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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 1, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
1233 PM PDT Mon Aug 1 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by heavy rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southwest California, including the eastern
San Gabriels and eastern Antelope Valley in Los Angeles county.
* WHEN...Until 315 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Heavy rainfall will likely trigger flooding of roadways
and normally dry arroyos. Highway 138 will potentially have
flooding impacts between Littlerock and the San Bernardino county
line. Some low-water crossings may become impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1215 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated a cluster of slow
moving heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms across the
eastern portion of the San Gabriel mountains and the adjacent
foothills of the Antelope Valley. The strongest storm cell
was located across the northern portion of the Bobcat burn
scar, just southwest of Pearblossom, with Doopler radar
estimating rainfall rates up to one inch per hour. Roadway
and small stream flooding is expected to begin shortly in the
advisory area.
- Some locations that could experience flooding include...
Lake Los Angeles, Wrightwood, Palmdale, Lancaster,
Pearblossom, Llano, Littlerock, Valyermo, Highway 138 between
Llano and the San Bernardino County line, Saddleback Butte
State Park, Angeles Crest Highway between Mount Waterman and
Wrightwood, Big Pines and Angeles Crest Highway between Mount
Wilson and Mount Waterman.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Move away from recently burned areas. The heavy rain could trigger
shallow mud and debris flows, minor rock falls, and flooding capable
of localized damage, especially in steep terrain in and near burn
scars.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Flooding is occurring or is imminent. It is important to know where
you are relative to streams, rivers, or creeks which can become
killers in heavy rains. Campers and hikers should avoid streams or
creeks.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-08-01T20:45:11+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LOS-ANGELES-Warnings-Watches-and-17343516.php |
Amber Alert: North Texas 12-year-old abducted in Chevy Silverado
Published: Jul. 16, 2022 at 4:41 PM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
CORINTH, Texas (KWTX) -The Corinth Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find an abducted teen taken in a Chevy truck.
Angie Carrasco, 12, was last seen at 1:45 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of Cherokee Trail.
Carrasco is described as a Hispanic girl who is 5′1″, 120 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair, last seen wearing a T-shirt, black shorts and black croc-style shoes.
Police say they are looking for an unknown suspect driving a 2015-2016 Chevy Silverado.
Anyone with information is asked to call (940) 279-1503.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. via KWTX. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-16T22:19:52+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/07/16/amber-alert-north-texas-12-year-old-abducted-chevy-silverado/ |
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I am writing to you about the unintended consequences of legalizing marijuana.
In April, I moved into a duplex. Eight months later, a new owner moved into our unit and began smoking cannabis. The fumes permeated our mutual firewall and filled our new retirement home with a stench of drugs. Upon confronting the neighbor with our issue, he claimed he is doing nothing illegal and what he does in his house is not our business.
The local police said it’s legal and there is nothing they can do.
So I am a victim of Virginia’s well-intentioned legalization of marijuana, and I have to live in a house that stinks of cannabis — or move.
We have vacated our master bedroom and now live in the guest room to escape the stench.
To date I have spent $1,200 on insulation contractors to block the smell, but it’s a situation of whack-a-mole. As you seal one area, the fumes migrate to another area.
Were I still employed by the Department of Defense with a TopSecret/SCI security clearance, I might fail one of our random drug tests just by living in my home.
Kenneth Hartlein
Suffolk, Va.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s GOP governor nominee said Thursday he would fight against a national abortion ban if congress were to pass one.
“It’s the vote of the people within the state of Nevada, and I will support that,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who is anti-abortion, said in a press gaggle next to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin after the two spent the day campaigning across the state. “That is an issue that doesn’t need to be in politics.”
Nevada voters codified the right to abortion up to 24 weeks into law in a 1990 referendum vote. Any order to place more restrictions on abortion would have to come from a vote of the people, not the state legislature, unlike in many other states.
Earlier this week, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed a near-total abortion ban after 15 weeks. The legislation undermined many GOP candidates' arguments this summer that the future of abortion rights in the U.S. would be decided by individual states.
Lombardo maintained that the decision should be up to Nevada voters, not politicians. He has long campaigned as an anti-abortion governor who would respect the state’s 1990 referendum vote.
“I’m Catholic and pro-life. But in Nevada, the right to an abortion is codified in law, and only Nevada voters can change that,” he has said in previous statements.
Still, a nationwide abortion ban would supersede Nevada law. It is unclear what avenues Lombardo would take to fight against the congressional mandate if it were to happen.
Lombardo's announcement came in contrast to some Republicans who have shied away or supported Sen. Lindsay Graham's proposed 15-week ban. Republican Congressional candidate April Becker, from Nevada's 3rd congressional district, is pro-life except for instances of rape and incest. But she told NBC News this week that she would vote against a nationwide abortion ban, calling it unconstitutional for Congress to regulate abortion.
Also on Thursday, New Mexico's Republican governor nominee proposed a statewide referendum that could place new limitations on abortion access.
In the days following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, Nevada Gov. Sisolak signed an executive order saying that Nevada will not assist other states that try to prosecute residents who travel to Nevada for abortions. It also ensures medical boards and commissions that oversee medical licenses do not discipline or disqualify doctors who provide abortions.
Though he has stepped back from when he said he would overturn the executive order, Lombardo has maintained that he would "look at it from the lens of being a pro-life governor."
Lombardo and Youngkin spent the day holding events in both Las Vegas and Reno, where the Virginia governor evoked his own high-profile victory a year ago at events in both Reno and Las Vegas.
Lombardo attacked Nevada’s Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak on education, crime and his closing of nonessential businesses during COVID-19. He talked of further diversifying Nevada’s economy, more power for school decision-making to parents and expanding charter schools.
“This was a movement,” Youngkin said of his victory later on. “And that movement is here now. It’s your turn.”
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Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Stern on Twitter @gabestern326 | 2022-09-16T02:04:04+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/gop-governor-nominee-says-hell-fight-us-abortion-ban/2AMRCRIYM5DUBIYWUCQYDJLBIY/ |
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Tuesday that he is open to revising Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in response to rising hate speech on Twitter directed at Black and Jewish Americans.
Section 230 grants social media platforms such as Twitter protection from legal liability for offensive, wrongful or damaging content posted on their sites.
Schumer said he is open to revisiting that legal protection in the wake of new reports by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League that found hate speech on Twitter has grown significantly since entrepreneur Elon Musk bought the company for $44 billion.
“I’ve always said that Section 230 is something that we should look at that. The difficulty there is coming up with the right solution, but it’s something I’d be open to looking at,” he told reporters after the Democratic caucus lunch.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate found that daily use of the N-word on Twitter has tripled since Musk took control of the company. Slurs directed at gay men and transgender people have also gone up dramatically on Twitter under Musk’s leadership, the group found.
The Anti-Defamation League found “both an increase in antisemitic content” on Twitter and “a decrease in the moderation of antisemitic posts.”
The Network Contagion Research Institute, which monitors the spread of online hate, found a “prolific surge” in anti-Jewish content, according to The Times of Israel.
The institute reported that “terms associated with Jew” are being tweeted more than 5,000 time per hour and most of the comments are “overtly antisemitic.”
Some lawmakers think the findings may spur Democrats to work with Republicans to withdraw some legal liability protection from Twitter and other social media platforms that become forums for hate speech.
“I think the place where we could start and should start would be Section 230. We should just repeal it,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who questioned whether that idea would get much Democratic support.
A group of House lawmakers introduced legislation last year that would remove legal immunity from any online platform that knowingly or recklessly uses an algorithm to recommend content based on personal information or if that recommendation causes physical or emotional injury.
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Ca.) introduced the legislation.
Schumer is the first Jewish Senate majority leader in American history and recently won reelection with 56.4 percent of the vote to a fifth Senate term. | 2022-12-06T21:54:18+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/schumer-open-to-reforming-tech-liability-protections-amid-rising-hate-speech-on-twitter/ |
TX Lubbock TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, September 22, 2022
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854 FPUS54 KLUB 230752
ZFPLUB
Zone Forecasts for the South Plains Area
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
TXZ035-232115-
Lubbock-
Including the cities of Lubbock, Wolfforth, and Slaton
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ026-232115-
Childress-
Including the cities of Childress and Kirkland
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to southwest 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ021-232115-
Parmer-
Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, and Farwell
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 80s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ022-232115-
Castro-
Including the cities of Dimmitt and Hart
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ023-232115-
Swisher-
Including the cities of Tulia and Happy
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ024-232115-
Briscoe-
Including the cities of Silverton and Quitaque
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
TXZ025-232115-
Hall-
Including the cities of Turkey and Memphis
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ027-232115-
Bailey-
Including the city of Muleshoe
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ028-232115-
Lamb-
Including the cities of Littlefield, Amherst, and Olton
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming east in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ029-232115-
Hale-
Including the cities of Plainview and Hale Center
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ030-232115-
Floyd-
Including the cities of Floydada and Lockney
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ031-232115-
Motley-
Including the cities of Matador and Roaring Springs
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer with highs in the lower 90s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
$$
TXZ032-232115-
Cottle-
Including the cities of Paducah and Cee Vee
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph
in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ033-232115-
Cochran-
Including the cities of Morton and Whiteface
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. South winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ034-232115-
Hockley-
Including the cities of Levelland and Sundown
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming east 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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TXZ036-232115-
Crosby-
Including the cities of Ralls and Crosbyton
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph
in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ037-232115-
Dickens-
Including the cities of Spur and Dickens
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ038-232115-
King-
Including the cities of Dumont and Guthrie
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ039-232115-
Yoakum-
Including the cities of Denver City and Plains
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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TXZ040-232115-
Terry-
Including the cities of Brownfield, Meadow, and Wellman
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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TXZ041-232115-
Lynn-
Including the cities of Tahoka, New Home, and ODonnell
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ042-232115-
Garza-
Including the cities of Post and Lake Alan Henry
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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TXZ043-232115-
Kent-
Including the city of Jayton
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph
this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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TXZ044-232115-
Stonewall-
Including the cities of Aspermont and Old Glory
252 AM CDT Fri Sep 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
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DAYTONA BEACH — A shooting scare at a central Florida high school was a “cruel prank” carried out by two groups of students who now face criminal charges and possible expulsion, police said.
Rumors, lies and conspiracy theories have been “floating around" on social media since Friday's lockdown at Mainland High School, Daytona Beach police said Sunday in a lengthy Facebook post.
“This entire incident appears to have been a cruel prank by several students that has now gotten out of control due to internet trolls, misinformed people and in some cases, people that are not even in Florida," police said.
Investigators said officials at the school became aware of a threat written on a bathroom stall Thursday. School officials and law enforcement reviewed video and interviewed two students who had entered the bathroom around the time the graffiti was discovered.
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The students denied involvement and it was determined that no threat existed, police said.
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On Friday, two groups of students in the cafeteria “decided to capitalize on the threat" and “appear to collaborate with each other to create a panic," police said.
They were seen on video “getting into specific positions and locations within the cafeteria, timing their actions" and several female students told an administrator someone had a gun.
At the same time, a male student ran from the building “causing a large crowd to follow him."
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Video showed that no one appeared to have a gun at any time, police said.
Detectives have identified students involved in the incident and interviewed most of them. Stories have changed from seeing someone with a gun to “they just heard there was one," the report said.
The agency planned to have an extra presence on campus Monday to “ensure that everything goes smoothly."
Second-degree felony charges for making a false report concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner are pending for those involved, the statement said. Detectives are also recommending that everyone involved be expelled from school. | 2022-09-12T14:39:05+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-daytona-florida-school-lockdown-prank-20220912-gffzbfyvbnav7oiiwcyevljaae-story.html |
Bryce Harris came off the bench for 20 points and seven boards to power top-seeded Howard to a 91-55 win over the eighth-seeded South Carolina State Bulldogs Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Basketball Tournament at the Scope Arena.
Shy Odom, the MEAC Rookie of the Year, added 13 points and Elijah Hawkins, a First Team All-MEAC selection, contributed 10 in the victory, the Bison’s third in as many outings against S.C. State this season.
Head coach Kenneth Blakeney’s team improved to 20-12 and earned a spot in Friday’s 6 p.m. semifinal against the winner of Thursday’s quarterfinal contest between fourth-seeded Maryland Eastern Shore and Morgan State, the fifth seed.
SC State ended its campaign at 5-26. Coach Erik Martin’s team was paced by Cameron Jones with 14 points and Lesown Hallums with 10. Davion Everett had eight rebounds to go along with two points for the Bulldogs.
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Howard, using the long ball effectively, rolled to a 38-21 lead at the half and never allowed the Bulldogs to get back in the contest. After going to the locker room ahead by 15, the Bison began the second half with a 17-4 run to go build a 30-point cushion – 55-25 – when Harris got inside for a layup with 15:10 remaining.
The Bulldogs Jordan Simpson, a member of the league’s 2023 All-Rookie Team, got a layup for SC State but Howard scored 13 of the next 17 points to build an insurmountable 61-27 advantage with 13:25 to play. Howard took its biggest lead of 43 points, 77-34 with 8:21 remaining.
Howard connected on 8-21 field goal attempts from beyond the arc, but it seemed like more as the long ball was instrumental in both Bison big runs. Marcus Dockery, who had nine points in the game was 3-5 from three-point range for Howard.
Overall, Blakeney’s team hit 50.7 percent (35-69) of its shots from the field, including a 38.1 percent from long range.
SC State struggled throughout the game with its shooting, making just 32.8 percent (21-64) of its attempts overall and 24.1 percent (7-29) from behind the arc.
Fifty of Howard’s 91 points came in the paint as opposed to 26 for the Bulldogs, and the Bison enjoyed a slight 43-39 edge on the boards.
The Bison took an early 9-4 lead in the contest before S.C. State came back to deadlock the game at 12-12 on a 3-pointer by Jones with 10:28 left in the half.
Howard’s Jordan Wood, who had seven points in the game, answered with a 3-pointer of his own and Odom put in a long ball to trigger a 20-0 run by the 2023 MEAC Champions that put them ahead 27-12 with on two free throws by Bryce Harris with 7:13 on the first-period clock.
The Bison connected on four baskets from beyond the arc during the spree. A 3-pointer by the Bulldogs’ Jones snapped the Howard run to make the score 27-15 with 6:46 left in the opening half. A 11-6 run by Howard in the closing minutes of the half sent the Bison to the locker room ahead 38-21. | 2023-03-09T03:17:34+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/sports/sc-state-mens-basketball-bulldogs-fall-to-top-seeded-howard/article_67cee2a9-25ea-568c-ba2b-f2e6b67614b2.html |
Trial is assessing safety and immunogenicity of intramuscular, live-attenuated influenza vaccine, CodaVax™- H1N1, in healthy adults
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Codagenix Inc., a clinical-stage synthetic biology company with a rational virus design platform for viral vaccines and immuno-oncology therapeutics, today announced that it has completed dosing of its Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate CodaVax™-H1N1, a universal, live-attenuated influenza vaccine. The randomized, double-blind clinical trial is being conducted in Australia and aims to assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine in healthy adults 18-49 years of age.
While existing influenza vaccines must be reformulated each year, CodaVax-H1N1 is a universal influenza vaccine designed to induce protection against all strains of influenza by safely leveraging the unique and proven benefits of live-attenuated vaccines, which induce strong cellular immunity and durable antibody responses. CodaVax-H1N1, like all Codagenix vaccines, has been developed using a proprietary and exclusive codon-deoptimization platform to present all antigens of the naturally occurring virus, while hindering replication activity within the host by introducing hundreds of mutations that code for naturally non-preferred codons. Pre-clinical data have demonstrated the potential of CodaVax-H1N1 to induce an antibody response to stalk antigens from a divergent high-path H5 strain in non-human primates. CodaVax-H1N1 is produced via cell-based manufacturing, which is amenable to rapid scale-up and eliminates the need for costly egg-based production.
"Current influenza vaccines provide inadequate protection against varied seasonal strains or those that threaten to cause a pandemic. We are excited to continue this Phase 1 trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of CodaVax-H1N1—bringing us one step closer to delivering a universal and broadly accessible solution that does not require annual reformulation," said J. Robert Coleman, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Codagenix. "CodaVax-H1N1 is well-suited for cost-effective manufacturing at commercial scales, ensuring it is readily available and accessible for global distribution."
The Phase 1 trial enrolled 45 patients total across three cohorts of escalating dose to receive intramuscular vaccinations, with roughly nine patients receiving CovaVax-H1N1 at each dose level, nine patients receiving placebo and nine patients receiving a licensed seasonal influenza comparator vaccine. The primary endpoints of the study are determination of reactogenicity and adverse events stemming from vaccination, with a secondary endpoint to assess humoral immune responses elicited by intramuscular injection with CodaVax-H1N1.
Initial results from this study are anticipated in Q4 2022. Visit clinicaltrials.gov for additional information (NCT05223179).
About Codagenix, Inc.
Codagenix is a clinical-stage biotechnology company leading a new era of live vaccines and viral therapeutics. The company's breakthrough platform brings together live-attenuated virus design with cutting-edge codon deoptimization for powerful synthetic biology-based solutions to take on our biggest threats in infectious disease, cancer and animal health. Codagenix was founded based on technology developed in the laboratory of National Academy of Science member Dr. Eckard Wimmer at Stony Brook University; is supported by Adjuvant Capital, TopSpin Partners, and Euclidean Capital; and has ongoing research and license programs with various federal agencies. For more information, visit codagenix.com.
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SOURCE Codagenix, Inc. | 2022-06-14T12:42:43+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/codagenix-completes-dosing-phase-1-trial-universal-influenza-vaccine/ |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s deputy secretary-general urged every country “with capacity” to urgently consider the Haitian government’s request for an international armed force to help restore security and alleviate a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation, which is in “a deepening crisis of unprecedented scale and complexity that is cause for serious alarm.”
Amina Mohammed also reiterated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for international support for the beleaguered Haitian National Police.
“Insecurity has reached unprecedented levels and human rights abuses are widespread,” she told the U.N. Security Council. “Armed gangs have expanded their violent criminal activities, using killings and gang rapes to terrorize and subjugate communities.”
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the country’s Council of Ministers sent an urgent appeal Oct. 7 calling for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity” to stop the crisis caused partly by the “criminal actions of armed gangs.” But more than two months later, no countries have stepped forward.
Meanwhile, the already terrible situation in Haiti has gotten worse.
Helen La Lime, the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, told the council that gang violence has increased to “alarmingly high levels,” marked by spikes in kidnappings, killings and rapes.
“November witnessed 280 intentional homicides, the highest on record,” she said. Reported kidnappings for ransom have exceeded 1,200 cases so far this year — double the number recorded in 2021 — “making every commute for the average Haitian an ordeal.”
La Lime said the increase in reported rapes reflects the “horrendous” use of sexual violence by gang members “to intimidate and subjugate whole communities,” and the brutality of this violence “has become a badge of notoriety for perpetrators.”
Compounding the plight for millions of Haitians, the gangs control all main roads in and out of the capital, Port-au-Prince, which has created a “catastrophic economic situation” because trade is now stymied, she said.
“Close to half the population are food insecure, with some 20,000 people facing famine-like conditions,” thousands are displaced and 34% of schools remain closed, La Lime said, and the number of suspected cholera cases has increased to 15,000.
She said the Haitian National Police force continues to shrink, with its operational strength down to 13,000 personnel, with fewer than 9,000 available as active-duty officers.
While police have carried out some effective operations against gangs in Port-au-Prince, La Lime said, they need a specialized force as secretary-general Guterres outlined in October.
Many Haitians have rejected the idea of another international intervention, noting that U.N. peacekeepers were accused of sexual assault and sparked a cholera epidemic more than a decade ago that killed nearly 10,000 people. The United States has led several interventions in Haiti, including in 1994 and 2004, and there is also opposition to another American military foray.
Some opponents claim Henry hopes to use foreign troops to keep himself in power. He assumed the premiership last year after the still-unsolved assassination of President Jovenal Moise. Many consider Henry is illegally in the position because he was never elected nor formally confirmed in the post by the legislature.
Henry has failed to set a date for elections, which have not been held since 2016, but has pledged to do so once the violence is quelled.
Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus told the council the circumstances that pushed the government to request an international force to support the police “to eradicate or at least contain the phenomenon of armed gangs” and restore order haven’t changed much. He said the Haitian people “in their vast majority” favor an international force “no matter what some say.”
Geneus said Henry met civic, business and political leaders Wednesday morning to sign a “National Consensus” document that will establish a transitional council to move toward organizing elections “in the course of next year.”
U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood said because of the upsurge in gang activity the United States continues “to advocate for international security support, including a non-U.N. multinational force as requested by the Haitian government.”
He made no mention of countries that might lead or participate in such a force but said the U.S. has provided more than $90 million in security support to Haiti in the past 18 months and will continue to provide “critical support.”
Canada’s U.N. Ambassador Robert Rae, whose country has been mentioned as a possible leader of a multinational force, told the council: “The solutions must be led by Haiti, not by Canada, not by the United States, not by anyone here, not by any country, not by the U.N.”
He said the plans have to come from within the country after “a deep and sustained political dialogue” and “we need to make a concerted effort to understand the needs of Haitians and to support the country’s plans.” | 2022-12-22T19:36:37+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-un-deputy-urges-countries-to-consider-armed-force-for-haiti/ |
Russian court sets Brittney Griner appeal date for Oct. 25
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday set Oct. 25 as the date for American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession.
Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
The Moscow region court said it will hear her appeal.
Griner admitted that she had the canisters in her luggage, but testified that she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.
Her February arrest came at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington, just days before Russia sent troops into Ukraine. At the time, Griner, recognized as one of the greatest players in WNBA history, was returning to Russia, where she played during the U.S. league’s offseason.
The nine-year sentence was close to the maximum of 10 years, and Griner’s lawyers argued after the conviction that the punishment was excessive. They said in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole.
Before her conviction, the U.S. State Department declared Griner to be “wrongfully detained” — a charge that Russia has sharply rejected.
Reflecting the growing pressure on the Biden administration to do more to bring Griner home, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of revealing publicly in July that Washington had made a “substantial proposal” to get Griner home, along with Paul Whelan, an American serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for espionage.
Blinken didn’t elaborate, but The Associated Press and other news organizations have reported that Washington has offered to exchange Griner and Whelan for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the “merchant of death.”
The White House said it has not yet received a productive response from Russia to the offer.
Russian diplomats have refused to comment on the U.S. proposal and urged Washington to discuss the matter in confidential talks, avoiding public statements.
U.S. President Joe Biden met last month with Cherelle Griner, the wife of Brittney Griner, as well as the player’s agent, Lindsay Colas. Biden also sat down separately with Elizabeth Whelan, Paul Whelan’s sister.
The White House said after the meetings that the president stressed to the families his “continued commitment to working through all available avenues to bring Brittney and Paul home safely.”
The Biden administration carried out a prisoner swap in April, with Moscow releasing Marine veteran Trevor Reed in exchange for the U.S. releasing a Russian pilot, Konstantin Yaroshenko, convicted in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-03T17:54:41+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2022/10/03/russian-court-sets-griner-appeal-hearing-oct-25/ |
Brittney Griner is headed home and she intends to play basketball this season
By Abby Phillip and Ray Sanchez, CNN
Brittney Griner departed a medical military facility in Texas on Friday and headed home to Arizona, and she intends to play basketball for her team this season, according to her Instagram feed.
For the two-time Olympic gold medalist, who was released last week in a prisoner swap after nearly 300 days in Russian custody, the day marks another step in her reintegration into American life.
“It feels so good to be home! The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn,” she said in an Instagram post. “I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help.”
Griner said she was “grateful to each person who advocated for me” and she mentioned Paul Whelan, whose release could not be secured in the prisoner swap that brought her home.
“President Biden, you brought me home and I know you are committed to bringing Paul Whelan and all Americans home too,” she said. “I will use my platform to do whatever I can to help you. I also encourage everyone that played a part in bringing me home to continue their efforts to bring all Americans home. Every family deserves to be whole.”
Griner took off from San Antonio around 11 a.m. on Friday, CNN confirmed via her agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas.
As she boarded the plane, Griner was greeted by Phoenix Mercury GM Jim Pitman, Vince Kozar, president of the Phoenix Mercury, and her Mercury teammate Diana Taurasi, all of whom made a surprise appearance to welcome her home.
Griner was headed back to Arizona, though her representatives would not confirm exactly where, citing security concerns. CNN previously reported that Griner and her wife, Cherelle, had already made plans to move upon her return to the United States.
“I also want to make one thing very clear: I intend to play basketball for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury this season, and in doing so, I look forward to being able to say ‘thank you’ to those of you who advocated, wrote, and posted for me in person soon,” Griner said.
Griner’s detention, after Russian officials found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage, became an international cause during a delicate time in relations between Washington and Moscow. US officials deemed it a wrongful detention.
She had traveled to Russia to play basketball in the WNBA offseason and was arrested on drug smuggling charges at an airport in the Moscow region.
Despite her testimony that she had inadvertently packed the cannabis oil in her luggage, Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison in early August and was moved to a penal colony in the Mordovia republic in mid-November after losing her appeal.
The Phoenix Mercury center became a pawn in Russia’s war in Ukraine and returned to the US on December 9 after a prisoner swap for notorious convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Griner stayed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio for a week for routine evaluation. She has been staying with her wife, Cherelle Griner, in a residential facility on the base. Her arrest and conviction brought attention to the plight of other Americans in Russian custody, including Whelan and Trevor Reed, who returned to the US in April after a nearly three-year ordeal.
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Running on the beach may not be everyone's favorite summer activity, but it was all smiles out on Pismo Beach.
About 500 participants got together at the Pismo Beach Pier to run against the low tide.
This was all part of the Stride with the Tide 5k run that took place at 8:30 A.M.
Participants were not forced to run; people could also walk and jog.
The Stride with the Tide 5k run happens every year in late July.
This is one of the summer events organized by the City of Pismo Beach.
“You just try to go a nauseating pace and then back it down a few seconds, so you don't actually hurl, and then pray for the finish line, that's the goal," said Jeff Reynolds, a Stride with the Tide participant.
Reynolds also said he's been participating almost every year and this year he got second place in his age group division.
The entry fee was $30 with a shirt and $20 for the race only. | 2022-07-31T03:25:31+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/runners-and-walkers-enjoyed-the-stride-with-the-tide-5k-run |
NEW YORK and CHICAGO, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a preeminent national consumer rights law firm, is investigating claims on behalf of individuals whose past due accounts were sold to Receivables Performance Management and whose information may be have stolen in a recent data breach.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 71-year-old man who was last seen back in October.
Warren Williams, who was diagnosed with paranoia and schizophrenia, was released from the Fulton County Jail on Oct. 11, 2022, and had contact with Cobb County Police near the Rosebrook Crossing area in Smyrna one day later, according to authorities.
He has not made contact with family or friends since then. His brother has reported him missing, according to police.
Williams stands 5-feet 6-inches tall and weighs 173 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white shirt, brown pants and black shoes. Williams lives in College Park.
His brother said he last saw him wearing a white T-shirt, brown pants and black shoes before he was arrested on Oct. 8, 2022, but was unsure what he may have been wearing when he was released.
Williams' brother also said he does not have a cell phone.
Anyone who knows about Williams' whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Atlanta Police Homicide/Missing Persons Unit at (404) 546-4235. | 2023-03-23T01:59:23+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/missing-man-warren-williams-last-seen-october-fulton-co/85-e1a6f4d5-44d1-4172-b11c-0127486115b9 |
DENVER (KDVR) — The Pinpoint Weather Team says that a major monsoon surge will arrive in Colorado this week.
Meteorologist Chris Tomer said that if you are planning a hike, you should avoid high peaks on Thursday and Friday due to multiple rounds of rain, thunderstorms, and summit snow.
The biggest impacts from the storm system will be in the mountains south of Interstate 70, especially the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo mountains, Tomer said.
Flash flooding is possible Thursday and Friday, especially over the burn scars. Tomer said the atmosphere will be loaded with moisture.
Saturday afternoon will also be active with rain and thunderstorms across the mountains south of I-70.
An important thing to remember before the monsoon surge arrives is this: “Turn Around Don’t Drown.” If you see standing water, do not drive through it.
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Be sure to download the free Pinpoint Weather app to get vital weather information sent straight to your phone. | 2022-07-26T20:21:12+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/weather/hikers-beware-avoid-high-peaks-these-days-due-to-monsoon/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday hailed economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Ducey spoke during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.
Taiwan is a leader in the production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Arizona is also home to a base that trains Taiwan’s F-16 fighter pilots who are a major part in the island’s defenses against a threatened Chinese blockade or invasion. Arizona also plans to open a state representative office in Taipei and the sides have inked an agreement on cooperation in higher education. The TSMC investment is expected to create 2,000 jobs in Arizona, with the company taking numerous future workers for training in Taiwan.
“Arizona and Taiwan have many shared economic strengths specifically in technology and advanced manufacturing industries,” Ducey said.
“Both Arizona and Taiwan are global semiconductor leaders and it is in this industry where our partnership is the greatest. (The investment) has elevated the potential of what’s possible between Arizona and Taiwan,” the governor said.
Neither Tsai or Ducey directly mentioned China, although in her remarks, the president indicated current events were driving expanded economic links between the sides.
“In the face of authoritarian expansionism and the economic challenges of the post-pandemic era, Taiwan seeks to bolster cooperation with the United States in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries,” Tsai said.
“This would help build more secure and more resilient supply chains. We look forward to jointly producing democracy chips to safeguard the interests of our democratic partners and create greater prosperity,” she said.
Close links between Taiwan and Arizona date back to the state’s former senators Barry Goldwater and John McCain, conservatives who were strongly critical of Beijing.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan early last month made her the highest-ranking American official to visit in 25 years, prompting China to launch missiles over the island and send ships and planes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. recently sent a pair of missile cruisers through the 180 kilometer (110 mile)-wide strait in a rejection of Chinese protests. Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. remains Taiwan’s main source of political and military support and federal law requires it to ensure the island has the ability to defend itself against Chinese threats.
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Sweater weather. Pumpkin doughnuts. Autumn is upon us! One of the best ways to get in the fall spirit is by decorating your home. You can make a surprisingly big impact without spending a lot of money, or without creating a giant yard display. And nothing says fall like pumpkins, am I right?
