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We look at the parliamentary elections in Greece, where anger over the government response to a deadly train crash earlier this year as well as rampant inflation are top of mind for voters.
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We look at the parliamentary elections in Greece, where anger over the government response to a deadly train crash earlier this year as well as rampant inflation are top of mind for voters.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-20T12:57:01+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2023-05-20/ahead-of-elections-in-greece-voters-want-answers-on-the-deadly-train-crash |
Frustrated with corruption allegations and an increasingly adversarial relationship with the organization that runs global boxing, the International Olympic Committee is considering dropping the sport from the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
In a statement provided to The Washington Post, the IOC blasted the International Boxing Association and its president, Umar Kremlev.
“It has also become clear again, that IBA wants to distract from its own grave governance issues by pointing to the past, which has been addressed by the IOC already in 2019,” the IOC statement read, in part. " . . . The IOC will have to take all this into consideration when it takes further decisions, which may — after these latest developments — have to include the cancellation of boxing for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.”
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The statement comes days after Kremlev attacked the IOC’s refusal to include boxing in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics unless the IBA makes significant reforms after a match-fixing scandal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
“They have no right to dictate to us how to live,” Kremlev said at IBA’s Global Boxing Forum in Abu Dhabi last week. “No other organization should interfere or meddle in the business of our association.”
Kremlev, who was elected in 2020, has been accused of centralizing the IBA’s power in his native Russia, spending heavily on marketing that appears to promote himself and depending too heavily on the IBA’s lone sponsor, the Russian energy company Gazprom.
The statement follows an odd two-week period in which the IBA sent a delegation to the IOC’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, asking for boxing to be added to the Los Angeles Games only to see Kremlev unload on the IOC days later and suggest the organization might move away from the Olympics. | 2022-12-22T22:47:57+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/22/sports/ioc-threatens-drop-boxing-paris-olympics/ |
Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young award winner Gaylord Perry has died at age 84.
Cherokee County Coroner Dennis G. Fowler confirmed Perry died of natural causes at around 5 a.m. on Thursday at his home in Gaffney, South Carolina.
"Gaylord Perry was a consistent workhorse and a memorable figure in his Hall of Fame career, highlighted by his 314 wins and 3,534 strikeouts in 22 years," Major League Baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred said in a statement on Thursday.
"He will be remembered among the most accomplished San Francisco Giants ever, and through his time in Cleveland and San Diego, he became the first pitcher ever to win the Cy Young Award in both the American and National Leagues.
"The five-time 20-game winner pitched for eight different Clubs overall and remained a popular teammate and friend throughout his life. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest condolences to Gaylord's family, friends and fans across our great game."
A five-time All-Star, Perry tallied 314 career victories in his 22-year career with eight teams and ranks sixth in MLB history with 5,350 innings pitched.
Perry made his MLB debut in 1962 with the San Francisco Giants, where he played for 10 seasons. The famed spitball throwing right-hander was traded to the Cleveland Indians, now known as the Guardians, prior to the 1972 season.
With the Indians, Perry won his first Cy Young award after leading the American League in wins (24) and complete games (29).
After being traded to the Texas Rangers in 1975, where he pitched for three seasons, Perry was dealt again in 1978 to the San Diego Padres.
With the Padres, Perry won his second-career Cy Young to become the first player in MLB history to win the award in both leagues.
In 1991, Perry was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
"We have lost another member of our Hall of Fame family thoughts and prayers go out to Gaylord Perry's family and friends RIP my friend you'll be dearly missed," Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs wrote in a statement on Twitter.
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Among the surest ways to feel out of the loop right now is to look at concert listings and notice that artists you've never heard — or even heard of — are somehow big enough to play very large venues. These days, it's a revelation that can strike without warning, no matter who you are or how closely you keep up with music. The streaming ecosystem has created the ideal conditions for lucky niche artists to grow their audience without leaving a cultural bubble, and there are so many cultural bubbles to go around that a few are bound to exclude you.
The Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is a prime example: an act with no hits and modest media coverage who nevertheless commands multi-night runs at amphitheaters throughout the United States: Red Rocks. The Hollywood Bowl. Forest Hills Stadium. That it comfortably shares those spaces with household names is even more impressive considering its own name, a mouthful of internal rhyme so egregiously silly that plenty of music critics, curators and journalists still disregard its existence entirely.
The key to understanding the King Gizzard phenomenon is a willingness to imagine disparate categories in dense overlap, well beyond anything our post-genre pop era might have prepared us for. The group's six musicians live at the center of a very unlikely Venn diagram: stylistic chameleons on par with Beck and Damon Albarn, prolific at a rate that outpaces even the famously hyper-productive Guided By Voices, mounting completely unpredictable live shows with the jam band ethos of Phish. Led by 32-year-old primary songwriter Stu Mackenzie, they have released 24 studio albums since 2010, five of which dropped in 2022. (Two of those, the MGMT-ish Omnium Gatherum and the groovy jazz-fusion opus Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava, are good entry points for the uninitiated.) The records tend to be organized around genre and musical high concepts — garage rock, various flavors of psychedelia, electronic excursions, prog, blue-eyed soul and several albums exploring the possibilites of microtonal tuning.
The band's latest, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation, is its second foray into full-on thrash metal. As it did on style predecessor Infest the Rats' Nest from 2019, the group uses the genre and its traditional obsession with death and destruction as a vehicles for envisioning climate disaster — and resulting class warfare as the wealthy attempt to escape.
"Converge," a particularly brutal cut from the new album, splits its perspective between MacKenzie embodying the fury of nature itself as he describes "a storm of unparalled fright" in a low growl, and multi-instrumentalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith's falsetto refrains standing in for humanity. Once it has established the destruction of civilization as a given, the record ups the ante by bringing witchcraft and enormous rampaging dragon monsters into the narrative. All the over-the-top action-movie fun, however, is balanced with real-life dread, the tone carefully pitched to avoid winking away the seriousness of actual impending catastrophe for the sake of a thrill.
What's perhaps most remarkable about PetroDragonic Apocalypse is how fully and authentically King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard inhabits the target aesthetic. A first-time listener might reasonably peg it as the work of a full-time metal band, studied in the teachings of Slayer and Megadeth. This ability to operate in any of its chosen lanes with maximum commitment, sincerity, and raw skill may be the exact reason the group has been able to grow its audience so steadily. Each new record works like an episode of an ongoing serial, presenting the musicians' ceaseless whims, experiments and reinventions as the elements of a grand adventure. (Case in point: Petrodragonic Apocalypse is only the first of a two-parter about climate anxiety, the chaotic yin to a forthcoming yang in a yet-to-be-revealed genre.)
And for the listeners, King Gizzard's instinct to burn through ideas as quickly as possible has its own odd but undeniable benefit: permission, rare among superfandoms, to care only about the creative excursions that suit their own tastes. When new material is in constant and diverse supply, the stakes get a little lower, and a drastic change in direction feels like less of a betrayal. In other words, if you're not feeling the group in Metallica mode, you can rest easy knowing it'll probably come back around to, say, funky psychedelia before too long.
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Attorneys honored as the firm grows its team of talented lawyers
HOUSTON, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wright Close & Barger is pleased to announce its attorneys have earned recognition in two highly respected legal listings – the 2022 list of Texas Super Lawyers and the 2023 list of Best Lawyers in America.
In all, nine Wright Close & Barger attorneys are named Texas Super Lawyers, including firm co-founder Thomas Wright and partner Raffi Melkonian, who are also named among the Top 100 lawyers in Houston.
Firm partners named to the 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list include:
- Thomas Wright – Appellate – Top 100 Attorneys in Houston
- Howard Close – Civil Litigation: Defense
- Jessica Z. Barger – Appellate
- Russ Hollenbeck – Appellate
- Raffi Melkonian – Appellate – Top 100 Attorneys in Houston
- Bradley Snead - Appellate
- Kenneth Fair – Estate & Trust Litigation
- James Marrow – Appellate
- Randall Owens – Business Litigation
Firm co-founders Thomas Wright and Howard Close are also each marking their 20th consecutive year on the Texas Super Lawyers listing. Honorees are selected using a multiphase process that includes peer nominations and evaluations, along with independent research.
The Texas Super Lawyers honors come just one month after 15 Wright Close & Barger attorneys were named to the 2023 list of Best Lawyers in America, one of the most respected peer-review attorney guides in the nation.
Firm attorneys named to the 2023 Best Lawyers list include:
- Thomas Wright – Appellate Practice; Insurance Litigation
- Howard Close – Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
- Jessica Z. Barger – Appellate Practice; Insurance Litigation
- Wanda McKee Fowler – Appellate Practice
- Russ Hollenbeck – Appellate Practice
- Raffi Melkonian – Appellate Practice; Commercial Litigation
- Randall Owens – Commercial Litigation
- Kenneth Fair – Litigation: Trust and Estates
- Bradley Snead – Appellate Practice
- Andrew Love – Insurance Litigation
- Natasha Taylor – Insurance Litigation
Best Lawyers also named four Wright Close & Barger attorneys to its list of "Ones to Watch," which recognizes professional excellence in attorneys earlier in their careers. They include:
- Lisa Wright – Appellate Practice
- Brittany Greger – Appellate Practice
- Eric Boettcher – Commercial Litigation
- Brian Cathey – Commercial Litigation
Adding New Talent
Wright Close & Barger is pleased to be adding four new associates to the firm's already deep bench of highly skilled trial and appellate lawyers.
Ruben Garza brings to Wright Close & Barger experience in administrative appeals and researching constitutional tort litigation. He previously worked as a law clerk for the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the Ohio Attorney General. He also interned for both the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio and the Department of Homeland Security. He received his law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Brandon Flack joins from the Harris County Attorney's Office, where he served in the environmental division. He has a wide range of experience, which includes drafting legal documents, negotiating settlement agreements, and performing legal research. Mr. Flack also worked as a paralegal for Wright Close & Barger in 2018–19. He is a 2022 graduate of the University of Houston Law Center.
Landon Francois brings to Wright Close & Barger extensive experience as a researcher, having served as research assistant to two law professors with Washington University School of Law. He also interned with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois. He is a 2022 graduate of Washington University School of Law.
Cristina De La Cruz, a 2022 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, rejoins Wright Close & Barger where she worked as a summer associate. She previously served as a law clerk for the Travis County probate court and as an intern for the Travis County Attorney's Office.
"We are so pleased to welcome Ruben, Brandon, Landon and Cristina to our firm," said Mr. Wright. "They each possess a unique set of talents we know will be of great benefit to our firm and our clients."
Wright Close & Barger LLP is a Houston-based civil trial and appellate firm handling complex trial and appellate work for clients across Texas. Our lawyers have a track record for achieving favorable results in cases involving catastrophic personal injury, insurance coverage, intellectual property, oil and gas, product defects, commercial disputes, arbitration and mediation, trade secrets, and trust and estate litigation, among others. We also assist with pretrial motions, special evidence problems, challenges to expert witnesses, and the critical work on the court's charge to the jury. To learn more, visit http://www.wrightclosebarger.com/.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a time-saving way to find the remote for your flat screen television," said an inventor, from San Antonio, Texas, "so I invented the FLAT SCREEN TV REMOTE FINDER. My design could help to prevent lost or misplaced remotes."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to locate the remote for a flat screen TV or other device. In doing so, it saves time and effort when searching for the remote. As a result, it eliminates hassles and frustrations. The invention features a simple and convenient design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it can be used to locate universal remote controls.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CTK-2855, 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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(The Conversation) – Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing more than just uncomfortably hot days across the United States. These high temperatures are placing serious stress on critical infrastructures such as water supplies, airports, roads and bridges.
One category of critical infrastructure being severely affected is the nation’s K-12 schools.
Ideally, the nation’s more than 90,000 public K-12 schools, which serve over 50 million students, should protect children from the sometimes dangerous elements of the outdoors such as severe storms or extreme temperatures.
But since so many of America’s schools are old and dilapidated, it’s the school buildings themselves that need protection – or at least to be updated for the 21st century.
Twenty-eight percent of the nation’s public schools were built from 1950 through 1969, federal data shows, while just 10% were built in 1985 or later.
As a researcher who studies the impact of climate change, I have measured its effects on infrastructure and health for over a decade. During that time, I’ve seen little attention focused on the effects of climate change on public schools.
Since 2019, climate scientist Sverre LeRoy, at the Center for Climate Integrity, and I have worked to determine if the nation’s schools are prepared for the heat waves on the approaching horizon.
Comparing the climate conditions under which U.S. schools were built with the projected conditions over the next two decades, we looked at the vulnerability of all K-12 schools to increasing temperatures. We determined whether current schools have air conditioning or not and whether they would be required to add air conditioning in the future.
The results of our study, “Hotter Days, Higher Costs: The Cooling Crisis in America’s Classrooms,” show that by 2025, more than 13,700 schools will need to install air conditioning, and another 13,500 will need to upgrade their existing systems.
Hot classrooms
Research has shown that high classroom temperatures can make it harder to learn. Hot school days cause difficulty in concentrating, sleepiness, a decrease in energy and even reduced memory capacity.
Local school districts have policies for extreme heat events. However, rising temperatures mean these guidelines are no longer limited to rare occurrences.
Over the past several years, schools across the U.S. are increasingly forced to take “heat days,” cutting school days short because of classrooms that are too hot for students to effectively learn.
This is happening in places that range from Denver to Baltimore and Cleveland.
Compounding the increase in temperatures is the national trend that seasonal temperatures are rising in both the spring and the fall. For example, both Rhode Island and New Jersey have seen average spring and fall temperatures rise over 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.7 Celsius). Rather than high temperatures only occurring when students are on summer break, these heat events now occur regularly during the school year too. Students today in a greater number of cities are beginning and ending the school year in classrooms that often exceed 80 F (27 C).
Expensive upgrades
The problem of more hot days is due to average temperatures increasing over the past 40 years. The number of days with high temperatures has risen across the country, with notable increases in large northern cities. For example, Chicago has seen the number of days over 80 degrees during the school year increase from 27 in 1970 to 32 in 2020 and a projected 38 by 2025. These increases affect schools in two distinct ways.
Schools in the traditionally cooler north – especially older schools – will need to be retrofitted with new air conditioning systems at an accumulated cost of US$40 billion by 2025. For schools in the traditionally warmer South and West, many existing systems will need to be upgraded at a projected cost exceeding $400 million.
Temperature increases are especially costly in large cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, where existing efforts and continued needs will result in outlays exceeding $500 million, $1.5 billion and $600 million, respectively. These large districts have a greater number of older buildings that require upgrades in electrical and structural systems to support new air conditioning systems.
For all schools – even ones that don’t require system upgrades – the additional costs of operating air conditioning systems to meet the new demands will exceed $1.4 billion per year.
An equity issue
Since school districts are dependent on local taxes or bond measures to finance the school system, districts in affluent areas have a greater opportunity to obtain funds through tax increases or voter-approved bond measures.
In contrast, districts located in less affluent counties – including Bell County, Kentucky; Scott County, Tennessee; and DeKalb County, Alabama – face the challenge of creating safe learning environments without a financial safety net. With household incomes for the entire district in the bottom 20% of national averages, or less than $43,000 per year, these districts are unable to absorb significant tax increases.
In this regard, classroom environments become an equity issue. While the increase in temperature may affect all children, the relative impact of the increase and the ability to adapt is not equal.
Unsustainable solutions
Increasingly, school districts are turning to individual window units to address classroom overheating. However, window units do not cool interior offices, cannot circulate and exchange air within the classrooms, and will not meet expected lifespans due to extensive use. Furthermore, they create uneven cooling patterns and classroom disturbance due to noise. While these solutions are popular from an initial budget perspective, they ultimately fail to solve the hot classroom crisis.
Where mechanical systems are not an option due to budgetary constraints, school districts are looking at altering the school year to start later or end earlier. However, there are limits to this approach because there are minimum requirements for the number of days that are in the school year. Some schools are even experimenting with remote learning as a response when extreme temperatures are an issue.
The bottom line for schools and their surrounding communities is that rising temperatures from climate change are a growing threat to school infrastructure. Schools will need additional funding to install or upgrade air conditioning systems, pay for increased energy usage or redesign school buildings to enhance natural cooling. Various cities and states argue that fossil fuel companies have a duty to pay these infrastructure costs associated with climate change.
The only other choice is for America’s students to continue to endure classrooms where it’s simply too hot to learn. | 2022-07-31T19:44:24+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/as-heat-waves-intensify-tens-of-thousands-of-us-classrooms-will-be-too-hot-for-students-to-learn-in-2/ |
ATLANTA (AP)Marcus Mariota and the Atlanta Falcons are still under .500 and still in the thick of the NFC South race.
Younghoe Koo’s 53-yard field goal gave Atlanta the lead with less than two minutes to play and the Falcons overcame another impressive game from Chicago’s Justin Fields to beat the Bears 27-24 on Sunday.
Fields ran for 85 yards with a touchdown despite suffering a left shoulder injury on the Bears’ final possession. He was awaiting results of X-rays on the shoulder after the game and said ”I’m hurting a little bit.”
Fields said he was hurt on the first play of the Bears’ possession following Koo’s go-ahead field goal. Fields remained in the game.
”I don’t know what happened, to be honest with you,” Fields said. ”I just landed on it, I think. … I was hurting, but it was the last drive of the game. I tried to be there for my teammates.”
Fields’ pass for running back David Montgomery was intercepted by Falcons safety Jaylinn Hawkins with 1:07 remaining. A 26-yard run by rookie Tyler Allgeier allowed the Falcons, who rushed for 149 yards, to wind down the clock.
Fields completed 14 of 21 passes for 153 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
The Bears suffered their fourth consecutive loss. Chicago (3-8) has lost six of seven.
Each quarterback had the most carries for his team. Mariota couldn’t match Fields’ dual-threat production, but he ran and threw for touchdowns for Atlanta (5-6), which pulled within one-half game of NFC South-leading Tampa Bay (5-5) on the Buccaneers’ bye week.
”It’s big for the team, and we’ve just got to keep rolling,” Hawkins said. ”Everything counts.”
Atlanta running back Cordarrelle Patterson, who played for the Bears for two years before signing with the Falcons in 2021, set the NFL record with his ninth career kickoff return for a touchdown. His 103-yard return in the second quarter broke a tie with Joshua Cribbs and Leon Washington for the mark.
Patterson’s lost fumble after a 19-yard run set up Fields’ 4-yard scoring run that gave Chicago a 17-7 lead. Patterson atoned for the fumble with his record-breaking return.
”Honestly, man, the fumble – the series before that – was in my head the whole time, you know?” Patterson said. ”As a football player, you’ve got to move on to the next play. I was happy when he kicked me the ball because I had just had to go out and make a spark for my team. That’s what I do.”
Mariota had 13 carries for 25 yards, including a 10-yard scoring run for a 24-17 lead in the third quarter. He threw for 131 yards, including a 2-yard scoring pass to Drake London.
Koo’s 40-yard field goal on the final play of the first half tied it at 17.
SCRAMBLE TIME
Fields’ ability to extend a third-and-12 play by scrambling before passing to Equanimeous St. Brown for a 14-yard gain set up Montgomery’s 2-yard touchdown run to tie the game.
According to NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Fields ran 33.2 yards before completing the pass to St. Brown, the longest scramble on a third-down conversion in the league this season.
HOMECOMING FOR FIELDS
Fields, an Atlanta-area native, began his career at the University of Georgia before transferring to Ohio State. His homecoming came after running for a combined 325 yards in his last two games, setting a two-game NFL record for quarterbacks.
Fields said his goal is ”just keep getting better. Take each day on its own and keep working to control what you can control.”
INJURIES
Bears: DE Trevis Gipson left early in the second quarter with a leg injury. Taco Charlton, who was signed Wednesday off waivers from the Saints practice squad, replaced Gipson. … Montgomery was removed late in the first half and escorted to the medical tent. He quickly returned to the game. … CB Kyler Gordon was escorted to the locker room with a possible head injury in the third quarter.
Falcons: DE Ta’Quon Graham was carted off the field with a left knee injury in the second quarter and was ruled out. … TE Kyle Pitts had an 18-yard catch early in the third quarter but left with a knee injury following a big hit by safety Eddie Jackson. Pitts jogged off the field before the team announced he was questionable to return.
UP NEXT
Bears: At New York Jets on Nov. 27.
Falcons: At Washington on Nov. 27.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Drier air will return to southern Arizona as we head into the weekend, but we'll still have a chance of thunderstorms for Friday.
This weekend, high temperatures will climb back into the low to mid-90s and chances of rain will just about disappear.
This trend will carry us into next week with even warmer temperatures on the way for the middle of next week.
We'll have to say goodbye to the rain, for now.
Cuyler Diggs
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WEATHER STATS AND FACTS | 2023-05-19T03:21:42+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/weather/forecast/todays-forecast/drier-air-returns-for-the-weekend |
Project will leverage consulting and advisory strategy accelerator to modernize airport facilities
DALLAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to provide asset management consulting and professional services to develop a strategy for the operations, maintenance, modernization and future growth of physical assets throughout its 4,700-acre campus.
Under this contract, Jacobs will assess the Department of Aviation's current asset management program; develop strategies, processes and asset management plans; assess the condition of facilities; and provide support and training for enterprise asset management systems.
"Our decades-long partnership with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has given us a deep understanding of our client, its operations and vision for the future," said Jacobs Executive Vice President and President of People & Places Solutions Patrick Hill. "We'll consult with ATL to develop a strategic asset management program that supports their vision and delivers on our commitment to provide custom strategic solutions that leverage our deep domain knowledge."
Jacobs' consulting team will integrate program elements into a comprehensive asset management program to bring measurable improvements in operational performance, sustainability, risk mitigation resiliency, investment planning and total cost of ownership.
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $14 billion in revenue and a talent force of approximately 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. Visit jacobs.com and connect with Jacobs on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The German economy is still failing to grow, figures showed Friday, as the country that should be the industrial powerhouse for all of Europe struggles with high energy prices, rising borrowing costs and a lagging rebound from key trading partner China.
Economic output in Germany stagnated in the April-to-June quarter, the Federal Statistics Office said. That follows a decline of 0.1% in the first three months of the year and a drop of 0.4% in the last three months of 2022 as the energy shock from Russia’s war in Ukraine echoed through Europe’s largest economy.
It comes after the International Monetary Fund forecast this week that Germany would be the globe’s only major economy to shrink this year, even with weak economic growth around the world amid rising interest rates and the threat of growing inflation.
In Germany, the economy has been buffeted by several challenges. Above all, its long-term dependence on Russian natural gas to fuel industry backfired when the invasion of Ukraine led to the loss of most of Moscow’s supply and to higher costs for energy-intensive industries such as metals, glass, cars and fertilizer.
Higher interest rates from the European Central Bank have weighed on construction projects that depend on borrowing. Meanwhile, the rebound in China, Germany’s largest trade partner, after the end of drastic COVID-19 restrictions has been less than many had hoped for.
The second-quarter economic performance was “far from satisfactory,” said Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
He urged action on his proposal to cap energy prices for industry with government help, which has run into skepticism in parts of the governing coalition, and more investment in future-oriented technology such as renewable energy.
“What Germany needs is a targeted impulse for investment and breathing room for our energy-intensive industry,” he said.
Longer-term factors such as an aging population, lagging use of digital technology in business and government, excessive red tape that holds back business launches and public construction projects, and a shortage of skilled labor also have weighed on the economy.
Yet the slowdown does not resemble a classic recession because jobs are abundant, with companies competing for workers and complaining of skills shortages. The unemployment rate was only 2.9% in May, well below the eurozone’s 6.5% — one of the lowest rates on record.
Carsten Brzeski, chief eurozone economist at ING, has described Germany’s situation as a “slowcession,” with the economy “stuck in the twilight zone between stagnation and recession.”
He said Friday that recent data “do not bode well for economic activity in the coming months.”
“In fact, weak purchasing power, thinned-out industrial order books, as well as the impact of the most aggressive monetary policy tightening in decades, and the expected slowdown of the U.S. economy, all argue in favor of weak economic activity,” Brzeski said in a note.
Germany’s woes are calling forth comparisons with the late 1990s, when high labor costs held back the country’s competitiveness. A series of labor market reforms under former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2003-2004 helped restore economic growth and Germany’s position as an export powerhouse selling industrial machinery and vehicles to the rest of the world.
Germany’s current account surplus of $290 billion, the broadest measure of foreign trade, was the highest in the world in 2019, according to the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. It remained above 7% of GDP for six straight years but fell to 4.2% last year. | 2023-07-29T10:53:39+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/ap-germany-used-to-be-the-worlds-export-powerhouse-now-its-not-growing-what-happened/ |
(The Conversation) – March Madness means 68 teams vying to become champion, Cinderella runs for a few underdogs and big business for the NCAA, which earns 85% of its annual operating budget during the men’s basketball tournament.
But all of that comes at a tremendous cost: An estimated 463 million pounds (210 million kilograms) of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions are released into the atmosphere during the three-week event. That’s similar to all the emissions of a large university – such as 2019 champion University of Virginia – for an entire year.
These greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, contributing to heat waves, sea level rise and extreme weather. Carbon dioxide equivalent is a way of measuring the impact of several different greenhouse gases at once.
Crunching carbon for large-scale event
A colleague, Alex Cooper, and I came up with this figure based on data for the 2019 NCAA Tournament.
Past research on the carbon footprint of sporting events has primarily focused on one-city events, such as the Football Association Challenge Cup in the U.K. and centralized events like the Olympics. Little prior research has sought to determine the environmental impact of a large-scale sporting event like the NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament.
In addition, when sports organizers do calculate and report emissions for their events, they typically only report what happens at their facility during the event. They don’t consider the environmental impact, for example, of travel to and from the event.
So, we wanted to know, what’s the carbon tally for a huge and popular event like March Madness?
For our peer-reviewed study, which was published in October 2021 in the Journal of Cleaner Production, we aimed to estimate the carbon emissions for all the activities that go into running a massive basketball tournament that takes place in multiple cities across the country in a short span of time. While our estimates are based on 2019, we believe that tournament-generated emissions are comparable to other years, including 2023.
We looked beyond facilities to consider team and fan flight and automobile travel, facility operations, food consumption, waste generation and lodging for everyone based on each team’s progression through the 2019 tournament. We used attendance estimates to determine the impact of hotel stays, fan and team air and automobile travel, waste generation, food consumption and sport facility operations to form our carbon emission model.
Based on our model, we found that this resulted in 463 million pounds of CO2 equivalent emissions. That’s about 1,100 pounds (499 kilograms) for every player, coach and fan who attends. That amount is the same as driving over 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) in a typical sedan.
The biggest source of emissions by far was, as you might expect, fan and team travel, which accounted for about 79.95% of the total. The next-largest was hotel stays at 6.83%, followed by food at 6.37%, stadium operations at 5.9% and general waste at 0.95%.
What surprised us most was that the category of travel as a share of the total was lower than in previous studies that analyzed the carbon footprint of sporting events. But that was primarily because, unlike in those other studies, we considered many other aspects of the event, such as lodging, food and waste.
Ways to mitigate impact
So what can the organizers of March Madness – or any tournament, really – do to reduce the carbon footprint?
Since travel makes up so much of that footprint, targeting emissions from long-distance travel, such as flights, may be one of the most effective ways to lower the event’s overall impact, as other researchers have noted.
While travel can’t be completely eliminated for a tournament like the NCAA’s, organizers could consider more regional placements to reduce the distances fans and teams must travel. For example, in 2019, Mississippi State, Liberty, Virginia Tech, Saint Louis and Wisconsin all traveled to San Jose, California. The idea would be for more games to take place regionally to decrease travel distances. This would not only reduce carbon emissions but could also increase profits by making it easier for more fans to attend.
