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JACKSON, Mississippi. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground and repeatedly tased during an arrest last December.
Officials in Jackson, Mississippi's capital, released body camera footage Wednesday that showed three officers — Avery Willis, Kenya McCarty and James Land — struggling to handcuff Keith Murriel as he was stunned numerous times over a 10-minute span.
Authorities said the officers had tackled Murriel while arresting him for allegedly trespassing at a hotel shortly before midnight on Dec. 31, 2022.
McCarty and Willis have been charged with second-degree murder, and Land with manslaughter, court records showed. All three were placed on administrative leave after the incident and McCarty was fired in February, then Willis and Land in April.
McCarty and Willis are Black, and Land is white, according to Melissa Faith Payne, a city spokesperson.
Payne said she did not know whether any of the officers had attorneys as of Wednesday who could comment for them.
The video shows McCarty kneeling with her knee on Murriel's back before Murriel flips around, and the three officers attempt to lock his hands behind his back. The 41-year-old man is seen pleading with officers to stop shocking him with stun guns.
After handcuffing Murriel, officers then laid the man horizontally on the back seat of a patrol vehicle. He died after being taken into custody.
Willis' body camera footage showed him talking to another officer after the encounter.
“I hope (he) is asleep. Because if he’s asleep, it’ll be a good ride,” Willis said, using a racial slur to refer to Murriel. “It was funny seeing (his) feet in the air.”
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said at Wednesday's news conference that the city was now releasing body camera footage because a Mississippi Bureau of Investigation probe of the death had been completed. The officers — all ex-members of the Jackson Police Department, or JPD — were indicted on May 12.
“We believe we have seen actions that are excessive, disheartening and tragic,” Lumumba said. ”And we believe that is not representative of the vision of public safety that not only this administration wants to put forward, but we believe the men and women of JPD want to put forward.”
The city released the footage less than one week after former Jackson Chief James Davis announced his retirement. After Murriel's death, Davis initially said the man had a “medical emergency.” Lumumba said Davis' departure was not related to the incident.
Acting Police Chief Joseph Wade pledged transparency in speaking with reporters at Wednesday's appearance.
“I would ask the citizens of Jackson to continue to support the dedicated, hard-working men and women of the Jackson Police Department who put their lives on the line every single day,” he said. "We will continue to have accountability measures in place, not only from the bottom up but from the top down as we move forward.”
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Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mikergoldberg. | 2023-05-25T00:55:11+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/3-ex-officers-in-mississippi-indicted-in-death-of-18117861.php |
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has made waves yet again for his questioning of a government official at a Senate hearing — this time, Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
But Paul’s point was more nuanced: that if Ukraine were admitted into NATO, that could lead (or even would lead) to a NATO-vs.-Russia confrontation, and that the idea was provocative to Russia. And, relatively recently, this wasn’t exactly a fringe view.
Paul suggested that if Ukraine had joined NATO, U.S. troops would be fighting in Ukraine right now. (This is highly debatable, for reasons we’ll get to.)
Blinken responded: “My judgment is different. If you look at the countries that Russia has attacked over the last years — Georgia, leaving forces in Transnistria in Moldova, and then repeatedly Ukraine — these were countries that were not part of NATO. It has not attacked NATO countries for probably a very good reason.”
Paul quickly offered a different emphasis. It wasn’t that Russia had attacked only non-NATO countries, it was that Russia had attacked former Soviet republics — the implication being those that countries’ accession to NATO wouldn’t be the same as, say, Poland’s membership in NATO.
“You could also argue the countries they’ve attacked were part of Russia,” Paul said, before correcting himself to say the Soviet Union.
Blinken took exception to this framing and shifted the terms of their debate. He suggested that Paul was calling into question Ukraine’s right to self-determination and intimating that Russia might have been justified in invading because of a shared history with Ukraine.
“It is the fundamental right of these countries to decide their own future and their own destiny,” Blinken said, adding: “And that does not give Russia the right to attack.”
Paul was quick to emphasize that he was not questioning Ukraine’s right to self-determination or saying Russia had that right. “No one’s saying it does,” he said.
In fact, while raising the issue, Paul had repeatedly emphasized that he wasn’t justifying the invasion. His argument was that perhaps the United States should have taken a dimmer view of Ukraine’s joining NATO. You can object to how he raised that point, including initially saying that Ukraine was once part of “Russia” — a framing that is indeed hazardous — but the context is important.
“While there is no justification for Putin’s war on Ukraine, it does not follow that there’s no explanation for the invasion,” Paul said. He added later: “There is no justification to the invasion; I’m not saying that. But there are reasons for the invasion.”
The two reached something of an impasse on this point. Paul pitched it as the U.S. government — and, at present, the Biden administration — having pushed for Ukraine to join NATO, even as Russia threatened to attack. Blinken, in keeping with stated U.S. policy, emphasized that the United States merely supported Ukraine’s own right to pursue the alliance.
A few points.
One is that, historically speaking, many have supported the thrust of Paul’s argument. As we recounted recently, the debate over ratifying NATO expansion into Eastern Europe in the late 1990s featured senators of both parties arguing that the move would be provocative to Russia, although the ratification ultimately and overwhelmingly passed. And, on the same grounds, many studied, big-name foreign policy minds have since questioned the wisdom of the move.
Another is that raising this retrospectively (rather than prospectively) is fraught. It’s one thing to say that expanding NATO might provoke Russia; it’s another to cite that when Russia has already launched an invasion. At that point, you risk — despite your assurances to the contrary — offering an excuse for the invasion. You might not be justifying it, but you’re casting blame on someone besides the invader.
Paul, a long-standing critic of NATO whom John McCain once accused of “working for Vladimir Putin” when he tried to block Montenegro’s membership, clearly sees this as an opportunity to raise that issue and to ding the Biden administration. (He didn’t go nearly as far as Tucker Carlson, who recently and very conspiratorially wagered that entertaining Ukrainian membership in NATO amounted to deliberate incitement of Russia.) But it’s not quite the same as Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) raising these issues in 1998, during peacetime.
And the last is that it’s a stretch to say that we would be at war with Russia right now if Ukraine were in NATO, as Paul contends. Blinken’s point is that Russia might not have invaded if it knew NATO were on the other side of the border, which is quite plausible. It’s an unknowable hypothetical, and Paul treated it as if there would somehow be no difference in Russia’s calculation.
What’s clear is that the NATO issue has evolved considerably. While some questioned the provocativeness of admitting the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary in the late 1990s, a few years later the vote to admit several former Soviet republics was unanimous. Today, Paul is fighting a rather lonely battle questioning whether NATO should be expanded — though 63 House Republicans recently voted against a symbolic resolution reaffirming support for the alliance.
The question increasingly is whether other Republicans might take up the mantle as well, amid the overwhelming domestic opposition to Russia these days. They may risk drifting into the kind of territory that Paul preemptively sought to avoid (and from which he was still forced to try to distance himself). | 2022-04-27T13:03:06+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/paul-nato-blinken/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets of Ciudad Juarez where alleged gang members killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station, security officials said Friday.
The federal government’s security undersecretary, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, said the violence started inside the state prison after 1 p.m. Thursday, when member of the Mexicles gang attacked members of the rival Chapos.
Two inmates were killed and 20 injured.
Then suspected gang members outside the prison began burning businesses and shooting up Ciudad Juarez.
“They attacked the civilian, innocent population like a sort of revenge,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said. “It wasn’t just the clash between two groups, but it got to the point in which they began to shoot civilians, innocent people. That is the most unfortunate thing in this affair.”
Mejía said four employees of MegaRadio who were broadcasting a live promotional event outside a business were killed in the shooting.
The violence came two days after drug cartel gunmen burned vehicles and businesses in the western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to the arrest of a high-ranking cartel leader. | 2022-08-12T14:42:54+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/gang-violence-leaves-11-dead-in-mexican-border-city/ |
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Frustrated by high unemployment and worsening violence, many younger Nigerians are flocking to a candidate outside the political mainstream in this month’s presidential election.
Despite being Africa’s largest economy and and one of its top oil producers, Nigeria is in economic crisis. A currency reform effort has left many unable to access their own money, even to buy food. Meanwhile, extremist violence has continued, leaving thousands dead in the past year. Many young people have left the country, seeing no future at home. But many of those who have stayed hope the Feb. 25 election will bring real change.
So many people registered to vote that many spent days waiting in line to collect permanent voter cards, which are required to cast a ballot. Nigeria’s election commission extended the deadline to collect the cards by two weeks in response.
On Feb. 25, voters will choose among 18 candidates in a first-round vote to succeed incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, who is winding down his second and final term. A runoff will be held unless one candidate gets at least one-quarter of the votes in each of at least two-thirds of all the states.
“Either we get things right now in Nigeria, or never,” said Kingsley Chima, 26, as the first-time voter waited to collect his voting card from Nigeria’s election commission.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, with more than 210 million people, and it has at least 93 million registered voters, almost 40 percent of whom are under 35. The country has one of the world’s largest youth populations, with about 64 million people aged 18-35 and a median age of 18.
Young people have made a third-party candidate with social media appeal into a serious contender in the polls.
That’s surprising in a country where elections have long been usually dominated by Nigeria’s two largest parties.
Bola Tinubu, 70, of the All Progressives Congress has served as governor of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos, while Atiku Abubakar, 76, of the Peoples Democratic Party has served as Nigeria’s vice-president. Tinubu was an important backer of the current president, and is known as a key funder for the ruling APC. Abubakar, one of Nigeria’s richest businessmen, ran for president in 2019 and lost to Buhari.
Both men have been fixtures in Nigerian politics since 1999.
In 2015, Buhari rode a wave of goodwill to power by promising to curb Nigeria’s rampant corruption and extremist insurgency, but he failed to make headway on either challenge. Frustration with mainstream parties made room for former governor Peter Obi, 61, to position himself as a change candidate.
“The hopes we placed in the current president have been crushed,” said Rinu Oduala, a youth activist. Oduala was among the leaders of unprecedented nationwide demonstrations held in 2020 by young Nigerians to protest police brutality and bad governance. Now, she’s mobilizing voters, supporting Obi.
Initially seen as an underdog with little political experience, Obi has emerged as a leading candidate, coming ahead of or close behind Tinubu and Abubakar in most polls. He’s the candidate of the Labour Party, which won 5,074 votes in the 2019 presidential election, under a tenth of one percent of the vote.
He’s spoken to young people, promising jobs, and to Nigeria’s vast diaspora, promising changes that will give them a reason to return.
Tinubu has focused on another bloc: Nigeria’s Muslim majority. Presidential candidates usually balance their tickets, choosing a running mate from the other side of Nigeria’s religious divide, but the APC candidate has chosen a fellow Muslim. Some members of the ruling party see the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket as Tinubu’s biggest chance of securing votes in the Muslim-dominated north, which has more registered voters than the Christian-dominated south.
That strategy could deepen the country’s religious divisions, said Hassan Idayat, who leads the Center for Democracy and Development, Nigeria’s largest democracy-focused group.
“Nigeria is a giant that has never been quite stable,” said Ayisha Osori, an analyst with the Open Society Foundations.
“We are having one of our most polarized elections ever (and) our campaign messaging is a lot more focused on competition between religions, competition between ethnic groups and trying to address political equity issues,” she said.
A key question is how many people turn out to vote. Turnout in Nigeria’s recent elections has been low. In 2019, only 34% of registered voters cast their ballot in the presidential vote. It reflects both cynicism about politics, and high barriers to participation. Voters can cast ballots only in person, and only at their place of registration.
Long lines to collect voter cards, and enthusiasm online and at rallies, lead many to think this time will be different.
“This time around, it is the young people who are very involved in the process; they are not just involved as voters but they are actually the mobilizers,” said Idayat. “They are going to vote.”
Youth turnout could be further boosted by a decision to close the country’s universities for two weeks before the election. Officials cited security concerns as the main reason for the move, but it will also mean many young people are at home to cast ballots.
“The typical response from our politicians when young Nigerians complain is that we don’t vote,” Oduala said. “Well, another generation has lately become aware of their responsibilities to join hands to make this nation work. And we have decided to vote.”
Among those driving the surge in voter registration is Chukwuenye Igwe in the southeastern Enugu state where she has embarked on a personal campaign urging people to sign up to vote.
“People have really woken up, especially the youths,” said Igwe. Last year, the 26-year-old was keen to join other young Nigerians leave the country at a level unseen in recent years. She eventually could not move but many have, often citing economic hardship caused by spiraling unemployment rate of 33% and insecurity.
Among those who have recently relocated from Nigeria is Jude Edozie, who left last year as a pharmacist to further his studies in Ireland. He can’t vote abroad, but is watching closely.
“I don’t plan on returning any time soon, but how it ends will either increase or reduce the chances of that happening,” Edozie said “I hope the election this time is different.” | 2023-02-23T01:39:19+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-now-or-never-young-nigerians-pin-hopes-on-key-election/ |
Update: Betty Moore has been found, the Haskell County Sheriff's Office reported.
The Haskell County Sheriff's Office has issued a Silver Alert for a 79-year-old who was last seen in Stigler about noon Friday.
Betty Moore has dementia and is in imminent danger, the Sheriff's Office said.
She was driving a gray 2010 Honda UCL, and her cellphone GPS pinged north of Muskogee.
Anyone who might have seen Moore is asked to contact the Haskell County Sheriff's Office at 918-967-2400. | 2022-09-03T01:23:43+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/update-silver-alert-canceled-after-missing-woman-found/article_89d48ede-2b15-11ed-8707-df506c97ddbc.html |
For four hours, Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might be released.
It was February 2022 and Buelna, a U.S. citizen, was driving the pair — both from the sovereign Native American nation’s related tribal community in northwestern Mexico — from their home to the reservation southwest of Tucson. They’d been authorized by U.S. officials to cross the border. But when Buelna asked an agent why they were detained, he was told to wait for the officer who brought him in.
“They know that we’re coming,” said Buelna, who has made the trip for a variety of ceremonies for 20 years. “We did all this work and then we’re still sitting there.”
Now, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is trying to change this — for themselves and potentially dozens of other tribes in the U.S.
Tribal officials have drafted regulations to formalize the border-crossing process, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, comprised of 15 Native officials across the U.S.
Their work could provide a template for dozens of Native American nations whose homelands, like the Pascua Yaquis, were sliced in two by modern-day U.S. borders.
If approved, the rules would become the first clearly established U.S. border crossing procedures specific to a Native American tribe that could then be used by others, according to Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology at Colorado College.
The regulations would last five years, to be renewed and amended as needed, and require training local U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and consular personnel on the tribe’s cultural heritage, language and traditions. It would require a Yaqui interpreter to be available when needed. It also would require close coordination with the tribe so border crossings are prompt.
“This is just something that will help everybody,” said Fred Urbina, attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. “It will make things more efficient.”
Urbina said the tribe has met with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the proposal. DHS did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment by phone and email on the status of the regulations.
When family members, deer dancers or musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. for ceremonies, tribal recognition celebrations or family events, they are typically issued an ID card from the tribe and a visitor visa or parole permit from the U.S. government. Still, they still face border officials who they say lack the cultural awareness to process them without problems.
In the last two years, Buelna said, he has made the roundtrip about 18 times and was detained on four of them. He said border officials question the people he’s escorting, whose first language is Yaqui, without an interpreter, and cultural objects, such as deer and pig hooves, have been confiscated. Officials have touched ceremonial objects, despite only certain people being permitted by the tribe to do so.
Urbina explained that the tribe encountered new challenges when Homeland Security was formed after 9/11 and border security was heightened. It became more pronounced in 2020, when the U.S. prohibited “non-essential” travel across the border to control the spread of the coronavirus. That ban ended this week, but new restrictions are in place.
As a sovereignty issue, Native American nations should be able to determine their people’s ability to cross the border to preserve the ceremonial life of their communities, Leza said.
“If the federal government is saying our particular priorities, our interests in terms of securing our borders, trump your interests as a sovereign nation, then that’s not really a recognition of the sovereignty of those tribal nations,” she said.
Tribes along the U.S.-Canada border face similar problems.
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is headquartered in Michigan, but 173 of its more than 49,000 enrolled members live in Canada. Kimberly Hampton, the tribe’s officer-secretary and vice chair of the Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, said those members cross the border for powwows, fasting and to visit with traditional healers and family, but border officials have rudely rifled through eagle feathers and other cultural objects they are carrying.
Hampton wants an agreement that includes having tribal liaisons at border crossings and training developed by the tribe for border personnel.
Members of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which has about 8,000 members in the U.S. and about 8,000 in Canada, said they have also been asked at the border to prove that they possess at least 50% “blood of the American Indian race.” It stems from a requirement under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act that “American Indians” born in Canada cannot be denied entry into the U.S. if they can prove this — often through a letter from the tribe.
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Chief Michael L. Conners wants to eliminate the requirement and boost education for border agents on local and national tribal issues. Drafting regulations specific to the tribe, like the ones the Pascua Yaqui are doing, “would bring a lot of peace of mind to our whole community,” he said.
For Buelna, waiting in that concrete holding space, he was reunited with the pair only after he told a border official he thought they’d been overlooked following a shift change, he said.
“Why can’t there be a system?” Buelna asked. “Why can’t there be already a line for us where we can present the proper paperwork, everything that we need and go about our way?” | 2023-05-13T19:15:49+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/why-cant-there-be-a-system-tribe-pushes-to-ease-us-border-crossings-for-native-americans/ |
CAMBRIDGE — Two days after the US Supreme Court ruled race can no longer be considered in college admissions, about 100 people filled Harvard Yard to rally in support of affirmative action.
On Saturday, Harvard University students and alumni, along with community members, gathered around the statue of founder John Harvard before processing through campus, with a stop in front of the science center.
“Affirmative action affirms and sees our story as a framework for passions, ambitions, and achievements,” Michelle Jean-Louis, a rising sophomore from New Jersey, said in front of the center. “The decision might have been made, but the fight for visibility must remain.”
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The event, led by the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, was the latest student-led response to the court’s landmark decision in a case that involved Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s use of race in their admission policies.
The court ruled 6-3 that the use of race in admissions is unconstitutional, upending decades of precedent by ending the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The policy had allowed for special consideration be given to racial minorities and other historically excluded groups.
A conservative group called Students for Fair Admissions led the challenge to the policies, saying they discriminated against white and Asian American students.
Rebecca Zhang, a rising Harvard sophomore from Acton and an intern with the coalition, helped to organize the rally.
“At the end of the day, this decision was never really just about getting into Harvard,” she said in a phone interview before the event. “It’s about building a more equitable and diverse future and that is something that we’re going to keep fighting for.”
Zhang said she stands with affirmative action and does not feel that Harvard is discriminatory in its policies.
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“I’m Asian American and I support affirmative action and a more equitable and diverse future,” she said.
In her speech, Jean-Louis criticized the court’s push toward a “colorblind” view of the Constitution.
“A colorblind world is a white world,” she said. “Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is privilege.”
Sydney Wiredu, also a rising sophomore from New Jersey, also spoke to the crowd and led chanting.
“The erosion of diversity breeds a culture of exclusion and perpetuates inequalities,” he said. “Affirmative action programs have created a diverse Harvard.”
He also spoke about the existence of other forms of affirmative action, such as legacy admissions, which benefit applicants whose family members attended a college or university.
“Admission preferences for legacy students, donors, employee families, and special recommendations are still allowed and big surprise, most of these students tend to come from white, wealthy American families,” he said.
Alumna Lisa M. Brown agreed that legacy admissions at Harvard should be reexamined.
“I think there’s no ethical basis for legacy admissions given this ruling,” Brown, who graduated in 1988, said.
Brown added that the court’s logic concerned her.
“In a world where, and specifically a country where, it still is clear that race matters in ways that still disadvantage people of color, that the Supreme Court could even entertain the idea that we’re in a colorblind society is troubling,” she said. “That is the most troubling part of things to me.”
Zoha Ibrahim, a rising sophomore from Louisiana, helped hand out homemade T-shirts and encouraged students and community members to sign a banner in support of affirmative action.
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“We’re really just trying to make it clear that Harvard students, Asian students particularly, are supportive of affirmative action and we disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision,” she said before the rally.
Lynn Chang of Newton, a graduate of the class of 1975, attended with his wife, Lisa Wong, who graduated in 1979, and their daughter Jennifer Chang, a 2007 graduate.
“I’m a grandfather,” Lynn Chang, a Newton resident, said. “It’s actually sobering to think that my granddaughter will have less rights and freedoms than her mother or grandmother.”
His granddaughter, Annalise, was in attendance. The 3-year-old carried a pink sign in her stroller, reading “diversity benefits everyone.”
Harvard University president Claudine Gay, whose first day in office coincided with the protest, released a video statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday.
“For many, this decision feels deeply personal,” she shared. “It makes real the possibility that opportunities will be foreclosed—but at Harvard it has also strengthened our resolve to continue opening doors.”
Gay said that Harvard will abide by the court’s decision, but acknowledged the uncertainty of the future college admissions process.
“While we don’t have all the answers about what’s next, we do know that we will move forward together,” she said.
Elllie Wolfe can be reached at ellie.wolfe@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @elliew0lfe. | 2023-07-02T00:08:13+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/01/metro/harvard-affirmative-action-case/ |
Tellez hits 5th HR in 5 games as Burnes, Brews rout Pirates
Rowdy Tellez homered for the fifth time in five games and drove in five runs, Corbin Burnes took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 19-2
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rowdy Tellez homered for the fifth time in five games and drove in five runs, Corbin Burnes took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 19-2 Friday night.
Willy Adames hit a grand slam as the Brewers connected five times. They also had five doubles among their 16 hits.
The NL Central-leading Brewers won for the fifth time in six games and are 7-1 against the Pirates this season. The Pirates have lost six of eight.
Tellez’s homer was a three-run shot to right-center field that capped a seven-run second inning against rookie Roansy Contreras (2-2). Tellez also had a two-run double in the fourth to push the Brewers’ lead to 9-0.
Adames’ fourth career slam cam against rookie Cam Vieaux and highlighted an eight-run eighth.
Burnes’ no-hit bid was broken up on a double to deep center field by rookie Bligh Madris with one out in the sixth.
The reigning NL Cy Young winner was lifted after the sixth inning as his control was shaky. Though Burnes (7-4) allowed only one run on one hit, he walked four, hit a batter and threw a wild pitch while striking out five.
Burnes has a 2.03 ERA while winning his last four starts and is 6-0 lifetime against the Pirates.
Tellez hit one of three home runs by the Brewers in the second.
After Kolten Wong had an RBI double, Luis Urias hit a two-run drive. One out later, Keston Hiura had a solo shot into the left-field bleachers. Tellez capped the inning with a 406-foot shot.
When Tellez hit his two-run double in the fourth, it was his ninth straight hit for extra bases.
Andrew McCutchen had his second straight three-hit game for the Brewers.
Victor Caratini added a leadoff home run in the ninth off utility player Josh VanMeter.
Contreras was rocked for seven runs in 1 2/3 innings. He gave up five hits, walked two and struck out one.
In his other seven starts this season, Contreras had allowed no more than three runs.
The Pirates finished with three hits and scored their runs on a wild pitch and a grounder
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brewers: RHP Adrian Houser was placed on the 15-day injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow and RHP Trevor Kelley was recalled from Triple-A Nashville. Houser left Thursday’s loss to the Pirates in the third inning when he felt tightness in the elbow, but the team is hopeful he can resume throwing within two weeks. Houser had Tommy John surgery in 2016 and missed two full seasons. … CF Jonathan Davis (back/ribs) returned to the lineup two days after being shaken up while making a diving catch in a win at Tampa Bay.
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Brewers: LHP Aaron Ashby (1-5, 4.25) is expected to be activated from the IL to start Saturday. He has been sidelined since June 17 with left forearm inflammation.
Pirates: Manager Derek Shelton had not decided on a starting pitcher for Saturday prior to Friday’s game, though one option is recalling RHP Bryse Wilson (0-4, 8.29) from Triple-A Indianapolis.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-02T05:30:02+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/02/tellez-hits-5th-hr-5-games-burnes-brews-rout-pirates/ |
Suspect in leak probe talked about God, guns and war secrets
WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect was relatively easy to find.
In a social media world that produces traceable digital fingerprints, it didn’t take long for federal authorities and open-source investigators adept at sifting through data to land on the name of Jack Teixeira.
Teixeira, 21, who served in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested Thursday in connection with the far-reaching leak of classified documents that have shaken capitals from Washington to Kyiv to Seoul with revelations of U.S. spying on allies and foes alike and the disclosure of sensitive military intelligence about the war in Ukraine.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira would be charged with the unauthorized removal of classified national defense information.
There were clues in messages posted in a chatroom on Discord, a social media platform where Teixeira is believed to have posted for years about guns, games and his favorite memes — and, according to some others chatting with him, closely guarded U.S. secrets.
The investigative website Bellingcat and The New York Times first publicly identified Teixeira, minutes before federal officials confirmed he was a subject of interest in the investigation. They reported tracking profiles on other more obscure sites linked to Teixeira.
The suspect, as part of his duties, reportedly had access to highly classified information.
The case underscores the challenges the U.S. and other governments have in keeping secrets in an era of omnipresent data and an ever growing army of savvy users who know how to exploit it.
When asked how such a young service member could have had access to highly sensitive documents, the Pentagon spokesman, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, said it was the nature of the military to trust its very young service members with high and sometimes grave levels of responsibility, including high levels of security clearance.
Soldiers fresh out of high school went to fight in Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat zones for a generation, often using top-secret intelligence and programs to target adversaries.
“We entrust our members with a lot of responsibility at a very early age. Think about a young combat platoon sergeant, and the responsibility and trust that we put into those individuals to lead troops into combat,” Ryder said.
In previous Associated Press stories, the leaker was identified as “the O.G.” by a member of an online chat group where Teixeira and others posted for years. The member of the chat group declined to give his name to the AP, citing concerns for his personal safety.
The chat group, called “Thug Shaker Central,” drew roughly two dozen enthusiasts who talked about their favorite types of guns and also shared memes and jokes, some of them racist. The group also included a running discussion on wars that included talk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In that discussion, “the O.G.” would for months post material that he said was classified — originally typing it out with his own notations, then a few months ago switching to posting images of folded-up papers because he felt his writings weren’t being taken seriously, the person said.
A different participant in the group shared some of the files several weeks ago in a different chat group — and from there they appear to have spread across the Internet.
The person who spoke to the AP said he had not communicated with Teixeira on Thursday but had stayed in touch earlier in the week. Teixeira had said he knew the FBI was looking for him, the person said.
Teixeira was an airman first class detailed to an Air Force intelligence unit, according to Facebook posts from the 102nd Intelligence Wing based at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts.
Teixeira’s specialty in the Air National Guard was as a “cyber transport systems specialist,” essentially an IT specialist responsible for military communications networks, including their cabling and hubs. In that role Teixeira would have had a higher level of security clearance because he would have also been tasked with responsibility to access and ensure protection for the network, a defense official told the AP.
The National Guard issued a statement saying it was aware of the investigation and “takes this issue very seriously.”
“National security is our foremost priority and any attempt to undermine it compromises our values and degrades trust among our members, the public, allies and partners,” the statement said.
Local police on Thursday had blocked off the street in front of a home listed as belonging to his family.
The person who spoke to the AP says “the O.G.” — who he acknowledged Thursday was Teixeira — was an observant Christian who often spoke of God and prayed with members of the chat group.
While he was enlisted, Teixeira opposed many of the priorities of the U.S. government and denounced the military “since it was run by the elite politicians,” the person said, adding that he didn’t know why Teixeira had signed up in the first place.
“He expressed regret (about) joining a lot,” the person said. “He even said he’d kick my ass if I thought about joining.”
But the person has stressed that he didn’t believe Teixeira leaked documents to undermine the U.S. government or for an ideological reason.
When The New York Times first published a story last week about the documents, the person said, members of the group were on a video call when “the O.G.” talked to them.
“Basically what he said was, ‘I’m sorry, guys, I prayed every single day that this wouldn’t happen,’” the person said. “’I prayed, and I prayed, and now it’s only up to God what happens next.’”
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Associated Press writer Tara Copp contributed to this report.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo resident Jamie Lash was giddy as Buffalo Bills player Josh Thomas draped his arm around her shoulder and smiled for a picture Wednesday. It was a rare moment of lightness in a week spent mourning the violent deaths of 10 people at the Tops supermarket where she used to work.
“It means unity. It means support,” Lash said, adjusting the Bills cap someone else from the team had placed on her head.
“We see the Bills mafia everywhere supporting us,” said Thomas, a defensive back on the team.
