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LUBBOCK, Texas — On Tuesday, employees from UMC Health System donated food bags to students at Brown Elementary School in Lubbock.
According to a press release from UMC Health System, this marked the 14th year employees have donated the food bags at the school.
UMCs Legal and Compliance Departments put together the 160 food bags. UMC EMS delivered them to the school.
“Food insecurity is one of the primary social determinants of health. A lack of appropriate food impacts all aspects of a person’s overall physical and mental health,” said Kristi Duske, Senior Vice-President & Chief Legal Officer in the press release. “UMC values its role in the community as a partner for those in need, and its employees prioritize service as their passion.”
UMC Health System said each food bag contained bread, peanut butter, jelly, Capri-Sun drinks, Vienna sausage, Christmas treats, crackers and snack items, fruit cups, chips, and other food items.
“Each bag costs approximately $35 and will help feed kids within the community during the fall break,” the press release said.
Employees donated the money and items for the food bags.
“We’re incredibly thankful for UMC’s longtime support of Lubbock ISD and Brown Elementary School,” said Lubbock ISD Superintendent Dr. Kathy Rollo in the press release. “As a valued Partner in Education, UMC has been a vital piece of connecting our schools with the Lubbock community.”
UMC Health System said it has sponsored Brown Elementary School, through the Partners in Education program, since 2008. | 2022-12-21T21:42:46+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/umc-health-system-delivers-food-bags-to-brown-elementary-school/ |
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Joshua Creel shoots 3-under 69 in round two of the Barbasol Championship
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July 09, 2022
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July 09, 2022
In his second round at the Barbasol Championship, Joshua Creel hit 7 of 14 fairways and 10 of 18 greens in regulation, finishing at 4 under for the tournament. Creel finished his day tied for 84th at 4 under; Max McGreevy and Matti Schmid are tied for 1st at 16 under; Ricardo Gouveia and Adam Svensson are tied for 3rd at 15 under; and Kevin Streelman and Trey Mullinax are tied for 5th at 14 under.
On the par-4 first, Creel's 89 yard approach to 11 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Creel to 1 under for the round.
Creel got a bogey on the 461-yard par-4 fourth, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Creel to 1 over for the round.
On the 543-yard par-5 fifth, Creel had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Creel to even-par for the round.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 423-yard par-4 sixth hole, Creel had a 131 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Creel to 1 under for the round.
On the 567-yard par-5 eighth hole, Creel reached the green in 3 and sunk a 4-foot putt for birdie. This moved Creel to 2 under for the round.
On the par-4 10th, Creel's 164 yard approach to 5 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Creel to 3 under for the round.
On the 408-yard par-4 12th, Creel had a bogey after hitting the green in 3 and two putting, moving Creel to 2 under for the round.
Creel got a bogey on the 458-yard par-4 13th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Creel to 1 under for the round.
On the 516-yard par-5 15th hole, Creel reached the green in 3 and sunk a 4-foot putt for birdie. This moved Creel to 2 under for the round.
After a drive to the right side of the fairway on the 410-yard par-4 17th hole, Creel had a 105 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Creel to 3 under for the round.
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Before the high school bowling season really got going, Spanish River junior Ayla Helmle was rushed to the hospital after feeling dizzy while bowling.
“It was very hard,” she said of the season that almost wasn’t. “At my first competition, I had to leave the alley and I ended up going to the emergency room because I was sort of passing out.
“There I was diagnosed with orthostatic hypotension,” Helmle said of being diagnosed with the form of low blood pressure that can cause dizziness or lightheadedness and possibly fainting.
“They didn’t want me bowling,” she said, “and I said, ‘I’m bowling.’ They told me I should take the season off and take time to get better and I said, ‘no, because this is my most important year.’ This is the time when all of the colleges are recruiting. I took my health very seriously to get back in and be strong.”
She had to add more salt to her diet and she was concerned it would cause her thumb to swell.
Helmle, 16, of Boynton Beach, was a team captain and averaged a 196. She started out the season with a 150 average. She medaled in every postseason event as she placed third in the Palm Beach County tournament, second in the district tournament and sixth in the Florida High School Athletic Association state championships at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando.
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Helmle made her second straight appearance in the state finals after not being able to bowl at states because of COVID. Helmle was also the first girl from Palm Beach County to earn a medal at states since Palm Beach Lakes’ Natalee Armstrong was state runner-up in 2010.
Wellington’s Samantha Hesley is the lone Palm Beach County bowler to win a state championship (2004) and was runner-up in 2006.
“It was really hard even mentally dealing with all of this,” she said. “It was a lot of pressure, but I was able to do it. It shows that everything I went through was just a milestone into what I am going to become. I am looking to beat that 196 average.”
At the state finals this season, Helmle qualified 10th and went on to finish sixth overall. She won her first two matches before falling into the consolation matches where she lost to the eventual state runner-up champion Brooke Street, 221-203 and 236-188.
“It was really cool (qualifying for the round of 16) because my first game I bowled a 174 and I was thinking, ‘oh, no,’” Helmle said. “I was 63rd after that first game.”
She followed that up with fames of 202, 228 and 224 to finish with a four-game series of 828. The top 16 bowlers advance to match play the following day.
“I thought, we’ve got to make a jump,” she said. “I just stayed calm, kept bowling and was able to get up to 10th.” | 2022-11-18T01:00:32+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-cn-spanish-river-bowler-ayla-helmle-20221117-bqzcy2c43rffdjv4dqsnvoquxa-story.html |
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HOUSTON (AP) — Before the Houston Texans started camp this week, they received a special message from a member of the team that couldn’t be there.
Rookie receiver John Metchie III, who announced earlier that he’d likely miss the season after being diagnosed with leukemia, addressed the Texans in a video before they started preparations for the season.
Coach Lovie Smith, who was promoted from defensive coordinator this offseason after David Culley was fired, said Friday that he normally opens camp with a speech to the team. But this year he thought it was more important for the guys to hear from Metchie first.
“We had a lot of questions about what’s going on with his health,” Smith said. “So, I let him talk to the football team to let them know what he has in store for this year and how it will affect our football team.”
Metchie said Sunday that he was recently diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia. The second-round pick from Alabama said he was taking time off from football to focus on his health and recovery.
Smith didn’t provide specifics about what the 22-year-old Metchie shared with the team but said that teammates and coaches alike were moved by his words.
“All I can say about that is that we have a family member who is fighting something serious,” Smith said. “We’re going to be there every step along the way with him. Eventually he will be back with our football team. We can’t wait for that.”
Veteran receiver Brandin Cooks had already developed a relationship with Metchie since the draft, with the rookie expected to compete for playing time at the receiver spot opposite Cooks.
He said seeing how upbeat he was on the video made everyone feel better about his diagnosis.
“His spirit is so amazing, his positivity going through all this,” Cooks said. “I’m like, man a lot of respect to you. He’s just built different. No doubt in our mind that he’s going to get through this and we’re going to be with him every step of the way.”
General manager Nick Caserio said there's no timetable for Metchie's return. He added that Metchie has been in contact with members of the coaching staff and that they're trying to keep him engaged with the team during this difficult time.
“But the most important thing is his health and well-being," Caserio said. “This isn’t about football ... it’s just about him recovering and being able to lead a good life. And then we’ll see where we end up."
The Texans discussed Metchie’s comments on Friday, the first day of camp that was open to the media. Also Friday, Smith said rookie cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. would be limited early in camp as he continues his recovery from September surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left foot.
But he added that the third overall pick in the draft would be ready for Houston’s season opener Sept. 11 against the Colts.
“Whenever a player is coming off of a major injury, there’s ramp up here, that’s what (camp’s) for,” Smith said. “Ease him into it. You see him, healthy, running around doing a few plays. He’s on schedule. But that’s how we will treat all of our players coming off major injuries.”
Stingley was a consensus All-America selection as a freshman in 2019 but was hampered by injury the last two seasons, including being limited to just three games last year at LSU because of the foot injury. Despite the setbacks, the Texans are confident that he’ll be able to step in early and help turn around a secondary that was among the league’s worst last season.
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Dear Editor: John Nichols is rarely a fence-sitter, but he recently finds himself in that position in his coverage of Cornel West’s bid to be president. Granted, Nichols is in a difficult spot. As one of the country’s leading progressive commentators, how can he not support one of the nation’s most interesting progressive political gadflies?
Nichols’ ambivalence is apparent in his passive voice (“there will be robust discussion”) and his uncharacteristic use of generalities (Cornel will “shake up the 2024 race”). Yes, there will be a robust discussion, but couldn’t/shouldn’t Nichols take a stand? Yes, West will “shake up the race,” but is that a good thing given the Trump alternative?
So as not to be accused of fence-sitting myself, let me be clear: I think West’s decision to enter the race is a bad political decision. It also reeks of megalomania (although less egregious than Robert Kennedy Jr.’s megalomania in making a similar political decision.)
The Nichols’ piece ends by quoting West: “Democracy creates disruption.” Yes, it can, and even in a good way, but right now disruption could lead to fascism if Trump or a MAGA Republican is elected in 2024.
George Savage
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Dr. Angela Gatzke-Plamann didn't fully grasp her community's opioid crisis until one desperate patient called on a Friday afternoon in 2016.
"He was in complete crisis because he was admitting to me that he had lost control of his use of opioids," recalls Gatzke-Plamann.
The patient had used opioids for several years for what Gatzke-Plamann calls "a very painful condition." But a urine screening one week earlier had revealed heroin and morphine in his system as well. He denied any misuse that day. Now he was not only admitting it, but asking for help.
Gatzke-Plamann is the only full-time family physician in the central Wisconsin village of Necedah, population 916. She wanted to help but had no resources to offer. She and the patient started searching the Internet while still on the phone, trying to find somewhere nearby that could help. No luck.
Here was a patient with a family and job who spiraled into addiction because of doctor-prescribed pain pills, yet the community's bare-bones health system left him on his own to find treatment — which he later did, 65 miles away. If that situation was going to change in Necedah, it was up to Gatzke-Plamann.
"That weekend I went home and I said, 'I've got to do something different,' " she recalls.
In many ways, rural communities like Necedah have become the face of the nation's opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths are more common by population size in rural areas than in urban ones. And rural doctors prescribe opioids more often by far, despite a nationwide decline in prescribing rates since 2012. Meanwhile, rural Americans have fewer alternatives to treat their very real pain, and they disproportionately lack access to effective addiction medication such as buprenorphine.
It used to be rare for primary care physicians outside of big cities to take on the challenges of opioid misuse, according to Dr. Erin Krebs, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota who researches chronic pain management. Now, Krebs says it's becoming increasingly common "out of necessity."
"We just have a lot of people who need this kind of care and they need it where they are," Krebs says.
Both pain management and addiction treatment are specialties, calling for advanced training that many family physicians don't have. Specialists tend to practice in larger towns and cities, says Dr. Alan Schwartzstein, speaker of the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates, "so they're not as accessible."
For rural physicians, the burden of responding to the opioid epidemic falls squarely on their already-loaded shoulders. And for Gatzke-Plamann there was no question that she wanted to rise to the challenge.
Reducing pain pill prescriptions
When Gatzke-Plamann came to Necedah in 2010, U.S. opioid prescriptions were peaking. She estimates she inherited 25 to 30 patients with monthly opioid prescriptions. Soon she, like many of her peers around the country, noticed a rise in overdose and misuse.
Around 2012, she stopped taking on new patients using chronic opioid medications to focus on current opioid patients. She weaned many off of opioids and tracked how many pills she prescribed for acute issues, like surgeries. Instead of defaulting to prescribing a month's worth of pills for a C-section patient, for example, she might prescribe only three to five pills.
"Most of the time those patients really only have that much pain for a couple of days," Gatzke-Plamann says. "We don't need to have those pain medications sitting in their medicine cabinets."
Gatzke-Plamann helped shape her community's wider discussion about opioids. That included joining the county's substance abuse prevention coalition and educating her peers.
Today, the hospital Gatzke-Plamann is affiliated with sends her a monthly report of how many of her patients have opioid prescriptions. It varies each month, she says, but usually ranges from seven to 10.
Managing chronic pain patients
For 62-year-old Necedah resident Michael Kruchten, the chronic pain he suffers stems from chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatments he received for lung cancer in 2011.
Kruchten is cancer-free now, but the treatments left him with permanent and severe nerve damage in his hands and feet.
"Sometimes it's a burning — a continuous burning," Kruchten says. "Sometimes it's just like a sharp jolt of pain. And then sometimes it's just pain, pain, pain."
The pain was so bad he had to stop working at the ethanol plant in Necedah. Daily chores became challenging. The pain would keep him awake at night, leaving him pounding his pillow in frustration.
One reason there are more opioid prescriptions in the rural United States is that Americans living in those areas report more chronic pain. Rural communities skew older, meaning they disproportionately deal with painful conditions related to aging such as arthritis. Injuries also appear to be more common among communities more dependent on physically demanding jobs, such as mining and logging.
For patients with chronic pain like Kruchten, Gatzke-Plamann tries to avoid prescribing opioids when she can, but alternatives are limited. Though evidence shows that physical therapy, exercise, psychotherapy, or some combination of these techniques can help reduce the need for opioids, it's not easy to get these treatments. The nearest physical therapy is in Mauston, a 17-mile drive south. Treatments such as cognitive therapy for pain require drives to Madison, Marshfield or La Crosse, each at least an hour away.
She first tried prescribing Kruchten two non-opioid medicines, gabapentin and then duloxetine. Neither helped enough. Eventually she prescribed the opioid hydrocodone, finally allowing him to sleep.
"Without the sleep I was a couch potato," Kruchten says. "Once I started to get to sleep (at night), I got rid of my TV and the couch and started becoming more active."
Agreements for long-term opioid patients
Gatzke-Plamann's efforts to carefully manage opioid use with chronic pain patients is supported by other efforts in the community.
Around 2016, Mile Bluff Medical Center — the hospital in Mauston with which Gatzke-Plamann is affiliated — standardized a medication treatment agreement with patients, laying out rules for opioid prescriptions.
Patients such as Michael Kruchten must agree to stipulations before getting a new prescription. That includes getting pills from only one doctor and filling prescriptions at just one pharmacy while also submitting to random pill counts and urine screenings. Kruchten is something of a model patient in that regard, according to Gatzke-Plamann.
"You come in for appointments regularly and you're always on time and you're respectful with the staff," she tells him as they review the contract at an appointment in November.
Gatzke-Plamann can stop prescribing opioids to patients who violate the agreement. But the contracts aim less to punish than to keep communication open. Reviewing the contract with a patient allows them to revisit the risks and warning signs of addiction.
On his recent visit, Kruchten tells the doctor he took only one hydrocodone pill instead of his usual two the previous night, saying it was "satisfactory" in curbing the pain.
"And that's good that you don't take it to just put yourself to sleep," Gatzke-Plamann responds. "Because it's not a sleep medicine. You understand that. We've talked about that one before."
"Yep," Kruchten agrees.
Addressing the rural addiction treatment gap
The Friday call for help in 2016 made Gatzke-Plamann realize Necedah was missing a crucial resource in solving the pain puzzle: addiction treatment.
"We don't have as many resources here," Gatzke-Plamann says of the surrounding Juneau County, one of the poorest and least healthy in the state. "When I see that there's a need for something, it's on me to do something about that."
She says that's why she decided to get the required training to prescribe the addiction medicine buprenorphine.
Research shows buprenorphine effectively treats addiction, but the medicine is particularly scarce in rural America. More than 10 million rural Americans — more than one-fifth of the country's rural population — live in counties without a single clinician licensed to prescribe the drug. (The rural-urban disparity in access has, however, shrunk since 2017.)
In Wisconsin, 18 of 72 counties lack a buprenorphine provider, and 14 of those unserved counties are rural.
Today Gatzke-Plamann is one of only two people in Juneau County licensed to prescribe buprenorphine. The other is a physician assistant she supervises. Adding addiction treatment to a family medicine practice that she describes as "already at capacity" is not easy, Gatzke-Plamann says.
"I'm a busy family physician so I can't take too many patients at a time," she says. But she saw the need in the community, saw it was important, so she adjusted.
"That's sort of how it is with family medicine in rural areas," she says.
Catina Stoflet is among the buprenorphine patients who benefit.
Stoflet, 35, got addicted to prescription opioids as a 16-year-old in 2001, during the first wave of the nation's opioid epidemic. She started getting kidney stones in high school. She's had many surgeries to remove the painful obstructions.
That first prescription was for Tylenol 3, a combination of acetaminophen and the opioid codeine. Doctors soon escalated her to stronger drugs: Vicodin, Percocet, oxycodone.
"It was right around the time that people didn't know what [opioids were] doing to you," Stoflet says.
Stoflet says she spent years in recovery beginning in 2007. But she relapsed in 2014, progressing to heroin and methamphetamine. This year she decided to quit for good. Stoflet says her primary care doctor introduced her to Gatzke-Plamann, who had recently begun prescribing buprenorphine.
Just like Gatzke-Plamann's opioid patients, buprenorphine patients must sign contracts, including agreeing to participate in a treatment program that includes counseling.
Stoflet works with a counselor and community recovery specialist at the Roche-A-Cri Recovery Center in Friendship, Wis., about 20 miles from Necedah. The center opened in September 2018. Without its additional resources, Gatzke-Plamann says she would not feel comfortable prescribing buprenorphine.
"I am just one part of their treatment plan," Gatzke-Plamann says. "I prescribe the medication, but they need the counseling. They need the psychosocial support. They need the group meetings."
Stoflet lives about 30 miles from Roche-A-Cri and 40 miles from Gatzke-Plamann's clinic in Necedah. Even so, Stoflet says the long, frequent drives for recovery are worthwhile.
"It might be rocky"
Doctors like Gatzke-Plamann have an important role to play in the opioid crisis by treating patients where they live, says Erin Krebs of the University of Minnesota. But, she adds, funding models don't always encourage this kind of work.
"I'm not sure we've done all we can do to really support small practices taking on this effort," says Krebs. "There's hope for people with opioid problems, and we have treatments that work. And so I think the more we can hear about clinicians who are tackling these problems in their own communities and having success the better."
And it's no small feat to do what Gatzke-Plamann does. It requires managing some patients with not just one, but multiple complex chronic conditions requiring skill and finesse.
At an appointment in early November, Stoflet worries about an upcoming surgery that would require her to take opioids for pain, an uneasy plan for someone once addicted to the pills. She talks through the angst with Gatzke-Plamann.
Stoflet will need to go off buprenorphine temporarily and onto short-acting pain medications following the surgery, Gatzke-Plamann tells her. Then when the acute pain is gone, she can restart her buprenorphine treatment.
"So I will be able to go right to the regular dose," Stoflet says, "and I should be fine?"
"Yes," Gatzke-Plamann reassures, adding, "it might be rocky."
"I know it's going to be — it's no treat," Stoflet replies.
Stoflet did end up on opioids briefly after her late-November surgery. Then she returned to buprenorphine. December marks seven months on buprenorphine treatment.
The opioid epidemic is too complicated to boil down to grim statistics or the stories of one or two patients. But the crisis is real, and treatment gaps remain in rural areas around the country.
Dr. Angela Gatzke-Plamann knows that because she confronts it every day.
"I couldn't imagine not doing it, because — then who would?"
This story comes from a partnership of Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Public Radio, NPR and Kaiser Health News.
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BREA, Calif., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envista Holdings Corporation (NYSE: NVST) ("Envista") today announced that the company will participate in Stifel 2022 Jaws & Paws Conference on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, from 9:45 – 10:15 AM EST in New York, New York.
Investors will be able to access any applicable live streams or recordings through Envista's Investor Relations website under the subheading Events and Presentations.
About Envista Holdings Corporation
Envista is a global family of more than 30 trusted dental brands, including Nobel Biocare, DEXIS, Ormco, and Kerr united by a shared purpose: to partner with professionals to improve lives. Envista helps its customers deliver the best possible patient care through industry-leading dental consumables, solutions, technology, and services. Our comprehensive portfolio, including dental implants and treatment options, orthodontics, and digital imaging technologies, covers a broad range of dentists' clinical needs for diagnosing, treating, and preventing dental conditions as well as improving the aesthetics of the human smile. With a foundation comprised of the proven Envista Business System (EBS) methodology, an experienced leadership team, and a strong culture grounded in continuous improvement, commitment to innovation, and deep customer focus, Envista is well equipped to meet the end-to-end needs of dental professionals worldwide. Envista is one of the largest global dental products companies, with significant market positions in some of the most attractive segments of the dental products industry. For more information, please visit www.envistaco.com.
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Veronika Kudermetova 2023 Libema Open Odds
Veronika Kudermetova will play Celine Naef next in the Libema Open quarterfinals. At +275, Kudermetova is the favorite to win this tournament at Autotron Rosmalen.
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Kudermetova at the 2023 Libema Open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 9-18
- Venue: Autotron Rosmalen
- Location: Rosmalen, Netherlands
- Court Surface: Grass
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Kudermetova's Next Match
In the quarterfinals on Friday, June 16 (at 10:15 AM ET), Kudermetova will meet Naef, after defeating Carol Zhao 6-1, 6-3 in the last round.
Veronika Kudermetova Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +3300
- US Open odds to win: +2000
- Libema Open odds to win: +275
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Kudermetova Stats
- Kudermetova is coming off a 6-1, 6-3 win over No. 163-ranked Zhao in the Round of 16 on Wednesday.
- Kudermetova is 35-20 over the past year, with zero tournament victories.
- In two tournaments on grass over the past year, Kudermetova has gone 3-1.
- Kudermetova, over the past year, has played 55 matches across all court surfaces, and 21.8 games per match.
- Kudermetova, over the past year, has played four matches on grass, and 21.0 games per match.
- Kudermetova has won 34.6% of her return games and 71.9% of her service games over the past year.
- On grass over the past 12 months, Kudermetova has been victorious in 72.7% of her service games and 47.5% of her return games.
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Brittney Griner released from Russia in prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, President Biden confirms
Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian penal colony and is in United States custody after a prisoner exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, President Biden confirmed Thursday morning.
CBS News was first to report the news.
In a news conference at the White House, Biden said the exchange had been in the works for the past two weeks, and that he had given the final go-ahead. He said the exchange took place in the United Arab Emirates, and that he had spoken with Griner on the phone. Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, was at the White House on Thursday.
Biden said the “past few months have been hell for Brittney” but that she is in good spirits.
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"We never forgot about Brittney," Biden said. "I'm glad to be able to say Brittney is in good spirits. She's relieved to finally be heading home, and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life, experienced a needless trauma. She deserves space, privacy and time with her loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrongfully detained.
"She wrote to me back in July. She didn't ask for special treatment, even though we'd been working on her release from day one. She requested, a simple quote, 'Please don't forget about me and the other American detainees,' " Biden added.
Biden said the United States is still working to bring home Paul Whelan, who has been jailed in Russia since 2018 on charges of espionage.
"While we celebrate Brittney’s homecoming, we remain committed to seeing Paul Whelan released. We will not relent in our efforts until Paul is home with family. We will not stop working to bring home every U.S. citizen wrongfully detained," Vice President Kamala Harris said on social media.
Cherrelle Griner thanked Biden and the administration for their efforts.
"So over the last nine months, you all have been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life, and so today I'm just standing here overwhelmed with emotions, but the most important emotion that I have right now is just sincere gratitude for President Biden and his entire administration," Cherrelle Griner said.
Griner, an eight-time WNBA all-star center and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 and sentenced to nine years in prison after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Griner admitted she had the canisters in her luggage but testified she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no criminal intent.
The U.S. government had repeatedly said Griner, 31, was wrongfully detained.
Bout, 55, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death," is a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel who, according to U.S. officials, was trying to sell weapons to be used against Americans. He was serving a 25-year sentence at a federal prison in Marion, Illinois, and was set to be released in August 2029, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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More:Only women who suffered in Russian prisons can know Brittney Griner's agony | 2022-12-08T16:22:50+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/wnba/mercury/2022/12/08/brittney-griner-released-from-russia-prisoner-swap-for-viktor-bout/69711353007/ |
Opinion | Not enough people know about Alabama’s prison crisis
April 16, 2023
As death after death occurs, it is evident that incarceration in Alabama is becoming a death sentence instead of being used for rehabilitation. On top of the rising death toll, Governor Kay Ivey wants to use $100 million dollars out of Alabama’s school funds to build two new ‘megaprisons’ in rural Alabama.
But the humanitarian crisis and deep seeded corruption in Alabama’s prison system is not something you would find in national headlines. Even the United States Department of Justice still can’t unravel the corruption and violence in our prison system due to the unreliable reports from the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Too few Alabamians fully understand the injustices happening in our prison system; in fact the full extent of the crisis has barely made local or national news. Prisons are meant to rehabilitate inmates for them to return into society as positive contributing citizens. But that is not what is happening in Alabama’s prison system.
Unprecedented amounts of death in Alabama prisons
You would think more Alabamians would have heard that four incarcerated individuals have died every week in Alabama prisons just in March, with the same numbers repeated in January and February and trending towards that way in April.
According to Alabama Appleseed, the Alabama Department of Corrections recorded a historic 266 fatalities in state run facilities in 2022.
The prison crisis has gotten so bad that the parole board is “accidently” denying parole to dead individuals and, to many, this comes as no surprise.
“The ADOC does not consistently inform Alabama families when their incarcerated loved ones pass away,” said Carla Crowder, executive director of Alabama Appleseed. Death after death, incarcerated individuals have been found in their beds “unresponsive” and pronounced dead with little investigation into how their deaths occurred.
Housing units in these facilities are dormitory style, which are essentially enormous halls with bunk beds lined up as close as they can fit. On top of the overcrowding issue where many prisoners are forced to sleep on floors, people can get easily agitated, leading to violence.
In combination with low staffing, large units like these may go unguarded for extended periods of times, sometimes even entire staff shifts.
United States Department of Justice 2020 prison lawsuit
In 2020, under the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sued the state of Alabama and the Department of Corrections for the inhumane conditions in state facilities and a rising death toll in the prisons.
According to the DOJ lawsuit, the Alabama Department of Corrections has “repeatedly failed to take reasonable measures to prevent security staff from inflicting serious harm on prisoners.”
The DOJ also noted that the facilities “held 6,000 prisoners over their designed capacity. The severe and pervasive overcrowding increases tensions and escalates episodes of violence between prisoners, which lead to uses of force.”
The use of excessive force in Alabama’s prisons is far too common. In December 2018, a correctional officer violently beat a handcuffed prisoner with a baton in the Ventress medical unit. The prisoner did not antagonize the officer before the beating and his hands were cuffed behind his back.
During the beating, all four of the nurses heard the officer yell something to the effect of, “I am the reaper of death, now say my name!” The prisoner begged the officer to kill him. In almost all of the reported incidents of excessive force, little to no discipline was imposed on the correctional officers.
Alabama has a history of being condemned by the federal courts and the United States Department of Justice for the unconstitutional treatment of Alabama prisoners. In 1976, four men’s prisons and one women’s prison held a population of over 5,000 inmates even though the facilities were only designed to hold 2,000 and the DOJ found constitutional deficiencies in 11 different areas, resulting in a 13 year federal takeover of Alabama’s prisons.
In the 2020 lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections, the judge’s findings almost exactly align with what the DOJ’s in the last few years.
The DOJ is currently investigating the entire prison system for men, where despite the ADOC being put on notice in 2020, conditions worsened with low staffing levels, an escalation in violence and prisoner deaths, and overcrowding.
The state’s only solution to both lawsuits is opening new prisons.
Parole Denials
In Alabama prisons, 97% of people considered for parole from January to March 2023 were denied. These decisions have been made by three members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
On top of that, more than 5,000 people are serving sentences of life or life without parole.