And when evaluating host cities and sites, the NCAA could consider local policies that encourage sustainable hotel operations. For example, during the 2019 tournament, California host sites had more energy-efficient hotel operations, thus reducing the second-highest contributor to overall emissions. The same could be said about selecting arenas and sport facilities that are energy efficient.
March Madness brings tremendous value and enjoyment to college basketball fans throughout the country. While its carbon footprint can never be eliminated, there are ways to reduce its overlooked environmental cost. | 2023-03-16T14:44:23+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-march-madness/ |
(NEXSTAR) – The Biden administration has announced its plan to cancel some of America’s $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt, fulfilling a campaign promise after months of anticipation.
While the White House says 43 million borrowers can expect to receive relief – roughly 20 million of those are expected to have their remaining federal student loan balance completely erased – that means approximately 2 million borrowers won’t receive any relief.
It’s possible you are among those borrowers who won’t see relief for a number of reasons.
First, if your student loans aren’t federal loans and are instead through a private lender, your loans won’t be forgiven through President Biden’s plan. Private loans don’t fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government, meaning the federal government most likely cannot forgive them.
You’re also excluded from relief if you exceed the income caps set by the Biden administration.
The “targeted student debt cancellation” revealed Wednesday is intended to help “borrowers at highest risk of delinquencies or default once payments resume,” the Education Department said in a release.
“No high-income individual or high-income household – in the top 5% of incomes – will benefit from this action,” the White House said Wednesday.
As expected, student loan forgiveness will be restricted based on income. Borrowers “with annual income during the pandemic of under $125,000 (for individuals) or under $250,000 (for married couples or heads of households)” will be eligible for up to $10,000 in relief, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Borrowers under the same income caps who received a Pell Grant in college will be eligible for up to $20,000 in debt cancellation.
If your annual income exceeds either income threshold, you won’t qualify for the relief outlined by the Biden administration.
How that relief will be distributed has not yet been made clear.
In a Wednesday release, the Education Department says further details will be announced in the coming weeks. An application will need to be filed and, according to officials, that will be available before the student loan payment pause ends on December 31.
Income data already available to the Department of Education shows nearly 8 million borrowers may qualify for student relief automatically.
Additional details about this student loan forgiveness are expected in the coming weeks, and President Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks about the decision Wednesday afternoon.
In addition to student loan forgiveness, the Biden administration extended the payment pause on loans until the end of 2022, proposed a new rule to change to create a new income-driven repayment plan that will substantially reduce future monthly payments for lower- and middle-income borrowers, and proposed long-term changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. | 2022-08-24T18:14:01+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/how-to-know-if-you-arent-getting-student-loan-forgiveness/ |
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It’s a tale of intrigue, corruption and backstabbing. Of lavish meals and private jets. It includes hubris, incompetence and even Russian spies. But it’s not a new John Grisham novel. It’s NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak’s new expose of the National Rifle Association, titled “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.”
The book takes a deep dive into the three-decade-long reign of Wayne Lapierre, who has managed to keep his role as the group’s leader. Host Scott Tong discusses the book, some of its findings and how it was reported with author Tim Mak.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-27T02:20:54+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022-06-06/misfire-dives-into-nra-corruption-during-the-reign-of-wayne-lapierre |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dutton and Wrenlee are on the rise but they’re no match for champs Liam and Olivia as the top baby names in the U.S. last year.
The Social Security Administration released the annual list Friday. The agency tracks baby names in each state based on applications for Social Security cards, with names dating to 1880.
It’s Liam’s sixth straight year as No. 1. Olivia has reigned since the name unseated Emma four years ago. Emma is No. 2.
Coming in third for girls’ names is Charlotte, followed by Amelia, Sophia, Isabella, Ava, Mia, Evelyn and Luna. For boys’ names, Liam is followed by Noah, Oliver, James, Elijah, William, Henry, Lucas, Benjamin and Theodore.
Luna is the only newcomer in the Top 10, booting Harper.
The agency has been compiling the list since 1997, often revealing the impact pop culture has on baby naming trends. The smash hit “Yellowstone” has clearly influenced new parents. The neo-Western starring Kevin Costner debuted in 2018, with characters surfacing among baby names ever since.
Dutton moved up the Social Security list to 835, a change of 986 spots from 2021. It’s the last name of the fictional family featured on the series, and it counts Costner’s John Dutton in its ranks. Dutton is the fastest rising name in the Social Security rankings.
Another Dutton name follows actual Dutton as a star with a bullet among baby names. Kayce, as in Kayce John Dutton on the show, moved to the 587th most popular name, up from 1,077 the year before. Luke Grimes plays Kayce.
Rip, also from “Yellowstone,” has grabbed some naming attention, but it didn’t crack Social Security’s top 1,000. Cole Hauser’s Rip Wheeler is Dutton adjacent as the son-in-law of John.
Other names rising fast for boys: Chosen, Khaza, Eithan. For girls, Wrenlee is followed by Neriah, Arlet, Georgina and Amiri.
The Social Security Administration’s latest data shows 3.64 million babies in the U.S. were issued Social Security cards last year, up slightly from 2021.
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Online: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ | 2023-05-12T20:00:12+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/liam-and-olivia-continue-to-reign-atop-social-securitys-top-baby-names-in-the-u-s/ |
GLENDALE (SWIFT CITY), AZ — Swifties will be headed to Taylor’s version of Glendale, Arizona, to celebrate her newest concert tour this week.
City officials announced Monday that they would be temporarily changing the name of the city to Swift City in honor of Taylor Swift.
The 12-time Grammy award-winning music icon will kick off her ‘Eras’ tour at State Farm Stadium on March 17 and 18.
JUST IN - Glendale Mayor temporarily renames the city “Swift City” in honor of @taylorswift13 kicking off her Eras Tour March 17th and 18th at State Farm Stadium @abc15 pic.twitter.com/F0aUl9vu4k
— Nick Ciletti (@NickCiletti) March 13, 2023
"We want people to know Glendale, Arizona, we are the sports and entertainment district not just in the valley but in the State of Arizona," explains Glendale Mayor Jerry Weirers.
"I couldn't be more proud to be the mayor of the city that's done such an incredible job - if you look at 10 years ago and then look at today, it's almost a tale of two different cities with the same name," Weirers added.
The City of Glendale said they're expecting potentially 70,000 people each day to cram into State Farm Stadium for the concerts, which would be similar Super Bowl Sunday's attendance.
Even if you’re not going to one of the highly anticipated shows, Swift’s imprint will be apparent throughout the city.
Glendale officials say freeway billboards will be lit up with festive messages and Westgate Entertainment District businesses will be offering themed menus and fun to celebrate.
"A lot of bars and restaurants in our area will be offering Taylor Swift-themed menu items," explains Jessica Mensch, a self-professed "Swiftie" who works for the City of Glendale. "The Lola will have themed cocktails. Lumberjaxes Axe Throwing bar will have specials for Swifties, so it's not just a party in the stadium -- it's a party throughout our entire sports and entertainment district."
And the City of Glendale isn't done yet for major events, as the state's largest hotel opens here later this year and the Final Four is visiting in 2024.
"I think as we keep adding things on and making people understand that the thought people had of being a Hickville 40 years ago, we're not," said Weirers. "We're not. And I would put up anything we have in Glendale against any other city in the state and a lot of other states."
This article was written by Scripps News Phoenix. | 2023-03-14T19:37:46+00:00 | krtv.com | https://www.krtv.com/news/national/arizona-city-changes-name-to-celebrate-taylor-swifts-eras-tour-kickoff |
Russia and China slam NATO after alliance raises alarm
MADRID (AP) — NATO faced rebukes from Moscow and Beijing on Thursday after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges” to global stability.
The Western military alliance was wrapping up a summit in Madrid, where it issued a stark warning that the world has been plunged into a dangerous phase of big-power competition and myriad threats, from cyberattacks to climate change.
NATO leaders also formally invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, after overcoming opposition from Turkey. If the Nordic nations’ accession is approved by the 30 member nations, it will give NATO a new 800-mile (1,300 kilometer) border with Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned he would respond in kind if the Nordic pair allowed NATO troops and military infrastructure onto their territory. He said Russia would have to “create the same threats for the territory from which threats against us are created.”
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Putin’s threats were “nothing new.”
“Of course, we have to expect some kind of surprises from Putin, but I doubt that he is attacking Sweden or Finland directly,” Kallas said as she arrived at the summit’s conference center venue. “We will see cyberattacks definitely. We will see hybrid attacks, information war is going on. But not the conventional war.”
China accused the alliance of “maliciously attacking and smearing” the country. Its mission to the European Union said NATO “claims that other countries pose challenges, but it is NATO that is creating problems around the world.”
NATO leaders turned their gaze south for a final summit session Thursday focused on Africa’s Sahel region and the Middle East, where political instability — aggravated by climate change and food insecurity sparked by the war in Ukraine — is driving large numbers of migrants toward Europe.
“It is in our interest to continue working with our close partners in the south to fight shared challenges together,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.
But it was Russia that dominated the summit. Stoltenberg said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine had brought “the biggest overhaul of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.”
The invasion shattered Europe’s peace, and in response NATO has poured troops and weapons into Eastern Europe on a scale unseen in decades. Member nations have given Ukraine billions in military and civilian aid to strengthen its resistance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who addressed the summit by video link, asked for more. He urged NATO to send modern artillery systems and other weapons and warned the leaders they either had to provide Kyiv with the help it needed or “face a delayed war between Russia and yourself.”
“The question is, who’s next? Moldova? Or the Baltics? Or Poland? The answer is: all of them,” he said.
At the summit, NATO leaders agreed to dramatically scale up military force along the alliance’s eastern flank, where countries from Romania to the Baltic states worry about Russia’s future plans.
They announced plans to increase almost eightfold the size of the alliance’s rapid reaction force, from 40,000 to 300,000 troops, by next year. The troops will be based in their home nations but dedicated to specific countries in the east, where the alliance plans to build up stocks of equipment and ammunition.
U.S. President Joe Biden, whose country provides the bulk of NATO’s firepower, announced a hefty boost in America’s military presence in Europe, including a permanent U.S. base in Poland, two more Navy destroyers based in Rota, Spain, and two more F35 squadrons in the U.K.
The expansion will keep 100,000 troops in Europe for the foreseeable future, up from 80,000 before the war in Ukraine began.
Biden said Putin had believed NATO members would splinter after he invaded Ukraine, but the Russian leader got the opposite response.
“You’re gonna get the NATO-ization of Europe,” Biden said. “And that’s exactly what he didn’t want, but exactly what needs to be done to guarantee security for Europe.”
Still, strains among NATO allies have emerged as the cost of energy and other essential goods has skyrocketed, partly because of the war and tough Western sanctions on Russia. There also are tensions over how the war will end and what, if any, concessions Ukraine should make.
Money remains a sensitive issue — just nine of NATO’s 30 members currently meet the organization’s target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense.
Britain, one of the nine, announced a further 1 billion pounds ($1.21 billion) in military support to Ukraine on Thursday,
At what Stoltenberg called a “transformative” summit, the leaders published NATO’s new Strategic Concept, its once-a-decade set of priorities and goals.
The last such document, in 2010, called Russia a “strategic partner.” Now, NATO is accusing Russia of using “coercion, subversion, aggression and annexation” to extend its reach.
The 2010 document made no mention of China, but the new one addressed Bejing’s growing economic and military reach.
“China is not our adversary, but we must be clear-eyed about the serious challenges it represents,” Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
NATO said that China “strives to subvert the rules-based international order, including in the space, cyber and maritime domains” and warned of its close ties with Moscow.
The alliance said, however, that it remained “open to constructive engagement” with Beijing.
China shot back that NATO was a source of instability and vowed to defend its interests.
“Since NATO positions China as a ‘systemic challenge,’ we have to pay close attention and respond in a coordinated way. When it comes to acts that undermine China’s interests, we will make firm and strong responses,” its statement said.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-30T11:55:51+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/06/30/russia-china-slam-nato-after-alliance-raises-alarm/ |
How to Watch the Cubs vs. Padres Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 3
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- Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023
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Cubs Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Cubs rank 10th in Major League Baseball with 67 home runs.
- Fueled by 157 extra-base hits, Chicago ranks 14th in MLB with a .409 slugging percentage this season.
- The Cubs rank 14th in MLB with a .252 team batting average.
- Chicago has scored the 19th-most runs in the majors this season with 250 (4.5 per game).
- The Cubs have an on-base percentage of .331 this season, which ranks sixth in the league.
- The Cubs rank 23rd in strikeouts per game (9.3) among MLB offenses.
- Chicago strikes out 8.6 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 19th in MLB.
- Chicago pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.11 ERA this year, which ranks 13th in MLB.
- Cubs pitchers have a 1.256 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
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- Drew Smyly (5-2) will take to the mound for the Cubs and make his 12th start of the season.
- The left-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw 4 2/3 innings against the Cincinnati Reds, giving up five earned runs while allowing seven hits.
- He has started 11 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in four of them.
- Smyly has eight starts of five or more innings this season in 11 chances. He averages 5.5 innings per outing.
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Actor Mary Beth Webber who plays Yente, the Matchmaker from “Fiddler on the Roof” 1/30-2/1 at Buddy Holly Hall
January 21, 2023 10:01PM CST
She loves audio books, helping kids love the theater and wants to play the Dowager Countess. Catch Mary Beth Webber as she portrays the Matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof at the Buddy Holly Hall. Time to go Beyond the Mic.
Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon is the conversation series where actors, artists, authors, and more go deeper than a traditional interview. They go “Beyond the Mic”.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox want to re-sign Xander Bogaerts – and Rafael Devers, too – Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom insisted, saying things have improved since they bowed out of the bidding and traded away their last homegrown star: Mookie Betts.
“We are in a different situation and a better situation, I think, as far as how the organization is set up. So I don’t think we’re going to have the exact parallel to that situation again,” Bloom said Thursday, a day after the Red Sox finished last and headed into an offseason with their two best players in need of new deals.
“We want to keep them here for a long time,” Bloom said, adding the caveat: “And we want them here in a deal that, you know, we’re going to look back on and say, ‘This is great for everybody.’”
A four-time All-Star who has helped the Red Sox win two World Series in 10 seasons, Bogaerts can become a free agent this offseason and would command a lengthy and lucrative deal. Devers, who has received AL MVP votes in two of his five seasons in Boston, has one more year of arbitration eligibility before he can hit the market.
Boston fans worry that the team will balk at the market price for the two young stars — the entire left side of their infield — like they did in 2020 when they sent Betts, the 2018 AL MVP, to the Dodgers rather than lose him as a free agent.
Bloom said avoiding that with Bogaerts, who can opt out of his six-year, $120 million deal this offseason, is at the top of his to-do list.
“That process is going to start right away, from our end,” Bloom said. “We know we haven’t found that path yet. We still want to. We’re going to work really hard at it.”
Red Sox President Sam Kennedy said that, as a fan, he wants the team to keep Bogaerts and Devers.
That's why he's leaving that job to Bloom and his baseball operations department.
“I fall guilty of falling in love with our players, and particularly our homegrown players,” Kennedy said. “Of course, I’d be disappointed. You've got Xander Bogaerts and Raffy Devers — two of the most important people in the history of this organization. So I hope we can find a way to not only bring them back, or keep them here, extend them, but have a team around them that is built for success in October."
The Red Sox weren't able to do that in 2022.
One year after winning 92 games, earning a wild-card berth and making it all the way to the ALCS, the Red Sox dropped to 78-84 and last in the AL East. In fact, the Red Sox have finished last five times in the past 11 years — a streak of ignominy unmatched in franchise history since the Great Depression.
Two of their fifth-place finishes were followed by division titles. (Last year they finished second in the division but beat the first-place Rays in the ALDS.)
And mixed in among those fifth-place finishes were two World Series championships. Kennedy said the season was “incredibly disappointing” and took responsibility, on behalf of the owners, for the failure to produce. (Owners John Henry and Tom Werner were not at the news conference.)
But Kennedy also said he was “incredibly confident” in the group assembled to dig their way out of it.
“Finishing in last place is brutal. It’s certainly not what we set out to do,” Kennedy said. “We’ve been in this position before. And we’re excited about building this thing back up and being competitive in 2023 and beyond.”
In other updates:
--Bloom expressed cautious optimism that Chris Sale would be a productive part of the rotation next year: “We fully expected to be a huge part of our success next year,” Bloom said, adding: “It’s always our responsibility to make sure that we’re prepared for as many things as possible that can go wrong. So that’s going to be a part of our offseason planning this year.”
--Manager Alex Cora said the coaching staff will be back.
--Season ticket prices will go up 1.5% to 2%, Kennedy said. He also said the team is considering earlier start times for some weeknight games.
--The team plans to keep its games within the NESN system instead of streaming some on an outside an outside provider like the Yankees have done with 21 games on Amazon Prime Video.
“We’ve got to be where our fans are. And like it or not, our fans are right here,” Kennedy said, waving his phone in the air. “So we’re going to continue to explore new and different avenues to get Red Sox baseball to our fans.” | 2022-10-06T22:29:13+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Re-signing-Bogaerts-Devers-the-key-for-17492348.php |
Tia Mowry is revealing the "aha" moment that led to her divorce from Cory Hardrict.
During an appearance on TODAY with Hoda and Jenna, the 44-year-old actress opened up about when exactly she knew that something had to change in her life in order to remain true to herself. Mowry said a number of things culminated in the realization that a separation from Hardrict was the answer.
"There was this sadness, and I knew life is short," Mowry revealed. "I had actually lost my grandmother. We had lost [her niece] Elena Horsely [in a 2018 mass shooting] and both of them, at the same time, there was just an 'aha' moment in me where I said, 'You know what? You need to tap in, see what's going on with your happiness. Life is short, let's go, let's start working on you, and really focusing on what really, really matters here, which is, at the end of the day, your peace, your joy and your happiness.'"
She added, "It's not easy. It's a hard journey. But at the end of the day, I feel like it is so, so worth it."
Mowry and Hardrict share two children -- 11-year-old son Cree, and 4-year-old daughter Cairo. Mowry shared news of her divorce with her fans in a note on her Instagram on Oct. 4.
But, despite the divorce, Mowry doesn't see her marriage as a failure. Quite the opposite, actually. In fact, she called the divorce a celebration and likened it to a college or high school curriculum where "you're learning, you're evolving and you're creating."
"And I was able to create with Cory some beautiful, amazing children," she added. "And, at the end of that curriculum, there's a graduation. There's a celebration. So that's basically how I'm looking at it now. And I feel like people, when they look at marriage, that success equals longevity, but no. At the end of the day are they happy? Are they thriving? Are they growing? I feel like that is what is most important."
Mowry's twin sister, Tamera, recently revealed to ET's Denny Directo that Tia is the happiest she's been in years following her divorce.
"I told her, I said, 'Tia, I'm looking on your Instagram, this is the happiest you've been in a long time. You are glowing!'" Tamera recalled. "'You look different, but in a very positive way!'"
"I think it's because -- no, I know it's because she is living her authentic, true self," she added. "And I think that is what everyone should do. And it's not easy! That's the thing, it's scary."
RELATED CONTENT: | 2022-11-17T03:48:52+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/tia-mowry-shares-why-her-marriage-is-a-success-despite-divorce/603-d891cd8d-e97e-47f3-9160-fd0ba6c37813 |
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents there evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired about a dozen missiles Wednesday, at least one of them in its direction and landing near the rivals’ tense sea border. South Korea quickly responded by performing its own missile tests in the same border area.
The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The White House maintained that the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea and vowed to work with allies to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
The North’s barrage of missile tests also came as world attention was focused on South Korea following a weekend Halloween tragedy that saw more than 150 people killed in a crowd surge in Seoul in what was the country’s largest disaster in years.
South Korea’s military said North Korea launched more than 10 missiles of various kinds off its eastern and western coasts on Wednesday.
One of the missiles was flying toward South Korea’s Ulleung island before it eventually landed 167 kilometers (104 miles) northwest of the island. South Korea’s military subsequently issued an air raid alert on the island, according to the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. South Korean media published photos showing island residents moving to underground shelters.
Hours later on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said it lifted the air raid alert on the island.
That missile landed 26 kilometers (16 miles) away from the rivals’ sea border. It landed in international waters but far south of the two countries’ border, off the east coast of South Korea. South Korea’s military said it was the first time a North Korean missile had landed so close to the sea border since the countries’ division in 1948.
“This is very unprecedented and we will never tolerate it,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
In 2010, North Korea shelled a frontline South Korean island off the peninsula’s western coast, killing four people. But the weapons used were artillery rockets, not ballistic missiles whose launches or tests are banned by multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Later Wednesday, South Korean fighter jets launched three air-to-surface, precision-guided missiles near the eastern sea border to show its determination to get tough on North Korean provocations. South Korea’s military said the missiles landed in international waters at the same distance of 26 kilometers (16 miles) north of the sea border as the North Korean missile fell earlier Wednesday.
It said it maintains a readiness to win “an overwhelming victory” against North Korea in potential clashes.
“North Korea firing missiles in a way that sets off air raid sirens appears intended to threaten South Koreans to pressure their government to change policy,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korea’s expanding military capabilities and tests are worrisome, but offering concessions about alliance cooperation or nuclear recognition would make matters worse.”
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier identified three of the North Korean weapons launched as “short-range ballistic missiles” fired from the North’s eastern coastal town of Wonsan, including the one that landed near the sea border.
North Korean short-range weapons are designed to strike key facilities in South Korea, including U.S. military bases there.
In an emergency meeting with top security officials, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered officials to take swift unspecified steps to make North Korea face consequences for its provocation. He said he would consider the North Korean missile’s landing near the border “a virtual violation of (our) territorial waters.”
During the emergency South Korean meeting, “participants lamented the provocations committed during our national mourning period and pointed out that this clearly showed the nature of the North Korean government,” according to South Korea’s presidential office.
Earlier Wednesday, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters that at least two ballistic missiles fired by North Korea showed a possibly “irregular” trajectory. This suggests the missiles are the North’s highly maneuverable, nuclear-capable KN-23 missile, which was modeled on Russia’s Iskander missile.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called North Korea’s continuing missile tests “absolutely impermissible.”
Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said that the danger of armed clashes between the Koreas off their western or eastern coasts is increasing. He said South Korea needs to make “proportional responses” to North Korean provocations, not “overwhelming responses,” to prevent tensions from spiraling out of control and possibly leading the North to use its tactical nuclear weapons.
Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high in recent months, with North Korea testing a string of nuclear-capable missiles and adopting a law authorizing the preemptive use of its nuclear weapons in a broad range of situations. Some experts still doubt North Korea would use nuclear weapons first in the face of U.S. and South Korean forces.
North Korea has argued its recent weapons tests were meant to issue a warning to Washington and Seoul over their series of joint military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal, including this week’s exercises involving about 240 warplanes.
In a statement released early Wednesday, Pak Jong Chon, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party who is considered a close confidant of leader Kim Jong Un, called the so-called Vigilant Storm air force drills “aggressive and provocative.”
“If the U.S. and South Korea attempt to use armed forces against (North Korea) without any fear, the special means of the (North’s) armed forces will carry out their strategic mission without delay,” Pak said, in an apparent reference to his country’s nuclear weapons.
“The U.S. and South Korea will have to face a terrible case and pay the most horrible price in history,” he said.
U.S. and South Korean officials have steadfastly said their drills are defensive in nature and that they have no intentions of attacking North Korea.
“We reject the notion that they serve as any sort of provocation. We have made clear that we have no hostile intent towards (North Korea) and call on them to engage in serious and sustained diplomacy,” White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said late Tuesday.
North Korea “continues to not respond. At the same time, we will continue to work closely with our allies and partners to limit the North’s ability to advance its unlawful weapons programs and threaten regional stability,” Watson said.
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Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Aamer Madhani in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.
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CORNELIUS, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina said the parents of a missing 11-year-old girl know more than they’re telling officials.
Madalina Cojocari, 11, of Cornelius, was reported missing on Dec. 15, by her mother, Diana Cojocari, 37, and stepfather, Christopher Palmiter, 60, according to a police report.
Her parents told investigators she had not been seen since Nov. 23.
Help the @CorneliusPD , #FBI & the @SBI1937 #FindMadalina. https://t.co/SagEKTkKGL pic.twitter.com/9d4ebHaO6e
— FBI Charlotte (@FBICharlotte) December 27, 2022
Both parents were arrested on Dec. 17 and charged with failing to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement.
On Tuesday, investigators said they have developed and followed about 250 leads. Capt. Jennifer Thompson said in a video posted to Facebook that those leads have been “across state lines and across the globe.”
Police have knocked on 245 doors in the Victoria Bay neighborhood around Madalina Cojocari’s home, Thompson said.
“This is a serious case of a child whose parents are clearly not telling us everything they know,” Thompson said.
Police have said the girls' school reached out to her parents several times between Nov. 23 and Dec. 15.
On Dec. 15, the mother of the missing child went into her school and stated that she had been missing. That's when officials called in emergency response crews from across the state and the FBI for assistance.
According to WSOC-TV, Cojocari told police she’d last seen the girl at about 10 p.m. on Nov. 23.
Diana Cojocari told police that Madalina Cojocari went to her room that night to go to bed.
Diana Cojocari stated she and her husband argued that night, and the next morning he drove to his family's house in Michigan to recover some items.
According to the FBI, Madalina Cojocari had been wearing "jeans, pink, purple and white Adidas shoes, and a white t-shirt and jacket" at the time of her disappearance.
The FBI has released the last known video of Madalina, taken as she got off the school bus on Nov. 21 at 4:59 p.m.
This is the last time investigators have independent confirmation of when Madalina was last seen. She got off the bus on 11-21-22, at 4:59 p.m. We are seeking additional witnesses outside of the family to narrow down the exact timeline of when she disappeared. #FindMadalina pic.twitter.com/dkStKHmjjB
— FBI Charlotte (@FBICharlotte) December 20, 2022
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Cornelius Police Department at 704-892-7773 or 1-800-Call FBI if you have information. | 2022-12-29T19:46:24+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/police-say-parents-of-missing-north-carolina-girl-know-more-about-her-disappearance |
New England Revolution (9-11-11, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire (9-14-8, 11th in the Eastern Conference)
Chicago; Sunday, 2:30 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Chicago +114, New England +212, Draw +259; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Jhon Jader Duran Palacio leads the Chicago Fire into a matchup with the New England Revolution after scoring two goals against Cincinnati.
The Fire are 7-12-6 against Eastern Conference teams. The Fire have a 2-4-0 record in games they score a pair of goals.
The Revolution are 7-9-9 against Eastern Conference teams. The Revolution rank sixth in the Eastern Conference with 143 shots on goal, averaging 4.6 per game.
Sunday's game is the second time these teams square off this season. The last meeting ended tied 0-0.
TOP PERFORMERS: Kacper Przybylko has five goals and one assist for the Fire. Duran Palacio has five goals over the last 10 games.
Gustavo Bou has scored eight goals with two assists for the Revolution. Carles Gil has three goals and two assists over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Fire: 3-5-2, averaging 1.4 goals, 3.7 shots on goal and 4.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.9 goals per game.
Revolution: 3-5-2, averaging 1.1 goals, 4.3 shots on goal and 3.7 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.5 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Fire: Andre Reynolds II (injured), Wyatt Omsberg (injured), Chris Mueller (injured), Jairo Torres (injured), Stanislav Ivanov (injured), Gaston Gimenez (injured), Fabian Herbers (injured), Kacper Przybylko (injured).
