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'Renfield'; Gino at the Movies
MILWAUKEE - After centuries of servitude, Dracula's tortured aide is ready to see if there's a life outside of his shadow. Gino Salomone talks with the director of ‘Renfield.’
‘Renfield’ Comes to theaters April 14.
MILWAUKEE - After centuries of servitude, Dracula's tortured aide is ready to see if there's a life outside of his shadow. Gino Salomone talks with the director of ‘Renfield.’
‘Renfield’ Comes to theaters April 14. | 2023-04-11T17:00:35+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/real-milwaukee/renfield-gino-at-the-movies |
Records: Capitol rioter plotted to kill federal agents
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Newly unsealed court documents show that a Tennessee man arrested for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection also conspired with another person to kill dozens of federal agents involved in the investigation.
More than 880 people have been charged with crimes related to the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department said. Earlier this year, Edward Kelley, 33, was one of many rioters arrested on charges of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol and assaulting an officer.
According to the FBI, Kelley later discussed plans with 26-year-old Austin Carter to kill law enforcement personnel who had worked in his criminal investigation, and made a list of targets. Court records show that a witness provided the list of 37 names to a local Tennessee police department on Tuesday.
Kelley and Carter discussed collecting information and plans to law enforcement officials on the list, which also included on the FBI’s Knoxville field office.
“You guys are taking them out at their office,” said Kelley, who was recorded by the unidentified witness on Wednesday. “What you and Austin need to do is recruit as many as you can, call who you need to, and you’re going to attack their office.”
When the witness asked if the attack was taking place at the Knoxville office, Kelley said yes.
Carter later told the witness that “this is the time, add up or put up” and “to definitely make sure you got everything racked, locked up and loaded.”
Attorneys for Kelley and Carter did not immediately return messages for comment.
Both Kelley and Carter made their appearance in court on Friday in Knoxville before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill E. McCook. They are charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
“Federal law enforcement agents put their lives on the line every day to protect the public,” U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III told WATE-TV on Friday. “Planning and threatening violence against them is among the most serious of crimes. It is absolutely unacceptable and will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted.”
The two men are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 3. Meanwhile, Carter’s detention hearing is scheduled for Dec. 21.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-17T06:33:49+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2022/12/17/records-capitol-rioter-plotted-kill-federal-agents/ |
JACKSON — Talking to self-identified Democrats in Teton County reveals a chameleon of a voting block.
That’s no surprise under the conditions.
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s latest 22-point polling deficit reported by the Casper Star-Tribune has been met with disparate reactions by potential crossover Democrats.
Some are digging their heels in to support her, while others are changing course.
October 2020 was the first time in recent memory registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Teton County.
The difference was 661 in the Democrats’ favor on election day in November 2020. Democrats had led Republicans since — until now.
The wave of party switchers started in June, County Clerk Maureen “Mo” Murphy said. As of July 1, Teton County is red again with 5,968 Republicans, 5,768 Democrats and 3,420 unaffiliated registered voters.
Since Jan. 1 around 865 people total in Teton County have changed parties, the overwhelming majority to Republican, Murphy said last week.
Most Democrats who spoke with the News&Guide for this story said that if they were switching it was to vote for Cheney.
Over the weekend, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee told CNN’s “State of the Union” that there was “no question” that potentially losing her job in the House of Representatives is worth telling the truth about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Cheney’s anecdotally slim chances didn’t change Joe Petrick’s resolve to support Wyoming’s lone representative in the U.S. House. Petrick was among a handful of prospective voters the News&Guide spoke with Monday at Wayne May Park, where locals gather weekly for meals from food trucks.
As a Democrat in Wyoming, the Teton County resident registered as a Republican to vote for Cheney for what he called her “radical integrity.” Plus, he said, he voted a few weeks ago before her poll numbers were national news.
Cheney stands up for what she believes in, he said, despite being “incentivized” by the Republican mainstream to do the opposite.
“You could ask if you matter in any election,” Petrick said.
Elaine Laviage, 81, is a 30-year Teton County resident and another lifelong Democrat who attended an event March 22 where Cheney appeared. When reached on the telephone this week she said she was spurred by Cheney’s opposition to former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, to switch parties for the first time.
In light of Trump, she said, liberal principles don’t matter.
Other Democrats see casting a ballot for Cheney as throwing away their vote.
“It doesn’t do any good,” said an older couple eating dinner beside the food trucks in May Park.
After switching parties many times they were focused locally on supporting incumbent County Assessor Melissa Shinkle in the Democratic primary and anyone against the bollards on Willow Street.
Some Democratic party leaders also are trying to look beyond the Cheney race and illuminate the remaining space where a Democrat voting as a Republican could be influential: the race for secretary of state.
Jackson Vice Mayor Arne Jorgensen and Teton County Democrat Chair Maggie Hunt will both vote in the Democratic primary, though they say they’ve spent a lot of time recently talking to all voters about the widely overlooked state position that oversees elections.
There are no Democrats running for secretary of state, so the primary “is the election,” Hunt said.
The two leading Republicans who would be in charge of Wyoming’s elections — state Sen. Tara Nethercott, of Cheyenne, and Rep. Chuck Gray, of Casper — have opposing views about the security of Wyoming’s 2020 election. Nethercott has stood with the 23 county clerks to say the election was fair. Gray has raised concerns about the election’s integrity and said he’d do more to restrict voting access.
Even if the Democratic turnout is scattered in the primary, it will likely take a unified turn in November.
“The Dems are fairly cohesive here,” Hunt said. With concern about abortion restrictions spread across parties, Hunt said, “I’ve had a couple of Republicans tell me they’re going to switch and vote Democrat in the general.”
Voters can switch parties up to and on the day of the election. That freedom has come under scrutiny by Wyoming Republicans when it’s cited as changing the outcome of a Republican race.
When Foster Friess lost to Gov. Mark Gordon in August, 2018, he suggested it was due to crossover voting and looked to fellow candidates to garner support for a ban.
Crossover voting bans have been resurrected more than once in Cheyenne, this year with a “change in party affiliation” bill that was endorsed by Trump and the state GOP but failed to receive a first reading vote in the House by deadline.
If Cheney were to win, Democratic party Chair Hunt said, there’s “no doubt” in her mind that Republicans will try to resurrect some type of crossover voting ban.
Rebecca Cloetta, a member of the Teton County GOP executive committee, said Wyomingites should have the right to cross over. She doesn’t approve, though, of early voting or absentee voting, which has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
“A lot can change in three weeks,” she said of early voting.
Cloetta plans to cast her vote for Trump-endorsed Cheney challenger Harriet Hageman but said it’s not the race she’s most interested in because she no longer thinks it’s close.
When asked if she thought the GOP would take a harder look at banning crossover voting if Cheney won, Cloetta said she’d rather not comment. The premise was a “moot point,” she said.
“Polls clearly show that Cheney’s dust,” Cloetta said.
In 2021, Hunt told KHOL she thought no one would be able to beat Cheney, Republican or Democrat. Now, she said, that’s changed.
As of July 1, there are 34,925 unaffiliated voters and 43,285 Democrats in Wyoming. Republicans outnumber Democrats 4.6-to-1. | 2022-07-30T12:53:49+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/republicans-outnumber-dems-again-in-teton-county/article_fb7e1206-f8e1-51e0-ac1c-8fc2fefdb982.html |
Dr. William F. Pickard understands how the ability to adapt to change can lead to long-term success. Standing as one of the nation’s most prominent business leaders, Dr. Pickard seeks to inspire the next generation with his new book, Surviving The Shift.
On Jan. 19, a capacity audience, mostly students from Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlanta, and Morris Brown, filled the NASA Auditorium at Spelman to hear a keynote and fireside chat from Dr. Pickard. He opened by sharing a speech about his humble beginnings in LaGrange, Georgia and the road he took to become a CEO of multiple enterprises. One of the primary keys to success is cultivating relationships.
“Relationships are critical,” Dr. Pickard told the audience at Spelman. “I would suggest you be nice to everyone you meet. Especially your roommate. Once you know your mission, get you a coalition. Be nice to people because relationships matter.”
Once key relationships are established, Dr. Pickard urged the audience to build teams through strategy.
“You need people who can make things happen,” he said. “You got to have a finder, minder, and a grinder. Once you find it, you have to have minders. That’s the MBA the CPA and all the people that mind the business on a day-to-day basis. But then there’s a third person. You got to have people who will show up on Monday…I don’t care how good you are, you have to have people everyday. You can not manage a McDonald’s by yourself. And that’s the same thing with manufacturing and casinos. To me, the most important thing we do are our people.”
Following the speech and fireside chat, Dr. Pickard signed copies of Surviving The Shift and spoke with several students who asked for advice.
He also spoke with ADW about the importance of giving back to HBCUs. “This is where I spend my time and my money,” Dr. Pickard said. “The potential is here and all of us have a gift…Don’t give up. If I can make money in America, anybody can make money in America.”
Prior to the book signing at Spelman, Dr. Pickard was honored by Morehouse with an oil painting that was commissioned in the school’s chapel. Dr. Pickard’s painting on hangs on the wall alongside paintings of prominent individuals such as Booker T. Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, President Barack Obama, Maynard Jackson, and Oprah, to name a few. | 2023-01-21T00:17:09+00:00 | atlantadailyworld.com | https://atlantadailyworld.com/2023/01/20/dr-william-f-pickard-delivers-powerful-speech-signs-copies-of-new-book-surviving-the-shift-at-spelman-college/ |
Donna Kelce redefines the meaning of what it means to be a football mom. With two sons in the NFL — Jason plays for the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis plays for the Kansas City Chiefs — the proud mama cheers on both of her boys throughout the season. Now, though, Kelce faces a wonderful challenge. Both of her sons are playing for the NFL championship at Super Bowl LVII in Arizona on Sunday, Feb. 12.
It is the first time a mother has had two sons facing off against one another at the Super Bowl. And, this mama wasted time sharing her pride and joy on Twitter over her sons’ accomplishments following the AFC and NFC championship games wrapped up on Jan. 29.
#HeightsHighandUCBearcatSuperBowl
— Donna Kelce (@dkelce1) January 30, 2023
The long hashtag represents the high school (Cleveland Heights) and college (University of Cincinnati) both players attended. Now, they both have the added shared distinction of a Super Bowl appearance.
Many fans and even members of the media have given the big game a new nickname: the Kelce Bowl.
Shortly after the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals to win the AFC championship, Travis Kelce responded to questions about the history-making matchup between brothers on Super Bowl Sunday.
“My mom can’t lose,” Travis said during the post-game press conference. “I’ll just leave it at that. It’s going to be an amazing feeling playing against him [Jason].”
Donna Kelce is no stranger to having to cheer on two sons and their respective teams at the same time. She regularly wears her Kansas City Chiefs/Philadelphia Eagles jersey on game days to make sure she supports both of her sons. Kelce recently showed off her customized jersey on her Twitter account.
Made it to KC @heartinPhillyat8:15 pic.twitter.com/zFY4ub4GCt
— Donna Kelce (@dkelce1) January 21, 2023
The possibility of the Kelce brothers facing off in the Super Bowl has been a “what if” scenario for a while. Ed Kelce, the proud dad of the two NFL superstars, joked with Fox 8’s P.J. Ziegler that he was grateful that his sons would never be on the field at the same time.
“Thank God they’re both on offense and that probably rules out any fist fights,” he said with a laugh during the interview, which Ziegler tweeted.
Proud parents! Ed and Donna Kelce’s sons will play on NFL Championship weekend on different teams in different cities. So, where will the Kelce’s be? @dkelce1 @tkelce @JasonKelce pic.twitter.com/DT61ocVlbZ
— P.J. ZIEGLER (@PJFOX8) January 24, 2023
Mom has a little different perspective on the first-of-its-kind, sibling rivalry championship matchup.
“It’s your hopes and dreams coming true but it’s your worst fears,” Donna concluded in the same interview. “You know somebody’s going to go home a loser and neither one of them lose very well.”
Fortunately, both Kelce brothers already have a Super Bowl ring. So, maybe the sting of defeat for one of them won’t be quite so bad. We’ll have to watch and see which brother and his teammates take home NFL’s top prize.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-01-31T19:03:39+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/donna-kelce-is-the-first-mom-to-have-2-sons-playing-against-each-other-in-the-super-bowl |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Idemitsu Renewables, the U.S.-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd., announced today it has completed funding of tax equity and debt financing for its 73 megawatt Luciana Solar Project in Tulare County, California.
Morgan Stanley Renewables Inc. provided the tax equity. Rabobank provided the debt financing.
The 73 megawatt Luciana project began commercial operation in May 2022, and is owned and operated by Idemitsu Renewables. This project adds to the company's operating assets within California and Colorado regions and complements the extensive development pipeline spanning WECC, PJM, MISO, and CAISO service areas.
"This project continues our team's legacy of execution from greenfield, financing, construction to operations of utility scale solar projects. Given the dynamics of the last few years, this project is a testament to the expertise and dedication of the team. Securing financing from top-tier financial partners, Morgan Stanley and Rabobank was critical to the success of this project," said Cary Vandenberg, CEO of Idemitsu Renewables Americas.
"We are delighted to partner again with Idemitsu on the Luciana project, and to continue supporting the transition of the U.S. energy industry with more renewable solar electricity generation," said Jorge Iragorri, Head of the Alternative Financing Group at Morgan Stanley.
"We are pleased to have supported Idemitsu Renewables on this milestone transaction that will provide clean energy to Northern California and look forward to partnering further with Idemitsu as they expand their portfolio," said Greg Hutton, Managing Director and Regional Head of Project Finance, Americas at Rabobank.
The renewable power generated by Luciana will serve Northern California generating clean and affordable power equivalent to the needs of over 20,000 homes, furthering its commitment to being a leader in the U.S. renewable energy space.
About Idemitsu Renewables
Idemitsu Renewables, the U.S. based renewable energy subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd., is a leading solar and energy storage developer and independent power producer. The company acquires, develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar power generation plants throughout North America and has offices in California and Nevada. Learn more at www.idemitsurenewables.com.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state.
After the farewells, Javier Flores López and Jose Luis Vásquez Guzmán began their trek north to the U.S-Mexico border and toward their final destination in Ohio, where construction jobs and other work awaited.
Flores López is now missing, his family said, while Vásquez Guzmán is hospitalized in San Antonio after surviving stifling heat in a truck-trailer near the Texas city that killed at least 53 people in the deadliest smuggling episode ever in the U.S.
It was not the first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border for Flores López, now in his mid-30s, who left Cerro Verde years ago and went to Ohio, where his father and a brother live.
He was back home to see his wife and three small children briefly, said a cousin, Francisco López Hernández. Vásquez Guzmán, 32, decided to go with his cousin for his first trip across the border and hoped to reach his oldest brother who is in Ohio as well.
While everyone knew the risks, countless people from Cerro Verde had made it safely across the U.S.-Mexico border with the help of smugglers, so it came as a shock, López Hernández said, to learn Vásquez Guzmán was among 67 people packed into the truck found abandoned Monday near auto salvage yards. The family believes Flores López was, too, but they are still awaiting confirmation.
The driver along with two other men from Mexico remained in custody as the investigation continues.
Officials had potential identifications on 37 of the victims as of Wednesday morning, pending verification with authorities in other countries, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The dead include 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute.
Identifying them has been challenging because some were found without identification documents and in one case carried a stolen ID. Remote villages, like Cerro Verde, have little to no phone service to reach family members and fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by the governments involved.
Cerro Verde is a community of about 60 people that has largely been abandoned by the young. Those who remain work earning meager livings weaving sun hats, mats, brooms and other items from palm leaves. Many live on as little as 30 pesos a day (less than $2).
“The truth is people leave here out of necessity,” said Felicitos García, who owns a small grocery store in nearby San Miguel Huautla, adding that he saw the two men about two weeks ago. “Life is tough here. People survive by growing their own crops like corn, beans and wheat. Sometimes the land gives and sometimes it doesn’t, when the rains arrive late. There is nothing in place for people to have other resources. People live one day to the next.”
Vásquez Guzmán’s mother, who is trying to get a visa to see her son in Texas, raised him and his three siblings alone after their father died when Vásquez Guzmán was 10, García said. She now is the only one of the family left in Cerro Verde. Vásquez Guzmán left when he was 18 and joined the Mexican military.
His oldest brother, Eloy, went to the United States just over a year ago and settled in Ohio, said López Hernández, who grew up on the neighboring ranch.
“I imagine that he commented to him about how the work situation was and everything and how to make more money,” López Hernández said. “I imagine he called him so that he would come over, too, to have a better life. That’s the draw for why he was going.”
Vásquez Guzmán, who had been living in Mexico City the past six years, returned to Cerro Verde only to say goodbye to his mother, López Hernández said.
He knew it was an expensive and risky trip. López Hernández said most people rely on those who have made it to the U.S. to send them money for the journey, which usually costs around $9,000.
“There are a lot of risks but for those who are lucky, the fortune is there, to be able to work, earn a living” he said.
With so many leaving and heading to the United States, it is easy to find a smuggler and until now the people have gotten across safely, López Hernández said.
“I don’t know in this case if they changed or what happened, why they were abandoned,” he said.
López Hernández, who also has a brother living in Ohio, has thought about joining him. But he said family, work, school and other responsibilities have kept him in Mexico.
On Sunday night, he asked his uncle if he had heard from Vásquez Guzmán. He told him he was in Texas.
“I told him, ’How cool, that’s he’s trying hard and we’ll see him on his return,’” López Hernández replied before they lost their phone signal.
He later learned from the Internet about the tragedy.
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Watson reported from San Diego. | 2022-06-29T22:39:45+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-top-headlines/mexican-migrant-in-texas-tragedy-hoped-to-reach-kin-in-ohio/ |
Woman arrested after children found in hot car, drenched in sweat
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - Wisconsin police say a woman has been arrested after two children were found left alone in a hot car.
The Madison Police Department reports officers were called Monday afternoon to the East Towne Mall.
Authorities said they located a vehicle that was illegally parked along with two children inside drenched in sweat.
According to police, officers determined the temperature inside the car was warmer than outside.
Emergency crews reported the kids did not require medical attention, but child protective services were notified.
An unidentified 28-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the incident and is facing child neglect charges, Madison police said.
Copyright 2023 WMTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-12T19:43:55+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/04/12/woman-arrested-after-children-found-hot-car-drenched-sweat/ |
Woodforest continues to grow its banking services across Florida, adding to a total of 760+ branches nationwide.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodforest National Bank® (Woodforest) headquartered in Montgomery County, Texas, with 760+ branches nationwide, recently opened its tenth Florida branch in the city of Orlando.
The new retail Woodforest branch is located inside Walmart® at 2500 S. Kirkman Rd. Woodforest now has 10 branches across Florida. The new in-store branch offers full-service banking with lobby services and two ATMs for customer convenience.
"Our new branch in Orlando complements nine other branches located in major cities of Florida. Our local retail team is excited to support customers with trusted and convenient banking services in this thriving city," said Julie Mayrant, President and Chief Retail Officer, Woodforest National Bank.
About Woodforest National Bank
Celebrating over 40 years of community banking service, Woodforest National Bank has successfully stood among the strongest community banks in the nation, proudly offering outstanding customer service since 1980. Woodforest currently operates over 760 branches in 17 states across the United States and is an Outstanding CRA rated institution. For more information about Woodforest National Bank, please visit www.woodforest.com. Member FDIC.
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(NEXSTAR) – The stage is set for Super Bowl LVII – the Kansas City Chiefs will battle the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday at State Farm Stadium. The competitors will also be joined by Rihanna who will perform during the halftime show.
Selection of performers is always a big decision for the year’s biggest audience and the public is rarely privy to what factors go into the final choice. While the National Football League doesn’t go into details or generally confirm or deny artists who are considered, it hasn’t stopped musicians from revealing when they’ve been offered a headlining gig.
These are the performers who reportedly had the chance to take the stage and chose not to.
Adele
Vocal powerhouse Adele claims she did but the NFL says she didn’t.
“First of all, I’m not doing the Super Bowl,” Adele said at a Los Angeles concert. “I mean, come on, that show is not about music. And I don’t really – I can’t dance or anything like that. They were very kind. They did ask me but I said no.”
The next day, both the NFL and Pepsi released a statement saying while they’re “big fans” of Adele: “We have had conversations with several artists… however, we have not at this point extended a formal offer to Adele or anyone else. We are focused on putting together a fantastic show for Houston and we look forward to revealing that in good time.”
Jay-Z
Billionaire rapper Jay-Z said in a 2020 New York Times interview that he turned down the show because of requests by the NFL on surprise appearances, saying he was pressured to have Rihanna and Kanye West perform “Run This Town.”
“Of course I would have,” said Jay-Z, who also founded the Roc Nation entertainment company. “But I said, ‘No, you get me.’ That is not how you go about it, telling someone that they’re going to do the halftime show contingent on who they bring. I said forget it. It was a principle thing.”
NYT reports New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft, who serves as chairman of the NFL media committee, later approached Jay-Z to partner with Roc Nation on development of future shows. Super Bowl LIV’s halftime show featured a headline-grabbing performance by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, a Roc Nation client.
As part of the partnership, Jay-Z joined a new NFL campaign called “Inspire Change,” which focused on “education and economic advancement; police and community relations; and criminal justice reform,” according to the organization.
Despite the inclusion of social justice in the deal, the partnership wasn’t totally celebrated, especially by some in the Black community. Journalist Chris Williamson tweeted: “How do we stop racism, systematic oppression, and police brutality? Jay-Z and the NFL: Let’s sell T-shirts and throw concerts. That’ll really shake up the system.”
Despite never appearing on the stage, Jay-Z’s household is already well represented at the show. Superstar wife Beyoncé headlined the show in 2013 and made a guest appearance in Coldplay’s show in 2016.
Pink
Pop star Pink, real name Alecia Moore, told Billboard in 2019 that she turned down the halftime show because of its treatment of Kaepernick.
“I’d probably take a knee and get carried out,” Pink said.
The “Get This Party Started” singer said fear of being criticized for agreeing to it was also a factor, saying, “Everyone who does it gets so persecuted.”
Cardi B
Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B said she also declined the show in support of Kaepernick, but said she had “mixed feelings” about it, Associated Press reports.
“My husband [rapper Offset], he loves football. His kids play football. It’s really hard for him. … He really wants to go to the Super Bowl, but he can’t go to the Super Bowl, because he’s got to stand for something,” Cardi told AP.
She added that Kaepernick “sacrificed his job for us” and that she would “sacrifice a lot of money” to back him up.
Meanwhile, comedian Amy Schumer said in 2018 she was refusing to appear in a Super Bowl commercial in solidarity with Kaepernick. Schumer said in an Instagram post: “Hitting the NFL with the advertisers is the only way to really hurt them. I know opposing the NFL is like opposing the NRA. Very tough, but don’t you want to be proud of how you’re living?”” | 2023-02-12T03:43:45+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/the-big-game/these-artists-reportedly-declined-super-bowl-halftime/ |
UCSC has a housing shortage! Let’s graduate 1/3 more students with the same infrastructure. UCSC is one of the 8 of 10 UC campuses on the quarter system? Campuses adopted this system because there would be four full quarters of classes offered each year rather than two semesters with summers mostly free. One reason was to provide learning for more students in the same time period than the semester tradition — roughly four students could graduate in four years compared to just three with the same housing requirements.
Oh! Will our kids really attend school some summers? But they’re not essential for the farm so let’s move forward. Nor should maintenance be disrupted without quiet summers. Transitions are difficult but sometimes warranted.
— Dom Massaro, Santa Cruz
The Sentinel welcomes your letters to the editor. Letters should be short, no more than 150 words. We do not accept anonymous letters. Letter-writers should include their full name as well as a street address and telephone number. We don’t publish those details in the newspaper, but need the information for verification purposes. Occasionally, we reject letters simply because we’ve had so many on the same subject. Submit your letters online at www.santacruzsentinel.com/submit-letters. | 2022-08-19T13:03:07+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/08/19/letter-ucsc-housing-use-all-four-quarters-for-students/ |
How to Watch the Twins vs. Angels Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for May 20
Published: May. 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Louie Varland will be starting for the Minnesota Twins when they take on Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday at 10:07 PM ET.
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Twins vs. Angels Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, May 20, 2023
- Time: 10:07 PM ET
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Location: Anaheim, California
- Venue: Angel Stadium of Anaheim
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Twins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Twins' 61 home runs rank seventh in Major League Baseball.
- Minnesota is 14th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .405 this season.
- The Twins have a team batting average of .229 this season, which ranks 25th among MLB teams.
- Minnesota has scored 211 runs (4.7 per game) this season, which ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Twins have an on-base percentage of .308 this season, which ranks 24th in the league.
- The Twins are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking last with an average of 9.7 strikeouts per game.
- Minnesota has a 9.9 K/9 rate this season as a staff, which is best in baseball.
- Minnesota has pitched to a 3.43 ERA this season, which ranks third in baseball.
- The Twins have a combined 1.169 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-lowest in MLB.
Twins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Twins will send Varland (1-0) to the mound for his fifth start this season.
- The right-hander gave up three earned runs in 6 1/3 innings pitched on Sunday in his last outing, a matchup with the Chicago Cubs.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his third quality start in a row.
- Varland has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
Twins Schedule
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Thursday it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program costs.
The agency “is looking at that, and is still going through the process,” spokeswoman Beth Lynk said of a potential reduction in premiums, as Medicare announced its final coverage decision for Aduhelm, a drug whose benefits have been widely questioned in the medical community.
Officials said Medicare will keep coverage restrictions imposed earlier on the $28,000-a-year medication, paying for Aduhelm only when it’s used in clinical trials approved by the Food and Drug Administration or the National Institutes of Health.
The projected cost of Aduhelm was a major driver behind a $22 increase in Medicare’s Part B premium this year, boosting it to $170.10 a month. That price hike is already being paid by more than 56 million Medicare recipients signed up for the program’s outpatient coverage benefit. Lawmakers have called for a rollback and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra already directed Medicare to reassess.
Thursday’s coverage decision illustrates the impact that a single medication can have on the budgets of individuals and taxpayers. It comes as legislation to authorize Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices remains stuck in the Senate, part of President Joe Biden’s stalled social and climate agenda. That’s left Democrats with nothing to show on their promises to cut prescription drug costs, unless they can overcome internal disagreements.
Medicare’s determination on Aduhelm included an important caveat. Officials said that if it or any other similar drug in its class were to receive what’s called “traditional” FDA approval, then Medicare would open up broader coverage for patients. Such approval is granted when a medication shows a clear clinical benefit.
That was not the case with Aduhelm. It received what’s known as “accelerated” approval last year because of its potential promise. But manufacturer Biogen is required to conduct a follow-up study to definitively answer whether Aduhelm truly slows the progression of Alzheimer’s. If that study is successful, FDA would grant full approval.
That would also open up Medicare coverage.
Dr. Lee Fleisher, chief medical officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said “there will be quick access for Medicare beneficiaries” for Alzheimer’s drugs that receive the traditional FDA approval, after demonstrating a clear benefit.
Aduhelm hit the market as the first new Alzheimer’s medication in nearly two decades. Initially priced at $56,000 a year, it was expected to quickly become a blockbuster drug, generating billions for Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen.
But although the company slashed the price in half — to $28,000 a year — Aduhelm’s rollout has been disastrous.
Pushback from politicians, physicians and insurers left the company with just $3 million in sales from Aduhelm last year. Doctors have been hesitant to prescribe it, given weak evidence that the drug slows the progression of Alzheimer’s. Insurers have blocked or restricted coverage over the drug’s high price tag and uncertain benefit.
The CMS decision means that for Medicare to pay, patients taking Aduhelm will have to be part of clinical trials to assess the drug’s safety and effectiveness in slowing the progression of early-stage dementia.
Tamara Syrek Jensen, head of CMS’s coverage and analysis unit, said “it’s status quo” as far as limitations the agency initially imposed on Aduhelm in January.
The limits stayed on despite a massive lobbying push by the Alzheimer’s Association to change Medicare’s position, including outreach to members of Congress, online advertising and social media campaigns directed at the agency.
The association, the largest group of its kind, has received contributions from drugmakers, including Biogen.
The group’s CEO said he was “very disappointed” after reviewing Medicare’s decision.
“Denying access to FDA-approved Alzheimer’s treatments is wrong,” Harry Johns said in a statement. “At no time in history has CMS imposed such drastic barriers to access FDA-approved treatments for people facing a fatal disease.”
Aduhelm has sparked controversy since the FDA approved it against the recommendation of outside advisers.
The medicine, administered intravenously in a doctor’s office, hasn’t been shown to reverse or significantly slow Alzheimer’s. But the FDA said its ability to reduce clumps of plaque in the brain is likely to slow dementia.
Many experts say there is little evidence to support that claim. And a federal watchdog and congressional investigators are conducting separate probes into how the FDA reviewed the medication.
Alzheimer’s is a progressive neurological disease with no known cure. The vast majority of U.S. patients are old enough to qualify for Medicare, which covers more than 60 million people, including those 65 and older, and disabled people under 65.
The reason Aduhelm falls under Medicare’s outpatient benefit, and not its pharmacy drug program, is that it’s given in a doctor’s office. Beneficiary premiums are set to cover about 25% of the cost of outpatient care. | 2022-04-08T21:24:56+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/medicare-weighs-premium-cut-after-limiting-alzheimers-drug/ |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019, according to a federal report Wednesday.
The amounts spilled and dumped in wastewater from drilling rigs and production platforms rose, but — if the disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill isn't counted — the increase is mainly because there is more work offshore, said the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
“It is evident that regulatory changes, advances in science and technology, and (for the most part) attention to safety would have helped to make North American waters less polluted with oil” without the Deepwater Horizon spill, the report said.
But the BP well blew, killing 11 people and spewing millions of gallons (kiloliters) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana over months. Another big contributor during the past decade was the nation's longest-running oil spill, also off Louisiana.
The 497-page report was written by an international committee of academic and industry experts and reviewed by many others.
“Overall, I think they have done a very comprehensive job,” said Anthony Knap, director of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University, who was not an author or reviewer.
Like a report released in 2003, this one — “Oil in the Sea IV: Inputs, Fates, and Effects” — said that oil in runoff, largely from cars and cities, is the biggest source of ocean oil pollution, with natural seeps second and spills in third place.
But hard data on oil in rivers is so scarce and the range of possible amounts so huge that — although the report put the figure from the U.S. about 20 times the earlier estimate — it couldn’t say whether there was an actual increase.
Increases in urban land area, population and vehicle ownership make an increase “plausible ... but it is unclear by how much,” the report said.
“One of the big findings is in general we do not have adequate data,” report committee chair Kirsi K. Tikka, of Ardmore Shipping and Pacific Basin Shipping, said in a phone interview Tuesday from London.
Natural seeps of oil and natural gas from the ocean floor were estimated at nearly 30.8 million gallons (116,500 kiloliters) a year. That's about 60% of the 1990s estimate, but the change is because recent estimates of seeps in the Gulf of Mexico and off California are more accurate, Tikka said.
“We have more techniques to measure the seeps,” but those two areas are the only ones with data, she said.
The spill data is the most accurate part of the report, Tikka said. “As you probably know, even on large oil spills you never have exact numbers," she added, “but those are the best we have available.”