The high denial rate increased in 2019 when Gov. Kay Ivey and Attorney General Steve Marshall gave the Board Chair, Leigh Gwanthney, a mandate to stop granting parole. In the 12,000 parole hearings she has presided over since her appointment, the board denied parole to nine out of every 10 people even though over 80% of people denied met the current eligibility requirements for parole.
Matthew Bailey , an attorney, has found that getting his clients to be granted parole has been a coin toss, even if they had already met the board’s eligibility requirements.
“Certain of my clients are being released more often and it’s reflected in the demographics of who is being granted parole and who isn’t being granted parole,” said Bailey in an Oct. 2022 article for the Alabama Political Reporter.
In 2021, the legislature approved a $1.3 billion dollar expansion to build two new men’s prisons in Elmore and Escambia counties. Alabama has the worst prisons in the country, and building more of them won’t fix that.
Legislative leadership has acknowledged the new prisons would not relieve overcrowding; they would only replace old facilities that state leaders failed to maintain over the last four decades.
With Alabama prisons already unconstitutionally overcrowded, it is hard not to beg the question if Attorney General Steve Marshall is pushing to keep Alabama prisons overcrowded by pushing for the opening of the new 4000 bed mega prison built by prison corporation CoreCivic.
The incarcerated deserve a second chance. They deserve the right to live, to change their ways and to try again.
Alabama prisons are a death sentence and corruption runs rampant across all levels of the system with inmates being profited off of, then discarded by every individual involved. There are ways to change the system, but we, as students, Alabamians and humans, have to show that we care and believe that everyone deserves a second chance at life.
Prison reform advocates have mobilized across Alabama and you can get involved with various student organizations. Tide Against Time is a student organization run by senior Kaila Pouncy, working to educate individuals about the effects of mass incarceration and spreading awareness around Alabama’s Prison Crisis. Another organization, Alabama Students Against Prisons, is helping bring awareness to the prison crisis and mobilizing students across the state. Since 2021, they have advocated for incarcerated individuals’ families and rallied for prison reform.
Young people can and have made a difference. It’s time to reform Alabama’s prison system. | 2023-04-17T13:41:46+00:00 | thecrimsonwhite.com | https://thecrimsonwhite.com/109490/opinion/opinion-not-enough-people-know-about-alabamas-prison-crisis/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling about 130,000 vehicles across its U.S. model lineup because the touch screens can overheat and go blank.
The recall covers certain Model S sedan and Model X SUVs from 2021 and 2022, as well as Model 3 cars and Model Y SUVs from 2022.
Documents posted Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say that during the fast-charging process, the central processing computers may not cool sufficiently.
That can cause the computer to lag or restart, making the center screen run slowly or appear blank. Without the center screen, the cars can lose rearview camera displays and settings that control windshield defrosters, increasing the risk of a crash.
Tesla is fixing the problem with online software updates that began on May 3. There will be no charge to the customer. | 2022-05-10T17:21:57+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/tesla-recalls-130k-vehicles-touch-screens-can-go-blank |
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10 million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago.
While accuser Haleigh Breest's lawyers called the verdict just, Haggis insisted that he had been falsely accused and was financially ruined by fighting the civil case. He vowed to appeal.
“I can't live with lies like this. I will die clearing my name,” he said as he left court.
Breest, a publicist, said Haggis raped her and forced her to perform oral sex in his New York apartment on Jan. 31, 2013. He says they had a consensual encounter.
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The jury sided with Breest last week, awarded her $7.5 million in compensatory damages for suffering and decided that she was also due punitive damages. Jurors returned to court Monday to hear testimony about Haggis' finances and decide how much more he'd have to pay.
They got a quick course in movie financing as Haggis was questioned about his earnings on such films as Oscar best picture winners “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby,” and the James Bond flicks “Casino Royale” and “Quantum of Solace.”
While explaining the complexities of screenwriting compensation, he estimated that throughout his four decades in TV and movies, he’s made as much as $25 million — before taxes, agents’ and other representatives’ fees and asset splits with his two ex-wives.
The 69-year-old filmmaker said during Monday's hearing that he’d suffered various financial losses over the years — including the destruction of a poorly insured home in the 1994 Northridge earthquake — but that Breest’s lawsuit wiped him out. He said his legal bills topped $2.6 million, while his career abruptly dried up.
“I've spent all the money I have at my disposal. I've gutted my pension plan, I've lived on loans, in order to pay for this case in a very naïve belief in justice,” he said outside court.
Breest’s lawyers questioned Haggis’ claims of being broke.
“Nothing Paul Haggis says can be trusted,” attorney Ilann Maazel said.
After the verdict, he said the jury “did the right thing.” Jurors left court without commenting.
Breest, 36, said she suffered both professional and psychological harm from what happened after she accepted an invitation for a drink at his apartment following a movie premiere.
She declined to comment Monday. In a statement after the initial verdict Thursday, she said she appreciated “the opportunity to seek justice and accountability in court — and that the jury chose to follow the facts — and believed me.”
She sued for unspecified damages. Haggis wasn’t criminally charged in the matter.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Breest has done. | 2022-11-14T23:23:06+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/jury-tells-filmmaker-haggis-to-pay-10m-total-in-rape-suit/article_3daa9515-d147-5677-9a88-a75af3bf9e67.html |
At a glance: Jehovah’s Witness beliefs, history in Germany
By DEEPA BHARATH
Associated Press
Several people were killed and injured Thursday night after shots were fired inside a building where Jehovah’s Witnesses met in the northern German city of Hamburg, officials said.
The international Christian denomination founded in the United States has a more than 100-year history in Germany. Today, about 170,000 members call the European country home, according to the denomination’s website.
The denomination itself dates back to the 19th century. It was founded by Charles Taze Russell, a minister from Pittsburgh. Now headquartered in Warwick, New York, it claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 million. Members are known for their evangelistic efforts including knocking on doors and distributing literature in public squares.
Here is a quick look at the international denomination’s beliefs and their history in Germany:
— In Germany, there are about 2,020 Jehovah’s Witness congregations and 170,491 ministers. One in 498 Germans practice the faith, according to the denomination’s website.
— Jehovah’s Witnesses do not call their place of worship a church, but “Kingdom Hall.” This is because they believe the Bible refers to worshippers — not the building — as the church. The building or hall where congregants meet to worship Jehovah (the God of the Bible and His Kingdom) is therefore known as “Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
— Jehovah’s Witnesses do not use the cross in worship because they believe the Bible indicates that Jesus did not die on a cross, but on a simple stake, and that the Bible “strongly warns Christians to flee from idolatry, which would mean not using the cross in worship,” the denomination’s website states.
— Each congregation is supervised by a body of elders. About 20 congregations make up a circuit and are occasionally visited by traveling elders known as circuit overseers.
— On January 27, 2021, the German State Parliament commemorated the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ courageous stand against Nazi abuse. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the ceremony was hosted online and was viewed by more than 37,000 people from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
— About 1,500 Jehovah’s Witnesses died during the Holocaust out of about 35,000 who lived in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries at the time. More than 1,000 died in prisons and concentration camps. Members of the faith were persecuted by the Nazi regime because they remained politically neutral. They also refused to sign a document renouncing their beliefs and disobeyed the regime’s orders by continuing to meet for worship, doing public ministry and showing kindness to Jewish people.
— On Jan. 27, 2017, Jehovah’s Witnesses received the same legal status that is granted to major religions in Germany, which meant they are viewed as a single religious entity. Prior to gaining this status, their national headquarters in Germany and thousands of congregations in the country were considered independent religious associations.
— In the U.S., Jehovah’s Witnesses suspended door-knocking in the early days of the pandemic’s onset, just as much of the rest of society went into lockdown too. The organization also ended all public meetings at its 13,000 congregations nationwide and canceled 5,600 annual gatherings worldwide — an unprecedented move not taken even during the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, which killed 50 million people worldwide.
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. | 2023-03-10T05:45:35+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/03/09/at-a-glance-jehovahs-witness-beliefs-history-in-germany/ |
PHILADELPHIA — The biggest game of the season wasn’t much of a game. The 49ers never stood much of a chance.
It had nothing to do with their opponent, the Eagles.
It had little to do with the 49ers, either.
No, this failure had everything to do with fate.
If the 49ers used any magic or good fortune to reach the NFC Championship Game, it didn’t make the flight to Philadelphia.
And the NFC Championship Game — slated to be an incredible showdown of the conference’s two best teams — proved only to be a slow-marching coronation for the Eagles, and an endless series of misadventures for the Niners.
Philadelphia won 31-7. The difference felt larger than 24 points, though. The Eagles didn’t even play a particularly good game, but everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong for San Francisco.
The Eagles will play in the Super Bowl in two weeks. The Niners won’t play again for eight months.
“I wish we had a little better opportunity than we did today,” Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan said. “I was real proud of how [the team] fought out there. Our guys didn’t shy away from anything. I thought they got dealt a tough hand.”
It’s ok to be frustrated, perhaps even angry, if you’re a Niners fan. Sunday was another opportunity to win the franchise’s long-sought six Super Bowl that was squandered near the finish line.
But blame the football gods for the result. The Niners played their fourth-string quarterback for the first half of the game, and then a one-armed quarterback (whose working arm wasn’t his throwing arm) for the second.
Third-string, rookie quarterback Brock Purdy guided the Niners to eight straight wins and the doorstep of the Super Bowl. Sunday, he injured his throwing arm at the end of the Niners’ first offensive drive of the game. His game should have been over.
“My arm just felt like it stretched out,” Purdy said of defensive end Hassan Reddick’s hit of his arm. “[I] felt a lot of shocks all over, from my elbow down to my wrist, front and back. Just pain, really, all over.”
According to ESPN, the Niners fear Purdy tore his ulnar collateral ligament, which connects his humerus to his ulna. It’s an all-too-common injury for baseball pitchers but a rarity in the NFL. If he did, indeed, tear his UCL, it’s a months-long rehabilitation process, jeopardizing his 2023 season.
Three quarterbacks started games for the 49ers this season. All three suffered season-ending injuries.
And the Niners’ season ended the moment Purdy exited the game.
Yet there were still three-and-a-half quarters to play Sunday.
Such is the cruelty of the NFL.
In came Josh Johnson, an Oakland Tech graduate, who has been on 16 different teams in his professional football career. He’s done stints in the United Football League, the XFL, and the Alliance of American Football. The Niners are one of 13 NFL teams he’s played for, and this is his fourth stint with the team.
Johnson was signed by the Niners in December because he’s a good guy, a seasoned pro, and someone who could help the young Purdy behind the scenes while Jimmy Garoppolo, the team’s second-string quarterback, rehabbed a foot injury.
Johnson was not signed to play in the NFC Championship Game.
And yet there he was, tasked with quarterbacking the Niners to the Super Bowl.
The Niners scored once with Johnson at quarterback — running back Christian McCaffrey gained 44 of the 46 yards on a second-quarter scoring drive, capped by a spectacular 23-yard touchdown run, where he jumped over safety Marcus Epps and then broke three more tackles en route to the end zone.
But after a Johnson fumble set up the Eagles to take a 21-7 lead into halftime, it was clear that the veteran was no Purdy.
And then Johnson was injured.
The veteran was concussed on the Niners’ first offensive drive of the second half and ruled out of the game.
The Niners considered making McCaffrey the quarterback, nearly outfitting his helmet with the quarterback’s radio receiver. Instead, at the last second before the Niners’ seventh possession of the game, the Niners opted to re-insert Purdy.
The final score told you that his return was not the continuation of his incredible story.
“He couldn’t throw,” Shanahan said. “When he came in, we had to decide what he could throw, and there weren’t too many options.”
“I’d been throwing after the hit occurred, on the sideline, just to see where I was at,” Purdy said. “But even with those throws, it was painful.”
How important is having a quarterback who can — in the most literal sense — throw the ball more than 10 yards down the field?
Well, the Niners only had 47 yards of total offense on 21 second-half plays, as Philadelphia knew every play was a run or a super-short pass.
“One-dimensional,” wide receiver Jauan Jennings said of the Niners’ offense. “This is the NFL. It’s not high school football.”
“I’ve been a part of [games] with no linemen… that sort of thing, but you lose a quarterback? It’s pretty tough to play football,” right tackle Mike McGlinchey said. “And that’s what happened today. It’s very unfortunate. It’s all you can say about it. But that’s football, that’s where the ball bounces and it sucks.”
The 49ers’ didn’t stand a chance in the second half. The offense couldn’t move the ball, and the defense was tasked with not only shutting down the Eagles’ offense — a tough enough challenge — but scoring itself. It did neither.
The end of the Niners’ season was inevitable, and it was processed during the contest. Offensive lineman Trent Williams lost his cool, threw an Eagle to the ground, and was ejected in the fourth quarter. Shanahan tried one trick play with McCaffrey at quarterback, but ultimately decided to expedite the proceedings by keeping the clock running with relatively basic runs.
The Niners the media met in the post-game locker room were clear-eyed about what had happened Sunday.
The way the team sees it, the team’s 12-game winning streak ended because of factors outside of their control.
And the football gods were so heavy-handed about it, many Niners could do nothing but shrug and laugh.
Star defensive end Nick Bosa found the perfect summation to the game in an inch-deep gash in his right leg — the byproduct of an Eagles player’s cleat.
Bosa wasn’t even on the field when he was punctured. No, he was standing on the sidelines on a punt, and the Eagle was blocked into him.
Getting hurt on the sidelines? Said Bosa: “It was a kind of a sign of a rough day.” | 2023-01-30T03:25:13+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/01/29/kurtenbach-the-49ers-season-ends-in-calamity-as-fate-and-the-eagles-undercut-super-bowl-dreams/ |
Russian forces struggle to make headway in eastern Ukraine
By SUSIE BLANN
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian General Staff says Russian forces are still trying to punch through Ukraine’s defenses in eastern areas of the country, as Moscow’s invasion struggles to gain momentum almost a year after it began. Russian artillery, drones and missiles have been relentlessly pounding Ukrainian-held eastern areas for months, indiscriminately hitting civilian targets and wreaking destruction. The war largely slowed to a grinding stalemate in the winter. The battles are draining weapons stockpiles on both sides. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned earlier this week that Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it. The U.K. Ministry of Defense said Wednesday that Russia’s military industrial output “is becoming a critical weakness.” | 2023-02-15T12:05:49+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/02/15/russian-forces-struggle-to-make-headway-in-eastern-ukraine/ |
ORCHARD PARK — After not selecting a defensive tackle in the NFL draft last weekend, the Buffalo Bills landed one in free agency by signing Kaylon “Poona” Ford to a one-year contract on Tuesday.
Listed at 5-foot-11 and 310 pounds, Ford joins the Bills after spending five seasons in Seattle, including the past four as a starter. Ford was regarded as one of the top defensive linemen available in free agency and fills an immediate depth need along Buffalo’s front.
The 27-year-old Ford broke into the league as an undrafted free agent out of Texas. Ford has proven dependable in stopping the run and also penetrating the line of scrimmage in getting 7 1/2 career sacks, including three last season.
The signing comes after general manager Brandon Beane on Saturday lamented not having a chance to use one of his six draft picks on a defensive tackle. Beane then said he anticipated using what limited space he had under the salary cap to address the position.
It'll be a real position of need next offseason.
After re-signing Jordan Phillips on a one-year contract, Buffalo has all of its interior linemen back from last season. But none of them are under contract beyond the 2023 season, including former first-round pick Ed Oliver, who has shown flashes but inconsistency hasn’t yet warranted an extension on his expiring rookie deal.
“I mean, the one position that we don’t have a lot on the future is D-tackle,” Beane said. “We don’t at this point. Ed’s going into his last year. DaQuan (Jones) is going in his last year. Jordan was a one year deal. Tim Settle, last year too. ...” | 2023-05-03T01:31:19+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/bills-address-post-nfl-draft-need-with-dt-poona-ford/article_64c7aa02-e949-11ed-bf6a-73b1395292e7.html |
ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — International efforts to defuse a crisis in Kosovo intensified Wednesday as ethnic Serbs held more protests in a northern town where recent clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers sparked fears of renewed conflict in the troubled region.
Hundreds of Serbs repeated at a rally their demand for the withdrawal from northern Kosovo of the special police and ethnic Albanian officials who were elected to mayor’s offices in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs. The crowd then spread a huge Serbian flag outside the city hall in the town of Zvecan.
The rising tensions have fueled concern about another war like the 1998-99 fighting in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives, left more than 1 million people homeless and resulted in a NATO peacekeeping mission that has lasted nearly a quarter of a century.
Working to avert any escalation, European Union officials met with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti on the sidelines of a conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. The leaders of France and Germany announced plans to meet top Serbia and Kosovo officials on Thursday at a summit in Moldova.
“The current situation is dangerous and unsustainable,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “We need urgent de-escalation.”
Speaking in Slovakia, Kurti flatly rejected Serb demands but left the door open for fresh local elections.
“As long as there is a violent mob outside the municipal buildings, we must have our special units,” he said. “If there would have been peaceful protests asking for early election, that would attract my attention, and perhaps I would consider that request.”
Kurti also suggested that Russia may have a hand in the latest flare-up, pointing to protesters who “do graffiti with letter Z” and show admiration for “despotic” Russian President Vladimir Putin and for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is a close Serbian ally, although Belgrade populist leaders claim to be seeking European Union membership.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Moscow is monitoring the situation and supporting “all legitimate rights and interests of Kosovo Serbs.”
Wednesday’s protest in Zvecan, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the capital, Pristina, ended peacefully. On Monday, ethnic Serbs tried to storm municipal offices and fought with both Kosovo police and the peacekeepers, leaving 30 NATO soldiers and 50 rioters injured.
A former province of Serbia, Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence is recognized by Washington and most EU nations but not by Belgrade, Russia or China.
Serbs are a minority in Kosovo, but they constitute a majority in parts of the country’s north bordering Serbia. Many reject the Albanian-majority territory’s claim of independence.
The United States and the European Union recently stepped up efforts to solve the dispute. NATO said it will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after the clashes on Monday. The NATO-led peacekeeping mission known as KFOR currently consists of almost 3,800 troops.
A German government spokesperson said Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron plan to meet Thursday with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo.
Spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin that the meeting will take place on the sidelines of the European Political Community meeting in Chisinau, Moldova.
The confrontation first unfolded last week after ethnic Albanian officials entered municipal buildings to take office with an escort of Kosovo police.
When Serbs tried to block the officials, Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse them. In Zvecan on Monday, angry Serbs again clashed first with the police and later with NATO-led troops who tried to secure the area.
Serbia put the country’s military on its highest state of alert and sent more troops to the border with Kosovo.
Western officials have sharply criticized both Kosovo authorities for pushing to install the newly elected mayors and Serbs because of the violence.
The Kosovo government’s “decision to force access to municipal buildings sharply and unnecessarily escalated tensions,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
He urged Kosovo to use alternate locations for the new mayors and withdraw police from the vicinity of the municipal buildings. Serbia, he said, should lower its army’s alert level and make sure KFOR troops are not attacked.
French President Macron also criticized Kosovo for organizing the municipal election in the country’s north. He said Kosovo disrespected an EU-backed plan to normalize ties between former war foes.
“Very clearly, the Kosovar authorities are responsible for the current situation and for failing to respect an agreement that was important and that was sealed just a few weeks ago,” he said.
Serbia’s defense minister on Wednesday told state broadcaster RTS that the “security situation is highly risky because of one-sided, illegal, illegitimate decisions by the administration in Pristina.” He referred to the “occupation of the north of Kosovo.”
Serbian officials have repeatedly warned that Serbia would not stand idle if Serbs in Kosovo come under attack.
Meanwhile in Pristina, the U.S. ambassador to Kosovo, Jeff Hovenier, said Kosovo’s participation in the Defender Europe 23 military drills has been canceled. The exercises involve some 2,800 U.S. troops and 7,000 soldiers from other nations, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Turkey.
The 1998-1999 war in Kosovo erupted when ethnic Albanian separatists launched a rebellion against Serbia, which responded with a brutal crackdown. The war ended after NATO bombing forced Serbia to pull out of the territory.
The Balkan region is still reckoning with the aftermath of a series of bloody conflicts in the 1990s during the violent breakup of the former country of Yugoslavia.
On Wednesday, United Nations judges imposed increased sentences for two allies of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic who were convicted of an attempt to drive non-Serbs out of towns in Croatia and Bosnia during the wars in the 1990s. Milosevic also led Serbia during its 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.
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Associated Press writers Llazar Semini, Jovana Gec and Dusan Stojanovic contributed to this story. | 2023-05-31T20:20:09+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-efforts-to-defuse-kosovo-crisis-intensify-amid-more-protests/ |
Program equips preventive medicine physicians with resources and information to help communicate the mission-critical work they do for improving population health
NEW ORLEANS, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) kicked off This is Preventive Medicine, a new signature program designed to elevate the mission-critical work of preventive medicine physicians. Launched during ACPM's 2023 Preventive Medicine conference, the largest gathering of public health trained preventive medicine physicians in the U.S., the ongoing campaign will address the most critical and timely health issues and interventions needed today.
This is Preventive Medicine comes at a time when significant health challenges, such as the increase in ongoing chronic diseases, substance use disorder, the long-lasting impact of COVID-19, and the threat of future pandemics, are on the rise. The campaign will better position preventive medicine physicians to advocate for a seat at the table where key decisions, new policies, studies, and solutions for key health challenges are made.
"Population health, patient safety, equitable distribution of healthcare resources and quality care should always be at the forefront of the health discussion. However, the current healthcare ecosystem is broken, the high cost of healthcare is unsustainable, and there are vast omissions of care provided to marginalized communities across the U.S.," said Donna Grande, CEO of the American College of Preventive Medicine. "This is Preventive Medicine is designed to create a dialogue with key audiences about why the profession is key to preventing disease, disability, and death by promoting health and well-being in patients, communities, and populations. We understand that to advance health for all, preventive medicine physicians need a seat at the tables where solutions are being discussed and planned at both the hospital and health department levels across this country."
The campaign will leverage ACPM's 2,000+ members to help tell the story in a wide range of settings: from the lab to leadership roles in hospitals and health systems, the board room, the halls of government, and other environments where their unique expertise drives mission-critical work to improve population health. To help ACPM members serve as program Ambassadors, This is Preventive Medicine includes an interactive resource center that houses audience-specific tools to help preventive medicine physicians communicate the value of their profession to key audiences. In addition to the resource center, the program also features a centerpiece video that showcases the role of preventive medicine and the importance of the physicians trained in the specialty.
The program was developed after surveying ACPM's more than 2,000 members in late 2022 to glean their insights on the profession and specifically, the specialty. The research showed most preventive medicine physicians chose the specialty for the opportunity to play a role in disease prevention and healing (73%), to serve both individuals and communities (64%), and improve the overall healthcare system (55%).
This is Preventive Medicine will support these aspects of the profession by helping preventive medicine physicians communicate the role they play across a variety of sectors and across important audiences, including broader academia, medical students, policymakers, public health and the hospital community.
About ACPM & Preventive Medicine
The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is a professional medical society of approximately 2,000 physicians dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of individuals, families, communities and populations through disease prevention and health promotion.
Preventive medicine physicians save lives, create healthier communities, and transform our healthcare system.
For more information, visit www.acpm.org
Contact: Alicia Stanford, astanford@brgcommunications.com, 407-575-7514
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 1
Published: Apr. 15, 2023 at 11:55 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Cleveland Cavaliers are 5.5-point favorites heading into Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the New York Knicks at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on Saturday, starting at 6:00 PM ET on ESPN.
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- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 6:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
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- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Venue: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
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- The Knicks' .549 ATS win percentage (45-35-2 ATS Record) is higher than the Cavaliers' .524 mark (43-38-1 ATS Record) in 2022-23.
- When the spread is set as 5.5 or more this season, Cleveland (19-9-1) covers a higher percentage of those games when it is the favorite (65.5%) than New York (3-4-2) does as the underdog (33.3%).
- Cleveland's games have gone over the total 48.8% of the time this season (40 out of 82), less often than New York's games have (44 out of 82).
- As a moneyline favorite this year, the Cavaliers are 47-17, a better tally than the Knicks have recorded (20-21) as moneyline underdogs.
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Cavaliers Performance Insights
- Cleveland sports a top-five defense this year, ranking best in the league with 106.9 points allowed per game. Offensively, it ranks 25th with 112.3 points scored per contest.
- The Cavaliers are delivering 24.9 assists per game, which ranks them 19th in the NBA in 2022-23.
- The Cavaliers are 19th in the NBA with 11.6 three-pointers per game so far this year. Meanwhile, they rank 11th with a 36.7% shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
- Cleveland is attempting 53.6 two-pointers per game this season, which account for 62.9% of the shots it has taken (and 72.1% of the team's baskets). Meanwhile, it is attempting 31.6 three-pointers per contest, which are 37.1% of its shots (and 27.9% of the team's buckets).
Knicks Performance Insights
- New York is 11th in the NBA in points scored (116 per game) and 12th in points conceded (113.1).
- This season the Knicks are third-worst in the league in assists at 22.9 per game.
- In 2022-23, the Knicks are 11th in the NBA in 3-point makes (12.6 per game) and 19th in 3-point percentage (35.4%).
- In 2022-23, New York has taken 60% percent of its shots from inside the arc, and 40% percent from beyond it. In terms of makes, 69.9% of New York's baskets have been 2-pointers, and 30.1% have been 3-pointers.
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GRAPHIC: All those killed at Texas school were in 1 room, official says
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and “began shooting anyone that was in his way,” authorities said Wednesday in detailing the latest mass killing to rock the U.S.
Law enforcement officers eventually broke into the classroom and killed the gunman, who used an AR-style rifle. Police and others responding to Tuesday’s attack also went around breaking windows at the school to enable students and teachers to escape, Lt. Christopher Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety said on NBC’s “Today” show.
Olivarez told CNN that all the victims were in the same fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary.
The killer “barricaded himself by locking the door and just started shooting children and teachers that were inside that classroom,” he said. “It just shows you the complete evil of the shooter.”
Dillon Silva, whose nephew was in a nearby classroom, said students were watching a movie when a bullet shattered a window. Moments later, their teacher saw the armed assailant walk past the door.
“Oh, my God, he has a gun!” the teacher shouted twice, according to Silva. “The teacher didn’t even have time to lock the door,” he said.
Investigators did not immediately disclose a motive but identified the assailant as Salvador Ramos, a resident of the community about 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of San Antonio.
Ramos had hinted on social media that an attack could be coming, suggesting that “kids should watch out,” according to state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who said he had been briefed by state police.
Ramos legally brought two AR-style rifles just days before the attack, soon after his 18th birthday, state senators briefed by law enforcement said.
One of the guns was purchased at a federally licensed dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17, according to Sen. John Whitmire. Ramos bought 375 rounds of ammunition the next day, then purchased the second rifle on May 20.
On that day, an Instagram account appearing to belong to the gunman shared a photo of two AR-style rifles.
Officers found one of the rifles in Ramos’ truck, the other in the school, according to the briefing. Ramos was wearing a tactical vest, but it had no hardened body-armor plates inside, lawmakers were told. He also dropped a backpack containing several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance.
The attack in the heavily Latino town of Uvalde was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.
Families in Uvalde waited hours for word on their children. At the town civic center where some gathered Tuesday night, the silence was broken repeatedly by screams and wails. “No! Please, no!” one man yelled as he embraced another man.
“My heart is broken today,” said Hal Harrell, school district superintendent. “We’re a small community, and we’re going to need your prayers to get through this.”
Adolfo Cruz, a 69-year-old air conditioning repairman, was still outside the school as the sun set, seeking word on his 10-year-old great-granddaughter, Eliajha Cruz Torres.
He drove to the scene after receiving a terrifying call from his daughter about the first reports of the shooting. Waiting, he said, was the heaviest moment of his life.
“I hope she is alive,” Cruz said.
On Wednesday morning, volunteers were seen arriving at the community center with Bibles and therapy dogs.
