarah Herr, Director of Design at James Avery. "We're excited about this release, and we hope our customers are too!"
New charms include an adorable trick-or-treater in a pumpkin costume, an engravable football, a faith-based charm featuring Psalms 46:5 and a "Love my Clogs" Charm. The clog charm is a new version of an earlier, much-requested classic James Avery charm that was originally released in 2008. The company added hearts for an extra bit of connection to fond memories of wearing your clogs throughout the house, to work or school, and on adventures. Our designer was inspired by memories of rain showers and puddle walks with his daughter.
Shop our latest designs online or at your local James Avery retail store.
James Avery is a vertically integrated, family-owned company located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. We offer finely crafted jewelry designs for men and women in sterling silver, 14K and 18K gold, bronze and gemstones. James Avery jewelry is designed and crafted by our own skilled artisans in Kerrville, Comfort and Hondo, Texas, using the finest materials sourced worldwide. We are a multi-channel retailer with more than 110 James Avery stores in four states. Our jewelry is also available at JamesAvery.com, more than 220 Dillard's locations and on Dillards.com. You can also find our designs at airport stores in Austin, Houston and Nashville, as well as select Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) locations.
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Fathers do all kinds of things that make them special. Some provide inspiration for learning. Others show us what true courage is at home and at war. And some just show us how surprising a child can illustrate the beauty of pure joy.
On this Father’s Day, we asked our readers to share some of the memorable experiences they had with their dads. This is what they told us:
Father inspired love of knowledge
One story that I’ll always remember captures his love for his kids. When I was about 10 or 11, and we were living in New Jersey, he commuted to work via train and subway to midtown Manhattan. One night he came home with two boxes of a full set of encyclopedias, about 20 big books altogether! He had carried, dragged, and kicked those two heavy boxes along the sidewalks of Manhattan, up and down the stairs to the subway, and in and out of the train. Those encyclopedias were a tremendous resource for a houseful of budding scholars (I am the oldest of the four; the youngest at this time was about 2 or 3) and I remember using them many, many times for school papers. All four of us have graduate degrees, as did he....ya think there’s a connection?
Bob Stoughton, Xenia, on his father, Lincoln (Linc) Stoughton
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A courageous father sets a precedent
I always knew my dad was special when I was young. Sure, he did dad things like playing in the snow and taking us camping but he went above and beyond in dad duties. As an example, he used to bring my swing set into the basement during the winter every year so I could swing inside.
In 1972, my mother passed away when I was 8 and my brother was 10. In that era, female children were not typically raised by a single male adult. Our little family was summoned to court. I had to tell the judge I wanted to stay with my dad and be raised by him. What a memory for an 8-year-old to sit in the judge’s chambers, sitting in a large leather chair, swinging my legs as they did not reach to the floor. For the next five years, he was a mother and a father for me and my brother. Oh, how we challenged him. It was not perfect, but we were perfect together and loved.
At the same time, my dad took the state of Ohio to court to ensure that fathers who were widowers received the same benefits as mothers who were widows. He won and set precedence for many other men.
The story does not stop here. He placed all the monies he received into bonds. Many years later after my marriage failed and I needed to return to college, he explained he kept the money aside and I could use it for college. I graduated nursing school in 1995 without student debt. What an incredible gift from the man who never let me down.
Elaine J. Raptosh, Dayton, on her father, Conrad Skarha Jr.
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A father’s support means everything
My father, Harmon A. Kerns, passed away in 2005 and was the best father ever to his eight children. He married my mother (who also passed away in 2005) in October 1941 and was sent overseas following Pearl Harbor. During the three and a half years of the war he was in Australia, New Guinea, Biak, and other Pacific regions. We also found out following his death that he had received two Bronze Star medals, but he never talked about it; and his military records had been destroyed in a fire. His discharge was in August 1945.
After returning home, I was born in October 1945. My mother told me he had wanted a boy, but I won his heart by sitting in the doorway in my highchair kicking my feet as he walked home from work. There are 11 years between me and my youngest brother. My dad loved each of us unconditionally, and I know my brothers and sisters have their own special memories of Dad.
As a kid (maybe 6 years old), he took me squirrel hunting. He encouraged me to be quiet not to scare away the squirrel, but what was I doing? Rustling through the leaves gathering buckeyes. When very young, he took my twobrothers and I fishing. He always spent time with his kids, and we’ve all grown up to be good citizens and helpful neighbors thanks to the examples he set for us.
One major occurrence affected my entire adult life. When I was a junior in high school, he knew that I wanted to go to college, but with seven other children to take care of on down to the youngest who was in the first grade, money was tight.
Unbeknownst to me, he withdrew his last $125 in his savings account, took my transcript to the University of Dayton, told them he had a daughter who wanted to go to college, but she would need some help. I worked my way through college with the help of a federal student loan available to teachers and a job in the admissions office. I have been retired for 25 years now following 31 years of teaching.
Beverly J. Neubauer, Englewood, on her father, Harmon A. Kerns
She loves her father’s surprises
It was March of 2019 my last year of being a senior in high school. It was March 29, my birthday to be exact, and I was having a birthday dinner at Roosters eating what I think is the best chicken in the city and enjoying my day celebrating with family and friends. Just enjoying myself all day and appreciating that I’m 18 and so excited for life. I noticed when I was opening my gifts that my dad was talking to my mom and was staring at me and smiling.
My dad passed his phone down to me and wrote on a cardboard cutout picture of Justin Timberlake that “I’ll see you on Sunday.” I thought to myself, yay! I’m getting a cardboard of Justin! But no, he said “Nooo girl, we seeing Justin Timberlake on Sunday !!!” I screamed! I was so excited because my dad knows I’ve been a fan of his music for so long. When we went to Columbus for the concert we had the best time. The concert was phenomenal and unforgettable! I really appreciate my dad coming out with me to celebrate my birthday and showing how much he loves me and the things I care about. I really love my dad, to infinity and beyond!
Jasmine Jennnings, Miamisburg, on her father, Andta’Juan L. Jennings Sr.
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Softball bonds father, daughter
Like many daughters, I grew up idolizing my dad. When I was a small child, I would run to the back door to meet my dad whenever I heard a car door. As I grew, my dad and I were always close. He coached my softball team and I started playing on his coed team at age 16. We played together for over 32 years. His last couple of seasons he was battling pancreatic cancer and each time we took the field I was thankful for him fighting to stay with his family. He passed away in May of 2015.
Barbara Goralski, Miamisburg, on her father, Michael Behr
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Her father was loved just as much by his community
He was a father of nine, grandfather and great-grandfather of 45, at his death. Loved by so many, not just family, but friends, neighbors and just people walking down the street or driving down the street. Even kids on the school bus that stopped at the corner where he lived, waived and said “Hi Papa” every day. He loved sitting on the porch waiving and talking to anyone who came by. We all miss him dearly. Over 200 people showed up for his funeral. It was standing room only. He was a Korean War Vet and very proud of his service. I’m sure he was very proud and humbled by the service he received. We loved him so and miss him every day.
Robyn Heeter, West Carrollton, on her father, James Gengler
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Father’s life was a history lesson
My memory of my father was that he was a much older man when he married my mother. He was a combat veteran from World War II and a former United States Congressman (1949-51). As he got older, he wanted to take his family to the places where he had been in life and that meant something to him. So he took us to Washington and showed us his seat in Congress. He had us eat in the congressional dinning room and order their famous bean soup. Then he took us to meet his friend the famous Door Keeper of the House William “Fishbait” Miller. He later flew us to Casablanca in North Africa and showed us the beach where he landed with the Western Task force. He pointed out buildings that he remembered being there.
He then took us to Gibraltar where he met up with his sister during the war. (She was a spy working for Army Intelligence). Next, he took us to Italy and showed us Salerno Bay where he was on the Italian landings and brought us to Naples, Italy and described the port city to us as it was during the war right after the German army pulled out. The town had been virtually destroyed. He searched for a Baron he once knew to only find out he was deceased. It was a walk down memory lane for him. A real life history lesson for us.
Edward F. Breen, Kettering, on his father Edward G. Breen
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stellate, formerly known as GraphCDN, is bringing its expertise in GraphQL APIs to the masses with the help of a $25 million Series A from Tiger Global and a $5 million seed round led by boldstart ventures.
Stellate will use the raise to build the global data graph by connecting the world's GraphQL APIs to enable innovation, efficiencies, and cost savings on a scale never before seen. This is especially relevant considering the current explosion of data, which shows no signs of slowing; in five years time, you'll have 2.5 times more data than you do today.
"The world consists of data," Max Stoiber, Stellate CEO and co-founder, said. "Most of that data is related to each other but nobody's establishing these connections. If we can enable companies to make their GraphQL APIs accessible to third-party developers and then connect all of them, that will provide a ton of value for the world."
For example, you might want to figure out if the customer who just submitted a ticket is a high-value customer by checking the matching subscription in Stripe's data and whether there are any associated high-value deals with that customer's company in Salesforce. At the moment, this would require hours of integration work. With the global data graph, this would be reduced to a single query.
This is all made possible by GraphQL, an API technology invented at Meta that turns APIs from a list of endpoints into graphs. Only once the world's APIs are graphs can you actually connect them together into the global data graph.
"GraphQL's flexibility is awesome for developers but makes security and schema evolution more difficult, particularly once any third-parties use your API," Tim Suchanek, Stellate co-founder and CTO said. "That's why our first step to get to the global data graph is to build tooling that enables companies to make their GraphQL APIs accessible to third-party developers."
Suchanek explained that operating a GraphQL API in production isn't easy or straightforward. Outside the walls of MANGA, most companies don't have the engineering capacity to invest in solving problems around the core technology, such as abuse protection and performance, which leads to online rants like these. Stellate co-founders, Max Stoiber and Tim Suchanek, believe that everyone deserves access to the best tooling and analytics for this incredibly powerful API.
"As a technical founder myself with deep experience in developer tooling, I knew the moment I met Max and Tim that they were solving a real problem for developers," said Ellen Chisa, partner at boldstart ventures. "It's an honor to partner with amazing founders from the very beginning of their journey and support them through IPO."
The founders, Max Stoiber, who created styled-components and Spectrum (acquired by GitHub), and Tim Suchanek, author of the GraphQL Playground and first engineer at Prisma, will focus their expertise on developer tooling to make opening up APIs safe and secure as the first step toward building a global data graph.
