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By integrating with the SAP® Fieldglass® Contingent Management solution, LiveHire's platform supports customers to attract, curate and engage the best contingent talent.
MIAMI, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveHire Ltd. (ASX: LVH), a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform connecting companies and job seekers, today announced that its LiveHire Direct Sourcing platform is available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. The LiveHire platform integrates with and extends the value of the SAP® Fieldglass® Contingent Management solution to help companies achieve their contingent hiring goals by attracting and engaging top external talent in today's competitive market. The integration equips talent curation teams with powerful new capabilities in candidate sourcing, branded talent attraction, native two-way text messaging and AI-powered talent pooling to help source and hire the best contingent workers at speed.
"We're thrilled to announce this step in our SAP partnership, with LiveHire Direct Sourcing platform now available on SAP Store. We can now deliver further benefits to our customers through the integration of our platform with the SAP Fieldglass Contingent Management solution," says Christy Forest, CEO of LiveHire. "With the rapid growth of the contingent workforce, organizations need the ability to attract and engage talent in a way that showcases their employer brand. Our technology's award-winning candidate experience capabilities can provide exceptional hiring outcomes quickly, helping employers to find the best fit for the role, with a focus on diversity."
The LiveHire Direct Sourcing platform combines the power and speed of talent sourcing and engagement, deeply integrated with the SAP Fieldglass Contingent Management solution, to deliver private talent pools of pre-qualified candidates on-demand. SAP Fieldglass Vendor Management System provides industry-leading cloud technology for services procurement and external workforce management, helping organizations find, engage, manage, pay, and unlock more value from this growing external workforce – anywhere in the world. The integration enables talent curation teams to leverage LiveHire's best-in-class technology, combined with SAP Fieldglass solutions, to achieve exceptional outcomes in sourcing, hiring, and onboarding contingent talent.
ArdentPartners reports that 82% of organizations expect an increased demand for extended and non-employee talent.[1] The rise in contingent workers paired with 'The Great Resignation' has created an urgent need for organizations to be able to source, engage, and hire contingent talent in a humanized way.
"LiveHire offers a leading-edge direct sourcing and talent pool platform, enabling improved return on investment for 1,000+ customers globally," added Dave Ghosh, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances and Channel Sales of LiveHire. "LiveHire's platform integrates directly with SAP Fieldglass Contingent Management to get the right skilled talent, in the right place and at the right cost within minutes."
Businesses can use the comprehensive features of LiveHire's platform – such as the following – to extend the SAP Fieldglass solution to reach their goals for improved contingent souring, engaging, and hiring outcomes:
- Award-winning candidate experience
- Enhanced curator experience
- Employer branding
- Unique 2-way text messaging
- Total talent visibility and mobility
- Live talent analytics
- AI-powered talent pooling and matching
- Live talent search
- Talent curation from all sources into a single private talent community
- Identify internal, external, and alumni talent
This is the second integration of LiveHire's products with SAP technology. In March, the company also announced that its Total Talent Acquisition platform successfully achieved integration with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting and is available on SAP Store. The integration of these offerings with SAP technology reinforces LiveHire's products as leading total talent solutions for organizations looking to achieve their permanent and contingent hiring goals.
To learn more about the LiveHire Total Talent Acquisition platform, watch this short video.
SAP Store, found at store.sap.com, delivers a simplified and connected digital customer experience for finding, trying, buying and renewing more than 1,800 solutions from SAP and its partners. There, customers can find the SAP solutions and SAP-validated solutions they need to grow their business. And for each purchase made through SAP Store, SAP will plant a tree.
About LiveHire
LiveHire is a globally-leading recruitment and contingent direct sourcing platform - enabling clients to attract and engage both permanent employees and contingent workers to deliver Total Talent and Direct Sourcing solutions. LiveHire offers an award-winning candidate experience and provides talent-on-demand through its unique talent pooling and 2-way text messaging functionality, having successfully enabled end-to-end recruitment from sourcing through to hire of diverse workforces for over 150 clients across 20 verticals globally. For more information, visit www.livehire.com.
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[1]ArdentPartners- Direct Sourcing 2.0 December 2020
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Foundation of America celebrated the many incredible people making a difference for those living with lupus at its "Lupus Leaders Reception," held on April 12 at Gotham Hall in New York City. The Foundation welcomed the lupus community back to its first live, in-person gathering following a two-year pandemic-related hiatus.
During the event, the Foundation recognized New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. who has been a champion for the support of people with lupus across the state. Each year Assemblyman Thiele presents a proclamation to recognize May as Lupus Awareness Month and often shares the journey his daughter Josie went on to receive her lupus diagnosis over 10 years ago. Additionally, Thiele, alongside State Senators Kevin Parker and Diane Savino, have played a crucial role in ensuring the voices of those with lupus in New York are heard by supporting lupus-related legislation at the state level. Other efforts have included a local Lupus Awareness Day in Albany, local in-district awareness events, and a state grant in 2020 for lupus education and awareness. The Foundation also recognized Congressman Andrew Garbarino of New York's 2nd congressional district for his work on Capitol Hill serving as co-chair of the Congressional Lupus Caucus.
The reception also hosted community members including hospital executives, clinicians and researchers who have been committed to supporting people with lupus through their dedicated work, research and advocacy.
"The support and advocacy of State Assemblyman Thiele underscores the true power our legislators have in making a difference for those impacted by lupus, especially at the state level," said Stevan W. Gibson, president and CEO, Lupus Foundation of America. "The Lupus Foundation of America is extremely grateful for the dedication of State Assemblyman Thiele, State Senators Parker and Savino and Congressman Garbarino for their work supporting the lupus community and look forward to continued work with these legislators as well as state-level representatives across the country to ensure that people with lupus and their families have the resources and care they need."
The Foundation thanks its generous supporters and sponsors including Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Exagen Inc., Highmark Health & Allegheny Health Network, Horizon Therapeutics and Lilly.
About Lupus
Lupus is an unpredictable and misunderstood autoimmune disease that ravages different parts of the body. It is difficult to diagnose, hard to live with and a challenge to treat. Lupus is a cruel mystery because it is hidden from view and undefined, has a range of symptoms, strikes without warning, and has no known cause and no known cure. Its health effects can range from a skin rash to a heart attack. Lupus is debilitating and destructive and can be fatal, yet research on lupus remains underfunded relative to diseases of similar scope and devastation.
About the Lupus Foundation of America
The Lupus Foundation of America is the national force devoted to solving the mystery of lupus, one of the world's cruelest, most unpredictable and devastating diseases, while giving caring support to those who suffer from its brutal impact. Through a comprehensive program of research, education, and advocacy, we lead the fight to improve the quality of life for all people affected by lupus. Learn more about the Lupus Foundation of America at lupus.org.
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Programmatic Offerings Aimed to Lift and Celebrate the Black Transgender Community
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering their commitment to the rights and celebration of the Black transgender community, the Marsha P. Johnson Institute and H&M USA today announced a renewed partnership to expand their impact.
H&M plans to elevate MPJI and its community throughout the year with a series of programs and events aimed to celebrate artistic expression and provide mental health awareness and resources. The retailer and nonprofit will leverage key celebrities and influencers to amplify the work of MPJI and more importantly, provide much-needed resources to the Black transgender community.
"At MPJI, we encourage everyone to be themselves and respect others for who they are, not just today but every day, " said Elle Moxley of MPJI. "We are thrilled to continue our partnership with H&M and celebrate the Black transgender community through programs that provide real impact."
Programs planned for the year include events centered on mental health awareness and resources, PRIDE, and a fireside chat for H&M employees with Moxley and one of the co-chairs of PrisHM, the company's LGBTQ+ colleague resource group.
"H&M is a company that values our employees bringing their true selves to our organization, and the communities we serve, every day. We are proud to partner with the Marsha P. Johnson Institute for a second year so that we can assist in further amplifying their mission of elevating the Black transgender community," said Carlos Duarte, President, H&M Americas.
The partnership will also include an extended return of the inaugural event from last year, where hundreds of teens and young adults across the country participated in a 'Fresh and Fabulous for the Fall' back-to-school makeover event and received H&M Gift Cards and VIP cards.
About MPJI
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.
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H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (publ) was founded in Sweden in 1947 and is quoted on Nasdaq Stockholm. H&M's business idea is to offer fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way. In addition to H&M, the group includes the brands COS, Monki, Weekday, & Other Stories, H&M HOME and ARKET as well as Afound. The H&M group has 54 online markets and approximately 4,800 stores in 75 markets including franchise markets. In 2021, net sales were SEK 199 billion. The number of employees amounts to approximately 155,000. For further information, visit hmgroup.com.
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New chair endowed by Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At today's New Frontiers of Entrepreneurship 2022 symposium, David Schmittlein, the John C Head III Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management, announced a new chair position in entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan. The inaugural holder of the chair will be William Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. This endowed chair, titled the Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice, has been made possible by the generosity of Robert Metcalfe.
Metcalfe, who helped pioneer the creation of the Internet, invented the Ethernet and co-founded digital electronics manufacturer 3Com in 1979, with other MIT alumni. He graduated from MIT in 1968 with two S.B. degrees, one in electrical engineering and the other in industrial management from MIT Sloan. He was awarded the Adolf F. Monosson Prize for Entrepreneurship Mentoring in 2019. Metcalfe has long served as a mentor for MIT Sloan students, a judge in entrepreneurial competitions, and a keynote speaker who has helped raise the profile of entrepreneurship at MIT. He also served as a Visiting Innovation Fellow during the 2015-2016 academic year, spending four days a month meeting and mentoring more than 120 student startups. He has also endowed professorships in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the MIT School of Engineering.
"I am grateful to Bob [Metcalfe] for his support of entrepreneurship and the pursuit of invention at MIT, and for his generosity in establishing the Ethernet Inventors Professorship of the Practice," says Dean Schmittlein. "This chair will enable the Trust Center to continue to expand its reach and impact by attracting and providing support for practitioners and educators of entrepreneurship in perpetuity."
Since 2009, Aulet has led the development of entrepreneurship education across MIT at the Trust Center. His work builds on his 25-year business career, first at IBM and then as a serial entrepreneur. He is author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship, released in August 2013, which has served as the content for three online edX courses—taken by hundreds of thousands of people in nearly 200 different countries.
"Free enterprise makes the world go round. And entrepreneurial startups are its machinery," says Aulet. "Entrepreneurship is a mindset, startup skill set, and way of operating that is critical for all of our students going forward. It can be taught, and we do. Bob Metcalfe and his fellow Ethernet inventors embody this mindset. I am deeply honored to be the first Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship in the Trust Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management."
"A secret to success is continuously to do less of what is not working and to do more of what is working," says Metcalfe. "Let's do more of what Bill Aulet does at the Trust Center at MIT Sloan. His advocacy and teaching of the entrepreneurial mindset is working."
To help grow the chair position and to be recognized as an Ethernet Inventor yourself, please contact Lauren Krzynowek in the MIT Sloan Office of External Relations at lkrzy@mit.edu
The MIT Sloan School of Management is where smart, independent leaders come together to solve problems, create new organizations, and improve the world. Learn more at mitsloan.mit.edu.
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STAMFORD, Conn., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MKM Partners today announced that Sagar Sheth will become the firm's Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. "It is my pleasure to welcome Sagar to the CEO role. His vision and passion for our business makes us beyond excited for the future of MKM Partners," Tom Messina, Co-Founder and Chairman of MKM Partners stated. "Sagar is one of the youngest CEOs on Wall Street with an incredible track record of delivering results and executing on our core competencies. He has a talent for creating opportunities for expansion, innovating our product lines, and developing meaningful experiences for our people and clients alike."
Sagar joined MKM Partners in 2014 as Managing Director & Head of Midwest Equities and was tasked to open the company's first Chicago office, which he successfully completed shortly after his arrival. He was soon promoted to Co-Head of Institutional Sales and then Chairman of the Operating Committee, roles in which he was able to improve the firm's overall business in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 2018, he was named President of MKM Partners. Sagar and the Management Committee have since led the firm to unprecedented revenues and profitability. Under his leadership, the company has focused on growing human capital to flourish a collaborative culture while also significantly increasing MKM's market share.
"I am honored and thrilled to be named MKM Partners' CEO," Sagar said. "I want to thank my colleagues, in particular Tom and Steve Messina for their support, trust, guidance, as well as relentless dedication to our employees and clients. I am incredibly proud of what we have already accomplished and am eager to build on the strong foundation of our firm – one which values creativity, growth, outside of the box thinking, diversity, and integrity." Founded in 2002, MKM Partners is celebrating its 20-year anniversary this month. The firm has a history of providing niche, differentiated investment ideas to clients with unique content and balanced by truly value-add trading capabilities.
Sagar received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business after graduating from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Economics. Sagar will be relocating to New York in connection with this newly appointed role.
About MKM Partners
MKM Partners is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Austin. MKM combines high-impact fundamental analysis with macroeconomics, technical insights, derivatives strategies, event-driven commentary, alternative research, and first-rate execution. With over 1000 institutional clients and one of the largest trading floors in the U.S., the firm has trade execution abilities in both global equity markets and in U.S. options markets. More information about MKM Partners can be accessed at www.mkmpartners.com.
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CALGARY, AB, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nanalysis Scientific Corp. (TSXV:NSCI) (OTCQX:NSCIF) (FRA:1N1) ("Nanalysis" or the "Company") announces that CEO Sean Krakiwsky will present at NobleCon18, Noble Capital Markets' Eighteenth Annual Investor Conference at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida on Wed, April 20th, 2022 at 12:30 PM ET in Seminole Ballroom B. There is also the opportunity to meet with Mr. Krakiwsky at his breakout sessions scheduled for Wed, April 20, 2022, at 11:30 AM ET at Table 11, Thursday, April 21st at 11:30 AM ET at Table 1, and Thursday, April 21st at 1:45 PM at Table 10.
A high-definition, video webcast of the presentation will be available the following day at the following link: https://noble.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/116e75104b074f3491ff20780ccca2af1d
and as part of a complete catalog of presentations available at Noble Capital Markets' Conference website: www.nobleconference.com and on Channelchek www.channelchek.com the investor portal created by Noble. The webcast will be archived on the company's website, the NobleCon website and on Channelchek.com for 90 days following the event.
About Nanalysis Scientific Corp. (TSXV:NSCI, OTCQX:NSCIF, FRA:1N1)
Nanalysis trades on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) in Canada with ticker symbol 'NSCI', OTC and the Frankfurt exchange under the ticker symbol '1N1'. The company's business is what we term "MRI and NMR for industry". The company develops and manufactures portable Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometers or analyzers for laboratory and industrial markets. The NMReady-60™ was the first full-feature portable NMR spectrometer in a single compact enclosure requiring no liquid helium or any other cryogens. The company has followed-up that initial offering with new products and continues to have a strong innovation pipeline. Nanalysis recently announced that it has begun selling a 100MHz device in 2020. The Company's new device will be the most powerful and most advanced compact NMR device ever brought to market.
Nanalysis devices are used in many industries (oil and gas, chemical, mining, pharma, biotech, flavor and fragrances, agrochemicals, law enforcement, and more) as well as numerous government and university research labs around the world. The Company continues to exploit new global market opportunities independently and with partners.
With the recent acquisition of K'(Prime) Technologies Inc. (KPrime), the company maintains a North American sales and service company of over 40 individuals who cover scientific instrumentation for pharma, food, chemical and oil & gas customers, as well as imaging systems for security applications.
Noble Capital Markets ("Noble") is a research driven investment bank that has supported small & microcap companies since 1984. As a FINRA and SEC licensed broker dealer Noble provides institutional-quality equity research, merchant and investment banking, and order execution services. In 2005, Noble established NobleCon, an investor conference that has grown substantially over the last decade. Noble launched www.channelchek.com in 2018 - an investor community dedicated exclusively to public small and micro-cap companies and their industries. Channelchek is the first service to offer institutional-quality research to the public, for FREE at every level without a subscription. More than 6,000 public emerging growth companies are listed on the site, with growing content including research, webcasts, podcasts, and balanced news.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have been awarded an initial two-year, $3,900,000 grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to study meth use and HIV risk in sexual minority men.
Supported by NIAID's LITE-2 initiative, CUNY SPH Professor Christian Grov, University of Miami Professor Adam Carrico, and colleagues will examine the "where," "how," and "why" of meth use and HIV among men who have sex with men. For this landmark study, they will first enroll 5,000 sexual minority men across the United States into a cohort study. And, assuming the team can meet a series of milestones during the first two years of the study, they will become eligible for up to three more years of funding. The study's broader goals include testing scalable, telehealth motivational enhancement interventions to support PrEP use and meth reduction. In addition, they will determine why meth use is linked to HIV vulnerability by examining if meth-induced alterations in rectal immune function amplify biological vulnerability to HIV.
"We have known for decades that meth use contributes to behavioral disinhibition, which puts people at greater risk for HIV, but now we will also answer questions related to whether meth use increases biological vulnerability," says Grov. "This could point us toward the development of novel biomedical interventions targeting rectal immune function."
The project represents the culmination of two decades of research by Drs. Grov and Carrico to address the role of methamphetamine as a pernicious, resurgent driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
"We hope that the LITE-2 initiative will guide geographically targeted, comprehensive public health approaches to address meth use as a resurgent driver of the HIV epidemic in sexual minority men," says Carrico. "It will also yield important insights regarding the effectiveness of motivational enhancement interventions to optimize PrEP use in sexual minority men who use meth."
Expanded efforts to address meth use are essential to ending the HIV epidemic in the United States. A recent study led by Dr. Grov found that one-in-three new infections among sexual minority men across the U.S. were among those reporting recent meth use.
"We are eager to conduct this exciting project that could build a platform for potentially transformative and multi-pronged approaches to HIV prevention," says Grov.
Grant #UG3AI169652 (Grov/Carrico)
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About CUNY SPH
The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) is committed to promoting and sustaining healthier populations in New York City and around the world through excellence in education, research, and service in public health and by advocating for sound policy and practice to advance social justice and improve health outcomes for all.
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Starlight Children's Foundation and CoachArt launch STEAM Education Program
LOS ANGELES, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Starlight Children's Foundation, in partnership with CoachArt, officially launched Starlight Online STEAM Coaching, offering chronically ill kids and their siblings online lessons focused on science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM). These one-on-one or group lessons are available to children ages 5-18 – free of charge – no matter where they are with an internet connection.
Before the official launch, the team piloted STEAM Coaching with a small group of hospital partners, highly engaged in Starlight's education program, comprising learning materials, books and supplies. The group gained valuable feedback about the program through the pilot from patients' families, including Lacey Groff, the mother of 10-year-old twins Zoe and Chloe.
According to Groff, the Starlight Online STEAM Coaching was a rewarding experience for Zoe, helping boost her confidence in building relationships. Her twin sister, Chloe, also participated in the STEAM lessons.
Zoe is no stranger to hospitals. Born 34 weeks premature and with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) – a severe condition where half of the heart is underdeveloped – the family took a gamble on a risky open-heart surgery when she was just 4 days old. The surgeon told Groff that Zoe's survival rate would be slim. Fortunately, the gamble paid off for the family. However, Zoe continues to battle through her complex medical journey, including two additional open-heart surgeries, several gut surgeries, a bleeding disorder, and functional rumination syndrome, among many others.
During one of her hospital visits at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, near her hometown, the child life specialist handed Groff a STEAM Coaching flyer and explained how patients are matched with vetted volunteer coaches teaching STEAM subjects, including baking. Zoe, who is often shy and quiet, got excited about the opportunity to take one-on-one baking lessons and registered.
On the day of her first lesson, Zoe ended up in the hospital. Unsure of how this arrangement would work, Groff considered canceling. However, through the coach's creativity and the hospital staff's support, Zoe continued with her first baking lesson.
"The two ended up making chocolate-covered strawberries. The nurses were accommodating, letting us use the microwave to melt the chocolate. It was overwhelming in a good way, and Zoe was thrilled that we didn't have to cancel the lessons," Groff said.
Canceling and postponing activities is something Zoe has gotten used to because of frequent hospitalizations and doctor appointments. But, for once, this was a comforting change.
As her condition worsened, Zoe was referred to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, 400 miles away from her home in Lincoln, Nebraska. In the ensuing days, she was admitted for functional rumination syndrome, a gastrointestinal disorder that causes vomiting. Unfortunately, this also meant that the twins would again be separated.
With the accessibility of Online STEAM Coaching, Zoe could continue her lessons in a different hospital out of state.
Like Zoe, her coach is also on a food-restricted diet for medical reasons. Having this shared experience bonded the two. To celebrate Zoe's birthday on March 12, her coach adapted a recipe, enabling her to bake and eat a cake on her special day. It truly was a special occasion for Zoe, who dreaded a birthday without a cake and her twin sister next to her.
The program comprises eight one-hour long lessons, at times convenient for both the student and coach. However, it's been such a positive experience for Zoe that they've extended the lessons.
"There's been a tremendous connection between them, and it's worked out so well," Groff said. "The STEAM Coaching sessions were supposed to be four weeks. We're on our third month with the same coach."
According to Groff, Chloe's experience started strong, but with her mom and sister gone for many weeks, they had to put things on hold until they came back from Rochester. With the family together again in Lincoln, Chloe recently connected with her new coach and is looking forward to restarting arts and crafts lessons.
Adam Garone, CEO of Starlight Children's Foundation, said, "Zoe's story is an excellent example of how chronically ill kids and their siblings can benefit from Online STEAM Coaching. This program connects kids to coaches no matter where they are, engaging them in learning activities that they choose while promoting creative problem-solving skills. We're proud of this initiative and grateful for the partnership with CoachArt, helping us in our mission to deliver happiness to more kids like the Groffs."
The Los Angeles-based nonprofits started the partnership over a year ago when Garone and his team looked to expand their educational program to help close the gap when serious illness disrupts extracurricular and academic activities for chronically ill children.
According to Garone, it was a perfect match. Starlight was looking to leverage CoachArt's infrastructure matching kids to volunteer coaches, while CoachArt was looking to grow nationally through Starlight's network of over 800 hospital partners. The group also expanded the curriculum to include other subjects beyond the original model that only offered art and athletic lessons. So, STEAM Coaching was born.
Greg Harrell-Edge, executive director of CoachArt, said, "Thanks to our partnership with Starlight, more kids impacted by childhood chronic illness have more options to learn and grow together than ever before."
Volunteer coaches can register here, selecting the subjects they want to teach. As part of the registration process, volunteers are required to complete a background check. In addition, the group provides lesson plans for the coaches and supplies for both the coaches and students.
"STEAM Coaching is a great program. It helps keep patients busy and engaged, so they're not focused on being in the hospital or being away from siblings," Groff said.
Local communities can also play a part in Starlight's education program. Donations are being accepted on the website by clicking here or visiting starlight.org/education.
About Starlight Children's Foundation
Starlight Children's Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization that delivers happiness to seriously ill or injured children and their families. Since 1982, Starlight's ground-breaking and innovative programs, like Starlight Virtual Reality, Starlight Hospital Wear, and Starlight Gaming, have impacted 21 million kids at more than 800 children's hospitals across the U.S.
To learn more and to help Starlight deliver happiness to seriously ill kids, visit www.starlight.org and follow Starlight on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Contact: Rick Jardiolin, Director of Public Relations & Communications
424-245-3675 | rick.jardiolin@starlight.org
About CoachArt
CoachArt is a 501(c)3 organization that creates a transformative arts and athletics community for families impacted by childhood chronic illness. Since 2001, CoactArt has matched volunteer coaches with kids for free one-to-one or group lessons in arts and athletics, and provided all lesson materials. To get involved, please visit coachart.org. Follow CoachArt on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Contact: Ben Carlson, Public Relations
415-497-9342 | ben@coachart.org
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual announced today that nearly 15 of the company's wealth advisors are among New York's elite according to a new "Best-In-State" ranking from Forbes. The prestigious list – comprised of high-performing financial services professionals – is based on a variety of factors including revenue produced, assets under management, compliance records and industry experience, among others.
Honorees are nominated by their firms, and each advisor is thoroughly vetted, interviewed, and assigned a ranking by SHOOK Research. Forbes receives more than 30,000 applicants for this annual ranking, and only a small percentage are named among the best wealth advisors in their state. Over 100 of the honorees are Northwestern Mutual advisors from around the country – the company's best-ever showing on the annual ranking.
The New York-based Northwestern Mutual advisors recognized in Forbes' 2022 Best-In-State ranking include:
- Bradley Bedell, New York, N.Y
- Louis Cannataro, New York, N.Y.
- Jim DiNardo, New York, N.Y.
- Benjamin Feldman, New York, N.Y.
- Robert Kilroy, Melville, N.Y.
- Brian Mayeu, Pittsford, N.Y.
- William Newman, Albany, N.Y.
- John Reynolds, Melville, N.Y.
- Stephen Schwartz, New York, N.Y.
- Joseph Small, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- Steven Tennant, Ballston Lake, N.Y.
- Peter Tiboris, New York, N.Y.
About Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 165 years. Through a holistic planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what's most important. With more than $570 billion in combined company and client assets, $34 billion in revenues, and $2.1 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to nearly five million people with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, and brokerage and advisory services. Northwestern Mutual ranked 90 on the 2021 FORTUNE 500 and was recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2022.
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM), Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (investment brokerage services), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (investment advisory and services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. Only those representatives with "Advisor" in their title or who otherwise disclose their status as an advisor of NMWMC are credentialed as NMWMC representatives to provide investment advisory services.
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INDIANAPOLIS, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar has joined Lumina Foundation's Board of Directors, which concluded its spring meeting today. Ambar joined Oberlin in 2017, becoming its 15th president and first Black leader in the Ohio college's 188-year history.
Ambar has launched several initiatives designed to improve the student experience at Oberlin. She led the creation of new minors and emphasized career communities and a reallocation of resources to support the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music. Ambar established Connect Cleveland, which gives first-year Oberlin students a daylong service-and-experiential learning opportunities, and Sustained Dialogue, designed to help students hold substantive conversations with people of differing perspectives.
In August 2020, Ambar created the Presidential Initiative on Racial Equity and Diversity in response to increasing racial tensions in America. Ambar advised the commission leading the initiative to look across Oberlin's curriculum, hiring practices, and campus climate for opportunities to elevate a long-standing commitment to racial justice and equity.
"Carmen is an insightful, thoughtful, and visionary leader whose front-line experiences on campus will help guide Lumina's efforts toward increasing the number of adults with college degrees or quality short-term credentials," said Jamie Merisotis, Lumina's president and CEO.
"I am gratified to join such an effective and forward-thinking foundation," Ambar said. "Lumina embraces the values of equity and diversity I hold dear and that in today's world require increasingly visible sources of support."
Before joining Oberlin, Ambar was president of Cedar Crest College in Pennsylvania for nine years. She also served as a vice president and dean at Rutgers University and the assistant dean of graduate education at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. As an attorney, Ambar worked in the New York City Law Department as an assistant corporation counsel.
Ambar is a native of Little Rock, Ark., and is the mother of 14-year-old triplets. She holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, a master's degree from Princeton University, and a juris doctorate from Columbia Law School.
Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation's need for talent through a broad range of credentials. Our goal is to prepare people for informed citizenship and for success in a global economy.
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Google now links search results directly to records of print books in hundreds of libraries using WorldCat data
DUBLIN, Ohio, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OCLC and Google are working together to link directly from books discovered through Google Search to print book records in the catalogs of hundreds of U.S. libraries. This feature is part of Google's ongoing effort to connect people to their local libraries through Google Search.
The initial phase of this new program connects people using Google Search to the catalogs of hundreds of U.S. libraries whose books are cataloged in WorldCat, a worldwide database of information about library collections, and made available for discovery on the web. The program is expected to expand to more libraries and connect to more library resources in the future.
"People use Google to search the web billions of times every day," said Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO. "OCLC and Google are working to ensure that the rich collections of libraries are part of their everyday search for knowledge and information. This new program offers a direct link from Google Search results to books held in libraries near them. It's a significant step forward to bring local library collections closer to people through a simple search."
These links to library catalogs can be found in several different displays of Google Search results for specific books, including under "Get" or "Borrow" the book options in the knowledge panel, or within Google Books previews.
More than 500 million records representing 3 billion items held in libraries have been added to the WorldCat database since its inception since 1971. Libraries cooperatively contribute, enhance, and share bibliographic data through WorldCat, connecting people to cultural and scholarly resources in libraries worldwide.
OCLC has worked with Google for more than 13 years to increase access to information in libraries on the web. Currently, people using Google Search can access results from WorldCat.org, the website where anyone can search the collective collections of libraries and find what they need in a library close to them. This new initiative links from Google Search results directly to records of print books in academic, public, and cultural heritage institution libraries near the user.
OCLC member libraries included in this program receive expanded Google visibility as a benefit of existing OCLC subscriptions. Inclusion requires that eligible libraries maintain current WorldCat holdings and accurate address and catalog link information in the WorldCat Registry.
More about OCLC's web visibility program is on the website at oc.lc/visibility.
About OCLC
OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation. Through OCLC, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through OCLC's WorldShare, a complete set of library management applications and services built on an open, cloud-based platform. It is through collaboration and sharing of the world's collected knowledge that libraries can help people find answers they need to solve problems. Together as OCLC, member libraries, staff, and partners make breakthroughs possible.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) will publish its first quarter 2022 results on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 after the New York Stock Exchange closes. The company will also host a conference call to review the financial results on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 starting at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Participants may listen to the conference call by dialing 844-291-6362 (domestic) or 234-720-6995 (international), along with access code 1468163. The conference call will be simulcast and archived on our website at investor.omnicomgroup.com.
Omnicom Group (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news.
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BEIJING, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) (the "Company" or "Origin"), an agriculture technology company, today announced that it will file its first half 2022 financial results on Thursday, May 5, 2022 before the market open and will host a conference call that same day at 8:00 AM ET.
Participants may dial into the call as follows:
Domestic access: 1 (877) 270-2148
International access: 1 (412) 902-6510
Upon joining, please ask to be added into the Origin Agritech conference call.
Click here for a live webcast of the conference call: https://services.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=ytZsRl8k
A replay of the call can be accessed until May 12, 2022 at 1 (877) 344-7529 or 1 (412) 317-0088 for international callers and entering replay access code: 5632563.
