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Biden tests positive for COVID-19 in ‘rebound’ case, returns to isolation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well.” O’Connor said “there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time.”
In accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, Biden will reenter isolation for at least five days. He will isolate at the White House until he tests negative. The agency says most rebound cases remain mild and that severe disease during that period has not been reported.
Word of Biden’s positive test came — he had been negative Friday morning — just two hours after the White House announced a presidential visit to Michigan this coming Tuesday to highlight the passage of a bill to promote domestic high-tech manufacturing. Biden had also been scheduled to visit his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday morning, where first lady Jill Biden has been staying while the president was positive. Both trips have been canceled as Biden has returned to isolation.
Biden, 79, was treated with the anti-viral drug Paxlovid after he first tested positive on July 21. He tested negative for the virus on this past Tuesday and Wednesday. He was then cleared to leave isolation while wearing a mask indoors. His positive tests puts him among the minority of those prescribed the drug to experience a rebound case of the virus.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters on Monday that data “suggests that between 5 and 8 percent of people have rebound” after Paxlovid treatment.
“Acknowledging the potential for so-called ‘rebound’ COVID positivity observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid, the President increased his tested cadence, to protect people around him and to assure early detection of any return of viral replication,” O’Connor wrote in his letter.
O’Connor cited negative tests for Biden from Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning, before Saturday morning’s positive result by antigen testing. “This in fact represents ‘rebound’ positivity,” he wrote.
According to the CDC, those with rebound COVID should isolate for at least five days, ending that if a fever has resolved itself for 24 hours without medication and symptoms have improved. The patient “should wear a mask for a total of 10 days after rebound symptoms started. Some people continue to test positive after day 10 but are considerably less likely to shed infectious virus.”
Both the Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer point out that 1% to 2% of people in Pfizer’s original study on Paxlovid saw their virus levels rebound after 10 days. The rate was about the same among people taking the drug or dummy pills, “so it is unclear at this point that this is related to drug treatment,” according to the FDA.
While Biden was testing negative, he returned to holding in-person indoor events and meetings with staff at the White House and was wearing a mask, in accordance with CDC guidelines. But the president removed his mask indoors when delivering remarks on Thursday and during a meeting with CEOs on the White House complex.
Asked why Biden appeared to be breaching CDC protocols, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “They were socially distanced. They were far enough apart. So we made it safe for them to be together, to be on that stage.”
Regulators are still studying the prevalence and virulence of rebound cases, but the CDC in May warned doctors that it has been reported to occur within two days to eight days after initially testing negative for the virus.
“Limited information currently available from case reports suggests that persons treated with Paxlovid who experience COVID-19 rebound have had mild illness; there are no reports of severe disease,” the agency said at the time.
When Biden was initially released from isolation on Wednesday, O’Connor said the president would “increase his testing cadence” to catch any potential rebound of the virus.
Paxlovid has been proven to significantly reduce severe disease and death among those most vulnerable to COVID-19. U.S. health officials have encouraged those who test positive to consult their doctors or pharmacists to see if they should be prescribed the treatment, despite the rebound risk.
Biden is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose March 30.
While patients who have recovered from earlier variants of COVID-19 have tended to have high levels of immunity to future reinfection for 90 days, Jha said that the BA.5 subvariant that infected Biden has proven to be more “immune-evasive.”
“We have seen lots of people get reinfected within 90 days,” he said, adding that officials don’t yet have data on how long those who have recovered from the BA.5 strain have protection from reinfection.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-30T20:52:42+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2022/07/30/biden-isolating-after-testing-positive-covid-19-again-rebound-case/ |
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Karynn Garrow, Boerne Geneva: senior, outside hitter — Garrow, who is committed to Grand Canyon, combined for 46 kills in Geneva’s victories against Corpus Christi Incarnate Word and Austin Hill Country Christian. Garrow had 28 kills, 16 aces and three aces in a 3-set win against Incarnate Word. She reached the 2,000-career kill mark with 18 against Hill Country Christian.
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• O’Connor’s Kelli Fording had 25 kills and 11 digs in a four-set win against Warren.
• New Braunfels’ Blaise House had 50 assists in a four-set win against East Central.
• Clark’s Jaylin Lott combined for 59 digs in five-set wins against Johnson and Churchill. She had 36 against Churchill.
• Antonian’s Sujeili Mermella recorded 33 aces in victories against Boerne, The Village School of Houston and Tomball Concordia Lutheran. She had 15 aces a three-set sweep over Boerne.
• Highlands’ Mylorie Ojeda totaled 65 assists in wins against Lanier and Burbank. That included 40 in a four-set win over Lanier.
• Clark’s Kaitlin Whitlock reached the 1,000-career dig mark in a five-set win against Johnson.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a red wave that former President Donald Trump could triumphantly ride to the Republican nomination as he prepares to launch another White House run.
Instead, Tuesday night’s disappointing results for the GOP are raising new questions about Trump’s appeal and the future of a party that has fully embraced him, seemingly at its peril, while at the same time giving new momentum to his most potent potential rival.
Indeed, some allies were calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement next week, saying the party’s full focus needs to be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker’s effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is headed to a runoff that could determine control of the Senate once again.
“I’ll be advising him that he move his announcement until after the Georgia runoff,” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “Georgia needs to be the focus of every Republican in the country right now,” he said.
Trump sought to use the midterms as an opportunity to prove his enduring political influence after losing the White House in 2020. He endorsed more than 330 candidates in races up and down the ballot, often elevating inexperienced and deeply flawed candidates. He reveled in their primary victories. But many of their positions, including echoing Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election and embracing hardline views on abortion, were out of step with the political mainstream.
Trump did notch some big wins Tuesday, particularly in Ohio, where his pick for the Senate, “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance, sailed to easy victory after Trump’s endorsement catapulted him to the front of a crowded primary pack. In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, an early Trump pick, kept an open Senate seat in GOP hands.
But Trump lost some of the night’s biggest prizes, particularly in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz, who only narrowly won his Senate primary with Trump’s backing, lost to Democrat John Fetterman. Trump-backed candidates also lost governors’ races in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and a Senate race in New Hampshire, though Trump seemed to celebrate the latter, bashing Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his stances by backing off his embrace of Trump’s election lies.
“Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily,” Trump said on his social media network. “Lessons Learned!!!” (Trump also cheered the loss of Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea, who had said he thought it was time for the party to move on from Trump.)
Other high-stakes races in Arizona and Nevada remained too early to call.
Indeed, the Republicans’ biggest victory of the night came in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis cruised to reelection, cementing his status as a rising national Republican star as he eyes his own potential 2024 run.
“I have only begun to fight,” he told supporters in his victory speech.
While Republicans still appear well positioned to flip the House, and could ultimately take the Senate, too, those who had believed frustrations with record inflation, combined with President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings, would deliver swift and decisive victories were pointing fingers in the former president’s direction. The night’s message, they argued: The American people want to move on.
“I mean, we had a historic opportunity and Trump’s recruitment of unelectable candidates blew it for us,” said Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist. “Trump’s now lost three elections in a row for the Republican Party and it’s time to snap out of this foolishness.”
Reed argued the party “had everything going for us: money, the issue agenda, Biden being in the tank,” but said Trump’s efforts to keep himself in the spotlight by teasing a run in the race’s final stretch “obviously worked up a lot of independents and Democrats to turn out and vote.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime Trump friend and adviser-turned-critic, who is considering his own run for president in 2024, said Republicans “have a fundamental decision to make.”
“We lost in ‘18. We lost in ‘20. We lost in ’21 in Georgia. And now in ’22 we’re going to net lose governorships, we’re not going to pick up the number of seats in the House that we thought and we may not win the Senate despite a president who has a 40% job approval,” he said. “There’s only one person to blame for that and that’s Donald Trump.”
He blamed Trump for elevating deeply flawed candidates, who won their primaries but struggled in the general election.
‘The only animating factor (for him) in determining an endorsement is, ’Do you believe the 2020 election was stolen or don’t you?'” Christie said. “It’s not, ‘Can you raise money?’ It’s not, ‘Do you have an articulatable vision for the future of your state or your district?’ It’s not evidence of past success in communicating to voters. It is a completely self-centered determination.”
Trump, meanwhile, insisted publicly he was happy with the results.
“While in certain ways yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory – 219 WINS and 16 Losses in the General – Who has ever done better than that?” he wrote on his Truth Social network Wednesday afternoon.
His spokesman Taylor Budowich also touted Trump’s endorsement record, and said, “As President Trump looks to the future, he will continue to champion his America First agenda that won overwhelmingly at the ballot box last night.”
But Republican strategist David Urban, a former Trump adviser, said the Trump brand is wounded no matter what the former president says.
“Of course, he’s going to claim victory, right? The president touts an accomplishment record that includes victories in uncontested races. He can say whatever he wants. But how do people feel in America? I think people feel not great about the Trump brand right now,” Urban said. “It’s bad.”
Some now worry that if Trump goes forward with his planned announcement next week, he could pave the way for a rerun of Republicans’ 2021 losses in Georgia by dominating the race.
Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who now works for Fox News, advised on air that Trump should hold off on an announcement until after the Georgia Senate runoff.
“I think he needs to put it on pause,” she said. Asked whether Trump should campaign in the state, she said: “I think we’ve got to make strategic calculations. Gov. DeSantis, I think he should be welcomed to the state, given what happened last night. You’ve got to look at the realities on the ground.”
Budowich did not respond to questions about such efforts, but Trump seemed to throw cold water on the advice.
“We had tremendous success,” he told Fox News Digital Wednesday. “Why would anything change?”
Trump’s setbacks, meanwhile, were giving new hope to the long list of potential rivals who have been quietly waiting in the wings and now face the decision of whether to run, too.
That includes DeSantis, who emerged as the night’s obvious winner. “DeFUTURE,” The New York Post declared. In addition to his wide margin of victory, DeSantis carried Democratic stronghold Miami-Dade, and did so without Trump’s endorsement. (Though Trump did tell reporters he’d voted for the governor days after insulting him as “Ron DeSanctimonious.”)
“DeSantis comes out of the election with lot of momentum,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant. “Trump has been weak for a long time but it wasn’t clear who the alternative was. … For the first time, Trump really has a formidable rival within the party.”
Even some Democrats conceded DeSantis’ strength.
Miami-based Democratic strategist Jose Parra said the Trump rival enters the 2024 conversation with “a bunch of wind in his sails” after stronger-than-expected performance across the state — especially in south Florida’s Miami-Dade County.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said his “intention” is to run again. But noting the emerging competition between Trump and DeSantis, he said it would be “fun watching them take on each other.”
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the 2022 midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. And learn more about the issues and factors at play in the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/explaining-the-elections. | 2022-11-10T11:01:00+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-trump-urged-to-delay-2024-launch-after-gops-uneven-election/ |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Joe Biden took a victory lap Friday after new federal data showed another month of strong job growth, the question about what that means for inflation remains.
The report shows the U.S. added more than 500,000 jobs in January, with particularly strong growth in the restaurant, retail and construction industries. The national unemployment rate declined to 3.4%.
“The last time the unemployment rate was that low was May of 1969,” Biden said.
He said the robust jobs report shows his economic agenda is working.
“It makes crystal clear what I’ve always known in my gut: These critics and cynics are wrong,” he said.
But what remains to be seen is whether the job gains will hurt the Federal Reserve’s efforts to bring down inflation. Bank of America economist Ethan Harris said it certainly won’t help.
“It’s too much of a good thing, frankly. … I really think we need to see a significant cooling down to get inflation under control,” Harris said. “The reality is there’s a balancing act that goes on and right now we have too hot a job market.”
But Daniel Zhao, an economist with Glassdoor, said the gains are still good news.
“The labor market is healthy overall,” he said. “Now it’s incumbent on inflation to come down enough while the labor market is still resilient.”
Earlier this week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he remains optimistic about the economy overall.
“I continue to think there’s a path to getting inflation back to 2% without a really significant economic decline,” he said.
He said the Fed will continue to raise interest rates until that goal is met. | 2023-02-03T22:30:56+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/washington/washington-dc/what-does-january-jobs-report-mean-for-inflation/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indy hotel has found itself in rarefied air, being ranked among the “Best of the Best” amid hotels from all around the world in Tripadvisor’s annual Travelers’ Choice Awards for Hotels.
Bottleworks Hotel was named one of the “Hottest new Hotels” in the world. The Indianapolis hotel landed 24th on the list, only one of four hotels in the United States to make the cut.
“A magnificent Art Deco boutique hotel,” one review said. “If you are coming to Indy or simply local wanting to get away, this is 100% the best hotel ever.”
Bottleworks is ranked number one in all Indianapolis hotels on Tripadvisor and has a flawless five-star rating.
“The atmosphere and experience was unlike any other one that I have had at a hotel,” another reviewer said. “I stayed for an additional 2 days because of how well relaxed I was. If you’re in need of a stay to collect your thoughts and have a frictionless experience then this is a go-to place.”
This is the 20th year Tripadvisor has held its Traveler’ Choice Awards for Hotels. The 2022 awards were based on the traveler reviews and ratings posted on Tripadvisor throughout 2021, Tripadivosr said. The complete list of Travelers’ Awards for Hotels included 11 subcategories, including Top Hotels in the World and Top Hotels in the U.S.
Bottleworks Hotel was once a Coca-Cola bottling facility where, at its peak, over two million bottles of soda were produced in a week. Coca-Cola moved out of the building in 1964 and it was purchased by Indianapolis Public Schools before eventually being sold and turned into the Bottleworks Hotels which opened in December 2020. | 2022-05-13T21:17:10+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/tripadvisor-names-an-indy-hotel-one-of-the-hottest-new-hotels-in-the-world/ |
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AmeriServ Financial, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: ASRV), announced today that the Company's 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held virtually via webcast.
Although shareholders will not be able to attend the annual meeting in person, virtual attendance capabilities will provide shareholders the ability to participate and ask questions during the meeting. Additionally, the Company's shareholders will be deemed "present" if they access the annual meeting through the virtual platform and they will be able to vote their shares at the annual meeting, or revoke or change a previously submitted vote, through the virtual platform.
The virtual meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. As described in the proxy materials for the annual meeting, the Company's shareholders are entitled to participate in the annual meeting if they were a shareholder of record as of the close of business on February 11, 2022, which is the record date for the annual meeting.
Shareholders will be able to attend the meeting online, vote their shares electronically, and submit their questions during the meeting by visiting https://www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ASRV2022. The Company urges shareholders to consider voting and submitting proxies in advance of the annual meeting using one of the available methods described in the proxy materials previously provided to the Company's shareholders.
Pertinent User Information:
What: 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
When: 1:30 p.m. ET, Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Where: https://www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ASRV2022
Participants are asked to register for the webcast approximately 10 to 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the meeting. The replay of the meeting will be available at the same site 24 hours after the meeting has concluded.
About AmeriServ Financial, Inc.
AmeriServ Financial, Inc. is the parent of AmeriServ Financial Bank and AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services Company in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The Company's subsidiaries provide full-service banking and wealth management services through 18 community offices in southwestern Pennsylvania and Hagerstown, Maryland. The Company also operates loan production offices in Altoona and Monroeville, Pennsylvania. At December 31, 2021, AmeriServ had total assets of $1.34 billion and a book value of $6.82 per common share. For more information, visit www.ameriserv.com.
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Did you or someone you know finish the 2023 Bank of America Chicago 13.1 on Sunday, June 4? Check out the finish line cam below, separated by time and taken between 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. on race day.
Chicago 13.1 Finish Line: 8:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
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Watch runners cross the finish line at the 2023 Bank of America Chicago 13.1 | 2023-06-05T05:27:17+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/chicago-marathon/watch-2023-bank-of-america-chicago-13-1-finish-line/3154849/ |
WATCH: Tracking the Tropics every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. CT.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — June 1 marks the official start of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, and like clockwork, WFLA Meteorologists Rebecca Barry, Amanda Holly, and WKRG Chief Meteorologist Ed Bloodsworth are already tracking a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters first spotted the system on Tuesday and reported low odds of development over a two-day period. By Thursday afternoon, those 10% odds of formation rose to 70%.
“For now, we have a medium chance of development,” Holly said during the season premiere of Tracking the Tropics. “There are a lot of things impacting this system right now. Strong upper-level winds are preventing this from forming at the moment. It is being called invest91L, though, so we do get those infamous spaghetti models. Luckily they are all in good consensus. It’s just going to drift to the South over the next couple of days.”
On Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said conditions remain marginally favorable for additional development. If trends continue, a short-lived tropical depression or storm is likely to form as soon as Thursday afternoon.
NHC added that the system is likely to meander over the northeastern Gulf Thursday night but begin to trek southward on Friday. Forecasters say conditions will become unfavorable for additional development by the weekend.
“These early season systems and very late season systems, this is typical when you get activity early or late in the season,” Bloodsworth said.
The forecast is in line with predictions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which expects a “near-normal” 2023 hurricane season.
NOAA forecasted between 12 and 17 total named storms from now until Nov. 30. Of those, five to nine will be hurricanes, and one to four major hurricanes.
NOAA said it has 70% confidence in these ranges, citing the high potential for El Nino development this summer. El Nino’s effects often suppress Atlantic hurricane activity, leading to fewer named systems.
While we may not know when exactly that first storm will strike, we’ve already known its name for years. The World Meteorological Organization maintains several lists of 21 names that are used in a six-year rotation.
If the names on the 2023 list sound familiar, it’s likely because you heard them in 2017. The first named storm of 2023: Arlene.
List of names for the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season:
“This is the same list of names used in 2017. In that year, four names were retired from that list,” Bloodsworth said. “If you remember 2017 in the state of Florida, then one of those names you’ll remember very well — Irma. We also had Harvey, Maria, and Nate were retired that year.”
According to the NOAA website, “Storms are given short, distinctive names to avoid confusion and streamline communications.”
Tune in every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET to watch as WFLA’s team of meteorologists and others from the Nextstar Nation track developing weather systems and break down a wide range of hurricane-related topics.
Want to be the first to know? Sign up for the Tracking the Tropics newsletter to track storms and get the latest tropical forecast once a week, plus Tracking the Tropics alerts. | 2023-06-11T11:25:28+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/tracking-the-tropics-hurricane-season-kicks-off-with-disturbance-organizing-close-to-home-in-gulf/ |
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. — A New Jersey woman who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges.
Burlington County prosecutors say Katelyn McClure, 32, wasn't present in the Mount Holly courtroom Friday because she is serving a one-year federal term in the case. Her state prison term will run concurrently and the former transportation department worker will be barred from ever working again as a New Jersey public employee.
Prosecutors said McClure and her then-boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, came up with the good Samaritan story in November 2017, claiming that homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had given his last $20 to McClure when her car ran out of gas on an interstate exit ramp in Philadelphia.
The three conducted newspaper and television interviews and solicited donations, ostensibly to help Bobbitt, through a GoFundMe campaign they named "Paying It Forward," prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the campaign raised more than $400,000 from about 14,000 donors in about a month and at the time was the largest fraud perpetrated through the crowdfunding platform.
Authorities began investigating after Bobbitt sued the couple, accusing them of not giving him the money. They eventually determined that all of the money was spent by March 2018, with large chunks spent by McClure and D'Amico on a recreational vehicle, a BMW and trips to casinos in Las Vegas and New Jersey.
D'Amico, 43, pleaded guilty in December 2019 and was sentenced to five years in state prison, a term also running concurrently with an earlier federal term. He and McClure have both been ordered to fully reimburse GoFundMe. Bobbitt was sentenced to probationary federal and state terms.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-07T18:58:43+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2023-01-07/n-j-woman-gets-3-years-in-bogus-good-samaritan-online-fundraiser |
ARLINGTON, Mass., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leader Bank is excited to welcome Liana Gukasyan to the Elevate Banking team. Based in California, Liana will serve as an Assistant Vice President and Elevate Banking Relationship Manager with the Bank.
"We are tremendously excited to welcome Liana to our Elevate Banking team," said Jay Tuli, President of Leader Bank. "Liana's extensive experience and industry knowledge will help Leader Bank bolster our Elevate Banking offerings."
Liana has more than two decades of experience in the banking industry, including most recently working with high-net-worth clients as a private banker for City National Bank in California. Her commitment to helping her clients find the most impactful solutions to address their banking needs has helped her create a broad network of satisfied clients in California.
"Liana's dedication to working closely with her clients to ensure they always make informed financial decisions will be an invaluable addition to the Elevate Banking team," said Dorothy Zahir, Senior Vice President and Head of Retail Banking at Leader Bank. "We look forward to welcoming this new network of clients from California."
The Elevate Banking team at Leader Bank offers clients premier relationship banking and access to a personal advisor who will provide ongoing individualized guidance regarding the Bank's many products and services. In addition to providing our business partners and clients with the highest level of personal and business banking solutions, the Elevate Banking team also seeks to provide an array of external financial support.
Founded in 2002, Leader Bank is a Massachusetts-based entrepreneurial financial institution that approaches banking differently. The core tenets of Leader Bank include world-class client service, exemplary products, and innovation to meet the needs of its clients. At its founding, Leader Bank had $6.5 million in assets – in the two decades since, the Bank has grown into one of the most successful financial institutions in the Commonwealth with $3.7 billion in assets. Leader Bank's team members have been at the forefront of supporting the Bank's rapid growth and client-oriented solutions over the last two decades as the Bank has expanded its commercial and retail products and solutions. Leader Bank is a committed corporate citizen and prides itself on partnering with and supporting philanthropic organizations. More information on Leader Bank can be found at www.LeaderBank.com.
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DENVER (AP) — Reserve Jeff Green scored a season-high 24 points, Nikola Jokic had his 21st triple-double and the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets headed into the All-Star break with a 119-108 victory over the short-handed Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night.
Nikola Jokic finished with 14 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for the Nuggets, who moved to an NBA-best 27-4 at home this season. Michael Porter Jr. hit five 3-pointers and finished with 22 points.
Luka Doncic had 37 points in leading a banged-up Dallas team that was missing guard Kyrie Irving due to lower-back tightness. Doncic and Irving have played alongside each other in two games since Irving was acquired as part of a deal with Brooklyn on Feb. 6.
The Nuggets led by 21 in the fourth quarter, only to see the Mavericks cut it to 105-95 with 5:50 remaining on Christian Wood's layup. Soon after, Porter blocked a shot on one end, raced back and hit a 3-pointer on the other to gain some breathing room.
The two teams split their four-game season series.
Jokic joined some exclusive company by going over 500 assists and 500 rebounds before the All-Star break. The other NBA players to accomplish the feat were Russell Westbrook (three times, ’16-17, ’17-18, ’18-19) and Oscar Robertson (’61-62).
Jokic, the two-time reigning MVP, remains on pace to average a triple-double this season.
Doncic's big night was his 65th career game with 35 or more points. Only LeBron James had more (87) before his 24th birthday. Doncic turns 24 on Feb. 28.
TIP-INS
Mavericks: F Justin Holiday was signed Wednesday. He played in 28 games for Atlanta this season and averaged 4.5 points. ... F Davis Bertans (calf), G Tim Hardaway Jr. (hamstring) and F/C Maxi Kleber (hamstring) were inactive.
Nuggets: Denver was without guard Jamal Murray (right knee inflammation) along with forward Aaron Gordon (bruised ribs).
FRIENDLY REMINDER
Nuggets coach Michael Malone made sure to remind his team the All-Star break didn’t begin until 11 p.m. — well after their game.
“Times have changed, guys get their private jets running, waiting to go somewhere,” cracked Malone, who will coach Team LeBron at the All-Star Game. “So you worry about that.”
COLORADO KID
Backup guard Reggie Jackson jumped at the chance to sign with the Nuggets and play close to home. Jackson, who grew up down the road in Colorado Springs, agreed to a deal with Denver on Tuesday night. He wasn't in uniform against Dallas.
The 32-year-old Jackson's favorite player as a kid was Chauncey Billups, the Denver native who went to the University of Colorado before embarking on a long NBA career.
Jackson will wear No. 7 with Denver — a number Billups wore in 2009 while with the Nuggets.
UP NEXT
Mavericks: After the All-Star break, start a six-game homestand against San Antonio on Feb. 23.
Nuggets: At Cleveland on Feb. 23.
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WASHINGTON, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - According to the new 'WhistleBlower Security US Report' released today, 41 per cent or 64 million working Americans are aware of wrongdoing committed at their place of work and of those, 78 per cent say they are likely to blow the whistle. The top three types of organizational wrongdoing witness by employees are discrimination (38 per cent), health and safety violations (38 per cent), and sexual harassment (36 per cent). The March 2022 research findings were released by WhistleBlower Security Inc. at the 17th annual Compliance Week conference in Washington, D.C. WhistleBlower Security Inc. is a global provider of ethics reporting services and the research was conducted on the Angus Reid Forum with 1,012 employed Americans.
"It seems like Americans are done tolerating workplace wrongdoing with 92 per cent saying employees should speak up if they witness it," says Shannon Walker, Founder and President, WhistleBlower Security Inc. The 'WhistleBlower Security US Report' found employees are most likely to report wrongdoing if it affects their colleagues (93 per cent), followed by customers (90 per cent), the leadership team (88 per cent) and the environment (85 per cent).
"Following multiple high-profile whistleblowing events in business, sport and politics, American employees seem especially skeptical these days," adds Walker. "In the 'WhistleBlower Security US Report' we found that 89 per cent of American employees believe their employers use unethical or illegal practices that only employees know about and as such, almost all working Americans (94 per cent) say employers should put safeguards in place to protect employees. If they don't, a full third (32 per cent) believe the organization 'probably has something to hide'." As well, if a whistleblower hotline is not available to employees, nearly half (46 per cent) will make their concerns public by sharing them with friends/family (21 per cent), industry officials (14 per cent), lawyers (9 per cent), media (5 per cent), and social media (5 per cent).