"We seek to invest in game-changing companies, and we expect Stellate to be one of our winners," said John Curtius, Partner at Tiger Global Management. "We're looking forward to enabling Stellate to achieve its vision of unlocking the world's data."
Stellate's vision is to unlock the world's data. Currently, their GraphQL platform allows developers to easily speed up, manage, and scale GraphQL APIs. The company is deeply rooted in the GraphQL ecosystem with many years of experience in scaling production-grade GraphQL APIs.
Tiger Global is an investment firm focused on public and private companies in the global Internet, software, consumer, and financial technology industries. With a mission to generate world-class investment returns over the long term, Tiger launched their public equity business in 2001 and their private equity business in 2003.
boldstart invests in founders reinventing the enterprise stack by partnering with technical founders building a solution to a problem they've experienced themselves. Mission-driven founders like these will push through the hard times and boldstart will be right there with them.
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Seoul: North Korea fires additional 6 missiles
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired an additional six missiles off its eastern and western coasts.
South Korea’s military said the launches came after it detected at least 17 missile firings by North Korea off its eastern and western coasts earlier Wednesday.
South Korea’s military said one of the 17 missiles flew in the direction of a South Korean island before it landed near the sea border between the rivals. South Korea said it issued an aerial raid alert for the island.
The North Korean missile launches came as Pyongyang threatens to retaliate against ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story is below:
Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents there evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired at least 17 missiles Wednesday, at least one of them in its direction and landing near the rivals’ tense sea border. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.
The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The White House maintained that the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea and vowed to work with allies to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
The North’s barrage of missile tests also came as world attention was focused on South Korea following a weekend Halloween tragedy that saw more than 150 people killed in a crowd surge in Seoul in what was the country’s largest disaster in years.
South Korea’s military said North Korea launched at least 17 missiles — all short-range ballistic weapons or suspected surface-to-air missiles — off its its eastern and western coasts on Wednesday morning. Later in the day, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military.
The launch of 17 missiles is a record number of daily missile tests by North Korea, some experts say.
One of the ballistic missiles was flying toward South Korea’s Ulleung island before it eventually landed 167 kilometers (104 miles) northwest of the island. South Korea’s military subsequently issued an air raid alert on the island, according to the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. South Korean media published photos showing island residents moving to underground shelters.
Hours later on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said it lifted the air raid alert on the island. South Korea’s transport ministry said it has closed some air routes above the country’s eastern waters until Thursday morning in the wake of the North Korean launches.
That missile landed 26 kilometers (16 miles) away from the rivals’ sea border. It landed in international waters but far south of the two countries’ border, off the east coast of South Korea. South Korea’s military said it was the first time a North Korean missile had landed so close to the sea border since the countries’ division in 1948.
“This is very unprecedented and we will never tolerate it,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
In 2010, North Korea shelled a frontline South Korean island off the peninsula’s western coast, killing four people. But the weapons used were artillery rockets, not ballistic missiles whose launches or tests are banned by multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. South Korea’s military said the missiles landed in international waters at the same distance of 26 kilometers (16 miles) north of the sea border as the North Korean missile fell earlier Wednesday.
It said it maintains a readiness to win “an overwhelming victory” against North Korea in potential clashes.
“North Korea firing missiles in a way that sets off air raid sirens appears intended to threaten South Koreans to pressure their government to change policy,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korea’s expanding military capabilities and tests are worrisome, but offering concessions about alliance cooperation or nuclear recognition would make matters worse.”
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier identified three of the North Korean weapons launched as “short-range ballistic missiles” fired from the North’s eastern coastal town of Wonsan, including the one that landed near the sea border.
North Korean short-range weapons are designed to strike key facilities in South Korea, including U.S. military bases there.
In an emergency meeting with top security officials, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered officials to take swift unspecified steps to make North Korea face consequences for its provocation. He said he would consider the North Korean missile’s landing near the border “a virtual violation of (our) territorial waters.”
During the emergency South Korean meeting, officials also lamented that the North Korean missile launches came as South Korea is in a mourning period over the crowd crush. They noted this “clearly showed the nature of the North Korean government,” according to South Korea’s presidential office.
Earlier Wednesday, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters that at least two ballistic missiles fired by North Korea showed a possibly “irregular” trajectory. This suggests the missiles are the North’s highly maneuverable, nuclear-capable KN-23 missile, which was modeled on Russia’s Iskander missile.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called North Korea’s continuing missile tests “absolutely impermissible.”
Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said that the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. He said South Korea needs to make “proportional responses” to North Korean provocations, not “overwhelming responses,” to prevent tensions from spiraling out of control and possibly leading the North to use its tactical nuclear weapons.
Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high in recent months, with North Korea testing a string of nuclear-capable missiles and adopting a law authorizing the preemptive use of its nuclear weapons in a broad range of situations. Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. and South Korean forces.
North Korea has argued its recent weapons tests were meant to issue a warning to Washington and Seoul over their series of joint military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal, including this week’s exercises involving about 240 warplanes.
In a statement released early Wednesday, Pak Jong Chon, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party who is considered a close confidant of leader Kim Jong Un, called the so-called Vigilant Storm air force drills “aggressive and provocative.”
“If the U.S. and South Korea attempt to use armed forces against (North Korea) without any fear, the special means of the (North’s) armed forces will carry out their strategic mission without delay,” Pak said, in an apparent reference to his country’s nuclear weapons.
“The U.S. and South Korea will have to face a terrible case and pay the most horrible price in history,” he said.
U.S. and South Korean officials have steadfastly said their drills are defensive in nature and that they have no intentions of attacking North Korea.
“We reject the notion that they serve as any sort of provocation. We have made clear that we have no hostile intent towards (North Korea) and call on them to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy,” White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said late Tuesday.
North Korea “continues to not respond. At the same time, we will continue to work closely with our allies and partners to limit the North’s ability to advance its unlawful weapons programs and threaten regional stability,” Watson said.
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Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Aamer Madhani in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.
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Embracing the vibrant energy of downtown Montreal's cultural district, the new boutique hotel introduces an enchanting experience to awaken the senses
BETHESDA, Md., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribute Portfolio – part of Marriott Bonvoy's extraordinary portfolio of 31 hotel brands – continues to grow its global family of characterful hotels with HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, the brand's first property in Montreal, Canada.
"From the charming cobblestone streets of Old Montreal to the bustling art scene and awe-inspiring architecture, Montreal offers a kaleidoscope of experiences that inspire and ignite social connections, making it a prime destination for Tribute Portfolio," said Jennifer Connell, Global Brand Leader, Tribute Portfolio, and Vice President, Distinctive Premium Brands, Marriott International. "Whether it's discovering art deco treasures at the hotel's boutique or taking in the skyline views during a swim, HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel is a haven for those seeking captivating design, vibrant social spaces, and moments of sincere service."
Stepping into HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal – located in the city's Le Quartier des Spectacles – takes guests back in time, featuring vintage, art deco-inspired design that evokes an earlier era. The photogenic hotel tapped a trifecta of Canadian partners to realize its design vision. Architex Group designed the building with large bay windows to bring in as much natural light as possible; the architecture and interior design of the rooms, suites, and corridors on each floor as well as the banquet and meeting rooms were entrusted to Provencher Roy; and the design of the hotel lobby, restaurant, and café was created by Atelier Zébulon Perron. Impressive contemporary spaces ornate with art deco accents of velvet, gold, and wood materials give all these areas an enveloping warmth.
At the core of the hotel's captivating design are nods to honey – a symbolic evocation of a golden gift from nature – and rose – a French flower that signifies passion and love. The combination of two elements help to create an enchanting experience to awaken the senses through charming service, elegant design, and unique amenities which include the hotel's own rooftop beehives. Embellished guest room hallways are reminiscent of strolling through an exclusive designed flower field, with thriving floral textiles lining the interiors.
Foodies can rejoice at any of the hotel's locally sourced gastronomic experiences from early morning to late drinks, including French bistro-style COMMODORE restaurant and café, Muze Lounge & Terrasse which features a California-inspired menu of market fresh items, and Julia's workshop, and indoor and al fresco private dining area and Chef's table for exclusive, intimate events.
A number of local artists bring each space to life with a jolt of personality, in a striking, visual manner. The paintings by Montreal artist Roxy Peroxyde adorn the walls of the guest rooms, and original pieces by set designer, Juliette Sarrazin, grace Muze Lounge & Terrasse. Eye-catching hallway carpet with unique illustrations was created by CHACHA, a creative design firm from the Eastern Townships.
Guests can break a sweat at the hotel's movement studio, which features complimentary classes from Essentrics, the dynamic stretch workout created by celebrated Canadian fitness trainer and former National Ballet of Canada ballerina, Miranda Esmonde-White. To unwind, guests can enjoy a dry sauna, spa, and indoor pool on the hotel's 15th floor, overlooking Montreal's skyline.
The HONEYROSE boutique, located in the lobby, features a selection of art deco-inspired items and exclusive vintage finds. A unique second boutique, located on the mezzanine, will offer fresh flowers and eternal roses in partnership with the Montreal-based company, MFLEURS. For groups and events, the hotel offers five meeting rooms totaling over 7,000 square feet, including a ballroom that can accommodate over 300 guests, with spectacular views of the Place des Festivals.
"HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel offers a lively and diverse experience, brimming with personality in the heart of the effervescent Quartier des spectacles neighborhood," said Steve Lavergne, General Manager. "We look forward to captivating the senses and leaving an indelible mark on all those who walk through its doors – today and tomorrow."
HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel participates in Marriott Bonvoy, the award-winning travel program from Marriott International. Marriott Bonvoy members will earn points for their stay at this new hotel, and at other properties across Marriott Bonvoy's portfolio of 31 extraordinary brands, including all-inclusive resorts and premium home rentals, as well as through everyday purchases with co-branded credit cards. Members can redeem their points for experiences including future stays, Marriott Bonvoy Moments, or through partners for luxurious products from Marriott Bonvoy Boutiques. With the Marriott Bonvoy app, members enjoy a level of personalization and a contactless experience that allows them to travel with peace of mind.