He was one of dozens of players and staff from the NFL team, the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and the Buffalo Bandits professional lacrosse team to emerge from four tour buses at the scene of Saturday's racist attack, where they laid flowers, dished out food and handed out groceries.
The first stop was a group visit to a memorial at the edge of the store's parking lot, where several players placed flowers in front of cut-outs of doves, each bearing the name of a victim.
“It’s real, going to the actual site and putting flowers down and seeing the people that were affected,” Bills tight end Dawson Knox said. “I still can’t truly wrap my mind around it, but it definitely hits differently actually being here.”
Like many in the group, Bills offensive lineman Dion Dawkins wore a shirt that said “Choose Love.”
After six years in Buffalo, “I am part of this community,” he said, calling the attack “a sad act.”
“Somebody planned an attack," Dawkins said, "did the demographic of this community, said ‘This is where they are at the most, let’s attack there,’ and that’s what they did," he said. “I see it more as a terrorist attack to a background of people.”
“In the year that we're in now," he said, "I figured people see that your neighbor could be Indian, your neighbor could be Russian, Caucasian, Asian, they could be African. We all live together, we have to make it work. You don’t have to love everybody, but you have to show love in some type of way.”
From behind tables, quarterback Josh Allen and other players served hot meals of chicken alfredo with broccoli and handed out lettuce, radishes and other produce to residents.
“This week has been terrible," said Shervon White, who lives near the store and came early to see the team. "Just seeing the community come together means so much. To see the Bills come here, it kind of lightened the spirit of the area.”
Twelve-year-old Christopher Boyd smiled at the turn his week had taken as he met players from the Bills team he loves.
“When it first happened I kind of felt unsafe in my home a little bit," he said.
“When I’m here today and I see the Bills,” Christopher said, "I just feel like they are giving back to the community. They are showing love as we show them when they’re playing on the field. It’s just one big happy family, community.”
The Buffalo Bills Foundation said it would donate $200,000 to relief efforts, an amount that will be matched by the NFL Foundation, the team said on Twitter.
“This is about just filling the gap that’s in our world today with love and bringing people together," Buffalo Bills Coach Sean McDermott said. "When you affect one person in our community, you affect all of us.”
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Associated Press video journalist Robert Bumsted contributed. | 2022-05-18T19:03:41+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Buffalo-sports-teams-offer-support-at-site-of-17182075.php |
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OPTX, the 2022 Global Gaming Awards Land-Based Product of the Year nominee, is pleased to announce that Red Hawk Casino, located in California's El Dorado County, has been added to its expanding portfolio of casinos.
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Available via desktop and mobile applications, the data intelligence used by OPTX provides real-time individualized insights to ensure that no actionable player is missed and empowers teams to spend less time compiling the data and more time implementing strategies that increase visitation, revenue, and profitability. To see OPTX at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E), October 10-13 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, NV visit booth 1824. To learn more about OPTX or schedule a demo, visit www.optx.com.
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(The Hill) — Viewers are getting a first glimpse of an upcoming documentary on former President Donald Trump that’s of interest to the Jan. 6 committee.
In the trailer for the Discovery+ documentary “Unprecedented,” released Wednesday, Trump and his adult children are seen each sitting down for interviews.
“I think I treat people well, unless they don’t treat me well, in which case you go to war,” Trump tells filmmakers.
Asked if he would be willing to talk about what happened at last year’s Capitol riot, Trump replies, “Yep.”
Earlier this week, British filmmaker Alex Holder said he had turned over extensive footage he had captured to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack after it issued a subpoena.
Holder said he was recording video for a project focused on Trump’s reelection campaign and conducted interviews with the president and his family. He also captured footage as the riot was unfolding at the Capitol.
Holder is scheduled to be deposed by the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday.
In the teaser shared by Discovery+, Ivanka Trump says with a smile, “My father, he is very honest.”
“And he is who he is,” adds the 45th president’s eldest daughter and former White House adviser.
“He believes everything he’s doing is right,” Donald Trump, Jr. says of his father in another clip.
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JACKSON, MI - Court officials will review a Jackson teenager’s competency to stand trial after he was charged with the attempted murder of two of his relatives, court records show.
Trenton Ganton, 18, was charged Oct. 17 on two counts of assault with intent to murder and a single count of second-degree arson, according to Jackson District Court records.
A pre-trial examination scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3, was canceled after Ganton’s defense requested the mental competency evaluation before moving forward with a trial, said Jackson County Prosecutor Jerry Jarzynka.
Read more: 18-year-old charged with attempted murder in Jackson arson
District Court Judge Daniel Goostrey accepted the request, and the review is tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m., Dec. 9, court records show.
Ganton’s charges stem from an Oct. 17 house fire that left two of his relatives injured.
Read more: Relative arrested for suspected arson of family home in Jackson
Crews from the Jackson Fire Department were dispatched to a house fire at 2:05 a.m., Oct. 17 in the 700 block of Seymour Street in northeast Jackson near Kiwanis Park, officials said.
The first floor of the residence was fully involved in a fire when firefighters arrived, Jackson Police and Fire Services Director Elmer Hitt said. A pair of women, ages 69 and 40, were trapped in the house, Hitt said.
The younger woman escaped by jumping out of a second floor window, suffering a fractured ankle and minor smoke inhalation, officials said. The older woman was rescued on the first floor by firefighters.
Both women were taken to Henry Ford Jackson Hospital for their injuries, though the effects of smoke inhalation required the older woman be taken to University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, fire officials said.
The house is considered a total loss, officials said, and a dog died in the fire.
An initial investigation indicated the fire was intentionally set, officials said. Police discovered Ganton was not present at the house when fire crews arrived, Hitt said.
Ganton was found walking in the area and was arrested on suspicion of arson. He was identified as a relative of the women living in the house, Hitt said.
Goostrey set bond at $500,000, and Ganton is currently lodged in the Jackson County Jail. The maximum possible penalty for assault with intent to murder is life in prison.
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Which AirPods Pro case cover is best?
Music is a great way to reduce distractions at home or block out ambient sounds on public transit. Then, when you no longer need them, you can easily pop your Apple AirPods Pro into their case to charge.
But just as you keep the small earbuds safe in the case, you also need to protect the case from scratches and drops. The best way to do that is to get an AirPods Pro case cover. There are several things that you must keep in mind, but for outdoor activities, you can’t go wrong with the Spigen Tough Armor AirPods Pro Case Cover With Keychain.
What to know before you buy an AirPods Pro case cover
Silicone vs. plastic vs. leather
The regular AirPods case is made from hard plastic, making it vulnerable to dirt and scratches. A cover that goes over the case protects it from damage. Consider which material is best suited for you and how often you use the case.
- Silicone covers are the most popular, as they come in different colors and offer good grip and drop protection.
- Plastic covers are protective, but more prone to scratches than silicone.
- Leather covers look stylish but may not offer as much protection as silicone or plastic.
Perfect fit required
A cover is of no use if the case doesn’t fit properly. It must be snug enough for the AirPods not to not fall out, so you need the correct cover for your version. For example, the previous AirPods case is smaller than the Pro — and the cover won’t fit.
Level of protection
The construction materials play a significant role in protecting your AirPods Pro, but there are special covers that take protection to a new level. Silicone and plastic are perfect for everyday use, and you shouldn’t require more than that. But if you enjoy the outdoors or use your AirPods in between extreme sports, you might want a case that gives higher drop protection, is waterproof and is made from a durable material.
What to look for in a quality AirPods Pro case cover
Supports wireless charging
While it is rare to find case covers incompatible with wireless chargers, it is nonetheless an aspect you must consider. Thinner materials such as plastic or silicone shouldn’t pose a problem for wirelessly charging the case, but a rugged, much thicker case can block the signals. Also, a good-quality case cover won’t obstruct the tiny indication light when charging.
Easy access
You don’t want to struggle when opening the case. So, a good-quality cover won’t hamper the lid or closing mechanism. However, covers with robust protection for the outdoors can employ an additional clip on the outside to prevent accidental opening. Speaking of the outdoors, you’ll often get a keychain or carabiner with your cover to attach it to your backpack.
Durable and long-lasting
While a cover’s materials should go with your preferred look and feel, they also need to be durable. You’ll be very disappointed if the accessory to protect your case is what ends up breaking. But this also depends on its design and how roughly you handle it. For example, some silicone covers that don’t have a cutout for the lid can start to crack after a few months. Leather and hard plastic covers last the longest, around a few years.
How much you can expect to spend on an AirPods Pro case cover
The average price of a cover for your AirPods Pro case depends on its materials and level of protection. An affordable cover costs $5-$10, while something more robust retails for $15-$20.
AirPods Pro case cover FAQ
How do you clean the AirPods Pro case?
A. You can clean the outside and inside with a soft cloth. If needed, you can dampen the cloth slightly and gently rub the outside to remove marks or dirt. Remember that you mustn’t get liquid on the charging ports.
How does the cover protect the case?
A. It depends on how the cover is made, but thicker covers have air cushions in the corners to absorb the initial shock when dropped. Silicone offers the same type of protection, but can’t take the same environmental beating.
What’s the best AirPods Pro case cover to buy?
Top AirPods Pro case cover
Spigen Tough Armor AirPods Pro Case Cover With Keychain
What you need to know: If you take your AirPods with you when hiking, this cover will ensure that they don’t get damaged.
What you’ll love: Made from hard plastic and relatively thick, this case cover will protect your AirPods housing from drops, bumps, dust and dirt. The detailed cutout on the back doesn’t hamper opening, has a charging indicator light and comes with a metal carabiner.
What you should consider: The cover includes a few adhesive strips to secure the case, but Spigen says these are optional.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top AirPods Pro case cover for the money
BRG Silicone Skin AirPods Pro Case Cover
What you need to know: This silicone cover is incredibly thin, deserving the product name “Skin”.
What you’ll love: Available in 38 solid colors and patterns, this cover is perfect for protecting your case from scratches and fingerprints. The front LED light remains visible when charging wirelessly, and the bottom charging port has a plug to keep out dust.
What you should consider: Some users said the lid part of the cover could easily slip off.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Elago Classic Handheld Game Console AirPods Pro Case
What you need to know: Any fan of the classic Nintendo Gameboy will love this case cover, as it draws design inspiration from the handheld gaming console.
What you’ll love: The case is compatible with wireless charging pads, and the indicator light illuminates when used. It is made from impact-resistant silicone, providing a good grip and bump protection.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said the case must be pushed down further into the case to fit perfectly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today the preliminary results of its split-off exchange offer to 3M stockholders to exchange their shares of 3M common stock for shares of common stock of Garden SpinCo Corporation ("SpinCo"). The exchange offer was conducted in connection with the previously announced pending separation of 3M's food safety business and the subsequent merger of SpinCo, a subsidiary of 3M formed to hold the food safety business, with a subsidiary of Neogen Corporation ("Neogen").
3M intends to accept shares of 3M common stock validly tendered in the exchange offer, subject to proration, and expects the closing of the merger to occur later today immediately after 3M's acceptance of such shares, following the satisfaction or waiver of all remaining closing conditions.
In the exchange offer, 3M stockholders had the option to exchange some, none or all of their shares of 3M common stock for shares of SpinCo common stock, subject to proration and with an exchange ratio of approximately 6.7713 shares of SpinCo common stock for each share of 3M common stock that is validly tendered, not properly withdrawn and accepted for exchange. Upon completion of the merger, each share of SpinCo common stock will be converted into the right to receive one share of Neogen common stock. As a result, 3M stockholders who tendered shares of 3M common stock in the exchange offer will receive approximately 6.7713 shares of Neogen common stock (subject to the receipt of cash in lieu of fractional shares) for each share of 3M common stock accepted for exchange.
Exchange Offer Preliminary Results
Pursuant to the exchange offer, which expired at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on August 31, 2022, and based on a preliminary count by the exchange offer agent, a total of approximately 215,199,594 shares of 3M common stock were tendered prior to the expiration of the exchange offer, including approximately 111,056,104 shares tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures. Based on the preliminary results, 3M will exchange a total of approximately 15,989,536 shares of 3M common stock in the exchange offer, resulting in a preliminary proration factor of approximately 6.95 percent. The preliminary results include an estimated 1,115,836 shares of 3M common stock tendered by odd-lot stockholders not subject to proration.
3M will not be able to determine the final proration factor until after the expiration of the guaranteed delivery period at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 2, 2022. 3M will publicly announce the final results, including the final proration factor, which may be different from today's preliminary estimates, after they have been determined. Once the final results of the exchange offer are available, Neogen's exchange agent will deliver the appropriate number of shares of Neogen common stock, as well as cash in lieu of fractional shares.
Because more than 15,989,536 shares of 3M common stock were tendered, all shares of 3M common stock owned by 3M will be distributed in the exchange offer, and no shares of SpinCo common stock will be distributed as a pro rata dividend.
For more information about the exchange offer, please contact the information agent, Georgeson LLC, at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10104 or at the telephone number 888-607-6511 (toll-free in the United States).
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This release includes "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the proposed transaction between Neogen, 3M and SpinCo. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "project," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "forecast," "outlook," "target," "endeavor," "seek," "predict," "intend," "strategy," "plan," "may," "could," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. All statements, other than historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the expected timing and structure of the proposed transaction, the ability of the parties to complete the proposed transaction, the expected benefits of the proposed transaction, including future financial and operating results and strategic benefits, the tax consequences of the proposed transaction, and the combined Neogen-SpinCo company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, legal, economic and regulatory conditions, and any assumptions underlying any of the foregoing, are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are based on Neogen and 3M's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from Neogen and 3M's current expectations. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. The inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation that such plans, estimates or expectations will be achieved. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such plans, estimates or expectations include, among others, (1) that one or more closing conditions to the proposed transaction may not be satisfied or waived, on a timely basis or otherwise; (2) the risk that the proposed transaction may not be completed on the terms or in the timeframe expected by Neogen, 3M and SpinCo, or at all; (3) unexpected costs, charges or expenses resulting from the proposed transaction; (4) uncertainty of the expected financial performance of the combined company following completion of the proposed transaction; (5) failure to realize the anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, including as a result of delay in completing the proposed transaction or integrating the business of Neogen and the Food Safety Business, on the expected timeframe or at all; (6) the ability of the combined company to implement its business strategy; (7) difficulties and delays in the combined company achieving revenue and cost synergies; (8) inability of the combined company to retain and hire key personnel; (9) the occurrence of any event that could give rise to termination of the proposed transaction; (10) the risk that stockholder litigation in connection with the proposed transaction or other litigation, settlements or investigations may affect the timing or occurrence of the proposed transaction or result in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability; (11) evolving legal, regulatory and tax regimes; (12) changes in general economic and/or industry specific conditions; (13) actions by third parties, including government agencies; (14) the risks that the anticipated tax treatment of the proposed transaction is not obtained; (15) the risk of greater than expected difficulty in separating the Food Safety Business from the other businesses of 3M; (16) risks related to the disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the pendency of the proposed transaction, or other effects of the pendency of the proposed transaction on the relationship of any of the parties to the proposed transaction with their employees, customers, suppliers, or other counterparties; and (17) risk factors detailed from time to time in Neogen's and 3M's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including Neogen's and 3M's annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and other documents filed with the SEC, including Neogen's registration statement on Form S-4 (Reg. No. 333-263667) that includes a prospectus relating to the shares of Neogen common stock to be issued in the proposed transaction, as amended and supplemented (the "Neogen Registration Statement"), which was declared effective by the SEC on August 4, 2022 and SpinCo's registration statement on Form S-4 and Form S-1 (Reg. No. 333-263669) in connection with its separation from 3M that contains a prospectus relating to the shares of SpinCo common stock to be issued in the proposed transaction, as amended and supplemented (the "SpinCo Registration Statement"), which was declared effective by the SEC on August 4, 2022 , in each case, filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction. The foregoing list of important factors is not exclusive.
Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this communication. None of Neogen, 3M or SpinCo undertakes, and each party expressly disclaims, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or development, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements.
Important Information About the Transaction and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed transaction, SpinCo filed the SpinCo Registration Statement and Neogen filed the Neogen Registration Statement. In addition, 3M filed with the SEC on August 4, 2022 a Schedule TO (as may be amended and supplemented, the "3M Schedule TO") in connection with the proposed transaction. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE SPINCO REGISTRATION STATEMENT, NEOGEN REGISTRATION STATEMENT, 3M SCHEDULE TO AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT ARE MADE AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT NEOGEN, 3M, SPINCO AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. The SpinCo Registration Statement, Neogen Registration Statement, 3M Schedule TO and other documents relating to the proposed transaction (as they become available) can also be obtained free of charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The SpinCo Registration Statement, Neogen Registration Statement, 3M Schedule TO and other documents (as they become available) can also be obtained free of charge from 3M upon written request to 3M Investor Relations Department, Bldg. 224-1 W-02, St. Paul, MN 55144, or by e-mailing investorrelations@3M.com or upon written request to Neogen's Investor Relations, 620 Lesher Place, Lansing, Michigan 48912 or by e-mailing ir@neogen.com.
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This release is not intended to and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a solicitation of any vote of approval, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Clayton Tune completed 32 of 44 passes for 435 yards and four touchdowns — two to Matthew Golden — and Houston scored the first 28 points as the Cougars beat East Carolina 42-3 on Saturday.
Nathaniel Dell caught nine passes for 176 yards and his 12-yard touchdown reception opened the scoring less than 5 minutes into the game. Tune hit Christian Trahan for a 9-yard TD in the second quarter and Brandon Campbell's 5-yard touchdown run — which capped a nine-play, 92-yard drive — gave Houston (6-4, 4-2 American Athletic Conference) a 21-0 halftime lead.
Golden, who finished with eight receptions for 127 yards, caught two 26-yard touchdown throws from Tune in the third quarter. Later, a 14-play, 73-yard drive that took nearly 8 minutes off the clock culminated when Ta’Zhawn Henry scored on a 3-yard run that made it 42-3 with 6:11 to play.
Keaton Mitchell had 129 yards rushing on 14 carries for East Carolina (6-4, 3-3).
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EV range loss in cold weather is well documented, but EVs may have an advantage over internal-combustion cars when driving in hot weather with the air conditioning blasting.
Recurrent, which produces battery health reports for used EVs, analyzed data from 7,500 vehicles to see if hot temperatures and air conditioner use affected range. The analysis found that air conditioning has a much smaller impact on range than heaters used to warm up the cabin cold weather, only beginning to chip away at total range when temperatures get above 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
Among vehicles analyzed, the average range loss at 80 degrees was just 2.8%, creeping up to 5% at 90 degrees. The data also showed average range loss of 31% at 100 degrees, but Recurrent noted that this is based on a very limited sample.
The limited number of EV drivers out in triple-digit temperatures illustrates one reason why hot weather isn’t as much of an issue for range as cold weather. In the summer, the average temperature change needed to make a car interior comfortable is smaller, at 20 degrees to 25 degrees, compared to 50 degrees in winter, according to Recurrent. So less energy is required.
Unlike internal-combustion cars, there is also no difference in energy use when running the air conditioning in an EV while idling or driving. That’s because EVs don’t have a heat-producing engine that the air conditioning has to fight against to lower temperatures. Lack of engine heat can be a problem for warming EV cabins in cold temperatures, but it’s an advantage here.
EVs can also be set to pre-cool their cabins while plugged in, which can save a significant amount of energy, Recurrent noted. The most-energy intensive part of air conditioning use is cooling down the cabin, with less energy needed to maintain a set temperature. It may take 3-5 kw of energy to get a 95-degree car to a comfortable temperature of around 70 degrees, according to Recurrent, but it takes only around 1 kw to keep it there.
Recurrent has also looked at cold-weather range loss, finding that it does indeed occur, but varies by model. EVs with heat pumps tend to retain most of their range, the firm’s analysis found. Recurrent also found that most EVs now have more than enough range to cover driving needs, so it essentially amounts to more time spent at the charger.
Weather extremes can also lead to more battery degradation, but as data from the firm recently suggests and confirms, it’s not likely to brick your EV.
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(NewsNation) — Even as children called 911 and begged for help, the gunman at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school was treated as a barricaded subject, and not an active shooter, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Friday.
DPS Director Steven McCraw said the on-site commander during the shooting believed the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was barricaded in a classroom but that “there were no more children at risk.”
“A decision was made that this was a barricaded subject,” McCraw said. “There was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door to take on the subject at that point.”
Nineteen officers were in Robb Elementary School for more than 40 minutes before Ramos was killed. Meanwhile, 911 calls were being made from inside classrooms by both teachers and students, pleading for police to help them.
“The belief was that there may not be anybody living anymore and that the subject is now trying to keep law enforcement at bay or entice them to come in,” McCraw said.
An on-scene commander thought more equipment and officers were needed to do a tactical breach, McCraw said. Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or BORTAC, was requested on scene. They were able to breach the door using keys they got from a janitor.
Despite acknowledging the “wrong decision” was made during the shooting response, McCraw declined to issue an apology for it during the press conference.
“If I thought it would help, I’d apologize,” he said in response to a reporter’s question.
Here’s what we know of the timeline:
11:27 a.m.: Video evidence shows the back door through which Ramos entered the school was propped open by a teacher. Ramos had crashed his vehicle in a ditch near the school and a teacher came out and checked on the driver, as did two people from a nearby funeral home, McCraw said.
11:28 a.m.: Ramos got out of the passenger side of the vehicle with a gun and the teacher ran back inside to get her phone and call 911.
11:30 a.m.: The teacher called 911 and reported the crash and that the driver had a gun.
11:31 a.m.: Ramos began shooting into school windows as he made his way toward the open back door.
11:33 a.m.: The gunman entered the school and began shooting in two classrooms. McCraw said Ramos had fired “at least 100 rounds” within the first four minutes of entering the school.
“We do know this: He shot more than 100 rounds based on the audio evidence at that time, at least 100 rounds,” McCraw said.
A school resource officer was not on site.
“The bottom line is that (school resource) officer was not on scene, not on campus, but had heard the 911 call with a man with a gun, drove immediately to the area, sped to what he thought was the man with a gun. (The officer went) to the back of the school, which turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect,” McCraw said.
11:35 a.m.: Three Uvalde police officers entered the school through the same door as the gunman, who fired at them. Two of the officers were struck by gunfire and suffered “grazing wounds,” McCraw said.
11:37 a.m.: Ramos fired about 16 more rounds while he was barricaded inside a classroom.
“There were 58 total magazines at the school,” McCraw said.
12:03 p.m.: As many as 17 more officers arrived and were inside the school, including the commanding officer. At the same time, an unidentified person called 911 from inside a classroom and whispered that they were in the room where the gunman was shooting. The call lasted for 1 minute and 23 seconds.
12:10 p.m.: The same person called 911 again and said there were multiple people dead.
12:15 p.m.: A tactical team entered the school building and joined the officers who were already there.
12:16 p.m.: One of the 911 callers reported that there were “eight or nine” people who were still alive.
12:21 p.m.: Three gunshots can be heard on 911 audio, followed by a child saying, “he shot the door.”
12:46 p.m.: A caller told 911 that they could hear police.
12:50 p.m.: Officers entered the classroom after getting keys from the janitor.
12:51 p.m.: A caller told the 911 operator that it sounded like officers were inside the room.
During the press conference, McCraw revealed more about the gunman’s digital footprint in the months before the shooting. On March 1, he said the gunman discussed buying a gun in a group chat over Instagram. On March 14, he made an Instagram post, saying, “10 more days,” according to the DPS director.
Someone replied to the post, asking Ramos, “are you gonna shoot up the school or something?”
“The subject replied, ‘No. And stop asking dumb questions and you’ll see,'” McCraw said.
In a Facebook message to another person, Ramos had said he was going to shoot his grandmother, McCraw said. He did so before he went inside the school on Tuesday. She was in serious condition as of Wednesday afternoon.
“Why and how is being looked at right now. And I’ll tell you this, hundreds of more, thousands of more leads are being looked at right now, because we haven’t answered all the questions. We haven’t gotten into the why,” McCraw said.
During Friday’s news conference, McCraw also said, “This is about finding facts and reporting facts as quick as we can. It’s not about trying to defend or it’s not about trying to assess or even be hypercritical of the facts.”
Read more here about how police response times in active shooter situations are vital to save lives and how things have changed since the Columbine High School shooting. | 2022-05-27T21:04:07+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/police-waited-more-than-40-minutes-during-shooter-response/ |
...The Flood Advisory continues for the following rivers in Utah...
Logan River Near Logan affecting Cache County.
For the Logan River...including Logan...elevated river levels are
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you are in the advisory area, remain alert to possible flooding
or the possibility of the advisory being upgraded to a warning.
If you encounter a flooded roadway, turn around and find an
alternative route.
Caution is urged when walking near riverbanks. Keep children and
pets away from riverbanks as flows are fast and cold.
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...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Continued high flows remaining near bankfull.
* WHERE...Logan River Near Logan.
* WHEN...Until early Saturday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...At 5.2 feet (1540 cfs), minor flooding will impact the
Birch Glen summer home development in Logan Canyon. Additionally,
various campgrounds throughout Logan Canyon will receive flood
damage.
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- At 10:00 AM MDT Wednesday the stage was 5.0 feet (1408 CFS).
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Chris Stewart, 6-term Utah Republican, resigning from Congress
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart on Wednesday announced plans to resign his Utah seat due to his wife’s illness, triggering a special election to replace him in a reliably Republican district.
“I can say with pride that I have been an effective leader for my beloved home state, and I'm honored to have played an important role in guiding our nation through some troubled times,” Stewart said in a statement.
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Officials are searching in Revere on Friday morning as part of the investigation into Harmony Montgomery’s disappearance in 2019, according to Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police.
The attorney general stated the Manchester and Massachusetts State Police departments were searching at a “location” in Revere.
“This search is being conducted as part of the investigation into the murder of then-five-year-old Harmony Montgomery in December 2019,” Formella’s statement read.
No additional information was available, the officials said, and they stated they cautioned “against any speculation related to the potential results of this search.”
Adam Montgomery, the child’s father, was indicted at the end of January 2023 in connection with the child’s murder.
The New Hampshire man was arrested and charged in connection with the murder of his daughter in Oct. 2022 along with charges of falsifying evidence, abuse of corpse, and tampering with witnesses or informants, officials said.
Harmony had not been seen since just after Thanksgiving 2019, but it was not until late 2021 that officials became aware she was missing. She had lived in Massachusetts with her mother and in foster care before being placed in the custody of her father, Adam Montgomery, in New Hampshire in 2019.
In August, officials announced that they had concluded Harmony had been murdered at 5 years old in early December of 2019 based on “multiple sources of investigative information” along with biological evidence, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella stated.
Officials said they believe Adam killed Harmony by “repeatedly striking her on the head with a closed fist” on Dec. 7, 2019.
WMUR had spoken with legal expert Patricia LaFrance, who stated the indictment was just the next step in the prosecution’s process — even without police finding Harmony Montgomery’s body.
“It is possible to go forward with the prosecution without having a body,” LaFrance had told the outlet.
The departments also stated law enforcement is still requesting the public’s assistance in locating Harmony’s body. The departments asked any who had information regarding her death or the location of her remains, to call or text the 24-hour tip line dedicated to Harmony Montgomery’s rescue at 603-203-6060. | 2023-04-07T15:30:49+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/04/search-underway-in-revere-related-to-harmony-montgomery-missing-since-2019.html |
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Richard Evans makes his way through rows of his students in his third grade classroom, stooping to pick up an errant pencil and answering questions above the din of chairs sliding on hardwood floors.
The desks, once spread apart to fight COVID-19, are back together. Masks cover just a couple of faces. But the pandemic maintains an unmistakable presence.
Look no further than the blue horseshoe-shaped table in the back of the room where Evans calls a handful of students back for extra help in reading — a pivotal subject for third grade — at the end of each day.
Here is where time lost to pandemic shutdowns and quarantines shows itself: in the students who are repeating this grade. In the little fingers slowly sliding beneath words sounded out one syllable at a time. In the teacher’s patient coaching through reading concepts usually mastered in first grade — letter “blends” like “ch” and “sh.”
It is here, too, where Evans jots pluses and minuses and numbers on charts he’s made to track each child’s comprehension and fluency, and circles and underlines words that trip up a student a second or third time.
In a year that is a high-stakes experiment on making up for missed learning, this strategy — assessing individual students’ knowledge and tailoring instruction to them — is among the most widely adopted in American elementary schools. In his classroom of 24 students, each affected differently by the pandemic, Evans faces the urgent challenge of having them all read well enough to succeed in the grades ahead.