The 'WhistleBlower Security US Report' also examined the beliefs of 18- to 34-year-old employees and according to Walker, they "see more, fear more and tell more" as compared to their older colleagues. The younger set sees more wrongdoing, especially when working from home during Covid, has greater fears of retaliation if they blow the whistle and on average tells twice as many people about their workplace concerns and are three times more likely to share them on social media.
About the Research
From March 21 to March 25, 2022, an online survey was conducted by WhistleBlower Security with a representative sample of 1,012 Americans employed at organizations with more than 250 employees. The survey was conducted among members of the Angus Reid Forum. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
About WhistleBlower Security Inc.
WhistleBlower Security Inc. is a global, B Corp Certified provider of ethics reporting services, including a 24/7/365 Global Ethics Hotline and Case Management platform which provide organizations with an efficient and trustworthy ethics reporting process. Visit https://www.whistleblowersecurity.com/ for more information.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Witnesses are sharing the horrific details after a mother was shot to death in front of her six children in northeast Miami-Dade on Tuesday.
Miami-Dade police responded to a shooting call around 3:45 p.m. in the area of Oak Grove Park, located at Northeast 159th Street and Sixth Avenue.
Authorities said 33-year-old Jeretha Lawson was behind the wheel of an SUV with her six children, ranging between the ages of 7 and 17 years old, when some kind of dispute occurred between Lawson and another group.
Eustace Norris, who lives nearby, told Local 10 News on Wednesday that she was in the backyard of her home when she “heard a loud sound.”
According to investigators, as Lawson attempted to flee after the gunfire, the victim crashed into two parked cars, one of which belonged to Norris, who said she heard the children screaming for their mother.
“They were crying like crazy -- had some blood on them,” Norris said. “No one values life anymore.”
According to police, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel attempted to transport Lawson to a nearby hospital, but she died at the scene.
Detectives said the suspect involved in the shooting fled the scene before police arrived. They are working to find and speak with the other people who were involved in the dispute.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call 911 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. | 2023-05-24T16:47:39+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/05/24/witness-recounts-seeing-mother-being-fatally-shot-in-front-of-her-6-children-in-northeast-miami-dade/ |
Property owner says contractors removed roof from wrong home: ‘It was a disaster’
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV/Gray News) - A Kansas man says a mistake by a contractor left his house in shambles.
Steve Kornspan told KCTV that he moved out of his house a few months ago and has been leasing it to short-term rentals. However, a guest at the home texted him this week about contractors working on the roof.
Kornspan said he had not ordered a new roof or any other improvements to the house.
The workers had the wrong address, according to Kornspan. By the time he rushed to the property, the contractors had stripped nearly every shingle from the roof.
“It was a disaster,” he said.
Kornspan said his security cameras at the house showed workers coming and going before they quickly left when they realized their mistake. He documented the mess with his drone, and photos showed the exposed underlayment and sheathing.
“I was pretty upset,” Kornspan said. “It was just something to deal with.”
Kornspan, a Realtor, said he quickly called another roofing company to make emergency repairs. He also filed a police report and started trying to find the roofers responsible.
The right home was a few blocks away on the same street. Kornspan said he was able to match the gray van to the one that had shown up at his place.
“I’m not sure what the confusion was,” he said.
On Wednesday, Kornspan said he was able to contact the company owner, who was equally upset about the situation.
“Everybody makes mistakes, but you have to stand up for your mistakes,” Kornspan said. “When you make a mistake, you have to fix it. That’s what (the company owner) was most upset about too.”
Kornspan would not name the company but said the owner agreed to pay for the emergency repairs with the roof being properly repaired.
Copyright 2022 KCTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-04T20:58:24+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/04/property-owner-says-contractors-removed-roof-wrong-home-it-was-disaster/ |
(The Hill) — This year’s midterm elections are destined to shape the 2024 hopes of several leading figures in both parties.
For some, the results will put a dent in their future ambitions. For others, they will be fuel for the quest ahead.
Here are 10 of the big names with a lot to win or lose in November — whether or not they are candidates themselves.
Republicans
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during the inaugural Moms For Liberty Summit at the Tampa Marriott Water Street on July 15, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. (Associated Press)
DeSantis wants not just a win but a big win over his Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist.
DeSantis is second only to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential stakes for the GOP.
If Trump were to decline to run, DeSantis would be the undisputed favorite. Even if Trump does run, DeSantis’s backers think he is the only person in the party who could conceivably beat the former president.
But to help make that case, DeSantis — in the national spotlight after Hurricane Ian — needs the widest possible margin over Crist, himself a former governor.
In 2018, DeSantis shaded Democrat Andrew Gillum by less than a percentage point. A Wednesday poll had him leading Crist by 11 points.
An actual result like that in a battleground state — albeit an increasingly Republican-leaning one — would demonstrate that the Florida governor has wider appeal than his many critics would like to acknowledge.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been said to be entertaining thoughts of a 2024 run but has not generated the excitement that DeSantis has. (Getty)
Abbott Is in many ways a similar figure to DeSantis — a big-state governor who has thrilled conservatives and appalled liberals with his stances on hot-button issues such as immigration and abortion.
Abbott is thought to entertain 2024 ambitions of his own, though he has failed to draw the grassroots enthusiasm garnered by DeSantis.
Abbott can get his due share of attention if he defeats his high-profile Democratic challenger, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by an emphatic margin.
Abbott looks to be ahead comfortably. The RealClearPolitics polling average puts him up almost 9 points.
However, O’Rourke was widely perceived to win the only debate between the two men, in Edinburg, on Friday.
The Democrat is banking on turning out young voters, as well as women who support abortion rights, in unexpectedly large numbers.
If O’Rourke even runs Abbott close, it will be damaging to the Texas governor’s electoral standing.
Former President Donald Trump
File – Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America rally Friday, July 22, 2022, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
Trump has made the midterms about himself, as he is prone to do about most things.
His endorsement lifted candidates to primary victories in a number of crucial races — but some of them have struggled in their general election campaigns.
Among the most closely watched Trump nominees on Nov. 8 will be Mehmet Oz, J.D. Vance, Herschel Walker and Blake Masters, the GOP Senate nominees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Arizona, respectively.
These victories or defeats will be seen as verdicts by proxy on Trump himself.
The former president has hit the campaign trail for several of his candidates in recent weeks, though his rallies often seem like unofficial Trump 2024 events rather than being especially midterms-focused.
Some in the GOP fret about Trump’s influence on the party. A comment from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressing worry about “candidate quality” was widely seen as a jab at Trump.
But wins for his candidates on Nov. 8 could tighten Trump’s grip on the party — and the 2024 nomination if he wants it.
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.)
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) addresses reporters following the weekly policy luncheon on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Associated Press)
Scott is not a candidate in this year’s midterms, but his fortunes will be tied to the result because of his leadership of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign fundraising arm of the Senate GOP.
November’s outcome is personal to Scott for more specific reasons too.
Back in February, Scott announced an 11-point plan to “Rescue America.”
But Democrats seized on the road map, which includes deeply controversial proposals such as making all federal legislation — which would include Social Security and Medicare — subject to congressional reauthorization or cancellation every five years.
McConnell soon distanced himself from Scott’s plan, and relations between the two men appear frosty. Scott, in a recent op-ed, appeared to take a veiled shot at McConnell for being insufficiently supportive of GOP candidates.
In any event, the Florida senator might end up as a scapegoat if the GOP underperforms in the battle for the Senate.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 16, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Noem is in no danger at all in her own race. She is all but guaranteed to win reelection by a wide margin in her deeply conservative state over Democratic challenger Jamie Smith.
But Noem has generated some buzz as a possible 2024 contender.
Her opposition to COVID-19-related lockdowns appealed to many in the populist GOP base, as does her strong support for Trump — she hit out at the “un-American” FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate in August, for example.
Noem will surely be watching the results from other governors and senators, including the likes of DeSantis, to see if there might be room for a bid of her own two years from now.
Democrats
President Joe Biden
President Biden speaks to reporters before leaving the White House for Florida to survey damage from Hurricane Ian with first lady Jill Biden on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. (Greg Nash)
President Joe Biden has an enormous amount riding on the outcome on Nov. 8.
A big win for Republicans, such as a scenario in which they take the Senate and clinch a large majority in the House, would amount to a public repudiation of Biden’s first two years.
On a practical level, even GOP control of the House would probably stymie Biden from major action, at least on the domestic front, for the final half of his first term. Investigations into Biden’s administration, and into his family, are almost certain in this scenario.
More to the point, a heavy defeat for Democrats would surely raise questions about whether the 79-year-old Biden should seek a second term.
On the other hand, if Democrats were to perform at the upper end of expectations, saving the Senate and at least limiting the GOP to a narrow House majority, Biden could easily make the argument that he is positioned to come back to win in 2024.
After all, former Presidents Clinton and Obama each won a second term after savage midterm defeats for Democrats in 1994 and 2010, respectively.
Vice President Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the annual Freedman’s Bank Forum at the Department of the Treasury in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Harris is in an odd spot, politically speaking.
As vice president to a president more than two decades her senior, she is the heir apparent to the White House if Biden does not run again. But she can’t position herself too blatantly for that eventuality — or be seen to be critical of her boss — since doing so would be disloyal.
Harris has never quite shaken the perception that she has underperformed as vice president. An early overseas trip that went badly haunted perceptions of her for months, and topics on which she was supposed to be the administration’s point figure — migration and voting rights — have seen little progress.
To the extent that the midterms are a referendum on the Biden-Harris administration, it is to her benefit that Democrats do as well as possible.
But she will be keeping an eye on whether would-be rivals emerge strengthened or wounded on election night.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at the California Association of Realtors Legislative Day in Sacramento on April 27, 2022. (Associated Press)
Newsom is a shoo-in for reelection.
Polling has been fairly scant in his race against Republican Brian Dahle because the outcome is seen as such a foregone conclusion. A new survey this week from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies showed Newsom up by 21 points.
But Newsom has bigger fish to fry.
He has been more aggressive than any other leading Democrat in positioning himself as a possible 2024 contender.
Newsom has boosted his profile by picking fights with DeSantis in particular, even going so far as to buy TV ad time in Florida. His overarching argument is that Democrats should be more pugnacious in making their case against Republicans.
To that extent, Newsom could be a political beneficiary of a bad election for his party.
If Democrats are looking for an alternative possible leader when dawn breaks on Nov. 9, Newsom would be right there in the frame.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer supporting the reopening of the Palisades nuclear plant proposed by Holtec International in July 2022. (Associated Press)
Whitmer looks like one of the big successes of this election cycle for Democrats.
Not so long ago, she was a top target of Republicans, in part because of her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the GOP vastly underestimated Whitmer, who has led her Trump-backed GOP challenger Tudor Dixon by double digits in several recent polls.
Whitmer has presented herself as a political pragmatist and has raised far more money than Dixon.
Whitmer is also a vigorous defender of abortion rights — and she could get an assist because of an abortion-related measure that is also on the ballot on Election Day.
Whitmer was talked about as a possible vice presidential choice for Biden in 2020.
A big win for the Michigan governor in November would elevate her standing even more.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker addresses reporters on April 7, 2022, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/John O’Connor, File)
Pritzker raised plenty of eyebrows during the summer when he first traveled to the key early state of New Hampshire and later told NBC News that he believed it was “certainly possible” that Biden would face a primary challenge.
Pritzker, like Newsom and Whitmer, looks safe for reelection. He was up by 15 points over Republican challenger and state Sen. Darren Bailey in a late September poll from The Hill, Emerson College and WGN-TV.
For Pritzker, Election Day is likely all about what happens elsewhere across the nation — and whether it broadens his window of opportunity for 2024. | 2022-10-06T15:36:52+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/hill-politics/ten-2024-contenders-facing-big-stakes-in-midterms/ |
Texas man arrested in Charleston on attempted sexual exploitation of a minor charges
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A 43-year-old Texas man was arrested by the Charleston Police Department Sunday on dozens of child sexual exploitation charges.
Edward Alvin Borne, from Killeen, Texas, was charged with 29 counts of criminal sexual misconduct and six counts of first-degree attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office.
Investigators said Borne solicited someone believed to be a minor for sex and encouraged them to produce child sexual abuse materials.
Borne was arrested Sunday and was being held in the Al Cannon Detention Center.
The attorney general’s office said each count of criminal solicitation of a minor carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The first-degree attempted sexual exploitation of a minor charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each count.
Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-27T14:44:24+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/07/27/texas-man-arrested-charleston-attempted-sexual-exploitation-minor-charges/ |
Woman escapes mobile home fire in Venice
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - A smoke detector is credited for saving the life of a Venice woman and her dog Tuesday morning when her mobile home caught fire, fire officials said.
Shortly after 5 a.m., the owner of the home on Vista Road in the Venice Municipal Mobile Home Park, was awakened by her smoke detector. The 69-year-old and and her dog were able to escape the mobile home as it became engulfed in flames, officials said.
As Venice Police evacuated surrounding homes, a neighboring mobile home started to smoke from radiant heat from the original fire and was quickly extinguished.
Venice Fire Rescue, Venice Police, Nokomis Fire and Sarasota County Fire crews put the fire out in minutes. The homeowner was treated for minor injuries and released.
The smoke detector was still chirping even after the blaze was extinguished, officials said.
There are no indications of arson or foul play. The fire is considered accidental, although the cause of the fire has not been determined.
Copyright 2022 WWSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-20T15:51:36+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/09/20/woman-escapes-mobile-home-fire-venice/ |
President Biden joked Thursday that he got an endorsement from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after the video his campaign made featuring clips from her speech topped 40 million views since it was posted Tuesday evening.
“As you may have seen — apparently 40 million people watched — Marjorie Taylor Greene, the very conservative gentlelady from the state of Georgia, said Biden is doing things like Roosevelt. And, it goes down the line, and created these jobs and he thinks that — I thought that was, I never had an endorsement from her before,” Biden said in Philadelphia.
The Biden campaign made the video out of Greene’s speech from Turning Point USA, which was intended to attack the president on policy issues. The Biden campaign set it to uplifting music as she lists the president’s agenda and legislative priorities and compares him to former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It reached more than 30 million views in 12 hours and received the second-highest impressions on a Biden video since he was inaugurated, only behind his reelection campaign launch video that dropped in April.
The president took jabs at other Republicans during his remarks Thursday in Philadelphia, especially for voicing support for projects in their districts after they voted against the bills that provided the funding.
“All those members of Congress who voted against the bill suddenly realize its pretty good and they’re bragging about it. I find it interesting,” he said, noting that every Republican voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats’ sweeping climate and tax bill.
The White House last month picked a fight with Greene after her hometown newspaper in Floyd County touted federal public safety grants the area would receive through the American Rescue Plan. Greene and every other House Republican voted against the bill in March 2021.
The president also poked at Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), who has become his favorite GOP foil since the senator has blocked the chamber from moving on military promotions in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
“The one who’s blocking the nominations of American’s finest military leaders, jeopardizing our national security over domestic social issues. Well, he’s also strongly opposed to the bipartisan infrastructure law, and now I listen to him on television,” Biden said, mimicking Tuberville in an interview talking about boosting broadband efforts.
Biden mocked Tuberville for touting $1.4 billion in federal funding that Alabama is set to receive for expanded broadband internet access, despite the senator voting against it in 2021.
“I’m glad the senator is coming along around on the infrastructure law but I’m not going to let up until he comes around on the critical military nominations as well,” he said Thursday.
Biden also mocked former President Trump. While highlighting the construction of windmills in states like Colorado he added, “not withstanding what the other guy said, windmills do not cause cancer.”
Trump in 2019 claimed that the noise from a windmill causes cancer.
The president was surrounded by “Bidenomics” banners on the stage for his speech at the Philly Shipyard. The White House rolled out the Bidenomics slogan last month, and since then, the president and top officials have traveled to promote the idea.
“I’m not here not here to declare victory, we’ve got a long way to go on the economy. But I’m here to say, we have more work to do, we have a plan that’s turning things around quickly,” Biden said.
Polling this week found that, despite the roll out of Bidenomics, only 34 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of inflation. The same Monmouth University poll also found a split rating on Biden’s handling of jobs and unemployment, with 47 percent approving and 48 percent disapproving of it. | 2023-07-20T19:53:29+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/hill-politics/biden-jokes-that-he-got-an-endorsement-from-marjorie-taylor-greene-after-video-hits-40m-views/ |
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed its first drone boat through the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a crucial waterway for global energy supplies where American sailors often faces tense encounters with Iranian forces.
The trip by the L3 Harris Arabian Fox MAST-13, a 13-meter (41-foot) speedboat carrying sensors and cameras, drew the attention of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, but took place without incident, said Navy spokesman Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins. Two U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the USCGC Charles Moulthrope and USCGC John Scheuerman, accompanied the drone.
The trip saw the drone safely pass with the accompanying ships through the strait, a busy waterway between Iran and Oman which at its narrowest is just 33 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fifth of all oil traded passes through the strait, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman.
“The Iranians observed the unmanned surface vessel transiting the strait in accordance with international law,” Hawkins told The Associated Press. He said an Iranian drone and at least one Houdong-class fast-attack vessel operated by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard observed the MAST-13 drone.
The U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet patrols Mideast waters, particularly the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, to keep open the waterways for international trade, as well as protect American interests and allies. However, Iran views the Navy's presence as an affront, comparing it to its forces running patrols in the Gulf of Mexico.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency acknowledged the drone's voyage, citing the AP. Iran's mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.
The 5th Fleet launched a special drone task force last year, aiming to have a fleet of some 100 unmanned drones, both sailing and submersible, operating in the region with America’s allies.
Iran briefly seized several of the American drones being tested in the region in late August and early September, though there hasn't been any similar incident since.
The MAST-13 now is operating in the Gulf of Oman, where a maritime shadow war has played out as oil tankers have been seized by Iranian forces and suspicious explosions have struck vessels in the region, including those linked to Israeli and Western firms. Iran has denied involvement in the explosions, despite evidence from the West to the contrary.
The MAST-13's video feeds can transmit images back to shore and to ships at sea, helping sailors see ships before approaching them, Hawkins said. That can come in handy, particularly as the Navy and Western allies have increasingly seized weapons it believes were from Iran bound for Yemen.
“It puts more eyes out on the water, enabling us to better monitor what is happening,” Hawkins said.
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Follow Jon Gambrell on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP | 2023-04-20T02:31:00+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/us-navy-sails-first-drone-through-mideast-s-17905748.php |
TRAVERSE CITY — The Traverse City Pit Spitters are going to have a tough time keeping up this level of excitement.
The season opener ended with some fireworks. Game two ended with a wild walkoff winner to move the 2019 and 2021 Northwoods League champions to 2-0 on the young season. But it required extra innings after seeing a big lead over the visiting Rockford Rivtes evaporate.
Carson Fischer put together the second straight solid start for Traverse City to open the 2023 season, but the Pit Spitters’ bullpen could not protect a five-run lead to get the 6-foot-5 righty the win. Fischer, a Davenport University product, went five innings and allowed just one run on three hits with a walk and four strikeouts.
The Spitters scored once in each of their first three innings and then dropped a three-spot on the Rivets in the fifth to balloon their lead to 6-1. But Tyler McKinstry and Jack Snow ran into some problems in relief. McKinstry gave up two runs on four hits in an inning of work, and Snow had some issues with control as he walked three and allowed two hits leading to three Rockford runs in just two-thirds of an inning.
After the Rivets knotted things at 6-6, both bullpens locked things down and forced the game into the 10th inning. Hayden Jatczak fired a 1-2-3 top of the 10th, and then Camden Traficante scored on an error by Rockford third baseman Jack Scheri to give the Spitters the 7-6 victory.
Glenn Miller pushed the first run of the game across home plate in the bottom of the first, grounding into a doubleplay that brought in Blake Bean who led off being hit by a pitch and later advancing to third on two wild pitches.
Fischer repaid the wild-pitch favor in the top of the second, allowing Bradley Wilson to score on an 0-1 count with two outs to make it 1-1. But the Pit Spitters quickly regained the lead in their half of the frame when Traficante led off with a walk, advanced to second on a Brendan Guciardo single, stole third and then scored on a wild-pitch dropped-third strike.
Colin Summerhill led off the bottom of the third with a double to center and scored on an RBI groundout from Miller two pitches later after advancing to third on a first-pitch wild pitch.
The Spitters loaded the bases with no one out in the bottom of the fifth as Bean led off with a single, Summerhill was hit by a pitch and Miller singled to right. Kyle Hayes singled up the middle on an 0-2 count to score Bean, and Traficante tallied an RBI with a fielder’s-choice groundout from third to second. Miller then scored on a Zachary Johnson single to first to make it 6-1.
Fortunately, the Spitters had a large enough cushion and came through in the clutch to leave victorious despite blowing a big lead.
Traverse City goes on the road for their next six games. The Pit Spitters head to Kokomo to take on the Jackrabbits for two before visiting the Kenosha Kingfish for two and then back to Kokomo for another two games. Their next home game is June 8 against the Kalamazoo Growlers.
First pitch Wednesday is set for 7:05 p.m. | 2023-05-31T10:50:47+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/wild-walkoff-winner-sends-traverse-city-pit-spitters-to-2-0/article_7c44b570-ff11-11ed-b13b-d38b5b2745e5.html |
STOCKHOLM, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, on June 30, 2022, the 2022 annual general meeting of Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) ("Eco Wave Power" or the "Company") was held. Below is a summary of the resolutions passed at the annual general meeting (all in accordance with the proposals presented in the notice to attend the meeting kept available at the Company's website www.ecowavepower.com).
The annual general meeting resolved:
- to adopt the profit and loss statement and balance sheet for the financial year 2021;
- that the Company's result should be carried forward in new account and that no dividend shall be paid for the financial year 2021;
- to grant the board members and the CEO of the Company discharge from liability for the financial year 2021;
- that the board of directors shall consist of five (5) ordinary members without deputy members for the period until the end of the next annual general meeting. Furthermore, it was resolved that a registered accounting firm should be elected as auditor;
- that the fees payable to the board of directors for the period until the end of the next annual general meeting shall amount to a total of SEK 900,000, out of which SEK 300,000 shall be paid to the chairman of the board of directors and SEK 200,000 to each of the ordinary members. It was further resolved that no board fee shall be paid to Inna Braverman;
- that the Company's auditor is to be paid in accordance with approved quotes and invoices;
- to re-elect Mats Andersson, Elias Jacobson, David Leb, and Inna Braverman and to new-elect Annath Abecassis as ordinary board members for the period until the end of next annual general meeting. The meeting also resolved to re-elect Mats Andersson as chairman of the board of directors until the end of next annual general meeting. Further, the auditing firm Ernst & Young was re-elected as auditor for the Company until the end of next annual general meeting. It was further noted that Nils Andreas Nyberg will continue as auditor-in-charge;
- an authorisation for the board of directors to increase the share capital in accordance with the board of directors' proposal from June 1, 2022;
- an authorisation for the board of directors to increase the share capital in the event of an impending takeover bid in accordance with the board of directors' proposal from June 1, 2022;
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'Jealous' man accused of killing 17-year-old coworker who rejected his advances
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Walgreens employee allegedly murdered his 17-year-old co-worker in the break room of a Colorado store location after the girl reported to managers that he was making unwanted romantic advances.
Joshua Taylor Johnson, 28, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection to the death of 17-year-old Riley Whitelaw, the Colorado Springs Police Department revealed Monday.
Months before her brutal killing, Whitelaw had reported to the store manager that Johnson made her feel uncomfortable and "he had made advances toward her," according to an affidavit.
The teen requested a work schedule to avoid Johnson, but when Whitelaw later requested additional hours, she was informed that she would have to work with Johnson again.
Another co-worker stated that Johnson "appeared to be acting jealous" when Whitelaw’s boyfriend began working at the same Walgreens store about three months ago, The Gazette reported.
According to the affidavit, Johnson on Saturday allegedly stacked boxes in the breakroom of the store at 6820 Centennial Boulevard to obstruct the view of the security camera and paper was taped on the windows.
Joshua Taylor Johnson, 28, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder (Colorado Springs Police)
A customer told law enforcement she heard a female voice screaming and the sound of what she believed to be stalls slamming, The Denver Post reported, citing the affidavit.
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The manager dialed 911 at about 6:55 p.m. and told the emergency operator that he found a body in the breakroom and there was "blood everywhere." He said it appeared a "restroom closed" sign was placed in the area to keep people out of the breakroom, something unusual for business hours.
Johnson was identified as the suspect and was contacted by Colorado State Patrol troopers on Interstate-25 near Walsenburg, about an hour-and-20-minute drive from Colorado Springs. He was found with visible scratches on his face and hands and arrested Sunday without incident, police said.
The affidavit says Johnson told investigators he was in the break room when he "fell in the blood" and went home to wash it off his clothing. He denied stacking boxes in front of the surveillance camera despite there being video showing him doing so, and he was also later seen next to a large trash bin where an empty bottle of bleach was recovered by investigators, according to court documents.
The investigation is still active and anyone with information or who is a witness is asked to call the Colorado Springs Police Department at (719) 444-7000. Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous may call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at (719) 634-STOP (7867) or 1-800-222-8477.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A special grand jury investigating efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia says it believes “one or more witnesses” committed perjury and urged local prosecutors to bring charges.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should “seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling,” according to portions of the special grand jury’s final report that were released on Thursday.
Those sections are silent on key details, including who the panel believes committed perjury and what other specific charges should be pursued. But it marks the first time the grand jurors’ recommendations for criminal charges tied to the case have been made public. And it’s a reminder of the intensifying legal challenges facing the former president as he ramps up his third White House bid amid multiple legal investigations.
Trump is also under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for holding classified documents at his Florida estate.
