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Ohio prison escapes: 1 inmate captured, other still on the run
LIMA, Ohio (AP) - One of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison was captured early Wednesday in Kentucky after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were believed to be in ended in a crash and a foot chase, authorities said.
James Lee, 47, was captured at the scene but Bradley Gillespie, 50, remained at large. Gillespie has been imprisoned since 2016 for murder, while Lee was serving a sentence he received in 2021 for burglary and safecracking.
The two men were reported missing from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio on Tuesday, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Officials have not disclosed further details, including how the escape occurred or when the men were discovered missing.
The vehicle chase in Henderson, Kentucky, began when officers spotted a car the men were believed to be traveling in and tried to stop it. A chase ensued and the crash occurred a short time later. Both inmates then fled the scene on foot.
Residents in the area were being told to keep their doors locked while authorities searched for Gillespie. They were urged to call 911 if they spotted him or had information regarding his whereabouts.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is leading the investigation into the escape. | 2023-05-24T18:14:32+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/ohio-prison-escapes-1-inmate-captured-other-still-on-the-run |
Man, woman charged after school alerts police to 9-year-old’s bruising, officials say
KOKOMO, Ind. (Gray News) – A man and a woman in Indiana are both facing several felony charges after school staff notified authorities about a potential case of child abuse, officials said.
According to the Kokomo Police Department, Kokomo School Corporation Staff called police on March 24 concerning a 9-year-old girl who had bruising on her body.
Officers met with the child and determined she needed medical attention. The girl was taken to the hospital, where medical staff discovered she was malnourished and weighed just 48.5 pounds, police said.
Following an investigation, police arrested 32-year-old Tracy A. Seats and 38-year-old Amy D. Smith on Monday. They were booked into the Howard County Criminal Justice Center.
Seats and Smith were both charged with domestic battery with serious bodily injury to a person under 14 years of age, neglect resulting in bodily injury, and domestic battery with bodily injury to a person under 14 years of age.
Seats faces two additional charges, including one count of intimidation with a deadly weapon and one count of strangulation.
Police said the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective Cameron Cunningham at (765) 456-7136 or the Kokomo Police Department Hotline at (765) 456-7017.
Kokomo is located about 50 miles north of Indianapolis.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-05T21:05:58+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/05/05/man-woman-charged-after-school-alerts-police-9-year-olds-bruising-officials-say/ |
CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON WEDNESDAY. -- WE QUIET DOWN WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON WEDNESDAY. BRANDI: LIVE, EXCITEMENT IS IN THE AIR. GOOD MORNING. ERIN: EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING FOR A LOT OF REASONS. IT’S THE FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE THE JOHNNY CASH TRAIL WAS PAVED. WE HAVE AN EXCEPTIONALLY EXCITING VISITOR. WE HAVE JOHN CARTER CASH. I’M SO EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ON THE TRAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME? >> IT IS A TRUE BLESSING. IT BEGINS WITH THE HEART. THAT IS WHAT FIRST ATTRACTED MY FATHER COMING HERE TO PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE AND REACH OUT WITH HIS HEART. HE CAME HERE THE FIRST TIME TO FOLSOM IN 1966. WHEN HE PERFORMED HERE AGAIN IT IS THE HISTORY WE ALL KNOW. IT IS WONDERFUL TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE MY FATHER’S NAME AND KNOW THE GOOD HE BEGAN E NDURES. MY FATHER NEVER RODE A BICYCLE IN HIS LIFE, BUT HE CERTAINLY DID A LOT OF HIKING. IT IS ABOUT NATURE AND THE LOVE OF US ALL COMING BACK TOGETHER AND CELEBRATING HIS MUSIC AND HIS LIFE. ERIN: YOU WILL BE TOURING THE TRAIL TO SEE WHERE PERMANENT ART INSTALLATIONS WILL BE GOING IN YOUR FATHER’S NAME. >> I AM ALWAYS EXCITED TO SEE ART. WHEN I WALKED UP I SAW THE FIRST PIECE OF ART. THE GENIUS OF IT BEING ABLE TO TIE IN WITH MY FATHER’S MUSIC, HIS SONGS. I’M ALSO EXCITED TO SEE THE AREA , THE NATURE, THE SPECIES, AND CANAANITE OUT FOR -- AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR BOBCATS AND COUGARS. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. ERIN: HOW INCREDIBLE. HE WILL BE PERFORMI
'It begins with a heart': Johnny Cash's son visits Folsom trail in his father’s namesake
Cash will be performing at the Folsom Americana Fest over the weekend
Updated: 1:55 PM PDT Oct 21, 2022
Ahead of the Folsom Americana Fest, John Carter Cash, the son of June Carter and Johnny Cash, visited the Johnny Cash Folsom Trail for the very first time.“It’s a true blessing, you know it begins with a heart and that’s what first attracted my father coming here,” Cash said.Cash will be performing at the Folsom Americana Fest over the weekend, in which proceeds will go towards future permanent art installations along the six-mile Johnny Cash loop.“My father didn’t ride mini bicycles in his life buddy most certainly did a whole lot of hiking, it’s wonderful to look around and see my father's name here, and the good that he began,” Cash said.Tickets are available here.
FOLSOM, Calif. — Ahead of the Folsom Americana Fest, John Carter Cash, the son of June Carter and Johnny Cash, visited the Johnny Cash Folsom Trail for the very first time.
“It’s a true blessing, you know it begins with a heart and that’s what first attracted my father coming here,” Cash said.
Cash will be performing at the Folsom Americana Fest over the weekend, in which proceeds will go towards future permanent art installations along the six-mile Johnny Cash loop.
“My father didn’t ride mini bicycles in his life buddy most certainly did a whole lot of hiking, it’s wonderful to look around and see my father's name here, and the good that he began,” Cash said.
Tickets are available here. | 2022-10-22T15:02:52+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/johnny-cashs-son-visits-folsom-trail-in-fathers-namesake/41738283 |
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady on Wednesday offered spirited support to her nation’s people while visiting the United Arab Emirates, a country that still remains open to Russia despite Western sanctions.
Olena Zelenska described her role and that of other first ladies and gentlemen in the world as a real power while speaking before a packed ballroom on International Women’s Day. She also applauded the work of the average Ukrainian amid the ongoing war.
“We are a force and we can continue to change the world,” Zelenska said at the Forbes 30/50 Summit via a translator.
Zelenska’s trip to the United Arab Emirates capital comes as the UAE remains one of the few direct routes out of Moscow — for both people fleeing conscription and for the wealthy who want to park their money in a nation with access to Western financial markets.
Already, the U.S. Treasury has expressed concerns with the Russian money flowing into Dubai’s red-hot real estate market. Meanwhile, the superyachts of Russian oligarchs also have repeatedly turned up in the Emirates since the start of Moscow’s war on Ukraine last year.
However, the UAE has voted against Russia’s invasion at the United Nations and has donated humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the war began. Her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has held multiple calls with UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Meanwhile, the UAE hosted the prisoner exchange that freed WNBA star Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in December.
Zelenska arrived in the UAE on Tuesday and met with Sheikh Mohammed at Qasr al-Bahar in Abu Dhabi, the country’s capital. There, Sheikh Mohammed pledged $4 million to Zelenska’s foundation that will go toward the construction of orphanages, the Emirates’ state-run WAM news agency reported.
“Sheikh Mohammed reiterated the UAE’s commitment to the people of Ukraine through ongoing humanitarian aid, while stressing the importance of international and regional efforts aimed at reaching a political solution to re-establish security, stability and peace,” WAM said.
Zelenska has taken a more prominent role in promoting Ukraine since the war began. She met with U.S. first lady Jill Biden when the American president’s wife made a surprise, quick visit to Ukraine from Slovakia in May. She’s also traveled across the world, met leaders and told the United Nations in February: “We have the right to live free, not to be killed or tortured.”
Speaking before the crowd, Zelenska recounted the story of a schoolteacher still leading her students via a video call from a snowy street, even though power and internet connections remain shaky in the country. She also brought up a 30-year-old female combat medic killed in the fighting near Bakhmut in the east, which drew a gasp from the women gathered at the summit.
“We are inspired by the examples and I’m sure these exmaples will stay in our hearts forever,” Zelenska said.
She added, to cheers: “Ukrainian women and men have been adapting so fast that our enemies have not been able to come up with new challenges for us.”
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In the premiere episode of the HBO Max comedy Rap Sh!t, executive producer Issa Rae's first major project post-Insecure, Shawna (Aida Osman), a socially conscious rapper, fervently announces her retirement from the rap game.
Never mind that she's a relatively unknown 20-something artist who's barely stepped foot in the game to begin with – after dropping out of college to work with a producer, she's found only fleeting, minor viral success, and that was ... two years ago. She's done. Out. Over an industry that only values female rappers who show off all their assets while putting in the "bare minimum with no originality."
To pay the bills, Shawna has been working the reception desk in a Miami hotel lobby by day while writing rhymes at night (think lyrics about "goddesses," "nurturers," and the "garden of Eden") under the stage name The Vision. In her accompanying videos, she dons a decorated face mask, a giant 'fro, and a hoodie, "because I want people to focus on my lyricism, not what I look like."
An admirable, if potentially non-lucrative, aim to have.
"Y'all say, 'I want a different type of female rapper.' ... NO YOU DON'T!" she bemoans to her handful of Instagram Live followers. "Cause you don't support me! You don't support any of us!"
She gives it another try
It's not spoiling things to say that Shawna comes out of retirement faster than Jay-Z did in the mid-'00s. After reconnecting with Mia (KaMillion), an estranged friend from high school who's now a single mother juggling multiple side hustles – makeup artistry, an OnlyFans page, and wealthy sugar daddies – Shawna rediscovers her love for rap and the two of them decide to form a rap duo. But that tension between artistry and commercialism, politics and entertainment, is a central recurring theme in this zeitgeist-y take on the current landscape of hip-hop and the music industry at large.
The show is at its freshest and funniest when this eternal struggle to strike a balance is front and center. As the one who embodies the flamboyant attitude and capitalistic ethos of many of the biggest current rappers (Meghan thee Stallion, Cardi B, and real-life analog and Rap Sh!t co-producers City Girls), Mia acts as a stand-in for the masses, pushing Shawna to loosen up a bit and think more commercially. The first time they sit down to write together, Shawna presents an expletive-laced, unintentionally silly verse where she's rapping from the perspective of student loans.
Mia, bewilderedly: "Why would I want a song to be about that?"
Shawna, sheepishly: "Everybody's affected by predatory lending."
Osman and KaMillion have strong banter and chemistry in these scenes, and their characters' dueling personalities and bonding anchor the episodes as they attempt to create and build a following on social media and within the local Miami scene. There have been plenty of shows and movies that have tapped into the absurdities and contradictions of being an aspiring rapper (Atlanta, Dave, or to go back much further, CB4), but it's refreshing to see it told from a woman's perspective, where the pathways to success are unarguably different in many ways. In this fruitful era where more female rappers than ever before are sharing space, collaborating, and finding success in the mainstream, Rap Sh!t attempts to both celebrate this progress and call into question the structural limitations that remain for women in rap through Shawna.
Clashing goals
The result can be a bit messy – does Shawna's embrace of more ratchet lyricism represent survival mode or selling out? It's not entirely clear, and only six of eight episodes were made available to critics ahead of the premiere – though perhaps that's a reflection more of the messiness of double standards than anything else. Her desire to Billie Eilish her sartorial aesthetic is treated like a punch line, and her grievances about the industry's lopsided standards and formulas for superstardom – get a man who wants to sleep with them to co-sign their aspirations, get cosmetic surgery and then flaunt it – are almost always shut down by someone else arguing "the game is the game" or that women in hip-hop are actually thriving on their own terms.
At the same time, her long-distance boyfriend Cliff (Devon Terrell), an uptight N.Y.U. law student who aims to be the next Barack Obama or Benjamin Crump, is dismissive of her aspirations and worried what they might mean for his political career. (His sexist roommates negatively refer to Mia as a "porn star" and snarkily comment that "We in a new era of women now. [Shawna] don't have to have to be Michelle, she can be Melania.") As plenty of women in hip-hop understand, no matter what you do, or don't do, misogyny will rear its ugly head from some corner or another.
A promising series
When Rap Sh!t falls back on more familiar elements, like the predictable way the relationship plays out with Cliff or a girls' night out that's nearly derailed by the imbibing of molly, it can drag a bit. And depending on how old you are, you may find the show's technique of presenting most scenes as though they were being shot on a phone for social media or via Facetime conversation to be exhausting or an accurate, immersive depiction of how so many people move and connect throughout the world. (Admittedly, I'm an aging 30-something millennial and found it unnecessary at times.)
But there's likely enough here for hip-hop fans and Insecure fans to chew on and be satisfied, while anticipating where Shawna and Mia will go next. As the latter astutely points out, we're in the middle of a "bad b---h renaissance," and these two characters are capturing (and capitalizing on) the moment.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-21T10:27:55+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2022-07-21/in-rap-sh-t-women-in-rap-strive-and-thrive |
The study of 324 complex plastic surgery procedures demonstrated many benefits of using DSUVIA for analgesia, including avoiding the need for general anesthesia
HAYWARD, Calif., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACRX), (AcelRx), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for use in medically supervised settings, today announced that an abstract, entitled, "Experience in Complex Outpatient Plastic Surgery Procedures Using Sufentanil Sublingual Tablets" was presented on Friday, October 28th by Jeffrey DeWeese, M.D., FACS, at Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2022, held October 27-30, in Boston, MA. The study, conducted in 324 patients undergoing complex plastic surgery procedures, found many positive benefits of using sufentanil sublingual tablets (SST), 30 mcg (brand name DSUVIA®), including the ability to perform complex, extensive cosmetic procedures without general anesthesia, allowing a rapid discharge time.
This "awake" surgery analysis was a prospective, single-group cohort that were 95% female and ranged in age from 15 to 81 years. The study was conducted at Precision M.D. Cosmetic Surgery Center in Elk Grove, CA. Procedures included liposuction, breast augmentation, breast reduction, brachioplasty, facelift, rhinoplasty, and blepharoplasty, and most significantly, abdominoplasty, which is usually only performed under general anesthesia. Many combination procedures were also undertaken. Patients were administered 1 to 3 mg of oral lorazepam for anxiolysis/sedation and an IV was placed for antibiotic and preemptive antiemetic treatment only. A sufentanil sublingual tablet (SST) 30 mcg (DSUVIA®) was administered sublingually, followed by injection of local and/or tumescent anesthesia. Surgery was initiated 20 to 30 minutes after local anesthetic administration, allowing time for the sufentanil plasma concentrations to approach peak levels. Additional SST doses were then given as needed, with a minimum of 60 minutes between dosing. Median tablet use per procedure was 2 tablets of SST 30 mcg. Additional sedatives or antiemetic drugs were rarely required. Breakthrough discomfort or anxiety for patients was managed by inhaled 50% nitrous oxide, but this was rarely necessary. No unstable vital signs were reported and naloxone was not required by any patient for respiratory depression. Complications included shortening or modifying the procedure due to discomfort on rare occasions. Patient recovery time in the center averaged 19 minutes.
The study found that implementing the use of SST in this surgical center resulted in the ability to successfully perform complex, longer duration procedures without general anesthesia or intravenous (IV) opioids. The investigator also found that the absence of cognitive impairment after extended awake surgery allowed for an easier and more rapid discharge than usual compared to their typical experience when the same procedures are performed under general anesthesia.
"The lack of cognitive impairment, even after extended awake surgery, allowed for an easier discharge of patients compared to my experience when the same procedures are conducted under general anesthesia," stated Dr. DeWeese. "Implementing SST into our protocols in our outpatient surgical center has resulted in the ability to perform complex, lengthy procedures without general anesthesia. Patients often prefer to avoid the cost and adverse events associated with general anesthesia and SST provides significant analgesia to allow a comfortable experience for these patients."
Dr. Pamela Palmer, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of AcelRx, stated, "While this awake approach to performing plastic surgery procedures using SST has been reported recently by other investigators, this cohort of over 300 plastic surgery cases was remarkable for the complexity of the cases, many of which would have normally been performed under general anesthesia. We were pleased to learn that not only were rescue analgesics rarely required for patient breakthrough pain, but also that the surgeons were able to comfortably perform complex procedures and safely discharge the patient so quickly after relatively prolonged surgical cases. DSUVIA allows an option for patients not wanting to undergo general anesthesia for both short and lengthy plastic surgery procedures."
About Plastic Surgery The Meeting
Plastic Surgery The Meeting brings together plastic surgeons from countries around the globe. It is the premier educational and networking event of the year, for both domestic and international plastic surgeons. It is considered to be the annual meeting of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the largest plastic surgery specialty organization in the world, representing 94% of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the U.S., and more than 11,000 plastic surgeons worldwide. ASPS is considered a global institution and leading authority on cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. The meeting also convenes members of The Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF), the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS), and the World Society for Simulation Surgery.
About DSUVIA (sufentanil sublingual tablet), 30 mcg
DSUVIA®, known as DZUVEO® in Europe, is indicated for use in adults in certified medically supervised healthcare settings, such as hospitals, surgical centers, and emergency departments, for the management of acute pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments are inadequate. DSUVIA was designed to provide rapid analgesia via a non-invasive route and to eliminate dosing errors associated with intravenous (IV) administration. DSUVIA is a single-strength solid dosage form administered sublingually via a single-dose applicator (SDA) by healthcare professionals. Sufentanil is an opioid analgesic previously only marketed for IV and epidural anesthesia and analgesia. The sufentanil pharmacokinetic profile, when delivered sublingually, avoids the high peak plasma levels and short duration of action observed with IV administration. DZUVEO has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and AcelRx's European commercialization partner, Aguettant, will market the drug in Europe.
This release is intended for investors only. For more information, including important safety information and black box warning for DSUVIA, please visit www.DSUVIA.com.
About AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for use in medically supervised settings. AcelRx's proprietary, non-invasive sublingual formulation technology delivers sufentanil with consistent pharmacokinetic profiles. The Company has one approved product in the U.S., DSUVIA® (sufentanil sublingual tablet, 30 mcg), known as DZUVEO® in Europe, indicated for the management of acute pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic for adult patients in certified medically supervised healthcare settings, and several product candidates. The product candidates include: Zalviso® (sufentanil sublingual tablet system, SST system, 15 mcg), an investigational product in the U.S. being developed as an innovatively designed patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) system for reduction of moderate-to-severe acute pain in medically supervised settings; two pre-filled, ready-to-use syringes of ephedrine and phenylephrine licensed for the U.S. from Aguettant; Niyad™, a regional anticoagulant for the extracorporeal circuit; and LTX-608, for the potential treatment of COVID-19, disseminated intravascular coagulation, acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute pancreatitis. DZUVEO is an approved product in Europe.
This release is intended for investors only. For additional information about AcelRx, please visit www.acelrx.com.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
3-0-2-5
(three, zero, two, five)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
3-0-2-5
(three, zero, two, five) | 2022-07-19T01:37:54+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17313497.php |
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Many children may find themselves a ball of nerves their first day back to school. It’s a landmark day full of pictures, excitement, anxiety and wonder. And don’t be surprised, parents, if you find yourselves experiencing some of these nerves as well.
A great book has the power not only to take children to an imaginary land, but books can also be a wonderful tool to calm any back-to-school jitters and open conversations about what to expect on their first day back. Whether your child is heading off to kindergarten for the first time (cue the tears, mama!) or they are a seasoned elementary student that knows the ropes, there’s a good chance your little one may be experiencing some nerves about heading back to the classroom.
To get your little ones excited and hopefully overcome any lingering fears, we’ve found 7 back-to-school books we love:
1. Archie the Ant by Andrew and Joanna Smith
$12.95 on Amazon
Why we love it: Written and illustrated by Andrew and Joanna Smith, a husband and wife duo, “Archie the Ant” is the first in a series of fun, read-to-me rhyming stories by Andy Jo Books. What we love about this new series is how the characters featured in the fun stories show young readers how to love people who look or act differently than they do. This is especially important for kindergarteners who are going to meet so many new friends when starting school. The animals in the Andy Jo Books talk about common childhood fears, medical conditions and special needs.
Andy Jo Books are designed to help teach children about the beauty of our differences. Using colorful, fun storylines to expand their perception of the world and people around them at a young age, the dream is to help children learn how to accept people whose “normal” may be different from theirs.
More about Archie: “Archie liked his routine. Archie was quite smart. But a rainstorm made his whole world fall apart. When things keep on changing, seemingly without end, it can be a great comfort to lean on a friend. Come on a little journey with Archie through this read-to-me rhyming book and learn about ants, autism, and friendship.”
2. Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival
$10.99 on Amazon
From Tom Percival’s bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, this is the perfect book for discussing childhood worries and anxieties, no matter how big or small they are. “Ruby loves being Ruby. Until, one day, she finds a worry. At first it’s not such a big worry, and that’s all right, but then it starts to grow. It gets bigger and bigger every day and it makes Ruby sad. How can Ruby get rid of it and feel like herself again A perceptive and poignant story that is a must-have for all children’s bookshelves.”
3. First Day Critter Jitters, written by Jory John & illustrated by Liz Climo.
$12.59 on Amazon
It’s almost the first day of school, and the animals are nervous. Sloth worries about getting there on time, snake can’t seem to get his backpack fastened onto his body, and bunny is afraid she’ll want to hop around instead of sitting still. When they all arrive at their classroom, though, they’re in for a surprise: Somebody else is nervous too. It’s their teacher, the armadillo! He has rolled in as a ball, and it takes him a while to relax and unfurl. But by the next day, the animals have all figured out how to help one another through their jitters. School isn’t so scary after all.”
4. The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López
$14.75 on Amazon
Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices. “There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.” Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael López’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.
(This book is also available in Spanish, as El Día En Que Descubres Quién Eres!)
5. Lena’s Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-Of-School Dilemma, written by Keith Calabrese & illustrated by Juana Medina
$16.73 on Bookshop.org
In the tradition of School’s First Day of School, debut author Keith Calabrese and Pura Belpré Award winner Juana Medina share a sweet, universal story about a clever little girl whose shoes are nervous about the first day of school. “Today is a big day! Today, Lena starts kindergarten. She is very excited. But there’s just one problem...Lena’s shoes are nervous.Lena doesn’t want to miss out on her first day of school, but she can’t go without her favorite shoes! How can she convince them to be brave?”
6. All are Welcome, written by Alexandra Penfold & illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman
$16.73 on Bookshop.org
Join the call for a better world with this New York Times bestselling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. The perfect back-to-school read for every kid, family and classroom. “Discover a school where all young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated. Readers will follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. A school where students from all backgrounds learn from and celebrate each other’s traditions. A school that shows the world as we will make it to be.”
7. The Name Jar, written by Yangsook Choi & illustrated by Yangsook Choi
$7.43 on Bookshop.org
A heartwarming story about the new girl in school, and how she learns to appreciate her Korean name. From acclaimed creator Yangsook Choi comes the bestselling classic about finding the courage to be yourself and being proud of your background. “Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what happens when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious about fitting in. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she decides to choose an American name from a glass jar. But while Unhei thinks of being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, nothing feels right. With the help of a new friend, Unhei will learn that the best name is her own.”
Ashley Dill covers the online shopping industry, writing about commerce. She can be reached at adill@pennlive.com.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A sturdy pair of goggles was mandatory attire Sunday in Cleveland’s clubhouse, where impromptu showers of Champagne and beer broke out inside a thick haze of cigar smoke.
The Guardians, baseball’s youngest team, finished an unexpected run to the top of the AL Central.
Rookie Steven Kwan hit a grand slam and drove in a season-high five runs as the Guardians clinched a division championship no one thought possible six months ago with a 10-4 win over the Texas Rangers.
When catcher Luke Maile squeezed Josh Smith’s foul pop for the final out, the Guardians began celebrating a title that actually became official 15 minutes earlier following second-place Chicago’s loss to the Detroit Tigers.
Tied for first on Sept. 4, the Guardians have won seven straight and ripped off 18 wins in 21 games to open a 10-game lead and run away with the division.
“This team’s good. We’re not just young. We’re pretty good,” said starter Cal Quantrill, the club leader with 14 wins. “I don’t think anybody’s excited to face us right now. We’re playing our best baseball. We’re playing baseball the right way.”
This is Cleveland’s 11th Central title since the division’s inception in 1994 and its fourth in 10 years under manager Terry Francona, who battled health problems the past two seasons but has enjoyed this ride with a team that may have surprised early on but is now being viewed as a legitimate World Series threat.
“For what our guys did, and when you’re doing it with people that you absolutely care about and love and respect, it means a lot,” Francona said before his statement was interrupted by a bone-chilling dousing.
“I’m amazed by these guys,” said Chris Antonetti, the team’s president of baseball operations. “They came together and played the game the right way.”
This season wasn’t supposed to happen.
After dropping Indians as their nickname following the 2021 season, a move that rankled a sizable portion of Cleveland’s fan base, the Guardians did little to upgrade their roster in free agency as the front office decided 2022 would be devoted to seeing what it had.
As it turned out, Cleveland’s kids were more than all right.
Maybe no one more so than Kwan, a 25-year-old with a game way beyond his years. He made the roster in spring training and has been the Guardians’ pesky leadoff hitter from opening day, working pitchers into deep counts before slapping hits and becoming an annoyance on the base paths.
It was fitting that it was Kwan who led the way to Sunday’s clinch.
“Help any team I was on whether it had been Triple-A or the majors,” Kwan said of his goals this season. “I think that helped me in college, travel ball, whatever. I know if I focus on helping the team and others, then everything will fall into place.”
Kwan’s slam in the eighth inning barely cleared the wall and bounced back into play. He wasn’t sure it out until signaled by first-base umpire Bruce Dreckman. He said his reaction was “black out.”
With bigger games ahead, Kwan wasn’t ready to reflect on what he and his teammates have accomplished.
“I definitely want to keep my head down, keep it rolling.” he said. “Maybe in a superstitious kind of way don’t want to take my eyes off anything. Keep it going forward.”
The Guardians have defied the odds from the start and became the first team to win a division with at least 16 rookies making their major league debuts.
The season began with low expectations everywhere but inside Cleveland’s clubhouse. Maybe is was naivete, but the Guardians believed they could be special and that’s exactly what’s happened.
“From Day One, they’ve come together,” Antonetti said. “You go around the clubhouse, the tone our veteran players set like José Ramírez, Amed Rosario, Shane Bieber, Austin Hedges. ‘Tito’ (Francona) said just find a way to help the team win.
“They embraced that mentality.”
The Guardians have done it with an offense that puts the ball in play, solid and often spectacular defense and a lights-out bullpen anchored by closer Emmanuel Clase (a big league-best 39 saves).
Cleveland strikes out less than any team in the majors and nobody goes from first to third better.
Amid the clubhouse chaos, Antonetti made a point to credit the 63-year-old Francona, who won two World Series with Boston and may have had his best season after dealing with serious medial issues.
“To think of what he’s overcome personally to get to this point,” Antonetti said. “This is a special moment for ‘Tito.’”
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Guardians: Bieber (12-8, 2.81 ERA) will open a three-game series on Tuesday at home against Tampa Bay in a possible preview of a first-round postseason series. Bieber will face RHP Corey Kluber (10-9, 4.30), a two-time Cy Young winner during nine seasons in Cleveland.
Rangers: Play three games at Seattle beginning Tuesday. Texas hasn’t announced a starter for the opener to face LHP Robbie Ray (12-10, 3.60).
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Looming Recession, Increased Competition for Talent, and Supply Chain Disruptions Are Top of Mind for Corporate Directors and Senior Executives Going into 2023
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing more than 23,000 board members, today released its 2023 Governance Outlook report, an annual forecast of trends and issues that corporate directors and senior executives are likely to face in the coming year.
The 2023 Governance Outlook report captures insights and guidance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) oversight, new and proposed US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, trends in D&O insurance, human capital oversight, third-party risk, and more. It includes partner contributions from Broadridge Financial Solutions, Deloitte, FGS Global, Woodruff Sawyer, and WTW, along with data snapshots from the latest NACD Board Trends and Priorities Survey of more than 300 directors nationwide. The 2023 Board Trends and Priorities Survey revealed economic headwinds, supply chain disruptions, and increased competition for talent among the top concerns for directors. (See Figure 1.)
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"Much of what we're hearing from public and private company directors echoes the key themes from recent years in terms of economic, geopolitical, and infrastructure uncertainties," said Peter Gleason, NACD president and CEO. "By surfacing those concerns and taking a deeper look along with experts from our partner organizations, NACD is able to provide directors with insightful data, research, and guidance through the 2023 Governance Outlook."
- Trends for Boards in 2023 (NACD): NACD research notes that key trends among respondents to the 2023 Board Trends and Priorities Survey include fear of a looming recession (64% said it was a top concern for 2023), increased competition for talent (a top concern for 59%), growing inflation (57%), and supply chain issues (37%). On the economic front, more than 70 percent of survey respondents believe markets are heading toward a recession or severe recession by the middle of 2023, with less than 30 percent expecting a soft landing or economic growth.
- Opportunities for Directors (NACD): As noted in The Future of the American Board Report, which NACD released in October, directors anticipate greater opportunities for board engagement and service in the coming years. Directors see changes on the horizon in the form of everything from increased board diversity to more independent boards as combining the roles of CEO and chair becomes increasingly less acceptable. Areas in need of priority improvement, as highlighted in the 2023 Governance Outlook report, are board-management relations, including CEO succession planning; critical board competencies, including diversified skills and experiences related to emerging risks; and board operations, including board inclusion practices.
- Proxy Season Impact (Broadridge): Numerous forces, such as new proxy rules and technological innovations that are expanding investor participation, will raise the stakes for corporate governance in 2023. Companies and boards should be on the lookout for ESG-related shareholder proposals, among other factors that will impact the upcoming proxy season.
- Board Governance Structures and ESG (Deloitte): With a rapidly changing ESG landscape, companies are increasingly integrating ESG into business practices and strategy. To effectively oversee the growing range and number of ESG-related issues, boards may consider taking steps in 2023 to adapt their committee structures and composition for critical skills and experience; consider making meetings more efficient and effective; and increase their expectations about data that management provides given the role of ESG as both a key business driver and a regulatory imperative.
- Third-Party Risk Oversight (Deloitte): Ongoing supply-chain disruptions and other third-party concerns have prompted many boards and senior executives to step up their engagement with third-party risk management (TPRM). Integrating and reacting proactively to TPRM will be a focus for public and private corporations in 2023.
- SEC Rule Changes (FGS Global): The current SEC leadership has proven to be especially active in rulemaking, signaling fundamental policy shifts from historical approaches. Expect 2023 to see more changes being proposed and finalized on climate, board diversity, SPACs, executive compensation, cryptocurrency, and more.
- Directors and Officers Liability Threat (Woodruff Sawyer): Amid a volatile and challenging operating environment for directors, management, and companies, there are important issues to consider when purchasing protection against risks of litigation, including longer and more expensive settlements, the Department of Justice's focus on economic and trade sanctions, and the SEC's cybersecurity and climate disclosure rules.
- Stewards of Human Capital Oversight (WTW): Focusing through lenses of performance, protection, people, planet, and purpose, the authors look toward potential solutions to human capital challenges like talent shortages, employee turnover and disengagement, remote work, inflation, and others.
Visit the 2023 Governance Outlook site to download the full report.
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As the unmatched authority in corporate governance, NACD sets the standards of excellence through its research and community-driven director education, programming, and publications. Directors trust NACD to arm them with the relevant insights to make high-quality decisions on the most pressing and strategic issues facing their businesses today.
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With an ever-expanding community of more than 23,000 members and a nationwide chapter network, our impact is both local and global. NACD members are driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in business and in the communities we serve. To learn more about NACD, visit www.nacdonline.org.
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Judge enters not guilty plea for suspect in stabbing deaths of 4 college students in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the stage for a trial in which he could potentially face the death penalty.
The Nov. 13, 2022, killings stunned the rural community of Moscow, Idaho, and prompted many students to leave campus early, switching to remote learning for the remainder of the semester.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested late last year and charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with with the slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus.