An audio archive of the call will be available shortly after the call on the Origin Agritech's investor relations page at https://originagritech.com/investor-relations/.
Origin also announces its intention to move to quarterly reporting beginning in 2023 in order to give investors more frequent updates as the business is evolving much more quickly than in the past.
About Origin Agritech Limited
Origin Agritech Limited, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Zhong-Guan-Cun (ZGC) Life Science Park in Beijing, is a leading Chinese agricultural technology company. In crop seed biotechnologies, Origin Agritech's phytase corn was the first transgenic corn to receive the Bio-Safety Certificate from China's Ministry of Agriculture. Over the years, Origin has established a robust biotechnology seed pipeline including products with glyphosate tolerance and pest resistance (Bt) traits. For further information, please visit the Company's website at: www.originagritech.com. The company also maintains a twitter account for updating investors on company and industry developments, which is @origin_agritech.
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This communication contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements address expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and contain words like "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "will," "would," "target," and similar expressions and variations. Forward-looking statements address matters that are uncertain. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on assumptions and expectations which may not be realized. They are based on management's current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry in which the Company operates but involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control. Some of the important factors that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those discussed in forward-looking statements are: failure to develop and market new products and optimally manage product life cycles; ability to respond to market acceptance, rules, regulations and policies affecting our products; failure to appropriately manage process safety and product stewardship issues; changes in laws and regulations or political conditions; global economic and capital markets conditions, such as inflation, interest and currency exchange rates; business or supply disruptions; natural disasters and weather events and patterns; ability to protect and enforce the company's intellectual property rights; and separation of underperforming or non-strategic assets or businesses. The company undertakes no duty or obligation to publicly revise or update any forward-looking statements as a result of future developments, or new information or otherwise, should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements contained herein and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements.
For further information:
Kirin Smith
President, PCG Advisory
646-823-8656
Joe Ramelli
Director of Investor Relation
Phone: 310-845-6238
Email: joe@originagritech.com
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Renowned hepatologist, Dr. Arvind Murali, joins the team to lead the effort.
ORLANDO, Fla., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvind Murali, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) has joined the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute, the highly specialized gastrointestinal diagnostic and treatment center designed and developed to serve patients from across the southeastern United States. Dr. Murali, who is board certified in gastroenterology and hepatology will establish the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute Liver Center — a liver care specialty area and begin the groundwork for establishing an abdominal solid organ transplant program for the health system.
Dr. Murali specializes in the treatment of diseases of the liver and managing patients before and after liver transplants. He focuses on alcohol associated liver disease, fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and its complications, liver cancer, and genetic diseases of the liver, and other conditions.
"The development of a liver center is a significant milestone in the Digestive Health Institute's goal towards establishing a transplant program," said Shyam S. Varadarajulu, MD, president, Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute. "We are thrilled to have Dr. Arvind Murali lead this exciting venture."
Dr. Murali, earned a medical degree from Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute in Bangalore, India. His training includes a residency in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital's John Stroger, Jr. Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and a fellowship in gastroenterology, hepatology, and transplant hepatology at University of Iowa hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.
His research interests include non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cancer; outcomes after liver transplantation; genetic and metabolic disease of the liver; and colon cancer screening and surveillance.
Dr. Murali has been published in several medical journals including Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinical Liver Disease, Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, Endoscopy, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $7.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for its pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult Trauma Center in the St. Petersburg region. It is the home of the nation's largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,200-bed system includes 16 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. Nearly 4,500 physicians, representing more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 23,000 team members. In FY21, Orlando Health served nearly 160,000 inpatients and nearly 3.6 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $648 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.
Media Contact:
Sabrina Childress
Media Relations & Public Affairs Manager
Orlando Health
321.841.8748
sabrina.childress@orlandohealth.com
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GLENSIDE, P.a., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia University is proud to announce that renowned poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez will receive an honorary doctoral degree and address the Class of 2022 at Commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday, May 19-20.
Arcadia is one of the first institutions in the nation to offer women higher learning opportunities and has long championed freedom of expression, intellectual curiosity, and advocacy for those without voice or agency.
"In many ways, our institution's values and mission align with themes found in Ms. Sanchez's storied poetry, teaching, and experiences," says Dr. Ajay Nair, president of Arcadia University. "Hearing directly from Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate and legendary 'Freedom Sister' will be a fitting culmination for Arcadia's Class of 2022, many of whom have taken on leadership roles with our University's anti-Black Racism Initiatives and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion efforts. Having Ms. Sanchez as part of our Commencement celebration will be a seminal moment in Arcadia's 169-year history."
Sanchez is considered one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, which aimed for a renewal of Black will, insight, energy, and awareness. She is a national and international lecturer on Black culture and literature, women's liberation, peace, and racial justice. She has read her poetry in Africa, the Caribbean, China, Australia, Europe, Nicaragua, and Canada, in addition to her native country.
Sanchez is this year's winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, and Stephen Sondheim, among others. Last year, she received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a lifetime achievement honor previously given to Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan, and Maya Lin, among others. Sanchez was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she began working in 1977. She was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple until her retirement in 1999. She was named Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate in 2011.
Sanchez received the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, among many other honors. The author of 16 books, Sanchez is among 20 African American women who are part of "Freedom's Sisters," a mobile exhibition initiated by the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Smithsonian Institution.
About Arcadia University
Arcadia University is a top-ranked private higher education institution in Greater Philadelphia that provides a values-based educational experience by placing students at the center. The University delivers a distinctively global, integrative, and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and lead in a diverse and dynamic world. Through its community of practice and commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) and anti-Black Racism Initiatives (ABRI), Arcadia has made facilitating a safe and welcoming environment a priority. The Princeton Review has ranked Arcadia among the "Best in the Northeast" for seven consecutive years, and the Institute of International Education has ranked Arcadia first nationally in study abroad for 10 of the last 12 years. The University's Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs are nationally ranked in their respective categories by U.S. News & World Report, which cites Arcadia for being among the top study abroad programs and among the "most innovative," and "best value" colleges. Learn more at Arcadia.edu.
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DENVER, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PointsBet, the leading sportsbook for live betting, today debuted its online casino product in Pennsylvania, following the launch of the company's mobile app and digital sports betting product in the state in February of this year.
In accordance with Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board requirements, PointsBet's casino product is currently available in a soft launch environment.
Following successful launches in Michigan, New Jersey, and West Virginia, Pennsylvania marks the fourth state in which PointsBet offers its iGaming platform. The gaming operator first unveiled its online casino product in Michigan in May of 2021.
"Just a few short months after launching PointsBet in the state, we're excited to now be able to introduce the Pennsylvania market to our innovative online casino product," said Aaron O'Sullivan, Pointsbet's VP of Online Casino Revenue. "At PointsBet, we pride ourselves with our ability to not only deliver our users with the best-in-class sports betting product but the best-in-class casino content as well – creating a holistic PointsBet user experience."
In January, PointsBet's wholly owned subsidiary PointsBet Pennsylvania, LLC ("PointsBet") was awarded sports wagering and interactive gaming operator licenses by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. PointsBet users in the state will have access to games from IGT and Evolution.
PointsBet currently operates its sports betting product in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania with online casinos in Michigan, New Jersey, and West Virginia – and now Pennsylvania.
About PointsBet
PointsBet is a corporate bookmaker listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with operations in Australia, the United States, Canada and Ireland. PointsBet has developed a scalable cloud-based wagering platform through which it offers its clients innovative sports and racing wagering products, advance deposit wagering on racing (ADW) and iGaming.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier Medical Laboratory Services (PMLS), an advanced medical diagnostic laboratory offering over 2,000 clinical tests, is announcing today their receipt of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Accreditation. As one of the most stringent of laboratory certifications, CAP Accreditation verifies that the laboratory meets all required standards from CLIA, the FDA, and OSHA. With this certification, PMLS is regarded as one of the world's top-ranked labs for medical diagnostics which exceeds the industry's clinical laboratory standards.
"Quality medical diagnostics are integral for successful patient outcomes," stated Kevin Murdock, CEO of PMLS. "With that in mind, we are meticulous in our pursuit to deliver accuracy and consistency. That's why we underwent the CAP Accreditation process - to ensure that we're an industry leader for the doctors and patients that rely on our testing capabilities. We're proud of our team that performs at such an extraordinary level and to have achieved this highly regarded certification."
In order to receive CAP Accreditation, a laboratory is required to first attain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification. CLIA is regulated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to set the standards for which a clinical diagnostics lab must operate in the US. Once this certification is attained, a laboratory like PMLS can apply for CAP Accreditation and undergo a rigorous inspection of their laboratory operations to further confirm that precision, accuracy, safety, and best practices are in place. This sets CAP Accredited laboratories apart from most that are in operation today.
Along with this achievement, PMLS has reached one of the highest testing capacities in the US, processing up to 100,000 tests per day. They are a trusted testing partner of state health departments, Health and Human Services surge sites, large corporations, professional sports teams, universities, and health systems throughout the country. With an in-house research and development team of PhD scientists, they are continually expanding their diagnostic services. Now, as a CAP Accredited laboratory, doctors and patients can be further assured that PMLS provides the industry's highest standards for accurate, cutting edge, and reliable diagnostics to improve patient lives.
For more information on Premier Medical Laboratory Services, please visit www.premedinc.com.
Premier Medical Laboratory Services® is fully certified by all major accrediting organizations including Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and College of American Pathologists (CAP) Accreditation. Utilizing the latest equipment, including liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS), molecular, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and other technology, we provide high analytical standards and accurate interpretations along with unsurpassed turnaround times for clinics and physicians. As an industry leader in molecular diagnostics, our in-house team of PhD scientists, laboratory staff, and customer care team deliver accuracy and reliability that is unmatched. We are innovators and thought leaders, moving the medical industry forward with the latest in science and technology. As a top of the line, highly complex diagnostics lab, we are committed to help our clients meet the highest standards in patient care and specialize in the following areas:
- General and Routine Chemistry's
- Advanced Cardiovascular Testing
- Allergen – Specific IgE Blood Testing
- Women's Health
- Pharmacogenomics
- Patient Rx Monitoring
- Molecular
- Wellness Panel
- Covid-19 Testing
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WINTER GARDEN, Fla., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate company, and Store Space Self Storage, a national vertically integrated self-storage operator, announced the formation of a strategic partnership today which is capitalized to build a $1 billion portfolio of self-storage assets. The companies share a long-term strategy focused on scaling a nationally diversified portfolio of institutional-quality self-storage assets across the United States in locations with strong demographic and migration trends.
The partnership's value-add and core-plus investment strategy was seeded with the $200 million acquisition of a 13-property portfolio totaling over 9,000 units, or 1.1 million square feet. This portfolio includes a diverse mix of stabilized and recently developed self-storage assets in 7 states. Momentum continues to build with the subsequent closing of an off-market acquisition-expansion in New Jersey, and a significant acquisition pipeline.
"The self-storage sector offers steady growth. Further, it has shown resiliency and demonstrates consistent fundamental and demographic tailwinds that align closely with QuadReal's core investment convictions," said QuadReal's Jameson Weber, Managing Director, International Real Estate, Americas. "We are excited to partner with the Store Space team—an experienced self-storage operator with a proven track record of success. Together, we are very uniquely positioned to invest at scale in a highly fragmented sector."
QuadReal will commit the majority of the capital for the partnership and will leverage its extensive experience investing in alternative asset classes globally. As a vertically integrated self-storage operator, Store Space brings to bear in-house technology, full-service marketing/call center services, acquisition/development experience, and property management capabilities. The company was named the fastest-growing self-storage operator in the United States in 2021 by Inside Self Storage.
"We're very enthusiastic to enter this partnership with QuadReal, with the shared goal of building a large, high-quality portfolio in this recession-resistant sector," said Store Space CEO Chris Harris. "This also represents a significant milestone for us, as we've found an alliance that will help us grow our brand and bring our best-in-class platform to new markets at a rapid pace. QuadReal understands the significant value in our team's ability to quickly drive outperformance across a growing portfolio and this investment will fuel even more rapid expansion across the country."
QuadReal and Store Space are aligned in offering their self-storage customers a seamless experience of accessing high-quality, trusted storage solutions. Further, broad capabilities and an informed strategy position the partnership to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns to their respective stakeholders.
Store Space, whose motto is "Storage That Cares," was founded in 2018 by Chris Harris and Rob Consalvo. The Store Space leadership team has more than five decades of experience acquiring, leasing, and managing self-storage properties. Harris and Consalvo previously helped grow, operate, and scale iStorage before its sale to a public REIT in 2016.
Jefferies LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Store Space.
About QuadReal Property Group
QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, operating and development company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its assets under management total $67.1 billion. From its foundation in Canada as a full-service real estate operating company, QuadReal has expanded its capabilities to invest in equity and debt in both the public and private markets. QuadReal invests directly, via programmatic partnerships and through operating companies in which it holds an ownership interest.
QuadReal seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves. Now and for generations to come.
QuadReal: Excellence lives here.
www.quadreal.com
About Store Space Self Storage
Store Space is a self-storage owner-operator and third-party management company, headquartered in Winter Garden, FL. The Company currently owns and/or operates more than 100 properties offering conveniently located, secure storage units in 20 states. The Company was ranked the fastest-growing self-storage operator in 2021, fueling growth with its experience-driven operations, state-of-the-art proprietary platforms, and strategic digital marketing programs. If you have an acquisition opportunity or would like to discuss third-party management, contact us at inquiries@storespace.com, or visit us at www.storespace.com.
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Spencer Lugash takes home the coveted Broker of the Year award at the San Diego Association of Realtors awards
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reali, the real estate and fintech platform transforming home buying and selling, today announced that its Broker of Record, Spencer Lugash, has won Broker of the Year in San Diego at the Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS® (SDAR) awards.
SDAR is one of the largest realtor associations in California and the United States, with 20,000 members. The Broker of the Year award is based on subjective criteria, including a broker's reputation, community service, and philosophy on training and managing agents.
"I am honored and humbled to be recognized by the San Diego real estate community for my decades of work in the industry. I will continue to strive to raise the level of education and professionalism of the agents who work under my license and the real estate industry in general," said Spencer Lugash, Broker of Record at Reali.
Lugash is a real estate industry veteran with 25 years of experience as a real estate broker and attorney. He has successfully founded and sold two real estate companies in San Diego – Big Block Realty and TXR Homes – and serves on several boards, including the San Diego Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors, and the Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center. Spencer also serves as a real estate coach to thousands of California real estate agents and brokers in areas such as compliance, risk management, operations, and contract and disclosure training. At Reali, Lugash is responsible for the training, development, and performance of the team of real estate agents while providing superior customer service.
"We are thrilled to have Spencer recognized as Broker of the Year. His track record and expertise in the real estate industry will boost our expansion strategy in the San Diego market and beyond," said Tyler Baldwin, Chief Executive Officer of Reali. "Spencer's experience as not just a broker and lawyer but a mentor is helping our agents thrive."
Reali is strategically expanding into new markets nationally and increasing the accessibility of Reali Buy Before You Sell and Reali Cash Offer, innovative financial solutions to fit today's home buyers and sellers' unique needs. Lugash is a critical player in helping grow this strategy.
About Reali
Reali is a real estate and fintech company creating a one-stop-shop to make homeownership streamlined, accessible, and stress-free every step of the way. We leverage first-in-kind technology and trusted real estate experts to serve home buyers, borrowers, and sellers in a single, integrated platform. Our wide range of alternative financing solutions makes a complicated process like buying and selling at the same time much less complicated. Customers can buy and sell in one coordinated transaction, eliminating resale contingencies, moving twice, and paying two mortgages at once. Whether it's buying, selling, financing, or owning a home, our high-tech, high-touch offering meets our customers' unique and individual needs. Keep in touch at www.reali.com, join our team at www.reali.com/careers, or download the Reali app for iOS and Android.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIVN) pursuant to or traceable to Rivian's Initial Public Offering ("IPO") on November 10, 2021 of the important May 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Rivian securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Rivian class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3880 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO offering documents were materially inaccurate, misleading, and/or incomplete because they failed to disclose, among other things, that the R1T electric pickup truck and the R1S electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) were underpriced to such a degree that Rivian would have to raise prices shortly after the IPO and that these price increases would tarnish Rivian's reputation as a trustworthy and transparent company and would put a significant number of the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders along with future preorders in jeopardy of cancellation.
To join the Rivian class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3880 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Portfolio Insight Delivers Unprecedented Visibility and Tools to Reduce Auto Risk
DENVER, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SambaSafety announces the launch of Portfolio Insight, which provides commercial insurance carriers and brokers with unprecedented visibility into and across their clients' driver risk data. When paired with Qorta's continuous driver monitoring, Portfolio Insight enables loss control engineers and underwriters to partner with policyholders to x-ray their driver safety program and discover and eliminate risk throughout the policy lifecycle. Portfolio Insight also provides unparalleled insight across an entire auto portfolio to uncover emerging risks and comparative trends.
"As insurers try to overcome this 10-year loss ratio tailspin, we often hear that loss-control programs don't have sufficient impact or aren't actively used to reduce driver risk," said Rich Lacey, Chief Product Officer at SambaSafety. "Companies that leverage Qorta to manage drivers reduce violations by 22%. Portfolio Insight allows a policyholder to share insight with its insurer so they can partner to minimize risk and costs for both parties."
Portfolio Insight provides a transparent "source of truth" about driver risk that loss control managers, risk engineers and underwriters can use to increase retention, improve performance and reduce losses. Intuitive dashboards illuminate:
- Driver violations and training
- License status and alert handling
- Crashes and claims
Insurers can also track Qorta utilization to ensure their clients are actively engaged with the system, maintaining a current driver roster and acting on alerts.
Portfolio Insight also offers a panoramic view of a carrier's commercial portfolio across all clients. Dashboards identify macro trends, such as an above-average rate of invalid licenses. Portfolio Insight answers questions about a book of business that can be applied across insureds, such as which violations tend to precede crashes or are most common in different states.
"For both carriers and brokers, Portfolio Insight makes it easy to validate the effectiveness of Qorta driver monitoring as a value-add risk-reduction program and chart a path to commercial auto profitability," Lacey said.
Since 1998, SambaSafety is the leading North American provider of cloud-based mobility risk management software solutions for organizations with commercial and non-commercial drivers. Through the collection, correlation, and analysis of driver information, SambaSafety helps employers identify high-risk drivers, enforce safety policies and provide targeted driver training courses, insurers to make informed decisions, and background screeners to perform accurate, efficient pre-hire checks. Learn more at www.sambasafety.com.
Media Contact: Kristie Wieland, SambaSafety, 201-452-0350, kwieland@sambasafety.com
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New location is Sanctuary's first in the city of Tampa and third in the Tampa Bay region
TAMPA, Fla., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Medicinals today announced the opening of its seventh medical cannabis dispensary in Florida.
Located at 5712 W. Waters Avenue in Tampa, the 5,400 square-foot dispensary is adjacent to the Veterans Expressway (State Road 589), which runs through the northwestern part of the city and makes Sanctuary Tampa easily accessible to patients in north Hillsborough and south Pasco counties. As the company's third dispensary in the Tampa Bay region, Sanctuary Tampa will be the company's largest location in the Sunshine State. It will feature Sanctuary's trademark wood walls, high-end millwork, specialty ceilings and faux wood beams that create an inviting yet professional atmosphere for patients and staff.
"Sanctuary is pleased to continue our expansion progress in 2022 with the second new location of the year and seventh overall in the Sunshine State," said Jason Sidman, CEO of Sanctuary Medicinals. "It's particularly exciting to be opening in Tampa, a vibrant, growing city and the third largest in the state. We're eager to get to know the Tampa patient community and, in turn, introduce them to our ever-expanding menu of premium products," he added.
"Establishing footholds in all of Florida's major metropolitan areas will be key to the long-term success of Sanctuary in the state," said Bill Dewar, Chief Operating Officer. "While there's always more to come, right now we're happy to be joining the game in Tampa and round out our roster of dispensaries in that region," Dewar added.
For patients in the Tampa Bay region, Sanctuary now has three locations to choose from within a 45-minute drive of each other. Patients in Pinellas and Hillsborough County are especially close, but those living in Hernando, Pasco or even Polk County are well within reach of Sanctuary's full menu of products grown or created in-house, including flower, vape cartridges, tinctures and more in addition to a still-growing menu of edibles and concentrate offerings.
A Grand Opening event will be held Friday, April 15, and Sanctuary Tampa will be keeping its usual hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Patients can stop in and shop throughout the day, and all registered patients will receive a 25 percent discount. Additionally, first-time guests are eligible for a 50 percent new-customer discount at any Sanctuary Medicinals Florida location. The festivities kick off with Tampa Snow Shave Ice from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. From 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the Flying Fox Taco Truck will serve delicious treats out in the parking lot while a DJ provides the music and a magician entertains visitors and staff alike in the dispensary. For more information, please visit SanctuaryMed.com.
About Sanctuary Medicinals
Sanctuary Medicinals is a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company with operations in Florida, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The company was also recently awarded a provisional retail license in New Jersey. Sanctuary is rapidly expanding into new markets, bringing its high-quality, award-winning products, including flower, vapes, concentrates and edibles, to patients and consumers across multiple states, with a steadfast commitment to creating positive impact in the communities in which it operates.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Sierra Oncology, Inc. ("Sierra" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SRRA), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE: GSK). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $55.00 in cash for each share of Sierra common stock owned. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.9 billion.
If you own Sierra shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/srra
Or please contact:
Joshua Rubin, Esq.
Weiss Law
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Sierra's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $55.00 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Sierra's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Six Nines announced support for the AWS for Games initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud-native game development and design through their Studio in the Cloud offering running exclusively on AWS.
AWS for Games is an initiative featuring services and solutions from AWS and AWS Partners, built specifically for Games customers. The initiative makes it easier for game developers, publishers, and platforms to select the right tools and partners to build, run, and grow their games. For customers looking to accelerate deployments with solution-specific support, AWS for Games also identifies dedicated AWS Game Tech industry specialists, AWS Services, and leading AWS Partners in each solution area.
In order to accelerate game development in a globally competitive environment, gaming studios are looking to the cloud to support remote workforces, reduce development cycle time, and quickly enable critical production work.
Six Nines' Studio in the Cloud solution empowers gaming studios using AWS by:
- Providing remote virtual desktop access to video, 2D/3D animation, game development, and other specialized software & applications
- Creating secure storage with remote team access and collaboration around game content
- Implementing GPU-accelerated compute, high-performance storage, and low-latency networking to power developers' demand
Through automating cloud workstations, running demanding creative applications, storing and collaborating with creative assets, and rendering those assets for final compilation, Six Nines' Studio in the Cloud solution provides game studios a platform for easily leveraging the power of the cloud.
Studio in the Cloud is a cloud-native solution for gaming studios looking to move all or part of their production to the cloud. It offers an all-in-cloud or hybrid infrastructure that allows developers and creatives alike to work, store, and build without the need for physical servers and machines. Studio in the Cloud centralizes creative assets and lets multiple artists connect to project storage and work on them together. It speeds up production time-to-market by providing remote access to powerful workstations with 4k remote display using all the usual tools immediately when they are needed. Powered by AWS, Studio in the Cloud significantly reduces production costs, simultaneously scales render capacity during peak demand, and prioritizes security compliance for data accessibility.
Studio in the Cloud deploys virtual workstations, storage, and build capability on AWS using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload, especially its NVIDIA and AMD GPU-based instances. It also utilizes Amazon Nimble Studio to accelerate content creation in the cloud for its NICE DCV remote display technology and Thinkbox Deadline render farm. You can easily reach out and get the power you need when you need it, in a global AWS region near you.
You can bring on new developer desktops and build capacity immediately as you need it and release it back to the cloud the second you don't. This lets you onboard new developers and freelancers quickly and easily, control where they're able to take your content, and accelerate routine tasks like builds and lighting so they're not standing between you and your ship date.
"We can now reach students anywhere, on almost any device, expanding the talent pool globally," said Aaron Thibault, Vice President of Strategic Operations at Gearbox Software. "We can engage with students using our custom game design curriculum built with all the same tools used in our professional production. We're very happy with the results from our partnership with Six Nines and are excited about the potential this remote learning environment has for our future."
To learn more about Studio in the Cloud, click here.
Visit sixninesit.com to schedule your free Studio in the Cloud consultation and let us help you improve efficiency, stop content leaks, and reduce costs for your game productions.
About Six Nines
Six Nines specializes in helping businesses develop and advance their presence on the public cloud. Founded in 2008, Six Nines has supported and serviced hundreds of customers with cloud workload & application migration, adoption and modernization, development operations (DevOps), high performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence & machine learning (AI/ML). Gaming is a specific industry focus at Six Nines where we specialize in Studio in the Cloud implementations. Ultimately, our goal is to help customers cloud responsibly by implementing security best practices, well-architected frameworks, and efficient cost optimizations.
CONTACT: marketing@sixninesit.com
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High-interest presentations covered AI in Dermatology, Dermoscopy in Scarring Alopecia, Physician Leadership in Advancing Equity, Aesthetics in Skin of Color, Keloids, Pigmentary Disorders, Diagnostic Bias and other topics relevant to patients of color
CHICAGO, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Skin of Color Society, (SOCS), the world's leading professional organization dedicated to advancing skin of color dermatology through research, education, mentorship and advocacy, successfully presented its 18th Annual Scientific Symposium to a record number of attendees on March 24, 2022, held in conjunction with the American Academy of Dermatology's Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
This year's SOCS Scientific Symposium was co-chaired by Andrew Alexis, MD, MPH, FAAD, Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Vice-Chair for Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Ginette A. Okoye, MD, FAAD, Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Howard University College of Medicine. Themed "Diversity in Action: Science, Healthcare & Society," the Symposium kicked off the Society's year-long theme for programming.
Representing 14 countries, the huge audience included physicians with an interest in skin of color, dermatology residents, fellows, medical students, researchers and industry professionals, who gained insights from invited speakers, interactive panels, oral abstract presentations and iPosters.
In keeping with the SOCS tradition of showcasing the work of up-and-coming researchers and young dermatologists, as well as world-renowned experts in the field, this well-rounded program featured the following high-interest sessions:
- "Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology," presented by Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD, FAAD, Clinical Scholar, Dermatology, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University
- "Dermoscopy of Scarring Alopecia in Skin of Color," presented by Tiffany Mayo, MD, FAAD, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- "Physician Leadership in Advancing Equity and Shaping the Future of Medicine," presented by Jack Resneck,Jr., MD, FAAD, President-Elect, American Medical Association; Professor and Vice-Chair of Dermatology, UCSF School of Medicine
- Keloids Panel, moderated by Donald A. Glass, II, MD, PhD, FAAD, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center with panelists Eva Kerby, MD, FAAD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine and Jill Waibel, MD, FAAD, Medical Director, Miami Dermatology and Laser Institute
- Aesthetics in Skin of Color Panel, moderated by Pearl E. Grimes, MD, FAAD, Director, The Grimes Center for Medical and Aesthetic Dermatology and Director, The Vitiligo & Pigmentation Institute of Southern California, with panelists Cheryl Burgess, MD, FAAD, Founder and President, Center for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery and Janiene Luke, MD, FAAD, Associate Professor, Residency Program Director, Department of Dermatology, Loma Linda University
- Pigmentary Disorders Panel, moderated by Seemal R. Desai, MD, FAAD, President, Medical Director, Innovative Dermatology; Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, UT Southwestern with panelists Nada Elbuluk, MD, FAAD, Associate Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Director, Skin of Color Program & Pigmentary Disorders Clinic; Director, Skin of Color Research Fellowship; Director, Dermatology Diversity & Inclusion Program, USC Department of Dermatology, Keck School of Medicine, and Corey L. Hartman, MD, FAAD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UAB Dermatology; Founder and Medical Director, Skin Wellness Dermatology
- "Treatment of Keloid-Associated Pain and Pruritus with Oral Pentoxifylline," presented by Ariel Knowles, MBBS, Clinical Research Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical School
- "Clinical Decision-Making Bias in Darker Skin Types:A Prospective Survey Study Identifying Diagnostic Bias in Decision to Biopsy," by Eman Hijab, BS, Medical Student (4th year), Emory University School of Medicine and presented by Loren Krueger, MD, FAAD, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Associate Program Director, Emory University Dermatology Residency Program
- "Treatment Recommendations for Pseudofolliculitis Barbae in the Barbershop," presented by Channi Silence, MS, Medical Student (4th year), Massachusetts General Hospital
- "Racial Disparities in the Management of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Evidence From the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2012–2018', presented by Isabelle Moseley, BA, Medical Student (2nd year), Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- "Matching into Dermatology Residency: The Impact of Research Fellowships," presented by Erica Ogwumike, BA, Medical Student (2nd year), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Donald A. Glass II, SOCS President (2021-2022), offered closing remarks with appreciation for his presidential year and welcomed incoming SOCS President, Valerie Harvey, MD, MPH, FAAD.
Following the program, attendees viewed a record number of scientific iPosters on display, totaling 107 iPosters on a wide range of topics.
Immediately after the Symposium, an awards reception honored recipients of the 2022 SOCS Research and SOCS Career Development Awards, including:
- 2022 SOCS Research Award Recipients: Jillian Richmond, PhD, for "Examining Gene and Protein Expression in Clinically Diverse Mycosis Fungoides Samples From Skin of Color Patients;" Shawn Shih, MD, for "The Utility of Topical Oxymetazoline in Preventing Post-filler Ecchymosis in Skin of Color Patients: A Randomized, Double-blind, Split-Face Study"and Nkemjika Ugonabo, MD, MPH, for "Combination Topical Cysteamine and Fractional 1927nm Low-Powered Diode Laser Resurfacing vs. Topical Cysteamine Alone in the Treatment of Melasma: A Prospective, Split-Face Cohort Study"
- 2022 SOCS Career Development Award Recipient: Shawn Kwatra, MD, FAAD, for "Racial Differences in Germline and Somatic Mutations in Prurigo Nodularis"
The 2022 SOCS Research Awards and SOCS Career Development Award are made possible thanks to support from Pfizer.