Revolution: Jacob Jackson (injured), Dylan Borrero (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Ismael Tajouri (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-10-08T07:47:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Duran-Palacio-leads-the-Chicago-Fire-against-the-17495449.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street shuddered Friday, and stocks tumbled after getting hammered by data showing inflation is getting worse, not better, as investors had been hoping.
The S&P 500 was 2% lower in the first half hour of trading, while moves in the bond market indicated investors’ concerns are building about a possible recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 611 points, or 1.9%, at 31,661 as of 9:55 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.4% lower.
Wall Street came into Friday hoping a highly anticipated report on the consumer price index would show the worst inflation in generations slowed a touch last month. Instead, the U.S. government said inflation accelerated to 8.6% in May from 8.3% a month before.
The Federal Reserve has already begun raising interest rates and making other moves in order to slow the economy, in hopes of forcing down inflation. Wall Street took Friday’s reading to mean the Fed’s foot will remain firmly on the brakes for the economy, dashing hopes that it may take a pause later this year.
The growing expectation in markets is for the Fed to raise its key short-term interest rate by half a percentage point at each of its next three meetings, beginning next week. That third one in September had been up for debate among investors in recent weeks. The Fed has raised rates by that degree only once since 2000, last month.
“Inflation is hot, hot, hot,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “Basically, everything was up. No relief is in sight, but a lot can change between now and September. Nobody knows what the Fed will do in a few months including the Fed.”
A stock’s price rises and falls on two things, essentially: how much profit a company produces and how much an investor is willing to pay for it. The Fed's moves on interest rates heavily influence that second part.
Since early in the pandemic, record-low interest rates engineered by the Fed and other central banks encouraged investors to pay higher prices for investments. Now “easy mode” is abruptly and forcefully getting switched off.
Not only that, too-aggressive rate hikes by the Fed could ultimately force the economy into a recession. Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive, which drags on spending and investments by households and companies.
The two-year Treasury yield zoomed to 2.94% following the inflation report, after touching its highest level since 2018. It's up from 2.83% late Thursday.
The 10-year yield was also up, but more modestly than the two-year yield, which is more influenced by expectations for Fed movements. The 10-year yield climbed to 3.10% from 3.04%.
The narrowing gap between those two yields is a signal that investors in the bond market are more concerned about economic growth. Usually, the gap is wide, with 10-year yields higher because they require investors lock away their dollars for longer.
If the two-year yield rises above the 10-year yield, some investors see that as a red flag warning of a recession hitting in a year or two.
“A higher-than-expected CPI number seals the deal on investors’ fears,” Mike Loewengart, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley, wrote in a research note. “And though consumers may be experiencing high prices in their day-to-day, especially at the pump, it’s disappointing to see that we don’t have a lid on inflation yet, despite the Fed’s efforts.”
The S&P 500 is on track to close out its ninth losing week in the last 10.
Stocks also tumbled in Europe for a second day after the European Central Bank said it would soon raise interest rates for the first time in more than a decade to combat inflation.
Germany's DAX lost 2.4%, France's CAC fell 2.4% and the FTSE 100 in London dropped 2.1%.
In Asian trading, stocks in Shanghai rose 1.4% following news that inflation remained subdued at 2.1% in May.
With inflation below the government’s 3% target, Chinese leaders have more leeway to offer policy supports for their economy when anti-COVID restrictions may be slowing businesses.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1.5%, while the Kospi in Seoul shed 1.1%.
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. | 2022-06-10T14:12:02+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/red-hot-inflation-drags-wall-street-to-end-the-week/5NJ7MQIFGZECZOLM2JV4DE5QRY/ |
Ronald Acuña Jr. Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Nationals - April 1
Published: Apr. 1, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
After going 2-for-6 in his most recent game, Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves face the Washington Nationals (who will start Josiah Gray) at 4:05 PM ET on Saturday.
He strung together two hits (going 2-for-6) in his most recent appearance against the Nationals.
Ronald Acuña Jr. Game Info & Props vs. the Nationals
- Game Day: Saturday, April 1, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Nationals Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Nationals Starter: Josiah Gray
- TV Channel: MASN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +290)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -143)
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Ronald Acuña Jr. At The Plate (2022)
- Acuna had an OBP of .356 while batting .266.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB last season, his batting average ranked 48th, his on-base percentage ranked 31st, and he was 77th in the league in slugging.
- In 67.5% of his games last year (83 of 123), Acuna got a base hit, and in 37 of those games (30.1%) he recorded more than one hit.
- He hit a home run in 10.6% of his games in 2022 (13 of 123), including 2.8% of his trips to the plate.
- Acuna picked up an RBI in 34 games last season out 123 (27.6%), including 11 multi-RBI outings (8.9%). He drove in three or more runs in four games.
- He crossed the plate in 58 of 123 games last year (47.2%), including scoring more than once in 10.6% of his games (13 times).
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Ronald Acuña Jr. Home/Away Batting Splits (2022)
Nationals Pitching Rankings (2022)
- The pitching staff for the Nationals had a collective 7.8 K/9 last season, which ranked 23rd in MLB.
- The Nationals had the 29th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (5.01).
- Nationals pitchers combined to allow 244 total home runs at a rate of 1.5 per game (the most in baseball).
- Gray starts for the first time this season for the Nationals.
- The 25-year-old righty started and threw six innings when he last appeared Wednesday, Sept. 28 against the Atlanta Braves.
- In his 28 appearances last season he finished with a 5.02 ERA and a 1.359 WHIP, putting together a 7-10 record.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-01T15:17:17+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/sports/betting/2023/04/01/ronald-acuna-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Carnival Cruise Line has reported that a man fell overboard Monday on the Carnival Magic cruise ship that was returning to port in Norfolk, Virginia.
According to a statement from the cruise line, Carnival Magic reported to the U.S. Coast Guard that the man, who was not immediately identified by name, “was reported missing by his companion late Monday afternoon.”
The Coast Guard identified the man only as a 35-year-old.
A review of the ship’s security footage “confirms that he leaned over the railing of his stateroom balcony and dropped into the water at approximately 4:10 a.m. early Monday morning,” according to the statement.
The Coast Guard advised the ship to continue to Norfolk as it continued to search “186 miles east” of Jacksonville, Florida, where it is believed the man fell. The Coast Guard was searching from both the air and water.
Passengers getting off the ship Tuesday morning in Norfolk also confirmed with WAVY the report that the man fell.
“We heard from people from a Facebook group that an individual did fall overboard,” said passenger Jon Hernandez.
The Carnival Care Team was providing support to the man’s companion and the party he was traveling with aboard the ship. | 2023-05-30T16:19:27+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/man-falls-overboard-on-carnival-cruise-ship-officials/ |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff and warned against complacency around the globe.
“This pandemic isn’t over,” Biden declared at the second global pandemic summit. He spoke solemnly of the once-unthinkable U.S. toll: “1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table.”
The coronavirus has killed more than 999,000 people in the U.S. and at least 6.2 million people globally since it emerged in late 2019, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Other counts, including by the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association, have the toll at 1 million.
“Today, we mark a tragic milestone here in the United States, 1 million COVID deaths,” he said.
The president called on Congress to urgently provide billions of dollars more for testing, vaccines and treatments, something lawmakers have been unwilling to deliver so far.
That lack of funding — Biden has requested an additional $22.5 billion in what he calls critically needed money — is a U.S. reflection of faltering resolve that jeopardizes the global response to the pandemic, he says.
Eight months after he used the first COVID summit to announce an ambitious pledge to donate 1.2 billion vaccine doses to the world, the urgency of the U.S. and other nations to respond has waned.
Momentum on vaccinations and treatments has faded even as more infectious variants rise and billions of people across the globe remain unprotected.
Biden addressed the opening of the virtual summit Thursday morning with recorded remarks and made the case that tackling COVID-19 “must remain an international priority.” The U.S. is co-hosting the summit along with Germany, Indonesia, Senegal and Belize.
“This summit is an opportunity to renew our efforts to keep our foot on the gas when it comes to getting this pandemic under control and preventing future health crises,” Biden said.
The U.S. has shipped nearly 540 million vaccine doses to more than 110 countries and territories, according to the State Department — far more than any other donor nation.
The leaders announced about $3 billion in new commitments to fight the virus, along with a host of new programs meant to boost access to vaccines and treatments around the world. But that was a far more modest outcome than at last year’s meeting.
“At the global level, all countries, big or small, rich or poor, must have equal access to health solutions,” Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in his remarks.
After the delivery of more than 1 billion vaccines to the developing world, the problem is no longer a lack of shots but of logistical support to get doses into arms. According to government data, more than 680 million donated vaccine doses have been left unused in developing countries because they were expiring and couldn’t be administered quickly enough. As of March, 32 poorer countries had used less than half of the COVID-19 vaccines they were sent.
U.S. assistance to promote and facilitate vaccinations overseas dried up earlier this year, and Biden has requested about $5 billion for the effort through the rest of the year.
“We have tens of millions of unclaimed doses because countries lack the resources to build out their cold chains, which basically is the refrigeration systems, to fight disinformation and to hire vaccinators,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said this week. She added that the summit was “going to be an opportunity to elevate the fact that we need additional funding to continue to be a part of this effort around the world.”
“We’re going to continue to fight for more funding here,” Psaki said. “But we will continue to press other countries to do more to help the world make progress as well.”
Congress has balked at the price tag for COVID-19 relief and has thus far refused to take up the package because of political opposition to the impending end of pandemic-era migration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Even after a consensus for virus funding briefly emerged in March, lawmakers decided to strip out the global aid funding and solely focus the assistance on shoring up U.S. supplies of vaccine booster shots and therapeutics.
Biden has warned that without Congress acting, the U.S. could lose out on access to the next generation of vaccines and treatments, and that the nation won’t have enough supply of booster doses or the antiviral drug Paxlovid for later this year. He’s also sounding the alarm that more variants will spring up if the U.S. and the world don’t do more to contain the virus globally.
“To beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere,” Biden said last September during the first global summit.
Demand for COVID-19 vaccines has dropped in some countries as infections and deaths have declined globally in recent months, particularly as the omicron variant has proved to be less severe than earlier versions of the disease. For the first time since it was created, the U.N.-backed COVAX effort has “enough supply to enable countries to meet their national vaccination targets,” according Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of the vaccines alliance Gavi, which fronts COVAX.
Still, despite more than 65% of the world’s population receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, less than 16% of people in poor countries have been immunized. It is highly unlikely countries will hit the World Health Organization target of vaccinating 70% of all people by June.
In countries including Cameroon, Uganda and the Ivory Coast, officials have struggled to get enough refrigerators to transport vaccines, send enough syringes for mass campaigns and get enough health workers to inject the shots. Experts also point out that more than half of the health workers needed to administer the vaccines in poorer countries are either underpaid or not paid at all.
Donating more vaccines, critics say, would miss the point entirely.
“It’s like donating a bunch of fire trucks to countries that are on fire, but they have no water,” said Ritu Sharma, a vice president at the charity CARE, which has helped immunize people in more than 30 countries, including India, South Sudan and Bangladesh.
“We can’t be giving countries all these vaccines but no way to use them,” she said, adding that the same infrastructure that got the shots administered in the U.S. is now needed elsewhere. “We had to tackle this problem in the U.S., so why are we not now using that knowledge to get vaccines into the people who need them most?”
Sharma said greater investment also is needed to counter vaccine hesitancy in developing countries where there are entrenched beliefs about the potential dangers of Western-made medicines.
Gavi’s Berkley also said that countries are increasingly asking for the pricier messenger RNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are not as easily available as the AstraZeneca vaccine, which made up the bulk of COVAX’s supply last year.
Variants like delta and omicron have led many countries to switch to mRNA vaccines, which seem to provide more protection and are in greater demand globally than traditionally made vaccines like those from China and Russia. | 2022-05-12T19:06:12+00:00 | albertleatribune.com | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/05/biden-marks-covid-tragic-milestone-in-us-at-global-summit/ |
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Philippine opposition senator and justice secretary was acquitted of drug charges Friday after key witnesses recanted and said they had lied about her involvement in narcotics trafficking.
Leila de Lima, 63, remained jailed, however, as she has one outstanding charge against her.
De Lima has been detained since 2017 on drug charges she says were fabricated by former President Rodrigo Duterte and his officials in an attempt to muzzle her criticism of his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs. His campaign left thousands of mostly petty suspects dead and sparked an International Criminal Court investigation as a possible crime against humanity.
Duterte, who has insisted on de Lima’s guilt, left office last June at the end of his turbulent six-year term.
Trial court judge Abraham Alcantara said in his ruling that a former senior police official’s recantation led to his decision to acquit de Lima.
“Without his testimony, the crucial link to establish conspiracy is shrouded with reasonable doubt,” he wrote, “which warrants the acquittal.”
As supporters surrounded her police escort and chanted “free Leila de Lima” outside the court, she said she felt vindicated.
“Answered prayers, this is a glorious day, this is the beginning of my vindication. May I say this to my oppressors: You can never crucify the truth,” she said as she was surrounded by police.
Prosecution witness Rafael Ragos, a former head of the Bureau of Corrections, retracted a claim to have delivered money from drug lords to de Lima and said he had been forced by government officials to make it.
De Lima said through her attorney that she was looking forward to her full acquittal on all charges. She has been held in pretrial detention since her arrest without any convictions.
“I have no doubt from the very beginning that I will be acquitted from all the cases the Duterte regime has fabricated against me based on the merits and strength of my innocence. That’s already two cases down and one more to go,” she said in a statement read out by lawyer, Boni F. Tacardon.
“I am of course happy that with this second acquittal in the three cases filed against me, my release from more that six years of persecution draws nearer. I am extremely grateful to those who stood by and prayed for me all these years,” she added.
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Quinn contributed from Bangkok. | 2023-05-12T12:22:30+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/philippine-court-acquits-former-justice-minister-of-drug-charges-after-key-witnesses-said-they-lied/ |
Report highlights continued financial strength and initiatives furthering the Company's purpose to inspire well-being™
NEW YORK, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian) released "The Guardian Annual 2022: Moments that matter," which documents steady progress toward the transformation of the 163-year-old Company, as well as its continued financial strength during a year of inflation and rising interest rates.1
With a focus on innovation, internal culture, and the moments that matter most to Guardian's consumers, the report presents key accomplishments around the company's strategic priorities to wow the consumer, reimagine mutuality, and unleash what's possible. Stories that underscore the real-life impact of the Company's innovative products and compassionate service also punctuate the report.
Moments that matter details new annuity options, dental plans, and bereavement services that are direct outcomes of Guardian's deep focus on the consumer. Empathy for what the consumer is experiencing at critical points of interaction has also been incorporated into employee training and the redesign of online transactions, programs, and platforms. Last year, Guardian also received numerous awards and accolades for its excellent customer service and work environment.
Guardian continued its unwavering legacy of financial strength and stability in 2022, highlighted by an increased Moody's rating2 and improved Comdex score.3 The Company also paid its highest dividend in Guardian's history to participating whole life policyholders. 4
"The past year was just the beginning of our transformation," notes Andrew J. McMahon, Chief Executive Officer and President. "There is more to come, as we make progress on our strategy that will build on Guardian's legacy of serving consumers and will make us a leading champion of well-being year after year."
Key financial information highlighted in the report includes:
- Premium growth of 6%
- Operating income of $1.7 billion
- $11 billion of capital
- Record dividend allocation of $1.26 billion and dividend interest rate increase to 5.75%
- Moody's Investors Service ratings increase to Aa1, Stable
- Comdex score of 99 out of 100
Kevin Molloy, Chief Financial Officer, notes, "We have responded quickly and effectively to changing market conditions, focused resources where we can deliver the most value for customers and invested for growth in our general account investment portfolio capabilities. Our results and ratings reflect our success."
About Guardian
Guardian makes a difference in the lives of people when they need us most. With more than 160 years of stability and fiscal integrity, we are a trusted resource to millions of consumers, helping them prepare and plan for a bright future and recover and thrive in times of unexpected loss. We believe in inspiring well-being across mind, body, and wallet, and in driving value beyond dividends. We invest in our colleagues, are building a progressive and inclusive culture and are helping to uplift communities through thoughtful social and environmental programs. Guardian, which is based in NYC, is a leading provider of life, disability, dental, and other benefits, and has received accolades for its culture and service. Our colleagues and financial representatives serve with care and experience, and our commitments rest on a strong financial foundation, which at year-end 2022 included $11 billion in capital and largest dividend of $1.26 billion in the company's history. For more information, visit guardianlife.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
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1Financial information concerning Guardian as of December 31, 2022, on a statutory basis: Admitted assets = $76.0 billion;
liabilities = $67.2 billion (including $55.0 billion of reserves); and surplus = $8.8 billion.
2https://www.moodys.com/research/null-Moodys-upgrades-Guardian-Aa1-Rating-Action--PR_1000006661
3Comdex is not a rating, but a composite of all ratings that a company has received from the major rating agencies (A.M. Best, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch). Comdex percentile ranks the companies on a scale of 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best). Ratings are as of December 31, 2022, and are subject to change.
4Dividends are not guaranteed. They are declared annually by Guardian's Board of Directors. The total dividend calculation includes mortality experience and expense management as well as investment results.
Guardian® is a registered trademark of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. © Copyright 2023 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
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Exclusive development and commercialization rights to VIR-3434 in China strengthen Company's leadership and robust clinical pipeline in HBV
Key partnership with Vir enables multitude of combination treatment options as part of Company's strategic approach to developing a functional cure for HBV
DURHAM, N.C. and BEIJING, July 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio" or the "Company", stock code: 2137.HK) a multi-national company developing innovative therapies for diseases with significant unmet medical needs and large public health burdens, today announced that it exercised its option to acquire exclusive development and commercialization rights for VIR-3434 in Greater China as part of its broader collaboration with Vir Biotechnology, Inc. ("Vir", Nasdaq: VIR). This move provides additional growth to the Company's leading clinical pipeline of therapeutic candidates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and provides an expansive set of potential combination treatment options for Brii Bio to explore as part of its efforts to develop a functional cure for HBV.
VIR-3434, also known as BRII-877, is a broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting HBV that is currently in Phase 2 development. This is Brii Bio's second option exercise to a Vir infectious disease program with two remaining options still available to the Company.
"By exercising our option for VIR-3434 (BRII-877), Brii further solidifies our leading position in developing a functional cure for millions of HBV patients in China," said Li Yan, MD, Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer of Brii Bio. "Recently announced data by Vir showed that BRII-835 (VIR-2218) and BRII-877 (VIR-3434) are additive to each other resulting in a robust reduction of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), with no clinically significant safety signals for the combination. We are confident that this new asset further strengthens our HBV pipeline by providing more potent and assured reduction of HBsAg in all patients. BRII-877 (VIR-3434) will be integrated into our innovative drug combination strategies that may lead to a higher functional cure rate across all patient groups. Our continued strategic partnership with Vir and the ongoing expansion of our already robust HBV pipeline reinforces our commitment to patients living with HBV as we aim to explore a range of combination treatment options."
As part of Brii Bio's unique approach to developing a functional cure for HBV by leveraging potential combination treatments, the Company is currently progressing multiple studies with the BRII-179 (VBI-2601) and BRII-835 (VIR-2218) combination, as well as BRII-179 and/or BRII-835 in combination with other agents. Brii Bio's partner, Vir, is also evaluating VIR-2218 (BRII-835) in a Phase 2 study for HBV with selgantolimod (GS-9688), Gilead's investigational TLR-8 agonist, and nivolumab, an approved PD-1 inhibitor. Several combinations involving BRII-835 (VIR-2218), BRII-877 (VIR-3434) and BRII-179 (VBI-2601) are being investigated in Phase 2 studies.
In May 2018, the Company entered into a collaboration, option and license agreement with Vir, under which Brii Bio was granted the option to acquire exclusive rights to certain Vir programs in Greater China. In June 2020, Brii Bio exercised its option to acquire the exclusive rights to further develop and commercialize BRII-835 (VIR-2218) in Greater China.
Under the terms of the agreement, following the exercise of the option for VIR-3434 (BRII-877), Brii Bio will pay an option exercise fee, regulatory and commercial milestone payments, and tiered royalty payments based on net sales with royalty rates from mid-teens to mid-twenties, with such royalty rates or payments subject to certain specified reductions and offsets.
About BRII-877 (VIR-3434)
BRII-877 (VIR-3434) is an investigational subcutaneously administered HBV-neutralizing monoclonal antibody designed to block entry of all 10 genotypes of HBV into hepatocytes and also to reduce the level of virions and subviral particles in the blood. BRII-877 (VIR-3434), which incorporates Xencor's Xtend™ and other Fc technologies, has been engineered to potentially function as a T cell vaccine against HBV in infected patients, as well as to have an extended half-life.
About Brii Bio
Brii Biosciences Limited ("Brii Bio", stock code: 2137.HK) is a biotechnology company based in China and the United States committed to advancing therapies for significant infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, COVID-19, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, multi-drug resistant (MDR) or extensive drug resistant (XDR) gram-negative infections, and other illnesses, such as the central nervous system (CNS) diseases, which have significant public health burdens in China and worldwide. For more information, visit www.briibio.com.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A few hours after scoring the winning goal in Paris Saint-Germain’s victory over Marseille in the French league, Neymar arrived in court in Spain on Monday to face a trial for alleged irregularities involving his transfer to Barcelona in 2013.
Neymar’s parents, former Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Bartomeu, and representatives of the Spanish club and Brazilian team Santos also appeared in court after a complaint brought by Brazilian investment group DIS regarding the amount of the player’s transfer.
The Brazil forward arrived at the court in Barcelona wearing sunglasses and a black suit and tie. Neymar’s mother and father, who also is his agent, were among those arriving alongside the player.
The defendants, who have denied wrongdoing, sat near each other to hear the opening arguments in the trial that comes nearly a month before the World Cup opens on Nov. 20 in Qatar, and is expected to last until the end of the month.
Neymar left the Barcelona court about two hours after arriving, without talking to reporters. The judge allowed him to leave early after having played the night before in France. He scored his ninth league goal in first-half stoppage time for PSG to beat Marseille 1-0 in French soccer’s biggest game.
Neymar and the rest of the defendants had to be in court for the first day of the trial. He is expected to testify on Tuesday.
Prosecutors have charged the 30-year-old Neymar and his father with corruption and asked for a prison sentence of up to two years, although any jail time would likely be suspended. DIS accused them of corruption and fraud and asked for a five-year prison sentence for Neymar and his father, and for compensation of 34 million euros ($32.1 million) and a fine of 195 million euros that would be paid to the Spanish state.
Prosecutors seek a fine of 10 million euros for Neymar and his father. They also seek five years in prison for Rosell for fraud and corruption charges, plus a fine of 10 million euros.
Neymar’s representatives have argued the crime of corruption between individuals was not punishable in Brazil, which is where they say the transactions originally took place. They said that according to Spanish law, a crime can’t be punished in Spain if it didn’t happen in both territories.
DIS was entitled to 40% of Neymar’s transfer but said it received a smaller compensation because part of the transfer fee was concealed. Prosecutors said those involved tried to hide the real amount of the transfer in order to pay a lower commission to the investment group.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs argue that DIS received only its due percentage from the 17 million euros that Barcelona and Santos initially announced as the transfer fee between the clubs, while the real cost was about 82 million euros. An investigative judge in Spain has already said that the real cost was at least 83.3 million euros.
Neymar and his father previously appeared in court in Madrid a few years ago because of the accusations.
Neymar made his highly anticipated move to Spain at age 21. He helped Barcelona win the club’s last Champions League title in 2015, and eventually became involved in a soap opera-like transfer to PSG in 2017.
Neymar’s move from Santos also got Barcelona in trouble with Spain’s tax office. In 2016, the Catalan club paid a fine of 5.5 million euros to settle a separate case brought by authorities. In that settlement, the club acknowledged it made “an error in the fiscal planning of the player’s transfer.”
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Sarah Isgur, a lawyer and a former Justice Department spokesperson in the Trump administration, about her take on the delivery of the Supreme Court opinions.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed and has returned to Australia.
Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.
“I’m very pleased to advise that Dr. Ken Elliott, who’s been held hostage in Western Africa for some seven years, has been reunited in Australia with his family,” Wong told reporters in Sydney.
Elliott and his wife were kidnapped in Burkina Faso, where they had run a medical clinic for four decades. Jocelyn Elliott was released three weeks later.
“We wish to express our thanks to God and all who have continued to pray for us,” Elliott’s family said in a statement released by Wong’s department.
“We express our relief that Dr. Elliott is free and thank the Australian government and all who have been involved over time to secure his release,” the family statement said.
Wong said no ransom was paid to secure Elliott’s freedom, but no other details on his release were disclosed. Media reported he was reunited with his family in Perth, the west coast city where he is from.
“At 88 years of age, and after many years away from home, Dr. Elliott now needs time and privacy to rest and rebuild strength,” the family added.
The militant group behind the kidnapping, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, rose to prominence in large part through kidnap-for-ransom operations targeting foreign aid workers and tourists.
On the day the Australian couple were kidnapped — Jan. 15, 2016 — 30 people were killed in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. Al-Qaida’s North Africa wing claimed responsibility for that attack and other high-profile strikes in West Africa months earlier, including killing 20 people in an attack on a hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako.
The Elliotts were kidnapped near the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo, near the border with Mali and Niger.
Jocelyn Elliott was freed in neighboring Niger. Niger’s then-President Mahamadou Issoufou had worked with Burkina Faso intelligence services to secure her release, his office said at the time.
Australia had not paid ransom to secure Ken Elliott’s release, Wong said.
“The Australian government has a clear policy that we do not pay ransoms,” Wong said.
“What we have done over the last seven years is ensure that we worked with other governments and local authorities in relation to Dr. Elliott,” she added. | 2023-05-19T10:01:40+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-88-year-old-australian-doctor-freed-7-years-after-kidnapping-by-islamic-extremists-in-west-africa/ |
How to Watch the NBA on Wednesday: TV Channel, Game Times and Odds
Published: May. 10, 2023 at 12:36 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
In a Wednesday NBA Playoff slate that has two compelling matchups, the Miami Heat versus the New York Knicks is a game to catch.
Catch live NBA games, plus tons of other sports and shows, with a free trial to Fubo!
Today's NBA Games
The New York Knicks play host to the Miami Heat
The Heat look to pull off a road win at the Knicks on Wednesday at 7:30 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: TNT
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
Records and Stats
- NY Record: 47-35
- MIA Record: 44-38
- NY Stats: 116.0 PPG (11th in NBA), 113.1 Opp. PPG (12th)
- MIA Stats: 109.5 PPG (30th in NBA), 109.8 Opp. PPG (second)
Players to Watch
- NY Key Player: Julius Randle (25.1 PPG, 10.0 RPG, 4.1 APG)
- MIA Key Player: Bam Adebayo (20.4 PPG, 9.2 RPG, 3.2 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: NY -3.5
- NY Odds to Win: -168
- MIA Odds to Win: +139
- Total: 209 points
The Golden State Warriors take on the Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers look to pull of an away win at the Warriors on Wednesday at 10:00 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: TNT
- Game Time: 10:00 PM ET
Records and Stats
- GS Record: 44-38
- LAL Record: 43-39
- GS Stats: 118.9 PPG (second in NBA), 117.1 Opp. PPG (21st)
- LAL Stats: 117.2 PPG (sixth in NBA), 116.6 Opp. PPG (20th)
Players to Watch
- GS Key Player: Stephen Curry (29.4 PPG, 6.1 RPG, 6.3 APG)
- LAL Key Player: Anthony Davis (25.9 PPG, 12.5 RPG, 2.6 APG)
Vegas Odds and Betting Lines
- Spread: GS -7
- GS Odds to Win: -307
- LAL Odds to Win: +247
- Total: 225 points
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PRophet Founder Aaron Kwittken to Serve as CEO of Stagwell Marketing Cloud Comms Tech Unit
NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, today launched a Comms Tech Business Unit within the Stagwell Marketing Cloud, a proprietary suite of SaaS products built for in-house marketers. The Comms Tech unit will house AI-powered SaaS products for brands and agencies that are designed to help public relations, content and social media professionals be more performative, predictive and productive. It will be led by PR industry veteran and entrepreneur Aaron Kwittken, founder and CEO of PRophet, the unit's flagship product.