Here is how he has tackled it.
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GOING FROM PANDEMIC TO ‘NORMAL’ IS HARD
It is a Thursday in October, early in the school year. Six students surround Evans at the blue table, each staring down at a first-grade-level book about baseball great Willie Mays. Many are struggling.
“What sound does ‘-er’ make?’” Evans asks 9-year-old Ke’Arrah Jessie, who focuses through glasses on the page. She puts “hit” and “ter” together to make “hitter.”
Next to her, a boy takes a turn. He pronounces “high” as “hig.” Evans grabs a pen and jots down “night” and other “igh” words for a sidebar phonics refresher on the letter grouping. Meantime, the rest of the class reads on their own. While some page through below-grade-level readers, others plunge into advanced chapter books.
Most of these students were sent home as kindergartners in March 2020. Many spent all of first grade learning remotely from home full- or part-time. Even after schools reopened full time for second grade, COVID-related obstacles remained: masking and distancing rules that prevented group work, quarantining that sent kids home for a week without warning, and young children by then unaccustomed to — and unhappy about — full weeks of school rules.
Says Evans, who came to teaching at age 40 after a career as a computer graphics designer: “All year long, I had kids ask me, `Why do I have to be in school for five days?’”
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MOVING FROM ‘LEARNING TO READ’ TO ‘READING TO LEARN’
At the beginning of this school year, assessments showed that 15 of Evans’ initial 23 students were reading below grade level. Of those, nine were considered severely behind, lacking basic foundational skills usually learned in first grade. In a typical year, four or five students would be reading at the lowest level, he said.
“I know I have to do something about that. That’s my job,” Evans said, looking back.
There is no time to waste. Third-grade students are under urgent pressure to progress from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Studies show those who don’t read fluently by the end of this school year are more likely to drop out or fail to finish high school on time.
Among those starting out behind is Ke’Arrah, who spent more than a year learning remotely early in the pandemic. Her mother, Ashley Martin, could see the toll on her daughter’s drive to learn. So when Ke’Arrah was assigned to a new elementary school for this year, her mother re-enrolled her in third grade.
The pandemic cut first grade short for Ke’Arrah. To keep the family safe, Martin kept Ke’Arrah home in second grade, too, even when she had the option to return to school in person two days a week. She has four children younger than Ke’Arrah, including a son born just three days before COVID-19 shut down schools and businesses in March 2020.
“It was good for me, but not great for her because she’s on a computer,” said Martin, whose employer, a restaurant, temporarily closed.
Ke’Arrah, who likes math and wants to be a police officer, remembers the pull of her nearby toys as she tried to stay focused on her on-screen teacher.
“She was talking about boring stuff,” Ke’Arrah says. Last year’s transition back to in-person school was rocky, her mother said. She finished behind in math and reluctant to read.
Midway through her second stint in third grade, Ke’Arrah shows progress. Martin has passed her love of the Junie B. Jones series of books to Ke’Arrah, and the pair read them together at bedtime. Small moments become reading lessons, too.
“She’s on the phone, I’m like: ‘Read that to me. Tell me, what does that say?’ We’re out somewhere: ‘Read this to me. What does it say?’” Martin says.
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DOUBLING UP ON KIDS WHO NEED IT MOST
While many students are behind, Evans also referred more candidates than ever — five — for the school’s honors program because of their advanced scores on early assessments.
He pulled aside students who were reading well above grade level as the year began and explained they might not get as much one-on-one time with him, something he had never done before. That has allowed him to double up on the time he could spend helping other students to catch up, working with some groups twice or three times a week. The advanced readers spend that time reading and working together.
The range highlights the varied experiences during the pandemic, where some had more support at home than others.
“Were they read to? Was there someone to support them to do assignments and homework when they were not physically with the certified teacher and having direct instruction?” says Marcia Capone, assessment administrator in the district, which provided devices and internet hotspots to families.
In Niagara Falls, about one in four people live in poverty, and 80% of the district’s students are economically disadvantaged, state data shows. Despite swarms of tourists to its namesake falls, the Rust Belt city has been scarred by an exodus of heavy industry and population that began in the 1960s.
Districts like Atlanta have sought to address learning losses by adding time to the school day. Others, like Washington, D.C., have pursued “high-impact” tutoring. Niagara Falls City Schools have doubled down on remedial work and differentiated learning, customizing students’ lessons to keep each student moving forward. The district has used federal pandemic relief money to put 12 reading specialists to work with first graders in its eight elementary schools, Superintendent Mark Laurrie said.
Using assessments to identify students’ individual needs is the top strategy American schools are using to help kids catch up from the pandemic, followed closely by remedial instruction, according to a federal survey.
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WITH THIS STUDENT, IT WORKED — FOR A WHILE
Evans invested his own time in one of his neediest students, a boy who is repeating third grade at Evans’ urging. He started keeping him after school once a week for an hour of intensive reading intervention.
“He’s like my little experiment,” Evans said after one tutoring session in November. “With intense intervention, can you turn this around?”
The two had just slowly worked through a phonics worksheet that had the student circle words that began with the same letter as pictures. In one problem, “candy,” “open” and “after” followed a picture of an ant. “Open?” guessed the fidgeting student.
Evans had him close his eyes and say the words, thinking about the first sound of each. The trick eventually led him to the correct word, “after.”
In other lessons, the student struggled to identify rhyming words and consonant blends. Each problem revealed another concept not yet mastered.
“Very good!” Evans said after the boy correctly added the missing “rd” to the end of lizard. He responded with a satisfied smile.
In a matter of weeks, the boy went from knowing just 11 sight words — common words like “because” and “about” that students should instantly recognize — to 66 of the 75 on the district’s third grade list.
“I want to be able to read chapter books, and I want to read big old dictionaries!” the boy said after a one-on-one tutoring session that had him working on what sounds letters make when together, like “sp,” and “sn.”
Then, midway through the school year, the child stopped staying after school. Evans said his student lost interest; without a parent’s nudging, there is only so much he can do.
Earlier in the year, the child’s mother had described pandemic remote learning as fraught. The family had internet connection issues, and it was difficult to schedule school sessions around her work as a nursing home aide.
“I have a younger daughter at home and it was just a mess. She’s screaming. It was just a whole thing,” she said by phone.
When the tutoring stopped, she did not respond to follow-up calls or texts.
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SHOWING LEARNERS ‘THERE’S A CONCERN FOR YOU’
Halfway through the school year, a new set of assessments suggests Evans’ strategy is, overall, working. He loads results into an Excel spreadsheet which, combined with his own running charts, lets him evaluate growth from September to January and regroup students based on where they need help most.
“Thank God for paper and sticky notes,” Evans says.
What he saw in the charts arrayed in front of him was encouraging. Fifteen of his students had met or exceeded their scoring goals for this round of tests. Several who are receiving targeted help showed the biggest gains.
Ke’Arrah leapfrogged from a bottom level to the upper middle — to the relief of her mother, whose decision to have her daughter repeat third grade appears to be paying off.
“I know it’s going to be embarrassing when she gets older: `Oh, you’re a grade behind,'” Martin said. “But she’s going to have that knowledge.”
Despite the students’ progress, even some who see another big jump by the final assessments in May could finish behind typical third-graders. Evans has arranged for extra services for next year for three of his neediest students, including the boy he was tutoring after hours. But they will be far enough along to move on to fourth grade.
For the first time in his seven years teaching third grade, everyone improved, Evans says. “I don’t know if it’s the programs we’re using or if it’s the fact that everybody is more invested in it right now.”
Maybe, he said, having so many students behind has made everyone in the building more invested in catching them up — “making them aware, `You know what? There’s a concern for you.’”
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Initial Order delivery of over $7 million and Domestic Violence Monitoring Program Go-Live is expected by October 1st, 2022
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperCom (NASDAQ: SPCB), a global provider of secured solutions for the e-Government, IoT, and Cybersecurity sectors, is pleased to announce that, together with its local partner, it has executed the contract and launched the over $33 million project with Romania's Ministry of Interior, following the award announced on August 24th. The project will include the deployment of SuperCom's PureSecurity Electronic Monitoring (EM) Suite for Domestic Violence monitoring, GPS Tracking of offenders, and a home detention monitoring program.
SuperCom's PureSecurity Suite is a best-of-breed electronic monitoring and tracking platform with a comprehensive set of innovative features, including advanced anti-tamper mechanisms, multi-factor biometrics, the newest location technologies and sensors, practically limitless historic data, seamless 3rd party API integration, and an ultra-lightweight ankle-bracelet with proprietary energy efficiency algorithms.
This is Romania's first EM project, linking it with a long list of nations choosing SuperCom's EM solutions and further expanding SuperCom's footprint into an additional country in the EU. The nationwide program is expected to encompass all EM offender programs within the country, up to 15,000 enrollees simultaneously, and include a unique integration of multiple offender tracking sub-programs.
The awarded value of the contract based on the government's internal budgeting is over $33 million. The budget is based mainly on monitoring software, EM products, and complimentary services spread over four years, plus an additional three years of continued services. Initial Order delivery of over $7 million is expected by October 1st, 2022.
"We are excited with the execution of this contract; it further validates our strategy to scale up operations to accelerate growth and improve public safety in more nations worldwide. We look forward to supporting Romania's public safety efforts and bringing them the many benefits of SuperCom's proprietary EM technology. It is an honor to take part in this national initiative by building the necessary infrastructure and deploying Romania's first EM program," commented Ordan Trabelsi, President & CEO of SuperCom.
"This competitive tender process that just concluded is the first of several tenders for large-scale national European EM projects expected to be concluded in 2022 and 2023, with a total estimated value of over $200 million. With this meaningful win and contract execution, SuperCom is once again signaling, after more than 10 other recent national European EM project wins, the superiority of its value offering in the European EM space. We believe our growing reputation as a leading global EM solution provider will drive additional wins in the future," concluded Mr. Trabelsi.
This contract execution follows the award announced on August 24th, which was won through a formal bid process, with over 8 international companies participating in the bidding process. The process included several rounds of negotiations and several demonstrations and system tests by the contracting authority.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — 363 Tucson Electric Power customers are currently without power, after an outage was reported in the neighborhood near Valencia Road and Alvernon Way.
The outage was first reported at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, July 17. TEP says the cause is currently under investigation, but reminds customers that outages typically take about 2 hours to resolve. | 2023-07-17T08:12:35+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/power-outage-near-airport-affects-over-300-customers |
It’s easy to forget that the Netflix original film department is still rather young. Five years ago, the streaming service didn’t even really have one. But things move quickly in the competitive streaming world, especially when starting from scratch.
Now with a robust library of proprietary and commercially minded films and characters, Netlifx is leaning into another important pillar of the movie business: Sequels.
They’ve dabbled before, with romantic comedies and teen-focused fare like “The Kissing Booth” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” but with a breakneck annual output, Netflix has now amassed enough of their own intellectual property to develop franchises in more genres, including adventure, mystery, comedy, action and thrillers, created by and starring some of the industry’s biggest names.
Kicking off with “Enola Holmes 2,” which is newly available to stream and sees Millie Bobby Brown back as the spirited young detective, Netflix has a slew of starry, high-profile follow-ups to some of their most successful films on the way. Later this year, “ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ” will bring Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc back to solve a new murder case on a private Greek island. In 2023 and beyond, Chris Hemsworth will reprise his role as black ops mercenary Tyler Rake in “ Extraction 2,” Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler will reunite for “Murder Mystery 2” and Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne will be back as immortals in “ The Old Guard 2.”
“Our goal was always to build stories and films and characters that we can return to,” said Netflix executive Kira Goldberg. “We’re finally at that moment, we’re feeling really good about it.”
Goldberg and Ori Marmur co-head the studio film team at Netflix under global film chief Scott Stuber. Both were veterans of traditional studio filmmaking, with Goldberg having come to Netflix from Fox, where she oversaw the likes of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “The Greatest Showman,” while Marmur came from producing films like “Escape Room” and “The Green Hornet.”
“We loved the idea that we could come to a studio that was starting from scratch,” Marmur said. “That just doesn’t happen, especially not at this scale.”
In the years they’ve been at Netfix, they’ve been able to draw on relationships they’ve made over the years and also forged new ones with directors, writers and talent they wanted to work with. They also knew they had to play catchup with the legacy studios that had a century of intellectual property at their disposal.
“It’s pretty impressive that sequels are a conversation and a reality,” said Mary Parent, who produced both “Enola Holmes” movies.
The sequel was put into motion soon after it hit Netflix in September 2020, with Brown, Henry Cavill, writer Jack Thorne and director Harry Bradbeer all on board. An estimated 76 million households streamed the lively detective story in its first four weeks.
“We mobilized really quickly,” Parent said. “You try not to take it for granted. And you try to raise the bar on yourself, to up the storytelling, up the stakes with everything that you loved about the first but also something new.”
The sequel strategy is not so unlike that at traditional studios: They want to keep viewers coming back for familiar characters. And it’s an equation that has proved effective with their most popular television shows, like “Stranger Things,”“Bridgerton,”“Squid Game” and “The Witcher.”
There may not be a set formula or mandate around what gets another film, but most are among Netflix’s most-watched originals. In their first four weeks, “The Old Guard” was seen by 78 million households and “Extraction” drew in 99 million households, according to data provided by Netflix.
“(‘Extraction’) obviously benefited from the timing of its release, which was at the early days of the pandemic,” said Mike Larocca, the co-founder and vice chairman of the Russo Brothers’ AGBO Productions. “But they were very supportive of the sequel script before that. We were prepared to move quickly and they didn’t wait for the performance.”
Part of the Netflix equation is looking at genres that either aren’t getting made at the big studio level anymore or aren’t getting enough audiences at the theaters to make them worth investing in frequently, like teen rom-coms. As a classic stunt-driven action movie, “Extraction,” Larocca said, was in that “dreaded middle that was getting killed theatrically.”
“People still want to see big, practical stunts and exotic locations and a really cool hero at the center,” Larocca said. “I think given their model, they’re able to make it at a higher budget than theatrical would have would have supported because their numbers look different.”
The notable exception is “Glass Onion,” as “Knives Out” did not originate at Netflix. But the streamer saw an opportunity in Rian Johnson’s fun murder mystery, which was a hit at the box office, and potential in spinning out more stories anchored by Craig’s shrewd detective. They shelled out $450 million for two sequels. There is also a “ Luther ” film in the works, based on the hit crime series, with Cynthia Erivo, and a re-imagining of “ Spy Kids,” with Robert Rodriguez on board to write and direct.
“They’ve really succeeded in creating an environment where I think people can do their best work,” Parent said. “They’re there to offer support but don’t create unnecessary obstacles. They don’t overly micromanage, which can sometimes kill creativity. They understand the balance … And the power of their platform is undeniable.”
At Netflix, Goldberg and Marmur have also found opportunities in working cross-functionally with other departments.
“When I worked at other traditional studios, I didn’t know who was in the series team. I didn’t know who worked in consumer products. There was never any communication,” Goldberg said. “Here, we get in a room together all the time. We strategize collectively.”
Case in point: When developing the graphic novel “BRZRKR” as a live-action film with Keanu Reeves, they also committed to an anime series so he could “have the best of both worlds” since the artwork was so important to him.
“We’re constantly trying to figure out how we can do things in different, innovative and cool ways,” Marmur said. “It’s not rare to have a conversation with a filmmaker about how their film can branch into other things.”
It has been a rollercoaster year for Netflix, but they’ve recovered from subscriber losses in the first half of the year and were back on top with gains made in Q3. Netflix now boasts 223 million subscribers, and is once again the world’s largest video streaming service. The Walt Disney Co. had briefly eclipsed Netflix in August when it reported its service had 221 million subscriptions, though there is some debate over how comparable the numbers are as Disney counts households that subscribe to its bundle package of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ as three separate subscriptions.
The company is also days away from launching its first ad-supported plan that debuts in the U.S. and 11 other markets in early November. The new option will cost $7 per month in the U.S., less than half the price for Netflix’s most popular $15.50-per-month plan without commercial interruptions.
But Goldberg and Marmur say they’re just concerned with putting their heads down and making great films.
“They’ve come so far so fast, it’s incredible,” Larocca said. “The legacy studios have tremendous advantages in terms of IP that they can draw from. It’s fun to see them start building their own franchises. They’re making big swings.”
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WASHINGTON, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Updata Partners, a growth equity investment firm focused on B2B software companies, today announced the final close of Updata Partners VII, L.P., with aggregate capital commitments totaling more than $608 million. The oversubscribed fund is Updata's largest to date and brings committed capital to more than $1.5 billion.
Updata was founded in 1998 by operators from the software industry. Decades of experience have enabled the firm to play an active role in supporting portfolio companies. This approach will continue with Updata VII as the firm seeks to invest in management teams that are looking for both capital and a value-add strategic partner.
"We are incredibly grateful for the support from our limited partners," said Carter Griffin, General Partner. "We enjoy a number of longstanding relationships, and we are excited to welcome several new investors in Updata VII."
Technology innovations have brought down the cost and complexity of starting a software business, allowing for more opportunities to reach scale in a capital efficient manner. Updata sees software's penetration into every corner of the economy as a chance to partner with the next generation of entrepreneurs building great businesses. The firm's recent investments reflect the breadth of the software industry, and include Improvado, CData, Shufti Pro, Landtech, Altus Assessments, Vector Remote Care, Living Security, BoxCast, Liongard, Practifi, and Bigleaf Networks.
"With Updata VII, we expect to continue our dedication to capital-efficient software businesses," said Jon Seeber, General Partner. "We are excited to draw on our long experience as entrepreneurs, managers, and investors as we continue to provide operating expertise to our current and future portfolio."
Updata Partners has historically made a handful of select investments each year, investing up to $100 million of equity per company. The firm prefers to be the first institutional capital and targets investments outside of Silicon Valley.
About Updata Partners
Updata Partners is a leading technology-focused growth equity firm in Washington D.C. with over $1.5 billion in committed capital. Led by an investment team averaging more than 25 years of technology experience, Updata invests in high-growth B2B software and software-driven businesses where the combination of capital and operating experience will help accelerate success. To learn more, please visit updata.com.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Daktronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: DAKT).
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According to a filed complaint, Daktronics, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company was experiencing challenges that increased costs, including supply chain disruptions, that impacted Daktronics' ability to fund inventory levels and operations; (2) as a result, it was probable that some portion of the Company's deferred tax assets would not be realized; (3) as a result, Daktronics was reasonably likely to record a material valuation allowance to its deferred tax assets; (4) there were material weaknesses in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting related to income taxes; (5) the foregoing presented liquidity concerns and there was substantial doubt as to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the latest Sandhills Global market reports covering used piston single, turboprop, and jet aircraft and piston helicopters in Sandhills marketplaces, asking values remained elevated in January and continue year-over-year growth. The reports also show inventory declines in piston singles, turboprops, and helicopters; jet aircraft inventory levels remained steady.
"Aircraft inventory levels increased month over month throughout 2022 from lows observed at the beginning of last year," says Controller Department Manager Brant Washburn. "The change of direction noted in the January market reports reflect the typical seasonal inventory declines that we expect to see at the turn of the calendar year. With the exception of turboprops, which saw a modest year-over-year decline, inventory levels overall were still higher in January than they were in January 2022, and asking values remain higher for all categories."
Sandhills' aviation products include Controller, Controller EMEA, Executive Controller, Charter Hub, AviationTrader, Aircraft Cost Calculator, and AircraftEvaluator. AircraftEvaluator is Sandhills' proprietary asset valuation tool for all types of aircraft, built using the same technology behind FleetEvaluator. Widely used and trusted across equipment, truck, and trailer industries, FleetEvaluator identifies asset values with unparalleled accuracy.
The key metric used in all of Sandhills' market reports is the Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI). Buyers and sellers can use the information in the Sandhills EVI to monitor equipment markets and maximize returns on acquisition, liquidation, and related business decisions. The Sandhills EVI data include equipment available in auction and retail markets, as well as model year equipment actively in use. Effective with the January 2023 EVI, Sandhills introduced version enhancements and weighted adjustments. All historic EVI metrics were amended and recalculated back to 2005, and all calendar year 2023 EVI releases will include these enhancements; as a result, prior numbers will not be comparable to the new, more insightful values.
Takeaways
This report includes detailed analysis of asking values and inventory trends in used aircraft markets along with charts that help readers visualize the data. It describes and quantifies important trends in the buying and selling of used piston single, turboprop, jet, and Robinson piston helicopter aircraft.
U.S. and Canada Used Piston Single Aircraft
- Inventory levels for pre-owned piston single aircraft decreased 11.94% M/M in January and are trending down. This follows a decline observed in December of 2022; however, inventory levels in this market are higher than in 2022, and posted a 12.03% YOY increase in January.
- Asking values remained elevated in January. The Sandhills EVI shows asking values are trending sideways, down just 0.52% M/M and up 5.6% YOY.
U.S. and Canada Used Turboprop Aircraft
- Relative to piston single and jet aircraft inventories, used turboprop aircraft inventory levels have decreased more sharply (down 12.4% M/M in January) and are trending down. However, the past two months of decreases in this market have brought inventory levels roughly in line with last year; they were down 1.74% YOY in January.
- Similar to the used piston single market, asking values for used turboprops have remained up while inventory has declined. Asking values in this market decreased 0.71% M/M and increased 27.52% YOY in January, and continue to trend upward.
Global Used Jet Aircraft
- Although M/M inventory gains for used jet aircraft have paused over the past few months (levels increased 0.56% M/M), they are up significantly since last year, posting a 161% YOY increase in January.
- Asking values for this market held steady M/M in January but continue to trend upward. Asking values are still higher than a year ago, up 12.61% YOY.
Global Used Robinson Piston Helicopters
- The greatest M/M inventory declines in January were seen in this market, as levels decreased 13.19%. Still, inventory levels continue to trend upward and posted a 21.54% YOY increase.
- The Sandhills EVI indicates asking values for used Robinson piston helicopters increased 5.47% M/M and 8.28% YOY in January.
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The Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI) is a principal gauge of the estimated market values of used assets—both currently and over time—across the construction, agricultural, commercial trucking, and aviation industries represented by Sandhills Global marketplaces, including Controller.com, AuctionTime.com, TractorHouse.com, MachineryTrader.com, TruckPaper.com, and other industry-specific equipment platforms. Powered by FleetEvaluator and AircraftEvaluator, Sandhills' proprietary asset valuation tools, Sandhills EVI provides useful insights into the ever-changing supply-and-demand conditions for each industry.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation making it easier to sue providers of gender-affirming care for children, a move that could effectively reinstate a blocked ban on such care.
Sanders on Monday signed the new law, which won’t take effect until this summer. It would allow anyone who received gender-affirming care as a minor to file a malpractice lawsuit against their doctor for up to 15 years after they turn 18. Under current Arkansas law, medical malpractice claims must be filed within two years of an injury.
Legal experts have said the change could close access to gender-affirming care for children by making it nearly impossible for providers to get malpractice insurance.
“Arkansas infamously passed the first law in the nation to try to ban gender affirming care for trans youth and after hearing extensive evidence, the courts have blocked that ban,” Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, said in a statement. “This bill is an effort to achieve indirectly what the Constitution prohibits the state from doing directly.”
The new law is among a growing number of bills targeting transgender people, who have faced increasingly hostile rhetoric at statehouses. At least 175 bills targeting trans people have been introduced in statehouses so far this year, the most in a single year, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
The bill was signed as a federal judge is considering whether to strike down a 2021 Arkansas law that would prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone therapy or puberty blockers to anyone under 18 — or referring them to other doctors who can provide that care. No gender-affirming surgery is performed on minors in the state.
Republican Sen. Gary Stubblefield, who sponsored the malpractice law, said he didn’t know if the measure would face a similar court challenge.
“Anything can create a court challenge in the world we live in today,” Stubblefield said. “I know we did what we thought was best for our children.”
U.S. District Judge Jay Moody temporarily blocked the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in 2021. Arkansas was the first state to enact such a ban, and several states have approved similar restrictions. A ban in Alabama has also been blocked by a federal judge.
Opponents of such treatments argue that minors are too young to make decisions about their futures. But every major medical group, including the American Medical Association, supports gender-affirming care for youths and has opposed the bans.
The malpractice legislation includes a “safe harbor” provision that would give doctors a defense against malpractice lawsuits over providing gender-affirming care for children, but only if they follow restrictions that experts have said are inconsistent with the standard of care for the treatments.
The new law won’t take effect until 90 days after the Legislature adjourns this year’s session, which isn’t expected to happen until next month at the earliest.
The bill is among several targeting transgender youth that have been proposed in Arkansas this year.
Others include legislation that would criminalize transgender adults using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. The bill goes even further than a bathroom bill North Carolina repealed following widespread boycotts.
Dickson urged Sanders to hear from trans youth and those who care from them before signing any more bills affecting the LGBTQ community. | 2023-03-14T23:28:35+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/sanders-signs-arkansas-trans-care-malpractice-bill-into-law/ |
Stars from ‘Nashville’ reunite for upcoming tour dates
Posted/updated on: April 17, 2023 at 4:33 pmClare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio from TV's Nashville will reunite for shows in Chicago, the series' eponymous music city, and England and Scotland.
"NASHVILLE" The Reunion Tour will mark the first time in five years that the stars of the country music industry-themed drama will take the stage, beginning with a stop at Chicago’s Rosemont Theatre on Saturday, September 23. Nashville alum turned Grey's Anatomy star Chris Carmack will join for a one-night-only performance.
Monday, September 25, will see the tour stop at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium.
The tour, which will have the stars playing music from the show, as well as original material, crosses the pond for an October 11 date in Glasgow, but will also stop in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and London.
Ticket information can be found online at nashvillereuniontour.com.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — In the biggest games, Stetson Bennett seems to rise to the occasion and above his often more heralded counterparts.
Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score as No. 1 Georgia shut down Hendon Hooker and the Vols’ high-powered offense to win a Southeastern Conference showdown of the nation’s top-ranked teams 27-13 Saturday.
After leading the Bulldogs to a national title last season, Bennett improved to 23-3 as a starter at Georgia.
“Competitive excellence, competitive toughness,” said Georgia coach Kirby Smart when asked about Bennett’s ability to shine on the grandest stages.
“He’s a winner. Let’s be honest. The guy knows how to win.”
Bennett passed for 257 yards, completing 17 of 25 passes. He had a 13-yard scoring run in the matchup against Hooker, regarded as a Heisman Trophy favorite. Maybe Bennett should be now?
Bennett insisted his only motivation was for the team’s hopes of returning to the SEC championship game, not for his personal validation “because at the end of the day we’re playing for the East and if we lost it’s a lower percentage we’re playing in Atlanta.”
Added Bennett: “I don’t really care about quarterback vs. quarterback.”
Georgia (9-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) turned the 25th regular-season matchup of the top two teams in the AP poll into a rout that made clear the defending national champions are still the team to beat.
“I kind of feel like it was a statement win,” said Georgia wide receiver Ladd McConkey, who had five catches for 94 yards and a touchdown.
In a deafening and soggy Sanford Stadium, Georgia led 27-6 before Tennessee scored its first touchdown with 4:15 remaining.
Hooker, whose Heisman hopes were bolstered by a win over Alabama last month, passed for only 195 yards for Tennessee (8-1, 4-1). Hooker was sacked six times by star defensive tackle Jalen Carter and the Bulldogs.
Tennessee wide receiver Jalin Hyatt said Georgia’s defense was “way more physical than Alabama.”
Georgia’s special teams put more pressure on Tennessee. Punter Brett Thorson nailed a 75-yarder that went out of bounds at the Tennessee 1 in the first quarter. Jack Podlesny kicked two field goals.
Hooker threw an interception, lost a fumble that nearly resulted in a safety for Georgia and didn’t throw a touchdown pass.
““They are a great ball team,” Hooker said. “They played extremely hard, and they got the win today. We have got to clean some things up. It is a learning process.”
The Volunteers came in averaging almost 50 points per game.
The Volunteers rode that Alabama victory to the top spot in the first College Football Playoff ranking. Georgia was No. 3 in last week’s CFP ranking.
That will change Tuesday.
The Vols were held to two first-half field goals as Georgia took a 24-6 halftime lead. Rain in the second half made it only more difficult to move against the Bulldogs’ defense.
Bennett threw scoring passes of 37 yards to McConkey and 5 yards to Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint in the first half.
There were more big plays in Georgia’s passing game. Bennett had completions of 52 yards to Arian Smith and 49 yards to running back Kenny McIntosh.
THE TAKEAWAY
Tennessee: The Vols struggled in the big-game atmosphere, especially on offense where crowd noise contributed to a series of false starts and illegal procedure calls.