Spills from tanker ships fell from an average of 1.6 million gallons (6,175 kiloliters) a year in the last decade of the 1900s to 61,600 gallons (230 kiloliters) in the decade just past. Over the same period, pipeline spills went from nearly 585,000 gallons (2,210 kiloliters) a year to just under 117,000 gallons (440 kiloliters).
Laws and regulations after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 near its namesake Alaska town account for much of the difference in tanker spills, Tikka said.
Among other things, she noted, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 phased in a requirement for double-hulled tankers in U.S. waters, and other countries and international bodies followed suit.
Increased inspection and maintenance accounts for the reduction in pipeline spills, she said.
Spills from offshore oil drilling and production rose sevenfold over the period, to about 338,600 gallons (1,280 kiloliters) a year. And oil in well wastewater was estimated at about 2 million gallons (7,900 kiloliters) a year — about 2.5 times the estimate for the 1990s.
The wastewater oil is likely an overestimate, Tikka said. Oil companies report the total amount of “produced water,” but not the amount of oil it held, so the report used the highest allowable percentage. “Most likely the levels are less,” she said, adding that both figures reflect increased drilling and production.
Without Deepwater Horizon, Tikka said in an email, “spillage per unit of production has decreased by 65% since the last ... report, but remained relatively constant in the last 20 years."
Texas A&M's Knap said in an email, “Just like discharges from ships, operators are far more diligent than they were in the past so a straight line from number of platforms to more oil is not a given.
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TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Thursday, January 12, 2023
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National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
TXZ180-132215-
Tyler-
Including the cities of Town Bluff, Fred, Hillister, Ivanhoe,
Spurger, Warren, and Woodville
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers in the morning, then a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Showers likely. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ201-132215-
Hardin-
Including the cities of Lumberton and Silsbee
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance
of showers in the morning, then partly sunny with a chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs
in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Showers likely. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening. Cooler with lows around 50. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ215-132215-
Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Temperature rising into the
lower 50s after midnight. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers in the morning, then a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ216-132215-
Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Temperature rising into the upper
40s after midnight. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs around 70.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the mid 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
$$
TXZ259-132215-
Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers in the morning, then a chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning.
Showers likely. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ260-132215-
Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 30s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature around 60.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ261-132215-
Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Not as cool with highs around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs
around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely.
Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ262-132215-
Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
329 AM CST Fri Jan 13 2023
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Not as cool with highs in the upper 60s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and not as cool. Near steady
temperature in the lower 60s.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 60. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers after
midnight. Cooler with lows around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
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- FDA grants Priority Review designation with PDUFA date in the first half of 2023 -
BOSTON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chiesi Global Rare Diseases, a business unit of Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., an international research-focused healthcare Group (Chiesi Group), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) and granted Priority Review designation for velmanase alfa, the company's investigational enzyme replacement therapy for the proposed treatment of alpha-mannosidosis. The FDA set an action date in the first half of 2023 under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA).
"People who are living with rare diseases can count on our long-term commitment to research and innovation as evidenced by the progress we have made in advancing our development program in alpha-mannosidosis to a BLA filing," said Giacomo Chiesi, Head of Chiesi Global Rare Diseases. "Alpha-mannosidosis is an under recognized and progressive disease, and there may be many patients who are undiagnosed and untreated. The current management of alpha-mannosidosis is largely focused on treatment of the various symptoms. We believe that our investigational enzyme replacement therapy has the potential to address the cause of the disease and look forward to working closely with the FDA throughout its review process."
Alpha-mannosidosis is an ultra-rare genetic disorder that begins in childhood and progresses through adulthood. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-mannosidase that results in the body's cells being unable to properly break down certain groups of complex sugars. The buildup of sugars can affect many parts of the body's organs and systems including the central nervous system. Effects of the disease vary significantly from person to person and progress over time. Symptoms may change as a patient gets older and can include recurrent chest and ear infections, hearing loss, distinctive facial features, muscle weakness, skeletal and joint abnormalities, visual abnormalities, or cognitive abnormalities. The prevalence of alpha-mannosidosis is approximately 1-9/1,000,000 worldwide.
"As someone who knows personally how devastating alpha-mannosidosis can be, this is an important milestone toward a potential first treatment option that addresses the root cause of the disease and is bringing patients, parents, families and caregivers hope for a better future," said Mark Stark, treasurer at the International Society for Mannosidosis & Related Disorders (ISMRD) and father of a son living with alpha-mannosidosis. "ISMRD is pleased to be collaborating with Chiesi in their efforts to address a serious and significant unmet medical need in the alpha-mannosidosis community and look forward to further updates on their clinical development program."
Velmanase alfa is a recombinant form of human alpha-mannosidase intended to provide or supplement natural alpha-mannosidase, an enzyme that helps with the degradation of mannose–rich oligosaccharides to prevent their accumulation in various tissues in the body. In 2018, Chiesi Group received marketing authorisation from the European Commission for Lamzede® (velmanase alfa) for the treatment of non-neurological manifestations in patients with mild to moderate alpha‑mannosidosis.
Priority Review is granted to therapies that the FDA determines have the potential to provide significant improvements in the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of serious conditions. This designation shortens the FDA review period following the acceptance of the BLA compared to a standard review.
Chiesi Global Rare Diseases is a business unit of the Chiesi Group established in February 2020 and focused on research and development of treatments for rare and ultra-rare disorders. The Global Rare Diseases unit works in collaboration with Chiesi Group to harness the full resources and capabilities of our global network to bring innovative new treatment options to people living with rare diseases, many of whom have limited or no treatments available. The unit is also a dedicated partner with global leaders in patient advocacy, research and patient care. For more information visit www.chiesirarediseases.com.
Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceuticals and healthcare group with over 85 years' experience, operating in 30 countries with more than 6,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people's quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative therapeutic solutions in its three focus areas: AIR (products and services that promote respiration, from new-born to adult populations), RARE (treatment for patients with rare and ultra-rare diseases) and CARE (products and services that support specialty care and consumer-facing self-care). The Group's Research and Development centre is based in Parma and works alongside 6 other important research and development hubs in France, the U.S., Canada, China, the UK, and Sweden to pursue its pre-clinical, clinical, and regulatory programmes. In 2018 Chiesi has changed its legal status to a Benefit Corporation, according to the law in Italy, USA and, more recently, in France, by incorporating common benefit objectives into its bylaws, to generate value for its business, for the society and the environment. Since 2019, Chiesi has been the world's largest B Corp certified pharmaceutical group. B Corps are global leaders convinced to leverage business as a force for good. Moreover, as a Benefit Corporation, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. is required by law to report annually in a transparent way about its progress in achieving the common benefits objectives it has set forward. The Group is committed to becoming carbon neutral by the end of 2035.
For more information, please visit www.chiesi.com.
Chiesi Global Rare Diseases Media Contact
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Berry & Company Public Relations
1-212-253-8881
jurban@berrypr.com
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Cinemaude at Ace DTLA, curated by TeaTime Pictures, will offer four individual screenings that highlight the nuance and nostalgia of love
LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO: Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, maude and TeaTime Pictures
WHAT: Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles alongside modern intimacy brand maude, today announce the launch of a limited series of film screenings curated by TeaTime Pictures Co-Founders Dakota Johnson and Ro Donnelly, commencing Thursday, August 4th. The screenings will take place every Thursday evening throughout August 2022 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, with programming from notable writers, directors, critics, and cast members. The series hinges on firsts: first loves, new beginnings, flings that carry from day to night, and will include movies ranging from coming-of-age classics about young romance to films that depict how relationships change and grow through life. Net profits from ticket sales will go to SIECUS, an organization that advances sex education.
"TeaTime is excited to curate a month of movies for Cinemaude. These are some of our favorites, and seeing them in a theater is a true treat." – Dakota Johnson, TeaTime Pictures Co-Founder
Screenings are set to include:
- Mustang, 2015, directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (8/4) - Tickets
- Waves, 2019, directed by Trey Edward Shults (8/11) - Tickets
- Tangerine, 2015, directed by Sean Baker (8/18) - Tickets
- Babyteeth, 2019, directed by Shannon Murphy (8/25) - Tickets
All attendees will receive a complimentary beverage from exclusive beverage sponsor Ghia, along with a custom film poster. As an extension of the partnership, maude will hold a pop-up in the Ace Hotel retail space in the hotel lobby, selling sex essentials like their best-selling vibrators, massage candles, and lubricants. The pop-up also runs for the month of August.
WHERE: The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles; 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
WHEN: Every Thursday in August: August 4; August 11; August 18; and August 25, 2022
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 7:00pm
Tickets available via Ace Hotel website
A modern sexual wellness brand of thoughtfully-made intimacy essentials for self and partner-care, built on quality, simplicity and inclusivity, on a mission to make intimacy better for all people. Launched in April of 2018, maude was founded by Eva Goicochea after successful careers in healthcare legislation and brand strategy. She is one of only 10 Latinx women to raise over $10M in funding—making maude one of the most VC-backed sexual wellness personal care companies. In the four years since launch, maude has been internationally recognized—having been featured in 1100+ pieces of press in over 25 countries. In 2020, actress Dakota Johnson joined maude as a Co-Creative Director and investor. Maude is available in 35 countries across North America, Europe, and Australia and in retailers such as Sephora, Nordstrom, Saks, and Urban Outfitters.
Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles debuted in 2014 in the ornate, 14-story Spanish Gothic office tower and flagship Theatre of United Artists, the maverick film studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith. Built in 1927, the structure was lovingly restored by Ace and Commune to enliven its historical soul — where it now stands as a spiritual anchor at the heart of the Broadway Theater District's vibrant modern renaissance.
Founded by Dakota Johnson and Ro Donnelly, TeaTime is an independent production company and curatorial platform that embraces the eternal romance of art as escapism.
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SOURCE Maude | 2022-07-27T17:05:16+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/07/27/partnership-with-dakota-johnsons-teatime-pictures-ace-hotel-downtown-los-angeles-maude-announce-monthlong-series-film-screenings-historic-theatre-ace-dtla/ |
On a Tuesday afternoon in New York City, Bob the Drag Queen surveys the bolts of colorful glittering fabric lining the walls at Spandex House, a fabric store in the Garment District.
It's an old haunt of his from when he was starting his career in drag back in 2009, inspired by the first season of the competitive reality show RuPaul's Drag Race.
Seven years later, Bob won Season 8 of the same show, and his career skyrocketed. He's made podcasts, TV shows, an EP, and amassed 2.8 million TikTok followers. He has been preparing to join Madonna on her "Celebration" tour, which has just been postponed after she was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.
But the star of Bob's career has risen in tandem with the popularity of drag across the American mainstream, and with it, a conservative pushback that has grown exponentially in recent years.
In parts of America today, a drag performance is viewed as an inherently political act, and Bob is no stranger to the fear and vitriol his existence brings out of some people. He grew up in a series of small towns in the South, and toured the country multiple times as a drag queen. Yet he has never shied away from bringing all of himself everywhere he goes, regardless of the political climate.
Walking through Spandex House, we ask Bob to pick out a fabric that he might have used back in 2009 when he first started performing. He pulls out a bolt of neon yellow fabric criss-crossed with black diamonds and dotted yellow and black lines.
When we suggest it looks like "scottish tartan meets a caution tape," Bob disagrees, saying it's more of a checker mixed with argyle, "Because tartan would be more squares, and these are diamonds."
Nowadays most of Bob's looks are made by other people he says are "much more capable" than him. But he adds that a basic proficiency in sewing is a necessity for starting out in drag.
"If you want custom clothing, and you can't afford it, then you'd better learn how to make it," he says. Bob was more of a DIY queen in those early days, seeking out deals in bargain fabric shops across the city. He would hunt for discount fabric for a dollar per yard and bags of mystery scraps in weekly special deals across the city.
Today, Bob can still pull together an outfit if he needs to. Fans of the Drag Race recap show Pit Stop likely already know about Bob's love of a black and white pattern. He walks us over to a few bolts of houndstooth. "I had, I think, like 14 outfits made out of houndstooth that I bought from right here in this store."
Later, we find a table to sit at in Bryant Park, coincidentally right by the corner where Bob was arrested years ago. He had been part of a group that was taken in by police more than a decade ago for blocking traffic in a protest for marriage equality in New York state. As he tells it, once they were released, his drag daughter Honey La Bronx turned around on their way out and asked to keep the Polaroid authorities took of each of them on the street as a field mugshot. That photo from that arrest is the album cover for his debut EP, Gay Barz.
"What you can't see in the photo is that ... my breasts are made of cashews, I have a bagel under my wig, and I have a CLIF bar under each hip pad," he says. Unsure of how long it would take to get out of jail once arrested, Bob had brought snacks.
That kind of activism and humor is always present in Bob's drag. In the HBO show We're Here, Bob co-hosts a one-night-only drag show in small towns across America with fellow queens Eureka O'Hara and Shangela Laquifa Wadley.
"There are definitely lots of stares and threats, aggression, foul language that we get when we go into these towns, which doesn't shock me because I grew up in a small town," he says. "I hate to say that I'm so used to it. I'm like, 'Yeah it's just kind of part of being a queer person in America.'"
The tour with Madonna is scheduled to visit Tennessee, which recently passed a law banning drag performances, although it was later struck down by a federal judge who deemed it unconstitutional. Either way, Bob won't let that affect his decision to do drag in places it's been politicized.
"I think that it's important for queer people in Nashville, especially young ones, or people who are afraid in general, to see that like it's OK to go forward, it's OK to not be afraid to be seen. I think there's a lot of laws that want us to hide or go back into the closet or just stop existing in public. For some people, the existence of queer people in public is offensive. And quite frankly, I find that offensive."
"People think there's some agenda with drag queens. The only thing on the drag agenda is brunch on Sundays. There's no scheme. There's no plan or plot to reach people's children or anything. I mean most drag queens don't even want to f***** be around kids," he laughs. "Like, I do a drag show at Barracuda not at Gymboree, you know what I mean?"
With Madonna's tour now postponed, it's unclear when it will progress. But one thing is certain: tour or no tour, Bob will continue to entertain and bring his signature flair to a stage or screen near you.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-30T10:42:56+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2023-06-30/an-afternoon-with-bob-the-drag-queen |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. That would be a major reversal after officials in late 2021 stopped holding families in detention facilities.
Homeland Security officials are working through how to manage an expected increase of migrants at the border once the COVID-19 restrictions that have been in place since 2020 are lifted in May. Detention is one of several ideas under discussion and nothing has been finalized, the officials said.
If families were detained, they would be held for short periods of time, perhaps just a few days, and their cases expedited through immigration court, one official said. The officials were unauthorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment on “rumors” that the policy was under consideration. “I’m not saying that it is, I’m not saying that it’s not,” she said. She refused to say whether President Joe Biden believed that detention of families was humane.
Under current policy, families who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border are released into the U.S. and told to appear in immigration court at a later date. During the height of the pandemic, few families were held in custody, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are now using those facilities to hold single adults who cross the border illegally.
But the U.S. has increasingly moved to restrict migrants as it faces record numbers of people coming to the Mexico border seeking asylum and is seeing some success at bringing down the number of migrants making a dangerous and often deadly journey.
The suggestion to again detain families was met with disdain from immigration advocates, who point to studies that show how detrimental detention can be for children and families. Many said they were surprised to hear of the possibility because they had been told families would no longer be detained.
“The Biden administration is seeking to find a balance that protects the rights of those fleeing persecution and violence and the desire to enhance the orderliness of asylum processing,” said Sergio Gonzales, executive director of the Immigration Hub. “Detaining families has no place in this quest. We implore the administration to reject this shameful, retrograde practice.”
In 2020, Biden himself said in a tweet after reports that children were being released but not their parents: “Children should be released from ICE detention with their parents immediately. This is pretty simple, and I can’t believe I have to say it: Families belong together.”
A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows some support for changing the number of immigrants and asylum-seekers allowed into the country. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say the level of immigration and asylum-seekers should be lowered, while about 2 in 10 say it should be higher, according to the poll. About a third want the numbers to remain the same.
Illegal border crossings plummeted after Biden announced Jan. 5 that Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans would be returned to Mexico if they crossed illegally. At the same time, the administration announced that up to 30,000 people from those four countries could come monthly if they applied online, arrived at an airport and had a financial sponsor. The Border Patrol stopped migrants 128,410 times on the Mexican border in January, down 42% from December, which was the highest month on record. February numbers have not been publicly released, but one of the officials told the AP migrants were stopped about 130,000 times.
Last month, the administration said it would generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through, mirroring an attempt by the Trump administration that never took effect because it was blocked in court.
But most of these efforts do not include families, which are treated differently because of the children traveling. But parents who fear detention may also start sending their children alone, and the number of unaccompanied migrants is also rising.
“I’m alarmed by news reports that the administration is considering reinstating family detention policies,” said Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee. “Not only are these policies cruel and harmful to children, but they don’t prevent families from traveling to the United States.”
The administration has the capacity to house roughly 3,000 people in two family detention centers in Texas.
Both the Obama and Trump administrations detained families in those facilities until their immigration cases played out, though a court order prevents the government from holding children beyond 20 days. A third detention center in Pennsylvania was shut down a few months ago.
Jean-Pierre pushed back against criticism that Biden was reinstating some of the policies of former President Donald Trump, who, among the major changes he made to the immigration system, severely curbed asylum and forcibly separated children from their parents at the border in a policy denounced worldwide as inhumane.
″A lot of people have compared what the president is doing, is either extending what Trump did or being very Trump-like,” Jean-Pierre said. “That is not what is happening here.”
Administration officials are ending the national emergency on May 11 that was brought on by the pandemic. Because the border restrictions known as Title 42 are tied to the national emergency, the administration is also planning to end them on May 11. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a Republican-led effort to leave them in place, but it has removed oral arguments on the case from its calendar.
The majority of migrants who come seeking asylum do not actually win asylum, according to data from the U.S. government. Only about 30% are deemed eligible under U.S. law, which narrowly defines who qualifies. Many people coming are seeking a better life and fleeing poverty and devastation in their home countries, but it doesn’t often mean they get to stay in the U.S.
The two Texas detention centers are in Karnes City and in Dilley. Families would likely be held again in Dilley, which was used to detain families during the Obama and Trump administrations. The New York Times first reported that officials were considering detaining families again.
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Spagat reported from San Diego. | 2023-03-07T20:33:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-in-reversal-biden-weighs-detaining-migrant-families/ |
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Eddie Murphy’s ‘You People’ stays on top of Netflix’s Top 10 list
Posted/updated on: February 7, 2023 at 4:42 pmYou People, the romantic comedy that sees co-writer Jonah Hill desperately trying to impress his girlfriend's rigid dad, played by Eddie Murphy, kept 'em laughing for another week on Netflix.
The movie held onto the #1 slot on the streaming giant's English Language film list, with another 65.6 million hours viewed last week. The film, directed and co-written by Kenya Barris, was also ranked #1 in 64 countries.
Landing in second place was Pamela, a Love Story, the autobiographical film about former Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson, which debuted in the #2 spot last week, with 24.3 million hours viewed.
Coming in third was another debut, Minions: The Rise of Gru. The animated movie starring the voice of Steve Carrell debuted in third place, with more than 19 million hours viewed.
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Copyright © 2023, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-08T00:21:51+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1200487 |
Last Saturday saw the State level competition for National History Day (NHD) at Nebraska Weslyan, with two projects from Chadron Middle School selected to move on to the National competition June 15 at the University of Maryland. The team of Matthew Sorenson and Samuel Kahl placed first in Junior Group Website with their site “Frontiers in Organized Crime: How Prohibition Shaped the Mafia,” and Vivian Golembiewski placed second in Junior Individual Exhibit with her project “Stonewall Riots of 1969.”
National History Day is devoted to the learning of history. Last fall, student chose a topic related to the theme of “Frontiers in History,: and conducted extensive research with primary and secondary sources. After analysis and drawing conclusions about their topic’s significance in history, they presented their work in original projects.
Sorenson, Kahl and Golembiewski said they weren’t very surprised to find out they’d qualified for State, as there were only a few competitors in each of their categories, though they noted they still had to score enough points to make it
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As to how they chose their subjects, Sorenson and Kahl chose prohibition because they were interested in learning how much of a frontier it was in crime, as it’s something that’s not talked about much. They chose the venue of a website, as they were fairly successful with creating one at last year’s NHD competition.
Golembiewski chose her topic because she wanted to do something that involves the LGBTQ community, of which she is a part, and look into something that would start a chain of events up to current day. She chose to do an exhibit because she enjoys art and how items are organized onto a board, and it was easier for her to do something that wasn’t tech-based.
Josephine Werner, who competed but did not qualify for Nationals, chose another route with her performance “The Industrialization of Spinning.” The topic was interesting to her since she spins and does other textile arts. As the 1700’s was the period of time she was using for reference, she didn’t have many pictures to work from. She also didn’t want to do a website, paper or exhibit.
Instead, she performed in the character of a spinner who could no longer provide for herself because of the industrialization of her trade, speaking to husband about her situation. Werner further added the performance looked at the change from home-spun yarn to industrial yarn.
In addition to actually creating the projects, students were questioned by a panel of judges. Golembiewski was surprised to find out she was headed to Nationals, as she felt her exhibit was simplistic compared to the others. “I think I probably killed it in the interview,” she said.
Sorenson and Kahl noted they had the option to either answer judges’ questions or give them a walkthrough of the website. Sorenson said he was surprised to make it to Nationals, as they tied for first at Districts. Kahl said he’s glad they won, because they took second last year.
Sponsor Cathy Kaus noted each category has specific criteria. Exhibits can only have 500 words, while websites have a higher limit of 1,200 words. Performances don’t have a word limit, but must be 10 minutes or less. Rather than a formal presentation, Kaus said, it’s more of a question-and-answer session with the judges. After each contest, they receive feedback which they can use to edit and improve their projects.
The students enjoyed their time at the campus and the competition, taking in some of the other performances and projects, and were able to do a few tours while at the college. All of them said NHD is definitely a project worth doing. Aside from winning, their favorite parts included researching and creating their projects, and learning things they never knew before. They plan to compete next year as well.
Also competing at State last Saturday were:
Tatiana Abdelgabar, Website, “Creation of the X-Ray”
Jason Hy and Nathaniel Stehle, Website, “Small Pox Vaccine”
Lillian Johndreau, Exhibit, “The Essex Tragedy”
Thomas Kaus, Website, “Battle of Vienna: The Frontier that Ended the Ottoman” | 2023-04-04T22:24:03+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/community/chadron/news/two-projects-selected-for-nhd-nationals/article_c4dd8627-f085-5152-80db-f4ad55bb6445.html |
Rodgers rallies Packers past McCarthy’s Cowboys 31-28 in OT
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers stopped a five-game skid with a 31-28 win over former coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys. Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes to rookie Christian Watson and led a 55-yard drive in overtime to set up Mason Crosby’s game-winning field goal. Green Bay appeared well on its way to losing six straight games in the same season for the first time since 1988. The Packers trailed 28-14 in the fourth quarter before Rodgers led two long drives that ended with scoring passes to Watson. The Cowboys blew a 14-point lead heading into the fourth quarter for the first time in franchise history. | 2022-11-14T04:36:02+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/13/rodgers-rallies-packers-past-mccarthys-cowboys-31-28-in-ot/ |
GALVESTON, Texas — A federal judge paused the Biden administration’s waterway protections in Texas and Idaho as Republicans across the country challenge the environmental regulations as vague and argue the rules would create economic burdens.
Roughly half of all U.S. states are taking part in lawsuits challenging the rule. Earlier this month, the U.S. House also voted to overturn the protections under a measure that Biden said he would veto if it reaches his desk.
“The unlawful rule would have saddled Texans across the state with crushing new regulations, slowing our state’s economic development and limiting our job growth,” Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement that it was reviewing the court’s decision and its options. The rule went into effect elsewhere across the country Monday.
The change repeals a Trump-era rule and expands some water pollution protections to thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.
“Our goal is to protect public health, the environment, and downstream communities while supporting economic opportunity, agriculture, and industries that depend on clean water,” the EPA said in a statement.
Republicans have targeted the regulation in Congress and in court, where at least five federal lawsuits are challenging the EPA rule. The Supreme Court is considering a related case by an Idaho couple who have been blocked for more than 15 years from building a home near a lake after the EPA determined part of the property was a wetlands that could not be disturbed without a permit.
A decision in the case, known as Sackett v. EPA, is expected this year. | 2023-03-20T22:21:20+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/20/clean-water-act-texas-idaho/39fe3ebc-c766-11ed-9cc5-a58a4f6d84cd_story.html |
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By FRIEDA FRISARO and JULIE WALKER
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Subtropical Storm Nicole is now expected to become a hurricane over the Bahamas before hitting Florida’s east coast on Wednesday, just well enough after polls close to avoid disrupting voting on Election Day, forecasters said.
“We won’t really start to see any significant impacts from Nicole until really Tuesday night to Wednesday, so really it shouldn’t have a huge impact on voting operations tomorrow,” hurricane specialist Phillippe Papin told The Associated Press.
“Unfortunately this is going to be a very large storm, with a very large wind field on the north side. This is going to cause quite substantial surf, potentially dangerous storm surge somewhere along the Florida east coast, and heavy rainfall and probably significant winds over a large area,” Papin added.
Hurricane watches are in effect for the northwestern Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic Coast from Hallandale Beach, north of Miami, to just north of Daytona Beach, as well as inland to Lake Okeechobee, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
A Storm Surge Watch has been issued from Broward County to halfway up Georgia’s coast.
The hurricane center predicted a particularly wobbly forward movement for Nicole as it approaches Florida before crossing into the northwest Gulf of Mexico. At 1 p.m. Monday, it had top winds of 45 mph (75 kmh) and was centered about 465 miles (750 kilometers) east of the northwestern Bahamas, the advisory said.
“Do not focus on the exact track of Nicole since it is expected to be a large storm with hazards extending well to the north of the center, and outside of the cone, and affect much of the Florida peninsula and portions of the southeast U.S.,” the advisory said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 34 counties in the potential path of the storm, out of an abundance of caution.
“While this storm does not, at this time, appear that it will become much stronger, I urge all Floridians to be prepared and to listen to announcements from local emergency management officials,” DeSantis said in a statement.
“While this storm does not, at this time, appear that it will become much stronger, I urge all Floridians to be prepared and to listen to announcements from local emergency management officials,”
Large parts of the state have yet to recover from destructive Hurricane Ian, which slammed into southwestern Florida on Sept. 28 as a strong Category 4 hurricane and dumped massive amounts of rain, causing flooding across central Florida.
Along Florida’s central Atlantic coast, nervous county managers warned residents that the tropical storm could bring more flooding and beach erosion only weeks after Ian inundated the region with unprecedented levels of water.
In Volusia County, home to Daytona Beach, county officials advised coastal residents to consider moving to a safer location as soon as possible.
Volusia County Emergency Director Jim Judge said the area could get 4 inches to 8 inches (10.2 cm to 20.3 cm) of rain and winds strong enough to cause flooding and widespread power outages, along with more permanent damage.
“We need to take this storm very seriously because it could cause more coastal erosion, which could be devastating to our beachfront properties impacted by Hurricane Ian,” Judge said in a statement.
Volusia County is one of the few Florida counties where driving is permitted on beaches. Vehicles were being prohibited on the sand starting Tuesday until the storm passes. County officials said repairs to sea walls damaged by Ian would no longer be able to made after Monday because the tides will be too high. Building inspectors also were keeping their eyes on the structural integrity of about two dozen oceanfront homes already damaged by Ian and threatened by the new storm.
“The potential for impacts is very significant in terms of erosion,” said Jessica Fentress, coastal division director for Volusia County. “They are calling for a swell event, on top of high tide on top of a wind situation.”
In Seminole County, northeast of Orlando, officials opened sandbag distribution locations on Monday.
Just as waters had receded from hundreds of residents’ homes, Seminole County faced the prospect of getting 7 inches (17.8 cm) of rain in some areas from Danielle, said Alan Harris, Seminole County’s emergency manager.
Officials also worried about the dangers from winds blowing large piles of debris still on the roads and in yards left over from Ian.
“No one wants to hear that but that is what it looks like as of today,” Harris said at a news conference Monday. “We are trying to prepare our community for the worst and hoping for the best.”
A subtropical storm is a non-frontal low-pressure system that has characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones. They tend to have a larger wind field, extending much farther from their centers. Forecasters said the storm could possibly transition into a tropical system as it continues to develop.
The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on Nov. 30.
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Walker reported from New York City. Reporter Mike Schneider contributed from Orlando.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-11-07T20:24:31+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/11/07/hurricane-watch-subtropical-storm-eyes-florida-bahamas-2/ |
BEIJING, April 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr Liu Jincheng, Chairman of EVE Energy, a leading lithium-ion battery manufacturer, was invited to speak at the 2023 China EV100 Forum, a three-day event focusing on the development of China's electric vehicle industry. Dr Liu's keynote speech titled "A New Stage for EVE Energy's Power Battery Development" shared insights on the current situation of batteries, challenges in fast charging technology, and the outlook for future development.
The China EV100 Forum is organized by China EV100, and co-hosted by Tsinghua University, the China Society of Automotive Engineers, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the China Automotive Technology and Research Center, and the China Automotive Engineering Research Institute. The event aims to promote the modernization of China's automobile industry and features discussions on global industry development trends, high-quality development of new energy vehicles, China's intelligent connected vehicle development strategy, and trends in core industry supply chains such as power batteries.
"This is the second time EVE Energy has attended the China EV100 Forum. Our long-term strategy is to develop our lithium-ion battery technology and maintain a steady business structure with consumer batteries, power batteries, and energy storage batteries," said Dr Liu. "In addition, we have strengthened our cooperation with leading companies in the supply chain since 2018 and invested in more than 20 joint ventures to ensure supply and cost control."
Dr Liu discussed the current state of the power storage battery industry, specifically in relation to lithium-ion batteries. He mentioned that developing these batteries is a long-term commitment due to the testing required to ensure their lifespan, which can take several years. He also emphasized the importance of having a long-term perspective when entering the industry and developing a sustained work ethic, even in the dynamic fields of power storage and batteries.
His speech then covered the challenges and practical approaches to fast-charging technology. Dr Liu revealed that focusing on cost and lightweight designs is the current trend in the power battery industry. Safety used to be the primary concern, but after years of effort, it has been adequately addressed. Now, the focus is on optimizing the battery structure and cost. He believes fast-charging technology and network construction are critical to solving the final bottleneck problem affecting electric vehicles' development.
In addition, Dr Liu suggested that improving fast charging to around ten minutes will significantly reduce the social cost of using electric vehicles. He also explained that EVE Energy had conducted successful fast-charging trials in Guangdong and Hubei, and they plan to expand further in partnership with companies in Huizhou and Jingmen. He also suggested that direct current should be used for superfast charging, as it doesn't require large-scale charging stations.
Commenting on his outlook for the industry's development, Dr Liu stated that in the past two years, the company had focused on improving the performance of electric vehicle batteries by optimizing space and structure through design and thermal management. This has led to increased battery capacity and improved space utilization, which in turn has enabled longer driving ranges. One example of this approach he cited was the use of large cylindrical LFP batteries, which feature a new structural design improving space utilization and reducing the number of structural components, thereby lowering costs.
For more information about EVE Energy, please visit https://www.evebattery.com/en.