The former president never testified before the special grand jury, meaning he is not among those who could have perjured themselves. But the report doesn’t foreclose the possibility of other charges, and the case still poses particular challenges for Trump, in part because his actions in Georgia were so public.
Trump and his allies made unproven claims of widespread voter fraud and berated Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp for not acting to overturn his narrow loss to President Joe Biden in the state.
Willis has said since the beginning of the investigation two years ago that she was interested in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump suggested to Raffensperger that he could “find” the votes needed to overturn his loss in the state.
“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said during that call. “Because we won the state.”
Trump has said repeatedly that his call with Raffensperger was “perfect,” and he told The Associated Press last month that he felt “very confident” that he would not be indicted. In a statement on Thursday, he continued to assert he did “absolutely nothing wrong.”
In fact, he claimed on his social media platform, Truth Social, that the release had give him “Total exoneration,” though it did no such thing and portions having to do with recommended charges are still secret.
State and federal officials, including Trump’s attorney general, have consistently said the election was secure and there was no evidence of significant fraud. After hearing “extensive testimony on the issue,” the special grand jury agreed in a unanimous vote that there was no widespread fraud in Georgia’s election.
The grand jury, which Willis requested to aid her investigation, was seated in May and submitted its report to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Dec. 15. The panel does not have the power to issue indictments. Instead, its report contains recommendations for Willis, who will ultimately decide whether to seek one or more indictments from a regular grand jury.
Over the course of about seven months, the special grand jurors heard from 75 witnesses, among them Trump allies including former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Top Georgia officials, such as Raffensperger and Kemp, also appeared before the panel.
Graham told reporters Thursday that he has not been contacted by authorities regarding his testimony. “I’m confident I testified openly and honestly,” he said.
The partial release of the grand jury’s report was ordered Monday by McBurney, who oversaw the special grand jury. During a hearing last month, prosecutors urged him not to release the report until they decide on charges, while a coalition of media organizations, including the AP, pushed for the entire report to be made public immediately.
McBurney wrote in his Monday order that it’s not appropriate to release the full report now because it’s important to protect the due process rights of people for whom the grand jury recommended charges.
While there were relatively few details in Thursday’s release, it does provide some insight into the panel’s process. The report’s introduction says an “overwhelming majority” of the information that the grand jury received “was delivered in person under oath.” It also noted that no one on the panel was an election law expert or criminal lawyer.
Based on witnesses called to testify before the special grand jury, it is clear that Willis is focusing on several areas. Those include:
— Phone calls by Trump and others to Georgia officials in the wake of the 2020 election.
— A group of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate in December 2020 falsely stating that Trump had won the state and that they were the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
— False allegations of election fraud made during meetings of state legislators at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020.
— The copying of data and software from election equipment in rural Coffee County by a computer forensics team hired by Trump allies.
— Alleged attempts to pressure Fulton County elections worker Ruby Freeman into falsely confessing to election fraud.
— The abrupt resignation of the U.S. attorney in Atlanta in January 2021.
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Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed reporting.
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More on Donald Trump-related investigations: https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump | 2023-02-16T22:12:58+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/politics/ap-parts-of-georgia-special-grand-jury-report-to-be-released/ |
White House gains partners to end US hunger within a decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is counting on a variety of private-sector partnerships to help fund and implement its ambitious goal of ending hunger in America by 2030.
President Joe Biden is hosting a conference Wednesday on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969. That conference, under President Richard Nixon, was a pivotal moment that influenced U.S. food policy agenda for 50 years.
The conference hosted by Nixon, a Republican, led to a major expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, and gave rise to the Women, Infants and Children program, which serves half the babies born in the U.S. by providing their mothers with parenting advice, breastfeeding support and food assistance.
This year’s conference hosted by Biden, a Democrat, focuses on his goal of essentially ending food insecurity for all Americans by decade’s end. It also seeks to promote healthy eating, good nutrition and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases.
Before the conference, Biden’s administration released a list of more than $8 billion in commitments to the cause from private companies, charitable foundations and industry groups. They range from outright donations to in-kind contributions of services and include:
- A $20 million commitment from the Novo Nordisk pharmaceutical company to improve access to healthy foods and safe spaces for physical activity in marginalized communities.
- A $3.85 million commitment from the Publix grocery store chain to supply food to local food banks and establish free mobile food pantries.
- $22 million from the Danone food company to fund a program to help “at least 300 million Americans to build healthier dietary habits.”
- A commitment from the Meijer grocery store chain to offer up to a 10% discount to incentivize users of the SNAP program to buy fruits and vegetables.
Some of the conference’s goals sound reminiscent of former first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative to tackle childhood obesity and promote healthy eating, highlighting the need for access to better, healthier food and exercise.
While Biden is touting the successful buy-in campaign from the private sector, some of the strongest potential obstacles to his proposals lie in the increasingly partisan Congress.
Proposed policy changes include an expansion of SNAP eligibility, expanding access to free meals in schools and extending summer meal benefits to more schoolchildren. All of those changes would require congressional approval.
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Planet Based Foods Will Have Options to Further Expand IP and Grow Their SKU's
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Planet Based Foods Global Inc. (CSE: PBF) (OTCQB: PBFFF) (FRA: AZ0) ("PBFG", "Planet Based Foods" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that they will be working with new manufacturing partner Cedarlane Natural Foods, Inc. ("Cedarlane"). With decades of packaged goods manufacturing experience, Cedarlane is one of the country's leading manufacturers of healthy and innovative frozen and fresh food products. Planet Based Foods is looking forward to partnering with them as they will create a variety of synergistic opportunities in the near and far-term.
The new manufacturing will bolster Planet Based Foods product diversity both horizontally; from burritos and taquitos, to handheld, easy-to-make health food options, and vertically with options to expand flavor profiles of individual food products. Taquito production capacity will increase up to 25 million taquitos annually. Packaging systems in place for retail and food service items will get products to market in a more timely fashion.
Furthermore, Executive Chef Eric Kopelow, Vice President of Cedarlane is creating exclusive recipes for research & development by utilizing Planet Based Foods. This gives Planet Based Foods access to a top of the line chef group, as well as domestic and global sourcing for recipe development. These recipes will be found on the Planet Based Foods website and help to enhance the overall consumer experience.
Planet Based Foods President Braelyn Davis commented "We value the brands that we can grow with and are very excited about the potential for economies of scale this partnership has on the production of our core proteins and to further saturate the market with our Superfood IP."
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Cedarlane Natural Foods is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of award-winning healthy and innovative frozen and fresh foods. Headquartered in Carson, CA and in business for more than 28 years, Cedarlane is a pioneer in the natural foods industry. Many of Cedarlane's products carry the Quality Assurance International (QAI) organic certification seal. The company produces, distributes and markets a variety of frozen and fresh food products including: vegetarian entrees, focaccia, burritos & wraps, appetizer snacks and the Dr. Sears Zone™ frozen foods line. Among the company's numerous awards: Best Natural Frozen Entrees product line by the 2009 World Taste Championship presented by the American Masters of Taste; Best Frozen Snack by Men's Health for the Garden Vegetable Enchiladas; and recognized as Best Chicken Burrito for the company's Chicken Fajita Burrito by TV personality and best selling cookbook author Rachael Ray. Products are available at a wide variety of natural foods stores and select supermarkets throughout the United States. Products can also be purchased online at www.CedarlaneToGo.com. For more information on the company, please visit: www.CedarlaneFoods.com.
PBFG, through its wholly-owned subsidiary in San Diego, California, Planet Based Foods, is a producer of sustainable plant-based meat substitutes. Planet Based Foods was founded in 2018 in San Diego, California. With a mission to build a better food system by providing hemp-formulated superfood products to people today that support our planet tomorrow, all Planet Based Foods products are 100% vegan.
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The City of Evanston will be extending its warming center hours for those in need.
Robert Crown Community Center at 1801 Main Street will be open the following days:
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- Friday, December 23, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- Saturday, December 24, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Tuesday, December 27, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center at 1823 Church Street will be open:
- Sunday, December 25, noon to 9 p.m.
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How old Is the moon? Way younger than we originally thought
Computer simulations show that the moon took longer to take shape from Earthly clumps of dust and rock.
Computer simulations show that the moon took longer to take shape from Earthly clumps of dust and rock.
Computer simulations show that the moon took longer to take shape from Earthly clumps of dust and rock.
Video above: Researchers recently shared a theory about how Earth's moon might have formed
How old is the moon? Much younger than scientists previously thought.
Back in 2020, researchers from the German Aerospace Center and the University of Münster released new estimates for the age of the moon. According to their modeling, it’s 85 million years younger than previous estimates have suggested.
Scientists have long estimated that the moon formed some 4.51 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object (which we’ve since dubbed Theia) smashed into Earth. At the time, the guts of our newly formed planet were beginning to take shape.
The collision tore away a chunk of Earth’s mantle and flung it into orbit, where it morphed into a massive ring of dust and rock that began to clump together. “From this, the moon was formed in a short time, probably in just a few thousand years,” planetary scientist and study co-author Doris Breuer, of the German Aerospace Center, said in a statement.
In their paper, published in Science Advances, Breuer and her colleagues reveal that this infamous impact occurred around 4.425 billion years ago, give or take about 25 million years. In the aftermath of the impact, the moon looked a lot like Mustafar — a molten marble with a piping-hot magma ocean more than 600 miles deep.
The scientists used computer simulations to show exactly how long it would have taken the moon’s magma ocean to solidify, as this would help pinpoint the precise age of the moon. Their models indicated it took a whopping 150-200 million years for that magma to fully crystalize. Previous models have suggested it only took 35 million years for the moon’s hard, rocky exterior to form.
The impact also kickstarted the formation of Earth’s core. Heavier elements like nickel and iron sank toward the planet’s center, while a layer of silicate rock formed the mantle layer around it.
Video below: NASA recently offered a look at a working prototype for space suits to be worn during the Artemis III moon mission
“This is the first time that the age of the moon can be directly linked to an event that occurred at the very end of the Earth’s formation, namely the formation of the core,” planetary scientist Thorsten Kleine, of the University of Münster in Germany, said in the statement.
Over the years, we’ve been able to glean bits and pieces of information from the moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions and Russia’s Luna missions. It’s been more than 50 years since we first set foot on the lunar surface, and we still have a lot to learn. | 2023-03-23T01:53:11+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/moon-actual-age/43393611 |
TRAVERSE CITY — A Grawn pedestrian was struck and killed while trying to cross the road, according to the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office.
On Sunday night at approximately 8 p.m. an Interlochen man, 37, was driving west on U.S.-31 South in Blair Township when he hit a Grawn man, 86, who was walking on the opposite side of the road near his home, Capt. Chris Clark said.
After he struck the pedestrian, deputies said the driver called 9-1-1 to report the crash.
The Grawn man was pronounced dead on the scene when first responders from the sheriff's office and Blair Township Fire and EMS arrived, Clark said.
The sheriff's office said they would not be releasing names at this time, citing the ongoing investigation.
According to Clark, no arrests have been made as of Monday morning and the Interlochen man was not injured in the collision.
The crash is still under investigation. | 2022-12-12T17:33:48+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/pedestrian-killed-off-of-us-31-south/article_38f30550-7a33-11ed-96a9-f7cacb74fa01.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that children under 5 may be able to get their first COVID-19 vaccination doses as soon as June 21, if federal regulators authorize shots for the age group, as expected.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha outlined the administration’s planning for the last remaining ineligible age group to get shots. He said the Food and Drug Administration’s outside panel of advisers will meet on June 14-15 to evaluate the Pfizer and Moderna shots for younger kids. Shipments to doctors’ offices and pediatric care facilities would begin soon after FDA authorization, with the first shots possible the following week.
Jha said states can begin placing orders for pediatric vaccines on Friday, and said the administration has an initial supply of 10 million doses available. He said it may take a few days for the vaccines to arrive across the country and vaccine appointments to be widespread.
“Our expectation is that within weeks every parent who wants their child to get vaccinated will be able to get an appointment,” Jha said.
The timeline would provide parents with the opportunity to get their children fully vaccinated in time for the beginning of the next school year.
The Biden administration is pressing states to prioritize large-volume sites like children’s hospitals, and to make appointments available outside regular work hours to make it easier for parents to get their kids vaccinated.
In the view of the White House, eliminating the last significant cohort not yet eligible for vaccines will go a long way in building confidence among some Americans who have been wary to return to many of their pre-pandemic activities, helping the country emerge from the pandemic.
Jha acknowledged the “frustration” of parents of young children who have been waiting more than a year for shots for their kids.
“At the end of the day we all want to move fast, but we’ve got to get it right,” he said.
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(AP) — Hundreds of striking nurses are chanting, waving signs and singing outside two large New York City hospitals. Walkouts at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx began Monday morning after a deal wasn’t reached in disputes over pay and staffing levels.
The strike involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore and about 3,600 at Mount Sinai. The union says nurses are being forced to strike because of chronic understaffing that compromises safety.
Patients are likely to see disruptions in emergency room visits and childbirth. The hospitals are assigning managers and others not represented by the union to cover shifts. | 2023-01-09T19:00:10+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/nurses-go-on-strike-at-2-big-new-york-city-hospitals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nurses-go-on-strike-at-2-big-new-york-city-hospitals |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) served as president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Among his many famous quotes is one he delivered in a radio address to the nation on Oct. 5, 1944, that still resonates 78 years later, in 2022:
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
If you choose not to vote on any election day, then you have absolutely no right whatsoever to complain about the outcome of the election. It is your choice.
— William Greenwell
Terre Haute | 2022-12-09T05:55:43+00:00 | tribstar.com | https://www.tribstar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-voting-is-backbone-of-our-democracy/article_921d1444-4032-11ed-af24-7fd1a61b0e94.html |
US government ponders the meaning of race and ethnicity
(AP) - Nyhiem Way is weary of people conflating African American and Black. Shalini Parekh wants a way for South Asian people to identify themselves differently than East Asians with roots in places like China or Japan. And Byron Haskins wants the U.S. to toss racial and ethnic labels altogether.
“When you set up categories that are used to place people in boxes, sometime you miss the truth of them,” said Haskins, who describes himself as African American.
Way, Parekh and Haskins’ voices are among more than 4,300 comments pending before the Biden administration as it contemplates updating the nation’s racial and ethnic categories for the first time since 1997.
There’s a lot to consider.
Some Black Americans want their ancestors’ enslavement recognized in how they are identified. Some Jewish people believe their identity should be seen as its own ethnic category and not only a religion. The idea of revising categories for ethnic and racial identities, both in the census and in gathering demographic information between head counts, have fueled editorials and think-tank essays as well as thousands of written comments by individuals in what is almost a Rorschach test for how Americans identify themselves.
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is set to decide on new classifications next year and is hosting three virtual town halls on the subject this week.
Some conservatives question the process itself, saying the overarching premise that Americans need more ethnic categories will only accelerate Balkanization.
“By creating and deepening sub-national identities, the government further contributes to the decline of one national American identity,” wrote Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, in his personal comment posted on the OMB web page seeking public input.
That view contrasts sharply with those who say previous categories have overlooked nuances.
“This is certainly a singular moment and opportunity to greatly improve and enhance the accuracy and completeness of the data,” Mario Beovides, director of policy and legislative affairs for the NALEO Educational Fund, said during a recent forum.
The proposed changes would create a new category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, also known by the acronym MENA, who are now classified as white but say they have been routinely undercounted.
The process also would combine the race and ethnic origin questions into a single query, because some advocates say the current method of asking about race and separately about ethnic origin often confuses Hispanic respondents. With the revisions, the government would try to get more detailed answers on race and ethnicity by asking about country of origin.
Another proposal recommends striking from federal government forms the words “Negro” and “Far East,” now widely regarded as pejorative. The terms “majority” and “minority” would also be dropped because some officials say they fail to reflect the nation’s complex racial and ethnic diversity.
Several Black Americans, like Way, whose ancestors were enslaved, said in public comments to the OMB that they would like to be identified in a category such as American Freedmen, Foundational Black Americans or American Descendants of Slavery to distinguish themselves from Black immigrants, or even white individuals born in Africa, as well as reflecting their ancestors’ history in the U.S.
Way also recommended substituting the word “population group” for “race.”
Conflating “African American” with “Black” has “blurred what it means to be an African American in this country,” Way, who works for a pharmaceutical company in Athens, Georgia, said in a telephone interview.
Haskins, a retired government worker from Lansing, Michigan, suggested eliminating race categories like “white” and “Black” since they perpetuate “deeply rooted unjust socio-political constructs.”
Instead, he said people should be able to self-identify as they wish. When his sociologist daughter points out the difficulty of aggregating such data into something useful to address inequalities in housing or voting, or tailoring health or education programs to the needs of communities, he tells her, “Go crazy at it. That’s what you’re being paid for.”
“You need to search for the truth and not just stay with the old categories because someone decided, ‘That is what we decided,’” Haskins said.
Parekh is asking the government to distinguish South Asians from East Asians.
“When these groups are assessed together, one loses a lot of important granularity that can help differentiate issues that are specific to one group and not another,” Parekh said.
The MENA community appears to be having a related problem, based on several comments to OMB. Without its own category, the group’s political power is diluted. People could benefit from cohesive representation, especially if identities were taken into account in drawing political districts, advocates said.
It comes down to something even more personal for Houda Meroueh, who described herself to the Biden administration as a 73-year-old Arab American woman.
“When I go to the doctor’s office I do not feel they have the information necessary to understand my medical history or my culture,” she said. “For all these reasons I want to be counted as who I am. Not as white.”
Jordan Steiner said ethnic categories should be expanded to include not only MENA, but other groups like Jews who often regard themselves not only as members of a religious group but an ethnic one too.
Jessica Aksoy commended the proposals to expand the categories, saying she often felt limited about which boxes to check as someone of Turkish, European and Jewish heritage.
“Recognizing our differences is honoring and celebrating the rich melting pot of America,” Aksoy said. “The face of America is changing, and this initiative is for progress in recognizing that.”
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Innovations Group Limited ("ASIG" or "the Company") is a leading live social company with more than 400 million users across over 150 countries and regions worldwide. The Company continues its path to make efforts with numerous ESG-related projects in 2022, thus reinforcing its ESG visions and emphasizing how it "advanced" its users globally with its influence and platforms.
ASIG's ESG visions is committed to empowering people and communities through innovative technology and advocating for creativity, opportunity, safety, and inclusivity for all users through its global social platforms in three aspects:
Advance: To expand opportunities for people across emerging markets
ASIG offers live training sessions at its 18 offices around the world to help streamers maximize their earnings on its platforms. Its cutting-edge technology and advanced streaming capabilities empower creators, to earn an income, particularly in emerging markets.
The Company's flagship product, Uplive, has facilitated several successful events in the United States and the Philippines. In the U.S., Uplive X Hekka Runway Show in New York Fashion Week 2002 featured young performers who have been developing their fanbase in Uplive for years which recognized and supported by Maye Musk, a celebrity representative from emerging market. Also, Uplive partnered with Miss Universe Colombia, Maria Fernanda Aristizábal, and Global Child TV to support El Arte De Los Suenos, a special organization to support vulnerable children and adolescents by fostering their artistic talents. Moreover, Uplive enables Miss Asia's contestants to connect with global audiences and making the beauty and fashion industries more accessible. While in the Philippines, Uplive sponsored one of the most popular Talent Show "Idol Philippines" season 2 and served as the exclusive voting platform for the hopefuls. This is also the first time local major talent shows engaged with livestreaming platforms for recruiting, voting, and special programs. Such collaborations provide a worldwide stage for talented individuals and grassroots talents to break geographical and time constraints and traditional patterns to give them access to a wider audience and help them achieve success.
Impact: To catalyze global social impact and awareness through and beyond its platforms and users
For one thing, ASIG advocates for and fosters diversity, inclusivity, and creativity to bridge cultural and linguistic barriers. Creators and fans alike can be inspired by aspects of other cultures through the content shared on its platforms. Moreover, ASIG is committed to raising awareness for important causes. The Company has served communities with a wide range of philanthropic efforts, from charity concerts, singing competitions, and livestreamed fundraisers to sponsoring causes aligned with its values.
For another, the Company addresses mental health issues and makes help accessible for everyone. In the Philippines, Uplive has partnered with the leading mental health platform, Mind You, on a long-term program that aims to provide mental health education and sessions, programs, and overall better access to mental health care for Filipino streamers and hosts on the platform. As part of its support for advocacy, Uplive donated $1,000 in November 2022 and $1,000 in December 2022 to Mind You, to subsidize 100 mental health sessions per month ($10/session). Besides, online and offline event "Let the world hear your heart" was held at ZeroBase in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, from November 16 to November 20 local time, featuring a daily live interview session, "Worry Counseling Time", where hosts offered help and advice to people with stress and worries in modern society to alleviate individual's sense of loneliness.
Guard: To protect privacy and safety of users and promote positivity
ASIG cares about privacy and safety and has rigorous review processes and robust policies, while following U.S. social media industry standards and country-specific guidelines to ensure that all its platforms are safe and private spaces for its users. The Company values and preserves freedom of expression but does not tolerate divisive or derisive language or the exclusion or marginalization of others. ASIG has deployed artificial intelligence tools to review content, as well as cybersecurity tools to give its community members control over their privacy and ensure data security. Over hundreds of employees worldwide oversee the reporting and monitoring of community content and impose strict contractual penalties on users who break platform guidelines.
Andy Tian, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ASIG said," At ASIG, our guiding principles are, just like our acronym, "Advance, Impact, and Guard." As we thought about ESG–environmental, social and governance–the "S" in ESG really spoke to us the loudest. We could have hired amazing copywriters to talk about our carbon-neutral goals for 2030, but we opted to dig in where we are really making a real difference. We think this platform use is terrific and fosters even more connectivity by enabling users with means in advanced economics to contribute positively to underprivileged creators in less developed regions."
About Asia Innovations Group
Asia Innovations Group (ASIG) is a leading mobile social company across emerging markets. As of Dec 31st, 2021, ASIG served over 400 million registered users located in over 150 countries and regions worldwide. It has built a comprehensive and diverse portfolio as it seeks to achieve its mission of enriching people's lives worldwide through innovative and enjoyable live social products that foster meaningful human connection. ASIG operates in eighteen offices around the globe that offer deep local market knowledge across all major emerging markets to augment the company's cutting-edge technology and scalable global infrastructure. ASIG's portfolio includes leading apps such as Uplive, the global live video platform, CuteU and Lamour, the dominant dating apps in global emerging markets, as well as other fast-growing voice and game-based live social apps.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden will host a roundtable Monday on breast and cervical cancer, part of the administration’s “moonshot” effort to reduce deaths from cancer, the White House said.
The event is one of many being launched by the American Cancer Society. Singer Mary J. Blige, an advocate for cancer screening, will participate in the roundtable with Biden.
President Joe Biden announced in February his goal of halving cancer deaths in the next 25 years. The issue is personal for Biden, whose son Beau Biden died in 2015 of brain cancer. Biden launched the cancer moonshot the following year when serving as then-President Barack Obama’s vice president. | 2022-10-22T02:28:49+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/us-politics/ap-first-lady-to-host-roundtable-on-breast-and-cervical-cancer/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s most populous county has a history of problems with its elections but has also shown considerable improvement, and the state should not step in to take over its elections, a bipartisan review panel said.
The State Election Board appointed the three-person panel in August 2021 after Republican lawmakers used a provision of a sweeping election law passed earlier that year to request a review of Fulton County’s handling of elections. The report was submitted on Friday to the board and the Secretary of State’s office.
Fulton County includes most of the city of Atlanta and is home to about 11% of the state’s electorate. A Democratic stronghold, it has long been targeted by Republicans.
The report says that in previous years Fulton County’s elections have been plagued by “disorganization and a lack of a sense of urgency in resolving issues.” But it also says the county showed “significant improvement” from 2020 to 2022, former staff members have left and “new staff can bring new energy and renewed commitment.”
The Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration is a driving force behind those improvements, the report says.
“Replacing the board would not be helpful and would in fact hinder the ongoing improvements to Fulton County elections,” it says.
County officials applauded the findings.
“The Performance Review Board’s report affirms what we already know — our staff work every day to serve Fulton County voters and deliver free and fair elections in compliance with the law,” Cathy Woolard, chair of the Fulton elections board, said in a news release.
State Election Board Chair William Duffey said last month that the board will discuss the panel’s recommendations at its Feb. 7 meeting.
Republican lawmakers whose districts include parts of Fulton in July 2021 submitted a letter to the State Election Board noting the county’s history of problems and demanding answers.
Former President Donald Trump had zeroed in on the county after he lost Georgia by a slim margin in the November 2020 general election. In phone calls to state election officials and in public comments, Trump made unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in Fulton.
Actions he took as he tried to overturn his election loss, including a phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, led Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to open an ongoing investigation into whether Trump and others illegally meddled in the state’s election.
The review panel named by the State Election Board included Stephen Day, a Democratic appointee to the Gwinnett County election board; Ricky Kittle, a Republican appointee to the Catoosa County election board; and Ryan Germany, general counsel for the Secretary of State’s office.
The panel considered the county’s performance in 2020 and observed operations before, on and after Election Day for the 2021 municipal elections and the 2022 primary and general votes, the report says. The panel also relied on help from The Carter Center, which regularly monitors elections around the world and was invited to observe the 2022 general election in Fulton County.
The county has “a long and well-documented history of issues administering elections,” the report says, including long lines and inefficiency in reporting results. Its shortcomings were particularly pronounced during the 2020 primary, resulting in a consent order between the county and the State Election Board that included the appointment of an independent monitor for the general election that year.
That monitor, Carter Jones, said he found sloppy practices and poor management but no evidence of “any dishonesty, fraud or intentional malfeasance.”
Many of the county’s issues in 2020 stemmed from or were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of the county’s responses to that made things even worse, the panel found.