To explore more about HONEYROSE Hotel, Montreal, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, visit www.marriott.com/YULTX.
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Tribute Portfolio is a growing global family of characterful, independent hotels drawn together by their passion for captivating design and their drive to create vibrant social scenes for guests and locals alike. With more than 85 hotels in nearly 30 countries and territories around the world, Tribute Portfolio has struck a chord with those who seek out independent experiences and crave a connection with the community when traveling. From boutique resorts like Ermita in Cartagena and urban hotels such as The Vagabond Club in Singapore; to hotels in indie-spirited locales like Bellyard in Atlanta and Hotel Riomar in Ibiza, each Tribute Portfolio hotel celebrates its individuality, offering travelers a fresh, often colorful, perspective. For more information, please visit www.tributeportfolio.com and stay connected on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Tribute Portfolio is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy®, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including free nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit marriottbonvoy.com.
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CARMEL, Ind. , Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --TIC International Corporation ("TIC"), a health, pension, 401k, and other benefit funds administrator, experienced a data security incident that may have impacted data belonging to certain fund participants.
On March 30, 2022, TIC experienced a system disruption due to an encryption attack. TIC hired cybersecurity experts to assist with its response and to determine whether any personal information was affected. The investigation determined that personal information was acquired during the incident. Following this confirmation, TIC undertook a thorough and time-consuming review of the potentially affected files to determine what personal information may have been involved, to locate mailing information, and to set up identity protection services being offered. This process was completed on October 18, 2022.
While TIC has no evidence that any information potentially involved in this incident has been misused, TIC is informing affected individuals about the steps they can take to help protect their information. TIC is also providing credit and identity protection services to individuals whose Social Security numbers were impacted. The potentially affected information varies by individual, but may include: name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, and protected health information.
TIC has enhanced its network security to help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. In addition, TIC has also reported the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and will provide whatever cooperation is necessary to hold the perpetrators accountable.
TIC has established a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident and to address related concerns. Call center representatives are available Monday through Friday between 8am to 5:30pm CST and can be reached at 855-544-2905.
TIC is located at 11590 North Meridian Street, Suite 600, Carmel, IN 46032.
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The Exemplary Eight: Fisher Junior/Senior High School
FISHER — One metric not measured in the state report cards but central to Fisher’s success: What Principal Jon Kelly calls “a culture of caring.”
“Our faculty and staff care about one another like a family,” he says. “They also care about our students, their education, their well-being and the opportunities that are provided for them here at Fisher Junior/Senior High School.
“Our students care about one another, as well. Additionally, they care about learning, their performance in school-related activities and preparing for life after high school.”
Of the area’s 35 high schools, Fisher is among just two that posted perfect graduation rates last year. Equally significant, Kelly says, is the number of ninth-graders on track to graduate — 94 percent, seven-plus points higher than the state average.
The latter “is something we have focused and worked on over the years with our departments and (response to intervention) program,” Kelly says. “Our goal is to offer rigorous coursework and provide support for our students to achieve at a high level.
"Our faculty and staff have done an amazing job with this — and our students have met the challenges.” | 2022-11-04T21:11:24+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/the-exemplary-eight-fisher-junior-senior-high-school/article_ecdb16eb-f23c-5eea-a7fe-27991ac9f9f0.html |
- Marcus Ericsson takes his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to victory in the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500
- Honda's third consecutive win at Indianapolis, and 15th since 2004
- Honda driver David Malukas is top-finishing "500" rookie
SPEEDWAY, Ind., May 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It was Marcus Ericsson's day today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with the 'Sneaky Swede' storming to victory and scoring Honda's 15th Indy 500 win.
Starting from the middle of row two, Ericsson would lead 13 laps in his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda en route to victory. It wasn't without drama for the driver of the #8 machine, however. Despite pulling a three-second gap on the field with just 10 laps to go, a late-race red flag—the result of a crash by Ericsson's teammate Jimmie Johnson—would allow the field to catch up and challenge Ericsson for the win a two-lap shootout.
In addition to Ericsson, the day was largely dominated by the Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing organization. He and his CGR teammates would lead a combined 163 of 200 laps, with Scott Dixon leading the pack with 95 laps led and becoming the all-time lap leader in the Indy 500.
Dixon would unfortunately fall victim to a late-race pit lane speeding violation, while 2021 Champion Alex Palou (47 laps led) would be caught out by an ill-timed yellow on pit strategy. Dixon would ultimately finish 21st and Palou would recover to a ninth-place finish.
Tony Kanaan would finish third on the day. While 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi would storm from 20th to fifth and four-time '500' champ Helio Castroneves from 27th to seventh. Castroneves' Meyer Shank Racing teammate and 2019 race winner Simon Pagenaud would finish just behind in eighth.
Honda also took top honors in the highest-finishing rookie category, with David Malukas crossing the line for Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Motorsports in 16th place.
In addition to forever being an Indianapolis 500 champion, Marcus Ericsson also takes the lead in the 2022 INDYCAR championship points after six of 17 races.
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Marcus Ericsson (Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) Indianapolis 500 race winner, Honda's third consecutive win at Indy; moves to the top of the championship points lead after six of 17 races: "You know, it's the biggest race in the world and to win is just an incredible feeling. The way we had to it – with the pressure [of the late-race restart] at the end – it was a very tough finish. I needed all that Honda power to be able to pull it off! So we're very, very thankful for that. It's just an incredible feeling. We've been strong all month, both our Ganassi cars and all the Honda cars. We've been the ones to beat, to be honest. To end up in Victory Lane, it's just a dream come true."
Tony Kanaan (Chip Ganassi Honda) Finished third: "A great win for Honda, a great win for the team. I mean, [team owner] Chip [Ganassi] only asked us to do one thing: 'don't hit your teammate'. I was thinking about that when we restarted after the last yellow [caution flag]. Marcus [Ericsson, teammate and race winner] did an awesome job and deserved to win. I'm already looking forward to coming back next year."
David Malukas (Dale Coyne Racing with HMD Honda) finished 16th, highest-finishing rookie: "It feels really good. I mean, that was such a long race. This track, it chooses its winners for sure. We were in the top 10 the whole way, then a yellow [caution flag] comes out that's simply bad timing for us, and drops us down to about P20. But then we worked our way back up to 16th so, overall, we finished the race and I'm real happy."
David Salters (President, Honda Performance Development) on Honda's 15th Indianapolis 500 win and third consecutive victory: "Racing comes down to a team effort, United groups of talented people pushing themselves, working smart and hard. That's three [Indianapolis 500 victories] in a row for the amazingly talented group at HPD - bravo boys and girls!! The amazing team at Chip Ganassi Racing produced rocket ship race cars - again what a team of talented boys and girls. We are extremely proud to race for Honda and the culture of racing and success in Honda continues to show itself, with Monaco [Formula One] and Indy 500 victories today - nice work everyone!! Cheers!!"
Fast Facts
- This is Honda's third consecutive Indianapolis 500 victory; with Takuma Sato scoring his second "500" triumph in 2020 and Helio Castroneves claiming his record-tying fourth win last year.
- Honda has won more Indianapolis 500 races than any major automaker: 15 victories from 22 races – a win ratio of 66% – since the company entered the INDYCAR competition in 1994.
- Honda first won the '500' in the manufacturer's fourth attempt, when Buddy Rice piloted his Rahal Letterman Racing Honda to victory in 2004.
- Other Honda-powered Indy winners include Dan Wheldon in 2005 and 2011, Sam Hornish Jr. (2006), Dario Franchitti (2007, 2010 and 2012), Scott Dixon (2008), Helio Castroneves (2009 and 2021), Ryan Hunter-Reay (2014), Alexander Rossi (2016), and Takmua Sato in 2017 and 2020.
- Honda has had more race starts at the Indianapolis 500 than any other auto manufacturer: 422 starts. Honda drivers also have completed more race laps at the Indianapolis 500 than any other carmaker: 74,160 laps.
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After an incredible "Month of May" at Indianapolis, the NTT INDYCAR SERIES continues next weekend with the June 3-5 Detroit Grand Prix race weekend, on the Belle Isle street circuit in Detroit, Michigan.
Honda Racing social media content and video links from Indianapolis can be found on Instagram (www.instagram.com/hondaracing_hpd), Twitter (twitter.com/HondaRacingHPD) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD). Additional features and long-form videos can be found on the Honda Racing/HPD YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/HondaRacingHPDTV).
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DENVER (AP) — Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson received an injection on Friday to alleviate discomfort near his throwing shoulder, a person with knowledge of the procedure confirmed to The Associated Press.
The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because neither the team nor the QB’s camp was publicly discussing the procedure, confirmed the report by the NFL Network on Saturday that Wilson received a platelet-rich plasma injection in Los Angeles to treat a strained latissimus dorsi.
That’s an injury that’s more common in baseball players and isn’t typically treated with an injection.
Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott had a similar injury that sidelined him for most of the Cowboys’ training camp last year. He didn’t throw for a month to let his injury heal.
The Broncos don’t play again until Monday night, Oct. 17, against the Los Angeles Chargers (2-2) following their 12-9 overtime loss to the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night. They’re hoping the injection and round-the-clock care will keep Wilson from missing any games.
Wilson missed three games with a broken finger on his throwing hand last season in Seattle, the only time in his 11-year career he’s been sidelined.
Wilson popped up on the injury report Tuesday and coach Nathaniel Hackett said the quarterback’s throwing shoulder had been “dinged up” in Denver’s 32-23 loss at Las Vegas last weekend.
Wilson completed 21 of 39 passes Thursday night, when he was evaluated for a concussion after attempting a tackle on one of his two interceptions. He stayed in the game after being cleared by medical staff.
After the game, which ended with his incompletion into the end zone to a well-covered Courtland Sutton, Wilson huddled with Hackett at his locker for an extended time. He was still in full uniform, including pads, when he met with the media an hour after the game.
Wilson briefly mentioned “battling” shoulder discomfort in his postgame comments but didn’t blame the injury for his poor performance in which he threw two key interceptions and didn’t see a wide-open KJ Hamler on the final play in overtime.
“I was battling, obviously, just the shoulder and all that, and just trying to play quickly,” Wilson said. “We should have won that game. Should have won it. Like I said, it’s on me.”