The attack was the latest in a seemingly unending string of mass killings at churches, schools, stores and other sites in the United States. Just 10 days earlier, 10 Black people were shot to death in a racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.
In a somber address to the nation hours after the bloodshed in Uvalde, President Joe Biden pleaded for new gun restrictions.
“As a nation we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name are we going to do what has to be done?” he asked. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage?”
But the prospects for any reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim. Repeated attempts over the years to expand background checks and enact other curbs have run into Republican resistance in Congress.
Before the attack, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother, then fled the scene, crashing his truck near the school and entering the building, authorities said. Inside the barricaded classroom, he “just began shooting anyone that was in his way,” Olivarez said.
A tactical team forced its way into the classroom and was met with gunfire from Ramos but shot and killed him, according to Olivarez.
Earlier, a law enforcement official said one Border Patrol agent who was working nearby when the shooting began rushed into the school without waiting for backup and shot and killed the gunman. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it.
The agent was wounded but able to walk out of the school, the law enforcement official said.
Jason Owens, a top regional official with the Border Patrol, said some area agents have children at Robb Elementary.
“It hit home for everybody,” he said.
Staff members in scrubs and devastated victims’ relatives could be seen weeping as they walked out of Uvalde Memorial Hospital, which many of the children were taken. Three children and an adult were being treated at a San Antonio hospital, where two of them — a 66-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl — were reported in serious condition.
Uvalde, home to about 16,000 people, is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Mexican borer. Robb Elementary, which has nearly 600 students in second, third and fourth grades, is a single-story brick structure in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.
The attack came as the school was counting down to the last days of the school year with a series of themed days. Tuesday was to be “Footloose and Fancy,” with students wearing nice outfits.
Law enforcement officers investigating the bloodshed began serving search warrants and gathering telephone and other records. They also sought to contact Ramos’ relatives and trace the guns.
Condolences poured in from leaders around the world. Pope Francis pleaded that it was time say “‘enough’ to the indiscriminate trade of weapons!” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said his nation also knows “the pain of losing innocent young lives.”
Texas, which has some of the most gun-friendly laws in the nation, has been the site of some of the deadliest shootings in the U.S. over the past five years.
In 2018, a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year before that, a gunman shot more than two dozen people to death during a Sunday service in the small town of Sutherland Springs. In 2019, a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanics.
The shooting came days before the National Rifle Association annual convention was set to begin in Houston. Gov. Greg. Abbott and both of Texas’ U.S. senators, all of them Republicans, were among the scheduled speakers at a forum Friday.
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This story was first published on May 24, 2022. It was corrected to reflect that state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said the gunman shot his grandmother before going to the school; he did not say the gunman killed his grandmother. It was also updated to correct the spelling of the name of the 10-year-old great-granddaughter.
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Eugene Garcia and Dario Lopez-Mills in Uvalde, Jake Bleiberg in Dallas, Ben Fox, Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker in Washington, Paul J. Weber in Austin, Juan Lozano in Houston, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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The lead attorney for embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Republican will not take the stand during his impeachment trial later this year.
Paxton's lawyer, Tony Buzbee, made the announcement in a lengthy statement, criticizing the investigation as a "weaponization of state power."
"The House has ignored precedent, denied him an opportunity to prepare his defense, and now wants to ambush him on the floor of the Senate," Buzbee said. "They had the opportunity to have Attorney General Paxton testify during their sham investigation but refused to do so."
The Texas House voted overwhelmingly in May to move forward with 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton over allegations of bribery, disregard for his official duties and obstruction of justice. The vote came after a monthslong investigation into accusations that Paxton misused official information, abused his power and attempted to hide an affair.
Paxton has dismissed the accusations as politically motivated and even accused Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan of being drunk when he presided over the session. Phelan brushed off the accusations as a desperate attempt by Paxton "to save face."
SEE MORE: Trump, others react to Texas Attorney General Paxton's impeachment
The Republican-controlled Texas Senate also voted last month on rules that bar Paxton's wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, from participating in the impeachment trial. She had previously signaled her intention to vote on the proceedings, but lawmakers decided that would be a conflict of interest.
Ken Paxton is currently suspended pending the outcome of his Sept. 5 impeachment trial. If impeached, he would become just the third state official in state history to be permanently removed from office.
Separately, Paxton is under investigation by the FBI over accusations that he used his power to help a political donor. He's also awaiting trial on securities fraud charges from 2015.
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HOUSTON, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: VTOL), the global leader in innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions, today announced it will release financial results for its first quarter fiscal year 2023 after market close on Thursday, August 4, 2022. In connection with the release, Bristow has scheduled a conference call for Friday, August 5, 2022, to begin at 9 a.m. ET (8 a.m. CT).
Investors may participate in the call by dialing 800-207-0148 for domestic or +1 856-344-9282 for international, at least 10 minutes before the call, using the access code 162062. A telephone replay will be available through August 19, 2022, by dialing 888-203-1112 and using the access code 6245002. The accompanying investor presentation will be available on August 5, 2022, on the investor section of Bristow's website at www.bristowgroup.com.
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Bristow Group Inc. is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions. Bristow primarily provides aviation services to a broad base of major integrated, national and independent energy companies. Bristow provides commercial search and rescue (SAR) services in several countries and public sector SAR services in the United Kingdom (U.K.) on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. Additionally, the Company also offers fixed wing transportation and other aviation related solutions.
Bristow currently has customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Dutch Caribbean, Guyana, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad, the U.K. and the U.S. To learn more, visit our website at www.bristowgroup.com.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy.
Patterson and her husband had divorced but remained close for the sake of their son. Then Heyward Patterson was gunned down along with nine people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket a year ago Sunday.
Tirzah and 13-year-old Jaques “Jake” Patterson recently opened up about coping with immense grief after a mass shooting, an unceasing story across the nation.
Jake’s compass through grief, his mother has told him, should be his faith and prayer. That guidance would serve so many mothers and fathers as the death toll from gun violence in America climbs and spreads, she said.
A beloved church deacon known for offering rides home from the supermarket for people without cars, Heyward Patterson made a heartfelt call to his ex-wife last Mother’s Day, telling his ex-wife what a great mother she was and how happy he was about how she was raising his son.
“He poured his heart out to me and, a week later, he left,” Patterson said. “He gave me closure.”
“He probably didn’t know why he was doing it,” she said. “God knows.”
The May 14 assault-rifle attack on Tops Friendly Market was one of the most brazen race-motivated atrocities in modern U.S. history.
“What I’ve been doing with Jake is constantly reinforcing and reiterating that this is a healing process,” Tirzah said while seated next to her son in their East Buffalo home.
“You will never forget (your dad). He may not be here physically, but he will always be in your heart.”
Heyward Patterson, 67, had two adult daughters. Jake, his youngest child, was his only son.
“He used to call him, ‘Boy.’ He never called him by his name,” Tirzah recalled as a wide grin spread across her son’s face.
“I would say, ‘You’re going to make that boy think his name is Boy!’”
“He’s truly missed,” she added.
Heyward was at the Tops Friendly Market assisting a shopper with groceries when he was shot and killed by an assault-rifle-toting white supremacist. The nine others killed, all Black, ranged in age from 32 to 86. The attacker, Payton Gendron, was 18 when he drove more than 200 miles from his home in rural New York, looking for Black people to kill in Buffalo’s largely minority and working-class East side.
In February, Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder and other charges brought by local prosecutors. A federal criminal hate crimes case is still pending, as U.S. Justice Department officials weigh whether to seek the death penalty if Gendron is convicted.
The city of Buffalo will pause Sunday to mark the passing of one year since the attack. Events include a moment of silence and the chiming of church bells. Tirzah said she and Jake hadn’t planned on participating in events locally.
She hasn’t burdened Jake with details of the criminal cases. Tirzah is much more focused on her son’s mental health.
“Right now, he’s being very fearful, very low key. He doesn’t really like to go out,” she said. “So I’m trying to teach him that that one incident doesn’t mean it’s going to happen all the time, or if you go out, something’s going to happen.
“I want him to grow up and be the best he can, because he’s very smart, very gifted.”
Nearly a year ago, during a press conference with the Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and other shooting victims’ families, a grief-stricken Tirzah wondered whether she was cut out to raise Jake without her ex-husband’s help.
“His heart is broken, he half eats, he half sleeps,” she tearfully told reporters, with Jake, then 12, at her side, his face covered with his hands.
“As a mother, what am I supposed to do to help him get through this? I need a village to help me raise and be here for my son,” she pleaded.
In the AP interview, Jake said his appetite is much improved. His go-to McDonald’s order includes a crispy McChicken sandwich, a large fries and a large Coke.
He’s an avid gamer. On the weekends, his older brother, Tirzah’s son from another relationship, takes Jake to kickboxing lessons. And the teen is interested in becoming a musician.
Heyward Patterson had a talent for singing in church. His son still cries when he hears certain songs during Sunday service. But other memories bring smiles and laughs.
Heyward was not a talented cook, Jake said laughing, recalling how his father once badly burned Spam, the canned meat. Jake’s trips to the movies with Dad and Mom were always funny, because Heyward would spill so much theater popcorn around his seat that you’d be forgiven for thinking children had been sitting there.
Still, there are moments where grief and sadness hit Jake unexpectedly. As an adolescent, he copes the best way he can and has advice for others his age grappling with the same feelings.
“I would just say, don’t really think about it too much. If you feel like it’s about to come, if you feel you’re about to cry or something, play (a game) or listen to some music to escape. Get your mind to escape from it.”
Jake paused and then added, “Just keep moving on.”
At Tirzah and Jake’s home, an apartment located just a few blocks northeast of Tops Friendly Market, several award plaques honoring Heyward lean against a TV stand. A large picture of the church deacon, displayed on an easel, overlooks the kitchen. The placement of these reminders of him are all deliberate, Tirzah said.
One memento that Jake cherishes more than others is a large woven blanket that bears an image of him and his father: a smiling Heyward sporting a black skull cap, a pair of tinted glasses, a salt-and-pepper goatee, a tan colored check patterned suit with pink necktie and handkerchief.
An inscription woven next to Jake and his dad reads, in part, “My Father taught me everything I know except how to live without him.”
“I haven’t slept with this cover yet, Mom,” Jake said, holding the blanket up for display. “It’s just on the bed.”
This Mother’s Day, the 13-year-old has a glowing review, or rather a score, for his mom. Nine thousand points out of a possible 10,000, he said.
Tirzah grinned.
“What keeps us going is the joy, the memories, the good memories we have, the laughter,” she said. “So, anybody that experiences this: Pray, keep God first and just take one day at a time. Because after a while, it’ll get better.”
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Aaron Morrison is a New York-based member of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison | 2023-05-12T09:33:32+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/for-buffalo-shooting-victims-kin-mothers-day-is-a-reminder-of-loss-a-lesson-in-navigating-grief/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN) is providing confirmatory notice, pursuant to the requirements of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), of recent grants of equity-based incentive awards that LivePerson made under its Inducement Plan.
LivePerson established the LivePerson Inc. 2018 Inducement Plan (the "Inducement Plan") to provide equity-based incentive awards to new hires. In connection with recent employee hires through December 28, 2022, LivePerson has made grants of RSUs to 5 employees totaling 60,790 shares.
RSU and stock option grants generally vest in equal tranches over 3 to 4 years under the Inducement Plan. All grants are subject to the grantee's continued employment on the scheduled vesting date. Each award under the Inducement Plan was granted as an inducement material to the grantee entering into employment with the Company.
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LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is a global leader in customer engagement solutions. We create AI-powered digital experiences that feel Curiously Human. Our customers — including leading brands like HSBC, Virgin Media, and GM Financial — have conversations with millions of consumers as personally as they would with one. Our Conversational Cloud platform powers nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set to build connections that reduce costs, increase revenue, and are anything but artificial. Fast Company named us the #1 Most Innovative AI Company in the world. To talk with us or our Conversational AI, please visit liveperson.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A raging fire destroyed a vacant commercial building in Los Angeles early Wednesday and numerous other small fires broke out in the same area, triggering an arson investigation, authorities said.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Two people, one believed to be a migrant and the other the alleged trafficker, died Saturday in northern Greece while trying to evade a police checkpoint, police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said.
Twelve more people riding in the passenger car were injured, with the most serious injuries suffered by those stashed in the stolen car’s trunk.
Both dead were Pakistanis, the driver a 27-year-old, police said. The injured included nine Pakistanis and three Afghans.
The car, traveling from Greece’s land border west toward Thessaloniki, was flagged at a police checkpoint earlier Saturday. It sped through, leading police in a 50-kilometer (31-mile) chase until it slammed into a protective barrier.
The 27-year-old driver had already been convicted of human trafficking and robberies, police say. | 2022-06-04T19:16:55+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/2-killed-as-Greek-police-chase-stolen-car-17219809.php |
BEIJING, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese machinery equipment maker Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology (Zoomlion, 000157.SZ) launched a technology exhibition at the Zoomlion Smart Industry City in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province from May 11 to 14, showcasing its technological achievements and results in the field of intelligent manufacturing.
Themed "Technology Salute to the New Era," the event attracted many guests from home and abroad, including over 500 overseas customers from more than 40 countries and regions, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Indonesia, Singapore, Türkiye, Brazil, the United States, and the Netherlands.
Zoomlion Smart Industrial City's Earthmoving Machinery Smart Park, as the first park to open in the industrial city, is an intelligent manufacturing factory that covers the full process of excavator manufacturing, including material preparation, welding, machining, painting, assembly and commissioning.
During the event, Zoomlion showcased over 500 advanced products and key components at more than ten exhibition areas in its headquarters building, Earthmoving Machinery Smart Park, Aerial Work Machinery Intelligent Manufacturing Park, Concrete Pumping Machinery Park, and Engineering Crane Machinery Park.
In recent years, Zoomlion has continuously deepened its development in overseas markets. In 2022, the company achieved a year-on-year sales growth of over 100 percent in markets of the Belt and Road countries and regions such as Indonesia, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye. In the first quarter of 2023, the company realized 123 percent of year-on-year growth in overseas revenue.
Zhan Chunxin, CEO of Zoomlion holds that Zoomlion will continue to lead the new revolution of technology, reaching new heights and broadening the company's horizons to drive innovation and transformation in the construction machinery industry.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, October 13, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Albany NY
757 PM EDT Thu Oct 13 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of east central New York and eastern New York,
including the following counties, in east central New York,
Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and
Washington. In eastern New York, Montgomery.
* WHEN...Until 1100 PM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 757 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain. This will
cause urban and small stream flooding. Up to 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Clifton Park, Rotterdam, Saratoga
Springs, Amsterdam, East Greenbush, Cohoes, Glens Falls,
Watervliet, Rensselaer, Colonie, Scotia, Hudson Falls,
Mechanicville, Latham, Delmar, Guilderland and Glenville.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Please report flooding to the National Weather Service by email
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week, thousands of people will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross. Watching from their wheelchairs, they will relate to the way he uses his.
The pope, who began using a wheelchair last year, is visiting two countries where years of conflict have disabled many, and yet they are among the world’s most difficult places to find accessibility and understanding. His visit is heartening Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
“We know that it’s a suffering, but it also comforts us to see a grand personality like the pope using a wheelchair,” said Paul Mitemberezi, a market vendor in Goma, at the heart of the eastern Congo region threatened by dozens of armed groups. “Sometimes it gives us the courage to hope that this isn’t the end of the world and one can survive.”
Mitemberezi, a Catholic and a father, has been disabled since he was 3 because of polio. He works to support his family because he can’t imagine a life of begging. On the way to market, his three-wheeled chair crunches the stones of unpaved roads. Without a ramp at home, he must leave the brightly painted vehicle outdoors, at risk of theft.
Every morning, before he leaves for basketball practice, he makes sure the chair’s still there before crawling out his front door. “It is my legs, which helps me to live,” he said. He applies a bicycle pump to the wheels and is off, weaving through traffic of motorcycles and trucks.
Pope Francis is still adjusting to a life that Mitemberezi has long accepted. The pope was first seen publicly in a wheelchair in May, with an aide pushing it. The pope, at age 86, never propels himself. Sometimes he walks with a cane, but he uses the chair for longer distances and has a wheelchair lift to get on and off planes.
Francis has lamented how today’s “throwaway culture” wrongly marginalizes disabled people. He makes it a point to visit places serving them during his foreign trips, and routinely spends time greeting wheelchair users at the end of his general audiences.
“No disability — temporary, acquired or permanent — can change the fact that we are all children of the one Father and enjoy the same dignity,” Francis wrote in his annual message for the U.N. International Day of Persons with Disabilities in December. He said people with different abilities enrich the church and teach it to be more humane.
Such messages are warmly awaited by wheelchair users in South Sudan, where a five-year civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. As in Congo, data is lacking on just how many people are disabled by conflict or other means.
While the road leading to the Vatican’s embassy in the South Sudan capital, Juba, was paved by city authorities this month for ease of travel, residents who use wheelchairs said they have long gone without easy access to schools, health centers, toilets and other public facilities.
South Sudan, unlike Congo, is yet to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Both countries, however, face vast challenges including underfunded health systems, poor infrastructure and conflicts that leave many disabled people vulnerable as others flee. Even displacement camps and shelters often are not accessible, the United Nations has said, and wheelchairs are not always available.
Discrimination is another problem. “People see those who get around using a wheelchair as useless,” said James Moses, who leads a local organization in South Sudan for disabled people and uses crutches after being wounded by a land mine.
He and others called on South Sudan’s government to give them special consideration during the pope’s visit, and they hope that Francis will advocate for them. “He’s close to us,” said Susan Samson, a wheelchair user and mother.
They hope they will have a chance to greet the pope at the airport with congratulatory messages and flowers. ”Put us in front so the pope will see us,” urged wheelchair user Seme Lado Michael.
The Vatican’s ambassador to Congo, Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, said he believed the sight of a wheelchair-using pope could be a powerful teaching moment in a culture where disabilities are often viewed with suspicion and superstition.
Families often abandon their disabled children, he said.
Seeing someone like the pope suffer should make Francis more approachable for people during his visit, Balestrero said. “They identify, in a way, even more with him.”
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Machol reported from Juba, South Sudan. Anna reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed.
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A low-pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska is forecast to impact the San Francisco Bay Area from Monday through Wednesday, bringing more rain and wind to a region that was battered by a storm less than a week ago. This system is expected to reach peak intensity over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the California-Oregon border before drifting south along the California coast and passing by the Bay Area.
The storm is expected to bring less severe impacts to the region than the last area of low pressure that passed directly over San Francisco, said Rick Canepa, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service expanded the Monday-Tuesday wind advisory to include the North Bay, East Bay and eastern Santa Clara hills in addition to the coastal areas. The advisory is in effect Monday night through Tuesday afternoon, with peak gusts expected to be up to 40 to 50 mph. Winds are expected to begin developing in the North Bay at about 11 p.m. Monday before spreading across the Bay Area. The strongest winds are forecast late tonight into Tuesday afternoon.
"It's going be half as windy as it was in the last storm in general," local meteorologist Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services told SFGATE. "There will be some spots that will see winds that are just as strong, but generally it will be less windy. The real problem is the soils are still saturated. We will still see some trees coming down."
Weather models were in agreement Monday morning that the first rains will arrive in the North Bay at about 8 p.m. this evening. Rain is expected to spread gradually into the greater Bay Area, likely reaching San Francisco at about midnight, before pushing into Monterey County on Tuesday morning. The rainy weather will likely persist into Tuesday and Wednesday.
As this cold front pushes across Bay Area, rain rates are likely to range from 0.1 to 0.3 inch per hour, but they could jump up to 0.5 inch per hour intermittently, the weather service said.
"We could see rises on creaks, streams and rivers, but not significant rises to warning levels," Canepa said. "We could see some brief flooding in urban areas."
The weather service is predicting that between Monday and Wednesday, most of the Bay Area, including San Francisco, will see 1 to 1.5 inches of rain, while the North Bay could pick up 1 to 4 inches in the coastal mountains, and the Santa Cruz Mountains could see 2 to 3 inches.
Cold air moved into the Bay Area behind the last system, and the corridor of northwest winds has been open ever since, Canepa said. "It has been pretty much almost continuous cold," he said.
With these chilly conditions in place, the Bay Area's mountain peaks are forecast to be frosted in snow. Snow levels could initially be as low as 2,500 feet Monday night, but are expected to rise to 4,000 to 6,000 feet by early Tuesday morning as the cold front will bring in "a little bit of warmth," Canepa said.
The East Bay hills could pick up 1 to 1.5 inches of snow, and the Mayacamas Mountains (near the Napa and Sonoma county borders with Lake County) could see 3 to 6 inches.
There's a slight chance for thunderstorms Tuesday, and a slightly higher chance Wednesday when the low-pressure system skirts the Bay Area, Canepa said. "It looks like the system will be just over our coastal waters on Wednesday," he said. | 2023-03-27T19:11:44+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/san-francisco-bay-area-storm-forecast-17862094.php |
Authorities are trying to identify a mummified body found by police in the bathtub of a northwestern Arizona home as they investigated a burglary.
Bullhead City police said officers responding to a burglary in progress around 3:30 a.m. Saturday discovered 65-year-old Christine Lee Walters rummaging through items inside the house.
They said there were pry marks on the door, indicating forced entry into the home, and that Walters had been going inside for days and taking clothing, purses and other items she allegedly planned to sell online.
Police said officers searched the house and found the body in the tub in a natural mummified state, which occurs when a corpse is exposed to very dry conditions that slow typical decomposition.
Police said Walters told officers she didn’t know the body was in the house.
It’s unknown how long the body was in the bathtub. Neighbors told police they believed that the house was vacant and that the homeowner may have moved away because they hadn't been seen for about a year.
The Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office was trying to determine the cause of death.
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Detectives found the homeowner’s birth certificate, credit cards, driver’s license and income tax paperwork during searches of Walters' home and vehicle. She booked into jail on suspicion of two counts of burglary. Police said they are seeking additional charges after methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia were found in her possession.
It was unclear Thursday if Walters has a lawyer who can speak on her behalf. | 2022-09-15T21:27:56+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/police-investigate-mummified-body-found-in-bathtub-of-burglarized-arizona-home/2941252/ |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world's leading organizations, today announced that Ken Stillwell, COO and CFO, Pega, will present at the following upcoming investor conferences:
- Citi 2022 Global Technology Conference
(https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/technology2022/30La7G.cfm). The in-person Pega presentation is scheduled for Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. EDT (10:00 a.m. PDT) in New York, NY. - Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference
(https://cc.webcasts.com/gold006/091222a_js/?entity=65_U024Y3S). The in-person Pega presentation is scheduled for Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. PDT (10:30 a.m. EDT) in San Francisco, CA.
Archives of the presentations will be available from the Investors page of Pega's website for a limited time.
Pega provides a powerful low-code platform that builds agility into the world's leading organizations so they can adapt to change. Clients use our AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we've built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today's customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Pollard was carted off the field late in the first half of Sunday’s divisional-round game against San Francisco after injuring his left ankle and was ruled out for the rest of the game.
Pollard got hurt when San Francisco’s Jimmie Ward fell on his ankle on a tackle following a reception late in the first half.
Pollard was helped off the field to the injury tent and then taken off the field with a towel draped over his head. The team announced Pollard would not return.
Pollard led the Cowboys with 1,007 yards rushing during the regular season. He was tied for the team lead with 12 touchdowns and ranked second with 1,378 yards from scrimmage.
Pollard had six carries for 22 yards and two catches for 11 yards in the first half before getting hurt.
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Northeastern High School's renovation hits a new snag: Missing insulation
The long-delayed Northeastern High School renovations hit a new snag as district officials noted that a thermal scan of the building showed that insulation was "not staying in place or missing completely."
Board President Mike Redding said the scan was requested following an incident in which a burst pipe flooded the high school's common area this winter. As it turned out, the scan turned up more significant issues.
“These folks need to be held accountable for the less than high-quality work that they were paid to do,” Redding said, at a school board meeting Monday.
Brian Geller, the district's director of operations, said the project's contractor of the Dillsburg-based Lobar Inc., has not been responsive.
"This is something that needs to be paid for by the contracts, not the district,” Geller said.
Messages left with Lobar from The York Dispatch were not returned Thursday.
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Geller said the next steps would involve sending a technician to check the walls to verify the information — that insulation was missing from some portions of the renovated building — found via the thermal scan.
That exploratory work would be destructive, Geller said, but is necessary to ensure the contractor's work was done correctly.
Redding said the board would hold off on final approval of Lobar's portion of the renovation until the verification work is completed and the district's legal counsel gives the contract a final review.
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The project has hit multiple roadblocks, ranging from supply chain issues to COVID cases. That's taken a toll on faculty and students alike.
When asked about the construction late last year, student representative Grace Riek said: “I just want to go to high school. I don’t want to go to a construction zone, though.”
Board Vice President Tyler Kramlick said in February that the costs reached $29.4 million, he said, versus the estimated $35 million budget.
In November, Kramlick said his patience was wearing thin. He was told the contractor was still completing various parts of the project, including a portion that was delayed because the wrong type of cement was delivered.
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In February, Quandel Construction representative Doug Mullican told the board he thought the punch list was about 70% complete, with the interior at about 98% complete. Mullican said the project had hit the substantial completion milestone, adding that the exterior work would be completed in the spring.
— Reach Meredith Willse at mwillse@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @MeredithWillse. | 2023-03-23T23:51:00+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/education/2023/03/23/northeastern-high-schools-renovation-hits-a-new-snag-missing-insulation/70039151007/ |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The father accused of murdering his 2-year-old son and the child’s mother has been booked into jail in Pinellas County, Florida.
Thomas Mosley, 21, was charged with the murder of Pashun Jeffery, 20, and her 2-year-old son Taylen Mosley after Taylen’s body was found in the mouth of an alligator Friday, according to police.
Mosley was accused of killing Jeffery after celebrating his birthday at her apartment, according to arrest affidavits from the St. Petersburg Police Department. Jeffery and her son were last seen alive at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, when the last of Jeffery’s family members left her alone with Mosley.
Police said Mosley was unaccounted for until 9:03 p.m., when he showed up at his mother’s house with gashes on his hands and arms, “consistent with injuries caused by slippage during a knife attack.” He admitted himself into St. Anthony’s Hospital to treat his wounds.
Jeffery’s body was discovered at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, after her family asked apartment staff to do a welfare check on her when they spotted blood on the sidewalk. The young mother was found on her bathroom floor with over 100 stab wounds, the affidavit said.
Investigators found a bloody fingerprint on a bottle of cleaning solution, which allegedly matched Mosley’s and was stashed under the bed, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit also said there was a bloody shoe print with the Gucci logo in the room where Jeffery was found, but the redacted document did not specify how that is connected to the case.
Mosley was identified as a person of interest as police searched for Taylen, but he was reportedly not cooperating with law enforcement while in the hospital.
Investigators say Mosley left Jeffery’s apartment at around 8:42 p.m. He then allegedly brought Taylen to Lake Maggiore in St. Petersburg and either threw or placed the boy into the water, according to police.
Mosley then went to his mother’s house, which was about 10 blocks away from the lake, the affidavit said.
Taylen’s body was found the next day in the jaws of an alligator. Police euthanized the animal and recovered the child’s body.
According to Jeffery’s family, she had just started living on her own while taking care of her son.
“This was her first month to have lived here and very happy to have a better place than what she had before,” said Theo Brickhouse-Sails, Jeffery’s great-aunt. “And for a 20-year-old, she was doing well. She wanted more out of life.”
Mosley pleaded not guilty to two first-degree murder charges during a hearing Saturday morning.
He is being held without bond and was ordered not to have any contact with Taylen nor Pashun’s families.
In the arrest affidavit, police indicated he may have mental health issues.