Bringing fake pumpkins into the mix allows you to expand your fall decor repertoire without having to worry about them spoiling, plus they’re reusable. Take them outside and never worry about the squirrels gobbling them up again. You can break them out year after year, using them in new and different ways. One year you might mix them in a bowl on your countertop and the next, you could scatter them across your bookshelves.
Amazon has a nice set fake pumpkins marked down right now, just in time to whip your home into proper autumn shape.
Ticlooc Mixed 12-Piece Artificial Pumpkins ($16)
This set of a dozen by Ticlooc gives you four each of white, burlap and black-and-white checkered fake pumpkins. Made from foam and wood, each one is small enough to fit in your palm and measures 3.35 inches in diameter and 2.75 inches tall. Create a Thanksgiving dinner centerpiece or banquet place settings full of rustic charm. Being so lightweight, they can even be used to make autumn wreaths.
Amazon users mentioned displaying them separately and as bowl fillers. The possibilities with these fake pumpkins go on and on. You could fill a glass vase, set them out at fall birthday parties or display them on your desk or place them in a tiered tray along with other fall decor items like twigs and leaves to make a larger statement. They also make festive decorations for fall-themed weddings.
The white pumpkins even offer a smooth surface that’s perfect for drawing jack-o’-lantern faces onto or writing names for place settings.
This 12-set of fake pumpkins is currently marked down slightly to $15.99 on Amazon (normally $16.99) but you can also add a coupon for saving another 15% on the product page, to cut it even further. The set comes highly recommended, with an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 5. Several people mentioned how well they blended with their farmhouse decor while another reviewer mentioned using them on her mantel between lights. She said they are worth the money.
Reviewer Lisa B. called them so cute and said she puts them in her front porch lanterns and gets compliments all the time.
While the majority of the reviews on these fake pumpkins are positive, the negative reviews have lamented stems being broken off during transit or attached ones that aren’t properly centered.
If these palm-size pumpkins aren’t quite bold enough for your Halloween tastes, check out this 12-foot animated mummy from Lowe’s or a 25-foot Stay Puft Marshmallow Man inflatable!
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief stressed Tuesday that the world is fortunate a nuclear accident hasn’t happened in Ukraine and asked Moscow and Kyiv to commit to preventing any attack on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and make other pledges “to avoid the danger of a catastrophic incident.”
Rafael Grossi reiterated to the U.N. Security Council what he told the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors in March: “We are rolling a dice and if this continues then one day our luck will run out.”
The IAEA director general said avoiding a nuclear accident is possible if five principles are observed at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where fighting on seven occasions, most recently last week, disrupted critical power supplies, “the last line of defense against a nuclear accident.”
Grossi “respectfully and solemnly” asked Ukraine and Russia to observe the principles, saying IAEA experts at Zaporizhzhia will start monitoring and he will publicly report on any violations:
— Ban attacks from or against the plant, especially targeting reactors and spent fuel storage areas.
— Ban the storage of heavy weapons or presence of military personnel that could be used for an attack.
— Ensure the security of an uninterrupted off-site power supply to the plant.
— Protect “all structures, systems and components” essential to the plant’s operation from attacks or acts of sabotage.
— Take no action to undermine these principles.
Grossi asked the 15 Security Council members to support the five principles, stressing that they are “to no one’s detriment and to everyone’s benefit.”
The Kremlin’s forces took over the plant after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy opposes any proposal that would legitimize Russia’s control.
Neither the Russian nor Ukrainian ambassador gave a commitment to support the principles.
Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya accused Russia of continuing “to actively use the nuclear plant for military purposes.” He said Russia has mined its perimeter and is responsible for shelling that has inflicted “serious damage” on parts of the plant, undermining its safety. He claimed 500 Russian military personnel are at the plant along with heavy weapons, munitions and explosives.
“The threat of dangerous accident as a result of these irresponsible and criminal actions hangs over us,” he said.
Kyslytsya said Ukraine takes “note” of Grossi’s five principles but urges him to add several more, starting with the withdrawal of all Russian personnel from the Zaporizhzhia plant, guarantees of uninterrupted power to the plant from Ukraine, and a humanitarian corridor to ensure that Ukrainian and IAEA personnel at the plant can be rotated safely.
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia denied that Russia has ever attacked the Zaporizhzhia plant, placed heavy weapons there or stationed military personnel at the plant to carry out an attack from its territory.
He accused Ukraine of shelling the plant and said “Russia will take the most severe measures” to respond to any Ukraine attack.
Nebenzia insisted that nuclear safety remains a priority for Russia and urged the IAEA to “openly condemn Ukraine’s actions, which have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe.”
Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward said an IAEA report in February confirmed the continuing presence of Russian military troops, equipment and land mines.
“New imagery shows Russian forces have established sandbag fighting positions on the roofs of several of the six reactor buildings,” she said. “This indicates that they have integrated the actual reactor buildings of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into tactical defense planning.”
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged council members to support the five principles, but accused Russia of demonstrating “flagrant disregard” for them.
“To make matters worse, recent news reports indicate that Moscow has disconnected Zaporizhzhia’s vital radiation monitoring sensors, which means the plant’s data is now being sent to the Russian nuclear regulator,” she said,
“This is a clear escalation of Russia’s efforts to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty and authority over the Zaporizhzhia plant,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “And this undermines our ability to have confidence in the level of nuclear safety at the plant.”
Grossi, asked whether he felt he had received commitments from Russia and Ukraine to the five principles, replied that the council meeting showed “there is a consensus on the fact that no nuclear accident should happen.”
“The important thing is that the minimum common denominator, which are these basic five principles, have been widely supported and there was no voice opposing them,” he said. “This indicates that what we are saying is something no one has a contradictory view upon.” | 2023-05-31T20:11:35+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-un-nuclear-chief-urges-russia-and-ukraine-to-ban-attacks-at-europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant/ |
"Crown Royal Honors the Military Community Ahead of Veteran's Day announcing a donation to CreatiVets as part of the Crown Royal Generosity Fund $1 million commitment to serving those who serve us"
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Royal returned to the CMA Awards for its fifth year as the program's exclusive whisky partner, this time with country music superstar Lainey Wilson and nonprofit organization CreatiVets, a charity designed to help veterans heal through music therapy and the arts. The award-winning whisky brand celebrated Country Music's Biggest Night™, which aired live on ABC Wednesday, November 9, by raising a glass to the most generous among us, active-duty military and veterans. CreatiVets founder, Richard Casper, joined Wilson, the CMA Awards New Artist and Female Vocalist winner, live, on-stage to receive a surprise donation of $50,000, on behalf of Crown Royal. Just ahead of Veterans' Day, the brand is proud to honor Casper's selflessness and lifesaving work through the foundation and further its steadfast support of the military community.
The storied Canadian whisky brand also celebrated and hosted veterans from all over the country in Nashville to participate in the Crown Royal Purple Bag Project, an initiative designed in partnership with Packages From Home, which turns donated Crown Royal bags into care packages for military overseas. Leading up to the CMA Awards, country superstar Lainey Wilson surprised the veterans and packed purple bags for active duty service men and women. During the private gathering, Wilson and the veterans not only packed purple bags, but also bonded over their shared love of music. Wilson was able to truly connect with them, hear the veterans' stories, and learn how music continues to play a fundamental role in their healing journey.
"The CMA Awards are so special and getting an opportunity to connect with these veterans, now turned musicians, right before Veterans' Day was truly incredible," said Wilson. "I can tell you firsthand about the healing power of music and it's been a privilege to join Crown Royal and CreatiVets in honoring the military community that I admire and respect so deeply through something I love."
During the show, Wilson gave viewers the opportunity to trigger an additional donation from Crown Royal to CreatiVets by scanning a QR code that appeared onscreen or by visiting www.crownroyal.com/cmascreativets. These donations will be added to the $50,000 Crown Royal will contribute to help CreatiVets continue to serve hundreds of veterans each year through music therapy and songwriting workshops.**
"I am honored CreatiVets is being recognized for the life-saving work we're doing to empower and heal veterans with music," said Richard Casper, founder of CreatiVets. "As we saw last night, music brings people together and I cannot wait to further our mission thanks to the generosity of Crown Royal."
Crown Royal has a deep tradition of giving back, and as a long-standing supporter of the military, is proud to support the most generous people in our communities who selflessly serve others. For over a decade, Crown Royal has ignited exceptional generosity within our communities by giving back to the people and places that support them. Through partnerships with organizations like Packages From Home, the brand has supported over 1 million servicemen and women through the Purple Bag Project. This very season, Crown is taking the bag-packing program that provides food, hygiene, and entertainment items to veterans worldwide, with events all across the country.
"Our brand prides itself on honoring icons that keep their communities thriving and we're thrilled to recognize Richard Casper for his incredible acts of service to the military through CreatiVets. Our longstanding partnership with CMA gives us a platform to amplify the military community we so strongly support and gives them the spotlight they deserve," said Nicky Heckles, Vice President of Crown Royal. "Crown Royal is proud to come together with Lainey Wilson, CreatiVets, and the larger country music family to celebrate veterans who have selflessly served this country."
Crown Royal reminds everyone 21+ that living generously is not about what you have, but about what you give. And, most importantly, to always drink responsibly.
**No minimum for additional donation via consumer QR Code scan/website visit. Donation made via the Crown Royal Generosity Fund, a donor advised fund with Diageo North America, Inc. as the donor and which is administered by Fairfield County's Community Foundation, an IRS 501(c)(3) organization. Donation is part of a larger charitable giving initiative through which $1,000,000 will be donated to select national and local charities between 9/8/2022 & 6/30/2023. The dispersal of funds from the Crown Royal Generosity Fund is subject to the approval of the Fairfield County's Community Foundation.
Crown Royal Canadian Whisky is the number-one selling Canadian whisky brand in the world and has a tradition as long and distinctive as its taste. Specially blended to commemorate a grand tour of Canada made by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain in 1939, Crown Royal's smooth, elegant flavor and gift-worthy presentation reflect its regal origins – it is considered the epitome of Canadian whisky. For more information, visit crownroyal.com. Crown Royal encourages all consumers to please enjoy responsibly.
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CreatiVets' is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide wounded veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury with opportunities to use art, music, and creative writing to heal their unseen wounds of war. Their goal is to empower veterans with tools they can use for the rest of their lives and enable them to see their own capacity for success in an arena outside the battlefield. Learn more at creativets.org.
The first "CMA Awards Banquet and Show" was held in 1967. The following year, the CMA Awards was broadcast for the first time – making it the longest running, annual music awards program on network television. The CMA Awards have aired on ABC since 2006. ABC is the network home of the CMA Awards and CMA's other two television properties, "CMA Fest" and "CMA Country Christmas."
Six-time CMA Award nominee and ACM New Female Artist of the Year 2022 winner, Lainey Wilson has earned the enthusiasm of the industry, having been named to nearly every "Artist to Watch" list, being crowned Billboard's "Top New Country Artist of 2021," and earning CMT's 2022 "Breakout Artist of the Year" honor, the Louisiana native is one of Nashville's hottest and most buzzed-about new artists. Landing her first No. 1 with her PLATINUM Certified ACM Song of the Year "Things A Man Oughta Know," nearly 10 years to the day after leaving her small farming community in a camper trailer to chase her dreams, she has won over legions of fans with her signature Bell Bottom Country sound and aesthetic, which blends traditional Country with a modern yet retro flare. A prolific and sought-after songwriter (having co-writer credits on songs by artists including Luke Combs, Flatland Calvary and more), Lainey is a fresh, fierce voice in Nashville, delivering CMA nominated album of the year with her label debut, Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'. With a rockstar stage presence, her artistry has taken her across the globe, performing for sold-out crowds throughout the US, UK, and Germany with notable names like Jon Pardi, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, HARDY, Jason Aldean, Ashley McBryde, and more. After topping the country radio charts for a second time with the two-week No. 1 hit, "Never Say Never" with Cole Swindell, her current single "Heart Like a Truck" is Top 20 and climbing, with the HARDY collaboration "wait in the truck" sitting close behind in the Top 30. Her newest album "Bell Bottom Country" is out now and she's soon to make her acting debut on the hit series Yellowstone on November 13.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Anthony Rapp testified Wednesday that he decided to publicly reveal a 30-year-old encounter with Kevin Spacey because he knew he wasn’t the only person Spacey had made inappropriate sexual advances on.
Rapp became emotional and his voice shook as he commented in response to a question about his motivations, posed by one of his own lawyers near the end of his third day of testimony in the civil sex abuse lawsuit he brought against Spacey in Manhattan federal court. Rapp is seeking $40 million for psychological injuries.
“I came forward because I knew I was not the only one who Kevin Spacey made inappropriate sexual advances to,” Rapp said.
An objection led Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to quickly announce that the comment would be stricken from the record. The jury has not been permitted to hear most other claims made against the Oscar-winning Spacey, 63, who was popular on the Netflix series “House of Cards” before a series of sexual claims derailed his career in 2017.
Afterward, Rapp elaborated on his claim that a 26-year-old Spacey lifted him onto a bed after a party at his Manhattan apartment in 1986 and pressed his clothed body against the clothed body of Rapp, then 14, before he squirmed out and ran into a bathroom before leaving the apartment.
“It was something that happened to me that was not ok,” Rapp said.
Defense attorney Jennifer Keller finished her cross examination of Rapp by attacking his credibility on the impact he claimed his encounter with Spacey had on the rest of his life. Rapp, 50, is a regular on “Star Trek: Discovery” on television. He was part of the original Broadway cast of “Rent” and has performed in movies including “Adventures in Babysitting.”
Keller noted he had told a therapist that after the Spacey encounter, he sought out sexual attention.
“Yes,” Rapp responded. He said he began to be aware of people’s attention toward him in ways he hadn’t before.
Keller then asked if it was unusual for someone going through puberty to gain an interest in sex.
“Don’t you think that after boys go through puberty, they develop an intense interest in sex? Come on, Mr. Rapp,” she said.
“What is the question? It’s not that simple,” Rapp responded.
Later in the day, Lisa Rocchio, a forensic psychologist who examined Rapp, testified he had experienced “a tremendous amount of shame, guilt and confusion” after his encounter with Spacey. Rocchio was expected to return to the witness stand Thursday morning.
The Associated Press does not usually name people alleging sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, as Rapp has done. | 2022-10-13T11:28:35+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-emotional-anthony-rapp-i-knew-i-wasnt-spaceys-only-victim/ |
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A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of TAL's website at https://ir.100tal.com/.
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TAL Education Group is a smart learning solutions provider in China. The acronym "TAL" stands for "Tomorrow Advancing Life", which reflects our vision to promote top learning opportunities for students through both high-quality teaching and content, as well as leading edge application of technology in the education experience. TAL Education Group offers comprehensive learning services to students from pre-school to the twelfth grade primarily through three flexible class formats: small classes, personalized premium services, and online courses. Our learning services mainly cover enrichment learnings programs and some academic subjects in and out of China. Our ADSs trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TAL".
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Jackson Ding
Investor Relations
TAL Education Group
Tel: +86 10 5292 6669-8809
Email: ir@tal.com
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Helen Wu
Tel: +86-10-6508-0677
Email: TAL@thepiacentegroup.com
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The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Phone: +1-212-481-2050
Email: TAL@thepiacentegroup.com
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Western Trailer ("GWT") announced today the acquisition of Southwest Trailer & Equipment, LLC. Southwest Trailer & Equipment, based in Oklahoma City, OK, is a full-service trailer dealership providing new and used equipment sales as well as repair, maintenance and parts solutions. Southwest Trailer & Equipment distributes trailers for a broad range of manufacturers including Transcraft Trailer Corporation, Construction Trailer Specialists, Holden Trailers, Strick Trailers, LLC, and Nuttall Trailers.
"We are excited to have completed the acquisition as it expands our reach into the Southwest, an area we had targeted for growth," stated Jeremy Amen, Chief Executive Officer of Great Western Trailer. "We are also looking forward to enhancing Southwest Trailer & Equipment's service offerings to include the finance, leasing and rental solutions we provide at our other 8 locations across the United States."
"We are thrilled to complete our 10th acquisition since starting Great Western Trailer in 1997," stated Sean Norton, Founder of Great Western Trailer. "The Southwest Trailer & Equipment's employees and facilities in Oklahoma City and Tulsa are a great fit for GWT. We are always on the lookout for quality businesses to add to the GWT family, and Southwest Trailer & Equipment certainly fits that description."
"We are happy to have completed the sale to Great Western Trailer," stated Mike Dye, Southwest Trailer & Equipment's founder. "I believe they will be great partners for our employees and will maintain the high level of service and responsiveness our customers have come to expect from us."
"Great Western Trailer will continue to pursue acquisitions as a way to fulfill its long-term plan of building out a larger geographic footprint," stated Seth Wilson, a Managing Partner of Headhaul Capital and the Vice Chairman of Great Western Trailer. "We believe that as we develop a larger network of locations we will be better positioned to provide creative trailer solutions for our customers."
Previously, Great Western Trailer acquired certain assets of Pacific Truck & Trailer, Quality Trailer Sales, Trinity Trailer Sales, All Points Trailer, and Patriot Trailer Sales. Southwest Trailer & Equipment marks GWT's 6th acquisition in 6 years. The company offers a full suite of trailer sales, leasing, rental, repair, maintenance, and parts solutions at each of its ten locations.
Great Western Trailer, based in Irvine, CA, is a leading full-service, integrated solutions provider to the flatbed and specialized trailer industry. The Company operates a network of strategically located facilities in the Western United States that offer customers a broad range of sales, financing, leasing and rental options for new and used trailers, as well as after-market trailer repair and maintenance. The Company distributes trailers for a broad range of manufacturers including Fontaine Trailer Company, Wilson Trailer Company, Manac Trailers USA, XL Specialized Trailers and Side Dump Industries. Visit https://www.greatwesterntrailer.com/.
Jeremy Amen
Chief Executive Officer
(949) 241-8697
Jeremy.Amen@greatwesterntrailer.com
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(Mass Appeal) – The Pioneer Valley has a long and rich Irish heritage so why not celebrate more than once a year in March? The first Ireland Forever Festival is coming up this weekend and Tim Driscoll, from the Ireland Forever Foundation, joins me with details. | 2022-05-31T18:34:35+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/massappeal/inaugural-ireland-forever-festival-at-the-northampton-fairgrounds/ |
The FBI concluded in a forensic report that the gun used to kill cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 on the set of Alec Baldwin's Rust film couldn't have been fired without someone first pulling the trigger.
In the forensic report, obtained by ABC News, the federal law agency said its accidental discharge testing determined the gun used in the shooting -- a .45 colt caliber F.lli Pietta single-action revolver -- couldn't have gone off without the trigger being pulled.
The report stated that, even with the hammer in the quarter-and half-cock positions, the gun "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger." And, with the hammer fully cocked, the gun "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional." Furthermore, with the hammer de-cocked on a loaded chamber, the gun was able to detonate a primer "without a pull of the trigger when the hammer was struck directly," which the report stated as normal for this type of revolver.
The FBI forensic report contradicts what Baldwin told Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos back in December 2021 during his first sit-down interview since the fatal onset shooting that also wounded the film's director, Joel Souza.
Baldwin denied pulling the trigger of the prop gun after the ABC anchor pointed out that it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled.
"Well, the trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger," Baldwin said during the interview.
When Stephanopoulos clarified, "So you never pulled the trigger?," Baldwin responded, "No, no, no. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never."
Baldwin, entangled with a number of lawsuits stemming from the fatal shooting, insisted he had no idea how a real bullet got on set. "Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property," he claimed.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, the lead agency in the homicide investigation, said in a statement Thursday that its office received the FBI's forensic report -- as well as other FBI documents -- on Aug. 2, and that they were immediately forwarded to the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) for review.
ABC News reported that it also obtained a postmortem report, which indicated Hutchins' death was classified an accident.
"Death was caused by a gunshot wound of the chest. Review of available law enforcement reports showed no compelling demonstration that the firearm was intentionally loaded with live ammunition on set," according to the postmortem report obtained by ABC News. "Based on all available information, including the absence of obvious intent to cause harm or death, the manner of death is best classified as accident.”
As for where the investigation currently stands, the First Judicial District Attorney's Office in New Mexico has not filed any charges in Hutchins' death. The Sheriff's Office said detectives from the Suffolk County Police Department in New York are actively assisting its office and the D.A.'s Office in obtaining, processing, and disclosing Baldwin's phone records. The Sheriff's Office says those records are forthcoming.
"The District Attorney's Office has been working with Suffolk County PD, and Baldwin's lawyer to acquire the phone records," Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said. "Once Suffolk County PD completes its agency assist and sends those records to New Mexico law enforcement, our detectives will need to then thoroughly review those phone records for evidentiary purposes."
Baldwin turning over his phone to authorities was a point of contention as far back as January.
Mendoza added that, once Sheriff's detectives complete their review of the OMI reports, and once the phone records are received and reviewed by detectives, the final Sheriff's Office investigative case file will be forwarded to the District Attorney for review and final charging decisions.
RELATED CONTENT: | 2022-08-14T14:54:52+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/alec-baldwin-possibly-pulled-the-trigger-in-fatal-rust-shooting-fbi-forensic-report-concluded/603-d666c808-89cc-4627-8a57-947efd04c4db |
AP sources: US Rep. George Santos facing federal charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos, who faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The charges against Santos, filed in the Eastern District of New York, remain under seal.
The people could not discuss specific details of the case and spoke to The AP on condition of anonymity.
Reached on Tuesday, Santos said, “This is news to me.”
“You’re the first to call me about this,” he said in a brief phone interview.
The charges were first reported by CNN.
The New York Republican has admitted to lying about having Jewish ancestry, a Wall Street background, college degrees and a history as a star volleyball player. Serious questions about his finances also surfaced — including the source of what he claimed was a quickly amassed fortune despite recent financial problems, including evictions and owing thousands of dollars in back rent.
Santos has resisted calls to resign and recently announced he was running for reelection. He said his lies about his life story, which included telling people he had jobs at several global financial firms and a lavish real estate portfolio, were harmless embellishments of his resume.
Pressure on him to quit, though, has been intense. Reporters and members of the public hounded him. He was mocked on social media and late-night television. Fellow New York Republicans demanded he resign, saying he had betrayed voters and his own party with his lies.
Nassau County prosecutors and the New York attorney general’s office had previously said they were looking into possible violations of the law.
Besides questions about his life story, Santos’ campaign spending stoked scrutiny because of unusual payments for travel, lodging and other items.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center lodged a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and urged regulators to investigate Santos. The “mountain of lies” Santos propagated during the campaign about his life story and qualifications, the center said, should prompt the commission to “thoroughly investigate what appear to be equally brazen lies about how his campaign raised and spent money.”
In his filings with the FEC, Santos initially said he loaned his campaign and related political action committees more than $750,000 — money he claimed came from a family company.
Yet, the wealth necessary to make those loans seems to have emerged from nowhere. In a financial disclosure statement filed with the clerk of the U.S. House in 2020, Santos said he had no assets and an annual income of $55,000.
His company, the Devolder Organization, wasn’t incorporated until spring 2021. Yet last September, Santos filed another financial disclosure form reporting that this new company, incorporated in Florida, had paid him a $750,000 salary in each of the last two years, plus another $1 million to $5 million in dividends. In one interview, Santos described the Devolder Organization as a business that helped rich people buy things like yachts and aircraft.
Court records indicate Santos was the subject of three eviction proceedings in Queens between 2014 and 2017 because of unpaid rent.
Some Republicans, including those in his district, have sharply castigated Santos for his dishonesty. The Nassau County Republican Committee, which had supported his candidacy, said it would not support Santos for reelection.
Santos lost his first race for Congress in 2020 but ran again in 2022 and won in a district that is in the suburbs of Long Island and a sliver of Queens.
A local newspaper, the North Shore Leader, had raised issues about Santos’ background before the election but it was not until a few weeks after the election that the depth of his duplicity became public.
The New York Times reported that companies where Santos claimed to have worked, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, had no record of him having been an employee. Baruch College, where Santos claimed to have gotten a degree in finance and economics, said he hadn’t been a student.
Beyond his resume, Santos invented a life story that has also come under question, including claims that his grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII.”
During his campaign, he referred to himself as “a proud American Jew.”
Confronted with questions about that story, Santos, a Roman Catholic, said he never intended to claim Jewish heritage.
The Times also uncovered records in Brazil that show Santos, when he was 19, was the subject of a criminal investigation there in 2008 over allegations he used stolen checks to buy items at a clothing shop in the city of Niteroi, which is near Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian authorities said they have reopened the case.
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Associated Press writers Michael R. Sisak in New York and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-09T22:47:40+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/05/09/ap-sources-us-rep-george-santos-facing-federal-charges/ |
This tune comes from a demo tape of a band's first-ever public gig. The recording engineer was a 19-year-old college radio kid scrambling to capture 18 musicians in a tiny basement club. But half a century later, that kid now runs a record label and deemed his work good enough to re-touch and issue as part of a deluxe 2-CD package. After all, this was no ordinary band. Within three months of that first gig, this group started making "real" albums — five LPs worth in the next four years, plus two album-length collaborations with singers. It remains probably the most influential large jazz ensemble of the last 50 years.
The band's leaders were mid-career "musician's musicians": Thad Jones, a distinctive trumpeter and the composer-arranger mastermind, and Mel Lewis, a drummer with deft cymbal work and a lot of experience in large ensembles. Never mind that big bands had long since become economically impractical in jazz; they had a difficult repertoire in mind that was rejected by Count Basie (Jones' former employer), and wanted to see it executed properly. So they handpicked some of their favorite players across age and skin color, rehearsed Monday nights at midnight — once all the television and studio musicians had gotten off work — and booked a Monday at the Village Vanguard, a 125-ish capacity club in New York. (The sidemen agreed to take $17 each to make it feasible.) It was an instant hit among fellow musicians, who were sneaking in to hear its rehearsals before it even played this first gig. All these years later, the jazz orchestra that has descended from Jones and Lewis' band still plays the Vanguard every Monday.
"Backbone" leads off the new set All My Yesterdays, which compiles two early live recordings, previously only heard as bootlegs; specifically, it's from that Feb. 7, 1966 debut night. The song's spine is a simple blues, but its skeleton is filled out by Thad Jones signatures: frenetic backgrounds which may have been made up on the spot, overlapping and overgrown ensemble passages, a sax section feature into the closing theme. The muscle is provided by major players: alto saxophonist Jerry Dodgion, who runs wild for minutes at the start; short features for Richard Davis (bass, now an NEA Jazz Master), and Hank Jones (piano, Thad's older brother and also an NEA Jazz Master), Bob Brookmeyer (trombone, later a major big band composer-arranger himself), then Garnett Brown (also trombone), and then, both at once. Lastly, there's a feature for Mel Lewis on drums. Tune, arrangement and execution all told, "Backbone" is a raging hulk.
At this date, "Backbone" wasn't quite as polished as what would be heard on Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra albums. But what it lacked in spit-shine precision is more than supplanted by its raw energy, by the crowd noise, the shouts and hollers from Thad and his bandmates and the other musicians in the room — the folks were riled up. For all the band gave to jazz composition, it also played loud and fast, took heroic solo turns and swung like crazy. Not bad for a debut performance.
All My Yesterdays is out on February 19 on Resonance Records.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-27T09:00:49+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2016-02-11/songs-we-love-thad-jones-mel-lewis-orchestra-backbone |
SpaceX ignites giant Starship rocket in crucial pad test
SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday.
Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut down — "but still enough engines to reach orbit!" tweeted SpaceX's Elon Musk.
Musk estimates Starship’s first orbital test flight could occur as soon as March, if the test analyses and remaining preparations go well.
The booster remained anchored to the pad as planned during the test. There were no signs of major damage to the launch tower.
NASA is counting on Starship to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon in a few years, linking up with its Orion capsule in lunar orbit. Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.
Only the first-stage Super Heavy booster, standing 230 feet (69 meters) tall, was used for Thursday's test. The futuristic second stage — the part that will actually land on the moon and Mars — was in the hangar being prepped for flight.
RELATED: 'Space jellyfish,' sonic booms herald SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy flight of 2023
Altogether, Starship towers 394 feet (120 meters), making it the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It's capable of generating 17 million pounds of liftoff thrust, almost double that of NASA's moon rocket that sent an empty capsule to the moon and back late last year.
SpaceX fired up to 14 Starship engines last fall and completed a fueling test at the pad last month.
Flocks of birds scattered as Starship's engines came alive and sent thick dark plumes of smoke across the Starship launch complex, dubbed Starbase. It's located at the southernmost tip of Texas near the village of Boca Chica, close to the Mexican border. | 2023-02-10T01:55:53+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/spacex-starship-giant-rocket-test-fire |
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pixlee TurnTo is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Pixlee TurnTo. This year, 96% of employees said it's a great place to work – 46 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Pixlee TurnTo's mission to bring customer-powered commerce to brands centers on the talented community of employees dedicated to building an exceptional product and nurturing relationships with clients. By combining a service-driven approach with best-in-class software, the Pixlee TurnTo team externalizes the culture recognized through the Great Place to Work® certification.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation. "Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Pixlee TurnTo is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
Pixlee TurnTo's culture is rooted in employee-centric values that champion growth, learning, transparency and honesty. Pixlee TurnTo is a remote-first organization in the U.S., enabling the team to work flexibly. In addition, Pixlee TurnTo offers a flexible paid time off policy in the U.S. to empower employees to take the time needed to recharge at their own pace.
"We're thrilled to see Pixlee TurnTo recognized by the Great Place to Work® organization. We're excited to continue growing our organization with our values and culture at our core. " – George Eberstadt, CEO of Pixlee TurnTo
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company's profits and have a fair chance at promotion.
Pixlee TurnTo combines social user-generated content (UGC), ratings & reviews, and influencer marketing tools into one cohesive software suite to unlock community-powered commerce for brands. With our software, brands can build a cost-effective library of high-quality creative assets from their community, improve ecommerce experiences by integrating engaging and product-tagged UGC, and amplify customer stories.