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BARRETOS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro traveled to Latin America’s biggest rodeo — a bubble of staunch support — to connect with voters from the countryside ahead of October’s vote.
On Friday evening, the far-right leader rode a horse while holding a cowboy hat in his outstretched arm and greeting supporters draped in Brazil flags, while his campaign jingle “The People’s Captain” played. He joked with them and they prayed together for the future of the country. All major polls show Bolsonaro trailing well behind former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but one wouldn’t know it from the scene at the rodeo in the municipality of Barretos, in Sao Paulo state.
“This event is already part of our history. Moved by agribusiness, by the work of countryside men and women, Brazil is projecting itself onto the global stage,” Bolsonaro told the crowd, which chanted the word “legend” in reference to him. “Our motto is God, country, family and freedom. Yeee-hooo!”
The multi-day spectacle had tens of thousands of attendees who were predominately white and middle-class. Many came decked out in the national colors of green and canary yellow that Bolsonaro has transformed into symbols of support for his administration. The packed arena roared when Bolsonaro was introduced to the tune of DJ Snake’s and Lil Jon’s song “Turn Down for What,” which his supporters have used in hundreds of videos to portray him as defiant.
Outside, a vendor sold towels bearing the faces of Bolsonaro and da Silva of the leftist Workers’ Party, and displayed a board showing how many of each candidate had been purchased. Barely any featuring da Silva had sold, and attendees took it as a signal their candidate will win the vote. Elsewhere in Brazil, such towel sales scoreboards point in the opposite direction.
Despite da Silva’s lead in the polls, a dozen farmers, cattle ranchers and rodeo fans in Barretos told The Associated Press that Bolsonaro doesn’t need to reach out to many moderate voters, which da Silva is openly attempting to do — most notably, with his selection of a center-right rival turned running mate.
“The last time the polls didn’t say Bolsonaro was going to win,” said 57-year-old Gualter Silveira, who owns a small farm. ‘’This year it is going to be the same. I see him going everywhere. Lula doesn’t. How can Bolsonaro be behind?”
Wearing a Brazilian flag as a scarf, businessman Daniel Tales, 43, said he felt goosebumps in his mustache after seeing Bolsonaro in person. The proud cowboy from neighboring Minas Gerais state said he believes his candidate will need a run-off against da Silva to secure a second term.
“But he doesn’t need to change anything. He doesn’t need to do anything else or anything less,” Tales said. “He has a strong personality, he is the man of the moment, he came to make a revolution.”
Asked how Bolsonaro could bring undecided voters to his side, he replied: “He needs to be himself. That’s all.”
Four years ago, Bolsonaro won almost 74% of the vote in Barretos in the second round vote against Fernando Haddad, the Workers’ Party’s candidate after da Silva was declared ineligible. The president receives a lot of love in the region for professing conservative values and defending farmers, and also because he created a National Rodeo Day in 2020 and loosened regulations for such events in Brazil. Friday wasn’t his first time at the Barretos rodeo; he came in 2019 as president and three other times during his career as a lawmaker to help his son’s bid for Congress.
This time, Bolsonaro brought along cabinet ministers, politicians running for office and some business leaders whose properties were searched by police earlier this week due to their alleged participation in a private chat group that included comments favoring a possible coup and military involvement in politics. One of them, Luciano Hang, wore his customary yellow shirt and green pants, and he did his best to rile up the the crowd.
Bolsonaro and his allies have routinely scoffed at the polls, sometimes saying the president will not just win the election, but do so in the first round without need for a run-off. They say a more accurate way to gauge the upcoming result is watching the turnout at Bolsonaro rallies.
Bolsonaro supporters who spoke to the AP said they are ready to heed his call and take to the streets for Independence Day on Sept. 7. Some politicians and analysts have expressed concern that it could turn violent.
“We’ll see you out on Independence Day,” emcee Cuiabano Lima said as Bolsonaro left the rodeo arena. Lima also said da Silva is a thief who belongs in prison, and the crowd chanted in agreement.
Da Silva, who governed from 2003 to 2010 and is universally known as Lula, was barred from running in 2018 after being jailed due to convictions for corruption and money laundering, which the Supreme Court later annulled on the basis that the judge in the case had been biased. That cleared the way for him to run in 2022.
Silvana Cunha, 47, is concerned about the possibility da Silva could return to power. She works with cattle raisers and says Bolsonaro improved her life due to higher beef prices during his administration. Although she trusts he will win in October, she acknowledged the challenges he faces.
“It took time to organize everything as he wished,” said Cunha, a fervent Catholic who has attended the Barretos rodeo for years. “No matter who wins, it will be very difficult. We will need a strong hand. It is a massive task to put the country back on the track for growth after this pandemic. We need to be very careful. Either we will have a setback or an evolution.” | 2022-09-21T14:29:39+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-at-latams-biggest-rodeo-brazilians-dont-believe-the-polls/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history.
The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of Washington's Fair Campaign Practices Act, passed by voters in 1972 and later strengthened by the Legislature. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson argued that the maximum was appropriate considering his office previously sued Facebook in 2018 for violating the same law.
Meta, based in Menlo Park, California, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Washington's transparency law requires ad sellers such as Meta to keep and make public the names and addresses of those who buy political ads, the target of such ads, how the ads were paid for and the total number of views of each ad. Ad sellers must provide the information to anyone who asks for it. Television stations and newspapers have complied with the law for decades.
But Meta has repeatedly objected to the requirements, arguing unsuccessfully in court that the law is unconstitutional because it "unduly burdens political speech" and is "virtually impossible to fully comply with." While Facebook does keep an archive of political ads that run on the platform, the archive does not disclose all the information required under Washington's law.
"I have one word for Facebook's conduct in this case — arrogance," Ferguson said in a news release. "It intentionally disregarded Washington's election transparency laws. But that wasn't enough. Facebook argued in court that those laws should be declared unconstitutional. That's breathtaking. Where's the corporate responsibility?"
In 2018, following Ferguson's first lawsuit, Facebook agreed to pay $238,000 and committed to transparency in campaign finance and political advertising. It subsequently said it would stop selling political ads in the state rather than comply with the requirements.
Nevertheless, the company continued selling political ads, and Ferguson sued again in 2020.
"Meta was aware that its announced 'ban' would not, and did not, stop all such advertising from continuing to be displayed on its platform," North wrote last month in finding that Meta violation's were intentional.
Each violation of the law is typically punishable by up to $10,000, but penalties can be tripled if a judge finds them to be intentional. North fined Meta $30,000 for each of its 822 violations — about $24.7 million. Ferguson described the fine as the largest campaign finance-related penalty ever issued in the U.S.
Meta, one of the world's richest companies, reported quarterly earnings Wednesday of $4.4 billion, or $1.64 per share, on revenue of nearly $28 billion, in the three month period that ended Sept. 30. | 2022-10-27T03:34:48+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/meta-fined-24-7m-for-campaign-finance-disclosure-violations |
UNCASVILLE, Conn. - One franchise that has been the standard in the WNBA over the years is looking to get back in the win column on Thursday, after a couple of tough losses, as the Connecticut Sun prepares to host the Seattle Storm.
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For the first time this year, the Sun are on a losing streak. After their red-hot start back in May, the team has suffered a pair of defeats at the hands of the two best teams in the league. After losing at home last Tuesday to the New York Liberty, Connecticut had its lunch handed to them in their final game before the holiday break on Saturday, as the reigning champion Las Vegas Aces ran away with an 18-point win in Sin City. It is unfamiliar territory for the Sun, but they have a good chance to break the schneid on Thursday, with forwards Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner leading the way. Coming into the matchup, the Sun is third in the standings, four games back of the Aces.
The Storm hope the extra days off can help them turn around what has been a disappointing season for one of the league’s premier organizations. The story of the assets they lost has been told numerous times, and though Seattle still has Jewell Loyd, they do not have enough talent to win on a consistent basis. After losing to the New York Liberty this past Sunday, the Storm have lost three-straight games, and are trying to avoid the bottom of the league standings. They currently sit 11th in the WNBA, one game ahead of the Phoenix Mercury.
This will be the second of three meetings between the two teams, as the Sun came away with a win over the Storm in Seattle back on June 20.
WNBA BASKETBALL
Seattle Storm (4-12) vs. Connecticut Sun (12-5)
When: Thursday, July 6
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Where: Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, Conn.)
Stream: Prime Video (Free Trial) | 2023-07-06T14:22:14+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/sports/2023/07/how-to-watch-the-seattle-storm-vs-connecticut-sun-wnba-7623-channel-stream-preview.html |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – South Dakota Republicans will be gathering for their state convention in less than two weeks.
Ahead of the event, which will be held in Watertown, officials say fake accounts are registering to attend. On the event’s website, the standard delegate for Saturday Floor Access is charging $1 and the ticket provides insight to the issue.
“Due to a large influx of fake registrations under the free option for registering as a standard delegate, we are charging $1 to limit the fake registrations by requiring a small charge,” the text with the online ticket option says. “Refunds for the $1 will be issued at the convention upon request.”
SD GOP chairman Dan Lederman told KELOLAND News he encourages real GOP delegates to get registered and participate in the events, meals and convention at sdgop.com.
“It might be more amusing if they were clever or funny, but that would require creativity,” Lederman said about the fake registrations. “In this day and age when people don’t have to get off the couch to block people they hate, we do have a number of fake “free registrations” to the party’s convention in Watertown in two weeks. They’re trying to block those who want to participate in the process, and they’re trying to block the state’s news media from attending by clogging those registrations as well.”
Lederman said the GOP convention could be one of the largest state conventions in state history.
“With well over one thousand Republican delegates who are eligible to register and participate in the convention, this looks to be a great event, with standing room only for the final elections on Saturday of Convention week,” Lederman said.
The VIP All Access Bundle costs $300 and includes hospitality access and a signed copy of Governor Kristi Noem’s book ‘Not My First Rodeo.’
At the South Dakota GOP Convention, Republicans will nominate positions of Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, PUC, state treasurer, state auditor, and school and public lands commissioner.
The three-day convention begins on Thursday, June 23 and ends Saturday, June 25. | 2022-06-10T21:57:15+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/south-dakota-gop-state-convention-dealing-with-fake-registrations/ |
DALLAS (AP) — LSU’s Angel Reese waved her hand in front of her face while staring down Caitlin Clark, then pointed toward her finger as if to say a ring was coming while walking toward the Iowa star.
The gestures late in the Tigers’ 102-85 victory in the NCAA championship game Sunday lit up social media, with comments supporting the “Bayou Barbie” for trash talk that’s just part of the game and condemning her for lacking grace in victory.
The bubbly junior from Baltimore, who transferred from Maryland to join flamboyant LSU coach Kim Mulkey, was unapologetic in the postgame news conference.
“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”
Clark, the scoring sensation who was the first with consecutive 40-point games in an NCAA Tournament, made the face-waving gesture to no one in particular during an Elite Eight victory over Louisville.
The Associated Press Player of the Year wasn’t shy about showing her emotions when the Hawkeyes knocked off undefeated defending national champion South Carolina in the semifinals.
If she saw Reese’s gestures, Clark didn’t seem concerned about them.
“I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position,” said Clark, who scored 30 points. “That’s all you can do is hold your head high, be proud of what you did. All the credit in the world to LSU. They were tremendous.”
In a 79-72 semifinal victory over Virginia Tech, Reese made what appeared to be a “you’re too small” gesture several times after scoring around the basket.
The fashionable 6-foot-3 post with modeling aspirations is becoming a social media magnet. Reese wooed Lil Wayne after chastising the rapper from New Orleans for reaching out to Elite Eight opponent Miami before doing the same with the Tigers.
“I’m going to be me, but I can’t do it without the girls here, and I can’t do it without the rest of my teammates and coaches,” said Reese, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds while three teammates scored at least 20 points.
She was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after setting an NCAA single-season record with her 34th double-double against the Hawkeyes.
“Twitter can say what Twitter can say,” Reese said. “I love reading those comments. I have all the screenshots of what everybody has said about me all season. What are you going to say now?” | 2023-04-03T16:14:08+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/lsus-bayou-barbie-offers-no-apology-over-gestures-to-iowas-clark/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Enviva Inc. ("Enviva" or the "Company") (NYSE: EVA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Enviva investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between February 21, 2019 and October 11, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
EVA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) Enviva had misrepresented the environmental sustainability of its wood pellet production and procurement; (ii) Enviva had similarly overstated the true measure of cash flow generated by the Company's platform; (iii) accordingly, Enviva had misrepresented its business model and the Company's ability to achieve the level of growth that defendants had represented to investors; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Enviva during the relevant time frame, you have until January 3, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
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National Restaurant Association Statement on Small Business COVID Relief Act of 2022 vote
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Small Business COVID Relief Act of 2022 (S. 4008), ending the possibility of replenishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF). The vote is a devastating blow to the restaurant industry and small business operators.
"Throughout the pandemic, restaurants focused on serving their communities. When government-mandated closures shuttered dining rooms, restaurants found a way to shift operating models and keep employees on the payroll. When first responders needed a hot meal, restaurants stepped in to help in cities and towns across the country," said Michelle Korsmo, President & CEO of the National Restaurant Association. "When Congress offered these restaurants the RRF lifeline, restaurant owners and operators made business decisions based on those commitments. Restaurants that are still trying to make up for what was lost in the pandemic today are struggling with workforce shortages, record-high inflation, and supply chain constraints. Today's vote will further exacerbate those challenges and result in more economic hardships for the families and communities across the country that rely on the restaurant and foodservice industry."
"Today, a Senate filibuster dashed the promise made to more than 177,000 small business owners in communities across the country" said Sean Kennedy, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for the National Restaurant Association. "These restaurant owners believed the creation of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund was a down payment, and that the Senate would complete the mission with this vote. A bipartisan majority voted to begin debate on this critical legislation, but it wasn't the 60 votes needed. While there are valid questions about government spending and inflation, restaurants should not be caught in the crossfire. We applaud the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), as well as Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for their work in creating and pressing to replenish the RRF."
The $48 billion Small Business COVID Relief Act of 2022 (S. 4008), introduced by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Roger Wicker (R-MS), included $40 billion for RRF replenishment and $8 billion in support for other industries deeply impacted by the pandemic. The House passed the Relief for Restaurants and other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act of 2022 (H.R. 3807), that included $42 billion to replenish the RRF on April 7. Both political parties agreed that the RRF should be replenished but couldn't reach a consensus on how to pay for it. Democrats generally wanted to treat replenishment as emergency spending, while Republicans generally wanted existing funds reallocated.
The American Rescue Plan established the RRF with $28.6 billion that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) called a down payment to restaurants. More than 278,000 restaurants applied for funds from the RRF, but only 101,000 applications were funded before the Small Business Administration ran out of funding. By leaving 177,000 without aid, the Federal government essentially picked winners and losers, among direct competitors, based on chance, not need.
The program's initial round of funding, which operators used primarily to pay off debt and meet payroll, was a resounding success. According to Association research, more than 900,000 restaurant jobs were saved, and 96% of recipients report that the funds helped their establishments remain open.
But those that did not receive funds are still languishing. In fact, 62% of operators says their restaurant accumulated additional debt since the beginning of the pandemic; 57% said their restaurant fell behind on expenses. Industry-wide, eating and drinking establishments lost $300 billion in sales the first year of the pandemic.
Even though the restaurant industry appears to be recovering from a consumer spending perspective, for restaurants, most of which operate on 3-5% pre-tax profit margins, the challenges continue to mount. Soaring food prices, supply chain constraints, and workforce shortages make it impossible for many restaurants to pay off debt that was accumulated during the pandemic.
Find the latest on trends in key restaurant industry economic indicators—including employment, sales, wholesale food costs—here.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises nearly 1 million restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of 14.5 million employees. Together with 52 State Associations, we are a network of professional organizations dedicated to serving every restaurant through advocacy, education, and food safety. We sponsor the industry's largest trade show (National Restaurant Association Show); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF's ProStart). For more information, visit Restaurant.org and find us on Twitter @WeRRestaurants, Facebook and YouTube.
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The Rimac Nevera reached a top speed of 256 mph at a German test track, which the company claims is a record for production electric vehicles.
Rimac chief test and development driver Miro ZrnÄeviÄ accomplished that feat at the Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Papenburg, Germany, the company said in a press release. The oval track was selected by Rimac for the top-speed run because of its pair of 2.4-mile straights.
The main challenge was nailing the transitions from the track’s banked curves to maximize speed onto the straightaways, according to Rimac. ZrnÄeviÄ exited the banking at 155 mph before fully unleashing the full 1,914 hp and 1,740 lb-ft of torque from the Nevera’s quad-motor powertrain.
The top speed was achieved on road-legal Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires, with monitoring by a Michelin technician, Rimac noted. To preserve those tires, customer cars are limited to 218 mph, but Rimac said the limiter will be disengaged “in special customer events with the support from the Rimac team and under controlled conditions” where technicians can ensure proper tire setup.
Rimac released a video of the run complete with a readout of the 412 kph (256 mph) the car achieved. Check it out below.
Rimac in 2021 also set a quarter-mile record for production cars with the Nevera. YouTuber Brooks Weisblat achieved an 8.58-second time and 167.51-mph top speed at a California dragstrip. That was achieved after multiple runs in 98-degree temperatures, so conditions were less than ideal.
The Nevera is the production version of the C_Two first shown in 2018, and it has now nearly matched the 258-mph top speed Rimac quoted for the concept version. Production started in July, with the first customer car going to 2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg. The Nevera is also cleared for U.S. sales, and is rated at 287 miles of range on the EPA testing cycle.
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- 2024 Porsche Macan EV coming with over more than hp | 2022-11-16T19:10:42+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/automotive/internet-brands/rimac-nevera-hits-256-mph-becomes-worlds-fastest-production-ev/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after Wall Street benchmarks fell and Japan reported a 14th straight month of monthly trade deficits due to high prices for oil and other commodities and a weakening yen.
Wall Street futures were mixed while oil prices gained.
Japan’s trade deficit was a record high for the first half of the year, though it fell slightly from the month before and was smaller than analysts had forecast.
The Finance Ministry said Thursday that imports rose nearly 46% from the same month a year ago on the back of rising oil and gas costs. Imports have grown for 20 months straight on-year.
The dollar has gained strength versus currencies worldwide as inflation and recession concerns prompt investors to look for relatively stable investments. The yen is now trading at 32-year lows against the dollar, changing hands at 149.93 Japanese yen early Thursday, up from 149.81 yen a day earlier.
The euro slipped to 97.59 cents from 97.73 cents.
“As is often the case, rising U.S. yields and the strong U.S. dollar are the sledge hammers pounding global equities lower,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.
In share trading, Tokyo’s Nikkei fell 0.9% to 27,006.96, recovering some lost ground, while the Kospi in Seoul declined 0.9% to 2,216.49. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng shed 1.6% to 16,254.32.
The Shanghai Composite index was flat at 3,044.77 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gave up 1% to 6,730.70.
The pullback on Wall Street on Wednesday came as investors reviewed quarterly earnings reports and Treasury yields climbed to multiyear highs, tempting traders with higher returns on relatively low-risk investments.
Early gains faded fast. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% to close at 3,695.16, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.3% to 30,423.81. The Nasdaq composite ended 0.9% lower, at 10,680.51.
Small companies fell more than the rest of the market, sending the Russell 2000 index 1.7% lower to 1,725.76.
Stocks were coming off of two days of gains, but trading has been unsteady throughout.
Netflix soared 13% and United Airlines rose 5% after releasing their quarterly results, while others, including Abbott Laboratories and M&T Bank, sank.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, climbed to 4.13%, its highest level since June 2008. It was at 4.02% late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for future Federal Reserve action, rose to 4.54% from 4.43%.
A sharp move in the three-month Treasury may have helped put traders in a selling mood. The yield briefly hit 4.01% before inching back to 3.98%. Should the three-month Treasury yield rise above that of the 10-year Treasury, what’s known as an inversion, that would be a strong warning that the economy could be headed for a recession.
The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to temper high prices. Those increases are meant to make borrowing more difficult and slow economic growth in an effort to tame inflation, but the strategy risks stalling the already slowing U.S. economy.
Homebuilder Lennar fell 6% and home-improvement retailer Lowe’s slid 4.8% following a report showing that construction on new homes declined more than expected in September.
U.S. crude oil prices rose 3.3%, giving a boost to energy stocks. Exxon Mobil rose 3%. The White House plans to announce another release of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve.
Early Thursday, U.S. benchmark crude was up $1.07 at $85.59 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Brent crude, the international pricing standard, climbed 74 cents to $93.15 per barrel.
Investors have been focusing on the latest round of corporate earnings this week, watching for clues about how companies are dealing with the hottest inflation in four decades and how they intend to operate through the rest of the year and into 2023.
Household goods giant Procter & Gamble rose 0.9% after also reporting strong financial results. It is among a growing list of companies, including Hasbro and Johnson & Johnson, warning investors about a strong U.S. dollar cutting into revenue.
Central governments and banks worldwide are dealing with stubbornly hot inflation. British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high. | 2022-10-20T10:11:25+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-shares-fall-after-weak-earnings-pull-wall-st-lower/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Willie Weaver, of Fayetteville, bought a $3 Powerball ticket on Monday and won a $100,000 prize, according to an NC Education Lottery news release.
Weaver bought his winning Power Play ticket from Refuel 151 on Cliffdale Road in Fayetteville.
He matched the numbers on four white balls and the red Powerball to win $50,000 in Monday’s drawing. The prize doubled to $100,000 when the 2X Power Play multiplier hit. The odds of matching four white balls and the Powerball are 1 in 913,129.
Weaver claimed his prize Wednesday at lottery headquarters.
After required federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $71,251.
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Watch lottery drawings on FOX8! Mega Millions airs at 11 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday. Powerball airs at 10:59 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The NC Lottery airs at 11:22 p.m. every night.
You can also find the lottery results online on the FOX8 website. | 2023-02-17T22:56:36+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/north-carolina-man-wins-100000-after-buying-lottery-ticket-at-gas-station/ |
Reservations Dogs co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo says he grew up surrounded by the "best storytellers in the world."
Harjo remembers sitting in his grandmother's kitchen as a kid, listening to tales of amazing characters — either real or imagined — often doing mundane or ordinary things. The magic was in the telling; a story about someone making a simple run to the store could be infused with sadness and regret, coincidence and magic.
"That's how I learned to tell stories. ... You can't say that cinema is a Native American art form, but storytelling is, " Harjo says. "I try to capture just a small amount of that in [Reservation Dogs]."
Reservation Dogs is the first and only TV series where every writer, director and series regular is Indigenous. Part comedy and part drama, the FX series streaming on Hulu follows four teenagers who long to escape the dead ends they face living on a reservation. They're frustrated and alienated, caught between what's left of traditional Native culture on the reservation and the broader pop culture. The show highlights the importance of Native traditions — while also mocking how tradition can be turned into sanctimonious pop culture clichés.
Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, and he says the positive feedback from his community — including his parents — is what keeps him going: "My dad, one day, said to me, 'This show has given people, Native people, a reason to hold their heads up a little higher.'"
Last Halloween, Harjo noticed something he hadn't seen before: "Every year at Halloween, there's people that dress up in these fake, dime-store Indian clothing. And they are 'Indian' for Halloween. And we've all seen that growing up. We've all seen it. And my kids are going to have to see it. But all of a sudden, after Season 1, people, kids started dressing up as the Reservation Dogs. So many pictures flooded in on social media of them dressed as the Reservation Dogs."
Interview highlights
On why he prefers the term "Indian" to "Native American"
My grandma said "Indian," so I'm not here to change what my grandma said. And it's what I know. I'm sorry that Christopher Columbus got it wrong, but that's what we call ourselves, you know? That's what we call ourselves. I also say "Native" and I say "Indigenous." Just depending on where I'm at and who I'm talking to, those are all interchangeable to me. "Native American" is just a mouthful.
On the show's name Reservation Dogs title paying homage to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
It came out when I was in college, and it was right as I discovered that I could be a filmmaker. ... My father had a friend who worked for the cable company, and that's the only way that we got cable. So I was able to watch movies for free because his friend did some backdoor stuff and hooked us up with a cable box that allowed us to watch HBO and Showtime. I just became immersed in movies and pop culture. MTV was out at the time. I think that when you're from a rural community, that's kind of how you live your life. You almost live your life through movies and through pop culture. ... First of all, it's a catchy title, not a lie, Taika [Waititi] and I came up with it. And then it was, well, if we're going to have this show where these kids are living through and constantly referencing pop culture, like we have to tip our hat to the master of that.
On playing with the stereotypical "Indian warrior" imagery in the pilot
Most of the time people are very precious with Native people, like, "This is no laughing matter." This is very serious and stoic, and that's kind of how the world is trained to view us. We realize we need to bake into the show permission to laugh with us.
And I think that that spirit character, he comes in at this moment in the pilot. ... If I asked most people in the world to draw a Native American, that's what they would draw. They would draw an Indian that was dressed in buckskins from the 1800s. They wouldn't draw me. They wouldn't draw any of the characters on the show. So it was almost like giving people some familiar territory and then turning it on its head.
On growing up on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma
Right now I live on the Muscogee Reservation, which is part of Tulsa. Through a lot of complicated government policy and interactions with tribal governments that I can't go into because it'd be another show, it was not identified as a reservation before, but it is now. But if you look at Oklahoma, it used to be Indian Territory, which was essentially one big reservation. Then, of course, oil and the land and other things disrupted that.
But this is where Trail of Tears ended. This is where all of the tribes that were forcibly removed by the U.S. government were brought to Indian Territory, which is Oklahoma now. So essentially it was one giant reservation. And you go an hour in any direction in Oklahoma or 30 minutes in any direction, in Oklahoma, you're going to be in a new tribal territory, with different tribal languages on the stop signs and on signage in the town. Different cultures, different customs. And so it's ... a melting pot of Indigenous Native people from America. And I think there's something like 38 tribes here.
So you grow up different when you're in Oklahoma as a Native kid. ... People know Native culture, people know who Native people are. And it's a very diverse state. I think that not a lot of people know about Oklahoma and the diversity here, but in rural Oklahoma, it's very diverse. And I don't know, it was something that I wanted to celebrate in the show, growing up in Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
On why Native teens connected to rap music when he was coming of age
Rap was reaching the height of popularity ... and being a Native kid, we gravitated towards it because it was the sort of punk rock that we were growing up with. It gave Native kids a culture and identity that they could grab a hold of at a time where our own identity was a bit lost and our own identity was less celebrated, we could grab a hold of hip-hop, and that became something that we could identify with that was taking it to the man that was exposing problems within our culture. I think that it became something that, as a term, as a means of endearment to us, that it helped us in our own identity and in our own struggle.
On the importance of ghosts and spirits in his culture – and in his work
I think that part of growing up and with Muscogee and Seminole culture is death is such a part of our experience. It's very community-driven. Your cousins are like your brothers and sisters. Your aunts are your extended parents, and you're close to your elders and everyone's a part of this tight community.
I was constantly at funerals. I've been a pallbearer, like, 12 to 15 times, I think, give or take. And our songs, the songs that we sing, there's these spiritual songs that we sing that mostly get sung and you hear them at funerals, and it's all about facing death and mortality head on. There's something really beautiful about a funeral in our community, where everyone comes together and it's really funny. And you're getting to see people that you haven't seen in a long time and you say, "I love you," to people that you wouldn't normally say, "I love you" to. It's just a part of being in a community.
Someone was always passing away. ... In the culture you're taught that they're not gone and that you can still speak to them and talk to them and there's ghost stories and things like that. But I just grew up with this sense of magic, and there's a sense of like we can communicate, we can reach people in other places, and there's ceremonies for it and there's different things. It's something that I'm fascinated with ... and I explore it as much as I can through my work.
On the casting process for Reservation Dogs
You can't go to Hollywood to cast a show like this. ... [Native actors usually] get to play, like, a dead Indian outside of a teepee every five to 10 years, you know? So there's not a big pool of Native actors in L.A. So we went to the communities, and shout out to Angelique Midthunder, who was our casting director. She went in and we went to different communities and we also had tapes sent to us from communities, but it was important that they were from an Indigenous community. ... It wasn't unnecessarily unorthodox for me, because I've been making these films for so long, and I know that there's talent out there. There's just not opportunities for Native actors to even know that there's an opportunity to be in a movie.
On seeing Indian stereotypes in pop culture as a kid
My dad watched Westerns. ... There was a way to sort of separate what was happening in the Western for me, because I didn't recognize the Indians in the Western. They weren't my experience. When you grow up and your grandma and your mom and your dad and everyone's Native around you, and then you see this version of Native people in these Westerns that are just the bad guys that are faceless and sort of like the zombies. ... They're in the way and the white man has to exterminate them for Western expansion purposes and to tame the West or whatever, I don't recognize that as my people. So it wasn't painful to watch for me. I could separate it. I do see the issues in that now I have to explain to my kids why they can't watch Peter Pan, and if there was a Western on, I would have to explain to them, like everything all of a sudden becomes a lecture, where I'm having to talk about film analysis with my children. It has an effect.
On absolving himself of the guilt that he can't speak Muscogee
For a long time, I felt really guilty about that. ... But at a certain point, I just came to the realization that government policy, genocide, colonization, ... the forced removal by Andrew Jackson. So many things caused that. And I let go of that sense of guilt, because it's all been about survival and there's things that were taken away and there's things that perish because of that. And all I can do is try to learn and realize that it's not my fault, it came before me. The darkness that can take a language away, came before me. And you look at boarding schools ... and how they actively took away our language. My parents and grandparents went to these boarding schools, so the fact that we have any of it left is a miracle. So I try to really focus on that: the miracle of it, the magic of the fact that we still have our culture and it is about survival. I try to focus on that instead of the guilt that I think you grow up with when you can't speak the language.
Lauren Krenzel and Susan Nyakundi produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.
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SEATTLE (AP) — George Kirby allowed one run over six innings, Eugenio Suarez had three hits and an RBI and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 3-1 on Wednesday night.
Trying to secure a playoff spot for the first time since 2001, Seattle rebounded after dropping the series opener Tuesday night.
The Mariners got a boost in the playoff picture when every other team in the American League wild-card race lost. Baltimore dropped 4 1/2 games behind the Mariners for the final wild-card spot. The Mariners are a half-game behind Tampa Bay and two back of Toronto for the top wild card.
“We played a crisp game tonight. Guys were on every pitch, the energy was great,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “We’ve had a nice year, but we need to get it turned, and hopefully it turned in the right direction tonight.”
Kirby (8-4) was coming off his worst start of the season, when he gave up five earned runs in 2 1/3 innings against Oakland. He returned to form against Texas, allowing just one run on five hits with four strikeouts and a walk. Kirby extended his franchise record to 14 starts without allowing a home run, the longest such streak in the majors this year.
Josh Jung had an RBI single in the first inning for Texas’ lone run. Jung has driven in all six of Texas’ runs in the first two games of the series.
The Mariners scored twice in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double by Suarez and a sacrifice fly from Mitch Haniger.
Suarez was 3 for 3 with a walk, tying his season high for hits. It was his second game back after going on the injured list for 10 days with a fracture in his right index finger.
“It’s kind of frustrating because you just want to go and go,” Suarez said. “I’m just happy to be back in 10 days, do my best and help my team win. We needed that.”