According to a GoFundMe started by Taylen’s maternal family, funeral arrangements are being made for the child and his mother. | 2023-04-02T18:14:28+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/florida-mother-stabbed-over-100-times-before-toddler-thrown-in-lake-affidavit/ |
The Federal Aviation Administration has rejected a regional airline's bid to reduce the number of flight hours needed to become a commercial airline pilot.
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways had requested the reduction in flight hours for graduates of its flight school as a way to help address a pilot shortage.
Republic petitioned the FAA back in April for an exemption to federal regulation requiring at least 1,500 flight hours for pilots to become certified as first officers at commercial airlines. Republic wanted graduates of its pilot training program, called the Leadership in Flight Training (LIFT) Academy, to qualify with as little as half of that number, 750 flight hours, the same as what's required of pilots coming out of military training.
Republic argued its new pilot training program is similar in format and structure to that of the U.S. military's and is just as good.
But the FAA disagrees, saying in its decision authored by Caitlin Locke, the FAA's acting deputy executive director of Flight Standards Service, that the "data does not sufficiently support Republic's claim that (its) program is sufficiently comparable to the training program of a military branch to warrant a reduction in flight hours."
Before the 1,500 hour rule went into effect in 2012 airlines predicted it would lead to a pilot shortage
The 1,500 hour rule went into effect in 2013 as one of several new safety regulations enacted in response to the Colgan Air plane crash that killed 50 people in Buffalo in February of 2009, even though both pilots of that regional jet had hundreds more hours of flying experience above that 1500 hour threshold.
And even before it went into effect, airlines predicted it would lead a pilot shortage . Most other countries, including those in the EU, require a minimum of just 250 flight hours for pilot certification, as the U.S. did before the Colgan crash.
At the time, critics of increasing the number of flight hours said the 1,500 hour level was arbitrary and not based on scientific data. Now the regional airlines, including Republic, blame the 1500-hour rule at least in part for what they say is a severe pilot shortage that has forced them and their mainline airline partners to cut service because they cannot staff all their flights.
The pilot shortage was already looming in the commercial aviation industry before the pandemic, but was inadvertently made worse by the airlines themselves early in the pandemic. As air travel demand plummeted more than 90%, airlines gave pilots and other employees generous early retirement packages, as well as other incentives, to leave, helping them shed payroll costs.
When air travel demand returned more quickly then expected, mainline carriers such as American, Delta and United, filled their openings by hiring pilots away from their regional airline partners, including Republic, leaving the regional airlines even more short-staffed.
Recruiting, hiring and training new pilots has been stymied by the high cost and length of time it takes prospective pilots to become eligible for commercial airline certification. Flight school and amassing the 1,500 hours of flight time necessary can take years and cost well over $100,000, and Republic argued that the high cost of obtaining the 1,500 flight hours discourages would-be-pilots who cannot afford it.
The largest pilots' union applauds the FAA's denial of Republic's request
Republic's CEO Bryan Bedford said the proposal to reduce flight training hours "would enhance safety by providing students a highly structured, mission-specific training approach" and "open the door to a rich career in aviation to any students who cannot otherwise afford to participate."
But airline pilots' unions opposed the request, arguing that reducing pilot training hours would result in inexperienced pilots and jeopardize safety.
The FAA agrees, saying Republic's new training program "would not be in the public interest or provide an equivalent level of safety" as requiring 1500 hours of flight training now does.
The Air Line Pilots Association, the largest pilots' union, applauds the FAA's denial of Republic's request.
"This decision is a huge win for aviation safety and for the flying public," said ALPA president Capt. Joe DePete. "The FAA's findings confirm what we've said all along about Republic's request––that it is not in the public interest and would adversely affect safety."
Republic CEO Beford says in a statement that the airline is "disappointed - but not surprised" that federal regulators rejected the airline's petition, saying the FAA not give it "the review and engagement it deserves."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-21T16:05:56+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022-09-21/1-airline-made-a-bid-to-reduce-flight-hours-required-for-new-pilots-faa-rejects-it |
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MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries of the Wagner Group are completing the handover of their weapons to the Russian military, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday, a move that follows the private army’s brief rebellion last month that challenged the Kremlin’s authority.
The disarming of Wagner reflects efforts by authorities to defuse the threat it posed and also appears to herald an end to the mercenary group’s operations on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The actions come amid continued uncertainty about the fate of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and the terms of a deal that ended the armed rebellion by offering amnesty for him and his mercenaries along with permission to move to Belarus.
Among the weapons turned over were more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, such as tanks, rocket launchers, heavy artillery and air defense systems, along with over 2,500 metric tons of munitions and more than 20,000 firearms, the Defense Ministry said.
The statement follows the Kremlin’s acknowledgment Monday that Prigozhin and 34 of his top officers met with President Vladimir Putin on June 29, five days after the rebellion. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wagner’s commanders pledged loyalty to Putin and that they were ready “to continue to fight for the Motherland.”
Putin has said that Wagner troops had to choose whether to sign contracts with the Defense Ministry, move to Belarus or retire from service.
The Kremlin’s confirmation that Putin met with Prigozhin, who led troops on a march to Moscow to demand the ouster of the country’s top military leaders, raised new questions about the deal that ended the rebellion.
Putin denounced the revolt as an act of treason when it started and vowed harsh punishment for those who participated in it, but the criminal case against Prigozhin was dropped hours later as part of the deal. At the same time, the Wagner chief apparently could still face prosecution for financial wrongdoing or other charges.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who brokered the deal that ended the mutiny, said last week that his country offered Wagner field camps but noted that Prigozhin was in Russia and that his troops remained at their home camps. Lukashenko noted that their deployment to Belarus would depend on decisions by Prigozhin and the Russian government.
During the revolt that lasted less than 24 hours, Prigozhin’s mercenaries quickly swept through the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and captured the military headquarters there without firing a shot before driving to within about 200 kilometers (125 miles) of Moscow. Prigozhin described it as a “march of justice” to oust the military leaders, who demanded that Wagner sign contracts with the Defense Ministry by July 1.
The mutiny faced little resistance and fighters downed at least six military helicopters and a command post aircraft, killing at least 10 airmen. When the deal was struck, Prigozhin ordered his troops to return to their camps.
The rebellion represented the biggest threat to Putin in his more than two decades in power and badly dented his authority, even though Prigozhin claimed the uprising was not aimed at the president but intended to force the ouster of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the military’s General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov.
Both men have kept their jobs. Many observers suggested that even if Putin wasn’t happy with their performance, Prigozhin’s demand for their ouster helped secure their jobs, since firing them would be seen as a concession to the Wagner boss.
At the same time, uncertainty surrounds the fate of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine who reportedly had ties to Prigozhin.
Surovikin hasn’t been seen since the rebellion began, when he posted a video urging an end to it, and two people in Washington familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly told The Associated Press in June that he has been detained. Several Russian military bloggers also said he has been detained and questioned.
Andrei Kartapolov, a retired general who heads the defense affairs committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament, said Wednesday that Surovikin was “resting” and is “not currently available,” but wouldn’t elaborate.
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Associated Press writers Tara Copp and Nomaan Merchant in Washington contributed. | 2023-07-13T14:12:06+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-russias-defense-ministry-says-wagner-mercenaries-are-surrendering-their-weapons-to-the-military/ |
Since ESPN won back the NHL rights two years ago, it has carried the All-Star Game and Stanley Cup finals on ABC. The only thing it hasn't had is an outdoor game.
That changes Saturday night when ABC has the Stadium Series contest between the Washington Capitals and Carolina Panthers from Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina.
ABC's package of Saturday games airs typically in the afternoon, but hockey gets the prime-time slot with the NBA on its All-Star break.
Mark Gross — who oversees ESPN and ABC's coverage as senior vice president, production and remote events — said they have seen notes from how TNT and NBC did their outdoor games. However, each stadium game has its flavor and identity.
"We're excited because it's a big event and it will have a big event feel with the studio team on site," Gross said. "We will also have sky cam coverage over the ice since there's nothing to block it."
Besides the sky cam, ABC will use a drone to provide additional aerial shots. Wireless mics will also be on select players and coaches in coordination with the NHL.
The start of the Saturday games on ABC on Jan. 28, and the All-Star Game the following week, marked the beginning of more games on both ABC and ESPN as things begin to build with the playoffs on the horizon in mid-April.
"Now it picks up from here," play-by-play announcer Sean McDonough said. "Then obviously, we go right into the playoffs, which are unlike anything I've ever experienced. It is a grind once we get into that, so I'm happy to come into it with some rest because once we get going, it's a whirlwind, to say the least."
McDonough is in his second season with analyst Ray Ferraro and reporter Emily Kaplan. They were named ESPN/ABC's top team after the Walt Disney Company got back the rights in 2021 with a seven-year deal.
One of the adjustments McDonough had to make going to hockey is that Ferraro is between the benches instead of next to him in the booth for most games. Ferraro, like most analysts, prefers being at ice level because it is easier to see and break down the game.
"I think stepping on each other is the greatest concern because you can't make eye contact. So I had to learn Sean's cadence, and Sean had to learn when I like to jump in," Ferraro said. "After you do it a number of times, it becomes rhythm."
Kaplan, also an online reporter for ESPN.com, said she asked about the possibility of doing rink-side reporting after ESPN regained the rights, figuring she might get a couple of games. She ended up getting added to the top team.
Kaplan said the one thing she learned from Ferraro was taking feedback from a limited circle of people.
"No one gives you a guidebook of this is what's going to happen to you, when you're suddenly thrust into a national television role. It was a lot of learning on the go," she said. "It was rewarding because I could carve my own path. I want to stay true to myself and what I thought would be best for this role."
McDonough has credited Ferraro and Kaplan for helping to navigate arenas and getting to know coaches and players.
"The comfort level is just so much higher for me this year. I thought I was following it fairly intensely as a fan, but it's a different animal when you're doing this job," McDonough said.
Ilan Ben-Hanan, ESPN's senior vice president, programming and acquisitions, said scheduling has been more favorable this season because the NHL didn't take a three-week break in February (which was made when the league thought it would be competing in the Beijing Olympics). There also haven't been games rescheduled due to COVID-19.
Ben-Hanan said there is the possibility of more Boston Bruins games being added to the schedule. The Bruins (41-8-5) are on pace to tie the NHL single-season mark of 62 wins shared by the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings and 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning.
"We feel well positioned for our schedule the rest of the way, headlined by the Boston appearances. We're embracing it, and it's easy to follow if you're a fan," he said. | 2023-02-18T04:55:49+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/espn-gets-1st-chance-to-air-hockey-stadium-series-game |
30 international women came together to write this book.
Author and Coach Jan Fraser is publishing a 7-part series on different themes, including Joy, Transformation, Gratitude. She partnered with Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul who wrote the foreword. Alaria Taylor referred me to Jan to work on “The Book on Gratitude” with 29 other international women. The Book on Gratitude and Joy Bach join us to share more. Alaria Taylor and Joy Bach join us to share more.
Find this book on Amazon or on joybach.com | 2022-12-21T18:03:36+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/shows/the-morning-blend/big-and-small-life-lessons-from-gratitude |
China’s response to the covid-19 pandemic is widely acknowledged as a costly failure: Its draconian lockdowns have made it hard for ordinary people to get food or medicine and are depressing economic growth. President Xi Jinping’s “zero covid” policy sparked the biggest protests since 1989 and finally led, on Wednesday, to an easing of testing and quarantine rules in what is an implicit admission of failure by Beijing.
It’s easy for Americans to feel cocky by comparison — particularly those Americans who opposed our much milder lockdowns. We have returned to normal life, more or less, while China is still mired in the pandemic. But this is no time for triumphalism. The United States also failed in dealing with covid. We just failed in very different ways.
The United States has the highest number of confirmed deaths from the pandemic: more than 1.1 million. By comparison, if official statistics are to be believed, just 5,235 Chinese have died of the disease. While China claims to have one of the lowest death rates in the world, the United States has one of the highest.
How did this calamity happen? There was plenty of blame to go around. In the pandemic’s early days, when little was known about it, government officials at all levels bungled the response. Former governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D), for example, required New York nursing homes to accept covid patients and then tried to cover up the resulting deaths.
But the primary problem was the populist, anti-government, anti-science dogma of President Donald Trump and so many other Republican officials and voters. Flocking to the misguided banner of “medical freedom,” they were skeptical of the need for lockdowns to “flatten the curve” in the pandemic’s early days, contemptuous of the need to wear masks, and hostile to vaccine mandates — and indeed to vaccines themselves. Covid “denialism” and anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories infected the right-wing infosphere.
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that, in September, 91 percent of Democrats were vaccinated compared to only 66 percent of Republicans. The deadly consequences of this partisan disparity were revealed in a research paper written by three Yale associate professors for the National Bureau of Economic Research. They found that death rates in Florida and Ohio among Democrats and Republicans were roughly equal before vaccines became widely available in the summer of 2021. At that point, the trend lines began to diverge. The death rate for Republicans ultimately was 76 percent higher than for Democrats.
Of the 10 states with the highest death rates, seven have Republican governors. Yet Republicans who are incensed by so many other public policy failures (e.g., undocumented immigration and urban crime) are strangely fatalistic about this deadly disaster. Gov. Ron DeSantis is a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination even though Florida’s death rate from covid is nearly 60 percent higher than California’s.
The United States has paid a tragically high price for the hostility to science and government exhibited by so many of its citizens. Those woes have been exacerbated by the decentralization in our political system. Even though we elected a president in 2020 who understood the gravity of the crisis, the federal government doesn’t have the authority to impose vaccine mandates on red states.
China has suffered from the opposite problems — the heavy-handed authoritarianism of its government and the tendency of citizens to blindly obey authority. While Americans are too distrustful of their government, Chinese are too trusting of theirs — at least until recently. This catastrophe might shake that trust.
Xi staked his reputation on the “zero covid” policy and stuck with it long after it passed its sell-by date. There were no checks and balances to stop him. Now that Xi is finally loosening restrictions, China faces the danger of a large number of covid deaths among people with no natural immunity.
China’s government made at least three critical errors. First, it did not react promptly to the initial spread of the disease in Wuhan and indeed covered up the outbreak. Second, it failed to focus vaccination efforts on the elderly — the most vulnerable population. Only about 40 percent of those over 80 have received a booster shot. Third, it did not make use of the highly effective mRNA vaccines developed by Western firms like Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The nationalistic Chinese regime has only approved domestic vaccines that are reportedly less effective — putting national pride above public health.
Both China and the United States failed the coronavirus test. The countries that got it right were the ones that followed the science by first locking down and masking up, when there was no other way to stop the spread, and then vaccinating widely to allow a safe reopening.
Australia is an example: If the United States had the same death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. Ah, you might object: Australia is an island. True, but Canada isn’t. It’s right next door to the United States and yet it has been much more successful in combating covid. If the U.S. death rate were the same as Canada’s, 418,000 lives would have been saved. Not surprisingly, both Canada and Australia also do far better than the United States in regulating guns and offering access to health care. While free countries, they are not in thrall to extreme libertarianism and populism.
One important lesson of the pandemic, then, is that extremist ideology — whether of the far right or far left — is a menace to public welfare, because it impedes a rational and empirical approach to dealing with major problems. There is no moral equivalence between China and America, but both are paying a price for ideological extremism. | 2022-12-07T21:13:32+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/07/china-zero-covid-policy-easing-protests-united-states/ |
Phoebe Bridgers shared the news of her father's death in a tribute she posted to Instagram on Tuesday.
The celebrated singer-songwriter shared a throwback photo of herself, rocking short, pink hair, listening to music through headphones alongside her late father.
"Rest in peace dad," Bridgers, 28, captioned the post. She provided no further information or details.
Bridgers has been candid about her complicated and tumultuous relationship with her father. In a profile for GQ in September 2019, Bridgers revealed that her parents got divorced when she was 20, and stated that he father had been abusive and had a "drug thing" when she was younger.
In 2020, Bridgers opened up to NPR about having a complicated relationship that she says has been a combination of her father being "emotionally unavailable, but very present in a weird way."
Famously, Bridgers' song "Kyoto" is about her dad, and her frustrations with him, as well as her uncertainty about whether or not she will eventually forgive him for his past actions. Bridgers said the song proved to be a good way to work through some challenging emotions.
"It’s nice to not feel, like, emotionally trapped all the time with stuff that you carry into your life,” she said in her interview with NPR. "Like, I think I was angry for a long time, and... the song is basically about, like, not being angry anymore."
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they’re back.
Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country.
Then they were moved to their new home: a sprawling national park in the heart of India where scientists hope the world’s fastest land animal will roam again.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the cats into their enclosure Saturday morning. The cats emerged from their cage, tentatively at first while continuously scanning their new surroundings.
“When the cheetah will run again … grasslands will be restored, biodiversity will increase and eco-tourism will get a boost,” said Modi.
Cheetahs were once widespread in India and became extinct in 1952 from hunting and loss of habitat. They remain the first and only predator to die out since India’s independence in 1947. India hopes importing African cheetahs will aid efforts to conserve the country’s threatened and largely neglected grasslands.
There are less than 7,000 adult cheetahs left in the wild globally, and they now inhabit less than 9% of their original range. Shrinking habitat, due to the increasing human population and climate change, is a huge threat and India’s grasslands and forests could offer “appropriate” homes for the big cat, said Laurie Marker, of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, an advocacy and research group assisting in bringing the cats to India.
“To save cheetahs from extinction, we need to create permanent places for them on earth,” she said.
Cheetah populations in most countries are declining. An exception to this is South Africa, where the cats have run out of space. Experts hope that Indian forests could offer these cats space to thrive. There are currently a dozen cheetahs in quarantine in South Africa, and they are expected to arrive at the Kuno National Park soon. Earlier this month, four cheetahs captured at reserves in South Africa were flown to Mozambique, where the cheetah population has drastically declined.
Some experts are more cautious.
There could be “cascading and unintended consequences” when a new animal is brought to the mix, said Mayukh Chatterjee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
For example, a tiger population boom in India has led to more conflict with people sharing the same space. With cheetahs, there are questions about how their presence would affect other carnivores like striped hyenas, or even prey like birds.
“The question remains: How well it’s done,” he said.
The initial eight cheetahs from Namibia will be quarantined at a facility in the national park and monitored for a month to make sure they’re not carrying pests. Then they will be released into a larger enclosure in the park to help them get used to their new environment. The enclosures contain natural prey — such as spotted deer and antelope, which scientists hope they’ll learn to hunt — and are designed to prevent other predators like bears or leopards from getting in.
The cheetahs will be fitted with tracking collars and released into the national park in about two months. Their movements will be tracked routinely, but for the most part, they’ll be on their own.
The reserve is big enough to hold 21 cheetahs and if they were to establish territories and breed, they could spread to other interconnected grasslands and forests that can house another dozen cheetahs, according to scientists.
There is only one village with a few hundred families still residing on the fringes of the park. Indian officials said they’d be moved soon, and any livestock loss due to cheetahs will be compensated. The project is estimated to cost $11.5 million over five years, including $6.3 million that will be paid for by state-owned Indian Oil.
The continent-to-continent relocation has been decades in the making. The cats that originally roamed India were Asiatic cheetahs, genetically distinct cousins of those that live in Africa and whose range stretched to Saudi Arabia.
India had hoped to bring in Asiatic cheetahs, but only a few dozen of these survive in Iran and that population is too vulnerable to move.
Many obstacles remain, including the presence of other predators in India like leopards that may compete with cheetahs, said conservation geneticist Pamela Burger of University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
“It would be better to conserve them now where they are than to put effort in creating new sites where the outcome is questionable,” she said.
Dr. Adrian Tordiffe, a veterinary wildlife specialist from South Africa associated with the project, said the animals need a helping hand. He added that conservation efforts in many African countries hadn’t been as successful, unlike in India where strict conservation laws have preserved big cat populations.
“We cannot sit back and hope that species like the cheetah will survive on their own without our help,” he said.
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LONDON (AP) — For many people around the world, the word corgi is forever linked to Queen Elizabeth II.
Princess Diana once called them a “moving carpet" always by her mother-in-law's side. Stubby, fluffy little dogs with a high-pitched bark, corgis were the late queen's constant companions since she was a child. She owned nearly 30 throughout her life, and they enjoyed a life of privilege fit for a royal pet.
Elizabeth’s death last week has raised public concerns over who will care for her beloved dogs. Some speculate they will be sent off to live with other royal family members, while others say this task might be given to palace staff.
“One of the intriguing things people are wondering about at the funeral is whether a corgi is going to be present,” said Robert Lacey, royal historian and author. “The queen’s best friends were corgis, these short-legged, ill tempered beasts with a yap that doesn’t appeal to many people in Britain, but was absolutely crucial to the Queen.”
Elizabeth’s love for corgis began in 1933 when her father, King George VI, brought home a Pembroke Welsh corgi they named Dookie. Images of a young Elizabeth walking the dog outside their lavish London home would be the first among many to come over the decades.
When she was 18 she was given another and named it Susan, the first in a long line of corgis to come. Later there were dorgis — a dachshund and corgi crossbreed — owned by the queen. Eventually they came to accompany her in public appearances, and became part of her persona.
Throughout Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne, the corgis were by her side, accompanying her on official tours, reportedly sleeping in their own room at Buckingham Palace with daily sheet changes, and occasionally nipping the ankles of the odd visitor or royal family member.
Three of them even appeared alongside the queen as she climbed into James Bond’s waiting helicopter in the spoof video that opened the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
British author Penny Junor documented their feisty lives in a 2018 biography “All the Queen’s Corgis.”
She writes that Elizabeth walked and fed the dogs, chose their names and when they died, buried them with individual plaques. Care for the corgis had fallen largely on the queen’s trusted dressmaker and assistant Angela Kelly and her page Paul Whybrew.
The corgis were also present when the queen welcomed visitors at the palace, including distinguished statesmen and officials. When the conversation lulled, Elizabeth would often turn her attention to her dogs to fill the silence.
“She was also concerned about what would happen to her dogs when she is no longer around,” Junor wrote, noting that some royal family members did not share her fondness for the corgis.
After the death of her corgi Willow in 2018, it was reported that the queen would not be getting anymore dogs.
But that changed during the illness of her late husband, Prince Philip, who died in 2021 at age 99. She turned once again to her beloved corgis for comfort. In the spring, on what would have been Philip's 100th birthday this year, the queen was given another dog.
In addition to her human family, Elizabeth is survived by two corgis, a dorgi, and a cocker spaniel.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Slumping Arizona Diamondbacks utilityman Josh Rojas is heading to the minors.
The Diamondbacks optioned Rojas to Triple-A Reno after Sunday's game with the Cleveland Guardians and recalled outfielder Alek Thomas from Reno on Monday.
Rojas, who turns 29 on June 30, was batting .235 with no homers and 26 RBIs in 57 games while primarily playing third base. He had an OPS of .607, down from .739 in 2022 and .752 in 2021.
Since the start of May, Rojas has batted .188.
“I think he was just a far cry from the player he was, and that’s what I explained to him,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said before Monday’s game at Milwaukee. “I said, ‘You’re going to go down, get on your feet again, hopefully get 40-60 very consistent at-bats, get some rhythm to your swing, get a feel for the game and come back up here and help us win.’ “
Lovullo said Rojas had been working on some mechanical adjustments at the plate but noted that it hadn’t paid off in his results. Rojas had made over 500 plate appearances for the Diamondbacks in 2021 and 2022.
“One thing I told him is, 'Our best team, our best 26, has you on it,’" Lovullo said. “But not at the pace, how you’re playing right now, that’s not going to help anybody. He understood. He was disappointed. He understood.”
Lovullo said Emmanuel Rivera’s progress also played a role in the decision. Rivera is batting .325 with one homer and 17 RBIs in 37 games, primarily at third base.
Thomas, 23, has batted .195 with a .252 on-base percentage, two homers and 10 RBIs in 39 games with Arizona this season but made progress after getting sent to the minors. Thomas hit .348 with a .409 on-base percentage, .518 slugging percentage, three homers and 31 RBIs in 26 games with Reno.
The Diamondbacks (43-29) lead the NL West even though Rojas, Thomas and outfielder Jake McCarthy all have spent time in the minors this season after appearing in at least 99 games for Arizona last year. McCarthy was recalled last month after an early-season slump sent him to Reno.
“If you told me that at the beginning of the year and we’d be (14) games above .500, I’d tell you you’re probably drinking too much wine, too much red wine (and) I am too,” Lovullo said. “It just goes to show you anything is possible in this game, because guys have emerged.”
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LAS VEGAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iPreg Incorporation (iPreg), an award-winning biomedical device manufacturer in the field of reproductive medicine, has developed a new and enhanced solution for infertility. The "Sperm Sorting Chip'' is expected to increase fertility rate and fill in the blind spots that come with the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, the technology was showcased at CES 2022
The research and development team at iPreg designed the "Sperm Sorting Chip'' using microfluidic technology which allows the fluid mechanics of sperm to swim in the microfluidic chip and create an environment that allows the sperms to race in the chip. This uniquely designed chip also increases the purity of healthy sperm to 90% while posing minimum damage to the DNA.
Sperm preparation by iPreg sorting chip increases the healthy sperm ratio to 90% in 15 minutes while maintaining the patient's safety as well as high recovery and efficiency. This plays an important role in assisting reproduction that speeds up the crucial stage of sperm screening in the IVF process.
With current infertility rates hanging at an average of 15% globally, IVF is believed to be the most efficient solution on the market with the ability to increase the pregnancy rate to 37.4%. On the other hand, the live birth rates of an IVF cycle with a woman's eggs at age 40-44 is down to a staggering 4.7%.
Through the many stages of fertility, from increasing the ratio of healthy sperm to the early formation of the blastocyst, the sperm sorting chip is expected to improve the success of pregnancy.
Currently, swim up and discontinuous density gradients are the most utilized in fertility clinics to select the fraction of motile spermatozoa. However, both methods have negative effects on sperm viability and can result in sperm DNA fragmentation and consequently lead to a low success rate of pregnancy in IVF therapy. Since health sperm is critical to the success of assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures, iPreg developed a novel device intended for preparing motile sperm from semen.
"iPreg aims to increase the fertility rate and provide modern day parent(s) the opportunity of building a family. With today's lifestyle, medical procedures need to be refined further to cope with the continuous change that poses an obstacle. We are looking to break barriers and provide a fighting chance to parent(s) across the globe," said Chen-Yen Chung, Chief Executive Officer of iPreg Inc.
As women's age at first childbearing increases year by year, the infertility situation is getting worse. Therefore, we believe that the research of IVF treatment urgently needs more investment in new technology. We expect that the application of iPreg chip can increase the fertilization rate and further increase the pregnancy rate of IVF. In addition, the future iPreg chip can also be extended towards tumor diagnosis, immune cell purification and animal husbandry industry, making this technology applicable to more fields.
Going global to make a change
Ever since its establishment, iPreg has been focusing on the in Vitro fertilization market and seeks to continuously improve the new generation of sperm sorting methods to help keep the fertility rate high and the infertility rate as low as possible. In the coming years, the company aims to set up footprint in Southeast Asia, North America and Europe.
iPreg Incorporation will be showcasing its technology at the Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) Pavilion at Eureka Park, Venetian Expo 1F (Former Sands expo), booth no: 61423.
For more information, visit https://www.ipreginc.com/.
About iPreg Incorporation
Founded by Dr. CY Chung, who holds a Ph.D. in Immunology, in 2018. iPreg Incorporation is a biomedical device manufacturer focusing on reproductive medicine. The newly invented iPreg sperm sorting chip helps facilitate the IVF process in the key step of sperm screening and to further improve the success rate of assisted reproduction. iPreg Incorporation and the sperm sorting chip have won several awards in Taiwan including the 2020 Global Hack Startup, 17th National Innovation Award and the 2020 From IP to IPR Program.