Tennessee’s playoff hopes are far from gone, but the Vols are now going to need some help.
Georgia: Coming into the game, no team in FBS had more plays of at least 30 yards than Tennessee with 36.
Against the Bulldogs, the Vols’ longest play was a 28-yard pass to Hyatt.
KEY INJURIES
After losing outside linebacker Nolan Smith, Georgia’s leader with three sacks, to a season-ending injury last week, his replacement, Robert Beal, left game in third quarter with a neck injury. Chaz Chambliss took over for Beal. … Tennessee RB Jabari Small was taken to the medical tent in the first quarter with a shoulder injury. Wright took over as the lead running back.
HONORING LEGENDS
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ordered all flags in the state, including at Sanford Stadium, to be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of former longtime Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley, who died at 90 on Oct. 28.
Georgia players wore a patch on their uniforms honoring Dooley, who won 201 games, the 1980 national championship and six SEC titles.
For the second week, Georgia players also wore a helmet decal honoring Bulldogs legend Charley Trippi, a Pro and College Football Hall of Famer who died on Oct. 19. There was a moment of silence for Dooley and Trippi before the game.
UP NEXT
Tennessee returns home to play Missouri on Saturday. The Vols have won the last three games in the series, including a 62-24 win at Missouri in 2021.
Georgia begins a stretch of back-to-back SEC road games when it plays at Mississippi State on Saturday night. Georgia has won the last three games in the series.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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LAKE WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Reno NV
401 PM PDT Sun May 7 2023
...LAKE WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TO 8 PM PDT
MONDAY FOR LAKE TAHOE...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph
expected. Waves 1 to 3 feet with highest waves from mid lake to
north and east shores.
* WHERE...Lake Tahoe.
* WHEN...From 8 AM to 8 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Small boats, kayaks and paddle boards will be prone
to capsizing and should remain off lake waters until
conditions improve.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Check lake conditions before heading out and be prepared for a
sudden increase in winds and wave heights. Consider postponing
boating activities on the lake until a day with less wind.
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DANVILLE — Brainerd Chemical Midwest has been sued by the state in connection with allegedly allowing excess emissions of hydrogen fluoride from its chemical distribution plant in Danville.
A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Kwame Raoul, announced Tuesday, contends three residents living near the Danville facility complained to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in July that their grass had turned brown and plants appeared to die overnight, according to Raoul’s office.
The state agency conducted an inspection July 15 and found a visible plume of emissions coming from the facility and observed damaged and dead vegetation for about a quarter-mile south of the plant.
The IEPA asked for operational, inspection, maintenance and repair records for the air pollution control device intended to control hydrogen flouride emissions and the plant manager told the agency no such records existed, which is a violation of the facility's air pollution control permits, according to Raoul's office.
Hydrogen fluoride is described as a corrosive chemical harmful to human health, causing irritation to the eyes, nose and respiratory tract at low levels and is potentially fatal at high levels.
In an agreed interim order entered Tuesday, Raoul’s office said Brainerd Chemical has been required to cease and desist from operations using hydrofluoric acid, to conduct an assessment of the plant’s pollution control equipment and chemical storage tanks and take all required corrective actions to bring the facility into compliance before resuming operations. | 2022-08-23T22:41:51+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/state-sues-operator-of-danville-plant-for-alleged-pollution/article_98e7ff68-7e77-5d03-8cde-5ea4659c2e2e.html |
Bellarmine vs. Liberty Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 23
Published: Feb. 20, 2023 at 12:49 AM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Thursday's contest that pits the Liberty Lady Flames (19-7) against the Bellarmine Knights (8-20) at Liberty Arena should be a one-sided matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 74-55 in favor of Liberty, who is heavy favorites by our model. Tipoff is at 7:00 PM ET on February 23.
The Knights enter this contest following a 66-49 loss to North Alabama on Sunday.
Bellarmine vs. Liberty Game Info
- When: Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Liberty Arena in Lynchburg, Virginia
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Bellarmine vs. Liberty Score Prediction
- Prediction: Liberty 74, Bellarmine 55
Bellarmine Schedule Analysis
- The Knights' signature win this season came in an 85-77 victory against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels on January 14.
- Bellarmine has tied for the 40th-most Quadrant 4 defeats in the nation (eight).
Bellarmine 2022-23 Best Wins
- 66-54 at home over Jacksonville (No. 223) on January 21
- 60-40 at home over Evansville (No. 257) on December 8
- 62-35 at home over Central Arkansas (No. 313) on February 16
- 72-65 over Saint Bonaventure (No. 326) on November 23
- 65-59 at home over North Florida (No. 334) on January 19
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Bellarmine Performance Insights
- The Knights are being outscored by 8.1 points per game, with a -226 scoring differential overall. They put up 60.4 points per game (271st in college basketball), and give up 68.5 per contest (286th in college basketball).
- In 2022-23, Bellarmine has scored 62.1 points per game in ASUN play, and 60.4 overall.
- The Knights average 62.8 points per game at home, and 57.4 on the road.
- Bellarmine allows 61.9 points per game at home, and 76.8 on the road.
- In their previous 10 games, the Knights are compiling 59.5 points per game, compared to their season average of 60.4.
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DENVER (AP) — Manny Machado and Brandon Drury hit back-to-back home runs in a five-run eighth inning, Wil Myers also went deep, and the San Diego Padres beat Colorado 13-6 in the Rockies’ final home game of the season.
Jake Cronenworth tripled and drove in three runs and Juan Soto, Jurickson Profar and Luis Campusano had two hits each for the Padres. Robert Suárez (5-1) pitched one inning of relief for the win.
San Diego kept its hold on the second NL wild card and increased its lead on Milwaukee to three games. The Brewers lost 2-1 to Cincinnati on Sunday and trail Philadelphia by two games for the final wild card.
Ryan McMahon homered, Elías Díaz had three hits and Sean Bouchard had two singles and three RBIs for Colorado.
The Rockies finished 41-40 at Coors Field and end the season on the road where they are 24-48.
The Padres scored three runs in the first inning and four more in the third on Cronenworth’s two-run triple and a 433-foot two-run homer by Myers that made it 7-1.
All seven runs were charged to Kyle Freeland (9-11), who lasted just 2 2/3 innings.
Colorado chipped away at the lead, getting a homer from McMahon leading off its half of the third, his 19th, two more on a single by Bouchard in the fourth and Charlie Blackmon’s RBI single in the fifth.
Machado’s homer, a three-run shot off Alex Colomé, gave him 31 for the season and 100 RBIs. It is the second straight year and third time he has driven in 100 runs or more.
Drury followed with his 28th and Austin Nola had an RBI double later in the inning.
HEAD COUNT
The announced attendance at Coors Field on Sunday was 40,508 to bring the Rockies’ 2022 total to 2,597,428 for the home schedule. Colorado drew 2,993,244 to the ballpark in 2019, which was the last season without COVID-19 restrictions.
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Padres: LHP Blake Snell (8-9, 3.62) opens a three-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday. Snell struck out 13 and no-hit St. Louis for 6 2/3 innings in his last start.
Rockies: RHP Germán Márquez (8-12, 5.15) faces RHP Logan Webb (14-9, 2.39) in the opener of a three-game series at San Francisco on Tuesday night. | 2022-09-26T00:19:08+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/ap-manny-machado-hits-31st-homer-padres-beat-rockies-13-6/ |
Which T-fal frying pan is best?
You don’t actually need to know that the brand T-fal is the modern version of Tefal, the French company that pioneered the combination of Teflon over aluminum in cookware in the 1950s. All you need to know is whether or not the best T-fal frying pan will serve you well in the kitchen.
If you are just starting out on your culinary journey, begin your cookware collection with the T-fal Endura Granite Ceramic Fry Pan Set. These two pans cover a lot of ground in the kitchen and come at a reasonable price.
What to know before you buy a T-fal frying pan
Size matters
A set of T-fal cookware can be great if you need every type of pot or pan, but when you’re looking to purchase open stock, consider carefully what you’ll be cooking. This will determine the pan size that suits you best. Sizes include:
- 10-inch
- 10.5-inch
- 12-inch
- 12.5-inch
- 16-inch
Choice of materials
T-fal’s line is flexible and accommodating for all cooks and their preferences of materials. Choose from:
- Stainless steel: This is what professionals cook with. There is a steep learning curve for getting food to release evenly, but stainless steel is a durable and high-performance option.
- Hard anodized titanium nonstick: Another durable choice, these are scratch-resistant and nonstick. They are not safe above 400 degrees, so keep these pans for medium-heat or low-heat cooking.
- Ceramic: The heavy-gauge aluminum core in these ceramic-coated pans provides even heating and temperature control. Although they cannot be used on induction burners, they are oven-safe to 570 degrees and have nonstick properties when used correctly.
- Signature nonstick: This is the pan people think of when they think of T-fal — Teflon-coated aluminum that is lightweight and nonstick. They are not as durable as some other choices, but they are still a reliable way to experience the brand.
What to look for in a quality T-fal frying pan
Lids
If shallow frying is part of your cooking repertoire, or you just like to keep a tidy stovetop, look for a pan that comes with a lid. Many of these are tempered glass, so you can keep an eye on what’s cooking too.
Thermo-Spot for preheating
T-fal’s nonstick, titanium nonstick and ceramic cookware have Thermo-Spot technology. The circle in the center of the pan glows red when it is properly preheated.
Comfortable, riveted handles
Riveted handles provide security and peace of mind, especially when transferring a hot pan filled with food. They are also ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in the hand.
Techno Release
Some stainless steel T-fal frying pans have a Techno-Release option. These shallow indentations are built into the bottom of the pan and help food release more easily.
Food-safe interiors
Some people have concerns about chemicals from the interior of nonstick pans leaching into their food. With T-fal, you can be sure that all pans are free from chemicals, including:
- Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE)
- Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
- Cadmium
- Lead
Satisfaction guarantee
Cookware can be a big investment, especially for beginner cooks. Many frying pans in T-fal’s line are covered by limited warranties. This warranty covers the craftsmanship and construction of the pan and offers a replacement or refund if it does not perform as expected.
How much you can expect to spend on a T-fal frying pan
As cookware goes, T-fal is a more affordable choice. Depending on the size of the pan and the material you select, expect to spend $35-$60.
T-fal frying pan FAQ
Do all T-fal frying pans require seasoning?
A. No, although every pan should be washed in hot water with mild detergent before its first use. Only the nonstick pans require seasoning, which can be done in a few easy steps:
- After washing the pan, heat it on low for 30 seconds.
- Add one teaspoon of oil to the pan, and use a paper towel to coat the pan’s interior.
- Wipe excess oil off with a clean paper towel.
- Use as normal.
Are T-fal frying pans dishwasher-safe?
A. Yes, every pan in every material can be safely washed in the dishwasher. However, if you prefer to hand-wash, use hot, soapy water and a plastic scrubber, even on nonstick pans. Dry the pan completely before storing.
What’s the best T-fal frying pan to buy?
Top T-fal frying pan
T-fal Endura Granite Ceramic Fry Pan Set
What you need to know: These two pans are a versatile addition to your cooking tools.
What you’ll love: They are oven-safe to 500 degrees and can be used on the stove to 570 degrees. The ceramic coating is free from both PTFE and PFOA and, when used properly, can provide a virtually nonstick cooking experience.
What you should consider: They cannot be used on induction cooktops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top T-fal frying pan for the money
What you need to know: The included tempered glass lid makes this an excellent option for beginning cooks.
What you’ll love: This is the original signature nonstick pan with a Thermo Spot temperature indicator and a grippy silicone handle. It works on every cooktop, including induction, and is available in both 10-inch and 12-inch versions. It’s also available in hard-anodized aluminum.
What you should consider: Professional cooks may find the Thermo Spot inaccurate.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
T-fal Performa Stainless Steel Fry Pan
What you need to know: It is a beautiful, professional-grade pan with helpful features for beginning cooks.
What you’ll love: The 18/10 stainless steel is durable and heats evenly. Techno-Release indentations on the bottom of the pan improve its ability to release food. The handle is riveted for security, and the whole pan comes with a limited lifetime warranty.
What you should consider: The indentations on the bottom of the pan make cleanup tedious for some users. Soaking in warm, soapy water helps.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Steven Alker moved into position for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory Saturday, shooting a 5-under 66 in windy conditions to take a two-stroke lead in the ClubCorp Classic.
The winner three weeks ago in the Rapiscan Systems Classic in Mississippi, Alker played the four par-5 holes in 4 under with an eagle on No. 3 and birdies on 10 and 18. The 50-year-old New Zealander had an 8-under 134 total at Las Colinas Country Club.
“It was a little bit topsy-turvy actually,” Aljer said. “I struggled in the middle a little bit today, but my short game held me in there. Made some nice putts, good par saves.”
Alker won the TimberTech Championship in November for his first senior title. He has six top-five finishes in his last eight events, finishing second in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship and season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship.
“I think it’s going to be windy again,” Alker said. “Just a lot of patience and just one at a time. The old adage, just stick with it. Obviously, I’m going to need a few under.”
First-round leader Jerry Kelly (70) and Lee Janzen (68) were tied for second. Finishing on the back nine, Janzen birdied Nos. 2 and 3 to get to 8 under, then bogeyed the fourth and sixth.
“We’ve seen the wind all week and it’s a challenge,” Janzen said. “The greens are pretty firm and fast, so you have to be very careful on where you put the ball. So I tried to be very careful about where I left the ball for two days. I knew it was going to be a battle, one shot at a time.
Tim Herron (65) was 5 under with Colin Montgomerie (68), Brett Quigley (68), Tim Petrovic (67), Woody Austin (70) and Scott Parel (70).
The first-year tournament features 50 celebrities playing alongside the pros. Alker played alongside former Dallas quarterback Tony Romo and former tennis player Mardy Fish. | 2022-04-24T01:24:13+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Alker-takes-lead-in-Texas-in-bid-for-second-17122298.php |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana State Police trooper was injured Thursday morning when his vehicle was struck as he assisted a disabled vehicle on Interstate 465.
Master Trooper Antwaun Johnson was sitting behind a disabled vehicle on I-465 when a vehicle struck his police car with him inside it.
The incident occurred less than one week after the fatal crash that killed Master Trooper James Bailey.
Preliminary investigation determined the state police vehicle was stopped on the right side of the highway with emergency lights activated.
A 2007 Chevrolet, driven by 21 year old Andre Murphy, struck the rear end of the police car, causing the police car to strike the rear end of the original disabled vehicle, according to ISP.
Master Trooper Johnson was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the disabled vehicle was also transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Murphy was not injured.
Investigators determined Andre Murphy does not have a valid drivers license, but alcohol is not suspected of being a factor in this crash.
The incident is still being investigated, per ISP. | 2023-03-09T19:18:13+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/public-safety/isp-trooper-injured-thursday-morning-after-vehicle-struck-on-interstate-465 |
Air Force looks to better control access to classified data after intelligence leak
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Monday it is looking at ways to better control access to classified information, in the wake of revelations that superiors of the Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified documents had raised concerns internally about his handling of sensitive data.
Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters that the Air Force needs to better enforce the rules that govern access to classified information based on whether someone with the correct security clearance also has a need to know the information.
“It’s a long standing tenet that you don’t get to look at something classified unless there’s a legitimate reason for you to look at it,” Kendall said. “Just because you happen to have a certain level of clearance doesn’t mean you get access to all the material at that level. So we’re taking a hard look at some practices around that.” He said he doesn’t think the service enforced that rule strongly enough.
Justice Department lawyers last week said superiors voiced concerns on multiple occasions about Air Guard member Jack Teixeira’s handling of highly classified information. They laid out the issue in court papers urging a magistrate judge to keep Teixeira behind bars while he awaits trial in the case stemming from the most consequential intelligence leak in years.
Teixeira is accused of sharing highly classified documents about top national security issues in a chatroom on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers. He has not yet entered a plea.
As a result of the case, Kendall gave Air Force leaders 30 days to take a close look at their practices and determine if the department is prioritizing the need to get information about operations to those who need it and being careful enough about spreading intelligence too broadly. The inspector general is also investigating the matter.
He said there are ways to tweak digital systems so when classified information is put online not everyone with proper clearance on that system automatically gets access to it.
Prosecutors told the judge in their filing that Teixeira continued leaking documents even after he was admonished by superiors on two separate occasions last year over “concerning actions” he took related to classified information.
A September memo from the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing that prosecutors filed in court says Teixeira had been observed taking notes on classified intelligence information and putting the notes in his pocket. Teixeira was instructed at the time to no longer take notes in any form on classified intelligence information, the memo says.
Another memo from late October says a superior had been made aware that Teixeira was “potentially ignoring the cease-and-desist order on deep diving into intelligence information” given to him the month before. The memo says Teixeira attended a meeting and proceeded to ask “very specific questions.” He was told again to focus on his job, not any “deep dives” into classified intelligence information.
The revelations have raised questions about why military officials did not take further action and why Teixeira continued to have access to classified information after his superiors raised concerns.
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Founded by vegan couple Daniel Bareket and Elya Adi, 7th Heaven Chocolate took two years of extensive research to develop the unique formula that delivers the creaminess of milk chocolate. The team will debut the oat milk-based collection at Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago to showcase their innovative approach to creating a vegan-friendly chocolate that doesn't compromise on taste or texture.
LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It's official—the chocolate game has been forever changed with the arrival of 7th Heaven Chocolate in the United States. After two years of research and development, Israel-based brand "Panda" was born with explosive growth since 2019, becoming the #1 vegan chocolate in the country. Now, "Panda" is debuting in the United States as 7th Heaven Chocolate, delivering melt-in-your-mouth indulgence that you have to taste to believe.
Despite being completely dairy-free, 7th Heaven Chocolate has the taste, texture, and creaminess of milk chocolate. The brand is revolutionizing the indulgent experience with its unique formula, crafted with FairTrade cocoa and a delicious oat milk base. With a commitment to sustainability and a dedication to using only the highest quality ingredients without artificial flavors, 7th Heaven Chocolate is more than just a treat – it's a statement. And with its Kosher Pareve Certification (supervised by the OU (Orthodox Union), Badatz Belz, and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel) and cruelty-free status, it's a statement we can all feel good about making.
"We are thrilled to bring 7th Heaven Chocolate to the United States and offer consumers a dairy-free chocolate option that doesn't compromise on taste or quality," said Malanda Miklic, Vice President of Sales. "Our goal is to make vegan chocolate desirable, irresistible, and approachable, and with our oat milk base, we promise it's shockingly delicious."
Originally formulated with soy in Israel, 7th Heaven Chocolate's milk alternative was modified to use oat milk in response to consumer demand in the U.S. This switch reflects a growing trend among consumers who are seeking healthier and more sustainable options, along with the brand's dedication to using only the finest quality ingredients that deliver exceptional taste. The team will debut the entire vegan milk chocolate collection at Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago this May (Booth #20158), offering fun activations at the booth where guests can customize their own chocolate packaging.
7th Heaven currently offers 3.5oz full-sized milk chocolate bars in various flavors such as Caramel & Salt, Peanut Butter Cream, Classic Milk Chocolate, Hazelnut Cream, and White & Cookies. As part of the collection, 1.6oz snack bars are also available in Peanut Butter Cornflakes, Caramelized Coconut, Pistachio Halva, and Hazelnut Rice Crisps. Currently, the full assortment of chocolate is available online and in New York, Los Angeles, and Florida local retailers, with plans for expansion across the U.S. The brand has particularly been selling out in Kosher stores and has gained a lot of popularity due to its quality, ethical values, and delicious taste. For more information, visit 7thheavenchocolate.com and follow along on Instagram and Facebook.
About 7th Heaven Chocolate:
7th Heaven Chocolate is a vegan chocolate company that delivers the taste, texture, and creaminess of milk chocolate without the dairy. Founded by vegan couple Daniel Bareket and Elya Adi after two years of extensive research, the unique formula is now the #1 vegan chocolate in Israel under its original brand name "Panda." Now available in the United States as 7th Heaven Chocolate, the team is committed to sustainability and uses only the highest quality ingredients –including FairTrade cocoa. The Signature and oat milk formulas are Kosher Pareve Certified, cruelty-free and gluten-free. For more information, visit 7thheavenchocolate.com and follow along on Instagram and Facebook.
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Canada vs. Ireland: Live Stream, TV Channel & Game Info - July 26
Published: Jul. 22, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
In the middle round of Group B matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, on July 26 at 8:00 AM ET, Canada will square off against Ireland.
Go to Fox Sports 1 to see Canada play Ireland.
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How to Watch Canada vs. Ireland
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Game Time: 8:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Perth, Australia
- Venue: HBF Park
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Canada Group Stage Schedule
Canada's Recent Performance
- Canada's most recent game was a 0-0 draw versus Nigeria, taking 15 shots and outshooting by seven.
- Jordyn Huitema took three shots for goalless Canada in its match against .
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Canada's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Kailen Sheridan #1
- Allysha Chapman #2
- Kadeisha Buchanan #3
- Shelina Zadorsky #4
- Quinn #5
- Deanne Rose #6
- Julia Grosso #7
- Jayde Riviere #8
- Jordyn Huitema #9
- Ashley Lawrence #10
- Evelyne Viens #11
- Christine Sinclair #12
- Sophie Schmidt #13
- Vanessa Gilles #14
- Nichelle Prince #15
- Gabrielle Carle #16
- Jessie Fleming #17
- Sabrina D'Angelo #18
- Adriana Leon #19
- Cloe Lacasse #20
- Simi Awujo #21
- Lysianne Proulx #22
- Olivia Smith #23
Ireland Group Stage Schedule
Ireland's Recent Performance
- In its last action on July 20, Ireland fell to Australia 1-0, and was outshot 13 to seven.
- Abbie Larkin had a team-high two shots in the squad's scoreless performance.
Ireland's 2023 Women's World Cup Roster
- Courtney Brosnan #1
- Claire O'Riordan #2
- Chloe Mustaki #3
- Louise Quinn #4
- Niamh Fahey #5
- Megan Connolly #6
- Diane Caldwell #7
- Ruesha Littlejohn #8
- Amber Barrett #9
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- Katie McCabe #11
- Lily Agg #12
- Aine O'Gorman #13
- Heather Payne #14
- Lucy Quinn #15
- Grace Moloney #16
- Sinead Farrelly #17
- Kyra Carusa #18
- Abbie Larkin #19
- Marissa Sheva #20
- Ciara Grant #21
- Isibeal Atkinson #22
- Megan Walsh #23
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PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will publish an environmental review paving the way for the project even as they await a federal appeals court ruling in the case.
A U.S. government attorney said during last month’s hearing of a full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the final environmental impact study for construction of the mine at Oak Flat, Arizona, could be published this spring. | 2023-04-13T13:41:56+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/native-american-news/2023/04/tribe-warns-us-government-against-moving-ahead-with-mine.html |
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The Emerald Triangle-Based Brand is the Official Cannabis Sponsor of New Herb Greene Photography Exhibition
HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Humboldt Family Farms is excited to announce it has been named the official Cannabis sponsor of The Haight Street Art Center's new exhibition, "The Haight-Ashbury Experience and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Photography of Herb Greene," celebrating San Francisco's pioneering rock photographer and icon of the 1960s counterculture.
Humboldt Family Farms works together with a collective of family-owned farms in California's legendary Humboldt region, curating some of the world's best sun-grown Cannabis.
Many of these same farmers, sparked by the counterculture of the 1960s, settled the Emerald Triangle and made Cannabis the staple of the region's economy it is known for worldwide. While Humboldt's Cannabis growers were developing the Cannabis culture that became synonymous with this time period, Greene was capturing the heart and soul of the biggest names of the music and art scene through his photography. With the exhibition celebrating art that embodies the spirit of the 60s and 70s, Humboldt Family Farms' commitment to honoring the roots of the Cannabis culture of that same generation offers the ultimate synergy.
"As the Cannabis industry is quickly leaning more and more toward "big business," with legalization on the rise, we at Humboldt Family Farms believe in continuing the traditions and ways of those who pioneered the space and helped make Humboldt County the Cannabis capital it has become," says Scott Vasterling, Founder of Humboldt Family Farms. "Just as we work to capture and preserve the legacy of those initial Cannabis farmers, Haight Street Art Center is conserving and commemorating the magic Herb Greene captured through his photography of the art and music icons that defined the generation. We're honored to come together to celebrate these two integral parts of the 1960s counterculture that have together influenced American lifestyle for decades."
In honor of the launch of the exhibition, Humboldt Family Farms, together with Nik Erikson of Full Moon Farms, have curated a special Private Reserve selection based on Emerald Cup and Golden Tarp winning strains. This same selection of small lot grows created for the Haight Street Art Center will be made available online as part of the Humboldt Family Farms Private Reserve delivery service, which offers an opportunity for members to try new premium strains direct from Humboldt farms to their door.
The exhibition opens tonight, February 23 from 5-9 p.m. with food, beverages and music where all attendees (21 and older) will receive a sampling of Humboldt Family Farms Cannabis products. Tickets are $20 for Haight Street Art Center members and $40 for non-members. Humboldt Family Farms will also be available to attendees of Haight Street Art Center's upcoming benefit, "An Evening with Bob Weir," where guests will get to enjoy a part of their night with the founding member of The Grateful Dead at their table and they can further immerse themselves in remembering the rich history of this generation.
For more information, or to purchase Cannabis direct from the legendary Emerald Triangle farmers, visit HumboldtFamilyFarms.com.
About Humboldt Family Farms
Humboldt Family Farms offers the world's best Cannabis and Brands from the legendary Humboldt County, Calif. – hand-curated and grown in sunshine by legacy farmers to provide optimum effect. Humboldt County's best farmers have come together to deliver the best sustainably grown, artisanal and hand-crafted Cannabis directly to your door. For more information visit HumboldtFamilyFarms.com.
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Funding Will Advance Digital Literacy Training for Young Adults with Disabilities to Enhance Employment Skills and Underwrite National Study to Determine Digital Equity and Access Among BIPOC Populations with Disabilities
CHICAGO, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Easterseals, the nation's leading nonprofit provider of services and advocacy for 61M individuals with disabilities in the United States, has received a two-year grant of $1.3M from the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation to expand digital literacy training among young adults with disabilities in employment programs at seven Easterseals Affiliates nationwide while also funding a national study to determine digital equity and access among BIPOC populations with disabilities.
Easterseals Crossroads (Indianapolis, IN), Easterseals Washington, Easterseals Colorado, Easterseals Arkansas, Easterseals Greater Houston, Easterseals New Hampshire, and Easterseals Massachusetts will receive grants totaling $350,000 to expand digital literacy within their employment training programs for young adults with disabilities. Students ages 16-24 with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities will learn how to navigate the internet, stay safe online, communicate via email, create PowerPoint presentations, develop resumes, use assistive technology, and more.
Funding will also support a national audit and analysis of digital literacy programs offered throughout Easterseals' network of 71 Affiliates to identify and scale digital literacy programming with the highest impact and outcomes through 2024 funding by the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation.
Finally, a national study will be underwritten to determine digital equity and access among BIPOC populations with disabilities. Working in collaboration with Easterseals Affiliates, university researchers, policymakers, and advocacy organizations, the study will identify the current state of access to technology, including broadband, as well as digital literacy and skills training for BIPOC populations with disabilities while determining markets in which digital literacy inequity is most acute and success stories that can be replicated nationally to address such inequities.
Upon completion of the study in early 2024, Easterseals and Comcast NBCUniversal will convene a Digital Equity Summit to share study findings and recommendations to address disparities in equity and access which may exist within BIPOC populations with disabilities.
"Easterseals is honored to have the opportunity to work with Comcast NBCUniversal in our shared commitment to equity, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities through our partnership of more than 20 years," says Easterseals President and CEO Kendra E. Davenport. "Digital access and literacy are critical to the children and adults with disabilities, including veterans and older adults, served by Easterseals nationwide. These digital resources are essential to breaking down barriers to employment, education, transportation, healthcare, and community that people with disabilities often face."
"Far too many people with disabilities do not have access to the digital tools and resources that will help ensure their full participation in society and life," said Dalila Wilson-Scott, EVP & Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation and President of Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation. "We are so pleased to further our partnership with Easterseals to deliver essential digital training and further equitable employment outcomes for young adults with disabilities."
Since 2011, Easterseals has partnered with Comcast NBCUniversal to advance equity, inclusion, and access to innovative technology to advance digital literacy and accelerate success among people with disabilities, veterans, and older adults. To date, Comcast NBCUniversal has provided Easterseals with more than $54 million in cash and in-kind support.