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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GIRLS TOP 20 SCOREBOARD
- No. 5 Hillsborough vs. Montgomery, 3
- No. 7 Mainland at Ocean City, 4
- No. 8 Princeton vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 4
- No. 9 Bridgewater-Raritan vs. Phillipsburg, 3:30
- No. 10 Ridge at North Hunterdon, 4
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- No. 16 Pingry vs. Hunterdon Central, 4
- No. 19 Mountain Lakes vs. Randolph, 2
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Old Tappan (1-3) at Paramus (2-1), 8pm
CAPE-ATLANTIC
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Oakcrest (0-1) at Middle Township (0-2), 4pm
Mainland (2-0) at Ocean City (2-2), 4pm
Wildwood Catholic at Holy Spirit (0-1), 4pm
CVC
Notre Dame (3-2) at Hamilton West (1-3), 4pm
West Windsor-Plainsboro North (1-2) at Steinert (1-3), 4pm
Trenton at Hightstown (3-4), 4pm
West Windsor-Plainsboro South (5-0) at Princeton (5-0), 4pm
Lawrence (5-1) at Hopewell Valley (3-2), 7:30pm
NJAC
Randolph (2-0) at Mountain Lakes (2-1), 2pm
High Point (0-2) at Kittatinny (1-1), 4pm
Vernon (1-1) at Sparta (1-2), 6pm
Bernards (3-0) at Mendham (1-2), 7:30pm
NJIC
Mary Help of Christians (0-1) at Secaucus (2-2), 4:30pm
SEC
West Essex (1-4) at Newark East Side (0-4), 4pm
Millburn (3-2) at Science Park (1-2), 4pm
West Orange (1-3) at Columbia (1-3), 8pm
SHORE
Wall (2-1) vs. Ocean Township (4-1) at JCC, TBA
Donovan Catholic (0-1) vs. Manchester Township (1-1) at Ocean County Y, TBA
Middletown North (0-4) at Howell, 1:30pm
Freehold Borough (2-2) at Marlboro (2-0), 2:30pm
Monmouth (0-5) vs. Neptune (2-2-1) at Neptune Aquatic Center, 2:30pm
Colts Neck (3-0) at Red Bank Catholic (2-3), 2:30pm
St. John Vianney (1-1-1) vs. Ranney (0-1) at The Ranney School, 3:30pm
Toms River East (2-0) vs. Brick Township (0-4) at Neptune Aquatic Center, 4pm
SJSL
Eastern (0-4) at Haddonfield (2-1), 5:30pm
SKYLAND
Montgomery (3-2) vs. Hillsborough (5-0) at Hillsborough YMCA, 3pm
Mount St. Mary (3-2) at Watchung Hills (1-4), 3:15pm
Phillipsburg (0-5) at Bridgewater-Raritan (3-1-1), 3:30pm
Ridge (5-1) at North Hunterdon (0-4), 4pm
Hunterdon Central (2-3) at Pingry (2-0-1), 4pm
Bernards (3-0) at Mendham (1-2), 7:30pm
Independent
Moorestown Friends (2-1) at Hun, TBA
Wildwood Catholic at Holy Spirit (0-1), 4pm
Millburn (3-2) at Science Park (1-2), 4pm
Bayonne (3-0) at Union City (4-0), 4:30pm
Mary Help of Christians (0-1) at Secaucus (2-2), 4:30pm
BOYS STATEWIDE SCHEDULE
Thursday, Jan. 5
BIG NORTH
Passaic Tech (4-0) vs. Pascack Valley (2-1) at PCTI, 3pm
Lakeland (1-3) at Don Bosco Prep (2-1), 3pm
River Dell (0-2) at Fair Lawn (3-1), 4pm
Mahwah (3-2) vs. Ramsey (4-0) at PCTI, 7:45pm
Old Tappan (1-3) at Paramus (1-2), 8pm
CAPE-ATLANTIC
Absegami (1-3) at Millville (0-3), 3:30pm
Oakcrest (2-1) at Middle Township (3-1), 4pm
Mainland (2-1) at Ocean City (2-2), 4pm
Holy Spirit (0-2) at Wildwood Catholic (0-2), 4pm
Atlantic City (3-1) at St. Augustine (2-0), 4pm
Cape May Tech (0-1) vs. Cedar Creek (1-3) at Hess, 4:30pm
CVC
Notre Dame (5-1) at Hamilton West (2-4), 4pm
West Windsor-Plainsboro North (3-2) at Steinert (3-3), 4pm
West Windsor-Plainsboro South (6-0) at Princeton (6-0), 4pm
Lawrence (3-3) at Hopewell Valley (4-2), 7:30pm
NJAC
Randolph (2-0) at Mountain Lakes (2-1), 2pm
High Point (1-1) at Kittatinny (0-2), 4pm
Vernon (2-0) at Sparta (0-3), 6pm
Bernards (2-0) at Mendham (1-2), 7:30pm
SEC
Millburn (4-1) at Science Park (2-3), 4pm
West Essex (3-2) at Newark East Side (0-4), 4pm
Livingston (4-0) at Seton Hall Prep (5-0), 4:15pm
West Orange (0-3-1) at Columbia (1-3), 8pm
SHORE
Wall (3-0) vs. Ocean Township (5-0) at JCC, TBA
Middletown North (0-4) at Howell (0-1), 1:30pm
Donovan Catholic (1-0) at Manchester Township (0-2), 2pm
Freehold Borough (2-2) at Marlboro (1-1), 2:30pm
Monmouth (1-3) vs. Neptune (2-3) at Neptune Aquatic Center, 2:30pm
Colts Neck (3-0) at Red Bank Catholic (0-4), 2:30pm
St. John Vianney (0-3) vs. Ranney (0-1) at The Ranney School, 3:45pm
Toms River East (2-0) at Brick Township (1-3), 4pm
Manalapan (0-2) vs. Middletown South (1-0) at RBYMCA, 6:30pm
SJSL
Rancocas Valley (1-2) at Haddonfield (3-0), 7pm
Northern Burlington (4-0) vs. Gloucester (1-3) at Kroc Center, 7:15pm
SKYLAND
Phillipsburg (1-3) at Bridgewater-Raritan (5-0), 3:30pm
Hunterdon Central (0-4) at Pingry (2-1), 4pm
Ridge (4-1) at North Hunterdon (2-2), 4:15pm
Bernards (2-0) at Mendham (1-2), 7:30pm
TRI-COUNTY
Glassboro (2-0) at Highland (1-1), 4:45pm
Triton (0-3) at Timber Creek (0-2), 6pm
Gloucester Catholic (1-1) at Pitman (0-1), 7pm
Woodstown (3-2) at Salem (1-2), 8:30pm
Independent
Memorial (1-2) at Ferris (0-5), TBA
Moorestown Friends (0-3) at Hun (1-0), TBA
Millburn (4-1) at Science Park (2-3), 4pm
Bayonne (2-1) at Union City (4-0), 4:30pm
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Thursday made it likely she'll rule in weeks rather than months whether NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gets to decide the merits of racial discrimination claims made by Black coaches against the league and its teams, saying an effort to gather more evidence seems like “an impermissible fishing expedition.”
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni said in a written ruling that lawyers for coaches Brian Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton cannot gather additional evidence from defendants to support their arguments that the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court should remain in court rather than be sent to arbitration.
Her ruling makes it likely that a decision on whether to move the case to arbitration or let it remain in Manhattan federal court will be decided in weeks rather than months.
“Because Plaintiffs should know whether they entered into any other contracts or agreements that would affect their agreement to arbitrate, the Court can only assume that they are attempting to embark on an impermissible fishing expedition,” Caproni wrote.
Still, the judge said lawyers for the coaches may well be able to argue that the proposed arbitrator is so biased against them that the motion to compel arbitration should not be granted, but they do not need discovery to do so. In legal cases, “discovery” references evidence such as emails and text messages that lawyers try to get from their opponents to strengthen their arguments.
Flores, who was fired in January as head coach of the Miami Dolphins and is now an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers, filed the lawsuit in February, saying the league was “rife with racism" even as it publicly condemns it. The other coaches later joined the lawsuit, which sought unspecified damages and class-action status.
The NFL and six of its teams say the lawsuit they maintain is “without merit” is required to go to arbitration, where Goodell would be the arbitrator, according to the terms laid out in employment contracts and the NFL's constitution.
Caproni wrote that courts have not historically allowed lawyers to gather evidence prior to deciding whether a case is required to go to arbitration.
“An agreement to arbitrate is binding on the parties unless the agreement is invalid under state contract law,” she wrote. “Thus, on a motion to compel arbitration, the Court’s analysis is generally limited to determining whether there is a valid agreement to arbitrate, whether one party has failed to perform its duties under that agreement, and whether the agreement, properly interpreted, encompasses the dispute at hand.”
Attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor and John Elefterakis, representing Flores, said in a statement that they are “confident that we will defeat the efforts of the NFL to move this matter into a private and confidential arbitration behind closed doors.”
“It is obvious that the NFL is trying to hide behind this process and avoid public scrutiny of the racial discrimination and retaliation claims we have brought. If they are confident in their defenses, they should let the process play out in court so the general public can see,” the lawyers said.
In Thursday's ruling, Caproni instructed lawyers for the coaches to submit written arguments against arbitration by Aug. 19 and told the NFL and its teams to respond by Aug. 26.
Her decision came just days after the NFL released the results of its investigation into allegations by Flores that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered $100,000 a game to purposely lose games.
Investigators said the team didn't intentionally lose and neither Ross nor anyone from the team told Flores to purposely lose. And investigators added that any $100,000-a-game offer “was not intended or taken to be a serious offer.” Investigators also found Ross several times during the season expressed his belief that draft position should take priority over won-loss record.
The NFL suspended Ross and fined him $1.5 million for having impermissible communications with Tom Brady when he was under contract with the New England Patriots and with Sean Payton before he announced his decision to retire as coach of the New Orleans Saints.
In a statement, Ross had called Flores' allegations “false, malicious and defamatory.”
Lawyers for the NFL and its teams did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-08-04T18:51:21+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-shortens-road-to-decide-NFL-racial-17351454.php |
Which OTC allergy medicines are best?
If you suffer from allergies of any kind, then you know how they can wreak havoc on your daily life. Over-the-counter (OTC) allergy medicines can help you deal with the frustrating specter of an allergy attack at the first sign of an itchy nose.
We know you may be desperate to find the best OTC allergy medicine to give you even the slightest bit of relief. That’s why we’ve written this short buying guide and included reviews of a few over-the-counter allergy medicines that you might want to try, such as our top pick from Claritin, which promises a full 24 hours of relief.
What to know before you buy an OTC allergy medicine
Medicine form
Most over-the-counter allergy medicines come in the form of a pill, nasal spray, topical cream, or eye drops. Pills typically contain either an antihistamine or decongestant. Nasal sprays are also typically decongestants, eye drops are usually antihistamines and topical creams often contain corticosteroids.
Side effects
The most common side effect with any OTC allergy medicine is drowsiness. However, there are now a number of non-drowsy formulas available.
Other side effects may include dry eyes, nose, and mouth, upset stomach, anxiousness, restlessness, and dizziness. Some allergy medicines have also led to dependency issues, so use caution when taking them.
Duration
Most OTC allergy medicines are effective for anywhere from eight to 12 hours. Consider the activities you plan to do in the next 24 hours to determine the duration that you will need for your over-the-counter allergy medicine.
What to look for in a quality OTC allergy medicine
Non-drowsy formula
If drowsiness is something that you can’t deal with when taking an OTC allergy medicine, then choosing a non-drowsy formula is imperative. Whether you need to work or care for kids, you don’t want to doze off in the middle of important activities. If this is the case for you, then look for an allergy medication with a non-drowsy formula.
24-hour effects
Some OTC allergy medicines advertise that they are effective up to 24 hours from the time you take them. These are convenient for people on the go who don’t want to stop what they’re doing and take another dose every eight hours.
How much you can expect to spend on the best OTC allergy medicine
The majority of OTC allergy medicines range between $5 to $25. The number of pills or fluid ounces of liquid or cream has a significant impact on the price difference.
Best OTC allergy medicine FAQ
Q. Can I take over-the-counter allergy medicine if I’m pregnant?
A. Although the majority of OTC allergy medicines are fine for pregnant women to use, you should always consult with a doctor before taking any medicine while pregnant.
Q. Do nasal sprays work faster than other options because they go directly into my nose?
A. No they don’t. In fact, nasal sprays can take up to a few hours to work and are often most effective after a day or so. If you need immediate relief, then a nasal spray might not be your best bet.
Q. Should I avoid taking OTC allergy medicine if I am taking other medications?
A. That depends. While over-the-counter allergy medicines are fine to take along with some medications, this is not always true. Consult directly with the physician who prescribed your medications to find out if taking OTC allergy medicines would cause any adverse interactions.
OTC allergy medicine tips
- Always follow the instructions on the package of your OTC allergy medicine.
- OTC allergy medicines work best if you take them before you have symptoms.
- Never treat colds or sinus infections with a nasal allergy spray, as it won’t be effective.
- If you start to experience serious side effects that become debilitating, stop taking the medicine immediately.
What are the best OTC allergy medicines to buy?
Top OTC allergy medicine
Claritin 10 MG 24-Hour Non-Drowsy Allergy Tablets
Our take: The quickest way to get back on your feet with some spring in your step.
What we like: This medicine relieves all of your symptoms and won’t make you drowsy. It works for a full 24 hours.
What we dislike: Some complain that it takes too long to work.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top OTC allergy medicine for money
GoodSense 10 MG All-Day Allergy
Our take: Same formula as Zyrtec but at a lower cost.
What we like: Whereas other OTC allergy medicines can dry out the eyes, not so with GoodSense, so contact lens wearers will have no problem wearing their lenses when using this formula.
What we dislike: Drowsiness can occur.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Flonase 24-Hour Allergy-Relief Nasal Spray
Our take: Seasonal and pet allergies are no match for this industry leader.
What we like: Flonase lets you keep your wits about you while it defeats those annoying symptoms.
What we dislike: May not work if you don’t use it every day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be sworn in Sunday in the capital of Brasilia and assume office for the third time, marking the culmination of a political comeback sure to thrill supporters and enrage opponents in a fiercely polarized nation.
But Lula’s presidency is unlikely to be like his previous two mandates, coming after the tightest presidential race in more than three decades in Brazil and resistance to his taking office by some of his opponents, political analysts say.
The leftist defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in the Oct. 30 vote by less than 2 percentage points. For months, Bolsonaro had sown doubts about the reliability of Brazil’s electronic vote and his loyal supporters were loath to accept the loss.
Many have gathered outside military barracks since, questioning results and pleading with the armed forces to prevent Lula from taking office.
His most die-hard backers resorted to what some authorities and incoming members of Lula’s administration labeled acts of “terrorism” – something the country had not seen since the early 1980s, and which have prompted growing security concerns about inauguration day events.
“In 2003, the ceremony was very beautiful. There wasn’t this bad, heavy climate,” said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo, referring to the year Lula first took office. “Today, it’s a climate of terror.”
Tanya Albuquerque, a student, flew from Sao Paulo to Brasilia and had tears in her eyes as she heard local leftists celebrating incoming visitors at Brasilia’s airport. She decided to attend after seeing pictures of Lula’s first inauguration.
“Maybe we won’t have 300,000 people tomorrow like then; these are different and more divisive times. But I knew I wouldn’t be happy in front of a TV,” Albuquerque, 23, said on Saturday.
Lula has made it his mission to heal the divided nation. But he will have to do so while navigating more challenging economic conditions than he enjoyed in his first two terms, when the global commodities boom proved a windfall for Brazil.
At the time, his administration's flagship welfare program helped lift tens of millions of impoverished people into the middle class. Many Brazilians traveled abroad for the first time. He left office with a personal approval rating of 83%.
In the intervening years, Brazil’s economy plunged into two deep recessions — first, during the tenure of his handpicked successor, and then during the pandemic — and ordinary Brazilians suffered greatly.
Lula has said his priorities are fighting poverty, and investing in education and health. He has also said he will bring illegal deforestation of the Amazon to a halt. He sought support from political moderates to form a broad front and defeat Bolsonaro, then tapped some of them to serve in his Cabinet.
Given the nation’s political fault lines, however, it is highly unlikely Lula ever reattains the popularity he once enjoyed, or even sees his approval rating rise above 50%, said Maurício Santoro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro’s State University.
Furthermore, Santoro said, the credibility of Lula and his Workers’ Party were assailed by a sprawling corruption investigation. Party officials were jailed, including Lula -- until his convictions were annulled on procedural grounds. The Supreme Court then ruled that the judge presiding over the case had colluded with prosecutors to secure a conviction.
Lula and his supporters have maintained he was railroaded. Others were willing to look past possible malfeasance as a means to unseat Bolsonaro and bring the nation back together.
But Bolsonaro’s backers refuse to accept someone they view as a criminal returning to the highest office. And with tensions running hot, a series of events has prompted fear that violence could erupt on inauguration day.
On Dec. 12, dozens of people tried to invade a federal police building in Brasilia, and burned cars and buses in other areas of the city. Then on Christmas Eve, police arrested a 54-year-old man who admitted to making a bomb that was found on a fuel truck headed to Brasilia’s airport.
He had been camped outside Brasilia’s army headquarters with hundreds of other Bolsonaro supporters since Nov. 12. He told police he was ready for war against communism, and planned the attack with people he had met at the protests, according to excerpts of his deposition released by local media. The next day, police found explosive devices and several bulletproof vests in a forested area on the federal district’s outskirts.
Lula’s incoming Justice Minister, Flávio Dino, this week called for federal authorities to put an end to the “antidemocratic” protests, calling them “incubators of terrorists.”
In response to a request from Lula’s team, the current justice minister authorized deployment of the national guard until Jan. 2, and Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes banned people from carrying firearms in Brasilia during these days.
“This is the fruit of political polarization, of political extremism,” said Nara Pavão, who teaches political science at the Federal University of Pernambuco. Pavão stressed that Bolsonaro, who mostly vanished from the political scene since he lost his reelection bid, was slow to disavow recent incidents.
“His silence is strategic: Bolsonaro needs to keep Bolsonarismo alive,” Pavão said.
Bolsonaro finally condemned the bomb plot in a Dec. 30 farewell address on social media, hours before flying to the U.S.. His absence on inauguration day will mark a break with tradition and it remains unclear who, instead of him, will hand over the presidential sash to Lula at the presidential palace.
Lawyer Eduardo Coutinho will be there. He bought a flight to Brasilia as a Christmas present to himself.
“I wish I were here when Bolsonaro’s plane took off, that is the only thing that makes me almost as happy as tomorrow’s event,” Coutinho, 28, said after singing Lula campaign jingles on the plane. “I’m not usually so over-the-top, but we need to let it out and I came here just to that. Brazil needs this to move on.”
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Jeantet reported from Rio de Janeiro. AP writer Mauricio Savarese contributed from Brasilia. | 2023-01-01T05:40:18+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Lula-set-for-inauguration-to-preside-over-17688127.php |
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama next week for the unveiling of their official White House portraits.
The Sept. 7 ceremony, which the White House announced Wednesday, is typically an occasion for a president to honor his immediate predecessor. But Obama’s unveiling did not occur during Donald Trump’s presidency, given the animus between the two men.
The event was further delayed last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is due to be held indoors in the East Room of the White House. The White House did not name the artists who painted the portraits.
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Obama hosted President George W. Bush for his portrait unveiling in May 2012, and Bush had former President Bill Clinton at the White House for his unveiling in June 2004.
Portraits of former presidents hang on the walls of ceremonial areas of the White House, including the East Room, State Dining Room, and Cross Hall.
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Silverglate: Eastman “probably” a target in Georgia election probe
ATLANTA — John Eastman, the lawyer who developed strategies to block certification of the 2020 election, is “probably a target” in the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Donald J. Trump’s election loss in Georgia, one of Eastman’s lawyers said on Wednesday. Eastman spent the morning appearing before an Atlanta special grand jury looking into the matter.
The assertion that Eastman could face indictment in the Georgia case came from Harvey Silverglate, a well-known Boston-area criminal defense lawyer and civil liberties advocate who is representing him.
Silverglate said that his client had not been identified as a target by Fulton County prosecutors in Atlanta, as a number of other pro-Trump figures have been, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served as Trump’s personal lawyer after the November 2020 election.
However, in a phone interview on Wednesday morning, Silverglate said of Eastman: “I think he’s probably a target, but I don’t think he’s a legitimate target,” adding that he believed Eastman had broken no laws in Georgia.
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“I don’t think my client is going to be convicted of anything,” Silverglate said. “If he is indicted, a motion to dismiss will end the case.”
In a brief phone interview after he left the Fulton County courthouse — where he appeared behind closed doors in front of the special grand jury — Eastman said that he never sought to overturn the November 2020 election but rather was calling for investigations into what he described as “illegality” in the process.
“We really take issue with the district attorney’s office appearing, apparently, to criminalize contested legal theories,” he said. In a statement, Silverglate and another of Eastman’s lawyers, Charles Burnham, said they advised Eastman “to assert attorney client privilege and the constitutional right to remain silent where appropriate” in Wednesday’s grand jury appearance.
Eastman was an obscure conservative lawyer until he emerged as a central figure in efforts to keep Trump in power in 2020 by deploying slates of fake electors in a number of swing states. His testimony in the Georgia case was sought by Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who was considering bringing a multi-defendant racketeering or conspiracy case over what she has characterized as “any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections in this state.”
NEW YORK TIMES
Election denier bounced off Ohio ballot; appeal likely
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A conservative podcaster who embraces former President Donald Trump’s discredited claims of a stolen 2020 election isn’t eligible to appear on the November ballot as an independent candidate vying to challenge Ohio’s Republican elections chief, according to an assistant secretary of state’s letter decertifying her candidacy.
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Terpsehore “Tore” Maras had vowed to appeal if incumbent GOP Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office rejected her candidacy after a state Republican official challenged it in his capacity as an Ohio voter.
In a letter Tuesday, an assistant secretary of state handling the matter upheld the recommendation of a judge who reviewed the protest brought by Ohio Republican Party Executive Director Justin Bis.
Retired Ohio Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell heard the challenge to dozens of the signatures that initially had qualified Maras for the ballot. O’Donnell determined some were invalid, leaving Maras several names short of the required 5,000. He recommended she be tossed from the ballot.
The final ruling was up to LaRose’s office, but because LaRose is Maras’ would-be opponent, O’Donnell was selected to hear the matter and a LaRose deputy handled the decision.
An attorney for Maras said Wednesday that they would quickly ask the Ohio Supreme Court to validate more of the signatures, including nine that they say boards of election determined are valid. Maras is “a controversial figure for a lot of people” but has a right to appear on the ballot, attorney Warner Mendenhall said.
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Va. judge dismisses suit aimed at limiting two books
A Virginia judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Republicans that sought to limit how bookstores and public school libraries could distribute two books to minors, closing — at least temporarily — an unusual commercial strategy in the campaign to protect students from literature conservatives say is not age-appropriate.
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The two books at the heart of the suit are Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer,” a memoir about identifying as nonbinary, and Sarah J. Maas’s “A Court of Mist and Fury,” a fantasy novel that depicts a dark fairy romance. Both have drawn objections for their sexual material. The suit, filed in Virginia Beach Circuit Court by Delegate Tim Anderson, a Virginia Beach Republican, and congressional candidate Tommy Altman, aimed to prevent the Virginia Beach school system and locations of the private bookseller Barnes & Noble from selling the books to children without first obtaining parental consent.
In her order dismissing the lawsuit, Judge Pamela Baskervill concluded that part of Virginia’s state law dealing with obscenity is unconstitutional. The little-known and little-used section of the state code, around which the Republicans’ lawsuit was built, says that any Virginia citizen can file in court to have a book ruled obscene and, if a judge acquiesces, that anyone who thereafter distributes the book “is presumed to have knowledge that the book is obscene” and could be found criminally liable. The code is decades old.
In her ruling, Baskervill said the law violates the First Amendment by enabling governmental censorship and by assuming that anyone distributing an obscene book must be consciously deciding to break the law, when in fact these people might “have no knowledge that a book may be considered obscene.”
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Lawyer who backed Trump to testify in Georgia
ATLANTA — L. Lin Wood, a trial lawyer and an ardent supporter of Donald Trump who pushed a number of falsehoods about election fraud after the 2020 presidential contest, has been asked to give testimony in the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the Georgia election, he confirmed Tuesday.
In a phone call, Wood said that his lawyer had been informed that Wood’s testimony was being sought by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office. Wood said he would comply and go before the special grand jury that has been looking into efforts by Trump and his allies to reverse Trump’s election loss.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Wood said. “I’ve got nothing to hide, so I’ll go down and talk to them.”
Prosecutors’ efforts to secure Wood’s testimony in the closed-door grand jury sessions were first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Wood, a trial lawyer, earned national fame for taking on high-profile clients, most notably Richard Jewell, who was wrongly suspected of setting off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
Last week, prosecutors in the election-meddling case noted — in court documents seeking the testimony of another pro-Trump lawyer, Sidney Powell — that Wood had given a December 2021 interview to CNBC in which he spoke of hosting meetings “at a plantation in South Carolina for the purpose of exploring options to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.”
The court filing noted that the meetings had been attended by Powell; Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser to Trump; and other individuals known to be associated with the Trump campaign.
NEW YORK TIMES | 2022-08-31T22:37:26+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/31/nation/bidens-host-obamas-portraits-unveiled/ |
- UNIPLAT Becomes One of EUTECH's Only Six SDG Alliance Strategic Partners -
YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UNIPLAT, the world's first (*) online platform for researchers and entrepreneurs showcasing their research projects focused on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially announced a strategic partnership on July 7 with European Technology Chamber (EUTECH), a registered NGO that is bridging technologies, people, economics, societies, countries, and politics to bring prosperity to humanity. (*) Based on Google search results.
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Both organizations share the same mission of working towards realizing the SDGs. Hence, the partnership and cooperation are focused on but not limited to programs, projects, academic exchanges, and events by the SDG Alliance.
The SDG Alliance is one of EUTECH's Alliances that enable European and international companies to become more competitive by empowering them with access to finance and resources that will allow them to achieve their growth objectives. By becoming one of the only six SDG Alliance strategic partners, UNIPLAT will receive exclusive access to the events, activities, and media publicity held by the SDG Alliance, creating more exposure and opening more opportunities for all UNIPLAT members.
"It is a great pleasure to witness the strategic partnership forged between UNIPLAT and EU Tech Chamber SDG Alliance. As we have always believed, collaboration is the key to addressing pressing challenges and unlocking new opportunities. I strongly believe that with our joint efforts, we can facilitate significant progress in the realization of the UN's SDGs. Looking forward to our journey together," said Florian von Tucher, the chairman of EUTECH.
"It is a great honor for UNIPLAT to become a strategic partner of EUTECH, the EU's leading research and technology platform co-funded by the EU. For UNIPLAT members worldwide, EUTECH is the cornerstone of building a strong business network in Europe. Furthermore, we hope that UNIPLAT will be used as a venue for presentations on the global expansion of a lot of companies and institutions supported by EUTECH. We are very confident that this internationally impactful and extremely significant partnership will strongly support the resolution of the SDGs advocated by the United Nations," said Takahisa Karita, the co-founder, CFO, and COO of Unify Platform AG, the management company of UNIPLAT.
About UNIPLAT
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UNIPLAT is the world's first (*) online platform specialized for researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world to share their ideas and research projects and gain support from individuals or institutions. Developed and managed by Unify Platform AG ( https://unify21.com/ ) which is based in Switzerland, UNIPLAT's mission is to accelerate the success of the SDGs. (*) Based on Google search results.
UNIPLAT front page: https://www.uniplat.social/
About EUTECH
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EUTECH was founded as an NGO and non-profit organization to serve as a bridge between technologies, people, economics, societies, countries, and politics. EUTECH strongly believes that the challenges of the times can only be mastered with the help of technology. Global collaboration is the only instrument that can help solve international problems at all levels: economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian. The respect for human rights and the fundamental freedom of people without differentiation based on race, gender, or religion should be cultivated and strengthened. EUTECH official website: https://www.eutech.org/
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Senate Democrats sought political cover on Thursday as Republicans forced a vote on whether to maintain a Trump-era immigration policy that has Democrats divided.
Eight Democratic senators — Jon Tester (Mont.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.) — along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) voted for an alternate amendment to protect Title 42, which allows for migrants to be quickly expelled at the border without asylum processing.
Five of the nine are up for reelection in 2024.
The amendment, brought by Sinema and Tester, sought to extend the Trump-era policy and boost border funding. It is one of more than a dozen amendments senators had to vote on Thursday to pass a larger government funding omnibus.
Only one Republican, Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) voted “yes” on the measure, which failed 10-87, despite broad GOP support for Title 42.
Democrats offered the amendment after efforts to pass a bipartisan $1.7 trillion omnibus for fiscal 2023 hit a roadblock the day before over another amendment, brought by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), that aimed to cut funding for the office of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas if Title 42 was not reinstated.
No Democrats voted for Lee’s amendment and it failed in a 47-50 vote along party lines shortly after.
Republicans claimed ahead of the vote that the Sinema-Tester amendment, which needed to meet a 60-vote threshold for approval, was designed to fail.
Pressed by reporters about the amendment on Thursday, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) argued it shows Democrats “don’t want to continue Title 42.”
“It was set up not to pass,” he added.
Title 42 has spurred division amongst Democrats. Republican leaders claimed late Wednesday that Democrats didn’t want to agree to a simple majority-vote threshold for Lee’s amendment because they were concerned it would pass with some Democratic support.
Democrats also said attaching the amendment to the omnibus could have hurt support within the party for the larger funding bill, especially in the House, where Republican leaders are actively urging rank-and-file members to vote against the entire bill.
The push by Lee also arrived as Republicans face an internal rift in the party over whether to pass the omnibus.
Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have championed the omnibus for funding boosts secured for defense programs above the rate of inflation, as well as the opposite for nondefense spending.
But many Republicans between the House and Senate have pushed for Congress to temporarily freeze government funding at fiscal 2022 levels into next year to allow the incoming GOP-led House more influence in talks.
“Since 1954, the party in control of the House of Representatives has shifted from one party to another a total of just five times,” Lee, one of those Republicans, said days back while leading an effort to kick a deadline to set new government funding to the next Congress.