Stagwell's Comms Tech Unit will also debut the communications industry's first free AI writing tool at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, at an event in partnership with Axios on March 13. Fully integrated into PRophet, the tool, branded "Taylor" as a playful descriptor for tailored content, helps PR, content and social media professionals create first drafts or re-generate existing drafts of pitches, press releases, bylines, blog posts, social posts and more. Taylor will enable brands and agencies to create compelling content more quickly and efficiently than ever before, and will provide insights into which types of content are most effective.
"2023 is the year of the communications engineer and Stagwell Marketing Cloud's Comms Tech Unit is dedicated to delivering, democratizing and evangelizing AI-driven solutions that transform how the PR industry works and performs," said Aaron Kwittken, founder of PRophet and CEO of the Comms Tech unit. He added, "Our new generative AI tool significantly uplevels ChatGPT's functionality in a way that will save modern PR and social media professionals significant time when creating content while also improving the mediabilty and receptivity of their storytelling."
The Comms Tech unit will house PRophet, the first-ever generative and predictive AI SaaS platform, Koalifyed, an influencer discovery and campaign management platform, and will continue to build and deliver transformative software tools to modern communicators. Future products will include AI-powered tools around narrative analysis, combating misinformation and managing brand safety.
PRophet, founded in late 2020, uses AI techniques including natural language processing and machine learning to help modern PR professionals generate, analyze and test content to predict earned media interest and sentiment. PRophet was the 2019 winner of Stagwell's internal innovation competition which invests in new product ideas proposed by the network's 13,000+ employees.
New Free Version of PRophet
Starting on March 31, 2023, PR professionals will be able to try PRophet for free. Users can visit www.prprophet.ai/pricing to join the waitlist.
To learn more about PRophet, please visit www.prprophet.ai or email sales@prprophet.ai to schedule a demo.
About Stagwell
Stagwell is the challenger network built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for their clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
About Stagwell Marketing Cloud
Stagwell Marketing Cloud (SMC) is a suite of data-driven SaaS solutions built for the modern in-house marketer. Born out of Stagwell's network of award-winning marketing agencies, SMC's technology empowers marketers to drive business impact by giving them intuitive tools equipped with proprietary, actionable data. SMC's portfolio of solutions powers strategic customer research, communications, and media activation for brands worldwide by leveraging technology such as generative artificial intelligence, shared augmented reality, and more. Get your head in the cloud at www.stagwellmarketingcloud.com.
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With winter here in full force and a rash of malaise that comes with it, from cold to COVID-19, there’s a lot to be said about the comforts found in food at home.
You can’t go out every night and, even if you could, why would you? Gaston assumes we all are creatures of comfort in many ways.
So, what is more comforting than your favorite comfort food? Especially when it is made with love. With her deft touch, Mrs. Gaston knows how to comfort her hungry hubby the best way on a cold winter’s day.
You may ask what is on the menu, but when it’s just “one of those days,” there is only one menu item that saves the day.
That is correct: a proper grilled cheese sandwich and a hot bowl of tomato soup, spiced up, of course, for this particular palate.
It doesn’t have to be a homemade soup. A good can of Campbell’s will do the trick. It’s what you do with it that makes the magic. In the Gaston household, the addition of a favorite salsa to the soup’s base as being brought to temperature is the way to go. In this case, Mrs. Renfro’s Habanero Salsa offers the perfect punch.
As the soup is being brought to readiness, Mrs. Gaston works on the sandwiches. Yes, plural: sandwiches. If you can eat just one, what is the point?
Gaston is rushed from the cooking area. There is no room for the sous chef in this endeavor. You’ll find why with the secret ingredient’s reveal further down this column.
With bread toasted and buttered, it’s time for the key ingredient: cheese. But why have just one? For the custom in our home, a couple of slices of pepper jack offer a great foundation inside the bread. As has been established, Gaston’s home is “flavor country.” Therefore, the addition of shredded taco medley atop the slices awaiting a good melt makes for a strong fill to the treat to come.
Once properly put together, Mrs. Gaston works the sandwich in the skillet, watching its quick cook to make sure it sears just so and melts impeccably before flipping to get to that perfectly crisped point of perfection.
Sometimes, Mrs. Gaston even gooses things up a bit and adds some meats to the cheese to make what Gaston calls a grilled delight sandwich. But, frankly, any way she makes it is delightful.
Removed to a waiting plate, the secret ingredient is added by Mrs. Gaston: love. With the grilled cheese, that means cutting the sandwich into quarters for easy dipping access into the soup which, by then, has cooked to its peak moment of readiness.
Another sandwich or two are added, cut, and quartered. Then you add cracked black pepper to do the trick, stir it up and you have a bowl of poured red delicious tomato soup. Oila! A feast fit for a king.
Again, Gaston can fix food for himself and is more than happy to at least assist Mrs. Gaston but she makes sure the critic’s limitations as top chef are understood. And that’s alright because the best comfort comes from the secret ingredient mentioned above: love.
You know, just reading about it, you’re pondering your own method and manner of making and enjoying some comfort food. Maybe it’s not the particular meal Gaston has described but it’s yours, meaning you can do what you like.
As always, any meal offers a unique experience; it only presents a snapshot. One person’s opinion of flavor or individual or establishment or home-based meal will differ.
For Gaston, however, 10 out of 10, comfort food is always a win.
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- FEMA provides government, schools, and non-profit organizations with reimbursement for COVID-19-related purchases, including indoor air purification
- BPA Solutions is partnering with specialized FEMA consultants to expedite the application process for 178,000 organizations that appear in the system as having requested public assistance
- Streamlined application threshold has been raised from $131,000 to $1 million per organization since April 2020
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint (OTC:SING) subsidiary, BPA Solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of new consulting services. BPA Solutions will assist qualifying organizations to receive reimbursement through Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance funding.
FEMA is providing funding to eligible organizations for costs related to emergency protective measures due to COVID-19. The federal agency announced the inclusion of air purification as a grant-qualifying protective measure. Through this initiative, qualifying organizations can receive 90% reimbursement for projects submitted before the end of 2022. Significantly, entities can submit projects of up to $1 million using the streamlined application process, a limit which had been increased from only $131,000 in 2020 when the Public Assistance funding was introduced.
BPA Solutions has identified 178,000 organizations in the system that requested public assistance and is actively marketing to them to increase awareness of this federally-financed opportunity. BPA Solutions, with the help of expert FEMA and grant writing consultants, will work to guide organizations through this process of determining eligibility and submitting a project for reimbursement before the end of the year. Eligible recipients include all government or non-profit organizations such as schools, government buildings, hospitals, and those locations deemed eligible...
BPA Solutions CEO Ryan Cowell, noted, "Our experience working with schools and other non-profit organizations has allowed us to develop expertise. Our team deeply understands the grant process for our products and services, including AIRBOX™, a stand-alone air purifier utilizing Certified HEPA technology, designed to create healthier and safer indoor environments. We see consulting as a natural strategic extension and an opportunity to help clients access available funds through FEMA, Homeland Security, EANS, ESSER, or other state or federal grant or assistance programs."
Cowell added, "The decision to team up with experienced FEMA consultants is strategic and should accelerate the process for schools and non-profit organizations (NPOs) to access the federally approved funds and services. This team has decades of experience facilitating available funding through grant programs that will be an invaluable asset for BPA Solutions and our clients throughout this grant period."
BPA Solutions will continue to offer consulting services to any school or public organization seeking assistance obtaining funds, whether from the American Rescue Plan or any other federal or state grant. If any school or public organization wants to know if they qualify, contact BPA Solutions using the information below, or visit www.bpasolutions.com/fema.
BPA Solutions a subsidiary of SinglePoint Inc. (OTC:SING), believes in safeguarding the future generation by offering products designed to create a healthier and more secure school environment for students, teachers, and staff nationwide. Visit www.bpasolutions.com to learn more.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of an anti-tank mine-laying system to Taiwan amid the rising military threat from China.
The department on Wednesday said the Volcano system and all related equipment would cost an estimated $180 million.
It’s capable of scattering anti-tank and anti-personnel mines from either a ground vehicle or helicopter, the type of weapon some experts believe Taiwan needs more of to dissuade or repel a potential Chinese invasion.
To advertise that threat, China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the self-ruled island it claims is its own territory, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Monday.
China’s military harassment of Taiwan has intensified in recent years, along with rhetoric from top leaders that the island has no choice but to accept eventual Chinese rule.
That has seen the ruling Communist Party’s increasingly powerful military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, send planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.
Between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to the Defense Ministry.
That came after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in a U.S. annual defense spending bill in what has come to be a standard Chinese practice.
China conducted large-scale live-fire military exercises in August in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Beijing views visits from foreign governments to the island as de facto recognition of Taiwan as independent and a challenge to China’s claim of sovereignty.
While Washington has only unofficial ties with Taiwan in deference to Beijing, those include robust defense exchanges and military sales.
In its announcement, the State Department said the Volcano sale “serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient’s continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability."
It said Taiwan would have “no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces," and that the sale would “not alter the basic military balance in the region."
Analysts differ over what Taiwan's defense priorities should be, with some calling for big-ticket items such as advanced fighter jets.
Others argue for a more flexible force, heavily armed with land-based missile systems to target enemy ships, planes and landing craft. China's overwhelming numerical advantage in personnel and equipment give Taiwan little choice but to opt for that more “asymmetric" approach, they say. | 2022-12-29T07:35:51+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/US-to-sell-Taiwan-anti-tank-system-amid-rising-17682694.php |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A group of four thieves attacked and threatened workers while robbing two Brooklyn convenience stores last week, police said on Sunday.
In the first incident, the worker, 26, confronted the man who tried to steal some rolling papers from the store at 925 Livonia Ave. on Jan. 29 at around 9:25 p.m., police said. The suspect then punched the man in the face before his three accomplices showed up at the store, police said. One of the thieves displayed a knife during the attack, police said.
The victim suffered pain and swelling to the face. The suspects fled.
About an hour later, two of the four crew members pulled a gun on a 19-year-old worker at a convenience store at 9717 Kings Highway in Brownsville, police said. The employee saw one of the suspects put some items in his pocket before he confronted them, police said. The duo then ran away from the scene.
The NYPD released photos of two of the four suspects sought in the incidents. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). | 2023-02-05T20:29:06+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/group-of-thieves-attack-threaten-store-workers-in-brooklyn-police/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly $220,000, according to an auction house.
The “well used” brown suede Birkenstocks dating to the mid-1970s set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals, Julien’s Auctions said Sunday.
“The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which had been shaped after years of use,” the auction house said in the listing on its website.
The sandals were expected to bring $60,000, but the final sale price with an accompanying NFT was $218,750, Julien’s said. The buyer was not named.
Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 at Jobs’ parents’ house in Los Altos, California. In 2013, the property was named a historic landmark by the Los Altos Historical Commission.
Jobs died in 2011 from complications of pancreatic cancer. | 2022-11-15T03:27:29+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/1970s-sandals-worn-by-steve-jobs-auctioned-for-218k/ |
NEW ORLEANS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until August 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (NasdaqGS: XRAY), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Dentsply investors should visit us at https://claimsfiler.com/cases/nasdaq-xray-1/ or call toll-free (844) 367-9658. Lawyers at Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC are available to discuss your legal options.
Dentsply and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On April 19, 2022, the Company disclosed the sudden termination of CEO Donald Casey "effective immediately." On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $6.52 per share, or 13%, from $48.72 per share to $42.20 per share. Then, on May 10, 2022, the Company disclosed an ongoing investigation by the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors, outside counsel and a forensic accounting firm into whether "former and current members of senior management" used improper means to achieve executive compensation goals and other matters relating to financial reporting, which resulted in the Company being unable to timely file its Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $2.87 per share, or 7%, from $39.25 per share to $36.38 per share.
The case is City of Miami General Employees' & Sanitation Employees' Retirement Trust v. Casey, Jr., No. 2:22-cv-02371.
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NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — When the remnants of Hurricane Ian passed by the Jersey Shore earlier this month, chewing huge chunks out of protective sand dunes, North Wildwood asked New Jersey environmental officials for permission to do an emergency reconstruction of the sand piles.
The state said no.
The city did it anyway. And it plans to build a sea wall near the beach, something else the state rejected.
Now, North Wildwood could face fines from the state in a tussle that seems likely to end up in court. But Mayor Patrick Rosenello says he can sleep better knowing that his city's people and property are better protected from future storms.
“There is no option under which we don't protect our community,” he said. “That is just not on the table. We will do what we need to do to protect ourselves.”
Disputes between states and cities are not uncommon, and fines are not unheard of. But they are rare when it comes to the topic of beach protection, on which states and local communities are usually willing partners.
Due to the way the storm rotated, Superstorm Sandy caused comparatively less damage in the Wildwoods area than it did farther north in 2012. But ongoing erosion remains a concern in North Wildwood, whose beaches are somewhat narrower than those of Wildwood, its next door neighbor.
The DEP on Oct. 7 allowed the city only to place concrete “Jersey barriers” along the dunes as a temporary protective measure, and expressly forbade it from touching the dunes without a detailed review and approval of proper plans and permits. The state determined that there was not an imminent threat to lives or property from the eroded dunes, and said construction of a sea wall in that spot is likely to further erode the beach in the long run.
North Wildwood disagreed, and last week it sent bulldozers onto the beach to push huge piles of sand back where they had been, in defiance of the state's directive.
The mayor said there was a sheer 15-foot drop-off from the top of the eroded dune to the beach below, creating an imminent hazard to the public. And another storm was highly likely to breach the dune altogether, flooding homes and motels nearby.
Rosenello also said the city has ordered supplies for the planned sea wall, which could arrive by the end of November.
“It's not a matter of if this dune is going to collapse again or be washed away, it's a question of when,” he said.
While most of the Jersey Shore's 127-mile coastline got replenished beaches in the years after Sandy hit, North Wildwood has not, Rosenello said. The city is part of a proposed multi-town beach project also involving Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Lower Township.
But numerous legal and real estate agreements must be executed before that can happen, and it will be at least fall of 2024 before that project can begin, the state estimated in August.
In the meantime, North Wildwood spends millions of dollars each year to truck tons of sand from beaches in neighboring Wildwood, home to some of New Jersey's widest beaches. The most recent bill was $3.8 million, and the city has spent in excess of $20 million on trucked-in sand over the past decade, the mayor said.
In a letter to Rosenello, the state also noted that North Wildwood continues to flout its 2020 order to restore the destruction of 12 acres of mature, vegetated dunes that were removed for a different unauthorized sea wall project.
Rosenello defended the 2020 sea wall, saying it has prevented flooding and property damage,
“Let me see if I can say this nicely: You would have to be cognitively challenged to look at that sea wall and think it's not needed and working,” he said. “The ocean pounds against it every high tide.”
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Follow Wayne Parry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC | 2022-10-25T21:00:52+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Shore-town-fixed-eroded-beach-despite-denial-from-17533739.php |
Thanks to increased rebates, the 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 is now cheaper to buy than a Tesla Model 3.
Hyundai recently increased rebates on the Ioniq 6 from $3,750 to a maximum $5,000 for the SE and SEL trim levels, CarsDirect found. The top Limited trim level gets a smaller $2,000 rebate, and unlike the rebate for lower trim levels, it’s in the form of a dealer cash incentive, which dealers can simply pocket as profit.
The $5,000 rebate effectively brings the base price of an Ioniq 6 down to $37,715. The Tesla Model 3 currently starts at $41,630. However, the base Model 3 is rated at 272 miles of range, compared to 240 miles for the base Ioniq 6 SE. The Ioniq 6 SE Long Range, with a larger battery pack, offers a 361-mile range that outdoes all current Model 3 variants.
In a first drive, Green Car Reports found the Ioniq 6 manages to stand out not just from the Model 3 and Polestar 2, but from the whole EV crossover crowd. That includes its sibling, the Hyundai Ioniq 5, which has a very different design from the Ioniq 6 sedan.
The Ioniq 5 did get a price hike for 2023, although Hyundai has already worked to undercut Tesla with lease prices on Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6. The Ioniq 5 also gets a $5,000 rebate this month, bringing its base price down to $37,785, according to CarsDirect. And Hyundai is among the automakers offering a $7,500 lease incentive for EVs, exploiting a tax-credit loophole to offer a substitute for vehicles that don’t qualify for a federal tax credit.
Back on the purchase side, whether or not the Ioniq 6 undercuts the Model 3 of course depends on whether you factor in the EV tax credit. As of earlier this month, the entire Model 3 lineup is eligible for the full $7,500.
Leasing and purchasing aren’t the only alternatives. Hyundai revealed revamped subscription plans earlier this year, with rates starting at $699 a month.
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- 2024 Polestar 2 costs $51,300 with 320-mile range, rear-wheel drive | 2023-06-16T10:39:11+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/automotive/internet-brands/hyundai-ioniq-6-undercuts-tesla-model-3-with-5000-price-cut/ |
HAMMOND, Ind. — A Statewide Silver Alert has been declared.
The Hammond Police Department is investigating the disappearance of Michelle Delane, 52, a white female, 4 feet 11 inches tall, 130 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, last seen wearing a white T-shirt with the word “Levi’s” on the front, blue sweatpants, and black and white sneakers.
Michelle is missing from Hammond, Indiana, which is 157 miles northwest of Indianapolis, and was last seen on Monday, July 18 at 5:58 p.m. She is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
If you have any information on Michelle Delane, contact the Hammond Police Department at 219-660-0000 or 911. | 2022-07-21T05:31:51+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/silver-alert-authorities-searching-for-missing-hammond-woman/ |
Stephen Smith was 19 years old when his body was discovered on a rural two-lane road in South Carolina in 2015. His family has never accepted a medical examiner's ruling that Smith died from a hit-and-run. They think foul play was involved — and state agents agree.
"The Stephen Smith case is being investigated as a homicide," Renée Wunderlich, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division's public information director, told NPR on Wednesday.
"We do believe it was a murder," as South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel told The State newspaper. "We don't believe it was a hit-and-run."
Interest in Smith's case has spiked because of where he died: in Hampton County, not far from Moselle, the hunting estate where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death, in a case that became an international sensation. SLED agents opened their inquiry into Smith's death in June of 2021 — the same month the pair died.
Smith's family is exhuming his body
SLED issued its update as Smith's mother, Sandy, is taking new actions to learn more about his death in July of 2015. That includes arranging for an exhumation and private autopsy. She has raised about $90,000 to fund her effort.
"Stephen was in the process of discovering himself and his sexuality," Sandy Smith told local news outlet Bluffton Today months after her son died. "He was gay. One rumor is that he may have had a man stalking him, the authorities asked me about that, but I've heard other stories I believe more."
Smith went on to say her son would have been wary of any approaching cars on a dark road — and that she thought some of Stephen's former classmates were involved in his death.
"One of the guys that supposedly did this, Stephen told his twin sister that he had 'a fling' with the boy," Smith said. "He also told me that he and the boy had a deep sea fishing trip planned for July. Stephen died on the eighth of July."
No signs of hit-and-run, early reports noted
When he died, Smith was returning home from night classes at a tech college in Orangeburg, where he was studying to be a nurse.
A 911 caller alerted police after seeing Smith's body in the early morning of July 8, near the center of Sandy Run Road. His car was later found not far from that spot, with its fuel cap off, suggesting he might have run out of gas.
Smith had a head injury but no other immediately apparent injuries. Initial reports mentioned the possibility that Smith's head jury might have been a gunshot wound, according to police documents posted online by the FITSNews site.
Both Smith's family and officers at the scene have cited a lack of a hit-and-run's telltale signs at the spot where he was found, particularly the absence of vehicular debris. Police noted Smith's shoes had stayed on his feet, despite being loosely tied. They also saw no skid marks near where Smith's body was found in the middle of the road.
So, why was homicide initially ruled out?
In her preliminary autopsy report, Dr. Erin Presnell, a medical examiner, concluded that Smith died from being hit by a motor vehicle — possibly by a side mirror.
"Due to the medical examiner's determination, the Hampton County Sheriff's Office requested the South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP) to investigate Mr. Smith's death" rather than SLED, the agency said on Wednesday.
The cause-of-death determination was crucial, as Smith's death became a matter for the highway patrol, which investigates vehicular deaths, instead of SLED, which helps local agencies investigate homicides.
"We don't believe it ever elevated to invoke the full investigatory authority of SLED," Ronnie Richter, an attorney for Smith's family, told NPR on Wednesday. "It has now."
The Murdaugh case boosted interest in Smith
This phase of the Smith case is playing out against the backdrop of the Murdaugh murders, which took place about 8 miles from where Smith's body was found.
The glaring spotlight on those killings placed new attention on Stephen Smith's death, in part because police reports mentioned the Murdaugh family name several times, including their citing of local rumors that Buster Murdaugh, Alex's surviving son, might somehow have been involved.
Smith knew the Murdaughs; he went to Wade Hampton High School with Buster. Just weeks ago, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and youngest son at their property in the area.
With Murdaugh's murder trial now over, Smith's attorneys say, SLED is able to focus more resources on solving the 2015 case. The agency is also asking anyone with relevant information to call 803-737-9000 and ask for Investigative Services.
Rumors are unfounded, Buster Murdaugh says
This week, Buster Murdaugh released a statement through his lawyer, Jim Griffin, saying he had nothing to do with Smith's death. He also said he's been "targeted and harassed by the media and followers of this story."
"This has gone on far too long," Murdaugh said. "These baseless rumors of my involvement with Stephen and his death are false. I unequivocally deny any involvement in his death, and my heart goes out to the Smith family."
Murdaugh said he had not spoken out earlier about Smith's "tragic death" because he was trying to maintain his privacy while grieving his mother and brother, and following his father's criminal trial.
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TANZANIA – The United Nations chief warned on the eve of World Press Freedom Day that the media is under attack in every corner of the world and urged all nations to stop the targeting of truth and those who report it.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the 50% increase in the killing of media workers in 2022 “unbelievable,” stressing that freedom of the press “is the foundation of democracy and justice” and it is under threat.
At least 67 media worked were killed in 2022. In addition, digital platforms and social media have made it easier for extremists to push false narratives and harass journalists.
“Truth is threatened by disinformation and hate speech seeking to blur the lines between fact and fiction, between science and conspiracy,” Guterres said.
Guterres said the collapse of the media industry, which has led to closures of local news outlets and consolidation of media “into the hands of the few” is threatening freedom of expression.
So are threatening new laws passed by governments worldwide, such as Russia's 2022 law that anyone publishing information about its military that Moscow deems to be false could face up to 15 years in prison.
Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in late March under accusations of spying, which the Journal denies. The Biden administration has said Gershkovish is being wrongfully detained and has been working to secure his release.
Guterres strongly criticized the targeting of media workers both on and offline, saying they are routinely harassed, intimidated and detained. He added that nearly three-quarters of women journalists have experienced violence online and one-quarter have been threatened physically.
Guterres made the remarks in a video message for the U.N. commemoration of 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, which the U.N. General Assembly first proclaimed in December 1993 and authorized to be held every May 3.
The secretary-general said the world must unite to stop threats, attacks and imprisonment of journalists for doing their jobs, and stop the lies and disinformation.
“As journalists stand up for truth, the world stands up with them,” he said.
Audrey Azoulay, director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which organized the commemoration, said the advent of the digital era has changed the entire information landscape.
While digital platforms have provided new ways for expression and information, she said, “they are also proving fertile ground for those who sow disinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories.”
“We find ourselves at a new crossroads,” Azoulay said. “Our current path is leading us away from informed public debate … towards even more polarization,” she warned. “The other path is one we must imagine together, to ensure information can remain a public good, accessible to all.”
Azoulay said UNESCO in 2021 launched a model curriculum for teachers on media and information literacy “to develop critical mindsets to navigate these new flows.”
Given that the business models of digital platforms are based on the number of clicks, she said, they “all too often favor sensationalism over truth.”
Azoulay said that’s why UNESCO in February organized a global conference to address this issue with a goal of ensuring “that technology helps our shared values and promotes human rights rather than harming them.” It was attended by over 4,000 interested parties. This was “a decisive step,” she said, toward publication later this year by UNESCO of a set of guidelines on the moderation and selection of online content – just as it did for broadcasting nearly 20 years ago, she said.
Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, who heads UNESCO’s section on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, told a news conference that Tuesday’s commemoration is a kickoff for more than 60 events in 60 countries and over 40 events in New York City to highlight World Press Freedom Day’s 30th anniversary and the unacceptable decline in media freedom.
He cited UNESCO statistics released last year that 85% of the world’s population experienced the downsizing of their freedom in the last five years.
A recent UNESCO survey found that journalists covering protests in 65 countries in all regions have been attacked, Canela said, while other recent data shows that judicial systems increasingly harass journalists in all regions, “with 160 countries still keeping freedom of expression under criminal codes” that can lead to journalists’ imprisonment.
The presidents of the U.N. General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, UNESCO General Conference and Human Rights Council signed a joint statement urging “a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference" — and to promote and safeguard the rights to freedom of opinion and expression. | 2023-05-02T21:17:48+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/05/02/un-chief-urges-all-nations-to-stop-targeting-media-and-truth/ |
Tinuiti Takes Home Its Third Microsoft Advertising Partner Award in 2023 for Game-Changing Work with SPARC Group
NEW YORK, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm in the U.S., today announced it has won the Microsoft Global Client Partner of the Year Award for its work with client partner SPARC Group, a fashion industry leader that designs, sources, manufactures, distributes, and markets apparel, including leading brand names such as Brooks Brothers, Reebok, Eddie Bauer, Aéropostale, Nautica, and Lucky Brand.
The Microsoft Advertising Global Partner Awards recognize partners for exemplary work completed in 2022 across various categories. Last year Tinuiti became the first-ever independent performance marketing firm to win the highly-coveted Microsoft Global Agency of The Year award for demonstrating excellence in driving innovation, efficiency and growth across all of Microsoft Advertising.
Josh Brisco, Group VP Acquisition Media at Tinuiti, said: "Tinuiti's long-standing relationship with Microsoft is as fruitful as it is rewarding and we are incredibly proud of the work we have been able to do together. This partnership has not only allowed us to support our clients' endeavors, but it has enabled us to push the boundaries of what's possible. As a result, Tinuiti remains at the forefront of the ever-evolving world of digital advertising and continues to solve clients' complex business issues while pursuing ambitious business goals."
Nick Berliner, Director of Agency Development at Microsoft, said: "Tinuiti's decade-plus partnership with Microsoft Advertising has consistently demonstrated everything we appreciate in a partner–from transparency and open communication to creative collaboration and solution-driven ingenuity. Today's recognition is a reflection of that partnership and what it can achieve, as well as Tinuiti's truly unrelenting dedication to excellence."