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Man shot roommate in fight over Hot Pocket, police say
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) - A Kentucky man is facing charges after police say he shot his roommate for eating the last Hot Pocket.
Clifton E. Williams, 64, of Louisville, was arrested on one count of assault. Police say Williams got mad Saturday night because his roommate had eaten the last Hot Pocket. He allegedly started throwing tiles at his roommate.
The roommate told police he tried to fight back but was starting to leave when Williams went back into their home, got a gun and shot him in the backside, WAVE reports.
The victim said he went several blocks away to get help.
Williams was arraigned Monday. A not guilty plea was entered, and bond was set at $7,500 cash. He was ordered to have no contact with his roommate and not to possess a firearm or any other weapons.
Williams’ next court was set for May 30.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County judge on Friday gave Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos a second chance to produce requested records involving the investigation of the 2020 election result in Wisconsin.
The order was in response to a lawsuit by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight seeking documents related to the partisan investigation by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. At one point Vos produced 1,400 pages from a time period outside the request, which led Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn to conclude he didn't search for them in the first place.
Bailey-Rihn ordered Vos to come up with the documents within 20 days and ordered the Rochester Republican to pay statutory and attorney fees to American Oversight. However, the judge denied the group's request for punitive damages against Vos, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
“In sum, ‘that (Vos) was wrong does not justify punitive damages,’” Bailey-Rihn wrote. “Here, the records could still exist and be produced if they were properly searched for by the Respondent.”
American Oversight has filed four lawsuits against Gableman, Vos and the state Assembly related to the GOP-ordered review of the 2020 election.
“It’s ironic that Vos claimed an investigation was necessary to instill confidence in the election outcome, but then has done everything in his power to prevent Wisconsinites from learning the whole truth,” American Oversight senior adviser Melanie Sloan said. | 2022-07-16T15:35:02+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Judge-says-Vos-must-produce-requested-election-17309433.php |
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – With these rising temperatures and the upcoming holiday weekend, many people will be looking to cool off.
Drowning is not only swift but silent and it’s the leading cause of unintentional injury or death in the state of Massachusetts among children ages one to 14.
A trip to the beach, lake or pool is the quintessential summertime activity. However a drowning can happen in just seconds, but being prepared can mean the difference between life and death.
Kerry Cordis, Aquatics Director, Holyoke YMCA told 22News, “It’s always good to be prepared to bring coast guard approved devices especially if you have non swimmers with you, pay attention if there’s a lifeguard on staff or not, also look at if there are red flags. flags often mean that there a reason to be cautious.”
Being clear about who is watching the swimmers is also essential.
She continued to say, “It’s so easy for everyone to assume someone else is watching and that’s when accidents happen.”
Moms here enjoying the water at Hampden Ponds agree.
Never take your eyes off them – as much as you possibly can. Ummm you never know what’s going to happen and water can be quickly overwhelming especially if you are a little one.
Virginia Williams, Virginia
Some things to keep in mind if you are headed out to enjoy the water are number one always look for a lifeguard, number two have a designated water watcher and number three never swim alone.
Staying in the area designated for swimming ensures that lifeguards are watching you more closely. Cordis added that imparting the importance of swimming safety to you children is an important step in keeping everyone safe.
So like usually I don’t go like deeper than I can swim…in range of my parents like they can see me.
Cooper Steglinski, West Springfield
Remember it’s also never too late to learn how to swim.
The Holyoke YMCA is just one of many local organizations that have adult swimming lessons. | 2022-06-29T23:33:16+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/what-to-keep-in-mind-when-swimming-this-4th-of-july-weekend/ |
LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. ("Stronghold" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: SDIG) for violations of the federal securities laws.
Investors who purchased the Company's shares pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted in October 2021 (the "IPO"), are encouraged to contact the firm before June 13, 2022.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2460, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 310-301-3335, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at bschall@schallfirm.com.
The class, in this case, has not yet been certified, and until certification occurs, you are not represented by an attorney. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member.
According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Stronghold's suppliers, including MinerVa, were not likely to meet delivery deadlines and quantities. The Company was likely to experience trouble obtaining miners beyond its confirmed purchase orders due to strong market demand. The Company was likely to face significant headwinds in expanding its mining operations. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements were false and materially misleading throughout the IPO period. When the market learned the truth about Stronghold, investors suffered damages.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the consumer and retail industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Announcing Mill: A new way to outsmart waste
Every member receives a Mill kitchen bin that dries, shrinks and de-stinks your kitchen scraps overnight, turning them into nutrient-rich Food Grounds. Once your bin is full – which takes a few weeks – schedule a pickup for your Food Grounds in the Mill app and send them back to us. - PetSmart Searches for First-Ever 'Chief Toy Testers,' Offering $20,000 to the Pawsitively Purrfect New Team Members
PetSmart is on the search for one dog and one cat to fulfill the very important role of Chief Toy Tester. The requirements? Vast experience in play, a knack for toy testing and an advanced palate for sampling an array of culinary treats. - buybuy BABY® Reimagines the Classics with Exclusive New Brand: ever & ever™
An exclusive collection of high-quality, long-lasting apparel, bedding, furniture and more, ever & ever reflects a modern interpretation of classic styles for everyday play, inspired by the sweetness of early childhood. - John Legend Announces Loved01 - Affordable Skincare for Melanin-Rich Skin
"We hope to help democratize the beauty space by offering high-quality products at an accessible price point. Everyone deserves to be seen, represented and provided with the tools to love themselves, starting with healthy skin," says John Legend. - Uber Eats and Visa Partner for Greener Restaurant Packaging
Together, the two companies will make $1 million accessible to qualifying Uber Eats restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Madrid to be used towards funding sustainable packaging solutions to help transition to a greener future. - Barilla® Celebrates the Season of Love with New Limited-Edition Barilla "Love" Pasta
Nothing says "I love you" like a delicious bowl of pasta! The heart-shaped pasta cut will be offered as a sweepstakes prize, with one lucky fan also receiving a grand prize trip for two to Italy. - Lennox Industries Introduces Groundbreaking Smart Home Innovation
The Lennox S40 Smart Thermostat and accessories go beyond "smart" to ensure the most perfect air and peace of mind for homeowners by detecting air pollutants, customizing comfort by room, providing maintenance reminders and service alerts, and more. - International Icon Dolly Parton Expands Lineup of Her Popular Duncan Hines' Baking Mixes "I'm really excited to launch more baking mixes steeped in my Southern roots, like Cornbread and Biscuits. I think folks are really going to like them and hope they'll bake up some special memories with family and friends," said Dolly Parton.
- Web3 Fashion Platform, SYKY, Closes $9.5M Series A Funding Round, Led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six
SYKY is building the future of fashion with a blockchain-enabled luxury platform that will serve as an incubator, marketplace and social community for the next generation of designers and consumers. - Post Consumer Brands Collaborates with Disney to Launch New Cereal Offerings in Celebration of Disney 100 Years of Wonder
As a staple at the breakfast table, Post worked together with Disney to create a one-of-a-kind themed fruity cereal, a new-to-market confetti cake flavored cereal and a special edition collector's cereal item. - The One Where BRACH'S® Introduces Limited-Edition FRIENDS Conversation Hearts for Valentine's Day
With messages featuring 26 iconic FRIENDS quotes and references – such as "UR MY LBSTR," "MOO POINT," and, of course, "ON A BREAK" – these treats offer an easy way to spark connection and conversation amongst "friends" this season.
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SAN ANTONIO, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant to Section 9-610 of the Uniform Commercial Code, GemCap Solutions, LLC, as servicer and attorney-in-fact for secured party GemCap Holdings, LLC (the "Secured Party") will hold a secured party public sale to the highest and best bidder for cash, with reserve, to be conducted telephonically by the Secured Party on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (the "Public Sale"). Qualified Bidders (defined below) may attend the Public Sale telephonically.
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the security interest held by the Secured Party in and to substantially all of the personal property assets of VOSGES HAUT-CHOCOLAT LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, VOSGES HOLDINGS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and VOSGES IP, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, jointly and severally (the "Borrower") and VOSGES HOLDINGS, INC, an Illinois corporation (the "Guarantor"), including, without limitation, (i) inventory ("Inventory"), (ii) accounts receivable ("Accounts Receivable"), (iii) certain machinery and equipment owned by the Borrower all as set forth on the schedule prepared by Secured Party (collectively, the "FF&E"), (iv) the following trademarks and trade names: "Vosges", "Vosges Haut- Chocolat", "Chocolate Meditation", "Vosges Cacao Elixirs", "Wild Ophelia", "Lady Boss", "Boss Lady", "Lab: Katrina Markoff", "Super Dark"; the following domain names: vosgeschocolate.com; the Borrower's recipes; and the Borrower's customer list (collectively, the "Intellectual Property"), and (v) trade fixtures ("Trade Fixtures"). The Inventory, Accounts Receivable, FF&E, Intellectual Property, and Trade Fixtures are collectively referred to as the "Public Sale Collateral".
The Secured Party is conducting the Public Sale to foreclose the lien and security interest held by the Secured Party in and to the Public Sale Collateral. At the Public Sale, all of Borrower's right, title and interest in and to the Public Sale Collateral will be sold "as is" and "where is" and the Secured Party shall make no representation or warranty, either express or implied, relating to title, use, quiet enjoyment, possession, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, completeness, condition or the like, all of which are hereby disclaimed, in the sale or disposition of the Public Sale Collateral. In addition, the Public Sale Collateral is being sold (i) free and clear of Secured Party's liens and any subordinate security interests, and (ii) without recourse to Secured Party, its attorneys and representatives. The Public Sale of the Public Sale Collateral, if made, shall be to the highest and best bidder.
In order to participate in the bidding process, each person or entity (a "Potential Bidder") must deliver to the undersigned (i) an executed confidentiality agreement in form and substance acceptable to Secured Party, (ii) current financial statements of the Potential Bidder or other evidence acceptable to Secured Party that will show the financial ability of the Potential Bidder to purchase the Public Sale Collateral, (iii) a completed and executed Asset Purchase Agreement in the form provided by Secured Party, and (iv) a deposit in an amount equal to ten percent of the bid amount which will be held in escrow by Secured Party. A Potential Bidder that complies with the foregoing requirements shall be deemed a "Qualified Bidder". Those Qualified Bidders participating at the Public Sale shall be provided with the telephone number and passcode to attend the Public Sale and shall be given the opportunity to bid on a competitive basis.
At the Public Sale, each of the Inventory, Accounts Receivable, FF&E, the Intellectual Property, and the Trade Fixtures may be offered for sale in separate lots or in combination lots and the Public Sale Collateral will be offered as a single lot. At the conclusion of the Public Sale, the successful bidder(s) must pay the final bid amount in full by a wire transfer of funds to the Secured Party. The Secured Party reserves the right to credit bid on any or all of the Public Sale Collateral at the Public Sale. The Secured Party reserves the right to reject all bids, adjourn or cancel the Public Sale.
For further details regarding the Public Sale Collateral, obtaining the confidentiality agreement and the form asset purchase agreement, and information regarding the Public Sale, you may contact either Michael Berens, Esq. by email at mberens@gmail.com or by telephone at (530) 304-6922 or David Ellis by email at dellis@gemcapsolutions.com or by telephone at (310) 494-1437.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. – Global ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s said Tuesday it supports a plan to unionize by the workers at a retail shop in the same city where the brand, known as much for its social activism as its products, was founded.
Ben & Jerry's said, in a statement, it shares “the goal of advancing justice, both inside and outside our company.” The ice cream manufacturer was founded in a former gas station a short distance from its retail shop in downtown Burlington, Vermont.
“That’s why we recognize and support the rights of all workers to unionize and collectively bargain,” the company said. "Ben & Jerry’s is committed to the goal of operating our company in a way that is fair, inclusive, and equitable, while being a dynamic and fun place for all workers."
About 40 employees at the Burlington shop said Monday they had formed an organizing committee and petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election. They said they have the support of the upstate New York & Vermont chapter of Workers United , the union that started the Starbucks unionization campaign in Buffalo, New York.
“I think the statement is a great sign,” Workers United organizing director Jaz Brisack, who covers upstate New York and Vermont, said Tuesday after seeing Ben & Jerry's statement.
Brisack said they were hopeful Ben & Jerry's would partner with the workers in forming the union.
A union organizer who works at the Ben & Jerry’s store in downtown Burlington, Vermont, said most of the workers are local college or high school students and don’t know how to advocate for themselves and she felt they didn’t realize they were being exploited.
“I wouldn’t say that was necessarily (the) intention of management by any means, but it’s definitely a consequence of just working with a younger staff and not knowing how to advocate for them appropriately,” said Rebeka Mendelsohn, 22, a senior at the University of Vermont.
The Acton, Massachusetts, native likes working at the ice cream shop near where Ben & Jerry's was founded. One issue she wants addressed is training to help the staff cope with customers' mental health crises and respond to other critical incidents when managers aren't around.
The so-called scoopers submitted the petition needed to hold a union election to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday. Brisack hoped the election would be held soon.
Mendelsohn said she would support union efforts at other Ben & Jerry's locations, especially the factory and retail shop in Waterbury, Vermont.
“I would love to see all Vermont Ben and Jerry’s unionized, if not far beyond that,” she said. “I definitely hope that this can be a catalyst event because I think it’s a really logical next step and being like a socially conscious company.”
The company says its products are distributed in 35 countries.
Founded in 1978, but currently owned by consumer goods conglomerate Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s has not shied away from social causes. While many businesses tread lightly in politics for fear of alienating customers, the ice cream maker, which sells its products across the world, has taken the opposite approach, often espousing progressive causes. | 2023-04-19T04:35:43+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2023/04/18/ben-jerrys-supports-vermont-workers-unionization-drive/ |
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Kick off the fall concert season by entering to win a pair of tickets to see the Colorado Symphony on September 16. Peter Oundjian conducts the Colorado Symphony in its 2022-2023 season opener with international piano sensation Jon Kimura Parker, renowned for his performances of George Gershwin's beloved "Rhapsody in Blue."
CPR Classical would like to help you be there for this concert that also features "The Symphonic Dances" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, William Grant Still's "Poem" and "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by John Adams. Enter to win a pair of tickets to the evening performance on Friday, September 16 below. We will contact you on Tuesday, 9/6 by email if you're the winner.
See sweepstakes rules here. | 2022-08-29T20:13:50+00:00 | cpr.org | https://www.cpr.org/2022/08/29/win-tickets-to-see-gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue-with-the-colorado-symphony/ |
Saints Odds to Make Playoffs and Win Super Bowl
Published: Jul. 8, 2023 at 4:19 AM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
Right now the New Orleans Saints have been given +3000 odds of winning the Super Bowl.
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Saints Super Bowl Odds
- Odds to Win the NFC South: +125
- Odds to Win the Super Bowl: +3000
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New Orleans Betting Insights
- New Orleans went 6-10-0 ATS last season.
- Last season, six Saints games went over the point total.
- Defensively, New Orleans was a top-five unit last season, ranking fifth-best by surrendering only 314.8 yards per game. It ranked 19th on offense (333.8 yards per game).
- The Saints picked up four wins at home last year and three on the road.
- New Orleans won two games as the underdog (2-8) and went 4-2 as the favorite last season.
- The Saints were 5-7 in the NFC, including 2-4 in the NFC South.
Saints Impact Players
- Derek Carr passed for 3,522 yards (234.8 per game), completing 60.8% of his throws, with 24 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 15 games for the Raiders last year.
- On the ground with the Lions last season, Jamaal Williams scored 17 touchdowns and accumulated 1,066 yards (62.7 per game).
- On the ground, Alvin Kamara scored two touchdowns a season ago and picked up 897 yards (59.8 per game).
- In the passing game, Taysom Hill scored two TDs, hauling in nine balls for 77 yards (4.8 per game).
- On defense last year, Demario Davis helped lead the charge with one interception to go with 109 tackles, 9.0 TFL, 6.5 sacks, and six passes defended in 17 games.
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – The CEO of Anheuser-Busch has responded to backlash and calls to boycott Bud Light over the brand’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
CEO Brendan Whitworth said the company “never meant to be part of a discussion that divides people” in a lengthy statement published to Anheuser-Busch’s social media accounts on Friday.
“As the CEO of a company founded in America’s heartland more than 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew,” Whitworth wrote, adding that Anheuser-Busch has “a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.”
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” the statement continued. “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.
Whitworth did not specifically make mention of Dylan Mulvaney, the trans activist and influencer recently featured in advertisements and on cans of Budweiser as part of a partnership with Anheuser-Busch.
Pushback from conservative consumers came earlier this month, after Mulvaney shared a sponsored post promoting Bud Light’s March Madness contest.
Kid Rock, in an apparent response to the partnership, shared a video of himself wearing a MAGA cap and shooting at cases of Bud Light before saying, “F— Bud Light, and f— Anheuser-Busch.” Country music singer Travis Tritt also announced a ban of Anheuser-Busch products from his tour.
Mulvaney eventually responded to the controversy on an episode of Rosie O’Donnell’s podcast, calling herself an “easy target,” The Hill reported.
“I think going after a trans woman who has been doing this for 20 years is a lot more difficult,” she said.
Whitworth, in Friday’s statement, added that Anheuser-Busch will continue to place importance on “the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another.”
“I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners,” Whitworth said. | 2023-04-15T21:07:55+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/anheuser-busch-ceo-releases-statement-amid-bud-light-controversy/ |
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) ruled out a 2024 Senate bid Tuesday, depriving Republicans of a candidate with a proven record of winning statewide elections in the Old Line State.
Hogan was at the top of the GOP’s list of preferred candidates after Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) announced on Monday that he would not be seeking reelection next year. But Hogan says it’s not happening.
“I’m getting a lot of calls about that,” Hogan told NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on “The Hill.”
“I’m getting called by senators, and donors, and I’m getting lots of inquiries from the media, but the thing that surprised me the most was that my wife said, ‘Why don’t you run for the Senate?'”
“I told her she was crazy,” he said. “I mean, I didn’t have any interest in being a senator.”
“The Senate is an entirely different job,” Hogan said. “You’re one of 100 people arguing all day. Not a lot gets done in the Senate, and most former governors that I know that go into the Senate aren’t thrilled with the job.
Hogan went on to say that theoretically he could win the race, but that it would be tough.
“In a presidential year, it makes it even more difficult,” he said. “But it’s not something I’m pursuing.”
Cardin’s announcement that he will not seek reelection opens up Maryland’s Senate seat for next year’s election. Over the last 40 years, only five people have represented Maryland in the Senate, with Democrats John Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski having served for 30 years each.
It’s a difficult race for the GOP in a presidential election year, when Maryland is a reliably blue state.
But Hogan, a centrist governor who frequently criticized former President Trump, would have been a formidable candidate.
Democratic sources indicated to The Hill on Monday on that three possible candidates in their party lead the pack of contenders to replace Cardin: Reps. David Trone (D-Md.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D). | 2023-05-03T02:34:27+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/hill-politics/larry-hogan-rules-out-maryland-senate-bid-dishing-blow-to-gop/ |
New routes have opened up for getting aid to rebel parts of Syria damaged by last week's earthquake — but thousands need help.
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New routes have opened up for getting aid to rebel parts of Syria damaged by last week's earthquake — but thousands need help.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-15T00:09:29+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-02-14/new-routes-are-allowing-earthquake-aid-to-reach-rebel-parts-of-syria |
In today’s Finding Faith with Randy Ollis segment, Stephanie Denson, founder and lead organizer of Spirit & Space, joined us to share the mission of Spirit & Space.
With her business, she aims to serve as a bridge to help others achieve their goals, find the resources they need and create a space that lifts their spirit.
Here’s more from her:
I find joy in creating order.
I’ve always had fun organizing my space and creating a home — setting up, rearranging, reorganizing, cleaning out, and creating organizational systems. I’m a list-maker and a “can-do” organizer who is known for planning, being productive, and accomplishing goals. I want to use my well-honed skills to help others, applying my organizing expertise to help people find solutions to the organization challenges in their homes.
I feel called to be a bridge, nurturing connections between people. I applied those skills for 10 years in education and spent two decades working in human resources, facilitating connections between people and opportunities. With Spirit & Space I want to serve as a bridge to help others achieve their goals, find the resources they need, and create a space that lifts their spirit.
I am a proud member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, and have utilized their programs and other resources to strengthen my skills and expertise.
For more information, click here. | 2022-05-25T20:38:43+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/lifestylelive/finding-faith-with-randy-ollis-creating-a-space-that-lifts-your-spirit/ |
PhotoFest: Kelly Walsh Trojan Invite Track Meet
The track season is starting to gain some traction with the weather improving even though it was a bit breezy for the Kelly Walsh Trojan Invite in Casper on Thursday. Sheridan's Addie Pendergast is maybe the state's finest female track athlete and posted a time of 23.58 in the 200 meters. That clocking beat the existing overall state record set by Jerayah Davis from Kelly Walsh back in 2013. State records can only be broken at the state meet but that was a superlative effort by Pendergast. She also won the 300-meter hurdles. In the team standings, Natrona placed 1st on the girls' side with 172 points, Sheridan was 2nd with 148 and Kelly Walsh took 3rd with 130. The Natrona boys dominated the meet with 275.5 points, Sheridan too 2nd with 89.5, and Kelly Walsh was 3rd with 84. Here's a rundown of the individual winners.
Girls:
100 Meters: Ashlyn Mundell-Elite Solutions Academy 12.06
200 Meters: Addie Pendergast-Sheridan 23.58
400 Meters: Lily Nichols-Wheatland 1.01.07
800 Meters: Ally Wheeler-Natrona 2.32.48
1600 Meters: Ally Wheeler-Natrona 5.34.07
3200 Meters: Cierra Daniels-Natrona 13.25.90
100 Hurdles: Jordan Kroeger-Kelly Walsh 15.82
300 Hurdles: Addie Pendergast-Sheridan 46.86
4x100 Relay: Natrona 51.4
4x400 Relay: Natrona 4.12.25
4x800 Relay: Natrona 10.37.69
1600 Medley: Natrona 4.20.79
High Jump: Vinae Buford-Stillman-Thunder Basin 4-11
Long Jump: Maddy Buford-Kelly Walsh 18-10.5
Triple Jump: Callista Roush-Sheridan 35-1.25
Pole Vault: Lily Charest-Sheridan 11-0
Discus: Jaylynn Morgan-Sheridan 119-10
Shot-Put: Josie Ankeny-Sheridan 40-10
Boys:
100 Meters: Brendan Flock-Torrington 10.67
200 Meters: Breckin McClintock-Natrona 22.64
400 Meters: Brendan Flock-Torrington 50.4
800 Meters: Ayden Loya-Torrington 2.08.16
1600 Meters: Jackson Dutcher-Natrona 4.39.41
3200 Meters: Kaden Chatfield-Riverton 4.29.41
110 Hurdles: Mason Weickum-Natrona 15.14
300 Hurdles: Cameron Perez-Sheridan 40.85
4x100 Relay: Natrona 43.85
4x400 Relay: Natrona 3.24.04
4x800 Relay: Natrona 8.18.45
1600 Medley: Natrona 4.20.79
High Jump: Kaiden Lee-Natrona 6-2
Long Jump: Landon Walker-Kelly Walsh 21-2.75
Triple Jump: Mayson Storeim-Natrona 41-.3.25
Pole Vault: Kavin Hoff-Natrona 14-7
Discus: Tyler Bennick-Torrington 143-7
Shot Put: Tyler Bennick-Torrington 51-11.5
We also have a large collection of photos from the meet courtesy of Shannon Dutcher and Libby Ngo. Plus a video of some of the proceedings on Thursday in Casper. Enjoy! | 2023-04-14T16:17:24+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/photofest-kelly-walsh-trojan-invite-track-meet/ |
I know that many will go to our voting places with greedy minds focused on our pocket books. High food and gas prices dominate our thoughts. There is plenty to blame; Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Joe Biden’s choice to shut down the Canadian pipe line and Donald Trump’s choice of Jerome Powell as Fed chairman. All of these play significant roles on current inflationary conditions.
The Inflationary Control Act was an attempt by the Democrats to improve conditions for the average person. Why didn’t the Republicans put forth their plan; another big tax break for billionaires and big corporations? Imagine how much better it could be having a discussion about whose plan is better.
There are other issues that deserve higher levels of attention. The recent school shooting in St. Louis reminds us of the gun safety problem in our country. Should and can we continue to ignore the pain that gun violence causes? Is it selfish for me to regard my right to own such powerful assault rifles without regard?
Is it prudent to take women’s rights from them? Can we no longer trust women to make decisions regarding their own health? Have they so abused that right during the past fifty years? If we think it’s prudent to deny women these rights, maybe the same should be applied to gun owners.
How many more election cycles can we go on believing that climate change is not happening? Living in Central Illinois guards us from some of the obvious impacts of global warming, however, we need to be aware of the secondary effects, which intensify each year.
Republican strategy for the past two years is obvious, prolong the misery to win on election day. This hasn’t been in our best interest. Let’s not reward, let’s redirect their hurtful behavior.
Roger Hellman, Bloomington | 2022-10-30T03:38:23+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/letters/letter-let-s-redirect-hurtful-behavior/article_98c54cf4-56c0-11ed-8efc-efd11299ca11.html |
LIVE OAK
Santa Cruz Garden Exchange before and after exchange
Join fellow gardeners for the free monthly Santa Cruz Garden Exchange at 9 a.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange parking lot, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. Come burn some calories before and after the holidays exchanging plants, seeds and more. Gardeners are encouraged to bring their extra volunteers, cuttings, seeds, bulbs, succulents, houseplants, veggies, fresh flowers, informational material or any garden-related items to trade within our garden community. You do not need to bring something in order to receive something.
For questions, call 831-515-7162 or email santacruzgardenexchange@gmail.com.
SANTA CRUZ
Beginner Fruit Growing Workshop held
A getting started with fruit trees workshop is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 7 at the Alan Chadwick Garden, 239 McLaughlin Dr., Santa Cruz.
Learn how to select, plant, grow and manage healthy, productive deciduous fruit trees organically with instructor Orin Martin, manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden and author of Fruit Trees for Every Garden.
Planting a fruit tree should be a considered act, and yet it’s common for people to simply grab a tree, grab a spade, dig a hole and plant the tree. Most mistakes made with fruit trees are a result of poor, or even no planning.
In this workshop, we will review the “prerequisites” required for healthy trees. After going over these basics, we will walk to the orchard for a hands-on demonstration that covers installation and maintenance considerations.
For information and registration, visit calendar.ucsc.edu.
SANTA CRUZ
First Saturday tours are back with something new
UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden reinstates First Saturday Tours and adds a soaringly popular Birds & Blooms Tour. First Saturday tours are held at 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of each month. Birds & Blooms will be held at 9:15 a.m. Thursday mornings and the third Saturday of the month.
Meet your tour guide(s) at the entrance to the visitor parking lot (top of the hill after you enter the Arboretum.) Walks will be about one hour. Tours will not be held if the weather is unsuitable.
Admission: $10 per person and members are free. For directions and information, visit arboretum.ucsc.edu.
APTOS
Take self-guided tour of enchanted bamboo forest
Take a self-guided tour from 5-9 p.m. Saturday at the Bamboo Giant Nursery and Gardens, 5601 Freedom Blvd., Aptos. Stroll through the Illuminated bamboo enchanted forest with friends and family. This evening walk is perfect for families and individuals of all ages. Similar to the classic corn maze, each participant will receive a map of the grounds and an event card to fill out with rubber ink stamps from stations hidden away within the bamboo forest. Can you find them all?
Tickets can be purchased individually or in groups. Tickets will only be sold online. No tickets will be sold at the door. For tickets visit, tinyurl.com/wb9uspwm.