The 18th Annual SOCS Scientific Symposium was supported by the following sponsors: Abbvie, Janssen, and Sanofi/Regeneron, (Champion Level); Bristol Myers Squibb, Dove, Lilly, Google Health, and Incyte Dermatology, (Ally Level); Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Beiersdorf, Dermavant Sciences, Ortho Dermatologics, P & G, and Scientis, (Partner Level); Burt's Bees, Clinique, Senté Labs, UCB, and ZO® Skin Health, (Friend Level), and special acknowledgement to Dermstore, EltaMD, Hairstim, Pfizer, Revision Skincare, SkinCeuticals, SkinMedica, and Urban Skin Rx.
A recording of the SOCS Scientific Symposium will become available through the SOCS Dermatology E-Learning + Equity Platform (DEEP) in the near future.
The Skin of Color Society (SOCS) is an international professional dermatologic organization dedicated to achieving health equity and excellence in patient care through research, education, mentorship and advocacy. SOCS is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in the field of dermatology to advance patient care. Established in 2004 by Susan C. Taylor, MD, FAAD, SOCS has grown to include members from numerous countries around the world.
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The popular American eatery signed its 8th Lease to open in the NoMaCNTR development in 2023
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ted's Bulletin, DC's iconic all-day neighborhood eatery, is expanding to the emerging NoMa neighborhood at its newest mixed-use development, NoMaCNTR at the intersection of First St, NE and L St, NE. NoMa marks Ted's 8th location. This is the next step in Steve Salis', the founder and CEO of Salis Holdings and the Catalogue network of consumer brands, plan to further expand the classic modern American breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening restaurant. Ted's currently has 6 locations across the region with the 7th location at Ashburn's One Loudoun also opening by early 2023.
Situated on the ground level of the NoMaCNTR development with easy access to two major metro stations, the 5,170 sq. ft. Ted's Bulletin is conveniently located among a variety of retail, office and residential spaces, providing an ideal gathering place for the rapidly growing neighborhood. The all-day menu at NoMa will include fan favorites such as Jon's Omelet, Original Breakfast Burrito, Ted's Tart Pancakes and Ted's Ultimate Breakfast Sammy, along with lunch and dinner must-haves such as the Ted's Burger, Grilled Cheese and Ted's Tomato Soup, Nashville Hot Chicken and Short Rib Pot Roast. NoMa will have an extensive pastry and coffee selection curated by award-winning Culinary Director Vincent Griffith and Ted's celebrated cocktails, wines and beers.
"NoMa is a special place to me as it's where I first planted my roots when I moved to DC about 10 years ago," says Steve Salis. "I always felt the neighborhood had so much potential. We look forward to anchoring the community and having guests discover Ted's as a place to gather and celebrate their Every Day."
Salis is responsible for the recent growth of Ted's Bulletin and the repositioning of the business, which included updating the look and feel of the spaces with new design elements, re-invigorating the branding and driving menu innovation while staying true to the Ted's classics that people know and love. Salis has led the charge on the expansion and launch of other Catalogue brands including Federalist Pig, the two-time Michelin Bib Gourmand winner BBQ joint; Kramers bookstore, bar and all-day eatery; Sidekick Bakery, a sweet, savory and everything-in-between bakery; Honeymoon Chicken, which has quickly become the best fried chicken in the region; and Ensemble, a tech-enabled delivery and takeout hub for the Catalogue brands.
Ted's Bulletin NoMa is slated to open during the first half of 2023. Visit the Ted's Bulletin website and follow along on social @tedsbulletin for the latest updates.
About Ted's Bulletin
Ted's Bulletin is your go-to destination to savor the every day, from morning to night. Whatever the celebration, Ted's takes a creative and contemporary approach to classic American dishes and cocktails. Open all day for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the team at Ted's invites you to celebrate your every day. With six locations across DC, MD and VA, including 14th Street, Capitol Hill, Downtown Crown, Merrifield, Reston and Ballston Quarter, Ted's makes every neighborhood feel like home. Ted's classics are also available at Ensemble Digital Kitchen in Bethesda for those who want a taste of the full Catalogue roster of restaurant offerings under one roof.
About Catalogue
Catalogue is a network of brands by its owner Steve Salis of Salis Holdings, which includes some of today's most magnetic consumer brands like Ted's Bulletin, Kramers, Federalist Pig, Sidekick Bakery, Honeymoon Chicken and Ensemble Kitchen. Each concept is a local favorite defined by its own unique character and cult following. As diverse as they are, they share one thing in common; these brands elevate the every day. Catalogue is driven by a belief that the modern consumer deserves better. That's why these brands take the things people love and make them the best they can possibly be through great product, design, and experiences at an approachable price point.
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WASHINGTON, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and American Jewish Committee (AJC) Project Interchange (PI) are partnering to further enhance Black-Jewish ties across the United States by expanding collaboration between American and Israeli universities.
The highlight of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations is an annual delegation to Israel for presidents and other leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Participants will be selected by TMCF and AJC Project Interchange to foster collaboration between Israeli universities and the 47 institutions of higher learning in the TMCF network. The first cohort of HCBU Presidents and Chancellors will travel to Israel in July.
AJC Project Interchange has hosted many delegations of American college and university chancellors and presidents since 1982. The visits have led to important exchange programs, collaborative research projects and other initiatives mutually beneficial to U.S. and Israeli institutions of higher learning.
"Experiencing Israel's diverse, democratic society first-hand is vitally important to understand the country's achievements and challenges," said AJC Project Interchange Director Nisha Abkarian. "The HCBU Presidents and Chancellors visits will be designed to support capacity building, gain a deeper understanding of Israel's importance to the Jewish community, and to explore the potential for academic and research partnerships with their counterparts in Israel."
"We are excited that our member schools will be able to learn about the incredible research and development initiatives in Israel, especially the agricultural and technology advancements," said Thurgood Marshall College Fund President & CEO Dr. Harry L. Williams, who signed the AJC-TMCF MOU with AJC CEO David Harris. "We look forward to our HBCUs partnering with world-class Israeli institutions, to expand their capacity to prepare HBCU students for future careers."
TMCF has a history of success supporting nearly 300,000 students who attend Historically Black Institutions (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) and creating pathways to economic mobility through degree attainment and lucrative careers. Since its founding in 1987, TMCF has awarded more than $300 million in scholarships for students and boasts a 97% graduation rate for students in its programs.
Project Interchange is an educational institute of American Jewish Committee which brings opinion leaders and policymakers to Israel for intensive, one-week travel study programs. Since its founding in 1982, Project Interchange has connected 6,000 leaders from all walks of life and 120 countries to Israel.
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Technology advancements will play key role across many efforts
OMAHA, Neb., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific today launched its latest Building America Report which includes a broadened approach to its social, environmental and governance (ESG) strategy. The report identifies and prioritizes the company's most important ESG issues and highlights ongoing efforts to support communities through supplier diversity and philanthropic initiatives.
Union Pacific completed its second materiality assessment, a formal survey of internal and external stakeholders to understand the importance of specific ESG topics. The results revealed health, safety and well-being as the most important issues. In response, Union Pacific added "Building Responsible Foundations" as the fifth pillar of its Building a Sustainable Future 2030 strategy. The new pillar encompasses the importance of Health, Safety and Well-being, Business Ethics and Conduct, Cybersecurity and Risk Management.
"This assessment was critical in identifying the ways we should broaden our ESG strategy to reflect evolving stakeholder interests," said Union Pacific Chairman, President and CEO Lance Fritz. "The responses helped us gain a deeper understanding of our impact on the communities we serve and enhance our ESG goals as we navigate the global landscape ahead."
The broadened approach bolstered by the Building Responsible Foundations pillar expands upon Union Pacific's foundation of safety and addresses its most material ESG risks while aligning with its commitment with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.
For example, new technologies like UP Vision, a visual management tool that pulls real-time train information and provides data needed to mitigate risk, play a crucial role in improving safety.
Another example is DigiCrew, which allows train crews to report their work using a digital, real-time process, which means more accurate information for improved decision making. Union Pacific will roll out 12,000 devices to support DigiCrew in 2022.
Union Pacific was the first Class I railroad to launch a formal supplier diversity program and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. In 2021, Union Pacific purchased about $522 million in goods and services from more than 285 diverse suppliers in 37 states. Spending with diverse suppliers grew 23% from 2020 to 2021 and has more than doubled since 2017, from $239 million, underscoring the commitment to growing Union Pacific's influence in its communities alongside its charitable giving programs.
Through its Community Ties Giving Program, Union Pacific made capital investments in thousands of nonprofit organizations, providing grants focused on safety, workforce development and community spaces. Union Pacific also requires all giving partners to have a focus on DE&I initiatives that serve underrepresented individuals. This program is a crucial piece of Union Pacific's ESG strategy, as it helps strengthen communities in which the railroad operates.
"Building Responsible Foundations lays the blueprint for continued progress toward our ESG goals," said Beth Whited, executive vice president – Sustainability and Strategy. "The broader strategy underscores our commitment to important human capital and environmental considerations, and we look forward to working together with our stakeholders to continue our mission."
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Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) delivers the goods families and businesses use every day with safe, reliable and efficient service. Operating in 23 western states, the company connects its customers and communities to the global economy. Trains are the most environmentally responsible way to move freight, helping Union Pacific protect future generations. More information about Union Pacific is available at www.up.com.
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Subsurface Information Modeling (SIM) and 3D Laser Scanning Provides More Accurate Building Information Models (BIM), Increases Safety and Boosts Project Efficiency and Profitability
ORLANDO, Fla., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Engineering Sciences® (UES), a national leading engineering and consulting company, is adding a new service to its breadth of offerings – Virtual Design Consulting – that will increase safety, reduce risk, and help all parties involved in complex construction projects maximize profitability and limit change orders. UES, which was recognized as the fastest growing AEC firm in the U.S. and Canada in 2021, is leveraging sophisticated subsurface information modeling, advanced geophysics, and 3D laser scanning with mixed reality applications to package its Virtual Design Consulting services and help all aspects of a construction project – often before a building is constructed.
3D digital models of building components, project sites, and subsurface utilities help architects, engineers, and contractors – UES' primary clients for Virtual Design Consulting – visualize and manage workflow and team organization and deliver more accurate models and reports of below ground structures at the start of any design-construction project.
"This innovative service will allow BIM to be more robust by providing accurate subsurface information that creates a true total asset model. We're filling a void in the AEC industry by seamlessly combing both subsurface and above ground building information," said UES Director, Virtual Design Consulting James Slusher, P.E. "This service line is a critical addition to UES' diverse set of consulting services that will allow the company to serve even more projects from start to finish across areas of the U.S. that are experiencing tremendous development growth."
Virtual Design Consulting from UES is initially focused on three core areas of expertise: subsurface utility engineering (SUE), subsurface information modeling (SIM), and 3D laser scanning, which integrates SIM and building information modeling (BIM) in a way that has never before been widely offered to the AEC industry.
SIM is the process of creating digital replicas of below-ground structures like utilities, voids, and bedrock that can be surveyed above grade. It is essentially the inverse of BIM, a standard practice in the industry that generates digital representations of a structure's physical characteristics.
By combining SIM with BIM, Universal Engineering Sciences can provide a full-service offering that makes total asset models of above- and below-ground structures more accurately while also integrating geotechnical and structural information. The Virtual Design Consulting team uses techniques that involve advanced geophysics, surveying, laser scanning, and 3D modeling with equipment that far exceed the sophistication of traditional ground-penetrating radar. Some benefits of integrating SIM into the BIM process include:
- Analyzing potential conflicts with above- and below-ground structures
- Creating reliable 3D digital records of underground utilities
- Reducing soft-digging excavations
- Limiting costly shutdowns from utility strikes
- Assessing void and sinkhole locations
- Gathering rock rippability data
- Minimizing change orders and delays
- Lowering construction risk
Universal Engineering Sciences expects Virtual Design Consulting services to help increase site safety and boost a construction project's overall efficiency and profitability.
Universal Engineering Sciences, headquartered in Orlando, is a privately held, rapidly growing engineering and consulting firm with nearly six decades of experience in geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing, building code compliance, threshold inspections and environmental consulting. UES is considered a pioneer of the industry and stands at the forefront of emerging technology, best practices, and influential legislature. Projects include both public and private clients, ranging from transportation and healthcare to commercial and education. UES engineers, geologists, certified inspectors, and scientists offer an unwavering commitment to excellence, approaching each project as an opportunity to cultivate enduring relationships with clients. BDT Capital Partners is the primary investor in the company.
UES has made a commitment to growing through strategic acquisition and organic growth. UES' presence includes locations throughout the high growth markets in the South, Midwest and West, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Metro DC, California, Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
UES was named number one on the Zweig Group Hot Firm List which honors the fastest-growing firms in the architecture, engineering, planning, environmental and construction (AEC) industry. With nearly 3,100 professionals across 67 branches in nearly 20 states nationwide, UES consults on projects of all sizes to help deliver needed infrastructure and build safe and successful communities. For more information, please visit universalengineering.com or follow UES on Social Media.
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Mosley will Keynote Undergraduate Ceremony, Reynolds will give Graduate School Address
WALTHAM, Mass., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valerie Mosley, founder of the financial technology platform Upward Wealth, which democratizes the creation of financial wealth, will deliver the keynote address at Bentley University's 103rd undergraduate commencement ceremony this May.
Robert L. Reynolds, the president and chief executive officer of Putnam Investments, a leading global investment management firm, will address graduate students at the 47th annual commencement ceremony for Bentley's McCallum Graduate School of Business.
Bentley University's undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2022, and will be the university's first on-campus commencement celebrations in three years. More than 1,700 students will receive diplomas and will be joined by their families, friends and members of the university community.
"The Class of 2022 undergraduate and graduate students have traveled a long and winding road to reach commencement," said Bentley President E. LaBrent Chrite. "Despite the unimaginable challenges of the pandemic, they endured and succeeded. I'm so glad we will have the chance to celebrate them as we bring this important tradition back to our campus."
During the respective ceremonies, Mosley and Reynolds will receive honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degrees. Undergraduate students will receive bachelor's degrees from a variety of business and liberal arts programs that prepare them to be successful leaders who are a force for positive change in their communities, organizations and the world. Graduate students will receive advanced degrees that include a Master's in Business Administration, Master's in Business Analytics and Master's in Accounting.
Mosley created Upward Wealth, which operates as BrightUp, to be an emotionally intelligent financial wellness benefit provider. She believes strongly that everyone deserves to be financially healthy. Mosley is an investor and advisor whose career includes 20 years at Wellington Management Company, a $1 trillion global money management firm, where she was a partner, SVP portfolio manager and investment strategist. She also serves on the boards of leading companies including Draft Kings, Groupon and Eaton Vance. Mosley's career and Upward Wealth's mission reflect Bentley's commitment to using business for good.
Reynolds has more than 30 years of investment and financial services experience and is a member of Putnam Investments' executive board of directors. As president and CEO, he is credited with revitalizing Putnam through strong, sustained investment performance, new products designed for today's market challenges, and thought leadership on the future of retirement and workplace savings. In addition to his roles at Putnam, he is chair of Great-West Lifeco U.S. and is regarded as a driving force of innovation and progress in institutional and retail financial services.
Bentley's 2022 commencement will take place on the university's south campus. The undergraduate ceremony will start at 10 a.m. and the graduate ceremony will start at 2:45 p.m. More details can be found on the Bentley University website: http://www.bentley.edu/commencement.
Bentley University is more than just one of the nation's top business schools. It is a lifelong-learning community that creates successful leaders who make business a force for positive change. With a combination of business and the arts and sciences and a flexible, personalized approach to education, Bentley provides students with critical thinking and practical skills that prepare them to lead successful, rewarding careers. Founded in 1917, the university enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate and PhD students and is set on 163 acres in Waltham, Massachusetts, 10 miles west of Boston. For more information, visit bentley.edu.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the New York International Auto Show 2022 (NYIAS 2022) VinFast reveals its battery subscription prices for the VF 8 and VF 9 in the US market, in addition to activating the VinFirst NFT exchange on Opensea and debuting a NYIAS driving experience of the VF 8 key features of its Smart Services suite.
Globally launched at the Los Angeles Auto Show 2021, the VF 8 and VF 9 are expected to be available in the US market in the second half of this year. The VF 8 comes equipped with its two first battery versions that support a range of up to 260 miles and 292 miles on a full charge for the Eco version, 248 miles and 277 miles for the Plus version. The acceleration of 0-60mph is in about 5.8 seconds for the Eco version and 5.3 seconds for the Plus version. The battery versions 1 and 2 of the Eco VF 8 start at $40,700 and $41,000, respectively. The VF 8 Plus has starting price for battery version 1 and version 2 at $47,700 and $48,000, respectively.
The VF 9 will be introduced to the US market with its two first battery versions, which feature a range of up to 272 miles and 369 miles on a full charge for the Eco version, 262 miles and 360 miles for the Plus version. The Eco and Plus VF 9 both accelerate 0-60mph in about 6.3 seconds. The Eco VF 9 has a starting price of USD $55,500 for the battery version 1 and USD $56,000 for the battery version 2. Similarly, the battery versions 1 and 2 of the Plus VF 9 are priced at USD $60,500 and USD $61,000, respectively. Battery version 1 will be available in the US market in 2022, with version 2 following in 2023.
In addition to the products and pricing information, VinFast is officially revealing its battery subscription policy in the US market. Accordingly, VinFast will offer customers two subscription plans, which are the Flexible and Fixed packages. The Flexible Plan is designed for customers who travel infrequently, with a monthly battery subscription fee of USD $35 for VF 8 and USD $44 for VF 9. This is a monthly fee for 310 miles of travel. From the 311st mile, the battery subscription fee per mile is about USD $0.11 for VF 8 and USD $0.15 for VF 9.
Rates for the monthly fixed subscription, which allows unlimited range, are $110 for the VF 8 and $160.00 for the VF 9. Customers who make a reservation and deposit for the VF 8 and VF 9 in 2022 with the Fixed subscription plan will be offered the same lifetime subscription fee. This policy is also automatically transferred to the new owner after the vehicle is sold.
By separating the price of the battery from the acquisition value of the automobile, VinFast takes on all the risks related to the vehicle's battery and ensures a reasonable price for its products, while providing customers with peace of mind about the battery's quality during use. VinFast also commits to provide a lifetime battery warranty covering all maintenance and repair costs, and will replace the battery for free when charging capacity dips below 70%. The battery subscription policy is considered a key solution for customers to make a transition to electric vehicles easier, allowing VinFast to become "the car for everyone".
VinFast plans to support customers with a 100% battery subscription policy until the end of 2023. After that, VinFast will adjust the proportion so that 50% of the battery is for rent and 50% is for sale when purchasing cars.
VinFast has collaborated with a number of leading EV charging companies in the US, and will have a roadmap to announce these partners so that customers may rest assured when purchasing VinFast's EVs.
Within NYIAS 2022, VinFast activates its VinFirst NFT exchange on OpenSea, based on Polygon Platform. VinFast was the world's first EV brand to apply Blockchain technology for its VF 8 and VF 9 global reservation program since it began in January, 2022. After successfully making a deposit for a reservation, customers will receive a non-fungible token (NFT) on Blockchain - VinFirst NFT. From April, 2022, customers who made a deposit can enjoy their VinFirst NFT exchange on OpenSea, one of the world's largest NFT exchanges, bringing convenient trading experiences and many attractive offers to VinFast customers.
Additionally, VinFast also introduces its 3D Animation NFT collection in collaboration with House of Kibaa, one of the world's first Metaverse companies. The collection owns a future technology design language and vivid visual effects, which is expected to amaze VinFirst customers and NFT collectors with incredible experiences when owning these NFTs.
Emmanuel Bret, VinFast's Global Deputy CEO of Sales & Marketing, shared: "Affirming the pioneering position in technology application and always putting our customers first, VinFast constantly studies and cooperates with industry partners to offer excellent experiences. In addition to advanced technologies and premium quality, we also focus on providing unique policies that bring real value and attractive offers to customers globally, encouraging them to come together in the electrified revolution for a more sustainable future."
At NYIAS 2022, VinFast is offering ride alongs in the VF 8 model to American customers for the first time, allowing them to experience the Smart Services suite's key features. This suite is a series of smart features designed to offer seamless home, work, and entertainment connectivity, thus turning VinFast EVs into ideal companions for all journeys.
NYIAS is an important milestone in VinFast's journey toward the Future of Mobility. Just five months after the launch of its concept cars, the company has revealed its first real and drivable vehicles in the US. with a complete ecosystem of technologies and services designed for customers' comfortable, seamless, relaxing, and safe experiences. Such moves demonstrate VinFast's speed, determination and commitment to boldly promoting the global electric vehicle revolution.
Customers interested in VinFast can experience products and learn more about the brand at booth #601 at the New York International Auto Show 2022. The exhibition will open for the public from April 15-24 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Level 3. The VF 8 ride along program will be held at the EV test track on Level 1, also at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
About VinFast
VinFast - a member of Vingroup – envisioned to drive the movement of global smart electric vehicle revolution. Established in 2017, VinFast owns a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing complex with globally leading scalability that boasts up to 90% automation in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Strongly committed to the mission for a sustainable future for everyone, VinFast constantly innovates to bring high-quality products, advanced smart services, seamless customer experiences, and pricing strategy for all to inspire global customers to jointly create a future of smart mobility and a sustainable planet. Learn more at: https://vinfastauto.com.
About Vingroup
Established in 1993, Vingroup is one of the leading private conglomerates in the region, with a total capitalization of $35 billion USD from three publicly traded companies (as of November 4, 2021). Vingroup currently focuses on three main areas: Technology and Industry, Services and Social Enterprise. Find out more at: https://www.vingroup.net/en.
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At New York International Auto Show (NYIAS 2022), VinFast and Electrify America – the largest open ultra-fast charging network in the U.S. – announced an agreement to provide owners of VinFast electric vehicles with two complimentary charging sessions along with access to Electrify America's coast-to-coast network in the VinFast mobile app. This cooperation further affirms VinFast's determination to enter the US market, providing a smart driving experience for all customers.
VinFast's Plug & Charge enabled VF 8 and VF 9 models will allow owners to utilize the feature on Electrify America's network of ultra-fast charging stations across the U.S. Delivering a convenient and seamless charging experience, Plug & Charge is an innovative technology that allows drivers of capable vehicles to pay for a charging session by simply plugging in their EV once billing information is set up on the VinFast app.
Shortly after the announcement of the construction of an EV factory in the US, VinFast continues its mission toward zero-emission vehicles with a collaboration with Electrify America – one of the leading fast-charging companies in the US. Electrify America has 800 EV charging stations and about 3,500 individual chargers open or with construction completed. Combined with Electrify America's ultra-fast charging technology – including 150kW and 350kW chargers, the fastest speeds available today – VinFast owners can feel confident taking their vehicles on long road trips and daily driving needs.
"As more electric vehicle options become available to consumers, it's important to have easy access to fast and convenient charging while on the road," said Rob Barrosa, Senior Director of Sales, Business development & Marketing, Electrify America. "Our collaboration with VinFast is offering a seamless integration within the VinFast app making ultra-fast charging with Electrify America even easier."
Having recently unveiled its design vision for the charging station of the future, Electrify America is looking to improve the charging experience with a next-generation charger and customer-focused features like solar canopies and awnings, customer waiting areas and other services at select locations. The company also received the "Best-in-Test" award for two consecutive years in the categories of Best Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (2020) and Best Digital Platform (2021).
"Through our premium, smart, and environmentally-friendly vehicles, our goal is to reduce range and charging anxiety and help the world switch to cleaner, more sustainable transportation," said Craig Westbrook – Chief Service Officer of VinFast US. "We're excited to work with Electrify America on this shared goal of future electric mobility."
On March 29, VinFast and the state of North Carolina signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of the plant with an investment of up to $2 billion in Phase I at the selected mega site in Chatham County, North Carolina. VinFast's strategic investment directly into the U.S. market demonstrates the seriousness and commitment of this extraordinary Vietnamese electric car company. VinFast especially expanded cooperation with partners with the same mission for a green future, contributing to promoting the transition to electric vehicles, bringing peace of mind in all journeys for customers.
About Electrify America
Electrify America LLC, the largest open DC fast charging network in the U.S., is investing $2 billion over 10 years in Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure, education and access. The investment will enable millions of Americans to discover the benefits of electric driving and support the build-out of a nationwide network of workplace, community and highway chargers that are convenient and reliable. Electrify America expects to have more than 1,800 total charging stations with over 10,000 chargers in the United States and Canada by 2026. During this period, the company will be expanding to 49 states and the District of Columbia, delivering on its commitment to support increased ZEV adoption with a network that is comprehensive, technologically advanced and customer friendly
Electrify America earned the 2020 and "2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Best-in-Test" award from umlaut, an infrastructure and benchmarking specialist, now part of Accenture, as published in Charged Electric Vehicles Magazine. Electrify America's Electrify Home® offers home charging solutions for consumers with flexible installation options. Electrify Commercial® provides expert solutions for businesses looking to develop electric vehicle charging programs. For more information, visit www.electrifyamerica.com and media.electrifyamerica.com.
About VinFast
VinFast - a member of Vingroup – envisioned to drive the movement of global smart electric vehicle revolution. Established in 2017, VinFast owns a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing complex with globally leading scalability that boasts up to 90% automation in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Strongly committed to the mission for a sustainable future for everyone, VinFast constantly innovates to bring high-quality products, advanced smart services, seamless customer experiences, and pricing strategy for all to inspire global customers to jointly create a future of smart mobility and a sustainable planet. Learn more at: https://vinfastauto.com.
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Project is the latest addition to the company's growing portfolio of zero-carbon power generation facilities
IRVING, Texas, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) today announced that its Brightside Solar Facility in Live Oak County, Texas, is online and generating electricity. The 50-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) project is part of the company's growing portfolio of zero-carbon power generation assets, known as Vistra Zero.
Brightside Solar Facility is the first of seven new renewable and energy storage projects that the company is bringing online across Texas over the next few years. The Texas-sized package of zero-carbon projects, all located within the ERCOT market, are part of a near $1 billion capital investment by Vistra first announced in September 2020.
"With Brightside and additional Vistra Zero projects poised to come online across Texas, our vision of transitioning our fleet to cleaner electric generation is becoming a reality," said Curt Morgan, CEO of Vistra. "As Texas continues its rapid rate of economic and population growth, Vistra is investing in the grid of the future while serving the needs of its customers who are increasingly seeking green alternatives. We're proud of our long history of powering Texas and look forward to continuing to strengthen the ERCOT grid with additional power to help build the sustainable future all Texans deserve."
Also expected online in spring 2022:
- DeCordova Energy Storage Facility, Hood County, TX – 260 MW/260 MW-hours
- Emerald Grove Solar Facility, Crane County, TX – 108 MW
Situated on 430 acres in Live Oak County, Brightside is comprised of 147,732 photovoltaic solar panels that can generate enough electricity to power approximately 25,000 average residences in the ERCOT market during normal grid conditions. Initial project construction began in January 2021. Brightside harnesses power from the sun, providing affordable, emission-free electricity while bolstering the reliability of the Texas electric grid.
Morgan continued, "With unmatched development, commercial, and operational teams, requisite capabilities, and access to capital, we are proud to be playing a leading role during this great energy transition. For 140 years, Vistra and its predecessor companies have generated affordable and reliable electricity. We take seriously our responsibly of providing an essential product, while balancing our commitment to the environment and the communities where we work and live. The way we produced power in 1882 looks very different now – but our commitment to our fellow Texans remains the same."
Brightside Solar Facility utilizes solar panel technology from First Solar; Burns & McDonnell provided engineering and construction expertise.
Vistra plans to grow its zero-carbon fleet to more than 7,300 MW by 2026. For more information on Vistra Zero, click here.
Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 275 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada and Japan, as well. Serving nearly 4.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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KATY, Texas, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Representing 35 countries, rice farmers, millers, researchers and other allied industry members will meet in Cancun, Mexico for the Rice Market & Technology Convention, May 31 through June 2, 2022. The conference will take place at the Hilton Cancun, a recently opened all-inclusive resort located on the beautiful Maya Riviera.
The conference has seen a large early registration from companies not only from throughout the Western Hemisphere, but also from other corners of the rice world marketplace. Marcela Garcia, President & CEO of the US Rice Producers Association, cited the market conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and current world events as key incentives driving the interest in this year's event.
"The list of companies already registered at this time is extremely impressive and includes numerous major and well-known businesses," Garcia said. "It is obvious the rice trade wants to connect and network about the on-going market situations."
A special seminar titled "Follow the Money – Closing the Rice Milling Profitability Circle", sponsored by Superbrix and Applied Milling Systems and featuring the highly regarded milling engineer Norris Bond, will take place on May 31, just prior to the conference opening reception.
The conference features an array of talented speakers on a variety of subjects, beginning with popular economist Dennis DeLaughter who will set the tone for the conference in his presentation titled, "The Law of Unintended Consequences: Embracing Change." Other speakers will address sustainability and retail markets, rice grain quality, Central American market developments, and the impacts of higher agricultural input values and competitive pricing on the rice sector, among other topics.
Visit www.ricemtconvention.com to learn more and register for the event. Use the promotion code SAVE50 to save $50 on delegate registration.
The US Rice Producers Association, representing rice producers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas, is the only national rice producers' organization comprised by producers, elected by producers and representing producers in all six rice-producing states.
CONTACT: Mollie Buckler
(573) 380-7936
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NC Firm, Destination by Design, Partners with Counties to Attract New Residents
BOONE, N.C., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Destination by Design (DbD) is an economic development firm working with McDowell County, NC to develop strategies and new infrastructure designed to take advantage of the cultural shift to Live Anywhere, Work Everywhere. Western North Carolina (WNC) communities are actively working to attract residents from across the country who are no longer tethered to employment hubs – updating out-of-use or rundown assets, including old railways and empty warehouses, for community use into greenways, trail systems and multi-purpose spaces.
According to an Upwork survey, 48% of companies plan to go fully remote or engage in hybrid workforce strategies within five years, creating 40.7 million remote workers. The pandemic has also helped spur the trend of working with remote freelancers. According to a recent NYT article, many of these newly-remote workers are choosing to relocate, creating an uncertain economic future for many large cities reliant on full office buildings and commuters.