Tinuiti garnered the Microsoft Advertising Global Client Partner of the Year Award for the incredible work done on behalf of SPARC Group – successfully leveraging Microsoft Advertising's full suite of products resulted in a positive impact across SPARC Group's portfolio.
Tinuiti has already taken home two Microsoft Advertising Partner Awards this year. The agency's Growth Media Division won Microsoft Advertising Channel Partner of the Year, and the Search/Shoppable Media Division won Microsoft Advertising Client Partnership of the Year.
Adding to Tinuiti's momentum, today's announcement follows a series of milestone moments in 2023:
2023 Momentum
- Tinuiti Live
- Unilever Digital Marketing Agency of Record
- Ampush Acquisition
- e.l.f. Beauty & Tinuiti Go To The Super Bowl
About Tinuiti
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, with more than $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV, mobile apps, Influencer, Lifecycle, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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LISHUI, China, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd. (the "Company" or NASDAQ: LXEH), a prestigious private education service provider in China, today announced that it received two written notices (the "Notices") from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Global Market on May 3, 2023 indicating that the Company was not in compliance with Listing Rule 5450(a)(1)(the "Minimum Bid Price Rule") and Listing Rule 5450(b)(1)(C)(the "Minimum Market Value of Publicly Held Shares Rule"), which require the Company to maintain a minimum bid price of US$1.00 per share, and maintain a minimum market value of publicly held shares of US$5 million for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market, respectively.
The Minimum Bid Price Rule requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of US$1.00 per share, and Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) provides that a failure to meet this requirement exists if the deficiency continues for a period of 30 consecutive business days. Based on the closing bid price of the Company from March 20, 2023 to May 2, 2023, the Company no longer meets the requirement of the Minimum Bid Price Rule. In accordance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company has been provided 180 calendar days, or until October 30, 2023, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule. To regain compliance, the Company's securities must have a closing bid price of at least US$1.00 for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days during the 180-day period or prior to October 30, 2023. In the event that the Company does not regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule by October 30, 2023, the Company may be eligible for additional time.
The Minimum Market Value of Publicly Held Shares Rule requires listed securities to maintain a minimum market value of publicly held shares of US$5 million, and Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(D) provides that a failure to meet this requirement exists if the deficiency continues for a period of 30 consecutive business days. Based on the market value of publicly held shares of the Company from March 16, 2023 to May 2, 2023, the Company no longer meets the requirement of the Minimum Market Value of Publicly Held Shares Rule. In accordance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(D), the Company has been provided 180 calendar days, or until October 30, 2023, to regain compliance with the Minimum Market Value of Publicly Held Shares Rule. To regain compliance, the Company's market value of publicly held shares must exceed US$5 million for a minimum of ten consecutive business days during the 180-day period or prior to October 30, 2023. In the event that the Company does not regain compliance with the Minimum Market Value of Publicly Held Shares Rule by October 30, 2023, the Company will receive written notification that its securities are subject to delisting. Alternatively, the Company may consider applying to transfer the listing of its securities to the Nasdaq Capital Market, subject to applicable continued listing requirements.
The Company intends to actively monitor the closing bid price of its securities and its market value of publicly held shares between now and October 30, 2023.
The Notices are only notifications of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and have no current effect on the listing or trading of the Company's securities on the Nasdaq Global Market.
About Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd.
Founded in Lishui City, China, Lixiang Education Holding Co., Ltd. is a prestigious private education service provider in Zhejiang Province. The Company's education philosophy is to guide the healthy development of students and to establish a solid foundation for their lifelong advancement and happiness. For more information, please visit: www.lixiangeh.com.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Linus Ullmark made 30 saves for his fifth career shutout, Charlie Coyle scored short-handed, and the NHL-leading Boston Bruins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-0 on Friday for their fifth straight victory.
Matt Grzelcyk, Jake DeBrusk and David Pastrnak also scored to help Boston improve to 7-1-0.
“There are a lot of guys wearing ice bags right now, and that shows you their commitment early on in the year,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “They are playing hard for each other and we’re getting good results.”
Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots for the Blue Jackets before being replaced in the third period by Daniil Tarasov, who stopped six. Columbus has lost three straight at home and six of its first nine games.
The Bruins struck at 8:43 of the opening period when Grzelcyk rifled his first goal of the season from the top of the left circle over Merzlikins’ glove.
Columbus set a record for futility in the second period with its 22nd power-play without a goal. Coyle added to those woes by notching a short-handed score at 4:30, the second given up by the Blue Jackets this season.
“It’s hard when you’re chasing the game,” Blue Jackets coach Brad Larsen said. “It’s draining. You can see in our guys. Then you start pressing you’re doing things you shouldn’t be doing.”
DeBrusk made it 3-0 after he blocked a shot that led to a breakaway score at 15:07, and Pastrnak added a goal with 26 seconds left in the second period off a wrister from the left circle.
Pastrnak extended his scoring streak to four games and put him atop the NHL leaderboard with 16 points. He is second in the league with seven goals.
“It’s a great start,” Coyle said. “I don’t know if a lot of people expected us to have the record that we have now, but it doesn’t matter. We know what’s in here, and the guys we have, and the guys that can fill in and take on responsibility. It’s a great sign for a team with a few key guys out.”
STREAKING
With his assist on Pastrnak’s goal, Patrice Bergeron extended his points streak to three games (1-2-3). He has nine points in nine games.
INJURY UPDATE
The Bruins were without center David Krejci who left Thursday game against Detroit with an upper-body injury and did not return. Brad Marchand, who is being managed in his return from offseason double hip surgery, also did not play. Columbus played without Jake Bean, who was out with an illness and Adam Boqvist, who suffered a broken foot Tuesday and is expected to miss six weeks. Nick Blankenburg is also expected out several weeks with an injured elbow.
WELCOME TO THE NHL
David Jiricek, the sixth overall pick in the 2022 draft, made his NHL debut for Columbus, playing 14:38 and recording one shot on goal. At 18 years, 334 days old, he is the second youngest defenseman in Blue Jackets history behind Rostislav Klesla (18 years, 200 days). Before he was called up, the native of Czechia led AHL rookie blueliners in assists and was tied for points (0-4-4). Jiricek is the third pick from the 2022 draft to play in the NHL, joining No. 1 pick Juraj Slafkovsky and No. 4 pick Shane Wright.
BOSTON MOVES
The Bruins made a trade in the middle of their Thursday game against Detroit, picking up goalie Michael DiPietro and the rights to defenseman Jonathan Myrenberg from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for forward Jack Studnicka.
NO POWER
The Blue Jackets went 0 for 3 on power-play, making them 0-for-23 to start the season. That is the franchise record for the longest stretch without a power-play goal.
STRONG FINNISH
The game was Columbus’ last at home before they travel to Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, and face the Colorado Avalanche Nov. 4 and 5, as part of the 2022 NHL Global Series. Columbus will head to Helsinki following its Sunday contest at New Jersey. The team has several Finns on the club: General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen is a native of Kuopio, Finland and the NHL’s first European-born general manager; winger Patrik Laine is from Tampere; and goaltender Joonas Korpisalo is from Helsinki.
UP NEXT
Boston: At Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.
Columbus: At New Jersey on Sunday.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After a decade of vigorous opposition, most North Carolina Republicans have now embraced the idea of expanding the state's Medicaid program to cover hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults. Legislative approval finally appears within reach.
During the General Assembly session that ended July 1, the GOP-controlled House and Senate passed separate, bipartisan measures by wide margins that would put the state on the path to Medicaid expansion. Some details remain to be worked out, but there's a real opportunity to hammer out a compromise by year's end.
It's a remarkable political turnabout in North Carolina, sure to be analyzed in the dozen states that have yet to accept the federal government's offer to cover people who make too much to be insured by traditional Medicaid but too little to receive subsidized private insurance.
“If there’s a person in the state of North Carolina that has spoken out against Medicaid expansion more than I have, I’d like to meet that person,” Senate leader Phil Berger said when he sought to explain his reversal at a news conference in May. “We need coverage in North Carolina for the working poor.”
The two chambers couldn’t work out their differences before adjourning, and talks between legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper — a longtime expansion supporter — have idled since then, at an impasse over other health care reforms that senators seek. But Berger remains bullish on ultimate success. “I think we'll get there,” he told reporters recently.
“There is a lot of work that needs to be done ... but overall we are feeling extremely encouraged by how far we’ve come,” said Erica Palmer Smith, executive director of Care4Carolina, a coalition of 150 groups that has worked for expansion since 2014.
Other advocates are tired of waiting. They say too many of the working poor are uninsured, risking their health and their lives. Others on traditional Medicaid worry that without expansion, they'll no longer be covered if they make too much money.
“I don’t know what to do,” said Courtney Crudup, 32, of Oxford, a mother of three and a cosmetologist who is currently unemployed. She spoke this week outside the Legislative Building at an event urging lawmakers to act. “Hear our stories. Hear regular people like me and people that want to work."
The apparent change of heart followed years of GOP suspicion about the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which Republicans derided as “Obamacare” only to see the label, as well as the program, become highly popular.
For years, Republicans said they couldn’t trust Congress to keep the federal government’s promise to pay 90% of the costs of expansion. They said the state’s Medicaid program — now with 2.7 million enrollees — had been overspending for years and was ill-prepared to take on more.
And fundamentally, they argued that more people would become dependent on government if allowed to benefit from Medicaid, which now mostly serves poor children and their parents and low-income elderly people.
Republicans say North Carolina Medicaid spending is now largely under control and they don't think Congress will increase the state's share of the cost beyond 10%. The state’s portion — perhaps as much as $600 million annually — can be covered by assessments on the state’s hospitals and insurance plans.
Interest also grew when the 2021 COVID-19 federal relief package offered a financial sweetener to encourage the remaining holdout states to accept expansion. For North Carolina, whose tax coffers already are flush thanks to a roaring economy, it would be an extra $1.5 billion over two years.
“This is an opportunity to take federal dollars, actually present a savings to the state of North Carolina and increase access to health care,” House Speaker Tim Moore told colleagues in June. “I’d call that a pretty good trifecta to do those things.”
Cooper also can take credit for his persistence. He's pushed nonstop for expansion since taking office in 2017, citing the economic shot in the arm the federal money would bring to rural hospitals, communities and families of the 600,000 residents who could qualify.
Cooper went so far as to veto the 2019 state budget because Moore and Berger wouldn’t commit to Medicaid talks. He signed this year's, saying "we are closer than ever to agreement on Medicaid expansion,” and a veto “would be counterproductive.”
A pivotal moment came after the 2020 elections, when Cooper convened a bipartisan commission of medical, business and nonprofit leaders and state legislators that came up with “guiding principles” to improve health care coverage.
"People with quite different political views were willing to listen to those who are coming at these issues from different backgrounds and different concerns,” said Mark McClellan, director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, which convened the commission.
Another influencer was former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who told a joint House-Senate committee in March how expansion has worked in his Republican-leaning state. The committee focused on the details, including how to increase the number of nurses, hospital beds and services in the state.
Negotiations slowed this summer between the House, Senate and Cooper, largely because the Senate wants regulatory changes aimed at providing even more access to services that it says will result in lower costs.
They include giving nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and others the ability to work independently from doctors, and scaling back “certificate of need” laws that critics say enable medical providers to limit competition that could bring down their revenue.
Berger blames hospitals for refusing to accept a compromise. The North Carolina Healthcare Association, representing hospitals and health systems, said it has raised concerns about Berger’s bill, but remains an expansion advocate.
“It’s positive that both chambers now support expansion, and right now hospitals hold the key to getting this done,” Cooper spokesperson Ford Porter said. | 2022-07-31T13:36:36+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Medicaid-expansion-breakthrough-within-reach-in-17341178.php |
LIMASSOL, Cyprus, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Praxis, a leading payment orchestration software provider, is happy to report on its 14th consecutive month of positive growth in both volumes and transactions processed through its platform. Bootstrapped and profitable, the company has seen a consistent increase in the number of transactions processed via the Praxis system, growing by 10%+ month on month, and almost doubling its numbers in terms of transaction volumes.
"We have been on a growth trajectory for the past 14 months and we are not slowing down. Praxis is well on track to exceed our goal of USD 4 billion in approved transaction volume in 2023. We appreciate our partners, merchants, putting their trust in us and choosing Praxis as their reliable partner in payments and growth", says Amit Klatchko, Praxis Co-Founder and Director.
"Praxis currently has 200+ active clients and supports over 650 brands. We are signing dozens of new deals every month, with the vast chunk of our leads coming from referrals, word of mouth, and positive feedback from their business partners or friends. This is the testament to our professionalism, the dedication of our team and the quality of service we provide", says Klatchko.
Praxis Tech has been rolling out new features in recent months that operate to improve processing efficiency and increase approval rates throughout a range of businesses. Newly released features such as Background Dynamic Currency Conversion (BDCC), Smart Routing, Transaction Decline Recovery with Open Banking and Retry on Insufficient Funds have been proven to increase approval rates for high-volume transaction industries such as investment trading, iGaming, and eCommerce.
The company also aims to cater to new verticals with its recently upgraded Recurring Payments feature, designed to provide for a subscription payments model. Praxis' Recurring Payments offering is complemented by One-Click Payment and Automatic Top-Up functions, with all features powered by Praxis' Merchant Initiated Transactions (MIT) technology
Praxis launched in 2014 with its flagship product - Cashier - which quickly became the household name for this type of payment software. In 2022 Praxis uplifted its brand from Praxis Cashier to Praxis Tech, to reflect its expanded offering of new products - Praxis Direct (API) and Hosted Payment Fields (HPF). Praxis Tech is PCI Certified, providing its clients with the highest standards of data security.
About Praxis
Praxis Tech Ltd is a Payments Technology Software company, helping companies simplify global expansion and optimize their payments infrastructure. They have grown exponentially over the past few years and are a top payments orchestration platform for merchants looking to grow their business, expand into new global markets and integrate with multiple payment solutions. Currently Praxis integrates with 540+ PSPs and 1000+ alternative payment solutions, supporting over 200 currencies. Learn more at: https://praxis.tech/
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Biden administration offers to release Tamiflu from Strategic National Stockpile
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
With an early and severe flu season straining resources, the Biden administration says it will release the prescription antiviral Tamiflu from the Strategic National Stockpile to states and territories that request it.
The US Department of Health and Human services said Wednesday this should help ease access to the medication — one of several types of medicines patients have sometimes struggled to find amid a surge of respiratory viruses, including flu, RSV, Covid-19 and others.
Aside from antivirals, certain antibiotics and common pain relievers/fever reducers, especially liquid formulations used for children, have also been in high demand. Some stores are implementing purchasing limits on some over-the-counter medications.
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response regional teams will work with jurisdictions to evaluate any requests for Tamiflu. States that have run out of Tamiflu in their stockpiles can also request more from the national stockpile.
“The actions taken today to increase access to Tamiflu show our preparedness system at work,” Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O’Connell said in a news release. “The country is more prepared for this surge because the SNS holds strategic stores of Tamiflu. As a result, jurisdictions will be able to get the support they need to keep Americans healthy as flu cases rise this winter.”
The US Food and Drug Administration does not currently list Tamiflu as being in shortage. But pharmacists and consumers have reported difficulty finding generic Tamiflu, or oseltamivir, in some areas. Some generic versions of brand-name Tamiflu are listed as being in shortage in the database maintained by the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, known as ASHP. The ASHP database takes reports of shortages from the public and they’re then verified by pharmacists.
The Strategic National Stockpile, or SNS, is a large store of certain supplies, medicines and devices that can be utilized in the event of a medical emergency. Tamiflu has been stored in the SNS and in state stockpiles in case of an influenza pandemic.
While there are signs that flu is slowing in some parts of the country, flu activity still remains high. All but seven states are experiencing “high” or “very high” respiratory virus activity, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Flu hospitalizations improved last week, after the worst week of the season that hit post-Thanksgiving.
So far this season, the CDC estimates that there have been at least 15 million illnesses, 150,000 hospitalizations, and 9,300 deaths from flu.
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Top Bucks vs. Heat Players to Watch - NBA Playoffs Game 3
Giannis Antetokounmpo is a player to watch when the Milwaukee Bucks (58-24) and the Miami Heat (44-38) meet at FTX Arena on Saturday. Tip-off is set for 7:30 PM ET.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to look out for in this matchup, which you can watch on ESPN with a seven-day free trial to Fubo!
How to Watch Bucks vs. Heat
- Game Day: Saturday, April 22
- Game Time: 7:30 PM ET
- Arena: FTX Arena
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Bucks' Last Game
The Bucks knocked off the Heat, 138-122, on Wednesday. Brook Lopez poured in a team-high 25 points for the Bucks, and added four rebounds and two assists. Jimmy Butler had 25 points, plus three rebounds and three assists, for the Heat.
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Heat's Last Game
Bucks Players to Watch
- Antetokounmpo posts 31.1 points and 11.8 rebounds per contest -- both team highs. He is also putting up 5.7 assists, shooting 55.3% from the field.
- Jrue Holiday averages a team-best 7.4 assists per contest. He is also averaging 19.3 points and 5.1 rebounds, shooting 47.9% from the field and 38.4% from beyond the arc with 2.4 made 3-pointers per game.
- Lopez puts up 15.9 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists per contest, shooting 53.1% from the floor and 37.4% from beyond the arc with 1.7 made 3-pointers per game.
- Bobby Portis posts 14.1 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. Defensively, he averages 0.4 steals and 0.2 blocked shots.
- Grayson Allen averages 10.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest, shooting 44% from the field and 39.9% from beyond the arc with 2 made 3-pointers per contest.
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Heat Players to Watch
- Adebayo leads the Heat in scoring (20.4 points per game) and rebounding (9.2), and posts 3.2 assists. He also averages 1.2 steals and 0.8 blocked shots.
- Butler is putting up a team-high 5.3 assists per game. And he is delivering 22.9 points and 5.9 rebounds, making 53.9% of his shots from the floor.
- The Heat receive 11.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game from Max Strus.
- Caleb Martin gives the Heat 9.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. He also averages 1 steal and 0.4 blocked shots.
- The Heat get 11.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game from Kyle Lowry.
Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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PD: Naugatuck man accused of hitting infant in the head because victim would not drink formula
Published: Jun. 17, 2022 at 3:07 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
NAUGATUCK, CT (WFSB) – A Naugatuck man is accused of hitting an infant in the head on Monday.
Police said Steven Elliott, 39, hit the infant because he would not drink his bottle of formula.
Elliott said he hit the infant in the head three or four times with the bottle of formula, according to police.
“…the accused then slammed the back of the victims head on his right knee,” police said.
Elliott was charged with risk of injury to a child, assault first-degree, cruelty to persons, reckless endangerment first-degree, and disorderly conduct.
He has a set bond of $1,000,000.
Elliott appeared in court Tuesday.
Stay with Eyewitness News for updates.
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Each year, thousands of Louisianans face the reality of living with a mental illness. Nearly 1 in 5 adults in our community experience mental illness.
For many of those individuals, substance use issues also play a role. While mental illness and substance use issues are not the same, often these are co-occurring disorders, which means that many individuals who have addiction issues also suffer from a mental health diagnosis. Hundreds of people die each year from an accidental overdose in our community, and in East Baton Rouge Parish in 2021, there were 311 fatal overdoses. There are already 86 in 2022.
Louisiana has also been hard hit in the past few years by hurricanes Delta and Ida and other severe weather-related events that have ravaged our community and economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased strain on our well-being and our mental health services.
The World Health Organization estimates that the first year of the pandemic alone resulted in a 25% increase in anxiety and depression worldwide. Addiction trends accelerated during the pandemic as well, driven by increased stress combined with decreased access to treatment due to stay-at-home orders and an overburdened health care system.
The Bridge Center for Hope was founded to help address the dual crises of mental health and substance use our community faces and to provide an alternative to parish prisons or expensive emergency rooms for those in need of mental health and substance use treatment.
As a community asset, the Bridge Center has the privilege of serving the many members of our community who are experiencing a crisis situation — in some cases ones that are not visible to others in their life the way a physical illness would be. One could characterize the Bridge Center as providing urgent care for the mind.
Since its inception, the Bridge Center served 3,170 and admitted 3,004 individuals. Our “no wrong door policy,” adopted by RI International, the facility’s service provider, allows people to access the facility no matter the crisis or time of day.
But our no-wrong-door policy doesn’t just help those in crisis. The average time it takes a law enforcement officer to bring an individual in crisis to an emergency room is 45 to 50 minutes. But the average time it takes to escort someone to the Bridge Center for help is only 3.54 minutes, saving officers valuable time. Some 41% of patients at the Bridge Center in 2021 came in with the help of law enforcement.
At the Bridge Center, our goal is to provide much-needed mental health and substance use services to all those in need and to raise awareness about these crises in our community. That’s why our "Bridging the Gap" community fair at the Main Library on Goodwood Boulevard May 17 offers the opportunity to learn about the numerous programs and services available to residents of East Baton Rouge Parish.
We have come a long way in the past year, but there is still far to go. Far too many individuals do not seek the help they need when in crisis, often with dire consequences for themselves, their families and our community. The people of East Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes need increased access to mental health support and treatment, and crisis centers such as the Bridge Center need continued support.
By removing the barriers to accessing care and prioritizing mental health services and support, we can improve the lives of Louisianans suffering from mental health and substance use issues, not just during May, Mental Health Awareness Month, but throughout the year.
Charlotte Claiborne is executive director of Bridge Center for Hope in Baton Rouge. | 2022-05-17T00:21:31+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_a9fb5a82-d177-11ec-b3fd-7b1f3fd79dba.html |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Paul Feig, the director of "Bridesmaids" and creator of "Freaks and Geeks," about his book "Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun."
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BERLIN (AP) — German business confidence has fallen more than expected this month, hitting a two-year low amid worries about higher energy prices and the prospect of a possible natural gas shortage, a closely watched survey showed Monday.
The Ifo institute said its monthly confidence index, a leading indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, dropped to 88.6 points in July from 92.2 last month. It was the second consecutive fall and took the index to its lowest level since June 2020. Economists had predicted a drop to 90.1.
The decline was led by a drop in companies’ outlook for the next six months, but they also were less satisfied with their current situation.
“Companies are expecting business to become much more difficult in the coming months,” Ifo said in a statement. “Higher energy prices and the threat of a gas shortage are weighing on the economy. Germany is on the cusp of a recession.”
Natural gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany resumed as scheduled last week after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance — but still at only 40% of full capacity, as they had been since mid-June. The outlook for future deliveries from Russia, which recently has accounted for around a third of Germany’s gas supply, is uncertain.
The German government announced that it would step up its gas storage requirements and take further measures to save gas used to power industry, generate electricity and heat homes in the winter.
And on Friday, it announced a bailout package for energy supplier Uniper, in which it will take a 30% stake. One result will be higher prices for customers, whose effects officials vowed to cushion.
The Ifo survey is based on responses from about 9,000 businesses across various business sectors.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said people no longer need to stay at least 6 feet away from others.
The changes are driven by a recognition that — more than 2 1/2 years since the start of the pandemic — an estimated 95% of Americans 16 and older have acquired some level of immunity, either from being vaccinated or infected, agency officials said.
“The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years,” said the CDC’s Greta Massetti, an author of the guidelines.
The CDC recommendations apply to everyone in the U.S., but the changes could be particularly important for schools, which resume classes this month in many parts of the country.
Perhaps the biggest education-related change is the end of the recommendation that schools do routine daily testing, although that practice can be reinstated in certain situations during a surge in infections, officials said.
The CDC also dropped a “test-to-stay” recommendation, which said students exposed to COVID-19 could regularly test — instead of quarantining at home — to keep attending school. With no quarantine recommendation anymore, the testing option disappeared too.
Masks continue to be recommended only in areas where community transmission is deemed high, or if a person is considered at high risk of severe illness.
School districts across the U.S. have been scaling back their COVID-19 precautions in recent weeks even before the CDC relaxed its guidance. Masks will be optional in most school districts when classes resume this fall, and some of the nation’s largest districts have dialed back or eliminated COVID-19 testing requirements.
Some have also been moving away from test-to-stay programs that became unmanageable during surges of the omicron variant last school year. With so many new infections among students and staff, many schools struggled to track and test their close contacts, leading to a temporary return to remote classes in some places.
The average numbers of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths have been relatively flat this summer, at around 100,000 cases a day and 300 to 400 deaths.
The CDC previously said that if people who are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations come into close contact with a person who tests positive, they should stay home for at least five days. Now the agency says quarantining at home is not necessary, but it urges those people to wear a high-quality mask for 10 days and get tested after five.
The agency continues to say that people who test positive should isolate from others for at least five days, regardless of whether they were vaccinated. CDC officials advise that people can end isolation if they are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication and they are without symptoms or the symptoms are improving. | 2022-08-12T21:44:52+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/coronavirus/cdc-drops-quarantine-screening-recommendations-for-covid-19/ |
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — The Jan. 6 committee laid out evidence Thursday showing former President Donald Trump turned to illegal measures to try to remain president.
Trump and his lawyer, John Eastman, came up with a plan to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject the presidential election results.
“He latched on to a completely nonsensical and undemocratic theory that one man, his own vice president, could determine the outcome of the election,” said State Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
Republican lawyers testified that Pence told Trump that the constitution didn’t give him the authority to overturn the election.
“There’s just no way that they would put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president,” said Greg Jacob, the former council of Vice President Pence.
Still, on Jan. 6, Trump called Pence directly to push him further, in private and in public. The Vice President’s lawyers say despite his public silence, he always refused to do Trump’s bidding.
“Vice President Pence understood that his oath of office was more important than his loyalty to Donald Trump,” said State Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Witnesses said even after rioters came within 40 feet of Pence, which is when he was taken to a secure location, Trump’s lawyer again asked him to reject the election results.
The Jan. 6 committee says next it wants to talk to Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her involvement in trying to overturn the election results. | 2022-06-17T00:33:31+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/washington-dc/jan-6-committee-despite-rioters-putting-pence-in-danger-trump-kept-pushing-to-overturn-election/ |
Monkeypox disease now has a new name: mpox. The World Health Organization announced the long-awaited change on Monday, saying the disease's original name plays into "racist and stigmatizing language."
But it will take time to replace a term that has been used for decades. The first human monkeypox case was recorded in 1970. The virus was initially detected years earlier, in captive monkeys.
"Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while 'monkeypox' is phased out," WHO said.
The announcement drew a mixed response from Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, a global health equity advocate and senior New Voices fellow at the Aspen Institute who has backed changing the name.
"Mpox is better than monkeypox because it still contains 'pox', which speaks to the physical nature of the disease," Nsofor told NPR on Monday. "Removing 'monkey' removes the stigma that monkeypox comes with and deals with the possible misinformation" about how it's transmitted, he added, as it might falsely suggest monkeys are the main source of spreading the virus to humans.
But Nsofor questioned the WHO's decision not to eradicate the monkeypox name immediately. The agency says the one-year delay will provide time for numerous publications and records to be updated. It also says the delay will ease experts' concerns about potential confusion over renaming a disease that's currently causing an outbreak.
Nsofor warns that using both names at the same time will not bring clarity. "This is confusing and perpetuates everything bad with the name monkeypox," he said.
Monkeypox outbreak brought waves of stigma
The international monkeypox outbreak drastically raised the disease's profile in Europe and the U.S., affecting more than 100 countries in all. And as the disease spread, public health experts say, so did the use of discriminatory language and images online.