The county’s election process was more organized in 2022 than in 2021, which showed improvement over 2020, the report says. A number of changes, including implementing an inventory tracking system for elections equipment, creating new management positions and filling others, helped to spread responsibility and improve performance in key areas, according to the report.
The panel nevertheless recommended areas for additional improvement, such as poll worker training, general organization and polling place layout review.
The controversial takeover provision in the 2021 election law allows state lawmakers who represent a county to request a review of local election officials and their practices. The State Election Board must then appoint a review panel that is required to investigate and issue a report.
If the state board finds evidence that county officials violated state election law or rules three times in the previous two election cycles and have not fixed violations, it could eventually suspend the county board. The law also says the state board could remove the county board if it finds that during at least two elections over two years the county board has shown “nonfeasance, malfeasance, or gross negligence.”
If a county board is removed, the state board would appoint a temporary administrator.
Democrats and voting rights activists complained when the law was passed that the takeover provision would open the door for political interference in local elections and could suppress turnout. Republicans said it was necessary to make sure county election officials are following the law. | 2023-01-14T19:10:29+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-panel-state-shouldnt-take-over-georgia-countys-elections/ |
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with freelance journalist Aakash Hassan about ethnic violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with freelance journalist Aakash Hassan about ethnic violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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CRIME
Plainview police, TDCJ are on the search for an escaped inmate
Brandi D. Addison
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Plainview Police Department is working with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in the search of an escaped inmate.
Trent Thompson, 22, was last seen at the Formby Unit in Plainview at approximately 11:14 p.m. Saturday and was last seen wearing a white prison uniform.
The inmate was convicted of three counts of aggravated robbery out of Taylor County and Coleman County, as well as an aggravated assault on a public servant out of Coleman County.
Officials ask to not approach him, if he is seen, but asks the public to contact the local law enforcement instead. To provide information on his whereabouts, leave a tip with the Office of Inspector General at 1-800-832-8477. | 2023-06-11T16:38:37+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/crime/2023/06/11/plainview-police-tdcj-are-on-the-search-for-an-escaped-inmate/70310746007/ |
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CHICAGO (AP) — Drew Smyly allowed one hit in seven scoreless innings and Yan Gomes and Nico Hoerner homered in the Chicago Cubs' 4-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.
Smyly (6-8) struck out eight and walked two. The left-hander departed after Austin Dean reached on a fielding error to start the eighth.
Gomes lofted a two-run shot to left center in the second to give the Cubs the lead for good. Hoerner had a two-run flare off Yunior Marte in the sixth to help end a two-game skid and send San Francisco to its fifth straight loss.
After Smyly left in the eighth, Manuel Rodríguez gave up Evan Longoria’s bases-loaded ground rule double to kill a shutout bid. Brandon Hughes finished the inning and worked a clean ninth for his fourth save in eight chances.
Giants starter Carlos Rodón (12-8) struck out 11 in the 5 1/3 innings. He allowed three hits.
SCARY MOMENT
Giants catcher Austin Wynns left in the top of the sixth after being struck in the helmet by Smyly. The pitch caught the left earflap and spun the helmet off Wynns’ head. After consulting with a trainer, the catcher walked to the dugout and was replaced by Joey Bart.
K COUNT
Rodón had his 10th double-digit strikeout performance, breaking the club record held by Jason Schmidt and Tim Lincecum. He fanned the last five batters he faced and has struck out at least 10 in four of his last five starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: The club placed RHP Dominic Leone (elbow impingement) on the 15-day injured list before the game. Dean was promoted from Triple-A Sacramento to fill the roster spot and made his season debut in left field. … Manager Gabe Kapler said he might use a series of relievers in Sunday’s series finale to fill the hole left by LHP Alex Wood’s (shoulder) stay on the 15-day injury list.
Cubs: Second baseman Nick Madrigal left the game after the third with right groin tightness. … OF Nelson Velázquez (illness) was scratched from the lineup a few hours before the start and replaced by Michael Hermosillo.
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Chicago’s Marcus Stroman (3-6, 3.73 ERA) faces fellow right-hander Logan Webb (12-8, 2.89) on Saturday. | 2022-09-09T23:47:46+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Smyly-Gomes-Hoerner-help-Cubs-beat-Giants-4-2-17431492.php |
- Third Quarter Fiscal 2023 Reported Revenue was $1.346 billion, Increasing 13.3% Compared to the Same Period Last Year and 17.5% in Constant Currency
- Fiscal Year 2023 Revenue Growth Guide Increased to 11-12% on a Reported Basis
- Fiscal Year 2023 Diluted EPS Guide Increased to $18.00-$18.50 on a Reported Basis
GOLETA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK), a global leader in designing, marketing, and distributing innovative footwear, apparel, and accessories, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2022. The Company also provided an update to its financial outlook for the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
"Our brands delivered another stellar quarter, led by record results for both HOKA as well as our consolidated direct-to-consumer business," said Dave Powers, President and Chief Executive Officer. "The consistent strength of Deckers results thus far in fiscal year 2023, despite macroeconomic and currency headwinds, are the result of our brand marketplace management actions and dedication to long-term strategic priorities. We believe UGG and HOKA are two of the healthiest, well positioned brands in their respective markets, and with the strength of our operating model, Deckers is poised for continued success going forward."
Third Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Review (Compared to the Same Period Last Year)
- Net sales increased 13.3% to $1.346 billion compared to $1.188 billion. On a constant currency basis, net sales increased 17.5%.
- Wholesale net sales increased 8.0% to $646.3 million compared to $598.4 million.
- Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) net sales increased 18.7% to $699.3 million compared to $589.4 million. Comparable DTC net sales increased 22.1%.
- Domestic net sales increased 13.9% to $906.8 million compared to $796.1 million.
- International net sales increased 12.1% to $438.8 million compared to $391.6 million.
- Gross margin was 53.0% compared to 52.3%.
- Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses were $349.9 million compared to $327.8 million.
- Operating income was $362.7 million compared to $293.4 million.
- Diluted earnings per share was $10.48 compared to $8.42.
Third Quarter Fiscal 2023 Brand Summary (Compared to the Same Period Last Year)
- UGG® brand net sales decreased 1.6% to $930.4 million compared to $945.9 million.
- HOKA® brand net sales increased 90.8% to $352.1 million compared to $184.6 million.
- Teva® brand net sales increased 48.3% to $30.5 million compared to $20.6 million.
- Sanuk® brand net sales decreased 7.4% to $5.6 million compared to $6.1 million.
- Other brands, primarily composed of Koolaburra®, net sales decreased 12.1% to $26.9 million compared to $30.6 million.
Balance Sheet (December 31, 2022 as compared to December 31, 2021)
- Cash and cash equivalents were $1.058 billion compared to $998.3 million.
- Inventories were $723.4 million compared to $550.7 million.
- The Company had no outstanding borrowings.
Stock Repurchase Program
During the third quarter, the Company repurchased approximately 127 thousand shares of its common stock for a total of $44.6 million at a weighted average price paid per share of $350.25. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had approximately $1.459 billion remaining under its stock repurchase authorization.
Full Fiscal Year 2023 Outlook for the Twelve Month Period Ending March 31, 2023
The Company's full fiscal year 2023 outlook is forward-looking in nature, reflecting our expectations as of February 2, 2023, and is subject to significant risks and uncertainties that limit our ability to accurately forecast results. This outlook assumes no meaningful changes to the Company's business prospects or risks and uncertainties identified by management that could impact future results, which include but are not limited to: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations, including supply chain disruptions, constraints and related expenses; labor shortages; changes in economic conditions including foreign currency fluctuation, inflationary pressures, consumer confidence and discretionary spending; and geopolitical tensions.
- Net sales are now expected to be in the range of $3.50 billion to $3.53 billion.
- Gross margin is still expected to be approximately 50.5%.
- SG&A expenses as a percentage of sales are still projected to be approximately 33%.
- Operating margin is still expected to be in the range of 17.5% to 18.0%.
- Effective tax rate is still expected to be approximately 22%.
- Diluted earnings per share is now expected to be in the range of $18.00 to $18.50.
- The earnings per share guidance does not assume any impact from potential future share repurchases.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In certain instances the Company may present financial measures that were not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (non-GAAP financial measures), including constant currency, to provide information that may assist investors in understanding its financial results and assessing its prospects for future performance. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are important indicators of its operating performance because they exclude items that are unrelated to, and may not be indicative of, its core operating results.
The non-GAAP financial measures presented by the Company may not necessarily be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies and may not be appropriate measures for comparing the performance of other companies relative to Deckers. For example, in order to calculate constant currency information, the Company calculates the current period financial information using the foreign currency exchange rates that were in effect during the previous comparable period, excluding the effects of foreign currency exchange rate hedges and remeasurements in the condensed consolidated financial statements. Further, the Company reports comparable DTC sales on a constant currency basis for DTC operations that were open throughout the current and prior reporting periods, and may adjust prior reporting periods to conform to current year accounting policies. These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to represent, and should not be considered to be more meaningful measures than, or alternatives to, measures of operating performance as determined in accordance with GAAP. To the extent the Company utilizes such non-GAAP financial measures in the future, it expects to calculate them using a consistent method from period to period.
Conference Call Information
The Company's conference call to review the results for the third quarter fiscal year 2023 will be broadcast live today, Thursday, February 2, 2023, at 4:30 pm Eastern Time and hosted at ir.deckers.com. You can access the broadcast by clicking on the link within the "Webcast" box at the top of the page. A replay of the broadcast will be available for at least 30 days following the conference call and can be accessed under the "Quarterly Earnings" section of the "Financials" tab at the aforementioned website.
About Deckers Brands
Deckers Brands is a global leader in designing, marketing, and distributing innovative footwear, apparel, and accessories developed for both everyday casual lifestyle use and high-performance activities. The Company's portfolio of brands includes UGG®, HOKA®, Teva®, Sanuk®, and Koolaburra®. Deckers Brands products are sold in more than 50 countries and territories through select department and specialty stores, Company-owned and operated retail stores, and select online stores, including Company-owned websites. Deckers Brands has 50 years of history building niche footwear brands into lifestyle market leaders attracting millions of loyal consumers globally. For more information, please visit www.deckers.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements are subject to considerable risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this press release, including statements regarding our projected financial results, including net sales, gross margin, SG&A expenses, operating margin, inventories, effective tax rate, and diluted earnings per share; the disruptions and impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations; the strength of our brands and demand for our products; our ability to drive future growth and profitability; and our potential repurchase of shares. We have attempted to identify forward-looking statements by using words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expected," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "should," "will," or "would," and similar expressions or the negative of these expressions.
Forward-looking statements represent our management's current expectations and predictions about trends affecting our business and industry and are based on information available as of the time such statements are made. Although we do not make forward-looking statements unless we believe we have a reasonable basis for doing so, we cannot guarantee their accuracy or completeness. Forward-looking statements involve numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements predicted, assumed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Some of the risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements are described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, as well as in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Any forward-looking statement made by us in this press release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by applicable law or the listing rules of the New York Stock Exchange, we expressly disclaim any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, whether to conform such statements to actual results or changes in our expectations, or as a result of the availability of new information. In addition, readers are cautioned that we may make future changes to our business and operations in response to the challenges and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, or in response to other business developments, which changes may be inconsistent with our prior forward-looking statements, and which may not be disclosed in future public announcements.
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Audi will build EVs at all of its global plants before 2030 ahead of a planned phase-out of internal-combustion models, the automaker said Thursday in a press release.
The automaker will introduce only all-electric models globally beginning in 2026, and aims to phase out production of internal-combustion vehicles by 2033, but prior to that EVs and combustion models will be built side-by-side at existing Audi factories.
The automaker’s Ingolstadt, Germany, plant will start building the Q6 E-Tron SUV next year. Audi will then add electric models at factories in Neckarsulm, Germany, San José Chiapa, Mexico, and Gyor, Hungary, with the goal of each global factory producing at least one electric model by 2029. Production of combustion models will then be phased out at a pace dependent on “local conditions,” according to Audi.
“New plants will only be built where additional capacity is needed,” Audi said. One such plant is being built in Changchun, China, in partnership with local automaker FAW, Audi noted. Scheduled to finish construction by the end of 2024, it will build EVs based on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture and will be Audi’s first Chinese plant producing EVs exclusively.
This is quite a different strategy than a number of other automakers. General Motors, for instance, plans to make EVs at dedicated plants. Ford is also aiming to scale up EV manufacturing with new standalone plants, including a U.S. electric truck factory.
Audi isn’t the only automaker planning to mix production of EVs and gasoline vehicles. Volvo has aimed for its EX90 to be made alongside the next-generation gasoline XC90 at the automaker’s South Carolina plant. Mercedes-Benz is also making the EQS SUV alongside several existing internal-combustion models in Alabama.
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BEREA, Ohio -- The distressed look on Browns’ rookie receiver Isaiah Weston’s face as he was carted off the practice field Saturday said it all.
Weston, the undrafted free agent out of Northern Iowa, is feared to have suffered a torn ACL midway through Day 4 of Browns training cam. Weston (6-4, 214) had his head in his hand on the cart and looked to be in pain. | 2022-07-31T21:55:39+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2022/07/browns-wr-isaiah-weston-feared-to-have-a-torn-acl-but-not-yet-confirmed-another-camp-wr-will-likely-be-added.html |
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LAKE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — Two Indiana State Troopers were hit by another vehicle during a traffic stop just before 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
This happened on the westbound side of I-80 near the 8 mile marker.
Troopers Kay Galvan and Dennis Griffin stopped a vehicle there for a traffic violation.
Both troopers were inside their vehicle when they were hit by a silver Subaru.
They were taken to a hospital and later released.
The driver of the Subaru was not injured in the crash and refused medical treatment. He was identified as 27-year-old Kyle Dickson of Hobart.
Dickson was transported to the Lake County Jail with a preliminary charge of OWI while endangering a person, a Class A Misdemeanor. | 2022-08-07T01:29:44+00:00 | wlfi.com | https://www.wlfi.com/news/two-state-troopers-struck-during-traffic-stop/article_559e23c4-15e3-11ed-82c6-c3a454b6e1fb.html |
93-year-old woman and grandson complete journey to all 63 US national parks
By Rebekah Riess, CNN
(CNN) — Brad Ryan and his grandmother Joy Ryan set out on a journey to visit all 63 national parks seven and a half years ago. This week they completed their goal when they arrived at the National Park of American Samoa.
“The National Park of American Samoa is the only U.S. national park south of the equator and our most remote park,” Ryan posted on the Grandma Joy’s Road Trip Instagram page created to document their travels. “It was a long road to get here, but we couldn’t have chosen a more epic place to conclude this epic chapter of Grandma Joy’s Road Trip!”
The two received certificates and a number of other gifts from the National Park Service, commemorating their 63-national park achievement.
“We defied erroneous assumptions about the limitations of aging. We defied financial and logistical constraints,” said Brad Ryan, who is 41, noting that his 93-year-old grandmother made history as the oldest living person to visit every US National Park.
“Seven and a half years ago Grandma Joy and Brad Ryan set out on a journey to visit all 63 National Parks,” National Park of American Samoa said in a post on Tuesday. “For them, however, this was not simply a checklist journey, but one of reconciliation and healing. Today, we were honored to host them as they arrived at their 63rd park and accomplished their goal. Their story is amazing and we are grateful to be part of it.”
The duo’s journey began after Ryan’s grandmother, a resident of Duncan Falls, Ohio, told him she regretted how few trips she had taken during her life, as CNN previously reported.
First he took her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, then he started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the other trips.
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been appointed as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of (1) Thirty days after the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.
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mailed to the Department of Social and Health Services, Offices of Financial Recovery, Attn: Estate Recovery Unit, P.O. Box 9501, Olympia, WA 98507-9501.
Date of First Publication: November 23, 2022
Administrator: JODI LYNN SCHILLING
Attorney for Administrator: Morgan K. Madison
Address for Mailing or Service:
MADEIRA PLLC
3812 N. 26th St., Ste. B
Tacoma, WA 98407
(253) 222-7778
Pierce County Superior Court Cause No.: 22-4-02470-7
Dated this 21st day of November, 2022
/s/ Morgan K. Madison
Morgan K. Madison, WSBA No. 46388
Attorney for the Estate
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WASHINGTON — House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy warned Tuesday that Republicans will not write a “blank check” for Ukraine if they win back the House majority, reflecting his party’s growing skepticism about financial support for Kyiv as it battles Russia’s invasion.
The comments from McCarthy, who is in line to become speaker if Republicans win the House, raised fresh questions about the resiliency of America’s support for Ukraine as a growing number of Republicans, particularly those aligned with Donald Trump’s “America First” approach, question the need for federal spending abroad at a time of record-high inflation at home.
Since Russia launched its invasion in February, Congress has approved tens of billions in emergency security and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, while the Biden administration has shipped billions worth of weapons and equipment from military inventories.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped Tuesday afternoon when asked about McCarthy’s comments. She instead thanked congressional leaders for bipartisan work to “support Ukraine to defend itself from Russia’s war crimes and atrocities.”
“We will continue to work with Congress and continue to monitor those conversations on these efforts and support Ukraine as long as it takes,” she said. “We are going to keep that promise that we’re making to the brave Ukrainians who are fighting every day, to fight for their freedom and their democracy.”
In private, GOP lawmakers who support aid to Ukraine say there could be an opportunity to pass one more tranche in an end-of-year spending package, before Republicans potentially take control in the next Congress.
Last month, lawmakers approved about $12.3 billion in Ukraine-related aid as part of a bill that finances the federal government through Dec. 16. The money included aid for the Ukrainian military as well as money to help the country’s government provide basic services to its citizens.
That comes on top of more than $50 billion provided in two previous bills.
Financial support for Ukraine garnered strong bipartisan support in the Senate and the House after Russia’s invasion in the spring. In the Senate, GOP leader Mitch McConnell and Richard Shelby, the lead Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, were early and consistent voices for Ukraine aid. But conservative opposition was present from the start. Republicans accounted for the only votes against a $40 billion aid package in the spring.
Nearly 60 House members and 11 senators opposed the legislation, citing the need for more oversight of how the money is spent and what weapons and equipment the U.S. is sending overseas.
Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he will be leading that effort to provide more oversight of how the Ukraine money is spent if the GOP does win the majority next month.
“I do think you have broad bipartisan support for what’s happening in Ukraine, but I think you’ll see, if we get the majority, more oversight and accountability in terms of the funding and where the money’s going, and I think the American taxpayers deserve that,” the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Business on Tuesday.
International allies are also watching the debate on Capitol Hill closely. Estonian Ambassador to the U.S. Kristjan Prikk said he’d received assurances from members of both parties that there is “strong core support” for Ukraine assistance to continue, no matter which party wins the election.
“Certainly both parties have members who have doubted if the assistance is proportional, whether it’s been necessary, but they did not constitute the majority or core,” Prikk said Tuesday. “I do not see this changing.”
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Associated Press writers Seung Min Kim and Tara Copp contributed to this report. | 2022-10-18T23:25:05+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mccarthy-no-blank-check-for-ukraine-if-gop-wins-majority/2022/10/18/36f01870-4f21-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html |
Artists from Michigan and beyond are gearing up to sell their creations at the Palmer Park Art Fair.
This year’s event at Detroit’s Palmer Park is set for June Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4.
Beyond just the opportunity to buy art, the fair also features interactive activities, food trucks, and an author’s tent with children’s storytelling.
Featured artists this year include Donald Calloway, Babacar Lo, and Charlene Uresy, along with makers from the Mint Artists Guild, Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club, Detroit Art Teachers Association, and Ann Arbor Makeshift Gallery.
This year’s poster features a quilt depicting the park’s lighthouse by Laura Rangos.
Cranbrook is joining the fair for the first time with an eco-dye project and sketching sessions. The Scarab Club will also host live sketching with clothed models. Other hands-on activities include Art in Motion clay pot painting, an Art Lab J Korean cultural project, and coloring for the kids.
The Palmer Park Art Fair was originally established in the 1970s and had a ten-year run before disappearing. It was restarted in 2013 and is celebrating its “10th-year” anniversary in 2023.
“Our attendees have proven that it was the right time to bring a high-quality art fair back to the city,” organizer Mark Loeb said in a press release. “The Park, along Woodward just south of Seven Mile is a regional gem. I can’t think of a more beautiful place for an art fair.”
The Lobster Truck and Pink Flamingo will be on deck with food, and The People for Palmer Park will have a beer tent.
The park is located on Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile Roads and the fair will be situated between Lake Frances and Palmer Park’s historic log cabin, which will be open this year.
For more information, see palmerparkartfair.com.
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Deer Creek alum returns to home state as part of Disney's 'Frozen'
"For the First Time in Forever" — OK, maybe not quite that long — Natalie Goodin will be back in a familiar place that houses many of her warmest memories: Civic Center Music Hall.
"I will catch a younger girl sitting closer to the front of the audience, and I just physically remember that being me. When I was a kid, my parents would bring me to shows — primarily at the Civic Center, seeing Broadway tours, shows at Lyric Theatre — and I just remember being like, 'This is what I want to do,'" Goodin told The Oklahoman.
Born and raised in OKC, Goodin is returning to her hometown as part of the cast of the North American tour of Disney's hit musical "Frozen." The stage version of the Oscar-winning animated blockbuster is playing Oklahoma City for the first time in, well, ever March 22-April 2 at the Civic Center, where it's part of a grand spring finale for OKC Broadway's 2022-2023 season. (The last show of the season will be the return of the smash musical "Hamilton!" May 24-June 4).
What can people expect when Disney's 'Frozen' musical comes to OKC?
Originally slated to come to OKC during the 2020-2021 season before the COVID-19 pandemic forced audiences to temporarily "Let It Go," Disney's "Frozen" features the film's familiar songs, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers by the movie's award-winning songwriters, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
A member of the "Frozen" ensemble, Goodin is returning to OKC on her first national tour of a Broadway musical, after she graduated with her bachelor of fine arts in musical theater performance from the University of Oklahoma.
But the 2016 Deer Creek High School valedictorian's musical theater training actually dates back to age 3, when she started lessons at Dance Unlimited/Spotlight Acting Academy in Edmond. Along with performing with her school choirs, she appeared in Lyric Theatre productions of "A Christmas Carol," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Oklahoma!," "Wizard of Oz" and "Mary Poppins" and performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's "The Christmas Show."
With all those credits, Goodin has spent lots of time on the stage as well as in the seats at the Civic Center, and she gets emotional talking about her return to her hometown theater.
"When I booked this job and I saw Oklahoma City was on on the tour roster, I was just thrilled. I can't wait to see the people that helped shape my career. ... I can't wait to be with my friends and family. I can't wait to show my company and my cast members Oklahoma and Oklahoma City," Goodin said by phone from the road.
Here's what else the OKC native had to say about starring in "Frozen":
Pandemic graduate had to be patient
Q: Since you graduated from OU in 2020, I guess you were a pandemic graduate?
A: I was a pandemic graduate. I graduated online, and I think it was like a PowerPoint presentation. (laughs) But it was interesting, because we're gearing up to move to New York, we're gearing up to start our careers, we've trained for four years, I've trained since I was 3 ... and then to be told "You're not coming back to school, this is it."
I know everybody was rocked by the pandemic in so many different ways. And I know for a lot of performers, it was like the industry didn't exist — nor did it come back until last year, basically. It was hard. I remember sitting at my parents' house thinking, "What am I going to do now? This is all that I've ever wanted. This is all that I like to do."
While I found other things that I'm good at, I just had to be patient. So, instead of moving to New York (in) August of 2020, I waited until January of 2022. So, it definitely took some time. But it's funny how timing works out because I got "Frozen" in June of 2022, and then I was on the road. So, I'm just grateful that the industry is back ... and people want to see theater.
Audience participation is high during 'Frozen'
Q: The show is such a fan favorite, especially for little girls: Do you hear a lot of singing from the audience when those familiar songs come up?
A: Sometimes we do. I vividly remember it was Cleveland, Ohio, it was our very last show: It was a long rehearsal week that week, I remember that people were tired ... and it was the eighth show of the week. Anna and Elsa sing a little bit of a reprise of "Let It Go" at the end leading into the finale. And we just hear, it sounded like a school choir of children singing along to "Let It Go." And it was the most beautiful thing ever. It really just put everyone in the best mood, reminded us all why we do this — why we travel, why we leave home — to bring this unique joy and escape and inspire young children. Because for most of these kids, it's their first time ever seeing a Broadway show.
'Explosive' moment is a favorite
Q: Do you have a favorite moment in the show?
A: I do. It's "First Time in Forever." It's the end whenever all the partygoers come out, we're all in our coronation dresses, and we get to run through the gates of the castle. It is the most explosive moment in the show. Also, at the end of that number, that's the first time that the audience really gets to clap, which is interesting, because you're 20, 25 minutes into the show ... by then. And that's when you really see how massive the production is. It's a beautiful moment.
'Frozen' show has 'secret hidden adult humor'
Q: Do you feel like sometimes you guys win over the doubters, the ones who think maybe "Frozen" isn't the show for them or this is just kid material? And is that fun?
A: Yeah. Whenever you have all ages come to the show, people walk in really not knowing what to expect originally. Or, they think, "Oh, I'm bringing my kids here; it's gonna be super kid friendly" — and it is: it's definitely for kids, and it's the original story that everyone knows and loves — but there's this kind of secret hidden adult humor here and there that comes in. ...
But I would say the main thing that really amazes people of all ages is the technical element of this show. Seeing Elsa transform the stage into her ice palace is unbelievable. Her transformation in "Let It Go" when her dress changes with a flash in front of your eyes — if you blink, you miss it — you hear gasps all across the board from all ages.
So, I think what really wows people is they don't realize how massive this production is — how many people it takes onstage and offstage, backstage especially, to put this together. I think we travel over 20 18-wheeler trucks just for our set. That's how massive this is. ... Sitting in the theater and seeing that come to life on stage, you kind of forget that you're taking your kids to the theater.