However, this growing move towards a mobile workforce is reinvigorating small communities, as U.S. residents seek out a higher quality of life, including increased access to outdoor recreation, quaint yet vibrant downtowns and walkable communities. "The quality-of-life movement has finally hit critical mass, which is great news for rural communities in North Carolina," said Eric Woolridge, Director of Planning at DbD. "We're proud to help places like McDowell County build on their community assets and promote their small-town lifestyle."
Destination by Design is also supporting Wilkes County via the Wilkes Outdoor Action Plan, Watauga County via Imagine Watauga and Rutherford County via (Rutherford Bound) counties as these WNC communities plan, design and promote their historic downtowns and develop new destination-quality parks, trails and recreation areas. The areas already boast historic main streets, temperate climates and beautiful surroundings. Many WNC residents live near public lands, providing easy access to national and state parks.
"This is a pivotal moment between the decline of manufacturing in rural NC and the rise of telecommuting nationwide. These communities realize they have a chance to rethink their identity, take stock of what they have, and capitalize on this trend," said Matt Powell, Place Branding Director at DbD.
For more information, visit www.DbDplanning.com
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FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022
DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
ACCEPTING GRANDMA IRKED BY INTOLERANCE OF OTHERS
DEAR ABBY: My adult granddaughter, "Kaia," is in a relationship with "Jenny." Jenny's stepmom doesn't believe in gay marriage or homosexuality. I'm having a hard time dealing with the fact that Jenny's family doesn't accept Kaia or allow her in their home. Kaia is excluded from all holidays and family functions.
I don't know what to do or say to her about this. They are getting married in two months, and Jenny's family is still shunning her. How do I deal with these "holy rollers" who use the church as a reason to hate my granddaughter? I don't want to die knowing she'll have a miserable life ahead of her. Please help me. -- SUPPORTIVE IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR SUPPORTIVE: If Jenny's family are truly good Christians, they may not dislike your granddaughter. They may be following a misguided directive to love the "sinner" but hate the "sin."
I cannot advise strongly enough that Kaia and Jenny discuss the ramifications of that family's stance BEFORE they marry. I am surprised Jenny would attend family gatherings from which Kaia is excluded. If this continues after the marriage, it could damage their relationship. A counselor at the nearest LGBTQ center would be helpful in facilitating this discussion.
Be as supportive to your granddaughter and Jenny as you can so they know you're always in their corner. Encourage them to cultivate their own "chosen family" as they move into their future.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband, "Jonah," comes from a large family. They are rude people who live in a small, rural town, and they don't like outsiders. Jonah and I have been together 15 years (married for eight), and I have never been invited to his mother's home or some of his siblings' homes.
We love to entertain, so they attend our holiday parties, where they literally walk in without greeting me. They eat all our food and leave without saying goodbye or even helping with the cleanup. It's "pack behavior." They do this all together.
I have reached the point that I no longer want to host these events. I feel uncomfortable in my own home. Jonah and I have started cutting back on the number of parties we host, and now they are making rude comments about it. My husband acknowledges that they're a bunch of miserable, rude people, but that doesn't help the situation.
I don't want anything to do with them, and I don't want to be forced to keep inviting a bunch of ungrateful individuals who don't have even the common courtesy to speak to me. How can I make Jonah understand how I feel? Please help. -- ANNOYED IN NEW JERSEY
DEAR ANNOYED: If you have expressed to your husband what you have written in your letter, he DOES understand, but doesn't want to acknowledge it. The way his family has treated you is deplorable. If you don't wish to entertain them, let your husband buy and prepare the food and do the cleanup with no help from them afterward, while you go and do something alone or with people whose company you enjoy. He can also visit his relatives without you if he wishes.
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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BYLINE: By Keith Roach, M.D.
TITLE: After prostate cancer treatment, prognosis remains good
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 68 and have prostate cancer. I had PSAs, an MRI and a biopsy. My Gleason score was a high 7. No genetic testing as I can recall. My urologist said I had "upper moderate" cancer and that I could remove my prostate or do radiation therapy. I underwent three months of radiation treatment from September to November 2020. I've done three PSA tests since the radiation. All have been very low and, per my doc, good.
I don't specifically recall my doctor making any reference to my having a rather slow cancer or more aggressive cancer. How can I determine this for my situation? -- T.P.
ANSWER: There are factors that can help predict whether a prostate cancer will be aggressive. The most useful of these are the size of the tumor (and whether any lymph nodes are involved); the PSA level and Gleason score; and the molecular characteristics of the tumor. The last comes from DNA testing of the tumor. Since I don't know the size and you didn't have any molecular tests, the best information I can give is that you have a Gleason score of 7 and apparently no positive lymph nodes or distant disease. This would put you, as your urologist said, into an intermediate risk group. Without having the details from the pathology report, I can only give a rough estimate, but the best guess is that between 65% and 83% of men like you would continue to be free from prostate cancer five years after diagnosis.
However, there are some additional good findings since your treatment, especially that your PSA levels are staying low. Only after years can we know for sure about the aggressiveness of your cancer, but from what you are telling me, your prognosis is pretty good. Your urologist has all the information to give you the best estimate, and should give you more information if you tell them you want it.
DEAR DR. ROACH: Are vibrating machines safe? Only after buying a used one did I go online to find out more about them. I read they can cause brain damage and neurological damage, possibly permanent. My machine now sits in the garage while I learn what its fate should be. If it is dangerous, it should be destroyed, not passed on to another unwitting buyer. -- T.H.
ANSWER: The theory of whole-body vibration machines makes some sense -- your body attempts to stabilize you against the vibration, making muscles stronger with less perceived effort. Understanding the science on them, however, takes some judgment.
There are studies that show increased strength among users (compared with before using) and improved weight loss (in conjunction with dietary changes). In the studies I read, I did not find reports of significant adverse effects. The follow-up duration in these studies is short enough that there may indeed by adverse effects that could become apparent only after prolonged use.
Some of these devices do exceed recommended levels for occupational exposure, even after one minute. I found expert opinion that there may be neurological damage from whole-body vibration, but no hard evidence to back this up.
Based on the large body of evidence on the beneficial effects of traditional exercise and the relatively short duration of examining the effects of a whole-body vibration device, I would still recommend regular exercise over the device. However, I did not find much evidence of harm from these devices.
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Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu or send mail to 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.
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Several Itawamba Community College students will be inducted into Sigma Kappa Delta during a ceremony, Apr. 25, at 5:30 p.m. in the banquet rooms of the David C. Cole Student Services Building on the Fulton Campus.
They include Jonathan Schrock, Connor Monaghan, both of Aberdeen; Zachary Wilbanks, Kylie Byars, Ariana Jones, Sarah Webb, Leah Hood, Chance Herring, Anthony Cantrell, all of Amory; Olivia Letson, Harleigh Roberts, both of Baldwyn; Jarrius Casey ofBatesville; Josiah Sowell of Belden; Christina Hernandez of Blue Mountain; McKenzie Patterson, Kadina Pollard, both of Corinth; Skylar Stokes of Ecru; Bri’Ana Davidson of Eupora; Macy Walton, Genise Dabbs, Ashlyn Holcomb, Andrea Montgomery, Ava Armstrong, Reagan O’Neal, Olivia Tutor, Ashton Bryan, Megan Leech, Emma Logan, Quinn Bennett, all of Fulton; James Clark, Stephanie Crandell, Kella O’Brian, all of Golden; Austin Guin of Greenwood Springs; Kennedy Cates, Laney Billingsley, both of Guntown; Kirsty MacGregor of Yorkshire, England; Jaden Cousin of Houlka; Makenzie Brooks of Houston; Ella Pitts, Olivia Johnson, Anna Boggs, Lauren Boggs, Rachel Carter, all of Mantachie; Seth Guin of Marietta; August Hankins, Teraney Lansdell, both of Mooreville; Jennifer Speck of Myrtle; Emily Weeks, Dakota Payne, Anna Smith, Niesha Hodges, Kyra King, all of Nettleton; Kimberly Graham, Kaitlin Horne, Alexis Kent, all of New Albany; Makayla Hodges of Okolona; Nadia Gillespie of Olive Branch; Maria Jones of Oxford; Reagan Scott ofPlantersville; Gaia del Sordo of Pontirolo Nuovo, Italy; Macey Thomas, Kaitlin Stegall, Andrea Hurd, Keyaddah Gibson, all ofPontotoc; Summer Haley of Randolph; Ansley Tate of Russellville, Ala.; Samantha Wells, Meghan Aubuchon, McKenzie Bailey, James Counce, Emily Page, all of Saltillo; Marietta Guthery of Smithville; Marayna James of Southaven; Ireland Tilley of Starkville; Ella Nichols of Thaxton; Ashley Brown, Macy Sumner, both of Tremont; Cherish Judon, Danelly Blanco-Hernandez, Richard Stone, Serenity Jones, Athen Walton, Shakala Kyles, Brieanna Putt, Grace Beaty, Katherine Pilgrim, Annslee Basham, Rebekah Buzzell, Taniya Patterson, all of Tupelo; Nestor Ortega of Verona; and Kiley Smith of Woodland.
Winners of ICC’s Creative Writing Competition and the Poetry Slam will be recognized during the ceremony. They include Poetry Slam – Tyler Bouldin of Tupelo, first; Connor Monaghan of Aberdeen, second; and Creative Writing Competition – Connor Monaghan ofAberdeen; Jack May of Amory; Shelby Tutor of Ecru; Brandon Harris of Fulton; Brody Johnson of Guntown; Emory Reinhard of Mantachie; Ally Melendez, Chloe Evans, Lana Dozier, all of Plantersville; Anna Gregory of Pontotoc; Nathan Matthews of Richland; Hannah McGill of Saltillo; and Aliyah Birmingham and Emily Cochran, both of Tupelo.
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There will be an egg hunt at the Ecru park April 16, 10 a.m. - 12 noon. The hunts will be divided into three different age groups and is for children up to sixth grade. There will be games and fun for all ages.
Usher Valley UM youth revival set
Usher Valley United Methodist Church will have a spring Youth Revival beginning tonight, April 13 through Friday, April 15, 7 p.m. Speakers include: Wednesday night Bro. Tyler Stallings, Thursday night Bro. Tremaine Frison and Friday night Elder Candice Frison.
Coming soon! 4H Cookbook!
The 4-H cookbook is finally ready to print. This is a fundraiser for those who will be attending Club Congress, June 1-3. The books will sell for $10.00. There are 105 recipes in the cookbook. Many of them have coordinating videos on the Pontotoc 4H Facebook page, some recipes are favorites from 4H Kids in the Kitchen classes, and there are some from past and current MHV members.
MHV flea market set
The Pontotoc MHV council will be holding their annual flea market on Saturday, May 7, beginning at 7:00 a.m. on the Court Square. Interested vendors may register with the Extension Office at (662) 489-3911.
Algoma Easter parade set
The town of Algoma will put on their easter parade this Saturday, April 16 beginning at 10 a.m. at the park/walking track with the egg hunt to follow. Please join us for this special day.
Buchanan Baptist Church clothes closet date
Anyone in the community who might need clothing for any reason can go to the Baptist Association in Pontotoc and pick up a clothing voucher and go by the Bucanan Baptist Church on the fourth Saturday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and bring the voucher with you. This month that is April 23. The church will be available every fourth Saturday for this ministry.
Children’s play auditions set
Auditions for the children's play, New Clothes for the Emperor, continue this Thursday April 14 @ 6:00 p.m. at The Main. There are 9 roles to fill - 4 males, 3 females & 2 that can be either plus extras. We are looking for actors between the ages of 7 - 18. Please spread the word! Thank you for your support.
Thunderstorms with locally heavy downpours. High 82F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
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STARKVILLE • He comes in all shapes in sizes and has pitched the greatest of games while tossing just as many awful starts.
He threw five innings and allowed just one run in a Saturday start for Ole Miss at Kentucky two weeks ago and came back out Sunday for 4 1/3 scoreless innings.
His reach stems outside the state of Mississippi, too. He made an appearance in Vanderbilt’s late-March series at South Carolina and allowed two runs in 3 1/3 innings. He's even taking the mound for the Chicago Cubs this weekend against the Colorado Rockies.
With a crucial series looming against No. 17 Auburn (23-10, 7-5 SEC), he is finally taking the mound for Mississippi State (19-15, 4-8 SEC) as Chris Lemonis looks to find a rotation with Parker Stinnett moving out.
“TBA is (starting),” Lemonis said. “He throws a lot of strikes. I don’t know where he’s throwing or what day he’s throwing, but he’s good when he competes. We’ll figure it out. I don’t know how we’ll do the third game, but we’re probably gonna put Parker in the bullpen.”
In a season where offense was expected to carry the load in the SEC, coaches have often been left in a bind to find second or third weekend starters. Lemonis lost his top guy with Landon Sims out for the season, but fortunately Preston Johnson delivered a convincing Friday start against LSU last week to remain in the rotation.
Johnson likely takes the bump on shorter rest with the series beginning Thursday due to Easter. Despite a shaky outing Sunday, Cade Smith is expected to stay in the rotation.
Then, TBA comes into play.
The clubhouse leader to fill the spot is Brandon Smith. In Stinnett’s poor start against the Tigers, he nearly salvaged a win for the Bulldogs.
Stinnett recorded just two outs and allowed three runs, so Brandon Smith was brought in. It was a move Lemonis and his staff planned ahead of time if Stinnett struggled after he allowed four runs in 1 2-3 innings at Arkansas the week prior.
“I just wasn’t going down that trail we went down last week,” Lemonis said. “When he started to come off the tracks, we couldn’t put our team through that again.”
Brandon Smith allowed just one run in six relief innings — the longest outing of his career. The Richland, Mississippi, native strung together a pair of successful midweek starts before facing the Tigers, but he made clear that wasn’t his preferred role.
Returning as a senior, Brandon Smith said he expected to be more than a midweek starter following a win against UT Martin last week. Four days later, he was the first guy out of the bullpen in a crucial SEC game.
Lemonis didn’t commit to Brandon Smith as a starter following his outing against LSU or after MSU’s midweek win Tuesday against Alabama-Birmingham. He hinted toward the potential of starting an opener and relying on the bullpen to carry the load — especially with KC Hunt, an opening weekend starter, finding his groove in relief.
What TBA provides for Mississippi State is to be determined, but the magnitude of his start is clear as the Bulldogs look to dig themselves out of the bottom of the SEC standings. | https://www.djournal.com/sports/college/mississippi-state/he-throws-a-lot-of-strikes-what-lemonis-mississippi-state-hope-to-get-from-tba/article_852f467a-fb30-5ef6-a847-16d20b1893c5.html | 2022-04-13T20:19:57 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/sports/college/mississippi-state/he-throws-a-lot-of-strikes-what-lemonis-mississippi-state-hope-to-get-from-tba/article_852f467a-fb30-5ef6-a847-16d20b1893c5.html |
Ariel Smith, the host of The Food Truck Scholar podcast and the author of “Before You Launch Your Food Truck,” is working on another project to help entrepreneurs navigate the mobile food business.
Over the next two months, Smith will be one of the moderators of the Food & Business Summit 2022, a two-day entrepreneurship conference touring six cities across the United States: Las Vegas, Nevada; Norfolk, Va.; Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Ga,: Indianapolis, Ind.; and Los Angeles, Ca.
The summit is the brainchild of Lee Andrew Smith II, the founder of WFE Consulting, a Los Angeles-based firm focused on helping small business owners launch culinary projects such as restaurants, catering businesses, and food trucks. The consulting firm also provides public relations and booking management services for food trucks. Smith’s ventures into the mobile food world catapulted after helping the founders of the taco stand All Flavor, No Grease expand with a fleet of food trucks and garner national attention.
The Food & Business Summit, which kicked off in Las Vegas in late March, features seminars, interactive sessions, and a lineup of guest speakers, including the owners of Wut-A-Pickle, Billionaire Burger Boyz, and All Flavor, No Grease.
Smith moderated a question and answer session with the guest speakers in Norfolk and Houston. She will also moderate a panel in Indianapolis.
The Food and Business Summit will be in Atlanta from April 18 to 19, Indianapolis from April 25 to 26, and Los Angeles on May 2. Tickets, which range from $50 to $200 are available via Eventbrite.
Interested patrons can use the code FTS22 for a 10 percent discount on general admission and VIP tickets.
Smith, who is currently completing the final year of her Ph.D. program in American Studies at Purdue University in Indiana, says Lee Andrew Smith II approached her with the idea of moderating the summit in late January.
Lee Smith’s mission, she says, was to host a series of traveling information sessions for business owners to talk about the “tools to be successful” and create an ecosystem of community and consulting in different cities, similar to the connections he created in the Los Angeles area.
Ariel Smith says moderating the summit feels like a full-circle moment.
“I have a poster of Black-owned food trucks,” said Smith, who is a Birmingham native. “To start my research with that poster and to end the last year of my Ph.D program talking to the people that I studied is a very sentimental moment.”
This month, in addition to moderating the panel, Smith has also partnered with Birmingham’s Naughty But Nice Kettle Corn to give out four free copies of “Before You Launch Your Food Truck.” | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/alabama-food-truck-scholar-to-moderate-food-and-business-summit/article_42380e5e-bb56-11ec-9d3a-27a6364279b7.html | 2022-04-13T20:20:37 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/alabama-food-truck-scholar-to-moderate-food-and-business-summit/article_42380e5e-bb56-11ec-9d3a-27a6364279b7.html |
Honda has announced its plans to invest $40 billion in electric vehicles over the next 10 years as it rolls out 30 electric vehicle models globally by 2030.
In a press event in Japan, on Monday, the automaker announced its renewed focus on electric vehicles which will see the company have a 2 million unit production volume of EVs by 2030. The news comes after Honda’s previous commitments to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2040 and become carbon neutral by 2050.
To help with this, the company has announced plans to build a dedicated electric vehicle production line in North America. John Long, with Honda’s Alabama Auto Plant, said the company is not yet ready to say where.
“Honda is planning for a dedicated EV production line in North America, however we are not ready to share any details at this moment,” he said. “Please be patient as we finalize the product plan and production location, and we will share information as soon as it is available.”
The automaker has announced that along with electrification, it will also begin focusing on hydrogen-based fuel solutions and swappable batteries.
As it moves towards electrification, Honda detailed plans for battery procurement around the world. In North America the company will acquire Ultium batteries from General Motors as part of a previously announced partnership. The company said it is also separately exploring the possibility of creating a joint venture company for battery production.
As part of its EV build out, Honda has announced it will introduce two mid-to-large-size EV models currently being developed jointly with GM in 2024. This includes the all-new Honda Prologue SUV and an Acura EV SUV model.
Later in the decade, Honda plans to further accelerate its plans. In 2026, Honda will begin adopting Honda e: Architecture, an EV platform that combines the hardware platform and software platform. The automaker is also planning, through its alliance with GM, to introduce affordable EVs in 2027, with a cost and range that will be as competitive as gasoline-powered vehicles, starting from North America.
As part of all of its efforts, Honda said it also wants to work towards offering not just individual products but an interconnected platform that bridges hardware products with software offerings throughout its line of products. To help fund this goal, Honda has pledged to use $63.7 billion in research and development funds over the next ten years. | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/business/honda-to-build-new-north-american-production-line-following-shift-to-electric-vehicles/article_fafbeef2-baa6-11ec-bf15-67ea5fe06311.html | 2022-04-13T20:20:43 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/business/honda-to-build-new-north-american-production-line-following-shift-to-electric-vehicles/article_fafbeef2-baa6-11ec-bf15-67ea5fe06311.html |
A former Chambers County deputy district attorney was sentenced to a year in the county jail for stealing more than $300,000 from minors whom he was appointed conservator, Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Tuesday.
Roland Sledge, 68, pleaded guilty in February to first-degree theft of property in connection with the raiding the accounts of three juveniles whom he was appointed conservator.
Instead of using the money to help the victims, Sledge depleted all $302,416.36 from the accounts, Marshall said.
“Roland Sledge took advantage of those entrusted in his care and misused his legal authority as an attorney,” the attorney general said in a statement. “My office will continue to hold those accountable, including attorneys, who abuse their legal powers and choose involvement in criminal activity.”
The former Chambers County prosecutor was charged in three separate indictments in 2017 and 2020 with withdrawing funds from the bank accounts of three juveniles.
Sledge was appointed conservator while he was a private attorney and continued after he was hired by the Chamber County District Attorney’s Office.
Chambers County Circuit Court Judge Brooke Reid sentenced Sledge to one year in jail and then 34 months of probation after he is released from jail.
Reid also ordered Sledge to pay back the victims $302,416.36 in restitution. | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ex-chambers-county-prosecutor-gets-1-year-jail-sentence-for-stealing-300k-from-minors/article_3c022b9c-bb55-11ec-a5d7-5fd90eefd598.html | 2022-04-13T20:20:49 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ex-chambers-county-prosecutor-gets-1-year-jail-sentence-for-stealing-300k-from-minors/article_3c022b9c-bb55-11ec-a5d7-5fd90eefd598.html |
Gov. Kay Ivey announced the signing of three bills Tuesday, including one that will require people to contact three employers every week to receive unemployment compensation, the governor’s office announced.
State law already required people who apply for unemployment to maintain a “reasonable and active effort” to find work. The bill by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, and Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, further defines that as “systematic and sustained efforts to find work, including contacting at least three prospective employers for each week of unemployment claimed.” The Legislature passed it last week.
Garrett said on the House floor last week that the requirement has been one contact per week. He said that is not in the law but was a rule of the Alabama Department of Labor, which administers unemployment.
Under the new law, the Department of Labor will conduct random reviews of at least 5 percent of the work search claims.
Ivey noted that Alabama’s unemployment rate of 3 percent is the lowest in the Southeast.
“However, we want to do everything possible to continue supporting our businesses,” Ivey said in a press release. “I signed Senate Bill 224 to ensure we are helping those that truly need unemployment assistance while also making sure we hold everyone accountable in their efforts to seek work when there are numerous job openings available.”
Some Democratic lawmakers opposed the bill, saying it would be a hindrance for people already struggling, including those in rural areas where job opportunities are not as readily available.
In Alabama, residents can draw up to $275 a week in unemployment compensation for up to 14 weeks. Those who enter a qualified training program can qualify for an additional five weeks.
Ivey signed a bill by Sen. Dan Roberts, R-Mountain Brook, that will allow the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners and the Medical Licensure Commission to draft rules for telemedicine care, the governor’s office said.
“Over the last few years, the need to expand telehealth and telemedicine in our state has grown tremendously; therefore, I am proud to sign Senate Bill 272, the first piece of legislation to regulate digital access to health care for Alabamians,” Ivey said. “SB 272 will further our efforts to give Alabamians more options as they seek quality medical care across the state. Being from rural Alabama, I know this legislation can have a major impact in rural citizens getting the care they need instead of putting it off.”
The third bill Ivey signed will exempt homeless students from paying fees to get or replace a driver’s driver license fees. Those fees are $36.25, to obtain a license, $15 for a duplicate license, and $5 for a license examination.
Students could receive the exemption if their homeless status is documented by the liaison for homeless youth in their school system.
“I have signed House Bill 385 to remove a barrier to give our homeless youth the opportunity to obtain needed identification for employment purposes,” Ivey said. “We want to make it easier for these youth to be able to make an income when they are at their lowest and working to get out of tough situations.” | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ivey-signs-bill-setting-new-requirement-for-unemployment-compensation/article_989e3694-bb54-11ec-8e14-4361d316cba8.html | 2022-04-13T20:20:56 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ivey-signs-bill-setting-new-requirement-for-unemployment-compensation/article_989e3694-bb54-11ec-8e14-4361d316cba8.html |
Gov. Kay Ivey said Tuesday that the state “is here to do business, not politics” when asked about a potential economic fallout from controversial legislation approved last week over gender identity issues involving children.
But is any economic fallout coming? The state’s lone LGBTQ legislator says it’s been “radio silence” from the business community since last week’s passage of legislation that critics have blasted “cruel” and “hateful” toward a minority segment of Alabama.
“We’re doing business in Alabama and are trying to take care of our people and helping our young people find a strong, healthy pathway to a firm positive adulthood,” Ivey said during a stop in Mobile County in which she touted Alabama’s business climate as among the most positive in the U.S.
She said her signing of two bills on Friday was “just the right thing to do” to “protect young people.”
The bills included:
— SB184, which makes it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison to anyone who provides puberty-blocking medications, hormones or surgeries to transgender minors that helps them affirm their gender identity.
— HB322, prohibits transgender students in public schools from using bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. The legislation also prohibits teachers in kindergarten through fifth grades from classroom discussion or instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in a “manner not age” or “developmentally appropriate” for students. Critics call that measure “Don’t Say Gay” patterned after similar legislation adopted in Florida.
“If the good Lord makes you a boy when you are born, you are a boy,” Ivey said. “If the good Lord makes you a girl when you’re born, you’re a girl. We need to spend our energy and focus helping these young people become healthy and productive people as adults as God would have them be.”
‘Stepping up’
The flurry of legislative activity last week has been followed up with what state Rep. Neil Rafferty, D-Birmingham, says is a silence from Alabama’s business community.
Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Legislature, said while some aspects of last week’s activity was a surprise — highlighted by the last-minute inclusion of education restrictions — there was little done by business leaders to support LGBTQ rights this legislative session.
“It’s time for folks with an interest in inclusivity and diversity to be stepping up,” Rafferty said.
He said that in June, when LGBTQ Pride Month activities are underway, some businesses will be “changing logos” and gearing their marketing efforts toward the LGBTQ community.
“My question will be: Where were you in April?” said Rafferty who, like other Alabama Democrats, have called the GOP actions on the LGBTQ restrictions as “political” ahead of the May 24 primaries.
The Alabama Legislature is ruled by a GOP supermajority. All but two State House Republicans — Rep. Cynthia Almond of Tuscaloosa and Rep. Corley Ellis of Columbiana — voted in support of the SB184.
Indeed, little-to-no fallout seems to be occurring.
Lee Sentell, the director of the Alabama Department of Tourism, said he doesn’t believe that anything transpiring in Montgomery last week “will have a significant negative impact because most of the states that Alabama competes with, in particularly in the South, had similar legislation on various special interests.”
“Our office has not gotten multiple calls that I’m aware of,” said Sentell.
John Oros, president and CEO with the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau, said his agency is watching national trends and similar legislation closely, but noted that no fallout has happened.
“This growing travel segment perceives Birmingham and our municipalities highly according to the 2021 Municipal Equality Index,” said Oros, referring to what he says is a “premier benchmarking tool” for municipalities and business leaders on how cities rank on LGBTQ inclusion in their laws and policies.
“Hospitality is what we are known for in the South,” said Oros. “Our goal has always been to be welcoming to visitors of all nationalities, interests, persuasions, races and religious backgrounds.”
‘Human capital problem’
The legislative activity comes one year after Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on transgender athletes participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.
But little blowback happened despite initial concerns about the NCAA pulling out of sponsored events, and the World Games reconsidering its Birmingham event that will start in July.
No major events have been pulled from Alabama.
Rafferty said that while companies might not be reacting, prospective employees could be looking elsewhere for opportunities.
“We can make the business environment as easy for companies to move to as we want to,” said Rafferty. “Lord knows we do a lot to make sure that happens. However, it’s a human capital problem and it's being able to train and attract talent that (the newly-signed bills) speak to.”
He added, “Companies that require high skill jobs, they won’t be able to attract people who will be comfortable living here and that includes talented Alabamians with great skills that are desperately needed in Alabama.”
Nationwide — where similar legislation has been rolled out in recent years — the reaction is far more muted than in 2016, when North Carolina faced severe repercussions from its support of the nation’s first so-called “bathroom bill.”
PayPal canceled a planned expansion project in the state, and the NCAA and NBA moved events to other states. Concerts were canceled, and the rising toll was estimated to cost the state over $3.7 billion in lost business over a dozen years.
Other states also faced repercussions a few years ago: Tourism officials in Texas, in 2017, said the state lost $66 million from having the issue simply debated.
The most visible action of late comes in the form of a business statement, signed by 238 companies. The statement is sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, and names each company that opposes what they view as anti-LGBTQ state legislation considered harmful and restrictive.
But the number of bills viewed as anti-LGBTQ continues to swell ahead of a midterm election season in Alabama and beyond.
The HRC is tracking 320 bills, including 140 that “directly target transgender people” and approximately 75 that would ban trans youths participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.
The HRC notes that in 2021, legislators in a record 34 states introduced 147 anti-transgender bills in 2021,
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a letter last week to all state attorneys general reminding them of federal constitutional and statutory provisions protecting transgender youth against discrimination. A lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court seeking to overturn Alabama’s newly-signed medical treatment ban.
‘Place to do business’
But none of those issues seemed to loom over Ivey’s trip to embrace economic opportunities in Mobile, where the first two businesses were announced at the evolving South Alabama Logistics Park (SALP) near Theodore.
One of those firms, DC Safety, is relocating its headquarters from New York City to Mobile, an investment of $33.5 million.
“I’m confident you’ll find Alabamians are as good as they come and our state is the very place to do business,” Ivey said.
Philip Burton, president and CEO of Burton Property Group and developer of SALP, said his firm’s focus is on marketing the logistics center that is expected to encompass a whopping 1,400 acres and include 12 million square feet of industry space.
He’s got a long way to go: The facility that has been constructed — a 200,000-square-foot building, set to be completed this summer — represents only 2 percent of the overall project.
Burton said he was unaware of the anti-LGBTQ legislation when asked if it was a worry to the state’s economic climate.
A bigger concern for companies, he said, is getting product more efficiently through seaports like the Alabama State Docks.
“Someone who is looking at their box sitting off the coast of California, they want to know where to go to get in quicker,” said Burton. | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ivey-state-is-here-to-do-business-not-politics-over-lgbtq-restrictions/article_0c0e2396-bb46-11ec-83de-87b1090d074c.html | 2022-04-13T20:21:02 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/news/ivey-state-is-here-to-do-business-not-politics-over-lgbtq-restrictions/article_0c0e2396-bb46-11ec-83de-87b1090d074c.html |
The Talladega City Board of Education spent about half an hour in executive session Tuesday with Superintendent Quentin Lee and attorney Charlie Gaines during their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
Board member Jake Montgomery made the motion to go into executive session to discuss “pending and potential litigation.” There was not a formal announcement of how long the session was expected to last, but Montgomery estimated about 20 minutes before leaving the room.