On Saturday, Wilson quoted Winston Churchill in a tweet: ““If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Wilson and Hackett, a first-time head coach, are off to a rocky start in Denver, where fans have booed the offense — which is averaging just 14.6 points per game — in all three home games. Thousands of fans streamed to the exits Thursday night before the overtime coin toss.
Wilson has completed 59.4% of his throws with four touchdown passes and three interceptions through five games. He’s been sacked 16 times and is 2 for 18 on throws into the end zone after Stephon Gilmore’s end zone interception led to the Colts’ tying field goal with 5 seconds left in regulation and his pass breakup in the end zone sealed Indy’s stunning win in overtime.
The Broncos acquired the nine-time Pro Bowler from Seattle in March in a blockbuster trade that cost them three players and five draft picks, including two first-rounders. The new ownership group gave Wilson a $245 million contract extension before Wilson had taken his first snap for Denver.
The Broncos were widely seen as a playoff contender after the arrivals of Hackett and Wilson, the sixth different starting QB in six seasons. But a rash of injuries complicate matters as they try to jumpstart Denver’s stagnant offense.
In the last week, left tackle Garett Bolles (ankle) and leading rusher Javonte Williams (knee) were lost for the season. The Broncos lost their leading receiver from 2021 when Tim Patrick tore an ACL in August.
The Broncos are also missing key defenders with pass rusher Randy Gregory (knee) on IR and cornerback Ronald Darby out for the year with a torn ACL.
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A Laredo parent has been recognized by the GEAR UP program, as he was given the Family Leader of the Year Award for his support and participation at Lyndon B. Johnson High School.
The GEAR UP, or Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, State Grant is a seven-year federal initiative designed to increase early college awareness, readiness and success for low-income and historically underrepresented students.
In 2021-22, the Region One GEAR UP: College Now-Career Connected! Project established the Family Champion Award to recognize the efforts of campus parent leaders.
Many individuals from 2021 GEAR UP high schools participated to receive this recognition where Arredondo’s participation was acknowledged fort his powerful story participation at the Region One level.
He was chosen to participate in a higher level and was submitted for national nomination for the NCCEP/GEAR UP Family Leader of the Year Award, which recognizes the contributions of GEAR UP parents or family members.
The College Now project is one of 156 GEAR UP programs that serve over half a million students and parents nationwide.
Juan F. Arredondo, parent of Esthefania Arredondo, collaborated with the GEAR UP cause and shared his experience supporting students get their maximum success, as he obtained this recognition at a national level.
This award is made extra special by the fact that Arredondo is the first father to be nominated in the over 20-year history of Region One GEAR UP, and the first father ever to receive this award at the national level.
His commitment to his family, education and community were criteria to make him a deserving recipient of the award.
In an effort to help build his leadership capacity, Region One GEAR UP invited Arredondo to Washington, D.C. from July 17-20 to attend the 2022 NCCEP/GEAR UP National Conference.
United Independent School District expressed that it was proud to have Arredondo representing the district and LBJ High School, and Region One GEAR UP at the national conference.
“The most important education is the one that parents teach at home. Parents have a responsibility to educate their children the morals they will need to be good citizens in the future,” Arredondo said.
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Scammers looking to exploit the Federal Student Loan Debt Relief program
Experts: Only use StudentAid.gov to apply for federal student loan relief
Published: Nov. 17, 2022 at 2:22 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
InvestigateTV - Con artists are already trying to exploit those interested in the new student loan forgiveness program. The Better Business Bureau’s (BBB) Scam Tracker shows more than 1,200 results of reported student loan scams.
Robert Farrington with The College Investor said if you have student loans, be ready for a barrage of fake emails, texts and calls.
Farrington shared a list of red flags and tips to avoid student loan scams:
- Only use StudentAid.gov to service your federal student loans and arrange student loan forgiveness.
- Your student loan servicer will never call you to ask for personal information.
- Your student loan servicer will never leave you voicemails asking you to return their call.
- The Department of Education or their federal loan servicers FedLoan, MOHELA, Nelnet, or Navient will only mail you or message you via secure mailboxes on their website.
- Never share your FSA ID or password with anyone: no authorized servicer will ask you for it.
- There is no fee for student loan forgiveness: anyone asking for a fee is a scammer.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after Myanmar’s generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, thousands of people have died in civil conflict and many more have been forced from their homes in a dire humanitarian crisis.
Myanmar’s economy, once one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia, now lags behind where it stood before the Feb. 1, 2021, military takeover compounded the country’s struggles with the pandemic.
Ten years earlier, Myanmar had emerged from decades of military rule, gradually transitioning to a civilian government, opening its economy to more foreign investment and entrepreneurship and relaxing censorship of the media.
A modern consumer culture took hold, with glitzy shopping malls in the biggest city, Yangon, and use of Facebook and cellphones the new normal. The army takeover brought thousands into the streets in peaceful protests that were suppressed with lethal force.
WHAT HAPPENED ON FEB. 1, 2021?
The army arrested Suu Kyi and top members of her governing National League for Democracy party, which had won a landslide victory for a second term in a November 2020 general election. The army said it acted because there had been massive voting fraud, but independent election observers did not find any major irregularities. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, best known for his role in a 2007 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, now leads the government.
The ouster of the civilian government provoked widespread demonstrations and civil disobedience. As weeks dragged on, security forces crushed shows of opposition with violence. So far, nearly 3,000 civilians have been killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes by fighting between security forces and civilians who took up arms, sometimes allying themselves with ethnic armed groups that have been fighting for autonomy for decades.
The military’s seizure of power drew international condemnation. Many governments have shunned the army-led leadership and imposed sanctions, cutting off some financial flows. But neighboring countries in Southeast Asia and Myanmar’s most powerful ally, China, have balked at taking such actions.
WHERE IS AUNG SAN SUU KYI?
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, 77, was the de facto head of government, holding the title of state counsellor, when the army arrested her and took power. In December a court sentenced her to seven years in prison for corruption in the last of a string of politically tinged criminal cases against her, leaving her with a total of 33 years to serve in prison.
Suu Kyi’s supporters and independent analysts say the numerous charges against her and her allies were an attempt to legitimize the military’s seizure of power while eliminating her from politics before an election promised for later this year.
Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar’s martyred independence hero Gen. Aung San, spent almost 15 years as a political prisoner under house arrest between 1989 and 2010. She is being held in a newly constructed separate building in the prison in the capital, Naypyitaw, near the courthouse where her trial was held.
WHAT IS LIFE LIKE UNDER MILITARY RULE?
Two years after the army seized power, life in Yangon and other big cities has inched back toward normality but fighting in much of the countryside has left the country deeply mired in civil conflict.
Rights advocates say the military and security forces have carried out arbitrary arrests, torture and other abuses to quash dissent. Human rights monitoring groups said Tuesday that Myanmar’s military is increasingly turning to airstrikes with deadly results to try to crush stiff armed resistance,
While the military is responsible for massive use of violence throughout the country, militants in the opposition have carried out bombings and assassinations of military officials and their supporters. Min Aung Hlaing on Tuesday accused opponents of army rule of trying to take power with “wrongful forcible means.”
The World Bank forecasts the economy will grow a meager 3% this year, with some strength in agriculture and industries such as garment making. But it remains smaller than it was in 2019, before the pandemic and then the military takeover.
The military’s return to power has stymied a decade of reforms and left 40% of the population living in poverty.
Despite stringent foreign exchange controls and uncertainty over rules and regulations under army rule, some businesses are finding ways to operate by using informal payments and trade channels. The reopening of Myanmar’s trade routes with China also has helped.
But risks have been heightened by security issues due to the civil conflict.
WHAT LIES AHEAD?
The way out of the crisis remains unclear. The military-controlled government enacted a law on registration of political parties that will make it difficult for opposition groups to mount a serious challenge to army-backed candidates in the general election set to take place later this year.
Critics have already said the military-planned election will be neither free nor fair because there is no free media and most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party have been arrested.
The party has declared it will not accept or recognize the election, which it has described as “fake” and a ploy by the military to gain political legitimacy and international recognition. The vote is also opposed by the National Unity Government, which was established by elected lawmakers who were prevented from taking their seats when the army seized power and serves as an underground parallel national administration.
Units of the People’s Defense Force, the armed wing of the banned pro-democracy movement, have been attempting to disrupt preparations for the election by attacking personnel of the military government who are conducting a population survey that could be used to assemble voter rolls. | 2023-01-31T18:27:18+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-how-myanmar-is-faring-2-years-after-army-ousted-suu-kyi/ |
Through the AdoptAClassroom.org Partnership, Automaker and Retailers Have Helped More Than 300,000 Students Nationwide
CAMDEN, N.J., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that in support of its belief that all students deserve an equal and fair opportunity for a quality education, the automaker will dedicate August to helping reduce the inequity that exists in classrooms when students lack the necessary learning resources. Since 2016, Subaru of America has focused on helping students and schools through its Subaru Loves Learning initiative. Teaming up with AdoptAClassroom.org for a second year, Subaru will help provide teachers across the country with flexible funding to purchase the school supplies and resources they need to help all students thrive in the classroom as part of its Subaru Loves Learning initiative.
"Across the country, students are readying themselves for a new school year, but not all students have the same opportunities as their classmates to make the most of their education," said Thomas J. Doll, President and CEO, Subaru of America, Inc. "Together with our retailers, we are helping all students secure the resources they need to grow and succeed in the classroom and in their futures."
According to AdoptAClassroom.org, more than 92 percent of classrooms have students whose families cannot afford to purchase any school supplies for their children. Many teachers are filling the gap by spending their own money, on average up to $750 each year, to equip their classrooms and students.
Throughout August, Subaru and more than 600 participating retailers will work with AdoptAClassroom.org to adopt classrooms in their communities, helping teachers and schools purchase the tools and materials they need for their students. The automaker is focusing the commitment on schools and students who need the most support by prioritizing schools defined as high need.*
To help even more students during Subaru Loves Learning month, Subaru of America will also match online gifts to AdoptAClassroom.org dollar-for-dollar, up to $350,000 in total from August 1-31, 2022. AdoptAClassroom.org will make an equitable distribution of all donations through this fundraiser to help teachers at high-needs schools nationwide. To donate, please visit https://subaruloveslearning.org/helpusdomore.