Kohberger declined to enter pleas in Latah County District Court, with his defense attorney Anne Taylor telling the judge that they were going to “stand silent” at this time. In response, 2nd District Judge John Judge entered not guilty pleas on Kohberger’s behalf.
Kohberger also declined to waive his right to a speedy trial, so the judge scheduled it to begin Oct. 2. It’s still possible that the trial, expected to last six weeks, could be delayed or moved to a different location.
Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University when the University of Idaho students were killed, but prosecutors have not released any information about how they believe he may have chosen the victims or whether he had met any of them previously.
Police released few details about the investigation until after Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in eastern Pennsylvania early Dec. 30, 2022. Court documents detailed how police pieced together DNA evidence, cellphone data and surveillance video that they say links Kohberger to the slayings.
Investigators said traces of DNA found on a knife sheath inside the home where the students were killed matches Kohberger, and that a cellphone belonging to Kohberger was near the victims’ home on a dozen occasions prior to the killings. A white sedan allegedly matching one owned by Kohberger was caught on surveillance footage repeatedly cruising past the rental home around the time of the killings.
Kernodle, Chapin, Mogen and Goncalves were friends and members of the university’s Greek system, and the three women lived together in the rental home just across the street from campus. Chapin — Kernodle’s boyfriend — was there visiting on the night of the attack.
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson now has 60 days to inform the court whether he will seek the death penalty in the case.
The small courtroom was packed for the arraignment, with some members of the news media and other onlookers lining up outside three hours before the proceeding was set to begin, Boise television station KTVB reported. Family members of Goncalves were among those who attended, one of them weeping as the charges were read.
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Which Kenmore refrigerator is best?
Choosing the right refrigerator can be a long process as you shop around the large variety of brands. One of the better options available is Kenmore—a well-respected mid-tier and high-value brand with options including the classic top freezer and modern side-by-side, as well as various colors and materials.
The best Kenmore refrigerator is the Kenmore 36-Inch, 25-Cubic-Foot Side-by-Side Refrigerator and Freezer. This Kenmore has all the top-dollar features you want, including an ice maker and dispenser and adjustable shelving.
What to know before you buy a Kenmore refrigerator
Size
External: The external size of a Kenmore refrigerator is the height, width and depth, with the width being the main size listed in marketing. Always add 1 or 2 inches to the exterior dimensions when shopping to allow for the necessary airflow around the unit once installed.
Internal: The internal size is given in cubic feet, with Kenmore refrigerators having options between roughly 15 and 34 cubic feet. Keep in mind that these measurements aren’t exact as many tend to be roughly half a cubic foot shy of the marketing.
Style
Kenmore refrigerators are available in all the same styles most refrigerator brands have, including the most common top freezer and modern French door.
What to look for in a quality Kenmore refrigerator
Ice and water maker/dispenser
Most mid-tier and higher models of Kenmore refrigerator include an ice maker in the freezer section, while the higher-end models also include a dispenser in the door. Water dispensers are included should the Kenmore refrigerator have an ice dispenser. Pay close attention when shopping for lower-cost Kenmore refrigerators, because many exclude ice making to cut costs.
Appearance
Kenmore refrigerators typically come in one of three appearance styles: white, black and stainless steel. White and black options typically are matte and usually the only options when shopping for a low-end Kenmore refrigerators. Stainless steel options are available for certain low-end models, but the material usually is reserved for mid-tier Kenmore refrigerators and up. Only the high-end stainless steel Kenmore refrigerators might include some form of smudge and fingerprint protection, if that is important to you.
How much you can expect to spend on a Kenmore refrigerator
Kenmore is one of the more affordable brands available with most options being $750-$1,500. You won’t get much space or fancy features for below $1,000, while anything above $1,500 is typically what you can find for less, only in much bigger sizes and with the occasional new technology thrown in.
Kenmore refrigerator FAQ
How big of a Kenmore refrigerator do you really need to have?
A. That depends on a few factors. The only factor concerning the external size of your prospective Kenmore refrigerator is what will fit in the space you plan on placing it. For internal sizes, you need to consider how many people will be using it as well as how often you cook and eat at home. When buying one of its refrigerators, Kenmore suggests an allocation of roughly 5 cubic feet of space per person who will use it; if you rarely eat out and regularly stuff your Kenmore refrigerator, you’ll likely want much more than 5 cubic feet per person.
What’s the best way to clean a Kenmore refrigerator?
A. Cleaning a Kenmore refrigerator is easy and only needs to be done three or four times a year, barring any accidental spills. First, remove all edible items and set them to the side. Remove and soak all removable storage items, such as drawers and shelves, in a solution of baking soda and water. While they soak, use a cloth soaked in the same solution to wipe clean the interior. Dry everything thoroughly before replacing the contents.
What’s the best Kenmore refrigerator to buy?
Top Kenmore refrigerator
Kenmore 36-Inch, 25-Cubic-Foot Side-by-Side Refrigerator and Freezer
What you need to know: This Kenmore refrigerator includes all the best high-end conveniences, such as an ice maker and dispenser, water dispenser and adjustable shelving.
What you’ll love: The total size of each section is 15.46 cubic feet for the refrigerator section and 9.11 cubic feet for the freezer section. Two crisper drawers have plenty of space for storing fruits and vegetables.
What you should consider: The crisper drawers take up roughly one-quarter of the refrigerator’s storage space, and the freezer is too narrow to store extra-large or extra-wide products.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Kenmore refrigerator for the money
Kenmore 33-Inch, 210-Cubic-Foot Top Freezer
What you need to know: An excellent budget Kenmore refrigerator, it has plenty of space in a compact form for smaller kitchens and households.
What you’ll love: The shelving is easy to move around to make room for any size item. The door bins are large enough to comfortably hold gallon-sized jugs of milk. The LED light is long-lasting but easy to replace when needed.
What you should consider: You’ll need to purchase an ice maker separately, and the white color isn’t the easiest to match with most kitchen designs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kenmore 33-Inch, 21-Cubic-Foot Top Freezer With Toshiba Microwave Oven
What you need to know: This Kenmore refrigerator and Toshiba microwave combo makes for a perfect kitchen-appliance starter kit for new homes.
What you’ll love: Both the Kenmore refrigerator and the Toshiba microwave come in stainless steel, making it easy to match to each other and any other kitchen appliances. An ice maker is included in the Kenmore refrigerator.
What you should consider: This combo pack is mostly intended for those in new, small apartments that don’t already include either appliance.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Active-service members and veterans provided firsthand testimony Wednesday about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground while imploring Congress to help the allies left behind.
Former Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews testified to Congress about the stench of human flesh under a large plume of smoke as the screams of children, women and men filled the space around Kabul’s airport after two suicide bombers attacked crowds of Afghans.
“The withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion. And there was an inexcusable lack of accountability,” said Vargas-Andrews, who wore a prosthetic arm and scars of his own grave wounds from the bombing.
“I see the faces of all of those we could not save, those we left behind,” Aidan Gunderson, an Army medic who was stationed at Abbey Gate, testified. “I wonder if our Afghan allies fled to safety or they were killed by the Taliban.”
The initial hearing of a long-promised investigation by House Republicans displayed the open wounds from the end of America’s longest war in August 2021, with witnesses recalling how they saw mothers carrying dead babies and the Taliban shooting and brutally beating people.
It was the first of what is expected to be a series of Republican-led hearings examining the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal. Taliban forces seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, far more rapidly than U.S. intelligence had foreseen as American forces pulled out. Kabul’s fall turned the West’s withdrawal into a rout, with Kabul’s airport the center of a desperate air evacuation guarded by U.S. forces temporarily deployed for the task.
The majority of witnesses argued to Congress that the fall of Kabul was an American failure with blame touching every presidential administration from George W. Bush to Joe Biden. Testimony focused not on the decision to withdraw, but on what witnesses depicted as a desperate attempt to rescue American citizens and Afghan allies with little U.S. planning and inadequate U.S. support.
“America is building a nasty reputation for multi-generational systemic abandonment of our allies where we leave a smoldering human refuse from the Montagnards of Vietnam to the Kurds in Syria,” retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
He added, “Our veterans know something else that this committee might do well to consider: We might be done with Afghanistan, but it’s not done with us.”
Vargas-Andrews sobbed as he told lawmakers of being thwarted in an attempt to stop the single deadliest moment in the U.S. evacuation — a suicide bombing that killed 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. servicemen and women.
Vargas-Andrews said Marines and others aiding in the evacuation operation were given descriptions of men believed to be plotting an attack before it occurred. He said he and others spotted two men matching the descriptions and behaving suspiciously, and eventually had them in their rifle scopes, but never received a response about whether to take action.
“No one was held accountable,” Vargas-Andrews told Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman of the committee. “No one was, and no one is, to this day.”
U.S. Central Command’s investigation concluded in October 2021 that given the worsening security situation at Abbey Gate as Afghans became increasingly desperate to flee, “the attack was not preventable at the tactical level without degrading the mission to maximize the number of evacuees.” However, that investigation did not look into whether the bomber could have been stopped or whether Marines on the ground had the appropriate authorities to engage.
Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Rob Lodewick said Wednesday that the Pentagon’s earlier review of the suicide attack had turned up neither any advance identification of a possible attacker nor any requests for “an escalation to existing rules of engagement” governing use of force by U.S. troops.
McCaul has been deeply critical of the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal. “What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of the federal government at every level, and a stunning failure of leadership by the Biden administration,” he said.
Last month, U.S. Inspector-General for Afghanistan John Sopko concluded again that actions taken by both the Trump and Biden administrations were key to the sudden collapse of the Afghan government and military, even before U.S. forces completed their withdrawal in August 2021.
That includes President Donald Trump’s one-sided withdrawal deal with the Taliban, and the abruptness of Biden’s withdrawal of both U.S. contractors and troops from Afghanistan, stranding an Afghan air force that previous administrations had failed to make self-supporting.
The report blamed each U.S. administration since American forces invaded in 2001 for constantly changing, inconsistent policies that strived for quick fixes and withdrawal from Afghanistan rather than a steady effort to build a capable, sustainable Afghan military.
The witnesses testifying Wednesday urged action to help the hundreds of thousands of Afghan allies who worked alongside U.S. soldiers and who are now in limbo in the U.S. and back in Afghanistan.
“If I leave this committee with only one thought it’s this: It’s not too late,” said Peter Lucier, a Marine veteran who now works at Team America Relief, which has assisted thousands of Afghans in relocating. “We’re going to talk a lot today about all the mistakes that were made, leading up to that day, but urgent action right now will save so many lives.”
One of those solutions discussed Wednesday would be creating a pathway to citizenship for the nearly 76,000 Afghans who worked with American soldiers since 2001 as translators, interpreters and partners. Those people arrived in the U.S. on military planes after the withdrawal and the government admitted the refugees on a temporary parole status as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the largest resettlement effort in the country in decades, with the promise of a path to a life in the U.S. for their service.
Congress began a bipartisan effort to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would have prevented Afghans from becoming stranded without legal residency status when their two years of humanitarian parole expire in August. The proposal would have enabled qualified Afghans to apply for U.S. citizenship, as was done for refugees in the past, including those from Cuba, Vietnam and Iraq.
But that effort stalled in the Senate late last year due to opposition from Republicans.
“If we don’t set politics aside and pursue accountability and lessons learned to address this grievous moral injury on our military community and right the wrongs that have been inflicted on our most at-risk Afghan allies, this colossal foreign policy will follow us home and ultimately draw us right back into the graveyard of empires where it all started,” Mann, the retired green beret, said to lawmakers.
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Associated Press reporter Tara Copp contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show that Aidan Gunderson said the quote starting with “I see the faces,” not Tyler Vargas-Andrews. | 2023-03-09T13:52:05+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/veterans-testify-of-catastrophic-impact-of-afghan-collapse/ |
Flight Exhibitions and Birthday Cake Highlight Palm Springs Air Museum's 26th Anniversary Air Fair & Veterans Day Celebration
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly refurbished F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter will be unveiled at the Palm Springs Air Museum on Saturday November 12, 2022 at 1 PM. There will be a special ceremony to debut the aircraft on permanent loan from the United States Air Force. "This is the most comprehensive F-117 exhibit anywhere," said Museum Vice Chairman Fred Bell. "Exhibits and artifacts that further explain stealth technology are included. This is one of the most significant designs in US History."
Special Guest of Honor Maj Gen Greg "Beast" Feest (USAF, Ret) will speak. Feest was the first pilot to fly combat missions in the F-117 during Operation Desert Storm and Panama. The Aircraft will bear his name and be in the colors of the U.S. Air Force 415th Tactical Fighter Squadron which was based at the Top-Secret Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
The day's other activities include Flight Exhibitions, Birthday Cake, Heat Wave Jazz Band, and Food Vendors. Children 12 and under are free with paid adult admission. Warbird rides are for sale. Museum admission ranges from $20 to $22, with a Family Pack rate of $55 for two adults and three teenagers (ages 13-17). Air Museum members get in free.
The Palm Springs Air Museum is a living history museum with over 75 vintage airframes spanning the spectrum of Military Aviation, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the F-117 Stealth Fighter inside the new Jim Houston Pavilion, to significant civilian aircraft like Clay Lacey's Lear 24. Many aircraft are airworthy and flown regularly. The planes are housed inside 91,000 square feet of open hangars and on the tarmac at our ten-acre facility. Additional displays and memorabilia are located throughout the hangars. The Museum is open daily from 10 am until 5 PM. (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas & Feb 18, 2023). Kids 12 and under get in free with paid adult admission. Warbird rides are also available. For more info, visit PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org or call 760-778-6262 during business hours.
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CONCORD, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — NASCAR team members and drivers get a chance to relax at home this weekend with the Bank of America ROVAL 400 taking place at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
While the weekend may be a bit more relaxing for teams, staff at the speedway have been working long hours to prepare the track for green flag action.
The Charlotte Motor Speedway oval opened in 1960, but NASCAR didn’t make a stop on the ROVAL circuit until 2018. It’s still a fairly new venue on the schedule, but track leaders have put together a checklist to ensure the venue is put together the same way every season.
The ROVAL is considered one of the most challenging tracks on the NASCAR circuit. Just think about the name “roval” itself. The track is a combination of a high-speed oval and a 17-turn road course.
Left and right turns have become a common theme on the NASCAR schedule. Road course races now make up 6 of the 36 races.
“Everybody in the Cup Series is now a pretty good road racer, we have all become road racers in our own rights,” said driver, Erik Jones.
Prior to 2018, the fall NASCAR Cup Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway was run on the oval.
Getting “ROVAL” ready takes hundreds of staff members who clock in more than 35,000 hours. Work Includes painting portions of the track red, white and blue, which takes 5,400 gallons of paint.
The logos painted on the infield alone is equivalent to the size of 14 NFL end zones.
There are hundreds of curbs installed, nicknamed turtles. They are designed in a way that they can be run over by drivers and not damage the racecar. Some drivers still choose to avoid he curbs, especially in the new Cup Series car.
“The Next Gen car seems more affected by it, some of the suspension pieces we got. The way it reacts to it. You really can’t hop over the curbs like we have in years past,” said Jones.
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New this year, if those turtle curbs are run over, drivers will see paintings on them from area elementary school students. Painting the turtles with designs was inspired by Corey LaJoie, who snuck onto the track in the dark of night in 2018 to paint a ninja turtle on one of the curbs.
“You have to be very aggressive with this race car and use all the track that you can. I think the paintings will get a little bit of rubber on them and hopefully they survive the whole race,” said driver, Ty Dillon.
Speaking of rubber, among the other tasks for the crew at the speedway is installing additional tire barriers for the more than 2-mile ROVAL course. It’s estimated about 30,000 tires are used to build “tire packs”.
Once the Bank of America ROVAL 400 takes the checkered flag on Sunday, the ROVAL will be dissembled and work will immediately begin on installing millions of Christmas lights for the annual “Speedway Christmas” display. | 2022-10-06T13:10:25+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/organization/nascar/getting-roval-ready-more-than-35000-working-hours-spent-preparing-speedway/ |
VANCOUVER, BC, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SIGMA Lithium Corporation ("Sigma Lithium" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SGML, TSXV: SGML), dedicated to powering the next generation of electric vehicles with environmentally sustainable and high-purity lithium, is pleased to announce that it will present and participate at the J.P. Morgan Energy, Power & Renewables Conference in New York City on June 21 & 22.
J.P. Morgan Energy, Power & Renewables Conference
InterContinental New York Barclay in New York, New York
Presentation Date: June 21, 2023
The Company will be available at the conference for one-on-one meetings. Investors may contact their J.P. Morgan representative to participate. Webcast replay will be available following the conference on Sigma Lithium's investor relations website at https://sigmalithiumresources.gcs-web.com for a limited time.
ABOUT SIGMA LITHIUM
Sigma Lithium (NASDAQ: SGML, TSXV: SGML) is a company dedicated to powering the next generation of electric vehicle batteries with environmentally sustainable and high-purity lithium.
Sigma Lithium has been at the forefront of environmental and social sustainability in the EV battery materials supply chain for six years and it is currently producing Green Lithium from its Grota do Cirilo Project in Brazil. Phase 1 of the project is expected to produce 270,000 tonnes of Green Lithium annually (36,700 LCE annually). Phase 2 & 3 of the project are expected to increase production to 766,000 tonnes annually (or 104,200 LCE annually), assuming the detailed engineering workstream and FEL3 CAPEX assessment currently being conducted by DRA supports an investment decision. The project produces Green Lithium in a state-of-the-art Greentech lithium plant that uses 100% renewable energy, 100% recycled water and 100% dry-stacked tailings. Please refer to the Amended and Restated Technical Report, which is filed on SEDAR and is also available on the Company's website.
For more information about Sigma Lithium, visit https://www.sigmalithiumresources.com/
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian and U.S. securities legislation, including but not limited to statements relating to timing and costs related to the general business and operational outlook of the Company, the environmental footprint of tailings and positive ecosystem impact relating thereto, donation and upcycling of tailings, timing and quantities relating to tailings and Green Lithium, achievements and projections relating to the Zero Tailings strategy, achievement of ramp-up volumes, production estimates and the operational status of the Groto do Cirilo Project, and other forward-looking information. All statements that address future plans, activities, events, estimates, expectations or developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur is forward-looking information, including statements regarding the potential development of mineral resources and mineral reserves which may or may not occur. Forward-looking information contained herein is based on certain assumptions regarding, among other things: general economic and political conditions; the stable and supportive legislative, regulatory and community environment in Brazil; demand for lithium, including that such demand is supported by growth in the electric vehicle market; the Company's market position and future financial and operating performance; the Company's estimates of mineral resources and mineral reserves, including whether mineral resources will ever be developed into mineral reserves; and the Company's ability to operate its mineral projects including that the Company will not experience any materials or equipment shortages, any labour or service provider outages or delays or any technical issues. Although management believes that the assumptions and expectations reflected in the forward-looking information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that these assumptions and expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking information inherently involves and is subject to risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to that the market prices for lithium may not remain at current levels; and the market for electric vehicles and other large format batteries currently has limited market share and no assurances can be given for the rate at which this market will develop, if at all, which could affect the success of the Company and its ability to develop lithium operations. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. For more information on the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ from current expectations, please refer to the current annual information form of the Company and other public filings available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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MCPS offers free meals to school district students
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Students in Marion County can stop by a school for their next meal, courtesy of the public school district’s Summer Food Service program.
The program allows any student 18-years-old and under to walk into a school and get free breakfast and lunch. No paperwork or identification is required, nor do students need to be enrolled in summer classes.
“This has been such an amazing opportunity for the students and families...to have the opportunity to have healthy and quality breakfast and lunches during the summertime,” said Victoria Hunt, principal of Wyomina Park Elementary.
Kevin Christian with Marion County Public Schools said the program helps bridge the gap between some families struggling to put food on the table.
“We’ve got thousands of students that depend on schools to provide them with breakfast and lunch and sometimes snack meals during the day during the regular school year and sometimes those are the only meals those kids get,” said Christian.
It is funded through the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which reimburses the district. MCPS officials said hundreds of thousands of meals are distributed each summer.
Those living far from schools can stop by off-campus locations across the county.
“If we can partner with those community entities and help feed more students that’s exactly what we want to do,” said Christian.
47 spots exist for kids to stop by through July 13th.
Marion County Public School locations:
- Anthony Elementary
- Belleview Elementary
- Belleview-Santos Elementary
- Belleview High
- Dunnellon Middle
- Dunnellon High
- East Marion Elementary
- Emerald Shores Elementary
- Forest High
- Fort King Middle
- Fort McCoy
- Hammett Bowen Jr. Elementary
- Howard Middle
- Lake Weir High
- Lake Weir Middle
- Liberty Middle
- Madison Street Academy
- Maplewood Elementary
- Marion Oaks Elementary
- North Marion High
- Ocala Springs Elementary
- Osceola Middle
- Reddick-Collier Elementary
- Romeo Elementary
- Saddlewood Elementary
- Shady Hill Elementary
- Stanton-Weirsdale Elementary
- Vanguard High
- West Port High
- Wyomina Park Elementary
Off-site locations:
- Acceleration Academies
- Blessed Trinity
- Boys & Girls Club Marion
- Boys & Girls Club Dunnellon
- Boys & Girls Club Shores
- Central Christian Church
- Deer Run Apartments
- E.D. Croskey Center
- Hickory Knoll Apartments
- Howard Academy
- Mt. Zion Church
- Ocala Brazilian
- Parkside Apartments
- Shiloh Church
- YMCA
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Sarasota County Commission Vice Chair Nancy C. Detert dies
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota County has announced the death of Sarasota County Commission Vice Chair Nancy C. Detert.
“It is with deepest regret and sadness that Sarasota County and the Board of County Commissioners must acknowledge the death of our dear friend and colleague Sarasota County Commission Vice Chair Nancy C. Detert,” read a post from the county.
Detert was elected to the Sarasota County Commission in 2016 and subsequently re-elected in 2020. She served as Vice Chair in 2017, Chair in 2018, and was serving as Vice Chair in 2023.
Detert also served in the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. The County says Detert passed away peacefully at home Wednesday.
Copyright 2023 WWSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-06T01:33:19+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/04/06/sarasota-county-commission-vice-chair-nancy-c-detert-dies/ |
Solar Landscape Completes Installation on Facility That Will Deliver Guaranteed Power Bill Savings to Nearby Residents While Creating Jobs and Lowering Emissions
NEPTUNE, N.J., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Landscape, New Jersey's largest community solar owner and operator, announced today that it has completed construction on the first of 46 community solar projects approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) in Year 2 of the Community Solar Energy Pilot Program.
New Jersey's first completed Year 2 project is located on an Extra Space Storage site in Neptune, one of 10 sites owned by the company that is hosting community solar Year 2 projects with Solar Landscape. Extra Space Storage's total 6.5-megawatt (MW) community solar portfolio will cover 800,000 square feet of rooftop solar that will power over 1,400 nearby homes.
"We are thrilled to be involved in this community solar project. At Extra Space Storage, we have been equipping our locations with solar for over a decade, and this new effort to bring solar power to the local community is an exciting development," said McKall Morris, Senior Manager of Communications and Sustainability. "Partnering with Solar Landscape on this project aligns perfectly with our commitments to be good corporate citizens and to participate in environmental initiatives that are positive for our communities, customers, employees, and shareholders."
"Community solar is a vital part of Governor Murphy's clean energy initiative which is aimed at reaching 100 percent clean energy by 2050," said Joseph L. Fiordaliso, President, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. "We are extremely proud of our rapidly growing Community Solar program and a special congratulations to Solar Landscape for becoming the first Year Two project in our program to go online. We are particularly excited that projects such as this enable us to provide access to solar energy for residents who have been unable to access solar energy, because of barriers like cost or where they live."
"Community solar is a central piece of our state's clean energy infrastructure," said Jane Cohen, Director of the Office of Climate Action and the Green Economy. "New Jersey has prioritized the development and deployment of community solar to improve access to clean energy for thousands of New Jersey families, reduce energy costs, and generate good-paying jobs and workforce development opportunities in the growing clean energy industry. We recognize this project as an important step forward in the expansion of Community Solar to our coastal communities and congratulate Solar Landscape for bringing this project online."
"Thanks to Governor Murphy, the NJBPU, community leaders across the state and our installers, New Jersey has become a national model for clean energy equity," said Solar Landscape CEO Shaun Keegan. "The promise of community solar in New Jersey has arrived, and it's bringing guaranteed savings to residents at a time when many other costs are increasing. We're proud to be partnering with Extra Space Storage on this project, which connects business leaders with the local community and saves residents money."
Community solar allows residents to subscribe to a nearby solar installation that is often hosted on a commercial property. The residents receive the electricity generated at a discounted rate, with extra savings for low- to moderate-income households. NJBPU's Community Solar Energy Pilot Program, which is part of Governor Murphy's clean energy agenda, expands access to renewable energy for those who previously could not install solar panels for reasons such as high costs, lack of roof control, or a shaded property.
As part of the community solar program, Solar Landscape has partnered with dozens of schools, nonprofits and community organizations. It has educated nearly 1,000 New Jersey residents and students about renewable energy careers. Along with Sustainable Jersey City, an environmental education nonprofit, the company awarded $20,000 in scholarships to high school seniors through its Community Sustainability Challenge scholarships. Solar Landscape also partners with nonprofits such as Asbury Park's Interfaith Neighbors and the Affordable Housing Alliance to build the community support necessary to make community solar projects successful.
The Neptune community solar site will generate approximately 500 kilowatts of energy, with the other nine sites located in New Jersey towns spanning seven counties (Atlantic, Bergen, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties):
- Egg Harbor
- Ho Ho Kus
- Jersey City
- Lawrence
- Parlin
- Old Bridge
- Iselin
- Neptune
- Hazlet
- Toms River
The diversity of these towns underscores the innovation of New Jersey's community solar program, which enables the commercial real estate sector to contribute meaningfully to lowering carbon emissions by installing panels on their entire roof, not just the portion that covers the building's energy needs. The program also allows the commercial sector to play a role in expanding energy equity by making it possible for community solar subscribers – the majority of whom are lower-income – to power their homes with renewable energy and participate in the fight against climate change.
Through the New Jersey Community Solar Energy Pilot Program's Year 1 and 2, Solar Landscape has 70 MW of solar energy built or under construction. The company currently owns and operates more than half – eight out of 14 – of New Jersey's active community solar projects, making it the nation's largest clean energy portfolio designated for low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. The projects have generated more than 22.63-gigawatt hours of emissions-free electricity to date, the equivalent of avoiding 9,790 metric tons of CO2 being put into the local air.
Last year the company cut the ribbon on the state's first community solar project with Governor Phil Murphy. Upon completion of all its approved projects, the company's 54 community solar sites will power more than 11,000 homes, the largest portfolio in the nation to focus on lower-income subscribers.
Over the next 20 years, the company estimates that the projects will save New Jersey residents over $20 million on their energy bills.
Residents interested in learning more about community solar can visit www.SolarLandscape.com.
About Solar Landscape
Based in Asbury Park, Solar Landscape is a leading full-service developer, designer, installer, owner, and operator of community solar and solar energy solutions for the commercial/industrial, municipal, public school and non-profit marketplaces. The company employs more than 100 people and has more than 200 megawatts of solar energy projects completed or under construction. For more about Solar Landscape, visit www.solarlandscape.com or check us out on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram.
About Extra Space Storage
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and/or operated 2,130 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 1.5 million units and approximately 164.2 million square feet of rentable storage space. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States. The company has won several industry awards for their sustainability efforts. Learn more on ir.extraspace.com.
Contact: Shannon Furey, shannon@mdidit.com
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Thousands of nurses began striking Monday at two of New York City's biggest hospitals. They have already disrupted patient care, but nurses say they won't return until they get a fair contract.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jon Rahm withdrew from The Players Championship on Friday because of a stomach illness, leaving the strongest field of the year without its No. 1 player.
Rahm opened with a 71. He was due to play with second-ranked Scottie Scheffler and third-ranked Rory McIlroy in the second round.
He pulled out some 30 minutes before his tee time with what his manager referred to as a “bad stomach bug.”
Rahm already is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, allowing him to regain the No. 1 ranking. Scheffler and McIlroy could overtake him this week depending on how they fare. McIlroy, who shot 76 on the first day, first had to try to make the cut.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-11T16:21:20+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/jon-rahm-out-of-players-championship-with-stomach-illness/ |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — One day after a jury decided Infowars host Alex Jones owes the family of a Sandy Hook victim millions of dollars, it sat down again to decide other damages he owes: more than $45 million.
The court found last year Jones was liable for claims that the shooting was a hoax and parents were “crisis actors.” Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of a 6-year-old who died, sued Jones for defamation and inflicting mental anguish.
For the past two weeks, jurors have heard testimony in Austin, and on Thursday calculated the first of two sums of money he owes. They returned a verdict of $4.1 million in compensatory damages, or how much the parents were owed for defamation and mental anguish.
On Friday, it considered the second sum: punitive damages, or how much he owes as punishment. It unanimously decided he owed a total of $45.2 million.
The jury heard, for the first time, testimony on Jones’ net worth from forensic economist Dr. Bernard Pettingill Jr., who estimated the combined net worth of Jones and Free Speech Systems, LLC, to be somewhere between $135 million and $270 million.
Throughout the trial, jurors have been able to ask their own questions. One asked Pettingill what the difference was between the net worth of an individual and a company that person owns.
“There’s really no difference,” he said. “You cannot separate Alex Jones from the company.”
Jones’ defense attorney, Andino Reynal, disputed Pettingill’s testimony and said “we didn’t get any evidence as to what Alex Jones actually has today.” At the end of July, Free Speech Systems LLC filed for bankruptcy.
“You rendered a verdict based on reason and sense, which is what you should do again,” Reynal said as he continued his closing argument.
The plaintiffs had originally asked for $150 million in compensatory damages, and $145.9 million in punitive damages.
“Your (Thursday) verdict doesn’t punish or deter thus far in any way — that is what this stage is for,” said Wesley Ball, an attorney for Lewis, in closing arguments. Ball told the jury they have been given two tasks: to punish Jones and deter others “who may want to step into his shoes.” | 2022-08-05T22:27:37+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/alex-jones-jury-considers-additional-punitive-damages/ |
Fresh snow fell in the California mountains on Wednesday, adding to a staggering total that has blocked roads, stranded visitors for days, and left thousands of homes and businesses in the cold without electricity.
The Sierra Nevada range in the north and Southern California mountains were under blizzard warnings for a storm overnight into early Wednesday that snowed in some areas, dumped rain in many areas and chilled much of the state.
The heavy snow was expected to end Wednesday afternoon after an additional 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 centimeters) falls in the region, according to the National Weather Service.
Record cold was possible, with lows down to 28 degrees (minus 2.2 Celsius), and the National Weather Service issued freeze and frost warnings into early Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere.
The University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Pass reported that nearly 41.7 feet (12.7 meters) has fallen since October, more than in any snow year since 1970 and second only to the record of 66.7 feet (20.3 meters) in 1952.
Mammoth Lakes, traditionally one of the snowiest places in California, had nearly 4 feet (1.2 meters) of snow over the past three days. Snow drifts were taller than houses, and crews were working around the clock trying to keep roads and sidewalks clear.
Homeless people and those without electricity were at special risk from the cold, the weather service said.
The storm comes a week after storms stretched from the Pacific Coast to the northern Plains and is now blamed for two deaths in Portland, Oregon. One of them died of hypothermia on Tuesday, according to a medical examiner.
California wasn’t the only area battered by fierce weather. The National Weather Service predicted that a powerful weather system would affect most of the lower 48 states into Thursday, with heavy snow across the Southwest and some portions of the High Plains but record high temperatures in the Gulf Coast into the Ohio Valley and a threat of tornadoes from the southern Plains to the mid-South, according to the National Weather Service.
Areas in the dividing line between hot and cold, such as the lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley, could see heavy rain, thunderstorms and some flash flooding. The high could top 100 degrees F (38 Celsius) across far south Texas, and windy, dry conditions would make for a critical risk of wildfire conditions across in parts of the Southwest for the next few days, according to the weather service.