DISNEY'S 'FROZEN'
- When: March 22-April 2.
- Where: Civic Center, 201 N Walker.
- Tickets: https://www.okcbroadway.com/frozen. | 2023-03-19T11:34:27+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/2023/03/19/returning-with-frozen-this-okc-native-isnt-letting-go-of-her-roots/70008401007/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an HVAC technician and I wanted to create an electrical and electronic training and troubleshooting apparatus for HVAC students, technicians or contractors," said an inventor, from Rio Rancho, N.M., "so I invented the HOLMS PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION CONCEPTS. My design can be used for on-the-job training as well as everyday troubleshooting in the HVAC field."
The invention provides an effective training aid for properly troubleshooting a furnace's electrical system. In doing so, it enables the user to verify the proper operation of each subsystem component. It also allows the user to readily identify failed components or interconnecting wiring. Additionally, the invention features a practical and portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the HVAC industry.
The original design was submitted to the Tucson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TLP-134, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Former George W. Bush aide Karl Rove warned in a new op-ed that former President Trump’s federal indictment over his mishandling of classified documents will come at a steep cost to himself and the country.
“No matter the outcome, America will pay a high price for the former president’s reckless petulance. So will he,” Rove wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Rove, who served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to Bush, wrote that the country has been “plunged into an unprecedented crisis” after Trump was indicted on 37 felony counts last week. The former president pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges Tuesday as he maintains that the federal case against him is a “witch hunt” orchestrated by the weaponization of the government.
Rove said that this indictment is much more serious than Trump’s indictment in connection to falsifying business records in the Manhattan court, where he also pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records earlier this year.
“Unlike Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges of falsifying business records, this indictment is devastating in its rigor of evidence and the seriousness of the alleged crimes,” Rove wrote. “Even so, the case will further tear our country apart, as it has a heavy impact on the presidential campaign and—wrongly—undermines confidence in our justice system.”
“The blame for this calamity rests solely on Mr. Trump and his childish impulse to keep mementos from his time in the Oval Office, no matter what the law says,” he added.
Rove also wrote that when Trump’s trial is over, the county will face a “period of anger, division and recrimination” as some Republicans call for law enforcement agencies, like the FBI, to be eliminated. He said that the call to cut funding to an agency like the FBI is “no different than scrapping the San Francisco Police Department.”
He also suggested that if Trump did not take his “precious keepsakes,” then the country may have avoided the divisive aftermath of his indictment.
Rove, who is also a Fox News contributor, has criticized the former president in the past, saying in April that Trump’s focus on making fun of his rivals is “not smart.” He also said earlier this month that voters could learn a lot about political candidates by “how they trade blows,” pointing to Trump’s ongoing feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who announced his bid for the White House last month. | 2023-06-15T18:17:31+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/karl-rove-in-journal-op-ed-trump-will-pay-a-high-price-in-mar-a-lago-case/ |
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns face the Carolina Panthers Sept. 11. The Panthers will be led by former Browns quarterback, Baker Mayfield, who likes to motivate himself by stirring things up, especially if there is a personal angle involved.
Mayfield’s personal angle in the Browns case is that they brought in Deshaun Watson to replace him. | 2022-09-07T11:10:53+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/sports/2022/09/can-myles-garrett-and-browns-use-mayfields-emotion-against-him-crowquill.html |
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) between August 1, 2019 and July 28, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important December 27, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased U.S. Bancorp securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the U.S. Bancorp class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9420 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than December 27, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) U.S. Bank National Association (U.S. Bancorp's banking subsidiary) created sales pressure on its employees that led them to open credit cards, lines of credit, and deposit accounts without consumers' knowledge and consent; (2) since at least 2015, U.S. Bank National Association and by extension, U.S. Bancorp, was aware of such unauthorized conduct that it was violating relevant regulations and laws aimed at protecting its consumers; (3) U.S. Bancorp failed to properly monitor its employees from engaging in such unlawful conduct, detect and stop the misconduct, and identify and remediate harmed consumers; (4) all the foregoing subjected the Company to a foreseeable risk of heightened regulatory scrutiny or investigation; (5) U.S. Bancorp's revenues were in part the product of unlawful conduct and thus unsustainable; and (6) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the U.S. Bancorp class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9420 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — When Judah & the Lion last performed in the Magic City, the show was memorable for not the most stellar reasons.
The indie rock band was scheduled to perform at Avondale Brewing Company on Aug. 21, 2019. The date was rain-checked, literally, as the band scrambled to set up a tent outside to perform acoustic music for their fans as lightning flashed in the distance.
It would be the last time Nate Zuercher would perform with the trio, as Judah & the Lion announced his amicable departure roughly two months later. Within the next year, the band was forced to put touring on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, three years later, Judah & the Lion will be returning to Avondale Brewing Company Tuesday. Band member Brian Macdonald says the duo is ready and excited to be back on the road during their “Happy Again” tour, entertaining their fans under their new “Revival” album.
“We were really happy about it and thankful that we had the time off during the pandemic to reset and feel a little bit more grounded,” Macdonald said. “I guess it’s easier to like go into those settings and not be quite as exhausted after feeling that groundedness at home.”
He says after roughly eight years of constantly being on the road, pre-pandemic, the break was well-needed.
“We were definitely getting close to hitting a point of burning ourselves out so it was very important to have that grounding and the time off to reset ourselves,” Macdonald said. “I definitely feel like I have a lot more energy going into the tour, like I have a lot more to give.”
Macdonald spoke about how Zuercher’s departure from the band and the pandemic shaped the “Revival” album, as well as the duo’s own personal journeys. While Judah Akers stayed in Nashville, Macdonald spent a year living in Sweden with his wife. The two men worked independently on their own music, with Macdonald even releasing a solo album titled “Moonlight in Visby,” before meeting each other again after a year of separation.
“I think we’re just starting to rediscover what [Judah & the Lion] looks like for us,” Macdonald said. “I believe that the core values and sound of Judah & The Lion still shines through the music and that the heart of it is still noticeable.”
One song featured on the “Revival” album is a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide.” Macdonald said the cover was created as he and Akers were casually playing various songs while in the recording studio. With Macdonald on piano and Akers on guitar, the two began performing the song from memory and added the recording to the album after just a few takes.
“It definitely relates to the lyrics in all of our songs on the album and [the theme] becoming a new person while still remembering and looking fondly on the past and being sad about the things that have changed,” Macdonald said. “But looking at the reality that it’s all going to be different now.”
So far, Macdonald says fans have been receptive to the new music, especially “HAPPY LIFE” which was written with a certain person in mind.
“It’s based on Judah and I’s thoughts [on Zuercher’s departure], lyrically saying what we wish for him, that we want him to be happy and we love him,” Macdonald said. “It definitely can take on a different meaning for the listener. I think you could see it as more of a breakup song and still wishing the best for the other person.”
When it comes to the “Happy Again” tour, Macdonald hopes fans can relate to the album’s message: moving forward, recognizing hardships and celebrating living in the moment.
“Life is hard. We’ve all seen that in the last few years, and we don’t want to sugarcoat that in our music. But we also want to remain positive and supportive of each other,” Macdonald said. “We want people to walk away with more hope than they walked in with. Even if it’s just a little, we hope we did our job.”
Tickets for Tuesday’s show, as well as other dates for the “Happy Again” tour, can be found here. | 2022-10-03T21:07:48+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/judah-the-lion-perform-in-birmingham-for-the-first-time-post-pandemic/ |
Vietnamese automaker VinFast reported last week that it had shipped its first batch of VF 8 electric SUVs for the U.S., with the first deliveries due before the end of the calendar year.
The shipment of 999 EVs departed Hai Phong, Vietnam, Nov. 25 for what is scheduled to be a 20-day voyage to California, where they’ll be offloaded and sent to customers, according to a company press release. Following delivery of the first batch of U.S.-market cars, VinFast plans to start deliveries of the VF 8 in Canada in Europe in early 2023.
The VF 8 will be followed to market by the larger VF 9, which will begin deliveries in Vietnam and other markets in the first quarter of 2023, VinFast said, confirming a delayed timeline first hinted at in September, when the first 100 VF 8 electric SUVs were handed over to customers in the automaker’s home market.
In the same release, VinFast noted that it signed a deal with subscription service Autonomy at the 2022 Los Angeles auto show for 2,500 VF 8 and VF 9 models, but didn’t specify whether any cars from the initial shipment would go toward that order. Earlier this year, Autonomy announced the fleet purchase of 23,000 EVs that it will then offer to customers on a subscription basis, and VinFast is one of the 17 automakers with vehicles included in the deal.
The VF 8 is 187.0 inches long, 76.1 inches wide, and 65.6 inches tall. It launches in Eco and Plus forms, both with dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrains. The Eco version makes 349 hp and about 369 lb-ft of torque, while the Plus version makes 402 hp and about 457 lb-ft. Based on the European/global WLTP cycle, VinFast claims a range of up to 260 miles for the Eco and up to 248 miles for the Plus.
As with Vietnamese-market models, VinFast is expected to offer a number of driver-assist features in the U.S., including adaptive cruise control, active lane control, automated parking, and a summon feature. VinFast also has a bundle of Smart Services, encompassing an app and features like voice recognition, and in-car online shopping and video games.
VinFast’s timeline in the U.S. has indeed been very fast. It established its U.S. headquarters just last November, and that same month displayed early prototypes of the VF 8 and VF 9—then named VF e35 and VF e36, respectively. A prototype drive showed the VF 8 had a long way to go, but the company has continued moving fast, spooling up production and opening its first U.S. retail stores in California in July. VinFast has said it will expand its retail footprint to other states in the future.
While initial deliveries for the U.S. are being sourced from Vietnam, VinFast is planning a factory in North Carolina to build U.S.-market VF 8 and VF 9 EVs starting in 2024. The company received $1.2 billion in incentives for the factory, which it claims is the largest economic incentive package ever from North Carolina.
In addition to the VF 8 and VF 9, VinFast said it will soon start reservations for smaller VF 5, VF 6, and VF 7 electric crossover models. A collaboration with Chinese battery supplier CATL may mean more EVs for emerging markets as well.
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Don’t forget older people
October is National Long-Term-Care Residents’ Rights Month, a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term-care residents have made to better our community and to call attention to the rights of residents in long-term-care facilities.
Being a part of a community is essential to our well-being. Throughout the pandemic, residents of long-term-care facilities were disconnected from the resident and staff communities within their facilities when activities and group dining were limited. Further, residents were disconnected from the broader local community when visitation was restricted and many residents were unable to leave their facilities to participate in outside activities.
This year’s Residents’ Rights Month theme — “Inspiring Unity within Our Community” — emphasizes the importance of fostering meaningful community within the facility and encouraging residents’ connection to their local community.
This October, I encourage community members to connect with those they know who live in long-term-care facilities, participate in Residents’ Rights Month events, or inquire about becoming a volunteer long-term-care ombudsman. Your assistance and attention help to ensure that the voices of long-term-care residents do not go unheard and show residents that they have not been forgotten.
KELLY RICHARDS
Illinois Department
on Aging
Springfield | 2022-10-09T15:07:03+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-dont-forget-older-people/article_bb5f5e81-0008-5bdd-b866-3f449f6c23d4.html |
Tesla announced on Tuesday it will build a high-volume factory for its Semi as part of a planned $3.6 billion investment in the sprawling plant near Reno, Nevada, known as Gigafactory Nevada.
The Semi went into limited production late last year at Tesla’s plant near Austin, Texas, but the reservation process for the Class 8 semi-trailer truck was closed last August, just months after it started. It means only some early customers, like Pepsi, have taken delivery.
An update on the Semi program is expected during Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings call later today.
A new battery factory at the Nevada site is also planned as part of the investment. It will produce Tesla’s 4680 battery cell and have an annual capacity of 100 gigawatt-hours, or enough batteries for 1.5 million light-duty vehicles, Tesla said.
The investment, which is expected to create around 3,000 new jobs, is on top of $6.2 billion in investments Tesla has made at the Nevada site since 2014. The site is where Tesla currently produces batteries and other components. Timing for the upgrades wasn’t mentioned.
Tuesday’s investment announcement comes just weeks after details of a $717 million investment in Tesla’s Texas plant surfaced. In addition to low-volume Semi production, the Texas plant also handles Model Y production for the eastern part of the U.S. It is also the planned site for production of the Cybertruck pickup truck, which could start later this year.
Tesla is thought to be planning at least two more plants for its growing global portfolio. One is a second plant in Shanghai to take capacity there to more than a million vehicles per year. Tesla mentioned the second plant in a letter last May sent to officials in Shanghai’s Lingang Special Area, where the existing Shanghai plant is located.
Another plant may be built in Mexico. Bloomberg reported last month that Tesla is close to announcing plans to build a plant in the automotive hub of northeastern Mexican state Nuevo León.
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On Thursday, the U.S. Education Department announced a proposed change to Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. The proposal would make it illegal for schools to broadly ban transgender students from sports teams that align with their gender identity, rather than their assigned sex at birth.
The department says the move comes after two years of outreach to stakeholders across the country, and the changes still give schools some flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on age and sport.
"Every student should be able to have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, free from discrimination," said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. "Being on a sports team is an important part of the school experience for students of all ages."
According to the ACLU, in the past three years at least 19 states have passed laws broadly banning transgender students from sports teams that don't align with their sex as assigned at birth. If enacted, the Biden's administration's proposed changes would render such policies illegal.
Thursday's announcement came on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in West Virginia's battle over a law that bans transgender athletes from participating on female sports teams at school. And it came a day after the Kansas Legislature successfully overrode the Democratic governor's veto to codify a ban of its own.
The proposed Title IX changes will be published to the Federal Register in the next few weeks, after which it will open for 30 days of public comment. Those are just the first steps in a long process to alter the law. Assuming the proposal survives that process, schools and students will not see the rule changed or enacted for months if not years.
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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, partner announce birth of child
Published: Aug. 30, 2022 at 7:18 AM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
(CNN) - Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a new member in the huddle.
His partner, Nessa, announced on Instagram that she had the couple’s first child a few weeks ago.
The post included a picture of Nessa, Kaepernick and their child, whose gender was not revealed.
Kaepernick hasn’t taken the field since his last game with the San Francisco 49ers during the 2016 season.
He first garnered controversy in 2016 when he started to kneel during the pre-game national anthem.
The following year he filed a grievance against the NFL saying they were preventing him from playing.
He later settled the complaint.
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HOUSTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After nearly 30 years at NASA supporting human spaceflight, NASA Astronaut Michael Gernhardt is leaving NASA. His last day is July 25.
Gernhardt was selected as an astronaut in March 1992. He is a four-flight veteran, logging over 43 days in space, including four spacewalks totaling 23 hours and 16 minutes. He was a mission specialist on four space shuttle missions: STS-69 in 1995, STS-83 and STS-94 in 1997, and STS-104 in 2001. In addition, he was a crewmember on the first NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission in an undersea habitat and led numerous subsequent NEEMO missions simulating partial gravity environments including the Moon, Mars, and near-Earth asteroids.
Prior to becoming an astronaut, Gernhardt was a professional deep-sea diver and founder of Oceaneering Space Systems, where he led the development of a variety of spacewalking tools, life support systems, and decompression procedures.
His first spaceflight was STS-69 on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in September 1995. During that mission, he performed a spacewalk to evaluate the tools, hardware, and techniques that would be used to assemble and maintain the International Space Station before construction began in 1998. This included the body restraint tether, a mechanical arm attached to the spacesuit, and the micro-conical interface that allows astronauts or robots to remove and replace station components, both of which he invented.
Gernhardt was assigned as the lead spacewalker for STS-104, when he led the installation and outfitting of the International Space Station's airlock, Quest. He also led an international team in developing a new pre-breathing protocol that uses exercise on a bicycle ergometer while breathing oxygen to speed the elimination of nitrogen to reduce the risk of decompression sickness during spacewalks. This effort included the human research subject testing and development of the flight procedures and hardware.
"I had the great opportunity of working with Mike Gernhardt throughout his career. In my position as chief astronaut, I assigned him to lead the early assembly of the International Space Station, a role that continues to enable space station operations still decades later, and that led to an array of benefits for Earth and exploration," said NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana.
On July 20, 2001, during the STS-104 mission, Gernhardt and his crewmate NASA astronaut James Reilly, were the first crew members to use the exercise pre-breathing protocol, ushering in a new era of spacewalks from the station. Gernhardt also was the principal investigator on the development and implementation of the "campout," or sleeping overnight in the airlock at lower pressure, the in-suit light exercise pre-breathing protocol, and the exploration atmosphere that uses a lower cabin pressure with higher oxygen concentration and an associated pre-breathing protocol that will facilitate spacewalks on the Moon and Mars.
Gernhardt served as the extravehicular activity and surface operations lead of a lunar development study, where he invented the concept of a small, crewed pressurized rover with a cabin incorporating the exploration atmosphere to facilitate rapid spacewalks for exploring the surfaces of the Moon and Mars. After his flight career, he led a team across NASA in the development and testing of four generations of this rover.
"Mike has had major contributions to human spaceflight and crew safety that have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on us and our missions," said Chief Astronaut Reid Wiseman. "The astronaut corps will not soon forget the expertise that Gernhardt brought to NASA missions on the space station and to future missions to the Moon and Mars."
Gernhardt was born in Mansfield, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1978, and a master's and a doctorate in bioengineering from University of Pennsylvania, in 1983 and 1991, respectively.
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1 firefighter dead after Philadelphia building collapse
One firefighter has died after being trapped in a building that caught fire in Philadelphia and then collapsed early Saturday, fire officials said.
The fallen firefighter was not immediately identified, but Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy said he was a 27-year department veteran.
The building had caught fire just before 2 a.m. Saturday, Murphy said. The fire had been put out, but then the building collapsed at 3:24 a.m.
Four other firefighters and an inspector with the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections were also trapped at the time of the collapse. One firefighter jumped from the second story of the rubble, Murphy said.
The others were pulled out at various times. They were taken to the hospital and said to be in stable condition. The inspector has since been released.
Numerous firefighters were at the scene as the rescue effort unfolded, and some were seen hugging or wiping tears from their eyes, multiple news outlets reported.
“You can’t predict this,” Murphy told reporters at a news conference. “This was just a catastrophic accident that (has) really hurt our department.”
Investigators were looking into what caused the collapse. Murphy said the building had been affected by the fire, but it was unclear what caused it to come down. | 2022-06-18T15:13:48+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/firefighters-philadelphia-building-collapse/40329530 |
Joint solution improves accuracy, enhances productivity, and reduces pre-printed label costs
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Loftware, the world's largest cloud-based Enterprise Labeling and Artwork Management provider, and Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, "Epson"), the global leader in color label printers, today announced a strategic partnership that aims to revolutionize customers' labeling workflows.
Epson and Loftware will collaborate to develop cloud-based 1-step color printing solutions to improve print efficiency and ease-of-use. The companies will lower barriers for on-demand color label printing through seamless integration with SAP and other leading business systems.
The partnership will integrate the Epson ColorWorks series of color label printers with Loftware's NiceLabel Cloud platforms. Businesses will be able to print from NiceLabel Cloud directly to Epson ColorWorks cloud-connected printers. This will improve productivity, reduce customers' reliance on IT, minimize print errors, and decrease the cost and inventory of pre-printed labels.
The partnership between Epson and Loftware comes following a sharp increase in demand for high-productivity color labeling solutions as businesses invested in supply chain improvements, both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand has particularly grown among companies that employ SAP EH&S ERP systems and who plan to migrate to S/4 HANA and the cloud. These businesses manage production, warehouse, and distribution facilities and operate across multiple industry segments including chemicals, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and retail.
The Epson-Loftware collaboration meets a growing demand from businesses for the use of color on products, cartons, and pallet labels for identification. Furthermore, companies in the chemical (GHS), medical device, and pharmaceutical segments are faced with the urgent need to comply with international labeling regulations requiring color. Through the integration of Epson color label printers with Loftware's NiceLabel Cloud platforms, companies that use 2-step printing to print color labels can now move to lower cost and error-reduced 1-step on-demand color label printing.
"We're partnering with Epson to help businesses of all sizes move their labeling into the cloud," said Paul Vogt, VP of Channel and Alliance Strategies at Loftware. "Businesses are adopting best-of-breed partner labeling solutions and 1-step color label printing to bring radical improvements to their supply chain printing operations. We're delighted to collaborate with Epson to deliver such transformation."
The collaboration will bring several important benefits for customers. Businesses will gain the ability to print labels efficiently and quickly without missing production and shipping deadlines. They'll reduce waste by eliminating leftover and unused label stocks when a label's format changes. Additionally, organizations will no longer be required to manage the inventory of urgent procurement or customer label stocks. Finally, customers won't need to purchase higher cost pre-printed customer short-run labels, but can instead use low-cost standard blank label stocks.
"Readiness to adapt to cloud trends is critical," said Junkichi Yoshida, Executive Officer and COO of the Printing Solutions Division at Epson. "Our goal is to drive the growth of color on-demand printing in various kinds of businesses and applications by further enhancing the quality of our label print technology and optimizing both hardware and solutions. This partnership with Loftware is essential for our future business development, since by providing Cloud print, our Colorworks printers can connect to the systems of enterprise customers across multiple industries."
Learn more on Epson's website here and here.
About Loftware
Loftware is the world's largest cloud-based Enterprise Labeling and Artwork Management provider, offering an end-to-end labeling solution platform for companies of all sizes. Maintaining a global presence with offices in the US, UK, Germany, Slovenia, China, and Singapore, Loftware boasts over 35 years of expertise in solving labeling challenges. We help companies improve accuracy, traceability, and compliance while improving the quality, speed, and efficiency of their labeling. As the leading global provider of Enterprise Labeling and Artwork Management, along with Clinical Trials Labeling and Content Management, Loftware enables supply chain agility, supports evolving regulations, and optimizes business operations for a wide range of industries. These include automotive, chemicals, consumer products, electronics, food & beverage, manufacturing, medical device, pharmaceuticals, retail, and apparel.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact, and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion. corporate.epson/en/
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Last year a record number of people died from heat-related causes in Maricopa County. This year, local government is spending more on heat mitigation than ever before, with the help of ARPA funds.
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Last year a record number of people died from heat-related causes in Maricopa County. This year, local government is spending more on heat mitigation than ever before, with the help of ARPA funds.
Copyright 2023 KJZZ | 2023-05-25T21:50:26+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-05-25/phoenix-boosts-spending-on-heat-relief-as-weather-related-casualties-skyrocket |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Companies run by a former professional wrestler received “sham contracts” in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the U.S., according to a new federal indictment.
The indictment of former wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr., 40, of Madison, Mississippi, was unsealed Thursday, two days after it was issued by a grand jury in Jackson. During a brief court appearance Thursday, he pleaded not guilty.
“Jesus loves you, brother. God bless you, man,” DiBiase told a WAPT-TV reporter outside the federal courthouse Thursday. DiBiase and his attorney offered no other comment.
The indictment is the latest development in a sprawling Mississippi corruption case involving wealthy and well-connected people receiving contracts from the state Department of Human Services from 2016 to 2019.
DiBiase was a WWE wrestler in the 2000s and 2010s. The indictment accuses him and co-conspirators, including former Mississippi Department of Human Services director John Davis, of fraudulently obtaining federal money and using it for their own benefit.
According to the indictment, Davis directed funds from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to two nonprofit organizations — Family Resource Center of North Mississippi Inc. and Mississippi Community Education Center.
Davis directed the organizations’ directors to award contracts in 2017 and 2018 to DiBiase’s companies, Priceless Ventures LLC and Familiae Orientem LLC, for social services that the companies did not provide, the indictment said.
“DiBiase allegedly used these federal funds to buy a vehicle and a boat, and for the down payment on the purchase of a house, among other expenditures,” the Justice Department said in a news release Thursday.
The Associated Press left phone messages with DiBiase’s attorney Thursday, seeking comment on the indictment.
DiBiase is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, six counts of wire fraud, two counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and four counts of money laundering.
If convicted, he would face up to five years in prison for the conspiracy count, up to 20 years for each wire fraud count and up to 10 years for each count of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and for each count of money laundering, the Justice Department said.
Davis pleaded guilty last year to charges tied to welfare misspending in state’s largest public corruption case, including $160,000 spent on drug rehabilitation in Malibu, California, for former pro wrestler Brett DiBiase, the brother of Ted DiBiase Jr.
Brett DiBiase has pleaded guilty to state and federal charges tied to the case.
The welfare misspending scandal has ensnared high-profile figures, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who is not facing criminal charges but is among more than three dozen defendants in a civil lawsuit that the current Human Services director filed to try to recover some of the welfare money wasted while Davis was in charge.
Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states in the U.S. for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going toward direct aid to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to fritter away tens of millions of welfare dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to the state auditor and state and federal prosecutors.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money helped pay for pet projects of the wealthy, including $5 million for a volleyball arena that Favre supported at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi Auditor Shad White said. Favre’s daughter played volleyball at the school starting in 2017. | 2023-04-21T13:18:09+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/former-wrestler-charged-in-mississippi-welfare-fraud-case/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Embiid had 37 points and 13 rebounds, James Harden scored 29 points in his first game in Brooklyn since being traded a year ago to begin a Big Three breakup, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Nets 101-98 on Saturday night.
The 76ers got a victory instead of overtime when Spencer Dinwiddie's 3-pointer was ruled too late after a video review.
Harden added six rebounds and six assists after being booed in introductions and then early in the game. He arrived in January 2021 to play with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, then asked out and was gone just 13 months later, swapped in a deal for Ben Simmons at last year's trade deadline.
Now Durant and Irving are also gone, traded this week.
Mikal Bridges scored 23 points in his first game with the Nets, but missed a layup that would have given the Nets the lead with about 2 seconds left. Harden then made two free throws with 0.9 seconds to go, and Dinwiddie's shot after a timeout was too late.