As the largest corporate supporter of AdoptAClassroom.org, Subaru and its retailers will have supported more than 300,000 students nationwide to get the resources their classrooms need to succeed.
"We're excited to team up with Subaru again this year to further our shared mission of creating an equitable learning experience for children nationwide," says Ann Pifer, Executive Director of AdoptAClassroom.org. "Every student deserves a chance to thrive in the classroom, and through our work with Subaru, so many more students will get that chance this school year."
For information about Subaru Loves Learning and to find out more about the partners that Subaru supports, visit http://www.subaru.com/learning. To learn more about AdoptAClassroom.org, visit www.adoptaclassroom.org.
*High Need is defined as a school that has a Title I Schoolwide Program and/or a school where 40% of the student population qualifies for the Free or Reduced-Price Lunch Program
About AdoptAClassroom.org
AdoptAClassroom.org believes every child deserves the tools and materials they need to learn and succeed in school. The national, tech-based nonprofit connects donors and sponsors with PreK-12 teachers and schools to help equip more classrooms and students with school supplies. Since 1998, AdoptAClassroom.org has raised $57 million and supported more than 5.8 million students across the U.S. For more information, or to make a donation, please visit www.adoptaclassroom.org.
About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company's vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA and the SOA Foundation have donated more than $270 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged nearly 78,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do. For additional information visit media.subaru.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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After a week of upsets that saw 15 ranked teams lose, South Carolina remained the lone unbeaten school.
The Gamecocks ran their streak to 36 consecutive weeks atop The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll to match Louisiana Tech for the second-longest run in the history of the poll that dates to 1976.
South Carolina (29-0) finished the regular season unbeaten and was back to being a unanimous choice at No. 1 in national media poll released Monday. The Gamecocks only trail UConn (51 weeks) for the longest consecutive streak atop the Top 25.
“There’s definitely no relief” after their flawless regular season, South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston said. “Now, were into the season where winning is the only option.”
While the Gamecocks won both of their games last week and enter the SEC Tournament as the No. 1 seed, the rankings got a big reshuffling. The 15 ranked teams losing at least one game was by far the most Top 25 schools to lose in the same week this season; 11 had lost in the same week a few times earlier this season.
Indiana, which lost at the buzzer to then-No. 6 Iowa on Caitlin Clark’s 3-pointer on Sunday, remained No. 2. Utah jumped up five places to No. 3 after beating then-No. 3 Stanford to clinch a share of the Pac-12 title. It’s Utah’s best ranking ever. The Cardinal dropped to sixth.
LSU and Maryland rounded out the top five.
Iowa was seventh with Virginia Tech eighth. UConn fell five spots to ninth after losing to St. John’s. Notre Dame was 10th. The Irish lost guard Olivia Miles to a knee injury in Sunday’s win over Louisville.
Villanova jumped four places to 11th. It’s the Wildcats best ranking since the team finished the 2003 season in the same spot. Texas made the biggest improvement, climbing seven spots to 12th.
Most of the Power Five conferences enter tournament play this week. The Big 12 Tournament is next week ahead of Selection Sunday and the beginning of March Madness.
BACK IN THE RANKINGS
South Florida re-entered the Top 25 at No. 25 after winning 15 of its last 16 games. The Bulls have one conference game left, at Cincinnati on Wednesday. South Florida was ranked for two weeks earlier this season. Florida State dropped out of the rankings.
FALLING ARIZONA
The Wildcats dropped seven places to No. 21 after losing at Oregon and Oregon State over the weekend. Arizona is 12-3 at home but 7-5 on the road.
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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 | 2023-02-27T19:25:41+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-no-1-south-carolina-women-run-ap-top-25-streak-to-36-weeks/ |
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) – A goat surrendered to the Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS) in Gwinn, Michigan, a few weeks ago is learning to walk again, and she’s had a lot of help along the way.
Naomi Noordyk-Piirala and her husband Tim own Dead River Farm. When they first met Pumpkin, they knew she had to join their herd.
“The original call was just for the other goat. My husband and I went to UPAWS. We saw her and just saw how much she wanted to thrive, and we couldn’t leave her there,” Noordyk-Piirala told Nexstar’s WJMN.
What Noordyk-Piirala saw was that one of Pumpkin’s legs wasn’t functioning properly.
From there, Pumpkin and her new family were connected with Samantha Eckert at Northern Orthotics & Prosthetics. Pumpkin isn’t their typical client.
“We provide bracing and artificial limbs to humans, ranging from children to adults. That’s our main focus. But we often have people contact us about their pets who, a lot of times feel like they are part of the family anyway. We’ve tried to help out as much as we can,” Eckert told WJMN.
After seeing some pictures and videos, Eckert said there was no question she wanted to help. The first step was evaluating Pumpkin to see if she could even physically use a prosthesis.
“We took a mold of her leg in order to make a custom socket or top part of the prosthesis that would get strapped on her. We took the mold and then I brought it back to the lab. I was able to turn it into a mold of her leg and then modify it to create this custom plastic socket version of her leg.” Eckert continued, “Then we just assembled from there. I had to do some research to figure out what the foot should look like and how she was going to be able to walk with it because I don’t work with animals very much. It was a fun opportunity for me to do some research too.”
All of the time and materials were donated by Northern Orthotics. As a show of gratitude, Dead River Farm made a donation to Bay Cliff Health Camp and UPAWS on behalf of Pumpkin.
“I have a feeling me and Pumpkin are going to be friends for a long time. We’ll probably end up making a couple iterations of the socket and maybe change some things with the grip on the foot. We won’t really know until we try it. Like I said, this is my first goat. We’ll see how it goes and I’m sure Naomi and I will stay in touch,” said Eckert.
You can follow Pumpkin’s journey through Dead River Farm’s Facebook page. | 2022-11-09T00:04:56+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/watch-pumpkin-the-goat-takes-first-steps-with-prosthetic-leg-2/ |
Ballet Des Moines will bring its full company of professional dancers to Muscatine this Sunday, sharing world-class arts and education programming directly with patrons of all ages in a one-of-a-kind day of fun activities.
The free performance will take place in the green space south of the basketball courts in Riverside Park. The 7 p.m. performance will be preceded by free family STEM activities inside Pearl City Station from 5-7 p.m. Be sure to come early, bring your blankets or lawn chairs, and sit back to enjoy the entertainment, a news release says.
Everyone is invited to come explore a mobile planetarium, Iowa State University’s FLEx Virtual Reality lab, send a postcard to space, and investigate other STEM activities while exploring how the universal language of music and movement can make abstract concepts more human and accessible.
“Gravity on Tour” includes excerpts from Ballet Des Moines’ ground-breaking GRAVITY season along with a host of interactive STEM experiences, from Iowa State University’s FLEx Virtual Reality Lab and the Science Center of Iowa’s mobile planetarium to sending postcards to space and back. These free performances build on the April 2022 world premiere of the interdisciplinary ballet Of Gravity and Light, exemplifying how music and movement can make abstract concepts more human and accessible to audiences of all ages.
Ballet Des Moines CEO Blaire Massa worked with community leaders statewide to determine tour locations, ensuring a strong sense of collaboration with tailored opportunities specific to the interests and values of each community.
“We’ve worked diligently for the past several months to ensure we’re delivering on our community engagement, outreach, and education initiatives — to expand access to the arts, while wielding creativity and expression as a tool to expand learning, build confidence, and forge community connections,” says Massa. “From educational workshops and in-person ballet classes to meet-and-greets with the artists, pop-up planetariums, and young professional cocktail parties, there’s no shortage of opportunities to collaborate and inspire curiosity, confidence, and creativity across our state.”
STEM partners throughout the 21-22 season have included the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) and Iowa State University.
“Working with Ballet Des Moines this year has allowed us to introduce students to activities that help support our objectives at ISGC, to help inspire, educate, and employ the next generation of explorers,” says director Dr. Sara Nelson. “It’s been wonderful to watch as students learn more about the connections between science and art and how dance can be used to express those understandings.”
Each performance will include excerpts from BDM’s GRAVITY season, highlighting a diverse range of programming including this spring’s world premiere Of Gravity and Light, a pas de deux from Swan Lake, and Flight, a joy-filled contemporary ballet by Ballet Des Moines Artistic Director Tom Mattingly. In between the evenings performances, NASA Solar System Ambassadors will guide the audience through scientific discussions.
Gravity on Tour was made possible by Principal Foundation and the Iowa Arts Council. Additional details about the tour can be found here.
FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY STEM ACTIVITIES 5-7PM
Enjoy a mobile planetarium, Iowa State University’s FLEx Virtual Reality lab, send a postcard to space, and investigate other STEM activities while exploring how the universal language of music and movement can make abstract concepts more human and accessible.
SCI programming reaches every county in the state of Iowa, promotes cultural awareness and provides unique experiences for Iowans. The broad range of available opportunities — from Science @ Your Site, which offers a variety of assemblies and demonstrations at schools, libraries and festivals, to professional development training that advance STEM literacy and bring innovative activities to educators statewide — speaks to the many roles SCI plays for the community and is the foundation upon which SCI has built a successful organization.
Centrally located in Downtown Des Moines, SCI’s hands-on exhibits, special-format theaters and unique programming attract Iowans and distant visitors. Through daily visitors, a statewide educational outreach program and the NAEYC-accredited SCI Preschool, the Science Center of Iowa serves more than 300,000 people annually.
Founded by Blue Origin in 2019, Club for the Future is a foundation whose mission is to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and to help invent the future of life in space. The Club and its collaborators are doing this through Postcards to Space, space-focused curriculum, and access to space on Blue Origin’s rockets.
Earth is finite. To protect our gem of a planet and enable a future of abundance and growth, Earth needs space. Write or draw your vision on a postcard for what you think the future of life in space will look like—or any other message you’d like to send to space. Write or draw on a provided postcard to Club for the Future, we’ll launch it to space and back on a New Shepard rocket, and return it to you stamped “Flown to Space.” Send us as many postcards as you’d like—we’ll fly them all.
FLEx is a mobile learning program for advanced design technology benefiting 3rd through 12th students and beyond in a 21st century paradigm. Structured around STEM, design thinking, 21st Century skills, and University Constructs (4 C’s), this environment extends distant educational offerings by delivering full-scale augmented and virtual visualization, digital to real prototyping, circuit bending and visual programming.