Recent storms around the country have delayed travel, shuttered schools and overwhelmed crews trying to dig out of the snow and repair downed power lines. More than 67,000 customers were without power Wednesday morning in Michigan, which is still recovering from ice storms, and nearly 98,000 in California, according to the website poweroutage.us.
Weather also continued to play a role in the cancellation of more than five dozen flights and delays of hundreds more around the country.
In California’s Sierra Nevada, the weather service warned that travel could be difficult to impossible because blowing snow could cause whiteouts on roads, while wind chill factors as low as minus 30 (minus 34 Celsius ) could quickly cause frostbite.
The Lake Tahoe area that straddles the California and Nevada borders in the Sierra Nevada was expected to have blizzard conditions with winds gusting to 100 mph along the ridgetops, while the lake itself could see waves large enough to capsize small boats, the weather service warned.
“If you risk travel you could become stranded in vehicles for hours,” the weather service warned.
Yosemite National Park, closed since Saturday because of heavy, blinding snow, postponed its planned Thursday reopening indefinitely.
The Sierra snowpack provides about a third of the state’s water supply and the water content of the snowpack Tuesday — in a state grappling with years of drought — was 186% of normal to date. It was 162% of the average on April 1, when it is historically at its peak, according to the state Department of Water Resources’ online data.
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EARLY WARNING WEATHER ALERT: Strong-to-severe storms possible today
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut is in the “slight risk” category for strong-to-severe storms on Thursday, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
Channel 3 issued an Early Warning Weather Alert as a result.
Meteorologist Scot Haney said the potential for the storms comes especially after 5 p.m.
“The greatest threats are damaging wind, isolated heavy downpours, a little hail and we can’t rule out the possibility of a tornado somewhere in New England,” Haney said.
In the meantime, the humidity returned.
Temperatures could hit 90 degrees, if there’s enough sunshine.
That could be the start of another heat wave, which needs three consecutive days of 90 degree weather recorded at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks.
“[Friday], we’ll end the week with a continuation of uncomfortable humidity under a mix of sun and clouds,” Haney said. “While most of the time will be dry, late day showers/storms will be possible as a cold front moves into the region toward and after sunset.”
A decrease in humidity is expected for the weekend. Both days look dry and bright.
High’s Saturday will be in the mid-80s. Sunday looks slightly hotter.
Read the complete weather technical discussion here.
For updates on smartphones and tablets, download the WFSB Weather and News apps here.
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Using dating apps to find love in 2023
(WFSB) - If you’re single in 2023, you might feel that deeply. Dating can be tough. But is all lost?
Eyewitness News spoke with a dating expert and a woman trying to date in the digital world to see what life is like for people looking for love.
Looking for love in 2023 could be as easy as picking up your phone.
Dating apps have become the norm, and professional match maker Maria Avgitidis said they’re not going anywhere.
“Now to not be online is to not have an email, it’s the equivalent,” said Avgitidis.
She also said people are literally tired of swiping.
“Dating has shifted dramatically in the last 30 years just on its own, I think there’s been like five different waves, and we’re currently experiencing extreme dating fatigue wave, you know where people just don’t want to spend any more time online they just want to go out, they want to go out on the date, and I do advise people if you’re online, no more pen pals, you have to use the dating apps as a method to go offline,” Avgitidis said.
Laura Thompson is a full-time nurse, going back to school and dating.
She said getting off the apps is sometimes hard to do.
“I think it’s a lot easier to dismiss people, you just kind of move on to the next person it’s like those dopamine hits when you’re swiping. It’s the same with a lot of the scrolling on the apps, you get those dopamine hits and you just move on to the next person,” Thompson said.
But people do have success online. A lot of it.
“I think it’s something like more than 60-percent of relationships started online. So that is the majority of how people meet,” said Avgitidis.
That’s digital dating, but for Thompson, she knows both digital and what experts call analog dating, and she said there are pros and cons to both.
“The analog dating, your circle can get pretty small. Or you know people so it’s harder to be like, oh yeah I can see myself with a romantic partner with this person. Versus the digital dating, your circle expands you get to see people, meet people who you wouldn’t necessarily meet versus if they’re just in a different town, if they’re in a different area, it can expand your circle a little bit better that way. Which is good, but then you know, those people don’t come with, their friends don’t get to tell you all their pros and cons before, you don’t get. Yeah they don’t come with a reference sheet,” Thompson said.
Avgitidis said there are other aspects of dating that have changed as well.
“I feel like a lot of first date rules went out the window after the 2016 election where people started talking a lot more about politics, because that is still a pretty big deal breaker in the U.S. for a lot of people,” said Avgitidis.
She said those deal breakers have also changed. Prior to 2016 the number one deal breaker in dating was always smoking. Now smoking is number 2 for most people.
“After the 2016 election it became politics and political compatibility. After 2020, in fact in 2021, the next big deal breaker was are you vaccinated, and it wasn’t just us. Ok Cupid, Hinge, a lot of online dating apps started coming out with emojis that showed if you were vaccinated or not. So that became the new deal breaker. Now in 2023, and this actually started in the summer of 2022, the new deal breaker and it was across the spectrum: is your stance on a woman’s right to full healthcare,” Avgitidis said.
As people get more comfortable coming out of the pandemic, more casual dates have taken over dinner and cocktails.
If you’re one of the people swiping for a soulmate, experts say put the phone down, hold your friends accountable, and go out.
“I think it’s going to get better. I think part of it is, you know when you go out with friends and everything I think people do tend to stick with just their friend group, we don’t go off and mingle with other people at the bar like you used to so, but I think coming out of the pandemic maybe that’ll start to get better again and you can meet people that way and then maybe we’ll all get a little bit more patience and not just write off someone for an awkward comment,” said
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Barcelona has signed American teenager Onyeka Gamero for its women's B team, calling her one of the most promising prospects in women's soccer in the United States.
The 17-year-old forward also has Spanish citizenship because of her father, and has Nigerian origins through her mother.
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Gamero, wo had previously committed to playing college soccer at Stanford, has played for the youth squads of the U.S. national team and was with Beach FC in California.
She was most recently in action for the U.S. Under-20 team at the Concacaf U20 Women's Championship, where she scored her team's lone goal in a final loss to Mexico. Gamero also represented the U.S. at the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup last year.
Barcelona on Thursday said it also signed 16-year-old Norwegian forward Martine Fenger for its youth team. She has played for Norway's youth squads and was at Kolbotn FC.
Both players will reside in Barcelona's youth academy. | 2023-06-29T23:03:24+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37935843/barcelona-signs-us-teenager-onyeka-gamero-women-b-team |
Tulsa. Duncan, Rachelle, 61. Math Professor at Oklahoma State University. Died Monday, August 22. Private Service. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Chapel
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OpenAI CEO calls for global cooperation to regulate AI
By Michelle Toh and Yoonjung Seo, CNN
Hong Kong/Seoul (CNN) — Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, used a high-profile trip to South Korea on Friday to call for coordinated international regulation of generative artificial intelligence, the technology that underpins his famous chatbot.
“As these systems get very, very powerful, that does require special concern, and it has global impact. So it also requires global cooperation,” Altman said at an event in Seoul, ahead of a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
He is one of hundreds of top experts who recently warned about the risk of human extinction from AI, saying mitigating that possibility “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Altman explained Friday that his concern was “not our inability to adapt, it is the speed [at which] this might all happen.”
“If you study the history of technological revolutions, seems like roughly in two generations, we can adapt to almost any amount of labor market change. But if this all happens in 10 years, that’s a new challenge,” he said.
Governments are under pressure to regulate AI.
In a Friday statement, President Yoon stressed the importance of international standards to prevent unwanted “side effects” related to platforms such as ChatGPT, saying there was a need to act “with a sense of speed.”
Last month, top US and European officials met in Sweden to discuss oversight of AI, where they pledged to help establish voluntary codes of conduct, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as quoted by Reuters.
In China, authorities will also “be initiating AI regulation,” according to Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI before breaking from the group. Musk cited meetings with senior government officials during his trip to China last week, Reuters reported.
ChatGPT, which can handle myriad tasks including answering prompts and writing essays, has already led many businesses to rethink how people should work.
In March, its developer OpenAI unveiled a more advanced version of the software behind the bot, GPT-4, showing how it could simplify coding, help create websites and pass exams with high marks.
Impact on jobs
The rise of artificial intelligence has led economists to warn of a massive shift in the labor market.
As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could eventually be automated in some way by generative AI, according to Goldman Sachs estimates.
Some 14 million positions could disappear in the next five years alone, according to an April report by the World Economic Forum.
Certain white-collar workers are seen to be particularly at risk, with administrative workers and lawyers expected to be the most affected.
“I think what will really happen is not that none of us have jobs, but we have different kinds of jobs that may not look much like the jobs of today,” Altman said at an event hosted by SoftBank (SFTBF).
“And when people 100 years from now look back at us now, they’ll be like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe they lived like that.’”
Like other experts, Altman stressed that the technology would also open up more opportunities in terms of jobs and industries “that weren’t possible before.”
Asked by an audience member how students should plan to “survive” in the age of AI, he said “it’s not a question of survival.”
“You are about to enter, I think like, the greatest golden age of human possibility, technological development, economic growth,” Altman said.
“[The] ability to learn new things fast and adapt to them and sort of evolve yourself into technology, those are the kinds of skills that I think are going to be very much rewarded.”
Asked which specific regulations he thought should be adopted, Altman gave little detail, saying for now it made sense for various countries to form their own approaches “in different ways.”
But he said there was an international dialogue beginning to kick off about the long-term, global effects of AI platforms as they continue to “automate more and more.”
Altman’s stop in Seoul followed a visit to India, where he met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and discussed “how the country can benefit” from AI, the executive tweeted.
The Silicon Valley mogul has been on a whirlwind international tour this week, packing in visits to Israel and the United Arab Emirates, along with India and South Korea.
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A Youngstown, Ohio-based law firm has announced a class-action lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway over the derailment of a train in East Palestine, using a strategy it says echoes the state’s 1990s lawsuit against tobacco companies.
The firm, Johnson and Johnson, is partnering with class-action law firm Hagens Berman on behalf of all residents within 30 miles of the derailment site. The lawsuit specifically invokes the legal doctrine of “public nuisance,” the backbone of both the landmark 1990s lawsuits against the tobacco industry and ongoing litigation against opioid manufacturers and fossil fuel companies. Hagens Berman represented the state of Ohio in tobacco litigation as well as an ongoing opioid suit.
In addition to punitive damages, the lawsuit also seeks the creation of a fund for medical monitoring, new testing and cleaning procedures and injunctive relief in the form of safety and compliance oversight.
The Environmental Protection Agency has already said it will compel Norfolk Southern to cover all cleanup expenses, as well as the lodging costs for residents who were temporarily evacuated. In an email to The Hill, Hagens Berman managing partner Steve Berman said the lawsuit’s aims were distinct from those expenses.
“All of our lawsuit’s proposed benefits (monetary damages for all injured businesses & residents/individuals within 30 miles of the derailment, establishment of testing & cleaning protocols, a medical monitoring fund, injunctive relief oversight to Norfolk Southern’s safety & compliance programs) would be above and beyond what the EPA would have for residents,” Berman said. “Additionally, we will want a say in what an effective cleanup is.”
The Norfolk Southern train derailed Feb. 3, toppling multiple cars containing hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, a toxic substance used in the manufacture of plastics. State and federal authorities have said the air and water are safe for residents, but earlier this week, the state Department of Natural Resources updated its estimate of animals that have died in the area from 35,000 to more than 43,000.
A Norfolk Southern spokesperson said the company cannot comment on ongoing litigation.
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TUNIS, Tunisia — The number of people killed in a gun attack on a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage has risen to five, Tunisia's TAP news agency said Wednesday. The victims were two Jewish pilgrims and three Tunisian police guards.
A police guard who had been hospitalized after Tuesday's attack died from his injuries on Wednesday, according to a medical official cited by TAP. Four other members of the security forces remain hospitalized in Djerba, including one in critical condition, according to TAP.
The motive for the attack was still under investigation.
Israeli authorities and Tunisian authorities and the family identified the civilian victims as cousins: Aviel Haddad, 30, who held dual Tunisian and Israeli citizenship, and Benjamin Haddad, 42, who was French.
Four civilians were also injured, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The attacker was slain by security guards.
In a statement, the French foreign ministry expressed its "deep sadness" at the attack.
France paid tribute to the "rapid intervention of the Tunisian security forces and stands by Tunisia to continue the fight against antisemitism and all forms of fanaticism," the statement said.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli noted that "unfortunately the incident was preceded by a tense period of shouts and harassment of the Jewish community at the site," according to his office.
Israel's foreign minister, Eli Cohen, spoke with the Chief Rabbi of Tunis, Haim Bitan, and "told him that Israel stands alongside the community in this difficult hour." He said he instructed ministry officials to provide all needed aid. Israel and Tunisia do not have formal diplomatic relations.
The European Jewish Congress expressed its "shock and outrage".
"Terror attacks continue to target Jews around the world even when they are gathered in prayer, as we know from countless experiences over the years including at this very synagogue," EJC President Ariel Muzicant said in a statement.
Djerba, a picturesque island off the southern coast of Tunisia, is home to the North African country's main Jewish community. An annual pilgrimage at the reportedly 2,500-year-old Ghriba temple, thought to be one of the world's oldest synagogues, attracts thousands of visitors from around the world.
The assailant, a guard affiliated with the National Guard naval center in the port town of Aghir on Djerba, first killed a colleague with his service weapon before seizing ammunition and heading toward the Ghriba synagogue, the Tunisian Interior ministry said.
When he reached the site, he opened fire on security units stationed at the temple, who fired back, killing him before he reached the entrance, the ministry said.
Former Minister of Tourism René Trabelsi told Tunisian radio Mosaique FM he was at the Ghriba synagogue with family members during the attack. He described the place as almost empty because most visitors had already left the site.
"The shooting was heavy and the attacker tried to enter the synagogue compound," he said. "The counterterrorism officers, who were extremely professional, quickly blocked all exits. A carnage was thus avoided."
Aviel Haddad's sister, Rona, told Israel's Kan public radio that the entire family had immigrated to Israel from Tunisia, and that her brother, a jeweler, traveled to Djerba frequently.
She said she and her family tried unsuccessfully for hours after the attack to contact him and later learned the news through family friends.
Rona Haddad said the family intended to bury Aviel Haddad in Israel.
The president of the Israelite Consistory of the French southern city of Marseille, Michel Cohen-Tenoudji said Benjamin Haddad, a father of four, was a well-known, very active member of the local Jewish community.
"He was running a kosher bakery in the city center and was known for offering Shabbat bread to people in need," he told French media. "The family is devastated. On a personal level, I feel indignation, horror and sorrow."
In 2002, a truck bombing killed some 20 people at the entrance to the same temple during the annual Jewish pilgrimage. Al-Qaida claimed that attack, whose victims included German and French tourists as well as Tunisians.
In 2015, an attack in Tunisia at the Mediterranean resort of Sousse killed 38, mostly British tourists. The Islamic State group claimed the attack, along with attacks that year on the famed Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis and on a bus carrying presidential guards.
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This year’s midterms saw many high-profile candidates take to the debate stage to treat viewers to substantive conversations on policy and social issues — as well as plenty of barbs, stunts and gaffes.
This year’s midterms bucked tradition, with many major candidates — both Republicans and Democrats — opting against participating in a debate.
Many races, including key Senate contests in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona, only had one debate. On other occasions, candidates like Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs (D) and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano (R) refused to participate in any debates.
Even so, there were several debate moments this year that left a lasting impression on viewers. Here are the seven most memorable moments from the midterm debates.
Walker flashes ‘prop’ badge
Walker flashes a police badge as he speak to supporters during a campaign rally in Atlanta.
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker pulled out an honorary police badge during the key Senate race’s debate in mid-October, earning him a scolding from the moderator.
Prior to running for Senate, Walker claimed that he worked in law enforcement, despite no evidence existing to support such a claim.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) took aim at Walker’s assertions during a question about crime and policing at the Oct. 14 debate, noting that he has “never pretended to be a police officer.”
In response, Walker flashed the police badge — which his campaign later explained was a gift from the Cobb County sheriff’s department — and said he had “worked with many police officers.”
The debate’s moderator scolded Walker for violating debate rules by using a “prop,” noting that he was “well aware of the rules.” However, Walker seemed to double down on his previous claims of law enforcement work, saying, “It’s not a prop. This is real.”
In an interview several days later, Walker again said it was a “real badge” and that he carried it with him “all the time.” However, he eventually admitted that it was “honorary,” and he did not have arresting powers.
Walker’s campaign attempted to play off the stunt, announcing that it was ordering 1,000 imitation badges to distribute at a fundraiser to show the Republican candidate’s support for law enforcement.
DeSantis dodges 2024 question
DeSantis speaks during a televised debate against Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, at Sunrise Theatre in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely considered one of the leading Republican contenders for president in 2024, repeatedly dodged a question from his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist at last week’s debate on whether he plans to run for office in 2024 or finish a full second term as governor.
“You talk about Joe Biden a lot,” Crist said. “I understand. You think you’re going to be running against him. I can see how you might get confused. But you’re running for governor … Why don’t you look in the eyes of the people of the state of Florida and say to them, if you’re reelected, you will serve a full four-year term as governor.”
DeSantis remained silent with a straight face as the debate moderator stepped in and noted that they “did not agree on the candidates asking each other questions.”
The Florida governor ignored the 2024 question and instead opted for a jab at Crist.
“Well listen, I know Charlie’s interested in talking about 2024 and Joe Biden, but I just want to make things very, very clear,” DeSantis said. “The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.”
Crist again addressed the question at a later point in the debate. Once more, DeSantis refused to respond.
Fetterman says he’s ‘always supported’ fracking
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman speaks at a campaign rally with President Joe Biden.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) had an overall rocky performance at the first and only debate of the Pennsylvania Senate race last week. However, he particularly seemed to stumble in his response to a question about fracking.
While Fetterman previously said in a 2018 interview that he didn’t support fracking “at all” and “never” has, the debate’s moderator noted that the Democratic candidate had flipped on the issue in recent statements.
“I’ve always supported fracking,” Fetterman said in response. When pressed to reconcile his remarks with the previous comments, Fetterman simply doubled down, saying, “I do support fracking … I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking.”
Fetterman later attempted to clarify his position in an interview on CNN, explaining that “all of the reservations that I had with fracking were all about the environmental concerns, and Pennsylvania passed some of the strongest environmental regulations.”
However, CNN’s Don Lemon noted that the new state laws went into effect in 2016, prior to Fetterman’s 2018 fracking remarks.
Oz says ‘women, doctors, local political leaders’ should decide abortion
Oz addresses an election rally in Latrobe, Pa. before former President Donald Trump speaks.
Fetterman’s Republican opponent Mehmet Oz also suffered a gaffe on the debate stage last week, with his remark that “women, doctors [and] local political leaders” should make decisions about abortions.
“There should not be involvement from the federal government in how states decide their abortion decisions,” Oz said. “As a physician, I’ve been in the room when there’s some difficult conversations happening. I don’t want the federal government involved with that at all.”
“I want women, doctors, local political leaders — letting the democracy that’s always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves,” he added.
Oz’s remarks left many confused as to what role he thought local political leaders should play in the abortion issue. Fetterman’s campaign later seized on the remarks, cutting an ad that highlighted them amid concern over the fallout of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The Republican candidate has tried to separate himself from recent efforts to pass a national abortion ban, like the one proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that Oz declined to back.
Lee waves pocket Constitution amid fiery exchange over Jan. 6
Lee holds his pocket Constitution of the United States during a televised debate with his independent challenger Evan McMullin in Orem, Utah.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) brought out his pocket Constitution while defending his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, a move that his Independent challenger Evan McMullin denounced as using the historical document as a “prop.”
After McMullin accused Lee of playing a role in the violence that unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the incumbent senator pulled out his pocket Constitution as he rejected the allegations.
“This document written by the hands of wise men raised up by God to that very purpose — I followed it, I studied it, and I defended it to a T,” Lee said, holding up the booklet. “For you to suggest otherwise looks right in the face of truth and in the face of the Constitution.”
However, McMullin criticized his opponent for the move.
“Sen. Lee, the Constitution is not a prop for you to wave about and then when it’s convenient for your pursuit of power to abandon without a thought,” the Independent said.
Lee responded, arguing that he doesn’t carry the mini copy of the Constitution as a prop and instead calling it a “reference manual.”
Masters says Biden was legitimately elected
Masters speaks at a Save America rally in Prescott, Ariz.
Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters — a Trump-endorsed candidate that has echoed the former president’s unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election — acknowledged that President Biden was legitimately elected at the sole debate of the race in October.
“Joe Biden’s absolutely the president. I mean, my gosh, have you seen the gas prices recently?” Masters said. “I’m not trying to trick you. He’s duly sworn and certified. He’s the legitimate president. He’s in the White House, unfortunately for us.”
The GOP candidate also said he has not seen evidence of fraud in vote counting or election results.
Instead, Masters suggested, without evidence, that the FBI forced the media and major technology companies to censor information before the 2020 election that could have impacted voters’ choices. If this had not occurred, Masters said he suspected Trump “would be in the White House today.”
Masters received a phone call from Trump after the debate, captured in a Fox News documentary released last month. The former president urged the Republican candidate to go harder on claims of election fraud, noting Masters’ “bad election answer” in the debate.
“You’ll lose if you go soft,” Trump warned on the call. “You’re gonna lose that base.”
Oklahoma governor challenged over state’s crime statistics
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin State addresses a campaign rally in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) laughed at his Democratic opponent Joy Hofmeister during a late October debate when she noted that Oklahoma’s violent crime statistics are worse than Democratic-led states.
“So, let’s talk about the facts,” Hofmeister said. “The fact is the rates of violent crime are higher in Oklahoma under your watch than in New York and California. That’s a fact.”
“That’s not true. That’s not true,” Stitt said, interrupting his opponent twice. He then cut Hofmeister off again to pose a question to the audience.
“Hang on, Oklahomans,” he said, laughing. “Do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California? That’s what she just said.”
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WASHINGTON — An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate balcony during the Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.
Josiah Colt, one of the first rioters to reach the Senate floor on Jan. 6, 2021, later pleaded guilty that year to obstructing Congress' certification of Joe Biden's White House victory.
Also Wednesday, a man who accompanied Colt to the District of Columbia in a rental car with two pistols, knives, a stun gun, body armor and other gear was sentenced to about three years in prison, according to court records. Las Vegas resident Nathaniel DeGrave, who also entered the Senate gallery, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and assault charges last year.
Both men had agreed to cooperate with investigators as part of their plea deals.
Prosecutors say Colt, DeGrave and a third man, Ronald Sandlin, came to Washington prepared for violence and were intent on stopping lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 election as they joined the angry mob of then-President Donald Trump supporters in storming the Capitol.
On Dec. 31, 2020, the men had discussed in a Facebook chat a plan for “shipping guns” to Sandlin’s home in Tennessee. Days later, Sandlin posted on social media a photo of Colt, who was lying in bed with his eyes closed and holding a handgun, with the caption: “My fellow patriot Josiah Colt sleeping ready for the boogaloo Jan 6th.” Boogaloo is a term some extremists use to refer to a second civil war. Colt replied to the post, “Ready for any battle,” followed by a laughing emoji.
Colt brought his pistol to a rally the day before the riot, but decided to leave it at a hotel on the morning of Jan. 6, authorities said. The three men watched on TV as Trump told his supporters in a speech before the riot to “fight like hell” or they were “not going to have a country anymore.”
After the riot erupted, the men entered the Capitol through the Upper West Terrace doors. They went to a hallway outside the Senate gallery, where Sandlin led a charge against police officers as Colt entered, according to prosecutors.
Colt shouted, “This is our House! This is our country! This is for the people!” before he jumped to the Senate floor. Sitting in a chair reserved for then-Vice President Mike Pence, as president of the Senate, Colt raised his fist as rioters cheered him on, prosecutors said. Colt opened a door and allowed dozens of other rioters to join him.
DeGrave, who carried a can of bear spray in his pocket, called on others on the Senate floor to “take laptops, paperwork, take everything," according to court papers
Sandlin, of Millington, Tennessee, was sentenced in December to five years and three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and assault charges.
Colt's lawyers said in a court filing that Colt “is a good person who made a series of very bad choices based on misinformation and the emotional oratory of a demagogue.”
Prosecutors accused DeGrave of trying to capitalize on his participation in the attack by selling video footage of the riot to media outlets.
“He has even profited off of his unlawful conduct on January 6 since being incarcerated — to the tune of over $120,000 — by seeking donations on crowd-funding websites claiming that he is a ‘political prisoner’ of a ‘corrupt Biden regime,’” prosecutors wrote.
DeGrave's lawyer said in court papers that DeGrave regrets “allowing himself to be drawn into the world of those claiming ‘political persecution’ as a result of their actions on January 6."
"Nathaniel recognizes the intellectual dishonesty of admitting the criminality of his own conduct on January 6 on the one hand, and complaining about unfair treatment by the criminal justice system on the other," defense lawyer William Shipley added.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Nearly 500 of them have been sentenced, with more than half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 14 years and two months.
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The study will evaluate repeat low doses of psilocybin for safety, tolerability, and efficacy in treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) on a take-home basis, including an open-label follow-on extension.
TORONTO, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Diamond Therapeutics Inc. ("Diamond"), a drug development company focused on low-dose psychedelic-derived therapies for use in the treatment of mental health, is pleased to announce it has received Health Canada approval to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and efficacy of repeat low-doses of psilocybin for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The approval comes by way of a No Objection Letter (NOL) from Health Canada.
According to Health Canada's clinical trials database, this is the first study to treat patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder with psychedelics.
GAD affects 6.8 million adults annually in the US, or about 3.1% of the population, yet only an estimated 43.2% of them receive treatment. Patients with GAD experience considerable impairment and disability, similar to major depression, with which GAD often co-occurs. As a result, GAD is associated with a significant economic burden owing to decreased work productivity and increased use of health care services, particularly primary health care. Despite its prevalence and the need for treatment, few Phase 2 or later-stage clinical studies explore new treatments for GAD.
Diamond's trial is a four-week, Phase 2 randomized, double-blind study in adult patients with GAD with the potential for an additional four-week open-label extension. Patients will receive repeat low doses of psilocybin administered on a take-home basis. The study is among the world's first take-home clinical trials with psilocybin and one of the most comprehensive.
"Building on the results of Diamond's completed Phase I clinical trial, which established a safe, tolerable, non-hallucinogenic range for the use of low doses of psilocybin on an outpatient basis, this Phase 2 trial will explore the subjective and cognitive effects of low doses of psilocybin as well as effects on quality of life in adults who meet the criteria for GAD," says Dr. Michael B. McDonnell, Chief Medical Officer of Diamond.
"We are grateful for Health Canada's approval of Diamond's latest clinical trial application, which brings us closer to our goal of developing psilocybin-based medicines that are safe and effective for patients, that are better than the current first-line, and that may be prescribed on an outpatient basis, removing the barrier of lengthy time spent in a clinic," says Judy Blumstock, CEO of Diamond.
Diamond Therapeutics is a psychedelic drug development company based in Toronto. Our mission is to develop new and better therapies for mental health conditions by unlocking the promise of psychedelic compounds. Diamond is focused on sub-perceptual, non-hallucinogenic treatments that hold potential for use across a broad patient cohort —maximizing the positive impact better drugs can have on the global mental health crisis. To learn more about Diamond, visit www.diamondthera.com.
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" under applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information includes statements other than statements of historical fact that can be identified by phrases such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "aims", "plans" and "believes", and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to, the potential effects of low dose psilocybin and other psychedelic treatments, the potential use in treating mental health conditions and the timing and completion of Diamond's clinical programs and trials. Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; delay or failure to receive applicable regulatory approvals; that factors may occur which impede Diamond's future business plans; the results of continued development, marketing and sales; and other factors beyond the control of Diamond. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Diamond disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information in this news release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare confirms the first influenza-related death of the 2022-2023 flu season.
The name of the person who died isn't being released, but IDHW said Thursday that he was a resident of Nez Perce County, in north-central Idaho, and was over the age of 65.
Over the past five seasons, Idaho has averaged 45 reported flu-related deaths each year, with most of them being among people 65 and older.
"The Department of Health and Welfare is reminding residents that flu can be very serious," said Idaho Influenza Surveillance Coordinator Dr. Leslie Tengelsen. "Influenza activity is on the rise in Idaho and across the country, with the highest nationwide activity currently being seen in eastern and southeastern states"
Three respiratory viruses are in circulation right now: influenza, SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). The potential for elevated respiratory infections due to co-circulation of these viruses has, in recent weeks, been referred to as the "triple threat" or "tripledemic."
Tengelsen said everyone over six months of age should get an annual flu vaccine and stay up to date on COVID-19 boosters. Getting the flu vaccine every year is especially important for people at higher risk for serious flu-related complications, including people with chronic health conditions, pregnant women, young children, and anyone 65 years of age or older. Healthy people should be vaccinated to protect vulnerable populations.
Symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headache, chills, or fatigue. Although most people who get the flu recover after a few days, some people can have serious complications, including death.
Here's a list of other recommended actions people can take to prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, including the flu:
- Wear a mask and physically distance yourself whenever you are in public.
- Wash your hands frequently or use hand sanitizer. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth until you have washed your hands.
- Get plenty of rest, drink plenty of liquids, eat nutritious foods, and take part in physical activity to stay healthy.
- Avoid people who appear sick.
- Stay home from work or school when sick.
- Cover your coughs and sneezes.
So far in the 2022-23 flu season, 1,700 specimens have been tested for influenza at the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories; eight of them tested positive. More than 7,500 specimens tested positive nationwide as of the end of October.
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My name is Mark Pynes, and I’ve worked at the Patriot-News and PennLive.com since 1998, the first 14 years as director of photography and since 2013 as a staff photographer/videographer.
I’m originally from the West Coast where I worked at newspapers in Oregon for seven years, then 11 years at newspapers in Northern California before heading east when hired by The Patriot-News.
I live in Camp Hill with my wife, Dawn, and my two children, Cole, 18, and Helen, 11.
My proudest project of the year was a series of portraits of Black Fathers, with their kids or grandkids, that ran on Father’s Day 2022, which just so happened to be Juneteenth this year. Here Idriys Muhammad, who is confined to a wheelchair from a car accident, poses with his grandsons Tyreese, 7, and Lamar Griffith, 9, who he is raising in Harrisburg, Pa., Jun 2, 2022.
We covered a lot of high school sports at PennLive in 2022 with many winning moments like this one when Hershey’s Justin Rogers set a new state pole vault record clearing 17′ 2″ at the Mid Penn Track & Field Championships at Chambersburg Area High School, May 14, 2022. Rogers went on to win gold in the state championships while breaking his own state record.
But as the old Wide World of Sports program use to say we covered “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,” and all the emotion hitting Mechanicsburg’s star basketball player Emma Castilla after she fouled out of the 2022 PIAA 5A semifinal game against Cardinal O’Hara and is comforted by Head Coach Clay McAllister, Mar. 19, 2022.
Of course, we cover breaking news at PennLive and in April we faced one of the worst stories possible, the killing of Lebanon Police Officer, Lt. William Lebo, Apr. 2, 2022. Here offices salute as his body is brought back to Lebanon, where thousands lined 422 to pay their respect, after an autopsy in Allentown.
In August we looked to expand our extensive Fall sports coverage by photographing area High School marching bands and cheerleading squads. One of the largest bands in the area was the Hershey High School band, 97 strong. Aug. 23, 2022.
We try to capture the human face of any issue or event including Karen Marencic, Highspire, an 18-year survivor of breast cancer, as she celebrates at the start of the 25th annual Breast Cancer Walk in Harrisburg, Pa., on Oct. 15, 2022.
Here is a gallery of more of what I felt was my best work from 2022. And here’s looking forward to covering more local people and stories in 2023. | 2022-12-27T11:58:56+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/12/mark-pynes-photos-of-the-year-for-2022.html |
Two top House Democrats reluctantly battle in NY primary
By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — At least one of New York City’s most veteran members of Congress will be voted out of office Tuesday in a Democratic primary pitting U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler against U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney. The unusual battle between incumbents is the result of a redistricting process that lumped Nadler’s home base on the west side of Manhattan together with Maloney’s on the east side. Neither was willing to run in another part of the city. Nadler and Maloney are joined in the race by Suraj Patel, a lawyer and lecturer at New York University. | 2022-08-23T08:29:12+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2022/08/22/two-top-house-democrats-reluctantly-battle-in-ny-primary/ |
In a private facility in Harlem, New York, a man named Danny is about to shoot up heroin. He says it's a safe place to be.