The Nets started Bridges, Cam Johnson, Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith, the four players they acquired this week from Phoenix for Durant and Dallas for Irving. The Nets had the look of a tough defensive team that will miss the scoring of their All-Stars, managing only one basket in the last 6 1/2 minutes.
The Nets were ahead by nine midway through the fourth quarter before Embiid capped an 8-0 run with a basket that cut it to 96-95 with 3:55 remaining. The Sixers missed numerous chances to take the lead from there until Embiid grabbed the rebound of Harden's missed layup and was fouled going back up. His free throws gave Philadelphia the lead for good with 5.2 to play.
TIP-INS
76ers: Jalen McDaniels, acquired from Charlotte at the deadline, had five points in 16 minutes. ... Harden will face a former team in the next game, too. The 76ers host Houston on Monday.
Nets: Seth Curry, who was also acquired in the Harden-Simmons swap, is sidelined with a left adductor strain. ... Simmons had four points and three rebounds. ... It was coach Jacque Vaughn's 48th birthday.
TWINS TRADED
“The Twins,” as Bridges and Johnson were nicknamed in Phoenix by former teammate Deandre Ayton because they did so much together, had plenty of time to think about moving to New York. Durant's initial trade request came last summer.
“There was a lot of jokes, especially in the summer when KD wanted to come here and we knew the pieces and who might be the ones that were going to go, and us two was the main two,” Bridges said. “And we joked around, we always said, ‘At least we got us, at least we got us,’ and it happened and that’s still to this day. It’s just like, at least I got my twin with me.”
BRIDGES ON THE BENCH
Bridges had played in all 365 possible games while with Phoenix, along with all 116 games at Villanova, before not being available Thursday night after the trade.
“He was shaking. He was like, ‘I’ve got to get out there, I've got to get out there,” said Johnson, who said he told Bridges to calm down.
But, Johnson then showed Bridges that he'd already played 56 games with the Suns and the Nets still had 37 remaining beginning Saturday, meaning he can actually play 83 games instead of 82.
“I'm trying to keep his spirits up,” Johnson said.
UP NEXT
76ers: Host Houston on Monday.
Nets: At New York on Monday.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-12T02:10:55+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/embiid-leads-76ers-over-nets-in-harden-s-return-17779156.php |
A few years ago, parents and teachers in Chicago were facing a new threat as e-cigarettes began showing up in classrooms and school lockers. While smoking cigarettes has thankfully become less popular among young people, fruity flavored “vapes” became the trendy new teenage accessory as they spread like wildfire throughout Illinois and the United States. Fighting back against the dangerous new epidemic of nicotine vape addiction, our elected officials banned flavored e-cigarettes, but a more dangerous product slipped through the cracks and is getting our kids hooked.
Disposable e-cigarettes made in China by companies such as Puff Bar and Elf Bar have sneaked around the law by exploiting a loophole in U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation. They’re sold in kid-friendly flavors at reasonable prices and can be found on store shelves in our community. Some of these unscrupulous manufacturers have been caught loading their products with illegal levels of nicotine in the United Kingdom to make them even more addictive.
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When you look at the cartoon character packaging and the flavors such as cherry pomegranate, kiwi passion guava and peach ice, you can see right away that manufacturers are marketing to young people. They’re even marketing them in disguises to look like sippy cups or even school supplies to escape detection from educators. How can this happen if flavored vapes are illegal?
To start, the FDA left the door open for disposables in its enforcement guidelines. That needs to change. But more problematic is the fact that many of these products are being smuggled into our country from overseas.
The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates that more than 700 million disposable e-cigarettes were imported to the U.S. from China last year, up from 300,000 in 2017. That’s an increase of more than 2,000% in five years. These products are often produced without any oversight or government standards; in many cases, they are smuggled into the country illegally, and they end up on store shelves or sold on street corners out of backpacks.
It’s bad enough that our kids figure out a way to get their hands on legitimate adult products, but the danger of these disposable products from overseas can’t be overstated. These products can be made with poisonous chemicals and substandard manufacturing processes with dyes and materials that can make our children sick or worse. Recent news reporting throughout the country has shown that some teenagers have been overdosing in school on vapes laced with fentanyl.
As a retired Chicago police commander and a veteran law enforcement professional, I have dedicated my life to protecting our young people so that they can grow up happy and healthy. Part of that responsibility and commitment is trying to protect children from threats like drugs and alcohol that can threaten their development.
Our lawmakers and government must do more to help law enforcement in our efforts to keep dangerous illegal products out of our city. The FDA knows that disposable vapes are the face of the new teen vaping epidemic, but it hasn’t done enough to get them off our shelves.
These days, it’s harder than ever to keep children focused and on the right path. Law enforcement professionals are doing their best, but resources are thin and responsibilities continue to grow. We need to take more aggressive action to take kid-friendly, disposable vapor products off our shelves and keep dangerous illegal products out of our community so that Chicago’s next generation can grow up happy and healthy. | 2023-03-28T19:18:38+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/anthony-carothers-e-cigs-exploiting-an-fda-loophole/article_ea048f32-ccc5-11ed-bf4e-6fdaf4d49227.html |
Guardsman accused in classified records leak to appear in court
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman arrested in the leak of highly classified military documents is expected in federal court Friday as the Justice Department prepares to outline the criminal case against him.
Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested by heavily armed tactical agents on Thursday following a weeklong criminal investigation into the disclosure of highly sensitive government records, an alarming breach that exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments on the war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other top national security issues.
Justice Department prosecutors are expected to reveal new details about the allegations while unsealing a criminal complaint in Boston charging Teixeira under an Espionage Act provision that makes it a crime to remove, retain or transmit national defense information. It was not immediately clear if Teixeira had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
Investigators believe Teixeira was the leader of an online private chat group where the documents were shared. Though prosecutors have not revealed a possible motive, accounts of those in the chat group have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
The Biden administration has scrambled to contain the potential diplomatic and military fallout from the leaks since they were first reported last week, moving to assure allies and assess the scope of damage.
The classified documents — which have not been individually authenticated by U.S. officials — range from briefing slides mapping out Ukrainian military positions to assessments of international support for Ukraine and other sensitive topics, including under what circumstances Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons.
The leak is believed to have started on a site called Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games and where Teixeira is believed to have posted for years about guns, games and his favorite memes — and, according to some chatting with him, closely guarded U.S. secrets. Discord has said it was cooperating with the investigation.
In previous Associated Press stories, the leaker was identified as “the O.G.” by a member of the online chat group. Known as Thug Shaker Central, the group 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 held 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, said the member, who declined to share his name with AP.
It was not immediately clear how Teixeira would have had access to the records, but a Defense Department official told The Associated Press on Thursday that as an IT specialist responsible for military communications networks, the young Guardsman would have had a higher level of security clearance
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a statement issued after the arrest, said the Pentagon would conduct a review of its “intelligence access, accountability and control procedures” to prevent such a leak from happening again.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-14T14:11:42+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2023/04/14/guardsman-accused-classified-records-leak-appear-court/ |
As tornadoes hit, survivors hid in tubs, shipping container
By SHARON JOHNSON and BUTCH DILL
Associated Press
MARBURY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama engine mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado from a violent storm decimated his shop and killed two of his neighbors along its destructive path across Alabama and Georgia.
The harrowing stories of David Hollon and other survivors of Thursday’s storm are emerging as residents comb through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes and blistering winds that have led to the deaths of at least nine people.
In Alabama’s rural Autauga County, where at least seven people have died, Hollon and his workers saw a massive tornado churning toward them. They needed to get to shelter — immediately.
Hollon said they ran into a metal shipping container near the back of his garage because the container had been anchored to the floor with concrete. Once inside, Hollon began frantically dialing his neighbor on the phone. But as they heard the garage being ripped apart by the storm, the call kept going to voicemail.
The storm passed and they emerged, only to find the body of his neighbor in the street, he said. Another neighbor up the road had also died, a family member said.
“I guess we did a lot better than most. We got damage, but we’re still here,” Hollon, 52, said in an interview Saturday as he walked amidst the remains of his garage, stepping through a field littered with battered cars, shattered glass, snapped tree branches, splintered wood and other debris.
Leighea Johnson, a 54-year-old cafeteria worker who also lives in Autauga County, stood among the strewn remains of her trailer home. She pointed to a tall pile of rubble that she identified as her bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.
A swing set she had in her backyard was now across the street, mangled among some trees. Her outdoor trampoline had been wrapped around another set of trees in a neighbor’s front yard.
“The trailer should be here, and now it’s not,” Johnson said, pointing to a slab covered in debris, “And it is all over the place now.”
The storm brought powerful twisters and winds to Alabama and Georgia that uprooted trees, sent mobile homes airborne, derailed a freight train, flipped cars, cracked utility poles and downed power lines, leaving thousands without electricity. Suspected tornado damage was reported in at least 14 counties in Alabama and 14 counties in Georgia, according to the National Weather Service.
Early Sunday, President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Alabama and ordered federal aid to supplement recovery efforts in affected areas.
Autauga County officials said the tornado had winds of at least 136 mph (218 kph) and leveled damage consistent with an EF3, two steps below the most powerful category of twister. County authorities have said at least a dozen people were hospitalized and about 40 homes were destroyed or seriously damaged, including mobile homes that were launched into the air.
Residents described chaotic scenes as the storm spun toward them. People rushed into shelters, bathtubs and sheds as the winds bore down. In one case, a search crew found five people, trapped but unharmed, inside a storm shelter after a wall from a nearby house fell onto it.
Downtown Selma sustained severe damage before the worst of the weather moved across Georgia south of Atlanta. No deaths were reported in Selma.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said the damage was felt across his state. Some of the worst reports emerged from Troup County near the Georgia-Alabama line, where more than 100 homes were hit.
Kemp said a state transportation department worker was killed while responding to storm damage. A 5-year-old child who was riding in a vehicle was killed by a falling tree in Georgia’s Butts County, authorities said. At least 12 people were treated at a hospital in Spalding County, south of Atlanta, where the weather service confirmed at least two tornadoes struck.
Johnson, the cafeteria worker in Autauga County, said she was at work when she learned the storm would pass directly over her home. She quickly warned her daughter, who was with her 2-year-old grandson at home.
“I called my daughter and said, ‘You do not have time to get out, you’ve got to get somewhere now,”’ Johnson said, her voice cracking. “And she said, ’I’m getting in the tub. If the house is messed up I’ll be in the tub area.”
The call dropped. Johnson kept calling back. When she finally reconnected with her daughter, Johnson said she told her: “The house is gone, the house is gone.”
Her daughter and grandson had some cuts and bruises but were otherwise fine after a trip to the emergency room, Johnson said.
“I brought her home and tried not to let go of her after that,” Johnson said. “I lost a lot of things materialistically and I don’t have insurance but I don’t even care, because my child is all right.
“That’s really all that matters to me.” | 2023-01-15T14:05:32+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/01/15/as-tornadoes-hit-survivors-hid-in-tubs-shipping-container/ |
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Takeoff’s murder: Details from the coroner’s report and Offset’s subtle tribute
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN
New details regarding the death of Takeoff have been revealed as the artist continues to be mourned.
Takeoff, who came to fame as one-third of the platinum-selling rap group Migos, was shot and killed early Tuesday at a private party in Houston, Texas.
He was 28.
The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office listed the manner of death as homicide, with”penetrating gunshot wounds of head and torso into the arm” stated as the cause of his death.
A 23-year-old man and 24-year-old woman were also injured. Sgt. Michael Arrington of the homicide division told reporters Tuesday that they both were doing ok.
The murder of Takeoff, who was known as the quiet, low key member of his group, which included his uncle Quavo, is the latest high profile death of a hip hop artist.
His former group mate and longtime friend Offset has not spoken publicly about Takeoff’s death, but on Wednesday he changed the avatar on his verified Instagram account to a photo of Takeoff with a white heart.
A number of celebrities have paid tribute to the slain artist, including, Drake, Gucci Mane, Machine Gun Kelly and Beyoncé, who changed the landing page of her site to a photo of him.
Takeoff seemed aware of the potential danger that rappers sometimes face,
During a conversation on the “Drink Champs” podcast that recently streamed, he and Quavo talked to hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN about their new album, “Only Built for Infinity Links.”
Talk turned security and the murders of fellow artists Pop Smoke and PnB Rock. Takeoff said, “You’ve got to be careful with social media now.”
“You gotta watch what you post because even though you’re just trying to show off and show your fans stuff, it’s people that follow you and watch you that [have] bad intentions and don’t want the best for you. They’re looking at your page and see you every day,” he said. “That’s why I don’t even really post like that, or if I do, I post after I left the spot. I post tomorrow or the next day and you think I’m at a location. But nah, I’m at the crib.”
Authorities are asking for the witnesses to come forward and provide information in hopes of arresting the person or people responsible.
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CNN’s Jennifer Henderson, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Amir Vera contributed this report | 2022-11-03T15:13:17+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/videor/2022/11/03/takeoffs-murder-details-from-the-coroners-report-and-offsets-subtle-tribute-2/ |
(Motor Authority) — Audi is set to introduce more than 20 new or updated vehicles by the end of 2025, starting with a new Q6 E-tron electric compact crossover due in the second half of 2023.
More than half of the new vehicles will be electric by then, and Audi plans to revise its naming strategy to ensure customers are clear on which models feature electric powertrains and which models still have an internal-combustion engine.
In a presentation on Thursday outlining Audi’s 2022 financial results, Audi CEO Markus Duesmann said the revised naming strategy will see Audi EVs carry an even number in their names and its pure ICE models as well as plug-in hybrids carry an odd number in their names.
He said the transition started with last year’s renaming of the E-Tron as a Q8 E-Tron following the electric SUV’s mid-cycle update. It means the current gas-powered Q8 SUV might be renamed a Q9 after it undergoes its own mid-cycle update later this year.
Similarly, Audi’s upcoming redesign for the A4 is rumored to swap to the A5 name, with an electric A4 E-Tron to be introduced shortly after.
Eventually, Audi’s EVs will also use odd numbers in their name as the automaker expects to be exclusively selling EVs by around 2033. Audi has already confirmed that its final vehicle equipped with an internal-combustion engine will be launched in 2026.
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During the same presentation, Duesmann also confirmed plans for an EV positioned below the current Q4 E-Tron. It isn’t clear if the model he was referring to is an A4 E-Tron or something smaller like an A2 E-Tron. | 2023-03-21T15:41:02+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/automotive/new-audi-naming-strategy-will-split-ev-ice-cars/ |
ROCKINGHAM, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today that Iron Horse Auction Company of Rockingham, NC is conducting an Online w/Live Bid Center Auction of NCDOT Surplus, 5 Railcars.
The Online Auction is scheduled to begin October 2, 2022 and conclude Live on October 6, 2022. The railcars are being sold for NCDOT at the Capital Yard located at 860 Capital Boulevard, Raleigh, NC 27603. They are selling regardless of price at the end of the auction.
Three of the railcars hold some historical significance as they were formerly owned by the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus. These cars were dormitory cars used to transport members of the circus across the country. The remaining two cars have their own history. One car was a hospital car used by the United States Army and the fifth car was originally a baggage car.
The railcars are currently parked at the Capital Yard in Raleigh and at the Nash County Railroad Corridor. Those interested in looking at the railcars before the auction are advised to do so starting at 10:00 am on October 6th.
For further information or to view the current bids, go to www.ironhorseauction.com or call: 800-997-2248
For interviews, contact:
Steve Cooney, Auctioneer at 270.307.3451
Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc.
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Rockingham, NC 28379
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SOURCE Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. | 2022-09-14T15:33:54+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/09/14/ncdot-orders-5-railcars-be-sold-online-wlive-bid-center-auction/ |
Jury selection is underway in the murder trial of James Ray, the Montclair attorney charged with shooting his girlfriend, Angela Bledsoe, then taking the couple’s six-year-old daughter to live with relatives in Pennsylvania before heading to Cuba.
Ray, 60, is accused of fatally shooting Bledsoe, 44, at the home the couple shared in Montclair on Oct. 22, 2018. After dropping the child off at his brother’s house in Pennsylvania, authorities say Ray made his way to Mexico and then Cuba—but was caught six days later as he tried to pass through customs.
Cuba handed him over to U.S. authorities, and Ray, an attorney with a practice in Manhattan, has been locked up ever since in the Essex County Correctional Facility, charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
Jury selection got underway just after the Valentine’s Day and is now in recess. Ray’s attorney, Thomas Ashley, said Monday that jury selection before Judge Verna G. Leath in Essex County Superior Court is scheduled to resume on March 14, with the trial to begin right after.
“We’re reasonably close,” to picking a jury, Ashley said. Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Michele Miller could not reached for comment on Monday.
The state maintains that Ray fatally shot Bledsoe, a financial analyst and local Girl Scout leader, during an argument at their home on North Mountain Avenue. After the stop in Pennsylvania, he drove to Newark Liberty International Airport.
Whereas the state maintains that the homicide was a crime of passion, Ashley said he and his co-counsel, Brooke M. Barnett, are preparing to argue that Ray shot Bledsoe in self-defense.
“It’s a complex case,” Ashley said, given that there were no witnesses, meaning the shooting had to be reconstructed using forensics.
There’s also two key pieces of circumstantial evidence. One is a confession note written by Ray that he stuck in his daughter’s suitcase in which he claimed to have shot Bledsoe in self-defense. The other is an 18-page journal entry that Ray wrote on his way to Cuba using the pseudonym “Jack,” in which he alleges that Bledsoe came after him with a gun on the night of the killing.
Excerpts from the journal entry, entitled “On the Move,” were read aloud during an evidence suppression hearing held before Judge Leath in 2019. In it, Ray writes that on the night of the incident, he placed two guns on the table to clean them.
Ray claims that he came out of the bathroom to find Bledsoe pointing one of the guns at him. To protect himself, Ray grabbed the other gun and fired, according to the journal excepts read in court.
“He [Ray] was in fear of serious bodily harm or death,” Ashley said.
Ashley said the judge allowed portions of the journal to be admitted as evidence. The judge also ruled that the note found in the child’s suitcase was admissible as evidence, Ashley said.
Ray has been held in the Essex County Correctional Facility for more four years while awaiting trial. But like so many other cases, the prosecution has been slowed by the backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Bledsoe’s family, meanwhile, has kept her memory alive by establishing a scholarship fund in her name at her alma mater, Florida A&M.
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Richard Cowen may be reached at rcowen@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-02-28T21:58:35+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/essex/2023/02/trial-nears-for-nj-lawyer-accused-of-killing-girlfriend-and-fleeing-to-cuba.html |
MISSOULA — Wide receiver has been one of those positions for the Montana Grizzlies with familiar faces like Samori Toure or Samuel Akem starring for many seasons. But this year, the pass catchers are led by a few vets, with others looking step up both at receiver, but also at tight end.
Mitch Roberts and Malik Flowers enter their senior seasons as the veterans in the receivers room.
They're a couple of players who had to work their way into playing time over the last couple of years, but now find themselves leading this younger group.
"I'm kind of taking on that leadership role and helping some of the young guys," Roberts said. "But the nice thing with our group is everyone seems to learn pretty quickly and get a grasp on things so just helping the younger guys out a little bit and it's been clicking pretty good."
Roberts was second on the team in receiving yards a year ago with 683 and he led the team in catches with 55, one of which was a touchdown. Flowers — who has been a preseason All-American pick at kick returner — caught 14 passes for 210 yards and two scores
So receiver is a position where newer faces will be tasked with stepping up.
Sophomore Junior Bergen (21 catches, 230 yards, one score) is back to receiver full time after filling in at running back last year, but fellow sophomore Ryan Simpson (19 receptions, 247 yards) also began to crack the rotation last year.
The depth doesn't get much older from there, as sophomores Aaron Fontes and Keelan White (22 catches, 156 yards) also saw some playing time a year ago and are expected to compete in 2022, while freshmen Nick Williams, Drew Deck, and Washington transfer Camden Ver Strate also could find themselves in the mix.
So with inexperience comes plenty of opportunities for younger players to step up.
"What stands out about this group is everyone is just willing to make plays," Roberts said. "Go up and make a big grab on our defense and we're just willing to compete each and every day. Our defense is always pushing us to get better and we have one of the best defenses to compete against every day so it's great."
Montana's tight ends are a different story.
Led by 2021 breakout star Cole Grossman, UM also brings production back from the likes of junior Joey Elwell and sophomore Erik Barker. Grossman finished with 36 receptions for 463 yards and five touchdowns while Elwell had a pair of scores and Barker also caught a touchdown pass in 2021.
Plus, the Grizzlies get a boost with seasoned vet Matt Rensvold back from a long layoff after missing last year and most of 2019 with injury. Rensvold has three career touchdowns at Montana but played in just three games in 2019, his last on-field action coming on Sept. 14, 2019 against Oregon.
"It's awesome," Grossman said of the group. "We're really close, all brothers, and it's just cool to be in an environment where we all like each other and there's no differences between anybody and we all want each other to succeed more than ourselves so it's pretty cool."
Helping with blocking is a priority for this group as they work with a younger offensive line, while also remaining a threat in the passing game, as Grossman did a year ago down the second half of the season.
"Just a lot of drill work," Grossman said. "Making sure you're catching the ball, blocking with pass (protection), everything, so I think we do about every drill a receiver does and every drill a lineman does so it's pretty cool. I love the position. It's multi-facet."
Griz running backs on the 2022 roster by number
Wide receivers
No. 2, Sawyer Racanelli, R-SO, 6-foot-3, 210 pounds, Brush Prairie, WA
No. 3, Nick Williams, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 195 pounds, Oceanside, CA
No. 4, Ryan Simpson, R-SO, 6-foot-6, 210 pounds, Bozeman, MT
No. 5, Junior Bergen, SO, 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, Billings, MT
No. 6, Keelan White, R-SO, 6-foot-2, 190 pounds, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No. 9, Drew Deck, R-FR, 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, Kalispell, MT
No. 14, Aaron Fontes, SO, 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, Oxnard, CA
No. 18, Sam Alford, FR, 6-foot-3, 190 pounds, Park City, UT
No. 19, Malik Flowers, R-SR, 6-foot-2, 200 pounds, Fontana, CA
No. 20, Brady Lang, R-FR, 6-foot-1, 175 pounds, Bozeman, MT
No. 24, Camden Ver Strate, R-SO, 5-foot-8, 170 pounds, Cheney, WA
No. 29, Tanner Huff, R-FR, 6-foot-0, 170 pounds, Butte, MT
No. 80, Mitch Roberts, R-SR, 6-foot-1, 200 pounds, Missoula, MT
No. 82, Ian Finch, FR, 6-foot-3, 195 pounds, Missoula, MT
Tight ends
No. 11, Cole Grossman, R-SO, 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, Vancouver, WA
No. 81, Matt Rensvold, R-JR, 6-foot-4, 250 pounds, Polson, MT
No. 84, Joey Elwell, JR, 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, Meridian, ID
No. 85, Micah Ashton, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 237 pounds, San Diego, CA
No. 86, Joe Weida, FR, 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, Missoula, MT
No. 87, Jake Olson, R-FR, 6-foot-7, 251 pounds, Butte, MT
No. 88, Erik Barker, SO, 6-foot-4, 238 pounds, Keizer, OR
No. 89, Peyton Brammer, R-FR, 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, Brush Prairie, WA | 2022-08-13T22:25:53+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/montana-grizzlies-position-preview-wide-receivers-tight-ends-aiming-to-take-next-step |
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Tuesday's results
Swift Current 7 Brandon 5
Saskatoon 5 Prince George 2
Seattle 4 Tri-City 2
Wednesday's results
Winnipeg 5 Swift Current 3
Lethbridge 3 Calgary 0
Spokane 6 Portland 2
Kelowna 5 Everett 2
Friday's results
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Kamloops at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Monday's games
Lethbridge at Regina, 2 p.m.
Prince Albert at Brandon, 2:30 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Edmonton, 2 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 2 p.m.
Winnipeg at Swift Current, 4 p.m.
Portland at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 2:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 2:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Portland at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-02-17T08:10:30+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17790233.php |
By PATRICK ORSAGOS
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a gymnasium demanding reassurances after toxic chemicals spilled and burned in a huge plume over their homes and businesses.
“I have three grandbabies,” said Kathy Dyke, who came with hundreds of her neighbors to a meeting Wednesday where representatives of Norfolk Southern were conspicuously absent. “Are they going to grow up here in five years and have cancer?”
State officials insisted yet again that testing shows the air is safe to breathe around East Palestine, where just under 5,000 people live near the Pennsylvania state line. They promised that air and water monitoring would continue.
Many who had waited in a long line snaking outside the gym came away frustrated that they didn’t hear anything new. Some booed or laughed each time they heard the village mayor or state health director assure them that lingering odors from the the huge plumes of smoke aren’t dangerous and the water is fine to drink.
In the nearly two weeks since the derailment forced evacuations, residents have complained about suffering from headaches and irritated eyes and finding their cars and lawns covered in soot. The hazardous chemicals that spilled from the train killed thousands of fish and residents have talked about finding dying or sick pets and wildlife.
With the community in the national spotlight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan prepared to visit Thursday to assess the ongoing response and hear from impacted residents.
Those attending Wednesday’s informational session, originally billed as a town hall meeting, had many questions over health hazards, and demanded more transparency from the railroad operator, which did not attend, citing safety concerns for its staff.
“They just danced around the questions a lot,” said Danielle Deal, who lives a few miles from the derailment site. “Norfolk needed to be here.”
In a statement, Norfolk Southern said it didn’t attend alongside local, state and federal officials because of a “growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event.”
Deal called that a “copout.” She and her two children left home to stay with her mother, 13 miles away “and we could still see the mushroom cloud, plain as day,” she said.