Critics say the name "monkeypox" plays into racist stereotypes about Black and African people, and it's been used along with anti-gay slurs. They also note that rodents, not monkeys, are the main source of the virus.
In May, international journalists in Kenya called out U.S. and European media outlets for repeatedly using images of Black people to illustrate stories about monkeypox — despite the outbreak's fast growth in Europe and the U.S. In July, U.S. health officials urged people not to "propagate homophobic or transphobic messaging."
Over the summer, New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasa sent a letter to WHO's Tedros, urging him to act quickly to rename monkeypox, citing "potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects."
A name change that isn't a total name change
The change resolves months of doubt about when — or if — it might happen.
But while the new name will apply to the disease, it doesn't automatically extend to the virus behind the illness. While WHO names diseases, the formal scientific names of viruses are determined by another organization: the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
The WHO says the ICTV has been engaged in a process of considering renaming "all orthopoxvirus species, including monkeypox virus," adding that the process is ongoing.
Reached by NPR on Monday, ICTV data secretary Elliot Lefkowitz said the group has "held no recent discussions regarding the renaming of the virus species, Monkeypox virus," or the use of an alternative name.
Earlier this year, Lefkowitz said that even if the ICTV gives the virus a new formal name, the term "monkey" could remain, stating, "the consensus is that use of the name 'monkey' is sufficiently separated from any pejorative context such that there is no reason for any change."
Lefkowitz also said he agreed with WHO's executive director for health emergencies, Mike Ryan — who has said that in the face of an outbreak, the central issue isn't the disease's name, but the risk that people with bad intentions might "weaponize" any term.
"No matter what names we use, if people are determined to misuse and to weaponize names in order to isolate or discriminate or stigmatize people, then that will always continue," Ryan said in July.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-28T18:58:13+00:00 | wksu.org | https://www.wksu.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-28/who-renames-monkeypox-as-mpox-citing-racist-stigma |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish officials on Tuesday confirmed that there has been “extensive damage” to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea off Denmark and that the cause of the damage was “powerful explosions.”
The agency and the police have decided to set up a joint investigation group which will handle the further investigation of the incidents, the police said, adding it was “not possible to say when the investigation can be expected to be completed.”
Earlier this month, the Swedish domestic security agency said its preliminary investigation of two further leaks closer to its coast “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” and a prosecutor said evidence at the site has been seized.
Swedish newspaper Expressen published Tuesday what it claims is a video of the damaged pipelines off Sweden and said that at least 50 meters (165 feet) of the metal pipe appears to be missing
The four leaks occurred in international but within the exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden. The damaged Nord Stream pipelines discharged huge amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the air for several days. | 2022-10-18T09:41:59+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/danes-confirm-extensive-damage-to-baltic-sea-pipelines/2022/10/18/7f8bd892-4ebf-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html |
Officials hear concerns from sailors after multiple deaths on Navy aircraft carrier
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WTKR) – In Virginia, the U.S. Navy is relocating hundreds of sailors who had been living on an aircraft carrier after three recent suicides.
Democratic Congresswoman Elaine Luria toured the U.S.S. George Washington Tuesday to hear concerns directly from sailors and find ways to help sailors on that ship and on others.
“Every member of the ship is just like a family member,” she said. “So it’s, you know, it’s hit the crew hard. I think it’s very important to take a deep look and also a broad look into the contributing factors behind these types of incidents.”
Rear Admiral John Meier said immediate action has been taken regarding the deaths of the sailors. One investigation is looking into the three suicides from last month, while another is a broader look at command climate and culture and what he calls systemic stressors to working in a shipyard environment.
“Anytime we lose the sailor it’s gut wrenching,” he said.
Meier said there are also more training and mental health professionals added to the ship, and hundreds of sailors have been offered options to move off the ship to Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
“I think it’s important to note that we found spaces for them,” he said. “This will be at no cost to the sailors. it will increase their commuting times certainly, but it will also improve the quality of life for them continuing to look for better ways to improve quality of life here on board the ship. that includes cell phone repeaters, WIFI access on the mess decks.”
Luria said the sailors have the stress of being new to the Navy on top of difficult working and living conditions as well as whatever personal stressors they might be dealing with.
“What are the other stressors that people have in their lives, and really being able to look at removing those friction points for sailors,” Luria said.
Sailors recently voiced their concerns to Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith. When asked by sailors why chaplains are being put on certain ships instead of psychiatrists, Smith said psychiatrists are harder to find.
Luria said she is looking into the Navy to see if the mental health issues are being met with psychiatric personnel on staff.
Meier said there are currently a lot of mental health resources focused on the George Washington.
“Mental health help and capacity across, really across the nation, but across the DoD and Navy is not meeting demand,” he said. “I think we all recognize that this is a national imperative.”
If you or someone you know needs help, you are asked to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Copyright 2022 WTKR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-04T21:28:44+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/05/04/officials-hear-concerns-sailors-after-multiple-deaths-navy-aircraft-carrier/ |
“The Latecomer” by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon Books)
Wealthy, dysfunctional families are so common in novels that it’s easy to dismiss books centered around them. Don’t make that mistake with “The Latecomer,” which introduces readers to the Oppenheimers, a New York family with triplets born via IVF who were “in full flight from one another as far back as their ancestral petri dish.”
The novel’s title contains the key to the story, a fourth child added to the family as the triplets leave home for college. Hers is the distinct narrative voice of the novel and it’s a pleasure to read. Her sharing of the family history and her role in its reconciliation drive the plot. About her mother, Johanna, a dutiful spouse committed to creating a family with her husband, Salo, as a way to find happiness after he killed two fellow Cornell students in a car accident, she writes: “This was the flaw in making a bargain with yourself. There is no one else there to agree to the terms.”
The beauty of the novel’s structure is that the aha moments are revealed slowly, during detailed recountings of each of the family members’ lives. We don’t even learn the name of the title character until about a quarter of the way through the book and connections are made between characters until the final page. It makes for a very satisfying read.
In addition to grief and guilt, the book tackles other weighty themes as seen through the eyes of the privileged family. Religion factors prominently when one of the triplets, Lewyn, rooms with a Mormon his freshman year at Cornell. “He was thoroughly ignorant, of course, about the vast and foreign territory known as ‘upstate New York,’” writes Korelitz, “where people lived without reference to Brooklyn Heights or even Manhattan… The notion that something had actually happened in this backwoods wilderness which was of critical interest to millions of people around the world would come as something of a shock.”
Race plays a critical role as well, when the triplet named Harrison meets a Black conservative during the first stop in his educational journey, a fictional institution called Roarke in the woods of New Hampshire. That character, with the pitch perfect name Eli Absalom Stone, serves as a reflection point not only for Harrison, but for the rest of the family as they grapple with identity and cultural appropriation.
If it all sounds very heavy and serious, the reading experience is the opposite. The wry and incisive narrative voice and the hope it conveys for her family and by extension, those of us readers in the real world whose issues are closely mirrored in the novel, make the time and effort well worth it. | 2022-05-31T19:27:03+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Review-The-Latecomer-skewers-wealth-and-17210120.php |
Milwaukee Admirals giving away two tickets to Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour.' Here's what to know.
If you're still looking to score tickets to Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour," the Milwaukee Admirals are giving you a shot.
On the night of the hockey team's May 3 playoff game, people can visit UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena to enter for a chance to win two tickets to Swift's June 3 Chicago show.
Ultimately, one randomly selected entrant will win. So, being able to sing the words to every single Swift song or wearing the most "Bejeweled" fit won't up your chances.
While the Admirals are a minor league team, they "like to give major league entertainment," said Charlie Larson, the team's vice president of communications. He called Swift's tour one of the biggest pop culture events of the past decade.
"It's just a fun way for us to mix in the hockey with a little bit of pop culture, which we certainly like to do," Larson said. "It'll be a cool opportunity for one person, who probably didn't get the chance to buy the tickets, to win them."
On the night of the giveaway, the Admirals will be taking on the Manitoba Moose in Game 3 of the Division Semi-Finals at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Here's what to know about the giveaway, from how to enter it to the contest's rules.
How to enter the Taylor Swift ticket giveaway
Those who wish to enter the giveaway must do so via designated QR codes that will be located around the arena on the evening of May 3, Larson said. The QR codes will also be placed in the lobby for people who don't have tickets to the game. Entries must be received by 7:30 p.m. CT that night.
The winner must be at least 18 years old, according to the contest rules on the team's website.
Around eight to 10 entrants will be selected as finalists and be brought onto the ice during the game, Larson said. People who enter the giveaway but aren't in attendance of the game must remain in the vicinity of the arena in case they'd become a finalist.
Out of the finalists, one "completely random" winner will be selected. While the method that will be used to choose the winner is still being determined, it won't be based off of anything like skill, knowledge, singing Swift songs or a crowd vote, Larson said.
The contest rules noted that Admirals and Ticket King employees, their immediate family members and household members are not eligible to win the giveaway.
How to get tickets to the May 3 Admirals game
Tickets to the May 3 Admirals game are available online.
They can also be purchased in-person at the Admirals office, located in the lower level of the Miller High Life Theater, 510 W. Kilbourn Ave., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or, at the arena's box office starting two hours before game time.
Prices for the May 3 game range from $17 to $46, according to the team's ticket site.
The capacity of the arena for Admirals games is about 9,500, according to Larson. This past season, the team averaged about 5,500 fans per game, he said.
For more info on the giveaway, contest rules
For more info on the giveaway and contest rules, visit milwaukeeadmirals.com/taylorswift. | 2023-04-27T21:35:25+00:00 | jsonline.com | https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2023/04/27/taylor-swift-eras-tour-tickets-giveaway-hosted-by-milwaukee-admirals/70155479007/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies acquired All-Star reliever Gregory Soto and utility player Kody Clemens, son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, from the Detroit Tigers on Saturday in exchange for infielder Nick Maton, outfielder Matt Vierling and catcher Donny Sands.
Soto, an AL All-Star the last two years, had career highs with 30 saves and 64 games last season with 60 strikeouts in 60 1/3 innings. The 27-year-old left-hander has a career record of 8-20 with 50 saves in 186 appearances over four years with the Tigers.
The 26-year-old Clemens made his major league debut in Detroit last season, and hit .145 with five homers and 17 RBIs in 56 games. He played three infield positions and in the outfield along with pitching in seven games when the Tigers didn’t want to tax the bullpen more in lopsided games.
The 26-year-old Vierling hit .260 with eight homers and 38 RBIs in 151 games over two seasons with the Phillies. The 25-year-old Maton hit .250 with five homers and 17 RBIs in 86 games over two seasons in Philadelphia. The 26-year-old Span spent much of last season at Triple-A Lehigh Valley, hitting .308, and did not have a hit in four plate appearances over three games with the Phillies.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-08T18:54:36+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-phillies-acquire-all-star-reliever-gregory-soto-from-tigers/ |
DEWITT, N.Y. (WSYR-TV)– For Lynn Basile and her family, this Christmas will be the first without her brother who passed away in May of this year. She can’t make it to Rhode Island to see her family in person so instead, she shipped out a special gift.
“He was an avid runner and I had ornaments made out of his running shirts to send to family in Rhode Island my other siblings and my son’s widow and his two boys and it’s an ornament made out of the shirts and on the inside I captured him singing from last Christmas Eve,”
Lynn Basile, USPS Customer
A beautiful memento she was worried wouldn’t arrive in time shipping it out only five days before Christmas but was pleased when she dropped off the packages at the United States Postal Service that the gifts would arrive on Thursday.
While some of the recommended holiday shipping dates have since come and gone for USPS, you can still ensure packages arrive by Christmas Eve using their priority mail express which is the carrier’s next-day delivery service.
But with a massive winter storm on the way for later this week, Mark Lawrence, Strategic Communications Specialist for USPS, said there’s a chance for shipping delays but it’s too hard to tell what if any will occur until the bad weather arrives.
While we can’t control the weather, Lawrence says you can receive real-time updates on tracking your package or seeing what mail is on the way by using the USPS Mobile App.
If you are expecting a package and know there will be bad weather, Lawrence asks that you think about your carriers and shovel off your front steps or driveways to allow for them to safely deliver your holiday gifts.
As for Basile, she’s hoping the ornaments arrive in time to help keep her brother’s spirit alive this Christmas.
If you’re using other shipping carriers and want to ensure your package arrives on time you can ship a package on Thursday using the UPS next-day air service, order through Amazon using their one-day prime service or if you’re really in a crunch you can ship on Friday with the FedEx same-day delivery. | 2022-12-21T04:28:04+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/impending-storm-could-impact-your-last-minute-holiday-packages/ |
New dispensary expands patient access to medical cannabis; grand opening specials available
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of a new medical dispensary in New Port Richey, Fla. Located at 5422 US Hwy 19, the doors will open at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, 2022.
Grand opening festivities throughout the day at the new dispensary will include numerous partner giveaways, music, food trucks, deals and specials, and all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. Trulieve also offers statewide home delivery, convenient online ordering and in-store pickup. As always, all first-time guests are eligible for a 50% new customer discount at any Florida-based location.
"Trulieve is proud to expand access to medical marijuana for Florida's patient population," said Trulieve's Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers, "Trulieve is committed to investing in communities where we operate, as well as offering patients access to high quality products and providing exceptional customer experiences."
As the state's leading medical cannabis provider, Trulieve's retail employees are trained to provide personalized patient care and support individuals at every stage of their cannabis journeys. Trulieve dispensaries throughout Florida offer on-site consultations to help patients obtain appropriate medical products and dosages to ensure optimal cannabis experiences.
Trulieve patients across Florida can choose from the largest selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including smokable flower, concentrates, edibles, capsules, syringes, tinctures, topical creams, vaporizers, and more.
Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands include Alchemy, Co2lors, Cultivar Collection, Momenta, Muse, Roll One, Sweet Talk and Modern Flower. Patients also have access to beloved brands such as Bellamy Brothers, Bhang, Binske, Blue River, Black Tuna, DeLisioso, Love's Oven, O.pen and Sunshine Cannabis, all available exclusively at Trulieve in Florida.
For more information, or to learn how to become a registered patient, please visit Trulieve.com and connect on Instagram or Facebook.
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Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S. operating in 11 states, with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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Glenwood recently lost another good soul. Family and friends gathered on Sept. 24 to celebrate the life of Diane Stembridge at the home she shared with her long-time partner, Allen Feller. Diane was a kind, fun, caring lady who is greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Our deepest condolences go to Allen and all of his and Diane’s family. Rest in peace now, dear lady.
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On Friday, Sept. 30, Glenwood School held a special remembrance in honor of Orange Shirt Day. This is a day to remember the effects of government-run residential schools on Indigenous Peoples. In these schools, the language and culture of the children was harshly and cruelly taken from them as the government attempted to assimilate the children into the white (European) culture of our country.
The name comes from the experience of one woman, who, as a child, was removed from her home and placed in one of the schools. She was wearing a very special orange shirt her grandmother made for her. Upon her arrival, the clothes she was wearing were taken from her and replaced with a uniform. She never forgot her beautiful orange shirt, and the color orange has always reminded her of that period of her life.
Wearing orange helps to reaffirm that every child matters. The day began with a special assembly at 12:45 p.m., followed by student activities, a moment of silence, and a walk for hope. On this day, Sept. 30, our school joined the nation in remembrance and affirmation that Every Child Matters.
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Mt. Adams Resource Stewards recently held their annual photography contest. Well, it just so happens, Glenwood high school has a great photography class and a lot of very talented photographers. Many of their photographs won prizes. In the category of Forest, Flowers and Scenery, Brenna Beeks and Tiana Jackson received first and second place, respectively. In the Traditions & Working Lands category, Tiana Jackson received second place. In the Wildlife category, Peyton Sanchey’s photo received first place and Tiana Jackson placed second. Way to go, girls. Well done.
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One of our Glenwood High School seniors is making the Glenwood news again this week, and deservedly so. Landon Sanchey is Washington State University bound in the fall of 2023. Landon, son of Jodi and Ryan Sanchey, has had an outstanding high school career so far. He participates in basketball and track, has maintained high academic standards, worked as youth leader on the YCC crew in the summer, and is currently serving as the Associated Student Body president. The email letter from WSU last week was quite a surprise, as Landon was only two weeks into the 2022-23 school year when notified of his acceptance.
But that’s not all the good news. Landon has also been selected to receive the Distinguished University Achievement Award, valued at $4,000 and renewable for a second year. Students who qualify for this award are among the top 10% of the incoming class.
We are all very proud of Landon. He is an awesome role model and mentor to other students and is living proof that students can and do soar at Glenwood Schools. All that’s left to say is, “Go, Cougs!”
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This year, the Glenwood middle school girls began volleyball practices with their coach, Sara McFall. They practiced diligently every afternoon, but with team member count fluctuating between four and five players, they could see they just didn’t have enough girls to make a team. Through Mrs. McFall’s efforts, the Glenwood girls were able to join the Klickitat middle school girls’ team and have been traveling there for practices and games. Although it is a Klickitat team, many of us think of the combined team as “Little Klickwood.” It’s coming together nicely and these Glenwood girls are thankful for a coach/athletic director who went the extra mile to ensure they got to have their fall volleyball season after all. They lost to Lyle with close scores then played Trout Lake on Monday, Sept. 26 and won. I’ll include more game results as their season progresses.
The Klickwood high school girls’ team is well into their season now. They’ve had a few tough losses, but more great wins that losses and are playing very well this season. They had a tough game against Dufur on Tuesday, Sept. 27. It took five games, but Klickwood came out the winner. Way to go, Klickwood.
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Halloween is coming soon. The Glenwood Womens Club, Glenwood Grange No. 94, and Glenwood General Store will once again present the Trunk or Treat Halloween Festival on Main Street in Glenwood, to make it an extra special evening for the children and their families. Trunk or Treat will take place from 4–6 p.m. but other activities will continue that evening. Please bring your car trunk or truck tailgate uptown and decorate it, park along Main Street, and allow the kids to trick or treat at your vehicle. Prizes will be awarded for best trunk/tailgate decoration and for best costumes.
The General Store is sponsoring the pumpkin carving contest. If you plan to enter your pumpkin, please have it at the store no later than 5:30 p.m. Prizes for best pumpkins in adult and youth divisions will be awarded at 6 p.m. The store will also be serving complimentary clam chowder, chili, and hot cocoa between 5-7 p.m.
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Mary Pierce writes about the community of Glenwood every other week in Columbia Gorge News. Please send any news items to gmpierce09@gmail.com.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Labor is hosting a multi-employer career fair Thursday, Feb. 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Meridian Library Cherry Lane Branch, 1326 W. Cherry Lane.
Over 20 employers will be in attendance including ABM Industries, Boise Cold Storage, Bogus Basin, T-Mobile, Silicon Mountain, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Home Instead, the Treasure Valley YMCA, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, West Ada School District and more.
Positions available include office clerical, bus drivers, equipment technicians, administrative specialists, janitors, school custodians, caregivers, ski instructors, merchandisers, patient service representatives and warehouse/forklift operators, to name a few.
Job seekers should bring resumes, be prepared for interviews and dress for success.
Interview skills, resume and other job search tips are available online in the Maximize Your Job Search workbook [lnks.gd].
Those who need special accommodation should contact Anthony de Ville at 208-332-3570 ext. 3270 or by email at anthony.deville@labor.idaho.gov. To access the Idaho Relay Services for the deaf and hard of hearing, dial 711.
More information on hiring events and job fairs throughout the state can be found on Labor's calendar of events [lnks.gd].
Attending a job fair event counts as one weekly valid work-search activity for unemployment insurance purposes. | 2023-02-02T23:36:23+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/a-multi-employer-career-fair-is-scheduled-at-meridian-library-on-feb-9 |
GENEVA (AP) — The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped by 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and a possible signal the outbreak in Europe may be starting to decline, according to a World Health Organization report issued Thursday.
The U.N. health agency reported 5,907 new weekly cases and said two countries, Iran and Indonesia, reported their first cases. To date, more than 45,000 cases have been reported in 98 countries since late April.
Cases in the Americas accounted for 60% of cases in the past month, WHO said, while cases in Europe comprised about 38%. It said infections in the Americas showed “a continuing steep rise.”
In early July, just weeks before the agency declared the international spread of the disease to be a global emergency, WHO’s Europe director said countries in the region were responsible for 90% of all laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox.
British health authorities said last week after seeing a decline in the number of new cases getting reported daily that there were “early signs” the country’s monkeypox outbreak was slowing.
The U.K.’s Health Security Agency downgraded the country’s monkeypox outbreak last month, saying there was no evidence the once rare disease was spreading beyond men who were gay, bisexual or had sex with other men.
Since monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were identified in May, WHO and other health agencies have noted that its spread was almost exclusively in men who have sex with men.
Monkeypox has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades and experts suspect the outbreaks in Europe and North America were triggered after the disease started spreading via sex at two raves in Spain and Belgium.
WHO’s latest report said 98% of cases are in men and of those who reported sexual orientation, 96% are in men who have sex with men.
“Of all reported types of transmission, a sexual encounter was reported most commonly,” WHO said. “The majority of cases were likely exposed in a party with sexual contacts,” the agency said.
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WHO has recommended that men at high risk of the disease temporarily consider reducing their number of sex partners or refrain from group or anonymous sex.
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WHO has advised countries that have vaccines to prioritize immunization for those at high risk of the disease, including gay and bisexual men with multiple sex partners, and for health workers, laboratory staff and outbreak responders.
While Africa has reported the most suspected deaths from monkeypox, the continent has no vaccine supplies apart from a very small stock being tested in a research study in Congo.
“As we know, the situation with monkeypox vaccine access is very topical, but there are not enough doses of vaccines,” Nigeria Center for Disease Control Director-General Ifedayo Adetifa said this week. Potentially, a lot more doses will become available, but because of challenges with manufacturing factories and unexpected uptick in monkeypox cases, the vaccine may actually not be available until 2023.” | 2022-08-25T19:00:45+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/health/who-says-monkeypox-cases-down-21-reversing-month-long-rise/ |
Camila Giorgi vs. Daria Kasatkina: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Viking International Eastbourne
Camila Giorgi will face Daria Kasatkina in the Viking International Eastbourne semifinals on Friday, June 30.
Kasatkina has -165 odds to win a spot in the final over Giorgi (+130).
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Camila Giorgi vs. Daria Kasatkina Match Information
- Tournament: The Viking International Eastbourne
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Friday, June 30
- Venue: Devonshire Park International Tennis Centre
- Location: Eastbourne, United Kingdom
- Court Surface: Grass
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Camila Giorgi vs. Daria Kasatkina Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Daria Kasatkina has a 62.3% chance to win.
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Camila Giorgi vs. Daria Kasatkina Trends and Insights
- Giorgi advanced over Jelena Ostapenko 7-6 (retired) on Thursday, clinching a berth in the semifinals.
- Kasatkina made it past Caroline Garcia 6-2, 2-1 on Thursday, reaching the semifinals.
- Giorgi has played 33 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), and 23.0 games per match.
- On grass, Giorgi has played three matches over the past year, totaling 30.0 games per match while winning 51.1% of games.
- Kasatkina is averaging 20.7 games per match through her 48 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 54.4% of those games.
- Kasatkina and Giorgi have matched up two times dating back to 2015, and Kasatkina has been the victor every time, including 6-2, 6-2 in their most recent meeting on May 30, 2022 at the French Open.
- In terms of sets, Kasatkina has secured four against Giorgi (80.0%), while Giorgi has captured one.
- Kasatkina and Giorgi have matched up for 42 total games, and Kasatkina has won more often, capturing 28 of them.
- Kasatkina and Giorgi have matched up two times, and they have averaged 21 games and 2.5 sets per match.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his allies seized on the drawn-out vote processing and counting in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election to fuel his false claims that fraud cost him victory in the battleground state — and election officials worry that a replay could be on the horizon in November’s crucial Senate and governor’s races.
And it’s not just Pennsylvania. Michigan and Wisconsin are other crucial swing states that allow no-excuse mail-in ballots but give local election offices no time before Election Day to process them.
Election workers’ inability to do that work ahead of time means many of the mailed ballots may not get counted on Election Day, delaying results in tight races and leaving a gaping hole for misinformation and lies to flood the public space.
“That time between the polls closing on election night and the last vote being counted is really being exploited by people who want to undermine confidence in the process,” said Al Schmidt, a Philadelphia election commissioner during the 2020 presidential election who is now president and CEO of the good-government group Committee of Seventy.
The first step in processing mailed ballots, or pre-canvassing, is a routine but crucial administrative task that allows election workers to verify voters’ signatures and addresses, or spot problems that could be fixed by voters. Once ballots are deemed valid, they are removed from their envelopes — another time-consuming task — so they are ready to be counted on Election Day.
Not in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, though. Thirty-eight other states — including Republican-controlled ones such as Florida, Georgia and Texas — allow mailed ballots to be processed before Election Day, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, even brags about producing results on election night — a pointed criticism he made during a recent stop in Pennsylvania.
For the three critical battleground states, such objections fall flat. Efforts since 2020 to give local election workers more time before Election Day to process mailed ballots have died in Republican-controlled legislatures.
Instead, Republicans in those states have sought to tighten restrictions on voting by mail — provisions vetoed by Democratic governors.
“Counting the ballots should be driven by security, not speed,” Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican, said earlier this year as lawmakers were considering legislation on the issue. “Why would we want to give bad actors the chance to see ballots prior to Election Day?”
Republicans helped kill a bipartisan bill that would have allowed more time for processing mailed ballots in Wisconsin amid claims that it would give partisans more time to cheat or leak vote counts early — another unfounded conspiracy theory promoted as a way to explain Trump’s loss.
Like Pennsylvania, election workers in Michigan and Wisconsin must wait until Election Day to start the pre-canvassing of mailed ballots.
For now, in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, requests for absentee ballots are running below 2020’s rate, relieving some of the burden on local election offices.
Still, Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said it’s “a total guess” when counting will finish in Wisconsin’s most populous county. She hopes it will wrap up by 11 p.m. on election night. A late rush of dropped-off ballots — as happened in 2020 — isn’t expected this year, she said, because courts banned the use of drop boxes.
In Michigan in 2020, lawmakers agreed to give clerks in more populous cities and towns 10 hours on the day before Election Day to process mailed ballots. Clerks unsuccessfully sought a similar provision for this year. The Michigan Secretary of State’s office said it was too early to estimate how many absentee ballots might be cast or how long it will take to process them.
The Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature have refused to allow early processing of mailed ballots unless it comes packaged with provisions Democrats oppose, such as putting limits on drop boxes and expanding voter identification requirements.
County election officials say they are grateful the state approved $45 million in election administration grants to help them buy ballot processing equipment and pay for workers to help. But they still face the work of processing well over 1 million mailed ballots just as they are running the November election. A number of them do not expect to finish processing mailed ballots until at least the day after the election — even after working through the night.
The Pennsylvania House Republicans’ lead lawmaker on election legislation said allowing counties to process ballots before Election Day must be combined with “election integrity” measures.
“Once a ballot is opened, you remove the outside envelope from the ballot, you remove any ability to question anything in that election system,” said Republican state Rep. Seth Grove. “So you have to guard the front end of it a lot better.”
Those who advocate for earlier processing say observers can watch the pre-canvassing of mailed ballots, increasing transparency, and note that it is allowed by many other states.
“If people want to observe the process,” said Lee Soltysiak, the chief operating officer of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania, “they’re more likely to do it at 3 p.m. and not 3 a.m.”
All three states flipped to support Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and are still being buffeted by conspiracy theories about Trump’s loss.