CAPITOLA
Breath & Oneness Wellness hosts workshop
Attend the Magic of Cultivating Transformative Mushrooms & Micro Dosing workshop located at Breath & Oneness Wellness Studio. 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola. Multiple dates and times available. Learn the magic of cultivating transformative mushrooms. Gain the do-it-yourself know-how on micro dosing. In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to cultivate transformational mushrooms on your own (ie. home-based cultivation) with wellness intention. Seating limited to the first 25 registrants. Must be age 18 or older to attend. For information, visit tinyurl.com/2p9wfrtx.
The Garden Digest is compiled by Jesselyn Rego. To submit items for the calendar including events, meetings, resources, or anything garden related, email sentinelhomeandgarden@gmail.com. | 2022-12-22T22:54:48+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/12/22/home-garden-digest-112/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safehold, Inc. (NYSE: SAFE), the creator and leader of the modern ground lease industry, has closed on a $31.0 million ground lease to facilitate the ground-up development of Wilder, a 196-unit multifamily project approximately two miles west of Downtown Denver. The Qualified Opportunity Zone project will be developed by The Max Collaborative, an Ohio based firm led by members of the Max Ratner family.
"We are excited to grow our presence in Denver and expand our relationship with a top tier sponsor in The Max Collaborative," said Executive Vice President Steve Wylder. "We are finding that our ground lease structure works quite well for opportunity zone projects and are pleased to be part of such a high-quality development as we continue to scale our Safehold platform across the country."
The transaction marks the third between Safehold and The Max Collaborative over the last 12 months, all ground-up multifamily developments. Through September 30th, Safehold originated in excess of $1.3 billion of ground lease investments year to date.
About Safehold:
Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) is revolutionizing real estate ownership by providing a new and better way for owners to unlock the value of the land beneath their buildings. Having created the modern ground lease industry in 2017, Safehold continues to help owners of high quality multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, life science and mixed-use properties generate higher returns with less risk. The Company, which is taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is managed by its largest shareholder, iStar Inc., seeks to deliver safe, growing income and long-term capital appreciation to its shareholders. Additional information on Safehold is available on its website at www.safeholdinc.com.
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SOURCE Safehold | 2022-11-07T21:26:54+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/11/07/safehold-closes-310-million-ground-lease-sixth-transaction-denver-colorado/ |
3 friends found dead in Airbnb while vacationing in Mexico
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WTKR) - Two Virginia families are searching for answers as they mourn the deaths of their loved ones, who were found dead in a vacation rental property in Mexico along with a third friend.
Kandace Florence and Jordan Marshall, both 28, grew up together in Virginia Beach as best friends and graduates of Kellam High School. The two were on vacation in Mexico City with another friend, Courtez Hall. Both he and Jordan Marshall were teachers in New Orleans.
But their families say all three were found dead inside their Airbnb, word spreading on social media on Halloween.
“I saw my brother’s name and I read it. My heart sank, and the hardest thing was to break the news to my mom,” said Jordan Marshall’s sister, Jasmine Marshall.
“My son called me… He had to tell me three times: ‘Kandace is no longer with us. Kandace is no longer with us. Kandace’ – and I just lost it,” said Kandace Florence’s mother, Frieda Florence.
Members of both families went to Mexico to try and get answers but say it’s been a difficult process. The families say Mexican authorities haven’t said how the three died, one of many unanswered questions they have.
“Possibly suffocation from carbon monoxide, but we’re not 100% sure. We don’t have any documents from her autopsy that was conducted a day or two after her death,” said Kandace Florence’s father, Kelvin Florence.
The Marshall family says Jordan’s body just returned home to Virginia, and the Florence family says Kandace’s body will be returned soon. Instead of her 29th birthday celebration on Thursday, they’ll have a candlelight vigil.
“It is harrowing. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody,” Frieda Florence said.
As they await answers, the Marshall and Florence families are taking comfort in knowing that their loved ones made a difference in the lives of others.
“Hearing from his students, telling us how much they loved him and how much he meant to them, that’s made us made us feel great and so proud of him,” Jasmine Marshall said.
“She wanted to do big things in life. I fathered from afar, and I stood back and observed my daughter and saw the things she was doing. And she was on her way,” Kelvin Florence said.
The U.S. Department of State confirmed the deaths of three Americans in Mexico and said it is closely monitoring the investigation into their causes of death.
Copyright 2022 WTKR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-09T09:27:21+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/11/09/3-friends-found-dead-airbnb-while-vacationing-mexico/ |
A new Cole Swindell track is dropping Friday
Get ready for new Cole Swindell music. The country star has shared on Instagram that a brand new song, “Broken,” is dropping March 17.
While not much is revealed about the track, Cole teased a clip of the chorus, which goes, “‘Cause your heart wasn’t made to be broken/ Wasn’t meant to be in pieces/ It was made to be loved on by someone who’d never leave it/ Wasn’t made to be left out in the middle of the pouring rain/ I know you been there but girl this ain’t yesterday/ And I’m going to show ya/ That baby your heart wasn’t made to be broken/ Wasn’t made to be broken.”
“Broken” will be the latest preview of Cole’s forthcoming deluxe album, Stereotype Broken. Arriving on April 28, the 17-song record will include his current single, “Drinkaby,” as well as his latest hit, “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.”
Copyright © 2023, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-17T02:24:48+00:00 | klll.com | https://www.klll.com/a-new-cole-swindell-track-is-dropping-friday/ |
TX Norman OK Zone Forecast for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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National Weather Service Norman OK
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
TXZ086-252100-
Wichita-
Including the cities of Sheppard AFB and Wichita Falls
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ083-252100-
Hardeman-
Including the city of Quanah
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
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TXZ084-252100-
Foard-
Including the city of Crowell
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
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TXZ087-252100-
Knox-
Including the cities of Munday and Knox City
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the mid
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
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TXZ085-252100-
Wilbarger-
Including the city of Vernon
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 90.
Lows around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ088-252100-
Baylor-
Including the city of Seymour
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s.
Lows around 70. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ089-252100-
Archer-
Including the cities of Archer City, Holliday, Lakeside City,
and Scotland
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Lows in the lower
70s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ090-252100-
Clay-
Including the city of Henrietta
301 AM CDT Thu Aug 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-25T08:55:57+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/TX-Norman-OK-Zone-Forecast-17396953.php |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will not testify in his upcoming impeachment trial that could result in the Republican being permanently removed from office, according to his defense team.
In a lengthy statement released Monday night, Paxton’s lead attorney against criticized the proceedings that led to the GOP-controlled Texas House impeaching the state’s top law enforcement in May.
The trial in the Texas Senate is scheduled to begin Sept. 5.
“‘They had the opportunity to have Attorney General Paxton testify during their sham investigation but refused to do so,” attorney Tony Buzbee said in a statement. “We will not bow to their evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power in the Senate chamber.”
A spokesman for the House managers leading the impeachment did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
Paxton, a Republican, is temporarily suspended from office pending the outcome of his trial on 20 articles of impeachment that include charges of bribery and abuse of office. Separately, he is under FBI investigation over accusations that he used his power to help a donor. That donor was indicted in a federal court in Austin last month on charges of making false statements to banks.
Paxton is also still awaiting trial on felony securities fraud charges from 2015. He has pleaded not guilty and has never been given a deposition in the case’s eight-year history, according to impeachment managers. | 2023-07-05T14:17:24+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-us-news/ap-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-will-not-testify-at-his-impeachment-trial-attorney-says/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Music is about to cross a huge milestone, offering its eye-and-ear-popping 100 millionth song on the streaming service.
The music giant tells The Associated Press that internal data indicates Apple Music will reach the heady mark on Monday. Every day, 20,000 singers and songwriters release music on the service.
“It’s a huge, huge number,” Rachel Newman, Apple’s global head of editorial and content, told the AP. “It really is possible to create music and record it and release it more than ever before in the history of music, which we think is pretty incredible.”
Apple Music says the milestone cements it as the world’s largest catalog of music, more than YouTube Music’s 80 million songs, Spotify’s 82 million tracks and podcasts, and Amazon Music’s 90 million songs.
While the actual song that brings Apple Music across the threshold won’t be known, there’s a good chance it will not originate from the U.S. or even be in English as the service sees more and more music arrive from all over the world.
When iTunes was launched, the service had music in 200 languages and dialects, with half of the content in English. Now, 40% of Apple Music’s offerings are in English and the number of languages and dialects are up to 350. The platform’s top charts — once the domain of the U.S., U.K, Canada and Australia — are now populated by tunes from Japan, Colombia, Ghana, Nigeria and South Korea.
The milestone has been fast approaching as the globe gets more digitalized. The number of Apple Music songs has doubled in the last four years, from 50 million in 2018, with the pandemic believed to have accelerated the timetable as people in isolation looked for creative outlets.
The 100 millionth song could perhaps come from an artist as yet unknown, Apple Music added.
Apple Inc. started iTunes in 2003 with 200,000 songs feeding its iPods and launched Apple Music seven years ago — now feeding iPhones — with subscribers in 167 countries and regions.
It also says its customers are not just listening to whatever’s new; they’re exploring back catalogues of artists. In 2015, when Apple Music launched, the top 1,000 songs made up 20% of the plays. Now they make up 10%. The average song’s release date is from March 7, 2017, a number pulled down by listeners going back in time.
The music streamer is celebrating the milestone by launching on Monday a new editorial series called Apple Music Today. The streamer’s editorial team tells the story behind one new or old song — now with 100 million to choose from each time.
“We believe that it’s both an opportunity for us to help all of our subscribers connect to music that they may have forgotten about or not know about,” Newman said. “And, also importantly, finding a new platform for storytelling. We believe that’s one of the things that we’re doing to preserve the artistry in music.”
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Follow Mark Kennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits | 2022-10-03T17:23:29+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-whole-lotta-zeros-apple-music-crosses-100m-song-barrier/ |
First responders get K9 lifesaving training under Nero's Law
EMTs and firefighters are used to receiving the latest training when it comes to lifesaving care. But on Tuesday, they encountered a different kind of training and patients: High-tech K9 mannequins.
Gillette Stadium’s Putnam Club became a classroom of sorts for Bay State EMTs, where their patients for the lifesaving training weren’t humans but man’s best friend.
Following the death of Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon and the subsequent injuries suffered by his K9 partner Nero, Nero’s Law enables first responders to provide aid and transportation to injured police dogs.
Easthampton police Sgt. Andrew Beaulie said it’s comforting to know that his K9 partner, Gino, will be taken care of if something happens.
“It’s a peace of mind when we go out on those deployments that if something were to happen to him, he’s going to be treated and transported like an officer would be,” he said.
“Pre-hospital care can make all the difference in whether the outcome is a good one or not,” said veterinarian David Schwarz, board president of the State of Massachusetts Animal Resource Team, or SMART.
Schwarz said beyond the medical training, one of the biggest lessons for the more than 400 EMTs who were in attendance was safety.
“Even a typical house dog, in an emergency situation, when he’s injured, can become very dangerous. So, we want to be sure that everybody stays safe when they’re trying to administer care for them,” he said.
“Understanding that K9s are police officers, we all have a willingness to help. So, this gives us the opportunity to have that education and knowledge to care for our K-9 colleagues as well,” said Foxborough Fire Deputy Chief Tom Kenvin.
As a show of support, Gannon’s mother, Denise, was in attendance. She said joy fills her heart to see the training and that it would make her son happy.
“He’d be stunned. Absolutely stunned. And I think I can safely say he’d be one of those people in the crowd,” she said.
Even though the training was basic life support, the hope is additional further advanced training will be available in the future. | 2023-02-01T00:47:10+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/k9-lifesaving-training-neros-law-first-responders/42725184 |
SAO PAULO, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE:JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that its principal operating subsidiary, Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. ("Jiangxi Jinko") will supply approximately 522 MW of Tiger Neo 78 Cell modules for Phase l of the Santa Luzia Complex Project (the "Project") in Paraíba State, Brazil.
The Project consists of three Phases with Phase l currently under construction. When fully completed, the total power generated by the Project will be 1.2 GW.
"We are proud to partner with JinkoSolar, a company committed to a sustainable energy future for everyone. Having such a renowned and recognized partner in the market adds value to our Project and increases its reliability", said Joao Batista Meirelles, purchasing and implementation director at Rio Alto Energies Renováveis.
The Project is located in an area of more than 1,700 hectares in the cities of Santa Luzia and São Mamede. Total investment is around BRL 4.1 billion and the Project is estimated to create 750 direct jobs. The first batches of the modules were shipped in November 2022 and the shipment of Phase l is estimated to be completed in May 2023. The COD of the last UFV of phase l is expected to be January 2024.
"We are very proud that the Rio Alto group has chosen our high-performance modules for this important project in Brazil." said Alberto Cuter, General Manager of JinkoSolar for Italy and Latin America. "Brazil is one of the most important countries, strongly committed to the development of renewable energy sources and the Rio Alto Group is one of the main players in this phase of energy transition".
About Rio Alto.
Founded in 2009, Rio Alto is an independent company specializing in renewable energy generation with a focus on photovoltaic solar plants. Their business model is developed through vertical integration of all stages of the project, from conception, project development, implementation, construction and installation, operation and commercialization. They have a 100% integrated platform, multidisciplinary team and vast experience in the energy sector. They develop solar plants with high quality standards, through long-term partnerships with the main companies in the sector. They have a strong ESG policy, focused on the generation of renewable energy projects, they respect the environment, engaging the local community, creating jobs and acting in socio-economic development. Their portfolio totals more than 1.8 GW of solar, including operational and under development assets.
About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions.
JinkoSolar has 14 productions facilities globally, 21 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, UAE, and Denmark, and global sales teams in China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, as of September 30, 2022.
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Andrew Benintendi Player Prop Bets: White Sox vs. Athletics - July 1
Published: Jul. 1, 2023 at 11:34 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Andrew Benintendi -- with a slugging percentage of .500 in his past 10 games, including six extra-base hits -- will be in action for the Chicago White Sox against the Oakland Athletics, with Kyle Muller on the hill, on July 1 at 4:07 PM ET.
In his most recent game, he racked up two extra-base hits (2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI) against the Athletics.
Andrew Benintendi Game Info & Props vs. the Athletics
- Game Day: Saturday, July 1, 2023
- Game Time: 4:07 PM ET
- Stadium: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Athletics Starter: Kyle Muller
- TV Channel: NBCS-CA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -118)
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Andrew Benintendi At The Plate
- Benintendi leads Chicago in OBP (.353), slugging percentage (.381) and OPS (.734) this season.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB, his batting average ranks 20th, his on-base percentage ranks 33rd, and he is 121st in the league in slugging.
- Benintendi has reached base via a hit in 59 games this season (of 75 played), and had multiple hits in 21 of those games.
- He has gone deep in only one game this season.
- Benintendi has picked up an RBI in 17 games this year (22.7%), with two or more RBI in four of those contests (5.3%).
- He has scored in 42.7% of his games this season (32 of 75), with two or more runs four times (5.3%).
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Athletics Pitching Rankings
- The 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Athletics pitching staff ranks 27th in the league.
- The Athletics' 6.05 team ERA ranks last among all league pitching staffs.
- The Athletics give up the most home runs in baseball (123 total, 1.5 per game).
- Muller starts for the first time this season for the Athletics.
- It's the season debut and his first appearance in more than a year for the 25-year-old left-hander.
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- Strategic round of funding accelerates industry leadership in fast growing warehouse automation space
- New board members Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners to support Locus's next phase of growth
WILMINGTON, Mass., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Locus Robotics, a leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfillment and distribution warehouses, today announced more than $117 million in Series F funding, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners. As part of the financing, Mark Midle, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, and Zach Barasz, Partner, G2 Venture Partners, will join the Locus Board of Directors, bringing their unique industry perspectives and insights to further guide Locus's next stage of growth and global expansion.
"Locus has established itself as an innovative, high-quality market leader for flexible automation in the massive warehouse fulfillment and distribution market," said Mark Midle of Goldman Sachs. "Our investment reflects our view that Locus has the product offering and the operational excellence required to meet and exceed the market challenges posed by today's dynamic economic environment."
"This new round of funding marks an important inflection point for Locus Robotics as we look toward our next stage of growth, and we strategically chose to bring in investors with a wealth of experience in both public and private markets to advise us as we continue our journey," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. "As the rapid digital transformation of the supply chain continues, warehouses increasingly seek flexible, intelligent robotics automation to improve productivity and grow their operations, despite ongoing labor shortages and exploding order volumes."
The Locus warehouse execution platform disrupts large-scale warehouse fulfillment and distribution with an industry-leading, intelligent, and dynamically scalable robotics-driven solution. Locus delivers 2X-3X productivity by seamlessly coordinating both human labor and AMRs to dramatically improve order fulfillment efficiency and workplace ergonomics, while lowering operational costs.
"Locus is clearly a winner in the flexible warehouse robotics space, and the consistency with which the Locus team has executed is extraordinary," said Zach Barasz of G2 Venture Partners. "We are thrilled to be investors in Locus Robotics, and to partner with the leading warehouse execution company in making global supply chains faster, more cost-effective, and more resilient and sustainable."
With more than 230 sites under contract around the world – some having as many as 500 LocusBots per site – the Locus solution efficiently and seamlessly orchestrates the operation and management of multiple robot form factors, and provides forward-looking, real-time business intelligence, critical for optimizing productivity, proactively managing labor, and managing costs.
"By 2026, 75% of large enterprises in product-centric businesses will have adopted some form of intralogistics robots in their warehouse operations," said Dwight Klappich, Analyst, Gartner. "The lower price of entry and faster time to value of robotics opens the market to more companies that can justify automation … as companies adopt robotics, most organizations will expand and scale their use of robotics within the enterprise, leading to fleet growth."
"As order volumes continue to increase and labor shortages persist worldwide, robotics automation is now a must-have for warehouse operators," said Ash Sharma, Managing Director, Interact Analysis. "Locus is uniquely positioned as a leader in digital transformation in this enormous global market as warehouse operators increasingly focus on scalability, fast ROI, and ease of deployment."
Locus partners with the world's leading warehouse operators to create a powerful synergy that speeds deployment and delivers powerful, actionable business intelligence to optimize warehouse productivity, cost management, and labor management.
"Our 5-year partnership with Locus has enabled DHL to deliver more resilient, flexible, and scalable supply chain solutions to our customers to support faster delivery, improve operational efficiency, and reduce employee workloads," said Sally Miller, CIO of DHL Supply Chain North America. "In that time, Locus's ability to integrate groundbreaking technologies into our operations seamlessly and in a targeted way has been a tremendous success for our customers' supply chains."
In September 2022, Locus reached a major milestone with its industry-first 1 billionth pick. It took Locus 1,542 days to pick its first 100 million units and just 40 days for the last 100 million picks. Locus robots now average more than three million picks per day around the world.
Locus counts more than 90 customers worldwide, including CEVA Logistics, DHL, Material Bank, Boots UK, GEODIS, Ryder, Verst Logistics, Radial, and others, who are consistently doubling and tripling their fulfillment productivity, with near-100% accuracy, using the Locus solution.
Also participating in the Series F round were Stack Capital Group, Next47, Stafford Capital Partners, HESTA, Newton Investment Management North America, Gray's Creek Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Hercules Capital, Inc., BOND, and Scale Venture Partners.
Locus Robotics' revolutionary, multi-bot solution incorporates powerful and intelligent autonomous mobile robots that operate collaboratively with human workers to dramatically improve piece‐handling, case-handling, and pallet-moving productivity 2X–3X, while optimizing labor and making efficient use of warehouse space. Locus helps retailers, 3PLs, and specialty warehouses efficiently meet and exceed the increasingly complex and demanding requirements of fulfillment environments. Easily integrating into large-scale new and existing warehouse infrastructures without disrupting workflows, Locus transforms productivity without transforming the warehouse.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Locus's EMEA presence is centrally located in Amsterdam, with APAC presence located in Singapore.
In 2022 alone, Locus Robotics has won more than 17 industry awards, including being named to the Inc. 500 for the second year in a row and a 2022 IFOY Award for its Autonomous Mobile Robot Solution in the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV/AMR) category.
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), we deliver investment and advisory services for the world's leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from our deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and market—overseeing more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of September 30, 2022. Driven by a passion for our clients' performance, we seek to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time. Goldman Sachs Asset Management invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Since 2003 the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management comprising more than 75 individuals has invested over $13 billion in companies led by visionary founders and CEOs. We focus exclusively on investments in growth stage and technology-driven companies spanning multiple industries, including enterprise technology, financial technology, consumer and healthcare. Follow us on LinkedIn.
G2 Venture Partners is a venture and growth firm focused on emerging technologies driving sustainable transformation across traditional industries. We support entrepreneurs who are unlocking new paths to environmentally and socially responsible economic growth. Learn more at www.g2vp.com and contact the team at info@g2vp.com.
*Gartner, Market Guide for Intralogistics Smart Robots, 18 April 2022, Dwight Klappich
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a starry presentation that included Timothée Chalamet, Oprah Winfrey, Zendaya and a first look at “Dune: Part Two,” “Barbie” was no doubt the brightest star of Warner Bros.' CinemaCon showcase. In fairness, the neon pink might have given her the advantage.
It was a splashy presentation for anxious theater owners in Las Vegas from a studio in transition, with new leadership teams in place to oversee films and create a 10-year plan for iconic DC Comics characters like Superman. Within the past year, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy were selected to lead the studio's film group while James Gunn and Peter Safran stepped in to head DC Studios.
Tuesday evening, CinemaCon attendees will be among the first to see “The Flash” (out June 16) — a film that has been the source of extra scrutiny because of star Ezra Miller’s series of arrests and reports of erratic behavior. Miller, who goes by they/them pronouns, said last year that they were pursuing treatment for “complex mental health issues.”
Miller did not appear on stage in Las Vegas alongside director Andy Muschietti, though Muschietti spoke about his lead.
“They are an incredible actor,” he said. “Probably one of the best actors I've ever worked with. ... They wanted to do all the stunts and I let them.”
Safran also previewed the upcoming “Aquaman” and “Blue Beetle” movies, but did not have much to say about their plans beyond 2023.
The audience cheered for a pulsating first look at Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” which hits theaters on Nov. 3.
“Part One was a more contemplative movie,” Villeneuve said. "Part Two is more action packed, an epic war movie.”
Not only is it “more dense” but it was also filmed entirely in IMAX, he said. The first movie was about “40% IMAX.”
“Dune: Part Two” picks up with Chalamet’s young hero Paul Atreides and Zendaya’s Chani right were he left them. Chani, Zendaya promised, is “not just in dreams this time.”
The two characters, she added, are trying to balance just being young people in the world with the weight of having to also be warriors for their people.
“Dune 2” adds actors like Austin Butler, Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh to the already big ensemble.
The pitch to Butler, Villeuneuve said, was to play an “Olympic sword master mixed with a psychotic serial killer.” The “Elvis” star said yes.
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and writer-director Greta Gerwig unveiled a new trailer for the candy-colored extravaganza. The promotional spot revealed more about the film’s mysterious plot, including the fact that Robbie’s Barbie experiences some “imperfect” things like burnt toast and flat feet and goes searching for the truth about the universe.
Robbie, who produced and stars, was the engine behind the project. She was the one who asked Greta Gerwig to help make the film.
Gerwig and her partner Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script and, Gerwig said, when they finished she got the sense that he liked it so much that he wanted to direct it.
“I said, ‘Step aside,’” Gerwig laughed. “I was so in love with it I couldn’t imagine anyone else doing it.”
While writing, she said she jotted down the name “Ryan Gosling” for Ken, though she had neither met him nor had any idea if he’d be interested.
Gosling, most know by now, was. On stage at Caesars Palace, Gosling wore a T-shirt with Gerwig’s name on it in the Barbie font.
“I have to be honest, up until this point I only knew Ken from afar,” Gosling said. “I didn’t know Ken from within.”
“I doubted my Kenergy,” Gosling continued. “Greta and Margot, I feel like they conjured this out of me. ... I was living my life and then one day I was bleaching my hair, shaving my legs and wearing bespoke neon outfits and roller blading down Venice Beach."
“Barbie,” which counts disco, “The Wizard of Oz” and Technicolor musicals as inspiration, opens in theaters on July 21.
Oprah Winfrey made her CinemaCon debut to talk about the big screen adaptation of “The Color Purple” stage musical. Winfrey, who produced the new film, starred in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Alice Walker novel in 1985 and received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
"'The Color Purple' in 1985 was the biggest and most important thing that had ever happened to me,” Winfrey said. “This is a full circle moment for me.”
Director Blitz Bazawule said they “told the story in such a joyful way.” Both stressed that it’s the kind of film that should inspire groups and families to come out to the theater and the never-before-seen trailer promised that it is “not your mamma’s ‘Color Purple’.” The cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Fantasia, H.E.R., and Jon Batiste.
“It is our mission to put people in seats for this movie,” said Winfrey of the Christmas day release. She suggested buying tickets for friends and putting purple ribbons on them.
Chalamet also spoke about “Wonka,” a colorful origin story about the eccentric chocolatier directed by “Paddington” director Paul King that opens on Dec. 15. A new extended trailer showed a first look at Hugh Grant as a small, orange Oompa Loompa threatening to do a song and dance, which got laughs from the audience.
“That was the first time you all saw Hugh as the Oompa Loompa right?” Chalamet said. “It was a trip.”
David Zaslav, the CEO and President of Warner Bros. Discovery., reiterated his commitment to theaters — a 180 from former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar who made the controversial decision to send all 10 Warner Bros. movies straight to HBO Max in 2022.
“We believe in full windowing of motion pictures,” Zaslav said. “We do not want to do direct to streaming movies. We’re in no rush to bring movies to Max (the new name for HBO Max).”
In 2023, Warner Bros. plans to release 16 movies in theaters and aspires to get to more than 20 a year.
“We’re all in on motion pictures,” Zaslav said. | 2023-04-25T21:35:26+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/new-footage-from-dune-2-barbie-unveiled-at-17918063.php |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Branden Carlson scored a career-high 27 points, grabbed eight rebounds and blocked four shots as Utah rolled past UTSA 91-70 on Tuesday night for its fifth straight win.
Carlson was 10 of 14 from the floor and made 6 of 7 free throws. Marco Anthony added 16 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double of the season for Utah (9-2). Anthony also had four assists. Gabe Madsen also had 16 points and Lazar Stefanovic had 10 for the Utes, who shot 52% (36 of 69) overall.
Utah held UTSA (5-5) to 38% shooting from the floor and has kept opponents under 40% in 9 of 10 games this season.
Japhet Medor scored 23 points to lead the Roadrunners.
The game was tied at 29, but Utah's 10-5 surge to close the first half gave it a 39-34 halftime lead. The Utes opened the second with Carlson's dunk that sparked a 20-5 run to stretch the lead to 59-39 with 14:19 remaining. Carlson had eight points and Anthony added six during the span.
Utah faces rival BYU in Provo on Saturday. UTSA hosts Bethune-Cookman on Sunday.
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Through Cabinets To Go's support, 25 scholarships will be awarded to individuals seeking a transformative experience.
FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cabinets To Go, a nation-wide custom cabinetry, countertop, and flooring company, providing high-quality custom-stock and custom-built products for affordable prices, has again partnered with No Barriers, a nonprofit movement with a mission to provide transformative programs and experiences that shift mindsets, create belonging, and foster self-discovery to elevate individuals and their communities.
To help people determined to live the No Barriers life, Cabinets To Go will be the 2023 No Barriers Summit Scholarship Sponsor. Funded by your local Cabinets To Go stores, No Barriers will be accepting applications and awarding scholarships to individuals interested in the one-of-a-kind event that brings together people of all backgrounds and abilities who believe in learning the framework that "What's Within You Is Stronger Than What's In Your Way."
"Since our founding in 2008, Cabinets To Go has been in the business of helping people," said Tom Sullivan, Founder and Chairman of Cabinets To Go. "We are excited to partner with No Barriers to strengthen our local communities by offering scholarships for this life-changing experience to those who might not be able to attend on their own."