“And [in] exactly zero of those instances did Congress come back after that election and during a lame-duck session enact sweeping, comprehensive spending legislation,” he added.
Al Weaver contributed. | 2022-12-22T19:14:21+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/hill-politics/democrats-try-to-find-cover-on-title-42/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (KDVR) — With all the excitement for the Colorado Avalanche of taking home their third Stanley Cup, the trophy may have taken a beating during the celebration.
Within minutes, the Stanley Cup was dented.
“I don’t even know if they had it five minutes and there’s a dent in the bottom already. Right in the middle of the team photo,” said the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Keeper of the Cup, Philip Pritchard. “I guess it’s a new record today. Five minutes into the presentation it’s happened. It’s the first time it’s ever happened on the ice.”
With the weight of history in their hands, number 16, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, dropped the trophy while skating toward his teammates for a celebratory photo.
“It’s the third time the Avalanche have won it. I guess we will have a little chat with them soon, and we’ll go through the process of how we’re going to repair it, but the Stanley Cup tour will go on,” said Pritchard.
Photos and videos captured the moment Aube-Kubel left his mark forever on Lord Stanley. ESPN confirmed the moment in a tweet.
A Stanley Cup Championship parade will take place Thursday in Denver. | 2022-06-27T15:52:55+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/i-guess-its-a-new-record-avalanche-dents-stanley-cup-minutes-after-winning/ |
ANKARA – A top administrative court in Turkey ruled Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to pull the country out of a key European treaty protecting women from violence was lawful, rejecting petitions seeking its cancellation, the state-run news agency reported.
Erdogan withdrew Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention last year, prompting condemnation from women’s rights groups and Western countries. The landmark convention was signed in Istanbul in 2011.
Several women’s groups and other organizations had petitioned the Council of State, arguing that Erdogan’s move to pull out of the treaty through a presidential decree was unlawful. The court's judges, however, ruled by a majority decision to reject the petitions, Anadolu Agency reported.
Last year's decision to leave the convention came after some officials from Erdogan’s Islam-oriented party had advocated for a review of the agreement, arguing it was inconsistent with Turkey’s conservative values by encouraging divorce and undermining the traditional family unit. Critics also claimed that it promoted homosexuality.
Erdogan insisted it wouldn't be a step backward for women and in March, Turkey’s parliament ratified a bill aimed at combating violence against women that included introducing tougher sentences if the victim of a violent crime is a woman and making persistent stalking punishable by prison.
At least 226 women have been murdered in Turkey so far in 2022, and 425 last year, according to the We Will Stop Femicide group. | 2022-07-19T15:20:34+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/07/19/turkish-court-upholds-exit-from-treaty-protecting-women/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Top Tennessee health officials attempted to oust Planned Parenthood from a program designed to prevent and treat HIV before eventually deciding to forgo federal funding for the program, despite warnings that doing so will have a devastating impact on marginalized communities, documents show.
The decision is the latest development in a ruby red state where abortion is already banned. Republicans leaders, however, have actively tried to cut off public ties with the organization for any other services, due to its long history of offering and defending abortion care.
According to a letter from Planned Parenthood, Tennessee’s Department of Health in November alerted the organization that it would no longer receive HIV prevention grants starting in 2023, as well as warn that the state was terminating its partnership with Planned Parenthood to provide HIV testing.
The letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press, was sent to the health agency’s general counsel, Mary Katherine Bratton, on Nov. 16.
The document states that United Way — which distributes the HIV federal funding grant on the health agency’s behalf — said the department wanted to sever ties with Planned Parenthood “for reasons wholly unrelated to the purpose of the program.”
“As United Way reported: ‘TDH said given the current political climate we are not moving forward with funding Planned Parenthood,’ and TDH ‘can no longer directly or indirectly fund (Planned Parenthood),’” wrote Planned Parenthood’s attorney Alan E. Schoenfeld.
Schoenfeld added that Planned Parenthood wanted to avoid litigation and requested a meeting later that month. The issue was eventually dropped until this week, when the Department of Health announced it was choosing to walk away from the federal HIV prevention, detection and treatment funding and instead would rely on state funding for such efforts starting June 1. The Commercial Appeal was the first to report the announcement.
The department’s move was a shock to many of the participating organizations tasked with providing vital HIV services across the state. Planned Parenthood, which has worked with the state to distribute free condoms for more than a decade, declared that Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s administration was choosing the “nuclear option” in order to avoid having to work with the organization.
“This is yet another public health crisis manufactured by Gov. Lee,” said Ashley Coffield, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. “They are using Planned Parenthood as the entry way to take down the whole sexual and reproductive health care system. We’re often the most public target, but this affects so many groups.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Health declined to directly answer questions about why they attempted to cut Planned Parenthood from the HIV program in November. Instead, they provided a Jan. 17 letter explaining that “prior administrations” had decided to accept the federal funding for HIV surveillance but the state has determined “it is in the best interest of Tennesseans for the State to assume direct financial and managerial responsibility for these services.”
“The funding for this HIV prevention program is very important and it’s important that it is spent effectively and efficiently in the ways that best serve Tennessee,” Lee told reporters Friday. “We think we can do that better than the strings attached with the federal dollars that came our way and that’s why we made that decision.”
Tennessee’s health agency’s website says the CDC grant helps fund: “HIV counseling, testing and referral, HIV partner counseling and referral services, HIV health education and risk reduction programs, HIV prevention for positive individuals, public information programs, a toll-free HIV/STD hotline, capacity building programs, and a quality assurance and evaluation component.”
The website goes on to say that state funding provides additional support for HIV testing, but it does not give an amount.
Separately, Lee appointed Ralph Alvarado as the new health commissioner in late November. Alvarado is a former Kentucky state senator who has publicly opposed most abortion access. Alvarado officially took over the role on Monday, just two days before the department announced it would cut off the HIV federal funding.
Planned Parenthood has since been removed from the health agency’s website that lists community organizations that distribute free condoms.
“There’s nothing pro-life about punishing people who are living with HIV and enabling this virus to spread undetected,” said Democratic state Sen. London Lamar of Memphis.
Lamar added that public health efforts have helped slow the spread of HIV in Tennessee and that cutting off federal funding “endangers the lives of Tennesseans.”
Planned Parenthood has partnered with Tennessee’s Department of Health to provide HIV testing since 2008, when Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen was in office. Four years later, under then Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration, the health agency attempted to remove Planned Parenthood from the program — a move that was ultimately challenged in court.
A district court later found that the department had targeted Planned Parenthood “based upon their First Amendment activity for advocating abortion” and issued a permanent injunction preventing the state from dissolving any partnership with the organization because of their abortion care advocacy. That injunction is still in place.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has been forced to stop all abortion services ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion last year.
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Associated Press writer Jonathan Mattise contributed to this report. | 2023-01-21T06:22:33+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-before-hiv-grant-cut-tenn-tried-to-oust-planned-parenthood/ |
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Joe Flacco will huddle up for the New York Jets against his former team. And likely a few more opponents after that.
Coach Robert Saleh announced Wednesday that Flacco will start at quarterback in the season opener Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens in place of the injured Zach Wilson — who likely will be out until Week 4 at Pittsburgh.
“Yeah, it’s frustrating, of course,” Wilson said. “You want to be healthy as much as possible.”
Flacco starting this week is not unexpected, as it appeared to be trending that way for a few weeks. But the announcement that the Oct. 2 game against the Steelers is likely “the earliest” Wilson will return from a knee injury was a surprise.
“Now, can it change? Sure, I’m always going to leave that door open,” Saleh said. “You guys know me, I’m the eternal optimist. But we are going to make sure both mind and body are 110% and make sure we do right by him.
“And we feel like, talking to the doctors and everyone, it’s going to be that Pittsburgh week.”
Wilson worked out on the field Monday and Tuesday while testing out his right knee, which was injured in the preseason opener at Philadelphia on Aug. 12. Saleh said Monday “it’s possible” Wilson could play against Baltimore but that the quarterback would be evaluated in the next few days. Saleh said the second-year QB had no setbacks while working out, but the Jets don’t want to rush him back to the field.
“He looks fantastic, he still looks good, he feels good,” Saleh said. “He’s not walking with a limp or anything.”
Despite Wilson missing at least the first three games, the Jets did not consider putting him injured reserve — which would sideline him for a minimum of four games — so that he can continue to practice with the team. Wilson will work with the training staff this week, Saleh said, and then slowly resume practice during the next few weeks. Wilson said he’s able to throw and drop back.
“For what the injury was,” he said, “I’m very optimistic to be able to get back and still play football the way I want to this year.”
Wilson said he won’t change the way he plays despite the injury.
“People can say, ‘He should’ve gone out of bounds, should’ve slid,’” Wilson said. “It was a non-contact injury. The guy didn’t tackle me. If the guy hit me and I got injured, that’s one thing. If I can’t run and cut without getting hurt, then what am I doing? I’ve got to take care of myself and put myself in a better situation there.”
Saleh also left no doubt that the starting job remains Wilson’s whenever he is fully ready to play.
“When Zach’s healthy, he’s rolling,” Saleh said.
Wilson suffered a bone bruise and torn meniscus, which was repaired via arthroscopic surgery in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. It’s the same knee in which he sprained a ligament last year and sidelined him for four games. He was initially expected to miss two to four weeks with the current injury, a timetable that turned out to be a bit overambitious.
Taking the cautious approach in Week 1, New York will turn to Flacco — who will take on his former team. And with the confidence of the Jets.
“Heck yeah, man, Cool Joe,” Saleh said. “He’s been preparing. He’s freakin’ awesome. I’m really excited for him for this opportunity.”
The 37-year-old quarterback spent his first 11 NFL seasons in Baltimore, helping lead the Ravens to a Super Bowl victory to cap the 2012 season. He was the MVP of that game and signed a six-year, $120.6 million contract a month later, becoming the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history at that time.
A hip injury midway through the 2018 season put Flacco on the sideline — and Lamar Jackson into the starting lineup. The following offseason, Flacco was traded to Denver, where he spent one season before signing with the Jets for his first stint in New York. Meanwhile, Jackson went on in 2019 to become the second player to win the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award unanimously.
This will mark Flacco’s first start against the Ravens, and he’ll take on the QB who replaced him.
“Obviously, there’s going to be some different emotions that I haven’t experienced before this one,” Flacco said. “I think at the end of the day, it is like every other game. Once kind of the dust settles and the game gets going, it’s a football game.”
Flacco is looking for his first win as a starter with the Jets, going 0-5 while filling in for Wilson in one game last season and four in place of Sam Darnold in 2020.
“Even at 37, I know that it’s in the back of his head, he’s getting a chance to play Baltimore and all these different things,” Saleh said. “Even at 37, he’s got to keep the main thing the main thing and just do his best, and trust his best is good enough.
“I think we’re all excited for Joe and his opportunity, and excited for Sunday.”
NOTES: Wilson and LT Duane Brown (shoulder) were the only players who didn’t practice Wednesday. … RT George Fant (knee), CB D.J. Reed (knee), CB/ST Justin Hardee (calf) and OL Conor McDermott (ankle) were limited.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-09-08T16:34:20+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-jets-qb-wilson-out-until-at-least-week-4-flacco-to-start/ |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Matteo Picarelli had 21 points in UMBC’s 78-76 win over Central Connecticut on Sunday.
Picarelli sank a 3-pointer with 31 seconds left to play to knot the score at 76. Craig Beaudion II had a layup with one second left to give the Retrievers (3-2) the victory.
Picarelli shot 6 for 10 (5 for 8 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Retrievers (3-2). Colton Lawrence had 15 points and Jarvis Doles scored 13.
Davonte Sweatman finished with 17 points, six rebounds and four assists for the Blue Devils (0-5). Nigel Scantlebury scored 16 with five assists. Andre Snoddy finished with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
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(AP) – A gunman who fatally shot a man at a Wisconsin home had a list of targets that included Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, her office said Saturday.
Attorney General Josh Kaul refused to name the victim of Friday’s shooting, but it has been widely reported that he was retired Juneau County Judge John Roemer. The suspect was discovered in the basement with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in what appeared to be a plan to target people connected to the judicial system, Kaul said Friday.
Zach Pohl, Whitmer’s deputy chief of staff, said her office was notified that her name appeared “on the Wisconsin gunman’s list” but declined to give details about the suspect.
“Governor Whitmer has demonstrated repeatedly that she is tough, and she will not be bullied or intimidated from doing her job and working across the aisle to get things done for the people of Michigan,” Pohl said.
A trial held earlier this year in which four men accused in an alleged kidnapping plot of the Michigan Democrat resulted in the acquittal of two of the men. The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict for the other two.
Kaul’s office did not respond to numerous phone and email messages Saturday.
Investigators don’t believe anyone else is at risk any longer, but an investigation involving the FBI and the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation is ongoing, Kaul said during a news conference Friday.
“The information that’s been gathered indicated that it was a targeted act and that the targeting was based on some sort of court case or court cases,” Kaul said.
The Juneau County Sheriff’s Office received a call that two shots were fired at a home in New Lisbon at 6:30 a.m. Friday, according to the Division of Criminal Investigation. The caller had fled the home and made the call from another nearby house.
Donna Voss, a neighbor, told The Associated Press that she said she heard law enforcement on a loudspeaker telling the man to surrender and leave the home. She and public records said the home belonged to Roemer.
The Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release that officers outside tried to negotiate with the gunman and finally entered the home shortly after 10 a.m. The Juneau County Special Tactics and Response Team found the 68-year-old homeowner dead and a 56-year-old man in the basement with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was taken to a medical facility.
Kaul said the suspect was in critical condition.
For Voss, the shooting came as a shock in a usually quiet neighborhood where houses sit alongside farmland and wooded lots, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Madison.
“It’s unbelievable and really freaky,” she said.
New Lisbon, which has a population of about 2,500 people, is in Juneau County in central Wisconsin. The town is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) west of Milwaukee. | 2022-06-04T21:38:27+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/spokesman-whitmer-was-on-wisconsin-gunmans-list-of-targets/ |
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSTU) — Many thought Labor Day was off to an extraterrestrial start after a strange strand of lights appeared over the Utah sky.
However, the lights were Starlink Satellites, according to findstarlink.com.
A video from Josue Garay shows the satellites in Salt Lake City. Garay said he was walking his dog when he saw the lights.
Visibility was good for the SpaceX satellites at around 5:30 a.m. Monday morning in Utah.
People who missed the event Monday will get another opportunity to see the satellites. They are expected to be visible again Tuesday morning.
This story was originally reported by Melanie Porter on fox13now.com. | 2022-09-05T17:21:27+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/strange-lights-spotted-in-utah-sky-on-labor-day-morning |
SDI Innovation Outlook analyzes millions of patents to quantify the alignment of companies' patent portfolios with the UN SDGs
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced the launch of the SDI Innovation Outlook. The new dataset provides forward looking information, by analyzing the alignment of companies' patent portfolios with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The SDI Innovation Outlook is a combination of scores on 130 technology themes which have been identified through the SDI AOP taxonomy in a transparent and quality-assured mapping process by AI partner Entis. Currently, the dataset provides reports with detailed company profiles for over 2,200 firms.
"We evaluate millions of patents across the globe by using large-scale network analysis and proprietary statistical models. The analysis incorporates the quality and importance of individual patents, takes historical trends into account and provides granular insights for specific themes and technologies," explained James Leaton, Research Director, SDI AOP.
"The growing community of investors using SDI data benefits from the consistent, objective way we have identified SDG goals and technologies across revenues and now patents. The deployment of artificial intelligence to implement our SDG framework is essential to process the huge volumes of data," added Leaton.
The SDI Innovation Outlook is a new forward-looking SDI dataset, building on the SDI Classification dataset which assesses companies' current product and service-related contributions to the SDGs based predominantly on revenues.
"The SDI Outlook enables users to identify potential for future value creation and test whether R&D activities match corporate commitments. This can feed into engagement strategies, peer comparison and portfolio construction," said Leaton.
Alongside the release of the SDI Innovation Outlook, the SDI Classification dataset which focuses on a companies' product and service-related contributions to the SDGs, moved from a semi-annual to quarterly release cycle. The SDI Classification universe was also further extended to include high yield bond issuers, in response to user demand. In August 2022, negative SDG contribution information was introduced to the dataset to identify revenues generated by products and services that are defined as inconsistent with achieving the UN SDGs.
The SDI AOP was launched in 2020 to work with investors to embed the UN SDGs into their investment processes and integrate SDG contributions into their portfolio management and reporting, enabling target setting and progress monitoring.
About SDI Asset Owner Platform
The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) is responsible for the development and maintenance of the SDI taxonomy and guidance, SDI definitions and SDI classification methodology (www.sdi-aop.org). The SDI AOP consists of asset owners who invest in solutions which contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The SDI AOP is comprised of APG, AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and PGGM. Its underlying data are available to the market through analytics and index provider Qontigo and can be integrated into any investment process. The SDI AOP's Classification product uses revenues associated with a company's products and services as starting point to classify which companies qualify as SDI. Currently, the SDI AOP Classification dataset covers more than 9,000 entities across equities and fixed income.
About Qontigo
Qontigo is a leading global provider of innovative index, analytics and risk solutions that optimize investment impact. As the shift toward sustainable investing accelerates, Qontigo enables its clients—financial-products issuers, asset owners and asset managers—to deliver sophisticated and targeted solutions at scale to meet the increasingly demanding and unique sustainability goals of investors worldwide.
Qontigo's solutions are enhanced by both our collaborative, customer-centric culture, which allows us to create tailored solutions for our clients, and our open architecture and modern technology that efficiently integrate with our clients' processes.
Part of the Deutsche Börse Group, Qontigo was created in 2019 through the combination of Axioma, DAX and STOXX. Headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, Qontigo's global presence includes offices in New York, London, Zug and Hong Kong.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reference is made to the announcement by Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") (NYSE: SDRL) (XOAS: SDRL) on 11 October 2022 regarding the listing of its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), with 14 October 2022 as the first date of listing and trading at the NYSE. Due to the listing on the NYSE, Seadrill has applied to change the status of its listing at Euronext Expand from a primary listing to a secondary listing, and the Oslo Stock Exchange has approved such application. The change from primary to secondary listing at Euronext Expand will take effect today, 17 October 2022.
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KIMT News 3 Sports - The Cedar Valley Soccer Club is making some noise.
The team has advanced to the National Tournament.
"I just think it's super cool that we won all of our games at regionals and we're hoping to win a lot at nationals," says Reggi Spotts.
The Cedar Valley Soccer Club won the 17G US Club Regionals Premier Division to advance to the National Tournament.
The team beat the best teams from the Midwest region and now they will face the best teams in the other regions.
"So a lot of teams that we were playing had a lot of technical skills, but our team would just outlast them with stamina and we are all very good athletes and could hold the whole 90-minute game. And I think that's the difference that made us win it," says Kenna Hemann.
The Cedar Valley Soccer Club is comprised of girls from Iowa and Nebraska coming together twice a week in Cedar Falls to practice.
But a lot of the work is done individually.
"Since we're from all around, we have to work on our own, so just knowing that we all want to win and be the best that we can be, so putting in the work outside of the practices," says Claudia Sewell.
"It is a lot of unseen work. People that don't see our work. It's when people aren't watching when we do the most. Obviously all the practices, those help, but like driving down there. We've had a lot of hard practices. A lot of endurance practices," says Reggi.
The National Tournament kicks off July 14th in Colorado and the team will be ready.
"I don't think we're going to be worried about what the other team is doing. We're just all going to rely on each other and our training. And everything that has prepared us for it. And just play the hardest we can. And whatever comes from it, comes from it," says Kenna.
Good luck to the team at Nationals! | 2022-06-29T05:51:36+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/sports/cedar-valley-soccer-club-from-iowa-heads-to-national-tournament/article_e97b241a-f75d-11ec-8bad-232ee06a3326.html |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its fourth quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The Birmingham, Alabama-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $258.1 million, or 43 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 43 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had a loss of $140.5 million, or 24 cents per share.
The health care real estate investment trust posted revenue of $380.5 million in the period, topping Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $378.6 million.
For the year, the company reported funds from operations of $1.09 billion, or $1.82 per share. Revenue was nearly unchanged at $1.54 billion.
Medical Properties expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.50 to $1.65 per share.
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo, a global leading technology company, has announced today that it has become the Official Smartphone and the only Official Sponsor in the smartphone industry of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM. The new vivo X Fold+ launched in the mainland of China on the same day is the first official foldable smartphone in the 118-year history of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). With the industry-leading foldable screen technology and efficient office package, vivo X Fold+ will appear in Qatar 2022 matches to provide support for the preparation and staging of the event. As the exclusive official smartphone sponsor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, vivo will connect international football fans, who are as passionate about the beautiful game as vivo is, through its industry-leading smartphone technology, and glorify every exciting moment.
vivo signed a six-year sponsorship agreement with FIFA in 2017, and this year's event in Qatar will be the second World Cup vivo has sponsored after having done the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017TM, the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018TM and the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021TM. For football events, vivo also sponsored the UEFA EURO 2020™. vivo remains committed to supporting the development of football through its various football sponsorships.
As one of the oldest sports, football is immensely popular around the world. It embodies teamwork and pursuing the same outcome to achieve one goal. Regardless of race, gender, and age, football always has the power to bring people from different cultural backgrounds together to build strong connections to break down barriers.
vivo started its globalization journey in 2014 and now covers more than 60 countries and regions across the globe. vivo has always adhered to consumer orientation and is committed to using innovative technology to provide excellent smartphones and other products for users around the world. By building connections globally, vivo is highly recognized for offering users with convenient and excellent experience which is brought by technological innovation. Together, with FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™'s expected global audience of 5 billion and over 400 million active vivo users worldwide, vivo and FIFA are looking forward to connecting with audiences worldwide through the shared passion of football.
vivo believes that the development of sports and technology shares a similar philosophy – empowering people to live a better life through continuous breakthroughs and innovations. Through its sponsorship, vivo will play an integral role in helping FIFA host an open and inclusive event for people around the world. As the only Official Sponsor of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM in the smartphone industry, vivo would like to invite global users and football fans to record wonderful moments to spread happiness among family and friends.
"Football has the power to bring people together. vivo believes that innovation can help football fans build a community and share exciting World Cup experiences with everyone across the globe, whether they are watching the games at a football stadium or enjoying the experience from afar," said Spark Ni, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at vivo.
During the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, vivo will provide industry-leading flagship smartphones to FIFA World Cup staff to complete preparations with cutting-edge technologies, and boost successful holding of the World Cup.
vivo will also launch the #vivogiveitashot campaign during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ to celebrate the event. Through this campaign, vivo hopes to recreate those beautiful and impressive moments and also show the courage of people who tackle challenges head-on. It's believed this campaign will give people across the globe the power to express themselves through their love of football and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xi'an, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 400 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.
That's not a coincidence. Nor is it the whole story.
The justices who voted to overturn Roe have been shaped by a church whose catechism affirms “the moral evil of every procured abortion” and whose U.S. bishops have declared opposition to abortion their “preeminent priority" in public policy.
But that alone doesn't explain the justices' votes.
U.S. Catholics as a whole are far more ambivalent on abortion than their church leaders, with more than half believing it should be legal in all or most circumstances, according to the Pew Research Center.
Notable Catholics who support abortion rights include President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats. Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Catholic, dissented in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe.
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But the justices in the Dobbs majority aren't simply cradle Catholics. Several have ties to intellectual and social currents within Catholicism that, for all their differences, share a doctrinal conservatism and strong opposition to abortion.
“It’s not simply choosing Catholics,” said Steven Millies, professor of public theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and author of “Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump."
“It is because they are particular kinds of Catholics, traveling in particular Catholic circles that not everyone in your local parish is identifying with," Millies said.
In Dobbs, five justices voted to overturn Roe — Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas. A sixth, Chief Justice John Roberts, balked at overturning Roe but voted to uphold the Mississippi abortion restrictions in question.
All six were raised Catholic.
Most went to some combination of Catholic high schools, colleges or graduate schools. The one exception, Dobbs author Alito, has fondly described growing up in a home where “church and the family” were preeminent. Five of the six justices still identify as Catholic, while Gorsuch has attended an Episcopal church more recently.
The Supreme Court was dominated by Protestant justices for much of its history. The majority have been Catholic since the 1990s, and for several years in the last decade, the court had six Catholic justices, three Jews and no Protestants. ( Newly sworn-in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson identifies as Protestant.)
But religious identity has mattered less of late than ideology, which is why conservative evangelicals have cheered on the Republican-nominated Catholics, said Nomi Stolzenberg, a University of Southern California Law School professor focusing on law and religion.
In fact, eight of the last nine Republican nominees to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, from the Reagan to the Trump presidencies, have had Catholic pedigrees.
That religious demographic may seem striking given Republicans' loyal evangelical Protestant constituency.
But partly it's a matter of the available talent pool: Catholic immigrants' descendants have intensely pursued legal professions.
Catholic institutions built their own intellectually rigorous law schools to aid in social assimilation and upward mobility. Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh began as a night school for working class immigrants.
In time, Catholics were studying at Ivy League schools and reaching the judicial elite.
“It’s an immigrant story, how Catholics and Jews overcame anti-Catholic and antisemitic resistance and eventually flooded into elite schools,” Stolzenberg said. A 2017 study found 28% of federal appellate judges are Catholic, and 19% are Jewish.
Millies said some of the earlier Republican-appointed justices disappointed conservatives by voting to uphold Roe.
“Republicans were looking for an identifier in the selection process that would make them safe,” he said. “By the '80s, it became Catholics.”
That, too, reflects the immigrant story, Millies said, as many midcentury Catholics sought to prove their American bona fides as staunchly anti-communist social conservatives.
“Catholics earned a marquee spot in American culture as being reliable, patriotic Americans,” he said.
Even the Catholic nominees weren’t all reliable. The now-retired Anthony Kennedy affirmed Roe and gay marriage. But later Republican administrations also scrutinized candidates’ judicial records and involvement in influential organizations such as the Federalist Society, Millies said.
Gorsuch, who like several in the Dobbs majority has appeared at multiple Federalist Society events, studied at Oxford University with Catholic legal philosopher John Finnis.
Finnis is a proponent of “natural law,” described in the Catholic catechism as “the original moral sense which enables man to discern by reason the good and the evil.” Gorsuch himself applied that principle in a book opposing assisted suicide.
“It may be the case that Gorsuch is no longer a practicing Catholic — we don’t know,” Stolzenberg said. “What we do know is that his legal philosophy is shaped by the conservative Catholic philosophy of natural law.”
Barrett has long been affiliated with People of Praise, an ecumenical Christian group with a significant Catholic membership. It combines a doctrinal and moral conservatism, including opposition to abortion.
Thomas was raised Catholic in a largely Protestant extended family and briefly attended Catholic seminary, later attending an Episcopal church before returning to Catholicism. He has praised the Catholic nuns who taught him and the grandfather who raised him, a Catholic who “worked hard to provide for his family" and “a deeply religious man who lived by the Christian virtues.”
Thomas, concurring on Dobbs, went further in saying the court should reconsider other rights that past courts granted based on legal theories similar to Roe. Such precedents voided state laws against contraception, gay sex and same-sex marriage.
In a speech at Notre Dame University in 2021, Thomas paid tribute to the influence of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, long the court's conservative stalwart.
Despite their different backgrounds — Thomas grew up in segregated Georgia in an African American family with limited education, Scalia in New Jersey as the son of a doctorate-earning Italian immigrant — “we were both Catholics, attended parochial schools and ... benefited from a common culture," Thomas said.
Scalia — who regularly attended the Latin Mass, a rite that appeals to many conservative Catholics — influenced not only Thomas but other recent appointees.
“All of these people would say, ‘We are followers of Scalia,'” Stolzenberg said. “Scalia was a conservative Catholic. That very much stamped him and marked his legal philosophy.”
But with conservatives racking up win after win on the court — overturning Roe, loosening gun restrictions and expanding religious access to public forums and money — their coalition will be tested, observers said.
They long coalesced around the idea of “originalism” — that justices should interpret the Constitution based on how its writers meant or applied it.
But originalism, with its purported moral neutrality, is “not any longer going to serve the needs of the pro-life coalition," said Bruce Ledewitz, a Duquesne University School of Law professor focused on constitutional law and religion. Some are talking about legislation declaring fetal personhood, and “originalism doesn't get you there,” he said.
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Louisiana man, woman arrested in connection with 30-year-old cold case involving infant’s death
By Travers Mackel
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JEFFERSON PARISH, Louisiana (WDSU) — A Jefferson Parish woman and a River Ridge man have been arrested and accused of first-degree murder in connection with a 30-year-old cold case involving the death of an infant.
Inga Carriere was arrested in Jefferson Parish on February 28. She was booked as a fugitive out of Picayune, Mississippi.
Andrew Carriere was arrested on March 9 in Galliano.
Both were booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center.
The Louisiana State Police are working with detectives in Mississippi on the investigation.
According to Picayune police, at the time of the crime, the baby was found behind Mr. Gatti’s Pizza at 704 Memorial Boulevard.
A farmer removed trash bags to feed his animals from the dumpster when he found the baby in one of the trash bags.
The baby was wrapped in a towel with other trash items, according to police.
When an autopsy was done on the baby, police say it was determined that that she died three weeks premature and lived a few minutes before being smothered.
According to Picayune police, the baby’s date of birth was likely April 15, 1992. The baby was buried at Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church in Picayune.
Picayune police reopened the case in 2021. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations offered to assist in the case by using a grant that covered forensic genetic genealogy testing from the evidence that was collected thirty years ago.
Police say the parents were identified as suspects through advanced DNA testing.
Picayune police believe the crime was committed in Louisiana.
Police signed affidavits on both Inga and Andrew Carriere on suspicion of desecration of a human being and warrants were signed by the judge.
Both will be extradited to Mississippi.
“It’s quite unusual,” said Paul Fleming, a longtime Jefferson Parish public defender. “This is only the second or third case I have had in my 30-year career where someone has been arrested for a case that happened 30 years ago.”
Fleming is representing Inga Carriere in the case.
“There is evidence to show that my client believed the child was stillborn, which would not be newborn or baby or infant, and would not be a crime either,” said Fleming.
Fleming told WDSU Investigates that his office is in the initial stage of its own investigation, but he does not believe his client committed a crime.