Seattle loaded the bases with no outs in the third, but was only able to push across one run on a ground out by Carlos Santana. It was still enough, as Kirby and the bullpen kept the Rangers scoreless after the opening inning.
Texas starter Martin Perez (12-7) took the loss despite going seven innings, allowing three runs on five hits.
“He gave us a chance to win the ballgame,” Rangers interim manager Tony Beasley said. “I thought it was an outstanding start from him. He battled, competed, it was just unfortunate we couldn’t muster enough offense.”
Kirby said he found himself rushing at times in the early innings with the pressure of the moment, but he was able to adjust.
“I just tried to slow myself down a little bit. Concentrate on my breath in between pitches, and I thought it worked out pretty well,” Kirby said.
Seattle relievers Eric Swanson, Andres Munoz and Paul Sewald each pitched a perfect inning to close out the game, with Sewald picking up his 20th save.
CHANGING THINGS UP
After losing 5-0 to the Rangers on Tuesday, Servais changed the team’s pregame routine Wednesday. The Mariners didn’t go through pregame warmups or batting practice and players were encouraged to arrive at the park later than usual for a “show and go” day.
“Sometimes you need that,” Suarez said. “It’s not just coming here and work, work, work. Sometimes you’ve got to take a little bit and relax.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rangers: SS Corey Seager was out of the lineup after getting hit on the forearm with a pitch late in Texas’ victory on Tuesday night. The Rangers said it was just a contusion and Seager was day-to-day. Josh H. Smith got the start at shortstop with Seager out.
MARINERS: OF Julio Rodriguez could start resuming some baseball activity on Thursday and definitely by Friday, manager Scott Servais said. Rodriguez has been out with a lower back strain but the goal is to have him activated off the injured list when he’s eligible next Monday.
UP NEXT
Rangers: RHP Jon Gray (7-7, 3.64 ERA) starts the final game of the series. Gray is 0-2 with a 6.35 ERA in two starts against Seattle this season.
Mariners: LHP Marco Gonzales (10-15, 4.05) has lost his last three decisions. In his last outing he allowed four runs on eight hits in a loss to Kansas City.
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More AP MLB coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-29T06:05:37+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/George-Kirby-Eugenio-Suarez-lead-Mariners-past-17474470.php |
Lincoln is telling its dealers to invest in upgrades to sell electric cars or bail out of the brand now.
Details of the policy, which appears similar to what parent Ford is doing with its dealers, were first reported by Automotive News (subscription required), but were confirmed to Motor Authority by Lincoln spokesperson Anika Salceda-Wycoco.
Lincoln is offering its dealers the option to enroll in one of two tiers based on their market size. Dealers in the top 130 markets will be expected to invest just under $900,000 on upgrades to sell EVs; all other dealers will be expected to spend just under $500,000.
Some of that money will go to charging infrastructure, including both DC fast-charging stations and Level 2 AC stations. The amount of charging stations will be determined by the dealership tier.
Dealers will also have to agree to non-negotiable pricing, a single point of contact for customers, and a greater online presence for sales and service.
Those dealers that accept these terms can enroll starting this month. The enrollment period runs through December 15. After that date, dealers won’t have another opportunity to return to the Lincoln brand until a second enrollment period opens in 2026.
Dealers that opt out of either enrollment period will have to stop selling Lincolns when the brand shifts to EVs. Lincoln will unveil its first EV later this year, expected to be an all-electric version of the Aviator. Four more will reportedly follow by 2026, including an electric Navigator, on the way to an all-EV lineup by 2026.
Elements of Lincoln’s dealer plan, such as non-negotiable pricing, tier-based EV investments, and enrollment periods, carry over from the plan recently discussed by parent Ford’s Model E electric business unit. Lincoln’s showrooms and service centers will remain separate from Model E stores.
General Motors offered buyouts to Cadillac dealers that didn’t want to get onboard with that brand’s EV shift, without about one-third opting to give up their franchises rather than sell EVs, which would also require some level of added investment. GM is offering Buick dealers buyouts as well, with both brands expected to be all-electric by the end of the decade.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A former Bosnian Serb military commander was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for crimes against civilians during the country’s 1992-95 interethnic war.
The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina ruled that Boban Indjic participated in a 1993 atrocity in which 20 non-Serb civilians were hauled off a train in the small Bosnian town of Strpci, near the Serbian border, and taken away to be tortured and killed.
The court found Indjic was part of a group of Bosnian Serb soldiers and paramilitaries that ambushed the train and abducted the 20 passengers, who had been traveling from Serbian capital, Belgrade, to the coastal town of Bar in Montenegro. The group dumped the bodies in the Drina River.
At the time, Indjic was the commander of the intervention detachment of a Bosnian Serb army brigade operating in eastern Bosnia. Last October, the court sentenced seven former members of the detachment to a total of 91 years in prison for their role in the crime.
A separate trial over the Strpci massacre of another former member of the detachment and three ex-members of the notorious Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit the Avengers is currently taking place in Serbia. The sentencing hearing in that trial has been scheduled for Feb. 7.
The Bosnian war was sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia, which led Bosnia to declare its independence, despite opposition from ethnic Serbs, who made up about one-third of its ethnically and religiously mixed population.
Armed and backed by neighboring Serbia, Bosnian Serbs conquered 60% of Bosnia’s territory in less than two months, committing atrocities against their Bosniak and Croat compatriots. Before the war was over, some 100,000 people had been killed and upward of 2 million, or over a half of the country’s population, were driven from their homes. | 2023-01-19T15:54:14+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Ex-Bosnian-Serb-commander-given-15-years-for-war-17727700.php |
Ralph Bernhardt had not taken much notice of squirrels until one particularly brazen beast demanded his attention.
It was early in his freshman year at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, when Bernhardt was enjoying a respite from college life.
“This squirrel jumped up onto the arm of the bench I happened to be sitting on,” Bernhardt recalled. “And I have to say I was a bit perplexed — I mean, aren’t squirrels supposed to be afraid of humans?
“But I quickly discovered that the squirrels on campus are very different,” he said. “They have practically no fear of humans whatsoever. I guess living is such close proximity to students has made them quite brave. I’ve seen squirrels come up to people eating outside on campus and making off with a French fry, or a chicken nugget. I’ve even seen pictures of squirrels carrying off a slice of pizza.”
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Bernhardt, who had become interested in photography during his senior year at Bixby High School, where he served as yearbook editor, began focusing his various cameras on the bushy-tailed denizens of the OU campus. He created an Instagram account titled “Squirrels of OU” to showcase his images.
Earlier this week, one of Bernhardt’s squirrel images was chosen the winner of the 2023 Squirrel Week photo contest run by the Washington Post. A columnist for the paper, John Kelly, has annually devoted a week of stories to all manner of squirrel-related news, and has concurrently conducted a contest for amateur photographers to submit their best squirrel images.
“I’m not certain how I learned about the contest,” Bernhardt said. “I had seen mentions of it on line in some forums, and I think friends may have sent me information.
“I did submit to last year’s contest, and didn’t even make the list of favorites,” he said. “So to go from that to winning was quite a surprise.”
The prize is a $100 gift card to Amazon, but Bernhardt said getting his work recognized by such a publication as the Washington Post is the true prize.
Bernhardt’s winning image of a fox squirrel coming headfirst down a tree trunk was shot with his Google Pixel phone camera, proving that “You don’t need expensive equipment to take good photos,” he said.
He also believes that using his phone, rather than a large camera, enabled him to get so close to a creature obviously ready for its close-up.
“I sent in three images I had taken around campus,” Bernhardt said. “The others I shot using a digital camera with the zoom lens, which blurs the background. A phone camera uses a super wide-angle lens, and that allowed me to capture all the detail of the tree as well as the squirrel.”
His social media accounts include images of everything from portraits to landscapes taken during his travels to such places as Denmark Faroe Islands and the Italian region of Tuscany, where he spent six months last year as part of a foreign internship through OU.
Bernhardt will be graduating in May, with a bachelor’s degree in creative media production.
“It’s focused more on video, which I enjoy because it’s challenging,” he said. “It’s also more work, because you don’t have the same level of control as you have when working with still photography. I’d like to get into documentary film making, but I’m really just interested in creating images, whether they move or are still.”
Bernhardt is also wanting to keep his “Squirrels of OU” account active, but how he might accomplish that after graduation may prove to be another challenge.
“Maybe I’ll just have to come back to campus every so often to keep on things,” he said. | 2023-04-14T14:04:23+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/ou-photographer-snaps-up-prize-for-squirrelly-shot/article_d69ec8a0-da02-11ed-9201-5b8ba4d8b550.html |
LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hovione and Zerion Pharma A/S (Zerion) today announced an extension of their collaboration on Zerion's Dispersome® technology into the nutraceutical/dietary supplements field. Many dietary supplements suffer from low solubility. This results in poor bioavailability and consequently limits the physiological effect of the supplement. To overcome these limitations, the two companies will collaborate and apply the solubility enhancing Dispersome® technology for the development and commercialization of certain nutraceutical products.
The first product candidate selected for joint development is an antioxidant with multiple health benefits and known for its extremely low solubility and bioavailability. By applying the Dispersome® technology, Zerion has been able to demonstrate significant solubility improvements of this antioxidant. Under their collaboration, Hovione and Zerion will now upscale and develop commercial formulations of the antioxidant using the Dispersome® platform and make these products available for distribution by partners globally. Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, the two companies will share income from the commercialization of these products according to their respective contributions.
In addition to the joint development projects, Zerion has granted Hovione an exclusive license to exploit the Dispersome® technology for other nutraceuticals/dietary supplements. In return, Hovione will pay Zerion license fees and royalties on sales of the licensed products.
"The low oral bioavailability of some of the health-promoting nutraceutical compounds is a well-known challenge. The problem is compounded by the fact that some of the solutions used in pharma cannot be used in foods." says Jean-Luc Herbeaux, CEO of Hovione. He adds: "Hovione is thrilled to be Zerion´s exclusive partner for the application of Dispersome® to the fields of nutraceuticals and dietary supplements. The Dispersome® platform and its enabling ingredient – beta-lactoglobulin or BLG – afford formulators new options which address unmet needs of the industry."
"I am extremely pleased with this extension of our collaboration", says Ole Wiborg, CEO of Zerion and continues: "The Dispersome® technology is actually very well suited for use in dietary supplements because it employs BLG as its solubility enabling component. BLG is a sustainable natural material and in itself a beneficial nutritional product that we source in high quality from Arla Food Ingredients. Since we as a company only have limited resources to exploit these promising applications of the Dispersome® technology in the nutraceutical field, the collaboration with Hovione is a win/win situation."
In February 2022, Zerion and Hovione announced a strategic partnership aimed at commercializing the Dispersome® technology within the drug development field. Under this partnership, Hovione and Zerion are offering pharma and biotech companies worldwide access to an innovative drug delivery platform combined with an unparalleled experience in formulation development, scale up and GMP manufacturing. This unique combination provides customers in the pharma industry with a line of sight over the entire drug development life cycle from the preclinical phase to commercial drug product.
About Hovione
Hovione is an international company with over 60 years of experience as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with a fully integrated offering of services for drug substance, drug product intermediate and drug product. The company has four FDA inspected sites in the USA, Portugal, Ireland and China and development laboratories in Lisbon, Portugal and New Jersey, USA. Hovione provides pharmaceutical customers services for the development and compliant manufacture of innovative drugs, including highly potent compounds, and customized product solution across the entire drug life cycle. In the inhalation area, Hovione offers a complete range of services, from API, formulation development and devices. Hovione´s culture is based on innovation, quality and delivery. Hovione was the first Chemical/ Pharmaceutical Company to become a Certified B Corp, is a member of Rx-360, EFCG and participates actively in industry quality improvement initiatives to lead new global industry standards.
About Zerion Pharma A/S
Zerion develops proprietary drug formulations and offers the Dispersome® technology to established pharma companies as a means to solve their most challenging drug solubility problems. By applying the Dispersome® technology, the solubility of poorly soluble, oral drugs is greatly enhanced, which improves their bioavailability and therapeutic outcomes for the patients. Zerion was established in 2019 as a spinout from the University of Copenhagen based on almost a decade of research. (Dispersome® is a trademark of Zerion Pharma A/S)
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Metamora unleashed a high-powered offensive show to knock off LaSalle-Peru 57-33 Tuesday at Metamora on December 20 in Illinois girls high school basketball action.
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Monday
GriefShare Grief Recovery Seminar and Support Group, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Bible Baptist Church, 2635 S. Dixon Road, Kokomo. GriefShare features nationally recognized experts on grief recovery topics and is designed for individuals who have lost a family member or friend find help and healing. For more information, call Bible Baptist Church at 765-455-1444, or Gail Ambrose at 765-860-9919.
Go Wild Outside, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Russiaville, 315 Mesa Drive, Russiaville. This event is designed for ages three to five, but children of all ages are welcome. Kids can have fun with music, art, building, climbing and messy play. For more information, call 765-626-0807.
Homeschool Book Club meeting, 10-11 a.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Main, 220 N. Union St., Kokomo. Students who are homeschooled can read and discuss books from a variety of genres. Call 765-626-0827 for the current booklist.
Tuesday
Kids in the Kitchen, 5:30-6;30 p.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Main, 220 N. Union St., Kokomo. Kindergarteners through fifth graders who love to cook and bake can come out and make some no-bake apple desserts. Space is limited and registration is required. Register online at khcpl.org under “Events” or by calling any KHCPL location.
Wednesday
Medicare Information and Q&A Session, 6 p.m., Inventrek Technology Park Conference Room, 700 E. Firmin St., Kokomo. Free information and help with Medicare-related inquiries. For more information call Samaritan Caregivers 765-453-7611.
Versiti Blood Drive, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Community Howard Regional Health, basement classroom, 3500 S. Lafountain St. Sign up online at donorpoint.org or call 1-800-632-4722.
Robots at KHCPL, 5-6 p.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Main, 220 N. Union St., Kokomo. Kids can come in and learn how to code a robot so it can maneuver through a maze. Registration is required. Register online at khcpl.org under “Events” or by calling any KHCPL location.
Ribbon Cutting and Open House, 4-6 p.m., Turning Point SOC, 1234 N. Courtland Avenue, Kokomo. Celebrating the opening of the Recovery Stabilization Center, a 12 bed facility that will be able to offer an average 3-7 day detox support, individual and group therapy, medication bridge clinic and navigation support services. Please RSVP to Sherry Rahl by Sept. 23 at 765-860-0021.
Thursday
Free Health & Wellness Seminar at Kokomo Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1763 E. 100 North, Kokomo, 6:30 p.m., Dr. Tom Ousley, speaker, will present “Life is a gift. Help is a choice. Choose wisely.” Free to the community and open to the public.
Digital Divers, 4-6 p.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Russiaville, 315 Mesa Drive, Russiaville. Have fun and meet new friends while playing Kokomo-Howard County Public Library’s collection of low-tech and high-tech games and doing activities. The more days you attend, the more credit you can earn to use the 3D printer free. Digital Divers will be Sept. 29, Oct. 10, Oct. 27 and Nov. 7.
Friday
Breast in show, 6-9 p.m., The Experience, 1801 Country Club Drive. Silent auction, fashion show, shopping, wine tasting, cash bar, dinner, music and dancing. Purchase a seat for $50. For more information, call Amanda at 765-431-8624.
Unspoken in Concert featuring comedian Mickey Bell, concert starts at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:15 p.m., Cross America Community Center, 840 Daniel Drive. General admission seating. Buy tickets at itickets.com/events/467909.
Bead buddy keychains at KHCPL, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Main, 220 N. Union St., Kokomo. Kids ages 6-11 can choose from a variety of animal patterns to create a cute bead animal keychain. Registration is required. Register online at khcpl.org under “Events” or by calling any KHCPL location.
Oktoberfest 2022, 4:30-8 p.m., St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1204 N. Armstrong St., Kokomo. There will be plenty of food booths and activities, including kids’ games, live music, a live raffle, a live auction, a bake sale, crafts, and more. For more information, go to stpatrick-kokomo.org.
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Russiaville Cemetery Clean-off, Russiaville Cemetery, 3801 S. 775 West, Russiaville. Please have all decorations removed before Oct. 1. For more information, contact Megan Reel at mreel@townofrussiaville.com. | 2022-09-26T07:18:14+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/area_briefs/calendar-sept-26-2022/article_1072b98c-3d15-11ed-b718-dbb4b3c2b3fb.html |
One by one, Celeste Holbrook drew crisply folded note cards from a bag on her desk. Moments before, she asked students in Santiago Piñón’s “Introduction to Christian Ethics” class at Texas Christian University to write her a question, any question, they had about sex.
Alternately, she said, they could jot down a favorite Bible verse, sex joke or anatomical sketch.
“I got a really great picture of a penis and a vulva that I’m not going to show you guys,” she said, opening a card. “I don’t know who drew it, but it’s really lovely. And I love it. Thank you.”
Holbrook is a sex educator in Fort Worth. She has a Ph.D. in health education from Texas Woman’s University, an education business and a demeanor that both disarms and defies. Her purpose, she said, is to help people feel better in their bodies, and she does so by offering adults the sex education they didn’t get in school.
“(My dream is) that I leave this world helping people feel more pleasure and more comfortable in their bodies than when I got here,” she said. “I mean, literally, if that was it, like, ‘Man, she helped me feel better.’ If that’s all that I did in this world, I’d be so happy.”
Holbrook is careful to mention she’s not a therapist or clinician, and she works only with adults. As an educator, she emphasizes sex as a pathway for pleasure rather than reproduction. After a season marked by the pandemic, she said, people can benefit from that lens.
“I think it’s time to kind of reclaim pleasure as something that’s healing, something that is connective, something that is certainly positive, and away from this idea of pleasure being selfish or hedonistic,” she said. “If we can learn how to access pleasure through sex — this very vulnerable, very raw, organic part of our life — we can access pleasure in other ways more easily.”
‘Sex education saved me and my relationship’
Holbrook begins her lectures with her own story: She grew up Christian in a small Texas town and waited to have sex until marriage. Her first time, on her wedding day, brimmed with pain — a trend that continued through her first year of marriage.
When she sought help from a gynecologist, his prescription was direct: Get pregnant. Childbirth would help relax her vagina, he reasoned.
Holbrook balked.
“I needed somebody who could hold my hand and say, ‘I see that you’re feeling shame, I see that you’re feeling resentment, I see that you do not have enough sex education. And all of those feelings are valid,’” she said.
The moment became a juncture for her career. Back then, Holbrook had been pursuing her Ph.D. in health education and teaching college classes. She pivoted to focus on sex education. In the past decade, she said she’s met with hundreds of couples and taught hundreds of hours of classes.
“When I tell you that sex education saved me and my relationship, I am not being bombastic,” she told the TCU students. “It actually did save my relationship. And so that’s why I’m so passionate about sex education, now, 16 years later, still married to that same lovely man.”
The anecdote serves as an offering. Holbrook hopes her own vulnerability will welcome others’, she told the Fort Worth Report.
“I’ll give you this (story) to show you that I’m OK, I’m a trusted person,” she said. “Establishing trust and relationship is showing up regularly … (and) talking about the hard stuff in a way that feels shame-free.”
Here’s how to get in touch with Holbrook:
Email: info@drcelesteholbrook.com
Phone: (682) 207-1047
Website: www.drcelesteholbrook.com/
‘I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine’
Lessening the grip of shame is a central tenet in Holbrook’s curriculum. She helps people do so through a theoretical framework she calls the Sexual Hierarchy of Needs.
Like psychologist Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy, Holbrook’s theory begins with the tangible.
The first level centers anatomy. “You really need to know about your own body in order to experience pleasure,” she said. The next levels address increasingly abstract needs: safety and consent, a sense of love or belonging, feelings of pleasure and, finally, liberation.
“Liberation looks like defining pleasure for yourself,” Holbrook said. The experience can take many forms: abstinence, monogamy, multiple partners or some other lifestyle. “It could be any of those things, as long as they are yours and not solely defined by outside systems, people or trends.”
Piñón, with TCU, invited Holbrook to teach about Song of Solomon, a book of love poetry in the Old Testament. Two lovers narrate, and in their discourse Holbrook found a Biblical model for sexual liberation.
“We don’t look to the Bible for best practice (when it comes to) good sex. A lot of times we hear about the Bible as a description of what we shouldn’t be doing,” she told the class. “So what I did was, I looked through the Bible, and I thought, there has to be some sort of description of good sex in here somewhere, and I found it in the Song of Solomon.”
Holbrook overlaid the Sexual Hierarchy of Needs on the text, pointing out how each level corresponds with a passage. She highlighted Song of Solomon 6:3: “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.”
Even this well-known verse, she said, signals belonging.
‘Your needs are OK’
Holbrook’s model is brilliant, said Rosanne Hauck, a Realtor in Fort Worth who worked with Holbrook one-on-one for nearly two years. Hauck initially sought the educator’s help in 2019, when she wanted to better understand and improve her connection to sex.
Hauck, who’s also a professional violinist, said she grew up learning to perform, and that performance mentality fed into how she thought about intimacy. Domestic and spiritual abuse provided further trauma.
Holbrook helped her ask better questions about what she did and did not want. She helped her discover pleasure. “One, you have needs,” Hauck remembers learning. “Two, your needs are OK, and, three, you can speak about them.”
The exploration of need coincided with a drawing of boundaries, Hauck said. Holbrook helped her lean into what she could safely enjoy.
“I can expand and I can throw myself out to the sexual world, but there are things that are also going to be a risk healthwise,” Hauck said. “Liberation doesn’t mean an avoidance of healthy choices.”
Holbrook’s pleasure-focus felt especially apropos. For Hauck, reproduction wasn’t an option: She’d had a hysterectomy and two adopted children.
In the TCU classroom, Holbrook explained her approach. When people have sex, she said, they mostly do it for reasons beyond reproduction. An oft-cited study from 2007 outlined nearly 250 reasons people have sex. Furthermore, she said, not everyone who has sex or wants to have sex can bear a child.
Hauck witnessed this complexity during one of Holbrook’s pleasure education courses, in which she teaches small groups how to increase their and their partner’s enjoyment of sex. A woman who looked to be in her 70s attended, and she shared that her husband signed her up for the class.
As they aged, the woman explained, their experience of and communication surrounding sex changed. The couple wanted new ways to engage each other.
For Hauck, the exchange was beautiful and candid.
“As we age,” Hauck said, “and as we have disability and we have accidents and other things, sex is a part of that. And that should evolve with us.”
‘Her reach is going to be vast’
When Holbrook asked the TCU students to submit a question, she ensured each person wrote something on a card. The process allowed people anonymity, and under its protection they opened like a flower.
They asked about morality, anatomy and communication. One person asked about porn: Is it healthy? Another, sex education: When should children learn it? A third, sexual ethics: If a guy refuses to wear a condom, should he pay for Plan B?
For more than 30 minutes, Holbrook answered every question she drew. As the class period came to a close, she thanked the students for their curiosity. “I love all of you,” she said. “I hope you have a wonderful day and great sex for the rest of your life.”
College students are Holbrook’s youngest proteges. Most of her clients are between 30 and 80, and her criteria is wide: “Anybody who’s having sex or wants to be having sex.”
Her work doesn’t get much pushback, she said, but when it does, the criticism stems from both sides of the political spectrum. Some people think she doesn’t advocate for abstinence enough; others, that she’s not inclusive enough. More frustrating, she said, is the digital harassment she receives from men. “It’s really sad,” she said, “and makes me want to do this work even more.”
Holbrook hopes the lessons she teaches adults pass to their children, and she advocates for more sex education in the home.
“I’d much rather teach parents how to talk to their own kids, because that’s really who the kid is going to listen to the most, right?” she said. “And that’s really my goal: to help empower parents to do that work with their own kids.”
Hauck’s children are 18 and 10. She talks to them about sex, about relationships, about red flags and consent. Her go-to method for the latter is a British video that substitutes tea for sex.
She’s thankful for the guidance she received from Holbrook. She feels lucky to know her. She knows Holbrook’s stage will only expand from here.
“We’re lucky that she’s local for us now, because there’s going to be a day where I think she’s international, or at least national,” Hauck said. “Her reach is going to be vast. She has the potential, and I think she’s headed in the direction of someone who is going to change the conversation about sex in America.”
Alexis Allison is the health reporter at the Fort Worth Report. Contact her at alexis.allison@fortworthreport.org or via Twitter.
Her position is supported by a grant from Texas Health Resources. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here. | 2023-04-10T18:19:12+00:00 | fortworthreport.org | https://fortworthreport.org/2023/04/10/this-fort-worth-educator-wants-you-to-have-good-sex/ |
Sherry L. Whalen, 74
Published 5:12 pm Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Sherry Lynn Whalen, age 74, of Austin, Minnesota, died peacefully with her family at her side on the morning of Friday, March 3, 2023. Born on July 27, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Wesley and Ruth Lastine. She was married to Ron Whalen at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Austin, Minnesota on June 4, 1966. She attended Austin High School and Austin Community College and got her Nursing Assistant degree. Sherry spent her adult life in Austin, Minnesota with the love of her life, Ronald Whalen, whom she was with for 61 years. They created a beautiful life together. Sherry worked a few jobs along the way but her favorite job was a homemaker. Sherry and Ron raised 5 children, but many people called her mom. She always made people feel like part of the family. She always made sure the neighborhood was fed. She was a loving, attentive, compassionate, and eternal caregiver. Sherry spent a huge part of her life donating her time. She volunteered, along with her loving husband, at the Salvation Army cooking dinner for families that didn’t have food or didn’t have anyone to spend the holidays with. She was an amazing cook and spent a lot of time catering events for friends and families. Many people talked about Sherry’s cooking. Sherry’s specialty, though, was making people feel welcomed and loved. She believed in the good of people and that people deserved second chances in life. She had a very strong faith and knew God would take care of her and her family. She said before she passed that she is glad she will be able to watch us all from heaven!
Sherry is survived by her husband, Ronald Whalen of Austin, MN; daughters, Connie (Pat) Branchaud of Lyle, MN, Tammy (Tony) Whalen of Austin, MN, Teresa Whalen-King of Austin, MN, and Sherry (Chad) Heard of Lyle, MN; son, Ronnie (Brenda) Whalen of Myrtle Beach, SC; 52 grand and great grandchildren; brothers, Wes (Patricia) Lastine of Mason City, IA and Robert (Laura) Lastine of SunValley, NV; and her sister, Debra (Bruce) Schorr of Sioux Falls, SD. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wesley and Ruth Lastine; sister, Margaret Hareid; brothers, William Thompson, Mark Lastine, and John Lastine; granddaughter, Lilly Ann Whalen; and great granddaughter, Sophia Samantha Branchaud.
A private family service will be held. Worlein Funeral Home of Austin is assisting the family with arrangements. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.worlein.com. | 2023-03-08T00:26:45+00:00 | austindailyherald.com | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2023/03/sherry-l-whalen-74/ |
FLORISSANT, Mo. — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental investigation consultants.
The report by Boston Chemical Data Corp. confirmed fears about contamination at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant raised by a previous Army Corps of Engineers study.
The new report is based on samples taken in August from the school, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Boston Chemical did not say who or what requested and funded the report.
"I was heartbroken," said Ashley Bernaugh, president of the Jana parent-teacher association who has a son at the school. "It sounds so cliché, but it takes your breath from you."
The school sits in the flood plain of Coldwater Creek, which was contaminated by nuclear waste from weapons production during World War II. The waste was dumped at sites near the St. Louis Lambert International Airport, next to the creek that flows to the Missouri River. The Corps has been cleaning up the creek for more than 20 years.
The Corps' report also found contamination in the area but at much at lower levels, and it didn't take any samples within 300 feet of the school. The most recent report included samples taken from Jana's library, kitchen, classrooms, fields and playgrounds.
Levels of the radioactive isotope lead-210, polonium, radium and other toxins were "far in excess" of what Boston Chemical had expected. Dust samples taken inside the school were found to be contaminated.
Inhaling or ingesting these radioactive materials can cause significant injury, the report said.
"A significant remedial program will be required to bring conditions at the school in line with expectations," the report said.
The new report is expected to be a major topic at Tuesday's Hazelwood school board meeting. The district said in a statement that it will consult with its attorneys and experts to determine the next steps.
"Safety is absolutely our top priority for our staff and students," board president Betsy Rachel said Saturday.
Christen Commuso with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment presented the results of the Corps' study to the school board in June after obtaining a copy through a Freedom of Information Act request.
"I wouldn't want my child in this school," she said. "The effect of these toxins is cumulative."
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Canadian golfer tackled by security trying to celebrate countryman’s win
TORONTO (AP) — Nick Taylor tossed his putter into the air and jumped into the arms of caddie Dave Markle after he made a 72-foot eagle putt to become the first Canadian in 69 years to win his national open, and he doesn’t remember any of it.
“I blacked out when that ball went in with Dave. So I’m curious to watch that, what we did,” Taylor said.
Few who witnessed it will ever forget.
Taylor delivered a signature moment in Canadian sports when his uphill, left-to-right-breaking putt — the longest made putt of his PGA Tour career — hit the flagstick and dropped on the fourth hole of a playoff against Tommy Fleetwood for the RBC Canadian Open title.
“It’s a tournament that we’ve circled on our calendar since probably junior golf,” Taylor said. “To kind of break that curse, if you want to call it, is — I’m pretty speechless. I don’t think it’s going to sink in for quite some time what happened today.”
Fellow Canadian players Mike Weir, Corey Conners and Adam Hadwin were among those who ran onto the green to congratulate him. Hadwin, Taylor’s close friend, was tackled by a security guard while spraying champagne from a bottle.
The last player from Canada to win the Canadian Open was Pat Fletcher in 1954 at Point Grey in Vancouver. Fletcher was born in England; Carl Keffer had been the only Canadian-born champion, winning in 1909 and 1914. Weir lost a playoff to Vijay Singh in 2004.
“I’ve looked up to Mike Weir and watched him play golf for so long, and for him to be there was special,” Taylor said.
With galleries cheering his every move and even serenading him with “O Canada” on one tee box, Taylor curled in an 11-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to finish at 17-under 271 at Oakdale, walking backwards with his fist raised as the ball dropped into the cup. He shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday.
“It was the most incredible atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of and it’s not even close. I think even walking the first tee today, walking to the first green, there’s ovations on every single tee and green,” Taylor said. “When Tommy would miss and they would cheer, I kind of felt bad for him. But I knew just how pumped they were and they were trying to put every ounce of energy into it to help me pull it through.”
Fleetwood needed a birdie on the reachable par 5 to win in regulation, but he missed his tee shot right, laid up into an awkward lie in the right rough and two-putted for par to force the playoff in rainy conditions.
The players traded birdies on their first time playing No. 18 in the playoff. They both parred 18 and the par-3 ninth before heading back to 18.
Taylor’s tee shot found a divot in the fairway, but he hit his second shot 221 yards to the front of the green, while Fleetwood laid up after his drive found a fairway bunker. Fleetwood hit his third shot to 12 feet, but didn’t need to putt after Taylor’s eagle putt hit the flagstick and dropped.
Taylor expected Fleetwood to make his putt and focused on getting his lengthy try to the hole.
“The speed is all I was thinking about,” Taylor said. “For that to drop is — it was a huge surprise but an amazing one.”