Even with school back in session and trains rolling again, the people remain worried.
“Why are they being hush-hush?” Dyke said of the railroad. “They’re not out here supporting, they’re not out here answering questions. For three days we didn’t even know what was on the train.”
The hundreds of families who evacuated said they want assistance figuring out how to get the financial help the railroad has offered. Beyond that, they want to know whether the railroad will be held responsible.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost advised Norfolk Southern on Wednesday that his office is considering legal action against the rail operator.
“The pollution, which continues to contaminate the area around East Palestine, created a nuisance, damage to natural resources and caused environmental harm,” Yost said in a letter to the company.
Norfolk Southern announced Tuesday that it is creating a $1 million fund to help the community of some 4,700 people while continuing remediation work, including removing spilled contaminants from the ground and streams and monitoring air quality.
It also will expand how many residents can be reimbursed for their evacuation costs, covering the entire village and surrounding area.
“We will be judged by our actions,” Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw said in a statement that the company is “cleaning up the site in an environmentally responsible way.”
No one was injured when about 50 cars derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of East Palestine on Feb. 3. As fears grew about a potential explosion, officials seeking to avoid an uncontrolled blast had the area evacuated and opted to release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke billowing into the sky again.
The state’s Environmental Protection Agency said the latest tests show five wells supplying the village’s drinking water are free from contaminants, but recommends testing of private water wells that are closer to the surface.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates spilled contaminants affected more than 7 miles (11.2 kilometers) of streams and killed some 3,500 fish, mostly small ones such as minnows and darters. Precautions are being taken to ensure contaminants that reached the Ohio River don’t make it into drinking water, officials said.
There have been anecdotal reports that pets or livestock have been sickened. No related animal deaths have been confirmed, state officials said, but that confirmation would require necropsies and lab work to determine the connection to the incident.
The suspected cause of the derailment is a mechanical issue with a rail car axle. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has video appearing to show a wheel bearing overheating just beforehand. The NTSB said it expects to issue its preliminary report in about two weeks.
Misinformation and exaggerations spread online, and state and federal officials have repeatedly offered assurances that air monitoring hasn’t detected any remaining concerns. Even low levels of contaminants that aren’t considered hazardous can create lingering odors or symptoms such as headaches, Ohio’s health director said Tuesday. | 2023-02-16T16:54:25+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/02/16/jeers-boos-from-ohio-villagers-enraged-by-toxic-train-spill-2/ |
Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be high 30s to low 40s from north to south, with partly sunny or mostly cloudy skies and a chance for scattered snow or rain showers across the state. See what weather is in store for the rest of the day here. Here’s the latest on gas prices in Maine.
Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Bucksport residents aren’t happy about a plan to revive mill landfill
“The cheapest way to handle trash is to dump it in the ground, but it ain’t the best way. … We can’t accept money for poison.”
Landfill operator says Maine’s sludge crisis has been averted
But Casella Waste Systems failed to provide a plan for alternative solutions that would prevent waste from being dumped into Maine rivers.
Hampden trash plant owner needs to find $20M or liquidate it
If the facility is liquidated, it would mean the loss of $100 million in private and public funds invested altogether so far.
There’s a huge demand for an ‘unsafe’ Maine home
The real estate ads aren’t hiding it: The property is lousy with mold, trash and discarded belongings likely left by squatters.
Aroostook County snowmobile race will help veterans buy homes
The Tame the Track Tour fundraising snowmobile race event starts Saturday, with registration at 7 am and racing at 10 a.m.
Aroostook mall stays open as list of potential buyers grows
Some retailers have banded together to help pay for electricity in their parts of the Aroostook Centre Mall.
Maine farmers are getting more money to adapt to climate change
Mainers’ livelihoods, regional food security and the state’s heritage crops are at risk as the state contends with a warming climate.
6 more women sue the Maine Catholic diocese for allegations of sex abuse
The Rev. Lawrence Sabatino is named in the lawsuits, and is one of nine priests publicly named as a known sexual abuser of children.
Hampden Academy hockey team is playing for its 1st Class B regional title
Hampden Academy will take on the winner of Wednesday’s B South final between York and Cape Elizabeth on Saturday morning.
Mainer captures amazing video of a rare golden eagle
The golden eagle has been designated as an endangered species in Maine since 1986.
The caretaker of this unique Maine trail protected it for all to enjoy
Madrid is home to the Perham Stream Birding Trail, a 2-mile loop with prime views of open meadows and hardwood forests.
These stuffed pork chops can be made on a single sheet pan
A sheet pan dinner is an easy option that limits dishes and cook time.
In other Maine news…
Chris Sununu vows to save Amtrak riders from sober trip through NH
Janet Mills splits with Democrats on yet another tribal priority
Legislature may ban foreign influence in Maine referendums
Longtime Bar Harbor town councilor resigns due to health problems
Gifford’s ice cream stands will open on time despite February factory fire
Contested LGBTQ books will stay in Hancock County school district library
Stolen puppy reunited with owners in Brewer
Lewiston man pleads not guilty to shooting woman to death
3 hospitalized after Gorham fire
Watch this UMaine hockey player propose to his girlfriend on the ice last weekend
Vermont’s bizarre game-winning goal stuns UMaine in Hockey East playoffs
UMaine’s women’s basketball overcame adversity to remain a contender | 2023-03-09T13:13:53+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/09/morning-update/bucksport-landfill-fight-unsafe-maine-homes-rare-golden-eagle/ |
OMAHA, Neb. – Equipment that failed before a freight train hauling toxic chemicals derailed in eastern Ohio is the focus Friday on the second day of a rare federal hearing in the small town closest to the accident.
The National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary report that an overheating wheel bearing likely caused the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment that sent a plume of toxic black smoke into the sky. Several tank cars were damaged in the crash, and officials decided that five of them containing vinyl chloride needed to be blown open to release the chemical and prevent an explosion.
Roughly half the 5,000 residents of nearby East Palestine had to evacuate their homes as a result. State and federal officials have said the air and water around town is safe, but residents continue to worry about the long-term health effects from the derailment.
On Thursday, first responders and others testified about the difficulties they encountered in identifying the train's cargo and reviewed why officials decided to release and burn the toxic chemicals. On Friday, residents, local officials and others are hearing testimony about the wheel bearings, trackside detectors and tank cars.
The NTSB will determine the cause of the derailment but that report is not expected until at least a year after the derailment.
Mike Rush with the Association of American Railroads trade group testified Friday morning that railroads have eliminated most derailments involving overheating bearings by using trackside detectors designed to spot them before they can cause a crash, but that the system is not failsafe, as illustrated by the derailment in Ohio this year.
The NTSB has said that the overheating bearing triggered an alarm, but that the crew didn't have a chance to stop the train before the derailment.
Rush said nearly every hazardous materials shipment that railroads haul arrives safely, but even one derailment involving those chemicals can be disastrous.
“The Feb 3 derailment is a stark reminder of the railroad industry’s responsibility to the communities in which we operate. The railroads are taking what happened here with the utmost seriousness,” Rush said.
Jason Cox with the Transportation Communications Union testified that the railcar that caused the derailment wasn't inspected by Norfolk Southern even though it passed through three railyards where qualified inspectors were working. Cox said a detailed inspection by a carmen might have caught the problem and prevented the derailment.
But Rush said a visual inspection won't typically find a damaged bearing because they are sealed inside the railcar's axle. The industry relies on trackside detectors to spot overheating bearings.
Norfolk Southern and all the major freight railroads have announced plan to add more trackside detectors and review what temperature should set off an alarm. But federal regulators and Congress have called on the industry to do more.
The Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio officials continue to oversee the cleanup of contaminated soil and water. | 2023-06-23T16:26:54+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/06/23/ntsb-hearing-focuses-on-equipment-that-failed-before-fiery-ohio-derailment/ |
10-year-old robbed at gunpoint in New Orleans, police say
Published: Mar. 15, 2023 at 12:34 PM EDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - New Orleans police are investigating after a 10-year-old boy was allegedly robbed of his cell phone at gunpoint.
The incident reportedly happened at a bus stop at about 2:40 p.m. on March 14, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
Police say the boy was at the bus stop when two women and a man got out of a black SUV and demanded his cell phone at gunpoint.
The victim reportedly complied and the unknown suspects fled.
Further information has not been provided at this time.
Copyright 2023 WVUE via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-15T17:29:39+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/03/15/10-year-old-robbed-gunpoint-new-orleans-police-say/ |
By JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on U.S. oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled during a time of war between Russia and Ukraine as Americans struggle with record high prices at the pump.
“The crunch that families are facing deserves immediate action,” Biden wrote in a letter to seven oil refiners. “Your companies need to work with my Administration to bring forward concrete, near-term solutions that address the crisis.”
Gas prices nationwide are averaging roughly $5 a gallon, an economic burden for many Americans and a political threat for the president’s fellow Democrats going into the midterm elections. Broader inflation began to rise last year as the U.S. economy recovered from the coronavirus pandemic, but it accelerated in recent months as energy and food prices climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine in February and disrupted global commodity markets.
The government reported on Friday that consumer prices had jumped 8.6% from a year ago, the worst increase in more than 40 years.
The letter notes that gas prices were averaging $4.25 a gallon when oil was last near the current price of $120 a barrel in March. That 75-cent difference in average gas prices in a matter of just a few months reflects both a shortage of refinery capacity and profits that “are currently at their highest levels ever recorded,” the letter states.
The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the industry, said in a statement that capacity has been diminished as the Biden administration has sought to move away from fossil fuels as part of its climate change agenda.
“While we appreciate the opportunity to open increased dialogue with the White House, the administration’s misguided policy agenda shifting away from domestic oil and natural gas has compounded inflationary pressures and added headwinds to companies’ daily efforts to meet growing energy needs while reducing emissions,” API CEO Mike Sommers said in a statement.
Sommers added, “I reinforced in a letter to President Biden and his Cabinet yesterday ten meaningful policy actions to ultimately alleviate pain at the pump and strengthen national security, including approving critical energy infrastructure, increasing access to capital, holding energy lease sales, among other urgent priorities.”
As Biden sees it, refineries are capitalizing on the uncertainties caused by “a time of war.” His message that corporate greed is contributing to higher prices has been controversial among many economists, yet the claim may have some resonance with voters.
Some liberal lawmakers have proposed cracking down on corporate profits amid the higher inflation. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, in March proposed a 95% tax on profits in excess of companies’ pre-pandemic averages.
The president has harshly criticized what he views as profiteering amid a global crisis that could potentially push Europe and other parts of the world into a recession, saying after a speech Friday that ExxonMobil “made more money than God this year.” ExxonMobil responded by saying it has already informed the administration of its planned investments to increase oil production and refining capacity.
“There is no question that (Russian President) Vladimir Putin is principally responsible for the intense financial pain the American people and their families are bearing,” Biden’s letter says. “But amid a war that has raised gasoline prices more than $1.70 per gallon, historically high refinery profit margins are worsening that pain.”
The letter says the administration is ready to “use all reasonable and appropriate Federal Government tools and emergency authorities to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term, and to ensure that every region of this country is appropriately supplied.” It notes that Biden has already released oil from the U.S. strategic reserve and increased ethanol blending standards, though neither action put a lasting downward pressure on prices.
The president is sending the letter to Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy, ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Chevron, BP and Shell.
He also has directed Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to convene an emergency meeting and consult with the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory group that is drawn from the energy sector.
Biden is asking each company to explain to Granholm any drop in refining capacity since 2020, when the pandemic began. He also wants the companies to provide “any concrete ideas that would address the immediate inventory, price, and refining capacity issues in the coming months — including transportation measures to get refined product to market.”
There may be limits on how much more capacity can be added. The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Friday released estimates that “refinery utilization will reach a monthly average level of 96% twice this summer, near the upper limits of what refiners can consistently maintain.”
The letter says that roughly 3 million barrels a day of refining capacity around the world have gone offline since the pandemic began. In the U.S., refining capacity fell by more than 800,000 barrels a day in 2020.
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Ex-Michigan governor takes the 5th at Flint water trial
Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has invoked his right against self-incrimination during a civil trial related to the Flint water scandal
DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder invoked his right against self-incrimination Thursday and declined to answer questions at a civil trial arising from lead contamination in Flint’s water in 2014-15.
Snyder was called as a witness in federal court in Ann Arbor, two days after the Michigan Supreme Court in a separate case said criminal indictments against him and eight other people were invalid.
Snyder's appearance was already planned. Lawyers and the judge knew he would formally decline to answer questions while any criminal case was pending.
“Your honor, based on the advice of counsel, I would exercise my Fifth Amendment rights,” Snyder told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy.
He repeated the statement twice to lawyers. Jurors on Wednesday watched a recorded deposition of Snyder, a formal interview with lawyers conducted in 2020.
“I wish this never would have happened,” Snyder said of the Flint water mess.
Flint managers appointed by Snyder, a Republican, switched the city’s water to the Flint River in 2014 without properly treating it. Lead leached from old pipes for more than a year, a disastrous result.
A handful of Flint families are suing Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, claiming the engineering firms bear some responsibility because they performed work at the city's water plant. They deny liability.
Veolia and LAN are not part of the $626 million settlement between Flint residents and the state of Michigan, Flint and other parties.
Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. The charges haven't been formally dismissed yet following the state Supreme Court decision and could be revived in a new case.
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Follow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwritez | 2022-06-30T15:11:34+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/06/30/ex-michigan-governor-takes-5th-flint-water-trial/ |
Authorities identify woman killed in fatal Lincoln County, SD crash
CANTON, S.D. (KTIV) - Authorities say a Canton woman has been identified as the person who died in a Lincoln County, South Dakota crash back on New Year’s Eve.
According to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, the two-vehicle crash happened at about 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of U.S. Highway 18 and South Dakota Highway 115, located about seven miles west of Canton.
The crash report says a southbound SUV on Highway 115 was entering the intersection when it collided with another SUV traveling eastbound on Highway 18.
The driver of the eastbound SUV, 40-year-old Rebecca Earll of Canton, was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities say she was wearing a seatbelt during the crash.
The driver of the southbound SUV, 57-year-old William Pigg of Sioux Falls, was not wearing a seatbelt and had to extracted from the vehicle. Authorities say Pigg had life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital. Charges are pending against him.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is still investigating the crash.
Copyright 2023 KTIV. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-11T16:47:57+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2023/01/11/authorities-identify-woman-killed-fatal-lincoln-county-sd-crash/ |
GATC's upgraded drug discovery platform predicts drug candidate success rate with 88% accuracy and forecasts drug failure rates with 84% accuracy, potentially saving biopharma companies billions of dollars
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GATC Health, a science and technology company revolutionizing drug discovery and disease prediction using its proprietary upgraded version 2.0 of its drug discovery artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has further validated the accuracy of the company's newly launched platform and its ability to predict the biological success of drug compounds. GATC completed an extensive retrospective double-blinded analysis using machine learning performance metrics to assess platform results on blinded real-world compounds and successfully predicted drug success with 88% accuracy, and importantly, forecasted drug failure with an unprecedented 84% accuracy rate. With vast improvements in both speed and accuracy, GATC has proven an 11x increase over the current industry lead optimization success rate of approximately 8%.
The GATC platform utilizes powerful in-silico based methods to estimate the biological success of known and novel compounds. The platform was validated using real-world blinded data sets. Utilizing the platform's Drug Success Predictive Model, GATC performed a retrospective test on clinically validated data. Blinded drug compounds were selected from industry standard datasets for known clinical activity or inactivity on selected biological systems with multiple disease states.
GATC's platform will enable pharmaceutical companies to quickly determine whether a compound or drug candidate is likely to succeed or fail, potentially saving billions of dollars in research and development costs. Approximately $200 billion was spent by biopharma on drug R&D in 2020 with the development timeframe of a novel drug currently averaging nine years. The process involves highly expensive programs that require screening tens of thousands of potential compounds and results in fewer than 0.2% lead candidates moving on to the pre-clinical stage. While over 90% of drug candidates fail in clinical trials1, the GATC platform eliminates thousands of compounds and identifies fewer than 10 highly valuable compounds before starting preclinical testing.
"Our groundbreaking platform has been validated to predict a potential drug's safety and efficacy with a very high level of sensitivity and specificity," said Preetaman Wadhwa, Chief Marketing Officer of GATC Health. "The combination of speed, accuracy and GATC's AI, which takes machine learning further than any of its known competitors in de-risking compounds even before entering human clinical trials, is expected to save billions in the future cost of drug development by accurately identifying which drug candidates are likely to succeed."
Chad Beyer, CEO of Kures, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, and GATC Health advisor, said: "Having dealt with the many issues that come with discovering and developing new drugs, this study from GATC Health and their platform's capability has radical implications for the biopharma industry as a whole. Currently, drugs that enter clinical trials have a 90 percent failure rate. I look forward to seeing how GATC will upend today's time-consuming and costly process of drug discovery."
Utilizing proprietary AI and analytics, GATC's novel platform can analyze 500 trillion biological data points in seven minutes and simulate biochemical interactions. The drug discovery process begins by understanding the core biology of a disease and identifying specific therapeutic targets that can be safely modulated for clinical outcomes. Traditional drug discovery results in thousands of potential molecules that require years of preclinical testing to identify a small set of de-risked drug assets. GATC Health's platform runs in-silico processes that assembles lead compounds and rapidly filter from thousands of alternatives to deliver a successfully optimized small set of high-quality drug candidates in as little as three to six months. GATC's platform scores and ranks curated candidates for their therapeutic value and safety profile.
GATC has used its platform to discover promising compounds in multiple areas of serious unmet need—treating fentanyl/cocaine addiction, PTSD, cancer, diabetes and neurological conditions.
GATC Health Corp is a pioneering technology company using whole genome analysis and multiomics-based artificial intelligence to revolutionize disease detection and drug discovery. The company's patented AI platform reduces risk, time and costs for life science companies by digitally reproducing the human body to find non-obvious answers to biology's most complex questions. GATC Health is accelerating healthcare's transition to predictive, individualized medicine.
1 Parsing clinical success rates | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that the discovery of classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president compared to the FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Trump’s private residence proved a “double standard.”
“It’s just incredibly frustrating to me,” Pence said on the Hugh Hewitt Show. “But the original sin here was the massive overreach.”
Trump is under investigation for more than 100 classified documents to his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, which FBI agents executed a search warrant for in August. The search appeared to be the first of its kind, which Pence said was a “massive overreach” by the FBI.
Pence said this search created a standard that the FBI could execute a search warrant at a former president’s personal residence. He also said that the Biden administration should appoint the same special counsel for investigation in Biden’s papers, instead of a U.S. attorney, as they did for Trump.
“But having now created that standard and now abandoned that standard when the current president of the United States is found to have had classified documents in his possession after leaving office, I have no words right now,” Pence said.
“But the willingness of the national media to just turn away and turn a deaf ear to the Biden, to the disclosures that when Vice President Biden left office, he left with classified documents as well, it just shows you, it’s like I said before,” Pence added. “If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.”
Biden’s attorney discovered the classified documents in a private office in November and immediately notified the National Archives, which took possession of the documents the next morning. Since then, the incident was passed on to the Justice Department for further investigation that the White House is cooperating with, Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden, said.
One of the differences between the classified documents found at Biden’s and Trump’s private locations was that Biden’s attorney alerted the National Archives about the discovery, while Trump held on to the documents until the search was carried out in August.
“What they have unleashed now has the threat of coming back on them,” Pence said. | 2023-01-10T20:52:24+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/pence-discovery-of-classified-documents-from-bidens-time-as-vp-incredibly-frustrating/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-9-5, FIREBALL: 8
(nine, eight, nine, five; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-8-9-5, FIREBALL: 8
(nine, eight, nine, five; FIREBALL: eight) | 2023-01-20T18:51:01+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Day-game-17731106.php |
KNOCK, Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden was moved to tears on Friday during a stop at a Catholic shrine when he discovered that a chaplain there had performed last rites for his late son Beau Biden.
“It was incredible to see him,” Biden said later during remarks at the foot of a cathedral in nearby Ballina. “It seemed like a sign.”
Knock Shrine is a pilgrimage site where, according to Catholic lore, the saints Mary, Joseph and John the Evangelist appeared near a stone wall in 1879. Biden touched the remaining old wall, and toured the site with priest Father Richard Gibbons.
Gibbons said he discovered earlier in the day that the Father Frank O’Grady working at the site was the same one who’d performed last rites, a ceremony in the Catholic faith that spiritually prepares people for death, for Beau.
It’s common in the Catholic faith for priests to move around to different posts during their lives in the church. O’Grady is a former U.S. Army chaplain and was formerly assigned to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where Beau died in 2015 from brain cancer at the age of 46.
Gibbons said he did not know about the Biden connection until Friday.
“I told the president that,” Gibbons told BBC Ulster. “He wanted to meet him straightaway, so he dispatched a Secret Service agent to go and find him.”
He said it was “a wonderful, spontaneous thing that happened.”
“He was crying and it really affected him,” Gibbons said of Biden. “Then we said a prayer, we said a decade of the rosary for his family, we lit a candle. Then he took a moment or two for private prayer.”
O’Grady told Irish national broadcaster RTE that he was summoned to meet the president.
“He gave me a big hug, it was like a reunion. He told me he appreciated everything that was done,” he said. “I hadn’t seen him really in eight years since Beau died. His son Hunter was there too, so we had a real reunion.”
O’Grady said of the president, “He has been grieving a lot, but I think the grief is kind of going down a bit. We talked a little bit about how grief can take several years.”
The death of his elder son rocked the president, who was vice president at the time. He said he chose not to run for president in 2016 in part because of Beau’s death. He talks of Beau often, including during a speech to the Irish parliament this week when he said it was his son who should have been standing there as president.
After the visit to the shrine on Friday, Biden toured a hospice center that displays a plaque commemorating his son.
Biden was in Ireland this week with his sister Valerie and son Hunter, touring his ancestral home and meeting with the nation’s leaders. | 2023-04-15T19:25:58+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/at-knock-shrine-biden-meets-priest-who-gave-beau-last-rites/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – Circle K is celebrating the unofficial holiday of “Fuel Day” by offering customers 40 cents off per gallon — if you time it right.
The 40-cent discount is only available between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday at Circle K-branded locations.
The discount will apply at over 5,000 Circle K and Holiday Stationstore locations across the U.S., the company says.
In addition to the 40-cent discount, most Circle K locations will also be handing out a limited number of fuel discount cards. Those will be redeemable for 10 cents off, per gallon, outside of the 3-hour window on Thursday.
“After an overwhelming response from customers, we are thrilled to bring back Circle K Fuel Day in a bigger way,” said Louise Warner Sr., vice president of global fuels for Circle K. “With summer right around the corner, we want to thank our customers for their loyalty by providing them an opportunity to fuel their adventures and enjoy some great savings.”
Customers can check with Circle K’s official Fuel Day webpage to see if nearby locations are participating.
Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off the peak summer travel season, but gas prices have already been rising over the past week. The national average was $3.56 per gallon on Wednesday, according to AAA. | 2023-05-24T18:58:44+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/circle-k-offering-40-cents-off-fuel-for-3-hours-only-on-thursday/ |
7 murder counts expected in Half Moon Bay farm killings
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Wednesday.
The charges will be filed before the suspect, 66-year-old Chunli Zhao, makes his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.
It was not immediately clear whether Zhao had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Authorities believe Zhao acted alone when he entered a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay and opened fire, killing four and leaving another seriously wounded, San Mateo County Sheriff’s officials said. He then drove to another nearby farm where he had previously worked and killed an additional three people, said Eamonn Allen, a sheriff’s spokesperson.
The sheriff’s office said it believes the shootings were “workplace violence” but has not further detailed a motive.
Zhao also faces a special circumstance allegation of multiple murder, as well as sentencing enhancements on each count for the use of a firearm, Wagstaffe said.
If convicted of the special circumstance, Zhao could face life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions in 2019.
Officials have not yet released the names of the five men and two women who died, nor the one man who was injured. Some were Asian and others were Hispanic, and some were migrant workers.
Servando Martinez Jimenez said his brother Marciano Martinez Jimenez, who was a delivery person and manager at one of the farms, was among those killed. Servando Martinez Jimenez said his brother never mentioned Zhao or said anything about problems with other workers.
“He was a good person. He was polite and friendly with everyone. He never had any problems with anyone. I don’t understand why all this happened,” Martinez Jimenez said in Spanish outside his Half Moon Bay home.
Marciano Martinez Jimenez, 50, had lived in the United States for 28 years after arriving from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Servando Martinez Jimenez said he is working with the Mexican consulate to get his brother’s body home.
Allen declined to answer questions about whether Zhao had any previous criminal history, saying, “there were no specific indicators that would have led us to believe he was capable of something like this.”
But would not have been Zhao’s first fit of workplace rage, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. In 2013 Zhao was accused of threatening to split a coworker’s head open with a knife and separately tried to suffocate the man with a pillow, the Chronicle reported, based on court documents.
The two were roommates and worked at a restaurant at the time, and the man, identified as Jingjiu Wang, filed a temporary restraining order against Zhao that was granted but is no longer in effect. Wang could not be immediately reached, the Chronicle reported.
The sheriff’s office identified the first shooting location as Mountain Mushroom Farm. But California Terra Garden took over the business last year, company spokesperson David Oates said. He did not know how long Zhao worked there, adding that he was one of 35 employees who had stayed on when ownership changed. Oates declined to provide details of the four slain workers.
The site of the second shooting was nearby Concord Farms. Owner Aaron Tung said in a statement that the farm was waiting for more information before it could comment.
Half Moon Bay is a small, laid-back, coastal and agricultural city about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of San Francisco. Its sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean make it a popular spot for hikers and tourists, who flock there to surf and for an annual giant pumpkin festival.
California was still reeling from an attack in Monterey Park, just outside Los Angeles, that killed 11 and cast a shadow over celebrations of Lunar New Year, an important holiday for many Asian American communities. Authorities are still seeking a motive for the Saturday shooting.