“What we have determined so far would tend to exonerate our client,” said Fleming. ” We don’t think she had any guilty knowledge of this incident that happened more than 30 years ago.”
Bail was not set for Inga Carriere for her first-degree murder charge.
“This is difficult for everybody, for both sides to handle because the evidence is old, witnesses are gone,” said Fleming. “In this case, some witnesses have died, and it’s going to make it difficult to prosecute and difficult to defend.”
State Police told WDSU Investigates that the investigation is ongoing and more arrests could be made.
The Picayune Police Department posted to Facebook following Thursday’s arrests.
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Vet Visits With Dr. Hunt – Heat Stroke in Dogs
This is our second installment of “Vet Visits with Dr. Hunt.”
We go to Bayshore Veterinary Hospital to catch up with Dr. Tim Hunt who explains the symptoms and warning signs of heat stroke in dogs. He also has quick relief tips in case it’s already started.
Dr. Hunt is very knowledgeable in animal care and even won 2014’s America’s Favorite Veterinarian Contest.
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The 24/7 Automated Pizzeria Expands to Georgia; Debuts New Locations in Atlanta's Popular Buckhead Neighborhood and Other Areas around Metro Atlanta
ATLANTA, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PizzaForno, North America's first automated pizzeria that bakes artisan pizza in less than three minutes, 24 hours a day, is officially expanding into Georgia. The first of three new locations is opening in Atlanta's popular Buckhead neighborhood at 3861 Roswell Road, with two additional locations opening around metro Atlanta later in May.
A Grand Opening event will take place at the 3861 Roswell Road location in Atlanta's popular Buckhead neighborhood on Saturday, May 6. The opening event is from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature free pizza, family-friendly music, games, freebies and giveaways. Prizes will be given for games and an "Enter to Win" contest drawing will be held for two lucky winners to win free pizza for an entire year.
The three entrepreneurs responsible for this expansion are business partners Tyler Young, Paul Nair and Mick Patel. Young has always had a passion for the restaurant industry, and started running restaurants when he was in college. Paul is the founder and owner of Savi Provisions, a neighborhood spot for organic foods, wine, spirits, and sandwiches. Mick Patel is Director of Business Development and Franchise Owner of Savi Provisions. The three were always interested in technology and innovation in the restaurant space and were immediately drawn to PizzaForno.
"One of the biggest issues I've seen with all my time in the restaurant industry is labor retention," said master licensee Tyler Young. "With PizzaForno, we solve that problem. Not only are we offering a high-quality, fresh product, but we are able to offer it 24/7 without worrying about staffing."
The trio are passionate about bringing this dining option to the area, and plan to install units in universities, hospitals and anywhere else that people would benefit from convenient, 24/7 access to their product. While they plan to open five units throughout the year, they hope to bring a total of 50 to the area.
To learn more about PizzaForno and their licensing opportunities, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/
ABOUT PIZZAFORNO
Founded in 2018 by Canadian entrepreneurs William Moyer and Les Tomlin, PizzaForno is North America's only automated pizzeria which introduces gourmet artisanal pizzas in less than three minutes. Accessible 24/7 at the tap of a digital screen, PizzaForno offers a selection of innovative menu options, each made with high quality ingredients, with an authentic approach. Utilizing technology made popular in France by ADIAL, PizzaForno has built their brand on a proven machine with already 3,000 operating in Europe. PizzaForno currently has 61 operating locations and over 500 additional locations committed in the U.S. alone, with the first 50 U.S. locations already established in Michigan, Texas, and Louisiana. In 2020, PizzaForno was honored with the Restaurants Canada 2020 Innovation Award. To learn more about PizzaForno, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/. To inquire about the licensee opportunity, visit https://www.pizzaforno.com/become-a-licensee/.
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BERLIN (AP) — German energy company RWE said Tuesday that it will phase out the burning of coal by 2030, saving 280 million metric tons of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.
The decision will accelerate the closure of some of Europe’s most polluting power plants and a vast lignite strip mine in western Germany.
It will also prevent the eviction of residents of several villages and farms west of Cologne near the Garzweiler mine. The exception is Luetzerath, a hamlet that has been the focus of protestsby environmentalists and which will now need to be cleared to extract more coal in the short-term.
The government argues this is necessary to ensure energy security amid the fallout of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
RWE’s announcement boosts the German government’s efforts to bring forward the deadline for phasing out coal use by eight years as part of the country’s goal of ending its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is responsible for energy, said negotiations with the operators of Germany’s other coal mines and eight coal-fired power plants were ongoing.
The Fridays for Future climate activist group said the announcement that Luetzerath will be destroyed and some coal-fired plants will temporarily be kept online for longer to cover possible energy shortfalls was “cynical.” It said protests against the plan would be organized in several locations across Germany.
In parallel to its phaseout of coal, RWE said it would expand renewable energy production and build gas-fired power plants capable of burning hydrogen.
RWE, which over the weekend announced the purchase of American company Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, said it is now on a path that is compatible with the 2015 Paris climate accord’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
Separately on Tuesday, the Netherlands said it plans to join a German-led initiative to promote the market ramp-up of hydrogen produced using renewable energy.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the two countries will also explore cooperation on future offshore wind parks in the North Sea that would produce both electricity and “green hydrogen.”
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Take your barbecue to the next level
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Weber Performer Deluxe 22-Inch Charcoal Grill With Touch-N-Go Gas Igniter
- Weber Smokey Joe 14-Inch Black Portable Grill With Porcelain Anti-Rust Coating
- Char-Broil Tru-Infrared Kettleman 22.5-Inch Charcoal Kettle Grill With Hinged Lid
There’s nothing quite like the smoky flavor of cooking on a classic charcoal grill. While cooks of all skill levels can learn how to use them, choosing the right charcoal grill can make it even easier. These can range from simple kettle-style grills to more advanced charcoal grills with added features, and they can also vary significantly in price points.
Whether you’re looking for a cheap charcoal grill or something with a few more bells and whistles, there are a few things to note before you buy.
What to know when buying a charcoal grill
Types of charcoal grills
The most common type is the classic kettle grill. These are usually round grills with metal legs, featuring a simple grate above where the charcoal goes.
Other less common charcoal grills include barrel-style, ceramic charcoal and park-style grills. Barrel-style are large, open barrels often used for slow-cooking, smoking and barbecuing. Ceramic charcoal grills for optimal heat control at a higher price point. Open-box or park-style grills mount to the ground.
Charcoal grill basics
Nearly every charcoal grill will include a few specific features. These include a lidded compartment with a grate to cook on, a vent for controlling airflow and an ash-catching tray beneath the grill.
Cooking surface size
The main feature of a basic charcoal grill is the size of its cooking surface. Most kettle-style charcoal grills have a round design, with diameters ranging from as small as 14 inches to as large as 22 inches. You can also find barrel charcoal grills with larger, rectangular cooking surfaces, while park-style grills usually include smaller rectangular cooking grates.
Added features
If you want to go beyond the basic charcoal grill, you can find some with added features to make cooking even easier. Many high-end charcoal grills include features such as an igniter, precise temperature control, timers, multi-layered cooking grates and more elaborate cleanup tools for minimizing the mess.
Best charcoal grills
Top charcoal grill
Weber Performer Deluxe 22-Inch Charcoal Grill With Touch-N-Go Gas Igniter
What you need to know: This is the ultimate in charcoal grills, featuring a convenient igniter, a huge cooking space and an easy-to-clean ash catcher.
What you’ll love: Buyers love this grill’s luxury features, including its precise temperature controls and easy-to-clean configuration. It also has room to store coals, tools and other grill necessities on the bottom rack and features two different sizes of wheels for easy moving.
What you should consider: This Weber grill is pricey, even with its deluxe features.
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Top charcoal grill for the money
Weber Smokey Joe 14-Inch Black Portable Grill With Porcelain Anti-Rust Coating
What you need to know: This basic charcoal grill is super affordable and perfect for family or company outings with its small, portable size.
What you’ll love: This grill has a useful anti-rust porcelain coating and easy-to-use dampers for controlling the temperature. It includes a dump tray, instructions with cooking tips and an ergonomic, anti-heat handle to make it easy to open and close.
What you should consider: The cooking area is relatively small, and the portable grill sits very low to the ground.
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Best charcoal kettle grills
Top charcoal kettle grill
Char-Broil Tru-Infrared Kettleman 22.5-Inch Charcoal Kettle Grill With Hinged Lid
What you need to know: This Char-Broil grill is known for having a more evenly heated surface than most charcoal grills due to its Tru-Infrared system that uses infrared heat to make the temperature more even across the grill top.
What you’ll love: This offers excellent temperature control compared to most, and it includes a useful “no-fall” porcelain cooking grate to help mitigate flare-ups. Additionally, the hinged lid is easy to prop up on its side, and you can buy this grill in either black or blue.
What you should consider: Some buyers stated they preferred grills with more features at this price point.
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Top charcoal kettle grill for the money
Kingsford 22.5-Inch Outdoor Charcoal Kettle Grill With Tool Rack
What you need to know: This classic kettle grill includes all the basics you need for a barbecue and can grill roughly 21 burgers simultaneously.
What you’ll love: This comes at a fair price point and has convenient features common in a basic grill, such as an ash catcher, a vent for temperature control and a hinged lid that can be propped open. It also includes a useful tool rack as well as a larger storage rack.
What you should consider: Some said the grill top is a bit too low on this grill.
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Best park-style charcoal grill with a post
Top park-style charcoal grill with a post
Titan Great Outdoors Park-Style Charcoal Grill With Single Post And Adjustable Grate
What you need to know: This is a classic park-style grill featuring a single post that you can mount into the ground and an adjustable grate to control how far your food is from the flame.
What you’ll love: This grill includes a 16.5-inch wide grilling surface with a swiveling top, and it has four levels at which you can place the grate. This grill also has the option for a rolling base if you don’t want it in a fixed position.
What you should consider: The open-top design can make it hard to control the grill’s temperature.
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‘She looked bad:’ Observant store clerk saves teen from alleged abuse situation
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) – A convenience store employee in Ohio is being credited with rescuing a teen from her stepfather’s alleged abuse after recognizing the girl’s injuries during an encounter last month.
Rebecca Austin works at Hamilton Quick Mart, where the teen visited on Aug. 15 or 16, according to Fairfield Township police.
Austin said the teen entered the store “dazed and confused,” walked around a bit and approached the counter. She had only $1 in her pocket, Austin said. The girl asked if there was something she could buy with it.
When Austin looked up, she said she couldn’t believe her eyes.
“She had all these marks and bruises,” Austin explained. “We first thought she had a choker that the kids wear, but it was a bruise from the ties that he used on her.”
Austin let the girl keep her money. She then fed her a sandwich and a soda before approaching her to ask who had hurt her.
“She said, ‘Nobody, I fell down a hill,’” Austin recalled the girl saying.
Immediately she knew that was a lie, because the blood vessels in the girl’s eyes were busted, and her face was bruised.
“She looked bad,” Austin said.
Fairfield Township police later confirmed the teen had injuries to her eyes, neck and wrists as well as burns on her palms.
Eventually, Austin took the teen outside, where she became visibly anxious.
“She kept saying, ‘If my stepdad comes by, he’ll see me and make me go,’” Austin said. “I said, ‘Nobody’s going to make you leave.’”
The teen was shaking, Austin recalls. Then she told Austin some things her family members had supposedly told her, a combination of alleged threats and lies to keep her from fleeing.
“If she called the cops, they [the police] would be mean to her,” Austin said. “They wouldn’t help her. And if she went to foster care, they would have to kill a kid for her to go.”
Austin succeeded in calming the teen down and called 911.
The situation came to light Wednesday, a month after the teen’s stepfather, James Evans, admitted to police that he’d bound her feet with a ratchet strap and zip-tied her to a bed.
According to a police bodycam recording obtained by WXIX, Evans claimed to have done so because the girl had allegedly threatened to kill him as well as the girl’s mother and step-grandfather.
He said he woke up with the teen standing over his head with a kitchen knife. It isn’t clear when this allegedly happened, but the officer inferred it happened the previous night and asked whether Evans had called police. Evans replied that he had not.
He told the officer the ties were intended to keep the girl from running away. He also vaguely mentioned their hope that she would see a counselor.
Police said, Sarah Evans, the teen’s mother, cut her free at least once so she could use the bathroom but tied her back up afterward.
It isn’t known whether the alleged abuse happened on more than one occasion, nor is it known how the girl escaped and came to the convenience store.
EMS transported her to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Liberty Township due to the severity of her injuries. She is currently with children’s services.
Police arrested James Evans immediately following his admission on Aug. 16. They said other children were removed from the Evans’ home as well.
The teen’s step-grandfather, Robert Evans, also allegedly knew about the abusive situation.
“If you’re a parent or guardian and you’re aware that a child in your custody is being abused, and you do nothing, you could easily be subjected to criminal liability and be charged for that,” explained Fairfield Police Sgt. Brandon McCroskey. “I’ve had a couple cases myself where that’s occurred, this being one of them.”
The three adults are facing 14 total criminal charges, including abduction and child endangering.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- USA News Group – According to trendspotting artificial intelligence platform Spoonshot, concerns over the clean label status and ultra-processing methods of plant-based products such as those from producers such as Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND) and B2B ingredient producers Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE:INGR). According to the International Food Information Council's (IFIC) 2022 Food and Health Survey, consumer preference for products labeled as "clean" and "natural" have continued to increase in 2022. This trend continues to benefit retailers such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) subsidiary Whole Foods, and Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), while also opening doors for natural foods producer newly publicly-listed Pangea Natural Foods (CSE:PNGA).
The University of Minnesota conducted in early 2022, which found a growing "trust gap" among American adults, showing less than 25% strongly trust information about where their food is grown and how it's produced. By 2024, the clean label ingredient market is forecasted to grow to US$51.14 billion globally, while potentially growing at a CAGR of +17.5% through to 2030.
After successfully launching its GMO-free, natural products to over 250 retail outlets in Canada, recently-IPO'd Pangea Natural Foods (CSE:PNGA) announced its expansion into the United States through the H Mart chain which has 84 stores in the USA, as well as more outlets in Canada and the UK.
The retail distribution is starting with Pangea's plant-based patties made of pea-protein and free of GMO ingredients, fillers, antibiotics, hormones, and bioengineered ingredients.
"Building on the positive momentum of our recent distribution across Canada, we're excited to now expand into the United States," said Pangea CEO, Pratap Sandhu. "We look forward to introducing our products to a broader range of customers - making delicious, nutritious and sustainable eating more accessible than ever before."
After founding Pangea in April 2021, Sandhu was named to the sixth annual Bay Street Bull 30X30. His company officially began public trading on the CSE on July 4, 2022 under the symbol PNGA, successfully raising $1.4 million in its seed financing round.
Pangea recently announced a further Canadian expansion to a running total of over 250 retail outlets with a national product listing in approximately 23 IGA Marketplace BC locations and all seven Fresh Street Market locations.
All of Pangea's products are manufactured in the Vancouver lower mainland at an in-house facility approved by both the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
"Pangea Natural Foods has partnered with experienced food scientists to formulate its products, with a focus on delivering high quality food products to consumers," said Sandhu. "We believe the key to the Company's growth will be providing consumers with very nutritious, satisfying foods with great taste and texture."
Recently Pangea also announced the successful launch of its Old Fashioned Ghee and Plant-Based Patties products to popular Canadian retailers IGA and Fresh Street Market, adding to its national distribution footprint that also includes Save-On Foods, Loblaws and Superstore.
Seen as the flag bearer for selling natural foods and championing the Clean Label Movement is Whole Foods—the subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
But their efforts haven't come without challenges. Late last year, both Amazon and Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) announced recalls that included Fresh Express bagged salads.
In-house, Costco has had recent successes with the launch of its Kirkland Signature label's cookies, which boast a neat, clean nutrition label and only a few simple ingredients. For those who don't hold a membership at Costco, the cookies can also be bought from Amazon.
Both Amazon and Costco have agreed to launch a new Pumpkin Spice Energy Drink from plant-based US energy brand Yerbaé, which will be available for a limited-time in fall 2022.
"This new energy drink only has eight ingredients which are non-GMO and plant-based," said the Yerbaé company in a statement. "By trading in a PSL, Yerbaé provides good plant-based energy without the guilt that can come with consuming the unhealthy amounts of sugar, artificial ingredients and calories."
The Pumpkin Spice Energy Drink launches in September on Amazon and in select Costco stores in Southern California.
Helping to provide the right types of ingredients for these cleaner products, Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE:INGR) has been meeting demands from clientele through its specialty ingredients arm. Through the company's Q2 2022, Ingredion saw a 16% increase in net sales.
"In response to continued strong demand for clean label texturizing starches, we accelerated the commissioning of new capacity at our Indianapolis facility," said Ingredion President and CEO, James P. Zallie. "In addition, our Sugar Reduction and Specialty Sweetener platform had another excellent quarter, growing net sales by more than 20% led by a double-digit top-line increase of PureCircle's stevia franchise."
Much like Pangea and is Plant-Based Patties, Ingredion has worked to capture some of the consumers looking for plant-based alternatives to meat.
Perhaps the most well-known publicly-traded, pure-play plant-based meat company out there is Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ:BYND). Back in 2020, the company went on the offensive in wake of attacks on its "ultra-processed" plant-based meat, which pointed fingers at "industry-funded" ads from The Center for Consumer Freedom, which attacked plant-based burgers.
"In the coming months, and for the balance of 2020, you will see us tell our story on ingredients and process with content across digital and print media helping consumers have the information they need to make informed purchasing decisions," said Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown.
However, while many of the the biggest claims of plant-based meat's benefits also seem to revolve around their environmental impact, debate continues over how health friendly they actually are.
Unfortunately for Beyond, something seems to be hurting their balance sheets, as the latest Q2 2022 financial highlights showed a 1.6% decrease year-over-year in net revenues, and a gross loss of $6.2 million or gross margin drop of 4.2% of net revenues.
"In Q2 2022, we recorded our second largest quarter ever in terms of net revenues even as consumers traded down among proteins in the context of inflationary pressures, and we made solid sequential progress on reducing operating and manufacturing conversion costs," said Brown. "Our transition to mass market consumption will occur as we actualize our vision: providing consumers with plant-based meats that are indistinguishable from, understood as healthier than, and at price parity with their animal protein equivalents."
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TrialNav Will Connect Clinical Trial Sponsors, Research Sites, and the People Living with Cancer that Need Access to New Potential Treatment Options Most
PHOENIX, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TrialNAV, an innovative clinical research solutions company designed to bridge the gaps between industry sponsors, research sites, and cancer trial participants today announced its launch. The company's suite of expansive offerings will empower its clients with a complete solution for the identified challenges in the pharmaceutical and technology industries, clinical research organizations, site management organizations, and clinical research sites within healthcare organizations. The solutions are designed to improve enrollment in clinical research and provide better access to treatment options for people living with cancer.
Organized into three business units purposefully designed to provide curated solutions, TrialNAV's services include:
- Consulting for both industry and HCO research sites
- Technology development
- Patient and Caregiver Support
For industry sponsors, TrialNAV provides optimization and implementation for clinical trial start-up and ongoing operations, sponsor and biospecimen global trial-to-site sourcing and procurement, and trial design. For research sites, TrialNAV develops program architecture with an emphasis on efficiency in feasibility, portfolio management, staffing solutions, digital transformation, decentralized clinical trials, and multicenter trial management. TrialNAV's technology development team provides innovation aimed at creating tools to solve the barriers in clinical trial enrollment, including software platforms to directly empower patients and their caregivers to advocate for their treatment and support needs.
Leading TrialNAV are highly experienced cancer research professionals, co-founders and co-CEOs, Tandy Tipps, M.ED, M.P.A., PH.D. and Brenda Noggy, RN, BSN, CCRP. Dr. Tipps have more than 25 years of experience leading global oncology clinical research initiatives and developing global research site networks. Most recently, Dr. Tipps was the SVP of the Healthcare Organization at Inteliquet, an IQVIA business. Prior to her tenure at Inteliquet, she served as the VP of the Oncology Site Network at Precision for Medicine, where she developed and led a global oncology site network. Previously, she was the Administrative Director of the world's largest Phase 1 program at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Brenda Noggy has more than 20 years of experience developing and leading cancer center research programs and working with multi-disciplinary researchers and patients. She has successfully launched oncology start up and expansion programs in acclaimed academic and community cancer centers. Most recently, Brenda was the Executive Director of Business Development at Inteliquet, an IQVIA business. Prior to her joining Inteliquet, she was the Director of Cancer Research Network Operations at Banner/MD Anderson in Phoenix.
"There are many promising cancer therapeutics in development, but there are also many barriers standing between potentially life-saving therapies and the patients who need them most. At TrialNAV we are laser focused on bridging the gaps that exist between clinical sites, industry sponsors, and patients while keeping the welfare of cancer patients at the core of all we do," said Dr. Tipps. "With the formation of TrialNAV, we are thrilled to harness our combined knowledge in the industry, technology, and cancer center site operations to offer clinical research sites a wide breadth of solutions to improve their trial operations, create meaningful partnerships, and grow their research programs. In addition, our network of diverse and established research sites provides trial sponsors confidence that the sites they select for their trials are well-positioned to enroll patients and carry out optimized clinical operations – from startup and enrollment to study closure. We also leverage our knowledge in technology to ensure operational efficiency throughout the clinical trial continuum. Our services contribute to better patient access to clinical trials, while having a positive impact on clinical research."
TrialNAV has established strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations, driven by the mission of expanding patient access to cancer treatments through clinical trials. TrialNAV is pleased to announce partnerships with STAR Health and STAR Biosciences, Biosample Zone, Reveles Clinical Services, ILife Consulting, ClinTrial Network, Bright Pharma, Complete Phase Consulting, Medasource, TurboRegs, and HiRO.
"Cancer is a devastating disease and the advancements in precision medicine make us especially hopeful for the future of care for people living with cancer. We look forward to making a positive impact in the fight against cancer through doing all we can to improve cancer research and the lives of cancer patients and the people who love them," said Brenda. "Integral to the services and expertise TrialNAV offers clinical sites and sponsors are the values on which we have built this company. We pledge to our clients and to cancer patients and caregivers that honesty, transparency, respect, and a keen focus on quality will remain at the core of all our relationships and deliverables."
TrialNAV is a clinical trial consulting, site staffing, and technology solutions development company. TrialNAV aims to bridge the gap between industry sponsors, clinical trial sites, and patients. We empower our clients to implement innovative approaches to logistical processes, trial portfolio management, partnership strategies, digital transformation, and protocol to staffing mix leading to overall research program growth and sustainability. Our vision encompasses the promotion of patient access to cutting edge clinical trial options at point of contact; serving as a conduit for new technology innovations and relationships between industry, research sites, and patients, and promoting effective service continuity across the research continuum.
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How to Watch the Heat vs. Knicks: Streaming & TV Channel Info for Eastern Conference Semifinals Game 3
Published: May. 6, 2023 at 8:31 AM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
The Miami Heat will play the New York Knicks in Game 3 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
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Heat vs. Knicks Game Info
- When: Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- Where: FTX Arena in Miami, Florida
- TV: ABC
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Heat vs Knicks Additional Info
Heat Stats Insights
- The Heat make 46.0% of their shots from the field this season, which is 0.2 percentage points lower than the Knicks have allowed to their opponents (46.2%).
- Miami has a 25-12 straight-up record in games it shoots higher than 46.2% from the field.
- The Heat are the 27th best rebounding team in the league, the Knicks rank second.
- The Heat average just 3.6 fewer points per game (109.5) than the Knicks allow (113.1).
- Miami is 19-6 when scoring more than 113.1 points.
Knicks Stats Insights
- The Knicks' 47.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is the same as the Heat have allowed to their opponents.
- This season, New York has a 21-12 record in games the team collectively shoots better than 48.2% from the field.
- The Heat are the 20th best rebounding team in the league, the Knicks rank third.
- The Knicks' 116.0 points per game are 6.2 more points than the 109.8 the Heat allow.
- When it scores more than 109.8 points, New York is 35-19.
Heat Home & Away Comparison
- At home, the Heat are averaging 3.9 more points per game (111.4) than they are in road games (107.5).
- Miami is ceding 110.2 points per game this season in home games, which is 0.9 more points than it is allowing on the road (109.3).
- In terms of threes, the Heat have been equally balanced when playing at home and on the road this season, averaging 12.0 per game no matter the location. Meanwhile, they've put up a 36.0% three-point percentage at home and a 32.9% mark in away games.
Knicks Home & Away Comparison
- The Knicks score more points per game at home (117.3) than on the road (114.8), and also allow fewer points at home (113.0) than away (113.2).
- At home New York is conceding 113.0 points per game, 0.2 fewer points than it is on the road (113.2).
- This year the Knicks are picking up more assists at home (23.5 per game) than on the road (22.4).
Heat Injuries
Knicks Injuries
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Which Lightning McQueen beds are best?
If your child loves the movie “Cars,” there may be no better way to surprise and impress them at bedtime than with a Lightning McQueen bed. No matter the age of your child, Lightning McQueen beds are a surefire way to make bedtime easier for both of you, and to help liven up playtime in their bedroom.
Choosing which model bed to go with may not be as surefire. Out of a handful of options, this Two-Piece Delta Children Lightning McQueen Bed offers an impressively-realistic take on the style, with working headlights for your children to play with, making it a top choice.
What to know before you buy a Lightning McQueen bed
Placement
It’s important to consider where you plan to put your Lightning McQueen bed. Your intended space will need to accommodate a bed frame. Since some Lightning McQueen beds tend to be somewhat bulkier than other bed frames, it may be important to consider how that might affect the space it’s going into.
Mattress size
Along with the size of the Lightning McQueen bed frame, it’s also important to get a frame that will fit the mattress size you’re planning to use. Lightning McQueen beds typically use a standard-size crib mattress, making it large enough for young kids. However, some models are made to fit a twin-size mattress.
Bed frame materials
A few different Lightning McQueen beds exist out there, so picking out the kind of construction materials you want may help narrow down the options. Most Lightning McQueen beds are made from some kind of hard plastic material, though you may also find some models that are made out of wood.
What to look for in a quality Lightning McQueen bed
Durable
Any kid’s bed needs to be durable enough to hold up against a fair amount of play. This may be even more true for something as cool as a Lightning McQueen bed. Durability comes down to the types of material the bed is made from. Some hard plastic beds are less likely to deteriorate in time than those made from wood.
Safe
Especially for those with young kids, finding a Lightning McQueen bed that is also safe is critically important. Younger kids may require a Lightning McQueen bed with guardrails or other barriers to help prevent your child from falling out of the bed, while older children sleeping in a twin bed may not have this issue.
Stylish
In addition to the more practical components of a Lightning McQueen bed, many users make their choice based on the style of a bed. Many higher-end models may offer a realistic look, working headlights or other feature that plays into the bed’s overall style and function.
How much you can expect to spend on a Lightning McQueen bed
Depending on what you’re looking for in a bed frame, Lightning McQueen beds range a little bit in price. You can find less expensive Lightning McQueen beds ranging from $58-$100, while more expensive models with additional features may cost between $100-$310.
Lightning McQueen bed FAQ
Do Lightning McQueen beds come in a twin size?
A. While most Lightning McQueen toddler beds fit a standard crib mattress, there are ones that come in the twin size. Lightning McQueen twin beds can be found from a variety of online retailers. Most of the twin sizes include a bed frame without the mattress.
Are Lightning McQueen beds made by Disney?
A. Most Lightning McQueen beds are not made by Disney. They are made by other companies with licensed images and decorations inspired by the “Cars” movies.
What are the best Lightning McQueen beds to buy?
Top Lightning McQueen bed
Delta Children Two-Piece Lightning McQueen Twin Bed with Working Headlights
What you need to know: This Lightning McQueen twin bed is the ultimate immersive bed, featuring working headlights and a convincing car design that kids love.
What you’ll love: Made from a sturdy molded plastic, this race car bed from Delta Children features Lightning McQueen’s classic number 95 decal and working headlights that take three LR44 batteries each.
What you should consider: A twin-size mattress is not included.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Lightning McQueen bed for the money
Delta Children One-Piece Lightning McQueen Toddler Bed with Guardrails
What you need to know: Those on a budget will appreciate this simple, plastic Lightning McQueen bed at a fair price.
What you’ll love: Made for toddlers, this race car bed is perfect for children 15 months and up. It offers a classic Lightning McQueen design that’s squared off to fit easily in just about any space. It also includes low guardrails for extra safety, but with a design that kids can still get in and out of with ease.
What you should consider: Some users said this model’s guardrails weren’t quite high enough for their young toddlers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Delta Children One-Piece Lightning McQueen Car Bed with Sturdy Wooden Frame
What you need to know: With a wooden bed frame for a standard crib mattress, this model offers some of the more exciting, realistic graphics out there.
What you’ll love: With extra-high guardrails and durable wooden construction, this bed’s graphics are what makes it one of the more-coveted models. It also includes a side panel that matches Lightning McQueen’s in the “Cars” movies, and a super-safe entryway at the foot of the bed.
What you should consider: Some users had difficulty assembling the bed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MOODY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is stepping in, at the request of Alabama officials, to help extinguish an underground landfill fire that has been burning in the state for nearly two months, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Wednesday.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management said the EPA will lead the effort to put out the fire at the privately operated Environmental Landfill near the Birmingham suburbs of Moody and Trussville. The fire at the landfill, which takes in tree limbs and other vegetative waste, has been burning underground since late November, sending smoke over some neighborhoods in the state's largest metro area and leaving residents frustrated by the lack of action.
“By authorizing the EPA to respond to this fire, we are ensuring it will be addressed in the fastest and safest way possible. It is imperative that this situation be solved and solved right for the sake of the folks in Moody and all people affected by this fire," Ivey said in a statement issued by her office.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management said the EPA will determine the most appropriate method to extinguish the fire and hire a contractor from its list of qualified vendors to perform the work,
“Neither ADEM nor the county has the experience or expertise to put out a fire of this nature,” Alabama Department of Environmental Management Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement. “The EPA utilizes contractors with experience and knowledge to do this type of work. ADEM and state and local officials have concluded the most effective and safe way to extinguish the fire is for the EPA to lead the effort, and we have entered into an arrangement with the EPA to make that happen.”