It's an overdose prevention center — one of only two in the nation.
"They will keep you from having an overdose," Danny said. "They have the medication that they put into you to clear out, to stop."
The two centers, one in Harlem and the other one in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, are run by the nonprofit Onpoint NYC.
"For me, it was a response to losing too many people to overdoses," said Sam Rivera, executive director of OnPoint NYC.
Rivera says the primary purpose is to stop overdose deaths; it's not about rehab or to stop people from using.
"The goal is to keep them alive," Rivera said.
They also create a welcoming environment for their participants — that’s what they call the visitors looking for a safe place to use drugs.
"It's an opportunity for us to give them a space that's respectful, that's supportive, that treats them with love and really humanizes their process," Rivera said.
The facility opened last year after a record number of drug overdose fatalities in the city during the pandemic.
"This is really a response to a very scary time we're in," Rivera said.
As the pandemic lingered, the New York City Department of Health recorded 30 drug overdose deaths for every 100,000 residents, just in 2020. That’s triple the amount from 20 years ago.
"We have a partnership with the parks department in New York City," Rivera said. "They average 13,000 syringes a month. They're collecting from the park. Since we've opened, that 13,000 went down to 1,000."
As an overdose prevention specialist at OnPoint NYC, Rayce Samuelson is in charge of the closed-off area —a room with booths and staff with medical background where people can use drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
"We have people sniffing, injecting, smoking and a combination of the three," Samuelson said.
Visitors bring their own drugs, but the staff provides them with clean syringes and other supplies.
"We have a variety of different sized needles, tourniquets, band-aids, gauze, alcohol pads, everything needed to use safely," Samuelson said.
To monitor possible overdoses, Sameulson says they have a strict 4 to 1 ratio between how many staff members and participants are in the room.
Since opening last November, there have been over 1,000 participants. Staff at the centers have reversed at least 270 overdoses.
"We have this Narcan if we need it, and if we see something go down quick," Samuelson said.
The new centers have faced a backlash from local groups and politicians. Those against the program believe it encourages and enables people who have addictions instead of doing something to actually help them.
Republican congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, who represents parts of south Brooklyn and Staten Island, introduced a bill that would prohibit overdose prevention centers from receiving any federal funding.
Newsy reached out to her office for an interview, but she was not available.
For its part, OnPoint runs its two centers on funds from private donors.
"People say to me what you just said, 'Oh, let's go outside and tell people, hey, you want to stop? Let me send you to this place,'" Rivera said. "They've all been there. It doesn't mean they can't go back and get it, but in the interim, while they're still using, we're going to keep them alive, and that's a responsibility of the community as well."
For Danny, it hasn’t been easy to stop using. He says he's been using for 38 years and once did quit everything for three years straight.
"But God knows why I started again," Danny said.
At the centers, the participants can also receive medical and holistic services at no charge, and many of the people on staff were once users.
"I came here as a participant myself last year, and I'm in recovery over a year," said Michelle Garrow, a holistic health specialist. "After a while of volunteering here and everything, they offered me a job, and it just was a great opportunity."
As for OnPoint, Rivera says he plans to open more facilities and help other organizations around the country open their doors with a goal of saving lives.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A decisive win by Democrats in hotly-contested local races in Lincoln could be indicative of the party’s chances next year, including in a presidential election where Nebraska’s Omaha-centered 2nd Congressional District has twice given an electoral vote to Democratic presidential candidates.
Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that allow their electoral votes to be split in presidential elections. That system has confounded Nebraska Republicans, who have been unable to force the state into a winner-take-all system since Barack Obama became the first presidential contender to shave off one of Nebraska’s five electoral votes in 2008. It happened again in 2020, when President Joe Biden captured Nebraska’s 2nd District electoral vote.
Democratic Party leaders see an opportunity to capitalize on Republicans’ hard shift to the right, particularly on religious and culture war issues issues — including the recent push across red states to target the transgender and LGBTQ+ community members, ban books from schools and libraries and vastly restrict abortion access. Those efforts are unpopular with the majority of voters, Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Kleeb said Wednesday.
“Women’s reproductive freedom will continue to be a key issue that voters want a clear answer from candidates on where they stand, and Republicans are simply out of step with the majority of Nebraskans,” Kleeb said.
Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, handily won a second term Tuesday, despite an aggressive push by Republicans to oust her in favor of former Lincoln state Sen. Suzanne Geist, who saw more than $1.5 million pumped into her campaign by GOP donors. That included hundreds of thousands of dollars each by the family of former Gov. Pete Ricketts and the Peed family that owns publishing company Sandhills Global, based in Lincoln.
Geist had stepped down from her legislative seat last month to focus on the mayor’s race. Campaign ads supporting her painted Lincoln as an unsafe, crime-ridden city under Baird and blanketed airways for weeks before Tuesday’s election.
Lincoln, Nebraska’s capital and home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of the few communities in the conservative state where Democrats can claim regular election victories. But Tuesday’s win stood out for the number wins Democrats scored, including 3 of 4 contested City Council seats, giving Democrats a dominant 6-1 advantage. And Republicans lost all three of the contested local school board seats.
The only other area of the state where Democrats have seen some success in the last three decades is in Omaha, the state’s largest city with more than 850,000 in the city and surrounding suburbs.
“We’ve learned many lessons over the last few cycles of what works and what we need to improve on,” Kleeb said. “As the Democratic Party, we are going to continue to build in the blue dots of Lincoln and Omaha while making sure we invest in rural towns that deeply care about public schools, access to abortion and protecting our democracy.”
The Nebraska Republican Party didn’t address its Lincoln losses on its Twitter or Facebook pages, and state party chairman Eric Underwood did not immediately return a message Wednesday seeking comment.
But the party has made no secret of its frustration over losing Omaha’s electoral vote to Democrats in recent presidential elections. Republicans tried for nine years after first splitting the state’s electoral votes to revert to a winner-take-all system, but those proposals failed year after year. The effort was resurrected after Biden won the Omaha vote in 2020, but it has gained little traction. A bill introduced this year has been stuck in committee.
Republicans have instead relied on redistricting to curtail Democrats’ progress in the 2nd District, having twice redrawn the district’s boundaries since 2008 to favor Republican candidates.
But even some Republcians have said that might not be enough to overcome a turnout of voters soured on the hot-button issues targeted by GOP-led legislatures this year.
Nebraska Sen. Merv Riepe publicly warned his fellow Republican colleagues last week that efforts to ban abortion will cost them at the polls next year.
Riepe, an 80-year-old former hospital administrator, had initially signed on as a cosponsor to a Nebraska bill that would effectively ban abortions as six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. But he later refused to give the measure the final vote it needed to survive a filibuster over concerns the ban was too strict.
Riepe pointed to his own election last year against a Democrat who made abortion rights central to her campaign, noting that his margin of victory dropped from 27 percentage points in the May primary election, which occurred before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, to under 5 percentage points in the general election after the fall of Roe.
“This made the message clear to me how critical abortion will be in 2024,” he said. “We must embrace the future of reproductive rights.” | 2023-05-04T21:17:23+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/politics/ap-politics/nebraska-democrats-look-to-2024-after-tuesday-election-wins/ |
The American sailboat in the Ocean Race had the hole in its hull repaired and set off for Italy in an attempt to rejoin the around-the-world competition before it is over.
The 11th Hour Racing Team left The Hague, Netherlands, on Sunday, less than 72 hours after it was T-boned by another boat just 17 minutes into the start of the final leg. Its goal is to reach Genoa before the July 1 in-port race that serves as the grand finale of the six-month, 32,000-nautical mile (37,000-mile, 59,000-km) competition.
“We were determined that this would not put an end to our Ocean Race campaign,” 11th Hour skipper Charlie Enright said. “And I hope it is far from over. It is a testament to the hard work of the entire team that, just 72 hours after the incident, we are able to get back out to sea.”
11th Hour took a two-point lead into the seventh and final leg, a 2,500 nautical mile (2,877 mile, 4,630 km) sprint to Genoa before Guyot environnement — Team Europe crashed its bowsprit into the hull of the Newport, Rhode Island-based boat on Thursday. Both boats retired from the leg.
Guyot skipper Benjamin Dutreux has admitted the collision was his fault. 11th Hour has requested compensation in the standings from the World Sailing International Jury; the timeline for the decision has not been announced.
Current estimates have 11th Hour arriving in Genoa on June 30.
“We are very tight on time but we will do everything we can to get to Genoa to join the rest of the fleet for the grand finale of The Ocean Race,” Enright said. “We want to be there in time for the start of the in-port race on July 1, to give us the opportunity to compete in, and win, the in-port race series. It’s a race-within-a-race, and the countdown is now on.”
The 11th Hour shore crew worked a collective 600 hours to repair the hole in the side of the boat before it was cleared by an independent surveyor to return to the race.
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EUGENE, Ore. — In the hurdles world before Sydney McLaughlin, it took years to shave fractions of seconds off records, and winning races didn't always mean rewriting history.
This once-in-a-lifetime athlete is obliterating that mindset as quickly as she's destroying the records she sets again and again.
For the fourth time in 13 months, the 22-year-old McLaughlin set the world record. On Friday, she ran the 400-meter hurdles at world championships in 50.68 seconds. She shattered her old mark by 0.73 seconds, a ridiculous number for a race of this distance and an amount of time that, in the world before McLaughlin, it had taken 33 years to trim.
She beat second-place finisher Femke Bol of the Netherlands by 1.59 seconds. McLaughlin's main rival, Dalilah Muhammad, finished third in 53.13 seconds, a time that would've won the world title with ease a mere seven years ago.
And yet, as McLaughlin summed up her takeaways from the evening — an evening in which she delivered in a race she has turned into one of track's must-see events — she was far from ready to declare she had run the perfect race.
"I haven't had a chance to watch it, so I'll have to do that and go back and talk to my coach," McLaughlin said. "But I think there's always things to improve on. I think we're pushing the boundaries of the sport, especially in our event."
After McLaughlin received her gold medal and listened to "The Star-Spangled Banner," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe handed her a $100,000 check — the prize for breaking the record at worlds. This marked the fourth straight major race in which she's bettered the mark.
On a clear, perfect, 72-degree night at Hayward Stadium, McLaughlin left Bol and Muhammad behind by the 150-meter mark. By the time the American reached the final curve, it was clear this would strictly be a race against the clock.
"It was crazy," Bol said. "She was so far in front at the end, I was almost doubting if I really had a good race. Then, I saw the time and I thought, 'Wow, that explains a lot.'"
When McLaughlin finished, she bent to the ground, looked at the scoreboard and said, "That's great, that's great." She clutched her knees and smiled. A minute later, the mascot, Legend the Bigfoot, photo bombed her while holding a sign saying: "World records are my favorite food."
The 400-hurdles record of 52.34, held by Yuliya Pechonkina of Russia, had sat on the books for 16 years when Muhammad, not McLaughlin, lowered it to 52.20 at U.S. championships in Iowa in 2019.
Back then, Muhammad's coach, Boogie Johnson, said there had long been the thought that the Russian's record seemed "a little soft" and ripe for a takeover. Muhammad broke it again, at 52.16, at world championships in 2019.
That was a race McLaughlin lost by a mere 0.07, and one that set her about making changes.
Since connecting with coach Bobby Kersee, she has broken the record at last year's Olympic trials (51.90), the Olympics (51.46) and nationals last month. (51.41). Now, this — a 1.4% improvement on a four-week-old record and a maiden voyage into times in the 50s.
"I definitely thought it was possible," Muhammad said. "And after that race, I think 49 is possible."
McLaughlin has set three of her four records on this very track at Hayward Stadium. She has turned what used to be the best one-on-one showdown in track — her vs. Muhammad — into a one-woman show for the time being.
The big question: how?
Some answers lie in the mix of improved track surfaces, new technology in the spikes that hurdling great Edwin Moses compared to "having trampolines on your shoes," and a new coaching regimen employed by Kersee, who has worked with virtually all of America's greats, in the run-up to last year's Olympics.
But mostly, pure talent.
"It's just putting everything that you've done in practice into the race to the point where you're just letting your body do what it does," McLaughlin said.
Another way to look at McLaughlin's dominance: Traversing the track while leaping 10 hurdles took her only 1.57 seconds longer than Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas needed to win the 400-flat, held about a half-hour before the main event.
In the men's race, American Michael Norman won the world title in 44.29 seconds, pulling away from 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James over the final 80 meters.
Norman received massive applause from the nearly full stands, thought the emotional center of the evening came a few minutes earlier. Javelin thrower Kara Winger, a 36-year-old coming off her second ACL surgery, threw 64.05 meters (210 feet, 1 inch) on her sixth and final attempt to finish second behind Australia's Kelsey-Lee Barber.
It was the first medal in any major competition for the eight-time national champion, who rigged up a cable-and-pulley system in her backyard to keep up with her training during the pandemic.
And then came McLaughlin. She and Muhammad upped the U.S. medals total to 26 through eight days. The Americans need five more to surpass their championships record. The weekend is heavy with relays, which will include the surprise return of Allyson Felix in the 4x400.
It would be no surprise to see McLaughlin (and Muhammad) on America's 4x400 relay team, too, just as they were last summer in Tokyo where they helped the U.S. win gold.
Speaking of that 400 flat, McLaughlin teased the idea that she might have a future there, as well.
"My coach thinks there's a lot more to be done," she said. "At some point, we could do maybe the 4, or maybe the 100 hurdles. He says to just really enjoy the 400 hurdles while I'm doing it, and then, if you want to expand, go from there. So, the sky's the limit for sure."
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INDIANAPOLIS — A teenager was shot and killed on the east side of Indianapolis in what has turned out to be a violent Thursday morning.
The shooting was reported in the area of Breen Drive and N. Brentwood Ave, near 38th and Post Road just before 7 a.m.
According to police, a male teenager was found shot at the scene. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died there.
A school bus was seen within the crime scene, and IMPD clarified it was because the driver saw the victim lying in a grassy area while on her route. Detectives spoke with the driver as part of their investigation. Police said 22 children were on board the bus at the time.
This is the third fatal shooting in Indianapolis since 8:30 p.m. and the sixth shooting overall. One person was killed on the near northeast side at 8:43 p.m. Wednesday, and another person was killed on the near northwest side around 5:35 a.m. Thursday. | 2023-04-20T13:56:43+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indycrime/1-person-killed-in-shooting-near-38th-and-post/ |
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Shania Twain didn’t have to work very hard on Friday night to get the adoring crowd to cheer, but she did anyway.
The 57-year-old Canadian country-pop singer, in a stop on her “Queen of Me Tour” at Blossom Music Center, danced, strutted and strummed her way through a two-hour concert that was heavy on multimedia. The show wasn’t without its flubs and slow stretches, but Twain’s charisma was strong enough to carry most of it through.
The concert marked the first time Twain visited Northeast Ohio in five years. This time, a sold-out crowd filled Blossom’s pavilion and lawn, though traffic backups caused many concertgoers (including this reviewer) to arrive slightly later than they hoped.
Twain took the stage shortly after 8:30 p.m., opening with new song “Waking Up Dreaming” before launching into 2002′s “Up!”
From there, she and her six-piece backing band – complete with two singers who also did most of the choreographed dancing – launched into a mix of hits and album cuts that spanned decades and showed the breadth of her musical interests. There was the peppy country of “Giddy Up!” (complete with the lyric “I left my heart at a waterin’ hole somewhere in small-town Ohio”), the dance pop of “Queen of Me” and ballads like “You’re Still the One” and “From This Moment On.”
The stage setup was elaborate. A large screen behind the performers set the moods, including one image that showed a diner with a flashing light fixture on top that flashed the word “Akron.” She even straddled and posed on a motorcycle during “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!”
There were also plenty of fans onstage to ensure her purple hair and dress appeared to be flowing for much of the performance.
The 20-song setlist was a good summary of what her fans have known for decades – that Twain was never easily pigeonholed into being just a country artist. Her genre-blending ways were in many years ahead of their time. Still, she has never let such practices get in the way of what are often very good pop songs.
Think of her as a Madonna-like artist with more twang.
She also showed that she doesn’t need heavily choreographed dance moves (most of her movements did not appear to be overly planned) to hold a crowd. She was able to do that by the strength of the songs, her somewhat diminished but still powerful vocals and her general presence.
And the crowd ate it up, sometimes letting out screams that wouldn’t sound out of place at a boy-band concert.
To be sure, not everything worked. “Rock This Country!”, performed with images of the American flag on the screen, came off as a paint-by-numbers country tune. And main set closer “Queen of Me” was generic pop that could be sung by any number of singers who vapidly aim for stardom.
Pacing also become a problem as the show wore on. The singer took time between several songs to bring concertgoers onstage. She took selfies with each one of them and engaged in some awkward banter. They were nice gestures but also momentum killers.
But such sloppiness rarely bled into the music.
Finally, there were noticeable misses and dropped lyrics. Those are minor-beyond-minor quibbles, though, and show that Twain was singing in the moment and wasn’t relying on inauthentic backing tracks to do the work for her.
Fortunately, the show ended strong. Twain emerged for the encore in a long black coat and what she said was the same sleek black outfit she wore in the “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” video in 1999.
She saved two of her best songs – “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and the aforementioned “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” – for last. They made for a fun finale and, like other parts of the show, showed that she never let genre-blending get in the way of a good song.
Setlist
1. Waking Up Dreaming
2. Up!
3. Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
4. I’m Gonna Getcha Good!
5. Come on Over
6. You’re Still the One
7. Giddy Up!
8. Any Man of Mine
9. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
10. Honey, I’m Home
11. Rock This Country!
12. Medley: Nah!/She’s Not Just a Pretty Face/Waiter! Bring Me Water!/When/Thank You Baby! (For Makin’ Someday Come So Soon)
13. Pretty Liar
14. (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!
15. From This Moment On
16. Number One
17. Forever and for Always
18. Queen of Me
Encore:
19. That Don’t Impress Me Much
20. Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
Eric Heisig is a freelance writer in Cleveland. He can be reached at eheisig@gmail.com. | 2023-07-01T14:10:44+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/07/madonna-like-with-more-twang-shania-twains-charisma-carries-two-hour-blossom-concert.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor-comedian Adam Sandler will be honored by comedic and entertainment royalty when he receives the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night.
Sandler, 56, first came to national attention as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live.” After being fired from the cast following a five-year stint, Sandler launched a wildly successful movie career that has spanned more than 30 films, grossing over $3 billion worldwide.
“Adam Sandler has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and his tenure as a fan favorite cast member on ‘SNL,’” Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter said in a statement when Sandler’s prize was announced in December. “Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry, and cry from laughing.”
Sandler’s top hits include “Happy Gilmore,” “The Wedding Singer” and “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.” Although primarily known for slapstick comedy and overgrown man-child characters, Sandler has also excelled in multiple dramatic roles such as the films “Punch Drunk Love” and “Uncut Gems.”
Mark Twain recipients are honored with a night of testimonials and video tributes, often featuring previous award winners. Other comedians receiving the lifetime achievement award include Richard Pryor (the inaugural recipient in 1998), Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett and Dave Chapelle. Bill Cosby, the 2009 recipient, had his Mark Twain Prize rescinded in 2019 amid multiple allegations of sexual assault.
The long-running comedy institution “SNL” has provided more than its share of the 24 Mark Twain recipients; Sandler is the seventh cast member to receive the prize, joining Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Will Farrell, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louise-Dreyfus. Show creator and producer Lorne Michaels won in 2004.
Among those scheduled to honor Sandler on Sunday night, according to the Kennedy Center, are Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, Drew Barrymore, Steve Buscemi, Dana Carvey, Luis Guzmán, Tim Herlihy, Tim Meadows, Idina Menzel, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade and Ben Stiller.
The ceremony will be broadcast nationally on CNN on March 26. | 2023-03-19T19:59:37+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/sandler-to-receive-mark-twain-prize-for-lifetime-in-comedy/ |
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Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday morning at 87.
The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at his Mississippi home, south of Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release. The news came two days after the publication of an erroneous TMZ report of his death, later retracted.
Of all the rock rebels to emerge in the 1950s, few captured the new genre’s attraction and danger as unforgettably as the Louisiana-born piano player who called himself “The Killer.”
Tender ballads were best left to the old folks. Lewis was all about lust and gratification, with his leering tenor and demanding asides, violent tempos and brash glissandi, cocky sneer and crazy blond hair. He was a one-man stampede who made the fans scream and the keyboards swear, his live act so combustible that during a 1957 performance of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” on “The Steve Allen Show,” chairs were thrown at him like buckets of water on an inferno.
“There was rockabilly. There was Elvis. But there was no pure rock ‘n ‘roll before Jerry Lee Lewis kicked in the door,” a Lewis admirer once observed. That admirer was Jerry Lee Lewis.
But in his private life, he raged in ways that might have ended his career today — and nearly did back then.
For a brief time, in 1958, he was a contender to replace Presley as rock’s prime hit maker after Elvis was drafted into the Army. But while Lewis toured in England, the press learned three damaging things: He was married to 13-year-old (possibly even 12-year-old) Myra Gale Brown, she was his cousin, and he was still married to his previous wife. His tour was canceled, he was blacklisted from the radio and his earnings dropped overnight to virtually nothing.
“I probably would have rearranged my life a little bit different, but I never did hide anything from people,” Lewis told the Wall Street Journal in 2014 when asked about the marriage. “I just went on with my life as usual.”
Over the following decades, Lewis struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, legal disputes and physical illness. Two of his many marriages ended in his wife’s early death. Brown herself divorced him in the early 1970s and would later allege physical and mental cruelty that nearly drove her to suicide.
“If I was still married to Jerry, I’d probably be dead by now,” she told People magazine in 1989.
Lewis reinvented himself as a country performer in the 1960s, and the music industry eventually forgave him, long after he stopped having hits. He won three Grammys, and recorded with some of the industry’s greatest stars. In 2006, Lewis came out with “Last Man Standing,” featuring Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King and George Jones. In 2010, Lewis brought in Jagger, Keith Richards, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw and others for the album “Mean Old Man.”
In “The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll,” first published in 1975, he recalled how he convinced disc jockeys to give him a second chance.
“This time I said, ‘Look, man, let’s get together and draw a line on this stuff — a peace treaty you know,'” he explained. Lewis would still play the old hits on stage, but on the radio he would sing country.
Lewis had a run of top 10 country hits between 1967-70, and hardly mellowed at all. He performed drinking songs such as “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)”, the roving eye confessions of “She Still Comes Around” and a dry-eyed cover of a classic ballad of abandonment, “She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye.” He had remained popular in Europe and a 1964 album, “Live at the Star Club, Hamburg,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest concert records.
A 1973 performance proved more troublesome: Lewis sang for the Grand Ole Opry and broke two longstanding rules — no swearing and no non-country songs.
“I am a rock and rollin’, country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin’ motherf—–,” he told the audience.
Lewis married seven times, and was rarely far from trouble or death. His fourth wife, Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate, drowned in a swimming pool in 1982 while suing for divorce. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, 23 years his junior, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1983. Within a year, Lewis had married Kerrie McCarver, then 21. She filed for divorce in 1986, accusing him of physical abuse and infidelity. He countersued, but both petitions eventually were dropped. They finally divorced in 2005 after several years of separation. The couple had one child, Jerry Lee III.
Another son by a previous marriage, Steve Allen Lewis, 3, drowned in a swimming pool in 1962, and son Jerry Lee Jr. died in a traffic accident at 19 in 1973. Lewis also had two daughters, Phoebe and Lori Leigh, and his survived by his wife Judith.
His finances were also chaotic. Lewis made millions, but he liked his money in cash and ended up owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Internal Revenue Service. When he began welcoming tourists in 1994 to his longtime residence near Nesbit, Mississippi — complete with a piano-shaped swimming pool — he set up a 900 phone number fans could call for a recorded message at $2.75 a minute.
The son of one-time bootlegger Elmo Lewis and the cousin of TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country star Mickey Gilley, Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. As a boy, he first learned to play guitar, but found the instrument too confining and longed for an instrument that the only the rich people in his town could afford — a piano. His life changed when his father pulled up in his truck one day and presented him a dark-wood, upright set of keyboards.
“My eyes almost fell out of my head,” Lewis recalled in “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” written by Rick Bragg and published in 2014.
He took to the piano immediately, and began sneaking off to Black juke joints and absorbing everything from gospel to boogie-woogie. Conflicted early on between secular and scared music, he quit school at 16, with plans of becoming a piano-playing preacher. Lewis briefly attended Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, a fundamentalist Bible college, but was expelled, reportedly, for playing the “wrong” kind of music.
“Great Balls of Fire,” a sexualized take on Biblical imagery that Lewis initially refused to record, and “Whole Lotta Shakin'” were his most enduring songs and performance pieces. Lewis had only a handful of other pop hits, including “High School Confidential” and “Breathless,” but they were enough to ensure his place as a rock ‘n’ roll architect.
“No group, be it (the) Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on ‘Whole Lotta Shakin” for my money,” John Lennon would tell Rolling Stone in 1970.
A roadhouse veteran by his early 20s, Lewis took off for Memphis in 1956 and showed up at the studios of Sun Records, the musical home of Elvis, Perkins and Cash. Told by company founder Sam Phillips to go learn some rock ‘n roll, Lewis returned and soon hurried off “Whole Lotta Shakin'” in a single take.
“I knew it was a hit when I cut it,” he later said. “Sam Phillips thought it was gonna be too risque, it couldn’t make it. If that’s risque, well, I’m sorry.”
In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined the Country Hall of Fame this year. The Killer not only outlasted his contemporaries but saw his life and music periodically reintroduced to younger fans, including the the 1989 biopic “Great Balls of Fire,” starring Dennis Quaid, and Ethan Coen’s 2022 documentary “Trouble in Mind.” A 2010 Broadway music, “Million Dollar Quartet,” was inspired by a recording session that featured Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.
He won a Grammy in 1987 as part of an interview album that was cited for best spoken word recording, and he received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2005. The following year, “Whole Lotta Shakin'” was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, whose board praised the “propulsive boogie piano that was perfectly complemented by the drive of J.M. Van Eaton’s energetic drumming. The listeners to the recording, like Lewis himself, had a hard time remaining seated during the performance.”
A classmate at Bible school, Pearry Green, remembered meeting Lewis years later and asking if he was still playing the devil’s music.
“Yes, I am,” Lewis answered. “But you know it’s strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don’t.”
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This story has been updated to clarify where Lewis’ home is located. | 2022-10-28T17:58:52+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2544168/jerry-lee-lewis-outrageous-rock-n-roll-star-dies-at-87.html |
Fourth grader performs Heimlich maneuver to help save classmate
RACINE, Wisc. (WISN) - A fourth grader is being hailed a hero after she rushed in to save a classmate who was choking.
It happened Tuesday at Fratt Elementary School in Racine, Wisconsin.
“I just saw that she was holding her neck, and I rushed up there as fast as I can,” Essie said.
Things took a sudden and serious turn during lunch time for 9-year-old Essence Collier, or Essie, when she witnessed a classmate starting to choke.
“Out of nowhere, I see Essence get up, and like kind of dart across the classroom,” teacher Samantha Bradshaw.
Bradshaw was filling in for the classroom during lunch when the incident occurred. She initially couldn’t tell what Essie was doing.
“I didn’t know what was going on. I kind of said, ‘Stop,’” she said.
Before anyone else realized what was happening, Essie had jumped into action.
“I rushed up there as fast as I can and, what do you call that thing again?” Essie said, referring to the Heimlich maneuver.
Bradshaw said she saw Essie go to the other student, wrap her arms around her and begin performing the Heimlich maneuver. Her classmate’s airway was cleared and within seconds, the girl was breathing fine.
“I have never seen a student react in that way before,” Bradshaw said.
As fate would have it, Essie and her classmates wouldn’t even have been in their classroom. They would have been down the hall in the lunchroom, except Tuesday was a special day.
The cafeteria was being used as a polling place on election day, putting Essie in the right place at the right time. And she knew exactly what to do, having learned it from an instructional YouTube video two years ago.
Even though she may not have remembered the name, the lesson stayed with her.
The Racine Unified school board plans to honor essence for her heroism at a board meeting later this month.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-12T18:08:20+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2022/11/12/fourth-grader-performs-heimlich-maneuver-help-save-classmate/ |
Global System-wide sales grow 14%, up nearly $1 billion year-over-year to over $10 billion
Consolidated comparable sales accelerate to 9% with 14% growth at Tim Hortons Canada, 18% at Burger King International
Digital sales grow double-digits year-over-year to over $3 billion, representing 33% of system-wide sales
Over $400 million of capital returned to shareholders in Q2 through dividends and share buybacks
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) (TSX: QSP) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
"We made significant progress across our business in the second quarter, accelerating consolidated comparable sales to 9% and driving 14% growth in global system-wide sales. These results reflect benefits from our dedicated investments in key areas of the business, including people, technology, operations and marketing," said José Cil, Chief Executive Officer of RBI.
"The team at Tim Hortons Canada delivered exceptional results this quarter, aided by investments against our Back to Basics plan and strong execution from our committed group of restaurant owners. In the second quarter, we drove sales above pre-pandemic levels for the first time since the onset of the pandemic and continue to build strong momentum as we move to accelerate growth. We believe there is a long runway for Tim's in Canada, anchored by great product quality, menu and digital innovation, and a strong group of restaurant owners," continued Cil.
"We continue to see steady improvements in our Burger King U.S. business and will be sharing the details of our plan to accelerate home market growth with all of our franchisees in early September. In addition, the Burger King international business had another strong quarter, posting an impressive 18% comparable sales and 28% system-wide sales growth. Meanwhile, the Popeyes' team has been successful delivering strong unit growth and at Firehouse Subs, the team is focused on building the capabilities to execute on our vision of rapid growth for this loved brand in the U.S. and around the world," continued Cil.
"Our second quarter results demonstrate the benefits of our diversified, global business model and strong free cash flow generating capability which allows us to continue investing in important areas of the business while returning capital to shareholders. I am incredibly proud of the hard work of our franchisees, team members and employees who remain focused on executing against our long-term plans to drive sustainable growth," concluded Cil.
Commencing upon the acquisition of Firehouse Subs in December 2021, we have four operating segments: Tim Hortons (TH), Burger King (BK), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (PLK) and Firehouse Subs (FHS). Our financial results and operational highlights are disclosed based on these segments each quarter.
The year-over-year increases in Total Revenues on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by increases in system-wide sales at Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeyes. On an as reported basis the increase was also driven by the inclusion of Firehouse Subs. This increase in Total Revenues on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
The year-over-year decrease in Net Income was primarily driven by income tax expense in the current year compared to an income tax benefit in the prior year, unfavorable FX movements, and an increase in share-based compensation and non-cash incentive compensation expense, partially offset by increases in segment income in our TH, BK and PLK segments, the inclusion of FHS segment income and a favorable change from other operating expenses (income), net.
The year-over-year increases in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by increases in TH, BK and PLK Adjusted EBITDA. On an as reported basis the increase was also driven by the inclusion of FHS Adjusted EBITDA partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
The year-over-year increase in Adjusted Net Income was primarily driven by increases in Adjusted EBITDA in our TH, BK and PLK brands and the inclusion of FHS Adjusted EBITDA, partially offset by an increase in adjusted income tax expense.
During the first quarter of 2022, we shared a number of actions that we have taken to date as a result of the events related to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. As a reminder, Burger King is our only brand with restaurants in Russia, all of which are operated under a master franchise arrangement. We suspended all corporate support for the Russian market, including operations, marketing, and supply chain support in addition to refusing approvals for new investment and expansion. During the second quarter, we donated funds received from franchised operations in Russia of approximately $1 million to the UNHCR to support humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees.