"The Summit brings together people of all backgrounds and abilities for shared experiences that include adventure, wellness, entertainment and inspiration. It's an experience unlike any other that provides a community where everyone is included," said No Barriers Executive Director Sherri Kroonenberg. "We could not be more thrilled to have a partner like Cabinets To Go that shares the mission of bringing the No Barriers Summit to as many people as possible."
The Cabinets To Go scholarship sponsorship program will provide the full cost of Summit attendance for 25 individuals.
"There is nothing better than being surrounded by some of the most inspiring individuals on the planet who make me want to be a better person," said a No Barriers Summit participant. "There are people who have taken a difficult journey and broken through barriers, and if they can, I can too. What's stopping me? Only me."
The No Barriers Summit powered by Winnebago Industries Foundation brings together the communities the organization serves, including Veterans with disabilities, youth, caregivers, and individuals with disabilities. The three-day experience also serves the larger community seeking to push past their barriers and move beyond their comfort zones. The 2023 Summit powered by Winnebago Industries Foundation will host world-renowned speakers, adaptive activities, networking, and live music to create a truly transformative experience.
Beginning today, individuals can apply to be a recipient of the 2023 Cabinets To Go Scholarship. Additional information regarding the 2023 No Barriers Summit powered by Winnebago Industries Foundation can be found here.
About Cabinets To Go:
Cabinets To Go is a nation-wide custom cabinetry, countertop, and flooring company, providing high-quality custom-stock and custom-built products for affordable prices. Whether you are buying your first home, working on a house to flip, constructing a multi-unit commercial project or building your forever dream home, Cabinets To Go has the design and cabinets that will meet your desires, time requirements and budget. With over 100+ stores nationwide, Cabinets To Go can handle your requests online or on the phone where expert, local designers will provide solutions for your project.
About No Barriers:
A non-profit organization based in Colorado, dedicated to helping people of all abilities find hope, optimism and resiliency for the future. Whether in our personal lives, at work, or in our communities, we all face challenges that can prevent us from living our best lives and reaching our full potential. No Barriers believes that what's within you is stronger than what's in your way. No Barriers empowers people of all walks of life to overcome obstacles, live a life of purpose, and give back to the world, all through their groundbreaking curriculum, the No Barriers Life. Learn more about the inclusive roadmap to break through challenges, build community and find strength through adversity at nobarriersusa.org.
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ORLANDO, FL (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, killing one person every 34 seconds. However, there are simple lifestyle changes that can help you build a strong heart.
This new year, there are five easy ways to start better caring for your heart health. First, follow the 80/20 rule.
“Try to pick 80 percent of your foods to be whole foods,” says Holistic Cardiologist at Baptist Health, Mona Shah, MD.
Whole foods have not been processed, refined, or had ingredients added to them. This includes fruits, veggies, nuts, whole grains, meat, fish, and eggs. Another heart healthy resolution to add is incorporating 30 minutes of exercise into your routine every day.
“Even if it means you’re walking 30 minutes a day, and it’s split into 10, 10, and 10,” said Shah.
One recent Harvard review found that walking two and a half hours a week cut the risk of heart disease by 30 percent. Also, resolve to get more sleep this new year. In one study, people sleeping less than six hours a night had a 20 percent higher risk of a heart attack.
Another resolution to consider is aiming to reduce stress levels. Meditation can help, and Doctor Mona Shah, MD, also recommends keeping a gratitude journal. Write down three things you’re grateful for each morning.
“It releases happy hormones. Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, all these things that help our arteries, help our blood pressure, help our heart rate, let us live longer,” said Shah.
The last resolution is to nix bad habits like smoking and drinking. If you do have a drink, limit your alcohol consumption to no more than six to eight ounces a day and cut out cigarettes altogether. Research shows smoking causes about one out of every four deaths from heart disease.
Another resolution you may want to consider is to sit less. One study showed that sitting for eight hours or more a day was linked to about a 20 percent higher risk of heart disease or dying from any cause compared to those who sat for only half that time. If you can, use a standing desk or take breaks from sitting throughout the day.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Nov. 10, the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE) draw to a close in Shanghai, marking the successful holding of an exchange platform where domestic and global brands gather. King's Luck Brewery, from east China's Jiangsu Province, attended the expo again, offering the world a taste of Chinese liquor.
The Global Forum for Brand Equity Strategists, which has been held for four years, is one of the important activities for the exchange of Chinese and foreign enterprises at the CIIE.
During the event, King's Luck Brewery released the development case of Guoyuan series, a new generation of high-end liquor brand in China.
Established in 2004, the brand made a presence at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, entered the UN in 2018, and appeared at the CIIE in 2021. In the process of high-quality growth, the brand promotes the Chinese luck culture in its efforts to explore the new development path of Chinese brands.
A branding case of the Guoyuan's V series won an award in its endeavor to boost soft power this year.
During the roundtable dialogue, King's Luck Brewery and representatives from global renowned enterprises such as doTERRA, Reckitt Benckiser, RDM Group and Uniqlo discussed the high-quality development and global communication of enterprises, and jointly launched the annual cooperation initiative of Chinese and foreign brands.
At a fraternity activity, Chinese and foreign guests gathered together to taste a liquor product from Guoyuan series and exchanged souvenirs. Qian Zhenhua, the world champion of modern Pentathlon, sent his best wishes to the Chinese and foreign brands.
Shanghai Hongqiao transportation hub, as the main gateway for Shanghai to welcome guests thanks to its comprehensive transportation services, is an important window and bridge for the CIIE. This year, Guoyuan once again appeared in the CIIE exhibition corridor located in the transportation hub, showcasing the historical heritage and innovation of Chinese famous liquors to global visitors.
Looking forward, King's Luck Brewery will lead the Chinese liquor industry to build a new development pattern, and strive to chart a new course for Chinese liquor to go global. Via such efforts, the influence of Chinese liquor is expected to spread to the world and become the Chinese taste enjoyed by global consumers.
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Trey Calvin's 27 points helped Wright State defeat Abilene Christian 77-61 at the Vegas 4 on Monday night.
Calvin also contributed five assists for the Raiders (4-1). Amari Davis scored 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting.
Ali Abdou Dibba led the way for the Wildcats (2-2) with 14 points, six rebounds and three steals. Cameron Steele added 11 points and two steals.
Wright State led Abilene Christian 42-31 at the half, with Davis (11 points) their high scorer before the break.
Calvin scored 18 in the second half to help his team secure the victory.
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Both teams next play Tuesday. Wright State plays UC Riverside while Abilene Christian takes on Weber State.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-11-22T05:30:21+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Calvin-leads-Wright-State-past-Abilene-Christian-17602788.php |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Andy Reid remembers talking to the Kansas City Chiefs at some point last year, back when veterans were getting to know rookies and the season still seemed so far off, and he brought up the San Francisco 49ers under Bill Walsh.
It was 1981 and the 49ers had drafted a quartet of defensive backs that they expected to contribute right away.
They did so much more.
Ronnie Lott went on to start all 16 games, beginning a Hall of Fame career and becoming one of the finest safeties to play the game. Eric Wright and Carlton Williams, who both went on to play in Pro Bowls, started alongside Lott every week, and Lynn Thomas appeared in 15 games.
Together, that group carefully selected by Walsh helped the 49ers win their first conference championship before beating the Bengals for their first Super Bowl title.
“It seems like a long time ago that I mentioned that to our guys,” Reid said this week.
The reason for bringing it up? Chiefs general manager Brett Veach also drafted four defensive backs last year. And much like the 49ers, the Chiefs banked on their rookie quartet to get back to the Super Bowl after a one-year absence.
“I mean, here we sit,” Reid said with a smile.
First-round pick Trent McDuffie, who dealt with a hamstring injury sustained in their opener, emerged as a lockdown cornerback. Jaylen Watson had a 99-yard pick-6 that helped the Chiefs beat the Chargers early in the season, and has since picked off two more passes in the playoffs.
Josh Williams also intercepted Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow in the AFC title game, catching the deep throw in the closing minutes after rookie safety Bryan Cook had batted it into the air.
The pressure on the four last Sunday night went soaring on the game’s fourth play, when one of the few veterans in the secondary — L’Jarius Sneed — was sidelined by a concussion. Yet they were undaunted.
“Obviously there was concern,” Reid said, when asked about his rookies playing so much so soon, “but there was an optimism that it can be done. Then the kids, just their work ethic — they showed us this in training camp. They showed it all the way through the season. If they got beat, they came back and fought back.”
Indeed, all of them took regular-season lumps. But you wouldn’t know it by the playoffs.
Did they exceed even Veach’s expectations?
“I think so,” he replied. “Maybe it was a necessity because we had a lot of turnover. Again, every time we approach an offseason, whether it be a free-agent signing or draft pick, we have full confidence in our staff’s ability to bring talented players in and our coaches to get the most out them. I think you saw early on — you guys were at the OTAs the training camps — I think it was pretty clear early on that this would be a special group.”
It hasn’t just been the four defensive backs, either. It’s been an entire rookie class outperforming expectations.
Defensive end George Karlaftis had six regular-season sacks, then another of Burrow in the AFC title game. Skyy Moore played a crucial role against the Bengals after three wide receivers were lost to injuries, and his punt return helped set up the winning field goal. Leo Chenal has appeared in every game at linebacker. And seventh-round pick Isiah Pacheco not only assumed the role of lead running back but has become a bona fide star.
The returns on the Chiefs’ rookie investments are even more impressive given the fact that Kansas City, like other teams that make deep playoff runs each year, are usually picking after just about everyone else.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of a guy named Brett Veach,” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said, “but he has brought in some amazing talent when he put this team together. We’re the best team in the AFC because of what he’s been able to do, on top of what these coaches have been able to do in terms of teaching these guys how to make plays.”
It’s been a long time since Reid was teaching them a little bit of history, too. But the parallels between that bunch of 49ers in the early 1980s and this group of Chiefs in the early 2020s just might go all the way to a Super Bowl title.
Lott and those young 49ers hoisted the Lombardi Trophy. The Chiefs have a chance to do the same.
“I was optimistic,” Reid said, “but you don’t know how that journey’s going to go. But they’ve sure done a nice job.” | 2023-02-02T20:12:34+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/sports/the-big-game/chiefs-banked-on-rookie-returns-to-reach-super-bowl/ |
Texas Tech holds off Eastern Washington
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Texas Tech Red Raiders hosted the Eastern Washington Eagles Tuesday in search of 27 straight home wins.
EWU is a team who simply lives and dies by the three-point shot. Tonight was no different, hitting 3 triples in the opening minutes to stretch out to an early 9-2 lead. The Eagles would end the first half alone with 6-15 from the three-point line. Meanwhile for the Red Raiders, without Daniel Batcho who’s resting his ankle, they shot a shocking 2-17 from distance in the first half as the two sides took a 29-29 tie into the half.
One thing that was truly consistent out of the Red Raiders Tuesday was their consistency at the free-throw line. Texas Tech shot 19-22 from the stripe while the Eagles were 9-12. Head Coach Mark Adams’s defense was getting after it as well, forcing 20 turnovers leading to the fast break.
Texas Tech pulled away late in the game to 77-70 to extend their home win streak to 27 as they will now hit the road to battle Jackson State in the HBCU Classic in Houston.
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New Hampshire hotel managers 'deeply sorry' after UK students' passports were destroyed
Managers explain what happened, changes they plan to make
Managers explain what happened, changes they plan to make
Managers explain what happened, changes they plan to make
Managers of a New Hampshire hotel that destroyed most of the passports belonging to a group of students from the United Kingdom last month have released a statement apologizing for the mishap and explaining what happened.
"We've heard a lot of anger and disappointment these last two weeks in response to an unfortunate, regrettable situation that occurred involving one of our visiting ski groups," Kancamagus Lodge managers said in a statement. "We are deeply sorry. We take full responsibility and offer a genuine apology to our guests and community."
On Feb. 19, a member of the Kancamagus Lodge's management team was cleaning the back office and put a number of items to be disposed of into a dumpster. Among the items was a box of the students' passports, which managers said was inadvertently placed there.
"Our scheduled, contracted garbage disposal company emptied the dumpster and promptly destroyed all contents," managers said.
When one of the students' chaperones asked to add a passport to the box, the management team came to the realization that the passports had been accidentally destroyed.
"We immediately notified our guests and began working with our guests to come to the most satisfactory resolution," managers said. "We worked closely with the tour operating company, contributing however we could towards their extended stay, to come to a swift, safe and successful resolution that was satisfactory to all involved."
The accidental destruction of the passports led more than 40 British school children to be stuck in the United States for days. They were on a ski trip that started on Feb. 17 and were expected to be home on Feb. 25. They didn't return home until March 1.
Kate Hibbs, the head teacher of Barr Beacon Head School in Walsall, England, told News 9 in late February that 42 students and four staff members were left waiting in New York to receive their emergency documents after 41 of the passports were destroyed by the hotel.
"In addition to offering our profound apologies to our guests and their families, we also offer our sincere apology to our community for not representing our industry to the best of our ability and for not living up to the expectations you have of us," the managers said in the statement.
Hotel managers said new steps will be taken to ensure such a scenario does not occur again, including committing to protect all guests and their information, starting a thorough review of policies and connecting with industry professionals to ensure their safety and security standards are above industry standards.
"Our values will guide everything we do," managers said. "Our guests and community expect more from us, and we promise we can and will be better. We are committed to putting proof behind our promise."
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(NEXSTAR) – An outfit may not be the first thing most people think of before heading to the polls, but a misstep while dressing could jeopardize one’s vote.
All states have some restrictions when it comes to voting in person, and most states have rules about actively campaigning within a certain distance of a polling place. Some states, however, have extended that rule to include a dress code.
In California, for example, the electioneering ban within 100 feet of the polls includes hats, shirts and buttons. The Golden State is one of 21 that have state statutes banning electioneering apparel at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The others are:
- Arkansas
- Delaware
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Maine
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Dakota
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
Banned apparel items vary depending on the state, but include buttons, hats, shirts, stickers and other articles of clothing.
“…a person may not wear a badge, insignia, emblem, or other similar communicative device relating to a candidate, measure, or political party appearing on the ballot, or to the conduct of the election, in the polling place,” Texas law states.
That’s right, in nearly half of U.S. states, those T-shirts emblazoned with candidates’ faces or campaign slogans would be considered electioneering, or an attempt to influence someone’s vote. State laws vary when it comes to how far someone needs to be from a polling place while electioneering – in Alabama it’s 30 feet from the door, while in Iowa it’s 300 feet.
Violating the rules may result in more than a wasted trip to the polls, depending on what state you live in.
In Kansas, for instance, electioneering is a class C misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail or up to a $500 fine.
It’s always a good idea to check your local voting guidelines before heading to the polls. Some states like Maine, where campaign apparel isn’t allowed, have exceptions – buttons that “do not exceed 3 inches and are worn by people at the polling place solely for the purpose of voting” are allowed. | 2022-10-30T16:27:11+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/voting-dress-code-what-not-to-wear-to-the-polls/ |
Senate drug price bill is limited to Medicare. Here’s what it means for those with private insurance
By Tami Luhby, CNN
When Senate Democrats crafted their legislation to lower drug prices, they wanted two main measures to encompass both the private insurance and Medicare markets.
However, in the end, they were forced to limit the provisions — restricting the growth of drug prices to inflation and placing a $35 cap on insulin prices — to Medicare only to enable their health care and climate package to be approved through reconciliation, which needs only a simple majority vote.
The chamber’s parliamentarian decided that extending the measures to the private market was not compliant with the rules of reconciliation. So the Senate passed the bill without including private insurance on Sunday, and the House is expected to take up the legislation later this week.
The private market in the US is enormous but fragmented among many insurers. More than 150 million Americans and their families have commercial coverage through employers, and more than 14.5 million people have Affordable Care Act policies.
Medicare also has a lot of heft, with more than 64 million senior citizens and people with disabilities enrolled, and has long influenced the nation’s health care system.
Little impact on the private market
The bill’s narrower focus is not expected to hurt the private insurance market and could even help restrain drug price increases in the future, health policy experts said.
“I don’t think we have any reason to believe that the policies that will change in Medicare are going to raise prices outside of Medicare,” said Dr. Benjamin Rome, a health policy researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
In its review of a 2019 Senate Finance Committee bill that would have included an inflation cap only in Medicare, the Congressional Budget Office said the provision would also reduce the cost of drug benefits paid by private insurance plans. The savings, however, were more modest than the CBO had estimated for legislation that would have included the private market, said Loren Adler, associate director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.
The inflation cap and Medicare’s ability to negotiate the prices of certain drugs, another one of the bill’s provisions, would make the prices Medicare pays more transparent, said Rena Conti, a health economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
This could give pharmacy benefit managers, which negotiate with drug companies on behalf of insurers, Medicare drug plans, large employers and other payers, an even stronger hand in bargaining for their private-sector clients, she said.
Also, the cost of Part B drugs, which are expensive medications administered by doctors, are based on the same average sales prices paid by commercial insurers. So the inflation cap in Medicare could dampen manufacturers’ price hikes for the private market as well, Rome said.
However, the price of Part D medications bought at the pharmacy are established using different base prices, so the cap may not have as much of an impact on what private market insurers pay.
Including the private market in the legislation would have provided additional protection against bad behavior by drug manufacturers, giving them less leverage to raise prices outside of Medicare, Conti said. Also, it would have guaranteed that insurers pass the savings they receive from drugmakers onto their policyholders.
Cost-shifting concerns
Still, some employer advocates are worried that the legislation could mean higher drug prices for companies and their workers since the private market was excluded from the inflation cap provision.
The legislation would disrupt drugmakers’ Medicare business model and could prompt them to shift costs to employers, said Alan Gilbert, vice president for policy at the Purchaser Business Group on Health, which represents 40 private companies and public entities that buy health coverage for more than 21 million Americans.
“It’s like a balloon,” said Gilbert. “You squeeze one end and it bulges out the other. That is a very real concern of ours.”
Another group that could be negatively affected are children and non-elderly adults who use expensive medications that don’t have a lot of competition, Conti said. Drugmakers may try to raise the prices of their prescriptions or set higher launch prices on medications targeted at these populations since they would not benefit from Medicare’s leverage. However, this applies to a relatively small group of drugs and Americans, she said.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, said lawmakers did not look out for patients.
“The sad reality is there is almost nothing in this bill that helps patients in the commercial market who are struggling to afford their medicines,” said Brian Newell, PhRMA spokesperson.
Insulin costs
Limiting the $35 cap on the price of insulin only to Medicare enrollees is not that consequential, experts said. While the cost of insulin has skyrocketed over the years, many people with private insurance already pay no more than that amount.
About a fifth of those who take insulin and have health coverage through large employers pay more than $35 a month for the medication, according to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. More than a quarter of people with Affordable Care Act policies and nearly one-third of those insured through a small employer pay more than that threshold.
Some private insurers and states are taking action to help Americans afford the drug. UnitedHealthcare will eliminate out-of-pocket costs for insulin for certain policyholders starting next year, while 20 states have placed caps on copayments. Also, two drugmakers are working on inexpensive versions of the medication, while some other manufacturers are offering deep discounts for certain patients.
“Bottom line is I don’t think stripping it out will have a major impact on the private sector,” Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University, said of the insulin cap.
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BEIJING, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China Daily: Shandong displayed the province's latest achievements in the cultural tourism industry by hosting a tourism development conference for bureau and enterprise leaders across the world in the coastal city of Qingdao from March 26 to 27.
Themed "Meet with Fashionable Qingdao, Share Hospitality in Shandong", the 2023 Shandong Tourism Development Conference introduced investment channels of cultural tourism, promoted exchanges and mutual learning, stimulated market vitality and enhanced the province's brand.
Moreover, the event aimed to show the new image of Shandong and build a platform for leading cultural tourism companies to make an investment there.
During the conference, 18 key projects such as leisure vacations, ecological tourism and cultural creativity were signed, with a total investment of 44.96 billion yuan ($6.54 billion).
They include a tourism complex project on the Jiaodong peninsula and the Tangdao Bay Culture and Art Center, each with an investment of 3 billion yuan.
At the conference Qingdao issued stimulus policies at a cultural tourism promotion activity to attract investment. The initiative also aimed to complete the city's industrial chain system and develop new industrial advantages in cultural tourism.
Qingdao plans to provide a maximum subsidy of 5 million yuan for major cultural tourism projects invested by companies from outside the city; offer a maximum reward of 6 million yuan to local award-winning films; and provide a maximum subsidy of 3 million yuan to local cruise companies that operate regularly.
The city also issued cultural and tourism consumption vouchers through the "Cloud Tour in Qingdao" smart platform. The platform is an important part of the conference's digital cultural tourism experience sector.
According to the local government, the vouchers serve as an important measure to boost market confidence; are an innovative solution to apply smart cultural tourism products to people's lives; and encourage the public to participate in such activities and share the development achievements of the cultural tourism industry.
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NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase defended itself on Tuesday against a lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands accusing it of empowering Jeffrey Epstein to abuse teenage girls by arguing in court papers that it was the islands, not the bank, that enabled the financier to commit his crimes.
Lawyers for the bank said in the Manhattan federal court filing that the government of the Virgin Islands was complicit, letting high ranking officials be bought off by Epstein and actively working with him while “reaping the benefits of his wealth.”
“He gave them money, advice, influence, and favors. In exchange, they shielded and even rewarded him,” providing lucrative tax breaks worth millions of dollars, they wrote.
Most troubling, they said, was that officials from the islands “protected Epstein, fostering the perfect conditions for Epstein’s criminal conduct to continue undetected.”
The lawyers added: “For two decades, and for long after JPMC exited Epstein as a client, the entity that most directly failed to protect public safety and most actively facilitated and benefited from Epstein’s continued criminal activity was the plaintiff in this case — the USVI government itself.”
The Virgin Islands, where Epstein had an estate, sued JPMorgan last year, saying its investigation revealed that the financial services giant enabled Epstein’s recruiters to pay victims and was “indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
“JPMorgan Chase facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, and should be held accountable for violating the law,” a spokesperson from the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general’s office said in an email Tuesday. “This is an obvious attempt to shift blame away from JPMorgan Chase, which had a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession of Epstein’s human trafficking, and failed to do so.”
In their filing Tuesday, the bank’s lawyers said Virgin Islands officials looked the other way when Epstein went through its airports with girls and young women as he donated generously to political campaigns. The lawyers said officials were lenient with requirements that he register as a sex offender, doing inspections of his residence that were “cursory at best.”
“In sum, in exchange for Epstein’s cash and gifts, USVI made life easy for him,” the lawyers said. “The government mitigated any burdens from his sex offender status. And it made sure that no one asked too many questions about his transport and keeping of young girls on his island.”
Portions of the filing were heavily redacted. It asked Judge Jed Rakoff to reject the islands’ attempts to prevent the bank from using defenses at trial that would expose the islands’ role in Epstein’s dealings.
The lawyers wrote that “alleged damages must be balanced against the considerable benefits that USVI reaped from its facilitation of Epstein’s crimes.”
Epstein was 66 when he took his life in August 2019 in a Manhattan federal jail where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He had pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14 years old. | 2023-05-24T11:33:21+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/ap-jpmorgan-chase-defends-lawsuit-by-blaming-us-virgin-islands-for-jeffrey-epsteins-sex-crimes/ |
Russia pounds major Ukrainian city after expanding war aims
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 21 with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses at the scene.
Police in the northeast city of Kharkiv said cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market. a public bazaar where Associated Press journalists saw a woman crying over her dead husband’s body. Local officials said the shelling also struck a bus stop, a gym and a residential building.
The bombardment came after Russia on Wednesday reiterated its plans to seize territories beyond eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has spent months trying to conquer Ukraine’s Donbas region, which is south of Kharkiv. Ukrainian officials recently aired their plans to try to recapture Russian-occupied areas near the country’s southern Black Sea coast.
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Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attacks early Thursday targeted one of the most crowded areas of the city, which had a prewar population of about 1.4 million.
“The Russian army is randomly shelling Kharkiv, peaceful residential areas, civilians are being killed,” Terekhov said. “Be careful!”
The police claim that cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market could not be independently confirmed. The AP journalists at the scene shortly after the attack reported seeing burned-out cards and a bus pierced by shrapnel.
The Kharkiv region’s governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said four people were in grave condition and a child was among those wounded in the shelling. Russian forces also have shelled wheat fields in the area, setting them on fire, he said.
Elsewhere, Russian forces shelled the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight as well as the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka, where two schools were destroyed after a civilian was killed Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said.
As of 8 a.m. Thursday, Russian shelling of cities across Ukraine killed at least five people and wounded at least 17 more in 24 hours, Ukraine’s presidential office reported.
The scattered attacks illustrate broader war aims beyond Russia’s previously declared focus on the Donbas region’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, where front line battles mostly unfolded in recent weeks.
When it invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia quickly seized territory but withdrew from the capital region and north after about six weeks to concentrate on seizing Donetsk and Luhansk, which pro-Moscow separatists have partly controlled since 2014.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told state-controlled RT television and the RIA Novosti news agency in an interview published Wednesday that Russia plans to retain control over more territory, including the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in the south.
Moscow’s current strategy also envisions making gains elsewhere, Lavrov said. His comments indicated the war could flare up rather than wind down in the weeks to come.
With Western countries providing Ukraine with longer-range weapons, Lavrov said Russia’s “geographical tasks will be pushed even further from the current line because we cannot allow the part of Ukraine under control of (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy or whoever comes to succeed him, to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territories of those republics that have declared their independence.”
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, said they think the current Russian offensive in Donetsk may result in the capture of the cities of Sloviansk or Bakhmut, though Moscow’s troops have have not yet made “meaningful” progress.
The think tank’s latest analysis also noted that “Russian troops are now struggling to move across relatively sparsely settled and open terrain. They will encounter terrain much more conducive to the Ukrainian defenders,” the Institute’s most recent analysis said.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s military reported Thursday that Russian forces attempted to storm the Vuhlehirska power station in the Donetsk region, but “Ukrainian defenders made the enemy resort to fleeing.” Ukraine forces also on Wednesday struck a key bridge on the Dnieper River for the second time in as many days, apparently trying to loosen Russia’s grip on the southern Kherson region.
“Russia is prioritizing the capture of critical national infrastructure, such as power plants,” the British Defense Ministry said Thursday. “However, it is probably also attempting to break through at Vuhlehirska, as part of its efforts to regain momentum on the southern pincer of its advance towards the key cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.”
Fighting also persists in the Luhansk region, next to Donetsk, but it has not been fully captured by the Russian military, governor Serhiy Haidai said.
In other developments on Thursday:
- The operator of a major pipeline from Russia to Europe says natural gas has started flowing again after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. The pipeline is Germany’s main source of Russian gas. German officials had feared that the pipeline might not reopen at all amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Operator Nord Stream AG said that gas was flowing again Thursday morning and its network data showed gas beginning to arrive.
- Swiss technology, industrial products and robotics company ABB said it is exiting the Russian market over the war in Ukraine and related sanctions. The company previously suspended accepting new orders from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. The Zurich-based company, which has two production sites and about 750 people in Russia, posted a second quarter hit of $57 million in financial impact due to the situation. The company says Russia accounted for 1%-2% of its annual revenues – which totaled nearly $29 billion last year – before it stopped taking new orders from Russia.
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MIAMI (AP) — When Shohei Ohtani reached second base after hitting a leadoff double in the bottom of the ninth inning, he immediately looked up at the crowd and waved his arms, in a rare sign of emotion, as if he knew what was coming next.
Ohtani’s clutch hit sparked a late rally, and moments later Munetaka Murakami delivered a walk-off, two-run double to lift Japan over Mexico 6-5 Monday night and into the World Baseball Classic final.