Fans swarmed toward the green, and Hadwin — who like Taylor grew up in Abbotsford, British Columbia — got leveled amid the chaos. He said he had so much adrenaline that the tackle didn’t faze him.
“It’s incredible. I mean, what do you say to one of the greatest moments of Canadian golf history?” Hadwin said. “I think we all predicted that this was going to happen.
“I’m not sure that any one of us predicted a 72-foot eagle putt ... to get it done, but what a way to go.”
The 35-year-old Taylor, who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, won for the third time on the PGA Tour. He shot 75 in Thursday’s opening round but rallied with a 67 on Friday to make the cut, then shot 63 on Saturday to begin the final round three shots behind leader C.T. Pan.
“I was on the 7th hole, I remember, the first day, my 16th hole, with 10 feet for par. And made that. And birdied 8 and parred the last to kind of like somewhat be in the cut sight,” Taylor said. “So to be standing there and then sitting here today is pretty remarkable, to be honest.”
Taylor is the fourth Canadian to win on tour this season, joining Conners, Mackenzie Hughes and Adam Svensson.
Two-time defending champion Rory McIlroy, two shots back of Pan entering the final round, closed with a 72 and finished in a tie for ninth, five shots back.
Fleetwood, a two-time Ryder Cup player from England and a six-time winner on the European tour, remains winless on the PGA Tour.
“I played great today, even though I missed some chances, if you like, on those playoff holes,” Fleetwood said. “Yeah, it was close. I just have to take the positives from it and start practicing tomorrow. I got a major next week. So can’t dwell on it too much.”
Tyrrell Hatton (64), Aaron Rai (69) and Pan (70) finished one shot out of the playoff.
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Waterloo folks should be prepared for high temperatures. It looks to reach a warm 81 degrees. We'll see a low temperature of 62 degrees today. Rain is expected for this Wednesday. Forecasting models show a 82% chance of precipitation. The UV index today is high. The sun's rays will be intense. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Wear sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen when in sunlight. The area will see gentle winds today, with forecast models showing only 8 mph wind conditions coming up from Southwest. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. For more daily forecast information, visit wcfcourier.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schmitt Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMIT) (the "Company" or "Schmitt") announces that it has closed the Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreement (the "Sale Agreement") with Tofte Farms, LLC ("Tofte") to purchase the 2765 NW Nicolai Street, Portland, Oregon property (the "Property") of Schmitt for a purchase price of $3,500,000. Net proceeds are estimated to be $3,200,000 for Schmitt.
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Untreated crawl spaces can let mold thrive and all type of critter move in. Encapsulation is the best way to control both of these issues in your home. That’s right, if it’s in your crawl space, it’s in your home.
Frequently asked questions:
Why is completely sealing the crawl space the best option? It stops the air movement from the crawl space getting up and into your home. And if there is HVAC ductwork in the crawl space then the savings on the power bill is an added bonus too.
Why are sump pumps needed in a crawl space? I don’t live or use that area. Keeping the water from “Ponding” is critical for the longevity of the home’s structure, both the wood and the foundation.
Can I just use a dehumidifier to dry out the crawl space? Not with unsealed vents and space. Sealing first is a must. And a strong dehumidifer is rquired to actually get the whole space dry. The wood holds more moisture than homeowners understand.
The actual material we use and a sample piece of the factory seam to see it someone could pull it apart…. they won’t.
ALSO, the lid for our crawl space sump pump had a lid and that’s so important to stop evaporation from getting up and out of the sump pump pit.
AND a Sedona Air dehumidifier.
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Former Uber security chief guilty of data breach coverup
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service.
A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Joseph Sullivan of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge that a federal felony had been committed, federal prosecutors said.
Sullivan remains free on bond pending sentencing and could face a total of eight years in prison on the two charges when he is sentenced, prosecutors said.
“Technology companies in the Northern District of California collect and store vast amounts of data from users,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds said in a statement. “We will not tolerate concealment of important information from the public by corporate executives more interested in protecting their reputation and that of their employers than in protecting users.”
It was believed to be the first criminal prosecution of a company executive over a data breach.
A lawyer for Sullivan, David Angeli, took issue with the verdict.
“Mr. Sullivan’s sole focus — in this incident and throughout his distinguished career — has been ensuring the safety of people’s personal data on the internet,” Angeli told the New York Times.
An email to Uber seeking comment on the conviction wasn’t immediately returned.
Sullivan was hired as Uber’s chief security officer in 2015. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver’s license numbers, prosecutors said.
After learning of the breach, Sullivan began a scheme to hide it from the public and the Federal Trade Commission, which had been investigating a smaller 2014 hack, authorities said.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Sullivan told subordinates that “the story outside of the security group was to be that ‘this investigation does not exist,’” and arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements promising not to reveal the hack. He also never mentioned the breach to Uber lawyers who were involved with the FTC’s inquiry, prosecutors said.
“Sullivan orchestrated these acts despite knowing that the hackers were hacking and extorting other companies as well as Uber,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Uber’s new management began investigating the breach in the fall of 2017. Despite Sullivan lying to the new chief executive officer and others, the truth was uncovered and the breach was made public, prosecutors said.
Sullivan was fired along with Craig Clark, an Uber lawyer he had told about the breach. Clark was given immunity by prosecutors and testified against Sullivan.
No other Uber executives were charged in the case.
The hackers pleaded guilty in 2019 to computer fraud conspiracy charges and are awaiting sentencing.
Sullivan was convicted of obstruction of proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony, meaning concealing knowledge of a felony from authorities.
Meanwhile, some experts have questioned how much cybersecurity has improved at Uber since the breach.
The company announced last month that all its services were operational following what security professionals called a major data breach, claiming there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
The lone hacker apparently gained access posing as a colleague, tricking an Uber employee into surrendering their credentials. Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate they obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data.
It is not known how much data the hacker stole or how long they were inside Uber’s network. There was no indication they destroyed data.
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Global Debut of H2 Fueling Products featuring 'XP-1' Vehicle
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyperion Motors, Inc. will be showcasing its spaceship-inspired 'XP-1 Hyper:Car' for the first time on a world stage at AutoMobility LA™ Nov 17 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This hydrogen-powered vehicle incorporates NASA H2 technologies to deliver 2,000+ horsepower to 4 axial-flux electric motors.
Additionally, Hyperion will globally launch its 'XF-7 Hyper:Fuel' power station. This space station-inspired charger utilizes several NASA technologies to refuel hydrogen (FCEV) and battery (BEV) electric vehicles. Because hydrogen ions (hyper-ion) can store mass amounts of electricity, this station can easily charge battery and fuel cell systems. Beyond this, XF-7 can also provide utility grid support for emergency and backup power applications.
Hyperion will exhibit its futuristic product line showcasing the complete H2 ecosystem— starting with solar power to generate hydrogen, and ending with electrically powered vehicles with water vapor exhaust. All company products are inspired by space travel and utilize NASA technologies. Come to the LA Auto Show to learn about hydrogen and the future of fuel!
Founded in 2011, Hyperion Motors, Inc. is a technology company that focuses on green hydrogen-based power and delivery. From mobile to stationary power, Hyperion seeks to revolutionize the energy sector by producing high-quality, scalable hydrogen fuel cell technology for use in a wide variety of industries. More information about Hyperion can be found at www.hyperion.inc. Follow Hyperion on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Ulta Beauty Associates Receive Discounted Tuition at Leading University
CHICAGO, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tricoci University of Beauty Culture, a leader in beauty education specializing in Cosmetology and Esthetics, announced today a new partnership with Ulta Beauty that offers its associates 15% off annual tuition costs. The partnership is applicable at all Tricoci University of Beauty Culture campuses and available to all full and part-time Ulta Beauty associates as well as their immediate family members.
"Many aspiring beauty leaders begin their careers at beauty stores," said Nate Swanson, Chief Executive Officer, Tricoci University of Beauty Culture. "We are thrilled to provide greater access to education with highly respected beauty organizations to help empower their employees as they pursue their passions and increase access to opportunities within our exciting industry."
The Ulta Beauty partnership mirrors similar programs with Dermalogica, professional grade skin care brand and treatment expertise trusted by licensed skin therapists worldwide; Malibu C, professional hair and skin care brand with customized selections of eco-friendly, cruelty free, vegan and plant-based remedies; Razor Roar Wellness Barber Lounge; and Ardeur and Beauty Salon, as well as the University's founding partner, Mario Tricoci Salon & Spa.
Tricoci University students employed by these partners can leverage the exclusive tuition offer on any beauty training program offered at the University, including Cosmetology, Barber, Esthetics, Nail Technology and Teacher Training. The University has fifteen campuses located across the Chicagoland area, Central Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Educational programs vary by campus and the tuition discount is limited to one program at a time.
The partnership program is effective immediately and more information about Tricoci University of Beauty Culture can be found by visiting www.tricociuniversity.edu.
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture is a premier beauty education provider with 15 locations throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Tricoci University is focused on producing salon-ready graduates who are prepared for successful careers in the beauty industry. Founded by international beauty industry leader Mario Tricoci, Tricoci University is developing a new type of beauty professional by using innovative teaching methods, an interactive learning platform, and upscale facilities. All guest services are provided by students under the supervision of licensed instructors. For more information about Tricoci University of Beauty Culture please visit www.tricociuniversity.edu.
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Leveraging AI Technology, More Capacity and a Sleek Design, LG's Newest Laundry Innovations Offer the Ultimate in Clothing Care and Convenience
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics USA (LG) is reimagining laundry day with the introduction of its newly-designed Smart Front Load Washer and Dryer Pair. Featuring a sleek esthetic and dovetailed with cutting-edge built-in intelligence, the latest models deliver the utmost in cleaning performance and convenience. LG is also releasing new top load washer and dryer models to offer consumers an array of options to suit their laundry needs. These latest laundry solutions feature LG's exclusive TurboWash® 360° and TurboSteam™ technology along with a variety of tech-forward features to make laundry routines effortless.
Intuitive Design & Functionality
With its elegant, award-winning1 design, the LG Smart Front Load Washer and Dryer Pair is designed to help consumers take back their day with steam refresh, built-in intelligence and Wi-Fi enabled access for laundry on the go.2 The intuitive dial control offers helpful information with each turn of the dial, plus instant access to timesaving features like Smart Learner and Smart Pairing. Plus, the pair's elegant, streamlined design does not compromise depth in any setting, whether the washer and dryer are stacked or side-by-side.
LG's new Black Steel finish completes the modern design, offering a sleek aesthetic as well as resistance to fingerprints and smudges to keep the laundry pair looking new. Plus, the mega capacity of the washer (5.0 cu. ft.) and dryer (7.4 cu. ft.) allow users to get more laundry done in fewer loads.
With LG's exclusive Artificial Intelligence Direct Drive (AI DD™), the new Front Load Washer delivers a customized performance that can sense load size, fabric type, and level of soiling. It then automatically adds the recommended amount of detergent and adjusts the wash cycle for optimized cleaning. When it's time for drying, LG's AI Sensor Dry™ detects moisture levels and automatically adjusts drying time for loads of all sizes so there is no more worrying about damp clothes or over drying. For greater convenience, LG's Smart Pairing feature sends information from the washer to the dryer and automatically recommends the optimal drying cycle to eliminate the guesswork.3
The mega capacity washer delivers high performance and state-of-the-art innovation to get the toughest cleaning jobs done with powerful features such as LG's TurboWash® 360° technology, which allows users to finish larger loads in under 30 minutes.4 ColdWash™ technology uses cold water and enhanced washing motions to penetrate deep into fabrics, so consumers can save money without compromising on performance from warm water cycles. Plus, users can wash small loads that can't wait or two loads at once with the LG SideKick™ Pedestal Washer.5 For those looking for a quick clean between washes, steam refresh clothes toys, decorative pillows and more with TurboSteam™ that generates steam penetrating deep into fabrics.
Laundry Options to Suit Any Preference
LG is upgrading traditional top load washers with new tech-forward models (WT7155CW, WT7400CV, WT7405CV, WT7900HBA) featuring high-power and efficient technologies such as LG's 4-Way™ Agitator technology, TurboDrum™, and water plus options that make washing easier than ever.
The 4-Way™ Agitator maximizes wash motions with unique movements for a thorough yet gentle clean. TurboDrum™ technology creates a powerful water flow for a complete clean. For the deep clean users already expect from LG, the water plus feature allows users to add extra water to any cycle with the touch of a button whenever you choose. Plus, unlike porcelain or plastic tubs, the smooth stainless-steel tub helps prevent snags that ruin clothing.
Asthma & Allergy Friendly®
Along with many of LG's top-rated washers and dryers, both of the new Front Load and Top Load laundry models are CERTIFIED asthma & allergy friendly® by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. The Allergiene™ wash cycle goes beyond everyday laundry by removing more than 95 percent6 of common household allergens in fabrics using the gentle power of steam.
Smarter Laundry Solutions
LG's latest laundry offerings also allow for easy monitoring and operation of washing and drying cycles along with troubleshooting with Smart Diagnosis™ via the ThinQ app for complete convenience. To offer the ultimate piece of mind, LG's ThinQ Care analyzes appliance usage patterns to provide reports on product performance. The comprehensive AI service proactively contacts the homeowner should a potential service issue be detected, to ensure that LG products are always performing at their best. Users can register on the LG ThinQ app.
Available Now at Retail
LG's new Smart Front Load Washer and Dryer Pair is now available at LG.com and retailers nationwide starting at $1,599, and the Top Load Washers are available starting at $949. For more information on LG's full portfolio of innovative laundry appliances, visit www.lg.com/us/laundry.
1 LG Washer and Dryer was named as a winner of the Red Dot Award 2022 Best of the Best https://www.red-dot.org/project/lg-washer-and-dryer-55481.
2 Appliance must be set to remote enable. Wi-fi and ThinQ app required.
3 Both washer and dryer need to be registered in LG ThinQ app and connected to Wi-Fi to set up Smart Pairing feature.
4 Based on independent testing on comparable models WM4500 and WM3900 in normal cycle with TurboWash® Option, 10 lb. load (March 2021).
5 LG SideKick™ 27" Pedestal Washer Sold Separately.
6 Based on certification by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indy Irish Fest announced the festival is unable to continue and will be canceled after 26 years.
Since 1995, Indy Irish Fest has celebrated Irish heritage and culture.
The festival usually takes place in September each year, and includes live music, Irish dance shows, cultural exhibits and food. The festival also hosted a Gaelic football tournament and a 5K run.
The festival announced in a Facebook post that it does not have the funding to continue running.
“As a not-for-profit organization, we rely on profits from the year’s previous festival, sponsorships and donations to put on Indy Irish Fest,” the post read.
After a year off in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they have not been able to recover financially and have not been able to keep up with increased expenses.
“We are eternally grateful to every single volunteer who has given their time and talents to the Indy Irish Fest,” the post said. “A special thank you to anyone who has ever attended the festival. Fest fans, entertainers, vendors and musicians. Your joy, cheering and dancing meant the world to us.” | 2023-06-17T17:37:47+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indy-irish-fest-cancelled-due-to-lack-of-funding |
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park’s entrance that sent visitors scrambling for safety and prompted the park to close early, authorities said.
Officers responded about 7:50 p.m. Sunday after 911 calls reporting shots fired at Six Flags Great America, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Chicago, the Gurnee Police Department said.
“The shooting … was not a random act, and appeared to be a targeted incident that occurred outside the park,” police said in a statement posted to Facebook.
According to an initial investigation, police said a white sedan entered the parking lot and drove toward the park’s front entrance. People got out of the car and shot at another person in the parking lot before driving away, police said.
Additional details about the suspects, including the number of people who fired shots, wasn’t immediately released. Police were investigating.
A 17-year-old boy from Aurora, Illinois, had a thigh wound and a 19-year-old woman from Appleton, Wisconsin, had a leg wound, police said. They were taken to a hospital and their wounds were described as non-life-threatening. A third victim had a shoulder injury and declined to be taken to a hospital.
Six Flags Great America said in a statement that park security responded immediately to the shooting along with Gurnee officers. Spokeswoman Rachel Kendziora said the park closed early Sunday evening, with guests and employees leaving the site under the direction of Gurnee police.
The park reopened as scheduled Monday morning, she said.
WGN News in Chicago spoke with Laurie Walker and her daughter, Grace, who were inside the park when the shooting occurred. Walker said they were waiting in line for an attraction around 7:50 p.m. when she noticed people running.
“‘There is an active shooter, get down, get down,’” Walker said she heard someone shouting. “We didn’t know what was going on, so we get down.”
Walker and her daughter climbed two fences to get where she could call her husband. Walker told WGN she was able to leave the park a short while later.
Gurnee is in Lake County, about 5 miles south of the Wisconsin border. It’s about 20 miles north of Highland Park, where seven people died in a mass shooting during a July Fourth parade. | 2022-08-15T17:07:03+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-top-headlines/six-flags-amusement-park-shooting-near-chicago-leaves-3-hurt/ |
KHERSON, Ukraine — On a foggy morning a few months ago, Valentyn Dmytrovych Yermolenko, an aging Ukrainian fisherman with a bad back and horrible knees, puttered down a narrow channel off the Dnieper River, his inflatable dinghy cutting through the mist.
His city, Kherson, had been taken over by the Russian army, and on the floor of his boat, concealed under a fishing net in a black plastic tub, Yermolenko had hidden three disassembled automatic rifles.
As he took a bend in the river, he recalled, a Russian patrol boat materialized in front of him. A commander standing on the deck in crisp camouflage barked: “Grandpa! Where are you going?”
After Yermolenko muttered something about getting fish for his wife, the commander ordered a search of the boat. A young soldier stomped aboard and went straight to the black plastic tub.
“What is this?” he asked.
Yermolenko, 64, said he was so scared that he wet his pants.
Kherson, at the mouth of the Dnieper, near the Black Sea, was captured in the war’s first days. Russian officials soon declared it part of Russia forever.
Kherson’s occupation government, run by Russian military commanders and Ukrainian collaborators, wasted little time pulling down Ukrainian flags, taking over Ukrainian schools, trucking in crates of Russian rubles, even importing Russian families. Perhaps nowhere else in Ukraine did Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, devote so much money and violence, the carrot and the stick, to bend a city to his imperial will.
But it did not work.
Guided by contacts in the Ukrainian security services, an assembly of ordinary citizens formed themselves into a grassroots resistance movement. In dozens of interviews, residents and Ukrainian officials described how retirees like Yermolenko — along with students, mechanics, grandmothers and even a wealthy couple who were fixing up their yacht and got trapped in the city for the better part of a year — became spirited partisans for the Kherson underground. It was almost like something out of a spy movie.
They took clandestine videos of Russian troops and sent them to Ukrainian forces along with map coordinates. They used code names and passwords to circulate guns and explosives right under the Russians’ noses. Some even formed small attack teams that picked off Russian soldiers at night, making the fear and paranoia that settled over the city two-sided.
When the Russian army hastily pulled out in mid-November, perhaps the biggest embarrassment so far to Putin’s war effort, Kherson became a powerful symbol. To allies questioning Ukraine’s resolve, and to Ukrainians themselves who had suffered so much misery and death and needed a glimmer of hope, Kherson showed what was possible.
Now that the Russian forces are gone and people feel free to talk about what they did and even brag a little, one message keeps emerging.
“I never questioned what we were doing,” said Dmytro Yevminov, the yacht owner whom Yermolenko recruited into hiding guns and sacks of grenades in various boatyards. “I never knew I loved my country so much.”
‘Like Links in a Chain’
Yermolenko and his wife, Olena, might not seem like insurgent types. Hovering over each other in their small kitchen, the rushing blue flame on the stove serving as the home’s only source of heat, they shoo each other away and shush each other, arguing over who is the bigger patriot.
“I’m the one who forced you to feel like this,” she said, laughing.
“Well,” Valentyn Yermolenko sighed, “maybe this country didn’t give me everything I wanted. But it’s still my country.”
They met in Kherson in 1978. She was a clerk at a shipbuilding plant. He had been born in Belarus and had just exited the Soviet army.
He spied her sunbathing on a beach alongside the Dnieper River and soon they married, moving to a riverside Kherson neighborhood called the Island, where people make their living off the water one way or another: fishing, working at boatyards or at the shipbuilding plants, servicing marine engines. The Yermolenkos used to run a smoked-fish business but retired a few years ago. It was not long before their lives were upended.
On Feb. 24, the first day of the invasion, thousands of Russian troops poured into Kherson. Like in many other Ukrainian cities, local residents, some with military experience, banded together into a group known as a territorial defense force to try to repel Moscow’s army. Valentyn Yermolenko and his teenage grandson, also named Valentyn, enlisted.
They had few weapons, mostly just some old hunting rifles. Worse, the Ukrainian military made a strategic decision to withdraw from Kherson, leaving the local fighters on their own.
They tried to ambush a Russian column a few days after the invasion but failed miserably, according to witnesses, leaving at least 18 militia members dead on the frozen ground. After that, the Kherson resistance changed tactics. It went underground.
Members of the local defense force and other civilians began to spy on Russian troops in the city. The Ukrainian security services encouraged this — within days of the war breaking out, they set up special channels on Telegram and other messaging services for people to funnel strategic tips. The Yermolenkos volunteered to aggregate information from their neighborhood. Since they had been living on the Island for so long, they knew everyone, and Valentyn Yermolenko maintained contacts within the Ukrainian military from his connections to the territorial defense force.
Every day, the Yermolenkos said, they received dozens of videos, audio files and texts tracking the location of Russian troops moving through their city — how many there were, what kind of vehicles they were using and their direction of travel. All this was incredibly dangerous, but countless people were willing to do it.
“We had a grandma in a high-rise feeding us stuff,” Olena Yermolenko, 65, said. “We had Dima and Oksana on the water in their sailboat watching the Russian river patrols. We had people everywhere.”
Their house, they said, became “a transmitter.”
The resistance movement would soon evolve. In the next few weeks, Ukrainian military commanders and intelligence agents based outside the city asked civilians whom they trusted, including the Yermolenkos, to do even more.
Life was getting grim. Kherson was running out of food. Stores were closed. People were out of work. Russian troops were searching for civilians who were spying on them; many residents shared disturbing stories of themselves or people they knew being dragged into torture chambers and subjected to electric shocks and sadistic beatings.
But the residents kept finding avenues of resistance. In mid-April, a rash of yellow ribbons mysteriously appeared all over Kherson, spray-painted on buildings. It was a small act of defiance. But residents said that Russian soldiers were so enraged that they had stormed into hardware stores and demanded to see closed-circuit TV footage to find out who had been buying yellow paint.
As the weeks ticked away, Valentyn Yermolenko became more careful in whom he confided, he said. Slowly, he struck up a friendship with Yevminov, a successful entrepreneur whose around-the-world sailboat trip went by the wayside. The two men huddled by the waterfront, pretending that they were staring at circles from fish jumps or talking about boats, and spied on Russian patrols prowling the river.
One day, Yermolenko, who tends not to express a lot of emotion, pulled Yevminov aside and said, “Will you feed my dogs if something happens to me?”
Yermolenko felt himself getting sucked into a more dangerous role. He said that he had started receiving coded messages from contacts within the resistance network about weapons. The messages were fragmentary — a code name, a location, a password. His job was to move assault rifles, bullets and grenades from one location to another.
Yermolenko, along with other members of Kherson’s partisan network and a Ukrainian military officer from the city, said in interviews that the weapons had passed from civilian to civilian. Eventually, they were handed over to undercover Ukrainian security agents who had filtered quietly back into Kherson or to members of the underground territorial defense force.
“The system was built like links in a chain,” said Oleksandr Samoylenko, head of Kherson’s regional council, who helped coordinate partisan activity from outside the city. “No person knew the next link, so if someone got caught, it wouldn’t compromise the whole operation.” The Yermolenkos’ grandson, 18 at the time, was itching to get involved. He joined a cell with three other young men that stalked Russian soldiers at night. The Russian troops were sloppy, he said, often walking around the waterfront in the dark while checking their phones, oblivious to the glow they were casting.
He said that his team had killed at least 10 Russians; his claim could not be independently verified, but interviews with other members of the local defense force supported his account that he had killed enemy soldiers.
“In the beginning,” he admitted, “we were terrified.” One friend, he said, swallowed a glass of vodka before every attack.
But soon enough, he said, they became steeled to shooting Russian soldiers at close range and plucking weapons off their still warm bodies.
‘I Wasn’t Going to Work With Them’
By summer, the elder Yermolenko was watching his city get Russified. Propaganda billboards on Kherson’s busiest boulevards were decorated with bands of white, blue and red, in the spirit of the Russian flag, which many locals derisively called “the Aquafresh.”
Acts of defiance kept popping up. When the occupation government severed trade links with Ukraine and then instructed transportation companies in Kherson to haul stolen Ukrainian grain to Russia, some refused, which was no small risk.
“They assaulted our country,” said Roman Denysenko, the owner of a trucking company who was later kidnapped. “I wasn’t going to work with them. Period.” Russian families began to move into apartments vacated by fleeing Ukrainians. Russian children, who residents said were the children of intelligence agents, became a common sight in Kherson’s parks and supermarkets. But Moscow’s hold on Kherson was getting shakier.
Samoylenko, the Kherson regional council head, said that civilians working with the army had sent in real-time surveillance information that enabled Ukrainian forces to bomb a meeting of high-level collaborators in mid-September and a hotel full of Russian intelligence officers a few weeks later. He cited two factors behind those successes: American precision artillery and partisan intelligence.
“It’s only because of the residents that the liberation happened so quickly,” he said.
Flush with new, more powerful weapons, the Ukrainian military ratcheted up the pressure. They blew up bridges across the Dnieper River. Ground forces advanced across the countryside and pressed in on three sides. By early November, the Russian forces had begun to flee.
“We didn’t know what was happening out there,” Yermolenko said.
But Nov. 11, a repairman banged on his gate and joyously announced that Ukrainian forces had arrived. The Yermolenkos drove to Kherson’s main square, joining the crowds of stunned, happy people celebrating the city’s liberation.
“You wouldn’t believe what I did for the first time in my life,” he said. “I kissed a policeman.”
Goodbye, and Thanks
The Yermolenkos felt that it was important to recognize everyone in the neighborhood who had participated in the resistance. So, on a recent morning, two dozen partisans, men and women from their early 20s to mid-70s, wrapped in heavy coats and woolen hats, stood in their yard. The wind lifted off the river and whipped their ruddy faces.
Valentyn Yermolenko began speaking. Many of the people here, he said, experienced close calls. He knew something about that from his encounter on the river in May.
When the Russian patrol stopped him that day, the soldier cracked open the plastic tub, coming within 3 inches of finding the concealed guns. But he apparently didn’t want to get his hands dirty and never lifted the fishing net. Had the soldier found the guns underneath, Yermolenko said, he would have been shot on the spot.
His eyes traced the faces of the people listening to him — his neighbors, other veteran fishermen, the yacht owners. He is often gruff, even grouchy, but on this morning, he was reflective. He thanked everyone by name and at the end added, “I also want to thank everyone on the Island who didn’t betray us.”
He hobbled inside. No refreshments were offered. Slowly, the people walked out of his gate, into the road and back to their ordinary lives. | 2022-12-25T23:02:06+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-citizen-spies-foiled-putins-grand-plan-for-one-ukrainian-city/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Scientists have demonstrated a new way to study conditions like autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and schizophrenia.
The approach involves transplanting a cluster of living human brain cells from a dish in the lab to the brain of a newborn rat, a team from Stanford University reports in the journal Nature.
The cluster, known as a brain organoid, then continues to develop in ways that mimic a human brain and may allow scientists to see what goes wrong in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders.
"It's definitely a step forward," says Paola Arlotta, a prominent brain organoid researcher at Harvard University who was not involved in the study. "The ultimate goal of this work is to begin to understand features of complex diseases like schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder."
But the advance is likely to make some people uneasy, says bioethicist Insoo Hyun, director of life sciences at the Museum of Science in Boston and a member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.
"There is a tendency for people to assume that when you transfer the biomaterials from one species into another, you transfer the essence of that animal into the other," Hyun says, adding that even the most advanced brain organoids are still very rudimentary versions of a human brain.
Clearing a scientific obstacle
The success in transplanting human brain organoids into a living animal appears to remove a major barrier to using them as models of human disease. It also represents the culmination of seven years of work overseen by Dr. Sergiu Pasca, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford.
Human brain organoids are made from pluripotent stem cells, which can be coaxed into becoming various types of brain cells. These cells are grown in a rotating container known as a bioreactor, which allows the cells to spontaneously form brain-like spheres about the size of a small pea.
But after a few months, the lab-grown organoids stop developing, says Pasca, whose lab at Stanford devised the transplant technique. Individual neurons in the cluster remain relatively small, he says, and make relatively few connections.
"No matter how long we keep them in a dish, they still do not become as complex as human neurons would be in an actual human brain," Pasca says. That may be one reason organoids have yet to reveal much about the origins of complex neuropsychiatric disorders, he says.
So Pasca's team set out to find an environment for the organoids that would allow them to continue growing and maturing. They found one in the brains of newborn rats.
"We discovered that the [organoid] grows, over the span of a few months, about nine times in volume," Pasca says. "In the end it covers roughly about a third of a rat's hemisphere."
The transplanted cells don't seem to cause problems for the rats, who behave normally as they grow, Pasca says.
"The rat tissue is just pushed aside," he says. "But now you also have a group of human cells that are integrating into the circuitry."
The human cells begin to make connections with rat cells. Meanwhile, the rat's blood vessels begin to supply the human cells with oxygen and nutrients.
A link to the senses
Pasca's team placed each organoid in an area of the rat brain that processes sensory information. After a few months, the team did an experiment that suggested the human cells were reacting to whatever the rat was sensing.
"When you stimulate the whiskers of the rat, the majority of human neurons are engaged in an electrical activity that follows that stimulation," Pasca says.
Another experiment suggests the human cells could even influence a rat's behavior.
The team trained rats to associate stimulation of their human cells with a reward – a drink of water. Eventually, the rats began to seek water whenever the human cells were stimulated.
In a final experiment, Pasca's team set out to show how transplanted organoids could help identify the brain changes associated with a specific human disorder. They chose Timothy Syndrome, a very rare genetic disorder that affects brain development in ways that can cause symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
The team compared organoids made from the stem cells of healthy people with organoids made from the stem cells of patients with the syndrome. In the lab, the cell clusters looked the same.
"But once we transplanted and we looked 250 days later, we discovered that while control cells grew dramatically, patient cells failed to do so," Pasca says.
A better model, with ethical concerns
The experiments show that Pasca's team has developed a better model for studying human brain disorders, Arlotta says.
The key seems to be providing the transplanted organoids with sensory information that they don't get growing in a dish, she says, noting that an infant's brain needs this sort of stimulation to develop normally.
"It's the stuff that we get after we are born," she says, "especially when we begin to experience the world and hear sound, see light, and so on."
But as brain organoids become more like actual human brains, scientists will have to consider the ethical and societal implications of this research, Arlotta says.
"We need to be able to watch it, consider it, discuss it and stop it if we think we think one day we are at the point where we shouldn't progress," she says. "I think we are far, far away from that point right now."
Even the most advanced brain organoids have nothing even remotely like the capabilities of a human brain, Hyun says. Yet many ethical discussions have focused on the possibility that an organoid could attain human-like consciousness.