While we currently include results from our franchised restaurants in Russia within reported key business metrics, we do not expect to generate any profits from restaurants in Russia in 2022. During the second quarter, these restaurants had an estimated $11 million, or 2.0%, negative impact on our year-over-year organic adjusted EBITDA growth.
Below are the RBI consolidated and BK segment operational highlights excluding the results from Russia for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021. Refer to page 24 for the RBI consolidated and BK segment quarterly operational highlights excluding the results from Russia for 2021.
The global crisis resulting from the spread of coronavirus ("COVID-19") impacted our global restaurant operations for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, though in 2022 the impact was more modest than in the prior year. During the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, substantially all restaurants remained open, some with limited operations, such as drive-thru, takeout and delivery (where applicable), reduced, if any, dine-in capacity, and/or restrictions on hours of operation. Certain markets periodically required temporary closures while implementing government mandated lockdown orders. For example, while most regions have eased restrictions, increases in cases and new variants caused certain markets, including China, to re-impose temporary restrictions as a result of government mandates. We expect local conditions to continue to dictate limitations on restaurant operations, capacity, and hours of operation. COVID-19 has also contributed to labor challenges, which in some regions resulted in reduced operating hours and service modes at select restaurants as well as supply chain pressures.
In addition, during 2022, there have been increases in commodity, labor and energy costs partially due to the macroeconomic impact of both COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine. Further significant increases in inflation could affect the global, Canadian and U.S. economies, which could have an adverse impact on our business and results of operations if we and our franchisees are not able to adjust prices sufficiently to offset the effect of cost increases without negatively impacting consumer demand.
During the first quarter of 2022 we made a change to the way we report revenues and expenses related to technology initiatives to provide clarity and consistency across our brands and with our industry peers. We had previously included revenue from technology fees in Franchise and property revenues, while the associated technology expenses were included in General and administrative expenses. Starting in the first quarter of 2022, revenue from technology fees will be reported in Advertising revenues and other services, while the associated technology expenses will be reported in Advertising expenses and other services.
Additionally, prior year amounts in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and accompanying BK segment results have been reclassified in order to be comparable with the current year classifications. These reclassifications did not arise as a result of any changes to accounting policies and relate entirely to presentation with no effect on previously reported net income and segment income. Refer to page 25 for the RBI consolidated and BK segment quarterly results for 2021 adjusted for these reclassifications.
For the second quarter of 2022, the increase in system-wide sales was primarily driven by comparable sales of 12.2%, including Canada comparable sales of 14.2%, and net restaurant growth of 5.7%.
The year-over-year increases in Total Revenues on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by an increase in system-wide sales as well as increases in commodity prices passed on to franchisees and an increase in sales to retailers. This increase in Total Revenues on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
The year-over-year increases in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by the increase in system-wide sales and by advertising revenues exceeding advertising expenses in the current year period compared to advertising expenses exceeding advertising revenues in the prior year period driven by our support behind the marketing program in Canada in the prior year period, partially offset by an increase in Segment G&A. This increase in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
For the second quarter of 2022, the increase in system-wide sales was driven by comparable sales of 10.0%, including rest of the world comparable sales of 18.4% and relatively flat US comparable sales, and net restaurant growth of 2.8%.
The year-over-year changes in Total Revenues on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by the increase in system-wide sales. This increase in Total Revenues on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
The year-over-year changes in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by the increase in system-wide sales, partially offset by advertising revenues exceeding advertising expenses to a lesser extent than in the prior year period, an increase in expenses related to technology initiatives, and a decrease in bad debt recoveries in the current year compared to the prior year. This increase in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
For the second quarter of 2022, the increase in system-wide sales was driven by net restaurant growth of 8.1%, and comparable sales of 1.4%, including relatively flat US comparable sales.
The year-over-year changes in Total Revenues on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by the increase in system-wide sales. This increase in Total Revenues on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
The year-over-year increases in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported and on an organic basis were primarily driven by the increase in system-wide sales, partially offset by an increase in Segment G&A. This increase in Adjusted EBITDA on an as reported basis was partially offset by unfavorable FX movements.
For the second quarter of 2022, the increase in system-wide sales was driven by net restaurant growth of 2.5%, partially offset by a decrease in comparable sales of (1.4)%, including a decrease in US comparable sales of (1.2)%.
As of June 30, 2022, total debt was $13.4 billion, net debt (total debt less cash and cash equivalents of $0.8 billion) was $12.6 billion, and net leverage was 5.4x. During the second quarter we also repurchased 3.2 million RBI common shares for $165 million under our $1 billion share repurchase program and as of June 30, 2022 had $123 million remaining under the authorization. We plan to submit a new normal course issuer bid, subject to TSX approval, to be effective following expiration of the current one.
The RBI Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.54 per common share and partnership exchangeable unit of Restaurant Brands International Limited Partnership for the third quarter of 2022. The dividend will be payable on October 5, 2022 to shareholders and unitholders of record at the close of business on September 21, 2022.
We will host an investor conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, August 4, 2022, to review financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. The earnings call will be broadcast live via our investor relations website at http://rbi.com/investors and a replay will be available for 30 days following the release. The dial-in number is 1 (646)-904-5544 for U.S. callers, 1 (226)-828-7575 for Canadian callers, and 1 (929)-526-1599 for callers from other countries. For all dial-in numbers please use the following access code: 194063.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities. To learn more about RBI, please visit the company's website at www.rbi.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, which reflect management's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include statements about our expectations regarding the effects and continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and related macro-economic conditions on our results of operations, business, liquidity, prospects and restaurant operations and those of our franchisees, including local conditions and government-imposed limitations and restrictions, our growth opportunities and ability to drive long-term, sustainable growth, through product quality, menu and digital innovation and a committed group of restaurant owners, our continued investment in our business and returning capital to shareholders, our plans to accelerate home market growth, and our suspension of operations in and financial results from Russia. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from RBI's expectations are detailed in filings of RBI with the Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K, and include the following: risks related to unforeseen events such as pandemics; risks related to supply chain; risks related to ownership and leasing of properties; risks related to our franchisees financial stability and their ability to access and maintain the liquidity necessary to operate their business; risks related to RBI's ability to successfully implement its domestic and international growth strategy and risks related to its international operations; risks related to RBI's ability to compete domestically and internationally in an intensely competitive industry; risks related to technology; risks related to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and changes in applicable tax and other laws and regulations or interpretations thereof. Other than as required under U.S. federal securities laws or Canadian securities laws, we do not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, change in expectations or otherwise.
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Key Operating Metrics
We evaluate our restaurants and assess our business based on the following operating metrics.
System-wide sales growth refers to the percentage change in sales at all franchise restaurants and Company restaurants (referred to as system-wide sales) in one period from the same period in the prior year. Comparable sales refers to the percentage change in restaurant sales in one period from the same prior year period for restaurants that have been open for 13 months or longer for TH, BK and FHS and 17 months or longer for PLK. Additionally, if a restaurant is closed for a significant portion of a month, the restaurant is excluded from the monthly comparable sales calculation. System-wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation ("FX Impact") and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates. We analyze key operating metrics on a constant currency basis as this helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects of currency movements.
System-wide sales represent sales at all franchise restaurants and company-owned restaurants. We do not record franchise sales as revenues; however, our royalty revenues and advertising fund contributions are calculated based on a percentage of franchise sales.
Net restaurant growth refers to the net increase in restaurant count (openings, net of permanent closures) over a trailing twelve month period, divided by the restaurant count at the beginning of the trailing twelve month period.
These metrics are important indicators of the overall direction of our business, including trends in sales and the effectiveness of each brand's marketing, operations and growth initiatives.
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Below, we define the non-GAAP financial measures, provide a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), and discuss the reasons why we believe this information is useful to management and may be useful to investors. These measures do not have standardized meanings under GAAP and may differ from similarly captioned measures of other companies in our industry.
Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements presented on a GAAP basis, RBI reports the following non-GAAP financial measures: EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, LTM Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Net Income, Adjusted Diluted Earnings per Share ("Adjusted Diluted EPS"), Organic revenue growth, Organic Adjusted EBITDA growth, Free Cash Flow, LTM Free Cash Flow and Net Leverage. We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance or liquidity, as they provide them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our performance or liquidity and are responsive to questions we receive from both investors and analysts. By disclosing these non-GAAP measures, we intend to provide investors with a consistent comparison of our operating results and trends for the periods presented.
EBITDA is defined as earnings (net income or loss) before interest expense, net, (gain) loss on early extinguishment of debt, income tax (benefit) expense, and depreciation and amortization and is used by management to measure operating performance of the business. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA excluding (i) the non-cash impact of share-based compensation and non-cash incentive compensation expense, (ii) (income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (iii) other operating expenses (income), net, and (iv) income or expense from non-recurring projects and non-operating activities. For the periods referenced, this included non-recurring fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Firehouse Subs acquisition consisting of professional fees, compensation related expenses and integration costs as well as costs from professional advisory and consulting services associated with certain transformational corporate restructuring initiatives that rationalize our structure and optimize cash movements, including services related to significant tax reform legislation, regulations and related restructuring initiatives. Management believes that these types of expenses are either not related to our underlying profitability drivers or not likely to re-occur in the foreseeable future and the varied timing, size and nature of these projects may cause volatility in our results unrelated to the performance of our core business that does not reflect trends of our core operations. Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure operating performance of the business, excluding these non-cash and other specifically identified items that management believes are not relevant to management's assessment of our operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, also represents our measure of segment income for each of our four operating segments.
LTM Adjusted EBITDA is defined as Adjusted EBITDA for the last twelve month period to the date reported. See reconciliation of LTM Adjusted EBITDA in the following pages.
Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income excluding (i) franchise agreement amortization as a result of acquisition accounting, (ii) amortization of deferred financing costs and debt issuance discount, (iii) loss on early extinguishment of debt and interest expense, which represents non-cash interest expense related to losses reclassified from accumulated comprehensive income (loss) into interest expense in connection with interest rate swaps de-designated in May 2015, November 2019 and September 2021, (iv) (income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (v) other operating expenses (income), net, and (vi) income or expense from non-recurring projects and non-operating activities (as described above).
Adjusted Diluted EPS is calculated by dividing Adjusted Net Income by the weighted average diluted shares outstanding of RBI during the reporting period. Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Diluted EPS are used by management to evaluate the operating performance of the business, excluding certain non-cash and other specifically identified items that management believes are not relevant to management's assessment of operating performance.
Net Leverage is defined as net debt (total debt less cash and cash equivalents) divided by LTM Adjusted EBITDA. Net Leverage is an operating performance measure that we believe provides investors a more complete understanding of our leverage position and borrowing capacity after factoring in cash and cash equivalents that eventually could be used to repay outstanding debt.
Revenue growth and Adjusted EBITDA growth, on an organic basis, are non-GAAP measures that exclude the impact of FX movements and also exclude the results of Firehouse Subs for the first four full fiscal quarters following the acquisition. Management believes that organic growth is an important metric for measuring the operating performance of our business as it helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects of FX movements and the Firehouse Subs acquisition. We calculate the impact of FX movements by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.
Free Cash Flow is the total of Net cash provided by operating activities minus Payments for property and equipment. Free Cash Flow is a liquidity measure used by management as one factor in determining the amount of cash that is available for working capital needs or other uses of cash, however, it does not represent residual cash flows available for discretionary expenditures. LTM Free Cash Flow is defined as Free Cash Flow for the last twelve month period to the date reported.
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Below are the RBI consolidated and BK segment operational highlights excluding the results from Russia for each quarter of 2021.
Below are the RBI consolidated and BK segment quarterly results for 2021 adjusted for the reclassification of technology revenues from Franchise and property revenues to Advertising revenues and other services and technology expenses from General and administrative expenses to Advertising expenses and other services.
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Sigma Beauty launches its newest collaboration with Disney inspired by their beloved classic, Alice in Wonderland.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Beauty is launching their newest line of fairytale-inspired cosmetics for the fall season. Inspired by your favorite characters, songs, and moments from Disney's Alice in Wonderland, this collection launches a mesmerizing new eyeshadow palette, enchanting pressed-powder cheek duo, limited-edition 5-piece brush set, and luxurious lip duo featuring a brand new, ultra-hydrating lip cream formula.
"We are thrilled to launch another collection with Disney!" said Dr. Simone Xavier, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sigma. "Our first collaboration with Disney was our Cinderella Collection, and our take on it was mature and nostalgic, chic and elevated. For Alice in Wonderland, I wanted to visit this dreamlike world. The curiosity to follow the White Rabbit, the sensation of falling into the unknown, the surprise of encountering surrealist elements and characters, the joy of interacting with out-of-the-ordinary scenarios - everything about Alice in Wonderland is exciting and new. The collection is designed to embody the dreams depicted in the original movie, with every aspect following Alice's journey. The packaging and limited-edition brush finishes are inspired by Alice's fall down the rabbit hole, imprints on each eyeshadow feature the characters who inspired the hues. The cheek duo is inspired by Alice's first meeting with the Queen of Hearts and designed to perfectly compliment the vibrant eyeshadow palette with cool-toned highlight and blush. This Disney Alice in Wonderland Collection is daring, colorful, and a playground for makeup lovers. I hope it entices our clients to dream and dare, and use their imagination to be whoever they want to be."
The Disney Alice in Wonderland Eyeshadow Palette, Cheek Duo, and Lip Duo are cruelty-free, gluten-free, lactose-free, and a part of Sigma's Clean Beauty Program, meaning they're completely free of harsh chemicals and made with the clean, safe ingredients you and your skin love.
The Disney Alice in Wonderland Eyeshadow Palette retails for $59, the Cheek Duo and Lip Duo each retail for $35, and the Brush Set retails for $120. Find them all at www.SigmaBeauty.com starting September 8, 2022.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A local healthcare company is hosting a hiring event in Buffalo.
Catholic Health is having an "On the Spot" hiring event for Trocaire University graduate nurses and registered nurses.
The first of the two-day event will be Thursday, Oct.6 from noon to 6 p.m., and Friday, Oct. 7 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m in the Community Room at Mercy Hospital on 565 Abbott Rd.
Catholic Health managers and recruiters will be on site to discuss job openings, review applications, do interviews and make job offers.
Offers include bonuses up to $25,000 and referral bonuses of $5,000 are available to anyone who refers a candidate and is hired.
Other incentives include paid health insurance, paid time off, group tuition assistance programs and more.
All applicants are required to do a pre-employment physical and meet all job prerequisites as a final condition of employment.
To register for the event, visit chsbuffalo.org/trocaire.
For more information on the referral bonus program, you can go to chsbuffalo.org/referafl. | 2022-09-28T18:05:36+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/health/catholic-health-hosting-on-the-spot-hiring-event-at-mercy-hospital-october/71-c8519b4d-f6fd-41d6-b4eb-25acc617989b |
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – Here are some of the top stories this week on the WBOY 12News Facebook page.
Upshur County is mourning the death of its longtime sheriff, Virgil Miller.
West Virginia’s first Narcan vending machine is at the Hope Hill Sobering Center in Morgantown.
Former WVU men’s basketball assistant coach Billy Hahn has died at the age of 69.
With warmer weather here, kayak, paddleboard and bicycle rentals are now available for rental in Morgantown.
Fairmont State University recently held the inaugural WV Peep Festival. | 2023-04-08T05:17:27+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/stories-of-the-week/stories-of-the-week-april-2-through-april-8/ |
LONDON (AP) — The price of food in the U.K. rose at the fastest pace in 45 years last month in, keeping inflation above 10% for a seventh straight month amid a cost-of-living crisis that has fueled a wave of strikes by government workers.
Food prices jumped 19.2% in the 12 months through February, the biggest increase since August 1977, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday.
Overall, consumer price inflation eased to 10.1%, from 10.4% the previous month, as the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel fell. The March figure was above the 9.8% rate economists had forecast.
“The heat has been turned down on the bubbling cauldron of prices, but inflation is still scalding and interest rates look set to be pushed up again to try and cool it down rapidly,” said Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown in London.
The British government and Bank of England are struggling to prevent price increases triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from becoming embedded in the economy. While the U.K.’s inflation rate has remained above 10% for eight of the past nine months, inflation slowed to 5% in the U.S. and 6.9% in the countries sharing the euro last month.
Double-digit inflation has led to strikes from public sector workers, including doctors, nurses, teachers, civil servants and train drivers, whose wages are being eroded by the rising cost of living.
The Bank of England has approved 11 consecutive interest rate increases in an effort to tame inflation. That pushed the bank’s key interest rate to 4.25% last month, from just 0.1% in December 2021, raising borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. | 2023-04-20T05:15:17+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/business/uk-inflation-remains-over-10-as-food-prices-rise/ |
NO DEATHS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AMONG CHILDREN. IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, STOMACH CANCER. IT’S A DISEASE INCREASING AMONG AMERICANS UNDER 50, PARTICULARLY WOMEN. THAT’S ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE WHICH TRACKED THE INCIDENCE OF LOWER STOMACH CANCER IN THE U.S. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR VADIM GUSHCHIN SAYS THE INCIDENCE OF GASTRIC CANCER IS VERY LOW IN THE U.S. AND FOUND THE STUDY RESULT A BIT SURPRISING. >> THERE ARE SPECULATIONS. MAYBE THERE ARE MORE ANTIBODY FUSED BY THESE WOMEN THAT MAY LEAD TO GASTRIC CANCER. MAYBE IT IS NOT A TRUE FINDING AT ALL. SO MOST -- SO MORE STUDIES ARE NEEDED. KAI: THE STUDY ALSO FOUND WOMEN ARE AFFECTED MORE BY AUTO-IMMU
Cancer is striking more people in their 30s and 40s. Here's what you need to know
Updated: 12:00 PM EST Feb 4, 2023
It's World Cancer Day, and the outlook for winning the war against this deadly disease is both good and bad.In the United States, deaths from cancer have dropped 33% since 1991, with an estimated 3.8 million lives saved, mostly due to advances in early detection and treatment. Still, 10 million people worldwide lost their lives to cancer in 2020."During the last three years, the No. 1 leading leading cause of death in the world was actually cancer, not COVID-19," said Dr. Arif Kamal, chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society.Symptoms of cancer can mimic those of many other illnesses, so it can be difficult to tell them apart, experts say. Signs include unexplained weight loss or gain, swelling or lumps in the groin, neck, stomach or underarms and fever and night sweats, according to the National Cancer Institute.Bladder, bowel, skin and neurological issues may be signs of cancer, such as changes in hearing and vision, seizures, headaches and bleeding or bruising for no reason, the institute said. But most cancers do not cause pain at first, so you can't rely on that as a sign."We tell patients that if they have symptoms that do not get better after a few weeks, they should visit a doctor," Kamal said. "It doesn't mean the diagnosis will be cancer, however."Cases rise in younger peopleRather than wait for symptoms, the key to keeping cancer at bay is prevention, along with screenings to detect the disease in its early stages. That's critical, experts say, as new cases of cancer are on the rise globally.A surprising number of new diagnoses are in people under 50, according to a 2022 review of available research by Harvard University scientists.Cases of breast, colon, esophagus, gallbladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, prostate, stomach and thyroid cancers have been increasing in 50-, 40- and even 30-year-olds since the 1990s.That's unusual for a disease that typically strikes people over 60, Kamal said. "Cancer is generally considered an age-related condition, because you're giving yourself enough time to have sort of a genetic whoopsie."Older cells experience decades of wear and tear from environmental toxins and less than favorable lifestyle choices, making them prime candidates for a cancerous mutation."We believed it takes time for that to occur, but if someone is 35 when they develop cancer, the question is 'What could possibly have happened?'" Kamal asked.No one knows exactly, but smoking, alcohol consumption, air pollution, obesity, a lack of physical activity and a diet with few fruits and vegetables are key risk factors for cancer, according to the World Health Organization.Add those up, and you've got a potential culprit for the advent of early cancers, the Harvard researchers said."The increased consumption of highly processed or westernized foods together with changes in lifestyles, the environment ... and other factors might all have contributed to such changes in exposures," the researchers wrote in their 2022 review."You don't need 65 years of eating crispy, charred or processed meat as a main diet, for example," Kamal added. "What you need is about 20 years, and then you start to see stomach and colorectal cancers, even at young ages."So how do you fight back against the big C? Start in your 20s, Kamal said.Get a family historyMany of the most common cancers, including breast, bowel, stomach and prostate, are genetically based — meaning that if a close relative has been diagnosed, you may have inherited a predisposition to develop that cancer too.That's why it's critical to know your family's health history. Kamal suggests young people sit down with their grandparents and other close relatives and ask them about their illnesses — and then write it down."The average person doesn't actually know the level of granularity that is helpful in accessing risk," he said."When I talk to patients, what they'll say is, 'Oh, yeah, Grandma had cancer.' There's two questions I want to know: At what age was the cancer diagnosed, and what specific type of cancer was it? I need to know if she had cancer in her 30s or 60s, because it determines your level of risk. But they often don't know."The same applies to the type of cancer, Kamal said."People often say 'Grandma had bone cancer.' Well, multiple myeloma and osteosarcoma are bone cancers, but both of them are relatively rare," he said. "So I don't think Grandma had bone cancer. I think Grandma had another cancer that went to the bone, and I need to know that."Next, doctors need to know what happened to that relative. Was the cancer aggressive? What was the response to treatment?"If I hear Mom or Grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 and passed away at 41, then I know that cancer is very aggressive, and that changes my sense of your risk. I may add additional tests that aren't in the guidelines for your age."Cancer screening guidelines are based on population-level assessments, not individual risk, Kamal said. So, if cancer (or other conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, or even migraines) runs in the family, you become a special case and need a personalized plan."And I will tell you the entire scientific community is observing this younger age shift for different cancers and is asking itself: 'Should guidelines be more deliberate and intentional for younger populations to give them some of this advice?"Screen yourselfIf your family history is clear of cancer, that lowers your risk — but doesn't remove it. You can decrease the likelihood of cancer by eating a healthy, plant-based diet, getting the recommended amount of exercise and sleep, limiting alcohol consumption and not smoking or vaping, experts say.Protecting yourself from the sun and tanning beds is key, too, as harmful ultraviolet rays damage DNA in skin cells and are the prime risk factor for melanoma. However, skin cancer can show up even where the sun doesn't shine, Kamal said."There's been an increase of melanoma that's showing up in non-sun-exposed areas such as the underarm, the genital area and between the toes," he said. "So it's important to check — or have a partner or dermatologist check — your entire body once a year."Skin check: Take off all your clothes and look carefully at all of your skin, including the palms, soles of feet, between toes and buttocks and in the genital area. Use the A, B, C, D, E method to analyze any worrisome spots and then see a specialist if you have concerns, the American Academy of Dermatology advised.Also see a dermatologist if you have any itching, bleeding or see a mole that looks like an "ugly duckling" and stands out from the rest of the spots on your body.Get vaccinated if you haven't: Two vaccinations protect against cervical and liver cancers, and others for cancers such as melanoma are in development.Hepatitis B is transmitted via blood and sexual fluids and can cause liver cancer and cirrhosis, which is a scarred and damaged liver. A series of three shots, starting at birth, is part of the U.S. recommended childhood vaccines schedule. Unvaccinated adults should check with their doctor to see if they are eligible.The HPV vaccine protects against several strains of human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Human papillomavirus can cause deadly cervical cancer as well as vaginal, anal and penile cancer. It can also cause cancer in the back of the throat, including the tongue and tonsils."These HPV-related head and neck cancers are more aggressive than the non-HPV-related cancers," Kamal said, "so boys as well as girls should be vaccinated."Since the vaccine's approval in 2006 in the U.S. for adolescents ages 11 to 13, cervical cancer rates have declined by 87%. Today, the vaccine can be given through age 45, the CDC said.Breast self-exams: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed worldwide, according to the WHO, followed by lung, colorectal, prostate, skin and stomach cancers.Both men and women can get breast cancer, so men with a family history should be aware of the symptoms as well, experts say. These include pain, redness or irritation, dimpling, thickening or swelling of any part of the breast. New lumps, either in the breast or armpit, any pulling in of the nipple and nipple discharge other than breast milk are also worrisome symptoms, the CDC said.Women should do a self-exam once a month and see a doctor if there are any warning signs, the National Breast Cancer Association advised. Choose a time when the breasts will be less tender and lumpy, which is about seven to 10 days after the beginning of the menstrual flow.Screenings and tests: At-home exams and vaccinations can save lives, but many cancers can only be detected through laboratory tests, scans or biopsies. The American Cancer Society has a list of recommended screening by ages.Getting those done in a timely manner increases the chance for early detection and treatment, but it's still each person's responsibility to know their risk factors, Kamal said."Remember, guidelines are only for people at average risk," he said. "The only way someone can know whether the guidelines apply to them is to really understand their family history."
It's World Cancer Day, and the outlook for winning the war against this deadly disease is both good and bad.
In the United States, deaths from cancer have dropped 33% since 1991, with an estimated 3.8 million lives saved, mostly due to advances in early detection and treatment. Still, 10 million people worldwide lost their lives to cancer in 2020.
"During the last three years, the No. 1 leading leading cause of death in the world was actually cancer, not COVID-19," said Dr. Arif Kamal, chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society.
Symptoms of cancer can mimic those of many other illnesses, so it can be difficult to tell them apart, experts say. Signs include unexplained weight loss or gain, swelling or lumps in the groin, neck, stomach or underarms and fever and night sweats, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Bladder, bowel, skin and neurological issues may be signs of cancer, such as changes in hearing and vision, seizures, headaches and bleeding or bruising for no reason, the institute said. But most cancers do not cause pain at first, so you can't rely on that as a sign.
"We tell patients that if they have symptoms that do not get better after a few weeks, they should visit a doctor," Kamal said. "It doesn't mean the diagnosis will be cancer, however."
Cases rise in younger people
Rather than wait for symptoms, the key to keeping cancer at bay is prevention, along with screenings to detect the disease in its early stages. That's critical, experts say, as new cases of cancer are on the rise globally.
A surprising number of new diagnoses are in people under 50, according to a 2022 review of available research by Harvard University scientists.
Cases of breast, colon, esophagus, gallbladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, prostate, stomach and thyroid cancers have been increasing in 50-, 40- and even 30-year-olds since the 1990s.
That's unusual for a disease that typically strikes people over 60, Kamal said. "Cancer is generally considered an age-related condition, because you're giving yourself enough time to have sort of a genetic whoopsie."
Older cells experience decades of wear and tear from environmental toxins and less than favorable lifestyle choices, making them prime candidates for a cancerous mutation.
"We believed it takes time for that to occur, but if someone is 35 when they develop cancer, the question is 'What could possibly have happened?'" Kamal asked.
No one knows exactly, but smoking, alcohol consumption, air pollution, obesity, a lack of physical activity and a diet with few fruits and vegetables are key risk factors for cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
Add those up, and you've got a potential culprit for the advent of early cancers, the Harvard researchers said.
"The increased consumption of highly processed or westernized foods together with changes in lifestyles, the environment ... and other factors might all have contributed to such changes in exposures," the researchers wrote in their 2022 review.
"You don't need 65 years of eating crispy, charred or processed meat as a main diet, for example," Kamal added. "What you need is about 20 years, and then you start to see stomach and colorectal cancers, even at young ages."
So how do you fight back against the big C? Start in your 20s, Kamal said.
Get a family history
Many of the most common cancers, including breast, bowel, stomach and prostate, are genetically based — meaning that if a close relative has been diagnosed, you may have inherited a predisposition to develop that cancer too.
That's why it's critical to know your family's health history. Kamal suggests young people sit down with their grandparents and other close relatives and ask them about their illnesses — and then write it down.
"The average person doesn't actually know the level of granularity that is helpful in accessing risk," he said.
"When I talk to patients, what they'll say is, 'Oh, yeah, Grandma had cancer.' There's two questions I want to know: At what age was the cancer diagnosed, and what specific type of cancer was it? I need to know if she had cancer in her 30s or 60s, because it determines your level of risk. But they often don't know."
The same applies to the type of cancer, Kamal said.
"People often say 'Grandma had bone cancer.' Well, multiple myeloma and osteosarcoma are bone cancers, but both of them are relatively rare," he said. "So I don't think Grandma had bone cancer. I think Grandma had another cancer that went to the bone, and I need to know that."
Next, doctors need to know what happened to that relative. Was the cancer aggressive? What was the response to treatment?
"If I hear Mom or Grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 and passed away at 41, then I know that cancer is very aggressive, and that changes my sense of your risk. I may add additional tests that aren't in the guidelines for your age."
Cancer screening guidelines are based on population-level assessments, not individual risk, Kamal said. So, if cancer (or other conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, or even migraines) runs in the family, you become a special case and need a personalized plan.
"And I will tell you the entire scientific community is observing this younger age shift for different cancers and is asking itself: 'Should guidelines be more deliberate and intentional for younger populations to give them some of this advice?"
Screen yourself
If your family history is clear of cancer, that lowers your risk — but doesn't remove it. You can decrease the likelihood of cancer by eating a healthy, plant-based diet, getting the recommended amount of exercise and sleep, limiting alcohol consumption and not smoking or vaping, experts say.
Protecting yourself from the sun and tanning beds is key, too, as harmful ultraviolet rays damage DNA in skin cells and are the prime risk factor for melanoma. However, skin cancer can show up even where the sun doesn't shine, Kamal said.
"There's been an increase of melanoma that's showing up in non-sun-exposed areas such as the underarm, the genital area and between the toes," he said. "So it's important to check — or have a partner or dermatologist check — your entire body once a year."
Skin check: Take off all your clothes and look carefully at all of your skin, including the palms, soles of feet, between toes and buttocks and in the genital area. Use the A, B, C, D, E method to analyze any worrisome spots and then see a specialist if you have concerns, the American Academy of Dermatology advised.
Also see a dermatologist if you have any itching, bleeding or see a mole that looks like an "ugly duckling" and stands out from the rest of the spots on your body.
Get vaccinated if you haven't: Two vaccinations protect against cervical and liver cancers, and others for cancers such as melanoma are in development.
Hepatitis B is transmitted via blood and sexual fluids and can cause liver cancer and cirrhosis, which is a scarred and damaged liver. A series of three shots, starting at birth, is part of the U.S. recommended childhood vaccines schedule. Unvaccinated adults should check with their doctor to see if they are eligible.
The HPV vaccine protects against several strains of human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Human papillomavirus can cause deadly cervical cancer as well as vaginal, anal and penile cancer. It can also cause cancer in the back of the throat, including the tongue and tonsils.
"These HPV-related head and neck cancers are more aggressive than the non-HPV-related cancers," Kamal said, "so boys as well as girls should be vaccinated."
Since the vaccine's approval in 2006 in the U.S. for adolescents ages 11 to 13, cervical cancer rates have declined by 87%. Today, the vaccine can be given through age 45, the CDC said.
Breast self-exams: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed worldwide, according to the WHO, followed by lung, colorectal, prostate, skin and stomach cancers.
Both men and women can get breast cancer, so men with a family history should be aware of the symptoms as well, experts say. These include pain, redness or irritation, dimpling, thickening or swelling of any part of the breast. New lumps, either in the breast or armpit, any pulling in of the nipple and nipple discharge other than breast milk are also worrisome symptoms, the CDC said.
Women should do a self-exam once a month and see a doctor if there are any warning signs, the National Breast Cancer Association advised. Choose a time when the breasts will be less tender and lumpy, which is about seven to 10 days after the beginning of the menstrual flow.
Screenings and tests: At-home exams and vaccinations can save lives, but many cancers can only be detected through laboratory tests, scans or biopsies. The American Cancer Society has a list of recommended screening by ages.
Getting those done in a timely manner increases the chance for early detection and treatment, but it's still each person's responsibility to know their risk factors, Kamal said.
"Remember, guidelines are only for people at average risk," he said. "The only way someone can know whether the guidelines apply to them is to really understand their family history." | 2023-02-04T17:46:46+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/cancer-is-striking-more-people-in-their-30s-and-40s/42764529 |
CINCINNATI — José Ramírez hit a grand slam and drove in six runs, remarkable rookie Steven Kwan reached base three more times and the Cleveland Guardians spoiled Cincinnati’s home opener by beating the Reds 10-5 Tuesday.
Kwan has now reached base at least three times in all five games of his major league career. The 24-year-old outfielder kept up his super start with a single, two walks and a sacrifice fly.