Among those is that election workers falsified ballots in the middle of the night in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and other Democratic-leaning cities across battleground states lost by Trump, despite no such evidence emerging for nearly two years since the election.
Death threats to election officials followed the arguing, as did a flurry of litigation designed to keep Trump in office. In the middle of the counting, two men inspired by Trump’s election lies and armed with guns drove from Virginia to where ballots were being tallied in Philadelphia.
Trump continues to peddle the conspiracy theories, repeating this month during a rally in Wilkes-Barre that Pennsylvania’s vote in 2020 was “a rigged election.”
Fearing a repeat of the false claims from two years ago, Democrats in the Pennsylvania Legislature continued to push Republicans to bring up a pre-canvassing bill — without any poison pills — for a vote.
“That bill will not run,” said Democratic state Rep. Scott Conklin. “Why won’t it run? Because if it runs, it takes away the conspiracy theories. It takes away the fact that what they’re saying is nonsense and not true.”
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This story has been corrected to show that Pennsylvania legislation would have put limits on drop boxes, not banned them.
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Joey Cappelletti, a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative, contributed to this report from Lansing, Michigan. Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics. | 2022-09-21T13:16:39+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/ap-mail-ballot-fight-persists-in-key-states-sure-to-slow-count/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
The decision follows recent mass shootings and is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston — and elsewhere. About a quarter of the U.S. population live in states expected to be affected by the ruling, which struck down a New York gun law. The decision, the high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade, was 6-3 with the court’s conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.
The ruling comes as Congress is working toward passage of gun legislation following mass shootings in Texas,New York and California. On Thursday, senators were expected to clear the way for that measure, modest in scope but still the most far-reaching in decades.
President Joe Biden said in a statement he was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court ruling, which he said “contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all.”
He urged states to pass new laws and said, “I call on Americans across the country to make their voices heard on gun safety. Lives are on the line.”
In the opinion itself, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Constitution protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
The decision struck down a New York law requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public. The justices said that requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”
California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island all have similar laws. The Biden administration had urged the justices to uphold New York’s law.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the ruling comes at a particularly painful time, when New York is still mourning the deaths of 10 people in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo. “This decision isn’t just reckless. It’s reprehensible. It’s not what New Yorkers want,” she said.
But Tom King, president of the plaintiff New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, said he was relieved.
“The lawful and legal gun owner of New York State is no longer going to be persecuted by laws that have nothing to do with the safety of the people and will do nothing to make the people safer,” he said. “And maybe now we’ll start going after criminals and the perpetrator of these heinous acts.”
In a court dissent joined by his liberal colleagues, Justice Stephen Breyer focused on the toll taken by gun violence. “Since the start of this year alone (2022), there have already been 277 reported mass shootings—an average of more than one per day,“ Breyer wrote.
Backers of New York’s law had argued that striking it down would lead to more guns on the streets and higher rates of violent crime. Gun violence, which was already on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic has spiked anew.
In most of the country gun owners have little difficulty legally carrying their weapons in public. But that had been harder to do in New York and the handful of states with similar laws. New York’s law, which has been in place since 1913, says that to carry a concealed handgun in public, a person applying for a license has to show “proper cause,” a specific need to carry the weapon.
The state issues unrestricted licenses where a person can carry their gun anywhere and restricted licenses that allow a person to carry the weapon but just for specific purposes such as hunting and target shooting or to and from their place of business.
The Supreme Court last issued a major gun decision in 2010. In that decision and a ruling from 2008 the justices established a nationwide right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. The question for the court this time was about carrying one outside the home.
The challenge to the New York law was brought by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, which describes itself as the nation’s oldest firearms advocacy organization, and two men seeking an unrestricted ability to carry guns outside their homes.
The court’s decision is somewhat out of step with public opinion. About half of voters in the 2020 presidential election said gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of the electorate. An additional third said laws should be kept as they are, while only about 1 in 10 said gun laws should be less strict.
About 8 in 10 Democratic voters said gun laws should be made more strict, VoteCast showed. Among Republican voters, roughly half said laws should be kept as they are, while the remaining half closely divided between more and less strict.
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Associated Press reporters Hannah Fingerhut and Zeke Miller in Washington and Michael Hill in East Greenbush, New York, contributed to this report. | 2022-06-23T17:12:16+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/ap-top-headlines/supreme-court-strikes-new-york-gun-law-in-major-ruling/ |
Leaders demonstrate compelling vision, market presence and geographic reach, and networking and software technology to efficiently boost a full smart city environment
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights identifies companies that are leading the smart streetlighting market and analyzes their performance relative to each other.
Smart streetlighting has established itself as one of the cornerstone technologies of a smart city landscape. The combination of smart controllers and LED lights can greatly improve efficiency and reduce costs, while the connected and distributed infrastructure serves as an ideal platform for hosting other smart city technologies to improve transportation systems, parking, public safety, and environmental quality. According to a Leaderboard report from Guidehouse Insights, Signify and Itron are the leading smart streetlighting vendors.
"The three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have seen inflections in many trends that were present in years prior," says Grant Samms, research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "Specifically, the crisis refocused cities on the importance of ensuring solid infrastructure as a foundation for supporting residents' activities."
The rankings in the report focus on providers of connected lighting controls, software, and networking solutions. They also consider the degree to which a company's streetlighting technology can be integrated into a broader smart city Internet of Things (IoT) landscape. The leaders combine a compelling vision for their offerings catalog, the market presence and geographic reach to deliver that vision, and the networking and software technology to efficiently boost a full smart city environment, according to the report.
The report, Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: Smart Streetlighting Vendors, examines the strategy and execution of 16 smart streetlighting suppliers with the capacity to play a leading role in large-scale deployments. These vendors are rated on 10 criteria: vision; go-to-market strategy; partners; product strategy; geographic reach; market presence; sales, marketing, and distribution; product features and portfolio; product integration; and staying power. Using Guidehouse Insights' proprietary Leaderboard methodology, vendors are profiled, rated, and ranked to provide industry participants an objective assessment of companies' relative strengths and weaknesses in the growing global smart streetlighting and smart cities markets. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
About Guidehouse Insights
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
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Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has over 16,500 professionals in over 55 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
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CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s pro-Western Prime Minister-designate Dorin Recean will propose a new government to lawmakers on Thursday for a confidence vote, as the small country signals a shift to security concerns amid Russia’s ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine.
Recean, a 48-year-old economist who served for a year as President Maia Sandu’s defense and security adviser, was appointed by her last week after Natalia Gavrilita suddenly quit the premiership.
Moldova’s ruling Party of Action and Solidarity, or PAS, holds a majority in the country’s 101-seat legislature and is widely expected to support Recean’s proposal.
Recean, who also served as interior minister between 2012 and 2015, will propose a cabinet to lawmakers that will remain largely the same. Key ministers such as foreign affairs, interior, and defense will remain, while changes will be made to energy and infrastructure, justice and finance.
Sandu told a news conference last week that “firm steps are needed to strengthen the country’s economy and security.”
Recean said after he was appointed last week that his main focus will be to introduce “order and discipline” in Moldova’s institutions, breathe new life into the struggling economy and ensure peace and stability.
“We are at the highest risk of challenges since World War II, he said. “We need to strengthen the security sector in such a way that everyone is safe.”
On Monday, Sandu held a news briefing in which she outlined an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow her country’s government using what she described as external saboteurs, to put the nation “at the disposal of Russia,” and to derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union.
Sandu said that the purported Russian plot envisioned attacks on government buildings, hostage-takings and other violent actions by groups of saboteurs. Russia strongly denied those claims a day later as “absolutely unfounded and unsubstantiated.”
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, non-NATO member Moldova has faced a string of problems. These include a severe energy crisis after Moscow dramatically reduced gas supplies; skyrocketing inflation; several missiles that have traversed its skies from Russia’s war next door, and a huge inflow of refugees fleeing the war.
Tensions also soared in Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.6 million people, after a series of explosions occurred last April in Transnistria — a Russia-backed separatist region of Moldova where Russia bases about 1,500 troops.
Costin Ciobanu, a political scientist at the Royal Holloway University of London, said that Moldova’s change of government shows “security concerns are high on the list” of the authorities and that Sandu going public with her Russian plot claims lends “credence to the idea that Moldova has to focus on its security.”
“The main narrative behind the change of government was that the state has to focus more on the security dimension than economic development and a cost-of-living crisis,” he told The Associated Press. “Because many people were doubtful about the rationale behind the change.”
In the wake of the war, Moldova has looked to foster closer ties with its Western partners. Last June, it was granted EU candidate status, the same day as Ukraine. But full membership will be contingent on a series of reforms such as tackling corruption and strengthening the rule of law.
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McGrath reported from Sighisoara, Romania
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PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — A fire at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes several miles away and sent flames and smoke billowing into the air, prompting emergency officials to urge a few hundred nearby residents to shelter indoors for several hours and to turn off their air conditioners.
Flames erupted late Friday at Dow Chemical’s plant on the Mississippi River near Plaquemine, south of Baton Rouge. Iberville Parish officials told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that the fire started in an area of the plant that handles ethylene oxide, a flammable and toxic chemical.
The parish’s sheriff, Bret Stassi, said no one was injured and that the company had accounted for all its workers.
Residents of roughly 350 households within a half-mile (0.80 kilometers) of the plant were told to shelter inside for several hours overnight. As Dow Chemical and environmental officials monitored the air for hazardous materials, emergency officials urged sheltering residents to shut off their air conditioners and ceiling fans.
The Iberville Parish Council said in a statement early Saturday that no hazards had been detected and that people could leave their homes.
“Crews have substantially reduced the fire and are working to fully extinguish it,” Dow Chemical said in a statement Saturday. The company said it was continuing to monitor air quality along with state environmental officials and a third-party contractor.
Even short exposure to ethylene oxide can cause lung injuries, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration, which says the chemical has also been linked to cancer in people with long-term exposure.
The sheriff told WBRZ-TV that six explosions were detected at the plant around 9:30 p.m. Friday. Tall flames could be seen rising from the site, with thick smoke overhead.
Residents felt their homes shake in Baton Rouge, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) away, WAFB-TV reported.
Kenneth Haydel said he was with family members near the plant when they heard several loud explosions a few seconds apart.
“We looked up in the sky and the whole sky was lit up orange,” Haydel said. | 2023-07-15T17:08:18+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-fire-triggers-explosions-at-louisiana-chemical-plant-as-residents-warned-to-stay-indoors-for-hours/ |
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A school bus with students on board crashed in DeKalb County Thursday on the way to drop students off from school.
Fortunately, there were no injuries reported and DeKalb County School officials are calling it a "minor accident."
It happened in Lithonia at 8060 Rockbridge Rd. It is not sure at this time how the bus was involved in the crash, but two other vehicles were seen next to it.
11Alive's SkyTracker flew over the scene, where the doors to the bus were seen open and the bus itself was seen on top of the road's median. Traffic was being directed around it while police were at the scene. | 2023-04-20T22:45:17+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/minor-bus-accident-no-injuries-dekalb-lithonia-rockbridge-road/85-c8eb0917-3fd7-400e-842e-bafb63e06fca |
Elon Musk said Twitter's recent labeling of NPR as "state-affiliated media" may not have been accurate during a series of email exchanges that offered a glimpse into the billionaire's thought process.
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(BCN) — First Republic Bank and a financial advisor are being sued over alleged mismanagement of $7 million intended for low-income, first-generation college students at the University of California, Berkeley. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a San Francisco-based elderly couple, George Miller and Janet McKinley. For more than 25 years, the couple has donated money to UC Berkeley for the Miller Scholars Program, according to the complaint filed in the suit.
First Republic Bank collapsed in May due to its having too many uninsured deposits and its failure to keep up with federal interest rates, according to the complaint. The Miller Scholars Program provides selected transfer students from low-income and first-generation college student backgrounds with up to $10,000 in scholarship money over two years.
In addition to financial assistance, the program provides students with mentorship, academic research and community service opportunities. If not recovered, the loss of the $7 million will result in 700 students being unable to receive the scholarship, according to Gia Jung, one of the couple’s lawyers.
The lawsuit alleged that First Republic going bankrupt and the individual actions of the couple’s financial advisor Samuel Schoner are at fault. According to the complaint, between 2017 and 2021 Schoner allegedly invested over $7 million of the couple’s money in First Republic preferred shares, most of which was designated for the Miller Scholars Program.
When the bank collapsed in May, the couple’s stake in the preferred stock became worth almost zero. Leading up to the bank’s fall, the couple “repeatedly” asked Schoner to sell their First Republic stock, which he did not do, the complaint alleged.
Schoner had served as the financial advisor to the couple since 2012, according to the complaint. In this role, he managed their entire investment portfolio. The lawsuit alleges that Schoner intentionally misled his elderly clients by making investments that were not in their best interest and shielding the risky nature of said investments.
The couple is suing First Republic and Schoner for a breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, elder abuse and fraud.
“They wanted this to be part of the legacy of giving and support for UC Berkeley and its students,” Jung said. “With the funds that Mr. Miller left, this program could have operated for another 70, 80, 90, 100 years, but unfortunately it will last as long as the remaining funds allow unless we can recover what was lost.”
The couple’s lawyers requested that a jury trial be set faster than a normal case due to the 87-year-old Miller’s old age, according to Tyson Redenbarger, an attorney on the case, which will be heard in San Francisco County Superior Court. Schoner and JPMorgan Chase — which acquired a substantial majority of First Republic after its collapse — declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Paul Reimers trusts something good will come of his family's tragedy, though, for now, he's struggling to see that good.
"It's hard. We're grieving. We grieve deeply. I might be smiling in front of you right now, but it comes in waves," said Reimers.
On the 4th of July, shortly after a fireworks display in Menomonee Falls, a car struck Ben Reimers, 24, and his sister, Emily Grace, 25, in a parking lot.
Police are investigating but believe it was accident. Ben died, and his sister is now recovering in an intensive care unit.
"There are times when it hits me hard. And other times where I regain my composure and my perspective, and realize God's got this," said Reimers.
Ben Reimers, originally from North Carolina, had been studying to become a pastor at Baptist College of Ministry in Menomonee Falls. He worked as a music teacher and a summer camp instructor at Falls Baptist Music School and Falls Baptist Academy/Shining Stars Day Camp.
Outside of his seminary studies and music, he was also learning Mandarin Chinese with his sister. Emily Grace is a preschool teacher at Falls Baptist Church and a violin teacher at Falls Baptist Music School.
"He was a servant leader," said Reimers of his son. "He did some wonderful things. He was way above his peers, way above his years. He did wonderful things here."
During Falls Baptist's Sunday morning service, there was an empty spot in the choir where Ben used to sing. His sister, also in the choir, watched the service from the hospital on a live stream with her mother.
In the lobby of the church, there is a white baby grand Samick piano that Ben used to teach students.
Back in North Carolina, Reimers taught his son how to play and instilled in Ben his love of music.
"It was kind of interesting. You like to see your children do better than you. Last time he was home, he played the piano better than me. And that's good. That's what you want," said Reimers.
After the accident, Reimers waited several days to tell his daughter — who was severely injured — that her brother had died. Emily Grace is now recovering well.
"You don't see that normally. When I first saw her, I thought, oh, she's going to be here for months. Yesterday I'm thinking, she may be out in a week or two," said Reimers
For Reimers, his son is not gone. They'll reunite in heaven, he said. And through his faith, Reimers trusts that one day, maybe even years from now, he'll understand why all of this happened.
"We'll be stronger, yes, we will. Will we be better and more fruitful? Yes, we will. Hard to say today, but I'm confident we will," said Reimers.
There are fundraisers for both Ben and Emily.
Money raised from will help pay for Ben's funeral expenses and Emily Grace's medical bills, as well as create a scholarship in Ben's name to help students with financial needs.
The combined fundraisers have a goal of $200,000.
Click here to view Ben's fundraiser, and click here to view Emily Grace's fundraiser. | 2022-07-11T02:05:49+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/father-trusts-good-will-come-of-sons-sudden-death |
- Develops a personalized cancer profile for patients to quickly find suitable drugs
- Commercializable system cultures cancer cells ex vivo with only a blood sample
- Cultures cancer cells up to six times faster than other methods
TAIPEI, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwanese firm CancerFree Biotech Ltd. has developed a breakthrough for patients with stage 2 solid tumor. Stage 2 patients or above shortens the drug therapy selection process through a personalized cancer profile, the innovative technology will be showcasing at US Bio 2022.
This is the world's first commercial Circulating Tumor Cell-Derived Organoid (CDO) culture system as part of its E.V.A (Ex Vivo Avatar) technology platform, which, compared to other technologies currently available in the market, boasts better efficacy, efficiency, and speed.
The technology not only shortens the time delayed in trying different therapies but also reduces the risk of side effects for patients who have not yet found an effective drug.
As only 20 ml of blood will be needed, this makes the system highly convenient for collection, especially from elderly patients, or where it is difficult to obtain tissue samples. The technology makes it smoother, easier, more comfortable, and convenient for both physicians and patients to find an appropriate drug therapy.
"When my elderly father was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, the process to treat him was nothing short of tedious. The lack of technology to optimize the process was frustrating, to say the least."
"Despite my background in computer science, I was adamant about finding a better way to help ease the therapy selection process.", said founder Po Chen.
The science behind the system
Determining the right therapies for cancer patients can be a time-consuming and costly affair, not to mention drug resistance can become a huge problem for patients. Furthermore, collecting tissue samples from patients can be an invasive and discomforting experience for many.
CancerFree Biotech's CDO system develops a personalized patient cancer profile (called an 'avatar') by culturing their cancer cells in a lab to simulate the body's response to a drug.
The system helps physicians conduct customized drug sensitivity testing with the patient's tumor profile before treatment selection, thus speeding up the drug selection process and reducing the risk of drug resistance.
The technology greatly reduces the time needed to culture almost any type of cancer cell in under four weeks, as compared to other systems on the academy, which can take up to 24 weeks just for specific types of cancers.
"We isolate a very small number of circulating tumor cells that enter the bloodstream from in-situ (on-site) tumors and culture the cells ex vivo (outside the body) using 3D scaffolds. This increases the number of cancer cells we can work with to build a tumor avatar (tumor profile) of the patient.", shared [Dr. Lu, the one of inventors].
The 3D scaffold mimics the in vivo bone marrow-like structure (the inside of the patient's body) and replicates the environment for tumorigenesis (proliferation of the tumor) for the company to test drugs on.
A highly effective solution
Blood samples are homogeneous and more representative than local tissue samples if the tumor has distant metastases. This is why CancerFree Biotech's innovative CDO system boasts high efficacy, successfully proliferating cancer cells ex vivo in approximately 90% more than 100 cancer types. It is also quick, as evidenced by its high efficiency, seeing 1,000 to 100,000 fold proliferation of cancer cells within four weeks.
"They have successfully utilized a breakthrough technology and have seen success in over 900 cancer cases. Furthermore, the system is able to be matched to over 100 types of generic drugs, making it easier for physicians to find an appropriate drug to match the patient's tumor profile.", said [Dr. Chiu, the dean of TMU Hospital].
Cancer types that can be tested for include all solid tumors, such as lung, breast, colorectal, prostate, ovarian, liver, stomach, pancreatic, kidney, bladder, skin, brain, sarcomas, and other various rare cancers.
Additionally, proprietary software developed by CancerFree Biotech automates drug selection, making it easy for users to find the drugs needed for patients. The company was currently invested by Berkeley Skydeck and the Taiwan Ministry of Science Technology (MOST) sponsored them exhibited at the Bio international convention.
The Taipei office comprises 13 team members, with patients from Japan and Vietnam. The original patent for the technology is from the US and Taiwan , with exclusive license by the Taipei Medical University.
Provided free to pediatric patients, the system is fully commercializable, and the company is at its revenue stage. CancerFree Biotech hopes to cooperate with pharmaceutical companies to bring the technology to scale.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Jaylan Adams hit Da’Quan Felton for the winning touchdown with five seconds remaining and Norfolk State defeated Morgan State 24-21 after blowing a 17-point lead on Saturday.
The Spartans scored the game's first 17 points then eventually fell behind 21-17 when Morgan State's Alfonzo Graham bolted 51-yards for a touchdown with 1:53 remaining in the fourth quarter. Norfolk State then drove 66 yards in nine plays, capped by backup quarterback Adams's 3-yard pass to Felton for the Spartans' first win of the season. It was the only pass attempt of the game for Adams.
Norfolk State built its early lead on a 34-yard run by Kevon King, a 1-yard run by starting quarterback Otto Kuhns and a 29-yard field goal by Grandin Willcox. Morgan State's Carson Baker hit Tyler Wilkins with a 35-yard touchdown pass on the final play of the first half and Norfolk State led 17-7.
After a scoreless third quarter, Baker scored on a 13-yard run midway through the fourth prior to Graham's long run that gave the Bears their only lead of the game.
Kuhns completed 25 of 34 passes for 288 yards for the Spartans (1-5, 1-0 MEAC).
Graham had 203 yards on 23 carries for the Bears (2-3, 0-1).
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WACO, TX (FOX 44) — Oklahoma State continues to be a thorn in the side of the Baylor Football team, at least during the regular season, as the 16th-ranked Bears lost to the ninth-ranked Cowboys 36-25 on Saturday.
It was a slow start for the Bears offensively in this game, as they failed to the find the end zone in the first half, and meanwhile OSU scored on its first and final drive of the half to take a 16-3 lead into halftime.
From there, the game turned into an old fashioned Big 12 shootout, as the two teams combined for 21 points in the first 7:02 of the third quarter.
At that point, a Richard Reese rushing touchdown had helped Baylor cut the deficit to just six points, but the Cowboys outscored the Bears 13-8 down the stretch to hand Dave Aranda’s team its first conference loss of the season.
Following the defeat, Baylor will head into a bye week ahead of a trip to West Virginia on Thursday, October 13th at 6:00 pm as the Bears will look for their first ever win in Morgantown. | 2022-10-02T04:34:12+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/baylor/no-16-baylor-suffers-first-home-loss-since-2020/ |
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Health Security Agency said on Friday that measles vaccination rates in parts of London have dropped so low that the capital could see tens of thousands of cases of the rash-causing disease unless immunization coverage is quickly boosted.
In a statement, the agency said that among some groups of children in London, fewer than 70% have received their first dose of the standard measles, mumps and rubella vaccine; two doses are needed to provide protection. Measles is among the world’s most infectious diseases and health experts estimate that about 95% of the population must be immunized to stop new outbreaks.
The Health Security Agency said that although the risk of an outbreak across the U.K. was low, the current levels of immunization in London suggest that “a measles outbreak of between 40,000 and 160,000 cases could occur in the capital.” As of June 30, there have been 128 cases of measles in Britain this year, versus 54 cases last year. More than 60% of the cases in 2023 have been in London.
Britain’s National Health Service said it was starting a targeted national campaign to boost measles vaccination in communities with the lowest coverage rates.
U.K. officials said people aged 19 to 25 were at particularly high risk of catching measles, noting that many of them may have missed vaccinations following spurious allegations made by British physician Andrew Wakefield in 1998 that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism. The research was later discredited and Wakefield was barred by medical authorities for misconduct, but he seeded an anti-vaccination movement that damaged immunization rates in the U.K. and beyond for years.
Globally, measles immunization rates have dropped substantially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic; the World Health Organization warned last November that about 40 million children in the world missed a measles vaccine dose in 2021. In Europe, the WHO noted that cases have jumped in some countries including Russia, Austria, Serbia and the U.K. this year.
Measles is an airborne disease and typically causes a cough, red eyes and a facial rash. Serious complications are mostly seen in children under five and adults over 30 and include blindness, encephalitis and pneumonia.
In 2021, the disease killed more than 128,000 people, mostly children under five, according to the WHO. | 2023-07-15T01:20:53+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/health/ap-uk-officials-warn-low-measles-immunization-rates-could-lead-to-tens-of-thousands-of-cases-in-london/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The shopping experts at BGR DEALS have a list of all the early Black Friday trends and deals this year. Based on hours of research, we have been tracking the products and stores that have the most interest, and the best deals to shop now and on Black Friday.
This year, here's what trends we're predicting:
- Deals start earlier — it's no longer only Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but deals starting weeks leading up to the shopping events.
- TV's are going to have major deals this year.
- Foot traffic to stores is estimated to be up 65% over a regular November weekend day, according to Google.
- If you're specifically looking for Smart TVs, deals and offers could exceed 60% off on some of the top brand's models.
- Since retailers have way too much inventory, especially in the furniture and patio & lawn categories, expect sensational deals and offers.
For TVs, here are the best early Black Friday TV deals available now from Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, and more. These Black Friday sales offer savings of up to 60% off Samsung TVs, LG OLED TVs, Amazon Fire TVs, 4K TVs, Roku TVs.
We've also compiled our annual Black Friday shopping guides here:
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Buying advice for Black Friday sales: We can take some guesses as to what is going to be on sale this year.
The biggest discounts are likely to come on older versions of equipment that may have received an upgrade this year.
New Apple devices, Amazon devices, laptops, desktops, tablets, headphones, and toys may see slight discounts.
But their previous versions are likely going to be more heavily discounted. Last year, a lot of stores were dealing with supply chain issues and shipping delays, so they started their sales earlier. Some of them began Black Friday deals in October.
We expect that might be the case again this year, as customers really enjoyed being able to do holiday shopping early and shopping for Black Friday deals earlier. We also saw during last year's sale that items like the Nintendo Switch OLED were brand new and Bose QuietComfort 45 had just come out. While they may have not been discounted much last year, for the Black Friday deals 2022, that could change.
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BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empatica, a digital health and AI company developing medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics, today announced the clearance of its Empatica Health Monitoring Platform by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Empatica Health Monitoring Platform is a full-stack remote health monitoring and data collection solution for research and healthcare professionals, built on data collected by Empatica's medical-grade, CE-certified EmbracePlus wearable. In addition, the Platform includes Empatica's proprietary Care software suite, secure cloud infrastructure, and clinically validated digital biomarkers.
Empatica's Platform has been cleared for continuous data collection to monitor blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) during rest, peripheral skin temperature, activity associated with movement during sleep, and Electrodermal Activity (EDA). Each of Empatica's digital biomarkers is based on trained algorithms that analyze sensor data in one-minute intervals, and have been rigorously validated in clinical studies conducted with diverse groups of participants. Platform users can also access raw data collected by EmbracePlus' five sensors, and research-grade digital biomarkers such as Pulse Rate, Pulse Rate Variability, and Respiratory Rate.
The Empatica Health Monitoring Platform is being used globally by major pharmaceutical companies to continuously gather and analyze physiological data for clinical trials evaluating the impact of novel therapeutics, with Empatica collaborating to develop digital biomarkers for use as endpoints. Researchers also have the possibility to develop their own digital biomarkers, which they can implement in their digital health applications or infrastructure using the Platform's Software Development Kit.
"This clearance represents a significant step forward for our scientific community," said Dr. Marisa Cruz, Chief Medical Officer of Empatica. "Patients, healthcare providers, and researchers deserve digital health products that are accurate, validated in diverse populations, and intuitive to use. We are proud to have built a solution that accomplishes these goals, offering a high-quality and reliable digital health tool to scientists working to improve patient outcomes through research and clinical care."
Today Empatica also announced the recent closing of its Series B financing, led by Sanofi Ventures and RA Capital Management, and participation by Black Opal Ventures. The investment will enable Empatica to expand its suite of digital biomarkers, for use in patient care and as digital endpoints in clinical trials.