The new year has brought six mass killings in the U.S. in fewer than three weeks, accounting for 39 deaths. Three have occurred in California since Jan. 16, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. The database tracks every mass killing — defined as four dead, not including the offender — in the U.S. since 2006.
The shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park followed the killing of a teenage mother, her baby and six others at a home in California’s Central Valley on Jan. 16. Officials discussing the investigation mentioned a possible gang link to the killings.
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Gecker reported from San Francisco.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-25T17:34:18+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/01/25/7-murder-counts-expected-half-moon-bay-farm-killings/ |
General Motors on Wednesday detailed its first bidirectional vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging hardware, allowing EVs to serve as a home backup power source.
The Ultium Home V2H Bundle includes an AC home charger, dubbed the PowerShfit Charger, that allows vehicles to discharge power from their battery packs, along with an Enablement Kit that adds an inverter and “dark start” battery. The charger itself is rated for 19.2 kw, but discharge power peaks at 9.6 kw.
The charger and V2H hardware can be paired with a PowerBank battery energy-storage unit for greater backup power capacity, and use with solar power. GM plans to offer 10.6-kwh and 17.7-kwh options, plus an inverter for solar integration.
GM will refer customers to SunPower, already the automaker’s preferred EV charging installer, for installation of Ultium Home V2H hardware. The automaker did not discuss pricing or a timeline for availability, however. It’s also unclear which GM models will be compatible with these packages.
GM first introduced these forthcoming Ultium Home systems, under a new GM Energy business, last October. At that time it suggested the system might launch with the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV. Ford priced out its system for the rival F-150 Lightning in May 2022, just ahead of first deliveries, and that system potentially costs about $6,000 including installation.
GM has also started to see how its vehicles could do more than provide power to individual homes—by backing up the grid itself—with a California pilot program. Announced in 2022, the program involved residential customers of utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).
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- Lotus Eletre SUV boasts 20-minute charging, bound for Europe soon | 2023-06-30T08:14:43+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/automotive/internet-brands/gm-details-hardware-for-using-evs-as-home-power-backup/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A divorced Indiana couple who prosecutors say shared sexually explicit photos and videos of children with former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle were sentenced Monday to decades in prison.
A federal judge sentenced Angela Baldwin, 40, of Connersville, to 33 years and four months in prison, the Justice Department said. A jury convicted her in October of two counts of producing child sexual abuse material, one count of conspiracy to produce such material, and one count of possessing it.
Her ex-husband Russell Taylor, who ran a nonprofit Fogle founded, pleaded guilty last year to 30 child pornography and sexual exploitation counts for his acts against nine children. Taylor, 50, was sentenced earlier Monday to 27 years behind bars, the Justice Department said.
The victims were ages 9 to 16 when the crimes occurred.
The couple shared with Fogle videos and photos of the girls that were captured by hidden cameras Taylor installed in the then-couple’s Indianapolis home, prosecutors said.
Fogle, who became a Subway pitchman after shedding more than 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) as a college student, in part by eating the chain’s sandwiches, was sentenced in 2015 to 15 years in prison for possession or distribution of child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor.
Taylor was executive director of the Jared Foundation, a nonprofit that Fogle started to raise awareness and money to fight childhood obesity. He provided evidence that led to the criminal case against Fogle, his one-time boss and close friend.
Taylor was originally sentenced in 2015, but U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in 2020 found that he had received ineffective legal assistance because his lawyer had failed to challenge three criminal charges against him for which there was no factual basis.
Taylor’s attorneys asked Pratt to sentence him to 19 years, while prosecutors sought a prison sentence of 35 years. Pratt gave him a lesser sentence because he provided important information to federal law enforcement that helped them bring charges against Baldwin and Fogle.
During Taylor’s sentencing hearing, Pratt described the four-year grooming, exploitation and molestation of the children from 2011-2015 as a “mutual perversion” between Taylor, Baldwin and Fogle.
Taylor told the court Monday that he was a “vile, selfish, self-loathing, sorry excuse” for a human, but that time in prison had changed him. He said he had taken advantage of a sex offender rehabilitation class while incarcerated.
Federal prosecutor Kathryn Olivier read statements during Taylor’s sentencing from some of the victims — some of whom are Taylor and Baldwin’s relatives — who said they expect to need mental health help and medication for the rest of their lives. One victim said she checks for cameras anytime she’s in the bathroom at a house that isn’t hers. | 2022-05-10T01:54:51+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/judge-sentences-jared-fogle-associate-to-27-years-in-prison/ |
Orlando Arcia Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. White Sox - July 14
Published: Jul. 14, 2023 at 3:24 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Orlando Arcia is available when the Atlanta Braves take on Michael Kopech and the Chicago White Sox at Truist Park Friday at 7:20 PM ET.
In his last action (on July 9 against the Rays) he went 0-for-4.
Orlando Arcia Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Friday, July 14, 2023
- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Michael Kopech
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +110)
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Orlando Arcia At The Plate
- Arcia has 11 doubles, seven home runs and 18 walks while batting .294.
- In 45 of 68 games this year (66.2%) Arcia has had a hit, and in 21 of those games he had more than one (30.9%).
- Looking at the 68 games he has played this year, he's homered in seven of them (10.3%), and in 2.7% of his trips to the dish.
- Arcia has picked up an RBI in 20 games this season (29.4%), with more than one RBI in eight of those contests (11.8%).
- He has scored in 36.8% of his games this season (25 of 68), with two or more runs eight times (11.8%).
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White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the White Sox pitching staff leads the league.
- The White Sox's 4.54 team ERA ranks 25th across all league pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to surrender the third-most home runs in baseball (125 total, 1.4 per game).
- Kopech makes the start for the White Sox, his 17th of the season. He is 3-7 with a 4.08 ERA and 97 strikeouts through 86 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out was on Wednesday, June 28 against the Los Angeles Angels, when the right-hander tossed four innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing four hits.
- The 27-year-old has amassed a 4.08 ERA and 10.2 strikeouts per nine innings across 16 games this season, while giving up a batting average of .217 to his opponents.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation ("M&T") (NYSE: MTB) plans to announce its second quarter 2022 earnings results in a press release that will be issued before the market opens on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
Following the release, M&T will conduct a conference call and webcast at 10:00 a.m. (ET) to discuss the earnings results. The conference call and webcast may contain forward-looking statements and other material information.
Domestic callers wishing to participate in the call may dial toll free (888) 632-3384. International participants, using any applicable international calling codes, may dial (785) 830-1914. Callers should reference M&T Bank Corporation or the conference ID # MTBQ222. The conference call will be webcast live through M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations.
A replay of the call will be available through Wednesday, July 27, 2022 by calling (800) 925-9346 or (402) 220-5380 for international participants. No conference ID or passcode is required. The webcast archive of the conference call will be available by 3:00 p.m., July 20, 2022 on M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations.
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SOURCE M&T Bank Corporation | 2022-06-21T19:50:44+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/06/21/mampt-bank-corporation-announces-second-quarter-2022-earnings-release-conference-call/ |
(The Hill) – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed a $1 million suit this month against a cleaning firm after one of its janitor turned off a laboratory freezer, ruining years of research that “had the potential to be groundbreaking,” according to the suit.
The janitor, the suit says, was annoyed by an alarm from the freezer and turned it off, causing the fragile cell structures inside to be damaged by temperature changes. Daigle Cleaning Systems, who employs the janitor, is being sued for damages and legal fees.
The Troy, N.Y., university alleges that Daigle improperly trained and prepared the janitor to work around fragile lab materials.
Lab materials in the freezer were kept at -80 degrees Celsius, or -112 degrees Fahrenheit, and the freezer alarm would sound if the internal temperature rose or fell by two degrees from that point. The alarm sounded on Sept. 14, 2020, but freezer maintenance workers couldn’t reach the unit due to COVID-19 protocols at the time.
Researchers determined that the materials were safe, despite the alarm, and locked and marked the freezer until repairs could be made the next week. A note on the outlet allegedly read: “This freezer is beeping as it is under repair. Please do not move or unplug it. No cleaning required in this area,” according to the suit.
In an attempt to be helpful, the janitor flipped a circuit breaker, turning the freezer off. The suit says that the janitor thought the breakers were off, but was mistaken. When scientists discovered the freezer off on Sept. 17, the samples were ruined.
“(The samples were) compromised, destroyed and rendered unsalvageable demolishing more than twenty years of research,” the suit reads.
The lost research was worth about $1 million, the suit alleges. | 2023-06-28T03:37:27+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/offbeat-and-unique/university-files-1m-lawsuit-after-janitor-turns-off-research-freezer-over-annoying-alarm/ |
Updated January 10, 2023 at 8:22 AM ET
BRASÍLIA, Brazil — Empty tents, scattered trash and overflowing garbage cans are all that's left of an encampment in front of the Brazilian capital's military compound.
The ad hoc campsite had been ground zero for loyalists of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who were pushing for the military to intervene and overturn the election he lost in October.
Echoing Bolsonaro's false claims of electoral fraud, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters ransacked the nation's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential office on Sunday, leaving a path of destruction, in stunning scenes reminiscent of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection.
President Biden had a phone call with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday, in which Biden "condemned the violence and the attack on democratic institutions and on the peaceful transfer of power" in Brasília, according to a joint statement. It also said Lula accepted an invitation to visit Washington for "in-depth consultations" in early February.
Lula's government has vowed to protect democracy and punish those who took part in the assault.
"They will not succeed in destroying Brazilian democracy. We need to say that fully, with all firmness and conviction," Justice Minister Flávio Dino said. "We will not accept the path of criminality to carry out political fights in Brazil."
The authorities said they've so far detained more than 1,500 people and cleared the encampment outside the military compound.
A Brazilian insurrection
The encampment was where dozens of buses arrived by Sunday afternoon from around the country.
From there, a sea of thousands of protesters, donning the yellow and green national colors, marched out of the compound toward Brasília's Three Powers Square. Chanting "God, country, family and liberty," they moved down the large boulevard, escorted by only a few police. Once at their destination, the scene quickly turned violent.
Many climbed the entrance ramp to the Congress, leaped onto its roof and soon spread out on the square toward the Supreme Court and the presidential offices. They set fires, smashed windows, trashed furniture and damaged artwork.
In a Facebook video posted Sunday night, Aliel Machado, a lawmaker in Congress' lower house, showed the level of destruction inside the building.
Bolsonaro in the U.S.
Bolsonaro was absent from the assault on top government offices.
Last month, he flew to the United States right before his term ended and took up temporary residence in Florida. Breaking with longstanding tradition, Bolsonaro did not pass the presidential sash to Lula at his Jan. 1 inauguration.
President Lula has accused Bolsonaro of inciting Sunday's assault but the former leader has denied responsibility.
On Monday, Bolsonaro went to a hospital in the Orlando area while suffering from abdominal pain from a stabbing in 2018 and was discharged later in the day, he said on Twitter.
Bolsonaro is reported to be on a U.S. visa issued to heads of state and it's unclear how long he'll stay. The State Department would not comment on his visa status but its spokesperson, Ned Price, said in general that anyone entering on a visa for foreign officials would have to leave the U.S. within 30 days or apply for a change of immigration status.
Lula trying to restore order
Lula, who had been in São Paulo during the assault on the capital, arrived in Brasília late Sunday and vowed the "coup-mongers" who caused destruction of public property would be punished.
His government took over control of the Brasília region's security for the rest of the month and suspended its governor, Ibaneis Rocha, for 90 days.
On Monday, Lula met with congressional and Supreme Court leaders in a show of unity. In a joint statement, they said they called on society to remain calm "in defense of peace and democracy of our homeland."
What the country needs now is normalcy, respect and work for the nation's progress and social justice, the statement said.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-10T14:01:03+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-01-09/bolsonaro-lays-low-in-florida-as-brazil-cracks-down-on-riots-by-his-supporters |
When "Family Feud" host Steve Harvey first met contestant Tonya McCreary and her family from San Antonio, it was like looking into a fun house mirror.
There was McCreary's father, Anthony Wilkerson Sr., sporting the same bald head, same flair for flashy ties and pocket squares and even the same majestic mustache as the famous comedian. Then Harvey's eyes really lit up when Wilkerson broke out a spot-on impersonation of the game show host.
Harvey liked what he saw so much he mic'd Williams up and had him help host the show.
"It was super cool because Steve Harvey was like, 'That's me!' " said McCreary, a real estate agent. "It was super cool and my dad had such a blast. He's ready to quit his job and go full-time for Steve."
Harvey meeting his look-alike is just one of the hilarious moments in store for viewers when the McCreary family appears on "Family Feud" at 5:30 p.m. April 17 on Fox 29 KABB.
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McCreary said Harvey and the "Feud" producers loved her dad's impression so much they used him multiple times on the show, which was shot in July in Atlanta. The show-runners got their first look at McCreary's family and her father's acting chops in December 2021, when they followed up on her audition submission that fall.
"And they fell in love with our family," she said. "They called us right away and they said, 'You guys don't understand. We really love your family. You guys have bypassed many families that have been on the waiting list for years.' And we were blown away."
McCreary applied in memory of her mother-in-law, Theresa Black, who died in 2020. She also captained the on-air team, which consisted of herself, her husband Tyronne McCreary, brother-in-law Derrick Black, brother Anthony Wilkerson Jr. and proud papa Anthony Sr.
"She was definitely Gladys Knight and we were the Pips," Black said with a laugh.
Black and the McCrearys, who live in San Antonio, would not reveal how they did on the show. Her father and brother live in Columbus, Georgia.
Black did say the family's appearance "will probably be one of the funniest episodes you will ever see," with lots of crazy answers to equally crazy questions, including a head-scratcher about riding an elevator to hell.
"You’re going to be stomach-cramping laughing," he said.
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"Family Feud" has been bringing the laughs since 1976 when it first aired on ABC with host Richard Dawson. The syndicated game show pits two families against each other as they blurt out what they hope are the top answers to some bizarre survey questions. Families can win up to $100,000 and a new car.
While it may look easy from the comfort of the living room couch, playing "The Feud" is a lot tougher in front of a live audience with the cameras rolling and a superstar host grilling you.
"You just have to kind of relax and have fun," Tyronne McCreary said. "As much as you want to have fun, there is some sense of pressure."
It helps to have a big-name comedian onstage. Black said he set was almost like being at a comedy show, with Harvey always joking and chatting with the crowd between takes.
The McCreary family is just the latest to represent the Alamo City on "Family Feud."
In November, Southwest High School teacher Sharri Peterson appeared on the show with her husband Dwayne, son Dorian, daughter-in-law Derricka and son Dimitri. And a year before that, the Barrera family with Brooke Army Medical Center Army Spc. Gabriella Patlan, her uncle, two aunts and cousin won $41,500 over five episodes.
So how will the McCreary family compare? Survey says tune in April 17 to find out.
Just don't be surprised if the host looks a little different.
rguzman@express-news.net | 2023-04-08T11:04:06+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/article/san-antonio-family-feud-17884524.php |
Man lost at sea survives off ketchup; Heinz plans to buy him a boat
Published: Mar. 1, 2023 at 10:59 AM CST|Updated: 18 minutes ago
(CNN) – After an international search, Heinz has finally made contact with the so-called “Ketchup Boat Guy.”
Dominica sailor Elvis Francois survived weeks at sea, with little more than ketchup to sustain him.
Once Francois was back on dry land, Heinz wanted to give him a new boat but struggled to find him.
Heinz reached out to both the Dominica government and the Colombian Navy that rescued Francois, then turned to social media.
Heinz said the search spanned six continents and took thousands of messages, shares and likes, but finally ended in success.
At last check, the company plans to buy Francois a new state-of-the-art boat.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-01T17:17:40+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/03/01/man-lost-sea-survives-off-ketchup-heinz-plans-buy-him-boat/ |
An argument in a neighborhood near Ponderosa Elementary School turned violent on Sunday afternoon when Billings police arrested one woman after she allegedly fired a weapon during the dispute.
The incident, which first began around 4 p.m. according to Billings police Lt. Matt Lennick, started because the suspect, 43-year-old Jessica Schnetter, was annoyed because another woman, Roxanne Thompson, had parked her car in front of her house rather than next to the home she was visiting.
Thompson told MTN News Monday that she and her friends were visiting someone in the neighborhood and trying to help him fix up a couple of his vehicles which were struggling to start.
"I parked right over here in front of this camper because his whole block was already covered with cars," Thompson said. "Then she shows up like a bat out of hell and started yelling at us."
Thompson's friends, James Kelly and Quincy Lantz, said that the incident escalated quickly and became physical.
"She went back over to her house and said something and then came back down, grabbed some decorative wood and just started beating her dad's car with it," Lantz told MTN News.
Thompson, Kelly and Lantz all took videos of the dispute as it changed from aggressive yelling to Schnetter destroying the windshield of Thompson's car.
"This is something that no one should ever have to go through," Kelly said.
The video of Schnetter trying to shatter every window of the vehicle is shocking, but then the incident got even more frightening as Lantz said they heard gunshots.
"We heard gunshots in the backyard, so that's when I told my friend James to call the cops," Lantz said.
"Being shot at or being near shots fired is a very scary experience," Kelly said.
According to the group of friends, Schnetter fired off multiple shots in different directions near the area of Ponderosa school.
"That was really concerning too," Kelly said. "We saw a mom and her child in the park by the school. You can't just go firing off shots at a school."
Billings police arrested Schnetter on suspicion of two felony counts of criminal endangerment. She was still listed as an inmate in the Yellowstone County jail Monday afternoon.
It's the latest example of an alarming rise in weapons offenses over the last two years, according to the Billings police 2022 annual report.
"I never thought I'd have to go through that, but Billings is getting more dangerous by the day," Kelly said.
None of those involved in this instance were harmed, but all fear what their city has turned into.
"I think the scariest part for me was after the officers showed up with all of their guns," Lantz said. "I thought she was going to start shooting at them. I was like, 'Is this really what it comes down to?'"
"Billings is supposed to be a welcoming community and because of that one incident, I don't feel that," Kelly said. | 2023-06-20T00:03:38+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-woman-facing-felony-charges-following-neighborhood-dispute-involving-gun |
According to information from the South Dakota Highway Patrol, 80-year-old Dannie Barcal of Chadron was a fatality in a two-vehicle crash Friday morning in Hermosa.
Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2016 Dodge Journey, driven by Barcal, was northbound on South Dakota Highway 79 when the Barcal attempted to turn into a parking lot. The Dodge turned into the path of a southbound 2016 Peterbilt semi-truck and trailer, driven by 29-year-old Nathaniel Sichling of Florence, Ariz.
Barcal was transported by ambulance to a Rapid City hospital, where he later passed. Sichling was not injured in the accident, and both were wearing seat belts.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash, and all information is preliminary.
Services for Barcal are scheduled for 10 a.m. Sept. 1 at the United Methodist Church in Crawford. | 2022-08-31T16:53:10+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/community/chadron/news/chadron-man-fatality-in-south-dakota-accident/article_c703b8d8-964e-53e0-be65-f21e3cbb4a0c.html |
Seasoned Software and Security Executive Joins Alviere to Spearhead Global Marketing Efforts
DENVER, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alviere, the leading embedded finance platform enabling any brand to offer their customers financial solutions, today announced that it has named Christine Bottagaro as its chief marketing officer. With more than twenty years of experience in brand messaging, go-to-market strategy, and customer engagement with major software companies, including Sybase, SAP, and Rally Software, Ms. Bottagaro will lead Alviere's global marketing efforts for the world's only complete enterprise fintech platform. The first fully-licensed embedded finance provider, Alviere enables brands to offer a full suite of financial products, increasing customer engagement, generating new revenue streams, and delivering on the promise of financial inclusion.
"We see brands interact with their customers everyday through loyalty programs and affinity cards. As these organizations look for new ways to deepen engagement and offer new revenue pathways, I'm thrilled to bring my expertise to fuel growth at Alviere," said Christine Bottagaro, chief marketing officer, Alviere. "Through our comprehensive, innovative, and fully licensed embedded finance platform, Alviere offers a seamless path to richer customer engagement and new revenue opportunities."
Formerly the co-founder at Resurface Labs, Bottagaro was an integral team member who successfully built the API security company from the ground-up. Prior to Resurface Labs, she served as Chief Marketing Officer for Upland Kapost, and earlier for Rogue Wave Software, where Ms. Bottagaro was responsible for all aspects of marketing for the company's $150 million business. She also spent ten years at Sybase/SAP, where she developed and executed worldwide integrated marketing and customer programs.
"Christine is the perfect fit to lead Alviere's marketing efforts, as we were seeking a high-performance and seasoned executive from the enterprise software sector to mirror the expertise of our existing management team," said Yuval Brisker, Co-Founder and CEO of Alviere. "We're thankful Christine has joined our team and look forward to her contributions as we continue to help the world's leading brands capture additional revenue while deepening their customer relationships."
Recent senior hires include Isabelle Cole as Senior Vice President, Success and Revenue
Assurance, and Gareth Evans, Vice President, Sales and Business Development for Europe.
Alviere is the enterprise embedded finance company that enables leading brands to offer their customers financial solutions, powered by the world's only complete enterprise fintech platform. By leveraging a fully-licensed, compliant, one-stop solution, brands foster a higher level of customer engagement, generate new revenue streams, expand brand exclusivity and deliver on the promise of financial inclusion. For additional information on Alviere's embedded financial products, please visit https://alviere.com/
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TULSA, Okla., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) will release second quarter 2022 earnings after the market closes on Aug. 8, 2022. ONEOK's executive management will participate in a conference call the following day.
If you are unable to participate in the conference call or the webcast, the replay will be available on ONEOK's website, www.oneok.com, for 90 days. A recording will be available by phone for seven days. The playback call may be accessed at 888-203-1112, pass code 5147412.
ONEOK, Inc. (pronounced ONE-OAK) (NYSE: OKE) is a leading midstream service provider and owner of one of the nation's premier natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, connecting NGL supply in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent and Permian regions with key market centers and an extensive network of natural gas gathering, processing, storage and transportation assets.
ONEOK is a FORTUNE 500 company and is included in the S&P 500.
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SOURCE ONEOK, Inc. | 2022-07-07T21:10:45+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/07/oneok-second-quarter-2022-conference-call-webcast-scheduled/ |
Here are some events in Clark, Champaign and Logan counties this week:
Springfield Church Community Kitchen
The High Street United Methodist Church, 230 E. High St. in Springfield, will host a central community kitchen serving meals indoors from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today. For more information, call the Church Office at 937-322-2527.
Mercy Health Mobile Mammography
Mercy Health’s Mobile Mammography unit will be at two Springfield locations this week: Wooded Glen, 2900 N. Bechtle Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today; and Rural King, 1476 Upper Valley Pike, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday.
To schedule a screening, call 937-523-9332. Walk ins are welcome but not guaranteed. The mobile unit offers 15-minute 2D and 3D screenings. A doctor’s order is not needed for screening. Mammograms are covered by most health insurance plans but check with your insurance provider for exact coverage. No cost screenings are available for those who qualify. When calling to register, ask about financial assistance options. Be sure to bring a photo ID and insurance card with you.
Southeast Neighborhood Association Meeting
The Southeast Neighborhood Association (SENA) meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the Augsburg Room at Trinity Lutheran Church, located at the corner of Sunset and South Belmont avenues in Springfield.
The guest speaker will Sherry Chen on Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture. Dale Henry will announce his independent campaign as a candidate for Clark County Commission in the fall election.
Everyone is welcome and persons interested in learning more about local community garden activities and the fall election are urged to attend this meeting. City Police Officers will give reports and answer questions.
Parking is available in the church lot along South Belmont and entry to the church is along the covered walkway through the Brown Door. SENA meetings are an outgrowth of a Trinity Evangelism Committee’s door to door community survey over 23 years ago. For more information about SENA, call 937-323-5865.
Warder Literacy Center Fundraiser
The Warder Literacy Center in Springfield is raising funds for those who struggle with reading and writing through their Flavor by the Basket sales. Baskets come ready-made with three herbs. All you need to do is buy one, place in the sun, water, and snip off what you need. Go to www.cclcnet.net to order yours by Thursday or stop by the CRSI greenhouse, 2030 N. Limestone, on Friday.
Blood Drives
The Community Blood Center will host several drives this week:
- The First Christian Church drive will be held from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at 3638 Middle Urbana Road in Springfield.
- The Journey of Faith Fellowship Church drive will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. today at 163 N. Chillicothe St. in South Charleston.
- The Mary Rutan Hospital drive will be held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday at 205 Palmer Ave. in Bellefontaine.
- The Quest Community Church drive will be held from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at 110 South St. in West Liberty.
- The Greenon High School drive will be held from 8 a.m. to noon on Thursday at 510 S. Enon Xenia Road in Enon.
Everyone who registers to donate receives the summer blood drive campaign “Step Up to the Plate” baseball T-shirt. Schedule an appointment online at www.DonorTime.com or call 937-461-3220. Donate at any CBC blood drive or the CBC Donor Center through Aug. 27 and you are automatically entered in a drawing to win four tickets to the Sept. 3 Cincinnati Reds vs. Colorado Rockies game at Great American Ball Park, followed by a Cole Swindell concert, plus $100 in concession stand gift cards.
Blood donation requirements are to provide a photo ID that includes their full name, past CBC donors are also asked to bring their CBC donor ID card, be at least 17 years of age (16 years old with parental consent: form available at www.givingblood.org or at the Dayton CBC and mobile blood drive locations), weigh a minimum of 110 pounds (you may have to weigh more depending on your height), and be in good physical health.
About the Author | 2022-05-24T12:11:38+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/community-kitchen-fundraiser-among-events-in-region-this-week/SNYE5Y7HQRC6PA7Y7XO5NAP2KI/ |
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