Trevor Stephan (1-0) pitched one scoreless inning for the win.
CUBS 2, PIRATES 1
PITTSBURGH — Seiya Suzuki homered twice, Drew Smyly pitched five scoreless innings and the Cubs spoiled the Pirates’ home opener.
Suzuki connected for leadoff shots in the fifth and seventh. One of the top players in Japan, Suzuki signed an $85 million, five-year contract with the Cubs last month.
Smyly (1-0) permitted three hits and walked none in his Cubs debut. The left-hander agreed to a one-year contract last month.
The Pirates got their only run on Bryan Reynolds’ homer against Mychal Givens in the eighth.
David Robertson worked a perfect ninth for his second save.
José Quintana (0-1) made his first appearance for Pittsburgh, pitching five effective innings against one of his former teams.
WHITE SOX 3, MARINERS 2
CHICAGO — Luis Robert hit his first homer of the season, a tiebreaking drive in the sixth inning that led the White Sox to their third consecutive victory.
Robert connected against Matt Brash (0-1), a 23-year-old right-hander making his major league debut.
Seattle lost its third straight game after starting with two wins. The Mariners have scored 10 runs: only Baltimore (six) and Milwaukee (nine) began the night with fewer.
Seattle was 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, getting an RBI single from Jesse Winker with two outs in the ninth off Liam Hendriks, who struck out Mitch Haniger for his first save. The Mariners are hitting .156 (7 for 45) with runners in scoring position this season.
Reynaldo López (1-0) pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the win in Chicago’s home opener.
RED SOX 5, TIGERS 3
DETROIT — Rafael Devers had three hits and two RBIs, helping the Red Sox rally for the win.
Kiké Hernández doubled twice for Boston, which trailed 3-0 after five innings. Garrett Whitlock (1-0) pitched four hitless innings to win in his first appearance since the Red Sox announced his $18.75 million, four-year contract on Sunday.
Devers’ tiebreaking RBI single gave the Red Sox a 4-3 lead in the eighth.
Boston, which has not been above .500, improved to 2-3.
Detroit’s Spencer Torkelson, the top pick of the 2020 amateur draft, doubled in the third inning for his first big league hit after an 0-for-10 start. Alex Lange (0-1) got the loss.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-04-13T01:37:25+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb/ramirez-hits-grand-slam-as-guardians-beat-reds-10-5/2022/04/12/360a6e24-bac5-11ec-a92d-c763de818c21_story.html |
LORAIN, Ohio — Good news from the Bartlett Maritime Corporation, the group behind the project to bring major submarine repair facilities to Lorain and Lordstown. Company officials met last week at the Pentagon with senior Navy leadership to discuss the status of their proposal.
“We're hopeful that we'll be under contract before too long to do the preliminary planning for the two new facilities we proposed,” said company founder, chairman and CEO Ed Bartlett. “One in Lorain to support building equipment to be installed in new ships and one in Lordstown to support maintenance of equipment in existing ships.”
From the late 80s through 2005, there were several Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commissions that sought to reshape the country’s military assets in a post-Cold War era.
The nearly 20-year BRAC process saw the closing of more than 350 military installations including several naval facilities.
It left the Navy with only four public shipyards, that was thought to be enough to handle the construction and maintenance of the nation’s fleet. Reports show it isn't.
"The U.S. Navy does not have enough organic infrastructure to properly maintain the submarine force,” Bartlett said.
The problem prompted him to establish the Bartlett Maritime Corporation with an outside-the-box approach to fixing the problem that has caused 75 percent of Naval Shipyard maintenance work to be completed late.
The Bartlett Maritime Plan looks to build two dry-docks in Lorain that could handle up to four submarines for repair at once employing 2-3,000 people with another 500 to 1,000 in Lordstown where a manufacturing and supply depot would be built to support the work.
In Lorain, they're ready.
"We're hoping that at some point before the end of the year that Bartlett starts sending workers from Lorain and the Lorain area for training and that we're up and running sometime in 2023,” said Mayor Jack Bradley.
Bartlett says that training of welders in conjunction with Lorain County Community College and Lincoln Electric would be part of Phase 1 which would come into play once they're under contract, which is still pending.
"No definitive date on when they'll be a contract and part of it depends upon when Fiscal year '23 budget is passed and funding becomes available but we're hoping to be under contract before too long," he said.
While they wait, the site selection process continues in Lorain and Lordstown which are also awaiting the final OK from Washington.
“We know where we want them but we don't want to announce them publicly,” Bartlett said. “Once the Phase 1 contracts are placed we'll be working with the current landowners. We've spoken to both the city government in Lorain and the village government in Lordstown and the landowners all know where we want to do it and there seems to be general consensus that we have a reasonable plan for sites but until we actually are under contract and get going we're not going to release the locations.” | 2022-08-08T22:30:03+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-lorain/those-behind-the-effort-to-bring-navy-submarine-repair-facilities-to-ohio-hopeful-to-be-under-contract-soon |
Former police officer pleads guilty to taking guns, money from evidence room
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A former police officer in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to stealing guns and money from an evidence room.
WCSC reports that 47-year-old Wade Franklin Rollings’ charges include misconduct in office and grand larceny.
According to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Rollings also pleaded guilty to breach of trust with fraudulent intent in an unrelated case.
Authorities said the 47-year-old was an evidence custodian with the Summerville Police Department in December 2020 when he reported that $7,439 was missing from an evidence room safe.
The solicitor’s office said an internal investigation revealed that Rollings entered false information into a case management system to make it appear as though another employee had authorized the release of the funds.
Government documents stated that Rollings was being interviewed by other Summerville police employees about the lost money when he was shown a system log.
“When Rollings was provided with this new information, his demeanor quickly changed,” the documents said. “He put his head down and stated, ‘OK, I need to tell you something.’”
According to the solicitor’s office, Rollings made a full confession. He was fired and charged with misconduct in office.
Authorities said a follow-up investigation into the evidence room revealed that Rollings also had taken several firearms and sold them at nearby pawn shops.
Additionally, while awaiting trial, Rollings reportedly worked for an agricultural retailer in Berkeley County. According to court documents, he set up fake merchandise returns, generating refunds from the store to customers who did not exist, and stole around $2,500.
“Although these were his first offenses, crimes committed by police officers undermine the judicial system by eroding public confidence,” Sean Thornton, with the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, said. “Therefore, prison time was appropriate in this situation.”
Officials said Rollings was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Copyright 2023 WCSC via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-11T03:10:27+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/02/11/former-police-officer-pleads-guilty-taking-guns-money-evidence-room/ |
California facing chance of blackouts amid brutal heat wave
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California will face its highest chance of blackouts this year as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit temperatures, officials warned Monday.
As people crank up their air conditioners, the state forecasted record levels of energy use that could exceed supply Monday evening, said Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state’s electrical grid.
The state could fall 2,000 to 4,000 megawatts of electricity short of its power supply, which represents as much as 10% of normal demand, he said.
State energy officials said the electrical load on Tuesday potentially could hit 51,000 megawatts, the highest demand ever seen in California.
The scorching heat and low humidity were further drying out brush and adding to the challenges of battling wildfires, said Anale Burlew, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Some 4,400 firefighters were battling 14 large fires around the state, and there were 45 new blazes on Sunday alone, she said.
In Southern California, two people were killed and one injured by the Fairview Fire, which started Monday near the city of Hemet, the Riverside County Fire Department said. Roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, the fire had quickly spread to more than 2,000 acres by 11 p.m., prompting evacuations, and was only 5% contained. Multiple residential structures burned.
CAISO on Monday evening requested the activation of temporary emergency power generators deployed by the Department of Water Resources in Roseville and Yuba City. The four generators, which were activated for the first time since they were installed last year, can provide up to 120 megawatts of electricity, enough to power up to 120,000 homes.
Earlier in the day, CAISO issued a Flex Alert call for voluntary conservation between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday and for 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, making seven alerts in as many days. Consumers were urged to keep air conditioners at 78 degrees (25.5 degrees C) or higher during the period and avoiding using major appliances such as ovens and dishwashers.
The efforts have worked to keep the lights on “but we have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave” that could last into the week, and two to three times the level of conservation will be needed from people and businesses, Mainzer said.
During the day, California’s energy grid runs on a mix of mostly solar and natural gas, as well as some imports of power from other states. But solar power begins to fall off during the late afternoon and into the evening, which is the hottest time of day in some parts of the state.
Meanwhile, some of the aging natural gas plants that California relies on for backup power aren’t as reliable in hot weather.
CAISO also issued a Stage 2 Energy Emergency Alert from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. The second of three emergency alert stages means taking emergency energy-saving measures “such as tapping backup generators, buying more power from other states and using so-called demand response programs,” according to a CAISO website. Stage 3 would be rolling blackouts.
Southern California Edison urged its customers to conserve energy through 10 p.m. tonight, the company said.
The state has additional energy capacity for protection at the moment “but blackouts, rolling, rotating outages are a possibility today,” Mainzer said, calling additional conservation “absolutely essential.”
Several hundred thousand Californians lost power in rolling blackouts in August 2020 amid hot weather. The state avoided a similar scenario last summer. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed legislation potentially allowing the state’s last remaining nuclear plant to stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure in order to ensure more power for the energy grid.
The National Weather Service predicted highs between 100 and 115 degrees across inland areas of the state with 80s to 90s closer to the coast. Nighttime won’t bring much relief, with many places seeing lows in the 80s or even 90s.
Ironically, unsettled weather also brought the chance of thunderstorms over Southern California and into the Sierra Nevada, with a few isolated areas of rain but nothing widespread. The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires.
South of the Oregon state line, the Mill Fire was 40% contained on Monday after killing two people, injuring others and destroying at least 88 homes and other buildings since it erupted last week, Burlew said.
The fire killed two women, ages 66 and 73, who were found inside the city limits of Weed on Friday after the fire broke out, the Siskyou County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday. Their names and details of their deaths weren’t immediately released.
Last week, seven firefighters were sent to the hospital for heat-related problems, but Burlew said the extreme weather wasn’t likely to disrupt current firefighting efforts.
The fire had burned 6.6 square miles of grass, brush and timber, but it wasn’t expected to grow. Many evacuations had been lifted.
However a few miles away, the Mountain Fire was 16.6 square miles, only 10% contained and winds could renew its growth east in steep terrain, fire officials said at a Monday morning briefing. No buildings had burned.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-06T11:29:13+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/06/california-facing-chance-blackouts-amid-brutal-heat-wave/ |
AKC REUNITE REACHES $2 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR ADOPT A K-9 COP PROGRAM
Published: Aug. 25, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
- Grants Matched Through Adopt A K-9 Cop Program -
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AKC Reunite, the largest non-profit pet microchip identification and recovery service provider in the United States, is pleased to announce that it has awarded over $2 million in grants through its AKC Reunite Adopt A K-9 Cop matching grant program. Funds were raised by contributions from AKC dog clubs and community members, with AKC Reunite matching donations at a three-to-one ratio.
"Thank you to the clubs who have helped us meet this milestone through their donations and sponsorship of the departments," said Tom Sharp, AKC Reunite President & CEO. "This is a significant achievement to help communities throughout the country."
The most recent grant that helped Adopt A K-9 Cop reach the $2 million mark is:
The Adopt A K-9 Cop program allows AKC Reunite to match funds from AKC Clubs, AKC affiliated organizations and the public, three-to-one, up to $7,500 per grant. These donations help police departments throughout the United States purchase K-9 police dogs. Many of the police dogs acquired with the help of these grants are used as patrol dogs as well as detection dogs, helping to locate narcotics, explosives and/or evidence.
The Adopt A K-9 Cop program reached $1 million in donations in March 2022. The grants since then have gone to the following police departments:
Contributing clubs for these donations include the United States Police Canine Association, Baytown Kennel Club, Kennel Club of Riverside, Kennel Club of Philadelphia, Colorado Springs Kennel Club, Dalmatian Club of America, Clemson Kennel Club, Metairie Kennel Club, Wilmington Kennel Club, Show Me Agility Club of Central Missouri, Lexington Kennel Club, Louisiana Kennel Club, Progressive Dog Club of Wayne County, Lost Coast Kennel Club, Oklahoma City Kennel Club and Farmington Valley Kennel Club.
A total of 272 Adopt A K-9 Cop grants have been awarded since the inception of the program. Learn more about how to get involved in AKC Reunite Adopt A K-9 Cop program and see pictures and stories of dogs already donated at https://www.akcreunite.org/k9/.
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The way home for lost pets.
AKC Reunite, an affiliate of the American Kennel Club®, is the largest non-profit pet microchip identification and recovery service provider in the United States. Since 1995 AKC Reunite has helped pet owners reunite with their lost animals via identification and 24/7 pet recovery specialists, enrolling over 9 million companion animals and recovering more than 500,000 lost pets. AKC Reunite microchips are a popular choice of pet professionals throughout the country for permanent pet identification.
AKC Reunite has donated more than $10 million since 2002 for pet-related causes including disaster preparedness and relief like the AKC Pet Disaster Relief trailer donation program. AKC Reunite also provides free recovery service enrollment for all active service, military, and law enforcement K-9 dogs. For more information visit www.akcreunite.org or follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/akcreunite).
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Wind-tunnel testing has proven that the Lightyear 0 is the most aerodynamic production car in the world, Lightyear claims.
Testing conducted at the FKFS wind tunnels in Stuttgart, Germany, under WLTP protocols confirmed a 0.175 coefficient of drag (Cd) for the solar-assisted electric car, Lightyear said Thursday in a press release.
That figure puts the Lightyear 0 ahead of the Lucid Air, Tesla Model S, and Mercedes-Benz EQS, all at 0.20 to 0.21. Each of those are much larger than the Lightyear 0, however, and will likely be produced in higher volumes. Lightyear has said it only plans to sell 150 cars (priced at about $260,000 each), with a “high-volume” model to follow.
Lightyear’s claim is an impressive achievement for even a low-volume production car, however.
The Mercedes EQXX achieves just 0.17, but it’s not production-bound. The concept is a showcase of ideas to improve EV efficiency, and did a real-world range run of 746 miles from Stuttgart to Silverstone, England, on a single charge—with enough energy to spare for some victory laps.
Launched in 2013, the Volkswagen XL1 achieved a 0.189 Cd. The slim coupe used a plug-in hybrid diesel powertrain that seemed like a good idea in the days before the VW emissions scandal, and was actually produced in very limited numbers. Just 200 were sold out of a planned run of 250 cars exclusively for the European market, where the Lightyear 0 will also be available.
The production General Motors EV1 had a Cd of 0.195, but that was achieved with a fairly impractical two-door body shell. The EV1 wasn’t a high-volume car, either. GM built 1,117 and leased them to customers in California and a handful of other locations. Most were recalled and destroyed after California changed its zero-emission vehicle laws, allowing the EV1 to be withdrawn without the threat of penalties.
The EV1, XL1, EQXX, and now the Lightyear 0 have shown that cutting drag requires a radically different shape to conventional cars. Does that make sedans obsolete? At the very least, designers and engineers attempting to make a three-box sedan with leading-edge aero face some tough challenges.
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Gas expected to spike above $5 as experts forecast higher crude oil prices
Published: Jun. 7, 2022 at 12:08 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - You may want to budget a little more for that summer road trip.
As prices at gas pumps climb near $5 a gallon in most of the United States, the worst may still be to come.
Oil prices are the biggest component affecting gas prices, and Goldman Sachs is now forecasting crude oil will average $140 a barrel this summer.
Oil is currently about $120 a barrel.
It would mean that gas prices would spike even higher, in order to incentivize new production and discourage consumption.
Oil analysts expect the national average price of gas to rise above $5 a gallon in the next week or so.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-07T18:11:09+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/06/07/gas-expected-spike-above-5-experts-forecast-higher-crude-oil-prices/ |
By CASEY HARPER
THE CENTER SQUARE
(The Center Square) – Producer prices soared by 11.3% in June over a year ago as consumers continue to struggle with skyrocketing prices for just about everything.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Producer Price Index data Thursday, which showed a 1.1% increase last month, contributing to a 11.3% increase in the past 12 months, “the largest increase since a record 11.6% jump in March 2022.”
“This rise followed advances of 0.9 percent in May and 0.4 percent in April,” BLS said. “In June, three-fourths of the advance in the index for final demand was due to a 2.4-percent rise in prices for final demand goods. The index for final demand services increased 0.4 percent.”
Gas prices for regular and diesel gas hit all-time highs last month, leading to a trickle down effect of higher prices for all kinds of goods and services through all stages of the supply chain. Even without higher energy costs, though, prices still significantly increased.
“Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services moved up 0.3 percent in June after advancing 0.4 percent in both May and April,” BLS said. “For the 12 months ended in June, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 6.4 percent.”
Goods become more expensive when energy costs are higher, in part because the cost to ship them has skyrocketed.
“Nearly 90 percent of the June increase can be traced to a 10.0-percent jump in prices for final demand energy,” BLS said. “The indexes for final demand goods less foods and energy and for final demand foods advanced 0.5 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively.”
The PPI data comes just one day after the BLS Consumer Price Index showed a 9.1% increase in consumer prices in the previous 12 months, the highest in more than four decades. Both of these inflation markers show that prices are continuing to rise, and experts say it could get worse later this year.
“The increase was broad-based, with the indexes for gasoline, shelter, and food being the largest contributors,” BLS said of its consumer price index. “The energy index rose 7.5 percent over the month and contributed nearly half of the all items increase, with the gasoline index rising 11.2 percent and the other major component indexes also rising. The food index rose 1.0 percent in June, as did the food at home index.”
Higher energy prices also impacted consumer costs significantly.
“The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.7 percent in June, after increasing 0.6 percent in the preceding two months,” BLS said. “While almost all major component indexes increased over the month, the largest contributors were the indexes for shelter, used cars and trucks, medical care, motor vehicle insurance, and new vehicles. The indexes for motor vehicle repair, apparel, household furnishings and operations, and recreation also increased in June. Among the few major component indexes to decline in June were lodging away from home and airline fares.” | 2022-07-15T18:11:14+00:00 | newspress.com | https://newspress.com/producer-price-index-rises-11-3-another-worrying-inflation-marker/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State’s 2023-24 regular season men’s basketball schedule will include participating in the Emerald Coast Classic preseason tournament, and now it knows who its first opponent is.
The Buckeyes will open against Alabama in the two-day event on Nov. 24-25. Games will be played at Raider Arena on the campus of Northwest Florida State College.
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Other matchups include Oregon vs. Santa Clara; Mercer vs. Tennessee State; and Southeastern Louisiana vs. Western Michigan.
This will be just the seventh meeting between the two programs but the first since 2002 when the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide came to Columbus and beat OSU, 54-48. The series is tied at three games a piece.
While Ohio State failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season and finished the year under .500, Alabama earned a No. 1 seed — finishing first in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll — before being upset in the Sweet 16 by eventual national runner-up San Diego State.
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GENEVA (AP) — Host nation Qatar is set to play in the opening game of its own World Cup tournament after all — and on a stand-alone day being added to the schedule barely 100 days before kickoff.
Soccer’s marquee tournament is now set start one day earlier than originally scheduled seven years ago in a move that would allow Qatar to play Ecuador on Nov. 20, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter.
The proposal will be put before a committee comprised of FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the heads of the six continental soccer bodies, the person said. A decision is expected this week.
According to a letter sent by FIFA this week and seen by the AP, the governing body is asking for approval from the continental soccer bodies by Thursday.
Qatar should now get an exclusive Sunday slot for its opening ceremony and World Cup debut at the 60,000-capacity Al Bayt Stadium.
The World Cup is currently scheduled to start on Nov. 21, a Monday, based on a FIFA decision in 2015 after it agreed to push back the tournament to avoid the extreme desert heat in June and July. FIFA also got agreement for a shorter, 28-day program to minimize disruption to domestic soccer, especially in Europe, which will shut down ahead of the World Cup.
Recent World Cup tradition gave 2014 host Brazil and 2018 host Russia exclusive opening days to play their first opponents. But the tighter schedule in Qatar called for four games daily for the entire group stage — 48 games in 12 days.
At the tournament draw in Doha on April 1, the Netherlands, Senegal and Ecuador landed in Group A with Qatar. The Dutch and Senegal were allocated the 1 p.m. local time start and Qatar was to play Ecuador in the third game with an evening kickoff six hours later.
The proposal to create a 29-day tournament instead of 28 has been favored by Qatari officials and South American soccer body CONMEBOL, with talks also involving the Qatar and Ecuador soccer federations, the person told the AP.
FIFA acknowledged in its letter that changing the date, after tickets have been sold, would affect some traveling fans. However, FIFA said “any risk is sufficiently outweighed by the value and benefits of the proposal” commercially.
A Qatar-Ecuador game involves only a few players who are with European clubs. Several on the likely Ecuador roster play for clubs in Spain, the United States and Mexico, where leagues stop play ahead of the Nov. 12-13 weekend.
The schedule switch would have been tougher to agree to if Qatar was scheduled to open against the Netherlands, which has key members playing until Nov. 13 with clubs in England and Italy.
Because of the proposal, FIFA is expected to push back the Netherlands-Senegal from the lunchtime start to the early evening slot that would be vacated by Qatar.
While an opening game on a Sunday evening in Qatar should play well with viewers in Asia and Europe, in the United States it puts the World Cup in direct competition with NFL games. The U.S. soccer team plays its World Cup opener against Wales as the late Monday game in Qatar.
The 2022 World Cup is the first in the tournament’s 92-year history to be played outside of the traditional northern hemisphere summer. The previous 21 editions were all played between late-May and the end of July.
The Nov. 21-Dec. 18 tournament schedule was agreed to so European clubs could play on the Nov. 12-13 weekend before releasing their players to the 32 World Cup teams. Changing opening day should not alter the tournament rule that players must report from their clubs to national teams no later than Nov. 14, FIFA said in its letter.
The final will be played on Qatar’s National Day, a Sunday, allowing a full week for players to return to clubs before the Premier League plays its traditional Boxing Day games on Dec. 26.
Qatar original bid was made to host the tournament in June-July, promising innovative stadium cooling technology to overcome heat expected to reach 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) during the first World Cup held in the Middle East.
In December 2010, Qatar won a controversial bid contest beating the United States 14-8 in a final round of voting by the FIFA executive committee, a group later widely discredited by corruption scandals.
More than four years later, FIFA moved the tournament to be played on dates when temperatures should be around 25 to 30 degrees C (77 to 86 degrees F).
Now, a further seven years later, the dates are set to change again.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-10T23:40:00+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/fifa-looks-to-start-world-cup-in-qatar-1-day-earlier/ |
Marge passed away peacefully at her home in Scranton on Monday, June 26, 2023, surrounded by love from her family and closest friends. Marge was one of the most beloved, beautiful, and giving persons.
Every year, Marge brightened family and friends’ birthdays with her poems. This was her final one, “God, what were you thinking. I wish you thought a bit — I did not want to play this game; I did not want to be it!”
She was born on March 14, 1937, in Scranton and was the daughter of the late Charles Kawalski and the late Mary Kawalski (Chickalowchak). Margaret was a graduate of West Scranton High School, Class of 1955. She spent her career as the Manager of St. Ann’s Credit Union and Assistant Manager at Penn East Federal Credit Union, where she was adored by so many for her empathy, strength, tireless energy, and willingness “to bend over backwards” to help anyone.
Despite working full time and being a single mother raising four children, she still found the time to help nieces, nephews, and friends apply to and successfully attend, and complete their college degrees, for which they will be forever grateful. In her retirement, she was a friend to so many at Delaware Tower Apartments, who cherished her sense of humor, generosity, style, and kindness. She spent her time making sure no one was forgotten with her handmade, personal cards and visits to nursing homes. Her one request is “to please take time to call, visit, or send a card to someone in a nursing home.”
Her pride and joy were her family; son, Barry Bowen and spouse Joneene, who was like a daughter to her, Scranton; daughter, Beth Bastoul and spouse Christian, Los Altos, Calif.; son, David Bowen, Scranton; daughter, Nancy Kennelly and spouse Edward, Manasquan, N.J.; grandchildren, Seth and Eden Bowen, Eric and Kevin Bastoul, Jordan Bowen, and Emily and Katie Kennelly. She is also survived by her dear sister, Eleanore (Ellie) Baciewicz and spouse Dennis; nephews, Charles (Chip) Kawalski, Ken Kawalski, Michael Baciewicz, and nieces, Geri Hathaway, Mary Pat Baxter, and Joan Baciewicz.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Charles (Chick) C. Kawalski and spouse Bernice; infant brother, Edward; and infant sisters, Irene and Maryann; and her companion for almost fifty years, Robert Neach.
A private viewing and Mass were held at St. Ann’s Monastery and interment is in the Cathedral Cemetery. The family would like to thank the Frey-Fetsock Funeral Home, Newfoundland, Pa. for making the arrangements. The family would also like to thank her dear friends, Carol Schaffer and Rose Dymek, for their unconditional love and support and Traditional Hospice for their excellent and compassionate care.
Contributions can please be made in her name to Catherine McAuley Center, 430 Pittston Ave., Scranton, PA 18505; or Women’s Resource Center, 620 Madison Ave., Scranton, PA 18510. | 2023-07-01T22:32:33+00:00 | thetimes-tribune.com | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/zz-dnp/margaret-marge-m-bowen/article_41493226-39ce-5bc3-ac22-d1218aecd6f9.html |
Not again!
After stunning hot sauce lovers with shortages in 2022, Huy Fong Foods announced earlier this month that the nightmare is recurring, and for the same reason: A failed red jalapeño crop in Mexico in 2022 due to drought means Sriracha’s key ingredient is in short supply. And that translates to empty space on grocery-store shelves.
“Although some production did resume this past fall season, we continue to have a limited supply that continues to affect our production,” Huy Fong said in a statement, as reported by USA Today. “At this time, we have no estimations of when supply will increase.”
That sharp screech you just heard was a millennial (me) learning their favorite condiment is in trouble (again).
According to the Los Angeles Times, Huy Fong uses about 50,000 tons of chiles each year to produce its line of sauces. But ongoing drought conditions in recent years have decimated the annual crop.
“Sriracha is actually made from a very special type of pepper that only grows in the southern U.S. and northern Mexico,” said climate and ecosystem researcher Guillermo Murray-Tortarolo, in a 2022 NPR article. “These red jalapeños are only grown during the first four months of the year, and they need very controlled conditions, particularly constant irrigation.”
While other brands make their own “sriracha” sauces — the word is not trademarked — fans tend to be devoted to the famous green-capped bottle and its iconic rooster.
“I only have like three bottles. What am I going to do?” asked customer Joyce Park, in a New York Times article about the 2022 shortage. “It’s an emergency but there are other spicy foods hopefully.”
And sriracha lovers are also expressing their dismay over social media this time around, as @wisepissmage did on Twitter:
Another sushi bowl thing with shiitakes and tofu for dinner. The national sriracha shortage really hit home tonight pic.twitter.com/R9tsnp74gD
— isabel (@wisepissmage) April 5, 2023
If you’re still seeing Huy Fong Sriracha at the store, consider picking one up — Huy Fong doesn’t track where it’s still in stock, so once it’s gone it might be a while before it returns. The company does say it’s working to avoid future outages, though.
A quick search for Huy Fong Sriracha on my local grocery store’s website showed a 17-ounce bottle available at $4.24, which is slightly higher than its $3.99 price from Friday.
That’s not too bad. I’ll still be grabbing a bottle or two on my next visit. Just in case.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-04-17T17:41:34+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/sriracha-shortage-is-looming |
SIGHISOARA, Romania (AP) — Moldova received about 600 million euros in pledges at a donors conference Friday, an official said, to help the tiny country overcome rising inflation and the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
More than 500,000 refugees have fled to Moldova, which borders Ukraine, since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24. The situation has put a huge strain on resources in Europe’s poorest country, which is looking to forge closer ties with the West.
Moldova is also fully dependent on Russian gas supplies, with prices hiking four-fold in the last year, and is now contending with skyrocketing inflation.
The Moldova Support Platform donor meeting Friday was held in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, and was co-chaired by Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, and French secretary of state for development Chrysoula Zacharopoulou. Delegates from the Group of Seven and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also attended the event.
“We may not have the power to stop the war in Ukraine today or tomorrow, due to Russia‘s brutality,” Baerbock wrote online after the event. “But we do have the means to help a democratic country to prevent it from being crushed by the effects of this war.”
The initiative, which was launched in Berlin in early April, aims to help Moldova, a former Soviet republic with a population of about 2.6 million, deal with the fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine and offer support from partners on its reform path as it aims to one day to obtain full membership in the 27-nation European Union.
After the meeting, Aurescu told a news conference that around 600 million euros “in various forms” were raised.
“We put the needs next to the problems, and we managed to put the resources next to the needs,” he said.
On June 23, the EU granted Moldova candidate status, with full bloc membership conditional on a series of reforms in areas such as tackling corruption, organized crime and strengthening the rule of law. It will likely take many years for the non-NATO nation to meet such standards.
Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu told The Associated Press by phone on Friday that the support platform can “help Moldova transform.”
“Russia’s war in Ukraine had a huge and tragic impact on a lot of countries … (but) given Moldova’s geography, Moldova is probably the most impacted country after Ukraine,” he said. “There is an increased sense of insecurity that is affecting every single European — but is even more dramatic in Moldova.”
In April, tensions in Moldova soared after a series of explosions in Transnistria — a Russia-backed separatist region of Moldova where Russia bases about 1,500 troops — raised fears that it could get dragged into the war. Transnistria has a population of about 470,000 and has been under the control of separatist authorities since a civil war in 1992.
“Our population for years and years has strongly believed that Moldova’s future is in the European Union,” Popescu said. “Now Moldova has this historic chance to actually have a clear track of joining.”
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Cristian Jardan reported from Chisinau, Moldova. | 2022-07-15T20:24:27+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/moldova-gets-support-from-partners-amid-series-of-hardships/ |
Frequent marijuana use may lead to higher risk of heart disease, study finds
WASHINGTON - Scientists say a wide-ranging study, involving human test subjects as well as mice, has shown a link between marijuana use and a higher risk of heart disease.
Dr. Joseph Wu, MD, Ph.D., the study’s senior author and director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, collaborated with 25 doctors for the multi-part study, which was released last month.
Data for the report used research from a separate U.K. study that surveyed almost 160,000 people about their use of marijuana, as well as lab tests conducted by Wu and doctors using human stem cells and mice cells, which they exposed to THC, the active component in marijuana, to test its impact on heart disease.
"We gathered the patient data from the U.K. biobank database," Wu said. "We found there were 157,331 people who completed the survey asking if they have used cannabis before. 122,455 respondents said they did not take cannabis, while around 34,878 said they took cannabis. Among those who took cannabis, there was an association of increased heart attack for those who are age 50 years old."
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As part of their study, Wu and a team of doctors analyzed blood samples of 18 recreational marijuana users in the San Francisco Bay Area. "These users had blood drawn at different times after using marijuana," Wu said. "We found that 90 minutes after marijuana use, there were increased inflammatory biomarkers in their blood."
Wu added, "We also used two mice models, one with a high-fat diet with and without THC, and another with carotid artery injury with and without THC. In both mice models, we observed that THC exposure increases the progression of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, which can put you at risk of a heart attack. Using human stem cells and mice models, our study provides a biological mechanism and scientific premise of how THC may cause heart disease."
Warning signs of frequent marijuana use and heart disease
There are warning signs associated with frequent marijuana use that Wu believes people should be aware of to reduce their chances of heart disease.
"Habitual, frequent, and high-dose marijuana users may be at higher risk of mental health and cardiovascular health issues. In this study, we observed more inflamed blood vessels with increased use of marijuana," Wu said. "Inflamed blood vessels can lead to the buildup of more plaque in your body. More build-up of plaque in the arteries can lead to increased cardiovascular diseases."
Differences in how marijuana use may affect heart health
Several studies published through the years have evaluated the effects of marijuana use on people producing different data. Some studies suggests high levels of THC exposure from recreational marijuana use may cause a rise in blood pressure. A study in Israel in 2021 found people aged 60 and older who used medical marijuana for three months had a reduction in blood pressure, the Associated Press reported.