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GREAT NECK, N.Y., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smilist Management, Inc. ("The Smilist") achieved record growth in 2022. Over the course of the year, The Smilist welcomed 15 locations and entered 2 new states, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Each affiliation demonstrated a strong alignment with The Smilist's core values and high standards for quality and patient care.
The Smilist also welcomed new investor partners to the business, a consortium led by funds managed by BlackRock and by Manulife Investment Management. The Smilist welcomes the partnership with these blue-chip institutional investors and is confident that their support will help continue and accelerate the company's growth.
Patricia Mahony, Chief Executive Officer noted, "We're proud of the many milestones we've met this year. We've expanded our geographical reach and furthered our ability to support exceptional doctors and teams through our best-in-class operations. We look forward to welcoming new partners in 2023 that aim to provide high-quality dentistry and care to patients."
The Smilist is also pleased to announce it has affiliated with seven patient-centric practices:
- All Smiles Dentistry in New York City, NY
- Blossom Dental in Copiague, NY
- Charles M. Marks, DDS and Dental Associates in New York City, NY
- New Windsor Dental Center in New Windsor, NY
- Ross Bederman, DDS and Associates in East Meadow, NY
- Signature Dental of Bucks County, in Warminster, PA
- The Practice at Maxwell Place in Hoboken, NJ
The Smilist was founded in 2014 to create a dental organization with a strong consumer brand that offers exceptional patient experiences. Since its founding, The Smilist has rapidly grown to be one of the leading dental support organizations in the New York metro area supporting over 50 locations with over 1,000 employees in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. To learn more, visit www.thesmilist.com.
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(NewsNation) — The pills used to perform medically induced abortions are shaping up to be at the center of the next fight in the U.S.
Several states have already banned and criminalized abortion following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade. The landmark case had previously secured abortion as a constitutional right.
Now, as the decision falls back to the individual states, some worry about future access to the FDA-approved pills that can be used to induce abortion in a private setting.
“This is a very viable option,” said Monica Skoko, a former nurse for Planned Parenthood. “It is an incredibly safe option.”
Some opposed to abortion, however, want to see it outlawed.
“It’s no different than a surgical abortion,” said Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger. “It ends that unborn child’s life and we think that’s morally wrong, we think it should be legally wrong.”
A medical abortion requires taking two FDA-approved pills: mifepristone and misoprostol, according to the Mayo Clinic. Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and keeps the embryo from staying implanted in the uterus. Misoprostol rids the embryo from the body.
The procedure is most effective during the first trimester of pregnancy, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The option has become increasingly more common in the U.S. and accounted for more than half of all abortions in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a group that researches and supports abortion access.
“You get to have that in the privacy of your own home,” Skoko said. “You get to kind of dictate and have that power.”
In 2020, the FDA lifted a requirement to get the pills in person. People in some states now can have the drugs mailed to them.
But other states are trying to restrict access to the medication.
Kentucky, Tennessee and South Dakota limit access to abortion medication by specifying that the pill cannot be mailed or requiring specific qualifications of the doctor providing the service.
Healthcare attorney Harry Nelson said it would be “almost impossible” for states to stop people from accessing abortion pills through telehealth or doctors in other states.
“We’ve been fighting a losing battle for over a decade trying to stop opioids and fentanyl from being mailed into the country and other places,” Nelson said. “There’s absolutely no way that these states are going to be able to do anything about medication being mailed from overseas or outside of the country, or frankly even from in the country, from advocacy groups.”
“States may not ban mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement last week. He added that the Justice Department “will work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom.”
Garland also said that in addition to protecting providers and those seeking abortions in states where it remains legal, “we stand ready to work with other arms of the federal government that seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care.”
Some states, including Texas and Oklahoma, are taking a new approach by allowing bans to be enforced through private lawsuits. Under those laws, private citizens can sue abortion providers and anyone who aids an individual in obtaining an abortion.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-06-28T01:28:54+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/uncertainty-surrounds-abortion-pill-access-and-legality-after-scotus-ruling/ |
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — World Cup organizers will ban the sale of all beer with alcohol at the eight stadiums used for the soccer tournament, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.
The decision comes only two days before games start in Qatar.
Non-alcoholic beer will still be available for fans at the 64 matches, the person said.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because organizers have not yet announced the decision.
Budweiser’s parent company, AB InBev, pays tens of millions of dollars at each World Cup for exclusive rights to sell beer. The company’s partnership with FIFA started at the 1986 tournament.
When Qatar launched its bid to host the World Cup, the country agreed to respect FIFA’s commercial partners, and again when signing contracts after winning the vote in 2010.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the host country was forced to change a law to allow alcohol sales in stadiums. | 2022-11-18T13:33:18+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/no-bud-for-you-world-cup-organizers-to-ban-alcoholic-beer-sales-at-stadiums/ |
Carry On and Harry Potter star Leslie Phillips dies at age 98
Leslie Phillips, the British actor who starred in the Carry On movie franchise and later voiced the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 98.
Phillips died "peacefully in his sleep" on Monday, his agent Jonathan Lloyd confirmed to the PA news agency.
Though he was famed for his portrayals of upper-class cads, Phillips grew up speaking with a pronounced working-class London accent, having been born in the city's northern suburb of Tottenham.
He lost the accent while studying drama, dance and elocution at the prestigious Italia Conti Stage School.
His first film appearances came in the 1930s, but it wasn't until well after the war -- when he served as a lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry -- that he got his big break alongside Gene Kelly in the musical Les Girls.
Turning down the opportunity to move to Hollywood, he remained in Britain where he went on to star in three Carry On films: Carry On Nurse, Carry On Teacher and Carry on Constable. He became a household name, known for his suggestive catchphrases: "Ding Dong!" "Well, hello," and "I say!"
Younger generations would, however, recognize Phillips' voice from the Harry Potter movies as he voiced the sorting hat, which matched the pupils at Hogwarts with one of four school houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
Phillips suffered a stroke eight years ago, but was said to have made a strong recovery.
Fellow actor Sanjeev Bhaskar tweeted a video of Phillips from his BBC show The Kumars at No 42.
In the clip, Phillips related how he once found himself stuck in the London Underground surrounded by members of the public demanding he do his catchphrases.
Bhaskar tweeted: "One of the wonderful elements of doing #TheKumars42 was combining guests like here, Madness and the wonderful #LesliePhillips, who couldn't have been more of a gent. A truly warm, funny and gentle man #RIPLesliePhillips"
Also paying tribute to him was Piers Morgan, who tweeted: "RIP Leslie Phillips, 98.
"Wonderful character & superb comedy actor, best known for his what he called his 'lecherous twit' roles in the Carry On & Doctor In The House films with his catchphrases, 'Ding Dong', 'Well, Hello' and 'I Say..' Sad news." | 2022-11-08T21:56:33+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/leslie-phillips-dies-carry-on-and-harry-potter-star/41901939 |
Milwaukee police pursuit, crash: 1 seriously injured, 3 arrested
MILWAUKEE - Three teenagers were arrested Friday morning, June 10 following a police pursuit involving a stolen vehicle in Milwaukee. The pursuit ended in a crash.
It began around 1:50 a.m. in area of 51st and Capitol after officers observed a vehicle speeding and attempted to make a traffic stop. The driver refused to stop and a vehicle pursuit ensued.
The pursuit ended when the fleeing vehicle collided with another vehicle on the area of 51st and Locust Street.
The occupants of the vehicle fled on foot however, three were arrested. The vehicle was determined to be a stolen.
The driver of the suspect vehicle, a 15-year-old male, was transported to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries. The other two, 15-year-old female and a 17-year-old male, sustained non-fatal injuries.
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Criminal charges will be referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office in the upcoming days. | 2022-06-10T17:00:36+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-police-pursuit-crash-1-seriously-injured-3-arrested |
A House Democrat is planning to introduce legislation that would allow cameras in the lower chamber to actively capture proceedings after coverage of the Speaker’s race last week made possible through rare unfettered access to the room gained widespread attention.
Praising C-SPAN’s coverage of the days-long Speaker debate as “worthy of an Oscar,” in a tweet this week, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said he plans to introduce legislation that would to ensure that the full chamber can continue to be broadcast to the American people.
“One feature of the new Congress that made this debate so compelling was the fact that cameras recording the U.S. House of Representatives were free to broadcast the full Chamber during votes and debate, and not merely the rostrum, well, and Members recognized to speak,” Pocan wrote in a dear colleague letter obtained by The Hill. “I hope you will agree that opening our deliberations to the full view of the American people is good for democracy, and that you will join me in this endeavor.”
C-SPAN confirmed its cameras were no longer in the House chamber as a new rules package was debated and passed on Monday night. Coverage of House proceedings has returned to being run through government feeds.
It is standard procedure for C-SPAN to air congressional proceedings and public affairs events from House-, Senate- and other government-operated cameras, which are controlled by the party in the majority.
C-SPAN’s cameras caught a number of dramatic scenes in real time last week during the Speaker’s race, with video clips from the channel’s coverage going viral on Twitter and sparking jokes about the unprecedented access given to the press with no House rules in place.
In a statement to The Hill on Monday, C-SPAN said the access it was given during the Speaker’s race “allowed Americans to get a better understanding of how Congress operates, learning from different, rarely-seen camera angles,” and said “certainly hope[s] to gain greater access to at least key legislative proceedings.”
The Hill has reached out to McCarthy’s office and the House Rules Committee for comment.
Mychael Schnell contributed. | 2023-01-10T17:27:17+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/hill-politics/house-democrat-planning-legislation-to-allow-c-span-cameras-free-range-in-chamber/ |
Officers fatally shoot 2 people after car chase in Missouri
OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say law enforcement officers shot and killed two people after a car chase in southwest Missouri. The Greene County Sheriff’s office says the shooting occurred Saturday in Christian County. The department says an Ozark officer tried to stop a car after suspecting the driver was impaired. The car drove way and was later seen near Highlandville, where a chase began. The department says when the car eventually was stopped, the driver pointed a gun at officers. Officers from the Christian County Sheriff’s Office, Nixa police and Ozark police fired, killing the driver, 37-year-old Timothy Shafer, and a passenger, 23-year-old Donna Bailey, both of Lebanon, Missouri. | 2022-09-26T21:18:53+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/09/26/officers-fatally-shoot-2-people-after-car-chase-in-missouri/ |
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — YouTube star Jake Paul took the first defeat of his professional boxing career Sunday night, losing a split decision to Tommy Fury.
Paul (6-1) knocked down Fury with a short left hand early in the final round of their cruiserweight bout, but the younger half-brother of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury controlled long stretches of the eight-round meeting at Diriyah Arena.
Two judges scored the bout 76-73 for Fury (9-0, 4 KOs), while the third favored Paul, 75-74.
“I’ve already won every single way in life,” Paul said. “I made it farther than I ever thought I would, and beyond. This is a humbling experience. I’ll take it on the chin and come back.”
Fury is the first actual professional boxer fought by Paul, who built his lucrative second career by taking on mixed martial artists and a fellow YouTuber in boxing bouts that generated huge social media attention despite featuring more enthusiasm than skill.
Fury also is much better known as a celebrity sibling — and much more accomplished as a reality television star — than as a boxer, leading to a relatively even matchup with Paul. Fury’s unbeaten record entering this bout was built against a series of wildly overmatched opponents with a combined record of 24-176-5.
“In my first main event, 23 years old, I had the world on my shoulders, and I came through,” Fury said. “This, to me, is a world title fight. I trained so hard for this. This was my destiny.”
Both fighters had good moments in the first four rounds in front of a star-studded crowd in Saudi Arabia, but Fury landed more significant shots behind a consistent jab that allowed him to keep Paul at a distance.
Paul appeared to stun Fury with an accurate left hook early in the fifth round, but he also lost a point when the referee penalized him, apparently for pushing down on Fury’s head in a clinch. The referee then took a point from Fury in the sixth, apparently for excessive clinching.
Fury had a strong seventh round despite a cut near his left eye from a clash of heads, repeatedly tagging Paul with combinations. But Paul abruptly reversed the momentum with a perfectly timed left that wobbled Fury, who put his left glove on the canvas to steady himself and bounced up immediately.
Fury finished strong and claimed the decision.
Fury and Paul were slated to meet two times previously, but Fury was unavailable for both showdowns. He injured a rib before their scheduled bout in December 2021, and he was denied entry to the U.S. last summer ahead of a planned meeting in August.
Paul used the postponements to taunt Fury, and the emotions built into a contentious weigh-in earlier this week in Saudi Arabia, which jumped at the chance to underwrite this boxing spectacle and social media event.
“All the way through these 2 1/2 years, I had a dream, I had a vision that I would win this fight,” Fury said. “No one believed me. Now I can stand up, and everyone can take note.”
The crowd in the arena outside Riyadh included Al Nassr forward Cristiano Ronaldo, comedian Kevin Hart and a collection of boxers including Mike Tyson, Deontay Wilder, Devin Haney and Tyson Fury, who had publicly urged his younger sibling to interrupt Paul’s career with a knockout.
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AP boxing: https://apnews.com/hub/boxing and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-27T21:42:53+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-jake-paul-takes-first-ring-defeat-by-split-decision-to-fury/ |
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Huddled in the back of a café near the train station where a missile killed dozens of people a year ago, Nastya took slow, deliberate breaths to calm herself. Overnight, her neighborhood had been bombed again, and she just couldn’t take any more.
Heeding her parents’ advice, the 20-year-old woman had visited the nearby psychiatric hospital that morning — a place that also bore the scars of war after being repeatedly bombed, including by a missile that destroyed part of the building last September. But the staff swept up the shattered glass, shoveled away the debris and carried on working, determined to stay in Kramatorsk, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, to help those in need.
For Nastya, it was a lifeline.
"After today’s shelling, I could no longer cope with anxiety, the feeling of constant danger,” the speech therapy student said, giving only her first name to talk last month about the difficult decision to seek mental health care. The stigma of Soviet-era psychiatry, when dissidents were incarcerated in psychiatric institutions as a form of punishment, still lingers.
“I just realized that my psychological health is much more important,” she said.
There are hundreds of thousands like Nastya in Ukraine, experts say, and the number of people needing psychological help is only expected to rise as the war continues. In December, the World Health Organization said one in five people in countries that have experienced conflict in the past decade will suffer from a mental health condition, and estimated that about 9.6 million people in Ukraine could be affected.
Russia’s invasion in February 2022 resulted in millions of people being displaced, bereaved, forced into basements for months due to incessant shelling or enduring harrowing journeys from Russian-occupied regions.
For Nastya, as for so many, the war changed everything overnight. There is a before — a life of simple pleasures, of going for coffee and laughing with friends. And an after.
“You wake up with the feeling that you are just surrounded by horrors, anxieties, surrounded by constant air raid sirens, flying planes, helicopters,” she said. “You’re simply in a closed circle which is not filled with the happy times of before, but with great fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of dying here and now.”
Hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the west, 38-year-old Tatyana, a worker at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant who spent four months living under Russian occupation in the town of Enerhodar, trembled as she recounted seeing bombs explode near the plant, and how her family endured a 24-hour ordeal to escape to Ukrainian-held territory.
When she visited a support center in Boyarka, south of Kyiv, several months ago to register for aid, she collapsed into uncontrollable tears. The staff called a psychologist.
Therapy has helped, said Tatyana, who also asked that her surname not be used to talk openly about seeking out mental health care. Her gaze was blank and unfocused during pauses as she spoke following a group therapy session last week. She’s trying to cope with the feelings of living in a war.
“This fear that comes when you realize that you may lose everything in a moment,” she said. Life is "like a light switch. It can be turned off and never turn on again.”
The need for mental health treatment has shot up across Ukraine, professionals say, even as they deal with the effects of war in their own lives.
“The demand is huge, and unfortunately it will only grow,” said psychotherapist Pavlo Horbenko, who has worked at a center in Kyiv treating people affected by war since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and set up two proxy breakaway states in Ukraine’s east.
He noted a significant increase in patients seeking treatment for sexual violence, bereavement and suicidal thoughts. “Previously, it was one or two requests a week, and now there can be 10 a day.”
Judging by other countries that have suffered conflict, psychological treatment needs increase rapidly after the fighting ends, Horbenko said.
For now, people are focused on surviving. “But when the war is over, .... then we can afford to relax. And when we can relax, the symptoms that have been accumulating for all this time will appear,” he said.
Like a soldier wounded in battle who doesn’t feel pain until he is out of immediate danger, “that’s when the wounds start to hurt. This is how it is with psychological traumas.”
Horbenko said there has been an increase in the number of mental health specialists in Ukraine since 2014, but far more are needed. “The demand still far exceeds the capacity,” he said.
Authorities have been seeking to increase mental health services across Ukraine.
Lebanese psychiatrist Dr. Maya Bizri recently visited Ukraine as part of a program run by the medical aid organization MedGlobal, at the request of the Ministry of Health, to assess needs and train doctors and nurses in recognizing mental health issues in both colleagues and patients.
“What is really being affected ... are the health care workers,” Bizri said. “There are a lot of trainings about how to deal with traumatized patients or with physical injuries, but no one addresses the health care of the health care professionals.”
Under the MedGlobal program, doctors and nurses are trained to help themselves and colleagues cope with psychological pressures, so they can in turn train others.
“There is an acute distress and an acute unmet need that is not being addressed, and if you want a health care system that is resilient, you have to take care of your own people,” Bizri said. “And I think the Ministry of Health is very aware of that because they are very engaged in doing this.”
Kramatorsk psychiatric hospital director Dr. Ludmyla Sevastianova said it was the need for mental health professionals that was helping them cope.
The war “affects us just as much as it affects patients,” she said. “We are also worried about our families, our relatives and friends. But we are doing our medical duty, we are helping.”
Sevastianova, a psychiatrist, has made it her mission “to save the hospital in order to keep people working, to save the hospital so it can provide care to patients. This is the goal and it helps.”
But she is under no illusions about the potential for long-term consequences.
“Things do not pass without a trace. I cut my hand, a scar remains. So it is with our psyche,” Sevastianova said.
“Now we need to adapt, we need to survive, we need to provide assistance, we need to work. ... What effects this will have, we will understand in the future.”
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-04-12T10:02:44+00:00 | hjnews.com | https://www.hjnews.com/world/as-ukraine-war-drags-on-civilians-mental-health-needs-rise/article_f3454157-00d0-539b-9b75-6fde2966559a.html |
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Kliff Kingsbury and the Arizona Cardinals nearly gained some crucial momentum heading into their long-awaited bye week.
Instead, they ended up with a swift punch to the gut.
The Cardinals (4-8) couldn’t hold a fourth quarter lead Sunday, and the Los Angeles Chargers rallied for a 25-24 win. Justin Herbert hit Austin Ekeler for a 1-yard touchdown with 15 seconds left to pull the Chargers within one point and then converted a 2-point conversion to win the game.
“We didn’t finish,” Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray said. “We had every opportunity to win that game. Could have controlled it, ended it on our terms and we didn’t do it. That’s pretty much the frustration.”
The Cardinals took a 24-17 lead early in the fourth quarter on Murray’s 6-yard touchdown pass to James Conner, but from that point, the offense went cold. Arizona had three offensive possessions from that point forward — including one that started with 2:19 remaining in the fourth quarter — but couldn’t even muster a first down.
That gave the Chargers one too many chances to mount a comeback.
Now the Cardinals are left to stew over those missed opportunities for the next two weeks. They don’t play again until they host the New England Patriots for a Monday night game on Dec. 12.
Arizona started this season with legitimate postseason aspirations, but injuries and poor play have now made that goal a long shot. It remains to be seen how much motivation the Cardinals have when they return for the final five-game stretch.
“I still think our best football is in front of us, and that’s what we talked about was we’ve got to find a way to maximize who we are and what we put out there these last five weeks,” Kingsbury said.
“We’ve got to rest, recover, and go from there. That type of game, that type of loss when you play that hard and have moments where you look really good, you’ve got to build off that somehow and be better in these last five weeks.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Cardinals looked much more comfortable on offense with three-time All-Pro DeAndre Hopkins, Marquise Brown and Murray all on the field at the same time. It was the first time this season all three were healthy for the same game. All of them had good moments Sunday and their presence made the offense much more unpredictable, even with a banged-up offensive line.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The Cardinals are struggling to come up with big plays when they really need them. Linebacker Zaven Collins and cornerback Antonio Hamilton just missed potential game-changing interceptions in the fourth quarter.
STOCK UP
Conner had his first 100-yard rushing game as a member of the Cardinals, running for 120 against the Chargers. He also caught three passes for 20 yards, including a 6-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter that gave the Cardinals a lead. Conner did have a fumble early, but otherwise was a reliable option.
STOCK DOWN
Home-field advantage has basically disappeared for the franchise. They’re 4-10 at State Farm Stadium since the beginning of last season.
INJURED
The Cardinals hope to get some players back after the bye week, including a few starters on the offensive line such as center Rodney Hudson and right guard Will Hernandez. WR Rondale Moore (groin) and CB Byron Murphy Jr. (back) are others who could potentially return to play against the Patriots on Dec. 12.
KEY NUMBER
16 — The Cardinals had three chances to take big chunks of time off the clock in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t get it done. They went three-and-out on all three drives, with the nine plays gaining a total of 16 yards.
NEXT STEPS
The Cardinals get their much-needed bye week. Kingsbury is giving the team a week off to recuperate, with the next practice scheduled for next Monday. It remains to be seen if the Cardinals can clear their heads, keep their motivation and be a factor in the playoff race over the final month.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-28T23:59:39+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/cardinals-head-into-bye-week-smarting-from-last-minute-loss/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
A new report is complicating an unusual finding from the U.S. Census Bureau's own report card on the accuracy of its 2020 head count of the country's population: a national overcount of Asian Americans.
The tallying of U.S. residents more than once at different addresses drives overcounting in census results, which — despite their flaws — are used to determine political representation, guide federal funding and inform policymaking and research across the United States.
The bureau estimates it had a net overcount rate of 2.62% for Asian Americans in the last census. That marked the first time Asian Americans had a statistically significant overcount at the national level since the bureau started trying to measure how well it tallied the country's Asian population, along with other racial groups, more than three decades ago.
But since the bureau announced that overcount estimate for Asian Americans more than a year ago, many census watchers have been warning that it shouldn't be taken just at face value.
Now, new analysis suggests the last census may have actually undercounted, or left out of the tally, Asian Americans in some states, including Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Wyoming. That's according to a report recently released by Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, the leading national advocacy group on census participation among Asian Americans.
Those potential errors, the report adds, may have been canceled out and masked by the overcounting of the Asian populations in states on the East and West Coasts, as well as in the South, resulting in a national net overcount rate for Asian Americans.
"What we long knew and suspected, and what our new report shows, is that that aggregate national number actually hides what's happening for the community," says Terry Ao Minnis, senior director of census and voting programs at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC. "When you look at lower geographic levels, you will see that Asian Americans are actually being missed, as well as being overcounted in different areas."
Focusing on just the national overcount of Asian Americans could feed into the "model minority" myth
The report's findings — which come from comparing calculations based on 2020 census responses and the bureau's annual population estimates — offer a "useful first effort" in better understanding how well Asian Americans were counted, says Bill O'Hare, a demographer and former research fellow at the bureau.
"As we start to think about the 2030 census — and the bureau is already gearing up for that — this kind of information can be helpful in planning more constructive outreach efforts," O'Hare adds.
The bureau's own report card showed that for the 2020 census, the federal government's largest statistical agency continued a persistent trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino. For Pacific Islanders, the bureau also found a national net overcount rate, but it was within the margin of error.
But the bureau did not break down over- or undercount rates by race below the national level. The agency has blamed the small sample size of its follow-up survey, which was also disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Still, the report by Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC tried to drill down on the quality of the census and found signs of potential county-level undercounting of Asian Americans in rural parts of the Midwest, Mountain West and South.
These kinds of nuances at the local level should not be ignored, warns Paul Ong, an economist who heads the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge and has served as an adviser to the bureau.
Whenever any group is undercounted, the communities where they live face the risk of losing representation in government and missing out on their fair share of the estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funding for health care, education, transportation and other public services.
"For the general public, there is this narrative that could formulate" around the national overcount of Asian Americans, Ong adds. "It goes along probably with the 'model minority' narrative that somehow there is some statistical result that says that there are no problems among Asian Americans and therefore we don't need to pay attention to them."
More attention is needed, Ong says, because of the diversity among the subgroups that make up the country's Asian American population. Differences in housing arrangements, income level, languages spoken at home and U.S. citizenship status, for example, can contribute to varying levels of census participation among Asian Americans, and they can be difficult to see in national aggregate numbers.
Did college students and anti-Asian racism contribute to a national overcount?
Ong offers two theories that he says could use further research: Were confusion over where to count college students and the rise of anti-Asian racism in the early months of the pandemic factors that led to the overcounting of Asian Americans at the national level?
In 2020, the onset of the pandemic forced many college students to flee their campuses just as nationwide counting for that census kicked off. And many Asian American students, who have the highest college enrollment rate of all racial and ethnic groups, may have been counted twice — both at their family home and at their campus residence, which was the address where they should have been counted, according to the bureau's residence criteria.
The pandemic also brought on more anti-Asian rhetoric, which Ong says may have spurred more people of Asian descent who previously did not check a box for an Asian category when answering the census race question to do so in 2020.
"Quite often what happens with people of color is that when they're attacked, they begin embracing their minority identity," Ong says. "So what the Census Bureau picked up as an overcount potentially of Asian Americans may be actually driven by shifts in the way people are defining themselves."
Disaggregated data about Asian Americans could provide a clearer picture
For Diya Basu-Sen — executive director of Sapna NYC, a Bronx-based community organization that supports low-income, South Asian immigrant women — any overcount of Asian Americans offers some relief after worries that COVID lockdowns and other restrictions that put an end to in-person census events and other outreach would lead to undercounting.
"It means that we were able to reach people in a pandemic where our communities were hit really hard and still people were completing the census, so I think that's a success," Basu-Sen says.
Asian Americans were likely overcounted in New York City, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC report estimates. But it remains unclear how well the census tallied the city's Asian subgroups, such as Bangladeshi Americans, Chinese Americans, and Indian Americans.
"When we talk about Asians, we talk about a monolith. And most often, unless you disaggregate that data, it really doesn't show the true picture," Basu-Sen says. "I'm sure if you look at more specific data, there are probably still communities that were undercounted or counted correctly."
Edited by Ben Swasey
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-07T19:26:43+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2023-04-07/did-the-last-census-overcount-asian-americans-it-depends-on-where-you-look |
Updated June 30, 2023 at 8:35 PM ET
In the wake of the backlash over a sponsored Instagram video, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney says she's been scared to leave her house for months — and Bud Light has never reached out to her to offer support or discuss what happened.
In a video posted Thursday to Instagram and TikTok, Mulvaney directly addressed what had happened for the first time.
"[W]hat transpired from that video was more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined. And I should have made this video months ago, but I didn't," she said. "And I was scared."
Mulvaney said she waited for things to get better. "But surprise! They haven't really. And I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did."
"For months now, I've been scared to leave my house. I have been ridiculed in public. I've been followed," she said, choking up. "I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn't wish on anyone. And I'm not telling you this because I want your pity. I am telling you this because if this is my experience from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much, much worse for other trans people."
Mulvaney has more than 10 million followers on TikTok and nearly 2 million on Instagram.
A few months ago, Bud Light sent Mulvaney a special can with her face on it. She posted a sponsored ad on Instagram, wearing a cocktail dress and enjoying a Bud Light as she discussed March Madness. A photo of her personalized can briefly appeared.
All hell broke loose. Conservative politicians including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the company. People posted videos of themselves pouring out the beer, and Kid Rock posted one showing him shooting cases of Bud Light with a gun.
Bud Light, an Anheuser-Busch brand, had been America's best-selling beer for more than two decades. But following outcry from the right over Mulvaney's sponsored video, Bud Light has fallen to second place behind Modelo Especial. Bud Light sales volume dropped 29% in the four-week period ending in mid-June from a year earlier.
In April, Anheuser-Busch put out a vague message that offered no clear support of Mulvaney or the LGBTQ+ community. "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer," CEO Brendan Whitworth said in the statement.
In a statement to NPR on Friday, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson said the company remains "committed to the programs and partnerships we have forged over decades with organizations across a number of communities, including those in the LGBTQ+ community. The privacy and safety of our employees and our partners is always our top priority."
Mulvaney suggests that the company's choices endanger the LGBTQ+ community.
"For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all. Because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want," she said. "And the hate doesn't end with me. It has serious and grave consequences for the rest of our community." She closed by encouraging people to donate to the Transgender Law Center.