"I think that's a mistake," Hyun says. "We don't exactly know what we mean by 'human-like consciousness,' and the nearer issue, the more important issue, is the well-being of the animals used in the research."
He says that wasn't a problem in the Pasca lab's experiments because the organoids didn't seem to harm the animals or change their behavior.
If human brain organoids are grown in larger, more complex animal brains, Hyun says, the cell clusters might develop in ways that cause the animals to suffer.
"What I'm concerned about," he says, "is what's next."
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Treatment with TIBSOVO resulted in durable remissions, including complete response in nearly 40% of patients, and an acceptable safety profile
Servier plans to submit a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
BOSTON, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Servier, a leader in oncology committed to bringing the promise of tomorrow to the patients we serve, today announced updated data from the Phase 1 trial of TIBSOVO® (ivosidenib tablets) as monotherapy for patients with isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1)-mutated relapsed or refractory (R/R) myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The results presented today at the European Hematology Association (EHA) 2023 Annual Congress in Frankfurt, Germany demonstrate that the efficacy and safety profile of TIBSOVO may provide an important new treatment option for MDS patients within this molecularly defined subset.
The Phase 1, open-label study included an evaluation of the safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of TIBSOVO in patients with IDH1-mutated R/R MDS. The primary endpoint was complete remission (CR) plus partial remission (PR) rate and key secondary endpoints included duration of CR plus PR, duration of transfusion independence, and time to transfusion independence.
In the efficacy analysis set (n=18), a complete remission (CR) rate of 38.9% and overall response rate (ORR) of 83.3% were documented in patients treated with TIBSOVO. In addition, the median time to CR was 1.87 months (range: 1.0, 5.6). At the time of data cutoff, the median duration of CR had not been reached (range: 1.9, 80.8*) and the median overall survival was 35.7 months (range: 3.7*, 88.7*).
"We are pleased to share these updated efficacy results that demonstrate durable remissions and an acceptable safety profile in patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS at this year's EHA Congress," said Susan Pandya, M.D., Vice President Clinical Development and Head of Cancer Metabolism Global Development Oncology & Immuno-Oncology, Servier. "These data add to the growing body of evidence behind targeted IDH inhibition, and we look forward to taking the next steps with regulatory authorities to potentially expand the use of TIBSOVO in the United States to include the treatment of IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS."
Additionally, of the nine patients who were transfusion dependent with red blood cells or platelets at baseline, 66.7% (n=6) became independent of transfusions during any ≥56-day post-baseline period. Further, of the nine patients who were transfusion independent with red blood cells or platelets at baseline, 77.8% (n=7) maintained transfusion independence during any ≥56-day post-baseline period.
"Patients with IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS currently have no targeted therapy options, and outcomes are generally poor for those who experience disease progression after treatment with standard care," said Courtney D. DiNardo, M.D., MSCE, Associate Professor, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and investigator on the study. "This updated analysis demonstrates that TIBSOVO has the potential to improve outcomes in the treatment of IDH1-mutated relapsed or refractory MDS and reinforces the importance of molecular analysis to ensure we're harnessing the potential benefit of targeted therapies."
Overall, treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) were consistent with the known safety profile of TIBSOVO. Among 19 patients included in the safety analysis set, TRAEs occurred in eight (42.1%) patients, including a grade 1 QTc interval increase in one (5.3%) patient, grade 3 fatigue in one patient, and grade 3 hyponatremia in one patient, none of which led to discontinuation with treatment.
In 2019, the U.S. FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for TIBSOVO (ivosidenib) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory myelodysplastic syndromes with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test. Servier plans to submit a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) based on these results to the U.S. FDA for TIBSOVO in adult patients with R/R IDH1-mutated myelodysplastic syndromes.
TIBSOVO is currently approved in the U.S. as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with IDH1-mutant relapsed or refractory AML and in monotherapy or in combination with azacitidine for adults with newly diagnosed IDH1-mutant AML who are ≥75 years old or who have comorbidities that preclude the use of intensive induction chemotherapy. TIBSOVO was recently approved by the European Commission as a targeted therapy in two indications: in combination with azacitidine for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) R132 mutation who are not eligible to receive standard induction chemotherapy; as well as in monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an IDH1 R132 mutation who were previously treated by at least one prior line of systemic therapy. TIBSOVO has also been approved in the U.S. and Australia for patients with previously treated IDH1-mutated cholangiocarcinoma. TIBSOVO is also approved in China[i] for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML who have a susceptible IDH1 mutation. Servier has granted CStone a co-exclusive license for the development and an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of TIBSOVO in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore.
* Denotes a censored observation.
About the Study
In the Phase 1 dose-escalation and expansion study evaluating TIBSOVO in adults with advanced hematologic malignancies with IDH1 mutations, the clinical activity, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of TIBSOVO in adult patients with relapsed or refractory MDS with a susceptible IDH1 mutation is being assessed. (NCT03503409)
About Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
MDS comprises a diverse group of bone marrow disorders in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature or become healthy blood cells. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society estimates that more than 20,000 people are diagnosed with MDS in the U.S. each year. Failure of the bone marrow to produce mature healthy cells is a gradual process, and reduced blood cell and/or reduced platelet counts may be accompanied by the loss of the body's ability to fight infections and control bleeding. For roughly 30 percent of the patients diagnosed with MDS, this bone marrow failure will progress to AML1. Chemotherapy, supportive therapy, stem cell transplant, growth factors, and similar approaches are used to treat MDS.
About Servier in Oncology
Servier is a global leader in oncology focused on delivering meaningful therapeutic progress for the patients it serves. Governed by a non-profit foundation, Servier approaches innovation with a long-term vision, free of influence from investors and outside pressure to chase short-term monetary targets.
As a leader in oncology, Servier has significantly accelerated its investment in difficult and hard-to-tread cancers, with more than 50% of its research and development dedicated to delivering significant advances in areas of high unmet need throughout oncology with the potential to change the lives of the patients it serves. Within these areas, Servier is the leader in mutant IDH inhibition, with the first ever mutant IDH inhibitor approved in the U.S. and the European Union, and the company continues to drive the science behind targeted mutant IDH inhibition throughout its pipeline.
Servier's commitment to therapeutic progress guides its collaboration strategy. While many companies across the industry are scaling back investments, Servier is actively building alliances, completing acquisitions, conducting licensing deals and entering new partnerships that can help to accelerate access to therapies for patients in need. With the company's commercial expertise, global reach, scientific expertise and commitment to clinical excellence, Servier is dedicated to bringing the promise of tomorrow to the patients it serves.
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TIBSOVO IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION AND INDICATION FOR U.S. PATIENTS
INDICATIONS
TIBSOVO is an isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) inhibitor indicated for patients with a susceptible IDH1 mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test with:
Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- In combination with azacitidine or as monotherapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML in adults 75 years or older, or who have comorbidities that preclude the use of intensive induction chemotherapy
Relapsed or Refractory AML
- For the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory AML
Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma
- For the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma who have been previously treated
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Differentiation Syndrome in AML: In the combination study AG120-C-009, 15% (11/71) of patients with newly diagnosed AML treated with TIBSOVO plus azacitidine experienced differentiation syndrome. Differentiation syndrome is associated with rapid proliferation and differentiation of myeloid cells and may be life-threatening or fatal. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome in patients treated with TIBSOVO included noninfectious leukocytosis, peripheral edema, pyrexia, dyspnea, pleural effusion, hypotension, hypoxia, pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, pericardial effusion, rash, fluid overload, tumor lysis syndrome, and creatinine increased. Of the 11 patients with newly diagnosed AML who experienced differentiation syndrome with TIBSOVO plus azacitidine, 8 (73%) recovered. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 3 days after start of therapy and during the first month on treatment.
In the monotherapy clinical trial AG120-C-001, 25% (7/28) of patients with newly diagnosed AML and 19% (34/179) of patients with relapsed or refractory AML treated with TIBSOVO experienced differentiation syndrome. Of the 7 patients with newly diagnosed AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 6 (86%) patients recovered. Of the 34 patients with relapsed or refractory AML who experienced differentiation syndrome, 27 (79%) patients recovered after treatment or after dose interruption of TIBSOVO. Differentiation syndrome occurred as early as 1 day and up to 3 months after TIBSOVO initiation and has been observed with or without concomitant leukocytosis.
If differentiation syndrome is suspected, initiate dexamethasone 10 mg IV every 12 hours (or an equivalent dose of an alternative oral or IV corticosteroid) and hemodynamic monitoring until improvement. If concomitant noninfectious leukocytosis is observed, initiate treatment with hydroxyurea or leukapheresis, as clinically indicated. Taper corticosteroids and hydroxyurea after resolution of symptoms and administer corticosteroids for a minimum of 3 days. Symptoms of differentiation syndrome may recur with premature discontinuation of corticosteroid and/or hydroxyurea treatment. If severe signs and/or symptoms persist for more than 48 hours after initiation of corticosteroids, interrupt TIBSOVO until signs and symptoms are no longer severe.
QTc Interval Prolongation: Patients treated with TIBSOVO can develop QT (QTc) prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias. Concomitant use of TIBSOVO with drugs known to prolong the QTc interval (e.g., anti-arrhythmic medicines, fluoroquinolones, triazole anti–fungals, 5–HT3 receptor antagonists) and CYP3A4 inhibitors may increase the risk of QTc interval prolongation. Conduct monitoring of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and electrolytes. In patients with congenital long QTc syndrome, congestive heart failure, or electrolyte abnormalities, or in those who are taking medications known to prolong the QTc interval, more frequent monitoring may be necessary.
Interrupt TIBSOVO if QTc increases to greater than 480 msec and less than 500 msec. Interrupt and reduce TIBSOVO if QTc increases to greater than 500 msec. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO in patients who develop QTc interval prolongation with signs or symptoms of life-threatening arrhythmia.
Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Guillain-Barré syndrome can develop in patients treated with TIBSOVO. Monitor patients taking TIBSOVO for onset of new signs or symptoms of motor and/or sensory neuropathy such as unilateral or bilateral weakness, sensory alterations, paresthesias, or difficulty breathing. Permanently discontinue TIBSOVO in patients who are diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
ADVERSE REACTIONS
- In patients with AML, the most common adverse reactions including laboratory abnormalities (≥25%) are leukocytes decreased, diarrhea, hemoglobin decreased, platelets decreased, glucose increased, fatigue, alkaline phosphatase increased, edema, potassium decreased, nausea, vomiting, phosphate decreased, decreased appetite, sodium decreased, leukocytosis, magnesium decreased, aspartate aminotransferase increased, arthralgia, dyspnea, uric acid increased, abdominal pain, creatinine increased, mucositis, rash, electrocardiogram QT prolonged, differentiation syndrome, calcium decreased, neutrophils decreased, and myalgia
- In patients with cholangiocarcinoma, the most common adverse reactions (≥15%) are fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, decreased appetite, ascites, vomiting, anemia, and rash. The most common laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) in patients with cholangiocarcinoma are hemoglobin decreased, aspartate aminotransferase increased, and bilirubin increased
DRUG INTERACTIONS
Strong or Moderate CYP3A4 Inhibitors: Reduce TIBSOVO dose with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors. Monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
Strong CYP3A4 Inducers: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO.
Sensitive CYP3A4 Substrates: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO.
QTc Prolonging Drugs: Avoid concomitant use with TIBSOVO. If co-administration is unavoidable, monitor patients for increased risk of QTc interval prolongation.
LACTATION
Because many drugs are excreted in human milk and because of the potential for adverse reactions in breastfed children, advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with TIBSOVO and for 1 month after the last dose.
Please see Full Prescribing Information, including BOXED WARNING for AML patients
1 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Research Funded by LLS. Available at: https://www.lls.org/research/myelodysplastic-syndrome-mds-research-funded-lls
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LONDON (AP) — The annual Notting Hill Carnival has returned to the streets of London for the first time since 2019, with more than 1 million people expected to take in the music, spectacular parades, dancing and food offerings at Europe’s largest street party on Sunday and Monday.
The carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture at the end of August every year, had to take place online for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones began organizing a gathering to unify the community after a series of racially motivated attacks on West Indians in west London’s Notting Hill neighborhood.
The event has grown from a festival drawing several hundred people to a huge annual street party, with tens of thousands of performers in the colorful parade and more than 30 sound systems.
Celebrations began on Saturday night, as more than 1,000 people gathered to watch a steel band competition in west London.
Crowds of young children blowing whistles danced down the streets with their parents on Sunday, traditionally a more family-friendly day than Monday. Some children stood on the doorsteps of their houses waving Jamaican flags.
Pepe Francis heads the Ebony Steelband Trust, which has been performing at the carnival for decades.
“Since the band has started, I’m on my fifth generation of people and there’s been a lot of changes,” he said. “But our members look forward to carnival every year and practice takes place regularly from year to year.”
“A lot of people have been waiting for it to come back,” Francis added. | 2022-08-28T20:45:15+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-notting-hill-carnival-returns-to-london-streets-after-hiatus/ |
(The Hill) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) received a warning early Sunday morning to follow the Senate’s decorum rules after he accused Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) of being “deceitful” and “dishonest” and vowed “we’re going to call you out.”
“This gives phony and cynical a bad name,” Graham exclaimed when Hassan introduced her amendment.
Graham’s outburst at Hassan prompted Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) to remind the South Carolina senator sternly not to impugn the motives of a fellow senator.
Murphy reminded Graham and all senators not to “impute to another senator or other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming of a senator.”
The admonishment came after Graham slammed Hassan, who faces a competitive re-election race this November, for proposing an alternative to his amendment to strike a $16.4-cent-a-barrell tax on imported petroleum products and foreign oil refined in the United States.
“They wouldn’t let you do this in professional wrestling. If you think people are this dumb, you’re going to be sadly mistaken,” Graham fumed on the floor.
Graham warned Democrats on Friday the e debate and vote-a-rama on the budget reconciliation would be “hell.”
Graham accused his colleague Sunday morning of fake theatrics after Hassan urged colleagues to vote for what she called her own amendment to strike the surcharge on barrels of oil — something she proposed moments after voting against Graham’s amendment to repeal the surcharge.
The key difference was that Graham’s amendment was set at a 50-vote threshold and had a chance of passing if one Democrat voted “yes” while Hassan’s amendment had to overcome a 60-vote threshold and therefore had no chance of becoming part of the bill, even if more than 50 senators voted for it.
“What she’s doing is trying to strike the provision that she just voted against but it requires 60 votes so she can for repealing a gas tax she just voted against [repealing,]” Graham declared, accusing Hassan of trying to “look good for the voters.”
“What you’re doing is deceitful. It’s dishonest. And we’re going to call you out,” Graham vowed.
That direct attack prompted Murphy to step in.
“The senator are reminded to address each other through the chair and in the third person,” he said.
“Senators are reminded to address all remarks through the chair in the third person and to be mindful of Rule 19,” he said.
Murphy as the presiding officer at the time of the heated exchange could have ordered Graham to take his seat.
The Senate’s Rule 19 allows the presiding officer to “call to order” a senator who directly attacks or insults a fellow senator.
If such a formal rebuke is made, the offending senator’s words will be read aloud to the Senate and the presiding chairperson can order the senator to sit down and be quiet.
Graham settled down after Murphy’s warning. | 2022-08-07T22:45:47+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/graham-warned-to-follow-decorum-rule-after-he-attacks-democratic-colleague/ |
Billings authorities are asking the public for assistance in finding a woman who walked away from a local pre-release center.
Billie Boushie, 38, left Passages Women's Community Correctional Facility late Thursday night, according to a statement from Alternatives, Inc.
Boushie was serving a sentencing for criminal child endangerment out of Lake County when she left the Passages, and now could face an additional felony escape charge. If seen, she should not be approached or confronted. She stands 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds.
Anyone who sees Boushie, or has any information about her whereabouts, can reach the Billings Police Department at (406) 657-8200 or dial 911.
Alternatives, Inc. operates Passages Women's Community Correctional Facility and Alpha House, a pre-release program for men. Passages pre-release center is a 74-bed facility on the 1000 block of South 27th Street in Billings. | 2023-04-14T17:06:57+00:00 | billingsgazette.com | https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/woman-wanted-for-walking-away-from-billings-pre-release-center/article_a7663638-dad7-11ed-9f39-7f4af33f77f4.html |
Amber Alert canceled, 4-year-old in Georgia found safe
Published: Apr. 28, 2022 at 3:06 PM CDT|Updated: 3 hours ago
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (Gray News) - A missing 4-year-old girl in Georgia has been found safe and a suspect is in custody, police said Thursday.
The Levi’s Call, Georgia’s Amber Alert, has been canceled for Valery Molina.
Police said she was abducted by Alfred Molina. Snellville police posted to Facebook that she was safe soon after the alert went out.
Anyone with additional information can contact Snellville police at 404-731-2713 or call 911.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday the debt ceiling standoff was “not my fault” as he sent Republican negotiators to the White House to finish out talks, but warned the two sides need more time as they try to reach a budget deal with President Joe Biden.
McCarthy said he remained optimistic they could reach an agreement before a deadline as soon as next week, when the Treasury Department could run out of cash to pay its bills. Financial markets are teetering as Washington edges closer to a debt default crisis that would be unprecedented in modern times, sending shockwaves around the globe.
Late in the day, Fitch Ratings agency placed the United States’ AAA credit on “ratings watch negative,” warning of a possible downgrade because of what it called the brinkmanship and political partisanship over lifting the debt ceiling.
The White House blamed the Republicans led by McCarthy for risking a devastating default that would hit “every single part of the country” as they demand “extreme” spending cuts that would hurt millions of Americans.
“We’re not going to default,” McCarthy, R-Calif., assured.
The Republican speaker said the negotiators “made some progress” at the White House. “I want to work as hard as we can and not stop.”
Debt ceiling negotiations are locked on a classic problem that has divided and disrupted Washington before, particularly the last time Republicans used the borrowing limit as leverage to extract priorities a decade ago: Republicans want to roll back federal government spending, while Biden and other Democrats do not.
From the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre decried what the administration called a “manufactured crisis” set in motion by Republicans pushing “extreme proposals” that would hurt “every single part of the country, whether you’re in a red state or a blue state.”
Time is short to strike a deal. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that “it seems almost certain” that the United States would not make it past early June without defaulting. That would be catastrophic, as the government risks running out of cash to pay its bills as soon as June 1.
“We are seeing some stress already in Treasury markets,” Yellen said at a Wall Street Journal event.
Failure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, now at $31 trillion, would risk a potentially chaotic federal default, almost certain to inflict economic turmoil at home and abroad. Anxious retirees and social service groups are among those making default contingency plans.
While Biden has ruled out, for now, invoking the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit on his own, Democrats in the House announced they have all signed on to a legislative “discharge” process that would force a debt ceiling vote. But they need five Republicans to break with their party and tip the majority to set the plan forward.
“Sign the bill!” Democrats yelled on the House floor after Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., announced lawmakers could keep plans to recess on Thursday, but could be called back for votes.
Dragging into a third week, the negotiations over raising the nation’s debt limit were never supposed to arrive at this point.
The White House insisted early on it was unwilling to barter over the need to pay the nation’s bills, demanding that Congress simply lift the ceiling as it has done many times before with no strings attached.
The newly elected speaker visited Biden at the Oval Office in February, urging the president to come to the negotiating table on a budget package that would reduce spending and the nation’s ballooning deficits in exchange for the vote to allow future debt.
Cheered on by a hard-charging conservative House majority that hoisted him to power, McCarthy was not swayed by a White House counter-offer to freeze spending instead. “A freeze is not going to work,” McCarthy said.
“We have to spend less than we spent last year. That is the starting point.”
Negotiations are focused on finding agreement on a 2024 budget year limit. Republicans have set aside their demand to roll back spending to 2022 levels, but say that next year’s government spending must be less than it is now. But the White House instead offered to freeze spending at current 2023 numbers.
By sparing defense and some veterans accounts from reductions, the Republicans would shift the bulk of spending reductions to other federal programs, an approach that breaks a tradition in Congress of budget cap parity.
Agreement on that topline spending level is vital. It would enable McCarthy to deliver spending restraints for conservatives while not being so severe that it would chase off the Democratic votes that would be needed in the divided Congress to pass any bill.
But what, if anything, Democrats would get if they agreed to deeper spending cuts than Biden’s team has proposed is uncertain.
McCarthy and his Republican negotiators said what the Democrats get is a debt ceiling increase — typically something both parties take responsibility for doing.
“The problem is not the White House. The problem is Kevin McCarthy and the extreme Republicans,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the chair of the progressive caucus. “They are the ones holding this economy hostage, that are putting all these cuts on the American people.” The White House has continued to argue that deficits can be reduced by ending tax breaks for wealthier households and some corporations, but McCarthy said he told the president at their February meeting that raising revenue from tax hikes is off the table.
The negotiators are now also debating the duration of a 1% cap on annual spending growth going forward, with Republicans dropping their demand for a 10-year cap to six years, but the White House offering only one year, for 2025.
Republicans, however, are pushing additional priorities as the negotiators focus on the $100 billion-plus difference between the 2022 and 2023 spending plans as a place to cut.
They want to beef up work requirements for government aid to recipients of food stamps, cash assistance and the Medicaid health care program that the Biden administration says would impact millions of people who depend on assistance.
All sides have been eyeing the potential for the package to include a framework to ease federal regulations and speed energy project developments. They are all but certain to claw back some $30 billion in unspent COVID-19 funds now that the pandemic emergency has officially been lifted.
The White House has countered by keeping defense and nondefense spending flat next year, which would save $90 billion in the 2024 budget year and $1 trillion over 10 years.
McCarthy promised lawmakers he will abide by the rule to post any bill for 72 hours before voting, making any action doubtful until the weekend — just days before the potential deadline. The Senate would also have to pass the package before it could go to Biden’s desk to be signed.
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Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim, Fatima Hussein, Kevin Freking, Darlene Superville and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report. | 2023-05-25T02:14:30+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/ap-mccarthy-says-debt-ceiling-standoff-not-my-fault-as-white-house-warns-of-economic-risks/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Corey Kluber limited the Yankees to a pair of singles over seven shutout innings and the Tampa Bay Rays withstood Aaron Judge’s 52nd home run, beating New York 2-1 Saturday night to cut their deficit in the AL East to four games.
This was the second of six games between the teams in a 10-day stretch. Yandy Diaz hit a two-run single in the third inning and the Rays made it stand up.
Judge boosted his major league homer lead with a leadoff drive in the ninth inning off Jason Adam. But Adam retired the next three batters for his eighth save.
Kluber (10-7) struck out four without a walk as the Rays improved their AL-best record since Aug. 3 to 20-9. It was the first time the 36-year old has thrown a pitch in the seventh inning since his no-hitter for the Yankees on May 19, 2021, at Texas.
Peter Fairbanks had a perfect eighth before Adam closed.
Kluber retired 14 in a row before Aaron Hicks reached on a throwing error by second baseman Jonathan Aranda in the sixth and went to second on Judge’s single.
Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash sent pitching coach Kyle Synder to talk with Kluber but didn’t get anyone up in the bullpen.
Kluber then escaped damage by striking out DJ LeMahieu and getting a grounder from Giancarlo Stanton.
Díaz put the Rays up 2-0 on a two-run single in the third that deflected off Clarke Schmidt (5-4) and into right field. Francisco Mejia and Jose Siri singled to start the inning, and both moved up on Taylor Walls’ sacrifice bunt.
Schmidt allowed two runs and four hits over 4 1/3 innings.
New York had runners on the corners with one out in the first when Stanton was thrown out trying to move up to second on a pitch in the dirt. The inning ended when Josh Donaldson hit a grounder.
Stanton had his bat demolished when he hit a third-inning grounder off a 90-mph pitch from Kluber.
Yankees prospect Oswald Peraza made his first big league start at shortstop and went 0 for 3. He struck out pinch-hitting during the ninth in his debut Friday.
TRAINER’S ROOM
LF Andrew Benintendi went on the 10-day IL with right wrist inflammation after getting hurt on a swing Friday. Boone said there will be additional tests to narrow down what the injury is.
Rays: SS Wander Franco (right hamate bone-hand soreness) is set to join Triple-A Durham Sunday.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Frankie Montas (4-11) will make his sixth start Sunday since being acquired from Oakland. He is 0-2 with a 7.01 ERA in his first outings.
Rays: LHP Ryan Yarbrough (1-8) will start Sunday or follow an opener.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-04T01:57:01+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/kluber-rays-top-yanks-al-east-gap-down-to-4-judge-52nd-hr/2022/09/03/ce1c20ec-2bed-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, has died. He was 79.
Beasley died Tuesday after a “brief and unexpected illness” at a hospital in his hometown of Omaha, his manager, Don Spradlin, said.
Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film “Rudy” and a retired preacher in 1997’s “The Apostle,” co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
On TV, Beasley was the father of Cedric the Entertainer in the TV Land comedy “The Soul Man” and later starred for four seasons alongside Treat Williams in The WB’s “Everwood.”
Most recently, Beasley had small parts in the Showtime drama “Your Honor,” with Bryan Cranston, and “The Mandalorian,” a Star Wars offshoot on Disney+.
For more than a dozen years, he ran the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in Omaha, where he was born in 1943.
“To be a working artist is the highest calling, and I appreciate wherever it takes me,” Beasley told the publication American Theatre last year.
He is survived by Judy, his wife of 58 years; two sons, Michael and Tyrone; and six grandchildren, including Malik Beasley, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.
The NBA veteran paid tribute to his grandfather on Instagram.
“To the man who put the Beasleys on the map,” he wrote. | 2023-05-31T20:36:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/veteran-character-actor-john-beasley-who-appeared-in-the-tv-drama-everwood-dies-at-79/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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In 1985, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel came up with criteria for whether she'd watch a movie. It's become known as the Bechdel test, and it's surprisingly hard for films to pass these days.
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In 1985, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel came up with criteria for whether she'd watch a movie. It's become known as the Bechdel test, and it's surprisingly hard for films to pass these days.
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, many states are looking to restrict abortion or ban it entirely. In response, some people have shared purported recipes to induce an abortion at home.
An ER doctor took to Twitter to respond to a TikTok video that implied a plant called pennyroyal could function as an abortifacient, or something that can cause an abortion. “This is incredibly dangerous,” the doctor warned. “It can cause liver failure, seizures and DEATH.”
The person who originally posted the pennyroyal tea post to their TikTok account with 25,000 followers has since deleted the video. They’ve posted a series of apology videos after taking the original down.
THE QUESTION
Can pennyroyal, a proposed herbal abortifacient, cause death?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, pennyroyal can cause death. Do not use it to induce abortions.
WHAT WE FOUND
According to the UK’s National Biodiversity Network, pennyroyal is a plant in the mint family with a strong fragrance similar to spearmint. Two varieties of it, one native to Europe and one native to the U.S., have been used in a number of historical folk remedies. Some of these remedies involve ingesting the oil found in its leaves directly, and some involve drinking pennyroyal tea, which still contains the oil.
The National Capital Poison Center describes pennyroyal oil as a “potentially toxic folk remedy.”
“It is most notable for its use to induce menstruation and abortion,” the National Capital Poison Center says. “Use of pennyroyal oil has led to severe adverse reactions - and even death.”
According to the National Capital Poison Center, pennyroyal oil contains pulegone, a highly toxic, naturally occurring, organic compound. Pulegone can initially lead to gastrointestinal distress such as nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. It can later lead to liver and kidney failure which then results in bleeding, seizures, multiple organ failure and death.
Other side effects of ingesting pennyroyal oil, the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus says, include nervous system damage, burning of the throat, fever, confusion, restlessness, dizziness, vision and hearing problems, high blood pressure and lung failure.
The National Capital Poison Center says there is no antidote for pennyroyal oil poisoning. Early treatment in a pennyroyal poisoning case is key.
Pennyroyal oil is extracted from the plant’s leaves, and is therefore present in pennyroyal tea. Although the National Institute of Health says pennyroyal tea has been used “without serious side effects,” MedlinePlus says there “isn't enough reliable information to know if pennyroyal is safe to use as a tea.” That’s because medical experts don’t know how much of the oil an adult can ingest before it becomes dangerous and then deadly.
Because of the dangers it poses and the unknowns regarding safe dosage, medical experts strongly caution people do not use pennyroyal in any way for any medical treatment, including abortion.
According to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, there are several reports from the last few decades of young women who took pennyroyal oil to induce abortion and died of multiorgan failure. The center also says there have been at least two cases of multiorgan failure in infants who were given pennyroyal herbal tea as home remedies.
Both MedlinePlus and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say there is no scientific evidence to support the herb’s purported uses, including to induce abortion.
The viral TikTok also mentioned mugwort as an ingredient. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health says there isn’t enough evidence that mugwort, which is promoted as a remedy for digestive problems, irregular menstruation, high blood pressure, as a sedative, as a laxative and as a liver tonic, is actually beneficial for any of these conditions. More importantly, it says “very little research has been done on mugwort in people” and “little is known about whether it’s safe to take mugwort orally or to use it topically.”
You should never prepare your own herbal medicines, the National Capital Poison Center says, and you should always check with a healthcare provider before taking any traditional medicine, botanical product, tea, herb or dietary supplement.
“This will help them manage your care and keep you safe,” the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center says.
Isn’t this the herb Benjamin Franklin recommended for abortions?
One viewer reached out to VERIFY to ask about a separate claim — did Benjamin Franklin write instructions on how to end a pregnancy with herbs?
That claim is true, but it’s a recipe you shouldn’t try to use yourself.
According to the National Archives, Benjamin Franklin published a book called The American Instructor, a manual to just about everything the authors believed to be practical, in 1748. It was mostly a reprinting of a similarly titled book for British audiences by George Fisher, with some omissions and additions from Franklin himself.
One such guide in the book is for “suppression of the courses,” which is a how-to on "purging" what Franklin called "female infirmities." This recipe doesn’t use the word “abortion” directly, but it is made up of ingredients commonly believed to be abortifacients at the time.
Among the ingredients in this recipe is a “quarter of a pint of pennyroyal water.” As mentioned before, pennyroyal is highly toxic and can kill the person who ingests it. Don’t try to copy Franklin’s recipe from nearly 300 years ago. | 2022-07-01T20:20:26+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/verify/medicine/pennyroyal-tea-abortion-dangerous-causes-death/536-8c957fd9-446a-47e8-8138-981f24f4a985 |
Bentley will cease production of its venerable W-12 engine in April 2024, with the limited-edition Batur coupe confirmed as the last model to feature the engine.
However, until then you can still order a Bentley with the engine, including new Speed Edition 12 models that feature design elements celebrating the engine.
Revealed this week, there is a Speed Edition 12 version for each of the Bentayga, Continental GT, Continental GT convertible, and Flying Spur model lines, with production of each of the four versions limited to 120 examples worldwide.
As the name suggests, the Speed Edition 12 models are based on Bentley’s Speed grade, and the output of their turbocharged 6.0-liter W-12 engines is boosted to 650 hp.
The cars come with multiple design enhancements, including unique badging, a numbered engine plaque, and a dashboard with the W-12’s firing sequence etched alongside an inlaid “Edition 12” badge.
Buyers have their choice of exterior color, including a new color developed for the car called Opalite. It’s described as a blend of gray and green and has a subtle copper effect that can be seen in bright sunshine. All of the cars come with the Blackline package that darkens the exterior chrome, in addition to 22-inch wheels and silver brake calipers.