Residents near the fire said they have been frustrated by the inaction.
Trussville resident Breanne Cook told WBRC-TV that her family evacuated because of health concerns.
“You wake up at 4 a.m. in the middle of the night, and you smell burning rubber,” Cook said told the station. “There was even an (asthma) episode where I had to call the paramedics because of it.”
The privately owned landfill is not under state regulation because it does not take in household garbage or hazardous waste. The state environmental agency said the underground fire poses extreme hazards to firefighters and other responders because of the risks of cave-ins and flare-ups. | 2023-01-19T00:10:21+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/State-EPA-will-help-extinguish-ongoing-landfill-17726607.php |
Stacey Vanek Smith is the co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. She's also a correspondent for Planet Money, where she covers business and economics. In this role, Smith has followed economic stories down the muddy back roads of Oklahoma to buy 100 barrels of oil; she's traveled to Pune, India, to track down the man who pitched the country's dramatic currency devaluation to the prime minister; and she's spoken with a North Korean woman who made a small fortune smuggling artificial sweetener in from China. | 2023-03-01T13:30:15+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-02-28/tomato-shortages-hit-british-stores-is-brexit-to-blame |
ITASCA, Ill., May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HON, a leader in workplace and educational furnishings, celebrates the success of Henricksen at the 38th annual HON Team Up ceremony. Winners from across the United States provide organizations and schools with HON product solutions with a commitment to serve the communities and make their spaces work.
"The Team Up awards program celebrates the shared success and the exceptional commitment to the HON brand with our top-selling Dealer Partners," explains Ric Andersen, Vice President of Sales. "We recognize their achievement and appreciate the leadership they bring when designing work and learning environments."
Henricksen was given the Superior Sales Award – one of the most coveted – by HON. Our expert team leveraged their knowledge and relationships with HON to build incredible momentum in both the mid-market and education spaces, resulting in this accomplishment. We thank our clients for trusting us to create contemporary and inviting environments with fresh and new solutions by HON.
About Henricksen
Henricksen is a full-service contract furniture dealership specializing in office, healthcare, education, government, senior living, and hospitality spaces. In 1962, Henricksen opened its doors as a small, family-run dealership. With the 2022 acquisitions of COFCO and Synergy, Henricksen continues to grow as an industry leading contract furniture dealership with 13 offices, 340 full-time employees, and annual sales topping $350 million. With 500+ manufacturer partnerships, Henricksen offers an array of products from systems furniture, casegoods, seating, lounge, and conference furnishings to architectural and acoustical solutions including modular walls, flooring, lighting, sound masking, and technology equipment. Henricksen is the largest dealer partner in the United States of HNI Corporation, the parent company of Allsteel, Gunlocke, HON, Design Public Group, HBF, and HBF Textiles. www.henricksen.com
About The HON Company
Since 1944, The HON Company, has been in the business of making workspaces work better. At HON, we believe a thoughtfully designed workspace sets the stage for better work, that's why we go to great lengths to build office furniture that helps you work smarter, more comfortably, and on your terms. HON has showrooms in two major cities across the United States - New York City and Washington DC, as always at our headquarters in Muscatine, Iowa. For additional information, visit www.hon.com or follow HON on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube.
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SATSUMA, La. (BRPROUD) – Residents of one Louisiana neighborhood are outraged after a deer they considered a community pet was shot and killed.
“It’s heartbreaking knowing that she ain’t here no more,” cried Patt LeBlanc, a neighbor who witnessed the doe’s shooting with his children.
For the past three years, a deer known as Butterbean become a part of this Livingston Parish neighborhood’s family. LeBlanc says Butterbean was everyone’s pet. Different residents would pitch in to feed her and make sure she was taken care of.
“She was such a sweet deer,” said LeBlanc. “She tried to come in my house to try to play with the animals, she plays with the kids. It was really a joy.”
He says even as a hunter he could not shoot Butterbean himself. One neighbor did not get the memo.
While LeBlanc’s kids were playing with Butterbean, he says a neighbor came outside and shot the deer with no permit. A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agent also says he witnessed the incident and had been trying to catch the deer to return her to a potential owner.
“Exactly 10:00 on the dot is when it happened. It was like the [game] warden was there. It was it was surreal,” said LeBlanc. “I mean, it’s like, ‘No, this didn’t just happen in front of me and the children.”
Now the community wants justice.
“If you’re over the age of 18, you’re going to need a basic hunting license, a deer license and deer tags,” said Michael Blanchard, a senior agent with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The department says it’s pressing charges.
Blanchard said the person responsible could face civil and criminal fines.
“Civil restitution may be involved — where you’d have to go to court, whether it be in a criminal jurisdiction or civilly with our department,” Blanchard said.
An area man reportedly confessed to killing Butterbean with a .22 caliber rifle, according to authorities.
LDWF says the man was cited for hunting deer without basic hunting licenses, hunting deer without deer tags and hunting across a public road. He could be jailed for up to 90 days and or have to pay up to $2,824. | 2023-01-02T15:45:16+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/louisiana-residents-want-justice-for-pet-deer-that-was-shot-killed/ |
Evening Also Celebrates the Top Pop Songs, Songwriters and Music Publishers on
Tuesday, May 9th in Beverly Hills, CA
NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) is excited to announce that global superstar Khalid will be honored with the BMI Champion Award at the 71st Annual BMI Pop Awards. The multiple platinum-selling recording artist and songwriter will be celebrated for his exceptional artistry and philanthropic efforts which have touched the lives of many. BMI's Pop Song of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Publisher of the Year and BMI's top 50 most-performed pop songs in the U.S. of the previous year will also be named. The private event, hosted by BMI President and CEO Mike O'Neill and Vice President Worldwide Creative Barbara Cane, will be held on Tuesday, May 9th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.
"Khalid exemplifies the true spirit of a Champion as one who believes, one who does and one who generously gives back," said Cane. "In addition to recognizing him for his many creative accomplishments, we're honoring Khalid for his dedication to charitable causes, community, education, and his commitment to supporting the next generation of songwriters and music makers. We're looking forward to celebrating our BMI family of award-winning songwriters and publishers with a fantastic night of music."
Khalid, who was named one of Time's Most Influential People of 2019, has taken the world by storm since his first single "Location" exploded onto the charts in 2017, right before his high school graduation. The massive hit from his 4x platinum debut album American Teen went on to be certified diamond by the RIAA in 2022. In 2019, Khalid released his sophomore LP Free Spirit, with the lead single "Talk" becoming Khalid's fifth top 10 hit and the highest-charting single as a solo artist in the US, peaking at number three on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
His music has been streamed worldwide more than 30 billion times across all digital platforms and he's won many accolades and awards over his career. Khalid has been nominated for seven GRAMMY Awards and has won six Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, a Teen Choice Award, an MTV Video Music Award, and an MTV Woody Award. Khalid has also previously received 20 BMI Awards, including being named 2019 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, and his hit track "Talk" from his sophomore LP Free Spirit was named 2019 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Song of the Year.
In addition to his music, Khalid, alongside his mother, created The Great Khalid Foundation in 2020 to bridge education, innovation and music. The Foundation advocates the power of music not only to build camaraderie, but also positively impact social change for children, families and communities. The Great Khalid Foundation offers music education programs, scholarship awards, community partnerships and gift giveaways to support and nurture children and their future to dream big.
In receiving this honor, Khalid joins previous BMI Champion Award recipients including producer, artist, songwriter and DJ Mark Ronson, GRAMMY Award-winning singer/songwriter/rapper Residente, producer/engineer Sebastian Krys, Country superstar Keith Urban and singer/songwriter and activist Lee Thomas Miller, who were honored for their commitment and efforts supporting the next generation of songwriters and music makers.
For more information on the BMI Pop Awards, visit www.bmi.com/genres/pop and use hashtag #BMIPopAwards on social.
Press credentials will be very limited due to capacity. To apply for red carpet credentials, please go to www.bmi.com/press/credential/2023-bmi-pop-awards.
A post event press release, photos and video will be serviced after the event.
ABOUT BMI:
Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in over 20.6 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.3 million songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI's repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit bmi.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Facebook page. Sign up for BMI's The Weekly™ and receive our e-newsletter every week to stay up to date on all things music.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Saturday marked the rollout of the nation’s new mental health emergencies hotline, and a Central Florida nonprofit organization is prepared for the anticipated increase in calls.
They’re the other voice on the other side of the call, always standing by to provide help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies.
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“Especially coming off of two years of COVID and post-pandemic, we’ve seen just a surge and a need in mental health services and behavioral health counseling and substance use services,” said Catherine Rea, the vice president of 211 services at Heart of Florida United Way.
The nonprofit serves as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline crisis center for Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties. Rea said there is now a new number for people to call for crisis intervention and suicide prevention support.
“It’s pretty much the same program but allowing for easier access through 988 dialing,” she said.
Starting on Saturday, 988 is the new national hotline for mental health emergencies. It replaces the former 10-digit number. Rea said 988 will be easier for people to remember.
“We encourage people to reach out. Please use 988 if you need help or if you know of somebody who needs help,” she said.
With the easier number, Rea said they’re anticipating more calls. The organization brought on 14 new staff members to help with the expected increase in demand.
“They are predicting because of the new number anywhere, between a 300% and 800% in contacts through 988,” Rea said.
Rea said it is important to understand the differences between all the hotlines. She said 988 is for mental health emergencies, 911 is for life-threatening emergencies, and 211 is where people can get connected to community resources and health and human services.
She adds no matter the reason for the call, their goal is to get assistance to people who need it and to save lives.
“We want people to know that it’s okay to reach out, please do. If we can help in any way, we’ll find you the help you need,” Rea said.
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Police seize nearly 150 pounds of marijuana after pursuit ends in crash
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - Authorities in Texas are investigating an incident from earlier this week that ended in an arrest and them finding several pounds of drugs.
KCBD reports troopers attempted to stop an SUV on Thursday afternoon for a traffic violation on a highway in Lubbock, Texas. The vehicle initially stopped, but officials said when a trooper approached, it took off.
Law enforcement agencies followed the vehicle until it crashed into a Jeep at a local intersection. Troopers said three people then jumped out of the car, but they were able to arrest one of the occupants.
Authorities said they found nearly 150 pounds of marijuana connected to the incident.
Texas troopers, Lubbock police and Lubbock County sheriff’s deputies report they continue to search for the two other people who left the scene.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – July 4, 2022, will be the 246th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was created fourteen months after the Revolutionary War began in April 1775.
A group of representatives from the 13 American colonies, known as the Continental Congress, had gathered at Philadelphia in June 1776 to discuss writing to King George III of England declaring independence from Great Britain. On June 11, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were chosen to draft the document.
On June 28 the draft was submitted to Congress, which debated and revised the wording, and finally adopted the document on July 4, 1776. It wasn’t actually completely signed by all members until August 1776.
Do you know the names of the original 13 colonies? Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Some think Maine was a colony, but it was actually a part of Massachusetts until separating in 1819.
The U.S. Census has some interesting facts to ponder about the population in the colonies then, and the states now:
- There were 2.5 million people living in the new nation in July 1776, compared to 332 million living in the entire country now.
- Pennsylvania was the most populous colony in 1776, with 434,373 people. As of 2021 PA falls to second with 12,964,056 people. New York comes in first with 19,835,913 people in 2021, compared to 340,210 in 1776, fourth place.
- $468 million in fireworks were imported to the U.S. in 2021. 22News has compiled a list of local public fireworks displays here.
More fun facts about our national holiday include:
- Three presidents died on July 4th, and they all knew one another, and two on the same day! Thomas Jefferson (#3) and John Adams (#2) both died on July 4, 1826, 50 years after the adoption. James Monroe (#5) passed on July 4, 1831. President Calvin Coolidge (#30) was born on July 4, 1872.
- Massachusetts became the first state to make the 4th of July an official state holiday in 1781.
- The oldest annual Fourth of July celebration is held in Bristol, Rhode Island, which started in 1785.
- According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans will eat 150 million hot dogs on July 4th, enough to stretch from D.C. to L.A. more than five times.
Whatever you decide to do to celebrate our nation’s birthday, be safe and have fun! | 2022-06-28T21:33:21+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/fun-facts-about-july-4th-independence-day/ |
BEIRUT (AP) — A judge ordered a gunman who took up to 10 hostages at a Beirut bank to force the release of his trapped savings to stay behind bars Friday, apparently a bid to prevent copycats as desperation deepens over Lebanon’s economic meltdown.
A few dozen relatives of Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein briefly closed a major road in Beirut, saying that keeping him in jail breaches an agreement reached Thursday. The 42-year-old food-delivery driver surrendered after a seven-hour standoff in return for getting $35,000 of his money and promises that he would only be questioned then set free. No one was injured.
It was the latest reminder of the pain created by Lebanon’s nearly three-year economic and financial crisis, described by the World Bank as one of the world’s worst since the 1850s. Three-quarters of the population are in poverty, corruption is endemic and many are losing hope for quick solutions.
Like most people in Lebanon, Hussein had no access to his money because of banks’ informal controls on flows of money. He had $210,000 at Federal Bank in Beirut and struggled to withdraw some to pay his father’s medical bills and other expenses.
Because taking hostages worked to free up some of Hussein’s savings, releasing him without charges could inspire others to follow suit as people face skyrocketing inflation and a lack of job opportunities. Many celebrated him as a hero, but it was not clear if his actions would lead to wider protests against banks.
“They want to send a message to people that this will not pass easily,” Paul Morcos, founder and owner of Justicia Consulting Law firm in Beirut, said about Hussein’s arrest.
The punishment for taking hostages and threatening people with weapons is usually three months to two years in prison but could reach a life sentence if it was for the purpose of getting money, Morcos said. But he expects Hussein to be released within days or weeks once people forget about what happened.
The international community has demanded reforms to ease Lebanon’s economic crisis, but entrenched political elites, blamed for decades of corruption and mismanagement, have resisted. Talks with the International Monetary Fund have moved slowly as parliament prepares legislation demanded by the IMF for a bailout, including laws on capital controls and those targeting money laundering.
Many of those in power are former warlords and militia commanders from the 1975-90 civil war. The ruling factions use public institutions to accumulate wealth and distribute aid to supporters. Corruption is often ignored, and institutions are undeveloped. As a result, power outages are frequent, trash is often uncollected and tap water is largely undrinkable.
Poverty is rising as prices skyrocket and the Lebanese pound loses more than 90% of its value since October 2019. Most people can only withdraw small amounts of money from banks each month at an exchange rate far worse than that of the unofficial market.
The situation started deteriorating dramatically last year after the state lifted fuel subsidies, leading to a surge in prices of almost all commodities. It came at a time when blackouts lasted for 22 hours a day, putting private generators out of reach for many as people now must pay for fuel in U.S. dollars.
Judicial officials said the judge decided to keep Hussein under arrest because he committed crimes such as taking hostages and threatening people with weapons. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said it was not clear how long Hussein will be kept in custody.
Hussein’s lawyer, Rafik Ghraizi, who attended the interrogation, told the local Al-Jadeed TV that his client didn’t point his weapon at anyone and had no intention of harming the employees. He said all that Hussein needed was his money back.
In January, a coffee shop owner withdrew $50,000 trapped in a bank in eastern Lebanon after taking employees hostage and threatening to kill them. He was released two weeks later.
When anti-government protests erupted in late 2019, protesters attacked banks, sometimes with Molotov cocktails, and lenders fortified their branches. At one point, police patrolled in front of every bank branch, but that changed after the protests waned.
Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh Shami on Friday called on parliament to quickly approve a capital control law. Last year, he put the losses of the financial sector at $69 billion.
“Lebanon is at a crossroad: Reforms and improvement or more collapse. It’s up to us,” Shami, who is leading the talks with the IMF, said in a statement.
Lebanese banks made huge profits over the past decades as they invested much of their money in government treasury bills that paid high interest rates and led to one of the highest debt ratios in the world. This made the Lebanese diaspora and many foreigners put their savings in Lebanese banks and get higher interest rates compared with international markets.
Banks had been criticized for years for making risky investments despite Lebanon’s widely known corruption. In March 2020, Lebanon defaulted for the first time on repaying its debt, which then reached $90 billion, or 170% of gross domestic product.
“Excessive debt accumulation was used to give the illusion of stability and reinforce confidence in the macro-financial system for deposits to continue to flow in,” according to a World Bank report released this month called “Lebanon Public Finance Review: Ponzi Finance?”
An economist said banks are to blame, not Hussein.
“Banks, with the help of politicians, and financial and judicial authorities are taking people as hostages. It is not a depositor who is taking hostages in a bank,” tweeted economist Mounir Younes. | 2022-08-12T17:53:47+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/beirut-bank-standoff-exposes-desperation-of-economic-crisis/ |
– Event to be webcast live on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 5:30 a.m. PT –
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibrx, Inc. (Nasdaq: INBX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of therapeutics for oncology and rare diseases, announced today that it will host a live webcast presentation on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 5:30 a.m. PT to announce the regulatory pathway for INBRX-101 for the treatment of patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or AATD.
Investors may join via the web: https://app.webinar.net/8GArp0rQd3z or may listen to the call by dialing (1-877-870-4263). Please refer to Inhibrx, Inc. or confirmation code 10171898 when calling in. Following the webcast, the presentation may be accessed through a link on the investors section of Inhibrx's website at https://inhibrx.investorroom.com/events-and-presentations. The webcast will be available for 60 days following the event. Following the presentation, Inhibrx will update its corporate presentation within the "Investors" section of its website at www.inhibrx.com.
INBRX-101 is a precisely engineered recombinant human AAT-Fc fusion protein designed to safely achieve and maintain levels of alpha-1 antitrypsin, or AAT, found in healthy individuals with the potential for a less frequent dosing interval compared to the weekly infusion interval of the currently available plasma-derived AAT therapies.
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or AATD, is an inherited orphan disease affecting an estimated 100,000 patients in the United States. AATD is characterized by deficient levels of the AAT protein, which causes loss of lung tissue and function and decreased life expectancy. Augmentation therapy with plasma-derived AAT is the current standard of care but does not maintain patients in the normal AAT range, requires frequent and inconvenient once-weekly IV dosing, and relies on plasma collection practices that might not be sustainable.
Data from the Phase 1 multiple ascending dose study of INBRX-101 at 40, 80 and 120 mg/kg IV every three weeks, showed the expected accumulation of functional AAT levels and the ability to achieve fully normal functional AAT levels in severely deficient AATD patients. Based on PK modeling, accumulation is expected to continue following subsequent doses and reach steady state after a total of approximately five to six consecutive doses, administered every three or four weeks.
Treatment was well tolerated with no severe or serious adverse events related to the study drug. Drug-related adverse events were predominantly mild and those few that were moderate in severity were all transient and reversible, with minimal or no symptomatic care. No safety-related or PK/PD-related signs of neutralizing anti-drug antibodies were observed.
In March 2022, the FDA granted orphan-drug designation for INBRX-101 for the treatment of AATD.
Inhibrx is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a broad pipeline of novel biologic therapeutic candidates in oncology and orphan diseases. Inhibrx utilizes diverse methods of protein engineering to address the specific requirements of complex target and disease biology, including its proprietary sdAb platform. Inhibrx has collaborations with 2seventy bio (formerly bluebird bio), Bristol-Myers Squibb and Chiesi. For more information, please visit www.inhibrx.com.
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Only a season ago Julius Randle ranked among the least efficient shooters in the NBA.
Now he’s in the 3-point competition.
Randle was announced Thursday as a replacement for Saturday’s contest at All-Star weekend in Salt Lake City, where he’ll shoot against Dame Lillard, Jayson Tatum, Tyler Herro, Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield, Kevin Huerter and Lauri Markkanen.
Randle replaced Portland’s Anfernee Simons, who injured his ankle in a game Tuesday. Randle’s selection at least partially made by convenience since he traveled to Salt Lake City anyway as an Eastern Conference All-Star.
It’s Randle’s second All-Star appearance in three years.
Randle ranks 10th in the NBA in total 3-pointers but is only connecting at a 33.8% clip, the least efficient of the eight competitors. That’s still an improvement from his 30.8% shooting from beyond the arc last season.
Randle shot a career-high 41.1% on 3-pointers in 2020-21. He’s the first Knick in the 3-point contest since Steve Novak in 2013.
Dating back to Trent Tucker in 1986, no Knick has finished above fourth in the competition.
Randle’s one of at least three Knicks headed to All-Star Weekend. Quentin Grimes is playing in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday night after being drafted by Joakim Noah, one of the four coaches.
Jericho Sims is one of four Slam Dunk contest participants. His teammate Obi Toppin won the title last year.
Jalen Brunson is a top candidate for an All-Star injury replacement if either Jaylen Brown or DeMar DeRozan, who both sustained injuries recently, are unavailable.
MSG LAYOFFS
MSG Networks, the local TV home of the Knicks and Rangers, recently laid off in the neighborhood of 20 of its behind-the-scenes employees, including longtime producer Jeff Fillipi, the Daily News has learned.
Fillipi, a multi-time Emmy winner, had been with MSG Networks since 2005 and was elevated to Senior VP of Production and Programming.
The layoffs occur as Regional Sports Networks struggle across the country due to cord cutting and high expenses of broadcasting live sports. The owner of 19 Bally Sports regional networks, for instance, is on the verge of bankruptcy.
MSG Networks is still profitable, according to an earnings report released last week, but its operating income dropped $10.3 million, or 29%, in the last three months of 2022 compared to the previous year. As a result, MSG Entertainment announced a “cost reduction program” that “included targeted headcount reductions.”
In response to the challenges facing the cable TV model, MSG Networks is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service this year.
An MSG Networks spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
MSG HIRE
The Garden tabbed a familiar name for its PR boss.
Jeremy Watkins, the son of James Dolan’s longtime PR adviser, was named Senior VP of Communications of MSG Sports on Thursday.
Watkins, who was serving as a consultant to MSG, replaces Patrick Rees, who lasted less than a year in that executive role. Rees followed Patrick Sandusky’s stint of about 1 ½ years.
Barry Watkins, who is Jeremy’s father, ran MSG communications for two decades and was the company’s Chief Communications Officer.
() | 2023-02-17T22:17:45+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/17/knicks-notebook-julius-randle-is-a-late-addition-to-3-point-contest/ |
Immersive King Tut exhibit in Detroit tells world's oldest illustrated story
Metro Detroit residents and visitors can travel back in time to the land of the pharaohs with the Immersive King Tut exhibition, which opened Friday at Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit, 311 E. Grand River Ave.
The event marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of famed Egyptian ruler Tutankhamun’s tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. The boy king reigned circa 1332 – 1323 B.C., starting at about age 9. His brief time on the throne drove the creation of some of world history’s most important artworks and is considered by many to be the pinnacle of ancient Egypt’s culture.
Carter’s discovery of his tomb was revolutionary in what it revealed about Tutankhamun’s society and how it advanced the process of archaeological discovery, sparking a global fascination with ancient Egypt. Over 5,000 artifacts, removed from the pharaoh’s tomb, remain preserved in Egypt’s national collection.
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“Since the discovery of his tomb a century ago, Tutankhamun – or King Tut – has transfixed the world,” said Corey Ross, producer of Immersive King Tut. “Over the past one hundred years, the magnificent artifacts from his tomb have drawn millions of visitors eager to see the grandeur and splendor of Egypt’s most famous leader. This captivating experience will use sight and sound to transport visitors more than 3,000 years into the past in a groundbreaking way that only Lighthouse Immersive can.”
Toronto-based Lighthouse Immersive has drawn thousands of visitors to its downtown Detroit space over the last year with exhibits like Immersive Van Gogh and Immersive Klimt. For Immersive King Tut, they teamed with United Exhibits Group, the International Foundation of Fine and Decorative Arts and the Egyptian Council for Tourism Affairs.
Visual projections with music and narration tell the story of the Amduat, an historic Egyptian funerary text that was depicted on the tombs of pharaohs, believed to be the world’s oldest known illustrated story.
The new exhibit is presented with the assistance of the Egyptian Council for Tourism Affairs.
“Immersive King Tut highlights one of the most important elements of ancient Egyptian civilization, which is the journey of the deceased during the 12 hours of the night undertaken by the most famous kings of ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun” said Dr. Hazem Attiatalla, Egyptian Council for Tourism Affairs.
The exhibition is currently on display through Jan. 2, 2023.
“With this program, for the first time, we’re moving beyond the men and women who have created some of the world’s most prized treasures into a world where the world’s most prized treasures were created to honor one man,” said Svetlana Dvoretsky, producer of Immersive King Tut.
Tickets start at $29.99 and are available at immersive-kingtut.com. | 2022-11-05T00:30:46+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/11/05/immersive-king-tut-exhibit-in-detroit/69620538007/ |
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A 70-year-old southeastern Minnesota man was fatally shot outside his rural home Sunday night, and a 31-year-old man who knew him has been charged with the crime, whose motive remains unclear.
On Tuesday, the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as John Colbert, of Byron.
William Isaac Shillingford, of Kasson, was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree assault, and was arraigned Tuesday in Olmsted County District Court. Shillingford is being held on a $1 million bond.
The motive behind the homicide is still unknown at this time, according to Lt. Lee Rossman of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office. Rossman said Shillingford’s and Colbert’s families were acquaintances, and the two men knew each other. Rossman said Shillingford was a manager at Anytime Fitness in Byron and has hunted on Colbert’s property before, but they are still unaware what brought him to Colbert’s home Sunday night.
Olmsted County Attorney Mark Ostrem said “the investigation is ongoing” when asked if there’s reason to believe the homicide was premeditated.
Rossman also would not speculate on whether Shillingford may have been under the influence of drugs, or going through a mental health crisis, again stating the ongoing nature of the investigation at this time.
Rossman said before Shillingford drove to the Colbert residence, earlier that day he “visited relatives with children and his children’s relatives, made a couple of different stops throughout the day into the evening. Before he went out to the incident address, he was speaking with a friend.”
According to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, at around 10:44 p.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call concerning a shooting in the 5000 block of County Road 105 in Kalmar Township.
When a deputy arrived at the property, the officer found a pickup truck, later determined to be Shillingford’s, parked in the driveway and a heavy trail of blood leading to the front door of the residence, according to the criminal complaint. Once inside, the deputy found a man, later identified as Colbert, who appeared to have lost a significant amount of blood from a gunshot wound that appeared to enter the man’s right arm and grazed his torso, hitting an artery.
Law enforcement officers attempted lifesaving efforts on Colbert, but he was unresponsive. Colbert was pronounced dead at 11:24 p.m. after medics arrived.
A deputy discovered the residence was equipped with outdoor security cameras and was given permission by a family member to access the recording. The footage showed that the pickup truck circled past the driveway once before parking in the driveway. The suspect then got out of the truck and walked near the garage while holding a handgun, the criminal complaint states.
In a statement to the deputy, Colbert’s son said that when he noticed the truck pull into the driveway, he walked to the edge of the garage, where he saw the suspect hiding around the corner, according to the criminal complaint. Colbert’s son went back inside the home before returning back to the garage with Colbert, who was now also armed with a handgun.
Security camera footage showed the suspect “racking” his handgun, aiming it at Colbert and his son then firing three rounds — one each from standing, crouching and prone positions — and striking Colbert. Colbert’s son, who had accompanied him, then picked up his handgun and shot two rounds at the suspect before they returned back to the home and made the 911 call, according to the criminal complaint.
The suspect fled from the property after the shooting.
Later, while law enforcement was scouring the area searching for the suspect, a deputy was approached by two witnesses who said they saw a man wearing jeans, a T-shirt and no shoes crossing the field before he laid down in the ditch. The witness said they saw the man get up and run from officers coming into the area, the criminal complaint states.
While searching the field, officers found a wallet containing a card with the suspect’s name on it. Witnesses later informed officers that a suspect was running out of the ditch, according to the criminal complaint. Officers then noticed the suspect running toward the driveway of a nearby home and proceeded to detain him at gunpoint. While being detained, Shillingford was “extremely belligerent and continued to yell out random names.”
Deputies later found a 9-millimeter handgun on the second level of a barn/event center in the area near where the suspect was apprehended, the criminal complaint states. The handgun’s caliber was the same as three shell casings found at the Byron residence.
When asked if the handgun was registered to Shillingford, Rossman said that information is part of the ongoing investigation.
This is the first murder case in Olmsted County in 2022. | 2022-05-11T02:46:39+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/10/southeastern-minnesota-man-70-killed-after-31-year-old-family-acquaintance-allegedly-opened-fire/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — After the relative quiet of the pandemic, New York City has come roaring back. Just listen: Jackhammers. Honking cars and trucks. Rumbling subway trains. Sirens. Shouting.
Over the years, there have been numerous efforts to quiet the cacophony. One of the latest: traffic cameras equipped with sound meters capable of identifying souped-up cars and motorbikes emitting an illegal amount of street noise.
At least 71 drivers have gotten tickets so far for violating noise rules during a yearlong pilot program of the system. The city’s Department of Environmental Protection now has plans to expand the use of the roadside sound meters.
“Vehicles with illegally modified mufflers and tailpipes that emit extremely loud noise have been a growing problem in recent years,” said City Council member Erik Bottcher, who heralded the arrival of the radars to his district to help reduce “obnoxious” noise.
New York City already has one of the most extensive noise ordinances in the country, setting allowable levels for a host of noisemakers, such as jackhammers and vehicles.
A state law known as the Stop Loud and Excessive Exhaust Pollution Act, or the SLEEP Act, that went into effect last spring raised fines for illegal modifications of mufflers and exhaust systems.
Because police officers often have other priorities, offenders have gone their merry, noisy way. The new devices record the license plates of offenders, much like how speedsters are nabbed by roadside cameras. Vehicle owners face fines of $800 for a first noise offense and a penalty of $2,625 if they ignore a third-offense hearing.
City officials declined to reveal where the radars are currently perched.
A year ago, Paris, one of Europe’s noisier cities, installed similar equipment along some streets.
Evidence is clear that noise affects not only hearing but mood and mental health, not to mention possible links to heightened risks of heart disease and elevated blood pressure.
“You listen to the noise out there, it is nonstop — the horns, the trucks, the sirens,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams bemoaned during a recent press conference that blamed an expressway for noise and illness. “Noise pollution makes it hard to sleep and increases the risk of chronic disease.”