A 2020 scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) said observational studies have linked marijuana use to an increased risk of heart attacks, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure, but acknowledged its impact on the heart and blood vessels was not well understood due to a lack of adequate research.
In clinical studies, researchers measure and control what people are consuming. But because the federal government still classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 substance, which means it has a high potential for abuse, researchers face restrictions on the types of marijuana products they can give people who take part in these studies.
Challenges of studying marijuana’s effects on the heart and brain
Marijuana use has been studied for years, but there are still a lot of questions about how it affects heart and brain health.
Some of the factors include determining the differences in how people use marijuana, the active ingredients it contains, how often individuals use the product, and the age of the person using marijuana.
More than 48 million people in the U.S. over the age of 12 reported using marijuana in 2019, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration is approximately 18% of the population, an increase from 11% 20 years ago.
Some studies suggest chronic, heavy recreational use of marijuana can harm cognitive function – especially if that use begins at a young age. But research shows adult medical cannabis patients may experience some cognitive benefits.
Another study published in 2018 in the Frontiers of Pharmacology journal showed people who used medical cannabis experienced improvements in executive function over time, with no deficits in verbal learning or memory.
As more states legalize recreational use of marijuana, Wu noted that the drug is not completely safe and should be used in moderation to lower your chances of cardiovascular disease.
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Hayes Corn Maze opening this weekend
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - A sure sign of fall is here, the Hayes Corn Maze is set to open to the public. On Friday, final preparations were underway at the 200-acre farm that features the corn maze, pedal racers, a rope maze, hay rides and more.
The sponsor and theme this year for the corn maze is First Bank, it’s all about people. The owners of the Hayes Corn Maze say it’s a great place to make memories with friends and family.
“It’s just good to be with the families and enjoy the fall harvest, the weather has been great, we’ve been blessed, our corn is so tall and our pumpkins are plentiful and they’re really big so we’ve really had a great harvest season so far,” said Lenore Hayes, Hayes Corn Maze co-founder.
The Hayes Corn Maze is open Saturdays from 10:30 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. and Sundays from 12:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. Admission is $11 per person.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With the firing of Matt Rhule, the Carolina Panthers announced that Steve Wilks has been named the interim head coach.
Wilks, a Charlotte native with NFL head coaching experience, was a logical choice to lead the team after Rhule's firing. Not only has he spent quite a bit of time with the Panthers during his career, but the Panthers' defense has been solid under Wilks, especially in the secondary with second-year cornerback Jaycee Horn showing why he was a first-round pick in 2021.
Here are some notes about Steve Wilks' background before he coaches his first game as the Panthers' interim leader.
Wilks graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1987. From there, he played defensive back at Appalachian State. His professional career consisted of one season with the Charlotte Rage in the defunct-Arena Football League.
Wilks bounced around the NFL as a head coach for several seasons after spending one season at Savanna State in 1999.
Former Panthers coach Ron Rivera hired Wilks to be his defensive backs coach in Chicago and then again in San Diego, when Rivera became the Chargers' defensive coordinator in 2009.
Wilks reunited with Rivera in 2012 on the Panthers' staff. He spent six seasons in Carolina and was promoted to assistant head coach in 2015. He helped guide the Panthers' defense to a 15-1 season that finished in Super Bowl 50. Wilks was promoted to defensive coordinator when Sean McDermott left to be the Bills' head coach.
He quickly became a hot name in head coaching circles and was hired by the Cardinals in 2018. Wilks' tenure in Arizona was short-lived, as he was fired after one season, which saw the Cardinals finish a league-worst 3-13.
Wilks eventually made his way back to the Panthers in 2022, taking on the role of defensive passing game coordinator and secondary coach.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate pushed a bipartisan gun violence bill to the brink of passage Thursday as it voted to halt a Republican filibuster against the measure, clearing the way for Congress’ most far-reaching response in decades to the nation’s run of brutal mass shootings.
After years of GOP procedural delays that derailed Democratic efforts to curb firearms, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable after last month’s rampages in New York and Texas. It took weeks of closed-door talks but a group of senators from both parties emerged with an 80-page compromise embodying incremental but impactful movement.
The measure would toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous. It would also fund local programs for school safety, mental health and violence prevention.
Thursday’s roll call ending the blockade by conservative GOP senators was 65-34, five more than the 60-vote threshold needed. Final passage of the $13 billion measure was expected by week’s end with a House vote to follow. The timing was uncertain, but Congress was scheduled to leave town by the weekend for a two-week break.
Fifteen Senate Republicans joined all 50 Democrats, including their two allied independents, in voting to move ahead on the legislation.
The day proved bittersweet for advocates of curtailing gun violence. Underscoring the enduring potency of conservative cIout, the right-leaning Supreme Court issued a decision expanding the right of Americans to carry arms in public. The justices struck down a New York law that has required people to prove a need for carrying a weapon before they get a license to do so.
The Senate vote highlighted the risks Republicans face by defying the party’s pro-gun voters and the National Rifle Association. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Todd Young of Indiana were the only two of the 15 up for reelection this fall. Of the rest, four are retiring and eight don’t face voters until 2026.
Tellingly, GOP senators voting “no” included potential 2024 presidential contenders like Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Tim Scott of South Carolina. Some of the party’s most conservative members voted “no” as well, including Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah.
The election-year package fell far short of more robust gun restrictions Democrats have sought for years, including bans on the assault-type weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines used in the slayings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Yet the accord let leaders of both parties declare victory and demonstrate to voters that they know how to compromise and make government work, while also leaving room for each side to appeal to its core supporters.
“This is not a cure-all for the all the ways gun violence affects our nation,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whose party has made gun restrictions a goal for decades. “But it is a long overdue step in the right direction. It’s significant, it’s going to save lives.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a nod to the Second Amendment right to bear arms that drives many conservative voters, said “the American people want their constitutional rights protected and their kids to be safe in school.” He said “they want both of those things at once, and that is just what the bill before the Senate will have accomplished.”
While the Senate measure was a clear breakthrough, the outlook for continued congressional movement on gun curbs is dim.
Only about one-third of the Senate’s 50 GOP senators backed the measure and solid Republican opposition is certain in the House. Top House Republicans urged a “no” vote in an email from the No. 2 GOP leader, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, that called the bill “an effort to slowly chip away at law-abiding citizens’ 2nd Amendment rights.”
Both chambers — now narrowly controlled by Democrats — could well be run by the GOP after November’s midterm elections.
In a statement, President Joe Biden said Uvalde residents told him when he visited that Washington had to act.
“Our kids in schools and our communities will be safer because of this legislation. I call on Congress to finish the job and get this bill to my desk,” Biden said.
Senate action came one month after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde. Just 10 days before that, a white man accused of being motivated by racism killed 10 Black grocery store shoppers in Buffalo. Both shooters were 18 years old, a youthful profile shared by many mass shooters.
The talks were led by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C. Murphy represented Newtown, Connecticut, when an assailant killed 20 students and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, while Cornyn has been involved in past gun talks following mass shootings in his state and is close to McConnell.
The bill would make the local juvenile records of people age 18 to 20 available during required federal background checks when they attempt to buy guns. Those examinations, currently limited to three days, would last up to a maximum of 10 days to give federal and local officials time to search records.
People convicted of domestic abuse who are current or former romantic partners of the victim would be prohibited from acquiring firearms, closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole.”
That ban currently only applies to people married to, living with or who have had children with the victim. The compromise bill would extend that to those considered to have had “a continuing serious relationship.”
There would be money to help states enforce red flag laws and for other states without them that for violence prevention programs. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have such laws and Cornyn — whose state does not — demanded the inclusion of all states during the negotiations.
The measure expands the use of background checks by rewriting the definition of the federally licensed gun dealers required to conduct them. Penalties for gun trafficking are strengthened, billions of dollars are provided for behavioral health clinics and school mental health programs and there’s money for school safety initiatives, though not for personnel to use a “dangerous weapon.” | 2022-06-23T23:20:30+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/politics/gun-bill-on-road-to-passage-as-senate-overcomes-gop-delays/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against high inflation on Wednesday, raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point — the largest bump since 1994 — and signaling more rate hikes ahead as it tries to cool off the U.S. economy without causing a recession.
The unusually large rate hike came after data released Friday showed U.S. inflation rose last month to a four-decade high of 8.6%. The Fed’s benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, will now be pegged to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% — and Fed policymakers forecast a doubling of that range by year’s end.
Asked why the Fed was announcing a more aggressive rate hike than the half-point increase he had earlier signaled, Fed Chair Jay Powell replied that the latest data had shown inflation to be hotter than anticipated and that the public’s expectation of rising inflation had strengthened.
“We thought strong action was warranted at this meeting,” he said, “and we delivered that.”
Powell said that another three-quarter-point hike is possible at the Fed’s next meeting in late July if inflation pressures remain high, although he said such increases would not be common.
The Fed’s decision to impose a rate hike as large as it did Wednesday was an acknowledgment that it’s struggling to curb the pace and persistence of inflation, which is being fueled by a strong labor market, pandemic-related supply disruptions and soaring energy prices that have been aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Powell said he believes the economy is strong enough to endure higher rates without tipping into recession, a prospect that many economists are increasingly worried about.
Some analysts said they welcomed the Fed’s more aggressive posture. “The more the Fed does now, the less they will have to later,’’ said Thomas Garretson, senior portfolio strategist at RCB Wealth Management.
Inflation has shot to the top of voter concerns in the months before Congress’ midterm elections, souring the public’s view of the economy, weakening President Joe Biden’s approval ratings and raising the likelihood of Democratic losses in November. Biden has sought to show he recognizes the pain that inflation is causing American households but has struggled to find policy actions that might make a real difference. The president has stressed his belief that the power to curb inflation rests mainly with the Fed.
Yet the Fed’s rate hikes are blunt tools for trying to lower inflation while also sustaining growth. Shortages of oil, gasoline and food are escalating prices. The Fed isn’t ideally suited to address many of the roots of inflation, which involve Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, still-clogged global supply chains, labor shortages and surging demand for services from airline tickets to restaurant meals.
At his news conference, Powell struck a defensive note when asked whether the Fed was now prepared to accept a recession as the price of curbing inflation and bringing it close to the Fed 2% target level.
“We’re not trying to induce a recession now,” he said. “Let’s be clear about that. We’re trying to achieve 2% inflation.”
Borrowing costs have already risen sharply across much of the U.S. economy in response to the Fed’s moves, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate topping 6%, its highest level since before the 2008 financial crisis, up from just 3% at the start of the year. The yield on the 2-year Treasury note, a benchmark for corporate borrowing, has jumped to 3.3%, its highest level since 2007.
Even if a recession can be avoided, economists say it’s almost inevitable that the Fed will have to inflict some pain — most likely in the form of higher unemployment — as the price of defeating chronically high inflation.
In their updated forecasts Wednesday, the Fed’s policymakers indicated that after this year’s rate increases, they foresee two more rate hikes by the end of 2023, at which point they expect inflation to finally fall below 3%, close to their target level. But they expect inflation to still be 5.2% at the end of this year, much higher than they’d estimated in March.
Over the next two years, the officials are forecasting a much weaker economy than was envisioned in March. They expect the unemployment rate to reach 3.7% by year’s end and 3.9% by the end of 2023. Those are only slight increases from the current 3.6% jobless rate. But they mark the first time since it began raising rates that the Fed has acknowledged that its actions will weaken the economy.
The central bank has also sharply lowered its projections for economic growth, to 1.7% this year and next. That’s below its outlook in March but better than some economists’ expectation for a recession next year.
Investments around the world, from bonds to bitcoin, have tumbled on fears surrounding inflation and the prospect that the Fed’s aggressive drive to control it will cause a recession. Even if the Fed manages the delicate trick of curbing inflation without causing a downturn, higher rates will nevertheless inflict pressure on stocks. The S&P 500 has already sunk more than 20% this year, meeting the definition of a bear market.
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 was rose 1.5%. The two-year Treasury yield fell to 3.26% from 3.45% late Tuesday, with the biggest move happening after Powell said not to expect 0.75 percentage point rate hikes to be common.
Other central banks are also acting swiftly to try to quell inflation, even with their nations at greater risk of recession than the U.S. The European Central Bank is expected to raise rates by a quarter-point in July, its first increase in 11 years. It could announce a larger hike in September if record-high levels of inflation persist. On Wednesday, the ECB vowed to create a market backstop that could buffer member countries against financial turmoil of the kind that erupted during a debt crisis more than a decade ago.
The Bank of England has raised rates four times since December to a 13-year high, despite predictions that economic growth will be unchanged in the second quarter. The BOE will hold an interest rate meeting on Thursday.
Last week, the World Bank warned of the threat of “stagflation” — slow growth accompanied by high inflation — around the world. | 2022-06-15T20:30:16+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/biggest-rate-hike-in-years-expected-as-fed-tackles-inflation/ |
Step Outside Your "Comfort Zone" with Host Kinga Philipps of "Shark Week" Fame
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- What would you do if someone were to invite you to surf, deep-sea dive, white-water raft or engage in similar high-stakes outdoor endeavors… for the first time?
Outdoor enthusiasts and neophytes alike will be able to find out beginning March 7 when Season Two of "Finding Adventure" launches on the Very Local app, available to stream for free on all mobile, tablet and connected TV devices.
Host Kinga Philipps, ocean conservationist, thrill seeker and first ever female host of "Shark Week" travels to locations around the country, taking local residents along with her for "the coolest, most breathtaking and heart-pounding experiences." Philipps serves as expert and mentor taking participants and viewers alike "out of their comfort zones" to experience incredible outdoor adventures right in their own backyards.
"Watching the personal transformations of the inspiring locals we've invited on the show is one of the most rewarding experiences we've had as creators. Kinga Philipps couldn't be more compassionate and captivating as their mentor, and our tenacious producing team did a wonderful job capturing more heartwarming and heart-pounding stories in Season Two of Finding Adventure," said Michael Callahan, Sr. Director, Digital Studios at Very Local.
Over the course of 12 episodes, Season One of the upbeat and aspirational 30-minute show took viewers to Sacramento, CA; Portland, ME; Kansas City, MO; New Orleans, LA; Orlando, FL; and Pittsburgh, PA.
In this brand-new season, Philipps will take viewers along on adventures in Louisville, KY; Greenville, SC; Milwaukee, WI; Manchester, NH; and Albuquerque, NM, with new episodes rolling out every Tuesday through April 25th for a total of eight new installments.
Hearst Television launched Very Local in 2021 to provide original non-scripted programming across genres with a focus on production in Hearst Television's more than two dozen local media markets. The Very Local team produces more than 100 hours of content a year, including more than a dozen titles and hundreds of interstitial programs, and manages the schedules of more than two dozen FAST channels.
About Very Local
Very Local is the only streaming service that brings you closer than ever to your hometown and beyond, offering 24/7 access to local news, weather, originals and more. A subsidiary of Hearst Television, Very Local is the exclusive streaming home for local news from all Hearst Television news stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states. For more, visit verylocal.com, or find the FREE Very Local App on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices including Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and VIZIO.
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Hearst Television owns and operates 33 television and two radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over more than 120 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, Estrella and more. The radio stations are leaders in Baltimore news/talk and rock music listenership. Its Hearst Media Production Group unit produces original programming across linear and streaming platforms for domestic and international distribution. Its Very Local app, free to download on household OTT devices and available across popular streaming services, offers 24/7 access to local news, weather and an array of local and regional programming. Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. Hearst Television is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst.
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Countless products can make life easier but filling your house with gadgets just creates new problems to solve. Those with limited space or tight budgets benefit from versatile products with multiple uses. We’ve tested various multiuse products for your kitchen and home to find those that stick out as the best.
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White Sox vs. Rays: Odds, spread, over/under - April 23
As they go for the series sweep on Sunday, April 23, Zach Eflin will toe the rubber for the Tampa Bay Rays (18-3) as they take on the Chicago White Sox (7-14), who will answer with Lucas Giolito. The first pitch will be thrown at 1:40 PM ET at Tropicana Field.
The Rays are -150 moneyline favorites in this matchup against the White Sox (+125). The total is 7.5 runs for this game (with -115 odds to go over and -105 odds to go under).
White Sox vs. Rays Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
- Venue: Tropicana Field
- Probable Pitchers: Eflin - TB (2-0, 3.27 ERA) vs Giolito - CHW (1-1, 4.29 ERA)
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White Sox vs. Rays Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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White Sox vs. Rays Betting Trends and Insights
- The Rays have entered the game as favorites 20 times this season and won 18, or 90%, of those games.
- The Rays have gone 15-1 (winning 93.8% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -150 or shorter.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Tampa Bay has a 60% chance to win.
- The Rays have a 7-2 record across the nine games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups (all had set totals), Tampa Bay combined with its opponents to hit the over on the total five times.
- The White Sox have been chosen as underdogs in 12 games this year and have walked away with the win two times (16.7%) in those games.
- The White Sox have won all of their four games in which they were named as at least a +125 moneyline underdog.
- In seven games as underdogs over the last 10 matchups, the White Sox have a record of 0-7.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Chicago and its opponents are 4-4-2 in the last 10 games with a total.
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MESA — This week a number of migrants have already arrived at Iglesia Cristiana El Buen Pastor, a church in Mesa.
As Title 42 expires the church is expecting many more.
“Maybe we’ll receive 80 people per day,” Pastor Hector Ramirez told ABC15 about how they are preparing.
“Last time other people helped me. Right now, I need to help other people,” Ramirez said.
He says each week dozens of migrants are dropped at their doorsteps where they can find shelter, clothes, food and water.
“Thank God we got here. The people are very nice, good people, I’m very thankful to them,” Estefania told ABC15 through a translator.
She traveled from Ecuador with her 7-year-old son and 6-month-old daughter. She feared for their safety if they stayed at home due to rising crime rates.
“I had to leave. They were going to kill me. That’s why I fled my country. Hope to get a better future for my kids. Keep going for them,” Estefania said. “It’s very difficult there. The president doesn’t do anything to criminals. He allows them to kidnap children. Their crimes are not punished.”
She says she and her family traveled through a river and spent three days in a cell before arriving in Mesa.
“My kids gave me strength to keep moving forward," she said.
The church is looking for more volunteers and more donations, whether it is money, food or clothing, to help them accommodate more people and spread God’s love.
“We have right now food. We have right now house. We have right now clothes. These people don’t have that,” Ramirez said. | 2023-05-12T01:34:31+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/mesa-church-preparing-for-title-42-migrant-influx |
Man charged for being drunk while behind the wheel with 2 children
PHILIPPI, W.Va (WDTV) - A man has been charged in Barbour County after officers said he was intoxicated while behind the wheel of a vehicle with two children in the backseat.
Officers received a complaint around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday at a Philippi gas station for an intoxicated driver parked on the property, according to a criminal complaint.
When officers spoke to the driver, 38-year-old Jason Pitzer, of Thornton, had the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath and allegedly told officers he had “consumed 3 alcoholic beverages, two being ‘Bootleggers.’”
Court documents say Pitzer showed impairment during a series of field sobriety tests, and a preliminary breath test yielded a BAC of 0.128.
Pitzer has been charged with two counts of child neglect creating risk of injury or death. He is being held at Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $20,000 bond.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration estimated Monday that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care.
Federal watchdogs have been sounding the alarm for years about questionable charges on the government’s private version of the Medicare program, with investigators raising the possibility that insurance companies may be bilking taxpayers of billions of dollars every year by claiming members are sicker than they really are to receive inflated payments.
The Department of Health and Human Services said it will begin collecting payments from insurers when an audit turns up that they charged for diagnoses that are not reflected in the patient’s medical records. The government has not sought refunds for those payments in over a decade, the agency said.
“Today, we are taking some long overdue steps to move us in the direction of accountability,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday during a phone call with reporters.
The penalties are expected to return $4.7 billion over the next decade, the agency estimated.
The questionable payments are submitted through Medicare Advantage, a booming program that nearly half of the 60 million people enrolled in Medicare sign up for. Medicare Advantage is different from traditional Medicare, with private companies offering plans that are reimbursed by the government for care. The government spent $900 billion last year overall on Medicare.
With the rise in popularity has come growing concern that insurers are ripping off taxpayers by overstating how sick a patient is to unlock higher reimbursements from the government. The HHS Office of the Inspector General raised red flags about $6.7 billion worth of payments for patients whose diagnoses were not supported by medical records in 2017, for example.
Insurers have been gearing up for a fight against the long-awaited final rule, with company leaders raising concerns about the accuracy of the audits. The move will raise insurance rates, warned Matt Eyles, the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying arm for health insurance companies.
“Our view remains unchanged: This rule is unlawful and fatally flawed, and it should have been withdrawn instead of finalized,” Eyles said. | 2023-01-31T06:10:03+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/ap-health/ap-feds-expect-to-collect-4-7b-in-insurance-fraud-penalties/ |
The 12 new suppliers added more than 1,400 new ready-to-ship solutions to Allied's line card and further expanded its robust connectivity, electronic components, PLC & HMI, industrial controls, and lighting & indication product portfolios.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation, a trading brand of RS Group plc (LSE: RS1), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, expanded its extensive portfolio of more than 3.5 million products from more than 650 trusted suppliers with the addition of more than 1,400 ready-to-ship solutions from 12 new suppliers to better serve its industrial and commercial customers.
Allied expanded its connectivity portfolio with the addition of more than 300 ready-to-ship products from HUBER+SUHNER and Mencom Corporation. HUBER+SUHNER is a trusted global supplier of electrical and optical connectivity solutions for radio frequency, fiber optic, and low-frequency applications in the industrial, communications, and transportation markets. Newly stocked products include high-quality connectors, wire & cable, electronic components, and tools & hardware designed to deliver reliable performance and long lifetimes in even harsh environments. Mencom is a trusted supplier of high-quality, cost-effective, custom-made, and off-the-shelf electrical connectivity solutions engineered for industrial electronics applications and backed by 35 years of extensive design and development experience. Newly stocked products include wire & cable, connectors, and sensor junction blocks.
Allied expanded its electronic components portfolio with new products from Siretta, a leading developer and supplier of IoT products and software solutions designed for industrial 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT, and LTE Cat M cellular applications. Newly stocked products include antennas, wire & cable, connectors, and signal analyzers engineered to support frequencies spanning 150MHz to 6GHz.
Allied expanded its portfolio of PLCs & HMIs with the addition of KUNBUS, which develops innovative and economical industrial communication products designed to support the steady growth of fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet networks in the automation, process, and manufacturing industries. KUNBUS offers a single source for standardized fieldbus solutions, including Profibus, CANopen, and DeviceNet products; Industrial Ethernet solutions, including PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, SERCOS, and EtherCAT products; and development, manufacturing, and logistics services.
Allied expanded its industrial controls and mechanical power transmission portfolios with the addition of precision bearings from Nachi America, Inc. Nachi bearings are developed using superior materials and precision cutting tools made in-house, backed by 100 years of design and manufacturing experience, and trusted in applications spanning industrial equipment to automobiles. They are also compact, durable, and precise and deliver high-speed, high-reliability performance.
Allied expanded its portfolio of lighting & indication products for commercial and industrial applications with the addition of seven new Signify brands: Philips, Day-Brite CFI, Lightolier, Advance, Chloride, Hadco, and Stonco.
Signify is a leading global supplier of lighting solutions, and Philips is one of its most recognizable brands. Philips has been one of the world's most trusted lighting brands since 1981 and is synonymous with innovative, high-quality, and reliable technology that improves people's lives. Allied currently offers more than 450 ready-to-ship Philips lighting solutions optimized for use in homes, commercial businesses, and industrial operations.
Allied's new selection of Day-Brite CFI lighting products extends from standalone and connected high-performance recessed ceiling troffers to industrial-grade high-bay luminaries. It includes more than 110 ready-to-ship solutions, all of which deliver high-quality, high-efficiency performance in applications ranging from general-purpose commercial facilities to medical and industrial facilities. Its new selection of Lightolier indoor track and downlighting solutions for high-end design and architectural markets offers an attractive blend of aesthetics, affordability, efficiency, sustainability, and long-lifetime performance.
Allied also offers Advance LED drivers, modules, and ballasts for applications extending from commercial offices to industrial facilities and Chloride exit and emergency lighting fixtures for day-to-day and architectural life-safety applications in locations spanning upscale commercial spaces to harsh industrial environments.
Other newly stocked Signify products include Hadco landscape and outdoor lighting solutions for commercial and residential products and Stonco general-purpose outdoor luminaries, which are known for offering a broad selection of contractor-friendly, easy-install, energy-efficient, reliable, economical, and long-lasting solutions, including bollards, floodlights, and garage, canopy, site, area, special-purpose, wall-mount, and landscaping lighting.
"We're very pleased to offer our industrial and commercial customers an even wider range of high-quality, high-performance products extending across our connectivity, electronic components, PLC & HMI, industrial control, and lighting & indication categories, and we're excited about the opportunity to introduce them to new suppliers and products they may not already be familiar with," said Kim Jackson, New Supplier Marketing Manager at Allied Electronics & Automation. "We take great pride in the trusted suppliers we partner with, as well as in helping our customers identify the best solutions for their unique applications and then implement and maintain those solutions to help maximize both their ROI and their productivity."
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Allied Electronics & Automation is a trading brand of RS Group plc, a leading global omni-channel industrial product and service solutions provider to customers who are involved in designing, building, and maintaining industrial equipment and operations, safely and sustainably. RS Group plc stocks more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provides a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 million industrial customers. With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship nearly 60,000 parcels daily.
We support customers across the product life cycle, whether via innovation and technical support at the design phase, improving time to market and productivity at the build phase, or reducing purchasing costs and optimizing inventory in the maintenance phase. We offer our customers tailored product and service propositions that are essential for the successful operation of their businesses and help them save time and money.
RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1 and, in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022, reported revenue of $3.3 billion.
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Please note that in Q1 2023, Allied will rebrand to "RS." The new global RS brand will establish a better connection across RS Group's products and services and deliver efficiency, value, and scalability to stakeholders worldwide.
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LONDON – Shell has effectively abandoned a plan to cut oil production by 1-2% per year until the end of the decade, instead maintaining output at current levels in a move that risks angering climate activists.
Ahead of an investor update in New York on Wednesday, Europe's largest energy company argued that it had already met the target it had set for itself in 2021 through asset sales.
London-based Shell said it had seen its production drop from 1.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2019 to 1.5 million in 2022. Shell has, for example, offloaded a little under 200,000 barrels of daily production when it sold its sites in the U.S. Permian basin to ConocoPhillips two years ago.
“Our target of a reduction in oil production by 2030 has not changed," the company said. “We’ve just met it eight years early.”
New chief executive Wael Sawan insisted that the company was still committed to decarbonizing its operations, reiterating the goal that Shell will become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050.
“We are investing to provide the secure energy customers need today and for a long time to come, while transforming Shell to win in a low-carbon future,” he said in a statement.
The oil strategy comes as Shell and other oil giants have faced increasing pressure to do more to fight emissions from climate activists, including protesters who were dragged away at Shell's London shareholder meeting last month and others who faced tear gas outside TotalEnergies' gathering days later.
Last week, the U.K.’s advertising watchdog banned a Shell marketing campaign for implying a big proportion of its business was in low carbon energy even though fossil fuels make up the “vast majority” of its operations.
Oil and gas companies like Shell, London rival BP and others also have spurred anger for posting bumper profits after Russia's war in Ukraine drove up the price of energy, surging inflation and helping fuel a cost-of-living crisis.
When it comes to Shell oil production, maintaining it at current levels will require investment because output from existing reservoirs naturally declines by around 5% every year.
“It (Shell) has made some meaningful nearer term pledges including the elimination of gas flaring at its wells by 2025, but there will be some disappointment that oil production is set to remain at current levels out to at least 2030,” said Derren Nathan, head of equity research at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown.
Shell also said it would buy back at least $5 billion of its shares from investors in the second half of the year, a move aimed at bolstering investor confidence amid a relative underperformance in the company's share price. Shell also said its dividend payment to shareholders would rise by 15%.
It also set out a target to reduce underlying operating costs between $2 and $3 billion by 2025 and reduce capital spending from $22 to $25 billion in 2024 and 2025. | 2023-06-14T13:41:11+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/business/2023/06/14/shell-ditches-lower-oil-production-target-but-insists-its-committed-to-cutting-emissions/ |
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) ("GreenPower"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission, electric-powered, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, in conjunction with Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), a federal coalition focused on advocating for 100% EV sales by 2030, will be hosting an educational display and demonstration of zero-emission, all-electric school buses and transit vehicles today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT at the U.S. Capitol —West Curb of First Street, NW at Constitution Avenue, NW.
The display and demonstration will give members of Congress, Administration officials, industry stakeholders, and school district personnel an opportunity to learn more about electric school buses and transit vehicles that meet "Buy America" regulations.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) provides significant funding opportunities for school districts and transit systems to migrate to electric vehicles. The BIL provides $5 billion in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean School Bus Program over the next five years (FY 2022-2026) to replace existing school buses with zero-emission and low-emission models. The EPA is currently offering $500 million through the 2022 Clean School Bus Program as the first funding opportunity. The BIL also significantly increased funding available to help modernize public transit bus fleets and facilities across the country, which will support good-paying jobs and help reduce carbon emissions, leading to cleaner air, healthier communities, and better transportation.
Under the EPA program, GreenPower's Type D BEAST school bus is eligible for a rebate up to $375,000 for qualifying purchasers, and up to a $285,000 rebate for the Type A Nano BEAST. Online applications will close on August 19, 2022.
Members of Congress, Administration Officials and other interested parties and individuals are expected to be in attendance. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) will give remarks at a 9:15 am press conference along with West Virginia State Delegates Paul Espinosa and Christopher Toney, and Vic Sprouse, Federal Funds and Grants Director of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development. Moms Clean Air Force and other advocacy groups will make remarks as well.
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GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van, and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com
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CONCORD, N.H. – Two decades after New Hampshire’s famed Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to pieces, the state is paying tribute to the granite profile that symbolizes its independence with new geological research, poetry, a song, and a scavenger hunt.
The 40-foot-tall (12-meter-tall) natural rock formation — a series of ledges that resembled an old man's face — was suspended 1,200 feet (366 meters) above Franconia Notch, held in place by turnbuckles and rods to fight erosion. It collapsed, and the rubble was discovered the morning of May 3, 2003.
“When he was up there, he represented a kind of reliantly steady, reassuring presence in a world that was otherwise changing really rapidly,” said Brian Fowler, a geologist and president of the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund that's leading a planned online tribute Wednesday, with shared stories, poetry, and a new song. His departure was a stunning and shocking event, Fowler said.
The Old Man was created by a series of geologic events going back millions of years. It's not clear how old he was; New Hampshire historical records mention it as early as 1805. Geologists believe it formed sometime after the end of the Ice Age, perhaps as long as 12,000 years ago.
Today, there's a better sense of the volume and mass of rock that was lost when the Old Man fell from Cannon Mountain. It couldn't be calculated before. A research project led by Dartmouth College graduate student Matthew Maclay estimates it was 750 cubic meters — “more volume than five school buses,” he said.
Maclay, who is studying soil and rock samples from the mountain, created an online interactive 3D model of the Old Man as it was at Cannon Cliff. He was assisted by Dartmouth collaborators who used a drone to do aerial surveys. He also used original film negatives taken between 1958 and 1976 that documented the rock formation and surrounding area. Viewers can see the model up close and at different angles.
“The Old Man of the Mountain may have weighed nearly 2,000 tons when it collapsed,” said Maclay, who plans to speak about his research on Wednesday. “While 3-inch turnbuckles had been bolted into the Old Man to try and prevent it from falling, the actual strength of the granite was degraded over centuries and that’s probably why it collapsed.”
Through the years, the profile became the subject of paintings and literature. Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about "The Great Stone Face." Statesman Daniel Webster said, “Shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there he makes men.”
“When the Old Man was written about, he was given the characteristics of what could generally be thought of as New Hampshire qualities and values — rugged individualism, stoic, steadfast, able to weather anything,” said Inez McDermott, curator of an upcoming exhibit about the rock formation's history and lasting influence at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University.