"We are excited to team up with Empatica, their investors and partners on this journey," said Cris De Luca, Partner at Sanofi Ventures and newly-appointed Empatica board member. "By gaining higher resolution into disease symptomology through novel digital measures and digital biomarkers in clinical and real-world settings, Empatica is unlocking the possibilities of early disease detection, enhanced treatment decisions, and improving quality of life for patients around the world".
Empatica – www.empatica.com
Empatica Inc is a pioneer in continuous, unobtrusive remote health monitoring driven by AI. Empatica's platform and technology are used by thousands of institutional partners for research purposes, in studies examining stress, sleep, epilepsy, migraine, depression, addiction, and other conditions. Its flagship medical wearable, EmbracePlus, has been developed with key partners including HHS, USAMRDC, and the NASA-funded TRISH.
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The Denver oil and gas company K.P. Kauffman, long under pressure to fix what regulators said were multiple violations, including spills, has lost the ability to sell its product and could lose its license to operate if it doesn’t comply with all state rules in six months.
The decision by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Wednesday follows the approval of a comprehensive cleanup plan in November 2021, multiple hearings and numerous meetings and discussions that the COGCC staff yielded few results.
Other complaints against KPK were leaking flowlines, which carry oil and gas from wells; contaminated soil dumped on a field the company owns with a pond and wetlands nearby; and failure to turn in timely and accurate reports.
In a hearing last week, staffers said only three of 58 projects had been completed. Company representatives said K.P. Kauffman, or KPK, has spent more than $7 million to resolve the problems.
However, the five-member commission agreed with the COGCC staff that KPK remained substantially out of compliance. The commission suspended all the company’s certificates of clearance, which means it can’t sell its oil or gas because it can’t move items off well sites.
If KPK doesn’t bring its operations into full compliance in six months, the commission said its license to operate in Colorado will be revoked. The company has 30 days after a written order is issued to pay a nearly $2 million penalty that was suspended.
The COGCC’s decision to end the compliance plan agreement, imposing the penalty and the loss of certificates of clearance will have profound negative consequences “for the people of Colorado, for K.P. Kauffman Co. Inc. (KPK) and for our more than 150 employees and their families,” the company said in a statement.
The company said it will explore all options, including a possible appeal to Denver District Court.
“I feel sick because for anyone who thinks this is an easy decision for us commissioners, it’s not. I understand the gravity of this and the relevance of the decision that we’re making,” Karin McGowan of the COGCC said.
However, McGowan said the situation has been years in the making, hundreds of days and “there doesn’t seem to be a lot of progress made.”
“Has KPK made some progress? Yes. Is it enough? Unfortunately no,” McGowan said.
The family-owned company has about 1,200 wells in the Denver-Julesburg basin of northeastern Colorado. The majority of the wells are low-producing.
In 2020, K.P. Kauffman agreed to pay $3.5 million in fines and improvements to settle allegations by state and federal regulators of air quality violations.
In a Jan. 20 hearing, John Jacus, an attorney representing KPK, asked the commission to postpone a decision for six months on whether the company was in compliance with its agreement. He said the company was talking to larger operators about a possible sale of a majority of its wells to be used in part to sequester carbon emissions.
The commission rejected the request.
The COGCC has revoked other companies’ licenses to operate, but this is the first time it has terminated a compliance plan agreement, spokeswoman Megan Castle said.
“I’m tremendously disappointed. I was the chief author of the idea around the compliance plan agreement. We spent a lot of time because we felt that there was an ability for KPK to prove itself up and it could return to compliance,” said Jeff Robbins, commission chairman.
Robbins said he realizes the company was only 14 months into the five-year agreement. “But we needed to see substantial compliance along the way.”
That didn’t happen, Robbins added.
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A satisfying blend of sticky rice and savory meat, clay pot rice is known in Cantonese as bo zai fan. This Southern Chinese dish simmers, then steams, rice with sausages, bacon or both, so that their fat coats the grains and helps create a crackling crust on the bottom of the pot. In this variation, marinated chicken is nestled into the mix, its meat making for a more substantial meal. Lop cheong, a Cantonese sausage that’s a little sweet, is available in Chinese markets, but other sweet cured pork, like maple bacon, works as well. Even though this meal is named for the pot in which it’s cooked, a Dutch oven or cast-iron skillet works, too.
Clay Pot Rice With Chicken and Sausage
Ingredients for the Chicken Rice:
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine or dry sherry
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground white or black pepper
• 2 scallions, whites and greens separated, thinly sliced
• 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (1 1/2 pounds)
• 1 1/2 cups jasmine rice
• 2 links (3 ounces) lop cheong (Chinese sausage), thinly sliced, or 2 slices thick-cut maple bacon, cut into small pieces
Ingredients for Serving:
• 3 tablespoons dark or regular soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon Chinkiang (black) vinegar or balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground white or black pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves (optional)
Directions:
Prepare the chicken rice: Mix the soy sauce, oyster sauce, Shaoxing wine, sesame oil, sugar, pepper and scallion whites in a large bowl. Slice the chicken alongside the bone, cutting off 2 pieces of meat per thigh. Cut those pieces into 1 1/2-inch chunks and add to the bowl, along with the 4 thigh bones that still have some meat on them. Mix well to coat, then cover and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes and up to 1 day.
Rinse the rice in a strainer until the water runs clear. Spread in a large clay pot, a Dutch oven or cast-iron skillet with a lid and add 2 cups hot tap water. Let stand for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare the serving sauce: In a small bowl, stir the soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, vinegar and pepper until the sugar dissolves.
Spread the chicken with its marinade in an even layer over the rice, nestling the bones into the rice. Scatter the lop cheong evenly over the chicken. Cover and bring the water to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to the lowest setting and continue cooking until the chicken and rice are cooked through, 25 to 35 minutes.
Taste a grain of rice to see if it’s tender and cut into a piece of chicken to make sure it has lost its pinkness.
Uncover the pot and raise the heat to high. Cook until you hear the rice crackling against the bottom and smell its toastiness, 1 to 3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
To serve, drizzle a spoonful of the serving sauce over the chicken and gently fold into the rice without scraping up the bottom. Sprinkle with the scallion greens and cilantro, if using, and serve with the remaining sauce. After most of the dish has been eaten, use a thin spatula to scrape up the charred rice on the bottom. It comes off more easily after the pot has cooled a bit.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes, serves 4. | 2023-05-17T04:35:00+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/05/16/food/clay-pot-rice-has-a-crackling-crust/ |
A Wednesday morning explosion destroyed a Lancaster County government building, spewed black smoke and sent earthquake-like shakes through homes miles away.
The explosion stemming from a propane leak also led emergency responders to evacuate six homes on the 900 block of North Colebrook Road in Rapho Township, where the explosion happened at a shop behind the township’s office building.
The shop was used to house the township’s road crew equipment — equipment that was destroyed in the explosion and subsequent second-alarm fire.
Lancaster County dispatch said a report of a propane leak at the shop came in at 5:49 a.m. The shop exploded about 10 minutes later, leaving flames and heavy smoke in its wake.
Fire departments from Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties responded to the scene. Lancaster County dispatch said tankers had to be brought in because there were no fire hydrants near the scene of the explosion.
No one was injured during the incident, dispatch said. The Red Cross is providing “comfort, care and refreshments” to evacuated residents at the East Fairview Church of the Brethren at 1187 Fairview Road in Manheim.
Brett Rose, 27, told LancasterOnline he drives by the township building on Colebrook Road each morning on his way to work. He was passing by this morning has as the explosion happened.
“I thought I might have hit something or ran something over. I was pretty disoriented when I got out of my truck,” Rose said, according to the news report. “That’s when I saw the massive black smoke cloud behind me and realized I got hit by the shock.”
Rose told reporters his truck had to be towed from the scene after one of the windows cracked. He said he saw a nearby home was pushed off its foundation during the explosion.
LancasterOnline reported residents could feel the blast in Columbia, Millersville and Elizabethtown, and Palmyra, Lebanon County.
Rapho Emergency Management Coordinator Lori Shenk said the extent of damages is still being determined, according to LancasterOnline. However, the outlet reported the shop and its equipment, including five trucks, were destroyed.
“We lost our building, we have heavy damage in our office building, but they’re buildings, no lives were lost,” township supervisor Jere Swarr told LancasterOnline. “The explosion did not damage the heart of Rapho Township. We will build back, we will rise up. We have a great community and great neighbors.”
Shenk told the Associated Press that an alternate location for township business is being sought.
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Central Pa. man killed 2 people, family dog in Maryland home: authorities | 2023-07-05T19:21:23+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/07/central-pa-road-crews-building-equipment-destroyed-in-explosion-report.html |
Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Will Perform Lifesaving Procedures for Children in Need of Cardiac Surgery
NEW YORK, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ibrahim Abdullah, M.D., has been recruited by Dr. Robert Michler to serve as the new Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of Pediatric Heart Transplantation & Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in the Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery and the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular Care. He will also serve as Co-Director of the Pediatric Heart Center at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM).
Dr. Abdullah has extensive experience performing complex and sophisticated operations for children with heart defects. This includes newborn heart surgery, complex anatomical conditions, lifesaving heart transplants and the management of children who need ECMO, in which a machine replaces the function of the heart and lungs when a patient's body is unable to do it themselves.
"We are delighted to bring another world-class surgeon onto our team to care for patients in the Tri-State region," said Robert Michler, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief, Samuel I. Belkin Endowed Chair, Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Montefiore Einstein. "Dr. Abdullah's expertise will enhance the skills of our department. This is an exciting new chapter for Montefiore Einstein and for the community we serve."
Dr. Michler has created a team of cardiothoracic and vascular surgical specialists for adults and children that is among the best in the nation. They manage every type of surgical case from the routine to the very complex including mitral valve repair, aortic surgery, heart transplantation, lung transplantation, and now, complex surgery in the newborn infant and children of every age.
At Montefiore Einstein, Dr. Abdullah will work with a team of multidisciplinary specialists to address both the surgical and social needs of our patients and families. This team includes surgeons, cardiologists, physician assistants, nurses, critical care specialists, pharmacists, psychologists, and social workers.
Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah is a summa cum laude graduate in Mathematics from Harvard. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in General Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA., followed by a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Abdullah will see patients beginning in July 2023.
About Montefiore Health System
Montefiore Health System is one of New York's premier academic health systems and is a recognized leader in providing exceptional quality and personalized, accountable care to approximately three million people in communities across the Bronx, Westchester and the Hudson Valley. It is comprised of 10 hospitals, including the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and more than 200 outpatient ambulatory care sites. The advanced clinical and translational research at its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directly informs patient care and improves outcomes. From the Montefiore-Einstein Centers of Excellence in cancer, cardiology and vascular care, pediatrics, and transplantation, to its preeminent school-based health program, Montefiore is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system providing coordinated, comprehensive care to patients and their families. For more information please visit www.montefiore.org. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and LinkedIn, or view us on Facebook and YouTube.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and other 2024 Republican presidential candidates took to social media on Monday to defend Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) after former President Donald Trump chastised her earlier in the day.
DeSantis praised Reynolds as a “strong leader who knows how to ignore the chirping and get it done.”
“She earned a landslide re-election because she delivered big results, and she is poised to deliver even more for Iowans in the special session,” DeSantis tweeted.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) called Reynolds a “conservative rockstar who has delivered for the people of her state. Like I always say, Iowa grows strong women!”
And former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) pushed back on Trump by name in a tweet of his own.
“No one should be attacked for declining to endorse a politician. That behavior is dictatorial. I applaud @KimReynoldsIA for welcoming all GOP candidates into Iowa. America deserves better than Donald Trump,” Hutchinson wrote, adding a link for donations to his 2024 campaign.
The public show of support for Reynolds came after Trump lashed out at Reynolds for her handling of the 2024 primary field in Iowa, which will host the first caucus of the cycle next January.
“I opened up the Governor position for Kim Reynolds, & when she fell behind, I ENDORSED her, did big Rallies, & she won. Now, she wants to remain ‘NEUTRAL.’ I don’t invite her to events! DeSanctus down 45 points!” Trump wrote, alluding to his appointment of then-Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) to an ambassador post.
Trump’s post came days after Reynolds appeared alongside DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, at the launch of her “Mamas for DeSantis” initiative for the Florida governor’s presidential campaign.
It also follows a New York Times report detailing frustrations within Trump’s campaign about how Reynolds has appeared to embrace Gov. DeSantis, appearing alongside him at multiple events as he tries to make inroads in the state and cut into Trump’s lead in the polls.
The report noted Reynolds did not attend a recent event with Trump when he was in the state.
Reynolds is a popular figure in the state, having coasted to reelection in 2022. She is also viewed as a potential vice presidential candidate by some in the party. | 2023-07-11T00:54:22+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/desantis-and-other-2024-candidates-defend-iowa-governor-after-trump-criticism/ |
On Feb. 9, 2019, artist Nan Goldin led a protest at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in which activists dropped fake OxyContin prescriptions — all attributed to Richard Sackler, the CEO of Purdue Pharma — into the air of the museum's sprawling atrium. Some activists lay on the museum's ground floor, posing as if they were dead.
"It was a really beautiful action," Goldin says. "We saw it as a blizzard of prescriptions, and that we were the people being buried."
The activists were protesting the fact that the Guggenheim, along with many other museums, had accepted money from the Sackler family, whose company had manufactured and aggressively marketed OxyContin, an opioid and prescription painkiller.
Goldin had become addicted to OxyContin after it was prescribed while she was recovering from surgery. She wasn't alone; OxyContin has fueled the opioid crisis in the U.S., which has caused approximately one million deaths since 1999.
Goldin wanted to bring attention to the Sacklers' influence in the art world — including with the fact that the family's name hung on various wings of a number of world-famous museums. She founded the organization, P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), which has staged "die-ins" at the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Filmmaker Laura Poitras remembers being "blown away" when she first heard of Goldin's protests: "It really wasn't until Nan and P.A.I.N. started doing these actions that it sort of crystallized and it became untenable and that name became associated with the kind of death toll that it has brought, that their drug has brought," Poitras says.
Poitras and Goldin's Oscar-nominated documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, chronicles Goldin's work as a photographer, as well as her work as an activist. In the years since Goldin founded P.A.I.N., the group's protests have been a major factor in getting institutions like the Met, the Guggenheim and the Louvre to remove the Sackler name. The Sackler name, as of this interview, remains on two of the nine galleries at the Met.
"If Nan hadn't stood up, I am confident that the Sackler name would still be on the museums," Poitras says. "What Nan has done throughout her work is really talking about things that are deeply personal in a way to destigmatize them so that we can have conversations and that also we can talk about where the responsibility really belongs — which, in this case, is on Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers."
Goldin says the movement has been truly collaborative. "Right before the Met took down the name in November 2021, we wrote a letter — Laura, and myself and another person — to the board talking about the necessity of taking down the name, and 77 of the greatest living artists signed it. It was incredible," she says.
Interview highlights
On whether Goldin's activism in museums affected her career as an artist
Goldin: Probably. But actually I didn't even think about it. It didn't really occur to me. I had to do it. So I did it. ... I think there were probably museums where I would have been part of exhibitions. I know there's a museum right now that won't take my traveling retrospective, I believe, because of my politics. So there were those that it affected badly, and then there was a lot of acclaim given to me in the art world, also.
On P.A.I.N.'s prescription drop at the Guggenheim
Goldin: We threw prescriptions — fake prescriptions — that had quotes from Richard Sackler, about five different prescriptions, saying things like, "We have to hammer on the abusers. They're the culprits," and "We're going to make a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition." ...
Even though I'm an artist, I can't take credit that I designed these actions. They were very, very collaborative with the group. One person would have an idea and then it would roll to the next person. And that's how we created these actions.
On being influenced by the AIDS activist group ACT UP
Goldin: They were my model. I was present during ACT UP. I went to some of their actions and a few of their meetings. Unfortunately, I didn't get fully involved, but also I was making my work and a lot of it was about people who are living and dying from AIDS. And the people in ACT UP supported my work. ... The stigma was incredible for people living with AIDS. And so work that was positive, was important. I learned everything about doing performative actions and die-ins, and sometimes some of the older members of ACT UP that are still alive would come to meetings.
On Goldin's groundbreaking photography
Poitras: She documents her life, the people that she's deeply involved with, and there's a sort of relationship that actually you can see and you can feel in the images. ... The way in which she redefined, I think, storytelling with images both within the frame, there's just the sense of mise en scène, the lighting, the sense of characters. You want to know people, you want to be there. And then with the slideshows, how she juxtaposed the images with the music and her editing, it's all so cinematic. What's also so amazing about Nan's work is that different people relate to it differently depending on what they bring to it. People come up to me and say, "Nan helped me come out." They looked at her photographs and it made them feel OK to say that they're queer.
On Goldin's motivation in her photography
I think the wrong things are kept secret.
Goldin: I think the wrong things are kept secret. So the fact that I put out my work, it was not accepted as art at the beginning because it was so personal. I came up in a time of black-and-white vertical photographs about light. And then there was the period in the '80s when people were using appropriated images. So my work didn't really fit in anywhere. The way people respond to the work is very important to me. I show myself battered and in different countries, women have come up to me and said, "I couldn't show myself. I couldn't talk about it until I saw these images." And that's what the work is really about. That's really my motive in showing the work.
On photographing herself after being abused by a jealous boyfriend
Goldin: [I did it] so that I wouldn't go back to him. It's that simple. ... It was very important to me to have a record of what really happened. ... That's been sort of the motivating force of my whole life, my work, is to make records that nobody could re-edit or deny — and that was the same with this work. ... I believe it was for myself. And also, I think after [being] battered, there's a lot of emotional damage, and you're afraid that you'll be blamed on some level, by other people.
On photographing drag queens
Goldin: I moved in with the queens because I worshiped them, basically. I found them some of the most incredible people in the world, that they lived without concern about the opinions of the rest of the world, including the gay community and lesbians. Everybody stigmatized them, and I found them so beautiful and so moving and powerful in their lives. And it was really the first body of work I did. I was photographing them because I wanted to put them on the cover of Vogue. They were my supermodels and I wanted them to be supermodels in the world. And I took pictures every day and took them to a drugstore and brought back snapshots and collected piles of snapshots, which some of the times they ripped them up if they didn't like them. ... That was their right. And generally, I've tried to maintain that right to all the people I photograph over 50 years, not always, but I try to, the right to take their work out.
On why she stopped taking portraits of people
Goldin: I lost interest. I think I'm starting again now. My community's not alive. I don't have the same community. I've gotten older. I photograph the sky, mainly, and animals.
I have a fascination with the sky, with clouds. They're about beauty, but they're also imbued with a kind of loneliness. And it's about getting old and trying to understand mortality. I think they're emblematic of my struggle with mortality. I've realized I'm mortal. And as a young person, I was immortal. ...
Accepting being an old woman in this society ... is very different and could be seen as difficult. I mean, you lose your credibility and you're invisible, which I kind of like. I have thought now about making a piece about age.
Audio interview produced and edited by: Lauren Krenzel and Thea Chaloner
Audio interview adapted to NPR.org by: Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Beth Novey
Copyright 2023 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. | 2023-02-09T22:08:26+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/arts-culture/arts-culture/2023-02-09/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-chronicles-nan-goldins-career-of-art-and-activism |
DALLAS (AP) — Brook Lopez hit a wide-open layup off an inbounds play with seven seconds to go, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Dallas Mavericks 106-105 on Friday night.
The Bucks held on despite Giannis Antetokounmpo fouling out with 2:55 remaining. The Greek Freak finished with 28 points to end an eight-game run with at least 30 points.
Luka Doncic had 33 points and 11 assists and put Dallas ahead on a layup with 29 seconds to go.
But the Mavericks couldn’t make their free throws late — they were a woeful 10 for 24 for the game — leaving the door open for the Bucks to win a fourth consecutive game while ending Dallas’ three-game winning streak.
Antetokounmpo’s sixth foul came when he tried to close out on a 3-pointer by Tim Hardaway Jr., who missed all three free throws to keep Milwaukee in front by one.
Dorian Finney-Smith missed two more free throws after Doncic had put Dallas in front 105-104. The Bucks inbounded from near their bench, and Lopez slipped behind a screen for the easy bucket on the throw-in from George Hill.
Khris Middleton scored 19 points and Jrue Holiday had 17 for the Bucks.
Spencer Dinwiddie scored 15 points, and Christian Wood had 14 points and nine rebounds for Dallas.
While missing the 30-point mark, Antetokounmpo, who had 10 rebounds, did make it a ninth straight game of shooting at least 50%, hitting his last eight shots after a 2-of-12 start to finish 10 of 20.
The Mavericks led by 12 in the third quarter, when Doncic had consecutive assists on behind-the-back passes to Maxi Kleber for 3-pointers.
After Doncic stole a pass and took it all the way to the other end for a one-handed dunk over Holiday, the three-time All-Star assisted on a 3-pointer by Wood that put Dallas up 78-66.
Antetokounmpo capped an 8-0 run with a three-point play for a 94-all tie, setting up the back-and-fourth finish that mostly played out without the two-time MVP.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Antetokounmpo was trying to become the first player in 12 years to score at least 30 points and shoot at least 50% from the field in nine consecutive games. Amar’e Stoudemire did it with New York in 2010-11. … Bobby Portis Jr. scored all 10 of his points in the first half.
Mavericks: Kemba Walker has been active but still hasn’t made his Dallas debut since signing Nov. 29. The four-time All-Star has been battling knee issues in recent years. … The five-game run of Hardaway and Doncic hitting at least four 3-pointers each ended.
UP NEXT
Bucks: Finish a two-game Texas swing in Houston on Sunday.
Mavericks: At Chicago on Saturday as the Mavs finish their third back-to-back in two weeks. Dallas lost both on the first back-to-back, then won both on the second.
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In the midst of the humanitarian crisis that's followed the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, one relief supply has been ubiquitous: lentil soup.
"It's cold here," says 28-year-old Aylin Kilinçli at a tent encampment in the hard-hit city of Nurdagi. "When we eat the soup, it warms us," she says.
Kilinçli and her mother have just picked up two steaming cups of lentil soup from volunteer chefs. They cook the soup in 70-gallon metal cauldrons. Because gas and electrical service has been knocked out throughout the area, the lentil soup is bubbling over in pots that sit on cinder blocks over open wood fires.
Other food is also being distributed to the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake. But throughout the quake-affected zone, lentil soup is a staple.
It's a familiar dish – one of the traditional soups in the area around the city of Gaziantep, home to some 2 million residents. But that's not the only reason for its popularity.
"It is very quick to cook the lentil soup even in an emergency state. Also it is easy to serve," says Gülay Bozkurt, a nutritionist and food engineer in a municipal kitchen that used to prepare free hot meals to distribute to 21 locations across the city. Now the kitchen is serving meals to quake survivors and relief workers.
People can eat it without any utensils, straight out of a bowl, she says. "You can eat it standing up. It is very practical."
"It's very nutritious," she adds, rattling off statistics about the calories, grams of protein, carbohydrates and vitamins per serving.
"Also it's loaded with onions and garlic," which, she says, help ward off infections and colds.
In short, it's a supersoup, especially during a humanitarian disaster. It warms the displaced, fuels rescue crews and serves as a comfort food for residents traumatized by the disaster, even those whose homes survived. Many of themcan't cook at home because the quakes destroyed gas and electric lines.
Faruk Izi is the director of the kitchen where Bozkurt oversees the lentil soup. He says that in the first days of this crisis, when so many people had lost their homes or were afraid to return to them, two things were essential.
"First it was water and then it was soup," he says. The first meal his facility prepared after the earthquake was lentil soup, huge vats of lentil soup. Normally Izi's municipal kitchen provides 13,000 meals a day. On the first day after the quake he says they distributed soup to more than 200,000 people.
"The most important thing that people need is something hot. Therefore we started to cook soup," he says. "We offered lentil soup and tea. In this cold weather having something hot is very important and soup is very important."
Their soup kitchen didn't sustain any damage, he notes – it's a government structure built to rigorous construction standards. The worst thing that happened was that some of the soup spilled.
Mikail Dağtekin, the head chef at the kitchen, says part of the beauty of lentil soup is its simplicity.
"First we boil the water," he says. "We add some olive oil and salt to the water." Then he adds 45 grams of lentils –or roughly a quarter of a cup – for each person they plan to feed. For Dağtekin that means dumping 55-pound sacks of pinkish lentils into the pot. Then he adds in onions and garlic.
"Onion and garlic is the most important part of it. You can't do without them," he says.
Dağtekin, a chef for 30 years, says there is no need for him to set a timer. "Boil it for a while," he says. When the lentils are soft, they're done. Then he mashes them with a long immersion blender that looks more like a power drill than a cooking utensil.
If he has meat broth, he adds broth. If he has no broth, he skips it.
Then he adds enough flour to thicken the soup.
Meanwhile, in another pot he heats up cold-extracted olive oil – that's a process that reportedly retains more nutrients. (Some other chefs say they use liters of melted butter for this step.) To the oil, he adds cumin, bay leaves and ground pepper both black and red. Let the spices seep into the oil but don't let it get too hot, he says. Then he adds some tomato paste into the oil and spices.
The final step in his recipe: Stir the oil mixture into the mashed lentils. Serve hot.
Asked for the secret to making a really good lentil soup, Dağtekin doesn't miss a beat. "We add into it our love," he says with a warm, broad smile.
At a time when so many people affected by the quake are facing so many hardships, the warmth of a traditional soup is about more than just the temperature of the bowl.
Samantha Balaban and Tuğba Öcek contributed to this story
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-02-21T19:09:13+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/food-drink/2023-02-21/lentil-soup-comes-to-the-rescue-in-quake-ravaged-turkey |
Rosemount 42, Wayzata 14: Tied 14-14 at half, Rosemount exploded for 28 second-half points to move into the Class 6A quarterfinals.
Rosemount (10-0) ran for 402 yards as a team, with Will Priest carrying the ball nine times for 238 yards and four touchdowns — each of which was 40-plus yards.
The Irish will meet Centennial next week.
East Ridge 28, Prior Lake 27: Prior Lake led 27-20 in the final frame before Tanner Zolnosky hit Riley Schwellenbach for a 6-yard scoring strike, then rushing in the ensuing two-point conversion to put the Raptors (7-3) in front with five minutes to play.
That was one of two scoring connections between Zolnosky and Schwellenbach
Eden Prairie 55, Woodbury 14: Nick Fazi ran in a pair of touchdowns and six other Eagles players found the end zone as Eden Prairie (8-2) moved into the quarterfinals, where it will play Shakopee, which beat Mounds View.
Woodbury (7-3) opened the game with a 72-yard scoring strike from George Bjellos to Quentin Cobb-Butler.
CLASS 5A
St. Thomas Academy 45, Two Rivers 0: Savion Hart ran for three touchdowns while Love Adebayo tallied two — one rushing and one receiving — as the Cadets (10-0) continued their run of section dominance.
Friday marked the Cadets’ third shutout of the season and seventh time they’ve held an opponent to seven or fewer points.
Mahtomedi 20, Central 0: Mahtomedi running back Corey Bohmert continued his remarkable season on the ground by tallying 198 yards and a score on 22 carries as the Zephyrs claimed the Section 4 crown.
Sam Garry added a pair of rushing touchdowns for the Zephyrs (9-1), who will meet St. Thomas Academy in the state quarterfinals.
CLASS 3A
St. Croix Lutheran 14, Breck 6: Evan Valleau ran for a pair of touchdowns as the Crusaders, who went 3-5 in the regular season, reeled off a pair of section tournament road wins to reach the state tournament.
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