Nearly a decade ago, one of Adams’ predecessors, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, launched a war on noise, releasing 45 pages of rules that covered chiming ice cream trucks and how long a canine can continuously yap (five minutes during the wee hours of the night, 10 during most of the day) before its owner gets in the doghouse.
In 1905, the New York Times had declared the metropolis “a bonfire of sound that is rapidly spreading beyond control of any ordinary extinguisher.” The article asked: “Is there any relief possible?”
A global pandemic more than a century later answered that question. For a few months in the spring of 2020, the roar of vehicles on city streets stopped as people stayed in their homes.
The silence allowed people to hear birdsong again — though it was often interrupted by wailing ambulance sirens and, at night, bursts of illegal fireworks.
“As quiet as it was during the lockdown, it was a very uncomfortable quiet. It was a scary quiet because it carried a lot of implications with it,” said Juan Pablo Bello, the lead investigator of Sounds of New York City, or SONYC, a New York University endeavor to study urban noise.
Bello and his team initially hoped to collect data on the dissonance of routine urban life but the coronavirus intervened. Instead, they monitored the acoustical rhythms of a city under lockdown.
The number of noise complaints actually grew during the pandemic, but some experts say that was a symptom of homebound people becoming hypersensitive to their uneasy environments.
Complaints over noisy neighbors nearly doubled in the first year of the pandemic. Many other complaints were attributed to cars and motorcycles with modified mufflers.
Still, some people say efforts to quiet loud vehicles go too far. Phillip Franklin, a 30-year-old Bronx car enthusiast, launched an online petition to protest the state’s noise law.
“The majority of us live here in New York City, where noise is a part of our daily lives,” said his petition, which asserted that quiet vehicles pose dangers to inattentive pedestrians.
“Fixing potholes is a lot more important than going after noisy cars,” Franklin said in an interview.
Loud noise, hitting 120 decibels, can cause immediate harm to one’s ears, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even prolonged noise above 70 decibels can eventually damage hearing. A roaring motorcycle is about 95 decibels.
Firms specializing in architectural acoustics have multiplied. Designing new buildings or retrofitting old ones with anti-noise technology is now a booming business.
At the Manhattan offices of the environmental engineering firm AKRF, the company has what it calls the “PinDrop” room — suggesting a space so quiet you might hear a pin drop — that has an audio system that simulates the erratic symphony of sounds that the city’s denizens must endure.
While architectural drawings might render the use of space, acoustical renderings depict how sound and noise might fill a space.
“So if it’s for sleeping, we want you to be able to sleep. If it’s for listening, we want you to be able to hear,” said AKRF acoustical consultant Nathaniel Fletcher.
Even with sound barriers, tight-fitting windows and noise-dampening insulation, there’s only so much that can be done about the racket. Most New Yorkers come to peace with that.
“I think people developed an appreciation for the fact that it’s a messy, noisy city,” said Bello, the NYU researcher. “We like it to be active, and we like it to be lively. And we like it to be full of jobs and activity, and not this sort of scary, quite unnerving place.” | 2023-01-22T14:18:22+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/technology/ap-obnoxiously-loud-car-a-traffic-camera-might-be-listening/ |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 1, 2022
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National Weather Service Buffalo NY
530 PM EST Wed Nov 30 2022
...The National Weather Service in Buffalo NY has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in New York...
Cayuga Creek Near Lancaster affecting Erie and Wyoming Counties.
For the Cayuga Creek...including Lancaster...Minor flooding is
forecast.
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.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 100 AM EST.
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Cayuga Creek Near Lancaster.
* WHEN...Until just after midnight tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 8.0 feet, Flood stage, minor flooding in lowlying
areas of Lancaster and Alden.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 5:15 PM EST Wednesday the stage was 7.8 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
this evening to a crest of 8.1 feet this evening. It will
then fall below flood stage later this evening.
- Flood stage is 8.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
8.1 feet on 03/15/2007.
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Sarah McLachlan is the latest star to sell some of the rights to her music.
The Canadian singer has sold a stake in her publishing and recording music catalog to Primary Wave Music. It includes Sarah’s hits “I Will Remember You,” “Angel” and “Sweet Surrender.” Part of the deal includes Sarah working with Primary Wave to market her name and likeness, and to get her music used in film, TV shows and other outlets.
“I’m confident that this new partnership will enable us to nurture my catalogue of music carefully through the ever-changing landscape of the music industry,” Sarah says in a statement.
Primary Wave is also home to the songs, music and catalogs of artists like Stevie Nicks, Culture Club, Huey Lewis & the News, Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Prince, Bob Marley, Luther Vandross and Olivia Newton-John.
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“Supernatural” actor Jensen Ackles is asking people to support a recently introduced Texas House bill that would allow breweries to ship their products directly to consumers.
House Bill 2003 would let Texas breweries and brewpubs deliver to consumers’ homes, use third-party delivery services and ship across state lines through licensed private carriers.
Ackles, who owns the Dripping Springs brewery Family Business Beer Co., posted a video this week talking about his family business and asking his followers to sign an online petition in support of HB2003.
“This has been a little passion project of mine, my brother in-laws, my family here for well over a decade,” the Texas native said
“That being said, there’s a little bit of legislation here in Texas that we’re trying to get changed and we could use your help,” Ackles added
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Ackles is best known for portraying Dean Winchester in The CW’s “Supernatural.” He now stars in the Amazon series “The Boys.” Originally from Dallas, the actor currently lives in Austin.
Currently, retailers and third-party apps can delivery alcohol directly to consumers as long as they comply with state laws and verify customers are of legal age. The same goes for wineries, which was made possible through the Texas Wine Marketing Assistance Program passed in 2001.
Breweries, however, have to sell their beer on-site at their location or through a distributor.
CraftPAC, a Texas-based political action committee started by members of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild, is hosting the petition on their website. They say the craft beer industry contributes $4.54 billion to the Texas economy and has created more 30,000 small-business and manufacturing jobs, yet the state ranks 47th in breweries per capita.
“This means the industry still has a lot of room to grow, but we need to fix anticompetitive laws holding small brewers back,” CraftPAC’s website states.
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KALAMAZOO, MI - The first piece of playoff football hardware is on the line Friday, as teams from around the state compete for 2022 district championship trophies in the 11-player game and regional titles in 8-player.
It’s not easy to make it this far, and every team that takes the field in Round 2 of the postseason is a quality squad, which makes predicting outcomes especially difficult. | 2022-11-03T16:47:22+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/11/kalamazoo-area-football-round-2-playoff-picks-who-hoists-the-hardware-in-2022.html |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks.
Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically resulting in more than 10,000 trips to the emergency room. Yet fireworks remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years in the making.
Here are some things to know about July Fourth, including the origin of the holiday and how fireworks became part of the tradition.
WHAT’S THE ORIGIN OF INDEPENDENCE DAY?
The holiday celebrates the Second Continental Congress’ unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, a document announcing the colonies’ separation from Great Britain.
One year later, according to the Library of Congress, a spontaneous celebration in Philadelphia marked the anniversary of American independence.
But across the burgeoning nation, observations didn’t become commonplace until after the War of 1812. It quickly took off: The Library of Congress notes that major historic events in the 19th century, such as groundbreaking ceremonies for the Erie Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, were scheduled to coincide with Fourth of July festivities.
HOW DID FIREWORKS BECAME A JULY FOURTH TRADITION?
The display of pyrotechnics has been a big part of Independence Day from the outset. Founding Father John Adams saw it coming.
Commemoration of America’s independence “ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more,” Adams wrote in a letter to his wife, Abigail, dated July 3, 1776.
Fireworks were around centuries before America became a nation. The American Pyrotechnics Association says many historians believe fireworks were first developed in the second century B.C. in ancient China by throwing bamboo stalks into fires, causing explosions as the hollow air pockets overheated.
By the 15th century, fireworks were widely used for religious festivals and public entertainment in Europe and early U.S. settlers carried on those traditions, the association said.
HAS A PRESIDENT EVER REFUSED TO CELEBRATE?
Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have celebrated the nation’s birth on the Fourth of July, with one exception: Adams.
His letter to his wife aside, Adams refused to celebrate the holiday on July 4 because he felt July 2 was the real Independence Day. Why? It was on July 2, 1776, that the Continental Congress voted in favor of the resolution for independence, though the Declaration of Independence wasn’t formally adopted until two days later.
Adams was so adamant that he turned down invitations to festivals and other events, even while serving as the nation’s second president. Ironically, Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, both died on the 50th anniversary of the document’s formal adoption, July 4, 1826.HOW POPULAR ARE FIREWORKS?
Consumer sales of fireworks have grown rapidly over the past two decades.
Statistics from the American Pyrotechnics Association show that in 2000, American consumers spent $407 million on fireworks. By 2022, that figure rose to $2.3 billion. The biggest jump came during the COVID-19 pandemic, when public fireworks displays were shut down. Consumer sales jumped from $1 billion in 2019 to $1.9 billion in 2020.
“People went to the fireworks store beginning Memorial Day weekend and they just didn’t stop,” said Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association. “They were firing off fireworks all of 2020. It shocked the industry, to be quite honest with you.”
Sales are expected to rise another $100 million this year, the association said. It helps that the Fourth of July is on a Tuesday, creating essentially a four-day weekend.
ARE FIREWORKS DANGEROUS?
Despite widespread education efforts, thousands of Americans are badly injured by fireworks each year, and this year is no exception.
Late Saturday night, firefighters and medics were called to Lexington Township, a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, for reports of a shed on fire and arrived to find fireworks actively exploding from the burning shed and several people lying injured on the ground. Firefighters, medics and local police dragged the victims from the area to safety, and four people were taken to hospitals — two with serious injuries, Northwest Consolidated Fire District Chief Todd Maxton said in a statement.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that in 2022, 10,200 people were treated at emergency rooms and 11 deaths were blamed on fireworks. About three-quarters of injuries happened in the period around the Fourth of July.
About one-third of the injuries were to the head, face, ears or eyes. Finger, hand and leg injuries are common, too.
“I have seen people who have blown off fingers,” said Dr. Tiffany Osborn, an emergency room physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. “I’ve seen people who have lost eyes. I’ve seen people who have significant facial injuries.”
Children under 15 make up nearly one-third of those injured by fireworks. Sparklers often are blamed for burns to children under age 5. Osborn suggested giving small children glow sticks or colorful streamers instead.
For those planning to shoot off fireworks, Heckman urged finding a flat, hard, level surface away from structures and other things that could catch fire. The person responsible for the fireworks should avoid alcohol. Children should never ignite them.
Osborn encouraged having a bucket or hose nearby in case of fire or explosion. Shoot off one at a time and walk away quickly after igniting, she said, and never relight or handle a malfunctioned firework. When done, shovel up the remains and soak them before disposing. | 2023-07-03T13:44:01+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/what-you-should-know-about-fourth-of-july-origins-and-traditions/ |
- Rural Lifestyle Retailer Taps Honeywell for Its Mobile Computers and Software to Gain an Edge with Team Members and Customers
- In-store Retail Solutions Deployed to Create Task Efficiencies Across Tractor Supply's 2,000 Plus Stores
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) announced today that Tractor Supply Company (Nasdaq: TSCO), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, has deployed Honeywell technology to streamline operations for their Team Members and offer customers a convenient, end-to-end omnichannel experience.
By arming its store Team Members with Honeywell's CT40XP mobile computer and Operational Intelligence Professional cloud-based software across its more than 2,000 stores, Tractor Supply has increased adoption and productivity, and empowered them to spend more time building relationships with customers – a signature marquee for the small box rural lifestyle retailer. From receiving and fulfilling an online order, to notifying a customer when it's ready for pickup, to processing payment wherever the customer may be, the rural lifestyle retailer now offers a fast, convenient and seamless experience for Team Members and customers alike.
By checking customers out on the spot with Honeywell devices, Tractor Supply has reinvented the brick and mortar check out experience with reduced queues, drastically improving speed of service. In fact, the rural lifestyle retailer has cut the duration of an average propane refill by 93%, from seven minutes to 30 seconds.
"We are empowering our Team Members and making their jobs easier so that they can better serve the Life Out Here customer with the solutions they need in a convenient way. This requires a technology platform that works as hard as they do," said Robert Mills, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology, Digital Commerce and Strategy Officer at Tractor Supply. "The Honeywell mobile devices have longer battery life, enhanced durability, long-range scanning for inventory, contactless payment for POS transactions and retail apps to enhance productivity. These enhancements came at a critical time, helping us innovate and lead the retail industry in cutting edge solutions that have helped us maintain our momentum in a very challenging retail environment."
Since deploying Honeywell technology across its operations, Tractor Supply has improved inventory accuracy, strengthened its award-winning loyalty program, increased speed of service, boosted Team Member efficiency and focused more on building customer relationships.
"At Honeywell, we are focused on empowering the retail associate. The combination of mobile computers, scanners and software we design come together to provide answers for the mobile worker to quickly and accurately serve the customer right in front of them," said Taylor Smith, Chief Technology Officer for Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services. "Tractor Supply has been a pioneer in retail's digital transformation and has long embraced the power of technology to offer customers a more seamless and convenient experience. Our aim is to provide the right mobility, software and services at their fingertips, and we're pleased to partner with Tractor Supply to deliver an outstanding customer experience."
The rural lifestyle retailer selected Honeywell as its technology provider to address employee demands for durable, high-performing, long-lasting equipment that is easy to learn and utilize for a variety of tasks. Honeywell is also providing on-demand support to Tractor Supply, serving as a single point of contact for ongoing mobility device management and help desk support.
Tractor Supply recently honored Honeywell and other top vendor partners at its annual partnership conference where Honeywell received the Service Partner of the Year award for 2022 for working with supplier Verifone and the Tractor Supply team to deploy the mobile devices to store Team Members.
Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services develops and deploys an innovative range of solutions, software and services that help keep workers and workplaces safer and more productive, and supply chains and assets more efficient, accurate and reliable. For more information, visit sps.honeywell.com.
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Krispy Kreme is celebrating 2022 graduates the best way they know how — by handing out free doughnuts!
High school and college seniors can pick up a free dozen doughnuts on May 25 just for wearing their Class of 2022 apparel, like shirts and jackets or even a full graduation cap and gown. The free “Senior Day Dozen” includes eight Original Glazed doughnuts and four custom 2022 doughnuts.
The four custom doughnuts include a Chocolate Iced Kreme Filled Doughnut, Original Glazed, White Iced Doughnut, Cake Batter Filled Doughnut and Strawberry Iced Kreme Filled Doughnut. The white iced doughnut is the only one without filling and is decorated with a zero, while the other three have classic Kreme or Cake Batter Kreme and have “2” on them, spelling out “2022.”
If you miss out on the free dozen on May 25, you can purchase a Graduate Dozen on May 24 and May 26-29. Made up of the four custom “2022” doughnuts, the dozen also includes Original Glazed, Chocolate Iced Glazed with sprinkles, Yellow Iced Original Glazed with white icing drizzle and Strawberry Iced with sprinkles.
There’s a handful of other deals for 2022 graduates and college students available year-round as well, including discounts on Apple products and free Amazon Prime memberships.
Apple education pricing applies to current and newly accepted college students and their parents, as well as faculty, staff and homeschool teachers from all grade levels. You’ll find discounts on Mac computers, iPads and more.
High school graduates can also get six months of free Prime Student, which comes with a variety of benefits that will help when they go off to college, like free shipping on more than 100 million items, exclusive deals and thousands of TV shows and movies to stream. After the trial, Prime Student is $7.49/month.
Do you know a high school or college graduate who can take advantage of some of these deals?
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(NewsNation) — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, doubled down on his recent controversial comments during a Monday appearance on “CUOMO,” saying he doesn’t “believe in” the term antisemitic and that the music industry today is “modern day slavery.”
Twitter and Instagram previously suspended Ye after he posted threatening comments about Jewish people on the social media platforms. Cuomo questioned Ye if it’s possible that his words violated the apps’ guidelines. Ye responded: “I don’t believe in that term … I classify as Jew also, so I actually can’t be an antisemite.”
Cuomo countered Ye’s antisemitc comments saying “I know you are intelligent and understand that when you target people because of their faith, other people may do so the same … We don’t want to tolerate that.”
Ye responded: “I don’t have to understand or accept because they’re not willing to understand or accept. That’s the reason why I’m not backing down.”
Ye is set to acquire the conservative social media platform Parler. The app’s parent company, Parlement Technologies, made the announcement Monday morning, stating they are “pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement in principle for Ye to acquire the Parler platform.”
When asked why he wants to buy the app, Ye told Cuomo said that “people are using their technology to silo any messaging that they don’t agree with.”
Amy Peikoff, head of policy and legal for Parler, said during a Monday appearance on “Dan Abrams Live” that the deal is moving fast.
“He wants to use his money to help create a noncancelable space where people can exercise their rights to free thought and free expression. He shares those values with us.” In policy, Parler is not a right-leaning platform, according to Peikoff. The app is a nonpartisan platform that has attracted “right-wingers.” | 2022-10-18T22:00:00+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/cuomo-ye-discuss-stars-antisemitic-remarks-full-interview/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 5,500 minor league baseball players formed a union on Wednesday, completing a lightning-fast organization campaign that launched just 17 days earlier in an effort to boost annual salaries as low as $10,400.
Martin Scheinman, the sport’s independent arbitrator, notified Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association that a majority of the 5,567 players in the minor league bargaining unit had signed union authorization cards since the drive started Aug. 28. He did not provide the sides a specific number.
“This historic achievement required the right group of players at the right moment to succeed,” union head Tony Clark said in a statement. “Minor leaguers have courageously seized that moment, and we look forward to improving their terms and conditions of employment through the process of good faith collective bargaining.”
MLB had agreed Saturday that it would voluntarily accept a union if there was majority support and would not force players to petition the National Labor Relations Board to hold a representation election.
“Major League Baseball has a long history of bargaining in good faith with unions, including those representing minor and major league umpires, and major league players,” the league said in a statement. “Based on the authorization cards gathered, MLB has voluntarily and promptly recognized the MLBPA as the representatives of minor league players. We are hopeful that a timely and fair collective bargaining agreement will be reached.”
Minor leaguers form a separate bargaining unit within the MLBPA, which negotiated its first collective bargaining agreement for big leaguers in 1968 but had until now been uninterested in representing players with minor league deals. Approximately 1,200 major leaguers are covered by the big league agreement, and their average salary has risen from $19,000 in 1967 to more than $4 million this year.
Minor leaguers are expected to choose player representatives who will lead them in bargaining during the offseason. Bruce Meyer, who headed negotiations last winter for a major league agreement, will lead the minor league negotiations, and Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem will be the point man for management. Meyer was promoted to deputy executive director in July.
Harry Marino, who has served as head of Advocates for Minor Leaguers since April 2021, was hired as an MLBPA assistant general counsel.
“For decades, conventional wisdom said it was impossible to unionize the minor leagues,” Marino said in a statement. “Over the past few years, a group of audacious and committed folks came together to prove that wrong.”
MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Triple-A. For players with major league contracts on option to the minors, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league contract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
In addition, MLB this year began requiring teams to provide housing for most minor leaguers.
“In a multibillion-dollar industry, there is no excuse to pay these players below the poverty line,“ AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement. “By joining together to use their collective voice at the bargaining table, the minor leaguers will be able to advocate for a union contract that will ensure a future with the good pay and benefits they deserve.”
Many amateurs receive large initial signing bonuses: 67 of the top 68 draft picks this year agreed to $1 million or more, and the top 97 picks who signed got more than $690,000 each.
The MLBPA also governs agents for major leaguers, requiring certification and establishing regulations that include prohibitions on payments, gifts and loans to clients. Agents negotiating minor league contracts have been unregulated.
MLB and the big league union have had a contentious relationship that led to nine work stoppages, including a 99-day lockout last winter that delayed the start of this season.
Minor league union dues are likely to be a fraction of big league dues: $85 per day this year over the 182-day season. The union does not represent players in the Dominican Summer League.
Next year’s minor league schedule opens March 31 at Triple-A and April 6 at lower levels, when the minor leaguers’ leverage may be greatest. A strike could lead each team to keep its dozen or so optioned players at training complexes playing makeshift games.
The big league union has represented optioned players since 1981.
MLB and lawyers for minor leaguers agreed this year to a $185 million settlement of an eight-year-old federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a deal that may be finalized next year. An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share roughly $120 million with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, and their lawyers will split $55.5 million. | 2022-09-15T02:52:47+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/minor-leaguers-form-union-17-days-after-organizing-began/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — A top State Department official met Thursday with Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila, part of an ongoing diplomatic outreach in the Asia-Pacific region by Washington to try and blunt growing Chinese influence.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman tweeted after meeting Marcos that the two discussed a range of issues, including the Philippines-U.S. alliance, deepening economic ties, advancing human rights and “preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific.”
Marcos, the son of longtime Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. who was ousted in a popular uprising in 1986, was elected in a landslide last month, alarming human rights activists and pro-democracy groups.
The U.S. appears prepared to work with him, with President Joe Biden being one of the first world leaders to call Marcos and congratulate him on his electoral victory.
Following the meeting with Sherman, Marcos’ spokesman Victor Rodriguez said the two had “discussed the importance of deepening the alliance and friendship between the Philippines and the United States, as well as partnering together in order to strengthen the economy between the two countries.”
Sherman’s trip comes as part of a broader effort to reach out in person to leaders in the region as concern increases over China’s push to expand its own influence in a strategically critical area.
It includes the South China Sea, where the Philippines and Vietnam, among others, have squared off with China’s efforts to dominate the strategic waterway it claims virtually in its entirety. The U.S. and its allies have responded with so-called freedom of navigation patrols, sometimes encountering a pushback from China’s military.
Australia protested after it said a Chinese fighter jet made dangerous maneuvers around one of its surveillance aircraft and forced it to return to its base last month. Beijing rejected the accusation.
Sherman is also making stops in South Korea, Laos and Vietnam. U.S. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet is also in the region, meeting with officials in Thailand, Singapore and Brunei.
The State Department said the two trips highlight American commitment to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a 10-member regional bloc known as ASEAN, as well as Washington’s bilateral partnerships.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is also a featured speaker on the weekend at the Shangra-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier defense and security forum.
And at the end of May in Japan, Biden launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, a new trade deal that so far 12 nations have signed on to.
“There are several components to our Indo-Pacific strategy, from advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific where we can deal with problems openly and have rules that are transparently and fairly applied,” Chollet told The Diplomat online news magazine in an article this week.
“The second part of the strategy is forging stronger connections within the region and beyond,” he said.
He said the strategy includes strengthening the U.S.-ASEAN relationship and also working within other groupings, such as the British, Australian and American partnership known as AUKUS and the Quad format involving Australia, India, the U.S. and Japan.
China has itself been active in its diplomatic engagement in the region, recently inking a security deal with the Solomon Islands that the U.S., Australia and others worry could give Beijing the opportunity to establish a naval base in the South Pacific.
China and Cambodia on Wednesday also broke ground on a port expansion project at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which the U.S. and others fear could provide Beijing with a strategically important military outpost on the Gulf of Thailand.
Following the Solomon Islands deal, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi traveled to multiple other island nations, hoping to sign an ambitious deal with 10 of them covering a broad range of areas including security and fisheries. He couldn’t find consensus on that deal but instead signed smaller bilateral agreements.
Australia pushed back, sending its own foreign minister to several Pacific island nations on her own diplomatic outreach. | 2022-06-09T17:13:39+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/us-official-meets-marcos-in-philippines-in-diplomatic-push/ |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government on Wednesday released its first-ever climate adaptation plan, which includes the possibility of moving some communities to higher ground.
But the six-year plan, which runs nearly 200 pages, comes up short on some important details, including how much the changes will cost and who will pay.
Climate Change Minister James Shaw told reporters that about 70,000 coastal homes in New Zealand were at risk from rising seas, and many more inland homes were at risk from flooding rivers. He said New Zealand had been slow to adapt to climate change, which would end up costing more money over time.
“I am frustrated that for the last three decades, successive governments have not paid any attention in any real form to the challenges that we face from the effects of climate change,” Shaw said. “We had to start somewhere.”
The National Adaptation Plan includes the possible relocation of low-lying homes and assets as rising seas and increased storms make flooding more common.
“In some highly exposed areas, the risk from natural hazard and climate impacts may become intolerable,” the report says. “Inundation of buildings and infrastructure will start to occur, leading to direct damage and loss of some facilities like roads or other lifeline services, and public open space.”
The report says that a “managed retreat” from such areas will often be considered a last resort, to be used in conjunction with other adaptations such as installing seawalls and raising houses on stilts.
Shaw said the costs for adaptation will be borne by a combination of homeowners, insurers, banks, local councils and central government. He said the government was taking hardship into account, and would target help to those least able to pay for changes themselves.
The plan also aims to make granular climate-change data more widely accessible, which in some cases could impact insurance rates and property prices.
Luke Harrington, a senior lecturer in climate change at the University of Waikato, said in a statement the report was a timely reminder that New Zealand needed to contend not only with rising seas, but also with other climate impacts such as more severe droughts and extreme rainfall.
“This National Adaptation Plan is a great first step towards addressing some of these challenges, though paucity remains in some of the details,” he said.
The adaptation plan comes two months after the government released a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which includes a trial program to help lower-income people scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said that the first six months of 2022 were the second-hottest ever recorded in New Zealand, with temperatures averaging 15 Celsius (59 Fahrenheit), about 1.2 C (2.2 F) above normal. | 2022-08-04T05:17:50+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/science/ap-science/new-zealand-climate-plan-includes-relocating-some-homes/ |
October is Here!
Comfortable yet warm through much of next week, then we'll encounter a cold front!
COLUMBUS, Mississippi (WCBI) – Comfortable conditions persist with morning lows in the upper 40s/low 50s. Temperatures gradually warm to the mid/upper 80s next week.
Happy October First!
SATURDAY: A beautiful day with plenty of sunshine, high temperatures will peak near 80 degrees with northerly flow keeping us dry! After sunset, conditions will be cool again. Overnight low: 49.
SUNDAY: More sunshine in the forecast. Similar to Saturday, highs will land near 80 degrees with overnight lows slightly warmer in the low 50s.
NEXT WEEK: Another great weather week in store with steady sunshine and a few clouds. Temperatures will gradually climb into the mid 80s by Thursday. Then, a cold front is set to arrive dropping our temperatures to more seasonable numbers! | 2022-10-01T13:54:59+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/october-is-here/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A drone-borne explosive device detonated Sunday at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, injuring six people, officials said.
The explosion at the headquarters in the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 caused cancellation of observances of Russia’s Navy Day holiday.
The Black Sea Fleet’s press service said the drone appeared to be homemade. It described the explosive device as “low-power” but Sevastopol mayor Mikhail Razvozhaev said six people were injured in the blast.
There was no immediate information on where the drone began its flight; Sevastopol is about 170 kilometers (100 miles) south of the Ukrainian mainland and Russian forces control much of the mainland area along the Black Sea.
Fighting continued elsewhere in Ukraine. The mayor of the major port city of Mykolaiv, Vitaliy Kim, said shelling killed one of Ukraine’s richest men, Oleksiy Vadatursky, and his wife. Vadatursky headed a grain production and export business.
In the Sumy region in Ukraine’s north, near the Russian border, shelling killed one person, the regional administration said.
Three people died in attacks over the past day in the Donetsk region, which is partly under the control of Russian separatist forces, said governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Sunday on Twitter that images of a prison where at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war died in an explosion on Friday indicated that the blast came from within the building in Olenivka, which is under Russian control.
Russian officials have claimed the building was attacked by Ukraine with the aim of silencing POWs who might be giving information about Ukrainian military operations.
Satellite photos taken before and after the attack show that a small, squarish building in the middle of the Olenivka prison complex was demolished, its roof in splinters.
Podolyak said those images and the lack of damage to adjacent structures showed that the building was not attacked from the air or by artillery and contended the evidence was consistent with a hyperbaric bomb set off inside.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-07-31T13:24:25+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/07/31/drone-explosion-hits-russias-black-sea-fleet-hq-3/ |
(NEXSTAR) – As the country slogs through a “tripledemic” wave of COVID-19, influenza and RSV infections, CVS and Walgreens confirmed Monday that they are limiting purchases of children’s pain and fever medication.
A Walgreens spokesperson told Nexstar that the decision was due to “increased demand and various supplier challenges,” and that pediatric fever reducing products are “seeing constraint across the country.”
There is currently no widespread, national shortage so supplies may vary from one community to another.
“In an effort to help support availability and avoid excess purchases, we put into effect an online only purchase limit of six per online transaction for all over-the-counter pediatric fever reducers,” the spokesperson added.
The company encourages customers looking to buy an item in-store to check the Walgreens website for inventory by location.
CVS spokesperson Mary Gattuso said the drugstore chain created the product limit to ensure “equitable access for all our customers.”
There is currently a two product limit on all children’s pain relief products at all CVS Pharmacy locations and cvs.com, Gattuso confirmed.
“We’re committed to meeting our customers’ needs and are working with our suppliers to ensure continued access to these items,” Gattuso said.
How did we get here?
Experts are blaming the early, widespread arrival of flu cases in the U.S., in combination with other respiratory illnesses, for the overwhelming demand for over-the-counter medication.
“There are more sick kids at this time of year than we have seen in the past couple years,” said Dr. Shannon Dillon, a pediatrician at Riley Children’s Health in Indianapolis.
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson says it is not experiencing widespread shortages of Children’s Tylenol, but the product may be “less readily available” at some stores. The company said it is running its production lines around the clock.
“At this point, it’s more like toilet paper at the beginning of the (COVID-19) pandemic,” Dillon said “You just have to look in the right place at the right time.”
Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan on Sunday that shortages of children’s cold medicine, as well as an ongoing shortage of antibiotic drugs, are the result of unanticipated levels of demand, not a problem with the supply chain.
“Demand went up this year, they anticipated some increase in demand, but not as much as we’re seeing and not this early in the season,” Gottlieb said. “So it’s not any kind of disruption in supply. This isn’t like what we had with baby formula where manufacturers have been taken out of the market.”