As an Iowa State design outreach program for Iowans, the FLEx can visit classrooms, schools, libraries, science and art centers, educational conferences and other community events throughout the state. Programs can be offered inside or outside, weather permitting, to best complement the learning environment and event.
A part of NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program since 1990, the ISGC continually strives to improve and inspire Iowa’s future in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The ISGC supports aerospace research, education and outreach activities for all Iowans with NASA internships, fellowships, and scholarships, competitions for grants within higher education members (with NASA Mission Directorate alignment), as well as informal education grants with outreach affiliates. The ISGC is primarily funded under NASA Award No. 80NSSC20M0107.
About Ballet Des Moines
Ballet Des Moines was launched as a professional ballet company in 2012, bringing world-class performing artists to the Des Moines community for classical and contemporary main stage productions. Ballet Des Moines offers training opportunities for pre-professional dancers and engages thousands of local youth each year through rich educational and outreach programs. The mission of Ballet Des Moines is to enrich lives through inspiring dance performances, inclusive education and outreach programs, and innovative community partnerships.
About the Iowa Space Grant Consortium
A part of NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program since 1990, the ISGC continually strives to improve and inspire Iowa’s future in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The ISGC supports aerospace research, education and outreach activities for all Iowans with NASA internships, fellowships, and scholarships, competitions for grants within higher education members (with NASA Mission Directorate alignment), as well as informal education grants with outreach affiliates. The ISGC is primarily funded under NASA Award No. 80NSSC20M0107. | 2022-07-28T03:11:12+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/gravity-on-tour-lands-in-muscatine/ |
From hurricanes to tornadoes, a generator can help your family recover after powerful storms
But before you pull yours out, or decide to buy one, you need to know the safety warnings.
Every time a devastating storm hits anywhere in the country, Paul Gangloff gets calls at the generator supply company he owns, Riverside Electric.
"We've noticed our business has picked up 300 percent in the past year," he said.
Company president Krista Mahon says many people ask about portable generators due to their budget-friendly pricing.
"The portables can range anywhere from $400 dollars all the way to $1200," she said.
But she warns that budget models often struggle to power more than a refrigerator and some lights.
"People tell us it bogged down, or the lights dimmed.," she said. " I have to explain that it is because it is too small a unit for your home."
Mahon says more homeowners are now buying whole house standby generators like the Generacs that they sell.
They are powered by natural gas or propane, unlike gasoline, and start-up automatically. They will also power your home's central air conditioning.
Cost? $8,000 and up, installed, with all switches and connectors to your home electric panel.
But if you are thinking of buying, or already own, a portable generator, the most important thing before you turn it on is your family's safety."
Nicolette Nye with the Consumer Product Safety Commission says 85 people die each year from carbon monoxide poisoning, on average, linked to portable generators.
She says opening doors and windows isn't enough to protect you, and that it is important to keep generators out of basements, crawl spaces, garages and even car ports.
"You want it running at least 20 feet away from the home or structures that people can enter, with the exhaust pointed away from your home," she said.
Another common and deadly mistake, she said, is refueling a portable generator with gasoline while it's running.
"Stop the engine, allow it to cool down first," she said.
To use a generator safely, the CPSC says:
- Close doors and windows in the exhaust path.
- Follow all the warnings listed in the user manual.
- Look for portable generators that shut off automatically when high levels of CO gas are detected.
Most importantly, install CO alarms on each level of the home and outside sleeping areas.
"Interconnected co alarms are the best so when one sounds, they all sound," Nye said.
Krista Mahon says generators can save food and keep you connected after a big weather event.
"You can plug into whatever you need to use," she said,
As always don't waste your money.
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Savings on all nonstop flights from Chicago Midway to Southern Connecticut
CHICAGO, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the cost of travel and virtually everything else soar to historic highs, Avelo Airlines is offering an inflation-relief 50% discount* on its nonstop flights between Chicago Midway and Connecticut's most convenient airport — Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN). Avelo offers a convenient and affordable gateway to the New York and New England regions.
Travelers can save on flights purchased at AveloAir.com through June 23, 2022, using the promo code: HALFOFF. There are no blackout dates on the discount available on travel completed by November 9, 2022.
"This significant discount is our way of making travel easier and more affordable amidst skyrocketing inflation," said Avelo Airlines Chairman and CEO Andrew Levy. "Our purpose is to Inspire Travel by helping our Customers save money so they can travel more. By offering 50% off our already everyday low fares, we want to help travelers continue to explore exciting destinations, create new memories, and reconnect with family and friends during this economically challenging time."
Midway's Most Convenient and Affordable Way to Southern Connecticut
Avelo flies between MDW and HVN five days per week, Wednesday-Monday. Avelo offers the most convenient, affordable and reliable travel experience from Chicago Midway to Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) – The New Haven Way to Connecticut on Boeing Next-Generation (NG) 737 aircraft.
Amidst the crowds, long lines, lengthy walks and traffic congestion encountered at other airports frequented by travelers to and from the region, HVN offers a refreshingly smooth and simple alternative hometown airport experience. HVN's adjacency to multiple major highways and commuter railways make it Connecticut's most convenient and easily accessible airport.
Best known as the home of Yale University, New Haven is the second largest city in Connecticut and is part of the New York metropolitan area. The coastal city has experienced—and continues to enjoy—a renaissance. Within an easy stroll from the New Haven Green are more than 100 distinctive restaurants, offering something for every palate, and the city abounds with theaters, museums, and shopping destinations to satisfy all interests and tastes.
A Different, Better and More Affordable Travel Experience
Avelo offers several unbundled travel-enhancing options that give Customers the flexibility to pay for what they value, including priority boarding, checked bags, carry-on overhead bags, and bringing a pet in the cabin.
The American-made Boeing 737 jets Avelo flies offer a more spacious and comfortable experience than the small regional aircraft historically operating at many of the small hometown airports Avelo serves. Customers may choose from several seating options, including seats with extra leg room, as well as pre-reserved window and aisle seating.
Avelo is distinguished by its Soul of Service culture. The culture is grounded in Avelo's "One Crew" value which promotes a welcoming and caring experience. By caring for one another and owning their commitments, Avelo Crewmembers focus on anticipating and understanding Customer needs on the ground and in the air.
About Avelo Airlines
Avelo Airlines was founded with a simple purpose — to Inspire Travel. The airline offers Customers time and money-saving convenience, low everyday fares, and a refreshingly smooth and caring experience through its Soul of Service culture. Operating a fleet of Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft, Avelo serves 25 popular destinations across the U.S., including its three bases at Los Angeles' Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR), Southern Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) and Orlando International Airport (MCO). For more information visit AveloAir.com or the Avelo Newsroom at AveloAir.com/Newsroom.
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*50% off promo code discount fares must be purchased at AveloAir.com by 11:59 p.m. PT on June 23, 2022. Expiration date cannot be extended. Travel must be completed by November 9, 2022. To receive promo savings, enter promo code "HALFOFF" at AveloAir.com. Discount applies to base fare only. Promo code is not redeemable for cash, and in the case of reservation cancellations, the promo savings will be forfeited. Fare rules, routes and schedules are subject to change without notice. Restrictions may apply. Not valid on previously purchased itineraries. Additional fees for carry-on and checked bags, assigned seats and other optional services may apply. For full terms and conditions, please visit Avelo's Contract of Carriage.
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No. 23-4-03644-9 SEA
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
FOR THE COUNTY OF KING
In re the Estate of FREDDIE J. DAVIS, Deceased.
The administrator named below has been appointed as administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the administrator or the administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty (30) days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: MAY 19, 2023
ADMINISTRATOR:
AUDREY D. GLOVER
ATTORNEY FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR:
/s/ Jeannie Osgood Eric W. Stoll, WSBA #33188
Jeannie Osgood, WSBA #27551
ADDRESS FOR MAILING
OR SERVICE:
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COURT OF PROBATE PROCEEDINGS AND CAUSE NUMBER:
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May 19, 26, June 2, 2023 | 2023-05-20T02:32:16+00:00 | tacomadailyindex.com | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/no-23-4-03644-9-sea-notice-to-creditors/2467241/ |
HOPEWELL, Va. (WRIC) — A hot air balloon made an unexpected landing at a middle school in Hopewell, Virginia, over the weekend.
Shortly before 5:25 p.m. Sunday, the balloon’s occupants called emergency services looking for a safe place to land in the city after they had been blown off their original course.
Authorities created a safe landing space at Carter G. Woodson Middle School near Cavalier Square, where the balloon eventually touched down.
According to authorities, units from Hopewell Fire & EMS and the Hopewell Police Department responded and assisted in clearing a safe space for the balloon to land. There were reportedly no injuries.
Husband and wife Rob and Wendy Stueber told WRIC it was a normal Sunday night before dinner when the unexpected event occurred. The two saw the balloon from their window and knew exactly where it was headed.
“Heading towards Cavalier Square…and it was getting kind of low to the ground, so I started hollering for him, ‘If you want to see it, you better get out here,” Wendy Stueber said.
And that’s what her husband did. He went live on Facebook, recording the emergency landing in real time.
“Oh that poor bugger, he is so lucky! Not to hit any of these power lines, to get caught in the trees,” Rob Stueber said as he recorded the balloon’s emergency landing.
Rob and Wendy Stueber, along with many others that were watching, had one question going through their mind: Why was there a hot air balloon flying this close to the ground?
“I wonder where the heck they came from. Pretty much everybody was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on? This is crazy,” Rob Stueber said. “Not only that, everybody was remarking on how lucky the person was to be able to land where they were landing. Everybody was really shocked and relieved because it definitely could have turned out very bad for the person involved.”
The last time a hot air balloon made a landing in Central Virginia was in 2014, when a balloon crashed in Caroline County. That crash claimed the lives of three people.
Hopewell Fire was unable to tell WRIC where the hot air balloon was coming from or where the passengers were headed. | 2023-03-08T15:20:45+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/hot-air-balloon-makes-emergency-landing-at-virginia-middle-school/ |
SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital manufacturer Snapmaker unveils its latest generation of 3-in-1 3D Printer Artisan, which is open for pre-order in the official store from August 9th.