When they returned to public session, board chair Sandra Beavers said that no action would be taken, and that the board had authorized Gaines to proceed during the executive session. When pressed by The Daily Home as to whether any action had been taken behind closed doors, which would be a violation of the law, Lee said that the board had only asked Gaines to continue discussion on their behalf, and that no action had been taken or was required. Montgomery seemed to agree.
Also Tuesday, the board:
— Lee and Beavers expressed condolences to the families of Brian Stovall, an assistant foootball coach who passed away last month, and eighth-grader Jeremiah Curry, who was murdered April 2.
— Approved English language arts textbooks for grades 4 through 12, based on the state-approved list and the recommendations of a teacher committee and Curriculum Coordinator Danyell Butler.
— Tabled approval of the minutes of the called March 29 board meeting.
— Approved the time and effort policy of the board’s human resources guide to comply with federal guidelines.
— Non-renewed head varsity cheerleader coach Mallory Turner’s coaching supplement and hired Jessica Veazey as her replacement. Turner still holds a teaching position.
— Accepted the retirement of sixth-grade teacher Gay Lipscomb at Graham Elementary School.
— Hired Debra Shirel to replace Lottie Hudgins as Child Nutrition Program worker at Talladega High School.
— Accepted the resignation of itinerant instructional aide Renee Humphrey.
— Lee announced that e-learning days had been scheduled for April 29 and May 6, and that the latter would also be a staff appreciation day at Shocco Springs.
— Lee announced that about 40 parents had recently attended the Parents Academy to discuss the district and possible rebranding. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/talladega-board-of-education-expresses-condolences-to-families-of-murdered-eighth-grader-and-departed-assistant/article_c9d12ec2-bac5-11ec-8b2e-6756d163e5f4.html | 2022-04-13T20:21:08 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/talladega-board-of-education-expresses-condolences-to-families-of-murdered-eighth-grader-and-departed-assistant/article_c9d12ec2-bac5-11ec-8b2e-6756d163e5f4.html |
Are you financially fit? Do you know your credit score? According to thebalance.com, Alabama is ranked in the bottom 10 in credit score rankings. Alabama’s average credit score is 687. Credit is a vital part of financial wellness. This average credit score communicates to lenders your creditworthiness. While the state’s average credit score is 687, it is crucial to know and understand your score. A low credit score can negatively impact your ability to buy a home or rent an apartment. It can also influence whether you are required to make a down payment for utilities or a cell phone plan. In addition, you may also pay more for insurance and a vehicle. Below are six important steps to follow for repairing or building your credit.
Monitor your credit report
— Visit www.annualcreditreport.com for your free credit report from each of the three credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
— Keep in mind, your free report does not include your credit score. However, ordering your free credit report will allow you to see the information on your report, including what you owe and how it affects your score.
— Consider paying a small fee to receive your credit score from the three credit bureaus.
— Carefully review your accounts.
— Check for inaccurate information such as dates, addresses, amounts or debtors. If you see any accounts open without your permission, dispute those accounts so they can be removed from your report.
— Know what debt you owe and how much.
Pay your bills on time
— Your payment history makes up 35 percent of your FICO score. A FICO score is created by Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). It is used by creditors to access risk in addition to other details in the credit report to determine whether to extend credit to an individual. Know the due date of each bill and make sure to pay on time each month.
— Be sure to make at least the minimum payment each month. However, paying more than the minimum will lower your principal balance.
— If possible, pay the total balance on your credit cards each month. Paying in full will prevent you from paying interest.
Use no more than 30 percent of your available credit limit
— Amounts owed make up 30 percent of your FICO score.
— Use no more than 30 percent of the available credit limit. *Ex. For a credit card limit of $300, ($300 x 0.30 = $90). In this example, following the 30 percent rule means you would only use $90 of your available credit limit.
— Work towards decreasing each balance.
Pay attention to credit history
— Credit history makes up 15 percent of your FICO score.
— Be sure to make payments on time or early each month and keep credit usage at 30 percent or less. Over time, you will build a positive credit history.
Have different types of credit
— Credit mix makes up 10 percent of your FICO score.
— Have a mixture of revolving and installments accounts.
— Examples of revolving accounts are credit, retail or gas credit cards.
— Examples of installment accounts are mortgages, auto loans or student loans.
— A good credit mix may include a mortgage, vehicle loan and credit card. Only having several credit cards is not a good credit mix.
Keep new credit to a minimum
— New credit makes up 10 percent of your credit score.
— Don’t apply for more than two new credit accounts within two years.
— Applying for several types of credit in a short period of time signals to creditors that you are attempting to accumulate debt.
— Understand that all applications for new credit will appear on your credit report whether they are approved or denied. This is called an inquiry.
Be aware of scammers who offer to “fix” your credit score overnight for a fee. Credit scores are often increased when payments are made on time. Dedication and commitment are required when following recommended steps to build or rebuild your credit score. According to the Federal Trade Commission’s warning about scammers tactics, “only time and a personal debt repayment plan can improve your credit.”
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reminds us that “the higher the score, the lower the credit risk.” It is important to know your credit score and how it impacts your life. Whether you are building or rebuilding your credit, the steps are the same. There is not an overnight fix, but over time you can become creditworthy. Remember to monitor your credit report, pay your bills on time, use no more than 30 percent of your available credit limit while decreasing balances owed, pay attention to credit history, have a good credit mix and limit your applications for new credit.
For more information about this topic or other financial management and/or workforce development questions, please contact Emily Hines, Human Sciences Regional Extension Agent, at (205) 757-5393 or email eah0047@aces.edu. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/extension-news-how-to-build-or-repair-credit/article_daee7eb6-bb5c-11ec-8368-e76bcd3a3a43.html | 2022-04-13T20:21:14 | 0 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/extension-news-how-to-build-or-repair-credit/article_daee7eb6-bb5c-11ec-8368-e76bcd3a3a43.html |
Three high school seniors will receive scholarships from the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame during its banquet next month.
The banquet will be held Saturday, May 14, at the Moody Civic Center starting at 6 p.m.
Two of the seniors, Abbie Talton from Springville and Owen Schall from Ragland, will receive the Larry Bothwell Dream Makers Scholarship. The third senior who will receive the Jimmy Campbell Memorial Scholarship is Sammie Day-Jones from Ragland.
Bothwell founded the SCCSHOF back in 2004 and was inducted into the hall of fame in 2010 before he died in 2013.
This will mark the second year that a Ragland student has received a scholarship in memory of Jimmy Campbell, who died April 24, 2020. Campbell worked side-by-side with Bothwell to start the HOF and was inducted in 2009.
Gary Hanner, president of the Hall of Fame, said this is the eleventh year they have been able to help deserving high school seniors who are continuing their education at the college level.
“It is an honor to recognize these student-athletes,” Hanner said. “Not only have Abbie, Owen and Sammie demonstrated excellence in their athletic ability, they have excelled in the classroom as well. We wish them well in their future endeavors and hope the Hall of Fame banquet is a night they remember forever.”
Hanner added that since 2012, the Hall of Fame has donated $9,500 back to students to use for college.
Abbie Talton
Talton is a senior at Springville High School. She has a GPA of 3.9.
She has been a member of the varsity basketball team since the seventh grade. In her career, she scored 1,000 points, was named All-County Season MVP for three years, All-County Tournament MVP for two years, All-County Tournament Team for one year, All-Area Tournament Team for four years and All-Area Season Team for two years.
She is a member of the Student Council, Beta Club, Mu Alpha Theta, Students Against Destructive Decisions, Family Career and Community Leaders of America and First Priority. She is also a member of Crosspoint Church in Argo.
Talton plans on attending Jacksonville State University in the fall and majoring in sports management and graphic design.
Owen Schall
Schall is a senior at Ragland High School. He has a GPA of 3.4. and is ranked fourth in his class. During his senior year, he led the Purple Devil football team to an overall record of 9-3 and to the second round of the state playoffs.
Schall is a member of the Beta Club, SGA, FCCLA and is a class representative. As a member of the Beta Club, he helped with canned food drives, toy drives and coat drives. He attends Riddles Bend Baptist Church and taught vacation Bible school at Providence Baptist and Greensport Baptist churches.
Schall plans on attending college and getting a degree in business management/supervision.
Samantha Day-Jones
Day-Jones is a senior at Ragland High School. She has a GPA of 3.8 and scored a 25 on her ACT. For the past six years, she has played varsity softball and varsity basketball. She scored over 1,000 points in her basketball career. She also played varsity volleyball for five years.
She is also a member of the Beta Club, SGA and FCCLA.
Day-Jones has coached little league basketball, hitting lessons for young softball athletes and has tutored others. She attends Hill Crest Baptist Church where she has been involved in community events and helped with vacation Bible school.
She plans on attending Itawamba Community College to play softball and earn a degree in physical therapy. | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/local-students-named-st-clair-sports-hall-of-fame-scholarship-winners/article_0d1ac470-bb5e-11ec-8db7-df958e4918e8.html | 2022-04-13T20:21:17 | 1 | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/local-students-named-st-clair-sports-hall-of-fame-scholarship-winners/article_0d1ac470-bb5e-11ec-8db7-df958e4918e8.html |
Helen Frankenthaler working on “Venice II” (1969-72) with Bill Goldston at Universal Limited ArtEditions (ULAE), West Islip, NY, March 1972 | Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Archives, New York
Helen Frankenthaler: Un Poco Más (A Little More) | Through Sunday, Aug. 28
The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
Walking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of the abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler.
The minimal triptych presents the artist at three distinct stages in her career, captured from contrasting vantage points—smearing paint with a scalpel knife, surveying proofs of the exhibition’s title print, and in consultation with a printmaker.
These photos present her not as she is known in the cultural eye—posed, for instance, in Gordon Parks’s famous Life magazine photo series, on top of her enormous stained canvases—but as an artist consumed in the process.
“A lot of photographs of her made her look very decorative,” says co-curator Alana Hyman. “And so I had the idea to put these large, really colossal photographs of her looking much more active and much more engaged with her art rather than as this decorative, passive art piece herself.”
Helen Frankenthaler: Un Poco Más (A Little More), which opened February 12, collects six prints and eight proofs made over five decades of printmaking, including the title print, “Un Poco Más,” which is displayed alongside five working proofs and a color trial proof.
Un Poco Más was co-curated by four Duke undergraduates—Claire Hutchinson, Alana Hyman, Tristan Kelleher, and Andrew Witte—for the Curatorial Practicum: Exhibition Development and Design course taught by Ellen C. Raimond, assistant curator of academic initiatives at the Nasher Museum. The works are grouped by curatorial theme: the title lithograph and its proofs; sculptural prints; prints inspired by Japanese motifs; an early screenprint; a lithograph that recalls Frankenthaler’s soak-stain paintings; and prints featuring etching and aquatint. Donated by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in 2019, they represent a broad range of printmaking techniques, studios, and working relationships with different printmakers.
“She was known as a painter, but she collaborated with ceramicists, sculptors, people in metalworking, and also printmakers,” says Hutchinson. “And in each of those different mediums, she kind of pushed to do something new. With printmaking, she sought out working with experimental printmakers who were doing really new things in the field.”
Helen Frankenthaler, "Weeping Crabapple | Photo courtesy of the Nasher Museum of Art
The mid-20th-century printmaking renaissance came at a perfect time for Frankenthaler, who was born in 1928. She’d played a critical role in the second wave of color field painting, pioneering a new “soak-stain” technique, in which she applied aquatint and house paint, then allowed it to soak or drip according to how she manipulated the canvas.
Her early prints—the screenprint “Untitled” (1967) and the lithograph “Altitudes” (1978)—highlight a transitional period in which she relied on a similar technique to create pools of color or soak more or less opaque splotches of ink into a print’s surface.
But in “Ganymede,” also from 1978, there is evidence of increased experimentation. Using etching and aquatint, she and the printmaker produce jagged, intersecting planes of line and color. These same gestural techniques recur in “Tout-à-coup” (All-at-Once), a large earth-toned print from 1987, marked by translucent streaks that stand out like hot scalds on a baking sheet.
She worked using a system of trial and error, a process clearly mapped out in the working proofs for “Un Poco Más.” In one proof, painted scraps of notebook paper are pasted on; in another, scraps of test prints show her alterations in tone and placement of secondary hues.
“She hasn’t even added in the other colors yet,” says Witte, gesturing at an initial proof. “She’s just seeing, how is this white going to appear on the black background? And you can see”—he points to the next proof—“she’s thinking, okay, I want color here; these three spots right here.”
On the far wall are two sculptural pieces made at two different studios: “Bay Area Wednesday I” (1982) and “Guadalupe” (1989). The former is a monotype; its central feature was made using a hydraulic press—a kind of crater with varying coloration around the edges and base, as you might see on a topographical map.
The latter was done using Luis Remba’s trademarked Mixografia process, unique to his studio. By pressing paper pulp into a copper mold, he and Frankenthaler were able to manipulate the surface of a print, adding three-dimensional relief, gashes, and textures. In printmaking, says Kelleher, Frankenthaler found a medium that not only was collaborative but also constituted a more indirect engagement with materials and surfaces.
“With printmaking, there’s another level of separation, which is a lot different than the singular artist working on this singular canvas where they’re directly touching it most of the time,” he says.
On the far left wall are two works that represent Frankenthaler’s abiding interest in Japanese motifs. The first, “A Little Zen” (1970), is a minimalist print consisting of red and green calligraphic marks and a small pool of blue on an open plane. The last print of her career, “Weeping Crabapple” (2009), made two years before her death, is richly layered, requiring the use of over 30 woodblocks to render different marks and patterns.
Frankenthaler conceived of her printmaking process as a conversation, says Hyman: “You talk to the work; the work talks to you.” With Un Poco Más, Frankenthaler’s prints are given a stage. A rapturous dialogue ensues.
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Margaret Szewcyzk | Photo by Brett Villena
Chef Chick’s Bakery | 2500 Meridian Pkwy Suite 135, Durham | Opening summer 2022
Stepping into Margaret Szewczyk’s kitchen, the unmistakable smell of pastry and baked butter hangs in the air. A hint of sweetness follows—sugar and apricot. All of a sudden, the baker’s townhouse feels like home.
The warm smell of bread and baked goods has followed Szewczyk around since she was a child. She’s not sure when she started baking, but it’s something she’s done “forever,” Szewczyk says. She has fond memories of sitting in her grandmother’s house in Poland, talking to her babcia as she shuffled around the kitchen.
“Even now when I bake, I feel her with me,” Szewczyk says. Her grandmother never wrote her recipes down, but the secrets behind her traditional Polish dishes were passed down to Szewczyk’s father, who then passed them to Szewczyk. This year, the Cary local is finally pursuing her vision of opening her own bakery.
“[Baking] is not what I went to school for … but it’s always been my passion,” Szewczyk says. “I figured when I retired, I’d open a bakery. I just decided not to wait anymore. It was something I would regret forever if I didn’t try it.”
Later this summer, Szewczyk will open the doors to Chef Chick’s Bakery, off Durham’s Meridian Parkway. And as she waits for equipment to be delivered and construction to finish on her storefront, she plans to bake treats at home for delivery around the Triangle. (Interested parties can order through the Toast tab on her website.)
The bakery’s name is a play on her last name. People are often stymied by “Szewczyk,” with its tricky z’s and w’s. When asked how to pronounce it, she always explains it the same way: “Imagine a ‘chef’ and a ‘chick,’ like a girl cook.”
Szewczyk’s is from Gdańsk, Poland, where she also spent her childhood. In 1983, at age seven, Szewczyk immigrated to the United States with her parents, who settled down in North Carolina.
Until the coronavirus pandemic hit, Szewczyk made frequent trips to Europe to see her extended family. Now that it’s difficult to visit, she says, baking things like mazurek, her favorite Easter dessert—a kind of large shortbread topped with chocolate and walnuts—makes her feel a little closer to home.
That’s the feeling she wants to offer people through her food, Szewczyk says. A feeling of comfort and belonging in a place that might otherwise feel strange. People don’t come to North Carolina just from California and New York but also from eastern European countries like Romania, Hungary, and Croatia.
Szewczyk, who has heard stories from her parents about how tough it was settling down in the United States, wants to offer what support she can for the eastern European community in the Triangle. Eastern European food isn’t easy to come by in the Triangle—specialty goods like kolaszcki, kielbasa, and pierogis often require a drive up North, especially since longstanding Durham institution Halgo European Deli & Groceries closed in 2020. Szewczyk wants the bakery to be a place for people who may not feel like they have one, she says.
“My parents really struggled when they first came here. It was very hard for them,” Szewczyk says. “I’d like [the bakery] to be a place where people can come and feel comfortable and feel welcome … and maybe you’ll find a food that reminds you of home or reminds you of something from your childhood, that brings back warm memories. That’s the feeling we want to create.”
Szewczyk also wants to give people who have never traveled to Europe an authentic taste of the continent’s food and culture.
“We really want it to be an immersive experience, where you walk in and you feel like you’ve been transported,” she says. “I’m hanging curtains like the ones my grandmother had. They get made over in Poland, I’ve never seen them here. My dad is making the cabinets, the bread displays. The floor is gonna look like what it looks like in Europe.”
Szewczyk plans to feature baked goods from a different country each month—treats like Welsh cakes, Swedish cardamom buns, and financiers, small French almond cakes that look almost like bars of gold, she says.
Szewczyk is also buying magazines from abroad for people to browse. She plans to put a map on the wall where people can show where they or their families are from. She hasn’t finalized all the details yet but says she’s brimming with ideas about how to help create and support a multicultural community.
For now, though, the baker is operating out of her home, from a renovated kitchen that is a culinary dream come true. Granite countertops, a bread oven, and a gas range create a clean, professional space where the baker can whip up everything from pączki, the Polish version of donuts, to kołaczki, a kind of cookie made from cream cheese and butter, often filled with jam and topped with powdered sugar.
Szewczyk’s kołaczki are a soft bite of sweetness, the dough tangy with a slightly sour undertone from the cream cheese. She’s filled some with homemade apricot jam, some with Ferrero Rocher chocolate, and some with black currant jam. It’s one of her favorite fruits: a small berry often used dried in scones and other English pastries.
In the Szewczyk family, food is a love language. Whenever she went to Poland, her grandparents would “pile on food,” she says. “They would cook enough for an entire army.”
Szewczyk’s got that gene too. Whenever someone comes to her house, her first instinct is to feed them. Now, as she starts her own bakery, she’s hoping to feed an entire community.
“My grandmother’s cooking always made me feel better, no matter what was going on,” Szewczyk says. “I think it’s possible to make people feel better through food.”
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Kate Rhudy | Photo by Brett Villena
Dream Rooms release show | Friday, Apr. 22, 6 p.m., $20 | Rose Garden, Raleigh
One afternoon in 2017, the singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy met Mipso’s Joseph Terrell for lunch at Jade Palace, a decorating book called Dream Rooms for Real People in tow. Earlier that day, Rhudy—who’d just released her debut album, Rock N’ Roll Ain’t for Me—had picked it up while wandering around a Carrboro thrift store; she liked its photos of plush eighties carpeted bathrooms. Glancing at it, Terrell told her, “You should name your next album that.”
Thus was born Dream Rooms, Rhudy’s sophomore album. It’s an apt name for an intimate, intricate album full of jewel-like songs—folk, but with irresistible hooks and crisp pop production—that feel like worlds in and of themselves. Listening has the effect of drifting from room to room at a party, glass of wine in hand, catching snatches of emotional conversation.
It’s also an album that Rhudy had to put a pin in for several years: one song, “Janie Doe,” was written almost eight years ago, and most of the rest were written around 2019, pre-pandemic, before both of Rhudy’s main worlds—the service industry and the music scene—were thrown for a loop.
“I sat on this record for quite a little bit, thinking I was gonna send it out and shop it around,” says Rhudy, 26, sitting at downtown Raleigh’s Person Street Bar, where she also works. “But it didn’t seem like something that was viable in the industry the way it is right now, with everybody trying to get back to the way it was.”
Rhudy chose to forge ahead on her own and self-released Dream Rooms on April 8; on April 22, she’ll ring it in with a release show at Raleigh’s Rose Gardens.
To make it, she hired a band comprising Josh Oliver, Clint Mullican, Andrew Marlin, and Joe Westerlund; Marlin (one-half of the band Watchhouse) produced the album. Most songs, she says, were written over the span of two meaningful relationships that followed each other so closely that she anticipated having to emotionally “pay for” the sequence.
“You want to feel all your feelings at the rate that your heart wants to feel them,” Rhudy says. “But I was still very cognizant that I was maybe moving on too fast and not actually going through that grieving period of a relationship. I think I ended up doing that like halfway into that next relationship.”
“To the Nines,” a balladic song about trying to muster a going-out spirit after a breakup, is a perfect snapshot of that specific mixed mourning period. It’s a savvily executed two-minute song, beginning with the deadpan “I’m not having fun at this party / Wishing I’d stay at home / I could ask the man in the corner / He’s picking my brain all night long,” which then leads into the aching zinger: “Found better things to do with my hands / Now that you don’t hold them / You don’t hold them anymore / … Ain’t it awful always wanting more.”
Specificity is a boon and Rhudy’s songwriting is especially resonant for its witty, openhearted precision. Listening, I was reminded, at once, of singer-songwriter kindred spirits like Waxahatchee and Tift Merritt but also of the confident confessionals of pop-country stars like Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves. Rhudy has the shine of a rising star who could mix credibly, and comfortably, with any of the above.
“She’s really fearless as a songwriter,” says Mipso member Libby Rodenbough, a close friend and collaborator of Rhudy. “There’s this perception that writing about your own life in a raw, direct way, is immature or cliché or something. But the more that I do it, and the more that I continue to listen to music, I realize that it can be wonderful to write in more abstract ways—but it’s also a lot safer. [Rhudy] has no fear about being extremely personal or being embarrassed. To me, that’s essential to doing a creative career.”
Rhudy was born in Raleigh and grew up in a music-playing family; she trained in classical violin and learned fiddle tunes at conventions in southwest Virginia. At Appalachian State University, where she began a music therapy degree, she started playing music more seriously, taking a brief Nashville detour for a semester, before dropping out her junior year and returning to Raleigh.
Here, she began waitressing and writing more songs. She carries a notepad around on shifts, she says, in case anything good comes to her at work. (For example, the line “I spent all my tips on a blouse I just stained / Another thing I have to explain” from “To the Nines.”) In Raleigh, she’s found kinship with musicians like Marlin and Emily Frantz of Watchhouse (with whom she has toured twice) and Rodenbough, with whom Rhudy says she shares a mutual “friend tab for musical favors.”
“I really like being home—I don’t know if I’ll ever move from Raleigh,” Rhudy says. “It felt really cool to have a job and go to work at like seven in the morning every day—that’s when I worked at a breakfast place. I had all this time in the afternoons for gigging.”
In 2017, just shy of her 22nd birthday, she released Rock N’ Roll Ain’t for Me, an album with stronger Americana overtones than Dream Rooms and maybe a bit more country fang. Lead single “I Don’t Like You or Your Band” contains the perfect breakup burn: “Your cigarettes, your leather shoes, you, your friends, and your white boy blues / You’ve become something I can’t stand.” (I’d quote fewer lyrics, but they’re all just too good.)
If Rock N’ Roll showed one spirited side of the relationship coin, Dream Rooms flips to show the other.
“My first album had a definite ‘fuck you’ to it,” Rhudy says. “I rationalized it by saying, ‘that’s how dramatic you felt in that moment—you deserve to honor how dramatic and angry and hurt you felt.’ But this one’s more about my part in all those situations.”
Dream Rooms is a touch softer and more self-reflective than the debut, but, now a few years removed from its source material, it’s also a bittersweet slant toward the sweetness that romance can offer, even when fraught. It sounds, in other words, a lot like love.
“I’ve been in love a few times,” Rhudy says. “But it’s never been the same feeling twice.”
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For years, the versatile singer-songwriter Django Haskins—also known for his work fronting The Old Ceremony—has been playing "Afraid of Love" at his sets; until recently, though, the song never made it onto any of his albums. (Which are many: Just this spring alone, he's released both Beforetimes 1 and Beforetimes 2; you can read the INDY review of the former here.)
"Afraid of Love," from Beforetimes 2, now premieres on the INDY website today. It's a slow, reassuring affirmation of the pursuit of romance—the kind of song you might expect to encounter in a Gene Kelly movie from the 1940s—with Skylar Gudasz joining in, for part of the song, for a duet.
I wrote it as a kind of love letter to the jazz standards I grew up on," Haskins says, "but also from an earnest place, saying to myself that I needed to realize that fear of fulfillment (and of losing it)—it's something that can define your life if you're not careful. When I play it live, I usually whistle an improvised solo (just for lack of extra hands), but on the recording, I thought a jazz banjo solo brought in a suitably off-kilter texture."
Listen to "Afraid of Love" below.
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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — Howard County officials reached an agreement to purchase Camp Ilchester in Ellicott City from Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, and preserve the 21-acre camp.
Executive Calvin Ball said the camp, which had been used by Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, was purchased for $6 million. It will be used as open space as part of the county's parks and recreation systems.
The purchase will be voted on by the Howard County Council on May 25.
“When the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland announced they were looking to sell Camp Ilchester last April, we knew we had to act,” Ball said. “We had to make sure that our County didn’t lose this important piece of green space and valuable community resource that allows Howard County families to experience all that nature has to offer. I am thrilled that we have reached this important milestone to preserve Camp Ilchester as open space for present and future generations to enjoy.”
The letter of intent said that the property will no longer be marketed for sale and lists the steps for final sale.
Ball said Howard County intends to preserve Camp Ilchester as green space, keeping up to 105 housing units out of the development pipeline and utilizing the property to expand recreational program offerings to residents across the county and state.
Officials said potential uses of the camp could include sports programs, outdoor adventure camps, active aging activity and a nature center with nature-based educational programming.
"Today's announcement is a great step towards preserving more green space in Howard County," Senator Guy Guzzone said. "The advocacy of our community, and collaboration of state and local officials made it possible for Camp Ilchester to provide many years of outdoor recreation for our residents."
"I'm so excited to finally see Howard County's offer accepted to preserve Camp Ilchester," Senator Katie Fry Hester said. "As a mom and lifelong environmentalist, providing opportunities for our kids to experience outdoor education is extremely important to me – if approved by the County Council, this will allow us to preserve nearly 21 acres of green space for the local community. This is a win-win-win for our kids, our community, and our environment." | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/howard-county-agrees-to-purchase-camp-ilchester-from-girl-scouts-of-central-maryland-preserve-camp | 2022-04-13T20:28:14 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/howard-county-agrees-to-purchase-camp-ilchester-from-girl-scouts-of-central-maryland-preserve-camp |
a group of Wake County residents from the housing justice coalition ONE Wake who are putting pressure on the Wake County Board of Commissioners to provide some sort of property tax relief as the Triangle becomes increasingly unaffordable for renters and longtime homeowners. Reader Iain Burnett has some thoughts on these efforts:
Gentrification needs to hire a PR firm. It’s not a bad thing. It’s the reason the world has the population distribution it does now—for millennia have-lesses and have-mores competed over desirable patches of land, and generally the former had to move on and accept a slightly-less-desirable patch of land. Thankfully, the driving force is dollars now instead of swords and arrows. The desire for cheap farm land was what brought American settlers west of the Appalachians. Over time, their efforts created desirable patches of land for the cycle to repeat—look up best places to live Midwest or mountain west or west coast and you’ll find cities and towns aplenty that were once edge of the map, amenity-free census tracts.
Lately though, the youngest child of NIMBYism is baring its teeth here in Raleigh. It happened in California in the 1970s, when an aging population got legislation passed to forever limit property tax raises to 2% and to create excessive barriers to property development. It essentially said, those who are here now are locked in as winners; those yet to come, tough luck. In many measures it is what’s responsible for the housing crisis out there, as lone retirees can afford to hold onto their million dollar family-sized houses on a fixed income (which by the way, condemns public services who depend on taxes to a bankrupt future). Now I see an effort to propose property tax relief for longtime residents in Raleigh (woe to those who haven’t lived here “long enough” to qualify). No good comes from distorting the housing market like that. Yes, some people with limited incomes who’ve seen their neighborhood appreciate greatly will find the most economical decision is to move away to where land is cheaper. But by doing so, they open up a property by the schools, the jobs, and the parks for the next person to move in. Those jobs and great schools here that are attracting the influx? They aren’t going anywhere. When the housing stock is made artificially static, all that happens is the inbound people live farther away, commute more, and don’t get to have what previous generations had that made the community a desirable place to live. It encourages developers, who by previous NIMBY legislation have been locked out from making townhouses and secondary dwelling units, to instead build housing farms along highway corridors, further locking us into a car-dependent life.
I looked up ONE Wake’s proposed legislation, and it amounts to a 1cent/$100 property value tax. For a $500,000 property, that is $50 annually from people who can afford to live here, to subsidize people who cannot but get to anyways. The size of the tax doesn’t bother me—it’s the idea that our money will be used to break the natural housing cycle and condemn Raleigh to a future that can only mean sprawl and artificially chosen winners and losers. Let’s not stack a new problem onto the already existing problems around housing and transportation.
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EDGEWOOD, Md. — The sound of gunfire cut through the night on Tuesday at the Carriage Court Apartments in Edgewood as a man in the parking lot outside his building became a target and ran through the complex trying to escape the bullets.
“A man got shot and ran behind and collapsed here at my door,” an unidentified neighbor told WMAR-2, pointing to an end unit with a piece of crime scene tape on the ground.
The victim’s last ditch effort to seek help would prove to be in vain as police arrived on the scene within a matter of minutes.
“Upon their arrival, they located an adult male, later identified as Angello Osborne, 38 years old, who was suffering from several gun shot wounds to the upper body, and unfortunately, medics were not able to save him and he died of his injuries right there on the scene,” said Harford County Sheriff’s Col. William Davis.