At the start of the video, Mulvaney sipped beer from a glass. "One thing I will not tolerate people saying about me is that I don't like beer," she said. "Because I love beer and I always have."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-01T01:30:38+00:00 | kanw.com | https://www.kanw.com/npr-news/npr-news/2023-06-30/in-a-new-video-dylan-mulvaney-says-bud-light-never-reached-out-to-her-amid-backlash |
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Renewing your passport just got easier thanks to a new portal from the U.S. State Department that allows you to complete the process entirely online.
The department is seeking up to 25,000 volunteers in August to try out the new online passport renewal program before the service becomes available to the general public later in 2022. If eligible, this means you no longer have to mail your renewal application and supporting documents to them.
“We will accept applications from volunteers on a first come, first serve basis until we reach 25,000 applicants in this phase of the pilot,” the Department of State Travel’s website says. “If you are not one of the first 25,000 applicants, you may have an opportunity to renew online at a later date.”
The online passport renewal is part of President Joe Biden’s broader initiative to make accessing government services more seamless, whether that’s scheduling a call back from the IRS or applying for Medicare benefits online.
Biden signed an executive order in December 2021 that includes a commitment to improving 36 “customer service experiences” across 17 federal agencies. The order says that in recent years the annual paperwork burden imposed by government agencies on the public has been in excess of 9 billion hours.
Requirements for Renewing Your Passport Online
If you want to renew your passport online, you’ll need to meet some criteria.
While it’s OK if your most recent passport is expired, it needs to be or have been valid for 10 years and you need to be age 25 years or older. Also, your most recent passport needs to have been issued more than nine years ago (in 2013) but less than 15 years ago (in 2007) from the date you plan to submit your application. Travelers must also be applying for a tourist passport, must live in the United States, not planning to travel internationally for at least five weeks from the date an application is submitted, and must not be changing their name, gender, date of birth or place of birth.
Also, once you submit your application, your most recent passport will be canceled and you won’t be able to use it for international travel.
While this new submission process is more streamlined, processing times are, unfortunately, the same as they were by mail. Expect it to take eight to 11 weeks for routine processing and five to seven weeks for an expedited service.
Travelers interested in being among the first to renew their passport online will need to set up a “MyTravelGov” account. Within 24 hours of activating the account, you’ll see an option to “Renew Passport” upon logging in. You can pay for your passport using a credit or debit card or an automatic clearinghouse payment that transfers funds directly from your bank account like a check. You can also upload a digital passport photo to the account.
The last step? Start planning that international vacation!
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HARISH, Israel (AP) — The sound of children and music echoed down a narrow basement hallway in Israel as they scrambled in a pool of balls, climbed on a jungle gym, munched popcorn and laughed.
The atmosphere changed suddenly on that Saturday last month, as at least a dozen religious men appeared and blocked the entrance, accusing the indoor playground of desecrating the Jewish sabbath by opening for business. Angry parents confronted them, scuffles broke out and in an instant, the center in this mixed city had become a flashpoint symbol of a larger battle between secular and religious Jews in Israel.
“I think it represents what’s going on in the country,” said Tzipi Brayer Sharabi, a 38-year-old mother who says she was attacked and thrown to the ground during the May 20 incident. “I want my kids to live how they choose to live. I don’t want somebody to tell them how they should eat, how they should dress, what they should do on Shabbat.”
Similar incidents have long upset the tenuous balance between the communities. But with ultra-Orthodox parties now wielding unprecedented power in Israel’s new government — and playing a key role in a contentious plan to overhaul the legal system — they are aggravating concerns among secular Israelis that the character and future of their country is under threat.
Thanks to its supercharged political clout, the h aredi community has gained massive budgets that critics say will entrench its isolated way of life and weaken Israel’s economic prospects as the ultra-Orthodox population balloons.
“We have two kids. They have 10 kids. They’re going to be the majority here, eventually,” said Brayer Sharabi, a secular Israeli whose elbow was broken in the scuffle. “What’s going to happen to this place once they have the majority?”
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, known as haredim, make up 13% of the country’s 9.7 million population. The cloistered community has long been at odds with the secular majority, clashing over military conscription, their integration into the workforce and the basic tenets that guide their lives. Haredi Jews in Israel also are growing faster than any other group, at about 4% annually.
The many differences between religious and secular Jews have chafed the country throughout its 75 years. Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the sense has sharpened among secular Israelis that their lifestyle may have an expiration date.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, brushes off such criticism, saying the ultra-Orthodox are Israeli citizens who deserve funding and that he is working to integrate them into the workforce.
The ultra-Orthodox mostly live in separate towns and city neighborhoods, and unlike most secular Jews, most are not conscripted in the military under a decades-old system of exemptions that allows them to study religious texts instead. Many continue religious study well into adulthood and do not work, living off government stipends and grating on the nerves of the country’s tax-paying middle class.
Ultra-Orthodox schools widely do not teach a core curriculum of math or English. Experts say this gives them few skills to enter the work world, creating a recipe for poverty and increased dependence on government assistance as the population grows.
The ultra-Orthodox say their children nonetheless deserve robust state funding for education, and that their otherwise insular communities protect a centuries-old way of life. Their leaders also say they contribute to the economy by paying significant sums of sales tax on consumer purchases for their large families.
Yinon Azulai, a lawmaker with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, last month in a parliament speech denounced what he called “the wild incitement raging these days and running in the streets of baseless hatred for the ultra-Orthodox community” after a popular TV host called the community “blood suckers.”
“I don’t intend to apologize for being haredi,” he said on the Knesset floor.
Gilad Malach, director of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel Program at the Israel Democracy Institute, a think tank, said that the large budget was part of a broader trend showing the community is not integrating with the country’s larger society.
“The last few years we have more and more signs that this process is not strong enough,” he said. “People ask themselves, what is the direction that (the) Israeli state goes?”
Dan Ben-David, an economist who has long criticized what he says is preferential treatment for the ultra-Orthodox, said the generous subsidies and political power provide a glimpse of Israel’s future.
“Not a day goes by where we’re not inundated with a clear picture of what’s life going to be like” under an ultra-Orthodox majority, said Ben-David, president of Tel Aviv University’s Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research. “The level of tension is much higher.”
The tens of millions of dollars in financial handouts passed in the recent budget last month have enraged secular Israelis.
Weekly protests against the legal overhaul have sometimes adopted anti-religious themes, especially ahead of a court-ordered July 31 deadline for Netanyahu to submit a new law to address the issue of ultra-Orthodox enlistment. It is not clear whether a proposed bill would pass legal muster. It does not seek to draft more ultra-Orthodox men into the military, but instead would cajole them into joining the workforce earlier.
The mayhem at the play center in Harish, a mixed secular and religious town, made news reports as other signs of unease simmered.
In May, when singer Noa Kirel won third place in the Eurovision Song Contest, Israelis widely celebrated. But a powerful ultra-Orthodox member of Netanyahu’s coalition, Moshe Gafni, brought up her name and referenced her revealing performance costume during a budget debate.
“I would also donate some clothes to her, so she can have some,” Gafni, the Finance Committee chairman, said. Kirel was quoted in Israeli media saying that everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Last month, outrage and threats of a boycott ensued when photos appeared on social media of purple stickers covering the faces of women on drugstore products at a leading pharmacy in the haredi city of Bnei Brak. Some ultra-Orthodox consider images of women to be immodest, and haredi media often erase the images of women from news photos. The pharmacy later stopped covering up women’s photos.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews boycotted a bakery after one of its executives, a former government minister, supported the protests against the judiciary overhaul.
Just a few years ago, Harish had been promoted as a model of coexistence between its secular and religious residents. Now that seems like wishful thinking as a country long used to conflict with its outside neighbors finds itself grappling with unprecedented internal divisions.
“It’s between Jews, that’s the irony,” said Brayer Sharabi’s husband, Avshalom, 39, in an interview outside the play center. “What’s happening now, feels new.”
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Associated Press writer Ilan Ben Zion contributed from Jerusalem. | 2023-06-08T12:19:31+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/green-living/top-story/ap-top-headlines/sharing-israel-divide-between-religious-and-secular-jews-heats-up-under-netanyahus-rule/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5W Digital, the in-house full-service digital agency for 5WPR, announces today the expansion of their content division with expanded offered practices with an emphasis on growth in TikTok content development and trend taskforce, and a focus on trend-jacking across all social media platforms.
"Social media, especially TikTok, has rendered the trend lifecycle more volatile than ever before. It takes a full and dedicated team to recognize emerging trends and respond quickly with high-quality content," said 5W CEO, Matthew Caiola. "Our in-house digital content team performs incredibly well in this area, and we continue to invest our resources in content creation and trend forecasting to better serve our client partners."
5W Digital is comprised of specialists within specific areas of digital marketing, led by industry veterans, ensuring all digital programs share the same results-driven and hands-on client approach that defines 5W's award-winning campaigns. Whether working on highly focused campaigns, or integrating across platforms to build over-arching digital programs, the team combines the technical and creative expertise with the consumer-savvy and business acumen that clients have come to trust from 5W campaigns.
5W Digital, the dedicated digital marketing division of 5W Public Relations, is a full-service digital agency based out of NYC. The agency is known for creative and strategic services including social media, influencer marketing, paid media, and search engine optimization, encompassing the entire pipeline including content creation, paid support, strategic influencer campaigns, data & analytics, and more. 5W Digital produces award-winning work, recognized by multiple MarCom Awards as well as receiving industry recognition from the PR Platinum Awards.
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Forsyth, Montana woman sentenced to 70 years in killing of Sidney man
SIDNEY, M.T. (KUMV) - A judge in Sidney made her decision in sentencing a Forsyth woman to 70 years for killing a Sidney man nearly a year ago.
On January 27, 2022, 51-year-old Lyndsee Brewer filled up her vehicle and several gas cans in preparation for a trip from Forsyth to Sidney. Prosecutors say it ended with her killing an acquaintance, 50-year-old Christopher Wetzstein, inside his apartment.
“After hiding for hours behind the couch, [Brewer] then took out her gun, and shot Chris in the head while he slept. How much more cold and premeditated does it get,” said Charity McLarty, Richland County Attorney.
After taking a plea agreement in October, Brewer sat in the Richland County Court Monday for sentencing. Family and friends of Wetzstein spoke out about the impact his death had on them.
“She murdered the man who helped her and cared for her. She murdered the father of three amazing people,” said Jolene Flannigan, Wetzstein’s girlfriend.
Brewer also had people who spoke in defense of her character.
“She has served as the voice of reason and compassion countless times to all of those whose lives she entered,” said Steven Frost, Brewer’s son.
Judge Katherine Bidegaray sided with the state, sentencing Brewer to 100 years with 30 suspended. She said Brewer’s actions were inexcusable and correctly fit the nature of deliberate homicide.
“That was a span of about seven-and-a-half hours. Never, during that entire time, did your voice of reason that some of the people who wrote character letters in your support, ever surface to make you realize that what you were about to do was cold-hearted, cold-blooded, murder,” said Bidegaray
McLarty said the sentence would force Brewer to serve at least 25 years before she could appeal for parole.
Copyright 2023 KFYR. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-24T01:15:08+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/01/24/forsyth-montana-woman-sentenced-70-years-killing-sidney-man/ |
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PHILADELPHIA (WPHL) — “We are going to leverage every single asset we have to get this done”, was one of the many remarks Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said during the Wednesday afternoon press conference about rebuilding I-95.
Governor Shapiro announced the first step in the reconstruction plan would begin tomorrow, June 15, when Pennsylvania State Police will be escorting trucks filled with specially designed Pennsylvania-made recycled glass aggregate from Delaware County to make sure those materials get to Philadelphia as quickly and efficiently as possible.
“That’s the fill they’re gonna use to basically build up the ground to the surface level of I-95 so then they can lay the pavement,” Shapiro explained.
“Once complete, cars and trucks can return to this stretch of I-95 and then we will work together to build a permanent bridge while making sure we keep six lanes of traffic open at all times.”, Shapiro explained in terms of what drivers should expect in the coming months.
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As an effort to stay transparent, Shapiro also announced a new 24/7 live feed where the public and all interested parties can watch the reconstruction of I-95 in real time. “The live feed will set up and be operational this week”, Shapiro said.
“We are not wasting a single second” stated Shapiro while being unable to give an exact estimate on how long the reconstruction would take.
Throughout the press conference, other speakers Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, U.S. Department of Transportation, Undersecretary Carlos Monje, and Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council Ryan Boyer. | 2023-06-14T22:29:08+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-news/gov-shapiro-discusses-new-details-about-i-95-repair-were-not-wasting-a-single-second/ |
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(Gray News) - Behrmann Meat and Processing Inc. is recalling various ready-to-eat meat products due to possible listeria contamination.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that approximately 87,382 pounds of various meat products were included in the recall.
The meat items were produced from July 7 to Sept. 9 and were shipped to retail locations and wholesale distributors in Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri.
FSIS urges consumers to check back frequently to view updated labels.
The list of products and product codes for the RTE meat products that are subject to recall can be found on USDA.gov and includes all package sizes for all products with the affected lot codes.
The products also have the establishment number “EST 20917″ inside the USDA mark of inspection.
There have been no confirmed reports of illness.
FSIS says the products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
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1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Padres 7, Red sox 0. | 2023-05-21T23:53:14+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/boston-san-diego-runs-18111418.php |
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Trump and his political allies have been claiming he declassified government secrets uncovered in an office, storage room, and desk at the Mar-a-Lago resort. But government lawyers said at no time in the months-long tug of war to retrieve the papers, had Trump's lawyers made the argument he declassified the documents.
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Another Trump ally, described in the court papers as the custodian of the records, signed a letter to authorities certifying that Trump had conducted a "diligent search" for other materials sought by the National Archives and prosecutors. The letter said "all responsive documents" were included and that Trump had kept "no copy, written notation or reproduction."
Based on the boxes of top secret and even more highly classified papers the FBI extracted during its search Aug. 8, that too, proved false. The Justice Department said during its June visit, Trump's representatives barred them from looking through boxes in the storage room, giving them no chance to substantiate the claims. By August, they were armed with a court-approved search warrant.
"That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the 'diligent search' that the former President's counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter," authorities wrote.
Possible obstruction of Justice
The most striking new details about the investigation involve possible obstruction of justice. Prosecutors said they developed evidence, perhaps through a combination of civilian witnesses and video footage they subpoenaed from Mar-a-Lago, that government records "were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation."
Ultimately, the FBI seized 33 boxes of evidence during its August search, including papers with colored cover sheets clearly indicating their levels of classification to anyone who looked--important evidence if prosecutors ultimately proceed with a criminal case over obstruction or unlawful retention of information related to the national defense.
Some of the materials were so highly classified that FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers involved in the investigation required additional clearances before they could review the papers.
The Justice Department said in its new filing that agents also found top secret documents commingled in a desk drawer along with Trump's passports, which they decided to return, batting back public statements by Trump on social media that the FBI "stole" them.
Near the end of his concise, on-camera statement about the Mar-a-Lago search this month, the attorney general pledged that "more information will be made available in the appropriate way and at the appropriate time."
The Justice Department is due back in court Thursday, to discuss Trump's bid for an independent special master.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-31T17:27:41+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2022-08-31/in-filings-justice-department-rebuts-trumps-claims-on-mar-a-lago-search |
Rolls-Royce worked with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make its most elaborate one-off vehicle yet.
Unveiled Monday, the Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia is the “most technically complex commission ever undertaken” by the automaker’s bespoke division, according to a Rolls press release. The one-off sedan took four years to develop and build for the unnamed client that commissioned it.
Based on the extended-wheelbase version of Rolls’ flagship sedan, the Phantom Syntopia features an iridescent paint job that appears solid black at first, but shows purple, blue, magenta, and gold undertones in sunlight. A wave design on the hood also appears when viewed at certain angles. To achieve these effects, Rolls used a new technique that involved adding pigment to the clear coat, a process that took several months and involved over 3,000 hours of testing and validation, according to the automaker.
The interior’s built-in picnic tables got their own elaborate paint job with the same wave design. Rolls used black paint mixed with 0.9% glass particles, then added clear coat with 1.4% of the shimmer mixture used for the exterior, a process that took over three weeks to complete.
The wave design is repeated on the interior’s illuminated Starlight Headliner with 995 fiber-optic elements. The light-up headliner is a signature Rolls feature, but the automaker claims this is the most complicated version yet. The Syntopia headliner was made from a single piece of leather chosen from over 1,000 hides. It’s layered on woven nylon fabric that shows through in spots, intended to create a spine-like, three-dimensional look, and garnished with 162 petals made from glass organza, a shiny fabric used in haute couture.
The wave and petal themes were repeated for the artwork in the “Gallery” display window housed in the Phantom’s dashboard. All told, assembling the headliner took 700 hours of work by the Rolls and van Herpen staffs, while the Gallery art took 60 hours to complete.
For the upholstery, Rolls went with a throwback theme. Many early luxury cars had open driver’s compartments, which were trimmed in leather to withstand the elements, and enclosed passenger compartments with fabric upholstery. While still fully enclosed, the Syntopia has leather front seats, while the rear seats are upholstered in quilted, silk-blend fabric that has a shimmering appearance similar to the headliner.
The Syntopia is also the first Rolls to get its own scent. According to Rolls, it’s based on cedar wood from the client’s home region, with hints of iris, leather, rose, and lemon mixed in. It gets spritzed from patented dispensers in the headrests, which took more than two years to develop, according to Rolls. That included testing in extreme heat and cold to ensure the scent “maintains its distinctive profile in all conditions,” the automaker said.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia is scheduled to be delivered to its owner in May. Rolls claims it won’t be replicated, but the automaker’s return to coachbuilding and continued emphasis on bespoke work means we’ll likely see more extravagant builds like this, as well as limited editions like the three-off Boat Tail.
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Moon rocket launch looms as NASA evaluates hurricane damage
NASA started the countdown Monday for this week's planned liftoff of its new moon rocket, although hurricane damage could cause yet another delay for the test flight.
Hurricane Nicole's high winds caused a 10-foot section of caulking to peel away near the crew capsule at the top of the rocket last Thursday. Mission managers want to make sure the narrow strip won't damage the rocket if it breaks off during liftoff. A final decision was expected Monday evening.
Liftoff is scheduled for the early morning hours of Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, with test dummies rather than astronauts on board. It's the first test flight for the 322-foot rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA, and will attempt to send the capsule into lunar orbit.
The nearly monthlong $4 billion mission has been grounded since August by fuel leaks and Hurricane Ian, which forced the rocket back into its hangar for shelter at the end of September. The rocket remained at the pad for Nicole; managers said there wasn't enough time to move it once it became clear the storm was going to be stronger than anticipated.
The space agency plans to send astronauts around the moon in 2024 and land a crew on the lunar surface in 2025.
Astronauts last visited the moon in December 1972, closing out the Apollo program.
A microwave oven-size NASA satellite, meanwhile, arrived Sunday in a special lunar orbit following a summer liftoff from New Zealand. This elongated orbit, stretching as much as tens of thousands of miles, is where the space agency plans to build a depot for lunar crews. The way station, known as Gateway, will serve astronauts going to and from the lunar surface.
The satellite, called Capstone, will spend six months testing a navigation system in this orbit. | 2022-11-14T22:16:11+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/nasa-moon-rocket-launch-looms-hurricane-damage/41957000 |
Widespread heavy rainfall doused the Chicago area on Sunday, with nearly six inches of rain flooding streets, drenching fans at the Chicago Bears’ season-opening football game and turning storm drains into massive geysers.
Heavy rains also fell across southeastern Wisconsin, with Milwaukee seeing its sixth-wettest day on record Sunday. It got 4.78 inches of rain — more than its average rainfall for the entire month of June. It was the city’s wettest September day on record.
With 4.78" of rainfall as of 1 AM CDT Monday, Milwaukee has set:
— NWS Milwaukee (@NWSMilwaukee) September 12, 2022
💧a daily rainfall record for Sept 11 beating the old record of 2.96" set in 2000
💧 a record one day rainfall total for the month of September breaking the old record of 4.32" set back on Sept 8, 1941#wiwx
Widespread downpours soaked southeastern Wisconsin. A massive swath of more than two inches of rain was recorded from Madison to Racine, causing local streams and rivers to rise.
Racine appeared to be the big rainfall winner of the day. More than nine inches of rain fell on the city, smashing the previous record of 4.8 inches.
In Chicago, the city’s storm drains simply could not handle that much rain falling at once, leading to dramatic scenes on area roadways — and a sloppy football game on national television.
A weather station in Lincoln Square recorded 5.9 inches of rain, one in Portage Park saw 5.86 inches, and another in the western Chicago suburb of Lisle tallied 5.56 inches. In all three cases, the stations recorded nearly three or more inches of rainfall in just an hour-long period — making it difficult for storm drains to keep up.
This morning at Lawrence and Ravenswood pic.twitter.com/cf22at05Ha
— Kyna (@KJintheCity) September 11, 2022
Several posts on social media showed flooded intersections, with water pooling at the wheels of cars parked along the side of the street. Other videos showed water shooting out of the sewers in Chicago, launching more water onto already flooded streets. Many basements and ground-floor units in the city were reported to have flooded, and Loyola University Chicago’s Cudahy Library remained closed Monday after suffering water damage.
At Soldier Field, the home team Chicago Bears played a wet and wild football game against the visiting San Francisco 49ers. Heavy rain poured on fans at the game — dousing some more than others and causing water to pour into the stadium. On the field, crews tried to brush the water off the field before the game, but much of the damage had been done.
After upsetting the 49ers 19-10, the victorious Bears had fun on the soaked grass field, using it as a slip-and-slide in their celebrations.
RAINY DAY BEARS… @ChicagoBears SLIDING into this season with 2-5” of rain around Chicago … having some fun at @SoldierField pic.twitter.com/k2fTm7H2KQ
— Ginger Zee (@Ginger_Zee) September 12, 2022
On Monday morning, it was still pouring over parts of north-central Illinois, as the unusually slow-moving low-pressure system that was responsible for the heavy rainfall across the region continued to spin over the southern shores of Lake Michigan.
A flood warning remained in effect for parts of Waukesha and Milwaukee counties, where the Fox River and Root River, respectively, are expected to remain above flood stage until Wednesday morning.
Flood watches were still in effect for several counties in Wisconsin and northern Illinois until 1 p.m. local time, although the heaviest of the rain has left the area.
Sunday’s excessive rainfall fits into a pattern of more extreme precipitation in the Upper Midwest amid rising temperatures. According to the federal government’s National Climate Assessment, the amount of rain that falls in the top 1 percent of events has increased by 42 percent in the Midwest over the past 60 years. | 2022-09-12T17:12:59+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/12/chicago-flooding-milwaukee-racine-rain/ |
LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) - Lincoln Mayor Tracy Welch announced on Facebook that Christian Village will be closing its three skilled nursing neighborhoods.
The Christian Village supports the needs of older adults throughout Lincoln and the surrounding community.
In a statement, Mayor Welch said, "The past several years have been economically difficult for businesses and senior living communities across the U.S., Illinois, and Lincoln, including The Christian Village. All have experienced dramatic expense increases in general operating costs; soaring inflation challenges; and even changes in how and when older adults access skilled nursing services. With an ongoing focus to ensure long-term viability in service to older adults throughout Lincoln and the surrounding community, we have determined that it is no longer feasible to continue operations of the campus’ health center’s three neighborhoods which serve skilled nursing and long-term care."
The last day of operations in those three neighborhoods will be September 8, 2023.
Welch said, "While we’ve made the decision to close the three skilled nursing neighborhoods, we are also working closely with the state to add new levels of care to the campus to serve older adults throughout the greater Lincoln region. We anticipate sharing news regarding these added levels of care in the next couple of months."
The independent living and assisted living neighborhoods of The Christian Village will remain fully operational and are not affected.
The Christian Village said it will continue to work with all impacted parties.
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Entering Thursday’s first-round clash with Matignon, Duxbury girls’ hockey coach Dan Najarian reminded his players that the Warriors were tournament-tested and wouldn’t be an easy out.
“I just said we had to be ready,” Najarian said, “and I think we were.”
Sophomore forward Maddie Greenwood delivered with 2:47 left in the first, junior defender Cammy Holloway scored with 4:17 left in the second, and Duxbury earned a 2-0 win over Matignon at The Bog to launch its quest for a Division 2 state title.
The second-seeded Dragons (20-1-2) peppered junior goalie Taylor Daley with shots all night. The No. 31 Warriors (5-15-2) held their own, but Duxbury capitalized enough to advance.
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“A couple bounces here or there, maybe it’s a higher score,” Najarian said. “But, at the end of the day, there’s no style points in the playoffs.”
Several freshmen, including Lucia Rose and Alannah Gallagher, contributed in their first varsity playoff games. Gallagher described their emotions as “nerv-cited” coming in, and they made the most of the opportunity as the Dragons showed off their depth once again.
Duxbury pulled ahead, 1-0, through one, as its leading scorer, Greenwood, delivered from in close. The Dragons extended the lead to 2-0 through two periods, as Holloway picked an ideal time to score her second goal in as many games.
They nearly added a third on a 5-on-3 opportunity in the third, yet Daley was up for the challenge once more.
Matignon didn’t make it easy, but Duxbury earned a date with No. 18 Norwood in the Round of 16.
“It’s a great group of girls,” Rose said. “When we work together, we go so far. Communication is a big key to it, and I feel like our team is so bonded.”
Division 1 State
Methuen/Tewksbury 4, Acton-Boxborough/Bromfield 0 — Sophomore MJ Petisce netted a pair of goals to lead the ninth-ranked Rangers (13-5-3) to a first-round win at Methuen High. Methuen/Tewksbury will play No. 8 Peabody (17-4-0) in the second round.
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Winthrop 5, Hopkinton/Dover-Sherborn 0 — Emma Holmes scored twice and Riley Towse secured a 12-save shutout in a first-round triumph at Larsen Rink for the fifth-seeded Vikings (19-0-0).
Division 2 State
Milton 2, Framingham 1 — Molly Murphy and Caelan Leddy netted two third-period goals to erase a 1-0 deficit for the 13th-seeded Wildcats (18-1-4) in the first-round win. A second-round matchup against No. 12 ranked Dedham (15-4-2).
Norwood 5, Martha’s Vineyard 2 — Jenna Naumann, Michaela Reen, Morgan Roach, Molly Federico, and Sophia Krusz (1st varsity goal) tallied for the 18th-seeded Mustangs (11-7-1) in the first-round victory on the island against the No. 15 Vineyarders (12-7-2).
Sandwich 6, Leominster 0 — Freshman forward Emma MacPherson scored a hat trick for the sixth-ranked Blue Knights (14-6-2) in the first-round victory at Gallo Arena. Sandwich will face No. 11 Lincoln-Sudbury (17-4-0) in the second round.
Correspondent Ethan Kagno contributed to this story.
Trevor Hass can be reached at trevor.hass@globe.com. | 2023-03-03T04:34:03+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/sports/openers-duxbury-girls-hockey-puts-its-depth-display-division-2-first-round-win-over-matignon/ |
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, during a special ceremony at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing (UT Austin), Dr. April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) — the largest professional organization representing nurse practitioners (NPs), honored the outstanding contributions made by NP students and faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students and faculty from UT Austin provided nearly 3,100 COVID-19 vaccines to the Austin community during the pandemic. This project included the innovative community partnership known as Vaccination Administration Mobile Operations (VAMOS), a mobile clinic set up at churches and other public sites to vaccinate hard-to-reach Austinites in largely underserved communities.
"I applaud the incredible lifesaving work performed by UT Austin students and faculty during the public health care crisis," said Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN. "It's heartwarming to know that the next generation of nurse practitioners are so dedicated to ensuring patients get the best possible care and guidance needed to live healthy lifestyles. Their commitment during the pandemic led to fewer Texans being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19."
When it became clear the UT Austin vaccine clinic on campus would not be able to provide vaccinations to the entire community, faculty and students developed the VAMOS project. The program ensured individuals who were homebound or had difficulty accessing appointments could still be protected through vaccinations. The project was launched in March 2021.
The UT Austin School of Nursing is one of the leading nursing schools in the nation, with a history of excellence in academics, research and service.
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A'ja Wilson is all too happy to show off her coveted corner locker and its creature comforts in Las Vegas' new WNBA practice facility.
But the two-time league MVP isn't the only Aces player receiving preferential treatment these days.
Their locker room, which includes a TV and mini computer at each player stall, is part of the $40 million, 64,000-square-foot facility the Aces opened before this season. Las Vegas officials say its the first built specifically for a WNBA team in the league's 27-year history. Two courts are the centerpiece of the facility, which also includes hot and cold pools, a sauna and nutrition bar among other features.