Each of the cars also comes with a scale model of the W-12’s block, cast out of aluminum taken from an actual W-12 engine.
Bentley first introduced the W-12 in 2003 with the Continental GT and by the time production comes to an end, Bentley estimates that more than 105,000 examples will have been built. Bentley hasn’t said what powertrain will replace the W-12, though rumors point to a new plug-in hybrid setup featuring a turbocharged V-8 as the internal-combustion component.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday passed a bill to reauthorize federal grants for local fire departments after the legislation stalled for weeks amid debates on amendments.
The measure passed 95-2 with Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul voting against it.
The bill, which next heads to the House, would allow grant programs for local fire departments to continue for seven more years. It also allots $95 million a year to the U.S. Fire Administration, which collects data on fires and supports fire safety nationwide.
“We desperately need this legislation. We need it for firefighters, both paid and volunteer, around the country,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor.
Schumer, a Democrat, added that the bipartisan vote and amendment process showed how the Senate can still operate in a “very good and productive way.”
The bill was on track to pass the Senate earlier this month, but Paul objected to its quick passage.
Paul had previously objected to the grants because “they should be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget."
Republicans and Democrats worked out an agreement to vote on four amendments while advancing the bill. None of the amendments succeeded. | 2023-04-20T21:41:11+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/senate-passes-fire-department-grant-program/4SEC3G3XVZCLTFR7VJRIBCFPPI/ |
- Bolsters domain expertise to accelerate digital delivery experience for financial services
ALPHARETTA, Ga., July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anaptyss – a digital solutions specialist in the banking and financial services industry – appointed industry veterans Edward P. Schreiber and Allison Sagraves to its advisory board.
Edward sits on the board of a $2.0 billion bank in Dallas and is an adjunct Professor at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. He has also served as Chief Risk Officer/EVP with Zions Bancorporation, a $90 billion regional bank in Utah, and CRO and Regulatory Liaison for TD Bank, NA, and its predecessors. With a trailblazing career of 40+ years, Ed has led a broad enterprise risk management experience and also served with the OCC for 19 years.
"Transforming financial services from the vantage of resiliency and experience leans on harnessing digital intelligence and human capital through deft implementation. Anaptyss is designing solutions to help banks navigate the shift. Having witnessed the journey of Anaptyss thus far, I am impressed by the combination of agility and experience that the team possesses, and it will be a pleasure to play a part in their growth story," commented Edward.
Allison is a globally acclaimed industry advisor, innovator, speaker, and educator in data and analytics. She has served as the founding Chief Data Officer at M&T Bank. Allison was named to the 2022 Top 100 Global Data and Analytics Innovators, 2022 Top 50 Data and Analytics Leaders, and three-time Global Data Power Women. She is an alum of Harvard Business School and is a founding faculty member and advisor for the Carnegie Mellon University - Chief Data and Analytics Officer Program.
"Data is at the heart of the digital and AI revolution. I'm excited to be a part of Anaptyss to help bring practical data and AI-led solutions to the market to unlock immediate and tangible business value to banks and other companies," said Allison.
"We are honored to have Edward and Allison on our advisory board and wholeheartedly welcome them as distinguished industry leaders. This development underlines Anaptyss' continued focus on bringing niche domain expertise to shape and accelerate realistic digital delivery experience for financial services," stated Anuj Khurana, Co-Founder, and CEO, Anaptyss.
About Anaptyss
Anaptyss is a digital solutions specialist on a mission to simplify and democratize digital transformation for regional/super-regional banks, mortgages and commercial lenders, wealth and asset management firms, and other institutions. Its Digital Knowledge Operations™ framework integrates domain expertise, digital solutions, and operational excellence to drive change.
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Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera said in a new tweet that he’s not going to support former President Trump again.
Rivera on Wednesday stressed the former president’s “shameful” claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“Election Deniers depress me,” Rivera said. “I blame President Trump for his shameful campaign to slander and undermine American faith in our elections.”
“For all his positive accomplishments, and there are many, I could never support him again,” Rivera added. “Without fealty to the Constitution, we’re 2d rate.”
The former syndicated talk show host has been a frequent critic of Trump in the past few years, previously saying that Trump hadn’t spoken to him after Rivera declared that the 2020 election result had been decided.
Rivera, who in January, 2021 said that Trump should be impeached for his role in the rioting at the Capitol, said in August that the former president still rules the GOP, adding that he’s disappointed in many if not most Republicans for still believing Trump’s election claims.
Rivera last month tweeted a response to James Carville’s interview with The Hill during which the Democratic strategist said that GOP voters are “stupid” for believing that Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
“James Carville is wrong. Trump does rule the GOP. Many, if not most Republicans believe Trump was robbed in 2020. That doesn’t make them ignorant or racist,” Rivera said at the time. “It makes them disappointing. They’re drunk on Trump Koolaid, and either don’t believe he lost, or worse, don’t care.” | 2022-09-08T23:14:02+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/the-hill-new-york-politics/geraldo-rivera-says-he-could-never-support-trump-again/ |
The company is also teaming up with a slew of partners, including Maya Day Club, as it kicks off the 'Summer of OGeez!' and increases offerings in Arizona's adult-use market
PHOENIX, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Piña coladas are no longer just for beach cabanas and poolside hang outs. Now, you can pack them in your pocket and bring them anywhere.
That's because OGeez! Brands, a leading Arizona-based cannabis infusion company, just released a limited-edition piña colada gummy, its first-ever seasonal flavor. The gummy, which comes in both indica and sativa, hit Arizona dispensaries on June 21, the first day of summer.
"Who doesn't love a piña colada?" said OGeez! CEO Bran Noonan. "They just conjure up summertime fun and relaxation."
The summertime gummy — which comes in both 10 and 30 milligrams units — will only be available this summer and while supplies last. And it's not the only new thing OGeez! is rolling out for the season. The company is ramping up offerings across the board, from new products to live events, in an effort to provide more options to recreational cannabis users.
Notably, OGeez! is partnering with several non-cannabis players this summer, including Maya Day Club in Scottsdale, where it's sponsoring a series of pool parties. The first of these OGeez! summer "takeovers" was held on June 25. Two more are planned for July 30 and August 20 — and, like the first, they'll also feature some of the area's best DJs, a new OGeez! summer-inspired cocktail (served with a non-medicated gummy as a garnish) and lots of OGeez! giveaways and swag.
"We are very excited for this opportunity to partner with OGeez!," said Jason Adler, Chief Development Officer of Riot Hospitality Group, the national company that manages Maya. "They have a huge presence in their industry. This summer series will be great for Scottsdale to see what two large brands can accomplish when partnering up on a promotion."
Maya guests will also receive a token for a complimentary bag of OGeez! gummies at an Arizona dispensary. Those at the June 25 party, for example, went home with a token for SOL Flower's East Valley locations — Tempe-McClintock, Tempe-University and Scottsdale Airpark — which can be redeemed until July 29.
OGeez! is also partnering with Strap Photo Club, a Phoenix start-up, that provides disposable cameras which take high-quality photos that are digitally delivered to members.
In addition, OGeez! is joining forces with Roosevelt Row, located in the Phoenix arts district, to sponsor a series of movie nights in the historic Downtown neighborhood. As with all OGeez! events, guests can expect OGeez! giveaways and swag.
"This is shaping up to be the summer of OGeez! in Arizona," Noonan said. "The adult-use market is continuing to expand, and we are committed to being there for dispensaries and consumers as cannabis becomes more and more mainstreamed."
The Arizona adult-use market has, in fact, been growing since it launched in 2021. In March 2022, adult-use cannabis sales shattered a state record, surpassing $72 million. And more growth is expected.
OGeez! is already capturing a big piece of that growth. The company's "Summer of OGeez!" comes on the heels of another round of new OGeez! products and partnerships.
In May 2022, the company launched the first "mini" gummy in Arizona. The bite-sized gummies come in a 3-milligram, tropical-flavor. They debuted in OGeez's new vibrantly colored bags with 25 units per package.
Meanwhile, in October 2021, the company unveiled Peg's Raspberry Orange RSO, a cutting-edge gummy named in honor of the company's late founder Peggy Noonan. That product is now the company's No. 1 seller. It combines the potency of RSO with the unmatched flavor of OGeez! gummies and eliminates the inaccurate practice of dosing cannabis oil. It is available in a 100-milligram package of 10 gummies, making it ideal for both medical and adult users.
In April, OGeez! also struck up a partnership with the growing media company PHNX Sports, which covers the Arizona sports scene. The two now hold regular events together.
Looking forward, OGeez! is already planning more products, events, and partnerships, including several exciting collaborations with dispensaries.
"We are not stopping," Noonan said. "We are on a mission to bring the OGeez! experience and flavor to more consumers and to stepping beyond traditional cannabis-industry activities. We want people to carry the flavor in their pockets and have it wherever they go."
As a leading cannabis-infusion company, OGeez! Brands manufactures some of the most in-demand gummies in Arizona. The company — which supplies gummies to over 100 dispensaries statewide — is dedicated to creating innovative and memorable cannabis-infused products that flavor life's journey. For more information on OGeez! Brands visit www.ogeezbrands.com and follow OGeez! on Instagram and Twitter @ogeezbrands.
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Divers uncover a surprising discovery near the wreck of the Titanic
The wreck of the Titanic sits in two parts at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, slowly decaying nearly 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) below the surface, but it's not alone. A sonar blip detected around 26 years ago has now revealed there's much more to this underwater area than previously thought.
Related video above: Stunning new Titanic footage show what divers could encounter
P.H. Nargeolet, a veteran Nautile submersible pilot and Titanic diver, originally picked up the blip on echo sounding equipment in 1996, but its origins have remained unknown.
In an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck earlier this year, Nargeolet and four other researchers went to the blip's previously recorded location to search for the mysterious object it represented. Due to the blip's magnitude, Nargeolet had believed he was looking for another shipwreck — he instead found a rocky reef, made up of various volcanic formations, and thriving with lobsters, deep-sea fish, sponges and several species of coral that could be thousands of years old.
"It is biologically fascinating. The animals that live there are very different to the animals that are found otherwise living in the abyssal ocean," said Murray Roberts, a professor of applied marine biology and ecology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and one of the researchers on the expedition. "(Nargeolet) did a really important piece of scientific work. He thought it was a shipwreck, and it turned out, in my mind, even more amazing than a shipwreck."
The abyssal plain is a term used to describe the ocean floor at a water depth of 3,000 to 4,000 meters (around 12,000 feet), which makes up 60% of Earth's surface, according to Roberts. It is thought to be a featureless, muddy seabed without much structure. On a few occasions, divers have observed rocky formations on the plain. Since the recent discovery near the Titanic, Roberts now believes such features might be more common than previously thought.
Rocky areas may also help explain the distances that sponges and corals travel across the ocean floor, which has always been a mystery to scientists. Within the muddy environment where they are typically observed, there are few hard surfaces for these species to latch onto in order to grow and reproduce.
"Sometimes they turn up in places where we think, 'Well, how did they get there? They don't live long enough to get there," Roberts said. "But if there are more of these rocky places, these stepping stones, than we ever thought, I think it could help us understand the distribution of these species across the ocean."
The researchers are currently working on analyzing images and videos taken of the reef during their dive, and they intend to share their findings to improve the scientific community's collective knowledge of deep-sea life. Roberts also hopes to link this discovery to a wider Atlantic Ocean ecosystem project he leads, called iAtlantic, that will allow for further study and protection of the fragile ecosystem within the reef.
There is another sonar blip near the Titanic that Nargeolet is hoping to identify on a future expedition. It was recorded in the same survey he performed years ago, in between the wreck of the Titanic and the newly uncovered reef — now named the Nargeolet-Fanning Ridge after him and the 2022 expedition's mission specialist Oisín Fanning. Nargeolet expects whatever it is to be even bigger than this reef.
OceanGate Expeditions and their foundation — which, along with Fanning, provided the financial support for Nargeolet's dive this year — will continue its longitudinal research work of the Titanic and surrounding areas in 2023.
"The marine life ... was so beautiful. It was really unbelievable, because I was never expecting to see that in my life," Nargeolet said. "I'll be very happy to continue to look at the Titanic." | 2022-11-08T04:59:39+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/divers-uncover-surprising-discovery-near-wreck-titanic/41891667 |
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix next month will unveil the first version of its video streaming service with ads, giving cost-conscious viewers a chance to watch most of its shows at a steep discount in exchange for putting up with commercial interruptions.
The ad-supported service is scheduled to debut Nov. 3 as Netflix tries to reverse a drop in subscribers. It will cost $7 per month in the U.S., a 55% markdown from Netflix’s most popular $15.50-per-month plan, which is ad-free.
Netflix’s ad-supported option will also be rolling out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain and the U.K., according to a Thursday post by the company’s chief operating officer, Greg Peters.
Besides putting up with roughly four to five minutes of ads during each hour of viewing, Netflix subscribers who sign up for the cheaper service also won’t be able to download TV shows and movies to watch when their devices are offline. Peters also said a “limited” amount of programming available on the commercial-free service won’t be on the ad-supported version because of licensing issues.
Netflix’s 15-year-old streaming service has until now been commercial free, but the Los Gatos, California, company decided to head in a new direction six months ago after reporting its first loss in subscribers in more than a decade.
The customer erosion worsened a wrenching decline in its stock price that has wiped up more than $200 billion in shareholder wealth during the past 11 months. The shares rallied after Thursday’s announcement, but still have lost about two-thirds of their value since reaching their peak last November when the streaming service was still growing.
Through the first half of this year, Netflix lost 1.2 million subscribers, leaving it with nearly 221 million. Management in July predicted it would regain about 1 million of those subscribers during the summer months. The numbers for the July-September period are scheduled to be disclosed Tuesday.
Netflix is betting the low-priced option with ads will be particularly popular at a time that persistently high inflation is pressuring millions of households to curb their spending, particularly on discretionary items such as video streaming. The streaming market also has become crowded with tougher competition from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Walt Disney Co., which also is preparing to offer an ad-supported version of its service soon. | 2022-10-14T10:11:15+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-netflix-sets-7-monthly-price-for-its-ad-supported-service/ |
Three law enforcement officers in Arkansas have been suspended over what appeared to be the beating of a suspect that was caught on video.
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Three law enforcement officers in Arkansas have been suspended over what appeared to be the beating of a suspect that was caught on video.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-22T10:44:59+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2022-08-22/arkansas-officers-are-suspended-after-social-media-video-shows-a-police-beating |
PAXTON (WCIA) — Getting over hurdles is something Brianna Dixon knows well but after setting high standards for herself sophomore year, winning a state title in the 100-meter hurdles, her biggest competitor is now herself.
“I feel like I’ve actually beat her already,” Dixon said about sophomore self. “So now it’s about learning to beat me now.”
For the SEMO commit, winning a state title down in Charleston is important, but this year she’s raising the bar looking for a state title and to hit her PR at the same time.
“Sophomore year, the year I did win state, I didn’t really leave with many PR’s,” Dixon said. “But last year I PR’d in all my events, so I’m expecting hopefully I can do the same in my events as well.”
“She has high expectations and like she told me from the start, ‘I expect to have a state championship again,'” Rantoul head coach George Washington said.
In her journey to get back to Charleston, Dixon dropped the 300-meter hurdles to focus on the 200-meter dash. She’ll still compete in the 100 hurdles and high jump after finishing runner-up in both events last year. Her 5’7 high jump this spring has already surpassed last year’s mark at state, while her 200 time of 25.15 seconds would have won the 2A state title last season.
“My mentality this year is just, ‘You’ve done this before, let’s do it again, but make it better,'” Dixon said.
“She’s a humble beast, like she knows what she can do, but she’ll let you see if before she’ll tell you,” added Washington. “Bri got to be Bri. That’s all she can do is be Bri. If she’s Bri and she wakes up, I don’t think nobody can beat her.”
“I want to make sure I leave with no regrets because I really loved my high school season,” said Dixon. “I’m proud of everything I’ve accomplished so I don’t want to end my final season with problems, because I didn’t have any problems with my last seasons and I want to go into college with that good feeling that I left that behind let’s start a new journey.”
And she’s hoping that journey includes multiple first place finishes at state later this month. | 2023-05-02T23:34:51+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/rantouls-brianna-dixon-raising-the-bar-in-final-season/ |
Minneapolis to pay $8.9M for claims involving Derek Chauvin
The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said former Police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks years before he used the same move to kill George Floyd.
John Pope Jr. will received $7.5 million and Zoya Code will receive $1.375 million. The settlements were announced during a meeting of the Minneapolis City “Council.
Both lawsuits stemmed from arrests in 2017 — three years before Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest captured on video that sparked protests worldwide, prompted a national reckoning on racial injustice and compelled a Minneapolis Police Department overhaul. The lawsuits stated that if the city had acted sooner to discipline Chauvin, “history could have been stopped from repeating itself with George Floyd.”
Bob Bennett, the attorney for Pope and Code, noted in a statement that other officers failed to intervene or report Chauvin, and police leaders allowed Chauvin to “field train and indoctrinate dozens of young MPD officers to his ways without fear of discipline or negative sanction and to continue his predatory ways for years.”
Council member Elliott Payne said what happened to Code and Pope were reminders of what happened to Floyd and rekindled those emotions.
“And it’s actually not a Derek Chauvin problem. It’s an institution problem,” Payne said. He hoped the settlements “bring some closure to this era and is a stark reminder of the work we have lying ahead.”
Code, who has a history of homelessness and mental health problems, was arrested in June 2017 after she allegedly tried to strangle her mother with an extension cord. Pope was 14 in September 2017 when, according to his lawsuit, Chauvin subjected him to excessive force while responding to a domestic assault report.
Both lawsuits named Chauvin and several other officers. The lawsuits alleged police misconduct, excessive force, and racism — Pope and Code are Black; Chauvin is white. They also said the city knew that Chauvin had a record of misconduct but didn’t stop him. Criminal charges in both cases were eventually dropped.
The lawsuits said body camera recordings showed Chauvin used many of the same tactics on Pope and Code that he used on Floyd. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison on a state murder charge in 2021 for killing Floyd by pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The city also paid $27 million to Floyd’s family.
Code’s lawsuit said she was in handcuffs when Chauvin slammed her head to the ground and pinned his knee on the back of her neck for 4 minutes and 41 seconds. A second officer didn’t intervene and a responding police sergeant approved the force, the lawsuit stated.
Pope’s lawsuit said his mother was drunk when she called police because she was upset that he and his 16-year-old sister left their cellphone chargers plugged in, leading to a physical confrontation. It alleged Chauvin struck Pope in the head with a large metal flashlight at least four times. It says he then put Pope in a chokehold before pinning him to the floor and putting his knee on Pope’s neck.
“Chauvin would proceed to hold John in this prone position for more than fifteen minutes, all while John was completely subdued and not resisting,” the complaint alleged. “Over those minutes, John repeatedly cried out that he could not breathe.”
The complaint alleged that at least eight other officers did nothing to intervene. It said Chauvin did not mention in his report that he had hit Pope with his flashlight, nor did he mention pinning Pope for so long. Chauvin’s sergeant reviewed and approved his report and use of force, “despite having firsthand knowledge that the report was false and misleading,” the lawsuit alleged.
Chauvin admitted to many of Pope’s allegations when he pleaded guilty in December 2021 to federal charges for violating the civil rights of both Floyd and Pope. He was sentenced in July to 21 years on those charges.
Chauvin is serving his sentences in a federal prison in Arizona.
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Testimony: School shooter’s home ruled by chaos
By TERRY SPENCER
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Chaos reigned in the home where Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz grew up, testimony in his ongoing penalty trial has shown.
He and his half-brother Zachary tormented their adoptive, widowed mother, Lynda. By the time Cruz reached middle school in the early 2010s, the pair took their fists and baseball bats to the walls, leaving gaping holes. They destroyed televisions and carved gashes in furniture, witnesses said.
Zachary may have been two years younger, but he was bigger and stronger and relentlessly picked on his brother — one social worker remembered Zachary climbing atop a counter and stepping in Nikolas’ cereal as he ate.
Lynda Cruz called sheriff’s deputies to the family’s 4,500-square-foot (420-square-meter) home at least two dozen times between 2012 and 2016 to deal with one son, the other or both. Most calls were for fighting, destroying her property, disrespecting her or running away.
“Nikolas was very easily set off and I think Zachary derived some pleasure from pushing Nikolas’ buttons,” testified Frederick Kravitz, one of Cruz’s childhood psychologists. In turn, “they were very good at pushing (their mother’s) buttons.”
Nikolas Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to murdering 17 students and staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. His trial is only to decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole. The trial resumes Monday after a week off.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz’s case was straightforward. He played security videos of the shooting and showed the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle Cruz used. Teachers and students testified about watching others die. He showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the still blood-stained, bullet-pocked classroom building Cruz terrorized. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
In an attempt to counter that, assistant public defender Melisa McNeill and her team have made Cruz’s history their case’s centerpiece, hoping at least one juror will vote for life. A death verdict must be unanimous.
The defense wants to show that from Cruz’s birth to a hard-drinking, crack-smoking Fort Lauderdale prostitute, he never fully received needed help even as he grew increasingly out of control.
And nowhere was that more apparent than in the home Roger and Lynda Cruz built in Parkland, an upscale Fort Lauderdale suburb. They adopted Nikolas at birth in 1998 and, in 2000, Zachary, who had a different birth father.
Lynda Cruz, who turned 50 shortly after adopting Nikolas, was a stay-at-home mom. Roger Cruz, then 61, owned a successful marketing business.
Lynda Cruz “had wanted a child, always wanted a child. So once she got Nikolas, she felt like her family was complete,” friend Trish Davaney-Westerlind testified. “He was a cute little baby. She would go and get him all these sailor outfits. She was just the happiest I ever saw.”
But by preschool, Cruz showed extreme behavior. Neighbors and teachers testified he hit and bit other children and didn’t socialize. He was anxious, fell when he ran and couldn’t use utensils. Nikolas started seeing psychiatrists and psychologists at age 3 and didn’t fully talk or become potty trained until 4.
At 5, just as Cruz entered kindergarten, he witnessed his father suffer a fatal heart attack in the family’s den. That left Lynda Cruz alone in her mid-50s with two sons who would have challenged a much younger couple.
Unemployed, she became paranoid about spending, keeping her air conditioners’ thermostats in the 80s (25 to 30 Celsius) and unplugging unused appliances. One friend said her monthly electric bill was $80, a fraction of what the owner of a large South Florida home typically pays.
She padlocked the refrigerator so her sons couldn’t eat without permission and kept it so poorly stocked neighbors gave her groceries.
Friends gave conflicting testimony over whether Lynda Cruz really was financially strapped or had wealth she didn’t want to spend.
In either case, she had expenses other parents didn’t. Cruz’s mental health treatments weren’t fully covered by insurance. He loved online, often violent video games, but hated losing – that’s what caused him to destroy TVs and damage walls. She sometimes locked his video game counsel in her car as punishment — and Cruz at least once broke a window to get it back.
“She was a little afraid of him,” neighbor Paul Gold testified.
Despite Cruz’s tantrums, Lynda Cruz told teachers and counselors he was gentle and loving, a mama’s boy. Friends testified that wasn’t wholly a facade — Cruz and his mother did have a strong, often affectionate attachment and she favored him over his brother.
Still, Zachary remained popular in the neighborhood while Cruz was the outcast — and not just with children.
Steven Schusler testified that shortly after moving nearby, his landlord called over the Cruz boys and pointed at Nikolas, then about 10.
“He’s the weird one, aren’t you Nicky?” Schusler recalled the woman saying. Cruz ”curled up” and “looked like a snail when you put salt on one.”
But Cruz’s behavior was often strange and sometimes violent. When he was 9, a parent called police after he hit her child in the head with a rock. When his dog died after eating a poisonous toad, he went on a killing spree against the amphibians. At middle school, his outbursts disrupted classes and he plastered his homework with racist slurs, swastikas, obscenities and stick figures having sex or shooting each other.
Lynda Cruz became so overwhelmed in Cruz’s early teens, a social services agency was assigned to help. That’s what brought case manager Tiffany Forrest to the home. She said Lynda Cruz complained Nikolas wouldn’t bathe, so Forrest tried to explain to him the importance of hygiene. Cruz stood up, walked outside and jumped clothed into the pool. He then climbed out.
“I showered,” he told Forrest.
In the coming weeks, Cruz’s attorneys are expected to present testimony about his transfer to a school for students with emotional and behavioral problems, his time at Stoneman Douglas and call his brother to the stand. Zachary now lives in Virginia with two benefactors.
Their mother died less than four months before the shooting.
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- Latest financing round led by Global Lighting Technologies Inc., a strategic manufacturing partner to Sensel.
- Sensel receives strategic investment from Lenovo, a global technology powerhouse and world's largest PC manufacturer1.
- New funding will bolster Sensel's product innovation and help scale its production of haptic touchpads for personal computing devices.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensel, the company building the next generation of touch-sensing, force-sensing, and haptics technologies, today announced that it closed $18.8 million in Series B financing. Sensel has raised over $57 million since it was founded in 2013.
Sensel's Series B is led by Global Lighting Technologies Inc (GLT), a strategic manufacturing partner to Sensel and leader in custom light-guide modules for computing and other applications. They are joined by Lenovo, who has been a strategic customer to Sensel, and is now an investor as well. These investments will help propel Sensel in developing programmable smart surface solutions that advance industrial design, enable thinner form factors, and elevate user experience for touch-enabled devices.
Following the completion of Sensel's $28 million Series A in 2020, Sensel achieved two major milestones:
- Shipping haptic touchpads in its first two OEM laptops with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga and a second major PC manufacturer.
- Rounding out its touch-sensing and force-sensing IP with an equally revolutionary haptics solution.
Since then, Sensel has emerged as a market leader and the only supplier with tight integration of all three technologies necessary for haptic touchpads - touch, force, and haptics. By providing all three components in a single module, Sensel can offer a complete solution, which significantly reduces the cost, time, and burden of integrating those three disparate technologies together.
Lenovo is the first PC company to ship a laptop using Sensel's technology, and together, Sensel and Lenovo brought one of the first premium haptic touchpads to a PC laptop, with the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga in 2021. "Coming off the success of the touchpad experience in the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, we are delighted to become investors in Sensel as part of their Series B raise," said Luis Hernandez, Vice President of Commercial Product Solutions Development, Intelligent Devices Group, Lenovo. "This strategic investment will help accelerate our co-development of best-in class haptic touchpads, enhancing the user experience across a wide range of Lenovo's laptop portfolio in 2022 and beyond."
"We're thrilled to welcome Lenovo to our family of investors," said Sensel CEO and Co-founder Ilya Rosenberg. "Working with Lenovo over the past few years has been an immensely rewarding experience for the Sensel team. We're proud to be an integral part of the fantastic touchpad in the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, which I happen to use every day. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Lenovo to bring the bleeding edge of our smart surface technologies (which combine touch, force, and haptics) to future generations of Lenovo's wonderful line of laptops."
The partnership between Sensel and GLT is also highly significant, as it will help Sensel innovate and scale their haptic touchpad solutions to a wider breadth of PC models. "Haptic touchpad backlighting is a natural extension of the technology in our world-leading light guide solutions for keyboards, and we look forward to integrating our technology with Sensel to create beautiful industrial designs for our PC customers," said Chairman Lee from the GLT Group.
"Sensel's goal of shipping high volume yet cost-effective haptic touchpads will be realized with our strategic module partner, GLT," said Harsha Rao, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Sensel. "With any cutting-edge technology, rapidly scaling manufacturing is the holy grail. This partnership is critical to Sensel's next phase, as it brings sophisticated automation, scale, and manufacturability to our innovative solutions."
Sensel is building the next wave of interactive touch technologies to revolutionize how we physically communicate with the digital world. Our mission is to empower people to enjoy more intuitive and expressive interaction with their devices. Our cutting-edge architecture integrates touch-sensing, force-sensing, and haptics into a single solution, paving the way for our enterprise customers to create thinner form factors, advanced industrial designs, and exceptional customer experiences.
Sensel launched the award-winning Morph in 2015, which brought the infinite modularity of a touchscreen to a tactile controller. In 2021, Sensel disrupted the PC laptop market by enabling the haptic touchpads in Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga and Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio. Today, we're integrating our sensors and haptics into trackpads, automotive interfaces, mobile phones, and other products that require human touch interaction.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's parole board on Monday declined to halt the execution of a man who killed an 8-year-old girl 46 years ago.
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. killed the girl and raped her 10-year-old friend after abducting them as they walked home from school in Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, on May 4, 1976. He is scheduled to die by injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The parole board held a closed-door meeting to discuss his case on Monday. As is customary, the board did not explain its decision to deny clemency. If the execution proceeds, Presnell will be the first person put to death in Georgia this year and the seventh nationwide.
A lawyer for Presnell had argued that he is “profoundly brain damaged” and didn’t understand the harm he was causing the two girls. He is deeply sorry for the pain he caused and wishes he could “take it all back,” attorney Monet Brewerton-Palmer wrote in a clemency application submitted to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Presnell's mother drank heavily while she was pregnant with him and he suffered prenatal brain damage and likely has a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a diagnosis that wasn't available at the time of his trial nearly 46 years ago, the clemency application says. It also says Presnell grew up in an “abusive and unstable environment,” and that sexual abuse was “endemic” in his family.
Lawyers for the Federal Defender Program, where Brewerton-Palmer works, filed a lawsuit last week and an emergency motion Monday in Fulton County Superior Court. They said the setting of his execution date violates a written agreement reached last April with the office of state Attorney General Chris Carr that temporarily put executions on hold during the coronavirus pandemic and established conditions under which they could resume.
As a result of the alleged breach of that agreement, Brewerton-Palmer received notification on April 25, only two days before the state planned to seek the execution warrant, leaving only three weeks before the clemency hearing, the lawsuit says.
Brewerton-Palmer had asked the parole board to postpone his execution by 90 days so the board can review his application and then to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
Presnell abducted the two girls as they walked home along a wooded trail from a Cobb County elementary school on May 4, 1976. He drove them to a secluded wooded area, had them undress and raped the older girl, according to evidence at trial outlined in a Georgia Supreme Court ruling. The younger girl tried to run, but Presnell caught her and drowned her in a creek, the ruling says.
He locked the 10-year-old girl in the trunk of his car and then left her in a wooded area when he got a flat tire, saying he’d return. She ran to a nearby gas station and described Presnell and his car to police.
Officers found him changing his tire at his apartment complex. He denied everything at first but later led police to the 8-year-old girl’s body and confessed, the ruling says. | 2022-05-16T22:23:58+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/georgia-parole-board-declines-to-halt-killers-execution/54FBDATXYBAJZEMP6JRZXK7E4U/ |
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in the border state of Tamaulipas voted Wednesday night to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s 32 states to authorize such unions.
The measure to amend the state’s Civil Code passed with 23 votes in favor, 12 against and two abstentions, setting off cheers of “Yes, we can!” from supporters of the change.
The session took place as groups both for and against the measure chanted and shouted from the balcony, and legislators eventually moved to another room to finish their debate and vote.