Neighbors who heard the gunshots found Osborne collapsed on the ground, and one Good Samaritan who had a military background with training as a paramedic attempted to save his life.
“He tried to come out and help him,” a resident said. “He and another tenant, but he was too far gone.”
If you have any information about this case, which could help police, you’re asked to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
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Fayette Place in Durham's Hayti district | Photo by D.L. Anderson
Earlier this year, the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) rejected a visionary plan to develop a residential, educational, and commercial hub near downtown Durham known as Hayti Reborn. Last week, the director of the group behind that effort asked the Durham City Council to allow the community to weigh in on the development of Fayette Place, a 20-acre swath of long-vacant land in the southern shadow of the downtown district.
“Since [the] Durham Housing Authority plans to enter into a 99-year land lease with a development partner, what happens on this project will impact the Hayti community for the next century,” Henry McKoy, the director of Hayti Reborn, wrote in an email last week to Durham’s city council on behalf of the Hayti Reborn Community Action Council (HRCAC).
McKoy wrote that the council is “peacefully asking” Mayor Elaine O’Neal and her fellow council members to intervene “in the matter of Fayette Place and agree to support Hayti Reborn’s request for a public hearing (‘Public Healing’) on this matter—and host this event in full view of the public.”
The HRCAC email also asked the council members to “issue a city injunction on Fayette Place by asking the DHA to immediately cease and desist any and all current negotiations with any organization on Fayette Place’s development until this matter is fully settled through a public hearing.”
McKoy also asked the city council to make room for a diverse Durham public to be allowed time and space to offer feedback to its members following a public hearing on “competing Fayette Place visions.”
McKoy states in the email that the city’s elected leaders and city manager have a vested interest in the development of Fayette Place, per a 2017 contract between the City of Durham and DHA, along with the nonprofit Development Ventures Incorporated (DVI), when the federal housing agency repurchased the property.
McKoy notes that one of the provisions of the contract states that “DVI shall not develop, sell, convey or otherwise transfer the Site, or any part thereof or interest therein, without the prior written consent of the City Manager or his/her designee.”
McKoy told the city council that its action, or inaction, will impact the next five generations of Black Durham residents and determine “whether the next century will be spent re-creating wealth in Durham’s Black community or re-extracting wealth from Durham’s Black community.”
O’Neal told the INDY that the council did not discuss McKoy’s email during its work session on Thursday.
More than a half century has passed since a dramatically misnamed federal urban renewal effort during the 1960s and early 1970s destroyed 4,000 homes and 500 businesses in the neighborhood to make room for construction of Highway 147.
Last year, during the nation’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration, McKoy’s vision for the Fayetteville Street Corridor deeply resonated with stakeholders in the neighborhood who are concerned about the growing specter of gentrification, issues of equity, and whether the community will retain its historical character.
McKoy is also director of entrepreneurship at North Carolina Central University’s business school. He said that Hayti Reborn’s proposal wasn’t even given a seat at the table.
McKoy, in a 13-page appeal last month to DHA’s decision, and in the email this week to the city council, says that “out of the 10 developer proposals, Hayti Reborn was the ONLY team not allowed to present its plan through interview with the DHA Review Committee prior to their selection.”
“In our naive state, Hayti Reborn never anticipated that a local, minority and community-led team, based in the community with the project, and whom had over 50 individuals and organizations offer letters or signatures of support for the project, would be denied an interview at least, even if it was just for show,” McKoy states more broadly in the appeal. “These associated individuals, some of whom were actually part of the families whose homes and businesses were displaced when the Durham Redevelopment Commission led the way for the Durham Freeway to come through their homes. This project is for them.”
Hayti Reborn’s email to the city council is the group’s latest effort to resurrect the plan to revitalize the Hayti district with a 2,000-acre development with Fayette Place as the hub. That dream was deferred in January, when the DHA announced that it had chosen two developers, Durham Development Partners and the Atlanta-based Integral Group, LLC, for the $470 million construction of residential units across three downtown locations: Fayette Place in the Hayti district, Forest Hills Heights, and the county-owned land surrounding the current DHA offices.
On February 4, Hayti Reborn filed a protest letter that said DHA’s approach to redevelop Hayti will only reinforce the gentrification already taking place throughout the district.
On March 4, in response to the protest letter, DHA CEO Anthony Scott emailed and snail-mailed McKoy a five-page letter that outlined the procedural history of the developer selection process that included establishing a committee to review the development proposals.
Scott says that Hayti Reborn was among the four finalists, but the Black-led developer received “the lowest aggregate score, by a substantial margin, among the four respondents,” he wrote.
While knocking down Hayti Reborn’s protest as being “without merit,” Scott wrote that DHA had not violated federal policy with regard to community input, equity, land use, or due process with its selection of developers for its affordable housing project.
He added that Hayti Reborn “did not demonstrate a sufficient level of experience in relation to the objectives” mandated in the DHA’s request for development proposals.
“Given the magnitude of the award, it was not a ‘serious violation of principles’ of [DHA policies] to value a respondent’s financial capacity and prior experience to deliver its proposal as important criteria for award in this case,” Scott wrote.
McKoy, in the appeal letter, challenged Scott’s assertion that Hayti Reborn is unqualified to complete the Fayette Place project.
The Hayti Reborn team, McKoy wrote in the March 11 appeal, “is comprised of some of the leading real estate development professionals in Durham, the Triangle region, the nation and arguably the world (several of our team members have a global footprint) and have worked on some of the most renowned and acclaimed projects. So, which of these team members, specifically, was deemed unqualified or lacking qualification?”
McKoy added that the Hayti Reborn team includes Winn Companies, “the largest developer and manager of affordable housing in the United States of America.”
As for Scott’s assertion that Hayti Reborn is lacking in “financial capacity,” McKoy says the group’s lead financier, PNC Bank, was chosen “after a competitive bidding process where banks sought to offer financing to the Hayti Reborn vision of Fayette Place,” along with Partners in Equity, “a Durham-based and Black-founded and led entity that is the leading firm of its kind in North Carolina and likely the United States.”
McKoy admits that Hayti Reborn likely faced a greater challenge than the other proposals submitted by the developers.
“Hayti Reborn was proposing that its project on Fayette Place have the economic benefit accrue primarily to DHA and the local low income and historic community,” McKoy wrote. “This meant that we had a unique structure to our proposal.”
McKoy also questioned whether his status as “organizational leader of Hayti Reborn both made it unqualified and nullified any impact of the additional team members?”
The NCCU entrepreneurial scholar noted that he has over 25 years’ experience in community economic development working as a banker, in the energy industry, and as a state government official who worked “with DHA’s primary funder—HUD [the Department of Housing and Urban Development]—with over $1.5 billion in funding including for economic and affordable housing development.”
McKoy questioned whether DHA and DVI were qualified to be co-developers of the downtown affordable housing projects. He says DHA’s development experience and financial capacity came into question following a recovery agreement it reached last month with HUD that shows the local housing authority “scored a failing assessment.”
McKoy reminded the city council of previous city leaders’ decades-old deferred promise to rebuild the Black community, which led to its destruction, and how the $4 million the city gave to DHA in 2017 to repurchase Fayette Place is taxpayers’ money.
“The Durham Housing Authority has stated that the community-generated vision for the Fayette Place site was not worth listening to and consideration, and therefore they were justified in their singling out of Hayti Reborn’s plan for dismissal,” McKoy wrote to the council.
He noted that a number of HRCAC members “were actually in households that were razed by the Durham Redevelopment Commission [that] was formed in 1958 to drive urban renewal through Black Durham.”
“After 64 years, don’t these 70-plus and 80-plus year-old elders deserve to have their voices heard? FINALLY? By someone?” McKoy wrote. “Don’t other members of our Hayti Community Action Council—those currently living in crumbling and dilapidated public housing—with their children and families, deserve to have their voices heard? FINALLY? By someone?”
It’s not clear whether the city council will answer the call.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018.
The guilty plea came nearly three years after the Oscar-winning actor was arrested.
The case experienced several delays as Gooding Jr.'s lawyers sought to get charges reduced or dismissed.
Gooding pleaded guilty to one of three allegations that he violated different women at various Manhattan nightspots in 2018 and 2019.
He told the judge he “kissed the waitress on her lips” without consent at the LAVO New York nightclub.
“I apologize for ever making anybody feel inappropriately touched,” Mr. Gooding said in court, according to The New York Times.
Gooding Jr. is not expected to face jail time under the plea agreement. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcible-touching | 2022-04-13T20:28:26 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcible-touching |
The South Bank building downtown is among many Durham buildings undergoing demolition to make way for new construction. | Photo by Milena Ozernova/9th Street Journal
Addy Cozart’s first post to The Teardowns of Durham Facebook group features a series of emoji: angry, sad, crying.
“My block @ Hillsborough and Rutherford has been sold,” the February 21 post says. “Final day to move out March 4th. The buyers are developers. I’m assuming more apartments will go up …”
The comments came rolling in, mostly sympathetic, some angry and indignant.
Cozart’s is just one of the emotional posts that litter the walls of The Teardowns of Durham, an open Facebook group that focuses on pictures and information relevant to Durham’s changing housing landscape.
This is a place of solidarity: with over 3,500 members and counting, the group includes posts about hundreds of buildings that have been torn down, housing justice activism, and new, expensive housing in the area. Though the active member count is much smaller, the Facebook group is public for a reason: it’s a place for free information. And with about 50 posts per month in the group, and many more comments on each, there’s much to be informed about.
The Teardowns of Durham is partly just what it sounds like—a Facebook group about buildings that have been or are being torn down. But it has also become a forum where locals discuss how Durham is changing and shifting, where new developments are coming, and which buildings they once recognized are coming down.
The active discussion reflects Durham’s housing crisis: in the first three months of 2021, about 2,400 homes were sold in Raleigh and Durham. Of those, more than half were bought either by people from out of state or by companies, according to a report from the Triangle Business Journal. According to WRAL, 20 percent of homes in Durham were purchased by investors in the fourth quarter of 2021, up from 11 percent in the second quarter of 2020.
Durham housing prices and property taxes also have increased, making it harder for newcomers to buy and for residents to stay. Meanwhile, though Durham has made efforts to create rent relief programs, the demand for housing remains high, and housing stocks are low.
The Facebook group began as a way to exchange information among a small group of Durham friends and colleagues. It has now ballooned to include thousands of members, from Duke students to Durhamites who have been here since childhood.
There’s a catharsis that runs through each post about a demolished Durham building—a need to tell someone about the frustration of losing a property. A recent post by David Becker is typical of many.
“Big beautiful place on the corner of Gregson and Club was there yesterday when I drove by. This morning … gone,” Becker writes. Much of the frustration aired on the Facebook group reflects worries about losing Durham’s personality, including historic buildings that are dispersed throughout the city. Durham has 15 historic neighborhoods that are listed as National Register Historic Districts. In addition to the Facebook group, other activists and preservationist groups include Open Durham, Historic Preservation Society of Durham, and Preservation Durham.
Frequent poster Chris Jay notes that a homeowner refurbished an old home to make it a “weekend getaway” out in Narrowsburg, New York.
“Imagine if all the old homes in Durham that are getting torn down were revitalized and brought back to life to their original classic design, including decor,” Jay says. “That’s what this woman did!”
Another commenter echoes Jay’s sentiment.
“I’m sad we are losing so much of Durham’s history,” the post says. “When someone’s lived here all their life, the changes seem so overwhelming … not always a good thing.”
Some posters on the Facebook group push back, arguing that romanticizing old houses will not make Durham more affordable and will not stop gentrification.
The posts that consistently get substantial interactions, though? Questions. Many users in the Facebook group wonder what is happening to Durham’s warehouse district, around the corner from Fullsteam Brewery and the Accordion Club, where commercial buildings are being torn down on Geer Street. Another poster supplies a partial answer, responding that a Washington, DC, developer plans to create two large apartment complexes called GeerHouse.
One user laments the teardown of one home replaced by four modern tiny homes on Pritchard Place, near North Carolina Central University. Another user shares a tip: she heard that a century-old Pentecostal church in West Durham is being sold. Responses flood in. The overtone of the conversation: Will the church be torn down?
Concerned Durhamites started the Teardowns of Durham Facebook group in May 2019, when the pace of construction and demolition around Durham was ramping up in neighborhoods including Trinity Park, Braggtown, Watts-Hillandale, Campus Hills, and more.
In part, the group fills an information gap. Local journalism has been declining in most places in the country, including in Durham, and there are fewer local news sources to keep Durhamites informed about their changing city.
That is a major reason why Ellen Dagenhart, who previously served as president of the Historic Preservation Society of Durham, joined the Facebook group in September 2019.
“The few remaining reporters just can’t be at every meeting where so much of the sausage is brought up and made,” she said. “There’s an awful lot of mischief happening that is under the radar now. Teardowns is filling a void, a need, for a place where people can share, learn, question, vent.”
Bonita Green was born and raised in Durham. She left Durham for South Florida in 1999, and when she returned in 2012, she didn’t recognize the city she loved. Now, she lives in the Merrick-Moore Community and works with the Merrick-Moore Community Development Organization. Fed up with the rapid development, she has used the Teardowns group to air her frustrations, she said in a recent interview.
“I saw all the development in my community and the acres of land that the city bought on the west side of Durham. So I had a fear of being washed out. I was fighting to protect the legacy of this community,” Green said.
For people like Green, the Facebook group has become more than a place to simply share news and vent. It has also become a site of political organization and mobilization. There are almost as many petitions in the group as pictures of bulldozed buildings.
Urban planner and Durham resident Nate Baker said the petitions and political activism of the group tell a greater story: they reflect many Durhamites’ desire for control over the housing situation in their city. He believes Durham residents are not necessarily resistant to change, as long as they are included in the process.
“I think people have anxiety about the world changing around them and not really having much of a say in the matter,” Baker said. “There hasn’t been robust community engagement and planning processes to alleviate some people’s concerns over teardowns.”
He says the city could make changes, like building more affordable housing complexes, that would make Durham’s residents feel more empowered.
Dagenhart, the member who joined the Facebook group in 2019, said the Facebook group is also a place where residents can talk about their aspirations for what Durham could be. She recalled the joyous ceremony that took place in 2011, when more than 2,000 citizens took vows to “marry Durham,” promising to protect the city and its reputation and to honor its diversity.
“I think Durham is in need of some marriage counseling,” Dagenhart said.
This story was produced through a partnership between the INDY and 9th Street Journal, which is published by journalism students at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy.
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Amazon announced on Wednesday that the company will add a 5% "fuel and inflation surcharge" to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the retailer's fulfillment services as the company faces rising costs.
The company said in an announcement on its website that the added fees will take effect on April 28 and are subject to change. Federal data released Tuesday showed inflation hit 8.5% in March, its fastest pace in more than 40 years. Amazon said its new fees will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items. The fees will also apply to products ordered before April 28, but are shipped and delivered after that date.
The Associated Press reported on federal data released on Tuesday which showed an 8.5% jump in inflation for the month of March, said to be the fastest pace in over 40 years. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-certain-seller-fees | 2022-04-13T20:28:32 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-certain-seller-fees |
Lisa Grafstein (left) and Patrick Buffkin| Courtesy photos
The newly drawn state senate District 13, which spans North Raleigh from the inner beltline up to Durant Road, is a mixed bag.
On the west side, it’s a wooded suburban paradise, filled with towering oaks and homes sitting on almost an acre of land. Moving east, however, the neighborhoods get smaller and the streets more urban. Crossing over Capital Boulevard, the area is a working-class neighborhood surrounded by bus stations, discount grocery stores, and auto repair shops.
Here, like everywhere, growth is an encroaching force. Some residents are worried about rising rents, others about new development, and everyone about things getting more expensive.
This is the district up for grabs in November. Solidly liberal—about 64 percent Democrat, according to the Princeton Gerrymandering Project—it’s not so much a question of whether a Democrat will win but of which one.
Next month’s Democratic primary sets Patrick Buffkin, a traditional candidate with local experience, against Lisa Grafstein, a political newcomer with a yen for social justice.
Grafstein, a soft-spoken woman of 55, lives with her partner, Linda, near Millbrook. She didn’t plan on going into politics, but after working as a civil rights lawyer for more than 25 years, she began thinking about how she could make a bigger difference. It was a call from Lillian’s List, which supports progressive female candidates, that spurred her decision, Grafstein tells the INDY.
“My first reaction was ‘Obviously not. Why me?’” Grafstein says. “But then I talked to Linda some and thought, well, why not me? I want to contribute in this way and do some good.”
Buffkin, currently in his third year on the Raleigh City Council, won his seat in 2019 during an upswell of support for the pro-housing, pro-development candidates. He’s since supported the majority’s stance, working to pass the affordable housing bond and raise money for parks with a 1¢ tax increase.
“I’ve focused on challenges facing our community that affect people’s lives every day,” Buffkin says. “My experience has been that … all these issues are bigger than one city and need state-level solutions.”
Unsurprisingly, Buffkin and Grafstein agree on the big touchstones of the Democratic platform. Both think that the legislature should give more money to public schools, specifically by funding the Leandro plan, a $1.7 billion school improvement plan.
Buffkin and Grafstein also promise to fight to expand Medicaid. Grafstein adds the first thing she plans to do if elected is talk to colleagues about improving health care for people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities.
“[Our behavioral health care] needs funding and leadership. We have to be putting the money in the right places,” Grafstein says. “We spend a lot of money to keep people in institutions and we could be supporting them in the community.”
For Buffkin, a renewable energy and utility lawyer, protecting the environment is a particular point of concern. He emphasizes combating climate change by supporting renewable energy.
“I have a good understanding of what it takes to make our communities resilient against the effects of climate change,” Buffkin says. “Here on the city level, that’s been funding our stormwater utility, changing our development regulations to keep development out of floodplains.”
“My experience on the city council, having to make the tough decisions and experience the trade-offs, distinguishes me [as a candidate],” Buffkin adds. “Often, governing is the difficult task of choosing the least bad option and trying to make progress where you can.”
What does Grafstein stand for?
Grafstein has a focus on economic justice, which covers more than the wealth gap, she says.
“There are two sides to the budget: there’s the cost of things, but there’s also what people are making,” Grafstein says. “Part of what makes housing unaffordable is low wages. Part of what it makes dramatically difficult when gas prices go up is that people are making low wages.”
Like most Democrats, she favors raising the minimum wage and wants to “get out of the way of unions.”
“It is a really exciting time right now because of the way the labor market is. Workers just have more power and less fear of being unemployed. So there’s more of an ability to organize,” she says. “From my point of view, unions have been one of the most effective ways of ensuring actual safe working conditions and good wages for people.”
For the first 16 years of her law career, Grafstein fought against workplace discrimination and wage violations. Today, she advocates for the rights of people with disabilities. Having spent her entire professional life fighting for the little guy, Grafstein plans to continue her leadership on social justice. That’s a reassuring prospect, especially in a state like North Carolina where civil rights seem to be continually under attack.
As the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Grafstein talks about protecting a woman’s right to have an abortion. She also wants to protect voting rights—creating more access to the polls, giving adequate funding to local electoral boards, and eliminating gerrymandering.
“We need to have nonpartisan redistricting reforms,” she says. “We’re not going to have it until Democrats get more power and force Republicans to think hard about the next census, but, you know, it’s a possibility.”
What does Buffkin stand for?
Where Grafstein is ideological, Buffkin is practical, focused on issues like affordable housing, infrastructure, and public safety.
On the council, Buffkin has been confronted with Raleigh’s rapid growth almost daily for the past two years. His stance on the city’s rising cost of housing is clear—he’s helped invest in affordable housing and reform zoning laws. If elected, Buffkin says, he’ll approach state issues the way he has local issues.
“We’re rolling out the [affordable housing] money in really smart ways and targeted investments. Contrast that with the state level, where funding for the housing trust fund has been reduced over the last several years,” Buffkin says. “A lot of these challenges just need greater resources, greater attention.”
Buffkin plans to give local governments more autonomy and funding. He and Grafstein each talked about stopping the Republican-dominated legislature from phasing out corporate tax and instead put that money to good use.
If elected, Buffkin says he’ll prioritize improving the state’s infrastructure to help water and sewer systems keep up with growing neighborhoods. Addressing climate change is also critical.
“We’ve got to start changing the way we live, work, and do business, so we have less impact on the climate,” Buffkin says. “That means reducing emissions in our electric sector; it means electrifying our transportation; it means rolling out more clean energy.”
Buffkin also wants to look at ways to reduce gun violence and hate crimes. When it comes to gun control, Buffkin says, he supports “smart reforms” like background checks, red flag laws, and crisis intervention for victims of violence.
On the issue of creating a police oversight board, Buffkin says Raleigh’s council did not have the authority to do so when the question last came up. If elected, however, Buffkin plans to vote to give cities more power over such issues. Oversight of policing needs to be part of the conversation, he says.
Ultimately, Buffkin says he wants to get the state legislature moving again. Things like criminal justice reform and health inequities “are solvable problems,” Buffkin says. “It takes resources. It takes careful decision-making, but that’s the kind of approach I want to bring to the state senate.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Buffalo woman admitted she fell for a scam that drained her retirement savings. The retired nurse did not want to be identified, but said a computer pop-up led her to send more than $43,000 to scammers via wire transfer and Bitcoin ATM.
The woman said when she was recently on her work computer, she got a pop-up saying her computer was locked. The fake ad, which she felt seemed real, had a number for her to call. She said when she called that number, she was then told her bank account had been hacked, and the money had to be moved.
The woman said she then withdrew $43,130 in cash and proceeded to follow the scammers convincing instructions.
She wired $13,700 to a bank in East Asia, and deposited $29,430 into the Bitcoin ATM inside a Buffalo, N.Y. shop. The Buffalo woman said she was fired from her part-time job because she gave scammers access to her work computer by accident.
"It's a travesty," said AARP's director of fraud prevention Kathy Stokes. "This is organized crime. She is up against a sophisticated criminal operation. They got the money, the time, the playbook, they have employees and it's us against them."
"It's not her fault," added Stokes. "[Hackers] know what to do to get us under a highly emotional state. They call it 'getting under the ether.' Could be fear, love, excitement."
"If you feel yourself getting excited or upset from an email, phone call or whatever, try and connect that with an 'OK I have to be skeptical here,' because once there it's hard to back out," explained Stokes, who urges potential victims to ignore these interactions.
Wire transfer has been around for a while, but how do scammers get your money through a Bitcoin ATM?
First what is a Bitcoin ATM? It looks like a regular ATM, and you can insert cash to buy Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency - Also referred to as crypto, is any form of digital or virtual currency. It uses cryptography to secure transactions and is not upheld by the government or any bank. Its value has made users thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Bitcoin - A form of crypto that is in a Bitcoin wallet, which is digital. The wallet can be viewed on a Bitcoin ATM.
"Bitcoin is only supposed to go to your wallet," said Todd Maher, president of Bitsource AML Solutions. His company is a boutique consultancy that focuses on financial crime investigations involving Bitcoin ATM's.
Bitcoin ATM's have given consumers an avenue to buy the hot commodity of Bitcoin. However, just like banks, the world of cryptocurrency has criminals hacking the system.
The Buffalo woman said that the scammers gave her a barcode that she scanned at the ATM. She then deposited money into the ATM, which basically went right into the scammers' wallets.
Maher said at a Bitcoin ATMm you can insert cash and receive Bitcoin to your digital wallet. You can also send Bitcoin to the ATM and receive cashback for its current value. He said there are warnings on machines to make sure consumers aren't sending money to third-parties.
Maher said anytime someone asks for payment through a Bitcoin ATM, you should know, "Zero percent of the time is that legitimate."
The woman scammed has filed a police report, but unfortunately, Maher said it's impossible to reverse a Bitcoin ATM transaction. The victim said the transaction on the Bitcoin ATM was tracked to Kolkata, India. She's hoping for her money back, and also to help others with her story.
"There's always going to be scams, there's always going to be bad people," said Maher. "The best thing we can do is make sure the Bitcoin ATM companies are doing what they say they're doing."
Stokes said more regulations need to be done to stop scammers from getting away with this fraud. She said scams in the digital world are becoming the newest trend for scammers.
"It's all fake, they're really good," said Stokes.
To get information on the latest scams in the crypto world or outside of it you can head to AARP.org/watchdogalerts
You can also call AARP at 1-877-908-3360. You don't have to be a member.
This article was written by Michael Schwartz for WKBW. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/buffalo-woman-loses-retirement-savings-in-bitcoin-atm-scam | 2022-04-13T20:28:38 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/buffalo-woman-loses-retirement-savings-in-bitcoin-atm-scam |
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a Southern California shoe store owner opened fire at shoplifters but mistakenly shot and wounded a 9-year-old girl.
Authorities say Marquel Cockrell was chasing the shoplifters from his store in a mall in the city of Victorville Tuesday and fired multiple shots.
Deputies found the girl suffering from a gunshot wound. She was airlifted to a hospital. The ABC affiliate in Los Angeles says the girl was shot in the arm and is doing OK.
Authorities said Cockrell fled the state and was arrested in Nevada.
Nevada State Police said he is being jailed in Las Vegas. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/california-store-owner-fires-at-shoplifters-hits-girl | 2022-04-13T20:28:44 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/california-store-owner-fires-at-shoplifters-hits-girl |
DeLeon Springs biker dies in crash with garbage truck near DeLand
A DeLeon Springs man was killed Monday morning when his motorcycle collided with a garbage truck east of DeLand, Florida Highway Patrol investigators said.
The 76-year-old rider died of injuries he suffered in the crash that occurred at Marsh and Old Daytona roads at 11:16 a.m., troopers said.
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According to FHP's Lt. Tara Crescenzi, the motorcyclist was northbound on Marsh Road and the garbage truck, driven by a 64-year-old DeLand man, was stopped in the southbound lane.
The motorcyclist failed to stay in his lane and drifted into the southbound lane striking the front of the garbage truck, Crescenzi said.
The DeLeon Springs man, who was not wearing a helmet, was transported as a trauma alert to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach where he died of his injuries, Crescenzi said.
The crash remains under investigation, troopers said. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2022/04/13/deleon-springs-biker-killed-crash-garbage-truck/7292647001/ | 2022-04-13T20:28:46 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2022/04/13/deleon-springs-biker-killed-crash-garbage-truck/7292647001/ |
BERLIN, N.H. — Amid a nationwide nursing shortage, schools across the country are looking for creative new ways to get students quickly into the health care job pipeline, as post-pandemic life begins to come into clearer view.
Sarah Baillargeon is a long-time nurse herself and now serves as the nursing program coordinator for White Mountains Community College in Berlin, New Hampshire.
Barely 700 students are currently enrolled in classes here. But this small school community college is trying to make big inroads when it comes to addressing the current nursing shortage crisis.
"From California east and from Mexico north I have recruiters calling me from all over. Offering bonuses, offering to pay for their schooling," Baillargeon said.
There's one rural hospital in this town of ten thousand. They are in desperate need of all kinds of nurses including Licensed Practical Nurses or LPNs.
"Community colleges really come from the point of view of educating people in our community," Baillargeon added.
White Mountain Community College didn't have an LPN program to help feed the pipeline, so this year they started one.
Chuck Lloyd is the President of White Mountains Community College. He is constantly trying to better adapt education programs here to address community needs.
"They're calling us and saying we need employees can you build that curriculum," Lloyd said.
Unlike Registered Nurse programs, LPN programs can get students in and out the door in under a year. From New York to Alabama to the Dakotas, more and more community schools are adding LPN licensure programs to address nationwide staffing needs.
Anne Woods is Wolters Kluwer’s Chief Nurse and studies the industry as a whole. She sees this as a larger post-pandemic trend. Many hospitals now moving away from traditional 12-hour shifts.
"We have to fill the pipeline so we have to find alternative ways of doing it," she said.
Back in the White Mountains the end of the semester is very quickly approaching. Sarah Baillargeon hopes that the end of spring out here ushers in a new season of healthcare as well.
"We’re kind of the heartbeat of healthcare." | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/colleges-get-creative-to-address-nurse-shortage | 2022-04-13T20:28:50 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/colleges-get-creative-to-address-nurse-shortage |
Inflation is stressing people out.
New research shows almost half of American workers are "financially stressed."
Twenty percent regularly run out of money between paychecks.
"In general, people are having to spend more to get the same things," said Dan Macklin, the CEO of Salary Finance, which authored the study. "Although wages are going up, many people have less money coming in."
The research shows financial stress coming from several directions:
- 76% of the general population said the rising price of consumer goods impacted them
- About half of workers between the ages of 22-44 are carrying student loan debt
- 1 in 5 people said they are carrying medical debt of some kind.
In an attempt to cope with the financial stress, people are turning to riskier financial options.
Payday loan use tripled in 2022 compared to 2021.
"The data around payday loans is pretty horrible," Macklin said.
He noted that 15% of people used a payday loan in the past twelve months.
"These are loans that are designed to be paid back quickly. Anyone who can't do it gets into this horrible situation where they're taking loan after loan to repay the last one, and at those kinds of interest rates, it just doesn't work," he said.
A growing number of Americans, 18%, are turning to online installment loans instead of payday loans.
Those loans can appear more friendly to borrowers since they offer a longer-term than a payday loan.
However, interest rates are typically in the double digits, and they often cost borrowers in the long run.
"There are things that we need to do better," said Macklin, whose report indicates almost nine-out-of-ten Americans use a credit card on a regular basis. "We need to borrow more smartly. We need to borrow in a way, at lower interest rates, that doesn't mean most of our money is going to interest costs. And we need to save better."
Businesses are trying to ease the stress.
More than a quarter of U.S. companies offer a loan program as part of a worker benefits package.
Those loans are paid back out of future paychecks and have a lower interest rate than payday loans or other risky options.
In addition, 28 percent of companies are offering emergency savings accounts.
Those accounts save a small portion of each paycheck for employees until the money is needed for an emergency.
It's a strategy people can use even if ESAs are not offered at their job.
"Let's say you get paid $2,000 a month," Macklin said. "For most people, all of that money goes into one account. The simple discipline of separating some of that money into a separate savings account can be extremely powerful. If people don't touch that money, a few months go by, and suddenly it's in the hundreds of dollars."
Macklin said the key is discipline.
People can only save money if they are able to spend less than they make. For many, that's more about habits than income.