Efforts to save the Old Man and 6,000-acre (2,340-hectare) Franconia Notch began in the 1920s, when the land was for sale. The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests began a successful fundraising campaign to save the notch, “selling” its trees in exchange for a certificate of purchase for every tree that was protected. Further concern about the Old Man's future was expressed beginning in the late 1950s when the state recommended extending Interstate 93 through Franconia Notch.
The Old Man became the Granite State’s most recognizable symbol — the Legislature adopted it as the state emblem in 1945, and it still appears on the state quarter, highway signs, license plates and souvenirs. The Legislature passed a bill this session that would remember the Old Man with an annual proclamation on May 3.
Fundraising began for a memorial soon after the Old Man tumbled. Today, visitors to Franconia Notch State Park can “see” the Old Man's profile through a series of steel rods driven into a granite base that hang over a lake and point toward the cliff. Each has a series of irregular shapes on the side. When visitors position themselves correctly with the shapes, they can view an outline of the profile of a face.
A plaza has granite paving stones with donors' names and messages. A scavenger hunt with prizes is planned at the site this summer. People in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia have shared their memories on the website, Fowler said.
McDermott notes that Gov. John Sununu's latest election campaign featured the Old Man's profile on his signs, and a trans rights protester held a sign with the profile at a Statehouse rally in March.
“When I mention I am working on this exhibition, people want to tell me either how they felt the first time they saw it, or where they were when they learned it fell. There are a few exceptions — but most people tell me they feel something of a loss and like to discuss why that is,” McDermott said. | 2023-05-03T04:28:23+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2023/05/03/gone-for-20-years-old-man-of-the-mountain-lives-on-in-nh/ |
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (AP) — A chihuahua puppy found shot through the neck with an arrow in Southern California was expected to survive after veterinarians removed the projectile, authorities said.
A woman reported to 911 that she found the wounded dog Monday in a neighborhood near the city of Desert Hot Springs after hearing the puppy “screaming,” Riverside County Animal Services said in a statement.
A sheriff’s deputy picked up the 4-month-old female and transferred it to an animal services officer who brought the pup to the Coachella Valley Animal Campus.
Veterinary staff determined that the arrow did not strike the puppy’s vital arteries and it was removed.
“For someone to willfully shoot this poor pup with an arrow is disgusting,” Animal Services Director Erin Gettis said in the statement. “We are shocked and we hope someone can provide us any information as to who did this.”
Gettis said the agency will continue to treat the puppy and work on finding her a home.
Veterinary technician Emily Ellison said the puppy is affectionate.
“I cannot imagine why anyone would do something so terrible to such an innocent creature. It’s very sick,” Ellison said. | 2022-05-25T17:24:03+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/chihuahua-found-with-arrow-through-neck-expected-to-survive/ |
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LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM).
Class Period: December 30, 2019 – April 22, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 12, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Axsome's CMC practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07 and its manufacturing process; (2) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 NDA on its initially represented timeline; (3) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the FDA reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (4) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (5) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (6) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Dr. Caruthers' development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Marvin H. Caruthers of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has won the inaugural Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA. The chemical reactions that he discovered in the early 1980s to accurately and quickly assemble nucleotides into strands of DNA provided an essential element in the development of modern molecular medicine. Today, scientists use these reactions to produce customizable DNA and RNA molecules that enable genetic sequencing, drug and vaccine development, pathogen tests, cancer diagnostics, and many aspects of basic biomedical research.
"I am honored to acknowledge the incredible and transformative impact of Dr. Caruthers' technology on human health over the last four decades," said Dr. Richard Merkin, founder and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, one of the country's largest physician founded and physician owned integrated healthcare systems. "He deserves our support and recognition. I hope this prize not only raises awareness of this work, but underscores and encourages others to realize the broader importance of developing new scientific technologies to transform healthcare."
The Merkin Prize, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health, carries a $400,000 cash award. The prize was created by the Merkin Family Foundation and is administered by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Caruthers will be honored in a prize ceremony held this fall.
"The method developed by Dr. Marvin Caruthers was truly revolutionary. It exemplifies how a powerful technology can promote discovery and improve medical care. There are now whole fields of biology, medicine, and public health that one cannot imagine practicing without his methods for synthesis of polynucleotides," said Dr. Harold Varmus, chair of the Merkin Prize selection committee. Dr. Varmus is the Lewis Thomas University Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, a senior associate at the New York Genome Center, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the origins of cancer.
More than fifty technologies and scores of scientists from around the globe who invented them were nominated for the 2023 Merkin Prize. Those nominations were evaluated by the selection committee, composed of eight scientific leaders from academia and industry in the US and Europe.
Paving the Way for a Genetics Revolution
Today, scientists routinely manipulate genetic material to study human health and diagnose and treat disease. They sequence genes to diagnose inherited conditions and cancers, synthesize DNA and RNA strands by the millions to detect pathogens, manufacture drugs, and edit the sequences of genes as potential therapy. Just a few decades ago, without the synthetic methodologies developed in the Caruthers laboratory, none of this was possible.
Born in 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa, Dr. Caruthers became enamored with science in the third grade when his parents gave him a chemistry set. The color-changing liquids and exploding mixtures of chemicals fascinated him. He went on to study chemistry at Iowa State University before joining the lab of Dr. Robert Letsinger at Northwestern University in 1963 — a decade after the discovery of DNA's double helix.
During his graduate education at Northwestern, Dr. Caruthers learned how to assemble nucleotides — the building blocks of DNA and RNA — into short sequences using methods Dr. Letsinger had pioneered. But the approach was slow and inefficient.
"To make one little piece of synthetic DNA, a few nucleotides long, could take two months," Dr. Caruthers recalled.
While at Northwestern, he assembled five nucleotides into a strand of DNA — a major breakthrough at the time. He then became a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Wisconsin lab of Dr. Gobind Khorana, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the order of nucleotides in DNA encodes proteins. There, he became interested in how DNA was regulated and what its many sequences meant. Studying these problems was hard, though, without a way to build new pieces of DNA.
By the time Dr. Caruthers joined the chemistry and biochemistry department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1973, he had made it his goal to improve DNA synthesis.
"It was clear to me at the time that none of the current technologies were really very good for general, everyday use by most biologists," he said. "But most scientists in the biological and biochemistry communities couldn't care less."
At conferences and in hallways, colleagues frequently questioned why he wanted to develop new methods to synthesize DNA; most did not see any benefit, Dr. Caruthers said.
Over the coming years, with significant contributions from graduate student Mark Matteucci and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Serge Beaucage, Dr. Caruthers' lab tackled the problem. They first probed how to provide structural support for fragile, lengthening strands of DNA, and discovered that a highly porous silica glass known as "controlled pore glass" worked far better than the polystyrene that researchers had been using.
Then, the team developed a chemical method to protect nucleotides from undergoing unwanted reactions during DNA synthesis — a major reason DNA synthesis had been so inefficient. Dr. Caruthers' group discovered how to create protected "deoxynucleoside phosphoramidites" that didn't undergo the unwanted reactions. This made the synthesis reaction far more efficient. A series of chemical reactions could be carried out again and again, with each new iteration successively adding a new nucleotide to a growing strand of DNA in a matter of seconds.
"Suddenly, in less than a day, you could make a piece of synthetic DNA that would have taken months using older methods," Dr. Caruthers said.
A Lasting Impact
With the new technique, the Caruthers lab could rapidly synthesize strands of up to 30 nucleotides. In 1981, Dr. Caruthers and Matteucci described the controlled pore glass support in Journal of the American Chemical Society and Dr. Caruthers and Dr. Beaucage published the new approach for DNA synthesis in Tetrahedron Letters. Other scientists quickly began using the methods, and soon adapted the approach for synthesizing the other important polynucleotide, RNA.
At the same time, Dr. Caruthers imagined the technique could become even more widespread with machines to automate the repetitive process. He teamed up with world-leading protein scientist and systems biology pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood — then at Caltech — to develop instruments for DNA and protein synthesis and protein sequencing, described in a seminal 1984 Nature paper. Together, the pair launched a company — Applied Biosystems — that would produce both machines.
"I knew from day one that if people had to make their own reagents and chemically synthesize DNA in their own labs, it was never going to take off," said Dr. Caruthers. "If they could instead order DNA from a supplier, or have a really good machine to automate it, that could appeal to biologists."
Dr. Caruthers' foresight paid off. Such machines now produce strands of DNA hundreds of nucleotides long; DNA microchips can produce millions of these sequences at a time.
Today, scientists frequently synthesize short stretches of DNA to act as "primers," binding to genes of interest for the purpose of sequencing those genes or making new copies of them. Dr. Caruthers' technology was critical for developing polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which rapidly amplifies DNA or RNA so it can be detected or studied in greater detail. This technology also underlies many new diagnostic methods, including tests for COVID-19, for selection of cancer therapies, and for noninvasive prenatal screening for fetal abnormalities.
Longer synthetic DNA and RNA molecules are also critical for modern biologic drugs. These strands of genetic material carry the instructions for cells to produce antigens and therapeutic proteins, with the potential to prevent or treat infectious and metabolic diseases and cancers.
"The ability to synthesize genetic information has changed the face of medicine," said Dr. Varmus. "Synthesis of DNA and RNA is not only used directly for making diagnostics and therapies; its effects are magnified when you consider all the medical advances that have come out of research dependent on gene sequencing."
"I'm really very happy that this work is being recognized," said Dr. Caruthers. "It's been amazing to see the technology have such widespread use over the years."
Dr. Caruthers is a recipient of the National Medal of Science and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In addition to his role at Applied Biosystems, he is a co-founder of companies including Amgen, Array BioPharma, miRagen Therapeutics, SynGenis, and ProGenis.
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LOS ANGELES --Franmil Reyes is set to join the Guardians when they open a three-game series against the Twins on Tuesday at Target Field.
Reyes, on a rehab at Class AAA Columbus, hit a walk-off single Saturday night as Columbus beat St. Paul, 4-3. In Sunday’s 11-10 loss to St. Paul, he went 3-for-5 with two RBI. Reyes finished his rehab assignment by hitting .429 (9-for-21) with two homers and six RBI.
When Reyes is activated, that means someone has to be optioned to clear a spot on the 26-man roster. Outfielder Richie Palacios, despite his pinch-hitting heroics, is the most likely candidate.
Although no official announcement has been made, manager Terry Francona made his feelings clear. He wants Palacios to be getting every day at-bats and that’s not going to happen in Cleveland.
“For a younger kid he’s really done a good job of staying ready as you can see,” said Francona. “It’s not easy to do, for anybody, and I don’t know in the long run how long doing this is in his best interest. He needs to play.
“But while he’s here he’s giving us someone who can hit for our catcher and it’s helped us out a few times. He’s working with Kyle Hudson (outfielder coach) every day so he’s not regressing. But I’d be more comfortable if he was getting every day at-bats.”
Palacios struck again in the eighth inning of Sunday’s 5-3 win over the Dodgers with a game-tying pinch-hit double. He’s 3-for-6 as a pinch-hitter with six RBI. All three of his hits have gone for doubles.
Reyes has not played with the Guardians since May 24. When he went on the injured list he was hitting .195 (26-for-133) with three homers, 12 RBI and 57 strikeouts.
There’s another move coming
Reyes won’t be the only player coming off the injured list. Right-hander Aaron Civale is expected to start against the the Twins on Tuesday. He made two rehab starts at Columbus after going on the injured list with a strained left glute muscle.
Civale (2-3, 7.84) will be making his first start since May 20 against Detroit. Right-hander Anthony Castro, who joined the Guardians in Houston when Konnor Pilkington was optioned, could be sent back to Columbus to make room for Civale.
Now that’s a Father’s Day present
Eli Morgan, a California kid, earned the win Sunday with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief against the Dodgers. His father, Dave, former sports editor at the Los Angeles Times, was in the stands to see it.
“This was big time,” said Morgan. “I had my dad in attendance to see it. It’s Father’s Day and just to be back home, playing in this stadium, it has a special aura to it. It was cool to get the win today.”
As for taking two out of three from the powerful Dodgers, Morgan said, “It’s been as adrenaline filled as it gets. Two come-from-behind wins, late ballgame heroics, Dodger Stadium, perfect weather, packed crowds. Everything just added up to an unforgettable weekend. To take two out of three from those guys was huge.”
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Besides Reyes’ game-winning single, Tyler Freeman had three hits, Nolan Jones two and Bobby Bradley drove in three runs in the Clippers win over St. Paul on Friday. Kirk McCarty allowed three runs in 4 2/3 innings. James Karinchak relieved and threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings with three strikeouts. . .Raynel Delgado homered and drove in two runs, but Class AA Akron fell to Hardford, 4-3. Tanner Burns started and allowed two runs on four hits in 2 2/3 innings. . .Jhonkensy Noel and Alexfri Planez homered as Class A Lake County beat Beloit, 5-3. Noel leads the minor league system with 18 homers. Petey Halpin and Jonathan Rodriguez had two hits each, while Caden Sharpe (2-1, 2.25) threw three scoreless innings out of the pen for the win. He struck out five and allowed two hits. . .Trenton Denholm (3-2, 4.61) allowed two runs over seven innings as Class A Lynchburg beat Down East, 4-2. Luis Durango, Dayan Frias and Will Bartlett had two hits each.
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WASHINGTON — Does President Joe Biden have any reaction to the indictment of former President Donald Trump? Is he concerned about possible protests or that the unprecedented indictment could further divide the nation? What does the indictment mean for the rule of law in the United States?
Biden’s answer on Friday was the same each time: No comment, no comment, no comment.
“I’m not going to talk about Trump’s indictment,” Biden said firmly as he departed the White House en route to Mississippi, where he toured storm damage.
In his brief exchange with reporters, the Democratic president underscored the broader tactics that his administration is trying to take as it relates to the Republican former president’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury: Take the political temperature down, stay out of active criminal matters, focus on Biden’s agenda and priorities.
It may become more difficult as Trump’s legal matters progress. But at least in their initial approach on Friday, Biden and other top administration officials were sticking to their playbook.
“I am not going to comment on an ongoing criminal case as it relates to the former president,” Vice President Kamala Harris said during a news conference in Lusaka, Zambia, part of her weeklong trip across Africa.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Mississippi, added: “Look, we’re just not going to comment on any ongoing case, and I will just leave it there.”
The press secretary did stress that Biden supports peaceful protests and that the administration is always prepared for any contingencies. Biden found out about the indictment of his predecessor through news reports on Thursday, like other Americans, Jean-Pierre added.
But otherwise, the White House would have no comment.
The nature of the charges against Trump was unclear because the indictment remained under seal, but they stem from payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.
One head of state did have something to say: Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, who appeared alongside Harris during the news conference Friday.
When asked what Trump’s indictment exemplifies in terms of the rule of law in the United States, Hichilema said that “regulations create a platform or framework around which we agree either as Americans or as Zambians to govern ourselves” and to “live within those confines.”
“When there’s transgression against the law, it does not matter who is involved,” Hichilema said. “I think that is what the rule of law means.”
But to be clear, Hichilema wasn’t talking directly about Trump, either.
“I think let’s remove names from your question,” he said in response, later adding: “I take out a name. I put in place of a name what we citizens of our countries, citizens of the global community, must do to — as we exercise our rights and freedoms.”
Story by Seung Min Kim. Associated Press reporter Chris Megerian contributed to this report from Lusaka, Zambia. | 2023-03-31T22:28:16+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/31/news/nation/joe-biden-no-comment-donald-trump-indictment/ |
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is coming back to theaters
Published: Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:13 AM CST|Updated: 52 minutes ago
(Gray News) – In honor of its 75th anniversary, “It’s a Wonderful Life” will be coming back to theaters.
The Christmas classic will be shown at nearly 900 movie theaters nationwide for two nights only. You’ll be able to catch the film Dec. 18 and 21.
The movie premiered in New York on Dec. 20, 1946, and was followed by its nationwide release on Jan. 7, 1947, according to IMDb.
For tickets or to see if “It’s a Wonderful Life” is coming to a theater near you, click here.
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CHICAGO — The NFL free agency period is about a week old and already we have seen a handful of teams make big moves to push their clubs forward in 2023.
While a handful of elite players still remain unsigned, including wide receiver Odell Beckham and linebacker Bobby Wagner, the majority of the big names have new homes with over five months until Week 1 of the NFL season gets underway.
Kyle Crabbs and Joe Marino of the all-new 'Locked on NFL Scouting with the Draft Dudes' podcast broke down the most valuable free agency signings of the NFL offseason thus far, giving lots of love to moves made by the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins.
Neither Kyle or Joe had any overlap on their rankings. The full list is below, and for analysis on each of their selections check out the Locked on NFL Scouting podcast:
Kyle Crabbs' Top Five List
1. Geno Smith - Seattle Seahawks (3/$75M)
2. Jordan Poyer - Buffalo Bills (2/$12.5M)
3. David Long - Miami Dolphins (2/$11M)
4. Andrew Wylie - Washington Commanders (3/$24M)
5. Kaleb McGary - Atlanta Falcons (3/$34.5M)
Joe Marino's Top Five List
1. Germaine Pratt - Cincinnati Bengals (3/$21M)
2. Ethan Pocic - Cleveland Browns (3/$18M)
3. Isaac Seumalo - Pittsburgh Steelers (3/$24M)
4. Jimmie Ward - Houston Texans (2/$13M)
5. D'Onta Foreman - Chicago Bears (1/$3M)
Hear their full discussion on their rankings on the all-new Locked On NFL Scouting with the Draft Dudes podcast, free and available on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts! | 2023-03-23T02:00:36+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/nfl-scouting-with-the-draft-dudes/top-5-nfl-free-agent-value-signings-locked-on-nfl-scouting-with-the-draft-dudes/535-24987407-1a67-4bd8-97fd-775a6c1aa79a |
Kacey LaBoda scored twice as the Seattle U women’s soccer team clinched second place in the Western Athletic Conference with a 4-1 win against Southern Utah at Interbay Stadium on Saturday.
Caroline Penner and Monique Nagel also scored as the Redhawks (11-5-3, 8-1-2 WAC) wrapped up the regular season with senior day.
“I think the way the team played today was a testament to our seniors,” Seattle U coach Julie Woodward said. “We scored some great goals and I thought LaBoda had a tremendous game for us.”
Emily Reddish scored in the 85th minute for the Wolverines (9-6-2, 4-5-2).
The Redhawks take the No. 2 seed into this week’s WAC tournament.
Hockey
• Jared Davidson scored as the Seattle Thunderbirds fell 4-1 on the road against the Prince George Cougars, team’s first loss after a 9-0 start.
• Austin Roest, who also had an assist, scored the game winner at 14:49 in the third period as Everett Silvertips won on the road, beating the Regina Pats 3-2.
soccer
• AJ Depinto scored in the 11th minute as the Seattle Pacific women (11-5-2, 9-4-1 GNAC) handed visiting Northwest Nazarene (11-3-4, 9-2-3) a 1-0 loss.
• Owen Gortner scored twice as as the Seattle Pacific men (5-5-6, 4-2-3 GNAC) handed visiting Western Washington (11-3-3, 7-3-0)a 2-1 loss.
Volleyball
• Lauren McCabe had six kills, four blocks and two aces as Seattle U (4-14, 0-10 WAC) lost 25-14, 25-13, 25-20 on the road to Tarleton State (12-14, 4-7).
• Hannah Hair had nine kills and four blocks as Seattle Pacific (11-12, 9-6 GNAC) won 25-20, 25-19, 25-23 on the road against Western Oregon (9-13, 5-9).
Rowing
• The Washington State women capped off the fall with a win in the first varsity four at the Head of the American in Gold River, California. | 2022-10-30T05:22:16+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seattle-u-womens-soccer-takes-second-in-wac/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Guard Ayo Dosunmu and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to a three-year, $21 million deal, ESPN reported Friday.
Dosunmu, 23, was a restricted free agent after playing in 157 games in two seasons with the Bulls. He was named second-team All-Rookie after the Bulls selected him in the second round of the 2021 draft out of Illinois.
The Chicago native and Morgan Park graduate has averaged 8.7 points and 2.9 assists in 26.8 minutes over two seasons, playing in the Rising Stars game at NBA All-Star Weekend both years.
Dosunmu returns to a crowded backcourt that includes Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso, Coby White and newcomer Jevon Carter, who signed a reported three-year, $20 million deal with the Bulls this month after posting career-best numbers last season with the Milwaukee Bucks.
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IronNet designs and develops solutions for cyber-attacks. The Company offers IronDefense, a network traffic analysis platform that delivers scalable behavioral analysis and integrated packet-level cyber hunt to detect advanced threats, and IronDome, a collective defense solution that delivers machine-speed visibility of potential threat campaigns targeting participant industry peers. The Company also provides a suite of technologies that provide real-time threat assessment and updates, behavioral modeling, big data analytics, and proactive responses, as well as consulting and training programs to protect against current and emerging threats. IronNet's security solutions include collective defense, network traffic analysis, and cyber assessment tools. The Company serves energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, defense, and public sector industries.
On August 27, 2021, IronNet became a publicly traded company via a merger (the "Merger") with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp. ("LGL"), a blank check company otherwise known as a special purpose acquisition vehicle. In anticipation of the Merger vote, on August 10, 2021, IronNet updated its financial forecasts "[d]ue to shifts in the anticipated closing of several new customer contracts." The Company forecasted fiscal year 2022 ("FY 2022") (ended January 31, 2022) revenues of $43-$45 million and annual recurring revenue ("ARR") of $75 million.
On September 14, 2021, after market close, defendants issued a press release entitled "IronNet Announces Fiscal Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results," which announced disappointing revenue of $6.1 million for Q2 2022 (ended July 31, 2021) compared to $7.9 million for Q2 2021, which missed expectations by $1.3 million. However, IronNet also announced Q2 2022 ARR of $24.1 million compared to $19.5 million in Q2 2021 and reaffirmed its FY 2022 revenue guidance of $43-45 million and ARR guidance of $75 million. The Company's stock price immediately skyrocketed 38%, or $8.81 per share, from a close of $23.32 per share on September 14, 2021 to a close of $32.13 per share on September 15, 2021. By September 16, 2021, IronNet's stock price had doubled, reaching an intra-day high of $47.50 per share.
On December 15, 2021, after market close, Defendants issued a press release entitled "IronNet Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Results," in which they slashed IronNet's FY 2022 guidance, which they announced shortly before the Merger vote and reaffirmed just three months earlier. On this news, the price of IronNet's stock declined more than 31% to close at $4.66 per share on December 16, 2021.
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Man gets death sentence for killing Texas agency’s 1st Sikh deputy
Published: Oct. 26, 2022 at 3:56 PM CDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
HOUSTON (AP) — A man has received a death sentence for the fatal 2019 shooting of a law enforcement officer who was the first Sikh deputy in his Texas agency.
A Harris County jury deliberated about 35 minutes Wednesday before returning the death sentence for 50-year-old Robert Solis.
The jury convicted him of capital murder last week in Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal’s killing.
According to trial evidence, Solis shot the 42-year-old deputy multiple times during a traffic stop in a residential neighborhood 18 miles northwest of Houston.
Dhaliwal was returning to his patrol car when Solis shot him from behind.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Barings BDC, Inc. (BBDC) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $39.7 million.
On a per-share basis, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of 37 cents. Earnings, adjusted for investment gains, were 25 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 29 cents per share.
The business development company posted revenue of $67.2 million in the period, which topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $66.6 million.
Barings BDC shares have fallen 10% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $7.30, a decline of 29% in the last 12 months.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, October 10, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Pecos County in southwestern Texas...
* Until 630 PM CDT.
* At 541 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles west of
Fort Stockton, moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Fort Stockton, Firestone Test Track, Fort Stockton-Pecos County
Airport and Imperial Reservoir.
This includes Interstate 10 between mile markers 243 and 276.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES AND EAST
CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY...
At 543 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 22 miles southeast
of Saragosa, or 26 miles west of Fort Stockton, moving east at 30
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Firestone Test Track.
This includes Interstate 10 between mile markers 229 and 248.
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Tesla last week outlined some of the details that distinguish its heat pump system that’s now included throughout its vehicle lineup.
The electric vehicle maker claims that its design performs well in very cold weather, where other heat pumps fall short.
Depending on the exact situation, Tesla claims, its cars might be using as little as a quarter of the energy with the heat pump system than without, to keep the cabin warm. Overall, it can result in up to 20% less energy consumed during cold-weather travel, Tesla says—although it’s unclear if this is specifically referring to the energy consumed in the cabin.
Tesla is by no means the only automaker to find that heat pumps remedy EV cold-weather range loss. It resisted the technology years ago.
Prior to the heat pump, Tesla did have a strategy for using waste heat from the motor and power electronics to help warm the battery, and it claimed boosted cold-weather range without the additional complexity of a heat pump. But the company changed its mind with the heat pump that made its debut in the Model Y.
The answer appears to be that it found a way to make the addition less complex. It designed a so-called super manifold that combines all the refrigerant channels and coolant channels that might otherwise be separate components. As it explains in this video, rather than redesigning the coolant loop, Tesla integrated the heat pump with an “octovalve” that turns to a different position depending on the mode of operation.
How heat pumps work
The Tesla video tips that heat pumps are a bit like building air conditioners, carrying heat from a cooler environment (inside) to a warmer environment (outside), only the opposite.
Unlike internal-combustion vehicles, EVs have no engine spewing out waste heat that can be used to heat the cabin. Resistive heating, like that used for space heaters, toasters, or hair dryers, takes a lot of energy away from range.
Heat pumps move heat around rather than generate it, and the physics can sound almost magical: A carefully chosen gas—a refrigerant—removes heat from its surroundings when it’s compressed into a gas and then releases heat when it condenses back to a liquid.
Heat pumps are one of the keys to help reduce EV cold-weather range loss because of that energy calculation. On an energy-in, energy-out basis, according to Bosch, one of the makers of heat pumps, a heat pump drawing 1 kw will generate the heat equivalent of between 2 and 3 kw. Mahle, another supplier, says its heat pump can recover 20% of cold-weather range loss.
There are some caveats to this. Heat pumps involve a lot of added cost and complexity; they can generate some noise that interrupts the silent EV experience; and they often don’t provide the quick results that resistive heating does. So owners might only see the payoff in efficiency over longer road trips—when they’ll help boost range and make it easier to reach the next charger without sacrificing cabin comfort.
Necessary piece for avoiding winter doldrums
Increasingly, companies are concluding that it’s worth the tradeoffs. General Motors, for instance, has emphasized that real-world advantage is behind why it’s decided to include heat pumps in all upcoming GM EVs.
There are new ways to configure the system, specifically for cold-weather gains. Rivian is in the process of redesigning its thermal system to include a heat pump, and in the latest heat pump for Hyundai and Kia models, heat scavenged from an array of drive components helps nudge the liquid refrigerant back to a gas, reducing its load and boosting the energy payoff.
Systems that have a heat pump combine it with resistive heating, for quick defogging/defrosting of the windshield and rapid cabin heat as it’s needed, then it passes the baton when it can to the heat pump. As the schematic for the system in the Toyota Prius Prime underscores, they can get very complex.
This isn’t the first sighting of Tesla’s heat-pump design. In 2020, manufacturing expert Sandy Munro, of Munro & Associates, known for his teardown insights, posted a video about the new component.
Tesla’s own design hasn’t been completely trouble-free, either. The company has to remedy an issue with an improperly operating heat-pump valve, leading to depletion of refrigerant in the system and, potentially, some fogged-up windows. This Tesla heat-pump recall campaign, affecting nearly 27,000 vehicles from the 2020 through 2022 model years, was remedied with an over-the-air update.
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Maine is getting more money for home heating help.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Rep. Jared Golden said they secured nearly $5 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
That makes about $54 million in all that Maine has received for this season.
The program’s eligibility is based on income, family size and how much money is available.
Applications are open to everyone through spring 2023. | 2023-03-16T15:39:46+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/03/16/business/maine-additional-heating-aid/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of U.S. adults say misinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major problem, and they largely fault the Russian government for spreading those falsehoods.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 61% of people in the United States say the spread of misinformation about the war is a major problem, with only 7% saying it’s not a problem. Older adults were more likely to identify the wartime misinformation as an issue, with 44% of those under 30 calling it a problem, compared with 65% of those 30 or older.
Misleadingsocial media posts, fake pictures or videos and propagandized headlineshave proliferated on websites,from TikTok to Facebook, since Russia’s assault on Ukraine began in February. In recent weeks, Russian state media and social media accounts have operated in lockstep to push tweets, TV reports and posts that claim photos of bombed buildings and bodies across Ukraine have been staged or faked. Even well-meaning, everyday social media users have fallen victim to the falsehoods, accidentally sharing or liking posts and images that turned out to be inaccurate.
About three-quarters of the American public fault the Russian government for advancing misinformation around the war, while many also blame social media users, tech companies and the news media. Far fewer place a great deal of blame on the Ukrainian or U.S. governments.
Russia’s falsehoods about the war are finding millions of eyeballs across social media and in state-media reports. Earlier this month, for example, a chorus of Kremlin media reports, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and Telegram channels tried to refute photographs and satellite images of bodies left by Russian soldiers in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, by calling the images a “hoax.”
“Russia’s reach is broad,” said Darren Linvill, a Clemson University professor who studies disinformation. “They have a lot of different outlets that they use — everything from state media, in Russian, English and especially Spanish.”
The poll shows a majority of U.S. residents, about 57%, say they think Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed Russian troops to commit war crimes, while 6% say they think he has not done so. An additional 36% say they don’t know enough to say.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have verified evidence of 178 potential war crimes.
The poll shows about 6 in 10 Americans say social media users have significant responsibility for the spread of misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Roughly half also fault social media companies and the news media.
Retiree Kellie Carroll, 58, who lives outside Fresno, California, said she is sometimes frustrated by social media users who share posts about the Russia-Ukraine war but don’t cite the source of their information.
“You’ll see things that people are stating as fact, like they are there,” Carroll said of posts she’s seen on social media around the war.
Carroll, who watches local news and listens to conservative talk radio, added that she, too, finds fault with news reporting on the war. She described it as difficult to find news reports around the war that are not injected with opinion.
“I don’t want the opinions, I just want the facts,” she said.
Half of Americans also blame the Chinese government, which has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine, for spreading misinformation around the war.
Indeed, China’s state-run media outlets have made at least 74 English-language Facebook posts referencing a conspiracy theory that the U.S. is running secret biological warfare labs in Ukraine that have intentionally released deadly viruses, according to a new report from NewsGuard, a technology firm that monitors misinformation. (The U.S. runs biolabs in Ukraine. It’s not a secret, and they’re not crafting bioweapons there.)
“A lot of this is definitely geared toward the United States,” said Jack Brewster, an analyst for the firm. “They’re echoing the same talking points that Russia is.”
Somewhat fewer blame the spread of war misinformation on U.S. politicians, with 44% saying they bear significant responsibility and 32% saying the same about the U.S. government.
Roger Beaulieu, a 66-year-old New Yorker, said the Russian government is responsible for much of the misinformation around the war. But he’s been surprised when he reads The New York Times or watches MSNBC or CNN to see what he describes as misinformation coming from some Republican lawmakers about the war. Beaulieu specifically mentioned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who last month said that Ukraine invited Russia’s invasion by “poking the bear.”
“It just seems that there’s more support for Russia than I can possibly understand,” Beaulieu said.
Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans say Russia has a large share of responsibility for spreading misinformation, and 70% of Democrats along with 55% of Republicans say Putin has directed Russian troops to commit war crimes. About a quarter of Democrats and roughly a third of Republicans say they don’t know.
But Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say social media companies (63% vs. 50%), the news media (61% vs. 38%) and politicians in the U.S. (52% vs. 38%) also bear a significant amount of blame for misinformation about the war.
About a quarter of Americans overall said the Ukrainian government is significantly responsible for the spread of misinformation. Republicans were more likely to say the Ukrainian government had significant blame for spreading misinformation than Democrats, 32% to 15%. About 4 in 10 Americans say the Ukrainian government has little responsibility for the spread of misinformation.
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The AP-NORC poll of 1,085 adults was conducted April 14-18 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. | 2022-04-28T11:16:53+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-norc-poll-most-in-us-fear-ukraine-war-misinformation/ |
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