Two-time champion Japan will face the defending champion United States in Tuesday night’s title game. Shota Imanaga will start for Japan — Yu Darvish had been set to pitch before a change was announced postgame. Merrill Kelly is likely to start for Team USA, which has won the WBC once.
After the game, members of Team Japan rushed the field in triumph, as Mexico players exited with their heads bowed and hands on their hips.
“These games are really critical and the foundation of baseball,” Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama said through an interpreter.
Ohtani went 2 for 4. The Los Angeles Angels star scored in the seventh when Masataka Yoshida hit a tying, three-run homer off reliever JoJo Romero.
Ohtani’s double off losing pitcher Giovanny Gallegos was his fourth of the tournament. He’s batting .450 with nine hits, nine runs and eight RBIs. After Ohtani got the rally started, Yoshida walked to bring up Murakami.
In front of a crowd of 35,933 that chanted “¡Si Se Puede!” — translating to “Yes We Can!” — throughout the night, left fielder Randy Arozarena had a signature performance for Mexico. He made a leaping catch in the fifth to preserve a 3-0 lead, signed a few mid-inning autographs, then doubled and scored in the eighth to make it 4-3.
“Randy was incredible today,” Mexico manager Benji Gil said. “He gave us the opportunity to come back to the game after a home run that many teams facing this kind of team with so many stars, they could have given up, but, no, he started this rally. We fought. Again, we took the lead. They are warriors.”
The game began as a pitching duel between Rōki Sasaki and Patrick Sandoval, but Japan’s offensive power proved too much for Mexico’s relievers.
Sasaki struck out three in four innings in his first appearance on a global stage.
Dozens of MLB club officials were in attendance scouting Sasaki, who’s entry into the majors is all-but-certainly forthcoming in the future after he became a sensation last year in his second season with the Pacific League’s Chiba Lotte Marines. Many are already mentioning the 21-year-old right-hander in the class of his Samurai Japan teammate, Ohtani.
Twenty six of Sasaki’s 64 pitches eclipsed 100 mph.
In the fourth, Luis Urías launched Sasaki’s 90.8 mph cutter for a three-run homer to left-center field. The drive scored Rowdy Tellez and Isaac Paredes, who reached with two of the five hits Sasaki gave up.
Sandoval struck out six and allowed just four hits in four scoreless innings before he was replaced by José Urquidy.
Japan, which trails only Cuba (64) and the U.S. (63) in hits during the tournament, had 10 Monday night, including Yoshida’s home run off Romero’s 2-2 changeup that sailed just inside the right field foul line.
Yoshida is about to start his first season in the major leagues with Boston. Over the weekend, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said Yoshida will start out as the team’s cleanup hitter.
“I know my hand was a little shivering, but I know that there was a good connection,” Yoshida said through a translator. “I believe in myself, and I remember I stepped into the box with a belief in myself.”
Paredes gave Mexico a two-run cushion in the eighth when he singled to left field to drive in Jarren Duran. But Japan pulled within a run on a sacrifice fly by Hotaka Yamakawa that scored Takumu Nakano, who was pinch-running for Kazuma Okamoto.
OHTANI’S BP BLAST
Ohtani doesn’t usually take batting practice on the field. He did Monday and smashed a ball with so much force that it soared above the second deck at loanDepot park and bounced off the video board, making a loud thud when it landed. Hundred of young fans gravitated toward the loanDepot Park sign where the ball was hit.
AROZARENA’S PREGAME OUTFIT
Arozarena wore a large sombrero and cowboy boots while shagging flies before the game, representing the country he settled in during his early 20s after he defected from Cuba. He also posed with Ohtani.
TRAINERS ROOM
Japan SS Sosuke Genda played with a broken right pinky finger.
UP NEXT
The WBC final at loanDepot Park in Miami starts at 7:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-03-21T18:29:42+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/sports/ohtani-japan-rally-late-edge-mexico-6-5-to-reach-wbc-final-2/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A scan done on LeBron James’ troublesome left ankle and foot showed no serious issue, but the newly crowned NBA career scoring leader sat out a second straight game Saturday night since breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s mark earlier in the week.
Still, coach Darvin Ham expects to see James back on the floor before the All-Star break. When asked whether James might need to be sidelined through the break, Ham offered, “No, I don’t think he’ll allow us to do that.”
General manager Rob Pelinka said earlier Saturday that nothing was seriously wrong for James, who topped former Lakers star Abdul-Jabbar during Tuesday’s 133-130 home loss to Oklahoma City.
“LeBron did have some imaging on his foot injury, and we’re grateful that things came back clean and good.” Pelinka said.
The game with Golden State — missing reigning NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry because of a left leg injury — marked James’ seventh sidelined by soreness in the left ankle. He also missed one game with left foot soreness and another because of a non-COVID illness. He also sat out five games with a strained left inner thigh muscle.
“Just for him to continue to get treatment, stay off of it,” Ham said of the plan. “Obviously we made moves and one of the biggest moves is making sure we’re not putting him in a position where we’re putting him at risk of a bigger issue.”
James has what Ham called “normal wear and tear, little irritated in one area.”
The 38-year-old James has made his 19th straight All-Star team and has 38,390 career points.
“We’re just taking this time that we have to get him treated and hopefully get him back so we can make a good run and he can be in the midst of it down the stretch,” Ham said.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-12T18:11:08+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-scan-on-lebron-james-sore-left-foot-shows-no-serious-damage/ |
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 17 people were killed by rebels in eastern Congo, local authorities said on Monday.
The people were abducted while driving on a road and then killed by the CODECO militia group in Djugu territory in Ituri province over the weekend, Col. Ruphin Mapela Mviniama told The Associated Press by phone.
“They attacked three vehicles and took them to Petshi, their stronghold, in the Walendu Djatsi district. The chief of the (the district) confirmed that they executed 17 people, including the drivers of the three vehicles,” he said.
Since the area is controlled by rebel militias it’s hard to investigate what happened, said Mviniama.
Fighting between CODECO, a loose association of various ethnic Lendu militia groups, and Zaire, a mainly ethnic Hema self-defense group, has been ongoing since 2017 but has worsened recently. At least 32 civilians were killed by CODECO last month, say local officials. In December, the United Nations said the insurgent group was expanding its areas of control, attacking civilians and Congo’s military, and taxing communities in the areas that it holds.
The killings come amid surging violence across eastern Congo, where conflict has been simmering for decades as more than 120 armed groups are fighting in the region, most for land and control of mines with valuable minerals, while some groups are trying to protect their communities.
In neighboring North Kivu province, the situation is deteriorating as the M23 rebel group, which was dormant for nearly a decade and resurfaced at the end of 2021, continues to seize swaths of territory and kill civilians.
More than 1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, in North Kivu, Ituri and South Kivu provinces, according to the United Nations. Militia groups in Ituri, like CODECO and the Allied Democratic Forces, which is aligned with the Islamic State group, are taking advantage of the government’s focus on M23 in North Kivu province causing large scale displacements, said the U.N.
Local authorities are urging Congo’s government to send military reinforcements to secure the roads in the area to allow people to travel freely. | 2023-03-27T22:46:38+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/rebels-kill-at-least-17-people-in-troubled-eastern-congo/ |
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — As his NBA career approaches the dawn of its third decade, LeBron James plays almost exclusively alongside teammates who grew up watching him dominate their game.
He has played against the sons of his basketball contemporaries, and he has played against one of his own 18-year-old son’s former high school teammates. That son, Bronny, is headed to college at USC in the fall, an achievement that sparks a father’s proud smile whenever he mentions it.
Signs of time’s passage are all around the 38-year-old James, yet the new top scorer in NBA history is defying all conventional wisdom about growing older in his mercilessly athletic sport.
When he’s fully healthy — which is admittedly true less often than he would like — the third-oldest active player in the league still sprints, dunks, throws no-look passes and competes with the intensity that has kept him at the top for 20 punishing NBA seasons.
“Bron is just different,” Lakers big man Anthony Davis said. “He keeps showing us, showing you. He’s not done yet, either.”
Two days before his Los Angeles Lakers eliminated the vaunted Golden State Warriors to reach the Western Conference finals last week, James was named to the All-NBA third team. James made one of the three teams for the jaw-dropping 19th time even though he played in only 56 games this season.
“I don’t take those moments for granted,” James said. “I don’t take anything that I’ve been able to accomplish for granted, and I’m always appreciative. To be a part of that class of 15 guys is still pretty cool, even at my age and where I’m at right now, Year 20. Just don’t take it for granted.
“Obviously, I’ve got bigger fish to fry. But those small moments, those small wins right there, is all part of the journey, all part of the legacy.”
The big fish is his fifth NBA championship, which is somehow just eight wins away from being caught at the close of a tumultuous Lakers season. Even getting this close to James’ 11th career NBA Finals appearance is incredible, considering these Lakers started the season 2-10 and sat at 26-32 in mid-February, shortly after James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s league scoring record.
But after a 27-12 run through the past two months highlighted by knocking off second-seeded Memphis and the defending NBA champions, James’ Lakers open the conference finals at top-seeded Denver on Tuesday night. The Lakers haven’t lost back-to-back games since March 17, and they’ve lost just once at home since March 26.
To use the phrase frequently deployed by first-year Lakers coach Darvin Ham, James’ fingerprints are all over the Lakers’ success — particularly in their biggest games.
In the first round, James had the first 20-point, 20-rebound playoff game of his career during the Lakers’ Game 4 victory over Memphis — and he also hit the dramatic tying shot in the final second of regulation. In the second round, James racked up 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists in the clinching Game 6 victory over defending champion Golden State, conjuring his first 30-point playoff outing since the 2020 season.
Ham was still a player in James’ first two NBA seasons. He calls LeBron’s Year 20 performance, particularly after a late-season injury, “unreal.”
“I’ve been around some elite, top-tier, top-5 talent in the NBA as a player and a coach,” Ham said. “Kobe was nothing short of amazing. Giannis (Antetokounmpo). (But) LeBron, I’ve never seen anything like it. … Top five, dead or alive, ever to play in the NBA.”
Indeed, no basketball player has ever stood on the sport’s biggest stages as often and as long as James, and he has repeatedly thrived under the spotlight of 16 NBA postseasons and three Olympics. The Lakers’ elimination of the Warriors was James’ 41st career playoff series victory, passing Derek Fisher for the most series wins by one player in NBA history.
He has played in a league-record 278 postseason games, and his 7,912 career playoff points are nearly 2,000 more than Michael Jordan (5,987) atop the NBA’s career playoff scoring list. He’s even the fourth-leading rebounder in NBA playoff history with 2,511 boards — that’s a whopping 1,120 more than the next-highest active player, Draymond Green.
The Lakers’ achievements are even more impressive because James missed a full month down the regular-season stretch due to a right foot injury that still limits his explosiveness. Los Angeles went 8-5 without him and then went 6-2 after he returned in late March.
One play-in victory and two commanding playoff series wins later, the seventh-seeded Lakers are four wins away from another Finals for the four-time championship series MVP.
“That’s been us since we made acquisitions with our new guys,” James said. “We’ve been able to be very resilient in games. Like I said, we’ve been playing lot of basketball for about 2 1/2 months now, just trying to punch our clock and to be able to play the right way in the postseason.”
Indeed, James and Davis realize they wouldn’t be in this position without an impressive midseason reconfiguration of the roster around them. D’Angelo Russell was the Lakers’ centerpiece addition at the trade deadline, and the well-traveled guard soon learned something he didn’t know about the hard work behind James’ transcendence.
“Bron’s niche has always been preparedness,” Russell said. “A lot of guys’ niches is shooting the ball, working hard, outworking guys. LeBron is a film junkie, a basketball junkie, a leadership junkie. To be able to watch it all from the front row, it’s almost like a cheat code.”
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-16T08:40:06+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/20-and-up-lebron-james-defies-time-propels-lakers-to-conference-finals/ |
A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appeals court in a move some legal experts called irregular.
Kichwa tribes lived in the area of Cordillera Azul National Park for centuries before the park was founded in 2001 in what the Kichwa say was theft of their land. Major companies such as Shell and TotalEnergies have spent more than $80 million since then buying credits in the park to counter their carbon emissions.
That money hasn’t helped the Puerto Franco community of Kichwa, who fell into food poverty after losing free access to hunt, fish and gather in the park area. The community celebrated a dramatic legal victory in April, when Judge Simona del Socorro Torres Sánchez ruled that creating the park without their consent had violated their rights. She ordered authorities to begin granting them title to the land, to ensure they benefit from conservation activities in the park and participate in its management.
Ten days after that ruling, an appeals court ruled that CIMA, the acronym for the nonprofit that runs the park for the Peruvian government and administers the carbon credit project, had been improperly added as a co-defendant in the case. The appeals court threw out the ruling and with it the benefits ordered for the tribe, citing “the presence of insurmountable defects both in due process and in the motivation of the judicial decision.”
CIMA welcomed that ruling. “As with any judicial process in Peru, formal procedures … must be followed,” executive director Jorge Aliaga said by email.
But three Peruvian lawyers who reviewed the case at the request of The Associated Press questioned the appellate court’s action. Two said they believed CIMA appears to have been participating as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, and even if a procedural error had been made early on, it didn’t amount to a violation of due process. All three said it was wrong to throw out the entire verdict.
“It’s not normal at all,” said Pedro Grández, a constitutional lawyer and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He said the court was “trying to weigh in on the substance of the matter when it hasn’t reviewed anything of substance, only the procedure.”
Juan Carlos Díaz, also a constitutional lawyer at Pontifical Catholic, said he saw “no grounds” to annul the original ruling, noting that CIMA’s lawyer had taken part in the judicial hearing in which it was added as co-defendant and presented no objections.
“I think the appeals court made a mistake,” Diaz said.
Constitutional law expert Silvia Sánchez, an associate professor at the Academy of the Magistrature, which trains Peruvian judges, said there were “irrelevant or minimal issues for breaking an entire process and returning it to the hearing.”
The case would have gone back to Torres Sánchez due to the supposed procedural error, but Peru’s government successfully asked the same appellate panel to consider the merits of the case. The government argues that the statute of limitations has expired for the Kichwa to make a claim. The government also says that it’s impossible for the park to overlap with Kichwa territory because that territory has never been legally defined.
An AP investigation in December found that park land almost certainly includes Kichwa ancestral territory, by the definition of an International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous convention Peru signed in 1994.
Some Kichwa members wept as they described to AP the hardships of losing access to the land. Unable to clear trees for farmland and sandwiched between protected areas, they relied on an overfished river for food and said they could no longer afford to educate their children.
Peruvian authorities had argued in legal filings that the community didn’t object to the park’s creation in 2001, nor raise complaints during a mapmaking workshop two years later.
But Torres Sánchez ruled that the Kichwa’s rights had been “violated several times” when the park was created without prior consultation. That the Kichwa didn’t request consultation “does not exonerate the state from its obligation to carry it out,” she wrote, adding that attaining Indigenous consent “is not a formality to be overcome.”
Her ruling ordered park rangers to allow the Kichwa full access to the forests. It also implied the Kichwa might share in the money raised from carbon credit sales, ordering Peru’s parks authority Sernanp to “comply with the right of the native communities … to benefit from conservation activities in their territories.”
Torres Sánchez said Puerto Franco had not benefited “one iota” from the huge proceeds of the conservation project, even though Kichwa guardianship had helped sustain the forests.
Cell phone service in the park region is patchy, and attempts to reach members of the Puerto Franco Kichwa by phone were unsuccessful.
The Forest Peoples Programme, a nonprofit that has advocated for the Kichwas, said the first ruling had set a precedent for Indigenous tribes across Peru. FPP’s Matías Pérez Ojeda del Arco described the appellate court’s tossing it out as a “clear judicial irregularity,” and called on the Peruvian authorities to investigate.”
Grández, of Pontifical Catholic, argued that the lower court’s ruling should stand going into that appeal.
“If I were (Judge Sánchez), I’d say my sentence holds until the appeals court reviews the substance,” he said. “Right now, the community still has a ruling in its favor.”
The Peruvian government did not respond to several requests for comment.
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This story has corrected the style for judge’s surname on second reference.
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Mitra Taj, a journalist in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.
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Strong enrollment in Phase 3 trial demonstrates continued execution
Interim analysis expected in 2Q 2023
BERWYN, Pa., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Annovis Bio, Inc. (NYSE: ANVS) ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, today provided a patient enrollment update for the Company's ongoing Phase 3 study of buntanetap for the treatment of Parkinson's disease ("PD").
Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis, commented: "We are very pleased with the pace of enrollment in our Phase 3 study, which is designed to assess the safety and efficacy of buntanetap in early-stage Parkinson's patients. Buntanetap is a highly differentiated and potentially ground-breaking therapy that has been designed to inhibit the production of multiple neurotoxic proteins which are associated with several neurodegenerative conditions, including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. We look forward to providing an interim data analysis from the study in the second quarter of 2023, which will enable us to optimize our patient enrollment for the study."
Based on the current enrollment, the Company anticipates having a sufficient number of patients who have received two months of therapy to conduct an interim analysis in the second quarter of 2023. The purpose of the interim analysis is to determine if the Company's original estimates for patient enrollment in the Phase 3 trial (150 patients per arm) will be sufficient to observe a statistically significant treatment effect in both scales between the active arms and the control arm of the study after six months of treatment.
More specifically, the interim analysis could confirm that 150 patients is the optimal number, or it could inform that less patients are needed (the efficacy is better than expected) or that more patients are needed (the efficacy is less than expected). The boundaries of the extent to which we will decrease or increase the number of patients is +/- 25% or between 112 and 200 patients per arm.
The ongoing Phase 3 trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of buntanetap in patients with early-stage Parkinson's disease. Patients are being treated with 10mg buntanetap, 20mg buntanetap or placebo, on top of their standard of care, for six months. Movement Disorder Society-Sponsored Revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Part II and III will be used as primary endpoints, while total MDS-UPDRS and Participant Global Impression of Change will be secondary endpoints. In addition, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, plasma biomarkers and Mini-Mental State Examination will be evaluated as exploratory endpoints.
The Company's Phase 3 trial in PD builds upon earlier, proof-of-concept data from a Phase 2a study which demonstrated that patients treated with buntanetap showed statistically significant improvements in both motor function and coding speed, as measured by MDS-UPRDS Part III and WAIS Coding scores.1 Additionally, no clinically significant adverse events were observed in the Phase 2a study and its pharmacokinetics were found to be in line with levels measured earlier in humans.
1 Fang et al: Buntanetap Proves Promising in Both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Patients; J Prevention Alzheimer Disease 10-2022
About Buntanetap
Buntanetap (previously known as ANVS401 or Posiphen) is an oral translational inhibitor of neurotoxic aggregating proteins (TINAPs), which mode of action leads to a lower level of neurotoxic proteins and consequently less toxicity in the brain. In a Phase 2a clinical trial in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, buntanetap was shown to be well-tolerated and safe, and its pharmacokinetics were found to be in line with levels measured earlier in humans, meeting both the primary and secondary endpoints. Additionally, exploratory endpoints were also met, as treatment with buntanetap resulted in statistically significant improvement in motor function in PD patients and cognition in AD patients. Presently buntanetap is being studied in a Phase 3 early PD study and in a Phase 2/3 study in AD patients.
About Annovis Bio, Inc.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. (Annovis) is a clinical-stage, drug platform company addressing neurodegeneration, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and other chronic neurodegenerative diseases. We believe that we are the only company developing a drug for AD and PD that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein and, thereby, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport. When this information flow is impaired, the nerve cell gets sick and dies. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
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Kim Kardashian is dipping a toe back in the dating pool. The reality star turned mogul has not been publicly linked to anyone since splitting fromPete Davidson back in August, but a source now tells ET that Kardashian is ready to make a new love connection.
"Kim is more open to dating again and putting herself out there," the source says. "She is feeling good and confident, and is in a great place."
Kardashian finalized her divorce from Kanye West in November after a lengthy two-year process. One month later, the 42-year-old admitted that she hopes she could one day marry again. She was famously married to Kris Humphries for 72 hours in 2011 and, before that, eloped with music producer Damon Thomas in 2000 when she was 19 years old.
"I have this fantasy in my head," Kardashian said on The goop Podcast, "fourth time's a charm. It's going to work out."
Kardashian shares four children -- 9-year-old daughter North, 7-year-old son Saint, 5-year-old daughter Chicago and 3-year-old son Psalm -- with West. Last month, a source told ET that the former couple was doing their best to co-parent amid the rapper's recent romance with his new wife, Bianca Censori.
"Kim and Kanye’s relationship is OK," even though the pair was "still having some back and forth with a few arguments."
The source added, "But co-parenting healthily is their main goal, and that is always the primary focus for Kim."
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Dementia affects an estimated 6.7 million people in the U.S., according to a 2023 report published by the Alzheimer’s Association. Doctors and scientists have spent years researching the disease’s origins and ways to slow its progress.
Back in 2019, Johns Hopkins launched a study to examine the link between dementia and hearing loss, a connection doctors have noticed in many of their patients who suffer from both conditions, and whether hearing aids could help these patients slow the cognitive decline. This randomized study involved more than 3,000 people, who were either assigned to a control group that received counseling in chronic disease prevention, or a group that received hearing aids and treatment from an audiologist. They studied the groups every six months, then gave them a neuro-cognitive test at the end of three years.
The results of this study, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, show a possible link between using hearing aids and reducing cognitive decline for patients with the highest risk for it. Overall, the researchers didn’t find a difference for the group that received the hearing intervention as a whole. However, in the oldest subgroup, which had lower baseline cognitive scores and was at the highest risk, hearing aids slowed the rate of cognitive deterioration by 48%.
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But how are dementia and hearing loss connected?
During an interview with CNN, Dr. Frank Lin, the study’s primary author and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discussed hearing loss’s possible physical and mental impacts on the brain.
First, he said that when someone has difficulty hearing, the brain must work harder and may have to to redistribute its “power” to understand what is being said. This overcompensation may lead to a diminished overall ability to function well. Lin said more study needs to be done on the possible physical impact of hearing loss on the brain, including possible decay and shrinking.
However, Lin also believes hearing loss often leads to isolation as patients avoid socializing, which causes complications for people at risk of dementia.
“For many, many years now, we’ve understood that social isolation and loneliness likely directly affects our risk of cognitive decline dementia, mainly through loss of cognitively stimulating activities but also just a loss of engagement with the world around us as we become … more pigeonholed at home sometimes,” Lin told NPR in an August 2022 interview.
Withover-the-counter hearing aids available in the U.S. since October 2022 and hopefully more studies on the way, Lin and other scientific peers hope easier access to devices and more studies will open a clear path to helping people at high risk for dementia to slow the progression of the disease.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-07-19T14:44:22+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/hearing-aids-may-lessen-dementia-risk-new-study-finds |
More than 83 percent of U.S. waterways recently sampled in a nationwide survey were contaminated by cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” a new analysis has revealed.
Out of 114 rivers and creeks assessed across the country, 95 showed detectable levels of these toxic compounds, according to the analysis, conducted by the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Nearly all these waterways were contaminated by at least one type of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — of which there are thousands — while multiple PFAS compounds were present in most of the samples, the study determined.
In some spots — such as the creeks connected to the Potomac River in Maryland, the Lower Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and the Niagara River in New York — contamination levels were thousands to hundreds of thousands times higher than what experts have deemed safe for drinking water, the researchers warned.
“When we began testing waterways for PFAS earlier this year, we knew that our country had a significant PFAS problem, but these findings confirm that was an understatement,” Marc Yaggi, CEO of Waterkeeper Alliance, said in a statement.
Known for their presence in jet fuel firefighting foam and industrial discharge, PFAS are also key ingredients in a variety of household products.
Living up to their “forever chemical” epithet, these compounds tend to linger in both the human body and the environment. They have been linked to many illnesses, such as thyroid disease, kidney cancer and testicular cancer.
While the survey was a nationwide effort, the work on the ground occurred via 113 local Waterkeeper branches, which took samples in 34 states and in the District of Columbia this past May through July.
The groups took a total of 228 samples from 114 rivers and creeks in these territories and ran laboratory analyses for 55 types of PFAS, according to the study. The researchers said they identified 35 of the 55 individual PFAS in at least one sampled waterway.
The most frequent types of PFAS detected were PFOA and PFOS — the two most notorious types of forever chemicals, for which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently tightened its health advisory limits.
PFOS was detected above the EPA’s interim health advisory level — of 0.02 parts per trillion — at 159 of the 228 sampling sites, or 70 percent of those surveyed.
For reference, 1 part per trillion is approximately equivalent to one droplet in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
The highest level of PFOS detected was 1,364.7 parts per trillion — in a sample from Piscataway Creek, Maryland taken by the Potomac Riverkeeper Network.
Meanwhile, PFOA was identified above the EPA’s interim health advisory level of 0.004 parts per trillion in 158 of the samples taken, according to the analysis.
The greatest concentration of PFOA was 847 parts per trillion — in a sample from Kreutz Creek, Pennsylvania, collected by the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper.
Another notorious type of PFAS, called GenX, was detected in four samples from three waterways: the Saluda River in South Carolina, the Cape Fear River in North Carolina and Tar Creek in Oklahoma, according to the study.
Concentrations of GenX exceeded the EPA’s health advisory level of 10 parts per trillion in one sample taken from the Cape Fear River, which reached 25.8 parts per trillion, the researchers found.
A fourth common type of PFAS, known as PFBS, was observed in 118 out of the 228 sampling sites, according to the analysis. PFBS levels exceeded the EPA’s threshold of 2,000 parts per trillion in one sample — 2,083.3 parts per trillion — from Kreutz Creek in Pennsylvania.
Given these findings, the authors demanded that Congress and the EPA “act with urgency to control and remediate persistence PFAS contamination across the country.”
While experts estimate that nearly 30,000 facilities are discharging PFAS into surface waters and wastewater treatment plants daily, there are no federal limits exist for such releases, the researchers stressed.
“PFAS must be replaced in manufacturing processes with safer alternatives,” Bob Bowcock, founder of the Integrated Resource Management environmental compliance firm, said in a statement.
“Non-essential uses should end,” added Bowcock, who provided third-party review for the analysis.
“Industrial discharges must be stopped,” he said. “Cleanup of highly contaminated sites should be prioritized.” | 2022-10-18T19:11:37+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/hill-politics/most-us-waterways-plagued-by-forever-chemicals-analysis/ |
Givex will launch its best-in-class gift card program in 900 locations in 40 countries, with more than 1,000 to follow in phase two
TORONTO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Givex Information Technology Group Ltd. ("Givex") (TSX: GIVX) announced today it has been named global gift card provider by a popular Spanish fashion retail brand. The agreement will kick off within a few weeks with 900 locations in 40 countries, including the whole of Europe, the United States, and Oman, Qatar.
"We are thrilled to announce the latest win for Givex Europe, with a storied retailer with a sizable global footprint," said Francois Simarro-Doyon.
"This is a major step forward for Givex's continued international growth."
Givex is a comprehensive global customer engagement and business insights platform. In addition to gift card programs, Givex offers GivexPOS, loyalty programs, payment systems and robust analytics to help its clients make efficient business decisions.
"Our ability to deliver elite gift card programs continues to be recognized by notable retailers across the globe," said Simarro-Doyon. "This announcement is a clear illustration of our ability to provide solutions for retailers of any size, in any industry. We are hard at work on the first phase of the launch and expect to share more good news during the balance of the year."
Givex (TSX: GIVX; OTCQX: GIVXF) is a global fintech company providing merchants with customer engagement, point of sale and payment solutions, all in a single platform. We are integrated with 1000+ technology partners, creating a fully end-to-end solution that delivers powerful customer insights. Our platform is used by some of the world's largest brands, comprising approximately 100,000+ active locations across more than 100 countries. Learn more at www.givex.com.
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SOURCE Givex | 2022-07-20T16:45:05+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/major-spanish-fashion-retailer-names-givex-global-gift-card-provider/ |
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