While WNBA players continue to face several challenges, including their ongoing lobbying for charter flights and salaries that would e liminate playing overseas during the offseason to supplement their incomes, life is good for the Aces.
The defending champions have a league-best 17-2 record, are the favorite to repeat according to FanDuel Sportsbook, set to host the All-Star game this weekend and all the while enjoying their first-class facility — which several NBA teams have inquired about using the facility during summer league play.
The good news for the rest of the WNBA is the Las Vegas facility won't be the only such building in the league for long: The Storm have a $64 million, 50,000-square-foot facility in the works that will be called the Seattle Storm Center for Basketball Performance and have many if not all the same amenities as the one for Las Vegas.
The amenities of the Aces' facility was not lost on at least one free agent when she was looking for a new place to play. Former two-time MVP Candace Parker said the building was a major reason she signed with Las Vegas.
She touted the advantages of soaking in a cool tub every day and even taking a nap in the hyperbaric chamber. On an even more basic level, Parker said having a locker to store items rather packing up gear each day to take with her is a nice change.
“I hope this has inspired others to kind of step up their game because I know how it is with ownership," Parker said. "It’s a competition, so now who’s going to be next?”
That is a major question in the WNBA, with Las Vegas and Seattle poised to set themselves apart from other franchises in a highly noticeable way.
“Seattle’s arena, that’s a top-five NBA arena,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. "These little steps and facilities, players want to be here. Who wouldn’t want to come and walk in here every day? So it’s a huge draw for players.
“When I played in New York, they had just built their facility up in White Plains. It was a shared facility, but it was equal. Whatever the Knicks had on their side, the Liberty had on their side. But as you could see, this facility is ours and ours alone, and so it makes it a little unique in that aspect.”
Another unique aspect to the Aces facility is the project was led by women, Julie Amacker and Shannon Miller of CAA ICON. Amacker also was senior director of the Allegiant Stadium and Las Vegas Raiders headquarters projects, and Miller was project manager on both sites.
Wilson said the project directors listened to what the players had to say and would go back and make changes to the final product.
“When you want to design something, I’m putting all in to a woman 100% because just the details of it,” Wilson said. “We really care about that, and I love that.”
The Storm have taken a similar approach for their facility, with women making up 85% of the project team for the building that is scheduled to open before the 2024 season.
“Our ownership group goes back to the pre-Title IX days, really recognizing what it was like to be female and not have access to following your dreams,” Storm co-owner Ginny Gilder said. The facility is "really a continuation of who we are as people and of how do we translate our experience as young people into something that is moving, uniquely moving things forward?”
The Las Vegas facility is part of Raiders owner Mark Davis' push for changes that he started when he bought the Aces franchise two years ago. His investment paid dividends last year with a WNBA championship after he signed Hammon to a league-record $1 million annual salary.
“You have to be willing to invest in and, at the end of the day, have ownership that really authentically believes in what they’re saying," Hammon said. “Because from what I can tell, a lot of people say the right thing, but don’t do the right thing. I love that it’s easy to talk the talk in front of cameras, but then to actually do it, he’s a guy that actually does it.”
Everything Davis and the Aces are doing will be in the spotlight this week as the focus on pro basketball is on Las Vegas.
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Massive catch! Man sets state record with 104-pound catfish
NATCHEZ, Miss. (Gray News) - A Mississippi man has raised the bar with his latest catch.
According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, Christopher Halley caught a 104-pound blue catfish in the Mississippi River near Natchez on a trotline.
The department shared Halley’s catch on Tuesday regarding the new State Trophy Record Blue Catfish.
Officials said Halley’s fish was 3 pounds heavier than the previous record that was set in 1997 by the team of Freddie Parker and Brad Smith.
According to the department, this was the second blue catfish state record broken this year. Eugene Cronley of Brandon landed a 131-pound Blue Catfish in April using a rod and reel also in the Mississippi River near Natchez.
Mississippi fishing records are separated into three categories: Rod and Reel, Trophy and Fly Fishing. Those current records can be seen here.
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Which sauna suits are best?
If you want an effective weight loss method to supplement your exercise regimen, look no further than a sauna suit. Just like an actual sauna, these suits are specially designed to make you sweat, thereby reducing body fat and increasing your metabolism.
Despite the simplicity of these products, not all sauna suits are equal. For a short-sleeved suit that’s comfortable and effective, the Kutting Weight Neoprene Version 2.0 is the top pick.
What to know before you buy a sauna suit
How a sauna suit works
Sauna suits work by locking in body heat and causing the user to sweat profusely. The suits are typically closed at the collar, ankles and sleeves to prevent any heat from escaping, resulting in an environment that is akin to 90-degree weather with about 50-percent humidity. The excessive sweating caused by the sauna suit’s internal temperature is said to boost your metabolism, burn calories and help you shed pounds.
Safety tips
The excessive body heat generated by a sauna suit can be unsafe or even fatal if misused. Talk with your doctor when introducing any new exercise regimens, and read the following tips before wearing your suit to the gym.
- When you first receive your sauna suit, only wear it for 5 or 10 minutes at a time until your body grows accustomed to the increased temperature.
- Always drink plenty of water during and after any exercise while wearing a sauna suit.
- Once you’re accustomed to the sauna suit, never wear it for longer than 60 minutes at a time.
- Don’t wear your sauna suit during high-intensity workouts.
- Stop exercising immediately if you feel nauseous or lightheaded while wearing a sauna suit.
Materials
In their early days, sauna suits were constructed from rubber. Today, most suits are made out of high-quality and lightweight materials like nylon and neoprene. You can also find suits that are made out of PVC, but these aren’t particularly durable or ventilated.
Neoprene is perhaps the best material for a sauna suit because it’s flexible, durable and great at preventing odor buildup. On the other hand, neoprene can be relatively expensive and some users may have a skin sensitivity to the material.
What to look for in a quality sauna suit
Style
Most sauna suits are designed to cover a large portion of your body for maximum heat retention, with long pants and long sleeves being the most common style. Other suits may be short sleeved. The key is finding a suit that will generate the most sweat without restricting movement.
Ventilation
A suit with proper ventilation is ideal because it allows you to sweat profusely while reducing your risk of overheating. Many suits will have patches of ventilation integrated into areas like your underarms.
Odor-blocking
Excessive sweat naturally produces body odor, so many sauna suits will incorporate odor blocking technology into their suits. Neoprene is a particularly effective material for blocking odor.
Cuffs
Look for a sauna suit with elastic cuffs and pant legs to lock in maximum body heat, particularly if your suit is extra baggy.
Zippers and closures
When you’re drenched in sweat, conventional metal zippers can be difficult to operate. Look for a suit that incorporates rubber, easy-to-grip zippers or hook-and-loop fasteners for a garment that’s easy to put on and take off.
How much you can expect to spend on a sauna suit
The cost of a sauna suit typically varies depending on the size and the quality of the materials used. Most users can expect to spend around $30-$120 for a lightweight suit that’s constructed from nylon or neoprene.
Sauna suit FAQ
Can anyone use a sauna suit?
A. These suits shouldn’t be worn by people with heart issues or diabetes. Always talk with your doctor before exercising in a sauna suit.
How should I wash my sauna suit?
A. To ensure the longest life possible for your sauna suit, wash it by hand and hang to dry. If your sauna suit is advertised as machine-washable, only run it on the delicate setting and hang it up to air dry.
What’s the best sauna suit to buy?
Top sauna suit
Kutting Weight Neoprene Version 2.0
What you need to know: This versatile sauna suit has short sleeves and a flexible neoprene construction.
What you’ll love: The elastic neoprene material is extremely lightweight and breathable, greatly reducing the risk of overheating. The patented SweatTech fabric has also been scientifically proven to increase metabolism by 20.8%
What you should consider: Some users may find the design to be restrictive during workouts.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top sauna suit for the money
ARD-Champs Heavy-Duty, Anti-Rip
What you need to know: This affordable sauna suit is constructed from a blend of lightweight PVC and nylon.
What you’ll love: Perfect if you need a product that’s particularly durable, this sauna suit has a rubberized inner lining and elasticized cuffs to lock in heat. It’s also available in a wide range of different sizes.
What you should consider: A few users reported that the sizes of this sauna suit run small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Sauna suit worth checking out
What you need to know: Designed specifically for boxers, this hooded sauna suit gets the job done and features a classic look.
What you’ll love: This stylish sauna suit is constructed from nylon with a PVC and rubber layer that’s designed to repel water. The hood features a drawstring and the pants have two side pockets with hook-and-loop closures.
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CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. and BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Field Medical, Inc. and CardioNXT, Inc. announce a strategic collaboration to provide the first-of-its-kind, purpose built, focal pulsed field ablation (PFA) therapy integrated seamlessly with 3D mapping & navigation.
Both teams will harness decades of experience in pioneering novel PFA and navigation product solutions in various medical therapy applications.
"PFA has generated much excitement in the treatment of atrial fibrillation due to an improved safety profile and procedural workflow. However, most of the first generation PFA technologies today are repurposed from other applications and suffer from significant limitations outside a subset of AFib procedures," said Dr. Steven Mickelsen, CEO, Field Medical. "This collaboration brings together second generation focal PFA and AI-based cardiac mapping—a combination set to revolutionize catheter ablation across the full spectrum of treatable arrhythmias."
This new collaboration will accelerate development of novel integrated solutions aimed at improving safety and efficacy while minimizing need for x-rays used in cardiac catheter ablation, a market that has grown to $6B per year globally. Accurate navigation is critical to the heart rhythm treatment especially outside the atria where magnetic localization can dramatically improve positioning during the treatment of life threatening ventricular tachycardia.
"We are excited to collaborate with Field Medical to build a purpose-built system from the ground up that incorporates PFA, Contact Force Sensing, Electromagnetic Localization, and AI-enabled mapping capabilities," said Jerome Edwards, CEO, CardioNXT. "We believe this will create a first of its kind completely integrated total solution to identify sources of cardiac arrhythmias and deliver therapy to those targets more efficaciously than ever before."
Field Medical develops purpose built second generation PFA technology to address the technical and safety challenges associated with today's ablation procedures. CEO Steven Mickelsen is the founder of Farapulse, Inc. (acquired by Boston Scientific), and world recognized expert in pulsed electric field technology.
CardioNXT has developed a commercially available 3D Mapping & Navigation System that leverages internal navigation referencing with electromagnetic tracking and complex mapping algorithms. The CardioNXT Team has a track record of creating market leading 3D Mapping & Navigation products such as the Medtronic-StealthStation, Medtronic-LocaLisa, and Olympus-Veran Systems which have enjoyed market leadership positions in multiple clinical applications.
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By ELAINE GANLEY, JADE LE DELEY and JOHN LEICESTER
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PARIS (AP) — An estimated 1.27 million people took to the streets of French cities, towns and villages Tuesday, according to the Interior Ministry, in new massive protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age by two years.
The turnout exceeded participation in a previous round of strikes and protests against the proposed pension system reform, in a significant victory for labor unions. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne was forced to acknowledge that her government “hears” the “questions and doubts” raised by the reforms that would push the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The eight unions organizing the protests announced that they would hold new demonstrations on Feb. 7 and Feb. 11.
“In the face of massive rejection, the government must withdraw its reform,” said Patricia Drevon of the Workers’ Force union, standing beside colleagues from the other unions in a rare, public show of solidarity.
The powerful CGT union claimed that 2.8 million protesters marched Tuesday.
The nationwide strikes and protests were a crucial test both for Macron and his opponents. The government has insisted it’s determined to push through Macron’s election pledge to reform France’s pension system. But strong popular resentment will strengthen efforts by labor unions and left-wing legislators to try to block the bill.
Prime Minister Borne held out a tentative olive branch to protesters and unions later Tuesday, tweeting that: “The retirement reform raises questions and doubts. We hear them.”
This suggests that changes could be in the offing but likely without a full withdrawal as demanded by protesters. Her tweet said the debate opening in parliament “will allow us … to enrich our project with a goal” of ensuring the future of France’s pension system. “It’s our responsibility.”
Just this weekend, Borne, had insisted that raising the retirement age to 64 is “no longer negotiable.” And Macron on Monday defended the reform as “essential.”
In the capital, police said 87,000 people took to the streets — up from 80,000 in the first big pension protest on Jan. 19, when authorities said 1 million people demonstrated nationwide. Union estimates had doubled that figure.
The overall peaceful Paris march was marred by scattered clashes between a small group of black-clad radicals and riot police, who fired tear gas beside Les Invalides, site of Napoleon’s tomb where the march that stretched across the city ended. Police reported 30 arrests there and elsewhere along the route.
Some 11,000 police were on duty for an estimated 250 protests nationwide.
“Today, the government is in a corner. It has only to withdraw its reform,” Erik Meyer of the Sud Rail union — one of eight which organized the march — said on BFM TV.
Veteran left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon celebrated “a historic day” of protests and predicted defeat for Macron.
“It’s not often that we see such a mass mobilization,” he said, speaking in the southern city of Marseille. “It’s a form of citizens’ insurrection.”
The protests were not limited to France’s big cities. On Ouessant, a tiny western isle of some 800 people off the tip of Brittany, about 100 demonstrators gathered outside the office of Mayor Denis Palluel and marched, he said.
Palluel told The Associated Press that the prospect of having to work longer alarmed mariners on the island with arduous ocean-going jobs.
“Retiring at a reasonable age is important, because life expectancy isn’t very long,” he said.
The protests by people of all ages were loud and colorful, featuring sirens, bullhorns and smoke bombs, in keeping with a long tradition in France of taking democracy to the streets.
In addition to the protests, strikes disrupted services across France Tuesday.
Rail operator SNCF said most train services were knocked out in the Paris region, in all other regions and on France’s flagship high-speed network linking cities and major towns. The Paris Metro was also hard hit by station closures and cancellations.
Power workers in key positions, not allowed to walk off the job, showed their support for protesters by temporarily reducing electricity supplies, without causing blackouts, power producer EDF said.
Jamila Sariac, 60, a civil servant, said the pension system should be left alone.
“Social protection is a milestone of our society, a milestone that the government wants to break,” she said, adding that strikes would more effectively pressure the government than demonstrations. “We owe it to our elders who contributed to the wealth of France.”
Construction worker Said Belaiba was among travelers whose morning train from Paris to the city of Lyon was cancelled, forcing him to wait. Still, the 62-year-old said he opposed the planned reform.
“My job is physically exhausting,” he said. “You can’t keep on over 64.”
Strikes also hit schools, with the Education Ministry reporting that around one quarter of teachers stayed off the job — fewer than in the first round of protests.
French media also reported walkouts in oil refineries. Radio station France Inter played music instead of its usual morning talk shows and apologized to its listeners because employees were striking.
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John Leicester reported from Le Pecq, France.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BSM Partners, the leading full-service pet care research and consulting firm, announces 15-year-old Ava Dorsey as the first participant in their Young Entrepreneur Mentorship Program. Dorsey is the founder and Chief Pet Officer of Ava's Pet Palace, a line of USDA Organic-certified and all-natural dog and cat treats and pet accessories. All packaging for Ava's Pet Palace products is made from sustainable recycled products.
"Having already accomplished so much at such a young age, Ava is the perfect first mentee to kickstart our Young Entrepreneur Mentorship program," said Dr. Frank Niles, Principal of BSM's Business Transformation practice and startup services group lead. "Our startup services team has been thrilled to be guiding and assisting Ava through her company's growth, and we look forward to helping other young entrepreneurs break into and flourish in the industry."
BSM Partners' Young Entrepreneur Mentorship Program guides emerging young business leaders within the pet industry, providing advice and support on matters such as product innovation, formula development, marketing, business development, employee development, organizational development, executive coaching, and more.
"It's been a great and very productive relationship since meeting everyone on the BSM team," said Dorsey. "The team members are so caring and provide help and guidance that any startup could benefit from across all areas of business. I'm really looking forward to the future of the pet industry that includes the youth this program seeks to help. And I'm so happy they are being active change agents for the future of the industry. Growing and scaling a business can sometimes feel scary, but I now feel very confident and super excited about the future of Ava's Pet Palace!"
Ava's Pet Palace is a line of organic and all-natural dog and cat treats and pet accessories and are sold online at www.avaspetpalace.com, in independent retailers throughout the nation and in all PetPeople and Pet Food Express locations.
BSM Partners is the leading full-service pet care research, consulting, and strategy-to-shelf product innovation firm. BSM Partners collaborates with hundreds of clients, ranging from the largest companies to individual entrepreneurs, to provide both technical and business solutions. The firm's startup services group helps early-stage pet care entrepreneurs build the foundation necessary to scale their business. From ideation to execution and everything in-between, BSM accelerates the growth of promising new businesses in the pet food industry. To learn more, go to www.bsmpartners.net.
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Widespread Southwest cancelations impacting travelers in Wichita
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A situation that’s snowballed over the past few days with travel nightmares across the U.S. in the form of thousands of cancelations and delays, has led to the launch of a federal investigation.
By early Wednesday afternoon on the East Coast, about 90% of all canceled flights for the day in the U.S. were on Southwest, according to the FlightAware tracking service. The cancelations and delays are impacting weary travelers across the country, including at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, there were still two Southwest Flights on schedule for Wichita’s main airport. The rest were canceled for the day. At the airport Wednesday, 12 News spoke to one man who was there to pick up his family’s luggage that finally arrived Tuesday night, three days after the family returned home.
He said he thinks the problem was with staffing.
“They didn’t have enough employees, they didn’t have enough pilots,” he said. “They’re blaming a computer system issue. I don’t see the computer system issue. When we were in Vegas, they kicked 37 people off our flight so they could fly in pilots and employees with us, knowing that we weren’t going to go anywhere. So, they went ahead and sent us to Denver, knowing that we weren’t going to get out of there.”
Passengers said a lack of communication from Southwest Airlines has been especially frustrating. Some didn’t know their flight had been canceled until they checked the status online.
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Aaron Rodgers speaks out on his future with trade talk intensifying
(CNN) -- After holding talks with the New York Jets, it appears that there could be light at the end of the tunnel for Aaron Rodgers after emerging from the dark.
The quarterback's future has been one of the biggest topics of the NFL offseason so far and, with the start of free agency quickly approaching, Rodgers' next move could already be decided.
Speaking to former Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall on the 'I AM ATHLETE' podcast, the 39-year-old was quizzed on his future and whether it was away from the Green Bay Packers.
Rodgers said: "Stay tuned ... I think it won't be long. There's a time limit for all this."
The veteran was also asked about his meeting with Jets owner Woody Johnson, having been given permission by the Packers to speak to the New York team.
Rodgers kept his cards close to his chest and responded: "It's always interesting meeting important figures in the sport -- yeah it's always interesting. That's all I'm giving you."
The Packers icon recently spent time at a darkness retreat as he looked to find answers on his impending move.
"All the answers are right inside me," the four-time MVP said after his time at the retreat. "I touched many of them, and definitely the feelings, on both sides, during the darkness, and I'm thankful for that time.
"There's a finality to the decision. I don't make it lightly. I don't want to drag anybody around. Look, I'm answering questions about it because I get asked about it. I'm talking about it because it's important to me."
If Rodgers was to move from the Packers, it would end Rodgers' time in Wisconsin following 18 seasons with the team.
During his time in Green Bay, Rodgers has won the Super Bowl once and had extremely high levels of personal success, even though the team often fell short of expectations. He ranks first in franchise history in passing touchdowns and second in passing yards.
Although reports suggest Rodgers might be on the way out, Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy isn't ruling anything out.
"He's obviously a great player. Four-time MVP. But I think it's trying to find what he wants and what we want, and hopefully, we can find a win-win situation," Murphy said, per the NFL website. | 2023-03-13T13:40:37+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/03/13/aaron-rodgers-speaks-out-on-his-future-with-trade-talk-intensifying/ |
CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaSource Power Services ("NovaSource" or the "Company"), a global leader in solar operations and maintenance ("O&M") services and a portfolio company of Clairvest Group Inc. ("Clairvest", TSX: CVG) and OMERS Private Equity, the private equity arm of OMERS, announced its global operations expansion into Australia with the acquisition of the Australian O&M assets of First Solar, Inc., which closed on September 30, 2022.
The acquisition is part of a global expansion strategy helmed by NovaSource's CEO, Troy Lauterbach. When Lauterbach assumed the helm of NovaSource as its CEO, he announced the goal of becoming both a national and global leader in renewable O&M services. As part of that mission, Lauterbach named Timo Moeller President for International Operations. According to Lauterbach, "Timo and I have a long career together, and I know he is the right person to lead our global expansion."
The expansion into Australia adds approximately 500MW of solar energy production, located across the Australian continent, to NovaSource's global fleet. The acquisition signals NovaSource's continued focus on expanding its platform and driving continued market growth in a strong, renewable energy-focused market.
"We are thrilled to expand NovaSource's global fleet into Australia's growing solar market. Our team is energized to present our current and future stakeholders through APAC a higher standard of technical services," said Moeller. "The Company's global framework, deep knowledge and industry expertise will enable our Australian operations to deliver experienced leadership and long-term value to our customers."
Currently, NovaSource operates and maintains over 20GW of solar power plants across 11 countries and is a leading operator of battery storage systems.
About NovaSource Power Services
NovaSource Power Services, a portfolio company of Clairvest Group Inc. ("Clairvest", TSX: CVG), is a global O&M services provider for renewable energy assets. NovaSource seeks to maintain a world-class culture of safety and integrity, while developing lasting partnerships with our customers and team members. As an independent, O&M-focused company, NovaSource is poised to offer even greater value in the design, maintenance, and management of our customers' projects. More information is available at www.novasourcepower.com.
About Clairvest
Clairvest's mission is to partner with entrepreneurs to help them build strategically significant businesses. Founded in 1987 by a group of successful Canadian entrepreneurs, Clairvest is a top performing private equity management firm with over CAD $3.2 billion of capital under management. Clairvest invests its own capital and that of third parties through the Clairvest Equity Partners limited partnerships in owner-led businesses. Under the current management team, Clairvest has initiated investments in 59 different platform companies and generated top quartile performance over an extended period.
About OMERS Private Equity
OMERS Private Equity manages investments globally on behalf of OMERS, one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, with C$121 billion in net assets as of December 31, 2021, including approximately C$19.6 billion in net private equity investment asset exposure. With teams in New York, London, Toronto and Singapore, OMERS Private Equity invests across Industrials, Healthcare, Business Services and Technology, deploying an evergreen capital base to partner with strong management teams and transform good companies into industry leaders around the globe. www.omersprivateequity.com
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WHIPPANY, N.J., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (NYSE:SPH), announced today that it has scheduled its Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter Results Conference Call for Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time.
Analysts, investors and other interested parties are invited to listen to management's discussion of Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter results and business outlook by accessing the call via the internet at www.suburbanpropane.com, or by telephone as follows:
Phone #: (888) 317-6003
Access Code: 9151072
Ask for: Suburban Propane Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter Results Conference Call
In addition, a replay of the conference call will be available from 12:00 PM Eastern Time, Thursday, August 4, 2022 until 11:55 PM Eastern Time, Thursday, August 11, 2022 and can be accessed by dialing (877) 344-7529, Access Code 4929378. The replay will also be available via Suburban's website until the replay for next quarter's call is posted.
About Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.
Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. ("Suburban Propane") is a publicly traded master limited partnership listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey, Suburban Propane has been in the customer service business since 1928 and is a nationwide distributor of propane, renewable propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity and an investor in low carbon fuel alternatives, servicing the energy needs of approximately 1 million residential, commercial, governmental, industrial and agricultural customers through approximately 700 locations across 42 states. Suburban Propane is supported by three core pillars: (1) Suburban Commitment – showcasing Suburban Propane's 90+ year legacy, and ongoing commitment to the highest standards for dependability, flexibility, and reliability that underscores Suburban Propane's commitment to excellence in customer service; (2) SuburbanCares – highlighting continued dedication to giving back to local communities across Suburban Propane's national footprint and (3) Go Green with Suburban Propane - promoting the clean burning and versatile nature of propane and renewable propane as a bridge to a green energy future and developing the next generation of renewable energy. For additional information on Suburban Propane, please visit www.suburbanpropane.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent evening in early November, shoppers at the Bryant Park holiday market in New York City were in the holiday spirit well before Black Friday. The scent of pine wafted from candle sellers’ booths, people snapped up gingerbread cookies and hot apple cider and ice skaters swirled figure eights around the rink in the center of the market.
After two years of pandemic holidays when people spent more dollars online, shoppers are back in force in stores and at holiday markets. Small businesses say it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, both emotionally and financially.
“It’s definitely been busier than last year,” said Sallie Austin Gonzales, CEO of soap company SallyeAnder based in Beacon, New York. This is her second year at the Bryant Park market – officially called the Holiday Shops by Urbanspace at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park.
“People are taking advantage of being a part of society again and walking around.”
Christmas markets have been popular in Germany and Austria, where they’re called Christkindlmarkets, and other parts of Europe for centuries. They’ve become more popular in the U.S. over the past few decades, springing up in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, and many other cities. In New York, the Grand Central holiday market and the Union Square holiday market started in 1993.
Urbanspace now operates three holiday markets in New York: Bryant Park, Union Square and Columbus Circle. The pandemic put a damper on festivities in 2020, when only a scaled-back Bryant Park opened. Last year, Bryant Park was open at full capacity, but Union Square was at 80% capacity and Columbus Circle at 50%. This year, not only are all three markets at full capacity, Urbanspace is adding another one in Brooklyn that opens Nov. 28. Vendors apply for pop-up spaces and pay weekly or monthly rent to Urbanspace.
“We’ve received more applications than ever before, that tells us vendors are excited to be back in the pop-up game,” said Evan Shelton, Director of Pop-Up Markets at Urbanspace. “I’m very optimistic.”
So far, foot traffic is up slightly from last year as tourism continues to improve, Shelton said. While the number of tourists remains below 2019 levels, the tourism trade group NYC & Company expects 56.4 million domestic and international visitors by the end of 2022, up 30% from a year ago. That bodes well for small businesses as the holiday shopping season can account for 20% of annual sales.
For Austin Gonzales, the CEO of SallyeAnder in Beacon, New York, the Bryant Park market is a way to meet new customers and see what resonates with them. So far this year, her lemongrass and charcoal detoxifying soap and a tub of natural insect repellent are popular items. Like most businesses, she’s facing higher costs for everything from olive oil to paper bags. She’s raised the price of her soaps from $8 to $9.25.
“Holiday shops do a great job for us,” she said. “We see thousands and thousands of customers, and get tons of new advice, ideas, suggestions and testimonials.”
For some small businesses, the markets are a welcome respite after a punishing couple of years. Elizabeth Ryan, who owns and operates Breezy Hill Orchard in Staatsburg, New York, said the initial onset of COVID-19 caused her revenue to plunge 80% in 2020.
Ryan is a founding member of the Union Square Greenmarket and a longtime staple at the Manhattan holiday markets, where she sells cider, cider doughnuts and gingerbread cookies. She said her orchard has mainly recovered, with the help of a good apple crop this year. But holiday markets give her a much-needed revenue boost.
“We love working for the holiday markets, it has helped us a lot to get through various and sundry problems,” she said.
Preparing for holiday markets is labor intensive, because many small businesses have to schlep their goods from miles away and spend long hours staffing their booths. Ryan’s farm is 100 miles north of the city and Ryan drives in almost every day. But being at the market and watching New York City recover from the pandemic are worth the hassle.
“Reopening of the shops and the return of Christmas last year was very exuberant and joyful. I hope this year is the same,” she said.
While holiday market-goers might be feeling the pinch of 40-year high inflation rates, Lisa Devo, owner of Soap & Paper Factory, a Nyack, N.Y.-based maker of candles and other scented products, said shoppers are still looking for an affordable treat or gift. Devo, who has had a booth at Bryant Park for about seven years, has six or seven products under $25 and not many items over $50. She’s had to raise some prices, for example, candles that were $28 now retail for $32.
Shoppers return yearly for her “Roland Pine” line of products including candles and diffusers, which has a piney scent that wafts out of her booth. Devo calls the scent “the star of our company.”
“We are a feel-good thing for under $50 bucks,” she said. “People will spend $30 on a candle. It’s not like spending $10,000 on a couch or something. … I haven’t really seen much pushback.”
Most of Soap & Paper Factory’s revenue comes from wholesale orders, but selling items at markets for retail prices provides a boost. “We’re hoping for a great year — we compare our numbers every year and we’re off to a great start.”