"The reality is that financial stress exists among pretty much all income levels," Macklin said. "Most of us spend more than what we earn irrespective of what we earn. Just because you suddenly get more money in your pocket doesn't suddenly wave a magic wand and solve it." | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/nearly-half-of-americans-are-financially-stressed | 2022-04-13T20:28:56 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/nearly-half-of-americans-are-financially-stressed |
PALO ALTO, Calif. — At Hamilton Studios, Jonathan Cormur walks us down the rabbit hole to a small, dark room where he voices the many exuberant characters in his podcast.
"Dorktales Storytime" is a storytelling podcast for children. It features slightly wacky retellings of classic fairy tales with important life lessons and untold stories about the hidden heroes of history.
"There's two main characters in Dorktales," Cormur said. "There's Jonathan, who is a more Mr. Rogers-esque version of myself and Mr. Reginald Hedgehog. He's my talking hedgehog sidekick."
Though he says it doesn't define him, Cormur is unique because he's on the autism spectrum. He was diagnosed when he was a young teenager and his life experience was the inspiration behind his podcast.
"Deep down, I kind of always knew I was different, and when I was growing up, different wasn't always a good thing, especially amongst my peers and so that's why I wanted to, you know, encourage kids like don't be ashamed of who you are," Cormur said. "You know, just kind of make it your own. And that could build confidence. And confidence is what really attracts people."
His mother, Jodi Murphy, says the family's mission is acceptance for all. Acceptance is something Jonathan didn't receive from bullies at school until they saw him in a community theatre production.
"He had the kids who wouldn't invite him to the party, he had the bully that was watching him, and they were rolling in the aisles," Murphy said. "And I'm standing in the back and I'm crying because I thought, 'You've won, Jonathan. You found you found your gift and what you're good at. And, you know, from there, you are just going to go places and do really great things.'"
Cormur and his mother know people have misconceptions about autism.
A recent landmark study published by the University of Bath in the United Kingdom is revealing findings that its authors believe will shift the way that society thinks about autism. Associate professor of psychology Dr. Punit Shah says the study, which is the largest of its kind, compared the mental processing of autistic and non-autistic people by giving them brain puzzles.
"We found actually quite a striking similarities," Dr. Shah said. "Similarities between autistic and not autistic people. It showed almost identical levels of intuitive and this sort of deliberative processing, suggesting that these sort of fundamental ways in which we go about thinking about the world are actually quite similar. Between these two groups, autistic and non-autistic people."
The study concluded that autistic people think as quickly and as rationally as non-autistic people, making both groups more similar than previously thought.
"Now that they're we they know who we are, I think it's the next step is sort of dismantling the the the the stigmas, the stereotypes, and kind of getting rid of the fear," Comur said. "And that will hopefully lead to acceptance."
When you mix acceptance with evidence-based research, Cormur says people can then focus on supporting people on the spectrum and being more inclusive in society.
Murphy says with a few accommodations, people on the spectrum can do great things to the benefit of organizations.
"Maybe they need some extra time to take some breaks because there's just so much sensory overload that they're experiencing," Murphy said. "Or maybe they need initially someone that they can trust and tap into to help adapt to the work environment. Maybe they need to work at home."
"Dorktales Storytime" has brought a world of opportunity to Cormur, and he's excited to see what's ahead in the next chapter of his life. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/podcaster-on-autism-spectrum-using-his-voice-to-build-more-inclusive-society | 2022-04-13T20:29:03 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/podcaster-on-autism-spectrum-using-his-voice-to-build-more-inclusive-society |
A Russian karter who was accused of allegedly giving a Nazi-style salute after a race has now lost his racing license.
On Tuesday, the Automobile Club d'Italia announced that the racing license of Russian go-karter Artem Severiukhin was revoked following an incident that occurred Sunday as he stood on a podium after he won a European Championship race in Portugal.
The club added that he's been referred to the Sports Justice "so that it can evaluate the definition of further sanctions that fall within its sphere of competence."
The incident occurred during the playing of Italy's national anthem, in which a video appeared to show the 15-year-old extending his raised right arm and then laughing, the Associated Press reported.
Motorsport’s governing body FIA announced on Monday that it was investigating the incident.
Also, on Monday, his Sweden-based team, Ward Racing, announced on its Instagram page that they terminated his contract.
CNN reported that Severiukhin has since apologized and said he did not make a Nazi salute. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/russian-karter-who-allegedly-gave-nazi-style-salute-loses-racing-license | 2022-04-13T20:29:09 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/russian-karter-who-allegedly-gave-nazi-style-salute-loses-racing-license |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Cochise County (Arizona) Sheriff's Office reported a Mexican woman died after illegally attempting to cross into the U.S.
Sheriff Mark J. Dannels confirms she was climbing over the border fence off near Douglas, Ariz.m late Monday evening.
That's when she got stuck in the ropes and trapped upside down for far too long.
"These types of incidents are not political, they are humanitarian realities that someone has lost a loved one in a senseless tragedy," Sheriff Dannels shared.
Mexican authorities soon alerted American authorities, but it was too late.
Emergency crews took the 32-year-old to a local hospital where medical staff pronounced her dead.
"We have to do better in finding solutions to the challenges facing our border, and we have to do it for the right reasons," Dannels added. "Regardless of opinions, it is the facts that should direct our progress and we will keep working towards a shared goal of border safety and security."
Notice of her death was sent to the Mexican Consulate, which led to the sheriff's office identifying her.
This article was written by Caleb J. Fernández KGUN.
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Major League Baseball and the MLBPA have reportedly extended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer's administrative leave yet again, this time through April 22.
According to the Associated Press, the decision was reportedly made Wednesday.
Bauer was first placed on seven days' paid leave on July 2 under the league's and union's joint domestic violence and sexual assault policy after he was accused by a Southern California woman of choking her into unconsciousness.
In February, prosecutors said they would not file charges against Bauer following a sexual assault investigation.
A restraining order the woman had against Bauer was previously rescinded by a judge, who said the woman's testimony confirmed the pitcher followed the boundaries she had set for Bauer during their sexual encounters.
According to the news outlet, Bauer’s agents have pointed out repeatedly that administrative leave is not a disciplinary action. | https://www.wmar2news.com/sports/bauers-leave-reportedly-extended-through-april-22 | 2022-04-13T20:29:21 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/sports/bauers-leave-reportedly-extended-through-april-22 |
President Biden approves $800M in artillery, helicopters for Ukraine
President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved $800 million in new military assistance to Ukraine, including artillery and helicopters, to bolster its defenses against an intensified Russian offensive in the country’s east.
Biden announced the aid after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to coordinate the delivery of the assistance, which he said included artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers, as well as helicopters.
“This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement.
Biden said the U.S. will continue to work with allies to share additional weapons and resources as the conflict continues.
“The steady supply of weapons the United States and its Allies and partners have provided to Ukraine has been critical in sustaining its fight against the Russian invasion," Biden said. “It has helped ensure that (Russia President Vladimir) Putin failed in his initial war aims to conquer and control Ukraine. We cannot rest now.” | https://www.koat.com/article/biden-approves-800m-in-artillery-helicopters-for-ukraine/39717422 | 2022-04-13T20:32:26 | 0 | https://www.koat.com/article/biden-approves-800m-in-artillery-helicopters-for-ukraine/39717422 |
This major city is reinstating its indoor mask mandate as COVID-19 cases rise across the US
Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate on Monday after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, with the city's top health official saying she wanted to forestall a potential new wave driven by an omicron subvariant.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases have risen more than 50% in 10 days, the threshold at which the city’s guidelines call for people to wear masks indoors, said Dr. Cheryl Bettigole, the health commissioner. Health officials believe the recent spike is being driven by the highly transmissible BA.2 subvariant of omicron, which has spread rapidly throughout Europe and Asia, and has become dominant in the U.S. in recent weeks.
“If we fail to act now, knowing that every previous wave of infections has been followed by a wave of hospitalizations, and then a wave of deaths, it will be too late for many of our residents,” said Bettigole, noting about 750 Philadelphia residents died in the wintertime omicron outbreak. “This is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic, to put our masks on until we have more information about the severity of this new variant.”
Health inspectors will begin enforcing the mask mandate at city businesses on April 18.
Most states and cities dropped their masking requirements in February and early March following new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that put less focus on case counts and more on hospital capacity. The CDC said at that time that with the virus in retreat, most Americans could safely take off their masks.
Philadelphia ended its indoor mask mandate March 2, and Bettigole acknowledged “it was wonderful to feel that sense of normalcy again.”
Confirmed cases have since risen to more than 140 per day — still a fraction of what Philadelphia saw at the height of the omicron surge — while only 46 patients are in the hospital with COVID-19. The CDC says community spread in Philadelphia remains low, a level at which the agency says that masking can be optional.
The restaurant industry pushed back against the city's reimposed mask mandate, saying workers will bear the brunt of customer anger over the new rules.
“This announcement is a major blow to thousands of small businesses and other operators in the city who were hoping this spring would be the start of recovery,” said Ben Fileccia, senior director of operations at the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association.
PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said Friday that while it expects some increased transmission in the northern U.S. over the next several weeks, hospital admissions have remained low and “our team advises against required masking given that hospital capacity is good.”
Bettigole said requiring people to mask up will help restaurants and other businesses stay open, while a huge new wave of COVID-19 would keep customers at home. She said hospital capacity was just one factor that went into her decision to reinstate the mandate.
“I sincerely wish we didn’t have to do this again,” Bettigole said. “But I am very worried about our vulnerable neighbors and loved ones.”
In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has paused his push to unwind many of the city’s virus rules as cases have risen, opting for now to keep a mask mandate for 2 to 4-year-olds in city schools and preschools. But Adams, a Democrat who has said New Yorkers should not let the pandemic run their lives, has already lifted most other mask mandates and rules requiring proof of vaccination to dine in restaurants, work out at gyms or attend shows.
Adams was asked at a virtual news conference Monday afternoon if he was considering reimposing the New York City mask mandate in light of Philadelphia’s decision. The mayor said he would listen to his team of medical doctors for their advice on whether to bring back any restrictions. Adams himself tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
New York City is now averaging around 1,800 new cases per day, about three times higher than in early March when New York began easing rules. That does not include the many home tests that go unreported to health officials.
The latest outbreak has struck many high-profile officials in Washington, including Cabinet members and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut. Some universities have reinstated mask mandates.
D.C. health officials say they have no immediate plans to change virus protocols, but they reserve the right to change course down the road.
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Rubinkam reported from northeastern Pennsylvania. Associated Press reporter Michelle L. Price in New York contributed to this story. | https://www.koat.com/article/major-city-reinstating-indoor-mask-mandate/39693197 | 2022-04-13T20:32:32 | 1 | https://www.koat.com/article/major-city-reinstating-indoor-mask-mandate/39693197 |
There's still a way to reach global goal on climate change, new study finds
If nations do all that they’ve promised to fight climate change, the world can still meet one of two internationally agreed-upon goals for limiting warming. But the planet is blowing past the other threshold that scientists say will protect Earth more, a new study finds.
The world is potentially on track to keep global warming at, or a shade below, 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than pre-industrial times, a goal that once seemed out of reach, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
That will only happen if countries not only fulfill their specific pledged national targets for curbing carbon emissions by 2030, but also come through on more distant promises of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century, the study says.
This 2-degree warmer world still represents what scientists characterize as a profoundly disrupted climate with fiercer storms, higher seas, animal and plant extinctions, disappearing coral, melting ice and more people dying from heat, smog and infectious disease. It's not the goal that world leaders say they really want: 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. The world will blast past that more prominent and promoted goal unless dramatic new emission cuts are promised and achieved this decade and probably within the next three years, study authors said.
Both goals of 1.5-degrees and 2-degrees are part of the 2015 Paris climate pact and the 2021 Glasgow follow-up agreement. The 2-degree goal goes back years earlier.
“For the first time we can possibly keep warming below the symbolic 2-degree mark with the promises on the table. That assumes of course that the countries follow through on the promises,” said study lead author Malte Meinshausen, a University of Melbourne climate scientist.
That’s a big if, outside climate scientists and the authors, say. It means political leaders actually doing what they promise
The study “examines only this optimistic scenario. It does not check whether governments are making efforts to implement their long-term targets and whether they are credible,” said Niklas Hohne of Germany, a New Climate Institute scientist who analyzes pledges for Climate Action Tracker and wasn’t part of this study. “We know that governments are far from implementing their long-term targets.”
Hohne’s team and others who track pledges have similarly found that limiting warming to 2 degrees is still possible, as Meinshausen’s team has. The difference is that Meinshausen’s study is the first to be peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal.
Sure, the 2-degree world requires countries to do what they promise. But cheaper wind and solar have shown carbon emissions cuts can come faster than thought and some countries will exceed their promised cuts, Meinshausen said. He also said the way climate action works is starting with promises and then policies, so it’s not unreasonable to take countries at their word.
Mostly, he said, limiting warming to 2 degrees is still a big improvement compared to just five or ten years ago, when “everybody laughed like ‘ha we’ll never see targets on the table that bring us closer to 2 degrees’,” Meinshausen said. “Targets and implemented policies actually can turn the needle on future temperatures. I think that optimism is important for countries to see. Yes, there is hope.”
About 20% to 30% of that hope is due to the Paris climate agreement, but the rest is due to earlier investments by countries that made green energy technologies cheaper than dirty fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, Meinshausen said.
Yet, even if that’s good news, it’s not all good, he said.
“Neither do we have a margin of error (on barely limiting to 2 degrees) nor do the pledges put us on a path close to 1.5 degrees,” Meinshausen said.
In 2018 the United Nations’ scientific expert team studied the differences between the 1.5- and 2-degree thresholds and found considerably worse and more extensive damages to Earth at 2 degrees of warming. So the world has recently tried to make the 1.5 degrees goal possible.
Earth has already warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, often considered the late 1800s, so 2 degrees of warming really means another 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than now.
Meinshausen’s analysis “looks good and solid, but there are always assumptions that could be important,” said Glen Peters, a climate scientist who tracks emissions with Global Carbon Project.
The biggest assumption is that nations somehow get to promised net-zero carbon emissions, most of them by 2050 but a decade or two later for China and India, said Peters, research director of the Cicero Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway.
“Making pledges for 2050 is cheap, backing them up with necessary short-term action is hard,” he said, noting that for most countries, there will be five or six elections between now and 2050. | https://www.koat.com/article/theres-still-a-way-to-reach-global-goal-on-climate-change-new-study-finds/39715466 | 2022-04-13T20:32:32 | 1 | https://www.koat.com/article/theres-still-a-way-to-reach-global-goal-on-climate-change-new-study-finds/39715466 |
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr pleads guilty to forcible touching
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018.
The guilty plea came nearly three years after the the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star was arrested in the case that saw several delays as his lawyers sought to get charges reduced or dismissed.
Gooding, 54, accused of violating three different women at various Manhattan night spots in 2018 and 2019, pleaded guilty to just one of the allegations.
He told the judge he “kissed the waitress on her lips” without consent at the LAVO New York nightclub.
Gooding’s plea deal calls for no jail time. If he continues counseling for six months, he can withdraw the misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a lesser violation of harassment.
Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.
A few months later, he was charged in two additional cases as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse. The new charges alleged he pinched a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touched a woman inappropriately at the LAVO nightclub, both in 2018.
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all allegations of wrongdoing. His lawyers have argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of the #MeToo movement, are trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.
The judge had ruled that if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could have called two additional women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also violated them. Those women, whose claims did not result in criminal charges, were among 19 other accusers whom prosecutors were seeking to call as witnesses.
Along with the criminal case, Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July because Gooding hadn’t responded to the lawsuit, the actor retained a lawyer and is fighting the allegations.
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Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 2:42 PM CDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
(AP) – Amazon said Wednesday it will add a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the retailer’s fulfillment services as the company faces rising costs.
The company said in an announcement on its website that the added fees will take effect on April 28 and are subject to change.
Federal data released Tuesday showed inflation hit 8.5% in March, its fastest pace in more than 40 years.
Amazon said its new fees will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items.
The fees will also apply to products ordered before April 28, but are shipped and delivered after that date.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Man tosses Molotov cocktails at Florida home, police say
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CNN) - A man was caught on camera throwing Molotov cocktails at a house, according to police.
It happened on Sunday in Fort Pierce, Florida.
In the video, a man is seen running up to the window of a house and throwing something inside. Flames were then seen starting to shoot out of the window.
Police reported the object was a Molotov cocktail.
The man is then seen running out of frame and another Molotov cocktail appears to be tossed over the roof, before rolling and landing at the side of the house.
Family of the homeowner said there were three people inside when all of this happened and fortunately, they are all doing OK.
Police, however, are still searching for the man in the video.
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Coffee Destination in Kimball
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - If you are traveling west, there’s a spot that’s on the 2022 Nebraska Tourism Passport Program that you might want to check out for coffee, along with breakfast and lunch options.
“I bought the coffee shop in January of 2020,” Nebraska Coffee owner Hannah Snyder said. “We moved locations in June of last year, and we opened in August of 2021 at this current location.” The building where the business is housed, has been a number of things. “It was a roofing and siding company,” Snyder said. “Before that, I know this was a restaurant back in the day. My baker was telling me this morning he remembers coming here as a kid, and playing a bowling game they had in there, and coming to the soda shop.”
Snyder is from the Harrisburg area, and her husband farms in the area. She has three kids, so she is a busy mom. But she’s found time to open “Nebraska Coffee.” “I’m very thankful for everyone in the community who stops by and sees us,” Snyder said. “Our slogan is ‘tasty eats, drinks and treats.’ We have breakfast options, lunch options, we have donuts Tuesday through Saturday, we have fresh-baked goods, we have pastries. We are open Monday through Friday, 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. And then Saturdays 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. We are not open on Sundays.”
“If you are here for breakfast for the first time, I would recommend a cheddar bagel with bacon,” Snyder said. “If you are here for lunch, I would have you try the buffalo chicken flatbread pizza. For coffee, my favorite right now is ‘The Nebraskan’, which is kind of our signature drink. It has vanilla, toasted marshmallow, and white chocolate. You can get that hot, iced or blended. All of our drinks can be that way.”
Snyder says she bought the coffee shop with the name “Nebraska Coffee”, and she thought it didn’t need to change. The business offers an inviting interior design, with a rustic and industrial vibe. “We get people of the interstate,” Snyder said. “We see a lot of new faces day in and day out, which is what we were going for. Not that I didn’t enjoy seeing my daily faces, but it’s time for more. We’ve also bought the corner building next to us, and we are hoping to tear into it this summer, and make something out of it, but I don’t know what yet.” So, stay tuned for future developments at Nebraska Coffee, and feel free to stop by and get your Nebraska Passport stamped there.
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Find your park: National parks waiving entrance fees to start National Park Week
(Gray News) - As part of National Park Week in April, all national parks will be waiving entrance fees to kick off the week of activities.
On April 16, guests can head to any national park for free, according to the National Park Service.
National Park Week 2022 will run from April 16-24. Parks across the country will host various special programs, events and digital experiences.
Representatives with the NPS said there are more than 400 national parks available to visit, and this year’s National Park Week theme is “sPark Connections.”
A list of this year’s theme days is below:
April 16: sPark Discovery National Park Week kicks off with a fee-free day to encourage everyone to find something new by visiting a national park, especially one that may be close to home, a park you haven’t considered visiting, or one you never realized is a national park! What new national park will you discover? #sParkDiscovery
April 17: sPark Creativity National parks have inspired artistic expression and creativity for generations. What is your park muse? What masterpiece can you create? #sParkCuriosity
April 18: sPark Collaboration We get along with a little help from our friends. Meet our many partners that help expand our reach and offerings and connect people to parks. How can you get involved or participate in opportunities? #sParkCollaboration
April 19: sPark Innovation The National Park Service incorporates the latest technology to support conservation and preservation efforts while consistently working to improve the visitor experience. How can we surprise you with innovation? #sParkInnovation
April 20: sPark Opportunities On Workforce Wednesday, learn about the work we do and the employment opportunities available in the National Park Service and with partner organizations. How can you join? #sParkOpportunities
April 21: sPark Preservation The National Park Service is a leader and partner in the preservation of historic, cultural, natural and recreational resources nationally—and even internationally! How can you get involved in preservation? #sParkPreservation
April 22: sPark Action On Earth Day, we look at the health of the environment and how we impact its well-being and vice versa. What actions can you do to contribute to a healthy world? #sParkAction
April 23: sPark Curiosity The National Park Service preserves and protects unique places with fascinating stories and unique landscapes. What are you curious about? What fascinating things can you discover? #sParkCuriosity
April 24: sPark Memories Generations of visitors have created lasting memories in national parks. What memories and traditions will you create? #sParkMemories
Find your nearest national park here. According to the park service, entrance fees are waived on the first day of National Park Week to encourage people to come out to enjoy their national parks.
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Man arrested after shooting dog in face, police say
JUPITER, Fla. (Gray News) – Police in Florida arrested a man who they say shot and injured a dog, leaving the animal for dead.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Boots the dog was shot in the face at Kennedy Estates Park in Jupiter on Friday. He suffered a fractured lower jaw, causing several of his teeth to be knocked out.
Boots was taken to an emergency vet where he is currently recovering.
The investigation led police to Benjamine Brown, who they say surrendered Wednesday without incident.
Brown was arrested and booked into Palm Beach County Jail.
Police said Boots will be adopted once he is fully healed.
Anyone else with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
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Nebraska babies born in 2021 will get Meadowlark Savings Pledge funds
LINCOLN, Neb. (Press Release) - Each child born in Nebraska in 2021 will receive $50 in a NEST 529 College Savings account, as directed by the Meadowlark Act.
This April, families of eligible babies will receive a letter from the State Treasurer announcing their qualification for the Meadowlark Savings Pledge. The children can use the contribution for education expenses when the time comes for them to go to college.
College tuition and costs continue to increase at, and above, the rate of inflation. Since 2010, published in-state tuition and fees at public four-year institutions increased by 16 percent.[1]
For those families who welcomed a baby in 2021, the Meadowlark Program could be the beginning of their children’s educational savings journey, setting them up to soar. As college expenses continue to increase, it is important families start saving sooner rather than later. Meadowlark combined with a NEST 529 account is an easy way to help loved ones take flight toward their dreams.
Meadowlark Program
The Meadowlark Program, which became effective in 2020, was designed to help Nebraska families get a head start on future educational expenses. For this year’s contributions, any baby born on or after January 1, 2021 who is a resident of Nebraska at the time of birth, is eligible to receive a one-time Meadowlark seed contribution. This is an automatic enrollment that does not require families to pay extra costs or complete any time-consuming paperwork.
Nationally Recognized NEST 529 College Saving Plan
Meadowlark is an important beginning on a savings path. But, families should open their own NEST 529 account to start building for their children’s futures today. A NEST 529 account gives families the ability to make routine contributions that can be put to work helping a child achieve their aspirations.
Morningstar, Inc., a nationwide financial research firm that specializes in fund, stock, and general market data analysis, recognizes NEST 529 as a Morningstar Medalist 529 college savings plan. Key features include:
- Flexibility—A NEST 529 account can be opened in just 10 minutes. Families can manage everything easily online, from contributing and reallocating funds to making their investment selections.
- Tax Benefits—Tax-advantaged savings include a Nebraska state tax deduction, tax-deferred growth, and tax-free qualified withdrawals.2 Account Owners in Nebraska are eligible for an annual state income tax deduction of up to $10,000 for NEST 529 contributions or $5,000 if married filing separately.3
- Investment Options—Families can customize their investment portfolio to fit risk tolerance, time frame, and savings goals. Saving is made even easier with automatic contributions from bank accounts or paychecks.
- Diverse Fund Families—NEST offers quality funds from multiple fund families including Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Dodge & Cox and others.
Visit NEST529.com to learn more about the benefits of a NEST 529 College Savings Plan. For more information on the Meadowlark Program, go to NEST529.com/Meadowlark.
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Police identify student killed in Kansas City middle school stabbing as 14-year-old boy
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 1:58 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Law enforcement has identified the child killed Tuesday in a middle school stabbing.
The Kansas City Police Department said that 14-year-old Manuel J. Guzman died from his injuries after he was stabbed at Northeast Middle School.
Officers stated that the student suspect has been charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. His case will be handled through juvenile court in Jackson County.
Kansas City has experienced four homicides in a 24-hour span, prompting Mayor Quinton Lucas to make a plea on social media for more youth mental health services, as well as cracking down on illegally trafficked firearms.
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US agencies: Industrial control system malware discovered
BOSTON (AP) — Multiple U.S. government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial control systems.
The public alert from the Energy and Homeland Security Departments, the FBI and National Security Agency did not name the actors or offer details on the find.
But the CEO of one of the cybersecurity companies involved in the effort, Robert M. Lee of Dragos, says it has high confidence the malware was developed by a state actor and was configured to initially target liquified natural gas and electric power sites in North America.
Lee would not name the state actor, referring questions to the U.S. government. Nor would he explain how the malware was discovered, other than to say it was caught “before an attack was attempted.”
“We’re actually one step ahead of the adversary. None of us want them to understand where they screwed up,” said Lee. “Big win.”
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which published the alert, did not immediately respond to a request for details on the discovery or threat actor.
The U.S. government has warned critical infrastructure industries to gird for possible cyberattacks from Russia as retaliation for severe economic sanctions imposed on Moscow in response to its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Lee said the malware was “designed to be a framework to go after lots of different types of industries and be leveraged multiple times. Based on the configuration of it, the initial targets would be LNG and electric in North America.”
He said the malware, dubbed Pipedream, is only the seventh such malicious software to be identified that is designed to attack industrial control systems.
Lee said Dragos, which specializes in industrial control system protection, identified and analyzed its capability in early 2022 as part of its normal business research and in collaboration with partners.
He would offer no more specifics. The U.S. government alert offers thanks to Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Schneider Electric for their contributions.
Schneider Electric is one of the manufacturers listed in the alert whose equipment is targeted by the malware. Omron is another.
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Michigan police release video showing officer knelt on Black man, fatally shot him
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Video shows a Michigan police officer struggling with a Black man over a Taser before fatally shooting him in the head while the man was face down on the ground.
Grand Rapids police released video from different sources Wednesday, nine days after Patrick Lyoya was killed during a traffic stop.
Key footage came from a passenger in the car. Video shows Lyoya trying to run and a violent struggle over the officer’s Taser.
The new police chief in Grand Rapids says he released the videos in the spirit of transparency.
State police are investigating the shooting. Chief Eric Winstrom says the shooting is a “tragedy.”
City Manager Mark Washington says he’s bracing for “shock” and “anger” by the public.
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What happened to Aaron? Death of boy with autism exposes issues in Kansas care system
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - Part 1 of the KWCH investigation into the death of Aaron Carter, a 6-year-old with autism who died within two months of being adopted, reported on his needs of those of children like him, particularly in the foster system.
In Part 2, KWCH spoke to people about struggles in Kansas to meet those needs and what needs to be done to make things better.
Aaron Carter came into Jamie and Tina Miller’s home as a foster child just before he turned 3 years old in 2017. It took time to discover he had autism, and it took every bit of the three years he spent with the Millers to bring him from a child who could not communicate and didn’t respond to anyone around him to a boy who liked to dance, helped with chores and rode horses.
When the Millers decided they wanted to adopt Aaron, they found out that the cost to provide him the therapy and care he required would be overwhelming once he was no longer a ward of the state.
“We couldn’t pay for it out of our own pocket. We financially couldn’t do it, but by then we’d had him long enough and he had made such huge strides. It was like tearing you apart,” Tina Miller said.
A young, recently married couple in Wichita said they wanted to adopt Aaron. The couple met him, began the adoption process and eventually became acquainted with the Millers.
“We ate supper with them, and we just told them everything that had happened, that could happen and that needed to happen to keep him safe and happy,” Jamie Miller said.
Aaron went to live with his prospective new parents in December 2020. Less than two months later, the boy who’d made such huge strides was dead.
The official account of Aaron’s death reads that he had a tantrum while taking a bath and hit his head on the tub. Tantrums were something the Millers had cautioned Aaron’s new parents about.
“If he got upset he would yell and scream or throw a tantrum, but that’s the only way he could voice any of his feelings or opinion or anything was by throwing a tantrum,” Jamie explained.
Struggling to implement applied behavior analysis therapy
Sean Swindler with the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training explained tantrums for those unfamiliar with children with autism.
“When I put $1 in the candy machine, and the candy bar’s dangling and just won’t come down, I know I want it. What do I do? I shake the candy machine,” Swindler said. “Kids with autism are the same way. If I can’t communicate what I want, what I need, I’m going to figure out a way to tell you.”
Aaron was figuring that out with fewer tantrums, thanks to applied behavior analysis therapy.
“ABA therapy is applied behavior analysis,” Swindler explained. “Therapy that’s been shown, through research, to help kids with autism improve. Especially if it’s delivered before the age of 6 to 8 years old.”
The Millers say Aaron received ABA therapy four to five times a week. Once he moved to Wichita that therapy stopped, ending both his routine and stifling his path to communication.
“A lot of children with autism, having that routine is incredibly important,” Swindler said. “By stopping that therapy, you are reducing that child’s ability to communicate. You’re reducing that child’s ability to kind of learn and grow and giving him those tools.”
Those tools are difficult to find in Kansas, and they’re often out of reach of those who need them most.
“Mental health isn’t treated the same as physical health by a lot of our health care system. Take all those in your mind, magnify by 10 when you put autism in the middle of that,” Swindler said.
In 2014, Kansas passed a law saying private insurers must cover ABA therapy for autism, but experts say that’s not as clear cut for children on Medicaid.
Medicaid reimbursements can be slow and don’t necessarily pay enough for the required therapy. Consequently, questions of whether ABA therapists will be paid enough, or at all, prompt many to practice in other states.
“I think a lot of states with large rural populations are having a brain drain and have trouble keeping people at home. For people that practice a particular field like ABA therapy. The things that do keep people at home are the ability to actually bill for services and serve your population for one,” Swindler said.
Few qualified therapists practicing in Kansas means those seeking the therapy can be left waiting.