Artisan provides:
- Next-Gen Linear Module
- 400mm x 400mm x 400mm Large Work Area
- 1 Minute Quick Swap
- 300°C Dual Extrusion 3D Printing Module
- 10W High Power Laser Engraving & Cutting Module
- 200W CNC Carving & Cutting Module
- An integrated Control System with Ultra-wide 7" Touchscreen
- Enclosure Included
Inheriting the heritage of Snapmaker 2.0, Artisan has a stylish, all-metal design that not only guarantees durability, but also makes user experience smoother, easier, and on top of that, provides gigantic build volume.
Like the previous products, Artisan is still equipped with three modules that can satisfy users' different needs. It has 300°C Dual Extrusion 3D Printing Module, 10W High Power Laser Engraving & Cutting Module and 200W CNC Carving & Cutting, which are totally upgraded to level up the performance. Meanwhile, due to the innovative design of Quick-swap platforms and toolheads, it allows users to shift between 3 functions in 1 minute.
Artisan also features Next-Gen Linear Module, which applies industrial-grade transmission technology to desktop fabrication—steel guiderails made by CNC grinding at micron level are embedded in Artisan's linear modules. This leads to a significant rise in precision, rigidity and durability.
In addition, due to the innovative design of the Integrated Control System, which integrates the power module, emergency stop button, master control and touch screen into one system, the way users interact with touchscreen and the whole controller is revolutionized.
The upgraded functions allow Artisan to further meet the needs of different fabrication scenarios and truly turn a desktop into a workshop. The pre-order price is $2,799, which includes a compatible enclosure and free shipping. The printer is currently available at Snapmaker's official store.
About Snapmaker
Founded in 2016, Snapmaker is a tech company that develops, manufactures, and sells desktop 3-in-1 3D printers that integrate 3D printing, laser engraving & cutting, and CNC carving. Snapmaker's flagship product Snapmaker 2.0 3-in-1 3D printer made a record in 2019 as the most crowdfunded 3D printer on Kickstarter and won the 2020 CES Innovation Award and 2022 iF Design Award.
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IRVING, Texas and FINO MORNASCO, Italy, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breeze Holdings Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BREZ) ("Breeze Holdings"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and D-Orbit S.p.A. ("D-Orbit" or the "Company"), a market leading space logistics and transportation company, today announced that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement ("Agreement"), effective immediately.
"Since the outset of our discussions with D-Orbit over a year ago, we have continued to believe in the Company's unique value proposition and the innovation inherent in their solutions," said J. Douglas Ramsey, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Breeze Holdings. "However, the financial markets have changed substantially, and we believe that terminating our merger is in the best interest of both D-Orbit and Breeze shareholders. On behalf of Breeze, we wish Luca and the D-Orbit team the best of luck and look forward to cheering on their continued successes. As we look ahead, we remain focused on identifying another value creating opportunity for Breeze shareholders."
"Despite market conditions that were beyond our control and the subsequent need to terminate our agreement with Breeze, we remain incredibly confident about D-Orbit's business and continued growth," said Luca Rossettini, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of D-Orbit. "With our unrivaled ION Satellite Carrier as a foundation and the diversified revenue streams our main line of business already generates, we are setting D-Orbit apart as the global leader in the orbital transportation market. Just this year alone, we have completed more missions than any of our peers, expanded and diversified our customer base across four continents with even more blue-chip companies looking to use our services, secured 11 additional slots with SpaceX and other global launch providers for 2023 and continued to build out the next phase of our In-Orbit Servicing technology, which is also generating revenues from early adopters within institutional and commercial space operators. In addition, we have successfully proven our space cloud infrastructure with almost a dozen third-party applications run on our D-Orbit Cloud Nodes currently in orbit. As we chart our next phase of growth, D-Orbit is moving full speed ahead to achieve our mission of enabling expansion in space and fueling the new space economy."
Since announcing the intention to merge with Breeze in January, D-Orbit has steadily moved along its roadmap and launched an additional three ION Satellite Carrier (ION) missions – six currently in orbit and three scheduled for the remainder of 2022; delivered more than 80 customer payloads into orbit in total; announced several new signed customer contracts among D-Orbit's outstanding customer base, including 30% of existing satellite operators; made progress expanding payload integration and incoming ION assembly in the U.S.; secured eleven ports for launch on SpaceX and on other launchers in 2023; and continued innovating on its suite of in-orbit solutions, including the deployment of D-Orbit Space Cloud and buildout of its In-Orbit Servicing capabilities, positioning the Company to capture long-term growth opportunities.
Details of the termination of the Agreement will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by Breeze Holdings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
D-Orbit is a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry with a track record of space-proven services, technologies and successful missions.
Founded in 2011, before the dawn of the New Space market, D-Orbit is the first company addressing the logistics needs of the space market. The first line of business ION Satellite Carrier, for example, is a space vehicle that can transport satellites in orbit and release them individually into distinct orbital slots, reducing the time from launch to operations by up to 85% and the launch costs of an entire satellite constellation by up to 40%. ION can also accommodate multiple third-party payloads like innovative technologies developed by startups, experiments from research entities, and instruments from traditional space companies requiring a test in orbit and offer the fully redundant ION for rent, or edge computing and space cloud services, to those satellite operators in need of additional capacity and capabilities in orbit. In addition, D-Orbit is investing in becoming a leader in the new in-orbit servicing market, which is considered to be one of the largest, growing markets within the space sector and is already demonstrating significant traction.
D-Orbit is a space infrastructure pioneer with offices in Italy, Portugal, the UK, and the US; its commitment to pursuing business models that are profitable, friendly for the environment, and socially beneficial, led to D-Orbit S.p.A. becoming the first certified B-Corp space company in the world.
Breeze Holdings is a blank check company organized for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the words "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "potential," "projects," "predicts," "continue," or "should," or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. There can be no assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, any statements relating to our ability to consummate any acquisition or other business combination and any other statements that are not statements of current or historical facts. These statements are based on management's current expectations, but actual results may differ materially due to various factors, including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to complete any initial business combination; (ii) our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination; (iii) our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving our initial business combination; (iv) our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination; (v) our pool of prospective target businesses; (vi) the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential investment opportunities; (vii) our public securities' potential liquidity and trading; (viii) the lack of a market for our securities; (ix) the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance; (x) the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; (xi) or our financial performance following our initial public offering. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to additional risks, uncertainties, and factors, including those described in Breeze Holdings' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Breeze Holdings or Holdco from time to time. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof.
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Sirnaomics Chief Technology Officer Dmitry Samarsky is a featured speaker at the RNA Leaders USA Congress and 18th Drug Discovery Innovation Programme
Gaithersburg, Md. and Suzhou, China, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirnaomics Ltd. (the "Company" or "Sirnaomics", stock code: 2257.HK) a leading biopharmaceutical company in discovery and development of RNAi therapeutics, announced today that it will present the latest developments on GalAhead™, a GalNAc-RNAi therapeutic platform, and its pipeline programs, at two industry conferences in Boston: the RNA Leaders USA Congress and 18th Drug Discovery Innovation Programme. The RNA Leaders USA Congress is taking place October 18-19 at The Colonnade Hotel, and the 18th Drug Discovery Innovation Programme is taking place October 26-27 at The Westin Copley Place.
RNA Leaders USA Congress Presentation Details
- Presentation Title: GalAhead™: a novel therapeutic GalNAc-RNAi platform to downregulate single and multiple genes
- Presenter: Dmitry Samarsky, Sirnaomics Chief Technology Officer
- Time/Date: 02:10pm EST on Wednesday, Oct.19, 2022.
- Presentation Details:
18th Drug Discovery Innovation Programme Presentation Details
- Presentation Title: A novel therapeutic GalNAc-RNAi platform to downregulate single and multiple genes
- Presenter: Dmitry Samarsky, Sirnaomics Chief Technology Officer
- Time/Date: 04:00pm EST on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.
- Presentation Details:
About Sirnaomics
Sirnaomics is an RNA therapeutics biopharmaceutical company with product candidates in preclinical and clinical stages that focuses on the discovery and development of innovative drugs for indications with medical needs and large market opportunities. Sirnaomics is the first clinical-stage RNA therapeutics company to have a strong presence in both China and the United States, and also the first company to achieve positive Phase IIa clinical outcomes in oncology for an RNAi therapeutic for its core product, STP705. Learn more at www.sirnaomics.com.
CONTACT:
Dr. Dmitry Samarsky
Chief Technology Officer, Sirnaomics
Email: DmitrySamarsky@sirnaomics.com
Investors:
Nigel Yip, MBA
Chief Financial Officer, Sirnaomics
Email: NigelYip@sirnaomics.com
Media (US):
Alexis Feinberg
Tel: +1 203 939 2225
Email: Alexis.Feinberg@westwicke.com
Media (China):
Bunny Lee
Tel: +852 3150 6707
Email: sirnaomics.hk@pordahavas.com
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Chiante Wester named the Women’s Basketball Coach at Tuskegee
Tuskgee Women's Basketball
According to Athletic Director Reginald Ruffin, Chiante Wester will take over as the new Head Coach of Tuskegee’s Women’s Basketball Team.
“The goal of this department is to always continue to build on the standard that has been set,” Ruffin stated. “In the hiring of Coach Wester, we believe that Tuskegee women’s basketball will again have a coach that can carry the recent momentum along with maintain the duty to educate, dominate, and graduate our student-athletes.”
Before accepting the job at Tuskegee, Wester spent three seasons at Livingstone College as their head coach. | 2023-07-26T23:44:48+00:00 | waka.com | https://www.waka.com/2023/07/26/chiante-wester-named-the-womens-basketball-coach-at-tuskegee/ |
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CHICAGO (AP) _ CBOE Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE) on Friday reported third-quarter net income of $150.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Chicago-based company said it had net income of $1.41. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and pretax expenses, were $1.74 per share.
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The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.63 per share.
The holding company for the Chicago Board Options Exchange posted revenue of $993.5 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $442.4 million, also surpassing Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $439.6 million.
CBOE shares have fallen 4% since the beginning of the year. The stock has declined slightly more than 7% in the last 12 months.
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Legendary Cuban American performer Celia Cruz to appear on US quarter
Cuban American artist Celia Cruz will be the first Latina singer to feature as part of the American Women Quarters Program, the U.S. Mint announced.