She said the crowds seem more robust than last year, though it still doesn’t feel quite back to pre-pandemic levels of “normal.” She senses the fear of COVID-19 has subsided and is happy to see fewer masks.
“So yeah, I think it’s good. It feels like things are kind of like back on like track.” | 2022-11-23T12:47:38+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-small-businesses-and-shoppers-return-to-holiday-markets/ |
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(NEXSTAR) – A pair of New Jersey lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would make it easier for some previously ineligible public workers to qualify for loan relief under a federal program. This is the latest attempt to make changes to the 15-year-old program as Americans await a decision on widespread student loan forgiveness by the Biden administration.
Senator Bob Menendez and Representative Donald Norcross, both Democrats from New Jersey, introduced the “Second Chance at Public Service Loan Forgiveness Act” on Thursday. The bill proposes fixing “long-standing problems” with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF, and allowing “millions of previously ineligible public servants” the chance to have their loans forgiven.
PSLF was created in 2007 to help certain workers in the public sector have their loans forgiven after 120 payments over 10 years. The number of applicants actually having their loans forgiven has been low: Just 1 in 5 of the 1.3 million borrowers pursuing debt discharge through PSLF are on track to see relief by 2026, according to a September report by the Student Borrower Protection Center.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a change that temporarily waives specific PSLF requirements to grant borrowers credit toward loan cancellation regardless of their federal loan type or if they had been enrolled in a specific payment plan, as long as they consolidated their debt into a Direct Loan before the end of the waiver.
Prior to the waiver, borrowers needed to have a specific federal loan — a Direct Loan — to qualify for PSLF. Borrowers could consolidate their debt into Direct Loans for PSLF, but any payments made on the loans before consolidation didn’t count toward the required tally.
This waiver is currently set to expire after October 31, 2022, meaning eligible borrowers have less than four months to apply.
The newly proposed bill calls for the provisions in the PSLF waiver to be codified and for issues raised by borrowers and advocacy groups to be tackled. That includes allowing public servants with loans or public service before the program was created to qualify for relief, replacing the 120-payments requirement with 10 years of public service, ensuring Parent PLUS Loans qualify, expanding eligibility to those working 30 hours a week, and providing additional definitions of public service employment.
The act would also allow for teachers to qualify for both PSLF and the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program simultaneously.
Last week, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) introduced a similar bill to make it easier for public workers to have their student loans forgiven. The proposal includes cutting the amount of time it takes to get relief in half by reducing the number of payments needed to qualify for PSLF relief from 120 over 10 years to 60 over five years for borrowers working with an eligible employer. It would also allow previous payments made to count toward the necessary payments, regardless of loan type, payment plan, or if the payments were made on time.
Courtney’s bill would expand PSLF access for active-duty military and Peace Corp volunteers who had their loans placed in deferment while they were serving. Currently, certain loan deferments are not eligible for PSLF relief.
Additionally, under Courtney’s bill, parents with PLUS loans — otherwise known as Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students — or couples who joint-consolidated their loans into a Federal Family Education Loan, or FFEL, would be allowed to re-consolidated their loans into a Direct Loan, which would then be eligible for PSLF.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the federal student loan system, including a permanent change to PSLF that would allow more payments to qualify for the program, including partial, lump-sum and late payments. It also would allow particular kinds of deferments and forbearances to count toward PSLF, and it would create a formal reconsideration process for applicants who were denied access to the program.
President Biden, when questioned about student loans on Wednesday, said he would make a decision “by the end of August.” The current payment pause on federal student loans is set to expire on August 31. | 2022-07-21T23:10:22+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/school-watch/lawmakers-propose-bill-to-give-public-workers-second-chance-at-student-loan-relief/ |
Greece raises minimum wage to pre-bailout levels
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has announced an increase in the minimum wage that will restore pay to levels existing before sweeping cuts were imposed more than a decade ago during an international bailout. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who faces elections in the spring, said Friday the gross minimum monthly salary will go up on April 1 to 780 euros ($830) from 713 euros. Severe pay cuts were imposed under pressure from European and IMF bailout lenders in 2012. | 2023-03-17T23:38:06+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2023/03/17/greece-raises-minimum-wage-to-pre-bailout-levels/ |
In a press conference Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed pushed back on the narrative that Union Square is dying as a rash of retail outlets close their doors.
Breed pointed to stores that have recently opened in the city's retail district, such as the Toys R Us at Macy's last year, and those that renewed their leases, including Levi's.
“We didn’t hear about Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel expanding their footprint because they’ve had record sales in Union Square and a number of the luxury retailers who are here to stay,” Breed said. “We didn’t hear about Banana Republic and others moving into this corridor of the Union Square area. No one’s talking about the fact that Ikea is going to be opening a store on Market Street.”
Breed directly addressed media outlets that have featured stories on the demise of the city's retail neighborhood. “Those folks who don’t walk the streets in San Francisco, that don’t live in San Francisco, but they want to write about and commentate about San Francisco, I challenge you to come to this city and see what it feels like. I challenge you to come shop at the stores that you’re complaining about, which you probably never even stepped foot in in the first place,” she said. “I challenge you to come to our restaurants and to see what’s happening.”
The mayor's statement comes after Nordstrom announced on May 2 that it would close its flagship store at Westfield San Francisco Centre, two blocks from Union Square, in July. The Seattle company is also closing its off-price Nordstrom Rack across the street from the mall.
During the past year, several other major retailers — from Anthropologie to CB2 — have shuttered in the Union Square area. Foot traffic has dropped dramatically, with more people working from home and shopping online.
In an effort to encourage new businesses to replace those that have left, Breed and District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced in the press conference a $6 million plan to beautify the three blocks of Powell Street that run between Union Square and the cable car turnaround. Gap, H&M and Uniqlo have all closed flagship stores in recent years on the corridor, which has seen the number of empty storefronts increase since the pandemic began.
The proposal includes $4 million to replace the worn-out metallic sidewalk extensions with a treatment that will be “elegant” and create a “unified widened sidewalk” along Powell between Market and Geary streets, according to a news release from the mayor's office.
The remaining $2 million will be used to incentivize new tenants to rent the empty storefronts along Powell Street. The goal is to attract up to 10 new businesses by offering to subsidize some of the startup costs, such as storefront improvements.
Union Square has long been a top tourist attraction, but during the pandemic, the neighborhood saw a decrease in visitors as borders closed and tourism declined.
Tourism is now beginning to bounce back, Breed pointed out Tuesday.
“What’s not being talked about is we are almost at pre-pandemic levels at our airport, which was voted No. 1 airport in the country,” she said. “We are rising in our hotel occupancy rate, and no we are not where we want to be, but we are going to get better and stronger than ever.” | 2023-05-17T01:46:29+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-mayor-breed-talks-about-union-square-18103067.php |
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This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember Sue Graham Mingus, the widow of the late composer and bass player Charles Mingus. Sue Graham Mingus died Saturday at the age of 92. After the death of her husband in 1979, she made it her mission to keep his legacy alive, forming the Mingus Big Band, a repertory ensemble devoted to playing Mingus compositions. Charles and Sue met in 1964, moved in together in '73, and married in '75. She wrote a memoir about her relationship with Mingus called "Tonight At Noon." We're going to listen to an excerpt of her 2002 interview with Terry Gross. Let's start with a 1959 Mingus recording of his composition "Better Git It In Your Soul."
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TERRY GROSS: There was something about Mingus that seemed to inspire musicians to do their best work when they played with him. Some musicians that sound, you know, OK in other sad settings sound inspired, firing when they're playing with Mingus. Is there anything that you can think about that he did on the bandstand or in recording sessions that helped bring out those qualities in the musicians that played with him?
SUE GRAHAM MINGUS: Well, it was two things. It was Charles, but I have to say it was also the music because we have the same effects now. The musicians will tell you that he is there, lashing and whipping them and egging them on from the very center of the music. Part of this is absolutely a quality of the music itself. The other part was that Charles himself, at the helm, of course, was shouting and screaming and making demands on his musicians here and now on the stage. He would do anything that he needed to do to get the response he wanted. He would curse them and salt and fire them on stage, hire them back, cajole them, love them - anything that he could do to get that particular quality, that response of the music.
GROSS: In your book, you write that Mingus had said he didn't like pencil composers. He wanted his music to sound like the musicians were making it up as they were playing it. Maybe you could talk a little bit about Mingus' approach to composing.
MINGUS: Well, I have to say upfront that Charles never pretended to be consistent, and his views and his method of approaching music changed constantly, as his own approach to life. There was a time when he didn't like pencil composers. He felt that it took away from the immediacy of the music, and he would shout out the lines to the musicians and hum the melodies. But that changed. Of course, "Epitaph," his magnum opus, which was a score of 500 pages - it weighed 15 pounds on my bathroom scale. I weighed it one day. I mean, this was all written out. So you see, his approach changed. And what was true one decade was not necessarily true the next decade. Or it had expanded and included other approaches to music.
GROSS: I want to play a composition that Mingus dedicated to you, and this was recorded in the latter part of the '70s. It's called "Sue's Changes." What did he tell you about this piece when he told you about it?
MINGUS: Well, you know, Charles didn't talk about his compositions. He - nor did they necessarily reflect their titles. He would sometimes tack on a political title if there was something that moved or disturbed him in the news. And it might be a very lyrical, little up-tempo piece, and it might have a title like "Remember Rockefeller At Attica" during the prison uprising - or "Remember Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.," and it might be this kind of lilting, little tune that didn't sound like it represented the title at all. And again, there were other political pieces with vocal parts, like "Fables Of Faubus," that did indeed reflect a political statement at the time.
"Sue's Changes," I don't think we talked about - he was actually going to call that "Sue's Moods" and - because it goes through many different temporal changes and melodies. And I had a newspaper called Changes at the time, and I said, why don't you call it "Sue's Changes"? So he did, but he would always make a point of saying it had nothing to do with my newspaper.
GROSS: Well, why don't we hear "Sue's Changes"?
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DAVIES: Terry Gross interviewed Sue Graham Mingus in 2002. Sue Graham Mingus died on Saturday. She was 92 years old.
On tomorrow's show, to help us understand the protests in Iran, we'll speak with Iranian American scholar Pardis Mahdavi, who was once dragged out of a Tehran classroom by morality police while lecturing about her book on Iran's sexual revolution. I hope you can join us.
(SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "FREE CELL BLOCK F, 'TIS NAZI U.S.A.")
DAVIES: FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Sam Briger, Lauren Krenzel, Heidi Saman, Therese Madden, Ann Marie Baldonado, Thea Chaloner, Seth Kelley and Susan Nyakundi. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. Roberta Shorrock directs the show. For Terry Gross, I'm Dave Davies.
(SOUNDBITE OF CHARLES MINGUS' "FREE CELL BLOCK F, 'TIS NAZI U.S.A.") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2022-10-21T07:31:19+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2022-10-05/remembering-sue-graham-mingus-widow-of-composer-and-bassist-charles-mingus |
Electra students host The Big Event
Published: May. 6, 2023 at 10:55 PM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Students in Electra came together for a day of service on May 6.
This was the second annual The Big Event.
Students were served breakfast from the Chuck Wagon Gang and then got to work on several service projects across town.
The purpose of The Big Event is to say thank you to the residents of Electra and show appreciation for the surrounding community.
Copyright 2023 KAUZ. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-07T04:27:20+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/05/07/electra-students-host-big-event/ |
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it will begin reviewing data to decide if a smallpox vaccine made by the pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic might also be authorized for monkeypox, amid a growing outbreak of the disease across the continent.
In a statement on Tuesday, the EU drug regulator noted that the vaccine, known as Imvanex in Europe but sold as Jynneos in the U.S., is already cleared for use against monkeypox by American regulators.
In Europe, the vaccine is only authorized in adults for the prevention of smallpox, which is related to monkeypox.
“The decision to start this review is based on results from laboratory studies suggesting that the vaccine triggers the production of antibodies that target the monkeypox virus,” the EMA said. The regulator said that supplies of the vaccine are currently very limited in Europe.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are currently more than 4,300 cases of monkeypox globally, of which the majority are in Europe.
Several countries including Britain, Germany and the U.S. have already begun vaccinating those at highest risk of catching monkeypox using smallpox vaccines. Although the disease has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades, vaccines have not been used to stamp out previous outbreaks there.
Most monkeypox patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue. People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body. Most people infected with monkeypox recover within weeks without needing medical care but the disease can be more severe in vulnerable populations, like pregnant women and children.
The World Health Organization declined last week to declare monkeypox a global emergency, but has said it is working on a vaccine-sharing mechanism that some fear could see vaccines go to rich countries like the U.K. that already have their own stockpiles.
According to the health analytics firm Airfinity, Britain has 4.500 doses of the Bavarian Nordic vaccine and has ordered another 20,000 shots. The U.S. has received more than 1 million doses already and has ordered another 13 million. | 2022-06-28T12:02:13+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/eu-regulator-considers-clearing-smallpox-shot-for-monkeypox/S35C3YGUIFHVRF3QXDSJQPXXGE/ |
KSNF/KODE — There are many reasons why you should buy your dog Christmas toys. It’s a great way to keep them entertained and happy while they wait for Santa. The best time to buy them is before the big day so they can have fun with them immediately.
The following are just a few reasons why getting your dog new Christmas dog toys would be a great idea:
- Interaction: Toys teach your dog how to interact, which is important if you want to build an effective relationship with them. The more they play with their toys, the more they improve their problem-solving skills and enhance their communication abilities with humans.
- Stimulation: Dogs love playing with balls and things that bounce because it can help them burn off energy, so they don’t get bored or destructive when left alone at home. It also helps them get rid of excess energy that builds up during walks in public parks and other outdoor places where there aren’t many distractions for them to play around with locally.
- Socialization: You should invest in toys designed for multiple-dog households if you have two or more dogs. They will be able to play with each other and bond better.
- Good Behavior: If your dog is still a puppy, then it’s important that you get them started on the right track when it comes to playing with toys at an early age. You can do this by giving them squeaky toys or soft plush puppy toys, so they don’t develop bad habits like chewing on shoes or furniture.
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Veterinarians.org has compiled a list of some of what they claim are the best Christmas dog toys available today. Veterinarians.org, a pet parent resource and data information website, tested the following products and did their own research, concerning the toys. Here are some of their favorite Christmas dog toys, which you can find online at Amazon and Chewy:
- Best Overall Christmas Dog Toys: UNIWILAND Squeaky Christmas Dog Toys
These toys are shaped like Santa Claus, reindeer, and snowman with a squeaker inside so they make a noise when they’re played with.
- Best Fun Christmas Dog Toys: Dr. Seuss for Pets, The Grinch, Santa & Christmas Tree
These fun and educational stocking stuffers encourage the dog’s natural instincts to play, explore and learn.
- Best Christmas Dog Toys for Small Dogs: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Bobo Body Squeaky Dog Toys
These small dog toys are made of soft plush material with a noisy squeaker inside for added enjoyment.
- Best Lightweight Christmas Dog Toys: Petlou Multi-Squeak and Crinkle Holiday Plush Pet Toys for Dogs
These multi-squeak dog toys are made with several layers of fabric that make them extra soft and cuddly.
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- Best Cuddly Christmas Dog Toys: Peanuts for Pets Snoopy Holiday Dog Toys
These are plush, cuddly Snoopy toys that are perfect for your dog to play with and are suitable for dogs of different breeds.
- Best Handmade Christmas Dog Toys: Senneny Stuffed Squeaky Christmas Dog Toys
This toy is made of soft plush material, which can be compressed easily and springs back when you release it.
- Best Rope-Style Christmas Dog Toys: Pearhead Snowman Stuffed Plush Rope Christmas Dog Toy
This is a great toy for dogs of all sizes! It’s about as big as a football and has no small parts or anything to get caught in your dog’s mouth.
- Best Interactive Christmas Dog Toys: Bow Wow Santa Letter Christmas Dog Toy
This interactive dog toy is made from soft plush material, so it’s safe for puppies and adults alike dogs. | 2022-12-27T22:13:22+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/reviews/br/here-are-some-of-the-best-christmas-toys-for-dogs/ |
- Revenue of $2.0 billion, up 4% year-over-year
- Market Share on an LTM basis increased approximately 50 bps to 4.6% compared to prior year
- National deployment of a significant set of new features to the Compass platform giving Compass agents an end-to-end workflow tool targeted for the end of the third quarter
- GAAP net loss increased from $7 million to $101 million year-over-year on higher expenses related to strategic business initiatives, non-cash stock compensation, depreciation and amortization as well as restructuring costs
- Company announces new cost reduction program with approximately $320 million in target run rate savings
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP), a leading tech-enabled real estate brokerage, today announced its financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2022.
"Compass continued to grow revenue in the second quarter despite extremely challenging market conditions. This performance highlights the strength of our agents and our commitment to enabling their success through superior technology and other programs", said Robert Reffkin, Chief Executive Officer of Compass. "Importantly, we expect to have our end-to-end technology platform fully deployed by the end of the quarter. This is a major milestone in our approximately $900 million investment in software over the years to benefit our agents. Once deployed, we believe our leading edge technology will allow our agents to further raise the bar on client engagement and complete all of their critical work in one seamless environment."
Reffkin added, "Given the challenges the real estate market has faced so far this year and the likelihood that this difficult environment will continue for the foreseeable future, we are announcing a significant cost reduction program. We have line of sight into each area that will drive these savings to our expenses, which we believe will enable us to be free cash flow positive in 2023. We expect to complete all targeted cost reductions by the end of this calendar year."
2Q22 Financial Highlights:
- Revenue increased by 4% year-over-year to a second quarter record of $2.0 billion as transactions increased 2%.
- GAAP Net Loss attributable to Compass, Inc. was $101 million, compared to a loss of $7 million in 2Q21. The net loss includes non-cash stock based compensation expenses of $59 million, depreciation and amortization of $25 million, and restructuring charges due to the cost saving actions announced on June 14th of $19 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA1 was $4 million, compared to $71 million in 2Q21.
- Cash and cash equivalents: As of the end of the second quarter, the Company had $431 million in cash and cash equivalents and $318 million of availability under its $350 million revolver.
2Q22 Operational Highlights:
- Platform: The Compass technology and services platform contributed to year-over-year Total Transactions growth of 2%, while Gross Transaction Value2 ("GTV") remained relatively flat, driven by a 2% decline in the Average Transaction Value.
- National market share: Increased to 4.6% over the last twelve months ("LTM") up from 4.1% LTM in 2Q21. Note these national market share numbers are calculated using revised average (mean) sales prices published by the National Association of Realtors ("NAR"), see footnote3 and the section entitled 2Q22 National Market Share Update below for more information.
- Agents: Average Number of Principal Agents was 12,979, an increase of 405 from 1Q22.
- Transactions: Compass agents closed a record 66,846 Total Transactions, up 2% year-over-year, compared to a 10% decline in transactions for the residential real estate market4.
- Gross Transaction Value ("GTV"): GTV of $76.8 billion remained relatively flat year-over-year.
- Markets: In 2Q22, Compass focused on growth within current markets and remained at 71 markets at the end of the quarter.
- Entire Transaction: By the end of September, Compass agents across the country will be able to facilitate their real estate transactions -- including offers, forms and e-signatures -- on the Compass platform without needing to use third-party real estate software.
Additional information can be found in the Company's 2Q22 Business Update and Supplementary Information Presentation on the Investor Relations section of the Compass website at https://investors.compass.com.
Outlook
3Q22 Outlook:
- Revenue of $1.4 to $1.5 billion
- Adjusted EBITDA of $(85) to $(60) million
FY22 Outlook:
- Revenue of $6.15 to $6.45 billion
- Adjusted EBITDA of $(225) to $(150) million
Long-Term Targets:
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 10%
- Free Cash Flow Margin of at least 8-9%5
We have not reconciled our guidance for Adjusted EBITDA to GAAP Net Loss because certain expenses excluded from GAAP Net Loss when calculating Adjusted EBITDA cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Additionally, we have not reconciled our guidance for Free Cash Flow Margin because the components of free cash flow cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Accordingly, reconciliations are not available without unreasonable effort.
Conference Call Information
Management will conduct a conference call to discuss the second quarter results as well as outlook at 4:30 p.m. ET on August 15, 2022. The conference call will be accessible via the Internet on the Compass Investor Relations website https://investors.compass.com. You can also access the audio webcast via the following link: Compass Inc. 2Q22 Earnings Conference Call.
An audio recording of the conference call will be available for replay shortly after the call's completion. To access the replay, visit the Events and Presentations section on the Compass Investor Relations website at https://investors.compass.com.
2Q22 National Market Share Update:
- On July 21, 2022, NAR restated monthly average (mean) sales prices of existing homes from January 2020 through June 2022 to reflect their change in methodology to better account for outliers of high priced homes, noting that the monthly average (mean) sales prices are NAR's best estimates and given the outliers, they are less reliable. This resulted in higher monthly average (mean) sales prices of existing homes than what was reported prior and increases in total market GTV than what was reported prior. The table below shows our national market share under the prior methodology and updated methodology for all the periods NAR provided.
- Given NAR's cautionary language regarding the reliability of its average (mean) sale price data, we are assessing whether we will continue to rely on and use NAR's average (mean) sale price data in calculating our national market share given NAR's expansive view of the U.S. real estate market and now an improved methodology. Alternatively, we may explore other data reporting options in calculating our national market share and position in the market or may decide to discontinue reporting our national market share altogether.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are statements other than statements of historical facts, and statements in the future tense. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our future performance, including expected financial results for the third quarter and full year of 2022, plans for our cost reduction program, long-term financial targets, and our expectations for operational achievements. Forward-looking statements are based upon various estimates and assumptions, as well as information known to us as of the date of this press release, and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: general macroeconomic conditions in the U.S. and globally (e.g., inflation), geopolitical events (e.g., conflict in Ukraine), the health of the U.S. real estate industry, and risks generally incident to the ownership of residential real estate, including seasonal and cyclical trends (e.g., increases in mortgage interest rates, continued limited inventory, slowed consumer demand, reduced home affordability and declines in price appreciation and home prices); our ability to continuously innovate, improve and expand our platform; our ability to attract new agents and retain current agents or increase agents' utilization of our platform; our ability to expand our brokerage and adjacent services businesses; our ability to offer additional adjacent services; our ability to grow revenue from adjacent services at our anticipated rate; our ability to achieve expected benefits from our mortgage business and our joint venture, OriginPoint; our rapid growth and rate of growth; our net losses and ability to achieve or sustain profitability in the future; any future impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business; our ability to compete successfully in the markets in which we operate; the effect of monetary policies of the federal government and its agencies; any decreases in our gross commission income or the percentage of commissions that we collect; fluctuation of our quarterly results and other operating metrics; our ability to successfully complete acquisitions and integrate target companies; the effect of the claims, lawsuits, government investigations and other proceedings that we are subject to from time to time; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and other general market, political, economic, and business conditions. Additionally, these forward-looking statements, particularly our expected financial results and long-term financial targets, involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those related to any future impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and inflationary pressure on our clients' spending decisions. Significant variation from the assumptions underlying our forward-looking statements could cause our actual results to vary, and the impact could be significant. Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied or such uncertainties could cause adverse effects on our results. Reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance.
More information about factors that could adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and prospects, or that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements is included under the captions "Risk Factors", "Legal Proceedings" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at https://investors.compass.com/ and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All information in this release speaks as of August 15, 2022. All forward-looking statements contained herein are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this press release.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with GAAP, we present Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin, which are non-GAAP financial measures, in this press release. We use Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin in conjunction with GAAP measures as part of our overall assessment of our performance, including the preparation of our annual operating budget and quarterly forecasts, to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies and to communicate with our board of directors concerning our financial performance. We believe Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin are also helpful to investors, analysts and other interested parties because they can assist in providing a more consistent and comparable overview of our operations across our historical financial periods. Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin have limitations as analytical tools, therefore you should not consider them in isolation or as substitutes for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin alongside other financial performance measures, including net loss attributable to Compass, Inc., operating cash flows and our other GAAP measures. In evaluating Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin, you should be aware that in the future we may incur expenses that are the same as or similar to some of the adjustments reflected in this press release. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin should not be construed to imply that our future results will be unaffected by the types of items excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin. Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Free Cash Flow margin are not presented in accordance with GAAP and the use of these terms varies from others in our industry.
Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures have been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release and investors are encouraged to review these reconciliations.
About Compass
Compass, a Fortune 500 company, is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States. Founded in 2012 and based in New York City, the technology-enabled brokerage provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry. Compass agents utilize the platform to grow their business, save time and manage their business more effectively. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners in the country, please visit www.Compass.com.
1 A reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP measures can be found within the financial statement tables included within this press release.
2 Gross Transaction Value is the sum of all closing sale prices for homes transacted by agents on the Compass platform (excluding rental transactions). We include the value of a single transaction twice when our agents serve both the home buyer and home seller in the transaction.
3 On July 21, 2022, NAR restated monthly average (mean) sales prices of existing homes from January 2020 through June 2022 to reflect their change in methodology to better account for outliers of high priced homes, noting that the monthly average (mean) sales prices are NAR's best estimates and given the outliers, they are less reliable. This resulted in higher monthly average (mean) sales prices of existing homes than what was reported prior and increases in total market GTV than what was reported prior. We have provided a detailed table at the end of the press release that compares our market share under both methodologies going back to 2020.
4 We calculate Total Transactions by taking the sum of all transactions closed on the Compass platform in which our agent represents the buyer or seller in the purchase or sale of a home (excluding rental transactions). We include a single transaction twice when one or more Compass agents represent both the buyer and seller in any given transaction. The 10% decline is based on NAR data as of June 2022.
5 Free cash flow represents cash flows from operating activities less capital expenditures.
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Churchill Downs will suspend racing operations on Wednesday and move the remainder of its spring meet to Ellis Park in order to conduct a “top-to-bottom” review of safety and surface protocols in the wake of 12 horse fatalities the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby.
No single factor has been identified as a potential cause for the fatalities or pattern detected, according to a release, but the decision was made to relocate the meet “in an abundance of caution.”
“What has happened at our track is deeply upsetting and absolutely unacceptable,” Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen said in Friday’s release. “We need to take more time to conduct a top-to-bottom review of all of the details and circumstances so that we can further strengthen our surface, safety and integrity protocols.”
Racing will continue at Churchill Downs through Sunday before shifting to the CDI-owned racing and gaming facility in Henderson, Kentucky. Ellis Park’s meet was scheduled to start July 7, four days after the scheduled close at Churchill Downs, and run through Aug. 27 but will now expand with Friday’s announcement.
Ellis Park will resume racing on June 10.
The move comes a day after track superintendent Dennis Moore conducted a second independent analysis of Churchill Downs’ racing and training surfaces as part of an emergency summit called this week by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) with the track and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Meetings took place in Lexington, Kentucky, and at the Louisville track.
Also on Friday, the KHRC said Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund purses will be limited to the top five finishers. It also granted HISA oversight of racetrack safety.
The head of the federally created oversight agency suggested ahead of the summit that it could recommend pausing the meet and that Churchill Downs would accept that recommendation.
Churchill Downs’ release stated that expert testing raised no concerns and concluded that the surface was consistent with the track’s prior measurements. Even so, it chose to relocate “in alignment” with HISA’s recommendation to suspend the meet to allow more time for additional investigation.
“We appreciate their thoughtfulness and cooperation through these challenging moments,” HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus said in a statement. “We will continue to seek answers and work with everyone involved to ensure that horses are running safely at Churchill Downs again in the near future.”
Carstanjen insisted that relocating the remainder of the spring meet to Ellis Park would maintain the industry ecosystem with minor disruption. He also said he was grateful to Kentucky horsemen for their support as they work to find answers.
Rick Hiles, the president of Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, questioned the move, especially since there’s no conclusive evidence that Churchill Downs’ surface is the problem.
“We all want to find solutions that will improve safety for horses,” Hiles said in a statement. “However, we need to discuss allowing trainers and veterinarians to use therapeutic medications that greatly lessen the risk of breakdowns.
“Drastic steps, such as relocating an active race meet, should only be considered when it is certain to make a difference.”
The latest development comes a day after Churchill Downs and HISA each implemented safety and performance standards to address the spate of deaths.
HISA will conduct additional post-entry screening of horses to identify those at increased risk for injury. Its Integrity and Welfare Unit also will collect blood and hair samples for all fatalities for use while investigating a cause.
Churchill Downs announced it would immediately limit horses to four starts during a rolling eight-week period and impose ineligibility standards for poor performers. The track is also pausing incentives, such as trainer start bonuses and limiting purse payouts to the top five finishers instead of every finisher.
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