The president of the Supreme Court, Arturo Zaldívar, welcomed the vote. “The whole country shines with a huge rainbow. Live the dignity and rights of all people. Love is love,” he said on Twitter.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday she is overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling “positive energy” as her five-month mission gets underway.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann said from the International Space Station that she’s received lots of prayers and blessings from her family and tribal community. She is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Northern California.
Mann showed off the dream catcher she took up with her, a childhood gift from her mother that she’s always held dear. The small traditional webbed hoop with feathers is used to offer protection, and she said it’s given her strength during challenging times. Years before joining NASA in 2013, she flew combat in Iraq for the Marines.
“It’s the strength to know that I have the support of my family and community back home and that when things are difficult or things are getting hard or I’m getting burned-out or frustrated, that strength is something that I will draw on to continue toward a successful mission,” Mann told The Associated Press, which gathered questions from members and tribal news outlets across the country.
Mann said she’s always heeded her mother’s advice on the importance of positive energy, especially on launch day.
“It’s difficult for some people maybe to understand because it’s not really tangible,” she said. “But that positive energy is so important, and you can control that energy, and it helps to control your attitude.”
Mann, 45, a Marine colonel and test pilot who was born in Petaluma, California, said it’s important to recognize there are all types of people aboard the space station. It’s currently home to three Americans, three Russians and one Japanese astronaut.
“What that does is it just highlights our diversity and how incredible it is when we come together as a human species, the wonderful things that we can do and that we can accomplish,” she said.
While fascinated with stars and space as a child, Mann said she did not understand who became astronauts or even what they did. “Unfortunately, in my mind at that time, it was not in the realm of possibilities,” she said.
That changed later in her career. Now, she’s taking in the sweeping vistas of Earth from 260 miles (420 kilometers) up and hoping to see the constellations, as she encourages youngsters to follow their dreams.
As for describing Earth from space, “the emotions are absolutely overwhelming,” she said. “It is an incredible scene of color, of clouds and land, and it’s difficult not to stay in the cupola (lookout) all day and just see our planet Earth and how beautiful she is, and how delicate and fragile she is against the blackest of black that I’ve ever seen — space — in the background.”
Mann rocketed into orbit with SpaceX on Oct. 5. She’ll be up there until March. She and her husband, a retired Navy fighter pilot, have a 10-year-old son back home in Houston.
The first Native American in space, in 2002, was now-retired astronaut John Herrington of the Chickasaw Nation.
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Experts share best practices for parents shopping for a child car seat
NHTSA has a car seat safety checklist on its website
InvestigateTV - Car crashes are a leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 13, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Statistics like that are why Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Spokesperson Fritzi Schrellfer is so passionate about car seat safety.
Schrellfer, who is also a car seat technician, said she spends several hours a day not just installing car seats for parents, but also educating them on the proper way to put it in their vehicle.
“We don’t want them to just put it in and have them go, ‘Great! I’m never taking it out and I’m leaving,’” Schrellfer explained. “We want them to feel comfortable that they understood so we’re trying to get them involved. What we’re trying to do is do everything we can, pre-crash, to make sure your child is as safe as possible.”
Schreffler said parents should do their research to determine which car seat is best for their child and vehicle. She also cautioned parents looking to buy a used seat, particularly if the seller is a stranger online.
“Buying it on Facebook, you don’t know the history and somebody trying to sell it is not necessarily going to tell you the truth because they want to make money off of selling the seat,” Schreffler said.
Schreffler added she’s also seen an increase in counterfeit seats being sold.
“It has been really surprising to us that counterfeit car seats really have gained in popularity,” Schreffler said. “And really it’s when you’re buying it typically online. You need to look and see who’s selling it. Is it a third party that’s selling it that you can’t get in touch with to ask questions? Do they have all the proper labels? They’re going to make it look as close to a regular car seat as possible.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a car seat safety checklist on its website that highlights what parents should look for when buying a car seat.
Highway Safety Specialist Laura Dunn with NHTSA advised, “First of all, ensure that the seat has never been involved in a crash,” NHTSA Highway Safety Specialist Laura Dunn said. “The seat has labels stating the date and manufacturer and the model number, because you need that information to find out if there’s a recall on the seat or find out if the seat is too old to use.”
Dunn also said to look for any wear and tear on the buckles, straps and belts.
Ultimately, Schreffler recommended buying a new car seat over used, and added there are many affordable new car seats in stores that meet federal guidelines.
If you’re worried about installing a car seat properly, NHTSA has an inspection station locator on its website. Just put in your zip code to find the one closest to you.
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EDEN, N.C. (WNCN) — A Durham man is being charged with attempted first-degree murder, among other charges, after police say he shot at officers in Eden.
On Sunday at about 12:59 a.m., officers with the Eden Police Department say they attempted to stop 44-year-old Stanley Raynard Townsend at a license checking station on North Van Buren Road near the Cox St. and Aiken Road intersections.
Police say Townsend was heading north when he reached the checking station, then stopped and made an abrupt U-turn.
He then fled south on Van Buren Road, according to a release.
Officers chased him with lights and sirens for about 20 miles until Townsend’s car came to a stop on Highway 29.
Police say Townsend got out of the car with a gun and shot at officers, then fled on foot.
Officers eventually caught up with him and arrested him without further incident, according to reports.
Townsend is charged with attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a firearm on law enforcement, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, assault with a deadly weapon on law enforcement, driving while impaired, possession with intent to sell/distribute MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly), possession of drug paraphernalia and several traffic violations from the chase.
He was issued a $7,517,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 6.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective Neil Johnston or Sergeant Andrew Kenyi at (336) 623-9755 (24 hours) or (336) 623-9240 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous is asked to call Rockingham County Crime Stoppers at (336) 349-9683. | 2022-09-18T18:51:49+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/man-charged-with-attempted-murder-shot-at-officers-in-eden-police-say/ |
In Sudan's vast capital city Khartoum, residents are forced to spend another day sheltering in place, as full scale urban warfare between rival ruling military factions explodes around them.
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In Sudan's vast capital city Khartoum, residents are forced to spend another day sheltering in place, as full scale urban warfare between rival ruling military factions explodes around them.
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As part of President Biden's recent "Bidenomics" campaign push, aides from across the administration and close allies have been dispatched to events across the U.S. to try to convince people that the nation's strong economy is the result of the president's programs and policies.
The message sweeps in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes $369 billion in climate investments as a major step in the fight against climate change. But the emphasis has shifted to the number of jobs created by the projects, sidelining what the projects collectively mean for the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Take, for instance, a recent stop of the Bidenomics tour, where the president's top climate aide, Ali Zaidi, joined Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, at a row house near Carver Vocational-Technical High School. Students are renovating the house while learning green building techniques.
Zaidi told NPR that the green jobs programs are making a material difference in the lives of Americans.
"We see it here in Baltimore, where folks are getting enlisted to help retrofit our buildings — and they now have wind in their sails thanks to the president's climate agenda," Zaidi said.
Should Biden talk more about his climate successes?
When he took office, Biden named addressing climate change as one of his top four priorities, and his administration has focused on climate and environmental policies.
When Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law a year ago, he talked at length about how its clean energy investments would help the climate. Now, as his reelection campaign gears up, the bill's economic upsides have taken center stage in his remarks.
"This bill includes the biggest investment ever, not only in America but anywhere in the world, when dealing with climate change," Biden told a crowd of union workers in Philadelphia during the first big rally of his campaign. "And the investment isn't only going to help us save the planet. It's going to create jobs — lots of jobs, tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs."
Politically, a focus on the economy makes sense: Voters consistently rank it as the issue that is most important to them and have expressed concern about Biden's handling of it.
But the economic focus has left some voters in the dark about the considerable climate wins that the administration secured with the legislation. The Inflation Reduction Act is projected to spur a 40% reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from a 2005 baseline by 2030.
Approval of Biden's performance on climate has waned
Since the bill was signed, approval for Biden's handling of climate change and the environment has declined. That's according to polling by Data for Progress, which does work for Democratic candidates and causes.
The drop was most dramatic among voters under age 30.
Koray Gates, 21, is a student in Colorado Springs, Colo., who says climate change is one of his top issues. He said he is frustrated by some of the decisions made during Biden's time in office.
"[Biden] does things like, you know, allowing drilling in the Arctic again. And so," Gates said, "it kind of undermines my faith a little bit."
In March, Biden approved a large drilling project, known as Willow, on federal land in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, provoking intense backlash from environmental groups and young, climate-motivated voters.
"President Biden is by far the best climate president we've had, but he's also broken some key climate promises," said Ed Maibach, who studies climate communication at George Mason University. "Those broken promises have been a profound disappointment to some of his voters, especially young voters."
Meanwhile, most Democratic voters have still not heard much about Biden's signature climate law, according to Maibach's research.
"I don't think the president has spent enough time or effort convincing Americans what a big deal the [Inflation Reduction Act] is," Maibach said. "To quote Cool Hand Luke, 'What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'"
The White House says these messages take time
When Zaidi, Biden's climate adviser, was asked whether he was concerned about young voters' frustration or the lack of awareness about the Inflation Reduction Act, he said he thought the situation would improve with time.
"I think that young people — thanks to the administration's work, thanks to the president's leadership — are going to be able to get onto a school bus that doesn't pollute. They are going to see the Postal Service fleet — that touches every home and every street in every part of the county — go fully electric," Zaidi told NPR.
"The president could not feel more urgently the need to move forward, and he has done just that," Zaidi said.
Meanwhile, young voters concerned about climate change seem unlikely to shift their support away from Biden and his party, given that Republicans have said they want to scale back Biden's climate initiatives and support increased domestic fossil fuel production.
Gates, the 21-year-old student, said that despite his frustrations with Biden, he can't imagine voting for a Republican challenger in the 2024 election — and doesn't think he or his friends would opt to sit the election out.
"It's really important to vote, even if the person who you're voting for is not perfect," Gates said, "even if not everything is as you would want it."
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Here are the highest paid male and female CEOs in the S&P 500 index for 2021, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.
The AP’s compensation study covered 340 executives at S&P 500 companies who have served at least two full consecutive fiscal years at their respective companies, which filed proxy statements between Jan. 1 and April 30. Some companies with highly paid CEOs do not fit these criteria.
Pay for chief executives rose to a median of $14.5 million last year, including salary, stock and other compensation. Median means half the CEOs in the survey made more, and half made less.
Compensation often includes stock and option grants that the CEO may not receive for years unless certain performance measures are met. For some companies, big raises occur when CEOs get a stock or option grant in one year as part of a multi-year grant.
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Top Male CEOs:
1. Peter Kern
Expedia Group
$296.2 million
Change from last year: 6,592%
His pay vs typical company worker: 2,897 times, up from 53
Overall ranking: No. 1
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2. David Zaslav
Warner Bros. Discovery
$246.6 million.
Change from last year: 554%
His pay vs typical company worker: 2,972 times, up from 565
Overall ranking: 2
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3. William McDermott
ServiceNow
$165.8 million.
Change from last year: 560%
His pay vs typical company worker: 709 times, up from 120
Overall ranking: 3
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4. Tim Cook
Apple
$98.7 million.
Change from last year: 569%
His pay vs typical company worker: 1,447 times, up from 256
Overall ranking: No. 4
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5. Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase
$84.4 million.
Change from last year: 167%
His pay vs typical company worker: 917 times, up from 395
Overall ranking: No. 5
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Top female CEOs:
1. Lisa T. Su
Advanced Micro Devices
$29.5 million.
Change from last year: 9%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 230 times, up from 228
Overall ranking: No. 22
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2. Mary T. Barra
General Motors
$29.1 million.
Change from last year: 25%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 420 times, up from 201
Overall ranking: No. 23
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3. Phebe N. Novakovic
General Dynamics
$23.6 million.
Change from last year: 24%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 254 times, up from 174
Overall ranking: No. 38
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4. Adena Friedman
Nasdaq
$20 million.
Change from last year: 27%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 202 times, up from 126
Overall ranking: No. 80
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5. Kathy J. Warden
Northrop Grumman
$19.5 million.
Change from last year: -1%
Her pay vs typical company worker: 166 times, down from 205
Overall ranking: No. 89
___ | 2022-05-27T05:29:57+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/expedias-kern-amds-su-among-highest-paid-ceos/ |
More prep athletes around the Magic Valley will soon be heading off to compete at the collegiate level after signing letters of intent to play.
The latest batch of local athletes celebrated the triumphant moment with family and friends during recent signing ceremonies while reflecting on their high school achievements.
They join a growing list of Magic Valley athletes going to the next level — including Canyon Ridge’s Shelby Geiger (softball, Columbia Basin College), Twin Falls’ Halle Western (golf, Southern Virginia University) and Minico's Brevin Trenkle (football, Coffeyville Community College) and Kimberly’s Kelsy Stanger (volleyball, Utah State University Eastern) and Filer’s Gracie Brooks (softball, Snow College).
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Here are a few of the athletes who have recently signed around the area:
- Minico’s Alaynie Wilcox has signed to run track at Utah Tech University, an NCAA Division I school in St. George, Utah, that competes in the Western Athletic Conference. She plans on competing in the hurdles and on relays for the Trailblazers. Currently, Wilcox continues to excel during her senior year for the Spartans, setting a season record in both the 100 hurdles (16.04 c) and 300 meter hurdles (50.54 c) during March meets.
- Minico’s JT Garza has signed to take to the gridiron as a Cougar for the University of Minnesota, Morris. An NCAA Division III school, the Cougars compete in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference. Garza carried 83 times for 567 yards and pulled in 27 receptions for 556 yards to help the Spartans go undefeated in the Great Basin Conference last season.
- Murtaugh’s Raegen Fitzpatrick has signed a letter of intent to play football for Lewis-Clark Valley, located in Lewiston. The Loggers are NCAA Division III, and all athletes attend Lewis-Clark State College.
- Canyon Ridge’s Alex DeLaTorre has signed to continue playing soccer at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington. Columbia Basin is a member of the Northwest Athletic Conference, competing in the East Division amongst schools such as Treasure Valley Community College and North Idaho College. DeLaTorre was most recently named 4A first-team all-state for his contributions to the Riverhawks.
- Kimberly’s JJ Maxwell is also going off to college to play soccer, signing with the College of Idaho in Caldwell. The NAIA Coyotes primarily compete in the Cascade Collegiate Conference. | 2023-04-04T01:23:06+00:00 | magicvalley.com | https://magicvalley.com/sports/going-to-the-next-level-more-magic-valley-prep-athletes-sign-for-college/article_a35f31a0-d264-11ed-9949-fbc9e7f2d6fd.html |
Keep COVID military vaccine mandate, defense chief says
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it.
This past week more than 20 Republican governors sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking that the administration remove the mandate, saying it has hurt the U.S. National Guard’s ability to recruit troops. Those troops are activated by governors to respond to natural disasters or unrest.
Congress may consider legislation this coming week to end the mandate as a requirement to gather enough support to pass this years’ defense budget, which is already two months late.
Austin said he would not comment on pressure from the Hill.
“We lost a million people to this virus,” Austin told reporters traveling with him Saturday. “A million people died in the United States of America. We lost hundreds in DOD. So this mandate has kept people healthy.”
“I’m the guy” who ordered the military to require the vaccine, Austin added. “I support continuation of vaccinating the troops.”
Last year Austin directed that all troops get the vaccine or face potential expulsion from the military; thousands of active duty forces have been discharged since then for their refusal to get the shots.
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The attorney and former CEO brings 25 years of leadership in financial services to TradePMR.
GAINESVILLE and TAMPA, Fla., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TradePMR, a technology and custodial services provider for Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs), announced today that it has added Charles Reiling as Chief Risk Officer. For more than two decades, Reiling has helped lead financial services organizations across the country. Reiling is admitted to the bar in Maryland and will leverage his financial services and legal expertise to support TradePMR and the RIAs it serves.
Prior to joining TradePMR, Reiling co-founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Coastal Companies. In this role, he led the direction of an SEC Registered RIA, Coastal Investment Advisors, as well as a FINRA registered broker-dealer, Coastal Equities, Inc. Before taking on his role as President of The Coastal Companies, he served as the firm's Chief Legal Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
"I've known Charles for many years and have always admired his abilities – he has built a reputation as a change agent, a strong and effective leader, and someone who delivers results," said Robb Baldwin, Founder and CEO of TradePMR. "Charles knows TradePMR's history and will help support our ongoing mission to enhance our service and raise technology standards in our space. He is a great addition to the leadership team and will be integral to our growth as we continue to round out our product line."
With the addition of Reiling to TradePMR's leadership team, the firm is set to expand its suite of services and enhance the support it delivers to advisors. More details on Charles' role and how TradePMR is evolving its offering are expected to be announced at TradePMR's signature conference, SYNERGY23, May 31-June 2, 2023 in Tampa, Fla.
"As an entrepreneur myself, I understand the hurdles RIAs face every day," added Reiling. "I look forward to working hand-in-hand with advisors and leveraging my decades of experience to help them navigate these hurdles and achieve success. Joining TradePMR has brought my career full circle; 15 years ago, I was a client of TradePMR, and can personally attest to the white-glove service mentality that they exhibited then, and continue to deliver today."
Reiling officially began his duties April 3, 2023. He can be contacted at creiling@tradepmr.com.
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For more information on the SYNERGY23 conference, visit: synergy.tradepmr.com.
About TradePMR
For more than two decades, TradePMR has worked with growth-minded independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), providing innovative technology tools and support designed to transform their businesses. The privately-held brokerage and custodian services provider (Member FINRA/SIPC), based in Gainesville, Fla., works to streamline fee-only investment advisors' operations through comprehensive custodial, operational, and trading support. For more information, visit www.TradePMR.com.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Yes, they’ve nicknamed the baby “Nugget,” after a woman delivered a girl at an Atlanta McDonald’s.
Alandria Worthy tells WXIA-TV that her labor was intensifying and her fiancé was driving her to the hospital Wednesday morning when they stopped so she could use the bathroom at the fast food restaurant.
“I went into the bathroom and my water broke immediately,” Worthy said.
Worthy said she started screaming. Restaurant manager Tunisia Woodward went to see what was happening.
“I open this door, didn’t see anyone, but I saw feet (under the door),” Woodward said. “I opened, and she was on this toilet lying back, screaming. Then I knew to tell my crew, ‘We’re having a baby today.’”
Woodward and two workers began to help. The fiancé, Deandre Phillips, came in to check what was taking so long, only to find Worthy giving birth.
“I was trying to calm her down because she was frantic,” Phillips said. “I was like, ‘Just breathe.’ I got her on the floor, and I took off my clothes. The ladies at McDonald’s were at her front side, holding her hands, I had her feet propped up on my knees. We told her to push three pushes. She was a fighter.”
Less than fifteen minutes later, Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips was born.
“Oh, my God, it’s still crazy that it happened,” Worthy said.
“Yes, she popped out onto my hand,” Phillips said.
The parents tell the TV station “divine intervention” brought them to McDonald’s where three women could help.
“We all are mothers and so we put our heads together and all we needed daddy to do was catch the baby. And he did,” Woodward said of herself and her coworkers, Sha’querria Kaigler and Keisha Blue-Murray.
Although the baby’s birth certificate reads “Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips,” the McDonald’s crew gave the baby girl another name.
“I said, we’re going to name her Little Nugget. That’s her nickname: McDonald’s Little Nugget,” Woodward said.
That nickname may stick.
“She’s definitely a nugget,” Phillips agreed. “My parents loved the name, too. We were like, okay, it fits her. My little nugget.”
Steve Akinboro, who owns the franchise, awarded the employees $250 gift cards. Woodward said she’ll spend all the money on Nandi. | 2022-11-26T15:06:02+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/strange/ap-strange-news/ap-not-just-fast-food-baby-comes-quickly-at-atlanta-mcdonalds/ |
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm supporting law firms and corporate legal departments, today announced it has acquired Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), an end-to-end eDiscovery service provider, as part of a deal facilitated by majority investor and leading middle-market private equity firm, Quad-C Management, Inc.
"BIA is a leader in eDiscovery, and this combination further expands our capabilities in the support and delivery of complex enterprise discovery solutions, especially in New York," said HaystackID CEO Hal Brooks. "This deal follows a period of organizational alignment and internal investment around innovation, technology, and advisory services and builds on several years of investment and growth. All of these internal and external investments position us well for additional future international growth across all of our business lines."
The BIA acquisition is HaystackID's fifth major investment event since April 2018, when it acquired Envision Discovery, an eDiscovery managed services provider, and Inspired Review, a managed review and remote review services provider. In January 2019, HaystackID acquired eTERA Consulting, an eDiscovery managed services provider. Additionally, in February 2020, HaystackID completed a strategic recapitalization with Quad-C to support the continued growth and expansion of the company, before acquiring NightOwl Global in August 2020. With the BIA addition, HaystackID strengthens its position for continued growth in cyber discovery/incident response, privacy/compliance, information governance, and enterprise managed solutions.
"Our corporate clients will benefit greatly from the significant increase in the support and services we will be able to offer," said BIA CEO Brian Schrader, Esq., who has joined HaystackID and will continue to lead BIA efforts. "Our team worked tirelessly to reach this milestone, and we are honored to join forces with what is fast becoming one of the preeminent service providers in the world."
"This acquisition is yet another step in building the framework for the international capability and success of HaystackID, one of our leading portfolio companies," said Quad-C partner Tim Billings. "We are excited to continue to partner with the company as we develop the next stage of growth with additional investments in infrastructure, people, and acquisitions both in the U.S. and abroad."
In addition to external investments, HaystackID has significantly expanded and aligned its service offerings in the past six months, launching its innovative discovery management platform HaystackID CoreÔ in March 2022 and its Global Advisory practice earlier this month.
BIA was represented in the transaction by Brock Matthias of VRA Partners.
HaystackID is a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms securely find, understand, and learn from data when facing complex, data-intensive investigations and litigation. HaystackID mobilizes industry-leading cyber discovery services, enterprise solutions, and legal discovery offerings to serve more than 500 of the world's leading corporations and law firms in North America and Europe. Serving nearly half of the Fortune 100, HaystackID is an alternative cyber and legal services provider that combines expertise and technical excellence with a culture of white-glove customer service. In addition to consistently being ranked by Chambers USA, the company was recently named a worldwide leader in eDiscovery Services by IDC MarketScape, a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for E-Discovery Solutions, and a Legal Technology Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. Further, HaystackID has achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation in the five trust service areas of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. For more information about its suite of services, including programs and solutions for unique legal enterprise needs, go to HaystackID.com.
As an industry pioneer, BIA continues to set the standard for reliable, innovative, and cost-effective eDiscovery services. Its customer-first focus has resulted in countless innovations copied widely across the industry today. From technical innovations like truly remote data collections and the first cloud-based, end-to-end eDiscovery platform to service revolutions like reusing data and coding across matters and hiring dedicated, full-time employees for document review, BIA consistently stands at the leading edge of the industry. Founded by legal and technology professionals, BIA provides the entire spectrum of eDiscovery services – including attorney document review – with minimal disruption to its clients' daily business operations. To learn more, visit BIA at biaprotect.com or on Twitter at @biaprotect.
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Charlottesville, Va., Quad-C is a middle market private equity firm focused on investing in well-established business and consumer services, healthcare, industrials specialty distribution, and transportation/logistics companies. In its nearly three-decade history, Quad-C has invested over $3 billion of capital in more than 65 platform companies. The Quad-C team is committed to partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to accelerate growth and create long-term value. Learn more about Quad-C at QuadCManagement.com.
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WENTZVILLE, Mo., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The fastest growing school district in Missouri has announced it will be expanding its educational pathways for high school students by partnering with ScholarPath, a new education platform designed to help local teens pursue a future true to their interests and passions.
The Wentzville School District (WSD), serving five cities in an 89-square mile area of Saint Charles County, has entered into an agreement with St. Peters-based ScholarPath to help connect students directly with colleges, employers and recruiters to identify their best next steps and find optimal post-graduation opportunities. As students explore their interests on the ScholarPath platform, they will see the classes and grades needed to meet their goals, along with available scholarships and post-high school training programs.
"Wentzville School District strives to be a model of excellence that sets the standard and maximizes the potential of every student," said WSD Superintendent Dr. Danielle Tormala. "This new partnership with ScholarPath will not only further our aspiration to excel academically, but also to be at the forefront of technology implementation that aligns with our fiscally responsible growth."
The ScholarPath platform seeks to match students with various organizations, whether they be focused on specific trades, local employers, higher education colleges and universities, or the military.
"The assistance we offer students is increasingly essential in a society where career, school and candidate options are abundant and potentially overwhelming," said ScholarPath CEO Doug Mitchell. "We are excited to be adding Wentzville to the growing list of school districts that prioritize student development and see value in ScholarPath's approach for matching and propelling them into rewarding next steps after their graduation."
WSD, which has been adding about 500 students per year during the last 20 years, now has about 17,400 students in grades K-12 who attend one of 22 schools, including four senior high schools. It ranks as the ninth largest school district in Missouri.
About ScholarPath
MyScholar's ScholarPath is a workforce development social network tool for high school students. By building an ecosystem for students, colleges, employers and the military, ScholarPath is changing how high school students plan their future and how high school talent is recruited. The organization helps high school students find their right path, whether that be college, the workforce, or the military. Founded by an experienced team of educators and technologists, ScholarPath launched in multiple St. Louis high schools during the 2020/2021 school year, in conjunction with area chambers of commerce, employers, unions and the military. To learn more about ScholarPath's mission, visit www.scholarpath.com.
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Dine al fresco no matter how small your outdoor space is with one of these sets
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Grand Patio Premium Steel Patio Bistro Set
- Flash Furniture Round Table with Rattan Stack Chairs
- Safavieh 7-Piece Outdoor Living Horus Dining Set
There are plenty of things to enjoy about warm weather, but dining outdoors has to be near the top of the list. You don’t have to wait for barbecues or picnics to do it, either. With an outdoor dining set, you can enjoy a meal outside your home whenever you like.
If you have limited outdoor space, finding furniture that will fit on your patio, deck or balcony can be tough, but that doesn’t mean you can’t create your own outdoor dining area. With one of these compact, stylish dining sets, you can maximize your outdoor space and eat in comfort all summer.
How to choose an outdoor dining set for a small space
If your home has extremely limited outdoor space, a bistro-style patio dining set is your best bet. These sets typically consist of a round table with a diameter of approximately 24 inches and two chairs. Seating is obviously limited with this type of dining set, but it won’t take up much space on a patio or balcony.
For homes with a bit more outdoor space to work with, you may be able to fit a table that seats four or more. In a smaller area, you’re better off with a square or rectangular table. Round tables that seat more than two people can take up a lot of space, so you may not have room to move around it and the chairs comfortably.
If you want seating for more than two people in your outdoor dining area, you can also find tables designed for the chairs to slide under the table when not in use. These sets maximize your available space and let you move through it freely when you’re not dining.
Best outdoor dining sets for small spaces
Grand Patio Premium Steel Patio Bistro Set
This powder-coated steel bistro patio set can fit in even the smallest outdoor spaces. The pieces are rust-resistant and require no assembly. The chairs have wide, thick bars on the seat and back to make them more comfortable and can hold up to 330 pounds.
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Flash Furniture Round Metal/Glass Table with Rattan Stack Chairs
This compact, contemporary-style patio dining set features a table with a glass top and a durable metal frame. The chairs also have metal frames, but their backs and seats are made of rattan with a decorative edge. They have plastic floor gliders on their feet to avoid damage to your patio.
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Sol 72 Outdoor Condon Rectangular 2-Person Outdoor Dining Set
This comfortable, stylish patio dining set makes the most of limited space, so it’s ideal for balconies and other smaller outdoor areas. The pieces feature a durable aluminum frame and are covered with lightweight synthetic wicker. Best of all, the chairs slide under the table to keep the space around it free when not in use.
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Flash Furniture Nantucket 6-Piece Patio Garden Table Set
If you want to seat more than two people in your outdoor dining area, this patio set is compact enough to work in many areas. The round table has a glass top with a diameter of 31.25 inches but still seats four people. It comes with four folding chairs and a tilting umbrella.
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Agio Carlisle 5-Piece Outdoor Dining Set
This low-maintenance dining set includes a smooth, rust-resistant aluminum table and four wicker chairs with reticulated foam to provide plenty of cushioning. The open-cell material of the foam allows it to drain quickly, so you don’t have to bring the chairs in when it rains.
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Walker Edison Catalina Contemporary 5-Piece Outdoor Dining Table and Chair Set
This striking acacia wood patio set has a counter-height table and four dining chairs to create a comfortable dining area. The table’s rectangular shape helps it fit in smaller spaces but can still hold up to 150 pounds. All the pieces are resistant to the elements and only require oiling every few months.
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Hampton Bay Ashbury Pewter 5-Piece Steel Padded Sling Square Glass Top Outdoor Dining Set
If your patio or yard has a bit more space, this five-piece outdoor dining set can seat four people comfortably. The pieces have a powder-coated frame for improved durability, and the chairs feature a padded sling material to keep you comfortable. The tempered glass tabletop not only looks great but is also sturdy.
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Safavieh 7-Piece Outdoor Living Horus Dining Set
This bar-style outdoor dining set has a rectangular table and six cushioned stools. It works well for small areas because the stools slide under the table when not in use to free up space. The pieces are all neutral gray and work well with various decor styles and color palettes.
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Worth checking out
- The Sol 72 Elgin Square 4-Person Outdoor Dining Set includes a bar-height table and sling-style bar stools that won’t take up much space in your outdoor dining area.
- This Christopher Knight Home Coronado Acacia Wood Bistro Set is perfect for having intimate meals on your patio or balcony.
- With lightweight, foldable chairs and a small, round table, the Best Choice 3-Piece Bistro Dining Furniture Set boasts a compact, simple design that can work in nearly any yard.
- The Hampton Bay Crestridge 3-Piece Steel Padded Sling Outdoor Bistro Set has a balcony-height table and two padded chairs for comfortable meals in even the smallest space.
- This Sol 72 Outdoor Mandeville Rectangular 2-Person Outdoor Dining Set is designed to save space on smaller patios, balconies and decks and features a metal frame that’s mildew-, rust- and water-resistant.
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Madison Brengle 2023 French Open Odds
Madison Brengle will begin the French Open in Paris, France versus Mayar Sherif in the round of 128. She was knocked off by Daria Kasatkina in the round of 32 of the Credit One Charleston Open (her last tournament). Brengle's odds are +40000 to win this tournament at Stade Roland Garros.
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Brengle at the 2023 French Open
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: May 21 - June 10
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Brengle's Next Match
Brengle will face Sherif in the round of 128 of the French Open on Sunday, May 28 at 5:00 AM ET.
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Madison Brengle Grand Slam Odds
- French Open odds to win: +40000
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Brengle Stats
- Brengle is coming off a defeat in the Round of 32 at the Credit One Charleston Open, at the hands of No. 8-ranked Kasatkina, 2-6, 1-6.
- Brengle has not won any of her 19 tournaments over the past 12 months, with an overall match record of 11-19.
- Brengle is 1-1 on clay over the past year.
- In her 30 matches over the past 12 months, across all court surfaces, Brengle has averaged 21.3 games.
- On clay, Brengle has played two matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 17.0 games per match while winning 44.1% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Brengle has won 51.2% of her service games, and she has won 35.3% of her return games.
- Brengle has been victorious in 58.8% of her service games on clay over the past year and 29.4% of her return games.
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