Music legend Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa, will be honored along with four others by appearing on a quarter in 2024.
Cruz was born in Havana in 1925 and died in 2003 in New Jersey.
The American Women Quarters Program "celebrates the achievements and contributions of America's women," according to the Mint.
It's scheduled to last four years from 2022 until 2025.
In addition to Celia Cruz, the program's 2024 class includes:
- Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color to hold a seat in Congress;
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War surgeon, women's rights advocate and abolitionist;
- Pauli Murray, poet, writer, activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest, as well as a staunch defender of civil rights;
- Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, a writer, composer, educator, and political activist who championed Native Americans' right to American citizenship and other civil rights long denied to them.
"All of the women being honored have lived remarkable and multi-faceted lives, and have made a significant impact on our Nation in their own unique way," Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson said in a statement.
"The women pioneered change during their lifetimes, not yielding to the status quo imparted during their lives. By honoring these pioneering women, the Mint continues to connect America through coins which are like small works of art in your pocket."
The designs for the coins will be published later this year. | 2023-02-10T14:16:33+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/celia-cruz-us-quarter/42803724 |
New York City employers are now required to include salary ranges in job postings in a law that went into effect on Tuesday.
Written advertisements for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity that are "publicized to a pool of potential applicants" are covered, including internal bulletin boards, internet and newspaper ads and printed flyers that are handed out at job fairs, according to the legislation.
Employers are required to post the minimum and maximum amounts they are willing to pay "the employer honestly believes at the time they are listing the job advertisement that they are willing to pay the successful applicant(s)," the memo says.
They cannot use vague language such as "$15 per hour and up" or "maximum $50,000 per year," it says. If the employer is not willing to negotiate within a range, it can simply state the amount the job pays.
Any employer with more than four employees must follow the guidelines of the New York City Human Rights Commission. The four employees include the owner of the company, and all four do not have to work in New York; as long as one is based in the city, the company is subject to the measure.
All employment agencies, regardless of their size, must include salaries in their postings. Temporary help firms are exempt, though the companies they match potential employees with must follow the law.
While New York City employers are now required to include salaries in written listings, they are not required to post a listing to make a hire.
They are also not required to provide extra information, such as the overtime pay rate or employee benefits.
Employers who violate the salary transparency requirements will have 30 days to correct their actions, through paying damages to affected employees, administering training and changing the listings. If it does not comply, an employer could be charged up to $250,000 in civil penalties.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-02T08:14:36+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/business-and-economy/2022-11-02/new-york-city-employers-are-now-required-to-post-salary-ranges-on-job-listings |
Actions by Facebook and its parent Meta during last year’s Gaza war violated the rights of Palestinian users to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, political participation and non-discrimination, a report commissioned by the social media company has found.
The report Thursday from independent consulting firm Business for Social Responsibility confirmed long-standing criticisms of Meta’s policies and their uneven enforcement as it relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: It found the company over-enforced rules when it came to Arabic content and under-enforced content in Hebrew.
It, however, did not find intentional bias at Meta, either by the company as a whole or among individual employees. The report’s authors said they found “no evidence of racial, ethnic, nationality or religious animus in governing teams” and noted Meta has “employees representing different viewpoints, nationalities, races, ethnicities, and religions relevant to this conflict.”
Rather, it found numerous instances of unintended bias that harmed the rights of Palestinian and Arabic-speaking users.
In response, Meta said it plans to implement some of the report’s recommendations, including improving its Hebrew-language “classifiers,” which help remove violating posts automatically using artificial intelligence.
“There are no quick, overnight fixes to many of these recommendations, as BSR makes clear,” the company based in Menlo Park, California, said in a blog post Thursday. “While we have made significant changes as a result of this exercise already, this process will take time — including time to understand how some of these recommendations can best be addressed, and whether they are technically feasible.”
Meta, the report confirmed, also made serious errors in enforcement. For instance, as the Gaza war raged last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a flash point in the conflict.
Meta, which owns Instagram, later apologized, explaining its algorithms had mistaken the third-holiest site in Islam for the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of the secular Fatah party.
The report echoed issues raised in internal documents from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen last fall, showing that the company’s problems are systemic and have long been known inside Meta.
A key failing is the lack of moderators in languages other than English, including Arabic — among the most common languages on Meta’s platforms.
For users in the Gaza, Syria and other Middle East regions marred by conflict, the issues raised in the report are nothing new.
Israeli security agencies and watchdogs, for instance, have monitored Facebook and bombarded it with thousands of orders to take down Palestinian accounts and posts as they try to crack down on incitement.
“They flood our system, completely overpowering it,” Ashraf Zeitoon, Facebook’s former head of policy for the Middle East and North Africa region, who left in 2017, told The Associated Press last year. “That forces the system to make mistakes in Israel’s favor.”
Israel experienced an intense spasm of violence in May 2021 — with weeks of tensions in east Jerusalem escalating into an 11-day war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The violence spread into Israel itself, with the country experiencing the worst communal violence between Jewish and Arab citizens in years.
In an interview this week, Israel’s national police chief, Kobi Shabtai, told the Yediot Ahronot daily that he believed social media had fueled the communal fighting. He called for shutting down social media if similar violence occurs again and said he had suggested blocking social media to lower the flames last year.
“I’m talking about fully shutting down the networks, calming the situation on the ground, and when it’s calm reactivating them,” he was quoted as saying. “We’re a democratic country, but there’s a limit.”
The comments caused an uproar and the police issued a clarification saying that his proposal was only meant for extreme cases. Omer Barlev, the Cabinet minister who oversees police, also said that Shabtai has no authority to impose such a ban.
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Associated Press reporter Josef Federman contributed from Jerusalem. | 2022-09-23T13:49:12+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/business/ap-business/ap-facebook-violated-rights-of-palestinian-users-report-finds/ |
Platform enables car OEMs to rapidly implement new services and features into vehicles
NEWTOWN, Pa. , Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, today announced a new "AosEdge" vehicle-to-cloud (V2C) platform that represents the next phase in the evolution of connected cars. The AosEdge platform, created in collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, provides a more efficient way to deliver in-vehicle software and simplifies how different software elements operate within the same environment, making it possible for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop true software defined vehicles. The platform combines EPAM's digital platform expertise with Renesas' embedded automotive software technology to provide a complete software infrastructure – from installation to operation – for vehicles connecting to the cloud.
"We're excited to expand what's possible in the connected automotive experience by offering a platform that helps automakers and third-party OEMs to seamlessly and securely interact with one another to deliver compelling, much desired digital vehicle experiences," said Alex Agizim, CTO, Automotive & Embedded Systems at EPAM. "As software releases and updates for vehicles become easier, we look forward to the many unique ideas that will be introduced to the automotive market. When the vehicle is software, the process of upgrading is streamlined—making it easier to keep pace with innovation and the evolving consumer appetite for next-gen digital experiences."
The development of the AosEdge platform stems from the growing need to create V2C platforms that are as reliable and seamless as today's smartphones. Due to complex vehicle connectivity requirements, most cars are unable to automatically receive software updates after they have come off the manufacturing line, making it difficult for these vehicles to take advantage of the latest safety features and services. With the new platform, these critical software updates will be delivered using a cloud-to-edge computing platform, similar to the way smartphones receive over-the-air (OTA) updates via the cloud.
"We developed the V2C platform by partnering with EPAM and leveraging our experience in helping OEMs around the world transform their E/E architectures," said Takeshi Fuse, Head of Business Development and Marketing, Automotive Solution Business Unit at Renesas. "We are confident that this platform will contribute to the growth of the automotive industry and our society by making people's lives easier."
AosEdge Platform
AosEdge is a V2C platform that transforms the way OEMs and service providers install and manage services or applications in vehicles. AosEdge consists of "AosCloud" on the cloud side provided by EPAM and "AosCore" on the vehicle side implemented in Renesas' R-Car SoC. The new platform has been proven to work with EPAM's cloud environment and Renesas' R-Car SoC for automotive applications. Therefore, OEMs and service providers only need to develop the software they want to deliver and continue to offer unique services to users.
AosEdge platform highlights include:
- Enables modern microservices software architecture for automotive core and value-added services, taking vehicles to the "edge computing" paradigm.
- Allows developers with little automotive knowledge to develop in-vehicle software, since it can be configured independently of the vehicle architecture.
- Offers customizable options since the system complies with many open standards, such as the Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS) and the publicly available vehicle source code.
- Satisfies automotive domain requirements that cannot be addressed by existing IoT and cloud solutions.
- Provides 24/7 support for managing, operating and using features, such as emergency assistance through EPAM.
- Supports any cloud environments (OEM cloud or public cloud).
- Applicable to non-vehicle applications.
Explore the AosEdge platform here: https://aoscloud.io.
See a demo of the platform at CES 2023, booth 4141.
Learn more about how EPAM helps automotive differentiate their business with innovative, software-defined vehicle solutions: https://www.epam.com/our-work/automotive-and-manufacturing.
ABOUT EPAM SYSTEMS
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services. Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting, and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for clients and communities around the world by powering better enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people, optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. In 2021, EPAM was added to the S&P 500 and included among the list of Forbes Global 2000 companies.
Selected by Newsweek as a 2021 and 2022 Most Loved Workplace, EPAM's global multi-disciplinary teams serve customers in more than 50 countries across six continents. As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on the Fortune 1000 and ranked four times as the top IT services company on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age's top 25 World's Largest Agency Companies for three consecutive years, and Consulting Magazine named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest Growing Firm.
Learn more at www.epam.com and follow EPAM on Twitter and LinkedIn.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release includes estimates and statements which may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the accuracy of which are necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. Our estimates and forward-looking statements are mainly based on our current expectations and estimates of future events and trends, which affect or may affect our business and operations. These statements may include words such as "may," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions. Those future events and trends may relate to, among other things, developments relating to the invasion of Ukraine, political and civil unrest or military action in the geographies where we conduct business and operate, developments relating to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, and the effect that they may have on our revenues, operations, access to capital, profitability and customer demand. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied include general economic conditions, the risk factors discussed in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and the factors discussed in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on or after the date of this press release, particularly under the headings "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe that these estimates and forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, they are subject to several risks and uncertainties and are made based on information currently available to us. EPAM undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities law.
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