“Even if you have the best insurance and the best circumstance, you might be waiting quite a while to get that autism evaluation. When you add in a child in foster care who might be going between different foster parents or doesn’t have that permanent oversight of their medical history, kids do get missed, or kids get a diagnosis but that doesn’t catch back up to them. All sorts of things happen there,” Swindler said.
What happened in Aaron Carter’s case?
Aaron died while waiting to be seen by a new ABA therapist. In Kansas, the autism waiver program provides support and training to parents. Currently, the program is funded for just 65 children with 386 on the waiting list.
Swindler suggested people contact state lawmakers to have them make changes to keep ABA therapists in Kansas and get children like Aaron the chance they deserve.
“The way to make it better is you have to have a concerted effort among all the interested parties to strategically attack the problem,” Swindler answered.
ABA therapy is the most widely used therapy for autism spectrum disorder. The University of Kansas was one of the first schools to begin developing the therapy in the 60s and 70s. It continues to train world-class ABA therapists. Many of whom then go to other states to practice.
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NEW YORK -- Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018.
The video featured is from a previous report.
The guilty plea came nearly three years after the Oscar-winning "Jerry Maguire" star was arrested in the case that saw several delays as his lawyers sought to get charges reduced or dismissed.
Gooding, 54, accused of violating three different women at various Manhattan nightspots in 2018 and 2019, pleaded guilty to just one of the allegations.
He told the judge he "kissed the waitress on her lips" without consent at the LAVO New York nightclub.
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Gooding's plea deal calls for no jail time. If he continues counseling for six months, he can withdraw the misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a lesser violation of harassment.
Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.
A few months later, he was charged in two additional cases as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse. The new charges alleged he pinched a server's buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touched a woman inappropriately at the LAVO nightclub, both in 2018.
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all allegations of wrongdoing. His lawyers have argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of the #MeToo movement, are trying to turn "commonplace gestures" or misunderstandings into crimes.
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The judge had ruled that if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could have called two additional women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also violated them. Those women, whose claims did not result in criminal charges, were among 19 other accusers whom prosecutors were seeking to call as witnesses.
Along with the criminal case, Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July because Gooding hadn't responded to the lawsuit, the actor retained a lawyer and is fighting the allegations.
Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads guilty in NYC groping case
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have issued warning letters to two websites for illegally selling Schedule II stimulants, such as Adderall, without prescriptions, the FDA said Tuesday.
The warning letters were issued to Kubapharm.com and Premiumlightssupplier.com on March 30. The companies have 15 business days to respond to the warning.
Adderall is a prescription drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. The drug is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, two central nervous stimulants that improve attention span and focus.
Adderall was approved by the FDA in 1996.
The FDA says consumers who buy prescription drugs from unsafe online pharmacies may put their health at risk because the products may be counterfeit, contaminated, expired or otherwise harmful.
“This action underscores the FDA’s commitment to use all available regulatory and compliance tools to stop online businesses illegally selling potentially harmful drug products to consumers,” said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. “The illegal sale of prescription drug stimulants online puts Americans at risk and contributes to potential abuse, misuse and overdose.
“These particular types of online pharmacies also undermine our efforts to help consumers safely purchase legitimate prescription medicines over the internet,” he said. “FDA will continue partnering with DEA in an effort to safeguard public health and protect consumers who need access to these important medicines.” | https://www.wric.com/health/fda-warns-of-websites-selling-adderall-without-prescriptions/ | 2022-04-13T20:37:48 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/health/fda-warns-of-websites-selling-adderall-without-prescriptions/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried’s cause of death was revealed to be recurrent ventricular tachycardia, according to friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz.
Gottfried, 67, died earlier this week after a battle with a “long illness,” his family said on Tuesday. Schwartz later specified Gottfried’s cause of death as recurrent ventricular tachycardia, a condition caused by a rare type of muscular dystrophy.
“Beloved and iconic comedian Gilbert Gottfried passed away at 2:35 p.m. ET on April 12, 2022 from Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia due to Myotonic Dystrophy type II,” Schwartz shared in an emailed statement provided to Nexstar.
Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (or type II) is considered a rare disease characterized by “progressive muscle wasting and weakness,” according to the National Institutes of Health. An inherited condition, Myotonic dystrophy type 2 usually develops in a patient’s 20s or 30s, and is said to be less severe than myotonic dystrophy type 1, which can be present at birth and is generally associated with a shortened lifespan.
Those with myotonic dystrophy type 2 may experience muscle pain, weakness, prolonged muscle contractions and slurred speech, among other symptoms. A less common symptom is “abnormalities of the electrical signals that control the heartbeat (cardiac conduction defects),” the NIH writes.
Ventricular tachycardia, meanwhile, is a type of arrhythmia marked by “irregular electrical signals in the lower chambers of the heart,” according to the Mayo Clinic. Patients with ventricular tachycardia may experience heart rates of over 100 beats per minute, and can experience episodes of lightheadedness or shortness of breath. In severe cases, it may lead to loss of consciousness or cardiac arrest.
Both emergency and non-emergency forms of treatment for ventricular tachycardia are available: the former include CPR, defibrillation and medication, while the latter includes medication, implantable defibrillator devices, or a procedure known as catheter ablation, which destroys the bit of muscle tissue responsible for the arrhythmia, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Schwartz did not say when Gottfriend was diagnosed with either condition.
Gottfried’s death follows that of friends and fellow comedians Norm MacDonald, Bob Saget and Louie Anderson.
“Gilbert’s brand of humor was brash, shocking and frequently offensive, but the man behind the jokes was anything but,” said Frank Santopadre, the co-host of Gottfried’s “Amazing Colossal Podcast,” in a statement shared to Nexstar by Schwartz. “Those who loved and him were fortunate enough to share his orbit knew a person who was sweet, sensitive, surprisingly shy and filled with a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder. He’ll be dearly missed by family, friends, fans and comedy lovers the world over. To quote Gilbert himself, ‘Too soon!’” | https://www.wric.com/health/gilbert-gottfrieds-cause-of-death-what-is-ventricular-tachycardia/ | 2022-04-13T20:37:54 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/health/gilbert-gottfrieds-cause-of-death-what-is-ventricular-tachycardia/ |
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help finding a Midlothian man they say is wanted for felony construction fraud.
According to the Hanover Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Geoffrey Cash is a white male with brown hair and brown eyes. He weighs about 225 pounds and stands 6’1″.
The Hanover Sheriff’s Office believes Cash is running an unlicensed business by the name of Refresh Remodeling, LLC.
Anyone who believes that have been a victim of Cash or has information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call the Hanover County Sheriff’s Office at 804-365-6140 or Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000. | https://www.wric.com/news/crime/hanover-county-sheriff-searching-for-wanted-fugitive/ | 2022-04-13T20:38:00 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/crime/hanover-county-sheriff-searching-for-wanted-fugitive/ |
GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Goochland County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help finding a teen they say has been missing for two days.
According to the Goochland Sheriff’s Office, 17-year-old Ryder Clay was last seen around 9:30 Monday morning at Clover Hill High School. He was wearing a black and white shirt and torn black jeans.
Ryder has long black and blonde hair and brown eyes. He weighs about 145 pounds and stands about 5’10” tall.
Anyone with information regarding Ryder’s location is asked to contact the Goochland County Sheriff’s Office at 804-556-5349. | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-sheriff-asking-for-help-finding-missing-teen/ | 2022-04-13T20:38:06 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-sheriff-asking-for-help-finding-missing-teen/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Leaking roofs, raw sewage, lead poisoning and extreme temperatures — these were the conditions described by residents of mobile home parks in Richmond and Chesterfield earlier this month.
They spoke at a conference held on April 5 by Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities (RISC), a community faith organization lead by local ministers.
The organization is calling on Richmond and Chesterfield to provide funding for a pilot program to complete much needed repairs through project:HOMES, a local non-profit.
An Overlooked Problem
Sheley Murray, a minister at Southminster Presbyterian in Chesterfield, said they first became aware of the problems after sitting and listening to residents.
“We heard stories having to do with mobile homes,” she said. “People talked about extreme heat, 95 degrees in their mobile home when they had the air conditioning blasting, and the same kind of nightmare in the winter, when the cold was unbearable.”
Murray said many of the homes were built prior to 1976, before there were standards for quality construction.
Residents spoke on stage in front of photos of leaking roofs and windows, with Father Shay Auerbach of Sacred Heart Catholic Church providing translations.
“My children, who were all born here, are frequently sick because of the condition of the trailer we live in,” said Paulina Chavez.
In her home, poorly sealed windows have set off a serious mold problem. Other residents described problems with raw sewage overflows and poor heating.
“We try our best to live in the mobile home, we try to keep the water out – it doesn’t work,” said Alfonso Camira. “My children get sick frequently, including one of my son’s who has become sick because of lead poisoning.”
He added that the city has shut down the park where he lives in the past, but the residents have nowhere else to go, “We don’t really know where to turn to or what to do.”
Part of the problem is that, while newer homes are subject to safety and health regulations, those built before 1976 are grandfathered in under Virginia law, meaning there are no specific standards applied to them.
“Most of these mobile homes were built before 1976, when there were no standards – they are in very bad shape,” Murray said.
“A Vital Form of Affordable Housing”
Most of the residents of Chesterfield and Richmond’s mobile home parks are Hispanic, and many do not speak English, making it difficult for them to advocate for better conditions in the parks.
The problem is bigger than many might realize, according to Murray. “Six to seven thousand people are living in mobile homes, which is more than live in public housing.”
And demand for the cheap homes is only likely to grow as Richmond shuts down more of its public housing units.
“Manufactured housing is a vital form of affordable housing, and very important throughout the state and the country,” said Phil Storey, an attorney with the Virginia Poverty Law Center. “Unscrupulous landlords have turned them into essentially grey markets of financial exploitation and illegal practices.”
With action unlikely at the state or federal level, it’s often up to local governments to tackle the issues in these communities.
Just Getting Started
Although the problems are extensive, RISC and project:Homes are hoping a small investment from Chesterfield and Richmond can help them tackle the dangerous conditions.
“With $600,000 [project:Homes] could establish a pilot program to repair or replace 40 homes over the next year,” said Pastor Don Coleman.
Chesterfield County Supervisor Jim Holland and Richmond City Councilmember Stephanie Lynch were both in attendance on April 5, and Coleman asked both to publicly commit to supporting $300,000 from each locality to support the pilot program.
Lynch said she would introduce a budget amendment to do just that, drawing thunderous applause from the crowd.
Holland was a little more circumspect. The Chesterfield budget was approved on April 6, but on the night of April 5, Holland was more circumspect in his promise to the assembly.
“At this point we’re poised to approve the budget,” he said, adding that he could make “no final commitment” before the board’s meeting the following night.
During the budget hearing the next day, a county official brought up the repair funding.
“I know there’s been some recent discussion of mobile home repairs,” he said.
He noted that while the county didn’t set aside any funds explicitly for the project, there were still funds being set aside for project:Homes, “Up to, I think, a quarter of that can be spent on that particular line item.”
With a total of $640,000, that means they could use up to $160,000 for the project.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — Police took Frank R. James, the 62-year-old alleged shooter in a Brooklyn subway attack that left 10 people wounded by gunfire and more than a dozen others injured, into custody on Wednesday, sources said.
Though Mayor Eric Adams announced James had been upgraded from a person of interest in the case to a suspect, the NYPD have not yet provided an update on the change in their investigation from Tuesday. The NYPD was set to share new details on the shooting at 2 p.m.
Police had zeroed in on James because of a U-Haul key left at the scene of the shooting. James had rented the U-Haul, which was found in Brooklyn hours after the attack.
Here are five things we know about James:
- James posted social media videos decrying the U.S. as a racist place awash in violence and recounting his struggle with mental illness. His profanity-laden videos are replete with violent language and bigoted comments, some against other Black people
- The gun James allegedly used was purchased at a pawn shop — a licensed firearms dealer — in the Columbus, Ohio, area in 2011, a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation said on condition of anonymity
- James has ties to Philadelphia and Wisconsin
- Investigators believe James drove up from Philadelphia on Monday and have reviewed surveillance video showing a man matching his physical description coming out of the van early Tuesday morning
- Police described the suspected gunman as being around 5 feet, 5 inches tall. The man weighs around 175-200 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gas mask and a construction vest. Police initially said the vest was green, but later officials said it was orange. The man also had on a gray, hooded sweatshirt.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of forcible touching in a protracted criminal case accusing the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star of violating three different women at various Manhattan nightspots in 2018 and 2019.
The single guilty plea came nearly three years after Gooding’s arrest in the case that saw several delays as his lawyers sought to get the charges reduced or dismissed. It had been scheduled to go to trial at least twice, with an April 2020 trial date scuttled as coronavirus cases surged in New York and the state shut down most court matters.
Gooding, 54, was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.
A few months later, he was charged in two additional cases as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse. The new charges alleged he pinched a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touched a woman inappropriately at the LAVO New York nightclub, both in 2018.
Gooding pleaded guilty to the LAVO nightclub allegation.
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all allegations of wrongdoing. His lawyers have argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the fervor of the #MeToo movement, are trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.
The judge had ruled that if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could have called two additional women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also violated them. Those women, whose claims did not result in criminal charges, were among 19 other accusers whom prosecutors were seeking to call as witnesses.
Along with the criminal case, Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July because Gooding hadn’t responded to the lawsuit, the actor retained a lawyer and is fighting the allegations. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcibly-touching-woman/ | 2022-04-13T20:38:24 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-pleads-guilty-to-forcibly-touching-woman/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Hill) — A bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) last week announced plans to send them from his state’s southern border to the nation’s capital.
Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted a picture of the bus parked outside the building that houses the network’s bureau on Capitol Hill and that of several other news outlets on Wednesday morning.
Abbott said during a press conference last week the migrants would be voluntarily sent to Washington so that President Biden could “immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.”
Abbott also ordered the state to charter flights to transport migrants to the nation’s capital after they have been processed by the Department of Homeland Security, The Texas Tribune reported.
The Biden administration earlier this month rescinded Title 42, a Trump-era immigration rule that prevented people seeking asylum from getting an immediate hearing if they were coming from a country with a communicable disease, such as the coronavirus. Title 42’s recension is effective May 23.
The White House last week dismissed Abbott’s plans to send migrants to Washington as a “publicity stunt.”
“I’m not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. “I think it’s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt. His own office admits that a migrant would need to voluntarily be transported, and he can’t compel them to because, again, enforcement of our country’s immigration laws lies with the federal government, not a state.”
In a statement on Wednesday, Psaki slammed Abbott’s immigration policies, saying his “unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country.”
“Local businesses and trade associations are calling on Governor Abbott to reverse this decision because trucks are facing lengthy delays exceeding 5 hours at some border crossings and commercial traffic has dropped by as much as 60%,” Psaki said. “The continuous flow of legitimate trade and travel and CBP’s [Customs and Border Protection] ability to do its job should not be obstructed. Governor Abbott’s actions are impacting people’s jobs, and the livelihoods of hardworking American families.”
Abbott is facing reelection in a solid red state and is likely to face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke in the fall election for governor.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – Armando Bacot, the center who was at the center of the University of North Carolina’s run to the NCAA basketball championship game, is coming back for his senior season.
Bacot, a 6-foot-10 center from Richmond, made the announcement in a video on Twitter, saying his “Carolina story isn’t finished just yet.”
He said he did not “want to miss a chance to do it again next season. We came so close. I want the opportunity to play in those big games.”
Bacot a dominant force as the Tar Heels, seeded eighth, roared into the final against Kansas, where they lost, 72-69, and late in the game he reinjured an ankle he had hurt in UNC’s semifinal victory over Duke.
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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Police Department and the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office would like to announce and congratulate the employees who just graduated from the Portsmouth Police Academy.
In response to staffing shortages, the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office and the Portsmouth Police Department partnered with each other to offer a joint police academy in Scioto County. This is the first time in both agencies’ history where an in-house police academy has been offered.
The police academy featured certified seasoned instructors from both the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office, Portsmouth Police Department, New Boston Police, and local Probation Departments. This police academy was recognized and sanctioned by the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy.
“There were many hurdles and difficulties in putting together this in house academy. This could not have happened without the great working relationship that Sheriff David Thoroughman and Chief Debby Brewer have created between their two agencies,” The Portsmouth Police and Scioto County Sheriff’s Department stated in a joint release. “Sgt. Andrew Dawes was the commander for the academy and did a fantastic job in scheduling the instructors and keeping this academy moving on a very fast pace. All local law enforcement agencies worked together to make this academy a successful undertaking.”
“Sheriff Thoroughman and Chief Brewer shared their appreciation to all officers and deputies who instructed in the academy. We would also like to extend our thanks to Portsmouth City Schools and Valley Local School for the use of their outdoor tracks and facilities,” The departments stated in the release. “Through these community partnerships, both agencies were able to quickly hire and train seven new law enforcement officers to serve the citizens of Scioto County.”
Those who graduated from the academy include Tyler Messer -Portsmouth Police, Nicholas Adkin-Portsmouth Police, Charles Krekele -Portsmouth Police, Joshua Gullett-Portsmouth Police, Alicia Yelley – Scioto County Sheriff’s Office, Megan Carver – Scioto County Sheriff’s Office and Alicia Underwood – Scioto County Sheriff’s Office. | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/74611/7-graduate-from-portsmouth-police-academy | 2022-04-13T20:42:59 | 1 | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/74611/7-graduate-from-portsmouth-police-academy |
PORTSMOUTH – Recovery housing in Portsmouth is a hot topic. For months, citizens have come to council and voiced concerns over transitional living facilities popping up in residential neighborhoods across the City. Sometimes, those concerns come with legitimate complaints such as excess noise or parking issues.
But there is also a general fear that treatment facilities in Portsmouth and Scioto County are ‘shipping in’ many folks in recovery from far outside the area – from places such as Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, or Cleveland.
Hopesource CEO Jay Hash has been coming to city council meetings the last several months in an effort to dispel some myths about treatment and housing in Portsmouth and give his input on future legislation on the issue. The PDT sat down with Hash last week to discuss his story, his business, and his outlook on transitional housing.
“I moved to Portsmouth on January 1, 1990, after a failed college attempt,” explained Hash. “I wasn’t a good student. I had severe alcohol use and other bad behaviors. I came to Portsmouth on a Greyhound bus and lived with my mother and stepfather.”
At the time, Hash’s stepfather was the minister at All Saint’s in downtown Portsmouth. Hash still attends the congregation today.
“When I first got to Portsmouth, I thought I’d just be here about six months. But then I started meeting people. I attended Shawnee State University. But, my alcoholism progressed. It led to more and more trouble and personal problems. I was negatively impacted by people around me and I decided to seek treatment.”
Hash completed treatment – but didn’t stay sober after his first attempt at recovery.
“It planted the seeds of recovery, but those seeds didn’t bloom until a month or two later.”
Hash went to treatment a second time. And he has now been in long term recovery since 1995. After he finished, he went back to SSU for counseling and started working in the industry. First, he worked for Shawnee Mental Health. Then, the Counseling Center. But eventually, he started Hopesource in 2015.
“The number of people needing treatment outgrew the number of resources in Scioto County,” Hash said. “This opioid epidemic has been devastating. Lives have been lost. Families have been destroyed. And brains have been hijacked by addiction.”
Hopesource employs 62 people. They provide employment services, case management, mental health outpatient treatment, substance use disorder inpatient and outpatient treatment, as well as a transitional living. In 2021, they serviced a total of 293 people.
Hash shared his admission data. 82% of those serviced by Hopesource in 2021 came from Scioto County. Another 10% came from adjacent continues. Only 8% – or 22 individuals – came from outside of the area. And of those 22, 16 were already in Scioto County and referred to Hopesource by another center or courtroom for treatment.
“I don’t know what every other treatment facility is doing. I don’t have their admission data. But I have ours…the narrative that we are shipping people in from outside of our region doesn’t fit,” Hash said. “Right now, we have empty beds. I could fill them tomorrow with people from Hamilton County, Cuyahoga County, or Fairfield County. But I don’t. That demonstrates our focus on Scioto County.”
Hopesource also fully staffs each of their facilities 24 hours a day seven days a week.
“The people here deserve treatment that is good quality. Quality means good oversight. In the past, I have overseen transitional housing with no supervision, a small amount, a moderate amount, and full supervision – meaning a staff member is always there,” Hash said. “The best way to do it is to staff all our facilities and conduct surveillance.”
Hash said he believes some people in Portsmouth have legitimate concerns when it comes to recovery housing – as does he.
“The concerns people have are valid. When you have unsupervised recovery homes coupled with legitimate complaints such as parking or noise…that’s a problem. But we’ve never had a complaint at one of our facilities. That has never happened.”
“Staffing each facility comes at a great cost for us. So, when you have other facilities not doing that it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. We have extra expenses because we believe in doing the right thing…a business that doesn’t believe in that isn’t playing on a level playing field. From a business standpoint, I have concerns about that,” Hash said. “I also want everyone to have a great shot at recovery. I want facilities and housing that gives everyone the best most effective treatment.”
Hash promised to be available to city leaders as they debate future legislation. A special session of the council will take place on April 30 to talk about recovery housing problems and potential solutions.
“I came to Portsmouth for treatment. Some of my good friends did as well. Families were saved and lives were enriched. I don’t want my brothers and sisters in recovery to go without service. But if the goal is to provide service to Scioto County and the adjacent counties – and that goal is being met – I’m not sure adding more treatment centers is what is best.”
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HAVERHILL — A building being demolished caught fire causing black smoke to be seen from US 52.
According to Scioto County Emergency Management Agency, a fire broke out at the ALTIVIA chemical plant around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when crews were demoing a BPA production facility that hasn’t been used since 2015.
EMA stated as crews pulled down the last portion of the building a fire erupted, most likely set off by a spark and BPA residue caught fire.
The ALTIVIA Rapid Response Team was on the site in case of an emergency and with help from the Green Township Fire Department brought the fire under control.
According to Green Township Fire Chief George Moore, the fire was declared out at around 11:45 a.m. Crews remain on the scene putting water on the structure to make sure there isn’t a rekindle.
In a statement, ALTIVIA Petrochemicals confirmed that an incident occurred in an empty structure as it was being demolished and said no release of materials occurred.
“As the 200 ft tall steel structure was being toppled per plan by the demolition crew, a fire ignited at the top of the structure as it hit the ground. The cause of the fire is believed to be due to residual organic solids dust igniting as the structure was being brought down,” the company said. “The Plant Emergency Response Team (ERT) on standby at the time, started to extinguish the fire with plant resources. During the initial stages of the fire black/gray smoke trailed northerly off the plant site. The smoke was dissipating prior to reaching the highway. Green Township Local Fire Department was called via 911. When they reached the facility, plant ERT had the fire under control. Green Township FD remained on standby and was released at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.”
According to Scioto EMA, there were no injuries, no hazmat situation, and no danger to the public even though the smoke from the fire drifted over US 52 for a short time.
Reach Adam Black at (740) 353-3101 ext. 1927, or by email at [email protected]
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PORTSMOUTH — Shawnee State University’s gaming programs partnered with the Office of Career Services to hold mock job interviews for current students in the program. These interviews were set up as a trial for students to participate in preparation of entering the gaming industry after graduation.
Clayton Novak, a senior from Garfield Heights, Ohio, played a vital role in creating this opportunity for gaming students. Majoring in Gaming Engineering Technology, he was inspired to join the industry since he participated in a summer gaming camp during his youth.
“I took a ‘make a video game’ summer camp when I was about 12 and have had a passion for making games ever since,” said Novak. “When I first learned programming in high school, it was so that I could make games with it.”
Within the program, students have the opportunity to join “Gaming Houses” – an experience to connect with other gaming majors, encourage socialization, provide exposure to new ideas, and help students hone their skills. Novak currently runs one student house and has helped set up different activities and workshops this past year.
“We’ve hosted game-design workshops and competitions, House-vs-House challenges, welcome and holiday parties, catered events, and most recently, professional development activities,” he said. “I worked with Career Services to put on a resume workshop on March 18, and the first round of mock interviews began March 31.”
Novak began setting up the mock interviews by asking students and the program’s professors to see if they had connections in professional game development or information technology who might be willing to moderate a mock interview.
“Some professors offered to get in touch with recent graduates to see who might have the time for this,” he said. “Half a dozen alumni responded, and at least 4 of them will be able to give interviews in the next couple of weeks. Austin Raines from Career Services has also offered to sit in on the interviews and give the perspective of an Human Resources representative.”
During the first round of interviews, Assistant Director of Career Services, Austin Raines and recent 2021 gaming graduate, Jonathan Reynolds both were in attendance to oversee the interview and offer feedback. Leading up to the interview, alumni are preparing mock job postings and questions for the current gaming students to participate in while Novak contacts students to give them tips on what they should bring and how to dress appropriately.
“This opportunity will give the students some guidance in preparing for interviews,” he said. “I also made sure that we hosted a resume-building workshop before these interviews, so each student can put together their own resume.”
Novak is passionate about the gaming program and hopes to see this opportunity become an annual event.
“Nearly everyone I’ve spoken to thinks it would be great to make this a yearly event,” he said. “I’m hoping to lay the groundwork for future cohorts to run their own interviews with relative ease. The students who were interviewed noted that they got a lot out of the interviews and really appreciated the opportunity.”
SSU offers two separate, but coordinated programs in digital simulation and gaming – one in Game Programming and one in Game Arts. The degrees focus on development of game programming, software development, foundations of computer science, 3D animation, character design, and interface design. The programs were recently ranked #9 on the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs in the U.S. and Canada. This is the 12th consecutive year the programs have been ranked on the list.
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PORTSMOUTH — Bats on balls — and hits in general — were few and far between at Hatcher Field on Tuesday.
Two of the best pitchers in the Ohio Valley Conference — Portsmouth’s Daewin Spence and Gallia Academy’s Zane Loveday — combined to allow just four hits in the Trojans and Dragons first meeting of the 2022 season.
The senior Spence had the better overall outing — and more importantly, the Trojans (5-1, 3-0 OVC) secured a 2-1 win to remain unbeaten in OVC play.
In seven complete innings, he allowed two hits, no earned runs, issued three walks and punched-out 14 Blue Devils batters.
“Tonight, it was nothing but the fastball. Came into the game with my arm feeling great — best it’s felt all year,” Spence said. “I knew if I sat on the fastball, we were going to be able to pull one out.”
The senior Loveday issued a similar line — allowing two hits and five walks, one earned run accredited while striking out nine in his seven innings on the hill.
“I told the kids today to have a winner’s mentality. This is the best kid we’re going to see in the league, left-handed with a 90-mph fastball and a good curveball,” Portsmouth coach Aaron Duncan said, after the game. “Our guys made the plays during the game that we were able to come through and get us the win.”
The Trojans took a 1-0 lead in the home half of the third when Vinnie Lonardo led off the inning with a double, then advanced from second to third and third to home on a pair of wild pitches from Loveday.
Gallia Academy tied the game in their next at-bat in the top of the fourth. Two passed balls allowed Gallia Academy’s Mason Smith, who led the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt, to tie the game at 1-1.
Portsmouth answered quickly in the fourth. Spence led the inning with a walk — one of five issued by Loveday.
A wild pitch moved Spence into second where he would score when sophomore Reade Pendleton singled to drive in the leadoff runner as they’d take a 2-1 lead — and never look back behind three more scoreless innings by Spence.
“Reade’s arguably our best athlete. Took responsibility in the fourth for the passed balls, so when he’s up in the next inning, there’s no one that wants to come through in that spot more than Reade. He came through and picked up his team at the plate, and behind the plate the rest of the game.”
Entering Wednesday’s meeting with Fairland (4-1, 2-0 OVC), the Trojans are one of three OVC unbeaten teams in the early league schedule.
Portsmouth, Fairland, and Rock Hill (3-1, 1-0 OVC) reside atop the OVC standings — meaning one of the three will take a step back when the Trojans and Dragons conclude their game at Hatcher Field.
“Fairland was the odd’s on favorite to win the league before the win, return 7-8 starters. Our guys bouncing back and winning five-straight after some early adversity, it’s a testament to the leadership of the team,” Duncan said. “We found ourselves losing these type of close games last year — I’d like to think this year we’ve gotten over that hump.”
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BOX SCORE
Gallia Academy 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 1 2 1
Portsmouth 0 0 1 1 0 0 X — 2 2 1
Gallia Academy hitting
Camden 1-3
Hines 0-2, BB
Smith 0-2, R, BB
Mershon 1-2
Burris 0-2, BB
Portsmouth hitting
Drew Roe 0-1, 2BB
Daewin Spence 0-1, R, 2BB
Reade Pendleton 1-3, RBI
Amari Harmon 0-1, BB, HBP
Vinnie Lonardo 1-2, R
Pitching
Zane Loveday (GA) 6IP, 2H, 1ER, 5BB, 9K (L)
Daewin Spence (P) 7IP, 2H, 0ER, 3BB, 14K (W)
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SOUTH WEBSTER — The South Webster Lady Jeeps found themselves with an early — and late — lead in their 8-2 non-league win over visiting Raceland (Ky.) on Tuesday.
The Lady Jeeps plated a pair in the first and four more in the sixth — matching the Lady Rams with a pair of one-run innings sandwiched between.
South Webster (3-5, 2-3 SOC II) combined for 11 hits as a team — including a team-high three apiece by sophomores Bella Claxon and Ava Messer.
Sophomore Skylar Zimmerman and freshman Lauren Kaltenbach each drove in a pair of runs for the Lady Jeeps in the six-run win.
Zimmerman earned the win in the circle — pitching a complete game while allowing nine hits, no earned runs, issuing one walk and striking out five.
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BOX SCORE
Raceland 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 — 2 9 4
South Webster 2 1 0 0 1 4 X — 8 11 2
South Webster hitting
Bri Claxon 2-4, 2R
Skylar Zimmerman 1-3, 2R, 2RBI, BB
Lauren Kaltenbach 1-4, 2RBI
Bella Claxon 3-4, 2R, RBI
Ashlee Spence 1-4, RBI
Ava Messer 3-4, R
Makayla Raynard 0-4
Rylee McGraw 0-3
Riley Raynard 0-2, R, BB
South Webster pitching
Skylar Zimmerman (SW) 7IP 9H, 0ER, 1BB, 5K (W)
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