Gottlieb anticipates that the pharmaceutical industry’s “sophisticated supply chain” should catch up soon.
In the meantime, parents of sick children may want to explore other options if they find bare shelves at their local pharmacy, experts say. To start with, you may want to check different locations, consider generic versions of name-brand drugs or even ask the family doctor where to find a well-stocked supply.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-12-20T03:12:28+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/shortage-of-childrens-pain-medication-leads-pharmacies-to-limit-sales/ |
Eric Karabell ranks players for their fantasy football trade value the rest of the 2022 season every week until the fantasy football trade deadline (noon ET Nov. 30, 2022). Use the information to propose or assess trades and to optimize the players on your bench for their future potential. Eric's top 100 can be found below the positions in this column.
Quarterback
Rankings changes: No changes at the top, though it was nice to see statistical strugglers like Tom Brady and Russell Wilson improve their performance and solidify top 100 spots. It's tough to deny how well Jared Goff and Geno Smith are playing as they force their way into stronger QB2 territory, pushing aside Washington's Carson Wentz. Wentz is one of many starters that may not be starters for long. Taylor Heinicke (and PJ Walker, Andy Dalton and Teddy Bridgewater) may not be great, but any starters deserve attention in deep formats.
Trade for: The line of safe, reliable starters probably ends with Kirk Cousins in Minnesota, the No. 14 QB. Tua Tagovailoa is currently embroiled in some health controversy and isn't assured of starting soon. One may not think Cousins and Derek Carr are awesome, but their consistent level of competence matters. The schedule starts to lessen for Brady, Wilson and Aaron Rodgers, so now may be a wise time to see if they are available for a trade. As for Lamar Jackson, his MVP campaign ran into a few stumbles against Buffalo, but hey, it's Buffalo. They defend well.
Be cautious:Dak Prescott may return from his thumb injury as soon as Week 5, but trading for him is still a bit risky. However, trading for new Pittsburgh starter Kenny Pickett is fraught with peril. For one, he is a raw rookie and two, the Steelers play arguably the toughest schedule from now on. Also, assuming Tagovailoa stays healthy the rest of the season is risky.
Running back
Rankings changes: While he needs to work on holding on to the football, Melvin Gordon II is back in play as a flex option after Javonte Williams suffered season-ending ACL and LCL injuries, In addition, the Falcons will be without Cordarrelle Patterson for at least four games, making rookie Tyler Allgeier a potential flex option, though Caleb Huntley is in play as well.
Saquon Barkley takes over the top running back spot, with Jonathan Taylor falling outside the top 5. If Taylor needs a long absence due to his sprained ankle, there is no need for panic. Barkley and others are playing better. Austin Ekeler and Derrick Henry are back on track. Christian McCaffrey is piling on the yards and playing through whatever gets him deemed questionable and scaring fantasy managers each week.
Trade for: Barkley sure does look back to his rookie form , although the Giants continue to use him sparingly in the passing game. Pierce exploded for a 75-yard TD Sunday and should see plenty of touches. Perhaps the best sign was Davis Mills giving him six targets. Dobbins stole the goal line touchdowns away from Lamar Jackson, though nothing is permanent there.
Be cautious: McCaffrey is playing well but that is hardly a sure thing for 17 games, especially with Carolina playing so poorly. Kamara's relatively surprising absence Sunday is probably no harbinger, but he hardly looked like the same player he was with Drew Brees before missing the London game. Do not trade for Patterson assuming he will take over the starting role as soon as he is eligible.
Wide receiver
Rankings changes: It is great to see Mike Evans getting open and scoring touchdowns again after his one-game suspension. His colleague Chris Godwin also looked good on Sunday night, and may soon push into the top 20. CeeDee Lamb enjoyed his Sunday and should get his starting QB back soon. DK Metcalf and Chris Olave don't care who plays quarterback and Michael Pittman Jr. and Terry McLaurin currently do.
Trade for: Metcalf at No. 15 may be the end of safe range for relying on wide receivers. Pittman should get on track, but the Indy offense is in flux. Amon-Ra St. Brown missed Sunday, but it shouldn't be long-term. Olave really does look like a star. The Eagles shut down Christian Kirk, but they have a good defense and the Jags were playing in bad weather. Keep investing.
Be cautious:Romeo Doubs and Allen Lazard had good games but it remains dangerous to trade for them. It's also hard to any of the receivers in Washington, though McLaurin is better than most. Darnell Mooney hauled in a long pass but the Bears are still struggling on offense. Marquise Brown is getting plenty of targets in Arizona but DeAndre Hopkins will return from his suspension and take some of those away soon.
Tight end
Rankings changes: We have to give more love to Zach Ertz, as he is fourth in tight end PPR scoring entering Week 5. T.J. Hockenson roars into the top 5 off a monster game. Kyle Pitts frustrated fantasy managers again. If you'd rather rely on someone such as Will Dissly, go ahead. We wouldn't but it is your team. | 2022-10-04T17:39:55+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/34724295/fantasy-football-trade-value-2022-updated-rankings |
BEIJING, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China-US "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" and the ice-breaking tour that was the Philadelphia Orchestra's first visit to China in the 1970s opened a new chapter for the people of both countries to enhance understanding and deepen friendship. With increasing cultural exchanges between the two countries, people in the US have more opportunities to learn about China and are eager to more deeply explore China's more than 5,000 years of history and fruitful culture, as well as understand Chinese people's philosophy of life and values. The Global Times interviewed three US expats residing in China, who shared their stories about the country, misunderstandings about China in the West and how they see current China-US relations and cultural exchanges.
'Mr Egg' Brian Linden wants to establish bridge between China and the US
Brian Linden from the US, who lives in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, traveled to Laos with his wife in late February. He told the Global Times that in the past, it would take eight hours to travel from Vientiane, the capital of Laos, to Luang Prabang Province, a place rich in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. However, thanks to the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the high-speed train built by China, it now only takes less than two hours to make the journey. In Laos, the train is inspiring groups of young entrepreneurs to look beyond Vientiane and pursue business opportunities along the train line.
The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of BRI. Linden said China's investment in neighboring countries has inspired many local people. By investing in their infrastructure, China is helping to boost their economies and is providing them with hope.
"If China were not to do that, I don't believe there were any other countries waiting outside the door of Laos to say 'we're going to do this and help you.' So in that regard, I felt very, very proud of my adopted home [China]," he said.
Linden first came to China to study in 1984 and he was amazed by China's economic development and profound culture. In 2004, he returned to China with his family. He later settled down in Xizhou township, Yunnan Province, and founded the Linden Centre, or "Xilinyuan," to welcome guests from all over the world while preserving local cultural traditions. Since Linden has been in China for 38 years, his wife likes to call him "Mr Egg," as she jokes that he is white on the outside and yellow on the inside. Linden said he hopes that "Xilinyuan" can act as a platform to promote China-US cultural exchanges and eliminate communication barriers between China and the Western world.
According to Linden, the way Americans see China has changed over the past four decades. They have gone from inclusiveness to reticence to fear.
China has grown in geopolitical relevance, a fact that is difficult for the existing order to accept. However, he believes China's voice on the world stage will continue to grow.
"In this regard, we should focus on our commonalities and not allow our views to become too extreme," he said. "Many Americans respect China, and many Chinese respect America. We need to continue to promote cultural and educational exchanges and business ties between our countries. 'Xilinyuan' is trying to bridge the divides between China and the outside world. "
He pointed out that China suffers from a soft power deficit compared with the US, as Starbucks, Apple products, Michael Jackson, Coca Cola are nearly everywhere, which underlines the US soft power.
Without a flourishing soft power foundation to offset the media's critiques, the narrative about China is limited, he said, as he believes that China needs to continue to expose the world to its traditional wisdom and charm.
The most common response Linden gets from his foreign guests is "we never knew that China was like this." Usually they are talking about the warmth and hospitality of the people. China's greatest soft power resource is its people, and China needs to create more opportunities for authentic interaction between all Chinese people and the world, Linden said.
Recently, Linden has been promoting his new book One Village at a Timeacross China. He told the Global Times that an English version would be published overseas as well.
"Because of geopolitical issues, I think it is necessary to go out and share this. My role is to promote continued interaction between the peoples of China and the US. I need to share the authentic stories about China that too often go untold. These stories are as valid and important as the political posturing that occurs at the governmental level," he said.
'Hotpot King' Nathan Rich: US always tries to put China into 'adversarial role'
Political commentator Nathan Rich, better known by Chinese netizens as "Hotpot King," has been living in China for years.
He has posted more than 100 videos about China on Chinese and overseas platforms, gaining more than 4 million subscribers in total.
"I don't consider my videos to be pro-China, so much as pro-logic, reason and treating China fairly," he told the Global Times. "That is quite a different thing to me.
"I've never been interested in if people like China. But when I see parts of what I consider to be my culture - America, the West - when I see them describing events in China that I'm literally standing in the middle of, and I'm looking at a description that doesn't match reality, it makes me confused and annoyed. It makes me want to make videos talking about the actual truth of it," Rich said.
"If that is considered pro-China, then so be it."
Fluctuating China-US relations have become strained in recent years in the eyes of many, especially since the start of the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Rich came to China the first time in 2012. Having been to dozens of Chinese cities and having talked to lots of local people over the years, Rich has gradually gotten to know the real China.
This made him able to recognize the many misconceptions that many Westerners, especially Americans, have about the country.
One of the misconceptions that Rich has heard multiple times from Americans is that "Christianity is illegal in China," he noted.
Having worked with Chinese Christians and been to Christian churches across China himself, Rich commented that he feels the saying is bizarre.
Therefore, to reduce misconceptions and enhance people-to-people exchanges between the two countries, Rich suggests people in the West spend more time listening to Chinese individuals instead of repeating "scary sounding clichés and stereotypes."
"So I think for Americans, it's really important that we focus on backing up our opinions with independent research, rather than the skimming headlines and tweets we saw that day," he noted.
'Beijinger' Andy Friend expects return to 'respecting each other'
Many moviegoers were impressed by the character "Mike," played by US actor Andy Friend, in the Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II.
They become even more amazed after watching Friend speak the native Beijing dialect in Chinese action comedy film Hidden Man.
Born and raised in Beijing, Friend sees himself a "total Beijinger" who just has a white face.
With over 25 years experience on movie sets both in Hollywood and China, Friend is one of the best bilingual filmmakers working on co-productions and commercials in China.
His combination of on-set film experience and creative artistic skills has made him a popular visual effects producer in the Chinese film industry.
He pointed out the difference between films in the US and China is that most films made in the US are about superheroes and more about individualism while Chinese movies, like The Wandering Earth II, are more about group efforts in which everyone in the world needs to work together to solve common problems.
But there is one thing in common: filmmakers need to work hard to make original stories for their people.
"As long as human stories are told well, then they will be universally accepted," he said.
Friend said he believes that many people in the US really do love the Chinese, noting that China and the US actually did a lot of positive things for each other in the past.
"I'm hoping that the two countries will return to something like actually working together and respecting each other. Sometimes politics just pushes people to extremes and it's not so pretty," he said.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s powerful army chief has contacted Washington, seeking U.S. help in securing an early release of a crucial $1.7 billion installment from the International Monetary Fund to his country, struggling with a deepening economic crisis, Pakistani officials said Saturday.
According to several government officials, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa discussed the issue with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, appealing on Washington to use its influence with the IMF to help Pakistan.
The appeal was a rare reaching out by the army chief. Pakistan's relations with the United States have been troubled in recent years, mainly over the issue of neighboring Afghanistan, now run by the Taliban.
The relations remained especially tense under former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April. However, Pakistan’s military, which has directly ruled the country for more than half of its 75-year history, has closely worked with the U.S. and was an official ally in the war on terror against al-Qaida.
Pakistan's foreign ministry confirmed Friday that Bajwa and Sherman had talked.
“I understand (the) conversation has taken place, but at this stage, I am not in direct knowledge of the content of this discussion,” said ministry spokesman Asim Iftikhar.
The officials who spoke to The Associated Press on Saturday said the discussion focused on the IMF loan. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Pakistan and the IMF originally signed the bailout accord in 2019. But the release of a $1.7 billion tranche has been on hold since earlier this year, when the IMF expressed concern about Pakistan’s compliance with the deal's terms under Khan.
Khan's successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and his government reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF earlier this month to revive the bailout package. That agreement was subject to approval from the fund’s board of directors.
Pakistan had hoped for a quick revival of the bailout, but the IMF has so far not released the much-needed installment, which may have prompted Bajwa's call to Washington. It remained unclear what U.S. officials could do to speed up the process of the bailout.
There was no immediate comment from Washington on the phone call.
Bajwa also spoke by phone with the head of U.S Central Command in the Mideast, Gen. Michael Kurilla, on Friday, according to a military statement. It quoted Kurilla as saying he appreciates the role Pakistan plays in the region's stability and expressing hopes for further improvement in cooperation with Pakistan.
Pakistan desperately needs the IMF loan. Earlier in July, the fund said it would raise the value of the bailout from $6 billion to $7 billion, if approved by its executive board, usually considered a formality.
Sharif has repeatedly blamed the former prime minister's government, alleging that Khan — a former cricket star turned Islamist politician — had deliberately violated IMF’s conditions in order to remain popular among followers at home.
Analysts say the revival of the IMF bailout will help Pakistan and encourage other international financial institutions to engage with the South Asian country.
Sharif’s government has also been in contact with Washington over reviving the IMF bailout. Since his ouster, Khan has repeatedly alleged that his government was toppled under a U.S. plot, a charge Washington denies.
Since Khan's ouster, Pakistan’s currency has plummeted to an all-time low amid uncertainty about IMF assistance. The rupee slid a record low of about 240 against the dollar last weekend. Previously, the dollar sold for 225 rupees.
The steady decline in this Islamic nation’s currency has spread panic among its business community. Rising food prices and inflation has made Sharif's government, now in its four month in office, highly unpopular. | 2022-07-30T21:28:26+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Pakistan-military-chief-seeks-US-help-on-release-17340420.php |
The College Football Playoff announced Thursday it will expand to a 12-team event starting in 2024, completing an 18-month process that was fraught with delays and disagreements.
“I never gave up,” CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said.
The first round of the playoff in 2024 will take place on campus sites matching teams seeded 5-12 the week ending Saturday, Dec. 21. Exact dates are still to be determined.
The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in the bowls that have been rotating as hosts of the semifinals in the current format: Rose, Sugar, Orange, Peach, Cotton and Fiesta.
“I want to re-emphasize that all the bowls stepped up, all six,” Hancock said. “And there’s no secret that we were down to the final minutes of the fourth quarter. And there was no overtime. And if we hadn’t reached an agreement, there’s no question in my mind that we would have continued the four-ream playoff through the ’2024 and ’25 seasons. But we’re here to celebrate the fact that we did reach an agreement.”
The championship game for the 2024 season will be played Jan. 20, 2025, in Atlanta. The title game the next year will be played Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Both are more than a week later than the current title game timing.
Expansion is expected to produce about $450 million in additional gross revenue for the conferences and schools that participate. The College Football Playoff’s 12-year contract with ESPN runs through the 2025-26 season.
The plan to expand the playoff was unveiled in June 2021, but conference commissioners who manage the CFP could not come to the unanimous consensus needed to push the proposal forward. Expansion for the 2024 season was pronounced dead back in February.
University presidents and chancellors who oversee the CFP stepped in and revived the process over the summer. They approved the original plan for use by 2026, and threw it back to the commissioners, directing them to try to expand by 2024, if possible.
No longer haggling over the format, the commissioners needed to work through when and where the games would be played and whether bowl partners and championship game hosts cities could accommodate a change in schedule for 2024 and 2025.
The Rose Bowl issue was the last to be settled, as organizers for the 120-year-old bowl game were hoping to get some assurances from the CFP that they would keep their valuable New Year’s Day time when new contracts go into effect in 2026.
CFP officials balked. Facing the possibility of being painted as an obstructionist and potentially being shut out of the expanded playoff in the long term, the Rose Bowl agreed to move forward in good faith.
“It’s our intent to keep the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1,” said Laura Farber, chairwoman of the Rose Bowl Management Committee. “But we’ll remain flexible in scheduling as needed.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday, vowing the U.S. will not leave Ukraine defenseless and asserting that Kyiv has promised to use the controversial bombs carefully.
The decision comes on the eve of the NATO summit in Lithuania, where President Joe Biden is likely to face questions from allies on why the U.S. would send a weapon into Ukraine that more than two-thirds of alliance members have banned because it has a track record for causing many civilian casualties.
Biden, in a CNN interview, said it was a difficult decision, but he ultimately took the Defense Department's recommendation to provide the bombs. “It took me a while to be convinced to do it,” said Biden, adding that he discussed the matter with allies and with lawmakers on the Hill. But, he said, “The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition,” and the cluster bombs will provide a temporary fix to help stop Russian tanks.
The move was met with divided reactions from Congress, as some Democrats criticized the plan while some Republicans backed it.
The munitions — which are bombs that open in the air and release scores of smaller bomblets — are seen by the U.S. as a way to get Kyiv critically needed ammunition to help bolster its offensive and push through Russian front lines. U.S. leaders debated the thorny issue for months, before Biden made the final decision this week.
Sullivan defended the decision, saying the U.S. will send a version of the munition that has a reduced “dud rate,” meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode. The unexploded rounds, which often litter battlefields and populated civilian areas, cause unintended deaths. U.S. officials have said the U.S. will provide thousands of the rounds, but provided no specific numbers.
“We recognize the cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance,” he told a White House briefing. “This is why we’ve deferred the decision for as long as we could. But there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians, because Ukraine does not have enough artillery. That is intolerable to us.”
But Marta Hurtado, speaking for the U.N. human rights office, said Friday “the use of such munitions should stop immediately and not be used in any place.”
Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, said the U.S. will give Ukraine the most modern cluster munitions that have far lower dud rates. He said the bombs have been tested five times between 1998 and 2020, and the U.S. is confident the rate of unexploded duds is below 2.35 percent. While he declined to say how many the U.S. will send now, he said the U.S. has “hundreds of thousands” of cluster munitions available for Ukraine at the low dud rate.
He said the key reason to provide the bombs is to keep Ukraine in the fight.
“Things are going a little slower than some had hoped,” Kahl said in a Pentagon briefing. “So this is to make sure that the Ukrainians have the confidence that they have what they need. But frankly, also that the Russians know that the Ukrainians are going to stay in the game.”
Kahl said the Ukrainians have provided written assurances that they will not use the munitions in urban areas that are populated by civilians and that there will be a careful accounting of where they are employed.
Questioned at length about the decision, Sullivan said the U.S. consulted closely with allies before making the final decision, noting that even allies who have signed on to a ban of the bombs “have indicated, both privately and many of them publicly over the course of today, that they understand our decision.”
Allies “recognize the difference between Russia using its cluster munitions to attack Ukraine and Ukraine using cluster munitions to defend itself its citizens and its sovereign territory,” he said. The U.S. “will not leave Ukraine defenseless at any point in this conflict, period.”
Still, U.S. reaction was mixed. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., called the decision “unnecessary and a terrible mistake.” And Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said the civilian risk lingers “often long after a conflict is over.” Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, backed the move, saying Ukraine needs access to weapons Russia already is using.
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, some cluster munitions leave behind bomblets that have a high rate of failure to explode — up to 40% in some cases. With a claimed rate under 3% for the supply to Ukraine, U.S. officials said there would be fewer unexploded bombs left behind to harm civilians.
A convention banning the use of cluster bombs has been joined by more than 120 countries that agreed not to use, produce, transfer or stockpile the weapons and to clear them after they’ve been used. The United States, Russia and Ukraine are among those who have not signed on.
Ryan Brobst, a research analyst for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that while the majority of NATO members have signed on to the cluster munitions ban, several of those nearest Russia — Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Turkey — have not.
“The most important of those are Poland and Romania,” Brobst said, noting that the U.S. weapons will probably go through those countries en route to Ukraine. “While some allies raise objections, this is not going to prevent (cluster munitions) from being transferred into Ukraine.”
The cluster munitions are included in a new $800 million package of military aid the U.S. will send to Ukraine. Friday’s package, drawn from Pentagon stocks, will also include Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles and an array of ammunition, such as rounds for howitzers and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, officials said.
Providing the cluster bombs will also ease the pressure on limited U.S. ammunition stockpiles. The U.S. has been taking massive amounts of 155 mm rounds from Pentagon stocks and sending them to Ukraine, creating concerns about eating into American stores. The cluster munitions, which are fired by the same artillery as the conventional 155 mm, will give Ukraine a highly lethal capability and also allow them to strike more Russian targets using fewer rounds.
Kahl said the cluster bombs are not a permanent solution, but more of “a bridge” as the U.S. and allies work to increase the production of the 155 mm rounds.
So far the reactions from allies have been muted. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stressed on Friday that the military alliance takes no position on cluster munitions and it is a decision that allies will make. And Germany, which has signed the ban treaty, said it won’t provide the bombs to Ukraine, but expressed understanding for the American position.
“We’re certain that our U.S. friends didn’t take the decision about supplying such ammunition lightly,” German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin. “We need to remember once again that Russia has already used cluster ammunition at a large scale in its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Oleksandra Ustinova, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who has been advocating that Washington send more weapons, noted that Ukrainian forces have had to disable mines from much of the territory they are winning back from Russia. As part of that process, Ukrainians will also be able to catch any unexploded ordnance from cluster munitions.
The last large-scale American use of cluster bombs was during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But U.S. forces considered them a key weapon during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to Human Rights Watch. In the first three years of that conflict, it is estimated the U.S.-led coalition dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs in Afghanistan.
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee and Associated Press writers Geir Moulson, Ellen Knickmeyer, Lorne Cook, Nomaan Merchant and Frank Jordans contributed to this report.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewTrade, the force that powers fintech, has enhanced its customer onboarding service with three new modules designed to help its clients onboard retail financial customers more efficiently and with greater security. With the enhancements, clients can activate any of the new modules and make them part of their custom identity verification and background check process.
Key Features of the New Modules
- Jurisdiction Block enables account managers to block users from opening accounts from certain global regions, countries or a US state before the account is passed to the custodian, effectively halting account creation before other KYC verifications are conducted. Account managers can create their own list of jurisdictions to block and/or allow account creation. This module is fully customizable and available on a branch level, enabling brokers to toggle their lists to either fully block entire regions, or only accept account creation from specific countries or states.
- Person Block works similarly to Jurisdiction Block by enabling account managers to fully block certain persons from opening accounts. Managers can create their own list of banned profiles and identities that can be updated as needed and published immediately. This functionality can be activated as a background check module and be part of the branch-specific identity verification flow.
- Continuous ID verifies account identities through multiple sanction lists, government exposure and risk databases on a daily basis once activated. The module also enables administrators to mark false-positive matches to be skipped on future system runs, so only relevant matches will be flagged after each scan.
"ViewTrade's continuous investment in our product suite ensures we can continue to offer ever more comprehensive and flexible technology to our clients," said Sergei Lishchenko, Digital Experience Technology Services. "With these enhancements, clients can further streamline their customer's experience and digitally onboard them, compliantly and at scale – a critical enabler to sustainable and responsible growth."
ViewTrade's Global Identity Verification Service provides a tailored experience for each client including customized logic and KYC/CIP vendor selection to confirm the authenticity of an identity, the ability to accommodate the challenge of common names and compliance rule customization. Services also include identity verification services to confirm the authenticity of a wide range of government-issued ID documents, including driver's licenses, passports and more during the onboarding/account opening process.
"Ingrained in our leading solutions is the global market expertise needed to deliver a fast, reliable and seamless onboarding experience to the investors of today and tomorrow," said Mark Ford, Chief Compliance Officer at ViewTrade. "These enhancements address and eliminate pain points that existing solutions do not. The new modules will allow our clients to permanently prevent individuals who are not compliant with their onboarding rules from creating accounts, providing greater control, increased approval rates and improved workflows."
About ViewTrade
ViewTrade is the force that powers fintech and cross-border investing for financial services firms throughout the world. We provide the technology, support and brokerage services that business innovators need to quickly launch or enhance a retail investing experience. Over the past 20+ years, our approach has helped 300+ firms – from technology startups to large banks, brokers and advisors – create the differentiating investment experiences their customers demand. With clients in over 20 countries and a team that brings decades of experience and understanding of brokerage technology and services, we help our business clients deliver the investment access and financial solutions they require.
For more information, visit https://viewtrade.com/, and follow the company on LinkedIn.
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GRAPHIC: Home Depot employee dies after store thief pushes him to ground, police say
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (Gray News) – An 82-year-old Home Depot employee died after he was pushed to the ground by a man robbing the store, according to police.
Police said the altercation happened at a Home Depot store in Hillsborough, North Carolina the morning of Oct. 18.
The employee died Thursday from his injuries, more than six weeks after he was pushed to the ground.
Surveillance video shared by the Hillsborough Police Department shows a man leaving the store’s garden area with a shopping cart containing three pressure washers. He pushes the employee, who then falls to the ground.
Police said the suspect fled the scene in a white, four-door Hyundai Sonata with an obscured North Carolina temporary tag.
The North Carolina medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide.
Police are still looking for the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 919-296-9562 or by messaging the police department on Facebook.
Anonymous crime tips can be reported to 919-296-9555.
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The partnership will elevate customer journeys for RainFocus and Adobe's joint clients by combining real-time behavioral event data with Adobe's best-in-class technologies to accelerate growth
LEHI, Utah, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RainFocus™, provider of the next-generation event marketing platform, today announced its status as a Platinum partner in the Adobe Exchange Partner Program, a global technology partner ecosystem. This top-tier partner designation recognizes a select group of innovative and unmatched solutions, and RainFocus is proud to join the list. As part of a small group of curated and highly vetted partners at the Platinum tier, RainFocus will work with Adobe to provide in-depth collaboration to support the customer experience.
"Adobe and RainFocus share a collective passion for elevating the client experience," said JR Sherman, CEO of RainFocus. "RainFocus securely and seamlessly integrates with Adobe Experience Cloud products, so for us, it was a natural fit that aligned with our core business objectives. We are most excited to deliver personalization at scale for our clients, enabling enriched customer journeys, accelerated qualification, lead conversation, closed business, and more."
During the upcoming RainFocus INSIGHT Conference, RainFocus will host Adobe for an engaging keynote titled "Unifying Experiences." Doug Baird (President and Founder of RainFocus), JR Sherman (CEO of RainFocus), and Nik Shroff (Senior Director, Global Tech Partners at Adobe) will discuss the new partnership, ways to build a robust client experience, and how events and data are critical to a successful customer journey.
"Adobe Analytics and Marketo are driving digital experiences forward through product leadership and by partnering with innovators like RainFocus who are bringing insights-driven rigor to the events and marketing segment," said Justin Merickel, Vice President of Business Development, Experience Cloud at Adobe. "Our alliance is driving personalization and accelerating qualification in a market that is primed for reinvention. By enhancing the customer journeys and providing curated experiences for events and conferences, we're bringing measurable return on investment to an essential marketing lever for brands and businesses worldwide."
Join RainFocus for INSIGHT 2023 in Salt Lake City or virtually from Jan. 30 — Feb. 1 to learn more about the Adobe partnership, watch inspiring keynotes, attend breakout sessions, network, and more. Register today.
About RainFocus
RainFocus is the next-generation event marketing platform built to capture and analyze unprecedented amounts of first-party data for exceptional events and optimized engagement throughout the customer journey. RainFocus powers flawless experiences with secure, scalable solutions to support the entire event lifecycle. The platform integrates with sales and marketing technologies, simplifying event registration, content management, and exhibitor activation across in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences, all from a single dashboard. Leveraging real-time data, RainFocus provides actionable insights to drive personalization, accelerate qualification and lead conversion, and close deals. For more information, visit www.rainfocus.com.
Additional Resources
- Join the conversation with RainFocus on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
- Visit RainFocus.com to learn more about our event marketing and management platform. If you're ready to get started, request a demo.
- Discover RainFocus On Demand, the go-to learning destination for event industry leaders to discover the latest trends, thought leadership, and best practices, delivered on demand – any time, anywhere. Learn more.
- Are you interested in joining the RainFocus Partner Program? Apply today.
- Grow your career and help reshape the events industry at RainFocus. Apply here.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 3,000 firefighters and over 60 aircraft battled wildfires Sunday in Portugal that authorities say have injured 29 people.
Authorities said 12 firefighters and 17 civilians required medical assistance to treat minor injuries caused by the blazes, as reported by Portuguese state television RTP and other local media. By Sunday afternoon, Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency said more than 3,000 firefighters were combating active fires.
The European Union on Sunday activated its firefighting air fleet assistance program that allows member nations to share resources to help Portugal. Spain, which has also endured wildfires recently, quickly responded by mobilizing two firefighting planes to send to its Iberian neighbor, according to the EU crisis commissioner, Janez Lenarcic.
Portugal’s government said it has deployed 60 aircraft to support its ground crews.
Portugal has long suffered large, and sometimes tragic, forest fires. In 2017, out-of-control wildfires killed more than 100 people.
The European Union says climate change has the continent facing one of its hardest years for natural disasters such as droughts and wildfires.
Across the border in Spain, a fire in the southwest led authorities to evacuate 30 people from homes as a precaution. Some 115 firefighters backed by helicopters and planes were deployed to that fire near the village of El Ronquillo.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa postponed his plans to visit Mozambique this week “in view of the weather forecasts that indicate a very serious worsening of the risk of rural fires.”
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa likewise canceled his trip to New York where he was scheduled to speak at the U.N. Economic and Social Council.
In June, 96% of the southern European country was classified as being in either in “extreme” or “severe” drought.
The fires have caused authorities to increase a state of alert already in place. Portugal’s government declared a state of heightened alert Saturday that will run through Friday.
“This means (…) we can automatically and preventively activate all emergency and civil protection plans at all territorial levels,” said Interior Administration Minister José Luís Carneiro.
The wildfires are coming as Portugal is enduring a heat wave with temperatures expected up to 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit). The country has adopted restrictions barring public access to forests deemed to be at special risk, banned the use of farm machinery and outlawed fireworks.
Costa, in a message on Twitter, reminded citizens not to light any fires outdoors or use heavy farm machinery that can cause sparks.
“Preventing fires is the best help we can give our firefighters,” the prime minister wrote.
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